"Report! Six hundred miles of military urgency. ”

Ye Zhao was talking to Li Hongzhang in the flower hall, and just introduced Li Hongzhang to meet Lan Guiren, the matter of the governor of Jiangxi was settled, Lan Guiren didn't say much, asked a few words about Li Hongzhang's experience in helping to run military affairs in the Suzhou camp, and chatted a few words about homely things, and asked Li Hongzhang to retreat.

When Ye Zhao was the only one left, Lan Guiren said: "The scholarly business is a little more angry." ”

Ye Zhao knew that for the first time in Jiangxi, he was fighting for power with the six kings, and if the people used could not stand on the same front as Guangfu, they would inevitably make wedding dresses for others in the end, and looking at Li Hongzhang's spirit, Lan Guiren was not very relieved.

When he returned to the General's Mansion to talk to Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang also declined politely: "The student is afraid that it will be difficult to take on this position." Obviously, although Li Hongzhang has not experienced the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, he can see the situation in front of him clearly, the governor of Jiangxi promoted by the Queen Mother is not right, and he stands on the opposite side of the emperor in Beijing.

Ye Zhao persuaded a few words, Li Hongzhang just pushed back, he may be grateful to Ye Zhao for his kindness, but he is cautious, obviously unwilling to get involved in the cruel royal power struggle, as a small pawn crossing the river, he is afraid that sooner or later he will end up in a miserable end.

Listening to Ye Zhao's persuasion, Li Hongzhang sighed and said: "Grandpa's kindness is unforgettable, but the students are only shallow in their studies, and they are afraid that it will be difficult to take on a big responsibility." The student is willing to give advice to the grandfather in the shogunate for the rest of his life, and this heart can be said to the moon! ”

Ye Zhao was about to say more, when a messenger entered the hall under the guidance of the guards, and said in a trembling voice: "Grandpa! Six hundred miles of military urgency! "Kneeling on one knee, raising his hands high, in his hand is a red lacquered sealed document, painted in the shape of three feathers, which is an urgent military situation mark of the Guangdong army.

Ye Zhao was slightly stunned, raised his hand to take it, opened the letter and looked at it, and immediately struck by lightning, Zhang Qian's department was ambushed in Ji'an Mansion, and the Youjiang battalion was almost completely annihilated, and Zhang Qian was martyred. The enemy sent bandit Chen Yu into a department, showing off his might, and wrote a poem "The heavenly soldiers descend to the mortal world, Jingxiang looks at the wind, first cut off your arm, and you must take your head in an instant." ”

Li Hongzhang suddenly saw that Guogong's face changed, because it was a military situation, he wanted to ask but it was not easy to ask.

Ye Zhao had already thrown the white paper stained with blood-stained handprints over, and said in a deep voice: "How can you hide your selfishness? Isn't the blood of thousands of soldiers in the Guangdong army worth your life? ”

Li Hongzhang took the view, immediately covered in cold sweat, was reprimanded by Ye Zhao, goodbye to this book, one is ashamed, the other is terrified, but the blood can't help but swell up in his heart, he stood up and said: "The student is ashamed!" The student was a pedantic Confucian student, and he knew about the situation and should have served his life, but he looked forward and backward, and was ashamed of the Ming Gong. Lie Xian is loyal in front, Ming Gong stick is drunk behind, students dare not wake up from a dream? From now on, I wish to smear my liver and brain to report the public's knowledge! ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and said in a low voice: "The herald will discuss the matter in the hall!" "Get up and stride out.

…… Ganzhou Prefecture Governor's Yamen.

Ye Zhao sat in the hall, and the Cantonese army under the hall gathered star-studded, divided into left and right.

Gang'an, Shenbao, Harwich, Han Jinchun, Liu Quxiang, Zhao Sanbao, Wang Youren, Li Dali and other fierce generals all arrived, this Ganzhou battalion, gathered the seven battalions of the Guangdong Green Battalion Rifles, cavalry teams, bird spear teams, spear teams, archers, artillery teams, and Changfu teams of more than 10,000 people, totaling more than 16,000 brave.

