"Dog's! You still have the face to come back! wants to rob our Loyalty and Benevolence, and colludes with Fu Aji's embryo to falsely accuse us of Wu Futai and Master Zhao, you dog mongrels still have the face to come back?! ”

"Dog mongrel, dare to stare at Lao Tzu? Stand, if I don't skin you today, I won't be surnamed Huang! Guys! ”

"Brother of the water master, fight! Beat! Fight to the death! Dare to fight back, our Green Camp will help you! When we were in Wuchang, we were bullied, dirty work forced us to do it, hard battles forced us to fight, people forced us to die, we ate bran and ate thin, they had big fish and meat, this tone Lao Tzu has always remembered! Beat! If you dare to fight back, let's go together! ”

"Brothers, brothers, if you have something to say, you have something to say, for my sake, don't ....... Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Bao Chao, get out of the way for Lao Tzu! Eat dog things inside and outside, and then talk about Lao Tzu and fight with you! ”

"Stop! Stop it! Stop it all for the official! Don't fight! ”

"Old immortal, get out of here! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will fight with you! ”

"Smack! Bold, do you know who this Lord Yang is? Our Wu Futai is the grandson-in-law of this Lord Yang! Wu Futai's grandparents! Dare to touch a single hair of him, watch your head! ”

"Adults forgive sins, adults forgive sins, in the end, there will be eyes that don't know Mount Tai, and eyes that don't know Mount Tai!"

"It's okay, it's okay, those who don't know are not guilty, okay, all the soldiers of the sailor, as well as the soldiers of your green battalion, for the sake of the old man's thin face, don't worry about the past with the brothers of the Hunan army. This is also what Wu Futai meant, he just knew that you would definitely remember the past, so he asked me to come to Tianjia Town, so that I must stop you. Okay, let's disperse, there is a reward of wine and meat tonight, go back and rest. ”

If it weren't for Yang Wending's grandfather and Sun Shi to stop the soldiers of the Wu Army's Naval Division and the Green Battalion soldiers in Hubei, the remnants of the Hunan Army who fled back to Tianjia Town to rest would have been beaten to death by many people, and the result was precisely because of Yang Wending, Wu's grandparents, who were extremely obstructed, that the soldiers of the Wu Army's Naval Division and the soldiers of the Hubei Green Battalion, who had been fed up with the bullying of the Hunan Army, had to swallow this breath temporarily, and did not break out a large-scale internal conflict with the Hunan Army, and the Hunan Army was able to withdraw to Tianjia Town to rest and rest smoothly. At the same time, Yang Wending was also very careful to let the Hunan army be a separate battalion to avoid continued friction between the Hunan army and the Hubei army.

Witnessing the various conflicts between the Hubei army and the Hunan army, Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi and other leaders of the Hunan army were sad, but also inevitably regretted that they had oppressed the Qing army in Hubei too much, and then received the generous hospitality provided by Yang Wending on behalf of Wu Chaoyue, Zeng Guofan and other Hunan army generals were even more ashamed, and they were moved to suppress the sergeants and soldiers of the army, forcing the Hunan soldiers not to fight back, scolding and not returning the mouth, so as not to make Yang Wending too difficult to behave.

Under the mutual endurance, the Hunan army barely settled down in Tianjia Town, and the Taiping army Shi Zhenji, who had previously pursued and killed the Hunan army, took the initiative to retreat because of the lack of strength, and only pursued to the south bank of Wuxue, and did not dare to enter Hubei to force the Wu army to send troops to meet the battle. And when Shi Dakai learned that Wu Chaoyue sent Hubei Green to rescue the Hunan army, he was angry and vaguely understood what Wu Chaoyue meant - as long as the Taiping army did not take the initiative to provoke Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue would not send the real main force to trouble the Taiping army. In addition, the war against Nanchang has reached a critical stage, and Shi Dakai can no longer launch a large-scale invasion of Hubei, so he did not worry too much about Wu Chaoyue, while letting Shi Zhenji withdraw his troops, he sent someone to report to Yang Xiuqing, so that Yang Xiuqing could choose how to deal with this matter.

