"Say you...", Zeng Guofan paused deliberately, and his eyes continued to pay attention to Liu Xian's expression: "Resolute temperament, although he is short and literate, he is ordered to accept the order in times of difficulty, and he can control the country and protect the territory." ”

But he is also greedy for money and forgetful of moderation, and does it willfully. The southwest is in turmoil, and it is your reason. ”

Liu Xian's heart was pounding, Zeng Guofan's words were not harsh, but they made him even more bottomless in his heart. He pit Liu Rong and revive the Southwest Taiping Army, shouldn't Zeng Guofan be scolding him and being extremely strict with himself?

How is the tone still tepid?

A layer of cold sweat was already oozing from Liu Xian's forehead. He didn't have a mirror under him now, otherwise he would have been able to see his discolored face.

"People's love of money is within reach. Otherwise, how could I be here? Zeng Guofan approached Liu Xian's side and stretched out his hand to make Liu Xian straighten up.

Liu Xian stood up straight, and the first moment he raised his eyes, he met Zeng Guofan's bright eyes, and his heart was so weak that he almost turned his head to dodge.

It took a lot of perseverance to stop.

"Beggar-thy-neighbor is also a common thing. For fifteen years, the world has been in turmoil. Between counties and counties, between prefectures and provinces, there are so many things where thieves go away and beggar-thy-neighbor.

If you send bandits south into Sichuan and leave Hanzhong, the foreign officials will slander you in their hearts, and they will not be able to tell you. But as a general, commanding a side of soldiers and horses, his eyes cannot only look at his own one-third of an acre, but also look at the general trend of the world.

In the three southwestern provinces, because you have more than 300,000 bandits, Chengdu and Guiyang have been shocked.

The defeat of the Shizhi Dadu River, the voice has been frustrated, but now it is revived. ”

Zeng Guofan's voice finally had a hint of anger, but Liu Xian was at ease in his heart. Zeng Guofan really thinks about himself like this.

"If the old man supervises the soldiers in Sichuan and Shaanxi at the right time, he will behead you to thank the world."

Belch. Liu Xiangang's cheerful heart stopped. Zeng Guofan's words were ruthless. Didn't you talk to yourself before?

How did it get so fast?

You can take this old man to heart. Liu Xiaxian said that you are good at holding grudges, and you have no hatred for them when you go south, and take the opportunity to 'kill' people.

Old man, I'm not afraid of you! ”

Liu Xian's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, "My lord laughed, and Lord Liu also misunderstood his humble position." How dare you ...... under the mark"

"Do you know what kind of relationship the old man has with Liu Xiaxian?" Zeng Guofan directly interrupted Liu Xian's words, and looked at Liu Xian with a smile on his face.

Liu Xian was a little chercheno, and opened his mouth, "I heard that Lord Liu and Lord Liu are close friends. ”

"Hehe, Liu Xian."

"Mark it in."

"Zhang Shoudai was born in the Wudi Haifeng Zhang family, an official family with more than 200 years of inheritance in Shandong, why didn't he tell you, the old man and Liu Xiaxian are sons and daughters.

Liu's daughter, the old husband's second son and daughter-in-law. ”

Zeng Jize was born in the nineteenth year of Daoguang, that is, in 1839 in the Western calendar. His wife, Xiao Zeng Ji Ze for one year, is the daughter of He Changling, the former governor of Yunnan and Guizhou. A year after marriage, He died in childbirth, and married Liu Rong's daughter as his stepwife, and gave birth to three children each.

Liu Xian's whole face turned green.

Sweating profusely, he walked out of Zeng Guofan's house, and when he got outside, Liu Xian looked back at that room again, and his heart palpitated! He didn't want to stay in Zhoujiakou for a moment.

With his own soldiers, he immediately galloped back to Chenzhou.

I didn't know that after I left the room, a peer in his twenties came out of the room. "Jie Gang!" Zeng Guofan looked at the man and asked, "What do you feel?" ”

"It is indeed today's Wei Wenchang. Unconvincing, bold and courageous. In front of his father, he can not leak timidity. Zeng Jize, the person called Jie Gang in the mouth of Zeng Guofan, is his second son, Liu Rong's son-in-law, a famous diplomat in modern Chinese history, and Zeng Jize, who is immortal for assisting Zuo Zongtang in recovering Ili.

