Chapter 699: The Battle of the Yangtze River: The Sand Embankment Collapses in Second

Xie Dingbei's soldiers don't have to fight for Wuchang! The news spread, and the north and south were in an uproar.

"I can't see it at all, when I led the army to fight Zhangpu, he left a deep impression on me, just a ...... With a flattering face, I secretly wondered how I could accept this kind of person. ”

It was in the afternoon, in the Wing Chun Garden of Whampoa Boundless Palace, two people were lazily lying on a soft chair under the shade of the tree to enjoy the coolness.

When it comes to Xie Dingbei, what flashed in Sanniang's mind was the appearance of a lobster jumping up, no wonder she never forgot it.

"People always change, and after so many years, waste can become heroes."

Although he is an old husband and wife, but with Sanniang's legs on his pillow, Li Xi still feels infinitely beautiful, and his mind responds casually.

"Yes, people always change......"

Sanniang sighed faintly, and the action of helping Li Si fix her hair was extremely gentle, but the next sentence was like her one-word tongs sheep and horses, which made Li Si's heart tight.

"These few in our backyard have also changed from little girls to old women, and even the Baoyin that you got in a daze is twenty-six or seventeen, and they can't get into the eyes of the Long Live Lord again. Long live the ambition is unbearable, what should I do? Secretly found a painting of a little dancing girl to hang and admired it secretly. The concubine was guilty, and she was too jealous of her sisters, so she didn't worry about what the Lord was anxious about, and took the little dancing girl into the back garden to please the Lord of Long Life......"

Li Xi was laughed at by Sanniang's words that the vinegar smell went straight to the stomach bag, what was this mother-in-law thinking?

"Really? Then I'...... Uh-huh, then I will make an order to take Luo Shenniang into the palace? ”

"It's still cooked! Don't you dare! ”

"Oh—so you're jealous of that little dancer, ouch! Don't pinch ......"

"Who am I jealous? I just think that Na Luo Shenniang doesn't understand martial arts at half, has a silver-like wax spear head, and dances a sword dance! In my early years, when I went to the rivers and lakes to perform arts, it was all real kung fu. It's ridiculous that no one in the world understands, she only knows how to watch the excitement, and even the newspapers touted her as a great swordsman, she has never learned kendo at all! ”

The old couple had a good heart, Li Xi quickly led away Sanniang's chatterbox, and after some nagging, Sanniang was really jealous...... The kung fu girl who used to perform in the rivers and lakes naturally did not like the dancing girl who entered the martial arts with dance and became a public star.

Li Xian knew how to comfort Sanniang, "Laymen always watch the excitement, of course they don't know the way of the insider, okay, this year's martial arts conference, I'll go with you!" ”

Sanniang's hand fell softly on Li Shi's face, and her voice softened: "You, you know how to coax people......"

The couple enjoyed the warmth, and Xie Dingbei's recovery of Wuchang was like a fallen leaf, which passed in an instant.

But for the Privy Council, Xie Dingbei's matter is as important as a thousand pounds, and Su Wencai specially found Fan Jin for advice.

"Xie Dingbei is not from the green camp, and his reputation is not ...... Outstanding, now relying on luck to grab the first merit of the war, I don't know how to discuss it, for fear of causing the generals to be jealous and the army is unstable. ”

How to reward Xie Dingbei, if the emperor still wants to make up his mind about this matter, the Privy Council will inevitably be too incompetent. But how to grasp the proportion, Su Wencai, who was born as a scribe and has been handling government affairs for a long time, has no bottom in his heart.

"Don't worry so much, there is a saying in the army......"

Fan Jin was also lamenting Xie Dingbei's luck, but when it came to jealousy, Su Wencai was obviously too worried.

