After Zhao Liewen's careful polishing, Wu Chaoyue spent 600 miles to expedite his excerpts to the capital, and loyally expressed to Emperor Xianfeng that he was willing to lead the Shanghai regiment to train north by sea and go straight to King Qin of Jinggi to defend the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and resist and eliminate the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Army led by Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan for Emperor Xianfeng.

Wu Chaoyue's 600 miles of expedited is considered fast, but the Taiping army's actions are faster than Wu Chaoyue, only one day of rest in Linyu Pass, the Taiping army immediately entered the hinterland of Zhili, as if it was a plug-in, with the speed of taking a city every day, invincible, in just four days, Shahe, Renxian, Longping and Baixiang four county towns fell, and then on the fifth day, Zhaozhou Prefecture was also taken by the Taiping army. The newly appointed governor of Zhili, Gui Liang, did not even have the opportunity to concentrate his forces to block, so he could only order Baohuan, the governor of Zhili, to lead the green battalion of his department to strictly guard the Hutuo River, and not give the Taiping army a chance to cross the river.

However, the main force of the Qing army led by Shengbao arrived in Zhengding on the eighth day of the ninth month, but the Taiping army had already broken through the Qing army's Hutuo River defense line in Gaocheng on the seventh day of the ninth month, took Jinzhou lightly, and left Shengbao behind his ass to eat ashes. Then the Taiping army easily took the city of Shenzhou again, and once again obtained a large amount of grain and grass and military supplies, and then stopped to rest. At this time, Wu Chaoyue's request for King Qin's excerpt had just been polished by Zhao Liewen.

When Wu Chaoyue's excerpt was rushed to the capital by 600 li, although the Taiping army, which was too tired, was still resting in the city of Shenzhou Prefecture, Monk Lingqin and Shengbao had already turned the war upside down in order to fight for power and profit. Originally, in order to defend the capital and resist the Taiping army, Emperor Xianfeng reappointed Seng Lingqin as a counselor. asked him to assist the fifth brother of the dead ghost Daoguang, Mianyu, to lead the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Division, but Mianyu was greedy for life and afraid of death and did not dare to go out of Beijing. Under the pretext of defending the city and hiding in the city of Beijing, he handed over the field army to be led by Seng Lingqin. Let Monk Greenqin go to charge for the wild boar skin family as cannon fodder.

As the last Mongolian prince who dared to raise a knife and cut people, Seng Greenqin didn't mind commanding the troops, but the problem was that the task given to Monk Greenqin by Emperor Xianfeng and Mianyu was to help suppress, to Shengbao as an assistant to listen to Shengbao's command, the battle was fought by Monk Greenqin, and the power was taken by Monk Greenqin. So after leaving the city of Beijing, he had just arrived in Zhuozhou with the army. Our monk and prince immediately excused themselves to defend Gyeonggi under the pretext that it was more important, so they stopped and refused to go to Shenzhou to listen to the orders of Shengbao. (Historical facts.) ）

The monk is very smart, Shengbao is not a fool, there is the will of the Xianfeng Emperor in hand, Shengbao will certainly not miss the opportunity to sneak the monk over as cannon fodder, seeing the monk and the prince cheating, Shengbao naturally immediately wrote a bullet to impeach the monk Greenqin for not listening to the command, cowardly and fearful of the war and refusing to join the teacher. Monk Lingqin enumerated the various reasons for staying in Zhuozhou. Not only did he still refuse to join forces with Shengbao, but he also insinuated that Shengbao was cowardly and incompetent, and that repeated defeats were not the talent of commanding the army, and in turn wanted to pull Shengbao off the horse and replace him.

In this context. When Wu Chaoyue took the initiative to ask the excerpt of King Qin from the north to be sent to Emperor Xianfeng, Emperor Xianfeng of course wanted to be more moved, how sad and sad. So much so that in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, Emperor Xianfeng praised Wu Chaoyue like this: "Under my rule." If there are a few more loyal ministers like Wu Aiqing, why is long hair rampant? Why is long hair so rampant? ”

After being moved. Of course, Emperor Xianfeng immediately decided to approve Wu Chaoyue's request, and asked Wu Chaoyue to quickly take Wu Jun Lian Yong to help Sheng Bao and Monk Greenqin. But to the great surprise of Emperor Xianfeng, and at the same time Wu Chaoyue absolutely did not expect in advance, there were many civil and military officials who jumped out to oppose the dissuasion, and Mianyu, who was named the general who was ordered, kowtowed and said: "Long live, this matter must not be, never allow!" The rebellion is rampant, threatening the Beijing Division, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Division have already been unable to support the dispatch, and another foreign army will be transferred to Gyeonggi to participate in the war, if the foreign army suddenly changes, how will my Qing court respond? ”

