Although they have never been able to get in direct contact with the Qing army of Jingcheng, but just by virtue of the sudden retreat of the Qing army of Jingcheng when they were about to successfully join the division, Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang understood that the reinforcements of the Wu army had already come, and there were quite a lot of them, so the Shuanglu Division, which was already very capable of fighting in the Qing army, could only retreat quickly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The friendly forces were forced to retreat, and Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang, who were in a very bad state and environment, of course, had no choice but to fight to give the Qing army's acting commander of the western front, Yi Xing'a, the opportunity to confess his personal vendetta, and hurriedly withdrew from the Jingcheng Mountains with their respective armies and retreated to rest outside the city of Lu.

When they hurriedly withdrew from the mountain road, many officers and soldiers of the Fu-Zhang coalition army did not feel happy because they did not have to fight anymore, on the contrary, they shed painful tears, because more than 4,000 soldiers of the Fu-Zhang coalition army when they entered the mountain road, more than 1,300 people had fallen forever in the ice and snow of the Taihang Mountains, and there were countless wounded, many of whom were frostbitten alive, and the rest were all hungry and cold, tired and sleepy, and there was naturally no laughter or laughter in the army.

The soldiers of the Fu and Zhang coalition army were only bitter and aggrieved, but Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang, who were seriously injured, were like knives, because they lost this battle too aggrieved, the enemy was obviously not very strong, and the equipment was not very good, but it was because of Yi Xing'a's blind command and random dispatch, and did not provide timely intelligence support, forcing them to fight in an extremely harsh geographical environment after a rapid march of more than 130 miles, which led to their fiasco. What's even more aggrieved is that this big black cauldron must be forcibly detained by Yi Xing'a, so that they can be punished by the Manchu court.

Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang expected that on the evening of the third day of the first lunar month, they had time to set up camp and rest outside the city of Lu, and the envoy of Yixing Axing had already come to Xingshi to ask for the guilt. Fu Zhenbang, who had a gentle personality, trembled with anger, and Zhang Guoliang slapped the messenger in the face directly, and roared: "Go back and tell Yi Xing, what kind of thing is he, and he deserves to ask Lao Tzu to explain to him?" Lao Tzu's establishment is the standard of Shandong Governor Luo Futai, and he wants to explain and ask him to find Luo Futai! Get lost! ”

The envoy covered his swollen little face by Zhang Guoliang and slipped away, but Fu Zhenbang sighed and said to Zhang Guoliang: "Palace, although a slap is relieving, but with Yi Xing's temper, even if you have formed a grudge with you, in the report to the official platform, he will not only definitely put all the responsibility on us, but also will definitely add oil and vinegar to sue you for the trouble, and pour dirty water on you desperately." ”

"I'm afraid of him!" Zhang Guoliang scolded and said: "He is just an acting general, and he has no status as a chase, I think he can do anything to me?" I don't believe it, the official, civil and official system can be so confused, and ask the king to order the banner to cut me with a knife without asking indiscriminately! ”

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Fu Zhenbang really misunderstood our Yixing Ayi Titai this time, and the messenger ran back to Zhengding City, which was not far away, to cry to Yixing A and complained about the beating, although Yi Xing Ah was angry in his heart, hating Zhang Guoliang's beating of the dog and not looking at the master's face, but he really did not immediately write an excerpt to accuse Zhang Guoliang of the situation.

It's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't dare, because when Guanwen led the army to leave, he repeatedly told him not to deploy too many troops in the narrow Jingcheng Basin, and that he could only rely on the mountain roads to fortify layer by layer, so as to buy time for the main force of Zhili to return to the capital -- what he said at noon on the first day of the first lunar month, on the night of the second day of the first lunar month and during the day of the third day of the first lunar month, the Qing army suffered defeat because Yi Xing'a forcibly threw too many troops into the Jingcheng battlefield, and Yi Xing'a dared to make false accusations and pour dirty water on Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang's bodies, it would be purely unpleasant for himself.

