Seeing Zeng Guofan being taken away by Huang Xu, Li Hongzhang wanted to cry without tears.

After hearing about this, all the generals who were guarding the castle tower rushed over, and they surrounded Li Hongzhang, and they were excited, and they all asked for orders to rescue Zeng Guofan. Li Hongzhang tried his best to stabilize everyone, he told everyone about the powerful relationship, and promised that he would definitely find a way to save Zeng Guofan, and the generals dispersed.

However, the impact of Zeng Guofan's capture was not eliminated by Li Hongzhang's words, but faintly spread. Li Hongzhang understood that if this continued, the morale of the army would be greatly shaken. If the army is in turmoil and the Taiping army takes the opportunity to attack, Li Hongzhang wants to keep Hefei City and rescue Zeng Guofan, it will be difficult and difficult, not only that, but everyone's lives may be worried.

Faced with such a situation, Li Hongzhang was anxious, but there was nothing he could do, his heart was a mess, and he didn't know what to do.

Li Hongzhang's side is in chaos, but the behavior of the Taiping Army makes Li Hongzhang and others even more incomprehensible. After Huang Xu captured Zeng Guofan, the Taiping army retreated twenty miles and camped without moving. It stands to reason that the Taiping army should take advantage of the victory to pursue, beat the water dogs, and take advantage of the situation to take Hefei City in one fell swoop, but Huang Xu has other plans, in Huang Xu's words, that is, to leave a little space and time, let Li Hongzhang and others think about it, and it is the best strategy to surrender without a fight.

Huang Xu is a good intention, but whether Li Hongzhang and others can understand, it is difficult to say, if under normal circumstances, Li Hongzhang must be able to guess Huang Xu's intentions, but at this moment, Li Hongzhang and others are more suspicious of the Taiping Army, how can they have a good understanding with Huang Xu.

In the city of Hefei, just when Li Hongzhang was panicking, the edict of the imperial court arrived again.

Many people know that in the temples of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Gong has always been friendly with Zeng Guofan, but Monk Greenqin has always had a gap with Zeng Guofan, Xianfeng did not send Prince Gong to come this time, but sent monk Greenqin, presumably Xianfeng is determined to ask Zeng Guofan.

Li Hongzhang also understood the key to this, so he also made some arrangements in advance.

In fact, as everyone expected, Xianfeng severely reprimanded Zeng Guofan's loss of troops in the edict, and ordered Zeng Guofan to be dismissed on the spot.

Of course, this is still haode, but what is even more ruthless is that Xianfeng has already issued an edict to Monk Greenqin behind his back, and ordered the iron hat king Monk Greenqin to be responsible for capturing Zeng Guofan and escorting him back to Beijing for trial.

And it was such a coincidence, before the Iron Hat King came, the Taiping army just withdrew from the siege, so he didn't know a lot of things.

As soon as the monk Greenqin arrived in Hefei City, he ordered someone to spread the word that Zeng Guofan came to his place to receive the order, who knew that it was not Zeng Guofan who came to receive the order, but Li Hongzhang.

"Zeng Dashuai is under the shogunate military division, and the official Li Hongzhang is under the command, and he will knock on Lord Qincha." Li Hongzhang respectfully saluted the Iron Hat King.

"Excuse me, Zeng Guofan is really bold, he came here, but he avoided it, what is the reason?" The Iron Hat King's face was very ugly, and he said almost in a reprimanding tone.

"Lord Wang, our handsome man occasionally felt cold last night, and it was really inconvenient to receive the order, so I specially ordered the official to receive the order on my behalf, and asked the prince to make it convenient." Li Hongzhang is still respectful.

Before understanding the content of the will carried by Seng Lingqin, Li Hongzhang did not dare to say that Zeng Guofan had been captured by the Taiping army.

"Occasional chill? It won't be pretending to be sick, in that case, then we don't have to bother so much, this king will personally go to his sickbed to announce the decree." Monk Grinqin is not so easy to coax.

"Lord Wang, I'm afraid this is not good, most of the diseases will be contagious, if you are accidentally infected before you go to the sickbed, then the lower official will be guilty." Li Hongzhang fortunately made the problem a little more serious, so as not to entangle Seng Greenqin.

But what he didn't expect was that Monk Greenqin came this time by order to personally mention Zeng Guofan's return to Beijing to ask for the guilt, the emperor's order was in his body, how could he prevaricate, Li Hongzhang wanted to use this reason to shirk the iron hat king's heart may be in vain.

"Bold, Li Hongzhang, you dare to obstruct the Qincha proclamation, don't you want to live anymore." Monk Lingqin was not in the mood to spend time with Li Hongzhang here, so he only heard him shout and said sharply.

"Don't dare, don't dare, the lower officials don't dare, it's just ......" Li Hongzhang saw that Monk Greenqin was angry, and his heart was already cold, but thinking of Zeng Guofan's matter, he had to negotiate with Monk Greenqin.

"Where is there so much nonsense, lead the way ahead, otherwise, the sword on the waist of this king is not as good-tempered as this king." Monk Grinqin was already very impatient.

"Then, okay, lord, you please first." Li Hongzhang saw that there was nothing to delay, so he could only take the monk Greenqin to go.

At this time, Li Hongzhang's heart was nervous, Zeng Guofan's illness was just a shake by Li Hongzhang in order to stop Monk Greenqin, he knew that Zeng Guofan was not in the post house, but at this time he wanted to take Monk Greenqin to see Zeng Guofan, how to be round this panic, if the circle is not good, once it is worn out, it will definitely cause death. He walked all the way, thinking about words all the way, but he thought about it, and he didn't have a clue, Zuihou simply didn't want to, and he was a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and he responded randomly.