"Your Majesty, Lord Hui is right." Mu Yin also took the opportunity to say: "The servants are not suspicious of Wu Daoyuan's loyalty to the imperial court, but they are worried about the Lian Yong under his command, Lian Yong comes from the people, does not know etiquette, does not know loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and is mostly a country savage, rude and ignorant, when they come to the prosperous land of Gyeonggi, they will inevitably have greed in their hearts, and they want to disturb the people and rob their money. ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen also thinks that Wu can't be allowed to surpass King Qin of the North." Lin Kui also said loudly: "Wu Chaoyue has always been friendly with Yangyi, and he is going to take the sea route to Beijing Qinwang, if the Holy Lord is gracious, if Wu Chaoyue leads the army to come on a foreign ship, wouldn't my Qing court have to send an army alone to monitor the foreign ships?" ”

The civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty, who were afraid of foreigners to the bone, echoed one after another, and some people cited the example of Dong Zhuo leading foreign troops into Beijing that year, reminding Emperor Xianfeng not to repeat the mistakes of He Jin, and unanimously opposed the recruitment of Wu to surpass the king of Beishang Qin.

also a little agreeing with the voice, at least Su Shun resolutely supported letting Wu Chaoyue lead the army north to King Qin, and loudly refuted Mu Yin and Lin Kui's ridiculous remarks: "Ridiculous! Will Shanghai group practice come to the capital to give birth to greed? Have you ever been to Shanghai? Do you know that Shanghai's current prosperity and wealth are no longer under the capital? How come I have never heard of Wu Chaoyue's Lian Yong doing something to disturb the people in Shanghai? Moreover, Wu Chaoyue's Lian Yong was originally known for his strict military discipline, and the places he passed through did not commit any crimes against the people, and the gentry of the people everywhere had a good reputation for Lian Yong in Shanghai. ”

"Also, why Wu Chaoyue took a foreign ship to the north is even more ridiculous! Did Wu Chaoyue say in the excerpt that he was going to come to the capital on a foreigner's ship? Worried that he would come to Beijing on a foreigner gunboat, wouldn't it be okay to give an order to let him take a civilian sea ship of the Qing Dynasty? ”

There are also some people who echo Su Shun's opinion, but the voice is weaker, Shenzhou is also a little farther away from the capital, and in the case of not feeling the pain, Mianyu and Lin Kui and other Manchu nobles still oppose the recruitment of foreign troops who are all Han Chinese to participate in the war in the capital - and this foreign army is still so capable of fighting, the threat to the Eight Banners in the capital is naturally greater.

Unable to resist the persuasion of a group of siblings, Emperor Xianfeng finally retracted his will to immediately recruit Wu Chaoyue to go north to participate in the war. But Emperor Xianfeng was also wise, and accepted Su Shun's suggestion. did not immediately order Wu Chaoyue to attack Wuxi, but instead ordered Wu Chaoyue to stand still in Shanghai. In order to recruit and go north at the moment of emergency, leaving Wu Chaoyue to this reserve as a precaution. At the same time, for the sake of prudence, Emperor Xianfeng of course ordered Hui Zheng to strengthen the surveillance of Wu Chaoyue with a secret decree.

Having inextricably linked with the Eight Banners princes in the capital, Sheng Bao and Monk Greenqin of course quickly learned that Wu Chaoyue wanted to come and grab credit from them. In this regard, Shengbao's attitude was slightly better, but he sneered and said that Wu Chaoyue was not a hundred victories, at least he had suffered a defeat in Wuxi. The monk Greenqin, who was in conflict with Wu Chaoyue, scolded loudly, "Dog barbarian, do you still need you to help you exterminate this long hair in Shenzhou?" If it weren't for the king, he needed to guard Zhuozhou and defend the capital. The long-haired of the Deep State has long been killed by this king! When this king took charge of the army and led the troops for the first time, you dog barbarian had not yet been born! ”

Unexpectedly, his request for King Qin would not be approved immediately, and Wu Chaoyue, who was already ready to go, was really a little caught off guard, and had to disband the fleet that had already been hired, wasting a lot of silver in vain. Fortunately, Emperor Xianfeng did not force Wu Chaoyue to fight Wuxi immediately, so Wu Chaoyue didn't have much regret after the fire, but just sneered and said: "Very good, I don't need my best, I just need to rest more." Enjoy, and see what you do next! ”

The Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army was as competitive as Wu Chaoyue had hoped, and after a confrontation with Shengbao in Shenzhou for more than ten days, the Taiping army tricked Shengbao into battle. Defeated by ambush troops, and then took the opportunity to kill the Qing army to encircle, and crossed the Hutuo River to capture Xian County. Emperor Xianfeng scolded and forced Shengbao and Seng Lingqin to join forces to block. The Taiping army made another strange move, turned around and took Jiaohe County south. Shengbao, who once thought that the Taiping army wanted to flee south, had just breathed a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly, the Taiping army suddenly took Botou Town and killed all the way to Cangzhou. Within three days, they successively captured the three cities of Cangzhou, Qingxian and Jinghai, and the troops came to the city of Tianjin.

