When Chen Yucheng led the Third Division, Peng Yulin led the Seventh Division and the Inland River Division to arrive at the city of Yuezhou, they found that the red and yellow five-star banner of the Taiping Holy Kingdom was fluttering in the wind at the head of Yuezhou City, and Liang Litai led people to wait for them with a smile at the gate of Yuezhou, so unexpected. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This first gong was picked up by Liang Litai like this!

Chen Yucheng and Peng Yulin were both depressed! Fortunately, in the combat order of the General Staff, the capture of Yuezhou was only the first step, and there were also Lizhou, Jingzhou, Shinan Fu and other places.

Chen Yucheng has never understood why he didn't capture Wuchang City in one fell swoop, but Peng Yulin, who was traveling with him, said that Wuchang was the place of four battles, an important town on the Yangtze River, and it was not easy to defend. Moreover, Wuchang has been captured by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the wealth in the city has long been taken away, and the population is not very large, so it is of great significance. In addition, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sailors of the Western Expedition were heading to Wuchang, and in order not to openly turn his face with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Holy King deliberately avoided Wuchang City and let them fight with the Qing Demon.

On the third day, Peng Yulin led 4,000 sailors and 5,000 soldiers of the 7th Division, went out of Chenglingji, and attacked Lizhou along the Yangtze River, leaving the remaining 5,000 7th Division, temporarily stationed in Yuezhou City.

The rest of the 3rd and 4th Divisions also acted separately, by land and water, across Dongting Lake, and attacked the boundary of Lizhou.

Unexpectedly, Zeng Guofan secretly sent a sailor to Honghu, together with the Yangtze River sailor in Jianli, to rush to the Huarong area in advance to ambush.

The 7,000 A 4th Division and the 5,000 A 3rd Division rushed to Lizhou from the Dongting Lake waterway in a small boat, and Peng Yulin's 4,000 Sailors and 5,000 Seventh Division soldiers escorted them all the way.

When the boat arrived at Gulou Town, Yang Zaifu and Zou Shouzhang each led 3,000 sailors to suddenly kill, and Peng Yulin led inland river sailors to hurriedly respond. However, the Xiangyong sailors were extremely cunning, they were familiar with Dongting Lake, and used the 2,000 sailors to fight with the inland sailors to lure the inland sailors away, and the remaining 4,000 sailors were specially looking for the transport ships and fishing boats of the 4th and 3rd divisions to fight.

The 3rd and 4th Divisions are both land soldiers, and they are fishing boats, how can they fight? Just shot in rows with muskets, although he killed a lot of Xiang Yong who were exposed, but he couldn't help Xiang Yong's warship.

On the other hand, the Xiangyong Naval Division used platoon guns, fire-breathing barrels, rockets, etc., to burn down the fishing boats on which the soldiers of the captured army were riding. Fortunately, the guns of the 3rd Division were dense and powerful, and Xiang Yong could not get close, so the soldiers of the capture army on the fishing boat that caught fire jumped into the water and were soon rescued by their companions on the fishing boat next door.

But even so, a small number of soldiers were submerged in the lake.

Peng Yulin led the inland river division to disperse and fight with the Xiangyong warship, and the land soldiers on the other fishing boats fired at the Xiangyong warship with their foreign guns, either killing the Xiangyong who was rising, or breaking the sail rope of the warship, making it lose its speed.

Later, the soldiers on the warship of the inland water division became proficient, and the small cannons on the ship bombarded Xiangyong non-stop, and the Xiangyong warship was seriously damaged.

Fortunately, Yang Zaifu and Zou Shouzhang were both fatal and were not hit by bullets. The faces of the two changed, and when they saw that they were no longer able to do anything, they ordered to retreat.

In terms of the army, the inland water division lost more than 600 people and about 20 warships, and the 3rd, 4th, and 7th divisions of the first division killed nearly 1,000 people in the battle.

On the other hand, the Xiangyong Naval Division also burned more than 10 warships, the sails were broken, and more than 30 warships were captured and unable to escape, and more than 1,000 people were killed in the battle.

