When the battle report of the Wu army in Shanghai forwarded by Cao Yanzhong was in front of Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue was still hesitating whether to leave the Jiujiang battlefield and personally led the army to the front line in Anqing to command the next step of the battle.

There are two key reasons that prompted Wu Chaoyue to give up going to the front line in person, the first is the unexpected stubborn resistance of the Taiping Army along the Yangtze River, the stubborn Shi Dakai and Lin Qirong will not let go, Huang Wenjin and Lin Fengxiang, who should have given priority to preserving the strength of their descendants, also resisted so tenaciously, and at the same time, Lai Wenhong and Gu Longxian in central Anhui also resolutely reinforced the Anqing battlefield regardless of gains and losses. Of course, Wu Chaoyue didn't dare to imagine it.

Of course, Wu Chaoyue is not worried that he will not be able to kill Li Kaifang, Ye Yunlai and Wu Ruxiao and other Taiping Army hawks, but Wu Chaoyue does not know how much time it will take him to kill them, and in the case of not daring to stay away from the command center for a long time, Wu Chaoyue certainly does not dare to risk losing contact with the rear at any time, and lead the army to fight outside for a long time, so Wu Chaoyue has no choice but to learn from Zhu Baba to continue to be the shopkeeper and continue to let his subordinates pick up the burden of the Eastern Crusade.

Another key reason is that the situation of the Wu army in Shanghai is critical - this is not a contradiction, but the situation of the Wu army in Shanghai is worse and more dangerous than Wu Chaoyue expected, and it is possible that the main force of the Wu army will not be able to wait for the main force of the Wu army to uproot the major strongholds of the Taiping army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River one by one, break through many obstacles and rush to Shanghai to rescue. Therefore, Wu Chaoyue had to give up the established plan of personally leading the army to dredge the waterway to reinforce Shanghai, and decided to adopt a backup plan, first send a batch of reinforcements and supplies to Shanghai, stabilize the situation in Shanghai, and then calmly dredge the waterway.

Wu Chaoyue's backup plan of course counted on the implementation of Wu's naval division, temporarily halted the offensive on land, and freed up the naval division responsible for protecting the grain route to carry reinforcements and supplies eastward, break through the Taiping army's water defense line and go to Shanghai to rescue, first send reinforcements to Shanghai, and then turn back to cooperate with the land division to dredge the channel.

Although the backup plan has already been formulated and its implementation is very sure to be completed, when deciding whether to adjust the strategy and tactics, Wu Chaoyue, who has always been decisive in killing, rarely hesitated, and hesitated for a long time without making up his mind. Dai Wenjie, the chief of staff of the army, saw the strangeness and asked, "King Zhennan, didn't you just say that you can only use an emergency plan?" Why is it not yet ordered to be ready for implementation? ”

"I also have to consider the casualties of the sailors."

Wu Chaoyue frowned and replied: "Originally, with the strength of our sailors, we could directly break through the long-haired barrage defense line and go straight to Shanghai for rescue, and the problem would definitely not be too big." But without the cooperation of the land division, even if our sailors can break through the heavy interception of Changmao and rush to Shanghai, the losses will definitely not be small there, and the losses of this back and forth will probably be quite amazing. ”

Dai Wenjie suddenly realized, nodded hurriedly and said: "What the king of Zhennan is very worried about, when he goes, it is good to say, we can use the army on the troop transport ship to land and fight, and cooperate with the sailor to break through the long-haired interception, and it will be troublesome to come back, neither there is a land division to cooperate, but it is against the current, and our sailor wants to break through the layers of long-haired interception and return to Jiujiang, and the loss is definitely not small." ”

"It's also troublesome when you go." Wu Chaoyue smiled bitterly and said: "What is the difference between letting the army on the troop carrier land and fighting, and directly pulling out the strongholds along the river?" As long as Changmao is not a fool, he will definitely not miss the opportunity to weaken us one by one on land, and it is impossible for our reinforcements to rush to Shanghai to reinforce in a complete way. ”

After that, Wu Chaoyue added, "What's more troublesome is that it's summer now, and the thunderstorms and storms along the coast are gradually increasing. ”

After listening to Wu Chaoyue's analysis, although Dai Wenjie did not believe that the luck of the self-army sailors could be carried to the point of Zheng Chenggong, he was inevitably worried that the self-army sailors would lose too much in a single operation, which would affect the most important strategy of the self-army to dredge the Yangtze River waterway.

