Chapter 117: The Prayer of Hechun

In the big tent of the Chinese army in the Jiangnan camp, Xiao Shengyuan, Wang Jun and other cronies of Hechun sat beside Hechun, taking turns to refer to Guoxing's battle report. Several staff members exchanged glances with strange faces, and Wang Jun and a few other martial artists were quite excited.

"The military man's clever plan is really a stroke of genius, and Guoxing Ashen led the tiger's den to lure out the main force of long-haired hair in one fell swoop, which is a good time for our army to regain lost ground!" Everyone was silent for a long time, and Wang Jun, who was Hechun's number one favorite minister, jumped out and began to praise Hechun.

"Fart, if you say these bastard words again, get out of here!" He Chun was upset, and Wang Jun's sycophant slapped firmly on the horse's leg.

"The big handsome is angry, and the long hair has entered the palm of the big handsome, which can be regarded as good news!" Wang Jun didn't dare to speak out, Xiao Shengyuan, Huang Jing and a few people with some identities hurriedly came out to play a round.

"You don't have to comfort me, you are all my confidants, and we don't have to say those lies. In the past, Ben Shuai was too arrogant and indulged in this kid, this time he caused such a big disaster, how should it end? Although He Chun was rude, Huang Jing was a Han general soldier he rarely relied on, and Xiao Shengyuan was a confidential staff member he relied on even more, so his attitude naturally eased.

"Guoxing A Senling never said a false number, he said in the battle report that there are seventy or eighty thousand people with long hair, and it is not much different if you think about it, it is difficult!" Xiao Shengyuan shook his head and sighed.

"This little cub is quite brave, if there are really only twenty or thirty thousand people with long hair, he can't stop him if he wants to. is also "blooming in the center", he is surrounded by long hair! Kazuharu only felt dizzy.

"If it is farther away, he may really be able to recover some lost ground as he planned in the battle report, but this Liuhe City is too close." The other staff members were also helpless.

"Yes! Longhair seems to have lured out the main force by him, but it is not far from all the important places, as long as our army moves, Longhair can immediately return to help, but it is just a futile army! "Huang Jing saw the battle situation quite thoroughly.

"It's not just a vain army, the army movement will inevitably make mistakes, the elite of the long-haired Jiangbei gathers, if they go straight to our army, I'm afraid that the disaster will be incalculable." Xiao Shengyuan looked deeper.

Although Guo Xing'a said that the sky was falling, the actual situation was extremely passive for the Qing army. The main forces of the Jiangbei Taiping Army suddenly gathered together, and it became a situation in which they could attack and retreat. If there was no Guoxing'a who was besieged and killed, the Qing army could still choose to stay still, and it would be difficult to do anything if there was no time to serve as the Taiping army. However, the Taiping army, which wanted to die, captured Guoxing'a, and the Qing army's rescue of Guoxing'a had to mobilize defenders from all over the country, and it was inevitable that there would be vacancies. The Taiping army, which was not far from its own defense area, could return to the defense in time, but it could also ignore the Qing army and directly attack the exposed Zhenjiang and Yangzhou, and even attack the Jiangnan camp.

"But can you not save it? There can be one member of the third rank, two members of the fourth rank, five members of the fifth rank, two of the seventh grade, and seventeen military attachés of the seventh rank. If you don't save it, according to the ruthless style of the Guoxing Azhi Army, none of these people will definitely come back. Guoxing Ato, I handed over the military regulations to the imperial court, you have all read it! That was the military law of the founding of the Qing Dynasty! If you don't die in front of the battle, you will die in military law. Goxinga and Ta Ama are the same character, and in the end, they must rather die than retreat, if Goxinga dies, these people will have to die. Otherwise, if you lose the main general, you will not escape death when you come back. He Chun hated to death the strict military law of Guoxing'a, which was once praised.

"Don't say that these people have just been rewarded by the imperial court, even if they are ordinary people, they killed nearly thirty high-ranking generals in a sudden battle, and it is a rare big defeat! How do we explain to the imperial court! "Xiao Shengyuan is also a straight tooth flower.

