"Weiting, about the guns, the old man has made it very clear to you, it is the monk who wants it, you don't have to be reluctant, if there is a surplus of foreign guns and cannons in your hand, you are willing to sell them to the monk and the prince, then you can sell them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIf you don't have any extra guns in your hand, or you don't want to give them up, then the old man will never force you, just reply to the monk and tell the prince now. ”

"Flower system, the lower official must confess, the lower official really has no extra foreign guns and foreign cannons in his hands, Daye Gun Bureau can imitate some foreigners' guns, but the output is very pitiful, and even the normal consumption during supplementary operations is not enough, so the lower officials really can't take out extra weapons. Even the mentor of the lower officials ....... ”

"Comfort Ting, needless to say, the old man understands. General Guan, did you hear that? It's not that the old man doesn't help the monk and the prince, it's that Huguang really can't get a weapon to sell to him here, and the old man will write a letter to the monk and the prince for a while, and bother you to take it back and hand it over to the monk and the prince. Also, the monk lent the old man to appreciate the "Plum Blossom Banana Leaf Picture", and please bring it back with you, thank the monk for the old man, and say that the old man has feasted his eyes. ”

"Mr. Dingfang, Bohan sent this rice sticker, the old man has already been full of eyes and copyed, please also bring it back to Bohan, such a valuable gift, the old man really dare not be. Also, regarding the military salaries, money and food for the Hunan regimental training, he still continued to discuss with Luo Futai and Wu Futai, the old man was in charge of military affairs, and the old man didn't want to interfere too much in the local money and grain taxes. ”

"As promised, Luo Futai compiled and printed this book for the old man, the old man accepted it, the door is kind, the old man has nothing to repay, this is a landscape painting given by the old man's friend Dai Xi Dai Wenjie, the old man has always regarded it as a treasure, today as a thank you gift to the door, please be sure to accept it."

"By the way, there is also the Comfort Pavilion you, the Comfort Pavilion you gave the old man this Dong Qichang's "Cursive Poetry Book", it must have cost a lot of money to buy ......."

"Yu Zhong, are you dizzy? Dong Qichang's "Cursive Poetry Book" is currently treasured in the Great Interior, this is a fake! The official who has officially stepped down roared angrily.

"Xiufeng, of course the old man knows that this is a fake, but the old man knows that this is a sincere heart of the comfort pavilion, and he deliberately voted for the gift that the old man liked. So comfort pavilion, come and come, this is the old man went to the Kol grassland to do an errand handwritten by himself "Luo Ma Xing", but also the old man is most satisfied with a piece of calligraphy, please be sure to accept, in order to show the old man's slight gratitude. ”

In the face of the new governor Hua Shana, who had taken the wrong medicine, the official Wen who had been dismissed and the envoys sent by Luo Bingzhang and Zeng Guofan were completely speechless, saying that he didn't expect Hua Shana to pay attention to Wu Chaoyue to this point, and as soon as he arrived in Hubei, he immediately made it clear that the carriage and horses would work together with Wu Chaoyue, and would rather offend the monk of the same clan than embarrass Wu Chaoyue. And Wu Chaoyue, who had just exchanged a fake for a genuine handiwork, was even more speechless, completely unable to understand whether Hua Shana really wanted to work with him, or deliberately paralyzed himself with a knife in his smile.

Although it was not clear for a while that the purpose and personality of the new governor were not clear, with the support of Hua Shana, Wu Chaoyue quickly accomplished many important things, first of all, he completely rectified the Hubei Minting Bureau, fired many officials and craftsmen whose hands and feet had always been unclean, replaced them with fresh blood and introduced advanced technology, and wantonly minted the Wu-made foreign silver yuan, which was widely popular among the people and foreign trade. During this period, although there were also dismissed officials who tried to make trouble, before Wu Chaoyue could make a move, Hua Shana had already sent his people to take down the leader and behead him on the spot, and at the same time, Hua Shana also strictly forbade Ma Xiuru, the political envoy of Hubei, to participate in this matter, and let Wu Chaoyue directly supervise the Money Minting Bureau, helping Wu Chaoyue quickly cast the first batch of high-quality Wu Zaoyang.

