"Report to the general system, the Qing Demon of Yuncao Town has been eliminated!" After fighting at dawn, Wang Jingyuan led the army to completely occupy Yuncao.

Zuo Chongji did not participate in the battle, and was still stationed in the warship on the Yuxi River.

"How's the result? Is there a captive demon leader? "Zuo Chongji's heart to make meritorious contributions is still relatively urgent.

"Lord Yu, in the two battles before and after, more than 1,000 Qing demons were killed, and 500 were captured, but the demon head was not caught, but a large amount of grain and rice was found in the official warehouse in the city!"

"How much" Zuo Chongji asked intentionally or unintentionally.

"After a little calculation with Lord Hou, it is estimated that there are 160,000 stones!" Wang Jingyuan pretended to be calm.

"One hundred and sixty thousand! So many, really fake? Zuo Chongji couldn't believe his ears.

"It's true! Lord Hou is still there to take stock! Wang Jingyuan is still very calm.

Zuo Chongji was sure that Hou was correct, and quickly grabbed Wang Jingyuan's hand: "Go, go to Guancang!" ”

As soon as he arrived at the official warehouse and stacked rice mountains, Zuo Chongji was surprised and screamed: "It's developed!" That's a lot of credit! 160,000 stones! It's all the best rice! Huang Jingyuan! ”

"Humble duty!" Wang Jingyuan knew that he was going to be called again.

Zuo Chongji saw that he was about to be promoted, and said arrogantly: "You and Hou Jian Jun will quickly send someone to load the ship, and Lord Ben will personally escort them back to Tianjing!" Lest you have too many dreams at night! ”

"Yes!" Wang Jingyuan and Hou Yutian had already expected that Zuo Chongji would personally intervene, and at this moment they could only count on him not to swallow the credit alone.

Zuo Chongji ignored the two of them and hurried back to the camp, thinking about how to report the great victory to Tianjing, but he still decided to report to Hu Yihuang first and ask for some support for the river boats.

The soldiers fought for a night, and in order to preserve their combat strength, Wang Jingyuan ordered the prisoners to be concentrated and driven to carry them. It is not yet suitable to merge the prisoners into the army, and only when the situation is clearer can they be subdued, and then they can be screened, and at this moment they will exhaust their strength and avoid some trouble of detention.

The Eighth Army on the right was busy, and at this time a team of more than 1,000 people was rushing from Dongguan to Yuncao Town, with a large number of flags in the army and a variety of soldiers' clothing, such as a mixed army composed of green battalion soldiers, regimental training soldiers, and tax soldiers. There are three leaders, the first one, the body is proportionate, strong and powerful, heroic, and it is the year of standing. The second, more than half a hundred years old, such as an old dragon clock. Again, it was Huang Yuanji who had just escaped from Yuncao Town!

It turned out that Huang Yuanji slipped away when Yuncao Town was breached, and led the remnants of the army to Dongguan in the upper reaches of the Yuxi River. At this time, the regimental training stationed in Chaoxian County also rushed to Dongguan, and the leader of the troops was none other than Li Hongzhang, who was the assistant of Hanlin to edit and repair the Anhui regimental training affairs.

Li Hongzhang, a well-known figure in the Tongguang period of the Qing Dynasty, known as the Bismarck of the East, was famous for a while. But now, he is still on the front line of the Qing army and the Taiping army. After the rise of the Taiping Army, the Qing Army's Green Camp and Eight Banners suffered repeated defeats and lost their cities and land. Emperor Xianfeng had to rely on the power of the Han landlords and gentry in various places to actively encourage them to form villages in their hometowns to organize group training, and appointed a large number of registered bureaucrats in many provinces in the north and south as ministers to supervise the group training. This was the first time that the Qing Dynasty had given up military privileges to Han landlords, and the ambitious Li Hongzhang keenly smelled the opportunity.

