As mentioned above, because he didn't know that the Taiping army would suddenly break out into civil strife, Wu Chaoyue was once mentally prepared to give up the Northern Expedition plan, and resolutely chose to restart the war with the Taiping army and the Twist army, and ordered his brother-in-law Nie Shicheng to lead the main force of the Wu army in Henan to the east to return to Defu to help the Wu army Jiang Yili and Shu Bao who were fighting with the Twist army there to expel the Twist army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he suddenly received the news of the internal chaos of the Taiping Army, in order to reduce the enemy and unite the anti-Qing rebel army, Wu Chaoyue once considered retracting this order to avoid further expansion of the armed conflict with the Five Banners of the Twisted Army, but after careful calculation, Wu Chaoyue found that he had no need to change the order at all, in the current situation, he was forced to send Nie Shicheng to the east before, and now he has inadvertently formed a wonderful move.

The best thing about this move is to kill two birds with one stone, the first is to give the five flags of the Twisted Army a little color to see, to avoid the Twist Army with many conflicts of interest with the Henan Wu Army, kicking the nose on the face, and infringing on the interests of the Henan Wu Army. The second is the Northern Expedition plan that can cover the Henan Wu army, creating an unexpected opportunity for the Henan Wu army to enter Shandong.

Therefore, Wu Chaoyue did not withdraw the order, and sent someone to tell Nie Shicheng, saying that as long as the Twist Army dared to give him a shameless face, he would beat himself to death. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue ordered Nie Shicheng and Zeng Guoquan to spread rumors, saying that in order to seek revenge from the Twist Army, the Wu Army in Henan was preparing to enter the nest of the Twist Army in northern Anhui Province, so as to cover Wu Chaoyue's behavior of transporting a large number of ammunition and weapons from Hubei to Henan and confuse the judgment of the Qing Army in Shandong.

Expected by Wu Chaoyue in advance, the ignorant and fearless Zhang Lexing, Su Tianfu and other commanders of the twist army did not fight with the elite of the Wu army, even if they found out that Nie Shicheng personally led the main force of the Wu army's cavalry to come to Guide Mansion for reinforcements, they did not consider any concessions to avoid the enemy, and relied on the large number of cavalry under their command, and took the initiative to go north to fight with Nie Shicheng in the area of Ningling.

Then of course, Nie Shicheng directly snorted Zhang Lexing and Su Tianfu and others, and the main force of the Wu cavalry armed to the teeth was full of long guns and short guns, as well as grenades and grenadiers to help, and the ammunition equipped was even more unimaginable for the flags of the Twisted Army, as soon as the battle was engaged, the stormy dense bullets of the Wu Army cavalry made the Twist Army cavalry dumbfounded, and everyone exclaimed, "How can this cavalry of Wu thieves have so many foreign guns?" So many bullets? The Wu thief cavalry that fought with us before didn't dare to use foreign guns until the critical moment? ”

The key reason for the huge difference in firepower density between the cavalry of the Wu army is, of course, the composition of the soldiers under the command of the Shu Bao Department of the Wu cavalry - all of them are forced to take advantage of the Manmeng banner people from Wu, Wu Chaoyue will not let them have enough guns and ammunition unless their heads are in water, and the reason why they are equipped with Colt revolvers and a limited supply of ammunition is because they are loyal and obedient enough to see that Shu Bao and Muraqi and other banner men are loyal and obedient enough.

Of course, the cavalry of the Wu army under the command of Nie Shicheng is completely different, they are all Han Chinese, and the generals and generals are all old men of the Wu army, and the main general Nie Shicheng is Wu Chaoyue's brother-in-law, if Wu Chaoyue does not give them the best weapons and the most adequate ammunition supply, I am afraid that even the enemy will laugh at Wu Chaoyue for being an idiot.

Under the terrifying firepower that he didn't dare to imagine beforehand, the cavalry of the Twist Army, who had been complacent before, immediately suffered heavy casualties, and soon collapsed into an army, fleeing all over the mountains and fields.