After the situation calmed down temporarily, probably out of guilt, Zeng Guofan once took the initiative to propose to Yang Wending to go to the provincial capital to visit Wu Chaoyue, who was recuperating, Yang Wending told Zeng Guofan that Wu Chaoyue's condition had improved greatly, and said that Wu Chaoyue would come to Daye in a few days to supervise the expansion of production in the arsenal, and it would not be too late to meet again, Zeng Guofan dispelled this idea.

The honeymoon period after the short reunion of Zeng Guofan and Wu Chaoyue, a pair of strong teachers and students, lasted for a short time, and within a few days, Zeng Guofan couldn't help but secretly feel dissatisfied with the disobedient protégé, first of all, the first point was that Yang Wending, on behalf of Wu Chaoyue, categorically refused to provide the Hunan army with a pinch gun, and only promised to replenish the Hunan army with some old arquebuses - the reason is, of course, that the pinch gun was not enough for Wu Jun himself.

After receiving the news that the Hunan army had successfully withdrawn to Tianjia Town, Wu Chaoyue soon ordered the Wu army's naval division and half of the Hubei new army to withdraw to Xiangyuankou, establish a second line of defense to protect the hinterland of Hubei, and let Wu's naval division enter Xiangyuan Lake to strengthen training, and at the same time, Liu Kunyi's Zhuangzi battalion was also transferred back to Qizhou by Wu Chaoyue to rest and expand, so that the Hunan army watched the gate and let the Hubei new army take the opportunity to grow The intention is very obvious.

"I really use this teacher as a watchdog!"

After muttering this sentence with great anger, Zeng Guofan, who was undiminished, immediately began to recruit soldiers to rebuild the Hubei New Army, and ordered Zeng Guohua to lead the remnants of the Hunan Army Naval Division to try to break through the siege and return to Tianjia Town to meet him, and at the same time cheekily continued to reach out to Wu Chaoyue to ask for money, food, weapons and equipment, and then through Zuo Zongtang's unceremonious request for troops and ships from Luo Bingzhang, the ambitious plan to expand the land battalion of the Hunan Army Naval Division to more than 10,000 people again, and then go to the Taiping Army to settle accounts.

After learning about Zuo Zongtang's army expansion plan from the letter, Wu Chaoyue, who was already in good condition, couldn't help but sigh to Zhao Liewen: "Huifu, why do you say that my teacher doesn't know how to learn a lesson?" Doesn't he still understand that the imperial court refuses to give him real power in the local area, just because he is afraid that he will expand the army too quickly and fiercely, and is afraid that he will rebel? ”

"With Zeng Butang's ingenuity, it is impossible not to understand this truth." Zhao Liewen smiled and said, "But Zeng Butang's ambition is too big, so big that he doesn't want to waste that even a day, so he doesn't care about the court's suspicion of him." ”

"Probably so." Wu Chaoyue sighed, and snorted again: "It's a pity that for his old man's ambitions, Hunan and Hubei have to pay for food, and Luo Bingzhang and I have to be unlucky for him." ”

"Weiting, listen to your tone, are you going to support Zeng Butang this time?" Zhao Liewen asked suspiciously.

