Chapter 353: Fighting Poison with Poison
Jinling?
When Hu Xingren said this, the monk king and Shengbao couldn't believe their ears.
"Jinling?"
"That's right!" Hu Xingren replied: "The Zhejiang bureau is already rotten, if you want to return to the sky, you must attack Jinling first!" ”
Monk Lingqin immediately asked: "I still hope that Hu Fansi will give you some guidance, now the red thieves are powerful, and they will counterattack Jinling without Hangjia, why is this?" ”
Hu Xingren naturally has his own opinions: "Today's incident, the red thief is certainly powerful, but the cause of all the disasters lies in the Guangdong bandits, if there is no Guangdong bandits, how can the red thieves sweep the whole of Zhejiang within a year, and the disaster will affect the two provinces of Fujian and Suzhou?" ”
When he said this, Monk Greenqin agreed, but Shengbao said bluntly: "But now that the red thief is already in the wildfire, I am afraid it will be uncontrollable if he is given a chance to grow!" ”
He still had lingering palpitations about his failure, but Hu Xingren said: "Otherwise, otherwise, the red thief is very strong, but he is used to fighting steadily, he has always been short-sighted, without any foresight, not to mention anything else, when he invaded Ningshao, Hangjiasu often has no strong soldiers, only I lead the five battalions of Renzi, but at this time, the red thief actually abandoned Hangjiasu Chang Heaven on earth, and only wanted to preserve the neutrality of Ningbo, which shows that he has no foresight!" ”
For this point, the monk king is quite touched, the red thief has developed to this point today, has tens of thousands, if you want to take Hangjia Suchang this paradise on earth, it is also a matter of raising your arms, but after the red thief captured Ning Shao, he no longer took a step to the north, only knew that he was diving into the army, and he really had no foresight.
But the monk still couldn't understand Hu Xingren's train of thought: "But why attack Jinling? ”
"Today's trouble is not the red thief, the red thief Liu is desperate to divide a place, he is already satisfied, and he has no ambition, but the Cantonese bandit is not. The incident was to destroy our Qing Dynasty, and the Cantonese bandits disrupted several provinces. But its capital is Jinling. But it's a failure of failures! ”
After the capital of Jinling, he did not clear the southeast, but concentrated 20,000 troops of the Ninth Army on the Northern Expedition, and after the Northern Expedition was frustrated, the two main forces were sent to reinforce the Northern Expeditionary Army. As a result, these three troops were wiped out one after another, which can be said to be the biggest loss after the Taiping Army.
And in this case. On the contrary, Jinling became the biggest weakness in the strategic layout of the entire Heavenly Kingdom, and the troops of Xiang Rong and Zhang Guoliang camped on the Purple Mountain outside the city and blocked Tianjing tightly. And Hu Xingren said: "Now the Cantonese bandits are arranged. West to Hubei, north to Anhui, south to Jiangxi Province, east to Zhenjiang, it is true that it is a long snake array, and Jinling Cheng is the seven inches of the long snake. As soon as Jinling was broken, the Cantonese bandits collapsed. ”
This is indeed true. Tianjing in the strategic layout of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, does have the role of the Great Wall of the sky, after the loss of Tianjing, the Taiping army of hundreds of thousands of troops immediately collapsed, although it has Li Shixian opened Zhangzhou, Wang Haiyang fled to Jiayingzhou, but is no longer the Qing army's henchmen.
Hu Xingren continued: "Now Xiang Ran and Zhang Guoliang besiege Jinling, trying to Zhenjiang, smoke lock Guazhou, there is great progress, although because of the sending of Deng Shaoliang, Zhang Yuliang reinforcements and divided a group of elite soldiers, but the monk king to the north, will be able to make Xiang Shuai like a tiger with wings, in one fell swoop to recover Jinling!" ”
"What about the red thief?" Shengbao is concerned about this issue: "If Hang Jia falls into the hands of red thieves, I'm afraid Huzhou will be difficult to defend!" ”
"Don't be afraid, not afraid!" Hu Xingren said: "What the red thieves are most afraid of now is that Ningbo cannot maintain neutrality, and Western ordnance has nowhere to purchase, and the combat power of the red thieves depends on foreign guns and artillery, so if He Genyun can come forward to secretly communicate with him, he will definitely be able to drag on for several months......."
