The time entered November of the fifth year of Tongzhi. Zeng Laojiu is no longer worried about his eldest brother Zeng Guofan persuading him to give up his official position. The official document instructed Yu Shi Er Guochun to participate in Zeng Guoquan's book. Pulled a little bit about the bloody massacre of the Hunan army in Tianjing, picked up the capture of the Hunan army in Tianjing, picked up what Zeng Guoquan was worth ten years ago, and now how good the land and clouds are in Xiangxiang's hometown, with tens of millions of mansions.

In addition, the Xianghuai army continued to be unfavorable in Lu, Henan, Anhui and Suzhou, and Zeng Guoquan's momentum was leaked a lot.

He knew that his loss of office was really in front of him.

But he was still unwilling, unwilling to Liu Xian, who was a good person, and continued to jump around in front of him.

Zeng Guoquan was able to bring Liu Xian down to the next level, and he felt comfortable!

However, Zhang Zongyu, who seemed to have a brilliant plan in front of the Xianghuai army, always forgot to bring his mind when he played against Liu Xian. Frequently sealed by Liu Xian!

The horse team, which has an absolute advantage in the Twist Army, is unable to go one step deeper into Hubei.

In mid-October, on the battlefield of Henan, Zhou Shengbo, the general of the Huai Army, defeated Niu Hongsheng in Gwangju, but was ambushed by Ren Huabang when he pursued to Guangshan, almost killed, and lost more than 2,000 troops. Zhang Shusheng and Zhang Shushan brothers fought against Zhang Zongyu in Xincai, stalemate for two days, Pan Dingxin led five battalions to help, and Zhang Zongyu's troops withdrew from Zhengyang.

The Zhang brothers and Pan Dingxin waved their troops to chase, and were killed by Zhang Zongyu in Runan Port, and lost three or four thousand, Zhang Shushan, who was the first to order the horse team to cross the river, fought and fell into battle, and in the middle of the night, Ma Li could no longer walk in the corpse, and dismounted and died.

In the battle with the Twist Army, the Huai Army lost a heavy general for the first time.

Liu Xian's face turned straight when he heard the news. You really can't underestimate the twisting army. Although the reputation of Zhang Shushan, who died in battle, in later generations is far inferior to that of his eldest brother Zhang Shusheng, but now Liu Xian pays so much attention to the Xianghuai Army, how can he not know Zhang Shushan's name and his status in the Huai Army.

The general soldier of Youjiang Town, Guangxi, and the brave general of the Huai Army. Praised by Li Hongzhang: bloody loyalty, strong army management, fierce combat, often a military striker.

Beijing pity, the edict of his loyalty, preferential consideration, to the cavalry captain and Yiyun cavalry lieutenant of the world, the construction of a special shrine, brave and martyrdom. Li Hongzhang set up a special shrine for him in Runanbu.

The Huai army was defeated one after another, and although Zeng Guoquan did not feel sorry for Li Hongzhang, he also had a headache for the development of the war of twisting. If the army is uneven, Hubei's resonance will not be cut off, and Hubei will not have time to recuperate.

For one term of office, for the benefit of one party. Zeng Guoquan doesn't care what kind of brain he has, no matter how powerful he fought with Guan Wen before, this bit of professional ethics still exists.

The Twist Army, which went south with a great victory, converged with Xinyang, and the large army pointed directly at Hubei.

The Qin army stationed in Xiaogan had already arrived in De'an under the command of Liu Xian at this moment. Suizhou City, which was not controlled by the Hunan army, was open to the Qin army with four gates.

Zeng Guoquan of Wuchang was deeply looking forward to the Qin army and the Twist army colliding in De'an Mansion to create a fierce spark. Regardless of whether Liu Xian wins or loses, he will be very happy.

The reason is very simple, no matter whether Liu Xian wins or loses, what he loses will be his strength.

Zeng Guoquan is a reckless person, and it can also be said that he is a person who ignores the overall situation and only entangles himself in a small world. Therefore, when the Twist Army found Liu Xian, his ass was going to be crooked.

