If the physical strength of the Shizhen Ji army can be sufficient, then with the rich battlefield experience of Guangxi veterans, even if they run into the open Wu Chaoyue pro-military camp, even if Shi Zhenji was shot down by the Wu army as soon as the war started, and the army lost its command, the Shizhen Ji army can also take advantage of the open terrain to quickly withdraw from the battlefield without suffering too much loss, and Wu Chaoyue's pro-military battalion, which is also an infantryman, is difficult to eliminate too many Taiping troops no matter how much it pursues.

But it's a pity that the up and down of Shizhenji's army is too tired, even if he finds that he kicked the iron plate and immediately retreats, the speed is no longer fast in any case, Wu Chaoyue's pro-military battalion, which has been serving as a reserve last night, is all like flying, easily catching up with the defeated soldiers of the Taiping Army, shooting the Taiping soldiers continuously with the Henry Bead Gun in his hand, easily overturning one Taiping Army veteran after another, and even chasing the Taiping Army's defeated brigade near the Taiping Army, directly throwing a grenade, Patches slaughtered exhausted Taiping soldiers. The Taiping army fled in a hurry, scrambling to discard the weapons and banners in order to survive, embarrassed like a lost dog, but still could not get rid of the pursuit of the Wu army, and had no choice but to scatter birds and beasts, fleeing all over the mountains, and the Wu army wantonly slaughtered, and killed the Taiping army all over the field, and the blood and water were piled up.

In the end, more than half of the elite of the more than 3,000 Taiping troops were buried under the guns of the Wu army, and Shi Zhenji, who was seriously injured but not dead, was captured alive by the Wu army, and more than 300 Taiping troops, including some Guangxi veterans, were forced to lay down their weapons and surrender on their knees.

The Wu army once fought thrillingly, and almost gave up its efforts because of the unknown enemy situation, but after surviving these difficulties, the Wu army reaped the rich results that were not expected before the war, and won the Raozhou city with a lot of money and food in one fell swoop, severely damaged the elite main force of the Shizhen Ji army and captured Shi Zhenji himself, killed the last steam gunboat of the Taiping army to completely eliminate the hidden dangers on the water, and successfully forced the remnants of the Taiping army's sailors to abandon the Pojiang River and flee into the Jinjiang River, forcing Shi Zhenfa, who was guarding the Pojiang estuary fort, to lead the army to flee south to Yugan, While successfully gaining a foothold in Raozhou, it also laid the momentum of crushing the remnants of the Taiping army on the west bank of Poyang Lake.

Therefore, after the Raozhou War, Wu Chaoyue quickly adjusted his Jiangxi strategy, and decided that Liu Mingchuan would lead the army to garrison the capital city of Raozhou, expand the military battle and be responsible for sweeping away the surrounding remnants, and cooperate with the Nanchang Wu Army and the Wu Army Wang Guocai to launch a comprehensive attack on the Jiangxi Taiping Army, recover the fallen cities in the east of Jiangxi, and also try to contact the landlords in Guangdong and Fujian to train and surrender the remnants of the Qing army in these two provinces to lay the foundation for the southeast. ——In order to facilitate political bribery, Wu Chaoyue also waved his hand and gave Liu Ming an empty title of governor of Guangdong.

Then, Wu Chaoyue did not have time to celebrate the victory in Raozhou, just after the strategic adjustment, he immediately led the direct corps back to Jiujiang, the result was quite smooth, when Wu Chaoyue returned to Hukou by boat, just in time for Xu Lai to lead half of the main force of the Wu Army's naval division to return to Hukou to escort, Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed, and immediately went ashore at Hukou to see off Feng Sanbao, who was about to lead the army to the east, and also learned the latest situation of the Wuhu battlefield from Xu Lai by the way.