"What if you don't support it? The country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, can I stop the teacher's ambition? I don't have the money and food from Hubei, but I still have the support of Hunan's money and food, and my teacher drilled holes in the mountains to get silver, can I stop this? ”

Wu Chaoyue was a little angry when he said this, and then said to himself: "I already have fifteen battalions of land and water troops in my hands, plus Liu Kunyi's Zhuangzi battalion is being expanded to 1,000 people, and my army has reached 17 battalions and 8,500 people. In addition, I also have Daye Iron Works and Daye Gun Bureau in my hands, and these things together should almost arouse the vigilance of the imperial court, and I have to quickly find a way to deal with this problem. ”

"If I can't stop my teacher's ambition, why should I insist on stopping it? Push the boat down the river, and the teacher will become, attracting the suspicion of the court for me. If the teacher can't succeed, even if you hire a janitor if you give some money and food, can we not give money and food? ”

"It's still a comfort pavilion to see from afar." Zhao Liewen suddenly realized and said: "Yes, we can't show our attitude in this matter, we can only act vaguely, sit back and watch the success or failure, and push the boat with the current." ”

"Write back to the teacher for me." Wu Chaoyue instructed: "Tell him, except for the firing needle gun and picric acid weapon because of the production problem, I will try my best to help him, in terms of money and food, I can help as much as I can, in short, I just do my best." ”

Zhao Liewen agreed, and then suggested: "Weiting, do you want to go to Tianjia Town as soon as possible and find an excuse to withdraw the remaining four battalions of the Hubei New Army?" Otherwise, if Tianjiazhen has too many garrisons but does not send troops to save Jiangxi, it will be difficult for you to explain to the imperial court? ”

"It's going to have to be done quickly." Wu Chaoyue nodded, and snorted again: "Fortunately, the reason is ready-made, the Twist Army has been constantly harassing on the northern border of Hubei, and it will run endlessly after the fight, give them a heavy one not only to avoid a fire in our rear, but also to give an explanation to the imperial court." As for Tianjiazhen, I worked hard for the teacher to help me. ”

After a few days, when Wu Chaoyue's body was basically healed, Guanwen and Jingshou finally returned to Hubei Province from Hunan, although Guanwen was quite dissatisfied with Wu Chaoyue sending the green battalion out of the province to fight without his permission, but this kind of thing can be dissatisfied in his heart but can never be said, so Guanwen still chose not to pursue this matter, and still came with Jingshou to visit Wu Chaoyue, who had just recovered from his illness.

After the meeting, when Wu Chaoyue put forward a tactical plan to transfer the Hubei New Army to the north to suppress the twist, the official document that had already been impeached by the Henan side once and beggar-thy-neighbor was very happy to hear it, and immediately agreed. Only then did Wu Chaoyue continue to hand over the provincial capital to Guanwen to sit in charge, and took the boat to Tianjia Town to preside over the adjustment of the defense line, while Jing Shou also got on the boat and walked with Wu Chaoyue because he needed to investigate Hu Linyi's order to Li Yuandu to falsely accuse Zhao Liewen.

The speed of going down the river is extremely fast, it only took two days, Wu Chaoyue's boat has arrived at the wharf of Tianjia Town, Zeng Guofan, who received the news, and Wang Guocai, Cao Yanzhong, etc., who are still stationed here, will go to the wharf to greet them, teachers and students reunited, and they had to shed a few lines of affectionate tears, and Wu Chaoyue, whose skin was thicker than the city wall, also threw himself into the warm and broad arms of the teacher in public, and Zeng Guofan hugged his head and cried.

Finally under the persuasion of everyone, he and Zeng Guofan each held back their tears, Wu Chaoyue just wanted to beckon everyone to go to the camp of the Hubei New Army for a banquet, but he never thought that Hu Linyi suddenly strode in front of Wu Chaoyue, and directly pulled out the saber on his waist. When Wu Dadao and other soldiers pulled out their guns in shock, Hu Linyi knelt down on Wu Chaoyue's knees even more unexpectedly, put the knife on his neck with both hands, and said loudly: "Wu Futai, if you can't believe me Hu Linyi, I will die in front of you now!" ”

"What do you mean? How don't I understand? Wu Chaoyue asked in surprise.

