"Lord Kunjong, all the brothers in the city are ready."

Wei Jun looked at the Hunan army under the city ready to attack the city, took a deep breath, and said to the generals: "Wuchang is besieged, the situation in Hubei is not as good as day by day, the prefectures and counties occupied by my heavenly soldiers have been occupied by the Hunan army, yesterday I received the holy decree of Tianjing, the king of heaven ordered our army to break through, now the Hunan army under the city is not prepared, everyone obeys my order, after opening the city gate, the whole army rushed out of the city, the Hunan army was defeated, and no pursuit was allowed, all the teams drove to the west of Jinkou Town to gather, where there was our heavenly army water division to answer. ”

"Compliance"

Wei Jun said: "Open the city gate!" ”

"Kill"

The 10,000 defenders in Wuchang City all rushed to the outside of the city, and the Hunan army was caught off guard, looking at the imposing Taiping army, they threw down the ladder and ran back.

Looking at the soldiers and horses of the headquarters that were about to collapse, Luo Zenan shouted hard: "Resist, everyone come forward to kill the enemy!" Fight the enemy! ”

After a while, the rout army submerged Luo Zenan, there was only a one-sided slaughter on the battlefield, the front of the Hunan army broke the rear formation, Li Xubin and others had no choice, only with the rout to retreat, intending to collect the rout in the back and regroup.

Luo Zenan saw that the Hunan army was getting farther and farther away, his whole body trembled with anger, and he waved his sword to stop the rout to meet the enemy, shouting as he ran: "Kill the enemy!" Fight the enemy...... Everyone went back and killed the enemy. ”

"Bang Bang"

A burst of gunpowder smoke drifted by, Luo Zenan lay on the ground weakly, and suddenly had a mocking feeling in his heart, he didn't expect that he would die on the battlefield in such a way as a self-proclaimed soldier.

The Hunan army fled to the edge of the Yangtze River and finally stopped, Li Xubin reorganized the army on the side of the Yangtze River, and led the Hunan army to kill under the city of Wuchang in less than half an hour, and the Taiping army had already disappeared. All I saw was a battlefield full of disarrays, and the flags of the Hunan army were thrown all over the ground. The corpses were all facing away from the wall, and many wounded soldiers were lying on the ground wailing.

Li Xubin, Li Xuyi and others watched hundreds of injuries and patients form a circle. As if mourning something, thinking that the teacher was gone, both of them had a premonition that they would not fall, and stumbled towards that side.

Seeing that the prefect rushed over, the injured and sick shouted in a sparse voice: "The political envoy is dead!" ”

Li Xubin and Li Xuyi looked at Luo Zenan's corpse, flustered, and cried, their teacher-student friendship with Luo Zenan for more than ten years is separated by yin and yang today.

Hu Linyi, Liu Rong, Wang Zhu and others rushed into the city when the Taiping army retreated. Looking at the long-lost governor's yamen, Hu Linyi was full of emotion.

Liu Rong smiled at Hu Linyi, who was stunned in place and burst into tears: "Why did Runzhi bother to make such a little daughter, our army fought for a year and finally recovered Wuchang, Runzhi should be happy!" ”

Hu Linyi explained: "The students just cried with joy, since they were appointed governor of Hubei, the students have only stayed in it for three nights, and now they are revisiting the old place, and they are deeply touched!" ”

Wang Zhu was half serious and half joking: "Next time, you can't transfer all the soldiers and horses in Wuchang." This long-haired dog is a hunting dog, with a smart nose, and the two captures of Wuchang are all while our army is outside, and the city is empty. ”

Hu Linyi took the lead and walked into the governor's yamen. said with a smile: "Pushan is right, even if the whole territory of Hubei falls, Wuchang must be defended." Every time Wuchang was captured, our army had tens of thousands of casualties. It's really worth the loss, Hu can't do a loss-making business anymore. ”

The generals captured Wuchang. It was all with excitement, and the depressing atmosphere of the previous few days was swept away, listening to Hu Linyi's self-deprecation and laughter in unison.

