"Yiwang, you want Guo Ye to surrender to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in fact, think about it on the other hand, why didn't the Taiping Army surrender to Guo Ye?"

"Huh?"

Shi Dakai's eyes flashed, he looked at Dong Haichuan sharply, and asked, "Brother Haichuan, presumably this is what you really want to say to me, right?" ”

"Not bad!"

Dong Haichuan gritted his teeth and replied: "Yiwang, the situation is obvious, the Taiping Army is definitely not the opponent of Guo Ye and Zeng Guofan, not to mention Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, just Guo Ye's Shandong and Baoding's elite, it is not something that the Taiping Army can easily deal with, although the three towns of Shandong and Baoding Town together, there are only more than 20,000 people, but each of them is a first-class warrior, strong and incomparable, even the foreigners have suffered a big loss, not to mention the Taiping Army?" The most important thing is that Guo Ye has the arsenal and Qilu Bank behind him, so he doesn't have to worry about money, food and weapons at all, but our Taiping Army is not good, we don't have foreign guns and cannons, no one knows if that Hua Ruohan will continue to buy weapons for us, and we don't have Qilu Bank, although Zhejiang and Anhui are rich lands, but it is also difficult to supply nearly 200,000 troops, not to mention the Hunan Army and the Huai Army? ”

Shi Dakai didn't speak, just looked at Dong Haichuan quietly, Dong Haichuan felt a huge pressure, this is Shi Dakai, if it was replaced by the East King or the North King back then, he would not have said this, but the two of them definitely did not have such an open mind as Shi Dakai.

"Yiwang, with me threading the needle in the middle, communicating with Guo Ye for you, you can put forward any requirements you have, I will go to talk to Guo Ye, even if I fight hard, I will keep the Taiping Army safe and sound with you!"

Shi Dakai said lightly: "Forget it, Brother Haichuan, I know that you have good intentions, but this twenty-year foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cannot be destroyed in my hands like this, death is death, I want to see how powerful this Guo Ye is, and if he is defeated in his hands, it is also a kind of glory for me!" ”

"Yiwang, you, aren't you just for the more than 100,000 Taiping Army brothers who continue to insist, if there is such an opportunity now, can let the brothers avoid the suffering of swords, how can you ......?"

Shi Dakai waved his hand and replied: "Brother Haichuan, after all, I still have to see this Guo Ye, if the two of us don't fight, how can we know who wins and who loses?" ”

Dong Haichuan said urgently: "Wing King, once you really start the battle, it will be too late!" Even if you can stop Guo Ye, what about Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang in the east? What about Zuo Zongtang and Shen Baozhen in the south? Who's going to keep them at bay for you? Which of these people is not a capable minister in the world? I can tell you that when I was in Jinan, Guo Ye mentioned you to me more than once, full of respect for you, and praised you as the real number one general in the world, I think, as long as we sit down and talk, there will definitely be a chance! ”

Shi Da laughed and said: "Oh, I didn't expect that I still have such a high evaluation in Guo Ye's heart, doesn't he see me as a rebel of the imperial court?" ”

Dong Haichuan smiled bitterly: "Wing King, Guo Ye once looked down on the King of Heaven and the King of the North, and he had a love and hate for the King of the East, but for you there is only praise, that's for sure, on the matter, Guo Ye has never thought that there is anything wrong with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, at most, he just sighed, an uprising, how many lives have been ruined, and at the same time, he was taken advantage of by foreigners, and his brothers were insulted by outsiders ......"

Shi Dakai nodded and replied: "It is worthy of a generation master, Haichuan, you can tell me, what kind of character is this Guo Ye?" How did you meet? ”

Dong Haichuan sighed and replied: "Guo Ye, a few years ago, he was just a recruit in the Tianjin Green Battalion, aroused by righteous indignation, and a group of veterans used force, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen veterans were all put on the ground. The envoys of Britain, France, the United States and Russia were divided and turned into them, repelled them one by one, prepared a firearms battalion, rectified Baoding Town, and went all the way down, growing from a small soldier to the current governor of Liangjiang in just a few years, which is a hundred times more magical than that Zuo Zongtang. ”

Dong Haichun paused, and then said: "The rapid rise, Guo Ye relies not only on opportunities, but on real talent, this guy himself is proficient in all kinds of firearms, can count the Chinese language, and is extremely proficient in foreign affairs, and is also an unborn generation of military geniuses, before he was born, your first general deserved it, but after he was born, your first general can only be given to him, in just two or three years, those battles he fought are more than a classic, more than you have experienced in more than ten years!" ”

"Doesn't he have any shortcomings?"

Shi Dakai asked in a deep voice.

"Downside?"

Dong Haichuan smiled: "Yes, he has an obvious shortcoming, exactly the same as you, that is, he is too emotional, and sometimes he will be carried away by feelings, haha, you two are too similar to this!" ”

Shi Dakai was stunned for a while, and immediately laughed, shortcomings, this is Guo Ye's shortcomings, and they are also their own shortcomings, originally he still had a careful eye, and wanted to hear some of Guo Ye's weaknesses from Dong Haichuan's mouth, but he didn't expect that he was the same as himself, only one weakness was emotional, and he really met an opponent this time!

"And how did you meet?"

Shi Dakai asked.

"Providence dictates, it can only be providential."

Dong Haichuan sighed and replied: "In the first battle of Tongzhou, Guo Ye was bombarded by the British army's shells in order to save Monk Greenqin, and was seriously injured, and was washed out along the Tonghui River, which happened to be discovered by me and E'er, at that time there were seven or eight shrapnel on his body, and after saving him, he knew that it was the famous General Fei, since then, he and E'er have formed a relationship, and I know that now, now my son is half a year old......"

"Love at first sight? Hehe, I know that E'er's niece has a very high vision, not everyone can see it, and there is no hope for her to threaten to beat her at the beginning! What's the matter, this Guo Ye still has a good kung fu? ”

Shi Dakai joked.

"Well, good kung fu, maybe my martial arts attainments are a little bit different from you and me, but this murderous kung fu is even better than you and me, I suspect that his kung fu is only practiced for killing, and the moves are deadly!" (To be continued.) )