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Chen Zhong finished the meeting of the Admiralty and returned to the palace, where Zhou Zhiguang, Zhang Tong, Li Chuang, and Xiao Yang were already waiting in the military hall of the palace. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Lord Wang, the war in Guangxi has begun, and Yang Tianlong's Eighth Army is launching an attack on Guilin City." Zhou Zhiguang didn't wait for Chen Zhong to sit down, and hurriedly reported the situation in Guangxi.

"Very well, what's the current situation?"

"Before the attack on Guilin, I received Yang Tianlong's battle plan, and they were preparing to attack Guilin two days ahead of the plan we had made. Because, Yang Tianlong told him that this is the best time to sneak attack Guilin.

Because the Qing army in the northwest of Guangxi has not yet been assembled, and the defenders of Guilin have just assembled, they are very scattered, and they are not ready for battle, so Yang Tianlong believes that now should be the best time to attack Guilin. Therefore, they began to implement the plan of a raid on Guilin right tonight. Zhou Zhiguang gave Chen Zhong a detailed account of the situation in Guilin, Guangxi.

At this moment, the Guilin General's Mansion was brightly lit, and Zhang Zengyang, the governor of Zhejiang, was drinking with his colleague Liu Zhizhang. Zhang Zengyang was also one of the Qing troops encircled and suppressed in the seven provinces.

Zhang Zengyang did not take much trouble to take the battle of Guilin, because the peasant rebel army stationed in Guilin was divided by Zhang Zengyang, and in the end, the city of Guilin was self-defeating, and the rebel army in Guilin was killed in addition to breaking and fleeing.

Liu Zhizhang complimented: "The governor is very wise, this time the soldiers who surrendered without a fight are really a good move, my Zhejiang Qing army does not cost a single soldier, under your slight tricks, all the rebels are annihilated, it is really admirable." ”

Zhang Zengyang was a little drunk, squinted his drunken eyes, and said happily: "Brother Liu's words are very pleasant, although there is a suspicion of greeting, but this government likes to listen to it." Although it is said that the soldiers who surrendered without a fight this time are really a conspiracy, these mud-legged people are illiterate in fighting, let alone strategy, a group of rabble, and the courage of a horseman. ”

Liu Zhizhang said: "I heard rumors that the Hainan rebels stationed in Yulin here are fierce, and they have the potential to sweep Guangxi, and now, all of them have taken Guangdong, occupied nearly half of Guangxi's territory, and have nearly 200,000 troops, which should be the fierce enemy of our seven provinces coalition army." ”

"This is a rumor in the countryside, the peasant rebel army in Guangxi since the 28th year of Guangxu, the momentum can be called extremely fierce, but it is just a gang of reckless, a plate of scattered sand, in front of my well-trained elite of the Qing Dynasty, it is also vulnerable! Thinking of that Chen Xiao'er, it is rumored that he is young and careless, drunk and dreaming of death, infatuated with women, and he is really a dou who can't be helped, compared to the king of Hainan back then, it is a world of difference. Now that Chen Chuwang has returned to the west, and his original subordinates have their own plans, Hainan is now too peaceful on the surface, but it is really precarious.

This expedition to Guangxi is actually to suppress the peasant rebel army, and it is even more intended to recover Hainan. The Yulin rebels are not worth mentioning, it is only a matter of time before they are cleaned up" Zhang Zengyang took a glass of wine and drank it all, as if everything was under his control.

As he was talking, he heard the deafening roar of the sky, Zhang Zengyang raised his drunken eyes and looked out of the door, only to see that in the night sky southeast of Guilin, several big bird-like things flashed brightly and rumbled.

Liu Zhizhang hurriedly flattered and said: "Lord Governor, the sky will descend on the purple star, and there will be a big come!" ”

After Zhang Zengyang heard what Liu Zhizhang said, he suddenly realized that he had been empowered, and hurriedly left the table to bow down in the southeast direction, extremely pious.

Liu Zhizhang didn't expect that he would say a joke, the governor actually took it seriously, and he also bent down and bowed, and in a trance, it seemed that it was really a god.

The two of them were imagining a bright future, but they didn't care, this thing, there were more than a dozen back and forth in the air, attracting thousands of people in Guilin City to watch.

Half an hour later, the southeast explosion of Guilin City was deafening, and the flames were soaring into the sky, and a regiment of men and horses suddenly appeared in Guilin City and launched a fierce attack on the defenders of Guilin.

At the same time, the outside of Guilin City was also killing and shattering, and the firepower of two divisions launched a fierce attack on Guilin City.

Zhang Zengyang never dreamed that Chen Zhong's army had attacked the city of Guilin, and the strength of a regiment had already entered the city.

