Chapter 152 East Road Northern Expedition

"Damn! He Yang Dongfang dared to speak so valiantly, dared to dig up the ancestral grave of our army, and I was inseparable from him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info. ”

Hearing Yang Dongfang's threat, Zeng Guofan and his subordinates were naturally angry, their faces were red and their necks were long, but they were also worried, and they really had some scruples, with the current strength of the New People's Army, it was really hard to say whether there would be a day when they would attack the lair.

And they did plan to slaughter everyone inside and rob all the property inside after breaking through Nanjing.

Needless to say, the purpose is nothing more than self-defilement, like Li Hongzhang, using this method to reassure Beijing, keep the glory and wealth of the generals, reduce the suspicion of the imperial court, and the secret order has been passed on orally to Zeng Guoquan at the front.

"Where is Yang Dongfang now, and is there still Wuchang?" Staring at the map, the eight-character eyebrows rose, pulling his beard, slightly painful, Zeng Guofan was worried, Wuchang! In Jiujiang, Jiujiang is his base camp Anqing, and this Yang Dongfang is progressing too fast.

I only heard that I was in Yueyang the day before, and I took Wuchang down at once.

"Back to the marshal, after Yang Dongfang killed the official text, the military rations that swept through Wuchang have crossed the Yangtze River and are heading north, should we send troops to pursue?"

"To the north, this evil star won't go to fight Beijing!"

"It is also possible that the marshal, the four regiments of the new bandits in northern Sichuan have begun to swear in the Northern Expedition from Guangyuan, and they have just received the battle report, Xiao Qinggao was defeated and lost Hanzhong."

"This Yang Dongfang is too bold, as the commander-in-chief, he dares to take risks alone, and more than 1,000 people are on the Eastern Road and the Northern Expedition!" No one dared to believe this argument, and they all kept doubting, but they all shook their heads, because they didn't know Yang Dongfang, let alone the New People's Army.

It was that Hong Xiu didn't dare to do it back then, and only sent a partial division to wipe the water, but he was surrounded and eliminated in Henan, Shandong and other places, this Yang Dongfang wouldn't know, he still dared to do this, was he stupid?

"You seem to have forgotten one thing, this person should have been in Nanning, Guangxi ten days ago, why did he run to Wuchang so quickly to kill the old thing Guanwen, and now I am afraid that he has arrived in Xiaogan and went straight to Xinyang."

"Xinyang, that is the thoroughfare of the three provinces, the Jianghuai River and the Han four rivers are important, the south gate of Henan, in the past it was Xuchang, and then Kaifeng and other places, if he gathers the bandits everywhere, it can grow rapidly, and the city of Beijing is in danger."

The Twist Army was rampant in Hejian Province and Shandong and Henan in Zhili Province, just because there was no sound management system and goals, just like a rogue in general, strung around, although it was under the nose of the Qing court, but it could not pose a threat to Beijing, so the Qing court only sent the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry and the Eight Banners infantry and the green battalions and militia groups around the country to encircle and suppress.

The most important thing is to wipe out most of the army in Anhui Huaihe and other places, and turn a blind eye to the small group of twisted bandits in the north, and do not use heavy troops for the time being.

Follow this line of thought.

Rumble!

Everyone seemed to have been struck by lightning!

Thoughts are cheerful and infinitely magnified.

At this time, Zeng Guofan and others had to be anxious, with Yang Dongfang's talent, it is very likely that these unorganized and undisciplined Nian troops will be kneaded into a rope, and with these twisted cavalry that come and go like the wind, then Beijing will not be able to take down at the snap of a finger.

Just thinking about it, I felt nervous and sweating profusely, Zeng Guofan immediately ordered: "Quick! Eight hundred miles were sent to Beijing urgently, beware of Yang Dongfang, and guard the important places of the Yellow River, and at the same time inform the monk king to quickly lead people to guard Xinyang and block Yang Dongfang from going north. ”

Everyone secretly pinched a handful of sweat, and couldn't help but say: "Fortunately, the monk king (monk Greenqin) led the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry with the soldiers and horses of the five provinces of Zhi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and Anhui, and defeated the Taiping army and the twist army that returned to the east to rescue Nanjing in Heishidu, Huoshan Mountain in eastern Hubei Province, killed Chen Decai, the general of the Taiping army, and collected more than 100,000 people from the twist army, and scattered more than 100,000 people.

Otherwise, Yang Dongfang attacked the rear of Zeng Wang and the others from behind, and the long-haired bandits were afraid that they would have to get out of trouble again, and the situation in Jiangbei would become even more tricky. ”

The messenger quickly left, and everyone looked at Zeng Guofan again.

"Dashuai, then Nanjing, do we still have to act according to the plan?"

