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Zeng Guofan stood in front of the map, the lights on the side also seemed to feel an uneasy atmosphere, constantly beating, Zeng Guofan was all around him at the moment The so-called own henchmen, Xu Guangyuan frowned even more, since the formation of the Beiyang New Army, it can be said that this is the biggest crisis that their collective has encountered. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Haijiang's appetite is so big? What does he want to do? Shut down the door and hit the dog? Fit the Russian army and its own three towns into it? You must know that you still have more than 80,000 militia groups and green battalions cobbled together from all over the country, and you originally hoped to select some useful people from them to join your Beiyang New Army, but now it seems that this plan will be difficult to implement for a while!

Xu Guangyuan thought more than Zeng Guofan, from the map to simply see that the Wucheng Temple outside Changzhou City is just a point, but if it does not pass through this point, then it means that the troops must give up all their baggage and artillery, etc., and can only move forward lightly to get rid of the enemy.

If you give up all your belongings, then the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang New Army will inevitably be greatly reduced, Xu Guangyuan wants to lose it, I'm afraid Zeng Guofan will not agree! Now the Beiyang Manufacturing Bureau and so on have been demolished by Lin Wei, the guns can only be used less and less, and the supplements have to be purchased from Russia and Britain at a high price.

What's more, there is also Zuo Zongtang's army of seven towns has arrived in Nanjing, when I think of Zuo Zongtang, whether it is Zeng Guofan or Xu Guangyuan, it is like taking a reassuring pill, the army that the Chinese Empire can intersperse here, how many people can there be in a hurry? At most one brigade according to the Chinese imperial system? It is likely that there will be only two battalions, after all, the interspersed large forces will have long been discovered! Almost everyone judged that the Chinese Imperial Troop that appeared at the Wucheng Temple outside Changzhou was a small force.

But there is one person who doesn't seem to see it that way, and this person is Li Xubin! But Li Xubin knew that he couldn't influence Zeng Guofan, so after thinking about it, he just made a simple suggestion, and when he saw that Zeng Guofan didn't have any reaction, he shut up!

After the trenches of the outer position of Wucheng Temple and the communication trenches of the main position were all connected, Fang Guohua looked at the soldiers in the north and south directions who were still desperately building fortifications, and the reconnaissance of the Qing army and the reconnaissance of the Beiyang New Army began to appear in the periphery in the battalion system, which was a very obvious signal for Fang Guohua, although he had long been prepared to suffer the enemy on his back, but at this moment Fang Guohua was still more or less apprehensive.

After Zeng Guofan sent Xu Guangyuan's tenth town, he looked at the map and was silent for a long time, and many of the staff around him did not dare to speak at the moment, this is a critical juncture related to the life and death of the Beiyang New Army. This is the principle of the staff.

Zeng Guofan's biggest concern at the moment is whether Xu Guangyuan's Tenth Town can recapture the Wucheng Temple? Now the Beiyang Navy Division has fallen short, if there is a problem with the elite soldiers of the ten towns of Beiyang, Beiyang will really become a memory, and there are not a few people in the court who want to bite into Beiyang, not to mention the monk Lingqin in Wuhan.

In the end, Zeng Guofan made up his mind, that is, to quickly lead his troops out of Jiangyin, and let Zuo Zongtang's troops immediately advance to Wucheng Temple, a single Xu Guangyuan's tenth town is estimated to be difficult to recapture Wucheng Temple, Lin Haijiang is an extremely adventurous lord, but if his eighth town and ninth town leave Jiangyin at the same time, will he be bitten by the defenders of the Chinese Empire in Jiangyin?

Zeng Guofan through the eighth town and the ninth town of several continuous temptations, but also roughly clear the number of Jiangyin defenders of the Chinese Empire, and according to the spies, a few days ago, about 7,000 Chinese emperors wearing flower coats and flat round iron hats reinforced Jiangyin, in fact, this is the main reason why Zeng Guofan had the idea of retiring from the army.

A division of the Chinese Imperial Army is about 10,000 people, and it will generally be strengthened to more than 12,000 people in battle, equipped with at least 54 75mm guns, and more than 72 or hundreds of guns.

Originally, Zeng Guofan's calculation was to use Lin Haijiang's decisive battle intentions to send Zuo Zongtang's elite troops to Changzhou, and to cooperate with the troops of the Beiyang Association with 50,000 regiments to feint and besiege Jiangyin, while he concentrated Zuo Zongtang's elite soldiers in seven towns to directly go forward to support the Russians who were already fighting with the Chinese Empire, while the eighth, ninth, and thirteenth elite soldiers in his hands went straight to Hangzhou, the rear road, to attack the city and seize land, and cut off the supply line of the Chinese Empire.

Zeng Guofan had seen the firepower and combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Army, and he believed that the more such an army had higher requirements for logistics and heavy supplies, and that a decisive battle was not the same as going forward to attack the fortifications, as long as it could hold on and cut off its food routes, the Chinese Empire could also be defeated.

However, the intention of this decisive battle has now been shaken, and the advice given to Zeng Guofan by Li Xubin, the commander of the Ninth Town, is to stop caring about the Russians, and first rescue the elite soldiers of the three towns in Beiyang!