It's useless to worry, not to mention the importance of Shanghai's geographical location to Wu Jun, Wu Chaoyue's safety of his only son Wu Nianyue can also be ruthless and not think about it, just for the sake of Wu Lao's comprador who is as kind as a mountain, Wu Chaoyue can't see death to Wu Jun in Shanghai. Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, Wu Chaoyue gradually tended to change his tactical plan, temporarily stop the land attack, and give priority to rescuing Shanghai with water forces.

Even so, Wu Chaoyue still did not make up his mind immediately, and before making a decision, he sent a telegram to Zhao Liewen, who he trusted the most, introducing the specific situation of the deployment of the Wu Army in Shanghai and the Taiping Army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as his own worries and considerations, and consulted Zhao Liewen, who presided over the rear affairs for him.

More than an hour later, Zhao Liewen called back to Wu Chaoyue, and there were only eight words on the telegram - Zhi'en Tubao, human nature.

The content of the telegram is clueless, but after being a partner for so many years, Wu Chaoyue still immediately understood that Zhao Liewen was opposing his own backup plan, but he was embarrassed to directly point out what he really thought in his heart, and he was even more reluctant to oppose it publicly, so he said so implicitly.

Wu Chaoyue knows very well how selfless Zhao Liewen is, because Wu Chaoyue only has three relatives in Shanghai, Wu Lao Comprador, Zhou Xiuying and Wu Nianyue, but Zhao Liewen is his parents, wife, children and all his brothers and sisters are in Shanghai! As a result, it was precisely because of Zhao Liewen's implicit opposition and thinking about the overall situation in everything that Wu Chaoyue was more and more determined to save Shanghai first.

There is also a worrying matter, just when Wu Chaoyue was worried about the situation in Shanghai and whether to change his tactical plan, Wu Dadao suddenly ran in with an urgent report with chicken feathers, and said: "King Zhennan, Sichuan urgent, Master Yang just sent a fast boat to send six hundred miles urgently. ”

"Something happened in Sichuan?" Wu Chaoyue's heart jumped, almost thinking that there was a problem in Sichuan, his important source of money and food, and then in a blink of an eye, Wu Chaoyue immediately remembered the famous historical event, and his heart immediately jumped again, and said secretly: "Could it be the matter of Shaanxi and Gansu?" ”

A little nervously took the urgent military situation Tang newspaper, opened it and saw that Wu Chaoyue almost didn't have a crooked nose - what was in the Tang newspaper box turned out to be just an ordinary letter written by Zuo Zongtang himself!

"Why is it just a letter?" Dai Wenjie next to him was also surprised and said, "How could Boss Yang send a letter in an expedited manner with six hundred miles?" ”

"The letter was written by Zuo Lao, he wants to send the letter urgently with 600 miles, does my wife and grandfather dare to stop it?" Wu Chaoyue asked with a wry smile, and secretly cursed in his heart that he was suspicious - if something happened in Sichuan or Shaanxi and Gansu, how could Zhao Liewen and Yan Jingming put the telegraph line that they had built with great difficulty and use the primitive and backward six hundred miles to expedite?

Somewhat dissatisfied, he opened Zuo Zongtang's handwritten letter, opened it and took a closer look, Wu Chaoyue's dissatisfaction with Zuo Zongtang's little fuss was immediately thrown out of the clouds, because the first sentence of the madman Zuo Zongtang in the letter was to ask in the vernacular - King Zhennan, are you planning to send sailors to directly reinforce Shanghai?

