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Mian inquired honestly, suffered a lot of losses, and naturally learned a lot of lessons. With the Yellow River as a barrier and the order of the coalition headquarters, he was happy to watch the fire from the other side.

Li Hongzhang can't do it, he is still a "chick" who has just debuted, where does he know so many shades. When the general goes out on the expedition, how can he win the favor of the master behind him without making a few great military exploits? Why is it famous? I Li Hongzhang is not a flyover, I can only say that I can't practice.

As soon as the all-out war on the south bank was ignited, Li Hongzhang handed over the useless trivial matters to the annoying Ruilin, and he himself devoted himself to a comprehensive analysis of the battle situation in front of him, using the information network that frequently traveled between the north and south of the Yellow River, and the constant contact with the Russian allies in the east, striving to grasp every moment on the battlefield at any time, looking for opportunities that he himself thought might be opportunities.

With the large-scale offensive of the "red bandits" Red Second Front Army on the opposite side, the "red bandits" in Shandong were also arrogant and abnormal, Jinxiang, Jiaxiang, and Yutai counties were weak, Jeju was lost, Lanshan County was gone, Yizhou Mansion was gone, Juzhou, Fei County, Teng County, Mengyin, Zou County, and Qufu fell one after another, and then Yanzhou was also conquered overnight. The "red bandits" in Caozhou Mansion are raging, Tai'an Mansion is in an emergency, and the provincial capital Jinan Mansion is also in danger.

Most of Shandong was full of "red bandits" and their followers, and the Qing soldiers had no power to fight back, and they were really defeated. If the arrogance of the "red bandits" is not curbed, the south of the Yellow River will completely fall, and the Qing Dynasty will be in danger! Li Hongzhang is really distressed.

The kung fu was not in vain, God had eyes, and gave him a chance to serve the Qing Dynasty, and it was an excellent opportunity.

Li Hongzhang set his sights on the Red Fourth Army, which attacked Kaifeng.

To the east, the "red bandits" were making an all-out attempt to take Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, and there were no large numbers of regular "red bandits" outside the city of Caozhou, while another main force of the "red bandits" in Henan had completely moved to Luoyang.

Kaifeng's "red bandits", as far as he knows, were the main bandits who had fought Mianxun to the death and beheaded the Hubei governor Shu Xing'a, and now there are two puppet national sects of Yang Fuqing and Shi Zhenlun who are in command of this army. If they were eaten in one fell swoop, it would not only boost the morale of the Qing soldiers who were in a panic, helpless, complaining, and unmotivated manner, and strengthen the will of officials in various localities to swear allegiance to the Qing Dynasty, but also mobilize the "red bandits" in Luoyang to disrupt their deployment for crossing the river, which did not contradict the overall strategy of trying to ensure that the Yellow River was not lost. Of course, there is more important thing, you can also become famous in a fight. He felt that his status was already quite good, and the only thing he lacked was a convincing feat.

The opportunity for a general to become famous is not something that is waiting for him, it is to rely on his extraordinary wisdom and talent, and with his many years of career as a horseman, he has sought and captured it on the ever-changing battlefield. Li Hongzhang firmly believes this. However, he still seems to have forgotten a little, where does he have any years of career as a horse?

The number of the fourth army of the "red bandits" was only 20,000, while the original defenders in Kaifeng City were 3,000, plus the remnants of the defeated generals who retreated into the city, there should be more than 5,000 troops. Zhengzhou's mess together can also make up four or five thousand numbers, besides, Qixian County and civil rights are not still in the hands of our Qing Dynasty, as long as the reinforcements go up, the "red bandits" will be attacked on all sides. However, the thousand people in Caozhou couldn't move, just in case. After calculating it so carefully and thoroughly, Li Hongzhang suddenly felt comfortable, and he seemed to have seen the beautiful queen mother in the Forbidden City, which must be a very moving smile.

He immediately sent a letter to Wu Zhenyan, the new governor of Henan, who was hiding in Zhengzhou to "supervise the war", hoping that he would immediately go out of Zhengzhou to aid Kaifeng. He also sent a letter to Shuanglu, the governor of Henan, who was struggling to defend Kaifeng, sincerely hoping that he would think about the Wannian Society of the Qing Dynasty and hold on for the last few days.

Subsequently, Li Hongzhang urgently mobilized the second line as a mobile force to save the 13th Association of Zhou Shengbo, quietly crossed the Yellow River from Puzhou, entered Dongming, Caozhou, and killed the rear wing of the "red bandits" under Kaifeng City through Lanfeng County. He also ordered his other two powerful generals, Zhang Shusheng and Liu Mingchuan, to be stationed in Yuanyang and Fengqiu, and the 17th Association, which was stationed in Yuanyang and Fengqiu, was ready to cross the Yellow River south at any time, and as long as the war developed smoothly, they would immediately rush across the river and catch it fiercely.

As soon as he got off the boat in Dongming, Zhou Shengbo took the first mark brought by his brother Zhou Shengchuan as the forward, and immediately led the army to the front line of Kaifeng non-stop.

Like Li Hongzhang, Zhang Shusheng, Zhang Shushan, Zhang Shuping, Liu Mingchuan, Pan Dingxin, Wu Changqing, Tang Diankui and Tang Dingkui brothers, Zhou Shengbo and his brother Zhou Shengchuan also emerged in the recruitment examination of loyalty and righteousness.