In addition, Wu Chaoyue also took the opportunity to expand his own Fubiao establishment, expanding the army to 20 battalions in one go, Huashana not only did not oppose it with half a word, but also agreed to Wu Chaoyue's shameless request, and allocated a part of the warship left by the official document to supervise the sailor battalion to Wu Chaoyue, helping Wu Chaoyue directly expand the Wu Army Naval Division to five battalions. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue's military and political affairs in Hubei, whether it is official governance, finance or military, Huashana should be followed, and he only signed and used seals without asking about specific details.

Not to mention, Hua Shana's hand really cured Wu Chaoyue, so that Wu Chaoyue wanted to deliberately go against Hua Shana to provoke the sergeant, and at the same time, Zhao Liewen also strongly persuaded Wu Chaoyue to respect Hua Shana as much as possible, saying that a boss like Hua Shana is simply unattainable in the officialdom, even if Wu Chaoyue's every move in Huguang will definitely be stabbed by Hua Shana to the Manchu court, but it is also secretly monitored, and being monitored by Hua Shana, who is not hindered or difficult, is better than being monitored by another governor.

It is really embarrassing to use Huashana to provoke the hatred of the Hubei New Army against the Manchu court, coupled with the lack of strength in his hands at present, Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to adopt Zhao Liewen's suggestion, while trying to respect Huashana, a rare good boss, and maintain a good relationship with him, while turning the current target to other things, and making other preparations for the future army against the Qing.

To tell the truth, if Wu Chaoyue rises up against the Qing Dynasty, the biggest threat in a short period of time is really not the Governor of Huguang who is in the same city, the elite soldiers under his command are like clouds, and the weapons and equipment are one generation ahead, Wu Chaoyue wants to do it, and it is easy to kill those double-spearmen under the command of the Governor of Huguang who are holding a big smoking gun in one hand and an arquebus in the other! The ones who can really pose a huge threat to Wu Chaoyue in a short period of time are the Duxing Abu stationed in Xiangyang, the Luo Bingzhang department in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and Wu Chaoyue's good teacher Zeng Guofan and the Hunan army under his command.

It is not easy to eliminate these three threats, for Du Xing'a, Wu Chaoyue can only strive to win over, and if he can't win over, he can only try to replace, it is not easy to directly bring him down, and it is likely to offend the generals of the Hu'er clan represented by Duolong'a, chill their hearts, and completely push them to the side of the Manchu court.

Luo Bingzhang is even more difficult to deal with, this old fox has a good official reputation and strong ability, he does things almost without leakage, and there are many cronies and henchmen in the army, unless there is a particularly good opportunity, otherwise it is simply impossible for Wu Chaoyue, who is only at the same level as him, to bring down Luo Bingzhang. Therefore, as a last resort, Wu Chaoyue could only patiently wait for the opportunity, and at the same time turned his attention to Zeng Guofan, the teacher who is currently the easiest to clean up, thinking about how to make him lose his threat, and even more about taking the opportunity to take the opportunity to incorporate the famous Wenchen generals of the Hunan Army.

For Wu Chaoyue, it is indeed the best time to pack up the teacher, unable to withstand the obscene coercion of the official text, in the case of the vitality has not recovered, in order to prevent the Hunan army from being forcibly disbanded, and in order to prove to the Manchu court that Huguang's money and grain are not for nothing to support the Hunan army, Zeng Guofan still took the Hunan army, which has only expanded to more than 7,000 people, and his ally Li Wen'an's troops sent troops to Jiangxi, and launched an attack on Jiujiang, which was guarded by Luo Xuan, and also exposed himself to the guns of the Taiping army.

The elite soldiers and strong generals had suffered heavy casualties before, and they hastily sent troops to attack before their vitality recovered, which was indeed very dangerous in theory, but what made the disobedient protégé Wu Chaoyue extremely depressed was that the current strategic situation happened to be extremely beneficial to Mr. Zeng - after breaking through the two large camps in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, without Wei Changhui making trouble and a peacemaker Hong Renji appeared in advance, the main force of the Taiping Army, which temporarily avoided the catastrophe of the Tianjing Incident, did not rush back to the western front, and chose to march to the more prosperous southern Jiangsu, There is also the strengthening of the northern front, and the battlefield on the western front is still on the defensive, so the pressure and danger faced by Mr. Zeng in Jiangxi are far less than great as before.

