Zeng Guofan fled back to the camp in embarrassment, and before he could breathe, he heard someone report that General Zeng Guohua and they had returned.

When everyone met and talked about the loss of soldiers, they couldn't help but sigh again. In any case, Zeng Guofan saw that all the generals had returned safely, and his heart was so relieved that he happily ordered someone to arrange a banquet, intending to surprise the generals.

After three rounds of drinking, I only heard Zeng Guofan say: "This incident, it seems, is a conspiracy of stone thieves."

"If you think about it carefully, it is indeed as the commander said, it seems that we have made another mistake of underestimating the enemy." Li Hongzhang also sighed.

"This Shi Dakai is much more powerful than before, there must be someone behind him to give him advice, but I don't know who this plotter will be?" Zeng Guofan groaned.

"According to reliable information, there has been a major change within the Taiping rebels, Liliang who opposed Shi Dakai and Hong Xiuquan has been uprooted, they have integrated the internal Liliang, and Shili who used to be against them has all been absorbed by them, it seems that the reason why this Shi Dakai is full of tricks is precisely because of the help of these people." Li Hongzhang's estimation is still accurate.

"If it's as the advisor said, then we're in trouble." Zeng Guofan's face was full of worry.

"Yes, the traitor's liliang is getting stronger and stronger, and we are not advancing but retreating, as soon as the two are compared, the gap will come out, and if it goes on like this, we will be very passive." Li Hongzhang is also very worried.

"Do you have a solution?" Zeng Guofan glanced up at Li Hongzhang and said.

"The imperial court, that can't be counted on, even if the imperial court really sends people to us, we may not dare to ask for it. Because, first, we can't believe it, and second, there are also some wine bags and rice bags, which not only can't help, but may also be bad, so the students think that it is better not to fight the idea of the imperial court." Li Hongzhang said.

Zeng Guofan didn't say anything, he nodded silently, he knew that Li Hong was very reasonable.

"Dashuai, the only way now is to recommend it to the imperial court and ask for a person." Li Hongzhang said.

"Who?" Zeng Guofan sat his reclining body up straight and asked eagerly.

"This person is the same as the student, and he is one of the most proud students of the big handsome, and the big handsome should know who I'm talking about by now." Li Hongzhang said respectfully.

"Ha, ha, how did Ben Shuai forget him, your reminder, Ben Shuai is suddenly enlightened, what you said is right, with him, it can indeed solve our urgent needs, if he can come, it is a big help for us." Zeng Guofan, who had been frowning before, seemed to wake up and hahadaxiao said.

"Then I'll write a table to apply for the imperial court?" Li Hongzhang asked.

"Write, dare to write, and besides, in addition to asking for someone from the imperial court, you also have to personally send a letter to this rabbit cub in the name of Ben Shuai, just say, the teacher is in danger, please come to the rescue quickly." Zeng Guofan was in a good mood.

"Yes, Sir." Li Hongzhang also seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Listening to the conversation between the two, everyone else listened in a fog, not knowing what the two of them were talking about.

"Strategist, who are you talking about, such a mysterious god." Zeng Guohua was the first to hold back and said.

"Guohua, you also know this person." Li Hongzhang said with a smile.

"Strategist, I know too many people, who are you talking about, how do I know, just say it, lest I guess here, I think everyone means the same, right?" Zeng Guohua replied to Li Hongzhang's words and said to the generals present.

With a bang, everyone got up.

"Zuo Zongtang." Li Hongzhang said.

"He, you mean Zuo San'er? Why didn't you say it earlier, I knew it was him, why bother to write a recital, I just went and got him here, I don't believe he dared to listen to me." Zeng Guohua heard that it was Zuo Zongtang, so he said proudly.

Ha, ha, the crowd laughed again.

"Guohua, Hugh is rude, the country has its own laws of the country, how can you be allowed to mess around." Zeng Guofan's greatest advantage is loyalty, although he knows that the Qing court is corrupt, but since he has decided to be loyal to the Qing court, then he can only start from the beginning.

"Dashuai, if the last general said that if the Qing Dynasty had lost you and our Hunan army, it might have been defeated by the Taiping rebels, so the last general thinks that the emperor of the Qing Dynasty should not be his love for Xinjueluo, it should be surnamed Zeng." After Zeng Guohua finished speaking, he laughed unscrupulously.

