End of September 1864

The Battle of Changsha ended completely, and the pre-war goal was basically achieved. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although there was no complete annihilation of the Qing army. But according to post-war statistics.

In the Battle of Changsha, the Qing army was annihilated by about 110,000 people.

At the same time, in the city of Beijing, a scene was happening in the court, which Zhang Yun was very interested in.

It's a pity that he can't see it, and his spies haven't gotten to such a high position.

Emperor Tongzhi sat in front of the Taihe Hall in the Forbidden City, with a curtain hanging behind him, and the two queen mothers sat behind them.

I only heard a female voice ask angrily, Zeng Guopan, is this how you serve the emperor?

In the battle of Nanjing, 120,000 Hunan troops were completely annihilated, and this palace gives you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Immediately after the Battle of Changsha, Li Hongzhang and you suffered another big defeat, and almost couldn't even come back to the two of you.

The bandits in Xiangxi, are they really so difficult to treat?

Back to the emperor, the queen mother, the thief doesn't know where to go? A lot of advanced firearms were brought in.

The riflemen under the old minister did not fire a single shot, and their muskets fired six shots.

And every time my Qing Dynasty's Hongyi cannon fires, their cannon can also fire six times.

If so, forget it, but their artillery is extremely powerful.

All of them use flowering bombs, even if they use flowering bombs, but their flowering bombs seem to be more powerful than our flowering bombs, more than ten times greater.

Enough, Zeng Guofan, are you shirking your responsibility? The Queen Mother is angry,

Devil Six stood up and said, why does the sixth prince think that what the mourning family said is wrong?

The minister didn't dare to return to the queen mother, but the minister had a few words to say, you can talk about it, some people in the province think that the mourning family is mean and unkind.

Devil Six glanced at Zeng Guofan, and Li Hongzhang knelt on the ground and said.

Qi played the emperor, Qi played the queen mother's ministers thought that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang did their best.

After all, in the two major battles of Nanjing and Changsha, Zeng's hundreds of thousands of Hunan troops were completely annihilated.

And Lord Li's more than 100,000 Huai troops also followed in his footsteps, and if you want to say that the two of them have no strength,

At least the minister is, not convinced.

The devil said this, in the court, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang's political enemies.

All of them couldn't wait to jump out and attack him, and the two of them were afraid that they would turn over for the two of them.

Seeing this, the political allies of Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan also jumped out,

The court became a pot of porridge, and the comrade little emperor saw the situation in front of him.

Completely dumbfounded, the two queen mothers behind the curtain could only stand in front of the curtain.

Cixi stopped yelling, and all the adults in the court reacted.

Asked the emperor and the empress dowager to blame together, but the law did not blame the public, just now in the court, one or two hundred ministers participated in the attack on each other.

The Empress Dowager Cixi had no choice but to reveal the past section and not mention it.

At this time, the devil said that Li Xiucheng's thief gathered hundreds of thousands of people in Shandong.

It is said that the firearms used are the same as those of the bandits in Xiangxi.

Seeing that it is about to be irrepressible, you are still arguing here,

According to what the old minister saw, Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Seng Lingqin, and the four adults should form a new army.

Abandon the Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers who can't use them to form a new army,

And it is urgent, how far Shandong is from the capital to say a polite word.

The morning is coming, maybe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, the rebels of the Taiping army will be on the verge of Beijing.

So at this time, please ask the queen mother, the emperor don't blame Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan's two sins.

Instead, he should send people as soon as possible to support them in forming a new army and go to Shandong to suppress thieves and quell the rebellion.

Hearing Devil Six say this again, Zeng and Li's political enemies jumped out again.

But this time, instead of condoning them, Cixi roared and told them to shut up.

Immediately afterwards, Cixi asked the head of the household department Shangshu, how much silver is still in the treasury?

The head of the household replied in a letter that the Empress Dowager currently has more than 44 million taels of silver in the treasury.