At this moment, there has been a huge deviation in history, because of tactical mistakes and intelligence errors, Lin Fengxiang, the vanguard of the Taiping Army, only hit only ten miles away from Tianjin and then retreated to Duliu Town, not knowing that Tianjin actually only has a few thousand temporarily recruited Lianyong guards, and the best weapons and equipment are only 500 guns that are older than arquebuses.

But because of the agitation of Wu Chaoyue's wings of this demon moth, the vanguard general of the Taiping Army became Ji Wenyuan, who did not make a mistake Ji Wenyuan overcame all kinds of practical difficulties and forcibly launched an attack on Tianjin, as a result, the thousands of Lianyong temporarily recruited by Xie Zicheng, the magistrate of Tianjin, were scattered, and the Taiping army took the opportunity to enter the city, and took Tianjin in a battle, not only won a large amount of military grain and grass, but also obtained a far more stable foothold than the small city of Jinghai, and completely choked the Manchu court's grain road. The grain of the Manchu court, whether by sea or by canal or water, was already directly threatened by the Taiping army!

In such a situation, the thunderous Emperor Xianfeng of course issued a holy decree, and the first holy decree was to take off the top of Shengbao and Seng Lingqin at the same time, let them stay in office, and restore Tianjin within ten days! The second holy decree was to order Wu Chaoyue to immediately lead the Shanghai regiment to the north by sea to Zhili to help suppress it! - Don't look at Emperor Xianfeng's verbal request for Shengbao and Monk Greenqin to recapture Tianjin within ten days, in fact, Emperor Xianfeng himself knows very well in his heart - there is no possibility at all!

I have to explain by the way, this time there is finally no voice in the Manchu court opposing the conscription of Wu Chaoyue to Gyeonggi to participate in the war, the prince of the Eight Banners is not a fool, seeing that the situation is so critical, not to mention that the conscription of Wu Chaoyue to Gyeonggi to participate in the war is not necessarily a cup of poisonous wine, even if it is really a cup of wine, the prince of the Eight Banners, who is about to die of thirst, can only drink it hard.

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The capriciousness of Emperor Xianfeng made Wu Chaoyue uncomfortable, because on the first day of receiving the order of King Qin from Beishang, a bad news suddenly came from Wuxi, and the Taiping army of Wuxi, which had been supplied with a certain amount of weapons and ammunition, rose up to fight and defeated the Qing army that surrounded Wuxi City, and also snatched away many of the grain and grass of the Qing army that went north by land to supply the main battlefield of Ningzhen, and the Qing army besieging the city was directly defeated to Yanghu, and the Taiping army of Wuxi also rose again.

Among them, there was another thing that shocked Wu Chaoyue, that is, the Taiping army in Wuxi was actually defeated by the Qing army that Wu Jun relied on to practice Yong's famous linear tactics, and he used three shots while lining up to shoot! Know that. Wu Chaoyue immediately understood that the matter of raising thieves and self-respect by himself was too big! also immediately decided to send troops to Wuxi to help Xie Changsha, who had already been fattened, to reduce some fat. lest Xie Changsha, a famous general of the Taiping Army who he cultivated, continue to grow and directly threaten his hometown Shanghai.

"Oops. Why is this not a coincidence? Do you want to go to Wuxi first, and then go to the north? ”

Worried about the safety of Shanghai, Wu Chaoyue once planned to fight Wuxi first and then save Beijing, but as soon as this idea came out, Wu Chaoyue was scolded by Wu Lao Comprador for being bloody, "Are you crazy or stupid little rabbit?" Wuxi is important or Beijing is important, can't be distinguished? The emperor personally ordered you to go to Beijing to fight long hair, if you don't set off immediately, you have to go to Wuxi first, once the emperor blames it. What do you have to explain?! ”

Knowing that the comprador grandfather was right, coupled with Zhao Liewen's persuasion of Wu Chaoyue to focus on the important affairs of King Qin, Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to temporarily give up the plan to help the Wuxi Taiping Army lose weight. However, for the sake of prudence, Wu Chaoyue still decided to take only five battalions of troops to the north of Qinwang, leaving one battalion of Lian Yong to be led by the old lackey Deng Siyuan to protect Wu Jianzhang, Shanghai City and his own arsenal. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue went to Jiangyin and asked Zhou Tenghu to lead the Jiangyin regiment to train south to Wuxi, and help the Qing army under Yiliang to contain the Taiping army in Wuxi. Try not to give the pseudonymous general Xie Changsha a chance to continue to develop and grow.