"Haha......"

Hu Linyi listened to the generals' stomach growling, and ordered the guards: "Hurry up and prepare a banquet, in order to capture Wuchang in the past month, this official does not want to eat, today I finally taste what I want, I must have a good drink." ”

An unknown general persuaded: "Longhair has just retreated, and our army is drinking and feasting here, will it be ambushed by Longhair?" ”

Wang Ju said with a smile: "Long hair is frightened, I expect that they have now fled to Jinkou, how dare they kill a horse pistol, besides, there is Mr. Zhong Yue outside the city, Long Mao fled from Wuchang and was hit head-on by Mr. Zhong Yue, then there is still the courage to counterattack Wuchang, Ha Lu Ha ......"

Although the generals are military generals, most of them have changed from literature to martial arts, and they still retain the reserve of literati, and they are not as profligate as ordinary generals.

Liu Rong raised a glass to everyone and said: "Let's toast Runzhi together, this year, the Hunan army has suffered several setbacks, all of which are Runzhi came forward to turn the tide, especially when Zeng Gong went home to worry, when the Hunan army was leaderless, Runzhi came forward to lead everyone to continue to fight against the thieves, the Hunan army not only did not weaken, but became stronger, with 40,000 and 60 battalions of land divisions, 220 battalions of water divisions, and more than 1,000 large and small warships!" I believe that the Hunan army, under the leadership of Runzhi, will be able to exterminate the anti-thieves and prosper the Qing Dynasty! ”

"The last general will wait for Lin Gong!"

The guards came in to report: "Qi everyone, Master Li is outside, he ...... He ......"

Hu Linyi didn't listen to what the guards were talking about, and when he heard Li Xubin and others outside, he got up and said excitedly: "Mr. Zhongyue has arrived, everyone will go with me to greet you!" ”

There were more than a dozen generals standing in the courtyard, all of them were wearing white clothes and filial piety clothes, their heads were wrapped in white cloth, and they stood solemnly around a coffin with a sad and angry expression, and the autumn wind swept a fallen leaf and fell on the coffin, and the atmosphere was even more sad.

"Ha Lu Ha...... Mr. Nakagaku told us to wait...... This...... What's going on! Hu Linyi and the others rushed out, looking at the coffin in the courtyard, dumbfounded.

Liu Rong saw that Li Xubin's brother was dressed in filial piety clothes, and she was dizzy, and she couldn't care about her previous image of Sven, so she crawled in front of Li Xubin, dragged his clothes and said angrily: "What's going on?" Where is the gentleman? Tell me, where is the gentleman! ”

Wang Ju looked blank, slowly came to the front of the coffin, lay on it and wept silently, and kept beating the coffin with his right hand, which made people sympathize.

Li Xubin said in a lamented voice: "Long hair broke out of the city, our army did not have the slightest preparation, the front hundreds of siegers were quickly killed and retreated, the rear army did not know where to go, seeing the front army retreating, also retreated, how could not be controlled, the whole army collapsed after the most reluctance, and Mr. died in the chaos of the army." ”

Liu Rong's eyes were red, and she scolded Li Xubin: "Mr. Loss is the most kind to you, and you don't care about Mr. life or death, your conscience is eaten by the dog!" ”

Li Xuyi explained: "At that time, Mr. was in the front army to supervise the battle, my eldest brother and I were in the back of the formation, only to feel that the soldiers suddenly retreated, we thought that Mr. was reorganizing the army to attack the city, but we didn't expect to be broken up by the rout, I and my eldest brother were in a new formation on the Yangtze River, and when we returned to Wuchang, Long Mao had already retreated......"