The wars that broke out in China were generally on a grand scale, and most of them were fought by hundreds of thousands or millions of people, while Japan's scale of only 1,800 people at a time could only be regarded as an armed conflict in China. And in such a large-scale war, in fact, there are not many officers of rank who die each time. Because there are very few generals in China's wars, military attaches are generally in command positions and do not come to the front line, and even if a major rout occurs, the chances of the military attachés escaping are very high. Compared with the defeat of the Jiangnan battalion in Xing'a's previous history, there are actually less than 20 military generals of the same rank. In the Battle of Salhu, which arose in the Qing Dynasty, the Ming army killed nearly 300 military attachés at one time, which was called an unprecedented fiasco since the founding of the country by the Ming Dynasty. The result was even more terrifying, the entire northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty, high, middle, and low military attachés were almost swept away.

Although the number of troops in Guoxing'a is not large, because of Xianfeng's special reward for the bannermen, there are many officers at all levels, and if the entire Xing'a army is destroyed, a large number of high-grade generals will appear on the list of the dead. It won't cause much substantial harm, but the impact will be terrible. What's more, these people have just been rewarded by Xianfeng, and they were all wiped out when they turned around, what is the face of the court.

"And the Imperial Banner! I can't throw this thing away anyway! Xiao Shengyuan admired Guo Xing'a more and more, this kid is now full of talismans.

"This bastard boy also set up the military flag on the top of the mountain, if the imperial gift is lost, how can this be obtained!" And Chun is also bitter.

"Junmen, this is a ......" a staff member held up the recital of Guoxing Ajiao and Chunzhuan.

"Let's turn the court! This bastard boy is afraid that Ben Shuai will see through his ghost tricks and pull the court to suppress me! "And the roots of the teeth of the spring hatred are itchy.

He could send it a few days later, or even wait for Guo Xing'a to finish, but it didn't make any sense. The concert that entered the Jiangnan camp in full view of everyone, and Chun couldn't eat it, even if it was pressed for a while, it would have to be played sooner or later. If you wait for Guo Xing'a to finish playing again, it is better to play it now. Play it now, even if Goxinga is finished in the end, that is, the plan is wrong, and the sin is lighter. But if you wait for Guo Xing'a to finish and play again, the court doesn't care whether Guo Xing's plan is feasible or not, everything is the sin of you and Chun's improper actions.

"Let Feng Zicai and Zhang Guoliang's troops attack Jiangbei and relieve the siege of Guoxing'a, Huang Jing, you can also take Ma Dengfu and Cai Qirong together! Then write a letter to Zeng's supervisor in western Anhui for me, inform him of the war situation, and ask him to attack at the same time! He Chun sighed helplessly, he had to save Guo Xing'a.

"Military Gate! No! Xiao Shengyuan jumped up directly from the stool.

"Mr. Xiao, forget it, forget it!" Kazuharu waved his hand painfully.

"Military Gate! Never! Xiao Shengyuan fell to his knees, and his voice choked.

"Years of hard work! But the situation is always stronger than people, Mr. Xiao, forget it! Alas! "And Chun has some heroic twilight Xiao Suo.

"Junmen, let's storm Nanjing!" Xiao Shengyuan walked forward on his knees and crawled to Hechun's side.

"Mr. Xiao, Jiangling City is well defended, and hundreds of thousands of troops with long hair are stationed, if we can really take it down by one or two tricks, why should we sit under this fortified city for several years!" He Chun smiled bitterly and helped Xiao Shengyuan up.

Although He Chun and Xiang Rong have all kinds of shortcomings, they are not stupid people with faces. If it is really as unbearable as described in the textbook, how can two people who are not of high background climb to the high position of the minister of the Qincha to control the military affairs of Jiangnan step by step. The stupid face in the textbook is like romance, but it just highlights the tall image of some people, and then judges the hero by success or failure.

The strategy of the two was not superb, but it was effective, that is, to besiege Nanjing for a long time, like a sharp sword against the heart of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom forever. The Jiangnan camp blocked the passage for the Taiping army to march into Suzhou, Changzhou, and Zhejiang, and at the same time firmly locked most of the Taiping army's forces in Nanjing. Moreover, the existence of the Jiangnan battalion forced the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to mobilize materials from all over the country to supply Nanjing, which greatly consumed the strength of the Taiping army and provided conditions for the Qing army's counterattack in all other directions. In addition to the Northern Expeditionary Army, which never returned, the Taiping Army, whether it was in the east or west, could not go far to return to Nanjing. Shi Dakai in the early stage and Li Xiucheng in the later period had to carry the heavy burden of Nanjing to fight against the Qing army, and lost a greater strategic space.

