Guo Ye expected it well, when Shi Dakai received Dong Haichuan's letter, his heart immediately cooled, the American minister Hua Ruohan refused to sell any arms to the Taiping Army, and his attitude was resolute, no matter how high the price was, he would not sell it!

Shi Dakai is finally no longer calm, if he only faces the Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army, he still has a certain degree of confidence in being invincible, but now Guo Ye has led the Lu army to rush up, facing the Lu army equipped with a large number of foreign guns and artillery, Shi Dakai is not half sure. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Could it be that God really wants to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom......

Shi Dakai's face turned pale and muttered.

On the side, Qiu Guan**** asked, "Wing King, what's wrong with you?" ”

Shi Dakai exhaled deeply and said: "Lord Liu, I will give you a task, during your stay in Tianjing, you will make every effort to contact foreigners, whether they are British or French, as long as you have this slightest opportunity, you will go all out to buy military fire, no matter how much silver you spend, even if the treasury is spent, you will not hesitate!" ”

Shocked, he said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, what's wrong?" Don't we still have a lot of arms? ”

Shi Dakai shook his head bitterly and replied, "Quite a few? How much do you mean? Now in our arsenal, there are less than 1,000 boxes of bullets, less than 5,000 shells, and now among the various departments, all the foreign guns we have together are only more than 10,000, and they are also distributed among the five large battalions, the largest battalion of the Chinese army, only 5,000 muskets, and the other large battalions combined, there are only about 10,000 guns, these guns are distributed, one rifle, we only have less than 100 rounds of ammunition, how long can these bullets support us to fight? Half a month? One month? At most, it will be depleted in less than a month! As for 5,000 shells, it won't last long! ”

His face was pale, he had always thought that millions of bullets, thousands of shells, were already a lot, and now listening to the Wing King, it would be consumed in a few days, but he was really shocked, without these firearms, how would the next war be fought?

"Lord Wang, maybe, maybe, now the Qing Demon doesn't have much ammunition?"

There is still a glimmer of hope in my heart, hoping that the Qing Demon does not have much ammunition available now, so we may still have some confidence.

Shi Dakai said with a wry smile: "Well, now the Hunan army, the Chu army, and the Huai army are indeed not very much, and the firearms they buy are not much different from ours, the problem is Guo Ye's Lu army in the north, he has an arsenal in Jinan, even if he doesn't buy it from foreigners, the ammunition produced in the arsenal is enough to support their big war......"

Although he is just a civilian official, he doesn't know much about the war, but Guo Ye's Lu Army, he still knows, this Guo Ye has been born to the present, but for more than three years, he has participated in many battles, he has won every battle, he has never missed, and now he is going to confront the Taiping Army again.

glanced at Shi Dakai worriedly, and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, what should I do next?" The Qing Demon has already entered Anhui from the back, and our main force may start a war with the opponent at any time......"

Shi Dakai replied: "Not only that, in northern Anhui, now that Yan Chunyu is leading a cavalry, and he is also sweeping around, the whole of Henan is about to be flattened by this guy, his cavalry is rapidly approaching Xinyang, I think his target is definitely coming to our back, Lu'an, the target after that is our Anqing Mansion, hehe, this Guo Ye is really not simple, two iron fists, both hit our most deadly place, one points to Hefei, the other is Anqing, It's the center of Anhui......"

His heart was even more frightened, even if he didn't understand military affairs, he knew the consequences of this, that is, he was surrounded on three sides, and on three sides were the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Qing Demon, which was enough for the Taiping Army!

Shi Dakai let out a long sigh and said: "Send an order to the Nanda Battalion, urgently transfer the foreign gun battalion of the Nanda Battalion, and move in the direction of Tianjing with all your might, in the direction of Tianjing, all the foreign gun battalions of the Eastern Battalion will be withdrawn, and five days later, advance towards Hefei, I need to gather all the elites and fight to the death with Guo Ye!" ”

"What about the West Battalion?"

Asked.

"West Daying?"

Shi Dakai smiled bitterly and said: "Now that the Western Battalion can block that Yan Chunyu, it is already burning high incense, and their slightest strength can't be extracted now......"

After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Lord Wang, what's going on with that Dong Haichuan?" The thing didn't work out, and he didn't even return to the prince, so he ran away? He ......"

Shi Dakai replied lightly: "Okay, Dong Haichuan's affairs, don't worry about it, don't ask more, he is definitely not cowardly, but has other priorities, now it is much harder than you, you only need to sit in Tianjing, he has to work hard, I hope ......, I hope he can bring us a good news......

Shi Dakai now has no confidence in his heart at all, with Guo Ye's superb military ability, he will never let go of such an opportunity, he can see his reality from the war, this is a quality that a general must have, even if he owes a little fire, presumably Dong Haichuan will explain it to him, just like when Dong Haichuan told him about the Lu army, he didn't have many reservations.

Anyway, he has been delayed for a while, and he must step up his efforts to go north, so that Zhang Suimou and Long Kaisheng can start a war with Guo Ye, and he is not sure at all in his heart, the two of them are definitely not Guo Ye's opponents, and now I just hope that the two of them can hold on for a while longer, and don't let the family be defeated in a short time.

Shi Dakai summoned all the military and political dignitaries of Tianjing, carried out strict deployment, and entrusted the defense of Tianjing to the original Fu King Chen Decai and Hu King Lan Chengchun, and defended the area east of Tianjing, as long as Tianjing was not lost, it was the credit of the two people.

However, Shi Da Xingtou does not have any confidence, he can stop Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, but these two people are a little lacking in ability, whether they can block the Hunan army and the Huai army, it is difficult to say, now I can only hope with Wang Haiyang, the general of the Eastern Battalion, it doesn't matter if the Southern Battalion loses the battle, it can't shake the fundamentals, but the Eastern Battalion can't have an accident, after all, it is close to Tianjing, once the Eastern Camp collapses, Tianjing will be exposed to the Qing army again!

(To be continued.) )