"He Genyun, can you really protect Zhejiang for a few months?" Monk Lingqin was immediately moved: "In that case, it seems feasible to break the Guangdong bandits first, and then deploy on the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang!" ”
"If you don't feel at ease." Hu Xingren said: "The monk king can leave a strong soldier in Huzhou, Huzhou is not restrained, then the red thief will not dare to invade Zhejiang in the north, not to mention that southern Jiangsu is close to Shanghai, and the red thief likes to make good friends with foreigners, and Shanghai is at the intersection of China and the West, and the red thief will not dare to anger the foreigners." ”…,
As soon as Hu Xingren said this, Shengbao had already agreed: "That's right, the Cantonese bandits are a problem for their henchmen, Liu Jiehu has no foresight and no deep planning, and he is not enough to worry about, if you and I join forces and break through Jinling!" ”
The monk always knew that there were always some problems with Hu Xingren's layout, but he couldn't find anything wrong, so he immediately asked: "You are the political envoy of Zhejiang, don't you think about Zhejiang?" If you talk differently, my 20,000 soldiers and horses can be deployed in Hangzhou! ”
Hu Xingren immediately said: "Is it for the world, or for a province in Zhejiang?" Although a certain is a political envoy in Zhejiang, he should plan for the world, but the two of you can rest assured, I will live and die with Hangzhou! ”
He was excited, but the monk king and Shengbao both believed his words, and the monk king immediately said: "He Genyun's side is going to work Hu Fansi, my troops will be transferred north immediately, not in Hangjia to defend and turn to attack Jinling." ”
Hu Xingren immediately said: "Don't worry, He Genyun is on my side, I can assure the two of you that although Hang Jia has no soldiers and no generals, He Genyun will come forward and stay for half a year, as long as Jinling is recovered within half a year, Hang Jia can also be saved." ”
Both the monk king and Shengbao had defeated the Taiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Army, but when they heard about this half a year, they hesitated: "It's a little difficult!" Half-load time is too short. ”
You must know that when the Taiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Army finally failed, it was hundreds of old Taiping troops who faced the encirclement of tens of thousands of Qing troops with their bases, and they held on for several months, but Hu Xingren smiled: "It is enough to have Xiang Ran, and what Xiang Ran will never forget is to recover Jinling. ”
Seng Lingqin and Shengbao both believed Hu Xingren's statement, and now the whole army is just fighting to the death with Liu Jiehu, it is better to put this army into the Jinling-Zhenjiang-Guazhou battlefield, where the Qing army has a great advantage, where there are the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp of the Qing army, and these three isolated cities have been blocked tightly.
It's just that when Hu Xingren saw these two Manmeng nobles leaving, he sighed faintly: "Zeng Disheng, Zeng Disheng, I, Hu Xingren, are worthy of you, a fellow Hunan countryman!" ”
This is no way, although he is the political envoy of Zhejiang, but he is the core backbone of the Hunan Army group, this is because of the Hunan Army Group, so others are in Zhejiang, but they have to run for the Hunan Army, a Laker group.
Now the situation of the Hunan army is no worse, first in February, Zeng Guofan's army was defeated in Jiujiang, and the water division was divided into the inner lake water division and the outer lake water division, and then Luo Zenan died in Hubei, and Shi Dakai's entry into Jiangxi almost made Zeng Guofan almost come to a desperate situation.
Shi Dakai's entry into Jiangxi this time did not save any face for the Hunan army, and almost the entire Jiangxi Province was taken down, leaving only a lonely city in Nanchang, and seeing that Zeng Guofan was about to commit suicide by jumping into the river.