"When the gun was fired, no one knew if it was really aimed and killed the enemy, and it was difficult to say that it was not a blind cat that hit a dead mouse. Therefore, when it comes to fighting, what you look at is the result, if you win, you will have merit, and if you lose, you will have a fault. If there is merit, merit will be rewarded, and if there is a mistake, it will be punished. The process of judging is to find fault with the reason, that is, to study the tactics and sum up the lessons and lessons, and it has nothing to do with rewards and punishments. ”

Speaking of this, Fan Jin sighed, "At this moment, what the generals in the army are thinking about is more regret for Zhan Wenda." If he does not die, the credit will surely be his. From Huguang to Jiangxi and then to Jiangnan, the situation is extremely clear, and unless the Lord is as stupid as a pig, he will not lose this credit. "..., Hubei is already a ball of soft meat, Xie Dingbei has eaten Wuchang, and has already gained the largest one, Jia Hao limited the theater of his former army to the south of Wuchang, in fact, he is already balancing.

Fan Jin set the tone with one sentence, "After that, there are Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Jiujiang, Nanchang, Shaanxi and Gansu, and even the entire Jiangnan, as well as Qinghai and Western Xinjiang. ”

That's right, but the Privy Council Examination Department is still full of greasy, Zhan Wenda has been guarding the side for several years, and after dying in the war, he was promoted to a titled general, and Xie Dingbei picked up a cheap one all the way, how can he get a titled general, the more he compares, the more heartwarming it is, God sometimes really likes to throw apples......

The officials of the Privy Council are full of entanglement, the officials of the political hall, and even the editors-in-chief of the newspapers.

Wuchang is too easy to take, and the situation in Huguang and Jiangxi at this time is as easy as a boat sailing smoothly.

They remembered the situation when they attacked the emperor before, the Qing soldiers marched south, and Tian Wenjing's Jiangxi soldiers and the Xishan camp that arrived later were extremely vicious, and the Jiangxi side was embarrassed. First, one county official died in the country, and then several counties were lost.

At that time, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, and many people even blamed the emperor in a roundabout way, and the emperor was a military parade, and he pulled his wife and children to swear by swearing, which barely calmed people's hearts.

Now it seems that the government and the opposition really overestimated Mantar's ability. Except for the Jiangxi soldiers and the Xishan camp, the north is simply full of holes, like paper paste. It was rumored that Meng Songhai directly bought the Tartar sailor with silver, but everyone still didn't believe it, this was a war between the north and the south, there was no such absurd thing...... But now? A Xie Dingbei, it is said that in the army, he is a former Green Battalion general who relies on a bad smile to mess around, but in half a month, he destroyed the army of Ortai, the governor of Huguang, and occupied Wuchang.

How did Wuchang occupy it? 300,000 taels of silver...... Isn't that more ridiculous than buying a sailor? But it happened like this, and the Hubei Green Camp, and even the performance of Hubei localities, made the government and the opposition jaw-dropping.

No wonder the emperor is not worried at all, strictly speaking, it seems that since the era of the Tianwangfu, the emperor has never taken the north seriously, and he rubs it at will to be round and flat, and even interfered in the change of the throne of the Manchu Dynasty, completely regarded it as a meal on a plate, and was only picky about the timing of eating.

In the political affairs hall, from the first assistant Tang Youzeng to the general Sicao officials, they all felt a little ashamed, and they heard that the emperor had something to do in the back garden today, and he didn't come to the political affairs hall to listen to the government, and everyone was relieved.

The more entangled question in the newspapers is, how to report this matter? Advocating Xie Dingbei's bravery? The matter of crushing tofu dregs is worth mentioning? What do you think of the hard battles and the blood before that?

The editor-in-chief of several newspapers found Lei Xiang for advice, and Lei Xiang said leisurely: "This is a headache? Let's take the good news of Xie Dingbei's practice first, if I am not mistaken, there will be good news every day in the future...... And one is bigger than the other, how to adjust it into an inspirational article and make the newspaper sell well, you have to start with Xie Dingbei. ”

At the end of May of the tenth year of the Holy Dao, the name Xie Dingbei, if there was a mana spell, caused a shock with diametrically opposite effects on the north and south, but the initial reaction of both sides was still the same, that is, it was hard to believe.

Because of this, both the north and the south subconsciously want to reconfirm. However, the south is only the government and the opposition, while the north is still involved in the military and politics, and a few days have passed since this confirmation.

When Xibao and Zhang Chaowu of Luling confirmed the news, the news that the vanguard fleet of the Yingyang Army had arrived in Wuchang also came.

