Zuo Zongtang penetrated the news to Wu Chaoyue through a Shaoxing master under Zhao Liewen, although Wu Chaoyue was not superstitious about Shaoxing master, but in order to facilitate contact with colleagues of all sizes, in the case of Shaoxing master in the shogunate of Manchu officials, Wu Chaoyue still recruited two Shaoxing masters to enter the shogunate when strengthening the shogunate, and as a result, it was also convenient to make some unsightly secret contact with other officials. Secretly stabbed the news to Zhao Liewen's master Shaoxing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Master Shaoxing is still a bit of professional ethics, and he didn't dare to slack off when he received this news, so he immediately reported this important situation to Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen, but Wu Chaoyue also dropped the teacup on the spot, and scolded: "This Tongzhi named Wang Xun took the wrong medicine?" Hubei's affairs are related to him, a Hunan acquaintance? Dog mongrel, wait and see! ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue, who hadn't turned a corner for a while, also asked Zhao Liewen: "Huifu, do you have a grudge against this person named Wang Xun?" He's okay to fold the bullet and impeach you for what? ”

Zhao Liewen smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said: "Weiting, I haven't even seen this fellow acquaintance named Wang Xun, how can I make an enmity with him?" Also, haven't you woken up yet? A Hunan official inexplicably folded a bullet to impeach me, I have no grievances with him in the past, no enmity today, and he said behind his back that no one secretly instructed me, do you believe it? ”

Wu Chaoyue, who was born in a state-owned enterprise, is also very talented in this regard, and after a careful touch, Wu Chaoyue quickly woke up and exclaimed: "You mean, this matter is behind the scenes of my teacher?" ”

Zhao Liewen nodded with a wry smile and said: "Since you came to Hubei, you and your teacher have been secretly filthy, and this time you refused to give your teacher military rations, can he not hate you to the bone?" He is your teacher, and you are a member of the feudal bureaucracy, of course, impeaching you is not trivial, bypassing you and directly attacking me, you can not only avoid making a big noise, but also receive the effect of beating you, and then you can also be charged with an inhuman crime, your teacher, the means are high. ”

Wu Chaoyue kept silent with a straight face, and hated the barber teacher to the extreme in his heart - Wu Chaoyue couldn't leave Zhao Liewen's assistance at all now, if he really let the barber teacher knock Zhao Liewen down, Wu Chaoyue would be directly cut off a hand, or the most important right hand!

After thinking for a while, Wu Chaoyue quickly said: "Huifu, don't worry, I will write to Su Zhongtang immediately, asking him to protect you in the imperial court, and when your affairs are done first, we will take revenge." ”

"Thank you, Comfort Pavilion." Zhao Liewen thanked him, and then said: "But please ask Su Zhongtang to come forward directly to protect me, this is inappropriate, not to mention whether Su Zhongtang agrees, with his identity, interfering with the trivial matter of impeaching me, a six-rank false master, is like a cannon hitting mosquitoes, and it will not be effective." In my opinion, you'd better ask others to excuse me, and then ask Su Zhongtang to excuse me in front of the emperor, so that it is most appropriate. ”

Wu Chaoyue thought about it, with Su Shun's current status, interfering in the trivial matter of impeaching a master is too overkill, and it is too exposed. Fortunately, Wu Chaoyue still had a few friends in the Manchu court, so he immediately asked other masters to write a letter to Zaiyuan and Lin Ruzhou, begging them to exonerate Zhao Liewen. Then Wu Chaoyue was still a little uneasy, and hurriedly asked Zhao Liewen: "Huifu, is this enough?" It's about your future, and we'd better be as safe as possible. ”

"Thank you for your concern." Zhao Liewen thanked Wu Chaoyue again, frowned and said: "It stands to reason that as long as the prince and Lord Lin are on the fold, it is absolutely enough to save me with their face." But what I'm most worried about now is whether the imperial court will send someone to Hubei to investigate this case? If that's the case, then I'm afraid it's ....... ”

"Don't be afraid." Wu Chaoyue comforted: "Whether you control the Hubei Governor's Yamen to empty me, I know best in my heart, whether you have problems with the money and grain accounts, I also know this." I know that you are lonely in Hubei, and you have hired two girls in the Qinglou to serve you, but you rented a house outside to settle them, and did not let them live in the governor's yamen, and you are not an incumbent official, and you are not in any period of observance, no matter what national law can not cure your crime. ”

"Having said that, I'm afraid that the officials who came to investigate the case will deliberately punish me." Zhao Liewen was still extremely worried, and said: "Your teacher is determined to impeach me and rectify you in disguise, if the imperial court really sends someone to investigate me, your teacher will not ignore this person, so that the person investigating the case will deliberately rectify me." ”

Wu Chaoyue laughed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, when it comes to bribing the investigation officials, ten teachers are not my opponents, how much he pays, I will triple it!" Look at who the investigating officer is talking to. ”

Knowing that the old Wu family was rich and rivaled the country, he could directly smash Zeng Guofan to death with silver, and unfortunately became a victim of the political struggle between teachers and students, Zhao Liewen felt a little at ease, but for the sake of prudence, Zhao Liewen still asked Wu Chaoyue to use the news channel of the Hubei Guild Hall of the Hubei Office in Beijing to carefully inquire about the consequences of the impeachment excerpt after it arrived in the capital. Wu Chaoyue agreed, and then immediately began to think about how to take revenge and get revenge from the barber teacher.

