Faced with Qin Rigang's question, Lin Chengting gave Wu Ruxiao a look, and Wu Ruxiao immediately said: "I have fought with them several times in this second mixed group, this is the old army under Lin Zhe, the combat effectiveness is good, at the beginning, I commanded nearly 10,000 people to garrison Jingxi, but I still couldn't stop it and was finally forced to retreat." ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly and said, "But before I remembered that this second mixed group was Lin Anfei's department, how did it become Xu Yanqing?" If it is replaced by Xu Yanqing, I am afraid that Yixing will be even more difficult to fight, as far as I know, Xu Yanqing's reputation in Yu Shengjun is more than Lin Anfei! ”

Lin Chengting immediately said: "Yes, I basically know a little about the number of leaders of Yu Shengjun, the number one general under Lin Zhe is Shi Langyi, and most of the other Lin Anfei, Xu Yanqing, Shi Qingxuan, Qu Panyun, Wang Luyun, and Xu Pengan are very capable, and this Xu Yanqing is among these people, and it is rumored that he is among the top three!" ”

In the past two years, Lin Chengting, who has taken the enemy as his division and regarded Yu Shengjun as his biggest enemy, has collected a lot of information about Yu Shengjun, not only about the establishment, tactics and station, but also about many senior generals in Yu Shengjun.

The information of the senior generals in Yu Sheng's army almost filled Lin Chengting's desk, although a lot of these materials were inaccurate, but they could still let Lin Chengting see a rough idea.

"This second mixed regiment is not bad, even if Yixing can't hold it for a short time, but it won't be a problem to delay for a while, our real henchmen are Yu Shengjun's first mixed regiment and Shi Langyi!" Lin Chengting continued:

"The first mixed regiment is Lin Zhe's old army, and its combat power is the head of the Yu Sheng Army, plus the head of the regiment, Shi Langyi, has always been known for being good at attacking and defending, and the unit is in the middle of the enemy's army, if Lin Zhe wants to attack Changzhou, he will inevitably be headed by the regiment."

"Well, you're right, if you want to block this first mixed regiment at that time, I'm afraid you will need at least ten thousand soldiers!" Wu Ruxiao also nodded.

Qin Rigang, who had just arrived in Changzhou and had not fought with Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun, heard the conversation between the two. From their words, it seemed that they were extremely afraid of Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun, and even Lin Zhe was so afraid of several generals under Lin Zhe.

He had to wonder if these two people had been beaten stupid by Lin Zhe before!

Immediately, he spoke: "Lin Zhe has no more than 10,000 troops. You and I have more than 80,000 elite soldiers combined, are you still afraid of him Lin Zhe has 10,000 people? Or is it that you were all beaten by Lin Zhe? ”

When he spoke, Wu Ruxiao was choked with embarrassment, to be honest, he was really scared by Lin Zhe, and the fiasco under Suzhou City was like a nightmare last night. Every time he thinks about it, it makes his heart tremble.

But Lin Chengting stood up and snorted coldly, although he Lin Chengting and Qin Rigang both belonged to the Taiping Army, but he and Qin Rigang had no friendship, he Lin Chengting was just a side of the Taiping Army in the past, and later he had the importance of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, to have his steady progress, and after his defeat in northern Zhejiang, he still did not abandon him and continued to support him to expand the new army, and finally let him turn over and break through the Jiangnan camp in one fell swoop, and was named Zhenhu Hou.

In his eyes, the world is so big that only Lin Zhe is worthy of being his opponent, and only Yang Xiuqing is worthy of his loyalty. He doesn't care about the rest, even if it's Hong Xiuquan, let alone this Qin Rigang.

Immediately, he didn't give Qin Rigang any face: "Just look at Yu Shengjun's achievements, then King Yan, you will know that Yu Shengjun has never been defeated since the formation of the army, shouldn't such a person be treated with caution?" ”

Qin Rigang was choked with such a sentence, and immediately said: "Hmph, the general of the defeated army who has no courage!" ”

After saying that, he snatched the door and left, but Lin Chengting showed a sneer: "In my Lin Chengting's eyes, you Qin Rigang is a fart, and you put on a posture." I can wipe out 30,000 of you with half my troops!" ”

Not to mention Lin Chengting, Wu Ruxiao and Qin Rigang for the time being, and on Yu Shengjun's side, after Lin Zhe gathered the main force of the Chinese army in Suzhou, he did not attack at the first time.

Just like the Taiping Army, Yu Shengjun's intelligence has been roughly investigated. Yu Shengjun also received a lot of information from the Taiping Army.

"The government of Changzhou has gathered 100,000 thief troops, are these thieves going to march east to Su Songtai?" Wang Luyun put down the information passed by everyone and continued: "The enemy in this battle is outnumbered, should we defend it first?" ”

But as soon as he finished saying this, Shi Langyi on the side said: "If you blindly defend, it is estimated that it is not a big problem to keep Suzhou." But what if the enemy army does not come to Suzhou and goes directly to Yixing or Changshu? There is only one regiment in both directions, and although the combat strength of our army is good, if the enemy attacks the nest, I am afraid that it will be dangerous! ”

"What does Captain Shi think?" Shen Chiyun, the fifth mixed group on the side, asked.

"Attack, for my Yu Shengjun, the only way to attack is to constantly launch attacks and use the time difference to attack the enemy's various units, so as to offset our inferior forces, and finally encircle the thief army in Changzhou City!"

"What if the enemy army is always gathered in one place, and the troops are stationed in Changzhou without dividing the troops?" Xu Pengan, the supervisor on the side, also spoke.

