At the head of Guilin City, Chen Weixin, the governor of Guangxi, who was waiting for the good news, looked at the hundreds of remnants who fled back from the Dongjiang Post in a daze.

"It's less than two hours"

Guilin prefect Su Jin's face was ugly, and Tongzhi Yao Shitai's body leaned slightly on the battlements, and if he looked closely, he could find that this Yao Tongzhi's body trembled badly.

The soldiers guarding the door came to ask for instructions, and Chen Weixin waved his hand weakly: "Open the door and let Xu Zhen let them in." ”

"Wow!"

The soldiers responded, and soon the city gate was slowly opened, and seeing the city gate open, hundreds of Qing soldiers who had picked up their lives from Dongjiang Post hurriedly rushed into the city at a faster pace. Entering the city, these remnants were also frightened, holding on to the city wall and panting for breath, just now they fled all the way, but they were scared enough and tired enough.

"Lord Futai, the last general is incompetent!"

Xu Tianyou, who was pale and covered in blood, looked at the governor with a guilty face. If it weren't for the fact that Guilin City was still there, he would have been eager to wipe his neck when the army was defeated. The 5,000 soldiers not only couldn't contain the opponent's 2,000 soldiers, but also asked people to encircle and annihilate, and only ran back to these more than 400 people after desperately breaking through the encirclement. Xu Tianyou really can't say anything about this battle. If there's anything in your stomach, it's bitter.

Cangwu guarded the Dao, Chen Hongye and Cangwu Bingbeidao, Li Bensheng, and the two of them were also fateful, and they also ran out. The latter was the second time to pick up his life from under the Taiping saber, running all the way, it was really a rumor, the grass and trees were all soldiers, and the slightest movement behind him scared him into a vest cold, and he wanted to give up several times, so he jumped off the horse, and then sat on the road and resigned himself to fate. If it weren't for the fact that his brother Chen Hongye was still thinking about him and desperately pulling him away, Li Bensheng would have been afraid that he would really become a prisoner of the Taiping Army.

The two brothers got off their horses tremblingly, their legs couldn't move, and they couldn't stop dangling there, if it weren't for the sharp eyes and quick hands and feet of a few battalion soldiers, these two adults would have fainted on the spot.

After sitting and resting for a while, Chen Hongye and Li Bensheng felt that their blood veins and tendons were a little more active, so they gritted their teeth and helped each other to go to the city. The battle was lost, but the governor couldn't help but see it.

Gui Pingfen guarded Wang Yanbin at the beginning of the fight to hide in the back, running the fastest, along the way just thinking about saving his life, nothing else had time to think, and he didn't care about it, and when he entered Guilin City safely, he found that the inner side of his two thighs was ground by the saddle and the flesh was blurred, and the blood flowed down his two legs, and every step was like a heartache.

Lord Wang has never suffered this kind of hardship before, his brows are furrowed tightly, but he doesn't dare to scream, there is no way, a large number of officials and gentry in the city are staring at him, he really can't stand the pain and shout out, I'm afraid that Gui Ping is the biggest official that Lord Wang has ever been in his life.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers..."

At the head of the city, Chen Weixin, the governor of Guangxi, was comforting Xu Tianyou, the chief soldier of Guilin, who blamed himself, and there was no need for Xu Tianyou to say more, the governor also knew that the battle was lost, and the defeat was very miserable, very ugly. He didn't know how to face it, so he could only try his best to comfort Xu Tianyou, after all, Guilin's city defense still had to rely on him. Moreover, these words of comfort were said to Xu Tianyou, but it was better to say that the governor was comforting himself.

After comforting him, he found that Xu Tianyou had a lot of blood stains on his body, but Chen Weixin didn't dislike it, but asked with a concerned face: "Xu Zhen is injured?" ”

Seeing that the governor was concerned about whether he was injured, Xu Tianyou was suddenly moved in his heart: "Don't worry, Lord Futai, the last general is not injured, but the last general... Alas, the last general is incompetent, the last general is useless, the last general has buried thousands of soldiers, and the last general really has no face to come to see Futai."

"Xu Zhen must not say this, it is still strange that Ben Fu is anxious, thinking that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, but I don't want to burden Xu Zhen."

Chen Weixin sighed, it was really his responsibility to say this, if he hadn't wanted to eat the advancing Taiping army, Xu Tianyou would not have been ordered to go out of the city, if he didn't go out of the city, where would he come from.

