Chapter 206: Who's Fighting

"Yes! Yang Dongfang actually went to fight Shanghai. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info also occupies the concessions of Britain, France, the United States and other countries, Yang Dongfang is doing his own thing, is it worth it for a woman? Zeng Guofan, who had just arrived in Anqing, was surprised to see the news from Nanjing.

Shen Sui's eyes seemed to be able to see through something, and he was scheming, and Gu Jing Bubo's face showed a hint of playfulness.

Didn't Yang Dongfang say that he wanted to kill himself? It was because of this that he gave up attacking Nanjing from Zhenjiang and ran to Shanghai to save people, which is not the true character of the hero.

In his opinion, Shanghai is a dead land, there is no way to go in the southeast, the Huai army is heavy in the north, he and Zuo Zongtang are in the west, plus the armies of Britain and France, he wants to be the enemy of the whole world.

Zeng Guofan seemed to see the shadow of the collapse of the Shanghai knife, he originally regarded Yang Dongfang as a great enemy, and even when he mentioned him, he felt uncomfortable all over his body, he had always been not optimistic about the future of Xianghan, and even regretted it, but now he was much more relaxed.

"Your Majesty! The left mule withdrew the people from Jiaxing and sent the troops to Hangzhou, and Huhou sent a letter asking if we should occupy it, which meant that he didn't want to cheapen the puppet Qing side. ”

"Yes! What does the left mule mean, Jiaxing Mansion doesn't want it, he doesn't want to oppose the New People's Army, does he still think that the New People's Army can gain a firm foothold in Shanghai and develop outward, and he still wants to stay behind. Zeng Guofan became more and more unable to understand Zuo Zongtang, this guy accepted his own canonization and the canonization of the pseudo-Qing, but he didn't accept it, all his behaviors and dresses were still the same as before, and he was the left commander of his Chu army.

"Since the left mule doesn't want it, then let Yang Changjun take over Jiaxing Mansion, if Li Hefei's people can't handle Yang Dongfang, then he can also help appropriately, after all, Yang Dongfang is still the biggest enemy of my Hunan and Han Dynasty."

In general, when it comes to Anqing, Zeng Guofan is in a good mood, and he feels a little broken through the dark clouds to see the beginning of the day, but he has not been happy for long, it is not raining in the east, and frost is coming from the southwest.

The war in the south came from Jiangxi.

"The emperor's big things are not good, the New People's Army captured Wuzhou, Guangxi, the Guangdong Navy lost most of it, and Guangzhou City was also captured by Liu Yongfu of the New People's Army."

"The emperor's big thing is not good, the Sanjiang Water Division of the New People's Army is going south, breaking through Jingzhou, and is going east to Yuezhou (Yueyang), the third column of the New People's Army eastward is completely annihilating Chen Shijie's Guangwu Army in Chenzhou, and the New People's Army is entering and occupying Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou."

"Poof!"

Zeng Guofan spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his brand-new dragon robe turned red.

The battle report in the south was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and he was scorched black.

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Zeng Guofan's mood was like a roller coaster, but Yang Dongfang's mood was very good, he didn't expect the third column to be so powerful, so he gave the weapon to kill a general of the Hunan army in the past few days, and completely annihilated and collected 20,000 Guangwu troops.

"There are still many people in war! This is indeed an era of the supremacy of weapons, but I am afraid that the losses of the eastward column will not be low. ”

When he sighed, Yang Dongfang quietly appeared in Xuzhou, firstly, to transport the guards to Shanghai, and secondly, to help Song Jingshi fight a strong plan.

Li Hongzhang was decisive and did not allow the thorn of Xuzhou to be stuck in his neck, and ordered Zhang Shusheng, Yang Dingxun, and Pan Dingxin 40,000 people to attack Xuzhou, besiege Xuzhou, transfer artillery, and constantly bombard the city.

After two days of fighting, a lot of shells were dropped, and Song Jingshi had already lost the peripheral positions, but the men and horses did not lose much, because Yang Dongfang's guard regiment was here, teaching them how to defend against artillery and how to dig trenches.