During the pursuit battle, there was also an interesting incident worth mentioning, that is, after seeing Nie Shicheng also go into battle to chase and kill, Zhang Lexing, who was very capable of commanding troops, tried in vain to capture the thief and capture the king first, and hurriedly organized an elite cavalry to charge Nie Shicheng's handsome banner, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity of the chaos on the battlefield to create a miracle and kill Nie Shicheng, the commander of the Henan Wu army, in one fell swoop!

However, this Twist Army cavalry unfortunately encountered Henry Repeater Spear, as Wu Chaoyue's brother-in-law, although Nie Shicheng is not qualified to have a whole battalion of personal soldiers and all equipped with Henry Repeater Spears, but there is barely a sentry of personal soldiers can be equipped with Henry Repeater Spears. Therefore, when nearly 100 sixteen consecutive Henry spears opened fire violently, many of the Twist Army cavalry who raided Nie Shicheng's Shuai Banner didn't even know what was going on, and they had already died directly under the dense bullets of Henry's Bead Spear, and the Twist Army cavalry who were lucky enough not to be killed also screamed like pigs, "What kind of foreign gun is that?" Why can't the guns be shot at all? ”

In the end, Zhang Lexing, who suffered heavy losses, could only honestly lead the army to flee south, and the Wu army Jiang Yili and Shu Bao, who were gathering troops in the area of Gaoxinji, took the opportunity to send troops to intercept them, and joined forces with Nie Shicheng's army to defeat the Twist Army, and expelled the main force of the Twist Army from Guide Mansion in the first battle, and also eliminated the twelve polders controlled by the Twist Army in one go, and won a great victory.

After the war, Miao Peilin, the number one anti-water king of the late Qing Dynasty, sent someone to get in touch with Nie Shicheng at the first time, and took the initiative to express his willingness to help Wu Jun clean up the Twist Army, and also brazenly took the initiative to ask to accept Wu Chaoyue's canonization.

Nie Shicheng kept in mind Wu Chaoyue's request, and while accepting Miao Peilin's initiative to surrender and citing foreign aid to contain the Twist Army, he made a big noise, faked the illusion that he was preparing to enter northern Anhui, and took the opportunity to reasonably hoard ammunition, grain, and grass in Kaifeng in order to launch an attack on Shandong.

But it's a pity that Wu Chaoyue's plan to hide from the world and cross the sea did not deceive the Manchu old fox Luo Bingzhang who was about to fight against Wu Jun, just found out that Wu Jun was hoarding a large number of military supplies in the Kaifeng area, Luo Bingzhang guessed that the child Wu Chaoyue was going to attack him, in addition to actively preparing for war and strengthening defense, he repeatedly sent letters to the Manchu court to warn, directly pointing out that if he wanted to stabilize Wu Chaoyue by appeasing and negotiating peace, it was destined to be a fool's dream, and Wu Chaoyue could only be determined to fight to the death in advance.

“…… Weichen dared to assert that the Wu thief received the envoy of the imperial court, but it was just a false and wrongful snake, perfunctory to the people, to cover up his rebellion and rebellion, at the latest in the first month of next year, as early as this year, the Wu thief in Henan will go north, into Kou Shandong, Shanxi Wu thief will also be out of the Niangzi Pass, straight to the capital. Wanwang and the two palaces abandoned their illusions, gave up peace talks and concentrated on war preparations, so as not to slack off the soldiers and people have no fighting spirit, and they were suddenly taken advantage of by Wu thieves. If not, the Qing Dynasty would be in danger and the imperial court would ......be in danger. ”

Silently reciting Luo Bingzhang's handwritten folds, Ci'an and Cixi both frowned, worried that Luo Bingzhang's prophecy would come true, but they were unwilling to stop the peace talks from the bottom of their hearts, giving up the hope of temporarily stabilizing Wu Chaoyue by political means. At the end, Ci'an also said to Cixi: "Sister, although Luo Aiqing's words are reasonable, he is partial to Shandong, and he only knows that Wu thieves are hoarding grain, grass and ammunition in Kaifeng, but he doesn't know that Wu thieves are still gathering troops and horses in Jiujiang, is what he said a little biased?" ”

