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After the mountain shook for a while, this huge gap more than ten zhang wide immediately became a rare thing that both sides were salivating and bound to get, and around the gap, the two sides began a desperate struggle.

Wu Changqing, who had suffered the catastrophe of destruction in Huojia and Hui counties respectively in the four bidders under his jurisdiction, described the Weihui defensive battle in this way:

…… After the loss of Huojia and Huixian one after another, the morale of the officers and men of Xieli was greatly discouraged, and a few people even began to talk about the tiger's color. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, since the main force of the Red Army began to concentrate on attacking Xinxiang at this time, Zhang Shusheng specially handed over the eastern section, which was estimated to be relatively small in the future once Wei Hui fought, to be deployed by my Xielai. Zhang Shusheng said very clearly at the time that the reason for this arrangement was because he was facing defeated generals under him in Yuan and Yang. Weihui City has thick walls, Li Hongzhang had made long-term preparations when he was there, not only had enough food and ammunition, but also had a fairly unambiguous local team training team, no matter what others thought, Zhang Shusheng was very confident in guarding Weihui.

Zhang Shusheng withdrew from Yuan and Yang, and in order to persist for a long time, he even opened the city to let go of some women, children, old and weak. For this move, the generals in the city at that time had many complaints. Because the old and weak women and children can still play the role of hostages after all. Zhang Shusheng explained it this way, he advised everyone to be mentally prepared to be trapped in guarding Wei Hui for a year and a half, if there are too many old and weak people in the city, once Wei Hui fights into a long-term stalemate in the future, it will inevitably produce the evil consequences of fighting with the army for food. And now the Red Army has just crossed north, and the army is gathered, and if these hungry people are thrown to them again, it will also increase their supply burden. He also said that this kind of experience was actually obtained after he carefully and seriously analyzed the Taiping army trapped in Hangzhou. Of course, the city can't leave the people behind, otherwise, what will the city still defend for? But keep the strong, that is, the capable ones. As for "hostage-taking", it is even more necessary to kidnap those who deserve to be kidnapped. Those who are small and small, who can easily leave with a small bag and pat their butts, don't care too much about whether the city is lost or not. But the wealthy gentry can't do it, the huge industry they have kept for several lifetimes can't be moved, and they should be the ones who stick to it for a long time.

In this way, even when the Red Army was approaching Wei Hui, Zhang Shusheng still used various means such as coercion and coercion to blow away tens of thousands of old and weak people in the city, and forced the wealthy families in the city to pay money and food, not only organized thousands of strong people to join the regiment to practice in the city, but also moved out of the boxes and boxes of Qing treasure banknotes that Li Hongzhang had deceived from the imperial court under various pretexts in the past, and in a few days, he recruited more than 2,000 recruits to supplement the Zhongyi Salvation League. Zhang Shusheng patted his chest many times and threatened that as long as he Zhang Shusheng was there, Weihui City would be an iron fortress. Even when Handan and Anyang were lost, the news of Wendelek's western surrender to the enemy had already come, and Zhang Shusheng was still calm and imposing.

When Du Han first arrived in Weihui, we, the loyal and righteous generals who saved the **, were not willing to take half of their eyelids to clip him at all. The reason is very simple, this guy used to be very good at blowing, and he liked to talk to Li Hongzhang about it, and he especially opposed the Queen Mother's training. In fact, in all fairness, according to the ancestral system at that time, everyone was very clear that women could not participate in politics. However, we don't care about this, Li Hongzhang had a famous saying that has been circulating in Zhongyi to save **, "Regardless of the white cat and black cat, whoever gives us glory and wealth is a good cat." That's the reason, what are we from Baiding coming out for? It's not just for the glory and wealth in the future. As for the Empress Dowager Cixi's liking of foreigners, the Empress Dowager Cixi likes ...... What does this have to do with us? Therefore, we all privately called Du Han a dog skin plaster, and all the councils he convened always dozed off a lot.

But gradually, we really had to look at him differently. At the beginning of the war, although the artillery fire had not yet reached Weihui City, I was still a little busy at that time, and I was still in a bit of a hurry, after all, I was not prepared to start a war immediately in my heart or in my mind. But Duhan seemed to be very calm. He had a deep conversation with me individually, detailing the Taiping Red Army he had seen, and summed up his experience in five words, "fooling the common people." That is, they vigorously propagated the "red bandits and communist wives" among the common people, spread the theory that "traitors will die" among the soldiers, and took out all the "deposited silver" of the government treasury to arouse the latent fighting spirit of the officers and men and achieve the best effect of hating the same enemy. What he said, Zhang Shusheng really followed it later. Not only that, Du Han also walked around the city without touching the ground, encouraging the soldiers not to be frustrated by temporary failures, to open their eyes, and to see the future.