The main force of the Hubei New Army, which had been stationed in Tianjia Town, rushed to send an unexpected news, saying that the head of the Taiping Army sailors who had retreated to Hukou was in the water, and they did not honestly defend Hukou and repeatedly used the tactics of night raids to attack and disturb the Hunan army camps, and the annoying Hunan army sailors seized the fighter planes to attack and attack suddenly, defeating the Taiping Navy divisions twice in two days, burning more than 200 Taiping Navy divisions, seizing 35 large and small ships and more than 70 cannons. He also took advantage of the situation to destroy the cable defense line of the Taiping Army's naval division to intercept the Hunan Army's naval division from entering the inner lake of Poyang Lake, and the Hunan Army's naval division successfully entered the inner lake of Poyang Lake, and the Taiping Army's naval division fully retreated into the interior of Poyang Lake, allowing the Hunan Army's naval division to enter and exit Poyang Lake freely.

The enmity with the barber teacher is getting deeper and deeper, the Hunan army has won the battle again, and the barber teacher has been in the limelight again, Wu Chaoyue will not be happy to be there, and at the same time Wu Chaoyue is more worried about one thing - Wu Chaoyue vaguely remembers that the history textbook of junior high school said that his barber teacher was beaten by the Taiping Army twice and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, and the second time was on the battlefield of Poyang Lake! -- This historical event seems to be illustrated in the textbook.

Although Wu Chaoyue didn't mind whether the barber teacher would hang on Poyang Lake, it was undoubtedly the best situation for Wu Chaoyue to continue to let the Hunan army in front to attract the firepower of the Taiping army when Wu Chaoyue's new army, especially Wu Jun's naval division, was still very weak. Therefore, even if he was unhappy in his heart, Wu Chaoyue still sat down in front of the Jiujiang War report collected before and after to analyze and study, and predict the future development of the Jiujiang War situation.

Judging from the current situation in the Jiujiang battlefield, the situation is indeed very favorable to the Hunan army, and after receiving reinforcements from the rear of Hunan several times, the land division of the Hunan army has already surrounded Jiujiang City, and the naval division has successively taken Meijiazhou, Jiangzhou Island, Xiaochikou and other tactical points, while the Taiping army has the land division to defend the city, and the naval division has retreated to the interior of Poyang Lake, and has suffered successive defeats, and it is difficult to fight back in front of the Hunan army, and the situation is very embarrassing. But......

However, Wu Chaoyue quickly turned his attention to Anqing City further down the Yangtze River, although the water and land roads were blocked by the Taiping Army, and it was difficult to transmit information, the Qing army still found out that Shi Dakai was building a large number of ships in Anqing after paying a lot of efforts, and at the same time, the war in central and northern Anhui also tended to calm down, and it must not be ruled out that Shi Dakai was gathering troops to prepare for a decisive battle with the main force of the Hunan army.

After thinking about it for a long time, Wu Chaoyue still asked other masters to write against his will, and wrote a letter to the barber teacher, reminding Zeng Guofan that he must not ignore the threat from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and suggested that Zeng Guofan should not be in a hurry to let the main force of the sailors enter the interior of Poyang Lake in a big way, and it is best to advance the army to Xiazhong Mountain in the north of Hukou County, establish a water defense line, and then consider entering Nanchang not too late. And Zhao Liewen on the side also knew that Wu Chaoyue wanted to avoid suspicion as much as possible before letting other masters ghostwrite, although he didn't mind this, he still reminded Wu Chaoyue: "Comfort Ting, be careful that it backfires." If your teacher does what you suggest, you will benefit the most, and you have to prevent him from doing the opposite on purpose. ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded, and also thought that there was such a possibility, but Wu Chaoyue said: "I see that the danger is not reminded, it is not moral, and when I see the danger, I write a letter to remind it, it is benevolent and righteous, and I believe that my teacher will not be stupid to that step." ”

In a word, Wu Chaoyue spends the belly of a villain with the heart of a villain, believing that his teacher will not be stupid to that step, but he doesn't know that his teacher was pumped all over the ground by Shi Dakai in Poyang Lake in history, just because he was stupid to this point!

