"With Yao Lao by his side, Yong'an will be broken, and we can live up to the emperor's grace." The stone in Saizanne's heart finally fell, and he suddenly felt a lot more steady.

"We can't hope for a quick victory, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and at the same time, we must be prepared for a long-term siege." Yao Ying is a very calm person, since he came over as the military staff officer of Lord Shoufu, he must be fully prepared.

"You can rest assured that we have already embargoed grain, grass and salt to bandits when we were besieging Jintian. Now that I am in Yong'an, the same is true, and I guarantee that Yong'an will not be able to obtain a bag of grain or a grain of salt from the outside. "Saishana is very confident in this, this Guangxi has many mountainous roads, not as accessible as the plains, and it is also very convenient to set up checkpoints.

"That's great. This Yong'an produces limited grain and does not produce salt. After a long time, it will definitely have an effect. However, Lord Shousuke, according to what you said earlier, the bandits make good use of pine cannons. So now there is one more thing to embargo, and that is gunpowder. Yao Ying thought for a moment and added.

"Yes, yes, if it weren't for the old gentleman's reminder, I would have almost forgotten. This bandit's pine cannon is really powerful, this thing consumes a lot of gunpowder, it must be banned! Saishan'a Lian Lian said that the Qing army had enough of the suffering of pine cannons these days, and as soon as this was mentioned, Saishan'a immediately felt the same way.

"There is one more thing, the old man doesn't know whether to talk about it or not." Yao Ying, who was still talking eloquently just now, suddenly hesitated, and finally opened her mouth.

"But it doesn't hurt to talk about it, you and I are in the same boat, and there is nothing to taboo." Sezanne didn't mind.

"When I was in the capital and was about to come to Guangxi to take up my post, Lord Zeng recommended a person to me, hoping that this person could also come to Guangxi to assist in suppressing bandits." Yao Ying's face turned slightly red when she spoke.

Cezanne immediately understood that as a veteran of officialdom, he was well aware of the affairs of the world. Now that he is the number one leader in Guangxi's military affairs, it is understandable that the people of the DPRK and China recommend their relatives and friends to arrange a spare post to make some military achievements, and to prepare for future advancement.

"It's easy to say, but I don't know which Lord Zeng is?" Cezanne asked, "You have to know who it's for to give favors."

"It's Zeng Guofan, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, and he recommended his old friend Jiang Zhongyuan. I also learned about the situation of this Jiang Zhongyuan, who was a man of Daoguang's seventeenth year. Two years ago, he held a regimental training in his hometown and captured and killed Lei Zaihao, the leader of the Qinglian Sect who was wandering on the border of Hunan and Guangxi, so his military merits were promoted to the magistrate of Xiushui County, Hunan. However, his position is in another province, and if you want to transfer him, you have to use your status as a messenger. "Yao Ying can open this mouth, one is because this Zeng Guo official has a good reputation and has a lot of hope in Beijing. The second is that Jiang Zhongyuan, who was recommended, is not without qualifications, after all, he has military merits, although he has never seen it, he is not a completely incompetent person.

"It turned out to be him!" Sai Shang'a remembered, this Zeng Guofan is not ordinary, Daoguang was a jinshi in the eighteenth year, and then moved seven times in the next ten years, and was promoted to ten levels in a row, from the review of the Qipin Hanlin Academy to the second grade of the Ministry of Works. Such a promotion speed, which is very rare in officialdom, and he is the proud protégé of Mu Zhang'a, the Minister of Military Aircraft, this face still has to be given, not to mention that Yao Ying has helped him a lot, since he opened his mouth, he is not easy to refuse.

"Okay, I'll immediately write a letter to the governor of Hunan, and ask Jiang Zhongyuan to come to Guangxi to help suppress." Sezanne didn't hesitate and immediately agreed. Although he didn't have any expectations in his heart, after all, he was a village warrior, and he was still a man who raised people and led troops, no matter how powerful he was, he would definitely not be as good as the regular army.

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The Taiping army moved to Yong'an in a hurry, and communications were not developed at that time. As soon as they were halfway there, someone noticed that there were still some people who had not been notified, and were still near Jintian, and had not kept up with the large army. The military marshal Zhou Xineng asked Yang Xiuqing to go back to Jintian and find his subordinates again.

At this time, Marshal Zhou led more than 800 Taiping troops to Yong'an. However, now Yong'an has been surrounded by Qing regiments, and Zhou Xineng has asked people to investigate various intersections many times, and they have reported that they are heavily guarded by Qing troops. They were alone, they didn't dare to break in, and they went around the Yong'an border in a big circle, and finally found a trail leading to Yong'an. It seems that the Qing army did not pay much attention to it here, and only sent a small number of villagers to defend. Zhou Xineng decided to break through from here and join Yong'an's large army.

"You've found out, only five hundred?" Zhou Xineng asked the spy again.

"Absolutely, yes, five hundred. It's not the Green Battalion or the Eight Banners, they are under the banner of Chu Yong, and it should be a regimental training in Hunan. The spy continued.

"Big brother, it's the weakest here, let's rush in from here." Zhou Xineng's subordinate Chen Wu said anxiously, hiding carefully every day, for fear of being discovered by the Qing army, everyone hoped to return to the team as soon as possible.

"Did you notice anything out of the ordinary?" Zhou Xineng was still a little uneasy, and continued to ask the detective.

"There are no anomalies, except for 。。。。。。。" The spy suddenly remembered something strange.

"Except for what?" Zhou Xineng hurriedly asked.

"I saw their leader holding a book to read to these villagers, and I eavesdropped on it for a while, as if it was loyalty and filial piety etiquette or something." The spy recalled this strange thing, and he still didn't understand what was going on, everyone was illiterate these days, what was the use of reading this?

Zhou Xineng was stunned for a moment, and then said indifferently: "It is estimated that it is a group practice of a group of readers, and these people will have some sour words that are vain and useless." On the battlefield, it is a lot of strength, and there is a fart for reading. Then he beckoned his subordinates Chen Wu and Zhu Badao: "Let the brothers come over, everyone go up together, after passing this pass, you can enter Yong'an in two hours, come on, everyone!" ”

The Xiang Yong discovered by Zhou Xineng was Jiang Zhongyuan's team recommended by Zeng Guofan.

At this moment, Jiang Zhongyuan was extremely depressed, and he excitedly brought five hundred regiments from his hometown to help suppress him. As a result, Sai Shousuke didn't seem to be optimistic about himself, and arranged them to guard in such an inconsequential place. This is a small road that only people can cross, cars and horses can not cross, it was originally a passage for hunters to go into the mountains to hunt, and it is a ghost to meet the Taiping army here.

Depressed and depressed, Jiang Zhongyuan still reads Confucian classics to his soldiers at the beginning of every month. His original training method attached great importance to ideological education, instilled the etiquette of loyalty and filial piety, and preached loyalty to the country, which was unique in the regimental training at that time. (Later the prototype of the Hunan Army)

"My lord, there's long hair coming from the west!" A guard hurried over to report.

"West? This is not the direction of Yong'an, is it the remnants of Jintian? How many of them are there? Jiang Zhongyuan was not surprised.

"More than us, about eight hundred, should we avoid it?" The guard said worriedly.

"Avoidance? This is a good opportunity for us to make contributions, pass on my order, and let everyone gather quickly to face the battle! Jiang Zhongyuan couldn't hold back the ecstasy in his heart and said excitedly.