Therefore, Yi Xing'a not only did not dare to falsely accuse and plant false accusations, but he didn't even dare to report the defeat of Jing Cheng to the official document like this, so he could only rack his brains and calculate, "How can I shirk the responsibility first?" The excuse of transferring Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang to the Jingcheng battlefield is easy to do, just fabricate a fake detailed report, but before the official platform left, he asked me to rely on the mountain road to fortify, and I was not allowed to put too many troops into the Jingcheng battlefield? ”

"Framed Fu Zhenbang, saying that he disobeyed my orders and went straight to the well for merit? No, the dog barbarian surnamed Fu is not angry, he will definitely shout injustice, and my order to transfer troops is also in his hands. ”

"Exaggerate my meticulous skills, saying that he has found accurate information, Wu thief is going to block the mountain road first to cut off the connection between Jing Cheng and me, I am afraid that there will be some mistakes in Jing Cheng, and I will send troops to protect the road first? No, this is still a violation of the official order, and the situation on the side of Jing Cheng is clearer than anyone else, and there is no need to worry about being surrounded by Wu thieves for three or five months. ”

Racking his brains, he couldn't figure out any reasonable excuse to explain to the official document, and in a helpless situation, Yi Xing'a couldn't help but hate his beloved general Teng Jiasheng, and scolded secretly: "The son of a bitch raised it is all your bad idea, what kind of horn momentum, what kind of danger to prevent Wu thieves from taking advantage of the danger to enter the hinterland of Zhili, so that Lao Tzu will have no way." When I have a chance in the future, I will see how Lao Tzu ......, hey, wait? ”

When he scolded here, the clever Yi Xing'a suddenly thought of a good idea, and said secretly: "How did I forget such an important thing? At the beginning, Teng Jiasheng suggested sending troops to garrison Changgang, an important purpose was to prevent Wu thieves from going north to Pingshan through Changgang and directly entering the hinterland of Zhili, which is currently very empty? ”

With this clear line of thought, good ideas and brilliant ideas naturally emerged in the smart brain of Yititai, so that Yi Xing'a quickly came up with a seamless excuse - the official text had just left on the front foot, and he caught a Wu Jun in Zhengding City on the back foot, and the interrogation learned that Wu Jun had not only used a carrier pigeon to report to Niangzi Guan Wu Jun about the departure of the main force of Zhili from Zhengding, but also did not know that he heard the news that Zeng Guoquan was taking advantage of the situation to attack the capital from that channel, and also told Niangzi Guan Wu Jun with a carrier pigeon.

After the most difficult pass, and then the next one is all the way, worried that the Shanxi Wu army will highlight the surprise soldiers after learning these important information, bypass Jingcheng and directly enter the hinterland of Zhili to meet Zeng Guoquan, and the loyal Yixing Ayititai of the Qing Dynasty is a plan for a rainy day, so Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang were dispatched to Changgang to station on the road, blocking the throat of the Wu army's march to Luping Mountain, and then I just didn't expect Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang to march slowly, delay the fighter, and the Wu army took Changgang first, and then was greedy for life and afraid of death. The battle was ineffective in fearing the enemy, and he was defeated by the Wu army and fled, missing a strategic event!

After Xing Chong wrote the military intelligence Tang report, Yi Xing'a naturally did not forget to add oil and vinegar at the end of the Tang report, and fiercely sued Zhang Guoliang, asking the official to seek justice for his innocent messenger.

It was still after sending a fast horse to send a military intelligence report to catch up with the official document, and Yi Xing'a realized that he was still a little negligent, that is, he forgot how to further prevent and plug the leakage after the defeat of Changgang. But fortunately, there was still time in time, and Yi Xing'a immediately waved his hand again, and retaliated by ordering Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang's army to rush to Pingshan overnight, and fortify the road to block the mountain road of Wu's army north to Pingshan. At the same time, he ordered the commander-in-chief Qingde to lead the last mobile reserve to block the Lushan Road, and commanded himself in the center.

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It's a pity that although Yi Xing'a's military intelligence report was seamless and it was reasonable to make up for the omissions afterwards, the order to transfer troops was not resolutely carried out -- it was about to be exhausted, and Yi Xing'a even asked the Fu and Zhang coalition troops to go north to Pingshan overnight to fortify, not to mention Zhang Guoliang, even Fu Zhenbang, who was like Amitabha, couldn't bear it, and resolutely chose to resolutely disobey!

When Yi Xing'a received the news that Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang had joined forces to disobey the order, the time was already the early morning of the fourth day of the first lunar month, and it was also the same morning when Jiang Zhongji and Li Hongzhang finalized the decision to give up the grain road and directly enter the hinterland of Zhili.