In fact, as early as the first few days after receiving Wu Chaoyue's warning letter, the Hunan army had already found out the information that the Anqing Taiping Army was marching towards the Jiujiang battlefield, but Zeng Guofan seriously despised Shi Dakai in terms of strategy and tactics, and made the mistake of underestimating the enemy when he found that Shi Dakai's incoming ships were not too many, and divided the Hunan Army Naval Division, which had also been vigorously reinforced, into two, and went all the way into Poyang Lake to chase and kill the Taiping Army Naval Division that had been heavily damaged, and to clear the remnants of the enemy before the Taiping Army reinforcements arrived, and stayed all the way to Jiujiang to guard against the Taiping Army Naval Division. During this period, Liu Rong, Luo Zenan and others also suggested that Zeng Guofan's troops go to Zhongshan to block the shipping lane, but Zeng Guofan did not want the sailors and land divisions to fight separately and categorically refused to adopt them.

Zeng Guofan couldn't even listen to Liu Rong and Luo Zenan's words, let alone disobey his protégé, so after seeing Wu Chaoyue's letter, Zeng Guofan not only didn't think about it in the slightest, but also sneered and said: "Do you still want Ben Shuai to guard the Hubei border for you?" Dream! ”

The result of the light enemy is a fiasco, only the third day after the division of the Hunan army's naval division, Shi Dakai has personally led the land and water army to the mouth of the lake, and the Hunan army took the initiative to give up the occupied Xiazhong Mountain, and then Shi Dakai's first order was to let the dilapidated civilian boats collected along the way be loaded with sand and gravel, drive to the mouth of Poyang Lake and sink, and directly cut off the front and back contact of the Hunan army's naval division with artificial sandbanks (historical facts and tactics)! Zeng Guofan was shocked when he heard the report, so he could only quickly order the recall of the water division in the lake, and then ordered the Yangtze River water division to attack to block the Taiping army from blocking the mouth of Poyang Lake.

The Hunan army sailors, who had weakened half of their own, took the initiative to attack, which of course hit Shi Dakai's hands, and then Shi Dakai also aimed at the weakness of the Hunan army's small boats entering Poyang Lake in large numbers, all of them met with light and flexible small pulling boats and small rowing boats, and stormed the Hunan army's bulky ships that had lost the protection of small boats, and killed the Hunan army's naval division Shi Jiuli in the first battle, burned and captured many Hunan army ships, and at the same time successfully blocked the mouth of Poyang Lake with artificial sandbars, and completely blocked the Hunan army's naval division in the interior of Poyang Lake, and the Hunan army's naval divisions could not care about each other, completely falling into the downwind.

The matter is not over, at the third watch of the same night, Shi Dakai once again sent a large number of small rowing boats to attack the camp of the Hunan army's Yangtze River water division, and set fire to the Hunan army's sailor ship, the result was also the Hunan army's sailor unlucky, it happened that the night was blowing the north wind, and the wind took advantage of the fire to burn the Hunan army's sailors on the south bank of the garrison to cry wolf, nine big ships were burned alive, and more than 40 small and medium-sized warships were lost. When Zeng Guofan hurriedly sent the land division to reinforce the battlefield of the naval division, Luo Xuan in Jiujiang City also took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack and broke through the Hunan army camp outside the east gate of Jiujiang.

The next day, Shi Dakai divided his troops to take Xiaochikou, the north wind gradually rose in autumn, afraid that the Taiping army would seize the upper hand and threaten the safety of the camp of the army, Zeng Guofan hurriedly sent Zhou Fengshan to lead the army to the north to reinforce, but he fell into Shi Dakai's trick, knowing that Zeng Guofan would save Xiaochikou Shi Dakai had already prepared, and immediately dispatched the main force of the Taiping Army Naval Division again to storm the Hunan army troop transport ship full of soldiers, Zeng Guofan sent the naval division to fight with tears in his eyes, but he saw it crying again, The lonely Hunan Yangtze River Naval Division was defeated by the Taiping Army's Naval Division, Xiaochikou could not be saved, and the land and water army was also severely damaged.

Seeing that the main forces of the Hunan army were being pumped all over the ground by Shi Dakai one after another, Huang Dasha and Cao Yanzhong, who had been leading the main force of the Hubei New Army to garrison Tianjia Town, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped up preparations for war while sending clippers and fast horses to warn Wu Chaoyue. Wu Chaoyue did not dare to slack off when he heard the news, and hurriedly convened a meeting of several staff members to discuss whether it was possible for the Taiping Army to take the opportunity to divide troops to attack Hubei?