After Cixi heard this, she turned her head, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and the two of them, if the mourning family will give you 10 million taels of silver each.

How long will it take for the two of you to build an army? Go south to exterminate the Taiping traitors.

After hearing this, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang immediately knelt down and greeted the Empress Dowager.

If the old minister wants to return to his hometown, Hunan and Anhui will go to recruit soldiers

I'm afraid that far water can't quench the thirst of the near,

What's more, Lao Chen's hometown, Hunan, is still under the control of thieves.

At present, the only way to do this was to borrow their homes from the gentry from the north and quickly form a new army.

Then after a few months of hard training, as long as the food and salary are sufficient, the old minister is sure to go to Shandong to suppress the thieves and quell the rebellion.

Zeng Guofan said confidently, Cixi Ci'an discussed it for a long time, and the two of them had no better way.

Only agreed to Zeng Guofan's suggestion, and ordered Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, to immediately form a new army.

Be sure to form an army by the end of this year, and most importantly, you must block the Taiping traitors and prevent them from getting close to the capital.

The old minister received the decree, and after the dissolution of the Great Dynasty, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, monk Greenqin, and other Manchu hawks gathered in the palace of Devil Six.

The devil who had just sat down asked Zeng Guofan, what is the name of the bandit from Hunan, Zhang Yun?

Is it really irrepressible? The official of the Battle of Nanjing was not at the scene,

I heard the remnants of the defeated soldiers who escaped say that the bandit surnamed Zhang won it by sneaking up on them.

In the Battle of Changsha, Master Li was a bandit surnamed Zhang who had personally experienced with his own officials.

There were indeed two brushes, and he had a big iron bird that flew in the sky, and kept throwing gunpowder bombs on the ground.

Many of the officers and soldiers of this official were killed under him, and they had no power to fight back.

And their muskets and artillery are indeed several times faster than those of my Daqing,

And the soldiers fought bravely and were not afraid of death, and the official once set up an ambush ten miles outside Changsha City.

Ambushed a small unit of the thieves, and after annihilating them all, captured dozens of rifles.

This official has personally experimented, and according to his observations, the guns of foreign foreigners are even more advanced.

The most hateful thing is that the official sent someone to recruit An, and Zhang Thief refused without thinking about it.

Moreover, this official once saw the corpses of Zhang Thief's subordinates, and they even cut their braids, which is simply a kingless and fatherless.

Zeng Guofan said this, and the devil six interjected again, interrupting him, this king heard that the thief has not raised the flag to rebel?

Lord Zeng's main target is still the Taiping traitor! Lord, you don't know.

No matter how the Taiping traitors can beat their own officials, they don't take them seriously,

A dog that doesn't bark bites people, and what the official is worried about is that Zhang Thief's heart can live.

Zeng Guofan said this, Li Hongzhang also interjected, Lord Wang, my lords.

The official also thought that Lord Zeng's words were reasonable, although the Taiping traitor seemed to be powerful.

Hehe, but they were unpopular, the gentry, officials, landlords were against them.

Therefore, they are destined to be outcasts, and their rise and fall will not be successful.

And this thief surnamed Zhang is completely different from the Taiping traitor.

After the Battle of Changsha, both the customs officer and Zeng Daren sent a fine work into Xiangxi to investigate.

It turned out that Zhang Thief began to recruit troops last year.

The strength is getting bigger and bigger, and as a result, he does not develop in the vicinity and conquers the city.

On the contrary, he shrank his head like a turtle until April this year, before he attacked Chenzhou Mansion.

The whole world didn't know that there was such an army in Xiangxi

After capturing the Shangchen Prefecture, the official and Zeng Daren originally wanted to send troops to attack and quell the rebellion.

His eyes and energy were all involved in the Battle of Nanjing.

I wanted to exterminate Nanjing's rebellion, and then go to Hunan to exterminate him

Never thought that he would dare to go to Nanjing to sneak attack the main force of the Hunan army?

