Chapter 136
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Unlike Lin Haifeng, who felt a little dirty for himself, Zeng Guofan in Zhuzhou City had been guarding for almost ten days, not only did he not have any military achievements, but there was an extra woman by his side. This woman is none other than the concubine of the Zhuzhou magistrate who he made an excuse to cut down as soon as he came to Zhuzhou.
As we said earlier, Zeng Guofan was not a military strategist. The reason why he later became famous was due to the mutual intriguing and military mistakes made within the Taiping army. Second, I would like to thank the poor literati of later generations. And the Hunan army is not a great army, it is just garbage. What "no Hunan army can not be formed", what Hunan army is formed and trained in excellent ways, what Hunan army is invincible, and some people even fantasize that after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed, Zeng Guofan could completely rely on this "invincible" army to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, etc., it was just for specific needs, and it was whitewashed by the poor people.
Interested friends can carefully read the war history of Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army and Taiping Army, and the conclusion is very clear. The two battles that the Hunan army relied on to become famous conquered Anqing and Tianjing. Speaking of the first battle of Anqing, in the winter of 1859, Zeng Guofan commanded and besieged Anqing in four ways. In May 1860, Yang Zaifu, the commander of the Qing army's naval division, led the naval division to storm Zongyang, an important town in the lower reaches of Anqing. It was the Taiping rebel general Wei Jun (Wei Changhui's brother) who dug up the embankments of Luozhou and Xiashou near Zongyang and diverted water into Houhu, so that the Qing army could advance by land and water. The Taiping army guards Lian Tianfu and Wan Zongsheng led their divisions to fight and died one after another. On June 20, Zongyang fell, and Anqing was in danger
In November 1860, Chen Yucheng led an army of more than 100,000 people from Tongcheng to the south, and fought a fierce battle with Li Jiyi's troops of the Qing army at the Trailer River, thirty miles southwest of Yuancheng. Kill the corpses of the Qing army all over the field. Seeing that victory was in sight, unexpectedly, it was this traitor Wei Zhijun who suddenly smashed Liantan from behind, cutting off the grain route of the Taiping army, and causing the Taiping army to be chased back to Tongcheng. The first rescue of Anqing failed. Before Wei Jun's rebellion, he was one of the main generals of the five armies in the later period of the Taiping Army. It can be seen that he is a talent.
In the autumn and winter of 1860, Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong, led the army of the South Road from Taiping County, passed through Fanchang and Shitai and entered Yixian, only 60 miles away from Zeng Guofan's headquarters in Qimen. Zeng Guofan was already frightened, and even wrote a suicide note, ready to play another defeat and kill himself. Pity. Li Xiucheng did not take advantage of the victory to attack Qimen directly, nor did he march to Hubei according to the predetermined route, but he waved his army to Zhejiang without authorization and turned to Jiangxi, and as a result, he lost a good fighter plane to relieve the siege of Anqing.
It is conceivable that at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was personally ruled by Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, who was iron bowl and centralized power, was gone, and Shi Dakai, a military genius loved by the Taiping soldiers, was gone. When the great Heavenly King sent hundreds of thousands of troops to save Anqing's crisis, he actually forgot to appoint a former enemy commander. The armies of several roads fought separately, and whoever wanted to do what they wanted to do, and finally fell short, and Anqing fell into the hands of the Hunan army because of lack of food and grass after holding out for a year.
It was Hong Xiuquan himself who gave the laurels of victory to Zeng Guofan.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to rule the Han nation for more than 260 years, and the trick to success was to make the Han people forget their own culture and their own national heroes. They can sacrifice Guan Yunchang, who has a small belly and chicken intestines, and forgets the righteousness of the whole section, and tells you to go to Yuzhong. But some people are willing to forget about Guan Yu's Hualing Dao, and regard this villain who betrayed the interests of his so-called most loyal eldest brother as a "martial saint". Later generations did their best to tout a Zeng Guofan, who committed suicide only because he knew that he had lost face, and didn't it exactly have the same effect as the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy of fooling the people? , Zhuan Zhu, Jing Ke, Yue Fei, and Wen Tianxiang were all knocked off the horse, and Qin Yu was carefully supported by the poor acid and stood up tremblingly. However, after all, the poor sour people are not strong enough, otherwise, Grandpa Yue is afraid that he should kneel at Qin Yu's feet. What are they afraid of? Afraid of the common people. The common people don't have much culture, but they know that Qin Yu is a big traitor after all.
So, the poor sour moved on to the next goal. to support people who are not familiar to the common people. The poor sour people can explain to the people that Zeng shaved his head is not Zeng Guofan, and you can't understand any history anyway, let alone read Zeng Wenzheng's official letter or anything like that. If you think about it, it seems that there is only one hero left in the Han people, a great Confucian, a master, a military genius, a perfect hero of self-denial and self-righteousness, and Zeng Guofan, a saint of civil and military affairs. If foreigners think it's normal to be ridiculous, we shouldn't be ridiculous at all, we just should be sad. A nation, thousands of years has produced such a "heroic figure", and it is still complacent, tsk, unimaginable!
When Zeng Guofan ignored the families of thousands of soldiers outside the city, cried and called for his relatives, and longed to enter the city, when Changsha was in crisis, he was originally here to rescue, but he was stranded in Zhuzhou and did nothing, when Zeng Guofan finally raised the beautiful concubine of Zhuzhou Zhixian and closed the door, not only Li Xianzhang and Zhang Shoulin, these staff, completely saw through the true face of the idol in their minds, but even his younger brother Zeng Guohua felt that he couldn't understand his eldest brother, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, is this "saint" really my brother?
