The fighting between the two sides continued, and Huang Xu and Guo Potian watched the situation on the battlefield from the Yingmen Tower, and they were very happy.

"Brother, I really admire you as a brother, such a small plan will make the Qing army dizzy, admire, admire." Guo Potian patted Huang Xu, who was standing beside him, and said with emotion.

"Look at what Brother Guo said, am I so godly, this can only be blamed on the Qing army for being too eager for quick success, and I just happened to meet it." Huang Xu smiled and said.

"Look, look, brother, are you humble again, just ask, except for you, brother, who can have such a mind to come up with such a clever trick, wonderful, wonderful, really wonderful." Guo Potian smiled obliviously, and his smugness was overflowing.

"Brother Guo, accept it when you see it, and order the withdrawal of the army." Huang Xu looked at Guo Potian, shook his head, and said abruptly.

"What, what, withdraw troops?" Guo Potian couldn't react a little, he thought he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, big brother, let's withdraw, if you don't withdraw, it may be too late." Huang Xu said lightly.

"The whole battlefield situation is very favorable to us, and it won't be long before we believe that we will be able to completely annihilate this Qing army, why we are retreating now, I don't really understand." Guo Potian is really a little confused.

"Brother Guo, because of this, we have to be more careful, according to the calculation of time, the Qing army's reinforcements should be coming, presumably it won't take long to arrive, if we don't withdraw now, the opportunity is lost, we may be difficult to deal with the aftermath." HUANG Xudao.

"Brother, if you don't say it, I really forgot, so, do you have to withdraw now?" Guo Potian asked with adoration in his eyes like a pious student.

"Yes." Huang Xu said in an unquestionable tone.

"Okay, that's it." Guo Potian made up his mind.

Subsequently, Guo Potian officially issued an order to the whole army to retreat.

The Taiping generals were fighting fiercely with the Qing army, but when they heard that they were going to retreat, they were all extremely reluctant. As the saying goes, generals are belligerent, and they finally waited for such an opportunity, but they had to give up halfway, how could they be willing, it was like eating the fat in their mouths and trying to spit it out, who could not have a little idea.

However, it was only a personal act to have an idea, and since the commander had given the order, it was no longer unwilling, and the generals had to obey the order, so they took the opportunity to leave the battlefield and retreat in the direction of the main camp after a fierce attack.

The Qing army was very happy when they saw the Taiping army retreating, who dared to chase it, and in this way, the Taiping army safely withdrew to the camp, and the Qing army also began to clean up the mess after the Taiping army left, and was also preparing to retreat.

"Sir, your estimate is really accurate, this Taiping army has really retreated, presumably they are also worried about the teacher's reinforcements." Zuo Zongtang looked at the chaotic battlefield and said with a sigh of relief.

"That's right, it seems that this Taiping army has already calculated everything." Luo Bingzhang sighed again and said dejectedly.

"What should we do, after cleaning up the battlefield, should we retreat first, or should we camp on the spot and wait for the arrival of the teacher's army." Zuo Zongtang obviously lost the momentum he had when he first came, and began to become cautious.

"The subordinates think that they should first retreat the army ten miles, and then set up camp and wait for the reinforcement army of Zeng Dashuai." Luo Bingzhang thought for a while and said.

"Okay, you can give the order." Zuo Zongtang Road.

Luo Bingzhang was about to give an order, but he saw Hu Si'er, Jiang Zhongyuan and Liu Kun walking over to this side.

The three of them walked up to Zuo Zongtang, finished saluting, and said, "Dashuai, the enemy army has retreated, whether we still want to attack, please show Dashuai."

"Ben Shuai was about to ask Mr. Luo to give an order, but you came, just right, you go back and make arrangements, the army will retreat ten miles back and set up camp, and wait for Zeng Marshal's reinforcement army to arrive, and then make a decision." Zuo Zongtang Road.

"Yes, Sir." The three of them answered the order.

"Okay, you guys go down and make arrangements." Zuo Zongtang waved his hand and said.

Liu Kunyi and Jiang Zhongyuan walked out first, but Hu Si'er stayed, and he seemed to have something to say.

"Si'er, what's the matter, are you still in trouble?" Zuo Zongtang saw that Hu Si'er didn't move and asked.

"Yes, Dashuai, Si'er has something to say." Hu Si'er nodded, and said angrily.

"Well, go ahead, don't spit out." Zuo Zongtang Road.

