The Right Army led by Liu Jintang was ambushed;

The Left Route Army led by Xu Wenxiu was ambushed;

The 2,000 horse team led by Xu Zhanbiao was almost wrapped in dumplings, and it took half of them to get out.

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When the bad news came, the three-way attack, and the three-way troops drilled into the ambush circle of the Qin army. Seriously, after the news came one after another, Zuo Zongtang's brain was really down for a few minutes. There was only one thought in his mind that was turned over and over: How could this be? How so? How so......

Qi Yuan sat in the governor's yamen for a long time, and then walked out of the governor's palace with a smile in his head. The laughter is so bleak, so desperate!

Attacking from three directions, the Chu army gathered the wisdom of everyone and planned a plan that gradually improved over several hours. was exactly what Liu Xian was facing, and after arranging his pockets, he was waiting for Chu Jun to get into it......

What a terrible person this is?!!

Zuo Zongtang, Liu Songshan, He Zuolin, Xu Zhanbiao, Xu Wenxiu, etc., all of them are admirals and generals, and everyone is a heroic man who came out of the sea of corpses and blood, they know too well the cruelty and rapid changes of war, and it is precisely because they really understand the war that they know more about the horror of Liu Xianam.

Qi Yuan is also not an idiot! So he was really disheartened and completely disappointed.

Chu Jun is the Sun Monkey in the palm of the Buddha's hand, and he has a great ability, but he can't escape the palm of the Buddha.

Liu Xian went to the front line for two days, and his ability shocked everyone! It was really a one-man car that overturned the confidence of everyone in the Chu army.

Clever and clever, these two words are used to describe him.

Zuo Zongtang also really felt powerless about a person in his heart. Zuo Zongtang, who thinks he is the best in the world. I feel that Liu Xian is the real awesome, and there are really characters in the world that I can't compare. At this moment, he really had the word 'service' for Liu Xian in his heart.

The military observer group in Fuzhou was silent.

The report that the Chu army was ambushed in three ways was not hidden from them. So. Everyone was so shocked that they didn't know what to say.

The military observer group is well aware of the Chu army's intentions. The Chu army first laid out three lines of defense at Guanxi, and then arranged a series of positions outside the city. All of them are soaked in the hard work of a group of people in the Military Observer Group.

According to the words of the army officers of the three countries with the strongest army strength in the world today, Major Halbert of Germany, Major Nevich of Russia, and Major Armand of France, the army officers of the three countries with the strongest army strength in the world today are the world's first-class troops, and they have launched an attack on the Fuzhou defense line without being superior in numbers, and there are no casualties as the soldiers of the Chu army, nor can they see the shadow of the city wall of Fuzhou.

As a result, in the past two days, everyone's even has been beaten by the facts!

"I see a Napoleon of the East rising!"

British Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton wrote this in a telegram to Hong Kong.

And Major Armand, who had the worst attitude towards Liu Xian and admired Napoleon the most, did not disagree in the slightest with Hamilton's approach.

Liu Xian came to the battlefield in Fuzhou. The two-day watch really shocked all those who experienced it.

On the third day, the heavy rain was still falling, and the Qin army drove into Fuzhou City.

At a distance of about 100 meters from the naked eye, the artillery of the Chu army has become an ornament, and the Qin army is no better here. Relying on Roy alone, he doesn't sit on wax at all. Only Liu Xian pointed on the sand table and issued an order for the artillery to shoot Zhuyuan according to the map calculation and open artillery bombardment. Actually looking at a virtual map. It was the gathering place of the Chu army, so they opened up their mother's bombardment.

In the battle of soldiers on both sides, the rifle in the hand became the first weapon.

The soldiers of the Chu army who were disorganized and demoralized. In terms of marksmanship, where can it be compared to the well-trained and high-morale soldiers of the Qin army. And the latter also has mortar cover. Therefore, the Qin army, which was quite easy, entered the city of Fuzhou, and the Chu army was completely defeated. Liu Songshan, He Zuolin, Xu Wenxiu and others covered Zuo Zongtang and led the remnants of less than 10,000 soldiers to retreat towards Minqing. He was accompanied by 2,000 defeated soldiers of the Eight Banners. The leader of the troops is Cheng Ming. As for the Fuzhou general Qi Yuan and the deputy governor Bai Bao, the latter died at the city gate. The former committed suicide by taking drugs in the General's Mansion.

Admiral Peng Chuhan led two small gunboats and two steamers to retreat to Minqing with the Chu army, and one of the small gunboats was Lin Taizeng.

His uncle Shen Baozhen was overtaken from the governor of Liangjiang, and now he has been transferred to the governor of the river, and Lin Taizeng is also very rare.

The main warships of the Shipmaster and the Naval Division, the officers of the ship, Ri Yige and others of the Mawei Shipyard, as well as the teachers and students of the Shipmaster and Sailor School, all stayed in Mawei honestly.

On the afternoon of the day Liu Xian entered the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Palace, Ri Yige and Bei Shanquan jointly came to see Liu Xian.

The two of them spoke cleanly and neatly, and threw themselves directly into Qin Jun's arms, without mentioning any conditions. Liu Xian is very happy, Mawei is really smart, and in this case, if he puts forward conditions, it is not that he is smart, but that he does not want to really integrate into the Qin army.

