It is precisely because of the lack of his own military strategy that Hong Tiangui decisively transferred the national defense force to his command after contacting the British king Chen Yucheng, and he only made decisions in the general direction and used specific tactics, and he believed that the British king could do better than him.

The British king did not understand a little, but Hong Tiangui did not say much, but only asked him not to relax the training of the Wehrmacht, but to ensure the morale of the entire Wehrmacht. In addition, Hong Tiangui also discussed with the king some of the generals under his command, and he also knew a little more about some brigade commander-level generals, so that he could make trade-offs when reorganizing the army.

There is another person who comes with Hong Tiangui, he is Ye Tianlong, the commander of the security army, before Hong Tiangui asked him to pick people with the person in charge of the chengguan army, but neither of them found a satisfactory enough number, the chengguan army is better, and it is not so urgent for the time being. But the security forces are different, the Wehrmacht has fought a storm, and it took more than a month to lay a huge territory, and the security forces need to be stationed on these territories, and there is no time to recruit them themselves. Ye Tianlong could only find Hong Tiangui to find a way.

Hong Tiangui had no way before, but now he can easily solve it. Originally, he was going to reorganize Pingjiang City, cut the 200,000 army to 100,000, leaving only the elite of the three armies, and the soldiers who were cut down could all be transferred to the security army, killing two birds with one stone, but he didn't expect the outbreak of the decisive battle in Changsha to temporarily shelve this plan, lead the 200,000 army to press up, and give the enemy huge psychological pressure.

Of course, Ye Tianlong was not idle, and he was in charge of the Sixth Army of the New Army, temporarily participating in the encirclement and suppression of the Hunan Army as a regular army.

The arrival of the Taiping army put tremendous pressure on Changsha City, and the atmosphere in the city was depressed to the extreme, and the Hunan army patrolled the city every day, and the sound of training enveloped the entire Changsha. The people of the city were ordered to stay in their homes and not to move around freely.

It was definitely a good thing for Zeng Guofan that the Taiping army did not attack, and he could train new soldiers as much as possible to improve his combat effectiveness.

Now there are 50,000 elite Hunan troops under the command of Zeng Guofan, and 80,000 recruits, who have generally been trained for less than a month, and some of them have not even become soldiers. Even so, the existence of these 80,000 people gave Zeng Guofan a great sense of security and confidence.

This inexplicable confrontation did not last long, and at noon the next day when the 200,000-strong army led by Hong Tiangui arrived outside Changsha, the Wehrmacht launched a surprise attack. Continuing the original strategy, the giant artillery and artillery opened the way, and under the concentrated firepower, a hole was torn in the Changsha city wall in half an hour, and the collapsed city wall just fell into the moat. The Wehrmacht infantry quickly charged and rushed under the walls under the cover of artillery fire.

The three battalions of the Hunan army pounced viciously, and the two sides strangled together. The Wehrmacht showed great courage, but the Hunan army, which was full of devotion to defending its homeland, also broke out with great blood, and the two sides were strangled under the broken city walls, and the battle was extremely fierce.

The artillery fire extended into the city wall to cover the Wehrmacht at the gap in the city wall, but the Hunan army went forward one after another, relying on the spirit of not fearing death, and blocked the Wehrmacht at the mouth of the city wall.

An hour later, the order to withdraw from the Wehrmacht was heard, and although the Wehrmacht soldiers on the battlefield were full of unwillingness, the Wehrmacht quickly took the bodies of their comrades and slowly retreated.

The Hunan artillery bombardment on the city wall on both sides, they can't beat the artillery of the Wehrmacht, but it doesn't mean that they don't have good artillery, this is the artillery that Zeng Guofan bought from the West a few years ago, because the shells are not easy to obtain, and the cost performance is not high, so it has not been used, and now at this moment, Zeng Guofan naturally used it on the city wall and achieved miraculous results.

Although the Wehrmacht was the first to withdraw from the battle, they suffered heavy casualties but did not open the breach of the city walls, and wasted a large number of artillery shells, including precious heavy artillery shells. The losses on the Hunan side were greater, although they repelled the frantic siege of the Wehrmacht, but the gap in the city wall still existed, and the enemy had the advantage of artillery fire, and could attack the gap in the city wall again at any time.

The shadow of defeat hung over the hearts of the generals of the Hunan army.

At this time, the holy decree of the Manchu court was sent to the city of Changsha. The holy decree appointed Zeng Guofan as the governor of Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi provinces, and the governor of the military affairs of the three provinces, and had the right to fight independently in the land of the three provinces.

Luo Bingzhang was appointed governor of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces to assist Zeng Guofan and the Taiping army in the war.

At the same time, the 10,000-strong army of the governor of Hubei, Guan Wen, was the first to approach Changsha. Under the order of Hong Tiangui, Ye Tianlong led the Sixth Army of the New Army to the north to block Guanwen's army.

Although Ye Tianlong is usually relatively silent, he is a high-minded and arrogant person. When he was kicked by Hong Tiangui to the security army, he was dissatisfied in his heart, but the order of the king of heaven was greater than the sky, he did not dare and could not resist Hong Tiangui's order at all, and now he had insufficient troops in his hands, and he coincidentally served as the commander of the Sixth Army, Ye Tianlong held his breath and wanted to make some good achievements to let Hong Tiangui see his ability.

The Sixth Army was built with officers and soldiers under the command of the British King as the backbone. There are many people whose qualifications are much older than Ye Tianlong, and no one dared to pick on them when the Heavenly King commanded the army, and now that Ye Tianlong is going north independently, some soldiers jump out to express their dissatisfaction.

For those who were not convinced, Ye Tianlong did not give the other party a chance to provoke at all, the guard battalion under his command arrested all those who picked the stabs, and Ye Tianlong personally held a rifle with a bayonet and killed these unconvinced people one by one on the spot.

His bloody methods did not cause the army to mutiny, but completely shocked the whole army, and the Sixth Army, which was extremely complex, was much more honest at once, which made Ye Tianlong breathe a sigh of relief.

To tell the truth, although he is the confidant general of the Heavenly King, it is the first time to lead an army of 30,000, and his explosive method seems to be simple and direct, but there is a great hidden danger, if the army mutinies because he kills the disobedient people, the consequences are not at all something he can bear. Fortunately, he made the right bet, and it was precisely because of this bold action that the Sixth Army, which was improvised and patchworked, had a sense of discipline, and slowly developed into a personality that was happy when he heard the war, and became a trump card in Hong Tiangui's hands.

With the arrival of the Hubei army, Hong Tiangui thought of a famous campaign method of the later Celestial Empire during the war - besieging the city and sending reinforcements.

The Hunan army in the city is nothing, and if the national defense army really wants to sacrifice it, it may not be impossible to take it in a short time, but it is easy to capture Changsha City, and it may not be easy to destroy the enemy's living forces. After all, Changsha is Zeng Guofan's lair, and if he wants to escape, I'm afraid it will not be easy to catch him.

However, if Zeng Guofan is used as a bait to attract the military forces of the surrounding provinces, then the surrounding forces will be empty, which will be of great help to the Heavenly Kingdom to the west of Sichuan or to the south of Guangzhou.