Who is Zeng Linshu?

He was a good man, a sixty-year-old man worthy of the respect of the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although his talent is not high, he has participated in 17 township examinations, and only barely passed a show at the age of 43, but he taught his children well, and his five sons are all famous all over the world and left their names in history.

When the country was in danger, he also devoted all his family resources to help his eldest son handle regimental training to protect the territory and the people, and kill thieves to quell the rebellion.

He was also selfless, when his eldest son and his apprentice grandson were fighting for power and profit, he resolutely stood on the opposite side of his own son, stood on the side of the apprentice grandson with a different surname, and used his old and weak body to shield his apprentice grandson from the wind and rain, and sent the most timely and god-like assistance!

In this regard, his apprentice and grandson were grateful, but his eldest son screamed heartbreakingly, "Father, you are so sick at an inopportune time!" ”

After receiving the news that my father was critically ill, our poor teacher Zeng only felt that the world was spinning one after another, and his eyes were black one after another, and he almost fainted on the spot, tears flashed in his eyes, and there were words in his mouth, "Father, father, why did you suddenly become seriously ill?" Why did you suddenly get seriously ill? It's not timely, it's not timely. ”

Wu Chaoyue's teacher Zeng Linshu is indeed very ill, if he suddenly has three longs and two shorts, then according to the rules of the Manchu court, our poor teacher Zeng must leave the Hunan army team that he has worked hard to condense, hand over the military power and go home to Ding worry about the system for three years, otherwise it will be disobedient and unfilial, and he will suffer a lawsuit, and the lightest is to be dismissed from his post and asked, and if it is heavy, there is an example of direct death............

Of course, if the Qing Dynasty and Emperor Xianfeng took into account the needs of the war and issued an order to seize the situation, then our teacher Zeng would not need to hand over the military power and go home to defend the system? But why did Emperor Xianfeng make this will? During the period of mother's funeral, our teacher Zeng raised his arms and responded to the gathering, and quickly pulled up tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, this matter was originally a taboo in the imperial court, and was regarded as a big trouble by Emperor Xianfeng, such a good opportunity can easily remove the hidden danger, why does Emperor Xianfeng still have carbuncles?

Besides, what value does our teacher Zeng need to win love now? Several times by Shi Dakai was pumped all over the ground to find teeth, almost the whole army was wiped out in Jiangxi, all relied on the protégé to rescue him before he barely escaped back to Hubei to regroup, relying on the protégé's money and food to make a comeback, the first thing he did was to be ungrateful, the old illness relapsed and extorted the students, the soldiers did nothing under the city of Jiujiang, and the money and food were wasted every day but not an inch of work was built, why did the Manchu court and the Xianfeng Emperor still issue an edict to seize love? Why should the local governor go to the fold to protect him?

What's even worse, if my father really has any misfortune, not only will our teacher Zeng have to go home alone, but all five brothers of the Zeng family will have to go home, who will the Hunan army hand over to when the time comes? Hu Linyi? I'm sorry, because he was implicated in Li Yuandu's case and Fu Aji, Hu Linyi, who unfortunately carried the black cauldron, has been demoted to three levels and retained, and he can no longer provoke the heavy burden of the Hunan army in terms of authority.

Of course, if Mr. Zeng doesn't mind, his current best protégé, Wu someone, will never mind taking over the Xiang Army, and he is also qualified, prestige and capable to pick up this heavy burden, but when Mr. Zeng comes back three years later, no one dares to guarantee whether Xiang Jun's surname is Zeng or Wu.

With a gloomy face, it only took less than five minutes to calculate, and Teacher Zeng immediately found out the last letter sent by the disobedient protégé, re-examined the tactical plan that even the route of the army had planned for him, and pondered for less than three minutes, Teacher Zeng immediately slapped the handsome case, and said viciously: "Just fight according to this method!" ”

Of course, there is no choice for Mr. Zeng to make this decision, if he does not hurry up and let the Hunan army do something, and do not let the Hunan army enter the fierce battlefield and fight with the Taiping army, then when it is really necessary to worry about Ding, no one will speak for him from the local governor, and the Manchu court and the Xianfeng Emperor will never consider any love. Only by letting the Hunan army move, fight with the Taiping army, and fight upside down and generosity, can the Manchu court and the Xianfeng Emperor make an order to seize the favor for the needs of the war, keep the military power, and also protect the Hunan army, which Zeng regarded as the root of life!

