Soon, Guo Ye took Chen Hai and Gao Qi to gather 600 training troops, boarded a cruise ship to the United States, and went all the way to the United States.

Guo Ye left, Wen Xiang brought the news back to the capital, and the bigwigs celebrated with their crowns, but the bigwigs were happy, some people were unhappy, and Cixi, who was depressed, was furious at every turn in the past few days, for seven days in a row, three imperial historians in the court, one waiter, and two foreigners were demoted out of the capital, and the bigwigs were all dumbfounded, what happened to this Queen Mother of the West? Could it be that menopause is early?

Anyway, the current Cixi is angry, and whoever is not pleasing to the eye will be cut, and even Prince Gong was reprimanded by Cixi, and the court was quiet.

However, the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop.

Just half a month after Guo Ye left the capital, something big happened again.

Because of Guo Ye, Zeng Guofan in the south got the foreign guns and artillery sold by the United States in advance, and his combat power increased greatly.

After the capture of Tianjing, Zeng Guoquan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang respectively swept away the remnants of the Taiping in the south of the Yangtze River, which was unstoppable.

Soon, the holy decree of the imperial court came down: to crown the prince of Zeng Guofan, Taibao, a first-class marquis; Zuo Zongtang was crowned the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the first-class Ke Jingbo; Li Hongzhang was crowned governor of Jiangsu, a first-class Su Yibo, and a dazzling eye; Zeng Guoquan was crowned governor of Zhejiang, the crown prince Shaobao, a first-class uncle, and the rest of Zeng Guofan's descendants were also added to the rank one by one, and Zeng Guofan finally reached the pinnacle of his life.

However, the good times were short-lived, and it was less than a month after the capture of Tianjing. Jiangnan has not yet had time to be completely purged. But it provoked another colorful tiger - Shi Dakai!

Originally in the same year. Shi Dakai was about to defeat the Dadu River and was annihilated by Luo Bingzhang on the bank of the Dadu River, but what he didn't expect was that Guo Ye made a big fuss in Tongzhou that year, and Luo Bingzhang, a generation of famous ministers, was not able to rise from the position of governor of Hubei to the governor of Sichuan, but the governor of Sichuan was acted by the Mongolian Fu Lehun.

But how can a muddy Fullerhun withstand the offensive of a generation of famous generals Shi Dakai? From the beginning of Xianfeng ten years, to the present, three years. The Sichuan army in Sichuan and the Yunnan-Guilu battalion that helped the war were beaten by Shi Dakai and lost their armor and fled, and the entire Chengdu Plain fell into Shi Dakai's hands.

Not only that, Shi Dakai went through nearly a year of rectification in Sichuan, recruited troops on a large scale, stabilized the situation, and at the moment before the fall of Tianjing, he led more than 50,000 elite soldiers under his command, starting from Chengdu and advancing all the way to the east. It took only a few days to capture the important town of Yichang in Hubei Province, and then down the Yangtze River. After crossing the Jiujiang River, the soldiers pointed directly at the lair of the Hunan Army in Anhui, Anqing, the location of the Beida Battalion!

It's completely lightning fast!

No one expected that at this time, Shi Dakai, who had entered the cage of Sichuan, was like an Kaisheng tiger, leading the Taiping army on a rampage, and arrived in Anqing in just one month!

When the generals of the Hunan army in Anqing saw the Yangtze River clearly, the banner of the Taiping Army and the handsome flag of Shi Dakai, they were so frightened that they almost peed their pants, Shi Dakai, this is the first tiger general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, known as Shi Dangdang, who once beat the marshal Zeng Guofan twice to commit suicide by throwing himself into the lake, as long as the Hunan army hears the name Shi Dakai, it will tremble a few times, it is too scary, and the Hunan army that died in the hands of Shi Dakai is tens of thousands!

Bao Chao, the general of the Hunan army, is also a famous general, but in front of Shi Dakai, it is not enough to see at all, the two people are not at the same level at all, in the face of the Taiping army's strength several times his own, Bao Chao led more than 4,000 Hunan troops to resist desperately, but still could not withstand the joint attack of the Taiping army by land and water, in just three days, Anqing fell, and Bao Chao also died in the chaos!

Anqing fell, and the news flew like wings!

The entire Liangjiang area was shaken, and Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Zhejiang, who was still sitting in Nanjing, was shocked and angry when he heard that Shi Dakai had captured Anqing, this is the most important base camp of the Hunan army, it can be said that most of the belongings of the Hunan army are in Anqing, including the Anqing Ordnance Institute that has been newly established for a short time!

Zeng Guoquan was furious and ordered to gather all the Hunan troops in Anhui in an attempt to recapture Anqing again along the river!

Not only Zeng Guoquan panicked, but even Zeng Guofan, who was far away in Suzhou, panicked, Shi Dakai, Zeng Guofan's most frightened opponent in this life is Shi Dakai, the young Shi dares to be a soldier like a god, unpredictable, if it weren't for Shi Dakai's negative departure in the past few years, he would definitely not have won Tianjing City so smoothly!

Send a letter, immediately send a letter of 700 miles to expedite the declaration of the imperial court!

Not only that, Zeng Guofan immediately ordered Li Hongzhang, the governor of Jiangsu, to immediately lead the elite of the Huai army to aid Zeng Guoquan, Zeng Guofan knew very well in his heart that it was absolutely difficult to resist Shi Dakai with just one Zeng Guoquan!

Indeed, Li Hongzhang is now clearing the Taiping army in southern Jiangsu, and when he was on the rise, he suddenly heard that Anqing had fallen, and he was also shocked, Anqing, where is his hometown Hefei, it is only a few steps away!

Li Hongzhang immediately mobilized 30 large battalions of the Huai Army and more than 15,000 elite soldiers to march towards the territory of Anhui.

However, after all, it is hundreds of miles away, and if you want to rush to Anqing in one go, where is it so easy? At the very least, it will take more than ten days before it can be.

Even in the past ten days, Zeng Guoquan has found it difficult to hold on!

Because the current Hunan army is no longer the Hunan army before the capture of Tianjing, at the beginning of the establishment of the Hunan army, Zeng Guofan ruled the army very strictly, and the imperial army had a good way, and the combat power of the Hunan army was indeed not to be underestimated, but over the years, while the Hunan army has been growing, the elites in the army are also constantly decreasing, with Shen Baozhen, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang successively breaking away from the Hunan army and taking away a large number of military elites from the Hunan army, the Hunan army has already become a strong foreign force, which is not counted, the most important thing is that if Beijing falls today, Li Xiucheng is bound, Hong Xiuquan commits suicide, Even the young master was caught by the Hunan army.

It can be said that the Hunan army has already achieved fame, and all the generals have received huge rewards, and there is no shortage of official positions, wealth, and beauties, so naturally there is no longer the original enterprising heart, and the morale of the entire Hunan army has fallen from the peak all of a sudden, and it is no longer what it used to be!

Zeng Guoquan gathered more than 40,000 troops in a short time, including the most warlike musket battalion and artillery battalion, looking forward to defeating Shi Dakai in one fell swoop, more than 40,000 people pressed towards Anqing, from Nanjing to Anqing is only two hundred miles away, four days of rapid march, you can arrive, not to mention the Yangtze River to help.

Zeng Guoquan vowed that this time, he must defeat Shi Dakai to avenge the revenge of the year!

(To be continued.) )