Zeng Guofan's face was pale, and his eyes stared at Zeng Guohua without blinking.

Everyone next to him saw that Zeng Guofan's face was wrong, and they all looked at Zeng Guohua vigorously, asking him to restrain himself, but Zeng Guohua didn't take it seriously at all, and everyone could only sigh in their hearts.

"General Guohua, what nonsense are you talking about? If you don't give the big marshal an explanation, say that you are wrong." Li Hongzhang saw that the atmosphere was not right, so he hurriedly came out to play a round.

"Strategist, what am I wrong, I'm not wrong, I'm telling the truth, if you don't believe it, you can ask the commander for verification." Zeng Guohua is still taking care of himself.

People do evil, they can still live, they do their own evils, they can't be saved, this Zeng Guohua is boring and unsaved.

Sure enough, Zeng Guofan slapped the table and said loudly: "Chaos, how can such words without a king and father come from the mouth of your Guohua, who are you, you are my Zeng Guofan's younger brother, you should know what I hate the most in my life." What do you care about the most? You should be glad that you are Zeng Guohua, the younger brother of my Zeng Guofan, otherwise, you would have said this elsewhere. It's already on the ground. But. Do you think that I, Zeng Guofan, would not dare to kill you? ”

Zeng Guofan's words made Zeng Guohua a little weak-hearted. Zeng Guohua knows his eldest brother too well, he has always said that he will do it, he is selfless with an iron face, and it is absolutely impossible to be merciful to anyone, but he also thinks that what he said is right, is it wrong for him to let his eldest brother replace Qingjun? Moreover, he believed that everything he said was a word for word, and it was indeed from the bottom of his heart, but his eldest brother, he also knew that he would stick to a single principle, and he would never take a step beyond Lei Chi, in his words, it was too cautious and too corrupt.

"Guohua, do you think that I don't dare to kill you?" Zeng Guofan saw that Zeng Guohua did not speak, and repeated, his tone was even more stern, and there was a smell of forest.

"If the eldest brother wants to kill, you can kill it, anyway, my life has already been handed over to the eldest brother, and I still have to repeat the point I made just now, what I said is true, and I am not wrong." Zeng Guohua still stubbornly insisted on what he had seen, and it seemed that he was iron-hearted.

"You..." Zeng Guofan was angry for a while, he didn't expect that this little brother, who was usually only obedient to himself, had eaten the bear's heart and leopard's gall today, and actually chose to do it against himself.

"Guohua, how did you talk to the big handsome, hurry up, give a salute to the big handsome and apologize." Zeng Guohua's second brother, Zeng Guoquan, saw that Zeng Guohua's bullish temper came up again, and he was also fighting against Zeng Guofan, and he was also very nervous for a while, so he hurriedly pulled Zeng Guohua to say.

Zeng Guohua shook off Zeng Guoquan's hand and turned his face to the side, it seems that he will not stop until he loses the face of his eldest brother today.

When the people in the audience see this, they are afraid that it will make things bigger, so they are pulling and pulling, there are good words to persuade each other, and there are many people who are tautologically responsible, anyway, there is only one central idea, that is, to ask Zeng Guohua to accompany the marshal Zeng Guofan, admit his mistake, and expose today's incident and forget it.

However, this Zeng Guohua really ate the iron rod today, and he was cross-hearted, as if he was going to fight Zeng Guofan to the end.

"It seems that if I don't give you a look, you don't know what I'm doing as a handsome, come on, take this disrespectful and messing around Zeng Guohua to take out this handsome man and beat 200 military sticks, and then, put him in prison, waiting for further development." Zeng Guofan said angrily.

"Handsome..."Li Hongzhang was about to speak and persuade.

"Strategist, you don't need to say it, this marshal has his own opinions on this matter." Zeng Guo Fan Road.

After a while, two soldiers came up and invited Zeng Guohua to go down and prepare a military stick to serve, Zeng Guohua did not make a sound from beginning to end, looking like that, he was going to stick to the end.

When everyone saw that Zeng Guofan was angry, no one dared to persuade him anymore, and they all made up their minds to wait until Zeng Guofan's anger disappeared, and it was not too late to persuade again.

Everyone felt bored with this meal, so everyone got up and said goodbye. (To be continued......)