When Du Xing'a heard that Li Xubin had sent someone to ask for help, he brought He Zongjun to the official document.

Guan Wen squinted his eyes and smiled: "Yesterday, the official also received the holy decree, the emperor meant to keep the city and fight to kill the thieves, and now I am defending Wuchang, and Li Gong is exterminating the thieves, which is exactly in line with the emperor's intentions, but you are running all the way from the front line, what does this mean?" ”

He Zongjun knelt on the ground and pleaded: "Now that Li Gong is surrounded in Jinggang, and the provincial capital Changsha is powerless to rescue, please send troops to the Governor, so that you can save Li Gong and the danger, and you can annihilate the anti-thieves and make meritorious contributions, and ask your Excellency to send troops quickly!" ”

Guan Wen's demeanor was relaxed, and he didn't care: "Li Gong's soldiers are like gods, and now the military power is greatly boosted, why can't he overcome it, where do you need me to send troops from Hubei to rescue." ”

Duxing. Seeing this, neither of them dared to say a word, so as not to get into trouble.

He Zongjun continued to beg: "Please save us in the face of Governor Hu, the Hunan army will never dare to forget the kindness of the adults." ”

As a Manchurian, Guan Wen has long been suspicious of these Han people, he knows more about the military system of the Hunan army than anyone else, this is basically the private soldiers of Hu Linyi and Zeng Guofan, he has to find a way to weaken it at any time, how can he send troops to rescue?

"Needless to say, this official has no reinforcements to send, you should go back and tell Li Xubin and let him kill a few more thieves and share the emperor's worries, which is worthy of the crown on his head."

He Zongjun saw that the official Wen still refused to send troops, so he got up and scolded loudly: "You don't know how to learn the official book, you are greedy for life and afraid of death, and you usually only slap the horse, but I didn't expect the national disaster to be at the head, you still care about selfish interests, if Li Gong is defeated." More than 100,000 people in the Hunan army will not let you go! ”

The official Wenqi blushed and curled, pointing at He Zongjun and couldn't say a word: "You...... You ......"

Du Xing'a stepped forward and kicked He Zongjun to the ground: "Bold." Don't you want to live? ”

Guan Wen slapped the table and said angrily: "Let him get out of me." The official told you that the officer would not send troops, even if he did not think about a single soldier. ”

He Zongjun glanced at Guan Wen with a sneer, turned around and walked out of the Governor's Palace.

Duolonga hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "My lord, what He Zongjun said is reasonable, the Hunan army is hugging up and down, if they are hostile to adults, Hubei will be chaotic." ”

The official text said angrily: "What." If you agree to send troops, then you can take them with you. ”

Duo Long Ah smiled stupidly: "The humble position means that the lord has never seen him at all, no, this person has never been to Wuchang at all, even if he is the governor of the day, Lord Hu Xingshi, we have an excuse to delay." ”

Guan Wen's small eyes rolled, slowly turned around, and asked, "He came alone?" ”

Du Xing'a nodded definitely. added: "The official sent someone to investigate, and he entered Wuchang alone. ”

"Hmm" Guan Wen said ruthlessly: "If you don't do it, you sent someone to kill him, and this matter must be hidden from Jintang." He is just a dead brain, and he will not turn around, if he tells the Hunan army. It's a big deal, and it's hard for us to explain it. ”

"Obey" Duolonga immediately got up and chased after He Zongjun.

Wu Lirong waited until it was dark and didn't see He Zongjun come out. understands that he has been poisoned by the official and has the heart to go in to take revenge. Feeling that it was not worth it, he wrote a letter at the post station outside the city, asked someone to bring it to Zeng Guofan, and immediately took a boat to Jinggang.

On January 25, at this time, the Hunan army had been hungry for three days, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, the generals had no authority, and the battalions fled one after another, either surrendering or running back to their hometowns to hide, and the camps were quickly broken by Chen Yucheng.

Li Xubin knew that it was difficult to escape this time, he ordered his subordinates to take pen and ink, hastily wrote a letter to Zeng Guofan, and a farewell letter to his younger brother Li Xuyi, and secretly glad that he did not bring Li Xuyi to Hubei, he handed the letter to Zeng Guohua next to him, and instructed: "These two letters are very important, you just surrender, endure humiliation and steal life, and you must also send it out of Lu." ”

Zeng Guohua nodded tearfully, this is the reason why Li Gong gave him to live, and his heart was sad and grateful.

Li Xubin burned all the official documents he had brought with him, called the staff and generals who were still with him, and said miserably: "I am not righteous, you can find your own way, I will not blame." ”

Everyone looked at each other, looked at Li Xubin again, and said in unison: "Even if the public is dead, we will never fail to live up to the public, and we should die together!" ”

"Ha Lu Ha...... How fortunate Li is to work with you! ”

Li Xubin rushed to Chen Yucheng's camp with more than 100 people around him.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

A puff of white smoke drifted by, and all the charging Hunan soldiers fell to the ground.

Tan Shaoguang brought people over, and when he saw that he was not dead, he made up for a few knives.

"Commander, look! There's a living man down there! ”

Tan Shaoguang took a closer look, it turned out that an injured soldier fell to the ground, his body was covered with dead people, it seemed that everyone was desperately covering this person, so they did this, and they were about to step forward and kill Li Xubin.

