When Li Xiucheng and Zeng Guofan led 100,000 Taiping troops to Zhumadian, the 100,000 Qing troops led by Feng Zicai were already camped on the periphery of Zhumadian, and they were only more than ten miles away from the Taiping army besieging Zhumadian.

The Taiping army, under the leadership of Guo Potian, had already besieged Zhumadian, and he ordered the army to attack day and night, hoping to break the city in a short time. In this case, Zhumadian has been in a storm, without the help of external forces, maybe the Qing army in the city can only hold on for about three more days at most, of course, whether they can hold out for three days, only they know in their own hearts.

On the night when the Qing army's reinforcements arrived, the Taiping army's siege force almost attacked the head of Zhumadian after a fierce attack, but under the stubborn defense of the Qing army, they were temporarily repulsed.

Perhaps realizing that such a strong attack might bring more and more casualties, Guo Potian temporarily ordered this round of siege to end temporarily, and the army to rest first, and wait until the accumulation of liliang was complete before starting the next round of strong attack.

"General, I heard that the Qing court has sent Feng Zicai to lead the army to rescue Zhumadian, should we be prepared?" The first time Lu Qingtian, the deputy general who had just retired from the front line, saw Guo Potian and talked about Feng Zicai's reinforcements.

"No, let's kill one by one, come to kill two and kill a pair, we haven't gone to find them yet, but they sent them to the door by themselves, Qingtian, there's nothing to worry about, when they arrive, they will have a pot of stew with the Qing army in Zhumadian." Guo Potian didn't care at all.

"Big brother, it's better to be careful. I heard that this Feng Zicai is quite resourceful and difficult to deal with. Lu Qingtian seemed to have heard of Feng Zicai's name, and he didn't dare to take it lightly.

"Don't worry, it's all false, in my opinion, this Feng Zicai is also a false name, in fact, it is also an embroidered pillow, which is useless." Guo Potian didn't take Feng Zicai in his eyes.

"Big brother, it's better to be careful." Lu Qingtian is quite sober.

"Optimus, this battle is more and more won. But your courage is getting smaller and smaller. What do you ask me to say about you. Guo Potian said angrily, he felt that his brother was a little too careful.

"Brother Guo, the more this is the case, the more we need to be calm." Lu Qingtian said.

"Calm down, huh. I know that. But that depends on who it's for. Feng Zicai, I don't think it's necessary, isn't he our defeated general? Guo Potian said triumphantly.

Guo Potian was referring to the robbery of Feng Zicai's grain and grass.

"Big brother. The last incident was not Feng Zicai's fault, and that one thing alone does not mean that Feng Zicai is useless. Lu Qingtian also argued with Guo Potian, he didn't want Guo Potian to make such a low-level mistake.

"Okay, Qingtian, don't be ambitious, you still have to organize the attacking army well, once you finish resting, immediately arrange another attack, we must take Zhumadian within three days." Guo Potian was thinking about Zhumadian.

"But, big brother..."Lu Qingtian was still not very worried about Feng Zicai's matter.

"Okay, where are there so many things, Feng Zicai's matter, you don't have to worry, I will think about it, you just need to do your own thing and take Zhumadian down as soon as possible." Guo Potian didn't want to discuss Feng Zicai's matter with Lu Qingtian anymore.

"Yes, big brother." Lu Qingtian saw that Guo Potian was already very impatient, so he could only sigh secretly in his heart, and went out to prepare for rest and the siege of the city later.

"Remember, we must take Zhumadian as soon as possible at all costs." Lu Qingtian had just walked to the door, and Guo Potian's voice came from behind him.

"Rest assured, the eldest brother will live up to his mission." Lu Qingtian didn't look back and didn't go back to the tunnel.

After Guo Potian heard this, he nodded with a smile, and seemed to be very satisfied with Lu Qingtian's answer.

"By the way, big brother, I still have something to tell you." Half of Lu Qingtian's body had already left the camp, but he seemed to remember something particularly important, and turned around and said to Guo Potian.

"What?" Guo Potian said.

"Big brother, although the day of breaking the city is just around the corner, but we also have heavy losses, if we continue like this, after the city is broken, we will not be able to advance further, and it has become a big problem to guard against the counterattack of the Qing army, so do we need to ask Marshal Huang for help, and please make a decision as soon as possible." What Lu Qingtian said is indeed important.

"I already know about this, let me think about it again." Guo Potian listened to Lu Qingtian's words, frowned, and did not make a decision immediately.

"Yes, my little brother is retiring." Seeing that everything that should be said was said, Lu Qingtian retreated and began to arrange the next round of siege.

Guo Potian thought deeply about what Lu Qingtian said, according to the current situation, they could no longer delay, he had to ask for help immediately, otherwise, even if Zhumadian was captured, once the Qing army counterattacked, they would not be able to hold it. However, he also has his own little Jiujiu, that is, he wants to ask Huang Xu for help after capturing Zhumadian, because at that time, he can overpower Huang Xu according to the power of holding the three cities, maybe the king of heaven is happy, and it is possible to give himself the position of marshal alone, and there is no need to share power with Huang Shuai as he is now. This kind of temptation of power is too big for Guo Potian, so he must cheer himself up, and he will resist whatever he says until he takes down Zhumadian.

This is also weishenme, the order he gave to Lu Qingtian just now is to take Zhumadian at all costs.

