Lai Wenguang is right, the current Shi Dakai is also in a state of worry and unease, if it is only in the face of the army of Zeng Zuo and Li, the Taiping army that has been helped by firearms is not afraid of them, and now Shi Dakai does not have any constraints, the entire Taiping army is under his control, facing the Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army, or has the upper hand.

In terms of strength alone, the Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army, combined, are only about 100,000 people, and there are a large number of recruits among them, and the current Taiping army has a strength of 1560,000 troops, and it occupies the entire Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hubei, plus most of Zhejiang, and there is Sichuan behind it as a support, and the strength is quite strong.

But the arrival of the three towns of Shandong and the training army made Shi Daxing nervous, the three towns of Shandong had just arrived in southern Jiangsu, and the eastern battalion of the Taiping Army called once, four thousand against seven thousand, and the result was that the four thousand green battalion beat the seven thousand Taiping army to the ground, and it was not anyone's opponent at all, Zuo Guigui and Yan Chunyu are both cadres who can fight well, and there are also cadres like Gao Yi and Zhang Song, all of whom are elite soldiers and strong generals brought out by Guo Ye, and then there are all firearms to help, the Taiping Army is naturally not an opponent.

Just one battle, the three towns of Shandong and the training army showed their sharp fangs, you must know that the three towns of Shandong and the training army together have more than 15,000 troops, according to the level of this battle, even against the Taiping army of thirty or forty thousand are definitely not left behind, and then there are Hunan army, Huai army and Chu army to help, this time the life of the Taiping army is absolutely difficult, especially the Huai army is now also equipped with a large number of firearms, the combat power is very strong, which has caused great pressure on the Taiping army.

Fortunately, the three towns of Shandong only fought a battle with the Lian Army, and they retreated more than a hundred miles, and they did not move and no longer participated in the battle ahead, although it was not clear what was going on, for Shi Dakai, it was a good thing after all.

Shi Dakai finally breathed a sigh of relief, but Shi Dakai didn't have time to be happy, another piece of information scared Shi Dakai, Guo Ye is back, Guo Ye has returned from the United States, if there is a figure in the entire Qing Dynasty who can make Shi Dakai jealous, it is definitely Guo Ye, after all, not any general can even fight the British, French and Russian coalition without falling behind, and even beat the foreigners to the top of their heads!

Shi Dakai couldn't help but be nervous, Shi Da was happy and clear, this time Guo Ye returned, definitely to avenge Monk Greenqin, everyone in the world knows that Monk Greenqin is Guo Ye's Bole, benefactor, Monk Greenqin pulled Guo Ye out of the ranks, from a useless soldier, then the general, then the thousand, then the president of the firearms battalion, and then took over as the chief soldier of Baoding Town, followed by the minister of the Prime Minister's Affairs Yamen, the governor of Shandong, all the way forward, without the support and help of Monk Greenqin, Guo Ye will definitely not be able to get to this point today, without the support of Monk Greenqin, Guo Ye doesn't know how many times he has been killed by the ministers of the court!

Now that Seng Lingqin has died in the hands of Zhang Luoxing and Lai Wenguang, it is impossible for Guo Ye to sit idly by, once he returns to China, he will definitely launch an attack on the Twist Army and the Northern Taiping Army and take revenge.

Don't say it's Zhang Luoxing and Lai Wenguang, even if he faces such a famous general, he definitely doesn't have any certainty of victory, this Guo Ye is really powerful.

After Shi Dakai got the information about Guo Ye's return, the first thing he did was to ask Dong Haichuan to help again, contact Hua Ruohan, and buy Western arms from the Americans again.

Shi Dakai asked Dong Haichuan to help him purchase 50 artillery pieces, 10,000 rifles, 20,000 shells and 10,000 boxes of ammunition from the United States. Let's not talk about anything else, can the Taiping Army come up with such a huge sum of money?

However, now Shi Dakai has no way to retreat, in the past two or three years, China has undergone drastic changes, and in the past, wars were all big swords and spears, long bows and arrows, and at most some bird guns and spears were used, but now? A large number of foreign guns and foreign artillery poured into China, in the face of sharp foreign guns, bows and arrows are useless at all, as for broadswords and spears, they are useless, there are dozens of meters or even hundreds of meters away from people, they are killed by other people's bullets, and there is no way to fight the next war without foreign guns and foreign artillery!

Of course, Shi Dakai has a good place now, that is, Sichuan is in his own hands, Anhui and Zhejiang are also in his hands, and there is no big problem in raising money and food.

He is now facing the Hunan army, the Huai army and the Chu army, but he can deal with it, as long as the three towns of Shandong do not join the battle, he will have the upper hand; Now the biggest problem is Henan, whether Henan's Twist Army can hold Henan, now Zhang Luoxing's Twist Army elite has been defeated in Baoding, it won't be long before Guo Ye's Baoding Town Elite will go south, and when the time comes, it will definitely be in the Twist Army North Taiping Army to start a battle.

Equipped with a large number of firearms, the elite of Baoding Town, experienced in a hundred battles, once defeated twice as much as their own Russian army, and has fought several fierce battles with the British and French coalition forces, whether it is the command ability of the generals, or the quality of individual combat, it is the crown cover of the United States, coupled with advanced firearms, it can definitely crush the Taiping Army and the Twist Army.

Shi Dakai remembered the letter that Zhang Luoxing sent to him some time ago, asking him to allocate some firearms for them to use, because his firearms were also very nervous, so he pressed them down, and now it seems that if he wants Zhang Zongyu and Lai Wenguang to block the elite of Baoding Town, and then protect his rear, he must allocate some firearms to them.

Shi Dakai sighed, how easy is it to transfer firearms, he only has less than 5,000 foreign guns and 50 new artillery, and he has transferred them to the Twist Army, what do you use? You must know that the current Huai army is also equipped with a large number of firearms, which is not counting the three towns of Shandong, without Western firearms, it is even more difficult for them to gain the upper hand!

It's just that Henan is very important now, and he has mobilized all his troops to the southeast, Anhui is empty, once Henan falls, then Anhui, his own base camp, will be dangerous!

Let's give Zhang Zongyu and Lai Wenguang emergency relief first, and then hope to be able to sell firearms to the Americans......

(To be continued.) )