Liu Lichuan grabbed Tan Shaoguang and shook his head: "This person may be a big official, and keeping his life may come in handy." ”

Tan Shaoguang kicked away the last corpse on Li Xubin's body, and said to the left and right: "Tie up this person, find a few captives and ask if you know him, by the way, don't let him run away!" ”

Wu Lirong held a big knife and rushed to the Han army camp alone, he didn't know that Li Xubin had been wiped out, and shouted loudly: "Kill the thief"

"Bang Bang Bang"

The news of the defeat of Jinggang Town spread rapidly all over the country, first in Changsha and Wuchang, and then in less than half a month it spread to Jiujiang, Pengze, and Taihu, and the generals of the Hunan army were dumbfounded, and the soldiers did not believe it at all, Li Xubin was the god of war in their minds, and when he was fighting long hair, many enemy soldiers ran away as soon as they saw his banner, how could they die in the hometown of the Hunan army?

The saddest ones are Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi.

Zeng Guofan lost his love general, the important thing is that his younger brother Zeng Guohua was arranged by him to train under Li Xubin, and now he is not alive or dead, he received a letter from Changsha for help, and he has asked Guo Songtao, who is closest to Changsha, to send troops back to help, that is, Wang Zhu He also wrote a letter, but he didn't expect it to be a step too late, the thousands of elites of the Hunan army who were initially organized and trained were wiped out, and the people of Xiangxiang were lost.

Hu Linyi had a premonition when Li Xubin asked for help, so he wrote letters to the official one after another, asking him to take care of Li Xubin as much as possible, but he didn't expect that just two days after the letter was sent, he received a war report from the messenger, and when he opened it, it turned out to be Li Xubin's unit in Jinggang Town, and there was no survivor, he fell to the ground all of a sudden, spitting blood unconscious, and the general saw it, and was also frightened, and quickly let Lang Zhong treat him. Hu Linyi, who woke up, immediately led the army back to Jiujiang, handed over all the soldiers and horses left by Li Xubin to Li Xuyi, and appointed him as the commander of the land division.

Hu Linyi and Zeng Guofan each held a public sacrifice in Daying, and Hu Linyi wrote a memorial for this:

So that the public is dead, the letter will be doubtful, the night is terrified, if lost, how will the public die, where will I be, if the people do not come out, who will I return with?

The cry of the three armies shook the sky, and the heavens seemed to be infected, and it snowed heavily in the Jiujiang area, and the two armies had to stop the battle and return to their camps, waiting, waiting...... Erupt.

Compared with the gloomy clouds on the side of the Hunan army, the Han army camp celebrated greatly, and the morale was greatly boosted, and the little-known Chen Yucheng had just led the troops to achieve such a great victory, which made the generals have a stronger desire to make contributions, if it weren't for the heavy snowfall, they would have led the army to attack the Hunan army camp.

Li Chunfa saw that the army's heart was available, and said to Li Xiucheng: "Now that Jiujiang is running out of ammunition and food, it is the time for me to wait for the rescue, look at the weather, the heavy snow will stop in the afternoon, please give instructions to the marshal, and I can be ready." ”

Li Xiucheng smiled 'hehe', full of confidence: "Half a month ago, the Second Fleet had rushed to support, but at that time Jiujiang was not in danger, and the attention of the Hunan army was attracted by Commander Chen, and now Commander Chen has won a great victory in Jinggang, annihilating more than 10,000 enemies, and the vitality of the Hunan army has been greatly damaged. ”

The goose feather snow really stopped in the evening, which made Zeng Guofan have a premonition of misfortune, and he didn't have time to mourn his younger brother Guohua, so he hurriedly ordered all battalions to be on guard.

"Oh no, my lord! The short-haired camp is brightly lit, and the sailor army has rushed towards the camp of our army's sailors! "Peng Yulin noticed some time ago that the strength of the short-haired water army had increased greatly, and he didn't dare to fight them alone, unless he joined forces with Yang Zaifu, he could go to the Han army camp to provoke.

Zeng Guofan was shocked: "Shorthair is going to fight a decisive battle, and the land battalion is on guard, and the musket team comes forward to meet the enemy." ”

Li Kaifang's Ninth Army took the lead in reaching the outside of the Hunan army camp, and when he saw that the musket team in front of the camp was waiting in formation, he hurriedly signaled the army to stop advancing.

"Boom Boom"

The Hunan army's artillery was aimed at the Han army's bombardment, and Li Kaifang had suffered enough from the Hunan army in the past month, so he could only order his soldiers to lie on the ground, and the cold snow suddenly made him much clearer.

"Go back, go back first!" Li Kaifang shouted and waved to the team behind him.

Li Xiucheng looked at Li Kaifang, who had escaped, and asked loudly: "Bold!" Li Kaifang, you dare to violate the military order and flee before fighting, do you know that military law is ruthless! ”

Li Kaifang said with a smile: "The last general just has a strategy to break the enemy, in order to avoid casualties among the soldiers, so he ordered to retreat first, please be aware of the commander." ”

Li Xiucheng said: "Let's listen to it, if you have a reason, you will be credited, if it is nonsense, Hugh blames Ben Shuai for not being emotional." ”

Lin Fengxiang and other people who came over from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom all looked at Li Kaifang with a smile, and they all knew that Li Kaifang was a person, and he was by no means a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death.

Li Kaifang calmly promised: "The last general found that the snow in front of the Hunan army camp has not melted, there is a foot deep, the soldiers often slip, which is not conducive to attacking, and it is late, if the soldiers are wearing white clothes and the snow on the ground is connected, the Hunan army will be difficult to distinguish between true and false, and our army will take advantage of the situation to attack, and will be able to attack the Hunan army camp." (To be continued......)