I just received the news that Hong Xiuquan, the king of bandits, in recognition of the merits of Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, made Li Xiu the king of loyalty, and Chen Yu became the king of England.

The main force of the Hunan army of Zeng Guo was pinned down by the winged king Shi Dakai on the battlefield in Hubei, and it was difficult.

Gang'an came out of the ranks, bowed down and said: "Grandpa, it has been said that there are a lot of foreign guns flowing into the bandit department from Shanghai recently, and they are humble and ignorant, but Ma Dayong can lead the Guangdong Navy Division to strictly investigate the merchant ships and cut off their sources." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly and said, "It's already up to Ma Dayong." He also said: "The bandits are entrenched in Ji'an and Linjiang Mansions, where to go down first?" "Chen Yucheng is stationed in Ji'an, and Li Xiucheng is stationed in Linjiang, both of whom are elite pawns of bandits.

Liu Quxiang came out and said: "Marshal, Ji'an is close and the river is far away, and it is taboo for soldiers to seek far away from the near and far." In addition, Chen Yucheng will be Brother Zhang's corpse in the wilderness, slaughtering prisoners, it is our enemy who does not share the sky, please give the commander's order, be willing to be the striker, swear to capture Chen Yucheng, and the head of the boss is Brother Zhang's hatred, and the right river camp Zhaoxue! ”

Thinking of Zhang Qian's death in battle and being chopped into pieces of flesh, and thinking of the tragic situation of the captured Youjiang battalion soldiers who were pierced and their hearts gouged, all the generals were bleeding and their teeth were rattling.

Ye Zhao's face was also gloomy, and he said word by word: "Whoever hurts my siblings, I will repay him tenfold!" ”

Li Hongzhang, who was standing beside Ye Zhao, shuddered, only to feel that this amiable young magnate was sitting in this big tent of the Chinese army, as if he had changed his person, and at this moment, it was even more like Yama Luo came to the world, and between the words, a gloomy aura came to his face.

Harwich came out and said: "The marshal personally recruited bandits, if he didn't annihilate Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng in Jiangxi, how could he show the prestige of the marshal?" How to increase the morale of my Guangdong army? I thought that I could go north with all my strength, attack Linjiang Mansion, ask the Jizi battalion and all the soldiers to attack Fuzhou bravely, and break Li Xiucheng, then the north and south will attack Ji'an, so Chen Yucheng will not escape, if from the south to the north slowly and slowly, I am afraid that Chen and Li will escape to the east, and the bandits in Anhui and Zhejiang will be united, and the thieves will be more rampant. ”

Ye Zhao nodded again and again when he listened, "Harwich's words are good, it is exactly what I want, each battalion will give orders, transfer people and horses, and go north to Linjiang." ”

"Wow!" The generals agreed in unison.

Although some people think that Da Shuai's move is risky, but in the past few years, the big man has no last resort, so he can only mutter in his heart, but he doesn't dare to say it.

......, "Hmph, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, there is no one in Jingxiang's eyes, and the sky will kill him!" ”

Behind the table, there is a heroic young man about twenty years old, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and the long scar on the right side of his face adds a bit of hideous and fierce air to it.

The British king joined the Taiping Army Scout Army at the age of fourteen, the silver gun town of Liangjiang, when the Taiping first, when he broke Wuchang in the west, he was seventeen years old, the Qing army relied on the city high trench deep stubborn resistance number, the Taiping army suffered heavy losses, he led five hundred sword players to the city, sacrificed his life to fight, so that the Qing army was discouraged, the Taiping army broke Wuchang, trapped Anhui Province.

The British royal department is in general, brave and invincible, the state capital, the baby does not dare to cry at night, the squire of Anhui and Zhejiang, the hatred is to the bone, when I hear Chen checked, 'the people help the old and the young, and compete for their lives day and night'.

The British king is brave in attacking the city and trapping the wall, and is good at building fortifications and besieging, copying the back road and killing back the horse pistol when closing the team, plus a silver gun shocks the two rivers, so there is a beautiful proverb of "thirty checks back to the horse pistol".