The result of the discussion and analysis is likely to be very large, not to mention that the battlefield of Tianjiazhen is not a trap jointly arranged by the Hubei New Army and the Hunan Army to lure the enemy, now even if it is a trap, the Taiping Army does not need to be afraid, half of the Hunan Army's naval division has been blocked in Poyang Lake, and the other half has been hit hard, and it is difficult to even protect itself at present, let alone return to the division and the Hubei New Army to make dumplings. The Taiping army divided troops to attack Hubei is of infinite benefit, first of all, the first is to cut off the food supply of the Hunan army, and starve the Hunan army to death under Jiujiang City! With Shi Dakai's treacherous cunning, it is impossible not to move such thoughts.

After coming to this conclusion, although he had not yet received the news of the Taiping army's division of troops, Wu Chaoyue immediately ordered the Wu army's naval division to prepare to set off to reinforce Tianjia Town, and personally ran to the front of the official document to warn him, saying that he was ready to personally go to Tianjia Town to supervise the battle and prevent the Taiping army from attacking Hubei. As a result, when they met, before Wu Chaoyue could explain his intentions, the official document preemptively said: "Woe to you!" Comfort Pavilion, disaster is wrong, Xiangyang Mansion has just sent an urgent report, and the twist has entered Xiangyang Mansion again, and it has also hit directly under Guanghua City, robbed a large amount of people's property, grain and grass, and is currently besieging Guanghua City. ”

"Misfortune doesn't go alone!" Wu Chaoyue wailed, and then hurriedly told the official Wen about the situation on the Jiujiang side, and hurriedly agreed with the screaming official Wen that the official document was in charge of the northern front, and the troops were dispatched to expel the Twist Army, and he was responsible for the eastern front.

After agreeing on the coping strategy with the official text, Wu Chaoyue returned to the governor's yamen to meet with Zhao Liewen, Zhao Liewen immediately told Wu Chaoyue with a wry smile on his face, saying that the news was finally sent from the capital, confirming that the Xianfeng Emperor sent personnel to investigate the Hubei bad case, and also confirmed that the Qincha envoy sent by the Xianfeng Emperor was Huguang Dao Yushi Fu Aji, and the deputy envoy was Yan Jingming, the head of the household department. At the same time, Zhao Liewen also told Wu Chaoyue very helplessly, saying that because of the war and the influence of the Yellow Flood Area, the news transmission was inconvenient, and the investigation team composed of Fu Aji and Yan Jingming took that road to Hubei, and now that they are there, they have no way to know the specific situation.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know where they are at the moment, just know who they are." Wu Chaoyue comforted Zhao Liewen and said: "Don't worry, I have heard of Yan Jingming's name in the capital, and I know that he is notoriously pedantic and old-fashioned, and it is not easy to deal with silver." But that Fu Aji is easy to deal with, and if you smash him with silver, I can also smash him to our side. ”

"Comfort Pavilion, I'm afraid it's not that easy." Zhao Liewen said with a wry smile: "As far as I know, I have a good relationship with your teacher's henchman Hu Linyi, and Yan Jingming is also Hu Linyi's close friend. These situations were known to us when we joined hands with the Hunan army. ”

Wu Chaoyue was completely speechless, and only after a while did he say viciously: "Let's take one step at a time, the court really dares to punish you, I will resign from the official position, and I will be guilty of the same crime as you!" ”

Zhao Liewen was also silent, and only after a moment did he bow his hand to Wu Chaoyue and said: "It is fortunate that Liewen is a friend of the Comfort Pavilion." But there is no need, Liewen has a small family, as long as he can save his life this time, it is a big deal to go home and plant chrysanthemums to study. ”

It's not all bad news, just when Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen, the unscrupulous pairs, encouraged each other, a messenger with an Anhui accent suddenly ran to the door of the Hubei New Army to ask for a meeting, and asked to see Wu Chaoyue's brother-in-law Nie Shicheng by name. When Nie Shicheng met with him, the messenger presented a letter from Nie Shicheng's fellow villager Liu Mingchuan to Nie Shicheng, saying that Liu Mingchuan was flattered after receiving the solicitation letter jointly signed by Wu Chaoyue and Nie Shicheng, and had personally brought his self-built regiment to the west of Hefei's Daqian Mountain, and would arrive in Tianjia Town in a few days.

"Okay, I'll write to Wu Futai and tell him the good news. I have also admired Liu Liuge's name for a long time in Hefei, but I have never seen him, and I finally met him this time! ”

In addition to agreeing happily, Nie Shicheng still had some doubts in his heart, and he couldn't understand that when he was chatting with his brother-in-law, he only occasionally mentioned that there was a good man named Liu Mingchuan among his fellow villagers who cut down local bullies and occupied the mountains as kings, why did his brother-in-law can't wait to grab his collar and force himself to write a letter on the spot to recruit Liu Mingchuan for him? (To be continued.) )