Killing violently near the camp of Fu Zhang's coalition army outside Lulu City, Yi Xing'a wanted to rush directly into the camp to be furious, but when he was about to reach the camp gate, Yi Xing'a changed his mind - the camp was Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang's territory, and if he really tore his face, he wouldn't be able to get anything good. Therefore, Yi Xing'a could only go to the mountain road position first to meet with the Qingde Division, the reserve force he sent to fortify last night, and at the same time send people to summon Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang to come over to meet him.

After a long time, it was almost noon, Zhang Guoliang, who had a gloomy face, and Fu Zhenbang, who was lying on a stretcher, came to the mountain road position to meet Yititai, and Fu Zhenbang, who was seriously injured in the leg when they met, of course could not salute, Zhang Guoliang refused to kneel down to Yititai, but just arched his hand and said: "The last general, Zhang Guoliang, has seen Yititai, and the last will be Shandong Fubiao, and it is no wonder that he does not kneel to the governor of other provinces." ”

"Bold!" Yi Titai was furious and roared angrily: "The official Taiwan has a constitutional decree, so let you Zhang Guoliang temporarily be controlled by this Titai, how can you not kneel when you see this Titai?" ”

"The official platform only ordered the last general to be temporarily controlled by the Ittitai you, and did not ask the last general to kneel down to the Ittitai you." Zhang Guoliang said coldly.

"...... you?!"

The green tendons on Ittitai's forehead bloomed, but Zhang Guoliang was not afraid, and deliberately twisted his face to the side, too lazy to look at Ittitai's ugly face, Ittitai was even more furious when he saw it, and roared: "Okay, kneel down or not to bow down to Bentitai and don't care about you for the time being, but Bentitai ordered you to move to Pingshan overnight, why did you disobey the order?" ”

"Then why don't you go to our camp and see how our soldiers are doing?" Zhang Guoliang retorted: "We set out from Gaoyi on the night of the first month of the first month, marched 140 miles in a day and night in the wind and snow, and fought two big battles on the night of the second day of the first month and yesterday, what strength do our brothers have to go north to Pingshan overnight?" Are you really beating us like iron? ”

"Hugh has to quibble! Bentitai doesn't listen to that! Ittitai yelled: "In the past, when Bentitai fought with the monk and the prince in the south and the north, a mere 140 miles was nothing, and it was normal to march more than 200 miles a day!" ”

"That's because the monk is bringing cavalry, right?" Zhang Guoliang sneered and said: "If the cavalry march is not faster than the infantry, when Dagukou and Bali Bridge are located, didn't you and the monk and the prince have already been caught up by foreign devils?" ”

"Bold! How dare you insult Bentitai's mentor and monk? Yi Titai's eyes were red with anger, and he slapped the table and roared: "The monk is not only the mentor of Bentitai, but also the king of the imperial court, the nobleman of Tianhuang, you Zhang Guoliang dare to be rude to him, do you want to lose your head?!" ”

"It doesn't matter, if you like to be impeached, you can impeach." Zhang Guoliang sneered and said: "When the imperial court sent the imperial court to investigate me, I just asked the imperial court to see what kind of good protégés the monk and prince had trained. ”

"It is precisely because you are a tired division that Bentitai specially took care of you and let you go to the Pingshan battlefield, which is easy to defend!" Ittitai roared angrily: "Otherwise, if the Wu thief kills the deer, how can you stop it? ”

"If the Wu thieves really kill the deer, as long as they can have a soldier and a pawn out of the mountain road, please behead the general!" Zhang Guoliang replied proudly.

"Please behead the general, too!" Fu Zhenbang, who was lying on the stretcher, also opened his mouth and said coldly: "But when I went north to Pingshan, the soldiers of the last general's department were really powerless, so they could only guard the deer on the spot." ”

"This Titai wants you to go north to Pingshan to garrison!" Ittitai was furious.

"The army has been exhausted, forgive me!" Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang replied in unison.

"Do you know what happens if you disobey military orders?" Ittitai roared angrily, and simply slapped the table, roaring angrily: "Come on, take Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang down for Titai!" ”

The people present were all Yititai people, Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang were of course immediately held down and tied up, during which Fu Zhenbang was silent, Zhang Guoliang struggled and roared, scolding endlessly, "The surname Yi, you have the ability to kill Lao Tzu now!" Otherwise, Lao Tzu will never be finished with you in this life! Wait for the official system to come back, wait for Luo Futai to know about this, and see how they find you to settle this account! ”

was scolded by Zhang Guoliang so much that Yi Titai also had to cut Zhang Guoliang on the spot, but fortunately, Qingde next to him persuaded him hard, and it was not easy for Yi Titai to dispel the idea of taking the opportunity to kill Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang. However, even so, Yititai still had Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang temporarily imprisoned in the Qingde camp, and selected two generals from Qingde's command at random to let them go to the Fu Zhang coalition camp to take over the army.