Knowing that Wu Chaoyue's cultural level was not high, Zuo Zongtang used all vernacular Chinese, and also used punctuation marks that Wu Chaoyue personally asked to vigorously promote in the territory controlled by the Wu army, and his tone was as arrogant and rude as ever, and the full text of the letter is as follows:

"The old man bets that if you receive an urgent battle report from Shanghai, you will definitely make up your mind to send a sailor to protect the troop transport fleet to save Shanghai first! This is human nature, but also filial piety, the old man is not strange, and he does not blame you, the old man will not say anything to ask you to think more about the lives of the sailors and soldiers, the old man knows better than you the truth of not being in charge of the army. ”

"But from the perspective of the overall strategic situation, the old man thinks it's better not to do this, the lonely city of Shanghai is far away, you can save a time, you can save a lifetime? You can send reinforcements at any cost in an emergency, and in the future, you can send reinforcements every time you are in an emergency, and give Changmao a chance to send reinforcements to the siege of Changmao every time? No matter how important Shanghai's strategic location is, can it be more important than your main force of sailors? Don't you know how difficult it is to train and how difficult it is to become an army? ”

"Those who are good at fighting do not fight for the gains and losses of a city or a place, regardless of the glory and disgrace of an overnight day, and often win not worth a defeat, and often lose to a victory. If you think this sentence is too profound to read, ask the staff master next to you to explain it to you. ”

"Steady and steady step by step, one by one to take the important strongholds along the Yangtze River of Changmao, first dredge the waterway, and then rescue Shanghai, this is your most correct choice. There is no need to worry about the safety of Shanghai, if you lose it, you can get it back in the future, and you need to worry about the safety of your grandfather and your son, what is the danger, don't they even think of a way to run away on a foreigner's steamer? ”

"Shanghai has been surrounded by long hairs for so many years, and all the wealthy businessmen in the Jiangnan area are hiding in Shanghai, asking for money, money, people, and food and ammunition can be bought directly from foreigners, since Zhou Tenghu even dares to look down on the old man, can't he turn to the way to survive this hurdle?"

"Save Shanghai first, it's to pump the car for General Longhair! Although Longhair may not be so smart, and it may not be deliberately besieging the city to send reinforcements, if you are stupid and send troops, it will be sent to the door to slaughter Longhair! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, the old man's duty has been fulfilled, it's up to you whether you listen or not. By the way, the Jiangnan camp established outside Jiangning City before the rebel party was actually a wonderful chess game for a general, but Xiang Rong was too straw and the army he led was too wasteful, and he turned the wonderful chess into a stinky one. ”

"If the time is ripe, you might as well consider learning the hand of the chaotic party, if this move is played well, not to mention that the long hair around Jiangning can't run away, maybe Li Xiucheng, who is currently the strongest in long hair, will also obediently bring the main force to the door to give you a good time, and reduce countless obstacles for you to recover Jiangnan in the future."

Zuo Zongtang's letter, most of the first half of the letter just made Wu Chaoyue's face feverish, and he was even more shaken about whether to save Shanghai first, but the last two paragraphs made Wu Chaoyue's heart shocked, and he suddenly had a feeling of pulling out the clouds and seeing the bright moon, suddenly enlightened, and couldn't help but say in his heart: "Yes, why don't I learn from the wild boar Pi Xianfeng?" ”

"The purpose of the wild boar skin court to establish a Jiangnan camp outside Nanjing at any cost was to besiege the city and send reinforcements, forcing the long-haired division to return to Nanjing, and wait for the labor to break the long-haired division first, and then wait for the opportunity to take Nanjing, but the army led by Xiang Rong was too wasteful, and this wonderful chess game became a stinky man, and it cost countless money, food, and military salaries did not play much role, but my army is so wasteful?"

"Also, I remember that in history, Zeng Guofan and Zeng Guoquan also used this hand to kill Li Xiucheng's main force, as well as almost all the long-haired troops who went back to save Nanjing, so after taking Nanjing, they quickly destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, my barber teacher can do this, can't I do it?"

Thinking of this, all the hesitation and hesitation in Wu Chaoyue's heart disappeared, and he also decided on the spot to destroy the strategic plan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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