The night is deep, and the sky is like a giant beast of the ancient wilderness, opening the mouth of the black hole and ready to choose people to devour. The tea pavilion at night was lit with fire, and the barracks of the Taiping Army were still very busy.

At the end of the ugly hour in the second half of the night, the scout horses sent by Li Yiwen finally returned, and the news brought back was that the Qing army in Yuanjiapu was slack, and the camp was loosely arranged, with only a trench and a camp fence, and it seemed that the number of campfires in the Qing army was not too many.

At this time, Hong Yun'er and the others had already fallen asleep, and they had been fighting for a day, and they were so injured that they couldn't support it anymore. After Xiao Yungui and Li Yiwen got the news, they were a little undecided after discussion, according to Hu Linyi's ability and the combat power of his Miao soldiers, the Qing army should not be so slack, there is a strong intention to lure the enemy.

After thinking about it again and again, Xiao Yungui still decided to hold on to his troops and adopt a compromise approach, according to the original Jihua first asked Wang Linyu to send a letter to Zhang Liangji, and starting tomorrow morning, he would cut off the local regimental training and harvest the grain on the spot, and wait until there was new news before making a decision.

After this battle, Xiao Yungui deeply felt that his sources of information and intelligence were too limited, the Qing court mobilized Guizhou troops to help in the war, who the commander was, how many troops came, he didn't know anything, although he arranged Tong Qiangsheng and other people from the Heaven and Earth Society to collect news everywhere, but what they could hear was limited after all, and they could only hear the news in Hunan for the time being, plus the backwardness of the message transmission method, so Xiao Yungui often felt that his eyes were dark.

After Li Yiwen left, Xiao Yungui couldn't sleep, so he simply got up, spread out the paper, used a bamboo stick as a pen, and began to think about how to establish his own intelligence network.

Over and over again, Xiao Yungui has a lot of classic intelligence agencies in his mind for reference, such as Dai Li's Central and Military Commanders in later generations, the underground party organizations of the red regime, etc., but these seem to require systematic training and rigorous organization, and the quality of the recruited personnel at least needs to be literate.

Although the rice paper in Huizhou on the table is on the haode paper at this time, but the writing with a bamboo stick is really not acceptable, after breaking several holes, Xiao Yungui irritably crumpled the rice paper into a ball and threw it on the ground, lit the dry tobacco pouch, and quietly thought about it, how should this matter be arranged? I don't know weishenme, now that Xiao Yungui has something in his heart that he can't decide, he will first think of going to Hong Yun'er to discuss. But looking at the sky, thinking that Hong Yun'er was still resting, she had to give up for the time being.

After dawn, Xiao Yungui entrusted all the more than 800 soldiers and horses here to Li Yiwen, and the tasks to be completed had already been explained to Li Yiwen. Since Li Yiwen was promoted by Xiao Yungui, his status in the army has been soaring, and he is also deeply grateful to Xiao Yungui for his kindness, and he made a military order in front of the army, and he must do a good job of the things entrusted by the king of the west.

After explaining the details, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er brought more than 200 personal guards under their command to escort Zuo Zongtang's family and a group of wounded soldiers back to Changsha.

Returning to Changsha and passing through the Liuyang River, there were already Taiping troops building pontoon bridges at Liujiadu, and there were also people on the hills of Wujialing on the other side of the river who were busy building barracks and gun emplacements. When I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I saw that the people on the mountain were busy with the Taiping army and the refugees in the city.

Seeing the banner of the West King, someone had already reported that Lin Qirong, the guard here, and when Lin Qirong came to greet him with a few brand swordsmen, Xiao Yungui found that he was followed by Tan Shaoguang.

After everyone saluted each other, everyone was embarrassed when they talked about the defeat of Shapoling and the death of Sister Hu in battle.

Looking at the busy scene here, Xiao Yungui didn't have such a scene when he left the city, but he didn't expect that in just two days, the defense in the north of the city began to take shape, which made Xiao Yungui a little surprised: "Brother Lin, are these people refugees who fled to the city?" ”…,