Chenggu, Yangxian, Liuba, Xixiang, Ningqiang......

The anti-bandit campaign that started in Yangxian County quickly spread to half of the prefectures and counties in the province. Three or four thousand officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion, and the remnants of the rebel army who had more people than here, a huge war between the officers and the bandits began.

At this moment, Liu Xian is still leading the army to unswervingly advance towards Hubei. The back nest seems to have caught fire, and he is not worried at all. If his deployment in Hanzhong can't even solve these little cases, he will simply wash and sleep. Don't be so ambitious.

The team marched eastward. Liu Xian spent a whole month on the road. Carrying a considerable number of artillery pieces and a large amount of baggage, the daily journey was no more than thirty miles.

Although Zhang Zongyu won a lot of battles, the Mongolian cavalry led by Seng Lingqin, the Hubei army of Huguang Governor Guanwen, the Henan governor Zhang Zhiwan's Henan army, and the Anhui army of Qiao Songnian, the governor of Anhui, were strong, and some small setbacks did not hurt the Qing army at all. Always firmly blocked the way of the twisted army, so that Zhang Zongyu wandered between eastern Hubei and western Anhui.

On the fifth day of the first month of June, Liu Xian marched to Xiaogan and made the first contact with the monk Lingqin of Huangzhou Mansion. The messenger sent by Seng Lingqin informed Liu Xian of the current situation in eastern Hubei and western Anhui, and the Qing army was large and had an overall advantage. However, there are more than 200,000 twisted troops, breaking Qizhou, Ke Mall, and moving to Lu'an Mansion, and there is still a place to cross and horizont.

The army camp outside Xiaogan City, in the big tent. Liu Xian, whose face was gloomy, exuded a kind of coldness that was suffocated to the extreme, the curtain door of the big tent was still floating, and the messenger sent by Monk Lingqin had just left.

The green jade paperweight on the military case was tightly held in the palm of his hand, and his finger bones turned white.

The tense Tie Qing's face didn't know how long it took to ease up a little. "Okay, what a monk. Dog, you deserve to be hacked to death-"

He even wanted to stop his troops and filial piety, and the beautiful name was "guarding the back road and isolating the province", that is, guarding Wuchang. What the hell is it? Lao Tzu came here after a month and a half of hard work? He even hung himself aside for the sake of war exploits.

Did Monk Grinqin really think he didn't know anything?

Liu Xian's teeth clenched and creaked. He is a posterity, and posterity knows best the role of intelligence in warfare. As early as when the army was preparing to go east, he sent an intelligence office to Hubei to inquire about the news.

The Twist Army entered western Anhui from Henan, and there has been little harvest for many months. Because of the long-term war, the residents fled to the ground, and the military supply could not be supplied, and western Anhui was no longer the western Anhui of the past.

After Zhang Zongyu took the mall, he intended to enter the Songzi Pass on the Hubei and Henan borders, and went north to seize the leaves to collect grain and straw, and then moved to Lu'an. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yao of Henan has held Jinjiazhai, Zhang Zongyu sent the red flag master Liu Shouyi to attack Jinjiazhai and failed to seize the road, so he changed the route and took the Liubo, but the Liubo has not yet established a firm foothold, and Zhang Desheng, the governor of Anhui, came from Lu'an.

Zhang Zongyu had no choice but to lead the army eastward, intending to Huoshan. When he arrived at the Buddha Nunnery, Zhang Desheng attacked behind him, and the Huoshan Qing army in front had also set up a position to meet the battle, and the Twist army was in the situation of being attacked at the beginning and end. Zhang Zongyu could not capture the stronghold cities of the Qing army, and could not get grain supplies, and the whole army might collapse without a fight, so he led the army south to Yingshan. However, when Niu Hongsheng, the owner of the Black Flag Banner, arrived at the Manshui River, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner Cavalry of Seng Lingqin had already stationed in Zhongjieling to block its advance. Zhang Zongyu personally led an army to explore the road, and the Taoist priests rushed out of the two rivers, trying to attack Yingshan by passing through the Western Boundary Ridge. But there was also a Qing army guarding, so the garrison Changshan Chong, ten miles away from the west boundary ridge, about thirty miles away from the Manshui River.

The current Qing army has formed an encirclement of the Twist army: Zhang Yao [Yu Army] and Zhang Desheng in the northwest, Yinghan and Guo Baochang in the east, and Seng Lingqin in the south. About 150,000 troops were trapped in the line of Heishidu-Diaoyutai-Daoistochong-Manshui River, about 100 miles.

Although the Qing army can't eat Zhang Zongyu at all, people with a discerning eye know that the strategic advantage lies in the Qing army. Monk Greenqin only needs to maintain the strategic advantage, that is, it is to consume, and Zhang Zongyu can also be tempered.

This great achievement, let alone the Qing army, is the 'bald army' eighty years later, and it will make the same decision as Monk Greenqin is now.

But Liu Xian will not think about the enemy. He was only full of anger, and he hated Monk Greenqin to the core.

But at this moment, it seems that God is doing the right thing for Liu Xian. Just as he was thinking about how to add to the Manchu Qing without exposing himself, a 'huge' piece of good news came from the east. The entire pre-war Qing army, like a chicken blood, was instantly in high spirits!

Tianjing conquered, Tianjing conquered. The Young Heavenly King and Li Xiucheng were captured!

After several years of work by the Hunan army, it finally came to fruition. It also seems to represent the Mandate of Heaven and the Qing Dynasty, and the long-haired rebellion of the 14 years of the plague 'My Great Qing Dynasty' has seen the true end of the end.

The Qing troops in Yingshan, Huoshan and other places were very excited, and their morale jumped geometrically.

Without Liu Xian reacting from the shock, in the east and west, the seventy or eighty thousand Qing army infantry and cavalry army launched a strong and very fierce attack on the Twist army.

This was an all-out offensive, in the area of Liupo on the western front, in the area of Heishidu on the eastern front, in the Manshui River, in Diaoyutai, in Taoist Chong, and in Changshan......

More than 200,000 horses and horses of the Qing army and the Twist Army fought desperately. According to the report sent by Liu Xian, more than 300 horses were killed in one day, and as for the number of casualties, the spies mixed with the eldest husband had no way of knowing.

Fierce fighting continued until late June. Because Tianjing was inspired by Ke, and the Qing army, which had summoned endless 'courage' like a toad, finally stopped, and they returned to normal.

The deaths and injuries of 20,000 or 30,000 people were like a basin of cold water that woke up Seng Lingqin and others.

Let them realize that the combat effectiveness of the Twist Army is still strong, and it will cost a lot to attack and fight viciously, and it may not be able to win.

Liu Xian's happy mood finally came to an end. In the past few days, he has been looking at the estimated losses of the Qing army in various units every day, and his mood is one of joy. Even the 'qi' that Monk Lingqin gave him before was all out.

It's July, and it's very hot. Liu Xian's team is still stationed in Xiaogan.

Monk Lingqin did not let go of Liu Xian to intervene because of the heavy losses of the front-line army. Although during this period of time, Liu Xian's army training was launched, and the soldiers were built bravely, giving people the impression of a strong army.

Liu Xian did not show the slightest 'yearning' to Seng Greenqin. While he was gloating, his eyes were already on Hankow. And for the first time in two years, I came into contact with foreigners.

The defeat in the second ** war hit China hard to imagine. Britain, France, the United States and Russia not only cut off a large part of China's interests, but also penetrated their tentacles deep into the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

For example, Hankou, as one of the open ports, has been frequently populated by foreigners with blue eyes and high noses.