After dealing with the affairs of Jinan, Guo Ye only rushed to Henan with about a dozen people. At this time, Henan is a different scene.

In the first battle of Lufeng Mountain, the unlucky Twist Army was blocked in the valley of Lufeng Mountain by Ke Yunlu, and the army was defeated, and even Zhang Luoxing, the king of Wo, was killed, and the vitality of the Twist Army was greatly injured.

From the north to Zhili, to the battle of Baoding, and then to return to Henan, three months have passed, only three months, the most elite cavalry of the Twist Army of fifty or sixty thousand people was beaten only a few thousand people left, such casualties are too heavy, directly shaken the foundation of the Twist Army, not that the Twist Army has no soldiers to adjust, but the elite of the Twist Army is exhausted, although the remaining more than 100,000 people seem to be strong, but the combat power is very low, even if it is a little stronger than the Eight Banners, it is also limited, and it is not as strong as the combat effectiveness of the Green Battalion.

Now Zhang Zongyu regrets it, he would rather cut down all the more than 100,000 people in exchange for the 50,000 elites who died in battle, not to mention that even his uncle Zhang Luoxing, the king of Wo, died on the battlefield, so what about the next big war? Now that Zhang Zongyu has received the news that Guo Ye has returned to China to preside over the military affairs of the imperial court, Zhang Zongyu has a headache, this Guo Ye has even been defeated by foreigners, can he withstand it?

Zhang Zongyu lacks the slightest confidence, and in her mind, she is afraid that only Shi Dakai in the south can fight Guo Ye, right?

However, these are still secondary, what Zhang Zongyu can't stand the most now is Zhang Luoxing's death, the two of them have depended on each other since childhood, and they want to die tragically in their uncle, Zhang Zongyu naturally hates his chest, and this revenge is not avenged as a husband!

Back in Anyang, Zhang Zongyu's first thing was to gather a large army and concentrate all the twist troops north of Zhengzhou towards Anyang, Zhang Zongyu vowed to destroy the Qing army that attacked him.

Zhang Zongyu knew very well in his heart that the other party's troops were not much, they were all infantry, and the cavalry was only two or three hundred, with such a small number of troops, as long as he gathered twenty or thirty thousand people, it would not be difficult to destroy them!

However, although Zhang Zongyu thought very well, it was just that he had not yet shrunk his troops to Anyang, and the military order of Lai Wenguang arrived, although Lai Wenguang was the king of the Taiping Army, and the Twist Army belonged to two systems, but the rise of Zhang's uncle and nephew was largely due to Lai Wenguang's full support, and he had always obeyed Lai Wenguang's military order.

Lai Wenguang was first a civil official in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then a military general, successively following Shi Dakai and Chen Yucheng, and was a civil and military all-rounder, shrewd and capable, otherwise the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twist Army north of the Huai River were all under his control, first, this is the meaning of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and second, this is also due to his great prestige in Huaibei.

Lai Wenguang ordered Zhang Zongyu to immediately shrink his forces, retreat to the south, abandon Anyang, retreat to Xinxiang and Fengqiu to deploy defenses, concentrate the forces of the Twist Army in a few important military towns, make every effort to defend, and wait for himself to go north.

Zhang Zongyu was very dissatisfied with this order, his uncle had suffered miserably, and he didn't let himself enter the army, so he had to retreat? What is the rationale for this? And this is not a little retreat, retreat from Anyang to Xinxiang in one go, this is a retreat of five or six hundred miles to the south! Will this great revenge not be avenged? It's a shame that you follow the king's daily life and call your uncle brother and brother, and you are like a brother!

Zhang Zongyu was supposed to wait for Lai Wenguang's orders, but after all, he still didn't do that, now no one knows when Guo Ye's army will go south, this time is very critical, if he falls out with Lai Wenguang's Taiping army at this time, and he is isolated in Henan, it is definitely not the opponent of the Qing army, more than 100,000 twisted troops seem to be strong, but they are all a group of paper tigers, and they will be broken when they are stabbed!

What's more, what Lai Wenguang said is still very reasonable, it is definitely not the best strategy to lead the army to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army and Anyang, Anyang is close to Zhili Shandong, and now whether it is Zhili or Shandong, it is under the control of Guo Ye, and when the time comes, will he be able to withstand the attack launched by the opponent from the north and east?

Under the persuasion of Du He on the side, Zhang Zongyu had to dispel the idea of encircling and suppressing Ke Yunlu, changed the order, and ordered the army to leave Anyang and retreat towards Xinxiang.

Zhang Zongyu looted all the weapons, money, grain, and cloth in the Xinxiang treasury in one go, not only that, but even the things in the shops in the city were looted, not only Anyang became a ghost city, but also Hebi and other prefectures and counties in the south were also robbed of a clean and complete fortified wall, even if the Qing army arrived, it had to have food, and there had to be other supplies.

Now the whole of northern Henan, empty, nothing left for the Qing soldiers, in the future, when the Qing army arrives, it can only be requisitioned from Zhili and Shandong, which brings great inconvenience to the Qing army, I have to say, Zhang Zongyu's move is ruthless enough, there is no food, what to do now?

However, in this way, Ke Yunlu has no worries, after all, if Zhang Zongyu really leads twenty or thirty thousand twisted troops to attack Ke Yunlu, I am afraid that no matter how powerful Ke Yunlu is, he will definitely not be able to withstand it, all his troops together are not enough for two thousand people, and he is far away from Jinan, lacking baggage, how can he withstand the siege of the twisted army?

Zhang Zongyu retreated to Xinxiang, Lai Wenguang led a Taiping army from the south to the north, from the Xuchang Luohe River to Zhengzhou Xinxiang area, must protect Henan, this is the base camp of the Twist Army, if Henan falls, the Twist Army will be completely finished.

The whole of Henan is now in the atmosphere of army mobilization, as for the north, Ke Yunlu is staring at the junction of Liaocheng and Anyang, Zhili, the cavalry led by He Tengjiao is rapidly approaching the area of Anyang, and behind is all the elite of Baoding Town, rolling in.

In just a few days, the situation in the central and northern parts of Henan became tense again, He Tengjiao's more than 1,000 cavalry plus Ke Yunlu's training army met in Anyang, and behind, Gao Qi and He Qimou led the main force of Baoding Town to cross Hengshui and quickly advance towards Anyang, and it would not take a few days to reach Anyang.

As for the current Twist Army, Lai Wenguang led the Taiping Army of 20,000 people to Xinxiang and merged with Zhang Zongyu's Twist Army, and the two forces together have exceeded 60,000 again!

Zhang Zongyu is ready to move again, "King Zun, now that we have strong troops, Anyang only has more than 2,000 Qing troops, less than 3,000 people, I suggest eating their strikers first, and then stick to Xinxiang!" ”

Lai Wenguang shook his head and said: "Zong Yu, don't say it again, we must not take the initiative to attack, the north of Anyang is the main army of Baoding Town, there are not a few troops, and the most important thing is that people have a large number of foreign guns and artillery, even if we concentrate tens of thousands of people, it is difficult to take the advantage!" (To be continued.) )