At the beginning of the year, Li Hongzhang left Beijing with Lu Xianji, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, to return to his hometown to run a regimental training, and devoted himself to the account of Zhou Tianjue, the governor of Anhui at the time. He successively defeated the twisted army Chen Xuezeng and Ji Heizhuang, and was appreciated by Zhou Tianjue and won the sixth rank. Later, the new governor Li Jiaduan took office in Luzhou, and sent Li Hongzhang to defend Chao County. After receiving a distress letter from Huang Yuanji from Yuncao last night, he led the team to Dongguan, wanting to meet Wang Zhengyi, the head of the household department stationed in Dongguan, and then make plans.

However, as soon as Li Hongzhang arrived in Dongguan, Huang Yuanji fled like a lost dog. As a proud disciple of Zeng Guofan, he often boasted of knowing the soldiers like his teacher, and after the battle of Fengyang, he was even more complacent, and he was quite disdainful of Huang Yuanji's embarrassment, so he immediately let Huang Yuanji lead the way, and Wang Zhengyi led the troops to attack, intending to recapture Yuxi Town and control the Chaohu Lake.

Before the Qing army reached the halfway point, there was already a detailed report to Wang Jingyuan, and Wang Jingyuan quickly reported to Zuo Chongji. The two armies set up a position at Lingjiatan, three miles northwest of Yuncao Town. The scorching sunlight was extremely dazzling, Wang Jingyuan tried his best to look at the other party's military flag, and it was written "Hanlin Academy Editing and Assisting Group Training Li". Isn't this exactly Hefei Li Er? Dare to meet the grandfather of Huaijun! Wang Jingyuan's blood suddenly surged, if he defeated Li Hongzhang in this battle, wouldn't he be famous in later generations and glorify his ancestors.

"Lord Commander, the lowly leader will go to clear the demon for a while, and wait for the enemy to dispatch, my lord, you can close the camera!" On the opposite side is the famous Li Hongzhang, Wang Jingyuan is both excited and a little suspicious, he really wants to meet this pillar of the Great Qing Dynasty for a while.

"Okay, you first take the two battalions of Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang to charge into battle, and the general system will order people to beat the drum and cheer for you!"

After Zuo Chongji agreed, the war drums rang out in unison, Wang Jingyuan slapped his horse and went into battle, and Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang followed him. Li Hongzhang saw that the Taiping army was moving, waved his long sword, and his brother Li Hezhang led the team to rush out. The two battles were exchanged, and there was a shortage of firearms, only knives and guns. After several months of tempering, the Eighth Army of the Right has made great progress in martial arts and battle formations, how can it be resisted by the newly trained regimental bravery, and it cannot be said that one is ten, and it is also a big killing. In less than two quarters of an hour, Li Hezhang's subordinates began to be unable to resist, first fleeing sporadically, and then scattered in a large area.

Zuo Chongji in the rear saw that the winner had been decided, so he waved his army to charge, Ren Guixin and Liu Zhaojun outflanked left and right, and attacked in the middle, and together with Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang, they pursued and killed the Qing army with all their might. Li Hongzhang suddenly felt that the situation was not good, Mingjin withdrew Li Hezhang, the rear team became the front team, and tried his best to run out of the encirclement.

Wang Jingyuan saw that he was defeated, and shouted: "Hefei Li Hongzhang, I will win you a game today!" ”

Li Hongzhang was about to speed up his horse, when he suddenly heard the leading generals of the Taiping Army laughing at him and shouted: "Ji Quan, shoot down that rebel bandit for me!" ”

"Yes, second brother!" Li Hongzhang immediately took the big bow and turned around, and turned back with a few personal soldiers, and it was indeed the brother who fought the tiger.

As soon as he saw the Qing army turn back and release the arrows, Wang Jingyuan switched his horse and fled, completely losing the demeanor of a general.

"Ahh Wang Jingyuan received a blow from the back, and in an instant, he felt a needle-like pain, and then he was paralyzed and fell off his horse.

