Peng Yulin and the others guessed again and again and couldn't understand why the king of the West wanted to let go of his own people, and finally Peng Yulin clasped his fingers on the table and said: "Don't guess anymore, I'll discuss whether to go or not to go first." ”

Yu Wanqing hurriedly said: "Of course it's gone, there is a long-haired hard village blocking the way, we have a sunrise team to attack, their artillery, muskets are sharp, there are many mines in front of the village, there are no breakthroughs at all, and if you can't beat the current hard village, you can't go to Guilin Mansion to relieve the siege, since you can't break the siege and our army is in danger of annihilation, of course, it's the best policy to go as soon as possible." ”

Li Mengqun sneered and said: "Old General Yu really can't wait to leave as soon as he talks about leaving, and sure enough, he still has the demeanor of retreating fifty miles a day when he saw the long-haired banner!" ”

Yu Wanqing blushed, when he was admiring Hunan, he had gathered troops under the command of Sai Shang Ah to fight with the Taiping Army in Quanzhou and other places, but he was defeated in successive battles, and the last time he saw the banner of the Taiping Army, he was so frightened that he retreated fifty miles, and he was cited as a laughing stock, and at this moment he was turned out by Li Mengqun and said that of course he was annoyed and angry, and said loudly: "At this moment, the time and place are not in me, the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, and he will save his troops when he goes, and he will be able to deal with Changmao in the future, do you have the ability to lay down the long-haired hard village in front of you to rescue Guilin?!" ”

Li Mengqun snorted, ignored him, just turned his head to Peng Yulin and said: "Xue Shuai, my subordinates still feel that there is fraud in this, and there must be demons when things go wrong. ”

After pondering for a moment, Peng Yulin looked at Li De'an, who was still standing under him in the tent, and asked, "Li Shenrong." How did you get captured by the long hair? Have you ever witnessed the inside of Long Hair after being executed? What is the morale of the long-haired soldiers? ”

Li De'an hurriedly said: "Back to Xue Shuai, my subordinates led a personal guard team to guard Li Shuai's side that day, because our army's artillery array was destroyed in many places. The only remaining mountain splitting cannon could not stop the long hair, the long hair broke into the town in multiple ways, the soldiers fought separately, almost did not form an army, and when it was dawn, only we were left to protect Li Shuai trapped in the Huguang Hall in Xing'an Town. Later, Longhair blew up many walls of the guild hall with gunpowder and burst into the guild hall. We waited and fought and retreated, and in the end, there were only dozens of people left to protect Li Shuai in the lobby of the hall, and finally Li Shuai saw that the hair was strong. He ordered me to wait for the equipment to save my life, so I was captured by Longhair. It's not that we don't want to fight to the death, but because Li Shuai has a life, so I ......"

Peng Yulin waved his hand. He knew that Li De'an's remarks must be to shift the responsibility to Li Chong. Otherwise, his guilt would be even heavier, and he asked at the moment: "Then what about Li Shuairen and others after you are captured?" ”

Li De'an bowed his head with a look of shame and said: "After more than ten generals and officials were captured, they were separated and detained, and after my subordinates were sent to Guilin Mansion by water, I saw the long-haired Chen Yucheng, and he asked me to send a letter to Xue Shuai. Until the subordinates left the long-haired camp, they never saw Li Shuai and them again, but the subordinates also asked the guards, and the long-haired soldiers on guard only said that Li Shuai and the others should have been sent to Jinling City to be taken prisoner. ”

Peng Yulin sighed lightly and said, "No matter how untrustworthy this Li Chong is, it's fine." can also be regarded as a member of the imperial court, how majestic the Zhenxiao soldiers were when they attacked Hengyang, broke Changsha, and saved Wuchang. Unexpectedly, in the end, the whole army was wiped out. Speaking of this, he paused and said, "Then when you came back, did you see the Guilin Mansion Chang Mao's situation?" ”

