"Your Majesty, are we going to let Fogang and Qingyuan out temporarily?"

The emergency military situation that occurred in Chaozhou and Wuzhou at the same time made Fang Shan feel the crisis, at this time, Guangdong seemed to be torn apart by two ends, and Zhang Qianshan's knife was in the middle, compared to those two directions, Zhang Qianshan is the only one who can talk about it here, plus after all, it is an in-law, it may not be wiped out, if the two counties can be temporarily exchanged for Zhang Qianshan to stand still, and win time for the Ming Dynasty to mobilize the army to counterattack, how can it be cost-effective. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhu Jinglun disagreed.

"You still don't know my father-in-law, if we stay tough, he will be suspicious and worried, but once we show weakness, he will bite him even further."

Zhang Qianshan is a wolf, and he will never be satisfied, which Zhu Jinglun knows very well that there are too many such tasks in history.

"Although our situation is urgent, there is no danger if there is a surprise. Jiaying Prefecture and Chaozhou are mountain after mountain, even if they are captured by the Qing army, what can they do? Step by step, I walked the mountain road to Guangzhou, and I went to the Year of the Monkey. What's more, the people of Huichao Jiadao are fierce, and now Zhang Jingxiu and Zhang Baoming of the Taoist platform are already gathering regiments from all over the country, and they will be able to go to reinforcements in a few days, so we are not in a hurry. ”

Zhu Jinglun explained.

To put it mildly, he lost Chaozhou, Qingyuan and Fogang already belong to Guangzhou Prefecture, and they are too close to Guangzhou, so he can't afford to lose them.

While he was talking, Xie Qi in the war room next to him hurriedly ran over.

"Jiang Yili's Hunan army has blown up the city wall of Wuzhou and has entered Wuzhou City, and our army is fighting a bloody battle with it. The Baoke regiment in Zhaoqing has gone to support, and the current battle situation is unknown. ”

The news was sent back from Zhaoqing, which was Wuzhou's backup.

Previously, Zhu Jinglun asked Hou Jin to sit there, responsible for coordinating the two troops of the Xin'an Second Army and the Baoke Regiment, and the order given to him was to support Wuzhou at any time, so when he saw that Wuzhou was in danger, he immediately sent reinforcements, and he should have arrived in Wuzhou at this time.

Zhu Jinglun groaned: "Jiang Yili has made a bloody investment? Why is that? He thought he would be able to attack Guangdong with 30,000 men? What benefits did Zuo Zongtang give him! ”

Through the last battle, Zhu Jinglun found that Jiang Yili was a warlord at all, and he only cared about protecting himself, no wonder he did not allow the Zeng brothers, this time he attacked Wuzhou, I am afraid that the casualties will be much greater than where the Xin'an army is, what kind of interests allow him to storm Wuzhou so desperately.

"Chaozhou sent another request for help, saying that Tai Po was almost lost, and the enemy army broke into the city many times, and was repelled by our soldiers in bloody battles. But our army has suffered heavy losses, and has so far suffered more than 500 casualties. ”

"Where's Zhenping?"

"Zhenping is relatively calm at present, and we believe that the Qing army is planning to encircle and send reinforcements."

There is only one brigade in Tai Po, with more than 2,000 people, and the strength is indeed a little weak, but since the other side has entered it, it can still be beaten out, can it be done with the courage of the Hakka soldiers?

Why is it Tai Po instead of Zhenping, Zuo Zongtang is bent on saving Tai Po, Tai Po belongs to Chaozhou Mansion, and is connected to Chaozhou waterway, although it is closer to Jiaying Prefecture, but it is often smoother to go upriver from the Han River.

"It seems that Zuo Zongtang wants Chaozhou!"

Zhu Jinglun confirmed.

He had never suspected that Zuo Zongtang wanted to plot against Chaozhou before, because it was difficult for him to understand that even if they occupied Chaozhou, it would be impossible to keep marching along the mountains to the Pearl River Delta, and it could be said that Chaozhou was of little strategic significance militarily. If Zuo Zongtang had the forces to destroy Zhu Jinglun, it would be possible to go south from Chaozhou, but in the absence of sufficient troops, it was unlikely that he would be entangled with Zhu Jinglun in the mountains.

But now the other party is clearly trying to lead the army in Chaozhou.

"What other troops do we have to use?"

Zhu Jinglun asked.

"At present, the best training conditions are the Chaozhou Army and the Guangzhou Army."

Xie Qi replied.

The Chaozhou Army is an army adapted on the basis of the regimental training led by Zhuo Xing and Wen Xingrui. The Guangzhou Army was an army reorganized from the 14 counties of Guangzhou.

The Guangzhou Army has a good foundation and is the most proficient in rifle and artillery operations, while the Chaozhou Army has a good foundation, and they were relatively elite troops before.

I thought about it carefully: "How many people in the Eight Banners have not left?" ”

There are more than 8,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners, and it is impossible to send them to Tianjing at once, they are leaving in batches.

"There are more than 3,000 more."

Xie Qi replied.

Zhu Jinglun said: "The Chaozhou army was carried in a troop transport ship and secretly transported to Chaozhou by sea. He sent a message to Black Dog, allowing him to lead troops to rescue Tai Po, but told him to return to the division immediately after ten miles of troops. Calculate the time, the black dog's return to the division must be consistent with the sea reinforcements. ”

This deployment made Xie Qi puzzled for a moment, and immediately thought of the reason: "You mean that someone is going to attack Chaozhou?" ”

Some people wanted to sneak attack Chaozhou, so they resorted to the plan of transferring the tiger away from the mountain and tried every means to transfer the Chaozhou garrison.