Wang Jingyuan vaguely saw that Yuan Hongmo screamed and rushed towards Li Hezhang and the others, while Hu Yongxiang hurriedly dismounted to rescue and protect himself to retreat to the rear!

"Marshal, are you awake?" A familiar and beautiful face slowly approached the face.

Wang Jingyuan struggled, and the hazy figure slowly became clear, it was Jiang Wan!

"Enough of heroes!" Jiang Wan pouted.

"Even if you are a hero, you can't pass the beauty level!" Wang Jingyuan laughed.

"Still playing poor! It's almost dead," Jiang Wan sat on the edge of the bed, and was about to shed tears as she spoke.

"Do you know what I was thinking after I was shot?" Wang Jingyuan gently wiped away her tears.

"What do you think?"

"I'm thinking about two women, one of them is you!" Wang Jingyuan said very seriously.

"Really?" Jiang Wan had a straight face, but her heart was very beautiful.

Wang Jingyuan nodded slightly.

Jiang Wan plunged into his arms and said, "Fortunately, this arrow didn't shoot deep, and everyone was worried about you...... No, who is the other woman? Suddenly, she seemed to remember someone and grabbed his arm desperately.

"Oh, there's another ......," Wang Jingyuan recalled as he got rid of it, "it's my mother!" ”

"Oh, really?"

"Yes, let me get up, don't press me, it's hurt!"

"Just for a moment!"

"Not for a while, if someone looks at us, we will both be beheaded!"

"If you want to cut it, you can cut it, anyway, I'll be with you!"

"Fart, it's better to die than to live! What about Yuan Heizi and Hu Blind? ”

"Seeing that you are still angry, the chief system asked the whole army to continue to carry grain and rice! You've been asleep all day and night! Old Man Lu is guarding outside, but he wants him to come in! ”

"Lu Yaoling probably saw your identity, this old guy has lived a human life, I already knew that I couldn't hide it from anyone!"

"What then?"

"He's a good guy, and I can see that he has always taken care of you, and he must have treated you as my wife!"

"Cut, take care of your wounds, Lord Marshal!" Jiang Wannunu mouthed and fled.

Wang Jingyuan touched the wound, and couldn't help but scold Li Hongzhang in his heart, he gave such a big gift as soon as they met, and he had to return the arrow next time.

In the next six or seven days, the Right Eighth Army successively transported grain and rice from Yuncao Town to Yuxikou, and Xiliang Mountain, which had been discarded by Song'an and Li Dengzhou, was also taken. On the ninth day of the first month of May, the navy army that came back from the upper reaches brought news that Prime Minister Hu Cheng conquered Anqing on the sixth day of the first month, forcing Xiang Rong's son Xiang Jixiong and Anhui to make Zhang Yintang retreat to Jixian Pass in the north of the city.

Zuo Chongji also got Hu Yihuang's order, and allowed him to personally lead the fleet to transport grain back to Tianjing, and Yuxikou and Yuncao were garrisoned by Hou Yutian and Wang Jingyuan. Zuo Chongji can't wait to set off early, this Dongguan victory has spread in Tianjing, he Zuo Chongji is now famous in the heavens, once this grain and rice arrive in the capital, maybe the king of heaven eats this fragrant white rice, and will ask who seized it, then he will leave his name in the king, what a glory.

Wang Jingyuan didn't bother to compete with Zuo Chongji, so he allocated some prisoners for him to go to Tianjing, and still stationed in Yuncao with Yuan Hongmo, Hu Yongxiang, and Lu Yaoling, so that he could recuperate from his injuries with peace of mind. Ren Guixin and Liu Zhaojun were stationed in Yuxikou and Xiliangshan with Hou Yutian.

In mid-May, a team of more than 100 people suddenly came to the outside of Yuncao Town, including more than 30 riders. Wang Jingyuan looked at it, neither dressed as a Qing army, nor like a villager, let alone a Taiping army, all of them were dressed in tatters, but like a homeless person. Yuan Hongmo sent one person to question, and the other party came with three riders, led by a person's head.