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After Zeng Guoquan and Liu Rongshuo went north to Zhuzhou on the Xiangjiang River, they first sent outposts to the direction of Xiangtan to find out the situation of the Taiping army. Due to the reliable news that the Taiping army was camped and fortified outside the city by no horses, the two people discussed it and agreed that the strength of the Taiping army in Xiangtan was not very large. However, on the issue of whether to fight or not, the two could not agree on the same opinion.

According to Zeng Guoquan's idea, he should immediately lead the team, together with more than 1,000 regimental training in Zhuzhou, to attack Xiangtan City and catch the Taiping army in the city by surprise.

Liu Rong is not as optimistic as him. From the time point of view, it can be inferred that the Taiping army has been in the city for more than four or five days, and it has the city wall as a support, which can be said to be waiting for work. And not to mention the long journey of his subordinates, the number of people is limited after all. Moreover, this is the first battle of the Hunan army after leaving the mountain, and if the first battle is lost, it will inevitably have a great negative impact on the morale of the army in the future. Therefore, he insisted on waiting until the brigade was gathered before making plans to attack the city.

Seeing that he was not convinced by Liu Rong, Zeng Guoquan's temper came up. He had a gloomy knife face and a big mouth, "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while." Since he took Lao Tzu's money to become a soldier, he should have had the belief to tuck his head into the waistband of his trousers. The battle hasn't been fought yet, so if you're afraid of the east and the west, it's better to go home and guard your wife and children. As he spoke, he pointed to Zou Shiqi who was training in Zhuzhou, "Take your group training with a thousand men and horses to accompany me on the expedition, and it is enough to have one or two hundred people left to defend the city." In half a day, my eldest brother and they should have arrived, and now I am the commander, and everyone must obey my orders. ”

Zou Shiqi is also a person who is holding back his strength and wants to make a sharp profit in suppressing bandits. He was originally from Xiangxiang, and at first he followed Luo Zenan to organize group exercises, but unfortunately Luo Zenan died early, and he became a soulless prodigal. Later, seeing that Zeng Guofan's training in Hengzhou was hot, he planned to go to take refuge, but he was sent by the Governor Yamen to rescue Nanchang. Halfway through, he got the news of the loss of Nanchang, so he had to turn around and return to Zhuzhou to rest temporarily. It can be said that until now, he has not really fought with the Taiping army.

Now seeing Zeng Guoquan's arrangement, it is naturally exactly the same as what he thinks in his heart. If you want to fight, it's best to cover it all yourself, and you don't have to worry about others grabbing it if you have merit. Defeated, it's a big deal to find a place where no one is, secretly lick the wound clean, and keep quiet in front of people, haha, I'm still me. Yuan Pu is right, although the Xiangtan city wall is stronger than Zhuzhou, it is not much better. As long as the fight is resolute and sudden, there is still a certainty. Zou Shiqi patted his chest and said with pride.

Now, Liu Rong has anger in her stomach, so she has to endure it first. For the sake of the overall situation, he didn't pay attention to Zeng Guoquan's words of scolding Huai, but smiled faintly as if nothing happened, "Since you have decided to send troops, in my opinion, you should set up a strong camp outside Xiangtan City first, and take the method of siege step by step, at least in case of appearance, you can still hold your ground." ”

Zeng Guoquan saw that Liu Rong was finally relieved, so he didn't force anything anymore, anyway, he had his own little abacus in his heart, and when the time came, he couldn't help anyone.

The two battalions of the Hunan army, together with Zou Shiqi's thousands of people, and thousands of servants, marched out of Zhuzhou City. Zeng Guoquan took the lead and walked in front of the brigade. Aside from a few battles with small bandits, he didn't have any real combat experience. However, perhaps because of his naturally unruly character, he decided that if he is not afraid of death on the battlefield, he will have more chances of survival. Anyone will pick up a sword and spear, but when it comes to the decisive moment of victory or defeat, victory always belongs to the bravest.

