"I want revenge, I can't swallow this breath!"

In a courtyard in Chengdu, there are only Liu Xian and Huo Guangcheng in the house, and Fan Debang, his personal entourage, and the guards are no more. for what he will say under him shall be kept secret.

Liu Xian narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze was as sharp as a knife. The whole person seems to have turned into a fierce beast waiting for an opportunity to move, ready to hunt.

Huo Guangcheng's body trembled, revenge? The stakes are too great. But then a wave of excitement and exhilaration completely overwhelmed him. As a relatively standard Leng Touqing, nicknamed 'Xiao Shixiu', Huo Guangcheng's dissatisfaction with the Chengdu bigwigs not only did not fade with time, but increased with Hu Zhonghe's actual appointment of Sichuan Governor and Tang Yougeng's name as Yunnan Governor.

The person chosen by Liu Xian is him. In addition to this cousin, Huo Guangcheng has a temper that is not afraid of heaven and earth.

The most direct way to retaliate is to contact the Taiping army. This relationship can pierce the sky, how can a timid person do it?

"!" Huo Guangcheng lowered his voice and roared, "This group of melon babies, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, it's not a thing!" "It's intolerable not to retaliate.

"That'...... How to get revenge? ”

It's okay to do things, but Huo Guangcheng, who can't think about it, looked at his cousin with expectation.

"You go to Ningyuan like this...... like this"

Liu Xian was lying in Huo Guangcheng's ear and saying like this, the specific content is unknown to outsiders, but Huo Guangcheng disappeared from Chengdu that afternoon.

After Huo Guangcheng left, Liu Xian continued to stay in Chengdu, going to Zhang Shoudai's office from time to time to show up, and then continued to dive.

He had no hesitation in Shi's retaliation. Maybe this kind of behavior can be regarded as very forceful, very brainless, and very undetermined by the city government, but this is really a decision he made after careful consideration.

If you have the ability, give Luo Bingzhang and the others a little mess, let Tang Hu suffer more losses, and let Shi Dakai mix better, is it also an alternative kind of self-respect?

Anyway, he was very unhappy with Luo Bingzhang, Tang Yougeng and Hu Zhonghe, and he didn't want to see Shi Dakai die.

The deception and revenge were said to Huo Guangcheng, just following Huo Guangcheng's temper, so that he could express himself more naturally in this matter.

The team expands and expands, and with Zhang Shoudai's support, it is still a piece of cake to raise a team of three or four thousand people. Liu Xian's official face is diving, but Rong Jing's team has been open, and at the same time, taking this opportunity, a large-scale military training is also being launched at the same time.

The confrontation with Shi Dakai's elite allowed Liu Xian to know the bottom line of China's strong army in this era.

Maybe it won't take ten years, after the cold weapon is eliminated, all the current armies are scum. But the problem now is that the other division's hand-to-hand combat capabilities must be strengthened.

There is also iron in Sichuan, and under Zhang Shoudai's care, it is very convenient for Liu Xian to use iron. Summoning a group of blacksmiths and a few masters 'dug up' from the Gunpowder Bureau, he took the opportunity to build his own artillery.

The Han and Yuan iron cannons were not cast for the time being, only the mountain splitting cannons and mortar cannons were cast.

Mortar is a very old artillery, with a large caliber, a small double diameter, a curved firing angle, and a very high angle of fire.

Simply put, it is a primitive mortar. Liu Xian valued its ability to shoot and strike.

In today's China, artillery has not yet developed to a certain scale, and the role of the city wall is still maintained to a certain extent. If there is such a curved strike weapon that is small in total and small in size, it can be transferred, carried, and fired, then it will be very effective.

The mountain splitting cannon has also expanded from 150 catties to 200 catties, 250 catties, and 300 catties, a total of four grades. Among them, 250 catties and 300 catties are two-grade mountain splitting guns, and they are also equipped with iron bullets when they shoot scattered bullets.

Focusing on the consolidation and expansion of his own strength, Liu Xian only looked at the outside things and did not say anything, and the whole person was low-key and did not have the slightest sense of zài. Because of this, Huo Guangcheng, who disappeared for twenty days, returned to Liu Xian's side, and did not attract anyone's attention.

During this period, Liu Xian did not interrupt the contact with Lao Chao Chenggu, Liu Zhuo, Qi Dalin, and Zhou Jun did not dare to make any more trouble, at least on the surface, the three of them buried themselves in the recruitment and training of recruits all day long, and made meritorious contributions to "wear guilt and make meritorious contributions", and now there are 1,000 soldiers in the Liuba Battalion, and there are 2,000 people in the recruit camp. The reason why the number of recruits is so large is that the news that Liu Xian has been named deputy general has played a crucial role.

Lan Chaozhu attacked Chenggu several times, but he didn't take advantage of it.

In mid-July, Liu Xian was thinking about Shi Dakai's actions, things were sent for a month, and it should be time to initiate the action, so he stared at Ning Yuan.

Tang Yougeng and Hu Zhonghe were the generals of Sichuan, and the combat strength of the two Qing armies was also one of the best in Sichuan, and they were the mainstays of the Qing army's defense against Shi Dakai. Shi Dakai has a new weapon, and if he wants to sacrifice the flag to boost the morale of the army, he must take the two of them to open the knife.

