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The main reason why the plot is a little fast recently is that Xiaoqi wants to let the story enter the refreshing main line as soon as possible, so some unnecessary excessive waste of pen and ink environment is simply dealt with, the great era of the Chinese Empire is coming, and the European powers are competing for hegemony on the ocean, and the soldiers go straight out of the Middle East to restore the territory of the Tang and Han dynasties! (The above words are no longer within 1,000 words)

After Wang Zhitong finished speaking, Zeng Guofan smiled slightly and said: "What a high-sounding reason and excuse!" First shake the heart of my Beiyang Army with your experience? In a vain attempt to discourage my Beiyang fighting spirit? Lin Haijiang really has a good calculation! ”

Xu Guangyuan, who was on the side, raised his eyebrows and said: "The 300,000 army of the monk king and the imperial court reinforcements are about to arrive, and I don't know who is going to surrender to whom!" ”

"Oh?" Wang Zhitong smiled slightly and said, "Please bring the gift that the head of state brought to Lord Zeng!" ”

However, after a while, a Beiyang officer holding a long wooden box outside the main hall and checking it a few times, walked into the main hall quickly, and the panicked expression on his face was very surprising?

Zeng Guofan opened the wooden box and took out a big flag embroidered with monk characters inside, Zeng Guofan's heart suddenly chuckled, he had seen this flag more than once, once upon a time he also thought that the emperor would give him a handsome flag, but Zeng Guofan knew that he couldn't lose his temper, otherwise the army would be in chaos, so he disdainfully said: "It's really hard for you, so hard to make this flag, I'm afraid it costs a lot, right?" ”

"Flags?" Wang Zhitong was extremely surprised and said: "I don't know! The Fourth Army Corps, the First Mountain Infantry Corps and the two brigades of the Marine Corps ambushed Seng Lingqin's troops on the outskirts of Wuhan and fought a great victory, but they escaped from Seng Greenqin, this box was brought by His Excellency the Führer, and it had the seal of the General Staff on it, and an officer of my level had no right to look at it! ”

Wang Zhitong's words were like detonating a pile of powder kegs, and Zeng Guofan knew that he couldn't let the other party talk anymore, so he waved his hand and said: "Lin Haijiang actually wants to use such despicable means to disturb our army's heart? It's really hateful, thinking that the old man will let go of the two armies and leave quickly, otherwise don't blame the old man for turning his face and being ruthless! ”

Wang Zhitong hurriedly nodded and said: "Your Excellency the Führer also said before I came, no matter what, I must save my surname, saying that Lord Zeng is the great Confucian of the world and will not embarrass me as a messenger, and His Excellency the Führer ordered that there will be more than a dozen truckloads of flour and rice every day outside the south gate, as a total!" ”

After Wang Zhitong left, after a long while, Xu Guangyuan, who was sweaty, hurried back, at this moment only Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang were discussing something in the hall, Xu Guangyuan didn't wait for the two to ask, and said eagerly: "Five carts of flour and five carts of rice, almost enough food for our army to have a meal, have arranged for someone to check it, and it is no problem, and the humble post will be pulled back!" ”

Zeng Guofan sighed slightly and said, "This Lin Rebellion is really powerful!" No matter whether Lin Rei's true intention is to recruit our Beiyang New Army, but he first sent someone to show that he can only use it regardless of his previous suspicions, showing his broad mind in Lin Haijiang, and then telling us that Seng Lingqin was defeated and fled alone, cutting off our idea of asking for help, and then testing us with food, if we abandon it, then Lin Rei will not accurately estimate my grain stockpile! ”

Xu Guangyuan was extremely surprised and said: "Handsome! I really didn't know that this food still had such a purpose? Please punish the commander! ”

Zeng Guofan smiled slightly: "What did you punish for?" How long can we hold on even hard? The banner of the monk sent by Lin Rei is likely to be true, because the headquarters of the Lin Rei bandit army he said is not on the periphery of Nanjing, and those are all Lin Rei's elite divisions. Lin Wei has already calculated our people, so he is given a meal of hanging food every day, that is, he can't eat enough and can't starve to death, Lin Haijiang has already touched our hole cards clearly, old man, the only thing I am unwilling to do now is that Lin Wei is like God's help? From a small obscure garrison all the way to the beginning of the national dynasty, everything seems like a dream? ”

Zuo Zongtang also shook his head helplessly and said, "I also wonder, why did he catch up with all the good things?" As soon as this battle comes to him, he will turn the danger into a disaster? Every time we fight, it's our weakness? In a few years, a huge maritime empire was built, not to mention the losses of the allied forces of the Western countries, but he Lin Haijiang became bigger and stronger? Now not only do we dominate the sea, but we are no match for them even on land! I'm really unwilling! ”

Xu Guangyuan, who was on the side, also sighed and said: "Let's just say that the electric gun, they have as many as four in a company, one light machine gun per squad, if they encounter any marines or imperial head divisions, it will be even more evil, one Prussian hand cannon per person, ten rounds!" There are six more ways than our officer's revolver, even if we rush over, we will retreat with heavy casualties within ten meters! In the Wucheng Temple outside Changzhou City, more than 1,000 people from my tenth town just let more than 100 of them stand up and lose on the hand cannon! ”

Zuo Zongtang glanced at Xu Guangyuan and said: "Don't scratch your hair, the handsome man knows in his heart, you can go down if there is nothing to do!" ”

Xu Guangyuan, who realized that he had lost his words, immediately retreated, but Xu Guangyuan's complaint Zeng Guofan stopped in his ears, he had the grace of knowing Xu Guangyuan, so Zeng Guofan was not worried that Xu Guangyuan would betray him, and now the big armament was besieging the city here, as long as Lin Haijiang moved his mouth, the Beiyang that he had worked so hard to build would collapse and be burned!