Based on this conjecture, the plan will be calculated, and the opponent will be caught off guard. When the other party saw the reinforcements of the black dog out of the city, they would immediately seize the opportunity to attack, but the two sides of the black dog return army could only fight, and then suddenly a large number of reinforcements came from the sea, and the black dog joined forces to encircle and annihilate the sneak attack troops.

Zhu Jinglun always firmly believes in his judgment, not that he thinks he is smart enough, but because this is the first impression, others don't care about Zuo Zongtang, Zhu Jinglun understands very well that this is a ruthless character, and the resume of suppressing the Northwest Hui is enough to show this person's ability, and another reason is that this is an extremely smart person, among the important ministers of the Han people in the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan is famously clumsy, and Li Hongzhang shows treacherousness, this Zuo Zongtang is wise.

Smart people are all good, but they are generally bad, they always think that they can play with other people's IQ, and they never want to fight well, Zhu Jinglun hopes that Zuo Zongtang will do the same, if he wants to tease his own IQ, it would be better.

After the time plan was set, the black dog was quickly informed that a part of the Chaozhou Army would be hidden in the fleet transporting the Eight Banners and sailed away from the port of Guangzhou.

Zuo Zongtang did things more carefully than Zhu Jinglun imagined, when the black dog left Chaozhou with the main force, only arranged a guard at each of the four gates, and as a result, he left with the front foot, and there was a group of people in the city with the back foot to rebel and attack the city gate, and outside the city suddenly killed a large group of Qing troops from the mountains, well-equipped, with many rifles and cannons, and began to storm Chaozhou as soon as the mountain began.

By the time the black dog returned to the army, the opponent's internal and external attacks were about to break through the city gate, and in the evening half an hour, Chaozhou would definitely fall.

The Qing army outside the city had a fierce battle with the black dog, they did not intend to give up, although their forces were not superior, until Zhuo Xing led the Chaozhou army to make a small ship to appear in Chaozhou, the other party saw that the situation was not good and gave up the siege, and returned to the mountains very resolutely.

Zhuo Xing immediately led people into the mountains and forests, and the black dog sent back information, asking for instructions on the next move, and at the same time told Zhu Jinglun an unexpected news.

"There are foreigners? Is this a winning army? No, it should be the Chang Jie army trained by the French for Zuo Zongtang! ”

Zhu Jinglun immediately reacted, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, their horizons seem to be more open than Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang cooperated with the British, Zuo Zongtang cooperated with the French, this relationship lasted until decades later, even when the two of them engaged in the Westernization Movement more than ten years later, Li Hongzhang mainly relied on the British, while Zuo Zongtang relied on the French, Zuo Zongtang's Harbour Administration Bureau in Fuzhou was managed and operated by the French, and the General Manager of the Harbour Master Bureau, It is also the Frenchman Riyige and Dirk Monument who helped Zuo Zongtang train his troops.

"Send a note to the French protesting against their officers' involvement in the Chinese civil war!"

After learning of this situation, Zhu Jinglun immediately found Wu Chongyao and asked him to put pressure on the French, but the purpose was to block the way for the French to make trouble later, because Zhu Jinglun didn't plan to let these French go, so first give them a charge, if the French minister didn't admit it, then it would be better to kill them directly, if they admit it, well, they won't admit it.

"Inform the black dog, go all out into the mountains to search and arrest, let Zhang Baoming be responsible for the rescue of Tai Po and Zhenping, the black dog and Zhuo Xing both go all out into the mountains to search and arrest, not a single Qing army should be spared, whether it is the French or the Chinese, if they can be captured, they will be captured, and they cannot be directly killed if they are captured."

Zhu Jinglun knew that as soon as he gave this order, the fate of the French was already doomed, playing mountain warfare with the Chaozhou people and Hakka people, this is simply giving away people's heads, and it is also playing mountain warfare in the mountains in Chaozhou, this is a friendship to give people their heads.

After the order was issued, most of the Chaozhou army had not yet been reinforced to Fuzhou, and most of them were still in the barracks in Guangzhou, and all of them were sent over.

Chang Jiejun, Zuo Zongtang's trump card troops, no wonder he dared to make such a big bet, pressed his elite to attract firepower in Tai Po and Zhenping, the feeling is that he believes that Chang Jiejun will capture Chaozhou City as soon as possible, of course, he is probably also very interested in the Neiying he planted in Chaozhou, but unfortunately he underestimated the tenacity of the Wukeng Army, these Hakka mountain people guarded the city gate, if they don't beat up the last person, they will not give up, and he didn't expect that the black dog would go and return, because he didn't expect Zhu Jinglun to pay attention to him from the beginning. It's not that Zhu Jinglun is smart enough, but he knows Zuo Zongtang's weight in history and attaches great importance to it, if Fujian is replaced by a nobody at this time, maybe Zhu Jinglun will be fooled.

After breaking Zuo Zongtang's plot in one fell swoop, the rest of the matter was much easier, the siege of Tai Po and Zhenping was quickly resolved, first, Zhang Baoming contacted enough local Hakka hometown to rush to the rescue, and second, the Qing army itself gave up the attack, presumably planning to meet the retreat of Chang Jie's army.

But how easy is it for Chang Jiejun to go, Zhu Jinglun has asked Zhang Baoming and Zhang Jingxiu to mobilize in the entire Chaozhou, and the notice is sent to every township, telling the squires that the foreigners have entered the mountains, and they have found a reward of one hundred taels of silver, and they want to get out of that mountain land alive, it is estimated that it is more difficult than climbing to the sky.

War is like a rubber band, loose here, tight there, Zhang Qianshan noticed that after Zhu Jinglun continued to transfer troops to leave, he finally launched an attack on Fogang and Qingyuan, he successfully annexed the troops left by Tan Cai, and now is the time for the soldiers to be strong. (To be continued.) )