You have to know that Zuo Zongtang is about to lead the whole army south to save himself. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Hongzhang came back to life almost instantly, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to defeat the remnants of the army and retreat into the county town of Shanghai.

Li Hongzhang wanted to hold on and wait for help, although Zhang Yun's artillery was extremely powerful!

But with the defeat of the hundreds of thousands of remnants of his army, even if he gave up the city wall to fight with Zhang Yun in the streets, Li Hongzhang also wanted to survive and fight for a way out.

What's more, Zuo Zongtang will soon go south, plus most of Zuo Zongtang's troops are cavalry, so it won't take a few days to get from Shandong to Shanghai.

And after only insisting on such a few days, Li Hongzhang is still quite sure in his heart.

As long as Zuo Zongtang arrives, he will immediately lead the army out of the city to join him, even if he can't bite Zhang Yun back, then he must be able to retreat calmly!

As long as all the troops are brought to Shandong and Shanxi, then at least there will be a chance to make a comeback and make a comeback......

And when the two major intelligence agencies sent the intelligence that Zuo Zongtang couldn't stay in Shandong and wanted to go south to Shanghai to save Li Hongzhang.

Zhang Yun's mood was ecstatic, if Zuo Zongtang could be buried in Shanghai County at one time, then there would be no one in the Manchu court!

Just relying on Cixi Neile's trouser belt, tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, the tens of thousands of so-called Manchurian iron flags made out are useless at all.

At most, after the defeat of the Manchu court, he could escort Cixi to flee to Shenyang again, but Zhang Yun asked himself the nobles of the Manchu court, I am afraid that he will not have this opportunity in his hands.

You must know that you are not Zhu Yuanzhang, you are so poor that you can't even take out a few iron kitchen knives, and finally let a large number of Mongolian nobles flee to the Mongolian steppe, and continue to be at large for hundreds of years, until now......

So Zhang Yun hurriedly ordered the troops from all over the country to stop attacking, for fear of scaring Zuo Zongtang away, and then I am afraid that there will be a headache in the future!

If Zuo Zongtang's hundreds of thousands of troops are broken up in the plains, I am afraid that an unknown number of bandit forces will be formed in the future, and I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be wasted in the work of suppressing bandits after the unification of the whole country in the future.

Afterwards, Zhang Yun sat next to the telegraph room of the Haiquan, monitoring Zuo Zongtang's march route at any time......

Zuo Zongtang's army has entered Suqian......

has entered Huai'an......

It has entered Yangzhou......

As the intelligence department passed over one by one, seeing Zuo Zongtang getting closer and closer, Zhang Yun finally couldn't help laughing!

Because Zhang Yun endured not moving, he directly vacated the north of Shanghai County, and did not arrange a single soldier, so Zuo Zongtang went very smoothly and entered Shanghai County with more than 100,000 cavalry under his subordinates......

After learning that Zuo Zongtang had entered Shanghai County, the commanders of the major integrated corps below sent a telegram asking for war almost every hour!

But Zhang Yun was still patient and tried his best to appease the troops...... It wasn't until three days later that Zuo Zongtang's infantry finally came to the outskirts of Shanghai.

At this time, Zhang Yun issued a general attack order, of course, first of all, he had to transfer heavy troops to surround all Zuo Zongtang's infantry.

Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, when Zhang Yun gave the order for a general attack, appeared at the head of Shanghai and pointed to Zhang Yun's troops outside the city, Li Hongzhang said: "All our soldiers in the city are combined, and there is no more than half of Zhang Yun. ”

"If this battle starts, I'm afraid we won't end well!"

"What's more, if Zhang Yun uses that kind of poison gas in case, it's like the battle in Zhumadian, Henan......"

Li Hongzhang mentioned the poisonous gas, and Zuo Zongtang immediately said: "Zhang Yun doesn't dare, there are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Shanghai County, so this place is not as good as the plain of Zhumadian, he dares to release poison gas unscrupulously......"

"This is also the reason why I led all the cavalry into the city, that is, I am afraid that if you meet you on the outskirts of Shanghai, Zhang Yun will be mad and give this official a handful of poison!"

Li Hongzhang was stunned, and at first thought that Zuo Zongtang had obeyed the instructions of the imperial court, abandoned his previous suspicions, and tried his best to go into Shanghai County to help him, but he was just afraid that Zhang Yun would gas him!

Then the atmosphere was a little awkward, Zuo and Li stopped talking, turned their heads, and intently observed Zhang Yun's arrangement.

But at this moment, in the northern suburbs of Shanghai, where Zuo Zongtang's more than 200,000 infantry were stationed, there was a sudden burst of earth-shattering artillery fire......

In order to build momentum, and at the same time, to eliminate the more than 200,000 Zuo Zongtang's infantry, and then concentrate on besieging Shanghai City.

Zhang Yun transferred all the artillery brought by the whole army, the artillery units of more than a dozen divisions, and nearly 2,000 155 mm caliber plus howitzers here, so the scene here is very spectacular now!

Even the county seat of Shanghai, which is more than ten kilometers away from here, can feel this kind of power that seems to destroy the world.

In order to reduce the resistance during the attack, Zhang Yun asked the artillery unit to keep his hands and go all out to open fire, until more than an hour later, the barrels of nearly 2,000 artillery pieces were about to turn red, and in order to prevent the explosion, the fierce artillery fire gradually became thin......

Then the trumpeter blew the trumpet, and nearly 500,000 troops carried heavy machine guns and rushed towards the Qing army's position, followed by a scene of massacre!

After all, Zuo Zongtang's army didn't even have the consciousness of digging trenches, and could only stand up and shoot a platoon of guns......

"Is this a hanging?" After Zhang Yun saw this scene with a telescope, he muttered in his mouth.

If Zuo Zongtang's army had the quality of the Japanese army in World War II, at least knowing how to dig trenches to resist, even if his army equipment was a century ahead of them, it would be impossible to present this kind of hanging scene!

And looking at this posture, maybe before tonight, I'm afraid that this encirclement and annihilation battle will be over, and it is estimated that few people in Zuo Zongtang's army should be able to escape.

The result of this war was indeed not beyond Zhang Yun's estimate, stepping on the beautiful sunset, nearly 500,000 patriotic soldiers held their heads high and walked out of the battlefield with hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war!

Solving this thorn in the flesh, Zhang Yun can finally put his mind at ease and concentrate on thinking about how to solve Shanghai?

Zhang Yun convened his high-ranking officials and discussed them many times, and the opinion of these cattle was that they should concentrate nearly 2,000 155 mm caliber howitzers, regardless of 3721, and first turn Shanghai to the bottom of the sky, and then Zuo and Li would definitely not be able to endure it.

And in the subsequent siege process of the troops, they can also reduce their own casualty rate, you must know that the disability pension of the Patriotic Army is very high!