Obviously, Liu Rong's loss of official position is directly related to Liu Xian's arsonist, and he clearly knows that Zeng Guofan and Liu Rong are close friends.

And Liu Xian has fought many battles since his debut, and has won many victories, and he is also wise and brave. When Zeng Jize was evaluating him, in addition to his father-in-law's sentence 'Today's Wei Wenchang', he used the words 'unconvincing, bold and brave'.

"If it weren't for the fact that this Liu Chongbing really didn't know the relationship between his father-in-law and my family, and suddenly lost his color, it wouldn't be so easy for my father to hold him."

Zeng Jize thought of his father-in-law's comments on Liu Xian. Wei Wenchang, Wei Yan, doesn't that mean that there must be a Zhuge Liang on top of him to press him.

And looking at the whole world, who else is more qualified to be Zhuge Liang than his father?

……

Everyone who knows Liu Xian's family experience in detail knows that Liu Xian is a conquest talent. And today's situation in China, famous generals, any bureaucracy is warmly welcomed.

Zeng Jize felt the same with the Hunan army.

……

Liu Xian, who ran back to Chenzhou, immediately began to reorganize his troops, removed the three divisions of Xiang Fa, Chen Bo and Chen Tianzhu, and went east along Huaining, the capital city of Chenzhou, to Fuyang, the capital city of Yingzhou, Anhui Province, where 3,000 soldiers cooperated with local regimental training and 2,000 new battalion recruits to occupy all the strategic bases and county towns along the Cai River and Yinghe River.

In the city of Chenzhou, Liu Xian also held nearly 6,000 main forces of six brigades plus battalion headquarters plus small artillery and cavalry battalions.

In October, the winter of the fourth year of Tongzhi came.

Zhang Zongyu and Ren Huabang attacked the old nest of Pheasant River to no avail, although they annihilated more than 2,000 Qing troops of Yinghan, but Liu Mingchuan, Zhou Shengbo's Huai army, and Zhang Yao, Song Qing's Yu army and Zhang Desheng's Anhui army worked together to rescue Yinghan, and the twisted army had to return to Henan again.

In the face of Liu Xian's army, which was waiting for the battle, the twisted army did not know that there were tigers in the mountains and preferred to go to the tiger mountain, but walked the three rivers into Runing, conquered Cai and Xiping, broke Yuncheng, and approached Shangshui.

Liu Xian did not need Zeng Guofan to speak, and immediately supervised more than 6,000 cavalry troops to cross the Shahe River and go straight to Shangshui. At this time, Liu Mingchuan's army also pursued, and the twisted army turned south.

Because of the storage of the infantry team, the speed of the twisting army is not fast. The two Liu joined forces all the way and chased south.

In Xiping City, Liu Xian saw Liu Mingchuan again. Compared with the last time, Liu Mingchuan, who has been dismissed from his official position for several months, has a better spirit than the last time. The spirit of the whole body is not comparable to the haggard Liu Mingchuan that Liu Xian saw last time.

Liu Xian smiled with welcome on his face, but felt a little pity in his heart. This is the chief general of the Huai Army in the history of the original time and space, the first governor of Taiwan, and he himself is a famous historical general who feels very good, and it seems that he is still very loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Otherwise, how could a punishment from Beijing, which has not been resolved until it is implemented, make him go from being full of anxiety to now being high-spirited?

"Liu Junmen, the twisting bandits are dragged down by a large group of infantry, and the speed is not fast. However, the cavalry under Zhang Ren's two rebellions is amazing, and if our army is only behind the tail, it will be difficult to cross the interception of the bandit horse team and block these bandits. ”

"What does the third brother of the province mean?"

"Liu Junmen led the troops to attract the attention of the bandits, and Ming Chuan led the troops to bypass the Honghe River, turn to the territory of Runan, intercept their way forward, and then you and I will attack in two ways, and we will definitely break the bandits——"