"I was watching the mountain scenery from the castle tower, and I heard the chaos outside the city. The flag is flipped in the air, but it turns out to be ......"

Thinking of the blows that Tang Yougeng and Hu Zhonghe were about to suffer, Liu Xian had a kind of schadenfreude, and hummed "The Empty City Plan" in his mouth, which really had the joy of looking at the scenery in the city.

At the beginning of August, the Great War of Shi Dakai against the Qing army broke out.

Shi Dakai, who had already recovered heavy losses from the two armies on the eastern and western routes, had a total strength of 60,000. There are also Li Fuyou, Zheng Yonghe, Tang Rirong, Yang Yuanfu and other fierce generals. The Qing army on the opposite side was also huge, with more than 10,000 elites in Tang Hu, 20,000 people including Tang Jiong, Xie Guotai, Qingji, and Cai Buzhong, Zhou Dawu, the chief soldier of Baoning Town, more than 10,000 troops stationed in the Eight Banners and the Governor's Standard Battalion, and 20,000 local Tu Corps training, with a total of nearly 70,000 troops.

Shi Dakai fought back in an all-round way. In the past, the firepower was weak, and he only relied on Shi Dakai, who was used to walking on the side, avoiding flaws, being good at dangers, and stepping on the hidden paths, but this time his firepower suddenly increased by I don't know how many times. Tang Yougeng, Hu Zhonghe, and Zhou Dawu, who were the first to be killed by artillery bombardment, suffered heavy losses.

Although Shi Dakai eventually withdrew from Yunnan and was 'driven' out of Sichuan, the deterrent impact of this battle was heavy. Shi Dakai's tens of thousands of troops walked mightily, if it was the same as marching freely, tens of thousands of Qing troops did not dare to advance too much, but just 'send' Shi Dakai with his eyes. Compared with the past, this root is very different.

In this battle, the Qing army lost more than 10,000 people, and half of them were the most daring elites.

After Shi Dakai crossed the dead knot of Zidadi, he continued to stir up the situation in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan in the southwest.

But Liu Xian's happiness did not last long, and on August 13, an urgent message arrived in Chengdu.

- Liu Rong was defeated.

The battle situation in Hanzhong entered the late July, and suddenly there was a vibrating change. This change did not lie in the Qing army, nor in the Taiping army, but in the rebel army of the Lan Dynasty Pillar. They're going north to conquer it! The soldiers were less than 100 miles away from Xi'an, and Guanzhong shook in an instant.

The Taiping army in Ningqiang Prefecture immediately moved, and King Liang Chengfu led tens of thousands of Taiping troops out of Ningqiang Prefecture, crossed Nanzheng, and went to Xu.

Chen Tianzhu and Li Ying in Nanzheng City couldn't sit still in an instant. Chen Tianzhu immediately commanded his subordinates to intercept Liang Chengfu's troops, and at the same time quickly reported to Liu Rong, asking him to quickly launch an attack and contain the Taiping army in Ningqiang Prefecture.

The news that Liu Rong was lost was also shocked, and he did not dare to continue to fight a sit-down battle with the Taiping army, although according to his estimate, Chen Decai was about to return to the army.

Liu Rong immediately urged his Qing army to launch an attack on Ningqiang Prefecture, and at the same time took the two battalions of Zhu Guiqiu and Zhang Yougeng's "Guizi" and "Xiangdao" as partial divisions, marched from Bayuguan to Nanzheng to intercept the Taiping army.

On 8 August, the war drums of Qipanguan in Ningqiang Prefecture shook the sky, and the sound of artillery was incessant, and it was only after dark that the troops were withdrawn and the fire ceased. On the 9th, the two armies fought again in Huangba Town, the battle became more intense, the Qing army poured out, and the Taiping army also mobilized most of the troops to fight back and intercept, and the rockets and shells were like locusts flying sideways.

Liu Yuezhao's troops fought in the front, and the Xiangguo army responded. In the afternoon, the Xiangguo army did not retreat, Liu Yuezhao's army was in chaos, and the Taiping army pursued and killed. Several Qing armies were all defeated, and each found a way to retreat.

Thousands of Lian Yong recruited by Liu Rong from Huguang fled from Berlinyi and Wangjiashan; Guojian's army fled southeast from the East River; The Xiangguo army was the most unlucky, they wanted to escape from Lijiacun and Lujiagou to the direction of the Jialing River, where there was a bridge and could cross the river. However, the bridge was destroyed by the horse team of the Taiping army one step earlier, and the Xiangguo army had a big river in front of it and a chasing soldier in the rear, and the army's morale was broken and could not be stopped.

The Taiping army took advantage of the favorable terrain to pursue the victory, resulting in the annihilation of the two armies of Xiangguo and the center and right.

After the victory, Chen Decai continued to lead the army to pursue for more than ten miles, and smashed the new nesting camp of the Qing army. This battle directly killed the corpses of the Qing army like mountains, the ditches and rivers were red, and the reinforcements were new bases and became ashes.

Liu Rong, who was full of strength, was beaten half-crippled at once.

And the reason is because the Taiping army will suddenly throw gunpowder canisters in the middle of the war!

Seeing this point on the battle report, three black lines appeared on Liu Xian's forehead, like a flock of crows flying overhead.