Along the way, what he was most dissatisfied with was that he could say that there was no cavalry and horse team under his command at all. Of his five or six hundred men and horses, there are not enough horses to gather twenty. He looked back at the soldiers behind him whose morale was still very high, and secretly decided in his heart that when this battle was over, he must organize a horse team, which would be majestic enough.

There was still half the way to Xiangtan, and small groups of Taiping army rangers began to appear continuously. Seeing that the long-haired cavalry was approaching, Zeng Guoquan tried to fight with the other party first, and then follow the formation he had practiced before, and the people who engaged in the battle gradually retreated, and then separated to both sides.

As if the other party had guessed his thoughts, the other party did not fight for a few moments, and before he could withdraw to the sides to give way to the musketeers, the other party had already fled.

Once, twice, Zeng Guoquan's anger is getting bigger and bigger. He simply put the musketeers at the front, and chased after them when he saw them. He insisted on using the two feet of his subordinates to compete with the horse team of the Taiping Army.

When they finally arrived outside Xiangtan City, his soldiers had just finished a marathon. Looking at the soldiers with weak feet and sore legs, and panting with their mouths open, Zeng Guoquan's lungs were about to explode.

"Don't fight with the long hair, let's settle the camp first." Liu Rong chased after him, saw that there seemed to be no movement in the city in the distance, and hurriedly comforted Zeng Guoquan.

"You come to organize the fortification, I'll rest for a while, and then Zou Shiqi and Zou Shiqi will take some people to take a look at it." Zeng Guoquan jumped off his horse, and while ordering people to find Zou Shiqi, he notified him and told the soldiers in the camp to hurry up and make a ladder for siege.

One of the biggest characteristics of the Hunan Army formed by Zeng Guofan this time is that the entire army is like a small society. Bingyong has a higher salary than other armies, and these salaries are not what you want to accumulate, otherwise, with the service fleet followed by the army, there is everything to eat, let alone all kinds of military supplies.

In normal times, it would be easy to build a camp and set up a few ladders. The soldiers were originally from peasant families, and they were easy to dig ditches and dig the ground, and besides, there were also those husbands and servants who accompanied the battalion, and they all competed for more income if they did more work, and they all rushed to contribute. Not today. Running all the way has already overdrawn everyone's body, and now as soon as you sit down, you don't want to get up.

Zeng Guoquan seemed to sense the danger. This is not good, if the long hair in the city protrudes, then the morale of the army will collapse immediately. He hurriedly organized the musket team and covered the rest and camp of the team behind.

Zou Shiqi's group practice was the last to catch up. His army does not have the complete configuration of the Hunan army, and he has always been used to eating and living wherever he goes, and because of the hurry of leaving, let alone wanting to set up a tent now, even if he wants to dig a pit, he can't find any tools.

"Yuanpu, why did you stop?" Before Zou Shiqi jumped off his mount, he asked anxiously.

"Damn it, these long-haired people run faster than rabbits, and they almost don't get tired to death." Zeng Guoquan cursed in his mouth, and looked at Zou Shiqi, "You came just in time, hurry up and bring all your brothers up, in case Changmao comes to raid while we are not firmly on the ground." After a little rest, we will attack the city. ”

Zou Shiqi raised his eyes to look at the sky, and then looked at Xiangtan City, which was close at hand, "I see that Meng Rong and the others are still preparing to set up camp and build a fortress, what are they going to do." The head of Xiangtan City is not high, so if you take it down in one go, what camp do you need to enter the city? ”

"Ahem, that's what he is, he can do whatever he wants." Zeng Guoquan spoke, his eyes kept looking at the tempting south gate of Xiangtan. He felt a little strange, why didn't the city react at all? If he was a defender in Xiangtan City, what would he do at this time? After thinking about it for a long time, there was only one conclusion, the city was just a defender with little combat effectiveness. He was satisfied with his analysis. Because don't look at the long-haired people bluffing everywhere, claiming to have millions of people, but after a vicious battle, the habitual thieves who attach bandits from Jintian, Yong'an and other places are only tens of thousands, and there may be some homeless people who join one after another, but those people have not received any serious training, they are just a rabble, even if there are 10,000 or 20,000 people, they may not be their opponents of these thousands of elites.

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