In terms of the number of casualties, Xiangyong had the advantage and was a miserable victory. But in terms of the proportion of the number of people killed in the battle, plus Xiang Yong was a sneak attack, Xiang Yong was already defeated.

However, to be able to fight like this, Zeng Guofan is already satisfied. He immediately reported to Wu Wenrong, the governor of Fuguang, and asked him to take some credit so that he could say something for himself. At the same time, he ordered someone to send an 800-mile urgent express to report the victory to the Beijing Division, and praised the Dongting Water Battle as "killing more than 1,000 Cantonese thieves and sailors, and intercepting and killing more than 4,000 Cantonese thieves in the lake."

And on the side of the captive army, the anger in the heart of the murder was also rising.

It's no wonder that Chen Yucheng, Liang Litai and Peng Yulin and others were a little careless, originally Peng Yulin wanted to send a sailor to investigate first, but Dongting Lake was too big, and it took too long for four thousand sailors to temporarily inspect it.

At this time, Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai were in a hurry, wanting to lead the troops to Lizhou as soon as possible, attacking the city and making contributions, and they all wanted to copy the waterway, Peng Yulin hesitated, thinking that Xiangyong took the initiative to give up Yuezhou City and retreat to Mubei, and Yuezhou City, which was guarding the gateway to Dongting Lake, was occupied by his own side, and there would definitely be no Xiangyong in Dongting Lake, so he agreed to attack from the waterway together, which would lead to this fiasco.

Peng Yulin led the naval division to escort the landing division to Anxiang County, and after easily capturing the county seat, he let Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai lead the land division to attack Lizhou, and he led the inland river division back to Dongting Lake to track down the stronghold of the Xiangyong Naval Division, to ensure that there was no force of the Xiangyong Naval Division on the entire Dongting Lake, and then set up outposts throughout the Dongting Lake, and immediately provide information as soon as there were warships, so as not to have a similar passive situation next time.

However, it was said that Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai had nowhere to vent their hearts, and after leaving the captured Anxiang, they arrived directly in Lizhou Prefecture.

However, he said that the governor of Lizhou led hundreds of officials and dozens of squires to greet them early, and bowed to the two of them to the ground: "The two generals, the criminal officials led the people of Lizhou to surrender to the holy country, and they have long been looking forward to the arrival of the heavenly soldiers, so they are ready to welcome them early in the morning, and they are invited to enter the city." ”

Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai lost their temper, so they had to accept the surrender.

Of the 30,000 soldiers who were captured, 10,000 entered the city of Lizhou and controlled everywhere, while the remaining 20,000 were stationed outside the city for fear of disturbing the people.

That night, the local squires and a cadre of officials in Lizhou held a banquet and invited Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai to the banquet. At the banquet, the governor of Lizhou introduced everyone to two people, but two of them were Anfu Jiang Mingqian and Jiang Mingzhang.

Jiang Mingqian and Jiang Mingzhang revealed that they had persuaded Anfu County to surrender to the Holy Kingdom. Moreover, at the banquet that night, the two Jiang brothers expressed their support for the land policy of the Holy Country, and were willing to donate more than 500,000 acres of land of the Jiang family in Lizhou, Changde, Yuezhou and Jingzhou Mansion to the Holy Kingdom. At the same time, they were willing to donate 700,000 taels of silver and 500,000 stone of rice as donations, just to save the shops in their hands.

Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai expressed their gratitude to the Jiang brothers on the spot, and wrote to the Holy King, reported the situation to the General Affairs Department of the Royal Mansion and the Holy King, and listed the Jiang family as the target of the squires for the cooperation of the Holy Kingdom.

Under the leadership of the Jiang brothers, the rest of the squires also donated money and materials to welcome the captive army into Lizhou. Although there are not as many Jiang brothers, because of the large number of people, they add up to a lot, and they get 2 million stones of rice, 850,000 taels of silver, and 300,000 acres of paddy fields.

This time, Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai did not rob as before, but sent people to investigate, but only confiscated the property of dozens of officials and gentry who were loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The confiscated wealth shocked the two of them, this area of Dongting in northern Hunan is really, too rich!