Li Xubin is a brave and resourceful general, and he is not afraid of death when he fights, especially in training, he likes to train the same so-called elite soldiers as the Chinese Empire, and even he has asked himself several times to withdraw immediately, join forces with Zuo Zongtang to defend Nanjing, and ask the court for emergency assistance from the army of Seng Lingqin in the starry night, which has already explained the problem, but is the situation really as severe as Li Xubin said? Zeng Guofan hesitated a little, if the Chinese Emperor in Wucheng Temple was just one of his brigades, then he would be unfounded, but if the other party was a division, plus a large number of reinforcements from the Jiangyin defenders through the Yangtze River, then the situation would be really critical.

Lin Haijun, Lin Haijiang! Do you really want to eat the old man's elite soldiers of the three towns and the 200,000 troops of the Russians in one bite? Among them, 70,000 militia groups are not yet counted, Zeng Guofan knows that these militia groups cannot be counted, and they may be able to fight desperately to protect the township and security.

On the periphery of Wucheng Temple, Xu Guangyuan's tenth town was already exhausted when he arrived, but Xu Guangyuan still wanted to launch a tentative attack overnight, Xu Guangyuan can be said to be the Beiyang general who knows the Chinese Imperial Army best, and he knows that the longer the interval, the more the Chinese Imperial Army will take root.

It's not that Xu Guangyuan is not sympathetic to his troops, but the current situation is too urgent, at this moment, a bloodied Eight Banner cavalry was brought to Xu Guangyuan, and when the people saw that Xu Guangyuan was so young, they were slightly stunned, and the soldiers on the side hurriedly shouted: "This is our left-wing governor, the tenth town commander Xu!" ”

The cavalry Qian Zong hurriedly lifted up his battle robe and stepped forward to make a thousand words: "Hui Yu, the mark is Zeng Lingqin's subordinate Kezi Battalion Qianzong Tuduo, my battalion head has been guerrilla in the periphery of Changzhou, yesterday arrived at Wucheng Temple, found the thief army, because the thief army is strong, my battalion management with Lord Hao, so repeatedly ordered us to rush into battle to test the fire deployment and strength of the thief army. ”

Xu Guangyuan originally frowned slightly when he heard Tu Duo's so-called guerrilla, because although the elite cavalry of Monk Lingqin's headquarters was extraordinary, its military discipline was also notoriously bad, and the so-called guerrilla was looting everywhere, but when he heard that this group of cavalry was constantly testing with a strength of more than 300 people, he was also greatly moved: "Tu Qian, please get up quickly, please get up quickly, I don't know where you Lord Hao are now?" ”

Xu Guangyuan naturally knew the rules of the Eight Banners, and he had to inquire about the military situation with the highest officer in charge of the other party, and the credit for exploring the enemy and seizing the battle belonged to this group of cavalry, he didn't want to take it, but it seemed that there was a lot of blood on his body, so he knew that this group of people had paid a great price.

Tuduo heard the other party's inquiry, Lord Hao suddenly said a little gloomy: "Lord Hui, Lord Hao sacrificed his life for the country, in addition to more than 20 brothers who reported to Daying, Nanjing, and Changzhou, there are only three people left in my battalion and me, and the strength of the thief army is at least 15,000 people, and its fortifications are dug to look around the entire Wucheng Temple Mountain, and its main fortifications are located in the temple, and the general defense line is divided into five lines, each of which has two or three thousand troops, and the firepower points are dense, and the automatic plug electric gun is countless!" ”

"What?" Fifteen thousand? Xu Guangyuan can be said to gasp, sure enough, Li Xubin guessed correctly, Xu Guangyuan didn't dare to delay, and immediately arranged for the adjutant next to him to say: "Immediately send someone to rush to report to Zeng Dashuai, the thieves who have occupied Wucheng Temple are more than 10,000, our department will go all out to attack and harass the enemy, please send troops to reinforce our department immediately, and ask for credit for Lord Hao and Tu Duoqian!" ”

Tudo stood aside and listened, and was so excited that he snapped a thousand words: "Lord Xie, I have remembered the kindness of my lord for the brothers who died in battle!" ”

Suddenly, Tudo said as if he remembered something: "Lord Xu, there is a spring on the mountain that produces a thousand quintals of water every day, which is enough for the thief army to drink, but the banner of this group of thieves is very special, and the humble position has been seen at close range?" ”

"What kind of special law?" Xu Guangyuan was slightly stunned, and Tuduo thought about it for a while: "Their banner is not like the thief army we fought in Wuhan and Changsha, which are all black regimental dragon plus numbers, but red, and what is written on it is the Chinese Imperial Army Command, the First Division of the Army, and the Führer Division!" ”

Tudo's words made Xu Guangyuan feel like he was in a dream? This number that I have only heard of is actually opposite me, fighting against such an enemy? Xu Guangyuan didn't know how to express his complicated feelings at the moment, as a soldier, he naturally wanted to fight with such a trump card, and the annihilation of the enemy's ace troops was undoubtedly a temptation that every general could not resist.

But since the other party is the trump card, it also shows the strength of the other party, and how much courage and courage does it take to dare to go deep alone and cut off the path of life in the case of being attacked by the enemy on the back of the abdomen? You must know that once the Chinese Imperial Army launches a general attack, whether it is the three towns of Beiyang or the Russian army, they will attack this closed door bolt like crazy.

(To be continued)