Ittitai soon found that he had made the biggest mistake in his life, and after only half an hour, when Ittitai was still eating the delayed lunch in the Qingde camp, there was a sudden loud noise and dense gunfire outside the camp, and then before Ittitai stood up to check the situation, a herald stumbled into the tent and shouted with a crying voice: "Ittitai, General Qing, something is wrong!" Mutiny! Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang's army mutinied and is coming to this side, and you want Yititai to hand over Zhang Guoliang and Fu Zhenbang immediately! Otherwise, they'll just come in! ”

With a bang, the rice bowl in Ititai's hand fell to the ground, and the rough meals that he despised to the extreme were scattered on the ground, and then Ittitai was ecstatic in his heart, and said secretly: "Finally, I can justifiably slaughter the two rabbit cubs Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang." ”

Strode out of the big tent of the Chinese army and looked to the east, and sure enough, countless Qing soldiers in tattered clothes had indeed rushed to gather outside the camp of the Qingde army, while shooting at the sky, while shouting the slogan of handing over General Fu and General Zhang, fortunately, our Yititai is also a ruthless role that has been trained by the monk and the prince on the battlefield, and he ordered without hesitation: "Strictly guard the camp, and the artillery will fire a round of artillery into the open space outside the camp to warn these chaotic soldiers!" ”

"Boom! Bang! ”

The order was conveyed, and the cannon soon exploded one after another, and the Fu and Zhang coalition soldiers outside the camp were warned by the artillery, and sure enough, the momentum was immediately reduced, but at this time, an accident happened, and a shell deviated from the target, and it smashed directly into the crowd of Fu and Zhang coalition soldiers, and suddenly splashed a wave of blood.

"Do it! Brothers, fight with Dogday's Ixinga! ”

Mistakenly thinking that it was Ittitai who gave the order to do it, and I don't know who took the lead in shouting, the soldiers of the Fu and Zhang coalition forces, who had long been forced to be red-eyed, roared angrily, and shot at the Qing army camp without hesitation.

"Who told you to shoot at the rebels? Who fired that shot? Find out and behead the public! ”

When Ittitai jumped like thunder, there was a rumbling explosion sound from behind him again, and Ittitai was even more furious when he heard it, and roared: "You dare to open fire? There is an order in this tip, only one round of cannon fire is allowed, and there are no ears?! ”

"Ittitai, it doesn't look like it's our cannon!" Qingde, who was next to him, replied, "The voice and position are not right. ”

"Whose cannon is that?" When Yi Titai heard this, he was first stunned, and then his face immediately began to turn pale, and he said secretly: "Ben Titai won't be so unlucky, right?" ”

Poor Ittitai is so unlucky, it is indeed the sound of the explosion of the grenadier of the Wu army, in the successive explosions, the Wu army commando team is like a divine soldier descending from the sky, suddenly from the depths of the mountain road, and the momentum is fierce towards the Qing army to establish a defensive position at the exit of the mountain road, the position has stopped repairing the fortifications and is watching the lively soldiers and people suddenly chaos, scrambling to flee, but the Wu army soldiers are all walking like flying, quickly seizing the Qing army position that should be able to effectively prevent the Wu army soldiers from walking out of the mountain road.

Ittitai is even more unlucky is still behind, seeing the Wu army suddenly killed, the Qing army Qingde troops who listened to him panicked at the same time, the Fu and Zhang coalition troops who did not listen to him took the opportunity to charge, and directly entered the camp of the Qingde army to search and rescue Fu Zhenbang and Zhang Guoliang, who won the hearts of the army, the Qing army killed each other and completely chaotic, and the Wu army commando took the opportunity to seize the key positions at the intersection to protect the Wu army brigade to rush out of the mountain road and set foot on the endless North China Plain.

"Fu Zhenbang, Zhang Guoliang, you two dog barbarians, Lao Tzu has been miserable by you! You wait, Lao Tzu must fold the bullet to impeach you, and ask the court to settle accounts with you! Please ask my mentor, the monk and the prince, to settle accounts with you! Poor Ishing Ayititai was so anxious that he cried directly.