"Then it's simpler, the main force of our Chinese army will contain the enemy army in Changzhou, and then let the second mixed regiment and the fourth mixed regiment bypass Changzhou, attack Changzhou and the hinterland of Zhenjiang, cut off their back road supplies, if they don't want to be trapped in the lonely city, they will go out of the city to defeat our main force of the Chinese army, and once they go out of the city and take the initiative to attack, they can completely repeat the past events of Suzhou and completely defeat the thief army."

"What if they stick to Changzhou or take the initiative to retreat west?" At this time, Lin Zhe also spoke.

"If the enemy army is stubbornly defending Changzhou, and does not retreat without fighting, then we will confront them while letting the second mixed regiment and the fourth mixed regiment continue to attack the city, recover Danyang, Zhenjiang, and finally threaten Jiangning, now the elite of the thief army is gathering in Changzhou, Jiangning is extremely empty, as long as our army enters the city of Jiangning, the thief army will inevitably panic, and the time will inevitably withdraw to help Jiangning!"

"If the enemy army takes the initiative to retreat, then our strategic purpose of fighting this time will be achieved, and it can be said that we will win without a fight!" When Shi Langyi said this, he looked at Lin Zhe, and there seemed to be anticipation in his eyes.

Hearing Shi Langyi's words, Lin Zhe nodded at him with a smile, Lin Zhe nodded to Shi Langyi, not because of how good these tactical plans he said, but because Shi Langyi said these words with a very obvious message.

That is, he believed that Yu Shengjun's strategic goal was not to exterminate the Taiping army, nor to conquer Tianjing or Zhenjiang, but to block the Taiping army's eastward advance, so as to defend the strategic security of the Susongtai region with Shanghai as the core.

This shows that after a series of events in the past two years, Shi Langyi has finally put the interests of Yu Shengjun above the interests of the imperial court.

What are the interests of the imperial court? Naturally, it is necessary to exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as soon as possible.

And what are the interests of Yu Shengjun? Maintain the strategic security of the Susongtai region with Shanghai as the core, and ensure the source of military spending for Yu Shengjun.

As for the extermination of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, that is the matter of the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with Yu Shengjun!

Due to the small number of their own troops, if they hold on to Suzhou, the enemy may advance from Changshu and Shaowen in Suzhou, thus causing the lives of these areas in Suzhou.

Lin Zhe was also afraid that the Taiping army would make a big change in strategic direction, so instead of going east, he went west along Taihu Lake and went south to northern Zhejiang, attacking Yixing, Changxing and other places.

And the Yu Sheng army in these two places is only a mixed regiment, even if it can hold a certain city, but the enemy army is large and powerful, it is completely possible to divide the troops to bypass the south, and then the northern Zhejiang or Susongtai region may be plundered and destroyed by the Taiping army.

In order to avoid sticking to Suzhou, and guiding the enemy army to divide the troops to other places, so Lin Zhe decided to take the initiative to lead the army westward, on April 12, Lin Zhe led the main force of the army Yu Sheng's army of nearly 8,000 people to leave Suzhou, and arrived in Wuxi two days later.

The 4th Mixed Regiment led by Lin Anfei in the direction of Changshu also marched westward together, marching at the same time in the direction of about eight kilometers north of Lin Zhe's army, so as to cover the flank of Lin Zhe's army and prevent a large force of thieves from returning to the flank and rear position of Lin Zhe's army.

In the direction of Yixing, after three days of fierce fighting, Xu Yanqing led the Second Mixed Regiment to successfully defeat more than 8,000 Taiping troops, and occupied the city on April 15.

In addition to sending a large number of scouts to continue to spy on Yu Shengjun's intelligence, Lin Chengting, Wu Ruxiao, and Qin Rigang's troops have mostly shrunk to the city and surrounding areas of Changzhou Mansion, and began to build a large number of fortifications, digging trenches and chest walls, and thickening the city walls of Changzhou Mansion.

Just when both the Taiping Army and the Yu Sheng Army were facing great enemies, and the war was about to break out.

The Qing court finally reacted, and learned that the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp were broken one after another.

The Qing court immediately ordered Xiang Rong to be dismissed and retained, and the reason why he was dismissed and retained was because although Xiang Rong was defeated, he retreated to Danyang with the remnants of his army to continue to hold on. And Tuo Ming'a, a guy who only knew that he was fleeing for his life, was directly dismissed, and he didn't even have a chance to stay in office, so he directly sent Dexing'a as the minister of the Qincha to supervise the military affairs of Jiangbei.

The Qing court immediately issued an order to dismiss Xiang Rong and keep him in office, but unfortunately the holy decree of dismissal and retention had not yet been delivered, and Xiang Rong was defeated in Danyang and committed suicide.

As soon as Xiang Rong died, the Qing court had to reconcile Chun as the minister of the Qin Mission, supervise the military affairs of Jiangnan, and at the same time appoint Huang Zonghan, Zhang Guoliang, and Lin Zhe to assist in the military affairs of Jiangnan.

Emperor Xianfeng issued an edict requiring all armies in Jiangnan to do their best to recover Zhenjiang and march into Jiangning Yunyun!

After He Chun arrived in Jiangyin, I don't know if it was because he was anxious or he thought he was more awesome than Xiang Rong, as soon as he took office, he sent a messenger to arrive in Yu Shengjun's camp, and Lin Zhe launched a counterattack on Changzhou within three days, and he would personally lead Jiangyin's 30,000 troops to Yunyun later.

After Lin Zhe read his letter, he snorted coldly directly, and threw the letter directly on the ground in front of the messenger and a large number of subordinates such as Shi Langyi and others: "When I, Lin Zhe, took back the state, he didn't know where to feed, so he also wanted to point fingers at me Lin Zhe." (To be continued.) )