But things turned out to be more than he expected, and things turned out to be more than everyone expected.

The large army of the Twist Army and the Qin army confronted each other in De'an for seven or eight days, and there was a small fight, almost peaceful. Secretly, Ren Huabang led the five thousand fine horsemen, people with two horses, along the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain, a hundred miles a day to Xinye, along the way through Tongbai, Tanghe two counties without entering, soldier Mark Xinye, non-stop, that is, straight down to Xiangfan.

From De'an Dong to Xiangyang North, the journey is 400 miles, Ren Huabang will arrive in four days, the march is so fast, there is no time for the Qing army in Xiangyang to prepare. It stands to reason that they would have no problem blitzing Xiangyang. But the five thousand elite horsemen can't even take Fancheng, the north gate of Xiangyang City, which is very abnormal.

The Hubei Green Battalion soldiers stationed in Xiangyang were like prophets, and more than 3,000 troops were stationed the day before Ren Huabang was killed under Fancheng City. Ren Huabang completely hit his head against the wall.

If the Twist Army can't take Fancheng, then don't think about touching the edge of Xiangyang. But it is impossible for Ren Huabang to use the precious cavalry as infantry and storm Fancheng, which is garrisoned by the small 5,000 Qing army.

Therefore, the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. Ren Huabang outside Fancheng is very skinny.

At this time, Song Qing, the general soldier of Nanyang in Henan, was rushing to Xinye, wanting to cut off the retreat of the Renhua State Department.

Ren Huabang had no choice but to retreat and return to Xinye. The battle of the Twist Army is in response to an old saying: take advantage of the prosperity and return with defeat.

But if it was just to let the Twist Army be defeated, Zeng Guoquan of Wuchang would not be so angry.

In fact, this qiē was all dispatched by Liu Xian. Fancheng's troops, Song Qing's urgent reinforcements.

So in the Lihe River in the new field, when Ren Huabang planned to break through Song Qing's department, Liu Xian led all his cavalry and appeared behind the twisted army just right. Fatal with one hit!

Ren Huabang was defeated, and the soldiers were defeated.

Liu Xian captured more than 400 people as prisoners and captured two or three thousand horses.

A sneak attack by the Twist Army in order to seek speed, and the people who concentrated the elite of the whole army and the supply of horses with two horses ended up like this.

Song Qing took credit, and Liu Xian had unimaginable benefits in addition to his great achievements.

After this battle, the number of horses of the Qin army could be equal to that of the entire Huai army.

If Liu Xian wanted to expand the horse team in a big way, he would be able to ride at least 5,000 horses.

Beijing seems to have been upset by the successive defeats of the Huai army, and after getting the good news of the good news of the six-hundred-mile expedited delivery, Liu Xian was awarded the position of lieutenant of the cavalry, because the yellow coat and the brave Baturu had been added before, and the Qing court would give the dazzle and the crown prince to the title.

In this way, Liu Xian's current position and rank are already on a par with Peng Yulin, a heavy general of the Hunan army.

This happened right under Zeng Guoquan's nose, how do you say his anger is calm?

As for playing Beijing like Li Hongzhang and praising Liu Xian's 'knowing the military plane' a few times, it was purely a joke.

He is a dignified governor, and he can treat the Jingzhou general as a puppet, but he can't rectify a single admiral, and he makes this guy so happy in front of him. Zeng Guoquan is on fire.

As a result, Liu Xian, who had won a great victory, not only failed to receive a reward of one or two pieces of silver at the governor's yamen, but was even told early that his military salary for November was gone.

Although Liu Xian really didn't want to oppose the Hunan army, it was just that the world was pressing, so he had to walk on the parallel line of the Hunan army. But at this time, he really wanted to show his minions to Zeng Guoquan.

In September, the money sounded grain, and most of it had been allocated before the official document left. As soon as the official document left, Zeng Guoquan was fully detained.

In October, Liu Xian only got 5,000 taels of silver from Zeng Guoquan, and the food of the whole army alone was not enough for one month.

Now in November, again was told that there was no penny.