At this moment, the British king read the Chinese book, just sneered, Jingxiang Xiaoer, regarded the heroes of the world as nothing? The stragglers spread the net, regarded themselves as the turtles in the urn, and were arrogant to the extreme.

But after a while, he slowly calmed down again, the arrogant army will be defeated, and the annihilation of the entire army of Jingxiang's subordinate Youjiang Battalion is a lesson from the past, so how can Jingxiang repeat the mistakes of the past? Rather, it is necessary to find out his intentions.

But in any case, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Liang Chengfu's troops are in the mountains near Nanningdu in the east of Ganzhou, Jingxiang's army is pressing, and he does not want to compete with it, he wants to abandon Ji'an to make Jingxiang's vicious offensive empty, and when he wrestles with it, he waits for an opportunity to attack. Although the Jingxiang Department has sharp rifles, but looking at its battle formation, it is accustomed to the hearty duel between the two armies, and it is exhausted after one blow, and it cannot find its own decisive battle, and after a long time, it will definitely be demoralized. When the time comes, he will gather his forces with the loyal king and deal him a fatal blow, not to mention that he has a foreign gun, don't he have it? Coupled with the equipment that captured his Youjiang battalion, he now has nearly 2,000 foreign guns, but most of them seem to be less powerful than his Youjiang battalion and have a long range.

It's a pity that most of the foreign guns in the Youjiang battalion were smashed by those soldiers before they were captured, otherwise they wouldn't have tortured them like that.

Break the right river camp, Liang Chengfu should remember the first merit, this fierce man who is not afraid of death, the Qing demon in the body several shots, throw it and stand still, lead the big knife team into the enemy formation, is to capture most of the Qing demon weapons were "robbed" by him, and the foreign guns are also more equipped under his subordinates, in order to set up ambushes, when Jingxiang is tired in the north, he attacked Ganzhou, cut off Jingxiang's food supply, and made his army confused, and when he returned to the army, it was when he and the loyal king gave him a fatal blow.

Looking at it now, the original deployment was disrupted by Jingxiang's arrogance, but in any case, now Liang Chengfu can gather the three armies and go south to Nan'an Mansion. Second, if the timing is right, Liang Chengfu can even enter Guangdong to turn him upside down, making Jingxiang unbearable.

Put it to death and then live, this Guangdong, it seems to be the tiger's den in Longtan, but the way of the art of war is virtual and real, that is, Jingxiang can't think of it, so that he can receive miraculous results.

The king thought silently, picked up the brush, considered it, and slowly put it down............ Ningdu Mansion in Jiangxi Province has long been an empty city, shops burned to ashes, and only red-scarf bandits are still searching for property from door to door.

"Bang", a big man kicked open the wooden door facing the street, but saw a four or five-year-old child in the house holding the corpse of his mother** crying, and then went up to a knife, the child's immature eyes did not understand what the world was like, and they fell into darkness forever.

A month ago, Liang Chengfu, the first fierce general under the command of the king of the bandits, had led his troops to loot the city of Ningdu, but now it is said that it has made a comeback, and the city has already been ten rooms and nine empty, and those who have not escaped are all old, young, sick and disabled.

There were blood stains on the two black gates of the palace, the corpses next to the stone lions on the steps emitted a disgusting stench, and the wreckage of the houses that had long been burned down and the sporadic fireworks in the palace.

Stepping on the rotting corpse, a hideous man with a red envelope head with a face full of flesh was pacing back and forth, his eyes were full of anger, staring at people and making people shudder, he was Liang Chengfu, the first fierce general under Chen Yucheng.

After receiving the letter from the British king, Liang Chengfu gathered his soldiers and prepared to go south to Nan'an Mansion, with more than 5,000 people, who were the main force of the British king's lineage, of which more than 1,000 people were equipped with foreign guns, and Liang Chengfu's department was almost equivalent to more than half of the British king's belongings.

