Chapter XXVIII
After Xiao Yungui scolded his mother, he saw that Zeng Shuiyuan and Tong Qiangsheng both lowered their heads, and their faces were very frightened, so he heheed, sat back in the first place angrily, and looked at the map in a daze, the situation at this time is completely different from history, Xiao Yungui has no direct historical reference, how to fight the battle in the future?
There are a lot of battle examples in Xiao Chaogui's memory, but they all follow the brigade, and now there are Qing troops surrounding him in all directions, which seems to be very difficult. Xiao Yungui himself lived in a peaceful era in his last life, and he had never systematically studied war at all, his father was a nouveau riche businessman, and Xiao Yungui had some experience on how to make money, but it was too difficult to fight this war.
At best, he has played Red Alert, Empire, StarCraft or something, these so-called war games are to occupy resources, build barracks, and then explode troops, and push them directly (this is Xiao Yungui's own gameplay, old players should not spray), and now he Xiao Yungui occupies Changsha, and there are a lot of resources, but there is no time to explode troops. Now there is one more West Wang Niang, Hong Xuanjiao, and the women's camp and the children's camp to get in the way, in Xiao Chaogui's memory, this woman is quite beautiful, but can he Xiao Yungui still divide his troops to go south to respond?
Zeng Shuiyuan stepped forward and said in a low voice: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, this Queen of the West went north to help us first by the order of the King of Heaven and the King of the East, and she can't help it." ”
Xiao Yungui said irritably: "Then do you know where they are now?" Where shall we meet them? ”
Zeng Shuiyuan was speechless by this question, Xiao Yungui looked at the map, took out the dry tobacco pouch and slowly filled it with tobacco, and his heart slowly calmed down, since Hong Xuanjiao was ordered to come even if it was a historical arrangement, and Changsha City attracted the attention of the Qing army, there should be no danger to their more than 1,000 women and children for the time being, and the top priority should still be to think about how to deal with the Qing army's encirclement of Changsha City on all sides.
After sorting out the clues, Xiao Yungui muttered: "Gather the generals to come over immediately to discuss the military!" "At this time, it's better to listen to everyone's opinions, Xiao Yungui thought that there were many famous generals in the heavenly kingdom under his command, and it was impossible not to even discuss a solution.
After Tong Qiangsheng turned around and went out to give the order, Xiao Yungui looked at Zeng Shuiyuan and said in a deep voice: "The news of the approaching Qing army is to be temporarily blocked, and you will immediately lead the troops to the door to urge the money and grain donated by those rich merchants, except for Zhu Changlin and the four of them, the rest of the rich merchants must not donate less than the amount they donated to the Qing Demon, the account book is here, anyway, they can't make up the rice and grain to fill the chess grid anyway, and they can dig out as much as they can, and in the evening, I want to see the first batch of money and grain put into storage." Zeng Shuiyuan also knew that once the Qing army was approaching, these wealthy businessmen and giants would have no fear, and they would refuse to donate, and it would be impossible for the Taiping army to divide their forces to deal with these people, so he hurriedly hugged his fists and took his orders.
At the time of tea, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Li Yiwen, Lin Qirong, Ji Wenyuan, Zhu Xineng, He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao, Tong Qiangsheng, Li Zuoche, Tang Erniu and other generals arrived one after another.