Li Hongzhang took the monk Lingqin and a group of entourages into Zeng Guofan's room, but found that the room was empty, and the truth was not as Li Hongzhang said, Zeng Guofan was not sick in bed.

Seeing this scene, Monk Greenqin's face suddenly changed color, and he was about to have a seizure. At this moment, Zeng San hurriedly broke in, and he shouted as he ran: "Strategist, it's not good, it's not good, the handsome is gone."

As soon as Li Hongzhang heard this, he understood in his heart that this was Zeng San cooperating with his own acting, so his flustered heart began to settle down, and he pretended to be unhappy and blamed Zeng Sandao: "Zeng San, what are you panicking, what are you panicking, what kind of system is the prince here."

"Yes, yes, yes, Strategist." Zeng San is only authentic.

"Don't knock on the prince yet." Li Hongzhang glanced at Zeng San and said.

"The last general, Zeng San, knock on the prince." Zeng San respectfully saluted.

"That's it, this king just heard you say that the handsome man is gone, what do you mean?" Monk Grinqin apparently changed his concern about Zeng Guofan's whereabouts.

"Qi Yu Wangye, that's the case, the last general was ordered by the military division, during the illness of the marshal, responsible for taking care of and guarding the marshal, just before you came over, the last general accompanied the prince in the front garden for a walk, scattered halfway, the last general was urgent, and left halfway, who knew that after going back, he found that the prince was gone, so the last general hurriedly came back to report to the military division, and did not want to collide with the prince, and asked the prince to forgive him." Zeng San explained the ins and outs of the matter very clearly.

"You mean, Zeng Guofan is missing?" Monk Grinqin was taken aback.

"Yes, Lord Wang." Zeng San is honest.

"Hmph, hum, you want to act in front of this king, you are still a little behind, this king knows very well, the real situation is that your handsome man is not in the post house, you are doing this, you are giving this king a suspicious array, this kind of carving insect trick also wants to deceive this king." Monk Greenqin snorted coldly, and seemed to have seen through Li Hongzhang and Zeng San's jihua.

"Lord Wang, how dare the last general deceive the prince, the handsome is missing, what a big deal, the last general is bold, and he doesn't dare to play this kind of nonsense, if the prince doesn't believe it, you can let people search in this post house, and you will know that what the last general said is true." Zeng San immediately knelt on the ground and said in fear.

"You really didn't lie to this king?" Monk Greenqin's face was gloomy, and his tone was stern.

"The last general really doesn't dare to hide the prince, if the prince finds out that the last general has anything to hide, he can punish the last general." Zeng San kowtowed and said.

"Okay, this king believes you." Monk Greenqin's eyes stared at Zeng San for a while, then nodded, his tone slightly softened.

Zeng San heard Monk Greenqin say this, touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and finally let go of a hanging heart. Only then did he determine that this seemingly thrilling scene was just a false alarm, Monk Greenqin didn't really know anything, what he said was to deceive them, so dangerous, if Zeng San didn't grit his teeth, they would have been exposed, fortunately, they were right, Zeng San screamed a few times in his heart, but before Monk Greenqin didn't let him get up, he still knelt on the ground in a proper manner.

"Zeng San, the prince believes in you, why are you still stunned, hurry up and thank the prince." Li Hongzhang lost no time in saying that he was also relieved, and the nerves that had been tense were also relaxed.

"Thank you, Lord Wang." Zeng San is not stupid, of course he understands the good things that he took advantage of the steps to get down immediately.

"Okay, Zeng San, you get up, don't be tense for others, now is not the time to be tense, we have two important things that need to be dealt with urgently, first, read the emperor's holy decree, if you miss the auspicious time, it will not be good, since Zeng Dashuai is not here now, then ask Li Junshi to take the edict on his behalf. Second, immediately arrange manpower to find Zeng Dashuai's whereabouts." Monk Grinqin spoke majestically and authentically.

"Obey the orders of the prince." Li Hongzhang led the same Zeng San and others to respectfully and authentically.

After a while, the incense case was put up, and Monk Greenqin read out the holy decree according to the custom, after the announcement, he handed over the holy decree to Li Hongzhang, and told Li Hongzhang to find the whereabouts of Zeng Guofan as soon as possible, and then, he took people away, Hefei City Guard, Feng Zicai was already waiting outside, he respectfully waited for Monk Greenqin to return to the place where he stayed, and arranged a banquet for Monk Greenqin to receive the wind.

The main purpose of Monk Greenqin's coming this time was to arrest Zeng Guofan and return to Beijing to ask for the crime, but he didn't expect that at this moment, Zeng Guofan disappeared inexplicably, although there are still many questions to be discussed, but he doesn't have so much leisure to ask too much, let Li Hongzhang and them be busy, and what he has to do now is to explain this matter to Xianfeng as soon as possible, and ask the emperor to decide.

To be honest, after leaving the post house, Monk Greenqin had a lot less resentment against Zeng Guofan in his heart, he always felt that there was such a person in the Qing Dynasty, and he held the military power, it was not a good thing, and he always had something to do and wanted to get along with Zeng Guofan. But now that Zeng Guofan suddenly disappeared, resulting in no commander on the front line, the situation is worrying, he feels that if Zeng Guofan is still there, then why is he still doing so much, and the emperor is still doing so much?

In this way, Zeng Guofan is not useless, and Monk Lingqin even has a little hope that Zeng Guofan can come back safe and sound, and still take charge of his handsome seal against the Taiping army, thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (biquge.info) to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation ......)