However, for other town control systems, there are Zeng Guofan's trustworthiness, and there are bottomless, Zeng Guofan thought of sending his cronies to take charge of the troops, but the Beiyang New Army's training is said to be a first-level obedience to the first-level teaching, and the soldiers at the bottom only have the town control system in their eyes, and the control system is absolutely loyal to themselves, but the current situation is pressing, after all, it is the hearts of the people who are separated from the belly, and Zeng Guofan is not sure for a while!

Zuo Zongtang knows the distress of Zeng Guofan, now Nanjing has become a mortal situation, as a courtier of the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang has such a plan from the day he went out to fight against Lin Rebellion, but what he thinks most is the triumphant class to return to the dynasty, the lively scene of all alleys are empty, since ancient times, the general died in a hundred battles, but begged the horse leather shroud to return, saying that it was heroic and loyal, in fact, there was no way to do it, they were the generals who held the military power outside and supervised the war, which family was not in the land of Gyeonggi? Whether it's surrender, rebellion, or defeat, a death is a big family! Otherwise, you wouldn't have fallen into such a dead end!

Zeng Guofan looked at Zuo Zongtang and hesitated for a moment and said, "Ji Gao! If you have any ideas, just say it! Now there are no one else here! You and Shaoquan have always been at odds with the old man, and you probably have complaints about the old man's unconventional promotion of him, right? ”

Zuo Zongtang was slightly stunned, he didn't know why Zeng Guofan mentioned this at this time? Although everyone in Beiyang knows that he is at odds with Li Hongzhang, few people know why they are at odds? However, since Zeng Guofan mentioned it today, he is not ready to deliberately avoid it as before. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

So Zuo Zongtang smiled slightly: "I and Shaoquan are actually on the top of the conflict of ideas, he advocates Western learning in China, I think it is more appropriate to remove the skin and bones, although the gap between the two is not big, but it is really a difference of a thousand miles!" Shaoquan just thinks too perfectly, so it won't work in our Qing Dynasty, I said before that his Huaizi battalion is light on both sides, and the drainage ditches of the camp are dug straight and straight, which consumes the physical strength of the soldiers, it is simply useless, Shaoquan may be a talent if he supervises a place, but he is definitely not a material to lead soldiers! ”

Zeng Guofan nodded after listening to Zuo Zongtang's complaint and said: "Shaoquan is indeed not a material to lead soldiers, but I'm afraid that his voice in the court is more sad than us right now, maybe the top son has been taken off and put in prison!" ”

Zuo Zongtang was suddenly surprised: "Handsome! Where does this begin? How to say that Shaoquan is also my Beiyang senator! Commanding the defense of Dagukou and supervising the training of recruits. ”

Zeng Guofan smiled bitterly and said: "That's it, he has to go to the top, and if it is a little serious, he may go to prison!" Think about it, how could the imperial court let him take the 20,000 horses from Dagukou south to rescue Nanjing? The tens of thousands of new army court will not let go, if he doesn't drop the top, it proves that he betrayed our Beiyang and treacherous, if he falls off the top and goes to prison, it means that he did his best, but it touched the bottom line of the court, and the court thinks he is disloyal! So Shaoquan is now harder than any of us. ”

Zuo Zongtang shook his head and suddenly said, "Handsome!" Then we can't wait for death here? ”

Zeng Guofan sighed for a while and said: "Most of these 60,000 Beiyang bones and blood are the children of Liangxiang!" How can I watch them die under the artillery and sword soldiers of the Lin rebels, I have something to entrust to you today! ”

As soon as he heard the word entrustment, Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but fight a cold war, staring at Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan smiled and said: "The old man has nothing to regret when he reaches this age, I think my Hunan army has fought the long-haired bandits several times, and I think I will be able to pacify the Quartet and achieve a great feat, but the chaos in the world has given Lin Wei and other heroes a chance, it is really fate!" ”

Zeng Guofan paused and said: "Ji Gao, I think that my two Hunan disciples have shed enough blood for the Qing Dynasty, and I will think about leaving a way for them to survive for the rest of these soldiers!" Although Lin Shun is ruthless, but it is for foreigners, and he is quite kind to the people, and he will definitely not be embarrassed for you, and he can be loyal to the Qing Dynasty with an old man! Even if I save my name, my husband, it is equivalent to living the lives of tens of thousands of people! ”

"Dashuai, don't do it!" Zuo Zongtang fell to his knees in shock, Zeng Guofan waved his hand and said, "You get up!" I am determined, old man, I can't pull tens of thousands of your lives to die for me, a loyal minister! How many orphans and widows have you fought for? Could it be that we haven't seen enough? How do you and my tops dye red? The old man has seen through the ups and downs of life and death! There you go! The old man is a little tired! ”

(To be continued)