There are even more depressing things that make Wu Chaoyue depressed, after entering the Jiangxi battlefield again, Mr. Zeng not only learned the lesson of the previous excessive division of troops, but also brought his famous tactics of fighting a hard village to the extreme, and advanced to Jiujiang like a turtle every day, and immediately overhauled the fortifications as soon as he arrived at Xiaochikou of the Jiujiang Acropolis, digging multiple trenches to surround Xiaochikou City, forcing Luo Xuan to continue to cross the Yangtze River to Xiaochikou to transport troops and grain, and the Hunan army sent troops to attack and harass when he had the opportunity, and closed the camp if he didn't have the opportunity. The anti-guest main force the Taiping army to send troops to attack the strong camp of the Hunan army, and while basically being invincible, it also fought two small victories, and patiently fought with the Taiping army to consume money and food supplies.

I can't wait for Teacher Zeng, whose use value is about to be squeezed out, to kick his legs quickly, and he is unwilling to use precious money and food to support the Hunan army to fight this kind of stupid battle, Wu Chaoyue of course doesn't want to see this situation continue, but there is no way, the teacher-student relationship is here, and at the same time he wants to incorporate the Hunan army, Wu Chaoyue must not use the stupid method of cutting off food and salary to force Teacher Zeng to change his tactics. can only be an excuse that he does not want to bear too much of the Hunan army's money and food expenses, and asked Zhao Liewen to discuss his ideas.

"Weiting, are you in a hurry? Although Zeng Butang's tactics are dull, they are quite effective? If it goes on like this, unless Luo Xuan dares to risk crossing the river and launching a decisive battle, the long hair of Xiaochikou will be consumed by Zeng Butang sooner or later? ”

Faced with Zhao Liewen's surprised questioning, Wu Chaoyue, who must not publicly say that he already wanted to kill Teacher Zeng, could only sigh and quibble, "It's too slow, go on like this?" When will we be able to get the mouth of Jiujiang Lake, and how much money and food will we have to pay in Hubei? Also, you know my temper, what I don't like the most is to use rigid soldiers, I like to win by surprise and solve problems as soon as possible. ”

"That's because your army is strong and you have the certainty of winning by surprise." Zhao Liewen said with a smile: "Zeng Butang's soldiers are not as good as yours, and their weapons and equipment are not as good as yours. ”

Laughing and laughing, if you take Wu Chaoyue's Yulu, you have to act for Wu Chaoyue as a tiger, Zhao Liewen still started to use his brain to find a way to help Wu Chaoyue solve this problem, but the old saying that one person counts short and two people count long is really not wrong, Zhao Liewen quickly thought of a person, and hurriedly said: "Weiting, how about making some fuss on your senior brother Li Hongzhang?" He refused your solicitation, insisted on suffering and suffering on the front line, and made it clear that he wanted to make great achievements and leave a name that would not be easy for eternity, and people like him would definitely not tolerate such slow tactics as Zeng Butang? ”

Wu Chaoyue blinked his triangular eyes and didn't say a word, but picked up the front-line topographic map and troop deployment map sent by Yang Wending to study it in depth again, and came to the same conclusion as before - Xiaochikou is actually not difficult to break, and the too narrow city is destined to have not too many garrisons, and it is also difficult to prevent artillery coverage, as long as Mr. Zeng concentrates his firepower to bombard the city for a few days, even if the Taiping army does not take the initiative to withdraw, it is destined to suffer heavy casualties, creating an opportunity for the Hunan army.

However, what makes Wu Chaoyue a little incomprehensible is that although his teacher Zeng has some weaknesses that are not good at change, with his battlefield experience, it is impossible not to even think of a way to cover the broken city with artillery fire, right? Puzzled, Wu Chaoyue casually asked Zhao Liewen this question.