"Lord Jing told me just now." Hu Linyi said loudly: "Li Yuandu bribed Fu Aji under my sign, asking Fu Aji to frame Zhao Liewen and Master Zhao, and in Fu Aji's study, he also found the greeting letter I wrote to him as evidence. Lord Jing came to Tianjia Town this time to ask me about it! ”

"Wu Futai, I have an old relationship with Fu Aji, when I was an editor in the Hanlin Academy, I had a good relationship with him, I heard that he came to investigate Zhao Liewen and Master Zhao, Li Yuandu said that he wanted to help you exonerate Master Zhao, and asked me to write a letter introducing his identity and greetings to Fu Aji. But I really didn't know that Li Yuandu was holding that ordinary greeting letter to bribe Fu Aji and instigating Fu Aji to frame Master Zhao! ”

"Wu Futai, I know that Li Yuandu is dead now, and there is no proof of death, and I can't explain it clearly even if I have a hundred mouths! In this Jiangxi War, it was you who sent troops to save me, and I, Hu Linyi, owe you a life! I have no other way to prove my innocence, I can only swear to God that I will never do this, if you can trust me, I will pay you back sooner or later! If you can't believe me, I'll die in front of you right away, and I'll prove my innocence with my life!" ”

After listening to Hu Linyi's explanation of the reason for doing this, Wu Chaoyue couldn't help but secretly look at his teacher, but unfortunately, Teacher Zeng's thick-skinned face was by no means below the students, and his face was not red and his expression was calm, as if Hu Linyi's fall into this indistinguishable situation really had nothing to do with him. At that moment, Wu Chaoyue could only sigh secretly, first snatched the waist knife in Hu Linyi's hand, and then picked Hu Linyi up with both hands, and said: "Zhensheng, if I can't believe you, Lord Jing will definitely have arrested you a long time ago." You can ask Master Jing, after the incident of Fu Aji, what was the content of the first excerpt I went to? ”

"Lord Hu, Lord Wu's first excerpt is to protect you." Jing Shou said to Hu Linyi: "Wu Futai played the emperor, saying that you are an upright person, and I guarantee that you will never instruct Li Yuandu to do such a shameless thing, and I strongly ask the emperor and the court to carefully investigate and deal with this matter, and don't rush to remove you from your post and take care of it." Otherwise, the first thing I would do when I see you today will definitely be to take you down and interrogate you first. ”

Hu Linyi shed tears and saluted Wu Chaoyue again and again, unspeakably moved, Wu Chaoyue patted him on the shoulder and said: "Zhensheng, you don't need to thank me, I can trust you, I know that you are also a victim of this matter, but don't worry, I will definitely ask Lord Jing to investigate this matter carefully, and I will never let you be innocent." ”

Coincidentally, just after Hu Linyi was grateful to Wu Chaoyue, and when Wu Chaoyue beckoned everyone to leave the dock to go to the camp for a banquet, a soldier of the Hubei New Army came to Wu Daidai's side quickly, and after muttering a few words in a low voice, Wu Daidai came forward and said to Wu Chaoyue: "Young Master Sun, a person was stopped by our soldiers in front, saying that he wanted to see you and asked him what his identity and name were, but he refused to say, only said that as long as you see him, you will know who he is." He also said that if you don't see him, he will leave immediately. ”

Since becoming the governor of Hubei, Wu Chaoyue has really never encountered such a strange seeker, and under curiosity, Wu Chaoyue is not in a hurry to get rid of this evil guest, but while leading everyone forward, he asked the soldiers to bring the strange guest to meet. Then soon, a young man who looked thin and comparable to Wu Chaoyue walked to the near place in front of Wu Chaoyue under the guidance of Wu Jun's soldiers. Then, Wu Chaoyue's face changed greatly......

"Someone! Take down this scoundrel! ”

Wu Chaoyue pointed at the thin young man and yelled, the thin young man with a smile on his face was a little stunned, the Wu sergeant had already held his hands back, Wu Chaoyue strode forward, and without saying a word, he kicked the thin young man's body, and roared: "Bold villain!" When you see this official, why don't you kneel down and ask for sin? ”

"I haven't committed any crime, why should I kneel down and plead guilty?" The thin young man asked with a wry smile.