"The last general thinks that we can directly approach the Taiping army camp and go down to the village, and there is no need to retreat so quickly, the last general always feels that there is something wrong with this." Hu Si'er settled down and mustered up the courage to say to Zuo Zongtang.

"Oh, tell me, you think there's something wrong." Zuo Zongtang didn't expect that this well-developed and simple-minded Hu Si'er would be able to say such a thing, and he was quite interested.

"The last general thinks that the Taiping army is bluffing by doing this, and they have no confidence to really fight us." Hu Si'er said.

"On what basis?" Zuo Zongtang Road.

"No, it's just a feeling." Hu Si'er said.

"Mr. Luo, what do you think?" Zuo Zongtang did not immediately reject Hu Sier's proposal, but threw the topic to Luo Bingzhang.

"Si'er's feeling is certainly reasonable, but the idea of his subordinates is that although there can be gains in moving forward, the chance of failure is also unpredictable, and retreating at this stage can ensure that we will not suffer any losses, so, for the sake of insurance, I think it is better for us to go back first." Luo Bingzhang didn't dare to take any more risks.

"Okay, just do as Mr. said, Si'er, go and prepare." Zuo Zongtang thought for a while and said.

"Yes." Seeing Zuo Zongtang say this, Hu Si'er didn't say anything more.

Soon, the Qing army was cleaned up and began to retreat in an orderly manner.

Zuo Zongtang's army had just retreated five miles and encountered the vanguard of the reinforcement army led by Zeng San and Zeng Guohua.

"San'er, what's wrong, why are you so embarrassed." Zeng Guohua couldn't help but ask a little surprised when he saw that Zuo Zongtang's Chu army seemed to have a lot of people missing, and there were many people with injuries on their bodies.

"Just had a big fight with the Taiping thieves." Zuo Zongtang's face was as authentic as usual.

"What. So fast, what is the situation of the battle, how many thieves have been killed, it seems to be a big victory, without Shi Dakai, the Taiping army is like a tiger without teeth, there is no need to worry. Zeng Guohua asked like a cannonball.

"Don't talk about it, it's not good to go out of school, not only did it not win, but the damage was not small." Zuo Zongtang said lightly.

"What. What the. What did you say? Zeng Huaguo was even more surprised than just now.

"To put it simply, the Taiping army defeated us." Zuo Zongtang said calmly.

Failure is not terrible, the key is to see whether you can face failure, Zuo Zongtang knows this truth.

"What's going on. Can you elaborate on that? Zeng Guohua especially wanted to know the details of this. Because of the strength of the Chu army, he knows. The Taiping army was able to defeat the Chu army so easily, which means that the morale of the Taiping army was not affected by Shi Dakai's death, so didn't they come to return in vain this time. How could this not concern him.

"Come on, Guohua, let's talk about it after seeing the big handsome, how far is the big handsome from here?" Zuo Zongtang was reluctant to say anything more.

"Dashuai should be about ten miles away from here, why don't we wait for Dashuai here, how about it." Zeng Guohua said.

"It's okay, Mr. Luo, and the herald army will set up camp here." According to the original plan, Zuo Zongtang wanted to retreat ten miles back and set up camp again, but since he had already met Zeng Guohua, there was no difference between ten miles and five miles.

So, Luo Bingzhang went to arrange the camp, while Zuo Zongtang and Zeng Guohua chatted about the current military situation, but what they talked about basically had nothing to do with this battle, because Zuo Zongtang had already said that he was not willing to talk about this battle for the time being, and he would talk about it after meeting Zeng Guofan.

Soon, Zeng Guofan's army reached the place where the Chu army was encamped.

Zeng Guofan was also quite surprised when he saw the Chu army camping here, and hurriedly invited Zuo Zongtang to ask what was going on.

Zuo Zongtang arrived at Zeng Guofan's camp, and before he had time to salute Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan couldn't wait to ask.

"Zong Tang, what's the matter, why did you set up camp here?" Zeng Guofan asked.

"Dashuai, Zong Tang came to confess." Zuo Zongtang knelt down and said.

It stands to reason that although Zuo Zongtang was controlled by Zeng Guofan, he was also the commander of the first army, and there was no need to give this gift to Zeng Guofan, but, first, when he was young, he was employed by Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan was his talented teacher, as the saying goes, one day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father, he is understandable to do this great gift, second, he is the general of the defeated army, and it is natural for the army to be defeated.

Zuo Zongtang's words surprised Zeng Guofan, he had already expected in his heart that something must have happened, otherwise, with Zuo Zongtang's character, he would not be like this. (To be continued......)