"Please rest assured that the situation in Wuhu is all right, we have cut off the grain route for Anhui Changmao to send grain to Jiangning Changmao, and successfully took the East and West Liangshan, opened up the water route to Jiangning, and forced the long-haired Li Kaifang to retreat to Dangtu City. In addition, as you expected from the king of Zhennan, the main force of Changmao in Anhui and the long-haired army in Ningguo and Lishui were all hurrying towards the Taiping Mansion, and Hong Xiuquan also sent the long-haired army from Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and Jiangpu to reinforce Li Kaifang, and the decisive battle was about to take shape. ”

Xu Lai's answer only made Wu Chaoyue breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, Wu Chaoyue was not most concerned about this, Wu Chaoyue hurriedly asked again: "What about the main force of long-haired Li Xiucheng?" Did you approach the Wuhu battlefield? ”

"Nope." Xu Lai shook his head, and said a little timidly: "In addition, there is news that has not had time to be confirmed, it is rumored in the Longhair Army that Li Xiucheng has taken his main force to Shanghai. ”

Although he was mentally prepared, after hearing this report, Wu Chaoyue's heart sank and he showed a worried expression. Xu Lai was afraid that Wu Chaoyue would be worried, so he hurriedly said: "Please rest assured that King Zhennan, General Cao and Second Brother Wang have discussed, after taking Dangtu City, we will launch an attack on Changmao's Jiangning Lair as soon as possible, and force Changmao to return to the Western Front." ”

Wu Chaoyue was silent, and only after a while did he say: "Go back and tell Cao Yanzhong and Wang Fu that if the fighters are mature, I have no objection to them attacking Jiangning, but if the long-haired heavy troops threaten the security of Wuhu, they must not risk dividing their troops to fight an uncertain battle." Shanghai is very important to us, Cao Yanzhong's elite corps and Wang Fu's main force of the naval division are even more important to us, if these two main forces make any mistakes, it will be even more difficult for us to save Shanghai. ”

Xu Lai agreed, promising to convey Wu Chaoyue's entrustment to Cao Yanzhong and Wang Fu as soon as possible, but Wu Chaoyue refused to rest assured, and asked Zhou Wenxian to write a letter to Cao Wang's second general, carefully instructing them not to take risks in order to share the pressure on Wu Jun in Shanghai as soon as possible, and then handed it to Xu Lai, and instructed Xu Lai to send the letter to Cao Yanzhong and others as soon as possible. After Xu Lai agreed, Wu Chaoyue turned to Feng Sanbao on the side and said, "Father-in-law." ”

"The last general will not dare." Feng Sanbao hurriedly saluted and said respectfully: "King Zhennan, this is Shuaitang, please call the name of the last general directly." ”

"You don't have to be so polite, you can call it whatever you want." Wu Chaoyue smiled and waved his hand, then put away his smile, and said with a serious expression: "Father-in-law, take down the places of Chizhou and Tongling, and completely dredge the important task of our direct passage to Wuhu, I will hand it over to you, although the long hair in Chizhou and Tongling is not very good, but the son-in-law still has to ask you a few points, forget you must remember." ”

"Please ask the king of Zhennan to command." Feng Sanbao, the most well-behaved, replied respectfully.

"First, we can't take risks with our troops, but we must do it quickly." Wu Chaoyue explained: "We must not fight a confrontation war of attrition, and when we encounter the stubborn resistance of Long Hair, we will smash it with ammunition and crush the enemy with the advantage of weapons." Don't be stingy with ammunition, with your back to the Yangtze River waterway, I will give you an endless supply of ammunition, even if the war in other places is suspended, I will give you priority in supplying weapons and ammunition. ”

Feng Sanbao hurriedly agreed, thanking Wu Chaoyue for his full support, and Wu Chaoyue continued to explain: "The second is to pay attention to the heart, so that Changmao can see the hope of surviving after surrendering." The son-in-law knows that your father-in-law has always been jealous and hateful, especially hating Long Hair, but as long as Long Hair surrenders honestly, you can leave them a life, and one more Long Hair takes the initiative to surrender, and we can have less resistance. ”

Feng Sanbao promised again, and Wu Chaoyue said: "The third point is about Wuwei City, Wuwei City is located on the north bank of Anhui, and it is far away from the Yangtze River. If my expectations are correct, there is a good chance that Shi Dakai will make a fuss about inaction and try to severely damage the Lu Shi under your command. So father-in-law, please remember that in Wuwei to act at the opportunity, if you can fight, you can fight, if you can't fight, you can go directly to Wuhu, anyway, Wuwei is far away from the riverbank, and it is not so easy for Changmao to block the Wuwei channel, and it is a big deal for us to station a fleet of sailors in Ogi Port, which is enough to prevent just in case. ”

Feng Sanbao nodded vigorously, saying that he must keep Wu Chaoyue's advice in mind, Wu Chaoyue nodded with satisfaction, and said very sincerely, "Father-in-law, please." ”

For the sake of prudence, Wu Chaoyue also temporarily lent his pro-military camp to Feng Sanbao, so that Wu Dada took the pro-military camp with the army to listen to it, and personally went to the dock to see Feng Sanbao off on the morning of the next day, until the Wu army fleet left the Hukou wharf, Wu Chaoyue boarded the Luo Weilin and returned to Jiujiang to deal with the various military and government affairs that had been piled up, and at the same time maintained contact with the Hubei provincial capital through telegraphs, and remotely commanded the overall situation controlled by the Wu army.