"Didn't commit any crimes?" Wu Chaoyue roared angrily: "Don't think that this official doesn't know, you are Li Erlang, a famous green forest robber in Anhui!" Murder and plundering, the crime deserves death! ”

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and tie up this villain, tie it up tightly! Escorted to the commander's tent of the Chinese army, and poured him to death with Hubei's good wine, Yellow Crane Tower Wine and Chuxiang Wine! Besides, immediately go and get ten or eight live sea bass for the official, and steam him to death! ”

roaring here, Wu Chaoyue finally couldn't help laughing, pushed away the soldiers who really came up with ropes to tie people, hugged the thin young man, and said with a choked voice: "Shaoquan, you bastard, you are finally willing to come and see me!" I want to kill you! ”

"Weiting, you want to kill me too!" Li Hongzhang's tears flickered, and he also hugged Wu Chaoyue tightly.

Zhao Liewen and Hu Linyi, who had never seen Li Hongzhang, suddenly realized that at the same time, Zeng Guofan, Wu Dadao and others, who knew Li Hongzhang, were smiling, and then Wu Dadao also introduced Li Hongzhang's identity to Yang Wending and Jing Shou and others, saying that Li Hongzhang was Wu Chaoyue's only confidant and friend when he was in Beijing, or a double matchmaker between Wu Chaoyue and Yang Yuru and Feng Wanzhen's two daughters-in-law. It is no longer strange why Wu Chaoyue is playing tricks on Li Hongzhang like this.

At this time, Wu Chaoyue finally remembered why Li Hongzhang suddenly came to visit him when his conscience found out, Li Hongzhang sighed, and said with a wry smile: "Weiting, I'm not here to visit you, my father and I have recently lost two battles in a row in the regimental training organized by me, and we were impeached by the magistrate, and we were cut off from food and grass salaries, so my father took me and our regimental training all the way west, and came to Hubei to find you here to ......." ”

"Shikiwa is also here?!" Zeng Guofan suddenly appeared next to him, and asked Li Hongzhang with great surprise: "Shaoquan, where is your father now?" Why didn't I come to Tianjia Town with you? ”

"Student Li Hongzhang, meet the teacher." Li Hongzhang saluted and explained: "Returning to my teacher, my father is still on the way from Huangmei to Tianjia Town, because we have brought more than 800 people to Anhui for regimental training, and Tianjia Town is now a military stronghold. I didn't think of it here, and I knew that the comfort pavilion had just arrived in Tianjia Town, so I ....... ”

"Comfort Pavilion, Shaoquan, you go to the handsome tent for a banquet first." Zeng Guofan interrupted Li Hongzhang and said arbitrarily: "Shihe is my same year, like a brother, he has come thousands of miles to join me, I will personally go to meet him!" ”

After that, Zeng Guofan directly led a group of pro-soldiers and strode away, and really went to greet Li Hongzhang's father Li Wen'an in person, Li Hongzhang was a little dumbfounded when he saw it, and said to Wu Chaoyue suspiciously: "Weiting, when did I say that I came to join my teacher?" Did my father say he would take me to you? ”

"The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change." Wu Chaoyue sighed secretly, and then said with a wry smile to Li Hongzhang: "Presumably the teacher didn't hear clearly, your father brought more than 800 Anhui regimental training with battlefield experience, and the teacher is now in a hurry to replenish the soldiers, so I heard it wrong." ”

"So you misheard?" Obedient and listening, the extremely smart Li Hongzhang of course immediately heard that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly asked Wu Chaoyue in a low voice: "Weiting, is there something going on between you and your teacher?" ”

"It's smarter than Shaoquan, you guessed it." Wu Chaoyue replied in a low voice with a wry smile. (To be continued.) )