After Lu Qingtian left, Guo Potian suddenly felt a wave of tiredness, he felt very tired, yes, since he divided his troops with Huang Xu, the army he led has been non-stop, all the way down Wuchang, Xinyang Erfu, and now Zhumadian is just around the corner, to be able to achieve such brilliant results in such a short period of time, he did not expect, and he is also proud, but this does not mean that he and his army are iron, they are also flesh and blood, after continuous marching and fighting, Fatigue gradually became the biggest enemy of their advance, and for every three people lost by the Taiping army, one of them was due to excessive fatigue.

Unconsciously, Guo Potian fell asleep.

Guo Potian slept soundly this night. He hadn't slept like this in a long time, and if someone hadn't woken him up halfway through, he might have slept better.

"General, it's no good, the Qing army is coming into the camp." This was the first sentence Guo Potian heard after being awakened.

"What, what do you say, you say it again." Guo Potian lifted the little colonel who reported the news in front of him and said eagerly. It seems that Guo Potian panicked.

"General, General. The Qing army came to rob the camp. The soldier shuddered.

"How can it be justified? Where is General Lu? Guo Potian heard that the Qing army had robbed the camp, and said angrily.

"General Lu has led people to resist the Qing army who robbed the camp, and he ordered the villain to come and inform the general." Although the little colonel's face was full of horror, he still made things clear.

"Go back and tell you generals. Let him resist me. General Ben will come later. Guo Potian let go of the school. patted him on the shoulder and comforted.

The little school gave Guo Potian such a shot, and he was a little flattered. hurriedly flew as if to repay Lu Qingtian.

As soon as the little colonel left, Guo Potian kicked a chair in front of him with his hind foot, he was very angry in his heart, he felt that this Feng Zicai was also a little bolder, and he dared to lead people to rob the camp, he would definitely not let him have a good time.

He immediately dressed up neatly, called his personal guards, and killed him in the direction of the Qing army who robbed the camp.

When Guo Potian arrived, the battle was nearing the end, and Lu Qingtian was leading his army to encircle and suppress some Qing troops who had not yet arrived and had withdrawn, and it seemed that the Qing troops in the brigade had been safely evacuated.

When Lu Qingtian saw Guo Potian coming, he handed over the task of chasing and suppressing to his generals, and he greeted Guo Potian himself.

"Big brother, the Qing army has retreated." Lu Qingtian hugged Guo Potian with his fist.

"Dynaria, what's going on?" Guo Potian said coldly, and he could hear that he was very unhappy.

"Big brother, the Qing army took advantage of our unpreparedness and came to rob the camp, but fortunately, we found it early, and the loss of personnel was not too big." Lu Qingtian heard the unhappiness in Guo Potian's words.

Lu Qingtian can understand Guo Potian's mood, who will be happy when he encounters such a thing, it is himself, when he first heard the news, he was also angry.

"Qingtian, how did you do it, so careless." Guo Potian blamed.

"Yes, the eldest brother blames the younger brother for not doing his job well and being taken advantage of by the Qing army." Lu Qingtian admitted his mistake.

Frankly speaking, Lu Qingtian can't be blamed for this, the army attacking Zhumadian just withdrew last night, and the men and horses were too sleepy, which gave the Qing army an opportunity to take advantage of.

"The more times like this, the more you can't relax, how did I teach you before." Guo Potian's voice gradually became louder.

Guo Potian is also a little strong, Lu Qingtian has reminded him that he wants him to guard against the Qing army, but he doesn't think so, now that something has happened, he comes to blame Lu Qingtian, it's really a bit unreasonable, but, then again, who made him the chief general of the Taiping Army, Lu Qingtian can only suffer dumb losses, fortunately, this doesn't matter to Lu Qingtian, anyway, he has eaten enough of such a dumb person, and he is used to it, so he didn't take it seriously.

"Yes, yes, big brother, little brother knows wrong." Lu Qingtian vigorously admitted his mistake.

"How many people have been lost?" Guo Potian glanced at Lu Qingtian and asked again.

"More than 280 were damaged, and more than 150 were injured." Lu Qingtian said.

"So much! You also said that the losses were not significant. Guo Potian shouted.

"Yes, yes, it's because what the little brother just said is not precise enough." Lu Qingtian knew his eldest brother's character too well, and he could only follow him.

"What about the casualties of the Qing army?" Guo Potian asked again.

"More than 360 people were wounded, all of them did not escape, they have basically been captured alive by us, the specific number of wounded soldiers who escaped is unknown, and the number of people killed by us should be more than 400." Lu Qingtian said truthfully.

"In this way, the loss you said is not big, and it is also desirable, and the Qing army can be regarded as stealing chickens this time, and they will not lose a handful of rice, see if they dare to come to rob the camp next time" When Guo Potian heard about the losses of the Qing army, he groaned slightly, and his face began to ease.

Moreover, listening to the meaning of his words, he seemed to feel that his attitude towards Lu Qingtian just now was a little too arbitrary.

"Big brother Mingjian." Lu Qingtian knew that this would be the result.

"Alright, you can take me to see the wounded soldier." Guo Potian said.

"Yes." Lu Qingtian said.

Condolences to the wounded soldiers and kindness to the dead soldiers, Guo Potian can sit in today's position, and it is not useless. (To be continued......)