Wang Ju raised his head, his face was hideous, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Where has the long hair retreated!" I will kill them without leaving a piece of armor, and I will draw their tendons, and eat their flesh, and I will crush them to ashes! ”

Li Xuyi was taken aback by Wang Zhu's appearance, and replied: "Changmao withdrew from Jinkou to Jingzhou by boat, and we waited for a long time to pursue, but the ship was too fast, and we were ashamed." ”

"Ahem...... Poof...... Wang Ju was so angry in his chest that he spat out blood, and shouted, "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! After saying that, he fainted and fell to the ground.

"Pushan...... Pushan! Liu Rong and the others hurriedly stepped forward to call.

Hu Linyi stepped forward to check, and saw that Wang Zhu was fine, staggered back, touched the coffin and cried: "The last time I attacked Wuchang, I folded Zhiting, so that the official would regret it for life, and now I have folded Mr. Zhongyue, for a small Wuchang City, it's not worth it!" I regret that I shouldn't have let Mr. Zhongyue lead the troops...... Pass my order, the army will attack Jingzhou, and vow to kill Changmao! Avenge Mr. Zhongyue. ”

"Ha Lu Ha...... I heard that Governor Hu had recovered Wuchang, what a great joy! Hey, whose coffin does it belong to? If you don't drag it out and bury it, how can you put it in the compound? "Huguang Governor Guan Wen led the civil officials of all sizes to come in and shouted.

"You ......" Hu Linyi hurriedly helped Li Xubin, who wanted to come forward to theorize, and said to the official text: "My lord doesn't know, just now in the battle to recover Wuchang, Jiangxi political envoy Mr. Zhongyue was martyred, I am too sad, please forgive me!" ”

Guan Wen was stunned, and understood that he had Meng Lang just now, but as a governor, he couldn't surrender his prestige in public, and said vaguely: "It turned out to be Mr. Zhongyue, the imperial court will definitely be doubly compensatory, and a few people are still mourning, Governor Hu still recovers the whole territory of Hubei as soon as possible, and I can also report to the emperor for victory, and this official has resigned." ”

Looking at the insincerity of the official text, Liu Rong said hatefully: "Drove away Yang Pei, and came to the official document again, none of these moths really serve the country, they only care about their own promotion and wealth, no wonder Zeng Gong is disheartened, the court is unfair to our Hunan army!" ”

In order to appease people's hearts, Hu Linyi proposed: "Zeng Dashuai has been worried for several months, why don't we jointly recommend to the emperor and let Zeng Gong come out of the mountain again?" ”

Liu Rong knew Zeng Guofan's temper best, and said worriedly: "I'm afraid that Zeng Gong still has a mustard, the imperial court has repeatedly forced each other, and the position of governor of Jiangxi has failed several times, Zeng Gong feels that he has no face to meet people, and the court does not give him the position of governor, how can Zeng Gong come out willingly." ”

Hu Linyi sighed: "Since the martyrdom of Jiang Minqiao, the governor of Anhui, the imperial court has not appointed the next one, so I will promote Zeng Disheng to the imperial court, no!" All the generals of our Hunan army jointly signed a guarantee. ”

Li Xuyi felt wrong when he heard this, and asked: "Isn't this to blackmail the imperial court, in case the emperor is angry, how can I wait?" ”

Liu Rong echoed: "Our Hunan military system has made the imperial court suspicious, if we coerce the imperial court like this again, wouldn't it be worse, and then it will affect Runzhi, how can we face you!" ”

Seeing that Hu Linyi was silent, Liu Rong added: "Baoju Zeng Gong doesn't have to coerce the imperial court like this. ”

Hu Linyi heard that Liu Rong had something to say, and asked with great joy: "Mr. has something to say, please speak, and the students will listen to you." ”

Liu Rong replied: "Just now, the governor of Huguang ordered us to attack western Hubei, it is better for the lord to take this as a condition, let him still write to the imperial court, the emperor is on guard against our Han people, and has a lot of trust in Guanwen, and Zeng Gong is expected to make a comeback." ”

The generals of the Hunan army nodded frequently, feeling that this method was feasible. (To be continued......)