In the end, Zeng Guofan and others were able to eliminate the Taiping Army, which was actually the same strategy, and Zeng Guoquan was nailed to death under the city of Nanjing, which provided conditions for Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang to advance east and west. When Suzhou was in crisis, Li Xiucheng had to lead an army of 600,000 to return to Nanjing, opening the door to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for Li Hongzhang. It is not so much that the Hunan army captured Nanjing, but that the Hunan army consumed Nanjing, and Hong Xiu all ate wild grass and died, which shows the embarrassing environment in Nanjing. Although the combat strength of the Taiping army declined seriously in the later period, there were still hundreds of thousands of people in Nanjing, and if it was not for the exhaustion of ammunition and food, it would be difficult for the Hunan army to attack it.

However, the Jiangnan battalion has an important shortcoming, that is, the strength is insufficient but the defense space is huge. Not to mention the entire Jiangnan, occasionally have to manage Jiangbei, for seventy or eighty thousand people, this territory is too big. From Xiang Rong to Hechun, it was because of the division of troops that the camp was empty, and they embarked on the road of no return. Zeng Guoquan is equivalent to a lone army going deep, relying on the Yangtze River to supply, without the concerns of the two predecessors, so that he can return with honor.

Xiang Rong may not have understood this when he was there, but his successor He Chun saw it very clearly, so He Chun's strategy was to remain unmoved. I am also motionless when the sky falls, as long as He Chun does not move, the Taiping army will have nothing to do with him. Although the Qing army will also have small-scale attacks, it is not the time to make a big move while the Taiping army is not paying attention to the scale of your two ridges of land. Originally, it would have to wait until a few months later for Li Xiucheng to besiege Wei to rescue Zhao, so that he could shake Hechun with the news that Hangzhou had fallen and fallen, but now Guoxing'a has created this opportunity in advance. He Chun is not a warlord who kills and dictates himself, he is the minister of Xianfeng, he is a banner man, and he is a slave of his master. He must explain to Xianfeng, he can't let Xianfeng be slapped in the face, so he must divide his troops to save Hangzhou, so he must go to save Guoxing.

Although he repeatedly told all his troops to go and return quickly, the transfer of tens of thousands of troops would be a matter of ten days and half a month. The sailor was transporting the troops crossing the river back and forth, and He Chun and Xiao Shengyuan could only silently pray for the Bodhisattva's blessing in their hearts. Perhaps in the history of Guoxing's previous life, when Zhang Guoliang led the army to march, they also prayed like this. The immortal who passed by in the sky above their heads that time was Hong Xiuquan's foreign father, and this time I didn't know that it would be the god and Buddha.

A year ago, Guoxing's recital was presented to Xianfeng's imperial case, and Xianfeng Longyan Dayue, who was waiting to eat dumplings, would have been issued on the same day that Jin Feng Guoxing'a was the deputy capital. After issuing an edict urging all the troops to enter and suppress, Xianfeng dreamed of the good news of Hechun's capture of Nanjing at night. However, the staff of the Ministry of War was looking for Su Shun, who had been on the map for a long time according to Guo Xing'a's recital, but he scolded Guo Xing'a for half a night.

"Guoxing'a is young and shallow, ignorant of the overall situation, and staying in Jiangnan may disrupt Hechun's deployment. Shandong, Henan and other places have been rampant recently, so transfer Guoxing A to exterminate the bandits! "The next morning, Su Shun, who saw Du Han at the military aircraft department, opened his mouth and wanted to transfer Guoxinga out of Jiangnan.

"I heard that if you want to kill or chop, you have to wait for Hechun to rescue him first." Du Han handed a cup of tea to Su Shun.

"This merit-hungry bastard boy!" Su Shun sat on the kang indignantly.

"Young man! I just won the reward, so I naturally want to show off and show off! Duhan didn't care.

"I'm afraid that he will affect the overall situation of Jiangnan!" Su Shun was very worried that the situation in Jiangnan, which had just improved, would change again.

A cold wind blew into the rudimentary military plane, and both of them took a sharp breath and stopped talking. Guoxing'a, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, was now also inhaling, and the advance of the Taiping army finally rushed into the Dragon and Tiger Battalion.