Fortunately, it may be because after the Wu army seized the Central Plains and Shanxi, a large number of remnants of the Qing army in Henan and Shanxi fled into Shaanxi, and the incident that Wu Chaoyue was most worried about did not happen during this period, but under the repeated persuasion of the bannermen such as Duxing'a and Duolong'a, Chang Geng, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu appointed by the Manchu court, wavered and agreed to start secret negotiations with the Wu army on the surrender of Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately entrusted this matter to Yang Wending and Zuo Zongtang, and asked them to make every effort to appease the Shaanxi-Gansu-Qing army to surrender with all their might, and at the same time explicitly asked Yang Zuo and the others to secretly remind the Shaanxi-Gansu-Qing army to guard against it.

The second official document put in front of Wu Chaoyue is also good news, Wu Jun's spy detective - the old enemy of the Wu family, the Anhui governor appointed by the Manchu Qing court, Weng Xincun, was seriously ill, and went to see the Wild Boar Skin IX a few days ago, and because Changshu's hometown is currently controlled by the Taiping Army, the old man Weng can't be buried when he dies, and he can only store the coffin in the temple of Lu'an Prefecture. However, after gloating, Wu Chaoyue immediately sensed the danger coming, and found that the sudden death of Old Man Weng was not necessarily a good thing for him.

"King Zhennan, Weng Xin's death at this time is probably not a good thing for us."

Dai Wenjie also saw the signs of danger, and pointed out to Wu Chaoyue: "Although Weng Xincun's father and son have a feud with the king of Zhennan, they have been entrenched in the area of Lu'an and Yingzhou in the past few years, and they are also somewhat of a threat to the northeast of Hubei, but they actually play a buffering role, blocking the five flags of twists for us, making it difficult for those twisters to flow into Hubei from this road." Twist and long hair are allies, many big twists also accepted the official canonization of long hair, now we and long hair completely torn the skin, Weng Xincun and suddenly died of illness, Lu'an and Yingzhou's chaotic army is leaderless, if the twist in order to cooperate with long hair, take the opportunity to flow into Hubei from this road, our trouble may be bigger. ”

"I'm worried about that, too." Wu Chaoyue nodded, frowned and said: "Especially that despicable villain Weng Tongxiao, in order to deliberately disgust me, it is not impossible to take the initiative to contact the twister to borrow the way." ”

"King Zhennan, the student is bold, I think you still have too deep a deep understanding of Weng Tongyi." Dai Wenjie said cautiously: "Weng Xincun is the leader of the Qingliu during the first emperor, with loyalty and filial piety etiquette, the most important thing is to clean the name, his son is influenced by him, even if the character is not good, he will never dare to do the initiative to cooperate with the bandits, so that the world is pointed at." ”

"I hope so." Wu Chaoyue shrugged his shoulders, he didn't have the slightest confidence in Weng Tongxi's character, and then said: "We have to strengthen the defense of northeastern Hubei Province, Macheng, Huang'an and Luotian have to increase regimental training, and we also have to send a cavalry from Henan back and station it in Macheng for mobile emergency." ”

"King Zhennan, although your strategy is good, the student still needs to remind you." Dai Wenjie said: "The area of Macheng and Huang'an is densely populated, and there are many villages and towns. ”

"Mr. Wenjie, do you have any good ideas?" Wu Chaoyue asked casually.

"The students think that they might as well try to persuade them to surrender." Dai Wenjie replied respectfully.