No wonder Zeng Guohua couldn't understand it, just a few hours ago, because he learned that the three younger brothers of Guohuang, Guoquan and Guobao were executed by the Taiping Army, and they were cast into iron statues, and they were scolded by all generations, and when the family of 100 and 100 people had been imprisoned, Zeng Guofan cried and grabbed the ground, heartbroken, and had the potential to share the sky with Long Hair. And like a demon, he looked for a rope for a while, pulled out a sword for a while, and had the potential to commit suicide, causing the officials to be in a hurry, and you persuaded me to block it, and it made a fuss for a while. But under the turn of the face, this qiē seems to be a thing of the past.
In fact, Zeng Guofan has Zeng Guofan's own thoughts. Let's talk about suicide first, it's really doing it for others to see, it's very easy to commit suicide and find a place where no one is, but I don't want to die, so I come to this hand in front of everyone. There are two kinds of samurai suicides, one is that they are in a desperate situation and have no power to return to heaven. The second is to feel a great sense of shame. Either way, it's for its own honor. Zeng Guofan is different, he is a teacher, a master, and a great master, and he can't even find the north when he was defeated just out of the mountain, he feels that he has no face, so he has to commit suicide to make a show. Besides, his family members are imprisoned, if these 100 family members are suppressed by the imperial court, then he is really afraid, if he really wants to be like that, if he wants to come out alive, he is afraid that it will be difficult. But in the hands of the Taiping Army, he is not afraid. If you want to fight the world, you must first show benevolence and righteousness to the world, how can you kill and cut down the grass and eradicate the roots? Unless they don't want to win the world. It's just scary. Don't look at Zeng Guofan's ability to fight, he is an expert in playing this. But it's not good for him to say this to his subordinates.
As for the killing of several younger brothers, is it a war, and the undead are still called wars? It's not worth mentioning at all, it's a passing cloud. So, let's get comfortable with myself first. As soon as he entered Zhuzhou, he was anxious to get on fire every day, and the more he was like this, the happier the ringworm on his back became, making him like a monkey, scratching and scratching every day. He had already taken a fancy to this little concubine in Zhuzhou County, but he didn't have a chance to do it. Now that he has gotten rid of the magistrate of Zhuzhou, if he is just for his beautiful beauty, he has really wronged him. His main purpose is not to enter Changsha, which is a cage, and if he enters, he will definitely not be able to get out. To stay in Zhuzhou, the first thing you need is territory, and more practically, you need to have financial rights. Zhuzhou has silver in the treasury, and his subordinates are good at "persuading" large households to raise donations, and in a few days, they have gathered 700,000 or 800,000 taels of silver, which is just right to expand the military. If the imperial court asks about it, as long as it leaves Zhuzhou and goes south, the soldiers will be in chaos, and who knows who will take away the money from the treasury.
Now, lying comfortably on the bed, Jiaoxiu's soft little hands scratching his itch, sniffing the lovely breath of Jiaoxiu's body in his nose, one word, beauty, beauty is home.
Due to the harsh method of sitting, and the family and friends in the team who said that they would not clean up the mess, although they saw their families crying under the city, the Xiangyong people were bitter in their hearts, and they were at a loss for a while. Under the strict supervision of Taqib, Zeng Guohua and others, the three battalions of the Hunan army were quite stable except for a few who fell into the city and fled. However, Zou Shiqi's group training in the city was not so obedient, and in a few days, he had long been gone.
However, what happened next was that Zeng Guofan did not expect it. The first one to escape was nothing else, it was actually Zeng Guofan's guard battalion. Speaking of this battalion, it was set up by Zhang Shoulin. In Zhuzhou, Zhang Shoulin personally disposed of the magistrate of Zhuzhou, thinking that it was for the future of the Hunan army, but when he saw that Zeng Guofan shamelessly finally took the beautiful concubine of the "criminal official" as his own, a feeling of being fooled arose. He saw that following such duplicitous people to the end would not end well. Don't say that the Taiping army may gain power in the future, even if Zeng Guofan finally won a great reputation, he will not share it with them. Since you Zeng Dashuai knows that the first thing to accept a beauty is to "tickle", then don't blame us for going home, it is for the safety of the parents and elders in the family. Obviously, the safety of the father is more important than the tickle.
Zhang Shoulin found Li Xianzhang, and the two Li Xianzhang brothers were worried about the future. As soon as the idea is mentioned, it is immediately hit. In their hearts, the Taiping Army did not attach importance to the literati, and if they wanted to erase the stains on their bodies, they had to have meritorious service, which was naturally to lead the men and horses to surrender together. That's often the way it is, you can be in the dark when you're training. It's the same with rebellion, it's still reasonable, and now there are family members outside the city and the Taiping army to help, and the city is scattered all over the city with proclamations shot in by the heavenly army, and the reason is even better. Go, your family and yourself can have a good life, stay, a dead end, and you will have to kill the whole family. Didn't you say that the Taiping Army was strangled because they didn't talk about honesty, and they should be killed if they didn't talk about honesty? We haven't seen whether the Taiping Army is honest or not, Zeng Dashuai, you yourself can be regarded as shameless when you arrived home first. Li Xianzhang and Zhang Shoulin were like seeing them with their own eyes, and they were telling their relatives and friends about it. Relatives and friends tell their relatives and friends about it, and naturally the more they say, the more true they are, and the more powerful they say, the more powerful they are. Dialectics is the truth, and what originally maintained the Hunan army suddenly became the best weapon for disintegrating the Hunan army.
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