Fortunately, the tactical plan provided by Wu Chaoyue was indeed effective, and the suddenly dispatched Hunan army troop carrier successfully sent Li Xubin's Binzi battalion to Zhangjiaba for landing and ambush under the cover of night, and at the same time, the main force of the Hunan army's naval division that suddenly approached Shizhong Mountain also killed the Hukou Taiping Army by surprise, and in the rumbling artillery, the fierce battle at Hukou that Zeng had been extremely reluctant to fight also began.

The rapid current under Shizhong Mountain has created great difficulties for the Hunan army sailors, the water is already very rapid and difficult to effectively control the ship, and the Taiping army has set up a heavy anchor chain under the water, and the Hunan warships have failed to approach the Taiping army's water village many times, but the artillery fire of Shizhongshan and Meijiazhou has broken the mast, and the casualties are heavy. Fortunately, at the critical moment, the surprise army worked, and the Hunan army Li Xubin who returned to the back of Shizhong Mountain took advantage of the fact that the Taiping army did not pay enough attention to the defense of the top of the mountain, and successfully seized the foothills of the mountain with only one charge, and achieved an absolute superiority from the top of the mountain.

Forced to be helpless, Huang Wenjin, the Hukou defender of the Taiping Army, could only organize soldiers and horses to defend the back of the position, while quickly ordering the naval division to attack, but in front of the Hunan army soldiers who had no way to retreat, the Taiping army that hastily met the battle soon collapsed completely, and was killed by the bloodshot Hunan army soldiers in their eyes, the land division camp was quickly breached, and the artillery position of Shizhong Mountain quickly lost its defensive effect.

The water flow of the Yangtze River under Shizhong Mountain was already extremely urgent, and the Taiping army's small pulling boats were too light and too small, and in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Hunan army's naval divisions, they were soon in a big disorder, and they could no longer give full play to the advantages of being light and flexible in number, and the number of Taiping army's small pulling boats that were overturned by the current and knocked over by their own ships was far more than the number of direct sinking by the Hunan army. The big ships of the Hunan army took the opportunity to march forward, and also killed the Taiping army's sailors, collapsed, and fled all over the rivers and lakes.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Huang Wenjin hurriedly led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the city to defend the city, and the defenders of Meijiazhou, who were across the river from Shizhong Mountain, did not dare to stay on Jiangxin Island and wait for death, so they hurriedly left the camp and boarded the boat to flee for their lives. Teacher Zeng collected the spoils of war while taking advantage of the victory to pursue, quickly approaching Hukou County to arrange a siege, and at the same time couldn't wait to write an excerpt to report the victory to the Manchu court, and unceremoniously concealed that the battle plan for this battle was actually formulated by the students.

As long as Teacher Zeng can move, Wu Chaoyue certainly doesn't care if the credit is swallowed by the teacher alone, so after receiving the good news of Hukou Songjie, Wu Chaoyue breathed a sigh of relief, but also showed some smiles, and smiled at Zhao Liewen and Shao Yanhong and other staff: "The biggest hero of this battle is actually my Tai teacher, if it weren't for his old man suddenly becoming seriously ill, there would definitely be no big victory this time." ”

Zhao Liewen and Shao Yanhong looked at each other together, and then Zhao Liewen suggested: "Weiting, it's best to strike while the iron is hot, and then give your teacher more strength, so that he can rush to the front even more desperately in order to win love." ”

"How can I give the teacher more strength?" Wu Chaoyue asked.

"We will take over the Jiujiang battlefield, and let your teacher free up his hands to attack Hukou City with all his might." Zhao Liewen proposed: "Send Liu Kunyi to Jiujiang to help in the battle, let him and Wang Guocai join forces to besiege Jiujiang, and use your teacher's method to force Changmao out of the city for a decisive battle." Then persuade your teacher to bring all the Hunan troops to the east bank of Poyang Lake, attack the mouth of the lake with all their might, and completely cut off foreign aid from Jiujiang. ”

The Hunan army moved to the east bank of Poyang Lake, even if the Taiping army counterattacked, it was Teacher Zeng who bore the brunt, of course Wu Chaoyue would not object to such a good thing, after agreeing, Wu Chaoyue commanded Shao Yanhong again: "Yanhong, you personally go to the Jiujiang battlefield, persuade the teacher to accept this suggestion for me, and also bring some of your newly imitated successful foreigner rockets to my teacher to help him take Hukou City as soon as possible." ”

Shao Yanhong sang a promise, but Wu Chaoyue still refused to be reassured, and pointed out: "Remember, Wang Guocai's report said that there are some thick places under Hukou City, which are suitable for digging tunnels and burying gunpowder to attack the city, you can make this suggestion to my teacher." If there are no local workers under his command, you can borrow people directly from Daye's iron and coal mines, and you don't have to ask me for orders. ”