"What's going on?" Zhang Zengyang questioned the sergeant. The herald who had returned from the city defense informed him that the rebels in Yulin had broken through the southeast gate of Guilin, and that the defenders of Guilin were engaged in a fierce battle with it.

Zhang Zengyang was shocked into a cold sweat, just now he was still proud of his way of using troops, disdainful of the rebels in Hainan Chenzhong, but he didn't think about it, while speaking, these Hainan rebels had already hit in front of him.

Guilin as the Qing army's encirclement and suppression of the Guangxi uprising rear base, baggage, grain, grass and ammunition are all in the city, once Guilin misses, the front of Liuzhou, there is no source of food and grass for military supplies, become a lone army.

Now, the Hainan army actually came to Guilin unconsciously, which Zhang Zengyang never expected.

This time the military situation was urgent, and he immediately ordered the defenders of Guilin to 50,000 people, and dispatched half of them to the east gate to surround Chen Zhong's army, and sent additional men to guard the ammunition depot in the northeast of Guilin City and the grain and grassland in the northwest. The messenger rushed to Liuzhou City and asked Cao Hongxun, the garrison of Liuzhou City, to send reinforcements to support.

It turned out that the raid on Guilin City was more than 10,000 people from the Xuyang Division of Yang Tianlong's Eighth Army, who marched from Yulin for a day and night and were stationed outside Yulin City.

The flying objects that Zhang Zengyang saw were they bombing with kites? The scene of the medicine being dropped in the city.

Cao Hongxun thought that he had come to the auspicious air, but he didn't know that it was his evil star.

The advance regiment of the Xuyang Department blew up the east gate of Guilin, and joined forces with the army outside the city, attacking inside and outside, opening a huge gap in the east gate of Guilin City.

The defenders of Guilin City responded in a hurry, and the two sides fell into a state of anxiety, because the Qing army guarding Yulin reached as many as 50,000, and the Xuyang army only had more than 10,000 people, so the battle was extremely fierce.

Xu Yang transferred a battalion of troops, equipped with heavy weapons, and carried two trucks to bomb? medicine, and quickly rushed to the ammunition depot in the northeast of Yulin City.

When the battalion commander Wu Weiliang led the soldiers to the Guilin ammunition depot, he was met with stubborn resistance from the Qing troops guarding the ammunition depot.

Wu Weiliang and the soldiers of the first battalion fought several times with the Qing army twice the size of him, and after forty minutes, there were less than ten soldiers left in the battalion.

Wu Weiliang knew that if he couldn't blow up this ammunition depot in Guilin City, the 50,000 defenders of Guilin City would besiege the more than 10,000 people in Xu Yang in Guilin City.

So, Wu Weiliang made a decision to carry out a suicide attack, ordering them to fill two cars with bombs? The vehicles of medicine rushed towards the Qing troops guarding the ammunition depot together, and there was a loud noise, and one of Wu Weiliang's battalion soldiers and the Qing troops stationed there disappeared with the explosion of the ammunition depot.

Cao Hongxun, the governor of Liuzhou, received Guilin's request for help and immediately ordered 20,000 Qing troops to rush to Guilin. The 20,000 Qing soldiers marched 50 kilometers outside Guilin and were surrounded and annihilated by nearly 40,000 people from Zhang Heng and other three reinforced divisions who had been ambushed there in advance.

The 20,000 Qing soldiers were ambushed by opponents nearly twice their size due to the long march. In less than half an hour, Zhang Heng and the others resolved the battle.

After Zhang Heng completed the task of ambushing the reinforcements from Liuzhou, he hurried to Guilin City to meet Xu Yang. At this moment, Xu Yang's first division lost almost half of its parts, and launched a fierce street battle with the defenders of Guilin, which was difficult to win for a while.

After Zhang Heng and the other three reinforced divisions arrived in Guilin City, the tide of battle in Guilin quickly reversed. In less than half an hour, the Qing army in Guilin was routed on all fronts, and Zhang Zengyang took advantage of the chaos to escape. Yang Tianlong's Eighth Army took full control of Guilin.

After receiving the news of the loss of Guilin, Cao Hongxun of Liuzhou immediately rushed to Guilin, because Guilin was the rear grain and grass camp of the Qing army in Guangxi, and in case of failure, the Qing army in Liuzhou, Nanning would be cut off from grain and grass.

Cao Hongxun was about to raise troops to go to Guilin, but at this moment, he received a request for help from Lin Shaonian in Hechi - Hechi was in an emergency!

It turned out that the three divisions of the Eighth Army stationed in Yulin raised 30,000 people, and the Eighteenth Route Army of Hui and Dong San began to besiege Hechi.

The offensive of the Hainan army was extremely fierce, and the east gate of Hechi was once lost, and Hechi City could be broken by the Hainan army at any time. Warlord world

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