Chapter Ninety-Nine: Pursuit and Trade-off (I)
The Hunan army had a naval division of tens of thousands of people in its heyday, but a few months ago, the national defense navy was established, under the leadership of Lu Shunde, the navy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was on the main trunk of the Yangtze River, and the navy of the Hunan army did a few hard, and began to suffer a big loss because of the weak ship and small artillery, with Hong Tiangui defrauding the Jiangnan naval division and British and French merchant ships from Shanghai, the Wehrmacht Navy obtained a lot of high-quality warships, and then the Hunan naval division frequently succeeded, the final result was that the Hunan naval division suffered heavy losses, and a large part of the soldiers abandoned the ship and went ashore, became the infantry of the Hunan army, and the rest of the ships were swimming upstream, not daring to step into the range of activities of the Taiping army.
War is not just the road to the dominance, the Wehrmacht Navy is inferior to the British and French navies everywhere, everywhere is deflated, but for the Hunan Army Naval Division, but it has the upper hand, frequent victories, although not to say to dominate the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, but also to fight the Hunan Army Naval Division should not easily go down the river, which is why the Wehrmacht has been like a rabbit after the victory in Anqing, the Hunan Army has been running around, but the Hunan Army Naval Division is unable to provide any help.
The Wehrmacht entered the northwest of Hunan with the aftermath of the great victory, but reluctantly got the news that Zeng Guoquan's army had fled, and they fled towards Hubei. The Wing King was caught off guard and did not bite them, and now he is ordering the army to pull out, preparing to pursue Zeng Guoquan's army.
The British king did not care to meet the Wing King, so he ordered the Wehrmacht to follow in the footsteps of the Wing King's army, and the two armies converged and chased in the direction of Zeng Guoquan's escape.
The two armies pursued, and Zeng Guoquan, who had been reported by the scouts, ran even more happily, and in order to increase the speed as much as possible, he ordered the whole army to throw away everything except for weapons and pills and enough food for two days.
With his order, a large amount of supplies of the Hunan army were discarded, and while the speed of advance was greatly increased, it also provided a clear direction for the army pursuing in the rear.
"Tsubashi Chitose! Zeng Guoquan is afraid that he is going to escape the Yangtze River! We really can't catch up at the current speed! "King Chen Yucheng has great respect for the Wing King Shi Dakai. He was originally the general of the Winged King, and he was recommended and promoted by the Winged King to become the King of Heaven, and in the face of the old leader and leader, even the King of England, who controlled thousands of troops, couldn't help but be excited and respectful.
"If you can't catch up, you can't catch up, looking at Your Majesty's posture, I'm afraid I don't necessarily hope that we can catch up!" Wing King Yingwu had a smile on his face, he didn't expect to make peace with King Ying Chen Yucheng in this situation, the little guy who fought with him back then had grown into the mainstay of the Heavenly Kingdom. And he also saw the legendary army led by the British king, the Wehrmacht. After the baptism of repeated battles, the Wehrmacht has already been reborn, and its spirit is very different from before, with the ideological guidance of the instructor, the spirit of the whole army is fanatical, and the will to fight is more and more terrifying. Coupled with the scale of firearms and equipment far beyond this era, the powerful flying thunder cannon and grenades all made the Wing King full of shock.
"By the way, King Ying, how is the King of Heaven?" This is the main concern of the Wing King. In the blink of an eye, it has been 6 years since he left Tianjing, and he really can't imagine what the child who was a toddler would grow up to become.
"Although the king of heaven is not very old, he has extraordinary courage, especially the overall situation and strategic awareness, and the last general is also sighing to himself." The British king's evaluation of Hong Tiangui was extremely high, which made the Wing King more and more curious about Hong Tiangui.
"Really? This king really can't imagine it, but if this national defense army is really established by the king of heaven, it is really possible that it is a god and a man descending to earth. The Winged King sighed, as a prince who started from the Kingdom of Heaven, he knew very well that the things of the gods and ghosts in the Kingdom of Heaven were illusory, and they were all excuses for rebellion in order to demagogue, whether it was the King of Heaven, or the King of the East and others back then, they all used God as a shield to protect their own interests, they opened their mouths to be immortals, and closed their mouths about God, in fact, they did not believe in God at all.
But what Hong Tiangui did was not at all something that a normal person could do.
I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.
"The Heavenly King is indeed powerful! Chitose Winged King, from the Heavenly King, I see the hope of the Heavenly Kingdom, which is different from the previous hope! The king's eyes lit up, and the whole person looked quite excited.
"If that were the case, the king would have had a good time meeting with him. Speaking of which, the daughter of this king is still the concubine of the king of heaven! A few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and I, a father, don't remember what my daughter looks like. King Yi sighed, thinking that after the Northern King Wei Changhui was ambushed, he returned to Tianjing City to preside over the overall situation, in order to envelop himself, the King of Heaven married his only surviving little daughter to the young king Hong Tiangui as a concubine, and when he left, for the sake of the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, he personally ordered his daughter to be sent to the palace of the young king, and I don't know how the girl has been doing all these years.
The British king has no interface, he is a foreign general, and he does not know the situation in the Heavenly King's Mansion. But as the princess of heaven, life will not be bad if you want to. What's more, although the Wing King is not in the court, his influence is still the highest among the kings of the Heavenly Kingdom, as long as the Wing King leads the army to fight outside for a day, Shi Fengxia, the position of the Heavenly King's concubine, is as stable as Mount Tai.
The two heavenly princes pursued easily, and a day later, they chased to the bank of the Yangtze River, and watched Zeng Guoquan's main force of the Hunan army board the ship offshore.
The British king ordered the artillery to set up artillery on the shore to bombard, and the shipborne artillery of the Hunan naval division also fired back.
The two sides had a "fierce" artillery battle across the river. In the end, the Yiwang Army and the National Defense Army did not block the way of the Hunan army, allowing it to land safely on the land of Hubei.
"Let the tiger go back to the mountain or do you want to get away with it? This game of chess is not small! Through the operation of the logistics force, the winged king understood that the logistics operation of the defense force had reached the limit, but it was still impossible to ensure that the army had access to sufficient weapons and ammunition. It's okay to deal with paper-paste enemies like the Hubei New Army and the Manchu Green Battalion, but it will be a bit unbearable to go to war with an elite like the Hunan Army.
The present good situation in the kingdom of heaven is based on the victory of the Wehrmacht in every battle, and once the myth of the invincibility of the Wehrmacht is shattered, God knows what kind of changes will take place in the war situation.
That's why the Wehrmacht did not fight the siege of Changsha City, and pursued Zeng Guoquan's main force crazy. Yiwang knew Hong Tiangui's grand strategy, and at first thought that it could not be done, but with Zeng Guoquan's escape from Hunan, it was an extremely crucial step to realize the grand strategy of dividing the river with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. All that remains is to deal with the main force of Zeng Guofan in Changsha City. Thinking that with the annihilation of the Hubei reinforcements, the Hunan army Zeng Guoquan fled in despair, and Zeng Guofan of Changsha City should also make a decision.
The Wehrmacht left a division stationed on the riverside to monitor every move in Jiangbei, and the main force of the Wehrmacht joined the main force of the Yiwang Army to move south, aiming at Changsha City.