Duolong smiled and explained to Li Xubin: "Your Excellency the Governor has an order, and the Hunan army immediately marched forward to chase and kill Shorthair, and at this time Shorthair is besieging Hanchuan, which is a barrier to Wuchang and cannot be lost. ”

Li Xubin clenched his fists and said: "Please report to the governor, just say that the Hunan army has been running around for days and the soldiers are tired, please allow us to go into the city to rest for a day, replenish food, grass and ordnance, and then kill the enemy." ”

Duolonga didn't care about the life or death of the Hunan army, but refused: "At this time, Shorthair is in trouble, General An can rest with a clear conscience, please chase the enemy quickly, otherwise he will be severely punished!" ”

Wu Lirong, the officer of the Hunan military camp, was furious and scolded: "Bastard, who begged us for help at the beginning, lost Tianjia Town and let us go around for a few more days, and now you don't let us enter the city, what are you thinking!" ”

A smell of bad breath came straight to Duolonga, and the pampered Duolonga looked up and was startled by Wu Lirong's hideous appearance, took a few steps back, and then reacted and scolded: "You are so rude to me as a small battalion officer, you handsome Zeng Disheng has to politely greet me when he sees me, what are you, come here!" Drag this humble thing down and cut it down. ”

Li Xubin hurriedly signaled the guards to go out and softened: "Lord Dutong is angry, Wu Yingguan is reckless, please tell the Governor, our army will set off." ”

"That's pretty much it!" After Duolonga completed the task, he no longer pursued Wu Lirong's crimes.

The Hanchuan officials had already been instructed by the governor to enter the city, and they also refused to allow the Hunan army to enter the city, claiming that Shorthair had already taken a boat to the south, and it seemed that he had attacked Yueyang.

Li Xubin took a deep breath and looked at the angry soldiers behind him. Loudly comforted: "Everyone continue to pursue, and when Shorthair sees us, he will run." It proves that he is afraid of us, and Yueyang is in Hunan. Once the thieves have been defeated, everyone can go back to their hometown to visit their families! ”

The "good" Hunan army all cheered loudly, they had been fighting abroad in the past few years, and they had also saved some savings, and they returned to their hometown just to buy some things for their families.

Chen Yucheng transferred more than 20 elites to change into Qing soldier clothes with himself, and instructed left and right: "The front is Yueyang City, I will lead a small group of elites to pretend to be a Qing army to break into the city and fight for the city gate, and you will slowly follow behind." Keep a distance of three miles, and when we get close to the gates, you will speed forward......"

Before he finished listening, Tan Shaoguang shook his head and refused: "It's too dangerous to do this, military commander, you are our leader, how can you be so dangerous?" Let me go! ”

Chen Yucheng looked at Tan Shaoguang, who was eager to try, and said with a smile: "The three of you can't beat me if you tie them together, didn't Instructor Tang say that my martial arts have entered the room." As long as you practice diligently, thirty or fifty people are not opponents at all, not to mention that our army is alone in the depths, and I am the army commander. You should try your best to boost morale, and you don't need to persuade the whole army to stop and dock. ”

Tan Shaoguang shook his head at Liu Lichuan, who looked anxious. Chen Yucheng's martial arts have been out of the realm of ordinary people, and a spear dances. Idlers can't get close at all.

Chen Yucheng held a spear and led twenty 'Qing soldiers' to flee in a hurry. Seeing that the gate of Yueyang City had not been closed, but a wooden fence was erected, and more than 30 Qing soldiers blocked the road behind the wooden fence, they were overjoyed in their hearts.

"Stop! What part are you and why are you so embarrassed? A leader of the Green Battalion asked as he stepped forward.

Chen Yucheng bowed his head and replied: "We are the Xiangyong in the north, the short hair broke our city, the chiefs all ran away, and we were scattered, so we can only come to Yueyang." ”

The leader of the green camp was frightened and frightened, ordered the wooden fence to be opened, and shouted, "Close the city gates!" There are anti-thieves nearby...... Uh, you guys...... It's a thief! "A corpse fell from a horse, bleeding from its chest.

"Kill" Chen Yucheng shouted, and then led people to rush left and right at the Qing soldiers who were in a daze, and after a while, the Qing soldiers fled one after another.

In less than a moment, Tan Shaoguang rushed over with hundreds of cavalry and rushed to the city, the defenders of Yueyang City were crushed, scrambling to flee, and the squires in the city were panting and uneasy, packing up their softness and preparing to flee for their lives at any time.

In the past few years, the government has spared no effort to preach the anti-thieves and destroy the family, and these social elites have been fooled, they have heard with their own ears how brutal the long hair is, and in their cognition, this short hair is also a hill of raccoon dogs.

Chen Yucheng didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain in defeating Yueyang, and many of the remnants of the Taiping Army scattered in the local area came to take refuge, collecting more than 7,000 people in just three days, plus the people mobilized by the nearby Heaven and Earth Society, the strength of the new army surged, with a total of 35,000 troops.

Tan Shaoguang captured Changde Mansion, Liu Lichuan captured Xiangyin County, tens of thousands of troops were eyeing Changsha, which frightened Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan, and the calm Changsha ushered in a wave of anti-thieves, and sent nine letters of help to Zeng Guofan within two days, one was faster than the other, and the words and begging, and the voice was unprecedented.

Because the boats near the river were collected by the Han army, and the inexhaustible ones were also bought and burned down, the Hunan army led by Li Xubin could only gallop along the Yangtze River on the shore, and after a few days, he heard that the Han army had captured Yueyang, and shook his head in disbelief, this Yueyang City is mud and can't be made?

Li Xubin was even more anxious, urging the army to speed up, the Hunan army was tired, the horses also died from time to time, the soldiers were fat and thin, and the thin ones were thinner, and the captain no longer asked for the guilt, so he marched for days and days, and when he arrived outside Yueyang City, there were only more than 4,500 people left in the whole army, all of them exhausted.

Seeing that the Hunan army outside the city was preparing to attack the city, the prefect of Yueyang hurriedly led all the officials and squires out of the city to greet them.

"What's going on? On the way, I heard that Shorthair had captured Yueyang, why are you in the city? Li Xubin was confused and asked loudly.

The prefect of Yueyang explained: "The general doesn't know, Shorthair abandoned the city and went south five days ago, I heard that the Changsha Acropolis of Changde and Xiangyin were captured by Shorthair, and I don't know what happened to this Changsha City?" ”

Li Xubin's chest hurts, and he didn't prevent the short hair from hitting Changsha, when the Hunan army fought a decisive battle, Jiujiang, and the troops near Changsha had been evacuated, if Changsha fell because of this, their Hunan army would really be spurned by the people of Sanxiang!

The squires in the city were afraid that the Han army would come back from Xin, so they knelt on the ground one after another, buckled their heads vigorously, and begged Li Xubin to continue to march to exterminate the short hair.

Staff member Zeng Guohua persuaded: "Now the army has been running for nearly a month, from Jiujiang to Yueyang, there is no moment, and now the army is tired, or rest in Yueyang for a day or two, collect some grain and grass and then support Changsha." ”

He Yu nodded and agreed: "The army has no support, the troops are too thin, and we can't take risks, we should be stationed in Yueyang, and Changsha is a corner, so that Shorthair doesn't dare to act rashly." (To be continued......)