The meaning of the staff is very clear, if you don't wait, let's see if Monk Greenqin can deal with this sudden rise Yang Dongfang is saying, in case the Qing Dynasty is overthrown by Yang Dongfang, who will we show ourselves again, and then we will have to buy people's hearts and achieve another great cause.

In fact, as early as three or four years ago, there was an undercurrent surging within the Hunan army, and the Hunan generals actually supported Zeng Guofan to take another path and incorporate the Taiping Army to achieve hegemony in the Central Plains.

It's just that the Qing court was afraid of the strength of the Hunan army and made the Huai army and the Chu army, and for a while, this trend within the Hunan army was automatically suppressed.

"This..." Zeng Guofan was embarrassed, he didn't answer, but strode out of the door, came to the courtyard, looked at Haori in the sky, his eyes gathered, until his eyes were red and stinging, then he closed his eyes and thought, and only spit out a sentence for a long time: "Why can't I see it!" ”

Twenty miles outside Shangcheng County, a scattered army of 2,000 people, frightened towards the southwest Macheng, they are complex, the orders are chaotic, there are two important people in this rout, one of them is called Lai Wenguang, and the other is called Zhang Zongyu.

After a while, he caught up with a horse and shouted twice: "King Zun!" King Liang! Good news, good news, the Tartar cavalry of the monk and demon head is gone, and they all went to Guangxian, depending on the situation, they are going to Xinyang. ”

"What monk and demon head didn't chase, the cavalry of the Tartars went to Guang County." Lai Wenguang and Zhang Zongyu looked at each other and smiled, relieved, but frowned.

Among them, Zhang Zongyu, the young general of the Twist Army, said: "Who is chasing us now?" ”

Lai Wenguang, a famous general of the Taiping Army, said: "Although I don't know why, but just let me wait for the opportunity to pass through Ma County, let's go to Xiaogan first." ”

"Good!"

Soon the two of them arrived in Xiaogan with 2,000 people, and then they learned that there was a team of 1,000 people heading towards Xinyang, and the cavalry of Seng Lingqin was going to block this group.

"No wonder the monk and demon didn't chase us, he went to block this person named Yang Dongfang, this Yang Dongfang is really our life-saving benefactor?" Zhang Zongyu was very grateful, but Lai Wenguang said:

"This Yang Dongfang is indeed not simple, he can actually break through Wuchang and Hankou, but why does he only run Wuchang, but goes north, looking at the situation of the devil is very nervous about this person?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Zongyu sighed: "I knew earlier, we wouldn't have come to Xiaogan, and we would have entered Hankou directly from Macheng, maybe we would be able to occupy Wuchang, and this Yang Dongfang would have been better if he had left later." ”

"Not so! It is good for Yang Dongfang to go north, he has attracted the attention of the monk and demon head, and it just so happens that we are gathering scattered troops in Xiaogan to revive the army. Lai Wenguang said solemnly: "King Liang, I think so, now that you and I have been defeated, we must unite as one, form one, and gather combat strength to get out of the predicament, otherwise we will be extremely dangerous." ”

Lai Wenguang did not change because of the arrival of Yang Dongfang, and still embarked on the road of resurrection and strength, and soon the troops of the Twist Army Lu King Ren Huabang, Jing King Niu Hongsheng, Wei King Li Yuntai, Ren Zhu, Zhang Yujue and the Taiping Army Huai King Qiu Yuancai and other troops also arrived.

The army reunited to more than 5,000 people, but this time because of the loss of most of the infantry, it became more mobile, forming a new twist army dominated by the cavalry of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom military system, thus changing the passive to the active, obtaining a lot of fighters, and finally disgraced.

As soon as he walked to Fanxin Town, which was not far from Xinyang, Yang Dongfang suddenly received the news sent back by the scouts thirty miles ahead.

"Dashuai, for some reason, a large group of Qing troops suddenly appeared in front, especially the cavalry of the Tartars went north for several waves, it seems that the combat power of these Tartars is not weak, I heard the people say that this is the prince of the Tartars, the monk Lingqin, Xinyang to Luoshan County is full of heavy soldiers from the Qing court, no less than 30,000 or 40,000 people."

"How can this be, how can there be so many Qing troops here." Yang Dongfang really couldn't figure it out, because he didn't know much about this part of the history of the Twist Army, or even didn't know it at all.

If you knew that maybe you would spend a day or two to gather this group of people, and then say to Lai Wenguang and Zhang Zongyu, I will take you to Beijing to pretend to be forced and take you to make a fortune, do you want to form a group?

So I didn't know that I happened to encounter this incident when I came, and my eyebrows were a little entangled for a while.

Special cats, all come here, don't waste time here, although a thousand people are sharp, but it takes a lot of time to fight.

So first let the scouts take them back, and then the scouts brought back a message that there were more Qing troops in the direction of Guangshan County, about seventy or eighty thousand, but they were all infantry troops.

"it, this is trying to eat my rhythm."

ps: Three watches tomorrow!