Su Jin, the prefect of Guilin, still had some hope in his heart, and he asked with a bit of luck: "Although thousands of soldiers and horses of our army have suffered a heavy defeat, I think that Taiping Kou is also a heavy loss and retreated, right?" ”

Hearing this, Chen Weixin also looked at Xu Tianyou a little nervously. It doesn't matter if you lose the battle, but if you can let the Taiping army delay the advance to Guilin, it will undoubtedly be a great achievement.

didn't think about it, but Xu Tianyou smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "Taiping Kou is too powerful, I'm afraid it hasn't hurt a bit." ”

Su Jin was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "Taiping Kou is so powerful!" ”

Xu Tianyou said a little gloomily: "It's not inferior to real Manchuria." ”

Su Jin's cheeks moved, and he couldn't say anything. The governor was also speechless, Rao was prepared in his heart, and he also learned from the line governor that the Guangdong Ming army had strong combat effectiveness, and the city of Wuzhou also proved that the Guangdong Ming army could fight, but after all, he had never seen it with his own eyes, and now Xu Tianyou bluntly said that the Guangdong Ming army was no worse than the Manchurian soldiers, and he really felt fear.

Chen Hongye and Li Bensheng helped each other to go to the city, and they couldn't say a word when they stood aside. Wang Yanbin also went to the city tremblingly, seeing that the atmosphere in the city was not right, he also leaned to the side with interest, not wanting to touch the moldy head of the Tai people.

"Lord Futai, what should we do now?"

In the end, it was Guilin Tongzhi Yao Shitai who broke the unusual calm.

"Whether to keep or retreat, please take a charter from Lord Futai." If there was no defeat in Dongjiangyi, Su Jin, the prefect of Guilin, would have been a stick, but now, he is shaken.

Xu Tianyou was silent, he was scared by the Taiping army, if he really wanted to make an idea, he thought it would be better to abandon Guilin and retreat to Yunnan to join the line governor. If the land is lost, the land will be lost. At present, the Ming army in Guangdong is large, fierce, and Wuzhou is a springboard, Guilin can be attacked by land, Liuzhou and Nanning can be attacked by water, and the main force of the Qing army in Guangxi was buried in Wuzhou by Ma Xiong's return, so that the three prefectures of Guangxi want to hold on to there are not enough defenders. In today's defeat, half of the elite defenders of Guilin are gone, and the rest are soldiers and horses pieced together from various counties, what can they be used for. Therefore, it is the best policy to give up Guilin.

Xu Tianyou wanted to give up Guilin, but the governor did not speak, he is the chief military officer of Guilin, and he is directly responsible for Guilin.

Chen Weixin was also thinking about whether to stick to Guilin, but he couldn't make up his mind, so he asked Xu Tianyou: "How sure does Xu Zhen think he will hold Guilin?" ”

"Three points." After speaking, he felt that he had estimated a lot, and Xu Tianyou hurriedly changed his words: "Actually, it is one point at most." ”

"One point?"

Chen Weixin's face became even more ugly, and after thinking about it, he finally made up his mind and said to the officials: "The army of today and Ming is strong, Guilin has no grasp of it, and I want to abandon the city and enter Yunnan, what is your opinion?" ”

The officials had any opinions, and they wished that the governor would order a retreat. No one objected or dissuaded, so Chen Weixin ordered the city to be abandoned. The next day, the fifth town of the Taiping Army escaped from the city of Guilin, and the people learned that the Qing army had abandoned Guilin, and Yu Shizhong, the commander of the C Brigade, immediately ordered the whole brigade to enter Guilin City, and at the same time reported to the town general. At the same time, the city gate of Liuzhou was also opened, and a group of Taiping troops dressed in flaming red army uniforms entered from the hole in the city gate.

The Qing army in Liuzhou took the initiative to surrender, but it was half a day late from the surrender time given by the Taiping army. But in any case, the Qing army in Liuzhou still took the initiative to surrender, but Zhou Shixiang, the marshal of the Taiping Army who entered the city with the second town, the sixth town, and the ninth town, was furious after entering the city, and he ordered people to escort Su Lin, the governor of Liuzhou Prefecture, and Huang Ding, the governor of Guangxi, to the two degraded officials, and then said to them: "This marshal has always said that one is one, and two is two, let you surrender half a day ago, and you will have to surrender half a day ago!" You don't know what to do, you have to drag Ben Shuai for half a day, what are you thinking! Ben Shuai doesn't talk to you about it, Ben Shuai said in the letter, if you open the city gate a moment late, Ben Shuai will kill your whole family, do you say that Ben Shuai is joking with you? Come on, find out all their children and cut them all for me, and let them know whether Ben Shuai's words count or not! (To be continued.) )