On the day when Wei Hui encountered the first real attack, Du Han, who likes music and rhythm, also saved ** Wei Hui Town for our loyalty, and just finished writing a song. That night, under Du Han's repeated mentions, Zhang Shusheng and I, together with Du Han, were discussing preparations to organize tens of thousands of people to hold a huge parade ceremony in a few days to boost the morale of the sluggish army. During the discussion, Du Han sang the song he wrote to the two of us, and said that he had mobilized all the people in the city who were good at singing and dancing, as well as the kiln sisters who were good at singing and dancing in the Red Mansion, and they would go down to each camp separately from tomorrow to ensure that all the soldiers participating in the parade must learn this song within two days, so that they could be sung by 10,000 people at the parade ceremony.

The lyrics of that song, I probably remember a sentence and a half, were like, "The door of my house is always open, bringing fresh air." Although the breath changes, the taste never changes, and the rich tea fragrance is full of friendship. The door of my house is often opened, open to accommodate the world, and after hugging, there is a tacit understanding, you will always fall in love here. No matter near or far, you are guests, you are welcome, we are welcome to meet together...... The Qing Dynasty welcomes you, opens the sky and the earth for you, and you will be full of vitality when you swim here. Welcome to Daqing, if you have a dream, you are great, believe in courage, you will create a miracle ......"

At that time, most people were used to listening to operas and humming, and at first glance they heard Du Han's song that couldn't say any tune, but it was very novel. Duhan was singing and dancing to explain the meaning of the lyrics to the two of us. What Russian friends brought a complete idea to the Qing Dynasty, so that the distance between the Qing Dynasty and the world was suddenly much closer. Although the windows and doors are opened, there will inevitably be flies and mosquitoes mixed together, but the Qing Dynasty is still the Great Qing Dynasty, the braids still hang down the back of everyone's head, and the tone will never change, etc......

I remember when he sang the paragraph "The door of my house is often open, open to accommodate heaven and earth, and after hugging, there is a tacit understanding, you will always fall in love here", Zhang Shusheng and I first looked at each other in surprise, and then we couldn't help laughing, laughing so much that I couldn't straighten my waist, and I almost choked to death with the sip of tea in my throat and eyes. After Du Han was stunned for a moment, he actually laughed with us. This Du Han is really not like the legendary Hanlin, which is really likable. After he laughed, he actually told me and Zhang Shusheng frankly, in fact, the content of this passage was only realized after reminiscent of the feelings of lingering with Sister Yao in the Red Mansion. However, he said that this passage is very profound here, which shows that we are tolerant of all rivers and rivers and broad-minded......

At the critical moment when Du Han sang the last sentence "Welcome to the Qing Dynasty, if you have a dream, you are great, believe in courage, and you will create a miracle ......", suddenly there was a loud "boom", the room shook, and the candlesticks on the table all rolled to the ground.

"***, you've called the ghost!" In the darkness, I heard Zhang Shusheng kicking over the chair, and his loud and rough swearing.

I ran all the way to the East Side, and the city was in chaos.

The bombed walls collapsed, creating a huge slope-shaped gap. Outside the gap, the Red Army's shrill trumpet was annoying, and a large number of Red Army soldiers climbed up the gap and poured into the city like a tide. Fortunately, behind this section of the city wall, there were dense houses, and it was difficult for the Red Army to spread out quickly, and even their "shells" did not dare to fight casually. And we are not afraid of this. The group of foreign artillery that was quickly mobilized in the city bombarded the sky near the gap, followed by a wave of counterattackers.

After a few rounds, the huge gap was filled with layers of corpses.

The Taiping Red Army's offensive was weakened, and I was very excited for a while after suffering two consecutive defeats and now finally having such a rare victory. I began to suspect that the previous defeats were probably because my brain was still not as bright as Du Han and Zhang Shusheng.

But at this time, Zhang Shusheng seemed to have noticed the problem. He ran all over the four gates, and finally patted his head hard, saying that he was hit by the "red bandits". He asked me to temporarily take charge of the defense of the whole city, and he wanted to lead a group of men and horses to the north gate, and he guessed that the "red bandits" unreasonably chose such a location that was not suitable for the attack of the army at all, and there must have been an accident in the direction of Qi County.

I don't believe Zhang Shusheng's judgment. Because, although the Taiping Red Army in front of him was not as fierce as it was at the beginning, it had the intention of giving up at all, and the gap was still being fought over repeatedly. Just as we were arguing, a large-scale siege by the Taiping Red Army broke out in the west.

The battle in the west completely disrupted Zhang Shusheng's position at once. The Taiping Red Army there is not like my face, but they are all unstoppable Red Army hard hands in Huojia and Hui County, where does Zhang Shusheng dare to take it lightly.

The chaos lasted for three hours, and as the sky began to brighten, the real panic and surprise was finally revealed to us. A large number of Red Army troops successively drove to Wei Hui's city from the south, and on both sides of the Wei River in the north of the city, all the Red Army flags that we had seen here appeared, and Tang Diankui's head was also brought to the north gate by several descendants.

Alas...... Although Zhang Shusheng understood a little late at the time, he still judged this point correctly after all, it turned out that there were really not many main forces of the Red Army outside Weihui City last night, and they all went to clean up Tang Diankui.

Weihui has become a real lonely city.

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