Cixi frowned and pondered, and only after a long time did she ask, "Does my sister plan to ignore Luo Aiqing's words and still continue to fight for peace talks with Wu Thief?" ”

"Yes, while striving for peace talks, while preparing for war, there will be no delay." Ci'an nodded and said, "If you do this, it is better than directly cutting off all hopes of peace talks with Wu Thief." ”

Cixi was silent for a moment before she said: "Fighting for peace talks while preparing for war is not delayed, but sister, don't forget Luo Aiqing's warning - soldiers are slack, and people have no heart to fight." ”

Speaking of this, Cixi paused for a moment, and then said: "Sister, although I don't understand military affairs, but I understand people's hearts, if the front-line soldiers know that we are still talking about peace with Wu thieves, how can they have illusions, neglect precautions, and even take the initiative to make some concessions in the front contact in order not to fight and not give their lives." In this way, if the Wu thief army suddenly makes another move, it will be difficult for our front-line soldiers not to suffer big losses. ”

"But if we give up peace talks, not only will there be no hope of appeasement, but Wu Chaoyue will also be able to beat the traitor even more, and the backbite is because we don't want to negotiate peace, and we will send troops to crusade against us even more justifiably?" Ci'an pointed out another layer of great relationship.

"What does that sister mean, don't listen to Luo Aiqing's advice, or continue to give it a try?" Cixi asked.

"Not bad." Ci'an nodded and said: "Although Luo Aiqing's secret exhortation is a good intention, but the opportunity is rare at the moment, Wu Thief is likely to choose to rob Long Hair while it is hot, if we work hard to appease it, the possibility of success in peace talks is greater than usual." ”

After that, Ci'an added, "Hurry up and negotiate with the Wu thief, it's really not possible, and it's not too late for us to cut off contact with the Wu thief and prepare for war with all our might." ”

Although some did not believe that Wu Chaoyue would give the Manchu court and the army a chance to react, but they had no confidence in a military confrontation with Wu Chaoyue, after hesitating again and again, Cixi finally chose to support Ci'an's decision, and also made up her mind with Ci'an to meet Wu Chaoyue's shameless demand, and officially canonized Wu Chaoyue as the king of Zhennan in the orthodox name of the Manchu court.

Of course, Ci'an and Cixi will not be stupid enough to follow Wu Chaoyue in everything, let alone be stupid enough to first crown Wu Chaoyue as the king and then negotiate, appoint the Minister of Military Aircraft Bao Jun as the plenipotentiary negotiator and pass the decree at the same time, Ci'an and Cixi asked Bao Jun to put forward a condition for Wu Chaoyue to be crowned king - to complete the peace talks first, and then to crown Wu Chaoyue as the king of Zhennan!

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When Baojun rushed to the capital of Hubei Province with the holy decree of canonizing Wu Chaoyue as king, it was already the middle of November of the first year of Qixiang, and it was not far from the time when Wu Chaoyue was ready to launch the Northern Expedition. During this period, the civil war situation of the Taiping army also changed dramatically - after sending someone to confirm that the evidence in Wu Ruxiao's hands was true, Shi Dakai also led Zeng Lichang and Li Shixian to join the war against Yang.

As the No. 3 person in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai also resolutely decided to raise troops to fight Yang, of course, the gods farted and were extraordinary. Upon hearing this news, not only did Shi Zhenji and Lin Shaozhang and other military leaders in eastern Jiangxi immediately respond, but Lin Qirong in Hukou also immediately raised the banner of fighting against Yang, not only directly containing Yang Xiuqing's descendant Huang Wenjin for Wu Ruxiao and others, but also making Lin Fengxiang of Anqing, who had not made a stand so far, dare not make any rash moves, and the scale of the civil war of the Taiping Army naturally expanded again.