What's even more incredible is that after he finished fighting Nanjing City, he actually returned to Hunan Province non-stop.

At this point, the official can't guess his thoughts, but the official can assert that he will be a thief in the future, and his henchmen will be in great trouble.

Zeng Guofan, following Li Hongzhang's words, so this official and Master Li.

Ignoring Li Xiucheng's escape, he chased him into Hunan non-stop.

I will want to destroy him, and then the result will be the king, my lord, my lord, you have also seen the result.

Next, everyone talked about it, Zuo Zongtang said, "Can I buy the same guns as them from foreigners in the Qing Dynasty?" The officer did not believe that their guns were,

There must be a way for these advanced firearms from heaven.

You can send more detailed work to inquire about the situation, and the official suggested that the imperial court purchase firearms from foreigners.

The officer believes that the bandits have it, and the musket foreigners must also have it, and it should be better and more advanced than theirs.

Everyone echoed Daozuo's words.

Devil Six knocked on the table, and everyone fell silent.

He spoke, and now there are two questions, one of which is, is it really okay for Zhang Xin to be a thief, Zhao'an?

Zeng Guofan hurriedly said that the official did not recommend recruiting him to recruit the devil six questions, why?

The envoy sent by the official of the Zeng State Domain was driven out after he inflicted palace punishment.

Originally, there were no people who killed messengers throughout the ages, and there were not a few.

But what he said to my messenger: Since you want to be a minion, do it thoroughly, and leave the root of this trouble.

That's fine, after you go back, you will concentrate on serving your master, and the official ponders this sentence.

I'm afraid that the thief surnamed Zhang will not accept the court's recruitment, and the devil six asked,

Since he is sure that he will not accept Zhao'an, then can he send the meticulous manpower to his territory.

Tentatively, he approached his officers to see if there were any people who wanted to abandon the darkness and turn to the court.

Li Hongzhang said that the matter is already underway, and there is no news yet.

The devil is just six ways, let's not talk about him There is a second problem, that is, how to contain the Taiping army.

These days these days the traitors of the peace are getting stronger and stronger day by day,

If you don't want to find a way to curb it, I'm afraid that it won't be able to be controlled in the future, and this king has already made contact with the British minister.

The foreign adults expressed their support for the peaceful military action of the Qing Dynasty.

They could even send troops to intervene if necessary, and the king refused their request to send troops.

Only a request to buy arms from them was made, and the British minister agreed.

It's just that the amount that this king wants to buy is too big for him to be the master, but it has already begun,

The message was sent back to England to consult with their queen, but the king did not think it was a big problem.

This king can see that the foreign adults don't like the Taiping traitors either.

On this point, they are actually in line with our interests.

When the Taiping traitors entered the city of Shanghai, the foreign adults personally sent troops to intervene.

The king would try to persuade the queen mother to buy between 300,000 and 500,000 muskets with the money from the treasury.

Your Excellency also hopes that your Excellency will use it as a basis for serving the country with loyalty and extinguishing the Taiping rebellion as soon as possible.

Li Hongzhang said that the official was going back to Anhui to recruit soldiers to rebuild the Huai army.

Wait for the official to train the new Huaijun soldiers, and then come to be the emperor and the queen mother, and be loyal.

Zeng Guo said, this official will go with you and this official will not believe it, can this Taiping traitor still rebel against the sky?

Monk Greenqin also arrived, and after the official went down, he immediately went to pursue, Li Xiucheng.

I hope that all of you will say two more good words for your official in the court, and you don't want to card the official's food and salary, and military supplies.

Everyone hurriedly said, my lord, you are polite, you have to go to the danger in person to put down the rebellion for me.

We'll settle the trivial matters in the court for you!

The devil is also here, please rest assured, boss! But if the king has a breath of air, he will not allow the villains in the court to jump out and embarrass the adults.

Monk Greenqin is very satisfied, stand up, this official is leaving, take care of your lords,

Then they dispersed without mentioning it.