In addition, Wu Chaoyue never dared to forget the threat of the Xiaodaohui uprising to Shanghai, although the history is shabby, I don't know who the leader of the Xiaodaohui rebel army is, and at the same time through various channels to probe. I've never heard of any vibrant social organization called the Knife Society. But before leaving, Wu Chaoyue still told Wu Jianzhang repeatedly, "Grandpa." I went to Tianjin this time to work long-haired, and I didn't worry about anything. Just worry about your safety. It's true that Shanghai is relatively peaceful now, but there are too many gangs. There are too many homeless and hungry people, and the slightest disturbance may lead to accidents, so grandpa, you must be careful and careful, and you must pay attention to your own safety. ”

"Feng Shui has turned, is it your turn to teach your grandfather?" Wu Jianzhang scolded with a smile, and said: "Don't worry, after you leave, the old man will go out and bring twenty soldiers to protect him every time, so that they all bring revolvers, this is no problem, right?" ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded, but he was still not at ease, so he said again: "Grandpa, you must remember one thing, if there is really any unexpected danger, don't worry about Shanghai City, and flee directly to the concession to find foreigners to protect you!" The problem here in Shanghai, wait for me to come back and solve it! ”

"Yes, yes." Wu Jianzhang nodded carelessly, patted Wu Chaoyue's head with relief, and said with a kind smile: "With a grandson like you, grandpa really doesn't have to be afraid of anything, don't worry about making contributions, grandpa won't hold you back here." ”

In addition to saying goodbye to Wu Jianzhang, Wu Chaoyue naturally said goodbye to the pretty widow Fu Shanxiang alone, and told each other that the other party must take care of himself. Wu Chaoyue also hugged Fu Shanxiang and said with a lewd smile: "I've been busy all this time, and I don't have a chance to do your business with me, so I'll make you wait." But it doesn't matter, when I come back from the capital, I will officially take you in and give you a name. ”

With a red face, he pressed the claws of Wu Chaoyue, who was constantly swimming in her underwear, Fu Shanxiang nodded first, and then suddenly said: "Master, when you come back this time, I'm afraid you will not only accept me into the room, right?" ”

"What do you mean? Why can't I understand? "Wu surpassed.

"Still pretending?" Fu Shanxiang said lightly: "Don't think that the slave family doesn't know, master, you also have a good relationship in the capital, and you once said in front of the master that she would not marry, and now that you have achieved fame and returned to your hometown, can you still take the opportunity to take her away?" ”

Finally understood who Fu Shanxiang was talking about, Wu Chaoyue, who was actually very coveted by Feng Wanzhen's little Luoli, suddenly moved in his heart, and said secretly: "Fu Shanxiang is right, should I take her in?" It's a little smaller, but she can grow up slowly, huh? Take it back and don't eat it first, and it's not bad to wait for her to grow up? ”

When fantasizing about the beauty of Luo Li's cultivation, Wu Chaoyue forgot about another little Luo Li.

After saying goodbye to all the people who should say goodbye, and making arrangements that should be considered foolproof, he took five battalions of Lian Yong to board fifty large sand rushing boats suitable for offshore travel, and on October 13, Wu Chaoyue finally set off. But what Wu Chaoyue never expected was that he had just left on the front foot, and he had been assigned to Suzhou to be the head of the green camp, and Liu Lichuan ran back to Shanghai on the back foot, kneeling on the ground and holding Wu Jianzhang's leg and begging bitterly.

"Uncle Shuang, I beg you, transfer me back to Shanghai, transfer me back to Shanghai. The long hair in Wuxi is getting more and more noisy, I may be transferred to Wuxi to fight at any time, I am not afraid of war, I just don't want to work hard for others, I just want to work hard for you, I just want to work hard for you! Uncle Shuang, I beg you, go beyond taking the group to Tianjin, and there is a lack of reliable people around you to protect you, let me come back to protect you! Uncle Shuang, Uncle Shuang! ”

couldn't resist Liu Lichuan's bitter pleading, and considering that Liu Lichuan was his fellow villager, the villagers were more reliable than outsiders, and the double knife meeting organized by Liu Lichuan in the past did not give himself less coolies, Wu Jianzhang's heart was soft, and finally agreed to Liu Lichuan's request, and found the current Su Songtai to prepare for Hui Zheng, and asked Hui Zheng to transfer Liu Lichuan to Shanghai in an official document.

As a result, Hui Zheng transferred Liu Lichuan's place of work with a stroke of a pen, and when he handed the transfer order to Liu Lichuan, Wu Jianzhang didn't notice at all that Liu Lichuan, a fellow countryman who captured him alive in history, was flashing with smug and vicious light in his eyes. (To be continued.) )