In this case, the Hunan army naturally hoped that Hu Xingren would make a situation in Zhejiang, but as a result, Hu Xingren, Li Yuandu, and Deng Shaoliang, the three Hunan righteous brothers, not only failed to save the situation, but even lost the two mansions of Yanqu, and the losses were innumerable.
And Hu Xingren was also desperate for the situation in Zhejiang, although the monk and Shengbao's 20,000 horse infantry team came, but the monk and Shengbao joined forces, and even the defense of an infantry battalion of the Hong Army could not be broken.
Manmeng Xungui is the imperial relative of the Qing Dynasty, but he is the enemy of the Hunan army, if they were not suppressed, Zeng Guofan would have made amazing achievements, but he was always just a squire.
And now the situation in Jiangxi is so dangerous that he has to take a dose of fierce medicine, so Hu Xingren came up with this trick to fight poison with poison, so that the monk king and Shengbao's 20,000 horses joined the Tianjing-Zhenjiang battlefield, in this battlefield the Qing army was originally in an advantageous position, although it was affected by Deng Shaoliang and Zhang Yuliang's aid to Zhejiang, but the Taiping army was still sitting in a lonely city. …,
According to Hu Xingren's judgment, as long as Tianjing is in an emergency, the Taiping army will definitely transfer the main force from other battlefields to the Tianjing battlefield -- in Li Xiucheng's self-report, this is called "six liberation of the siege of Beijing", Tianjing City has become the heaviest burden of the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, every year or two to sacrifice the interests of other battlefields, mobilize the main force to carry out a large-scale siege campaign near Tianjing, rescue Tianjing from danger, the last time Li Xiucheng led the 13 kings and 200,000 troops did not relieve the siege of the 50,000 Hunan troops of the Zeng State Domain, and completely took the national fortune of the Kingdom of Heaven.
And now that Seng Lingqin and Shengbao's 20,000 troops have joined the Tianjing-Zhenjiang battlefield, they will definitely force Shi Dakai to return to Tianjing from Jiangxi.
Naturally, this sacrificed Zhejiang Province, but Hu Xingren shook his head: "It depends on how capable He Genyun is, and how long can the empty city plan fool the red thief?" ”
He didn't know that his strategy of fighting poison with poison had no intention of letting history go back to its original trajectory.
Under the circumstance that Deng Shaoliang and Zhang Yuliang successively aided Zhejiang, and Zhejiang's assistance was cut off, it was impossible for Xiang Rong's Jiangnan battalion to force Shi Dakai back from Jiangxi, but with the addition of 20,000 troops of Seng Lingqin and Shengbao, history returned to its original trajectory.
He sighed again: "I'm sorry for Zhejiang, I'm sorry for Deng Shaoliang and Li Yuandu, and I'm sorry for the monk king and Shengbao, but I'm sorry for my Hunan fellow ......."
Not planning for the world, nor for Zhejiang Province, only for Hunan.
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Ningbo.
The emotions in the exchange became more and more excited, and completely different news came from all sides, and even Hu Xueyan didn't know which side would win the final victory now.
Sometimes it is said that the Hongjun is a small victory, and sometimes the news says that the monk king and Shengbao won a big victory, and there is even more news that the two sides have a tie and each retreats, anyway, there is any kind of news.
Just when everyone was in a hurry, someone had already sent news: "The Feng family sent a telegram from Jinhua Mansion to Feng Wenyi about the actual battle situation, and now the telegram is still in translation, I don't know what the situation is?" ”
As he was talking, there were already believers from the Feng family who rushed to the seat where Feng Wenyi and the underworld were located, and everyone's eyes were staring at Feng Wenyi.
ps: I'm sorry, my son was sent to the hospital at three o'clock in the morning, and he tossed for a whole day, barely rushing out of a watch, and the rest of the updates can only be made up tomorrow