Liu Xian generously let the foreigners such as Riyige remain in their positions, and Riyige himself continued to be responsible for the supervision of Mawei Shipyard. And Bei Shanquan, who was most familiar with the Qin army, was promoted to the fourth admiral of the Mawei Water Division. and made a promise that he would never send a naval division to fight against the Chu army.

As a result, the whole of Fuzhou was smoothly put into Liu Xian's pocket.

The news of the defeat of the Chu army was sent to Beijing the next day.

In Wenxiang's mansion, Lian Yue's bedridden and serious illness made Wenxiang dying. There were a few times when he had to step into the ghost door with two feet, but in the end, the obsession in his heart made him retract his body.

Fuzhou, Chu Army!

The future of the Great Qing Kingdom depends on this battle.

If the Qin army wins, there will be no more cages in the world to contain it, at least it will be a secession of the southern country; If the Qin army is defeated, it will be the best news in the Great Qing Kingdom, comparable to the Battle of Songshan two hundred and thirty years ago, this world is still the Great Qing Dynasty.

So Wen Xiang was reluctant to go. He had to wait for this last news, hope, or despair!

Today he finally waited for the final result of the Battle of Fuzhou. The Chu army was completely defeated, with more than 40,000 elites, and there were less than 10,000 remnants of defeated generals.

"Qing Dynasty, Qing Dynasty ......"

His eyes were like the eyes of a dead fish, and Wen Xiang, who was a little thin, muttered 'Daqing, Daqing' in his mouth, and swallowed his last breath.

"Amma, Amma......"

The children and grandchildren fell to their knees, weeping bitterly. I don't know if I am crying for my father and grandfather, or crying for the wealth of their family and the Qing Dynasty.

After Zeng Guofan left, Wen Xiang also left. The rise of these political figures due to the Heavenly Kingdom of Balance is far from the day when the curtain will end, but their twilight is already faintly visible.

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Xianliang Temple, Beijing.

A team of fierce horse team supporters, a carriage slowly marched to the gate of Xianliang Temple.

Zeng Guoquan closed his eyes and rested in the carriage, the carriage stopped, and a shout came from outside the car: "Ninth Master, Xianliang Temple has arrived." ”

Zeng Guoquan, who had a calm face, strolled out of the car, and outside Xianliang Temple, a group of people waiting in the old residence of the Jingxiang Army instantly became excited.

The Zeng family, which has been silent for six years, is about to step into the center of the big stage of 'the world' again.

It's a pity that compared with many old Hunan army houses, Zeng Guoquan, who has a heavy heart, doesn't think about the wealth of the Zeng family at the moment, but is more worried about the drought in Shanxi.

Since the second half of last year, some areas of Shanxi have been hit by severe drought, and locusts, hailstorms, and epidemics have occurred in many places. The heavy snow in the past winter has also disappeared in Shanxi this winter, and in some places there is not a single snow in the whole winter.

The drought is not limited to Shanxi province, but Shanxi is the most important area. Just after the Spring Festival this year, Zeng Guoquan, then the governor of Shanxi, reported to the Qing government: "Jin Province has been hit by drought one after another...... There are more than 1,000 miles of red land, and the number of hungry people is as high as five or six million. "Nowadays, in some places in Shanxi, all the bark and grass roots that can be eaten by the people have been eaten by the people. In order to survive, the common people dug Guanyin soil to fill their hunger, and after a few days, "the mud was swollen, the abdomen was broken, and the intestines were destroyed, and they all died together."

"The father of the inquiry, it is said to be a disaster that has not been seen in more than 200 years."

History also has a name for this drought that will last for two years: the nine northern provinces are thousands of miles away, the victims are as many as 100 million, and the great plague caused by direct starvation and inability to bury the carcasses of people and animals has taken 13 million lives, of which nearly 1/3 of the population in Shanxi Province has been killed.

In the original time and space, Zuo Zongtang's recovery of Xinjiang required tens of millions of military spending, a large part of which was consumed on food. Even in order to raise enough food, they were forced to buy from the Russians who occupied Ili, and the grain in the hands of the Russians at that time still came from the Ili River valley area.

In the final analysis, the reason is that there was a great drought in the north at that time, and there was no harvest of tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. Zuo Zongtang simply couldn't raise enough food in the mainland.

It is undeniable that one of the main reasons why Liu Xian chose to attack at the end of the second year of Guangxu was that he planned to take advantage of the momentum of the 'Ding Wu Strange Famine'. Although this is a great crime for the people in the disaster areas in the north, especially the people in the hard-hit areas in Shanxi.

Liu Xian scoffed at the phrase 'those who achieve great things are not informal', and now he seems to be using this trick. Isn't it ironic? The number of people will become. Liu Xian's ambition remains the same, but his people, after all these years of experience, how can the thoughts in his mind be the same as before?

For those in high positions, moral cleanliness is the most important.

Speaking of Zeng Guoquan, Zeng Guoquan's reputation in Shanxi is very good in history, because Zeng Guoquan saved millions of Shanxi people during the Ding Wuqi famine. Throughout Shanxi, there are countless ancestral halls.

But now, the Manchu Qing Dynasty needs Zeng Guoquan to sit in Huguang, especially Hunan, and needs the Hunan army to once again play the role of the mainstay of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period.

Now it is Yang Yuebin and Peng Yulin who patrol and rectify the Yangtze River Water Division, plus Liu Rong, who has risen in Hunan, and now Zeng Guoquan, since the death of Zeng Guofan, the Hunan army, which has been in a slump, will regain its glory in a blink of an eye. (To be continued......) R1292