At this moment, Wu Chaoyue's attitude and position are naturally more related to the fate of the world, not only Jingshou and Yang Xiuqing's envoys ran to Wu Chaoyue's Marshal's Mansion every day to ask for a meeting, but even Shi Dakai, Lin Qirong and Wu Ruxiao and others have sent envoys one after another, asking Wu Chaoyue to lend a helping hand and help them kill Yang Xiuqing, who betrayed the great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty - of course, by the way, they also begged Wu Chaoyue not to help Yang Xiuqing.

In this regard, Wu Chaoyue kept in mind Zhao Liewen's advice and guidance, and always refused to express his attitude, just with Jing Shouxu and the snake, and met Wu Ruxiao and Shi Dakai and other envoys to give them a little psychological encouragement, and at the same time deliberately refused to meet Yang Xiuqing's envoys, causing the Manchu court to be more illusionistic, Wu Ruxiao and Shi Dakai and others were very determined, Yang Xiuqing was always worried, but he did not dare to offend Wu Chaoyue.

In this case, after successfully arriving in the Hubei provincial capital, Bao Jun of course took Jing Shou to Wu Chaoyue for the first time to ask for a meeting, but to Bao Jun and Jing Shou's great surprise, Wu Chaoyue, who usually basically meets Jing Shou as long as he has a little time, is unusually this time, and refuses to meet Bao Jun under the pretext of official business, just letting Dai Wenjie come forward to receive him.

At first, he was a little unclear about Wu Chaoyue's intentions, but when Dai Wenjie skillfully tested Bao Jun's intentions, Bao Jun also woke up and knew that Wu Chaoyue was going to find out the price of the Manchu court first, and then decide whether to meet him. As a result, while secretly scolding Wu Chaoyue for being treacherous, Baojun did not hesitate, and directly shook the hole card of the Manchu court to Dai Wenjie - as long as peace talks are reached, Wu Chaoyue will be crowned king immediately.

Then, after Dai Wenjie reported the hole cards of the Manchu court to Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue of course summoned Zhao Liewen and Yan Jingming and other henchmen to discuss countermeasures at the first time, and said very reluctantly: "I didn't expect that your joke, the chaos in the capital will be taken seriously, and you really want to canonize me as the king with a different surname, this is a difficult thing to do, should I insist on resigning?" ”

Zhao Liewen, Yan Jingming and the others smiled bitterly, all of them admired Wu Chaoyue's thickness. Fortunately, Wu Chaoyue also felt that he was too brazen, so he simply smiled: "Forget it, since this is the meaning of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, it is convenient for me to reward the soldiers with my official title after I am awarded the title of prince, so I can simply make it difficult." However, the plan of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces is to reach peace talks first, and then canonize me as a prince, what do you think about this? ”

"Comfort Pavilion, this must not be compromised." Zhao Liewen warned: "You must not fight any untrustworthy ideas, first reach peace talks to deceive the prince, and then immediately renege on your word, and start a war against the rebellious party in the capital, that will only make you discredited and lose the hearts of the people!" ”

"Yes, Weiting, you must not be confused on this issue." Yan Jingming also said: "The world has been in turmoil for ten years, the people are determined, the people are tired of war, whether it is the military and the people or the gentry and officials, no one is not looking forward to ending this troubled world as soon as possible. If you first agree to an armistice in order to deceive a prince, and then tear up the armistice immediately after being crowned queen, then no one in the world will agree. ”

"Don't worry." Wu Chaoyue comforted: "Although I don't read the Four Books and the Five Classics, but if people don't have faith, they won't stand, and I still understand, and I will never do anything that disappoints the people of the world by betraying my promise." ”

After first stating that he would never use treacherous means to deceive the prince, Wu Chaoyue said his true intention and asked: "What I want to ask you is, is there any way that I can not only lose my trust in the world, but also be justifiably crowned the king?" ”