Everyone knows that the loyalty and righteousness save ** have good treatment and high positions, and if you can get an official and a half-job there, you can rise to prominence. However, it is not easy to enter the threshold of loyalty and righteousness. First of all, there must be military merits, of course, this kind of military merit is different from what is usually said, and it is more similar to "casting a name", that is, whether you have a good record of killing thieves. This point is not made up by you, but must be recommended by the local gentry and the government. Only those who have this condition can be qualified to enter the capital to accept written examinations, interviews and other selections.

What is the interview test? The test is not English, of course, and Russians do not speak English, so Russian is a compulsory subject. If you are given a day, you must be able to recite the sentences given to you by the examiner fluently, almost not at all. Only in this way will the officials at all levels, who have been selected at the final level, learn Russian in a short period of time and be able to communicate with their advisers.

It is said that there are still many candidates who have "some skills" who have been ruthlessly washed out because they are not good at foreign languages, so there is no way, is it fair competition to be hired in the examination. After going through layers of passes, what can stand out in the end is, of course, the loyal "talents" of the Qing Dynasty who can eat special imperial food.

Zhou Shengbo's brothers' "vote for fame" is very pleasing to the above. He had a total of six brothers, as soon as the Taiping Army entered Anhui, in order to be able to get ahead and the reputation of the ancestors, his six brothers organized the village warriors in their hometown in Anhui and fought desperately against the Heavenly Army.

In the defense of Yangzhou and other battlefields of the Heavenly Army, they have seen the crazy faces of their brothers. In the madness again and again, his brother Zhou Shenghua and his three younger brothers successively became the sword ghosts of the Heavenly Army, although it seems to be very unfortunate, but it is because of this experience of hatred that is not shared with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so that the surviving Zhou brothers can be prosperous for a while. After repeated selections, Zhou Shengbo relied on Li Hongzhang's strong recommendation in front of the Russians, and became a dignified and upright member of the second-class association equivalent to a general soldier in the past.

The elder brother soared overnight, and the younger brother naturally did not suffer. According to the policy that the savior can recommend the selection of subordinate officials, first the battalion's pipe band, and then the biaotong, Zhou Shengchuan is also complacent. This official came so fast that he didn't dare to dream of it, but now it has become a reality. This is all thanks to the Empress Dowager Yingming and the Hongfu of the Qing Dynasty, thanks to the favor of the Russian master. For this reason, the Zhou brothers also want to be horses and dogs to repay their queen mother, as well as their Qing Dynasty, and the Russians.

In Kaifeng City, Shuanglu, the governor of Henan, who had just received a letter of encouragement from Li Hongzhang on the north bank, had not been happy for a long time, and Shi Zhenlun led the Red 13th and 16th divisions to open the two gates of Renhe and Lijing in the east of Kaifeng City, and the Nanxun Gate in the south of the city, and roared into the city.

The city was in chaos into a pot of porridge, full of stragglers, Shuanglu with his remnants of the superintendent of the people, retreated from the South Xun Gate, defeated into the city on the north side of the Dragon Pavilion, and the remnants of the defeated generals and the eight banners in the city were struggling to support.

Let's talk about Wu Zhenqi, the governor of Henan, he was originally hiding in Zhengzhou looking for an opportunity to flee north. Wu Zhenqi has never had any illusions about the development of the southern part of the Yellow River, and in his opinion, the imperial court is simply too vicious, so vicious that he doesn't want them. The delay in the offensive of the "red bandits" is not just that the officers and men in Henan are treated as sacks to block the flooding of the river and are casually thrown away.

The soldiers have no fighting spirit, they will have no fighting spirit, Kaifeng and Luoyang are tight, he doesn't want to save them, but he can't send people out at all. When it comes to going out of the city to rescue, you look at the soldiers all over the city, all of them are pale and their lips are purple, it seems that going out of the city to rescue is synonymous with going to death. It's no wonder that in Henan now, where are there still people who are not afraid of those devilish Red Army? Hua Li Yaxun, the chief soldier stationed in Zhengzhou, if he hadn't deliberately walked a little slower on the road when he reinforced Xiangyang last year, he would not be able to linger in front of him today. Even this fierce general, Hua Li Yaxun, who has always claimed to be a hundred people, is afraid of his opponent to the core, let alone others.

After receiving Li Hongzhang's letter, Wu Zhenqi had an indescribable feeling in his heart, was he happy? Doesn't it seem like cowardice? It seems to be a little bit of a thing. However, there is always a glimmer of hope, what hope? Again, it's not good. Anyway, this time he finally saw a little anger on Hua Li's face. Rescue Kaifeng, it would be better if the "red bandits" could be eliminated, even if they could not be eliminated, they could take advantage of the chaos to escape the Yellow River, and they must not nest here and wait for death.

Wu Zhenqi handed over a qiē from Zhengzhou to the governor of Zhengzhou, and then gathered Fu Biao and Lian Yong in the city, plus the Zhenbiao people of Hua Li Yaxun, a total of less than 4,000 people and horses, which can be regarded as a mighty out of Zhengzhou City, accompanied by the looting that could not be stopped if you wanted to stop it along the way, the chickens and dogs jumped to Kaifeng.

After capturing the east and south gates of Kaifeng, except for the two divisions led by Shi Zhenlun to continue to clear the Qing army in the city, Yang Fuqing and Zhang Suimou each led a division of men and horses to withdraw from the battlefield.

Zhang Suimou led the main force of the Red 15th Division to join a regiment that was originally conducting surveillance in the west of the city, and deployed Huomugang and Mutianpo in order to block the Manchu reinforcements coming from the direction of Zhengzhou. And Yang Fuqing sent the 1st Red Division to Huo Chigang in the north of the city, but the main force turned around and deployed eastward, and began to wait for Zhou Shengbo, who was still in the dark, thinking that it would come very suddenly.

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