"Dashuai, you are finally here, hurry up and let the guards open fire, the Huai army is becoming more and more arrogant, relying on the cannon to fight so fiercely."

"Brother Song, don't worry! When they are ready to attack, let them taste it. Yang Dongfang could obviously transfer the artillery from all over Xuzhou, but he didn't have it before, in order to paralyze Zhang Shusheng and others, thinking that there was no artillery in the city, so after losing the periphery, the Huai army would inevitably launch a general attack and invest all its troops.

What's more, the artillery position of the Huai army was exposed, so after Yang Dongfang came over, he re-transferred the artillery transferred to Liu Yongfu, and also drew all the training artillery in Sichuan.

The breech guns were all aimed at the Huai army's artillery array, and the front-loading guns were aimed at the Huai army's position before the attack.

"Boom..!"

The hundreds of cannons of the Huai army roared into Xuzhou City first, and exploded on the city wall, and soon could not stand the torture of the cannonballs, and the city wall collapsed for a while, and Zhang Shusheng in the east ordered the Shuzi battalion to attack first.

Three thousand musketeers with muskets rushed up, and Song Jingshi's men re-stepped on the city wall from behind and began to shoot sporadically.

Zhang Shusheng smiled at Pan Dingxin and said: "Qin Xuan, you see, Song Jingshi has no power to resist, and Xuzhou can be broken overnight." ”

"Zhenxuan is right, Yang Dongfang was here before, and the New People's Army was able to capture Xuzhou, and now Yang Dongfang has gone south to Shanghai, and Song Jingshi will definitely die without foreign aid." Pan Dingxin said with a smile: "Take Xuzhou, and then we have to encircle and destroy the Twist Army, Liu Songshan is not kind, and drive all the Twist Army to our side." ”

The two were talking and laughing, when suddenly there was a burst of cannon sound that broke through the air, which made the two of them frightened, and they only saw that the Shuzi battalion that was attacking in front was shelled, and a piece of green smoke and mud was raised, and the original orderly attacking team was smashed to pieces, with many casualties.

"Who's the hell firing the cannon? My Shuzi battalion is attacking with all its might, whoever is doing something I will kill him, and I will punish him for the nine clans. Zhang Shusheng's eyes were red like an angry bull, and his hideous face was full of killing intent, wanting to eat people.

His elite tree word tree, this is all an old camp? With the most advanced weapons, it turns out that it is not known which bastard did not do what was ordered, and at this time also shelled.

Pan Dingxin pointed to the city of Xuzhou in horror and said: "Zhenxuan is calm, calm, this cannon seems to have come out of the city, not a cannon fired by us." ”

"What?"

Zhang Shusheng looked up and took a serious look, and sure enough, another burst of artillery bombardment began, shooting out shells from the city one after another, and smashing on the body of his Shuzi battalion.

"It's not good to Zhenxuan, there are cannons in the city, our artillery must be transferred as soon as possible, I heard that the artillery of the new bandits is farther than us."

As soon as Pan Dingxin finished speaking, he saw another burst of artillery bombardment in the city, and this time the shells flew directly to the artillery position of the Huai army, which was the breech gun fire.

Even worse than the musketeers of the Shuzi battalion was the artillery of the Huai Army, which was suddenly blown up to the point where the shells were stored, causing a burst of martyrdom, and the entire artillery position turned into a sea of fire, and thick black smoke dispersed into the sky.

Zhang Shusheng was a little depressed, his hat was crooked, and he sat down: "It's late, it's too late, Song Jingshi is too insidious, too enduring, he was bombed by our army for two days in vain, and he didn't use artillery, and he only waited for our general attack to attack." ”

Pan Dingxin's heart was also mixed, so he had to persuade him with good words: "I'm afraid that Yang Dingxun's side will also lose a lot, just now I saw that the artillery in the north of the city was more violent." ”

Pan Dingxin was secretly glad that he came late, he didn't have many troops, and he hadn't entered the offensive sequence, so he didn't rush to grab the credit, otherwise he would have to end up together.

The worst thing is that the artillery was disposed of, and the future battles will be even more difficult, and the king of Huainan will definitely not have new artillery transferred to the front line in Xuzhou. (To be continued.) )