Assembled and prepared to go south, but the brothers who had been holding back in the mountains for a long time couldn't help it, and swarmed into Ningdu City like wolf cubs, but now Ningdu City is different from a month ago, it has almost become a dead city, there is not a single person on the street, and the remnants of the people after the previous massacre have long since fled.

Liang Chengfu paced, his heart was uncomfortable, it had been an hour, and he hadn't seen his subordinates send beauties over, so he suddenly flew up and kicked the man beside him, shouting: "Give me all to find, it's just a girl!" ”

At this time, in an unlit silk shop in the city, the cloth on the shelves of the shop had already been robbed, and under the counter, a four or five-year-old child was sitting, his eyes gradually filled with tears, "Sister, sister." Seeing that he was about to cry loudly, the bare door where the wooden door had long been smashed flashed in, but it was a twelve or thirteen-year-old Juanxiu little girl, and the cloth cheongsam covered with mud could not hide her Mingxiu.

She squeezed under the counter with great dexterity, handed a black steamed bun covered with mud to the toddler, and booed, "Eat." ”

The young child immediately picked up the steamed bun and ate it, she was also hungry, licked her lips, but looked away, and whispered: "Nannan, you remember your sister's words today, no matter when you are allowed to cry, remember?" ”

"Hmm." The young boy nodded, took a few bites of the steamed bun, and suddenly handed it over, saying, "Sister, you can eat it too." ”

"My sister is not hungry." The delicate little girl stuffed the steamed bun back into the child's mouth, "You eat, watch you eat, my sister will be happy." ”

"Huh." The toddler nodded obediently.

The delicate little girl looked at her only remaining relative in the world, and suddenly felt sad, gently leaned over, hugged her brother, and couldn't hold back her tears anymore, slowly falling.

"Why don't you breathe!" scolded and scolded, and suddenly two big men with fierce faces walked in the shop one after another, one wrapped in a red turban, and the other wrapped in a silk cloth flower turban.

The little girl's body trembled, and she reached out to cover her brother's mouth, her eyes full of horror.

"Just look at you cuckold, there's no luck." The red turban cursed, and kicked the flower turban.

The flower turban was obviously a little afraid of him, and he smiled: "This satin is smoother than the girl's face, so you don't need to use it in vain." Saying that, he glanced at the shop, and sighed, "Damn, evil surname, Lao Tzu has been here in this shop, and the shopkeeper is Lao Tzu who chopped it with a knife, no, this silk is also here!" ”

As he spoke, he walked around the house.

The little girl's body trembled, holding her brother, holding her breath, not daring to move, through the gap in the wooden planks of the counter, you can see a pair of mud-stained bare feet gradually walking over.

The little girl gritted her teeth and closed her eyes, Daddy, Mother, where are you? Where are you?

"Hey, you said we wouldn't be able to bring a girl with us when we went back, don't you cut off our heads?" The footsteps of the flower turban finally stopped.

"Then look for it, just pant for breath!" Red Turban stood up, "Let's go, take a look upstairs." ”

The little girl stiffened, and from the stairs, you could see her and her brother at a glance.

The toddler was so breathless that he moved, touching the wooden plank on the counter.

"Who?" The flower turban pulled out the snow bright steel knife with a snort.

The red turban sneered: "Bah, look at your bear-like appearance, who can there be, Bacheng is a mouse!" ”

The flower turban paced to the counter and replied, "It's not like listening to the movement." ”

A trace of sadness flashed in the little girl's eyes, it was inevitable to be discovered by these thieves, although she was young, she knew that it was better to die than to die in the hands of the thieves, and her mother committed suicide by hitting the wall before being caught.

The little girl wiped her tears and slowly took out a bamboo hairpin from her arms, which her mother gave herself before she died.

Gently put the bamboo hairpin against his throat, and looked at his younger brother in his arms with affection, he, what will he do in the future?

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the little girl gritted her teeth, and was about to run out to lure them away and then kill herself with a bamboo hairpin, when she suddenly heard the sound of the horn outside.