"Recruit and persuade to surrender?" Wu Chaoyue was stunned for a moment, and then quickly woke up, nodded and said: "It's a good way, the members of the twist are complex, there are many leaders, and there are countless large and small flag masters, there must be a lot of people in it who are greedy for glory, wealth and a stable life, and now we have completely turned our faces with Changmao, and we don't need to worry about their considerations, it's time to go all out to recruit these twisters." ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue immediately decided to let Nie Shicheng and Shao Yanhong do their best to implement this matter, but Dai Wenjie was not satisfied, and said: "King Zhennan, do you only plan to recruit the twister, and don't you plan to give Weng Xincun's three sons a chance?" ”

"Give them a chance?" Wu Chaoyue finally froze, and said suspiciously: "Mr. Wenjie, you should be very clear about the matter between me and the old Weng's family?" Weng Tongshu and Weng Tongshu and them, how could they accept my surrender? ”

"One time, another." Dai Wenjie smiled and said: "It is impossible for the three brothers of the Weng family not to understand their current situation, and it is impossible not to know that they are already a dead end sooner or later, whether it is us, or twisted and long-haired, after winning Lu'an and Yingzhou, it is impossible to let go of the three brothers." Under such circumstances, if King Zhennan can ignore past suspicions, repay grievances with virtue, and take the initiative to send someone to appease you, it may not be impossible to persuade the three brothers of Weng Tongshu to take the initiative to surrender successfully. ”

Wu Chaoyue tapped his fingers on the table and calculated, although he didn't want to let go of Weng Tongyi, who killed the Beiyang Sailors, but he was very moved by Dai Wenjie's suggestion, and said hesitantly: "The Weng family is the leader of the Qingliu River, and the most important Qingliu, is it impossible to surrender to me?" ”

"The clear stream of bullshit!" Dai Wenjie, a famous calligrapher and painter in the late Qing Dynasty, scolded a dirty sentence and read: "Scholars, the most poor, rotten Shiwen, rotten as mud, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, full of chickens and dogs and thieves, saying one thing and doing another like a carp across the river, how many people can really dare to carry a coffin like Haigang Peak in the past and present?" However, the water is too cold, and there are many people who are Qianqianyi, and they are endless. ”

Wu Chaoyue laughed and said, "Mr. Wenjie, when you were under Grandpa Hua's account, I'm afraid you wouldn't dare to say such a thing, right?" ”

"Don't hide it from King Zhennan, I said something similar once." Dai Wenjie smiled and said: "But Yu Zhong not only did not get angry, but also quite agreed, and frankly admitted that when the knife was really on his neck, he might not have the courage to learn from Hai Rui Hai Gangfeng, but he only dared to say that the water was too cold." ”

Wu Chaoyue laughed happily again, Dai Wenjie laughed for a while, and then said: "King Zhennan, the student thinks you should give it a try, if you succeed, the gain will be huge, and if you don't succeed, you will gain no loss, at least you have earned a generous reputation, and it will be beneficial to you to recruit other enemies in the future." ”

After thinking about it again, considering that he really needed to deal with the problem by means of surrender, as well as the huge influence of the old Weng family among the Qingliu celebrities, Wu Chaoyue gritted his teeth and made up his mind to find another way to avenge the soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division, and then nodded and said: "Then give it a try, but the feud between me and the old Weng family is as deep as the sea, and the Weng brothers cherish their worthless face, if I directly send someone to appease and surrender, I am afraid that it will backfire?" ”

"King Zhennan, how about letting Shen Baozhen come forward to handle this matter?" Dai Wenjie suggested: "He is not only the elder of the king of Zhennan, but also has enough weight, and he is also on the right path, he is quite famous in Shilin, and he has a common language with the Weng brothers, so let him come forward to persuade the Weng brothers to surrender to our army is not only less resistant, but also much more certain." ”

After surrendering the Henan Domain and surrendering to the Wu army, Shen Baozhen had been transferred to Hubei Province by Wu Chaoyue before, ready to observe and see if it could be reused, Dai Wenjie recommended him to come forward to recruit the Weng brothers, not only to make the best use of his talents, but also to give Shen Baozhen the opportunity to further submit the name of the vote, Wu Chaoyue was of course very satisfied when he heard it, and immediately nodded and said: "Okay, let him come forward to handle this matter, and immediately send a telegram to Wuchang, so that Shen Baozhen can contact the Weng brothers with the honor of Weng Xin's mourning, and try to recruit the Weng brothers." Tell Shen Baozhen clearly that as long as it is not a matter of principle for crusading against the rebellious party, he can agree to the conditions proposed by the Weng brothers. ”nt

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