Shao Yanhong sang the promise again, Wu Chaoyue was completely relieved, and couldn't help humming: "I taught the war hand in hand, who is the teacher and who is the student?" ”

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If it is replaced by the usual times, no matter how reasonable and correct Wu Chaoyue's strategy and tactics are, our teacher Zeng will definitely not accept it, and will only consider the interests of his own army first and make his own way, but this time it is really not good, the terrifying pressure of Ding Wei's loss of power is heavier than that of Mount Tai, in this case, he still imagines that he only cares about preserving his strength like before is looking for death. Therefore, after Shao Yanhong arrived at the Jiujiang battlefield with Wu Chaoyue's suggestion, even though he knew that it would be dangerous for the whole army to move to the east of Poyang Lake, after thinking about it again, Mr. Zeng still gritted his teeth and accepted this suggestion.

It was rare to meet Teacher Zeng so obedient once, Wu Chaoyue of course immediately ordered Liu Kunyi to send troops, so that Liu Kunyi also rushed to Jiujiang with the Zhuangzi battalion to participate in the war, and joined forces with Wang Guocai's department to take over the siege of Jiujiang City by the Hunan army, and Zeng Guofan obediently led the Hunan army across Poyang Lake, and lined up the main force of the Hunan army under the Hukou City, ready to launch an attack.

It was indeed Wu Chaoyue who was teaching the teacher to fight in a fight, and knew that his tactics of fighting a dumb battle would never be possible to quickly take Hukou and achieve full success, so Teacher Zeng could only take Shao Yanhong's suggestion and arrange for soldiers to dig tunnels under the guidance of Shao Yanhong's native craftsmen borrowed from Daye, and attack Hukou with the crypt siege tactics that the Taiping army was good at.

During this period, the Taiping army, which was very good at this aspect, also used the listening urn to find out the general location of the tunnel of the Hunan army, and tried to use the method of anti-burial gunpowder to blow up the tunnel. Huang Wenjin had no choice but to quickly prepare for the emergency repair of the city wall, and at the same time dig deep trenches and build fortifications in the city to prepare for street fighting.

After the successful completion of the tunnel, as much as more than 2,000 catties of gunpowder were quickly installed, and then when the ignition was detonated, the Hunan army fired a hundred cannons in unison under the guidance of Shao Yanhong, and bombarded the blasting point city wall to enhance the blasting effect, and after a loud noise, there was a huge gap of no less than fifteen zhang wide on the Hukou city wall, the Hunan army cheered like thunder, and Jiang Yifeng, who was appointed as the vanguard, also immediately led the army to charge, and the Taiping army, which had been prepared, threw earth and stone sandbags to seal the gap, while holding the gunpowder bag nervously waiting for the arrival of the Hunan army.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army held gunpowder bags and waited for the Hunan army to approach, of course, they wanted to wait for the Hunan army to approach and ignite and throw it down to block the Hunan army's offensive, but unfortunately, at the critical moment, Shao Yanhong's imitation of the improved Congreve rocket showed its might, roaring and flying to the city to explode first, and the picric acid explosive package carried exploded one after another, not only the Taiping soldiers who were desperately throwing stones to make up for the shortage were blown up with heavy casualties, but the erupted bitter acid flame also ignited a large number of gunpowder bags prepared by the Taiping soldiers. The gunpowder of the Taiping army was used to kill and injure more Taiping soldiers.

Seeing this scene, of course, the Hunan army cheered even more, but our teacher Zeng stretched out his claws in his throat, and couldn't wait to say to Shao Yanhong: "Yanhong, what kind of improved foreign rocket, why didn't the comfort pavilion ask you to bring more?" Also, can you let the few geotechnical technicians you borrowed from Daye for my official stay in my army? ”

Shao Yanhong was silent, and lamented in his heart, "Wu Futai, what you said is not wrong, you teacher, your appetite is really bottomless." ”

Even if the city wall was blown up, the Hunan army still fought in the battle of Hukou, knowing that the survival of Hukou was related to the safety of Jiujiang, the Taiping soldiers of Huang Wenjin's department fought with the Hunan army in street battles, relying on the fortifications built in advance to resist stubbornly, saying that they would not take the initiative to abandon the city and leave, and the tragic street fighting lasted until the afternoon without winning or losing. In the end, Zeng Guofan had no choice but to let the soldiers use the precious bitter acid grenade, which finally seized the upper hand in the street fighting, and at the same time adopted Zuo Zongtang's suggestion, Zeng Guofan ordered the soldiers to seize the high ground of the city wall with all their might, condescending not to give the Taiping army a chance to counterattack, so that in the evening, Huang Wenjin hated to lead the rest of the army to abandon the city and retreat, and fled to Peng Ze downstream. It's just a victory over the liberation of Hukou City.