"Weiting, you are really smart, confused for a while, you can see this? Your teacher deliberately refused to rush to break through the small pond mouth! His current soldiers and horses have not yet been replenished, and there are many recruits in the army, mainly waiting for the attack and counter-attack, so he can not only wait for the follow-up soldiers and horses in Hunan, but also train the recruits, killing two birds with one stone, what is he doing in a hurry to take Xiaochikou? ”

Zhao Liewen's smiling explanation made Wu Chaoyue suddenly realize, and while he regretted it, Wu Chaoyue couldn't help but hate and said: "Teacher Zeng's abacus is playing well, but it's a pity that his monthly military salary of more than 36,000 taels of silver is shared equally between me and Luo Futai, and at the end I have to bear Uncle Li's 15,000 taels of silver military salary alone." And grain and grass! ”

After hating and hating, Wu Chaoyue thought about it a little more, and immediately ordered: "Huifu, write a letter to Shaoquan for me, tell him the tactic of concentrating artillery fire to attack the city, and by the way, tell him the good news that I will wait for him to break the city and make meritorious contributions." By the way, there is also a flower making table that is also waiting for his good news. ”

"I'm afraid Zeng Butang won't agree." Zhao Liewen reminded.

is very aware of his teacher's superb character of not seeing devils and not hanging strings, Wu Chaoyue can only throw out a carrot and instruct: "Then by the way, send a letter to my teacher, just say that the steam cannon ship I ordered from the foreigners will be shipped to Hubei soon, and when the time comes, I can give him some of the warships I replaced, so that he can rest assured on the front line, and he doesn't have to worry about the shortage of ships of the sailors." ”

"Weiting, if you set such a precedent, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to command your teacher in the future, right?" Zhao Liewen reminded worriedly.

"More on that later." Wu Chaoyue replied: "The most important thing now is to let my teacher move first, don't just take my grain, grass and military salary every day and don't do business, otherwise, I won't be able to explain to the imperial court." ”

Zhao Liewen reluctantly agreed, and immediately put pen to Wu Chaoyue as a cow and a horse, but Wu Chaoyue still kept thinking in his heart, and said secretly: "Do you want to find a way to contact Yang Xiuqing and let him kill Teacher Zeng for me?" Will he say yes? Will it be like my teacher Zeng, who took the opportunity to extort? ”

"Huh? How did I forget such a point, if I don't like it, I can rush to the east to let Yang Xiuqing cut it, and if Yang Xiuqing doesn't like it, I can also send it to the western front to let me slaughter, if I can reach this tacit understanding with him, everyone will be happy....... ”

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As Zhao Liewen expected, after the letter signed by Wu Chaoyue was delivered to Li Hongzhang, who was on the front line of Xiaochikou, Li Hongzhang, who was only lacking experience in artillery warfare but eager to make meritorious contributions, was really moved, and immediately pulled his father Li Wenan to Zeng Guofan's front to offer advice, suggesting that Zeng Guofan concentrate artillery fire to cover the small city of Chikou and end the war on this small battlefield as soon as possible.

It's a pity that Mr. Zeng didn't immediately adopt the correct suggestions put forward by Mr. Li, and bullied Li Wen'an and his son, who came from Anhui, had no experience in large-scale artillery battles. And then ......

And then a few days later, Mr. Wu received a reply from Mr. Zeng, in the letter, Mr. Zeng very cordially inquired about how many spare warships can be vacated after the Wu Junshui division is redressed, and whether the artillery equipped on the ship will also be retired from the army? Classmate Wu sighed with understanding that a certain animal could not change a certain eating habit, and then gritted his teeth and left the ink and paper, promised to give Mr. Zeng a warship of the sailor battalion and equipped with artillery, and sent a clipper ship to the front line of Xiaochikou again.

It was only after receiving the second letter that Mr. Zeng, who had already wasted a lot of food and grass on the battlefield of Xiaochikou, accepted Li's suggestion with a smile and decided to cover the small city with artillery fire to win the victory. And when the cannon sounded, the competition between Mr. Zeng and Mr. Wu that had just ended a few days ago was once again between teachers and students.

has the initiative to hold the money and food, Hua Shana is obviously inclined to himself, and he and Teacher Zeng continue to fight wits and courage Wu Chaoyue is definitely not afraid, but what Wu Chaoyue doesn't know is that new trouble is rapidly approaching him, and this trouble is actually brought by Hua Shana for himself............ (To be continued.) )