Zhang Chaowu fell to the ground softly at that time, and Xibao didn't react stupidly, so he kept muttering: "How come? The Hubei army on land and water, plus the Wuchang battalion, has 60,000 or 70,000 people, where did so many soldiers go? ”

"Zhongtang urges the handsome to return to Nanchang immediately!" ..., the news was sent by Tian Wenjing to Pegasus, and he also gave Xibao a suggestion for action, the back road has been broken, and it is pointless to fight again at this time. Wuchang to Jiujiang is only four or five hundred miles of waterway, rafting is urgent, and it will arrive in three or four days. It is now the seventh day of the sixth month, and perhaps Jiujiang is falling into the fire of the Southern Barbarians. At this time, I had to pray that the Jiujiang defenders could carry it down.

"Yue Zhongqi, Ortai, you should be killed! Damn it! ”

Xi Bao finally returned to reality, snarling with teeth and claws.

After jumping for a while, Xibao also softened, and said weakly: "Lao Zhang, we have to protect the back road, let's withdraw quickly......"

Zhang Chaowu gathered his spirit: "Dashuai, our back road has been broken, and we must not withdraw at this time!" ”

Although Tian Wenjing sent someone to deliver the letter, he himself did not have any high-spirited and bright manners, and he did not have the kindness to continue to stand up in the direction of Yuanzhou with the Jiangxi soldiers and help the Xishan camp cover the flanks. Nanban went out from the direction of Yuanzhou, and was on the way back to the north of the camp in Xishan.

"Although the Nanban has reinforcements, they have been shrinking in the south of the city, not fighting against us, just waiting for today. Once we retreat, we will definitely be attacked by the Nanban front and back, and then the whole army will collapse, and it will be difficult to survive ......."

Zhang Chaowu's words, Xibao wanted to cry loudly when he heard it, why? Why did the situation change in the blink of an eye!? Is there any reason for this?

"The only way to do this is to defeat the Nanban in person and take Luling, this is our back road! This back road is worry-free, and we can return to the north. ”

Of course, Zhang Chaowu has his own intentions, and Xibao is not a fool, defeat the Nanban in person and take Luling? It's really as easy as talking, and they won't hold on to each other and stop attacking for half a month. Although the background of the new red-clothed man is very contemptible, the cannons he brought are genuine, and they can't even carry their artillery team, and thirty or forty cannons have been destroyed in half a month.

But Zhang Chaowu's words are also very reasonable, just turn around and run, it would be good to be able to run out of ten. Xibao finally decided that there was no need to take Luling again, and find a way to deal with the reinforcements of the Nanban, suppress the other party, and slowly retreat......

Thinking of the collapse of the war, just because of the two people in Hubei, and they had been reminded before, Xibao said hatefully again: "Yue Zhongqi, Ortai, should be cut in half!" It's time for Lingchi! ”

In the Forbidden City of Beijing, it was early in the morning, and Yongzheng said in a hoarse voice: "Yue Zhongqi, Ortai, damn it!" Xibao, Tian Wenjing, damn it! ”

At this time, he couldn't think of the responsibility of not being the boss, and he didn't expect the difficulties mentioned by the four of them, especially Yue Zhongqi and Ortai had already reminded them.

Even if Nanban secretly transferred troops back, there were tens of thousands of soldiers in Hubei, and there were two towns and two associations of sailors controlling the waterway. How is it possible for this situation to be completely reversed in less than a month?

The Hubei Navy Division was bought with silver, and the Hubei Green Battalion was bought with silver, this is too nonsense, can you buy soldiers, and can you buy generals? Can you buy 100 people, can you buy 10,000 people?

Yongzheng felt that his thoughts were numb, and he couldn't figure out the context of the situation ahead at all, how did the situation deteriorate? How can it be corrupted in the blink of an eye?

After thinking about it, he felt that most of it was his own mistake. Yue Zhongqi and Ortai lost the waterway and Wuchang in an instant, and the crime is unforgivable! And Xibao and Tian Wenjing, holding a strong army, struggled in Jiangxi, fought for a long time, and only then did they capture a few county seats, but they didn't get a single place, and they were also rice buckets!

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