On the street, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps, and the thieves were running with shouts, but they couldn't hear what they were shouting.

"Qi Lao Wu! What the fuck is going on? The red turban stood in the doorway and yelled at a man he knew.

The man's footsteps did not stop, his face was full of panic, and he shouted: "It's officers and soldiers, Jingxiang, there are all Jingxiang outside the city......" ran away, but the words behind him drifted away with the wind.

"What the is all Jingxiang? How many Jingxiang are there? Damn it! The red turban scolded, suddenly stunned, his face changed greatly, and he turned his head and said, "Damn, it's not good, Jingxiang is here!" ”

The flower turban's body shook, and he didn't care if there was a person or a ghost behind the counter, so he hurriedly ran out with the red turban, and the street was a mess.

"Jingxiang? Who is it? The little girl slowly put down the bamboo hairpin, these thieves, I am afraid of him.

…… At this time, outside the city of Ningdu, the Cantonese soldiers were like falling from the sky, surrounding the city of Ningdu in all directions.

Outside the south gate, the handsome flag of Jingxiang was raised, and Ye Zhao leaped his horse and pointed to the head of the city.

This is exactly Ye Zhao's strategy to confuse the soldiers, all of them seem to be attacking Linjiang, but in fact, the target is the bandit Liang Chengfu. How much does Ye Zhao attach importance to intelligence warfare? accidentally discovered Liang Chengfu's movements, and was already determined to kill him in this black mountain and white water.

On the city wall, a dense array of foreign guns was quickly erected, Liang Chengfu held a machete in his hand, his eyes were red as blood, and shouted: "Jingxiang, kill the chicken!" How dare you come forward and speak? ”

He looks rough, but his mind is delicate, behind him, there is already a sharpshooter with a crossbow arrow, the heavy crossbow is carefully crafted by craftsmen, the range is not much better than that of foreign guns, but it is cumbersome, let alone a miracle force.

After Liang Chengfu finished speaking, he made a gesture, and the foreign guns on the city wall were withdrawn one after another, and the muzzles of the guns were pointed at the sky.

Ye Zhao raised his whip and said, "Who are you?" ”

Liang Chengfu was about to sign up for his own number, but suddenly he was saved, this Jingxiang was obviously humiliating himself, and the implication was that he was not worthy of talking to him.

"Yellow-mouthed child! Chop up in the morning and evening to feed your dogs! Liang Chengfu felt comfortable after scolding, and looked up to the sky and laughed.

Suddenly, I saw Ye Zhao's several horsemen rushing out of the array, "Bang Bang Bang", the gunfire was like thunder, and the soldiers behind Liang Chengfu screamed and fell to the ground, and the only sharpshooter burst into a bloody hole in his forehead, turned over and fell.

The bandits set up foreign guns one after another and opened fire, and the Blue Flag guards rode their horses like flying, making circles more than 100 steps in front of the city, and there were soldiers on the "Bang Bang Bang" city wall.

Liang Chengfu was shocked, how could he shoot so far?

He didn't know that the Blue Flag Guard had been replaced with Thomas's newly developed rear-loading gun with smokeless ammunition, but almost all of these 100 rifles were hand-polished by Thomas, and how to mechanize mass production was still a problem.

Under the Blue Flag Acropolis, the bandits on the city wall learned to be shrewd, leaned down, hid behind the battlements, and fought back, but where did they hit the people.

Liang Chengfu felt depressed when he looked at it.

For a while, the Cantonese army cheered like thunder.

Ye Zhao pointed at Liang Chengfu: "Send your head of a dog thief today, if you don't want to be captured alive, you will kill yourself quickly!" He turned around and shouted: "This person is only allowed to be captured alive, and he is not allowed to be injured for his life!" ”

"Obey the commander's order!" The Cantonese army let out an earth-shattering shout, which shocked the bandits on the city wall.

In July 1857, the 4th Rifle Battalion of Jingxiang and the Right Wing of the Banner Guard Battalion trapped the bandit Liang Chengfu in Ningdu.

(To be continued)