After the generals arrived, Xiao Yungui asked Tong Qiangsheng to inquire about the news, and then got up and said: "Now that the Qing demons are coming from all directions, our army does not have many soldiers and horses, how to deal with it?" ”
Lin Fengxiang stood up and clenched his fists and said: "The Qing Demon is coming from all sides, we can defend the fortified city, Changsha City has been strengthened in recent days, with plenty of artillery, firearms, and red medicine, and the Qing Demon is not good at attacking fortifications, and the Qing Demon is only more than 10,000 people on all sides, and it is not coming together, the younger brother thinks that he can protect Changsha and wait for the Chenzhou brigade to come to help." ”
Li Kaifang also nodded and said: "I still have a few days to arrange calmly, you can rely on the city wall to arrange the camp on the high ground outside the city, such as Cai Gong's tomb, Aoshan Temple, etc., echoing with the city head, resist the enemy Qing Demon, and also burn the houses outside the city near the city wall, in case the Qing Demon is an important stronghold close to the city, and the camp outside the city can be equipped with more firearms and cannons, and the Qing Demon will not dare to attack, but will only be like Yong'an, Daozhou, and Chenzhou, and the camp will be held from afar, and we can calmly wait for the Chenzhou reinforcements to come and relieve the siege." I heard that the king of the west asked the rich squires in the city to donate a batch of money and grain today, which is enough for our military needs, and Changsha can be defended for a long time. ”…,
Xiao Yungui understood what Lin and Li meant, that is, to guard the city and wait for reinforcements. Think about it, from ancient times to the present in the war, the defender has a certain advantage over the attacker, not to mention that now is the era of cold and hot weapons together, with strong walls and barracks, supplemented by cannons and firearms, the defender can deal with the offensive more calmly. In the battle of Changsha in history, after Xiao Chaogui died in battle, Zeng Shuiyuan, Lin Fengxiang and other less than 4,000 people occupied Miaofeng to defend it, and after the Qing army arrived at Qi, tens of thousands of people failed to capture Miaofeng for even days, and they were held by the Taiping army until the arrival of Chenzhou reinforcements, which shows that the Qing army's ability to attack the fortification is really not very good.
Xiao Yungui pondered for a moment, defending the city was indeed a way, but when he squinted at Lin Qirong, he suddenly felt that this was a little inappropriate. He remembered that Lin Qirong was defending Jiujiang, if the Qing army calmly arranged a camp outside Changsha City, built a fortified moat, and surrounded Changsha City to death, the Taiping army in the city would come out, and it seemed that it would become a strong camp for the Taiping army to attack the Qing army, if the Chenzhou reinforcements could not break through the Qing army's defense line outside the city, Changsha City would become Jiujiang City.
Damn, Lao Tzu doesn't want to be trapped in the city, Xiao Yungui secretly scolded himself, frowning and looking at the map silently.
Seeing that Xiao Yungui was noncommittal, Li Yiwen stood up and hugged his fists and said: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, my subordinates think that the Qing Demons are coming from many ways, and they are not subordinate to each other, so they should be able to break them one by one, as long as we kill one or two of the Qing Demons, the rest of the Qing Demons will definitely stop." Xiao Yungui's eyes lit up, this Li Yiwen is really a general, but how could he not have heard of his name?
Lin Qirong also said: "That's right, the city of Changsha is wide, our more than 4,000 troops are widely distributed in the city, each of us has to guard the three steps of the wide city wall, but also divide the troops out of the city to build a camp, it is really thin, if the Qing demon gathers troops to attack me, it is inevitable that he will take care of one or the other, even if I rush to drive the people in the city to go to the city to help defend it, it is not appropriate for me to wait for three days to enter the city, and the people in the city have not yet been with me, if the battle is shaken, it is extremely unfavorable to me." Moreover, let the Qing Demon calmly arrange the camp outside the city, even if the Chenzhou Brigade arrives under the city, if it wants to break through the Qing Demon camp and enter the city, it will suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, the subordinates also agreed to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and before the Qing Demon had not yet finished camping, break one or two of the Qing Demons, and the rest of the Qing Demon would definitely be discouraged and hesitate. ”
Xiao Yungui secretly praised Lin Qirong for thinking thoroughly, worthy of being a famous general who is good at guarding, and said slowly: "This king also feels that he can't defend the city now, once he is calmly surrounded by the Qing demon, it will be extremely difficult to break through." This king will now set the next strategy, we are going to go out of the city to meet the Qing demon, we don't have to discuss whether to fight or defend, just go all out to discuss how to fight. "Xiao Yungui didn't want to waste time talking about the pros and cons of the war, so he set the tone, let's fight, so that his subordinates have a clear direction to discuss.
Li Kaifang got up and hugged his fists and said: "Since the West King intends to fight, the junior brother thinks that he should attack the Qing Demon Bao Qi Leopard Department in the north first!" ”
Xiao Yungui was stunned when he heard this, Bao Qibao's Qing army originally had more than 3,000 defeated soldiers in Changsha, plus 3,000 reinforcements from Hubei, there were more than 6,000 people in total, which was the most soldiers and horses among the enemies from all sides, why did Li Kaifang suggest fighting Bao Qibao first?
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