However, this is enough for our teacher Zeng, taking Hukou is equivalent to cutting off the back road of food aid for the Jiujiang Taiping Army, unless the main force of the Taiping Army returns to the western front, otherwise the Jiujiang Taiping Army is a caged bird, a fish in a pot, and it can't go to the sky or the ground. At the same time, what is more important to Mr. Zeng is that taking the strategic place of Hukou is equivalent to opening the way for the Hunan army to go south to the hinterland of Jiangxi and Pengze and Anqing to the east.

Between going south and going east, of course, Mr. Zeng did not hesitate to choose the least difficult south, while he couldn't wait to ask for merit, and immediately advanced by land and water, attacking Nankang Fucheng, where only the Taiping army was empty, and fighting for merit and food with another protégé, Li Hongzhang, for military salaries. At the same time, he couldn't wait to set up a card to collect the money, and then he replied to his protégé Wu Chaoyue, asking for money, boats and weapons.

Teacher Zeng wanted to go south, Wu Chaoyue, who wished to kick his legs early, naturally hoped that he would continue to advance eastward, and had just received the news of breaking through Hukou City, Wu Chaoyue immediately replied to the teacher, suggesting that the teacher continue to advance eastward while the iron was hot, and take advantage of the opportunity that the Taiping army had not had time to return to the western front, take another strategic place, Peng Zecheng, and first guard the east gate of Jiangxi, and then close the door and fight the dog to eliminate the remnants of the Taiping army in Jiangxi - by the way, it also completely angered the Taiping army to return to the division to find the Hunan army for a decisive battle.

It's a pity that Mr. Zeng was not fooled this time, and immediately found countless reasons to categorically refuse to continue to advance eastward, insisting on clearing the remnants of the enemy in the south and then advancing eastward to Pengze. Wu Chaoyue was a little strange at the same time, and hurriedly asked Zhao Liewen: "Is there any news from Hunan?" My teacher, is his condition getting better now? ”

Although Zhao Liewen shook his head and said that he didn't know, but the situation was still expected by Wu Chaoyue, taking the opportunity of official exchanges, Wu Chaoyue asked Hua Shana, who was in charge of monitoring Teacher Zeng, about the news, Hua Shana really replied with a wry smile: "Congratulations to Weiting, after your teacher Tai has been diagnosed and treated by a famous doctor in Hunan, his health has indeed improved, although there are still some repetitions, but he is not as sick as some time ago." ”

Hearing this, Wu Chaoyue of course had the heart to strangle the famous doctor in Hunan, Hua Shana saw Wu Chaoyue's thoughts, so he smiled and asked, "Weiting, what's wrong?" Is it that your teacher who has started to just pay for food and don't do his business again? ”

"The flower system is clear-sighted, and the younger generation admires it very much." Wu Chaoyue smiled bitterly and complimented Hua Shana.

"Don't worry, don't worry." Hua Shana smiled and waved her hand, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you don't need to force it in the future, Wen Junwen Futai will clean him up for you." ”

"Flower system, Wenfutai will clean up my teacher?" Wu Chaoyue asked curiously.

"Weiting, do you know what is the most fortunate thing about your tenure in Hubei?" Hua Shana said with a smile: "You are lucky, because the former governor of Jiangxi, Chen Qimai, was suddenly overthrown by your teacher, and Wen Jun, who was originally going to be the political envoy of Hubei, was temporarily reappointed as the governor of Jiangxi. Otherwise, your affairs in Hubei will be ten times more difficult. ”

"Flower Table, then the younger generation is curious to ask, Wenfutai is really so poisonous and difficult as in the legend?" Wu Chaoyue asked more curiously.

"Ten times more vicious than the legend suggests! Tricky and mean, selfish, jealous, and can't find any moral character with lanterns all over his body! If it weren't for Niu Lu of Zhenghuangqi, even the old man would want to strangle him with his own hands! ”

Hua Shana was categorical, pointed to his white-haired head, and said with a smile: "The old man dares to bet on the head of the Xiang, Wen Futai told your teacher that the excerpt is either sent to the capital now, or it is already on the way to the capital." Your teacher has come this time. (To be continued.) )