Li Dean said: "When my subordinates left Guilin Mansion, they had also seen the situation of Guilin Mansion from afar, and the long-haired entrenchment surrounded Guilin Mansion several times, with tens of thousands of soldiers, and occupied various key highlands to build hard villages, and even coerced no less than 100,000 young and strong people nearby, and surrounded Guilin Mansion impenetrable. At that time, the subordinates left during the day, and Changmao was shelling Guilin Mansion, which was really full of cannons, and the entire Guilin Mansion City was shrouded in thick smoke and dust, and the sound boom was several miles, and the whole picture of Guilin Mansion could not be seen at all. ”

Yu Wanqing frowned and said: "Xue Shuai, you see that Guilin Mansion Changmao is so powerful, I'm afraid that it won't last long, staying here is just to send 30,000 lives to Changmao, it is better to temporarily retire and leave a useful body, and then try to report to the court." ”

Li Mengqun didn't speak this time, although Li De'an's words may be exaggerated, but Lingchuan currently has a hard village formed by thousands of long-haired people blocking the road, and the number of artillery and muskets equipped with it is not comparable to all the firearms of his own people, according to the news sent back, Guilin Mansion is surrounded by the main force of long-haired soldiers and horses, and it is not surprising that it is naturally powerful.

Peng Yulin also said with some embarrassment: "The imperial court ordered us to rescue the Guilin Jiang Zhongyuan Department, if we retreat north, I am afraid that the imperial court will blame." ”

Yu Wanqing saw that Li Mengqun was silent, and hit the railway while it was hot: "Xue Shuai Mingjian, I waited for two soldiers and horses to come to the rescue, and now the rear team of Li Chongbu Zhenxiao and Xiangyong were annihilated, and the back road of our department was cut off, and they were besieged in Lingchuan by Changmao." At this time, Xue Shuai judged the situation, waved his troops to break through, and after several hard battles broke out of the encirclement of Long Hair, saving most of the soldiers and horses, and later found out that it was the poisonous plan of Long Hair to besiege the city to send reinforcements, but fortunately Xue Shuai saw through it early, otherwise 30,000 horses would be exhausted. In this way, I think that not only will we not be guilty, but maybe we will also be praised by the imperial court. ”

Li Mengqun and Li Dean glanced at each other, and they both felt that Yu Wanqing was worthy of being a veteran of escape, and even escaping could be said to be so righteous and awe-inspiring, and he was really an old treacherous and cunning person. But Li Mengqun still gritted his teeth and said: "But Xue Shuai, there is still a risk for the army to leave here and retreat north, if Changmao does not keep his word and really pursues us, I am afraid that we will also be in great trouble." ”

Li De'an hurriedly said: "Xue Shuai, this time it is the subordinate of the long-haired boss Chen Yucheng who has met in person, and there is also a letter from their western king, which shows that the long-haired man is still sincere." Although we can't understand the intention of Long Hair, if Long Hair wants to annihilate us, they only need to cut off our food channel, and wait for our army to run out of ammunition and food. ”

Peng Yulin pondered for a moment and said: "Although the long-haired four-eyed dog is vicious with soldiers and likes to kill them all, he is also a downright gentleman, and he has never used despicable fraud schemes. Speaking of this, he got up and said: "Okay, order the three armies to be fully equipped today, and lead troops back to the north tomorrow!" ”

Li Mengqun and the other three hurriedly shouted their orders, and then each of them retired and arranged, leaving Peng Yulin alone in the big tent looking at the map in the tent blankly, and muttered: "Minqiao Gong, Minqiao Gong, it's not that I don't want to save you, it's really impossible to do anything......

At the same time, dozens of miles away, at the gate of Dongzhen in Guilin Prefecture, Jiang Zhongyuan was dressed in a shabby military uniform, standing on it with a sword in his hand, staring at the Taiping army that was densely swarming not far away like a sculpture without moving.

Dongzhen Gate is the ancient city gate left in the Song Dynasty, and it is also one of the twelve city gates of the outer city of Guilin in the Ming Dynasty, also known as the South Peak of the Town, at the southeast foot of Tiefeng Mountain. Tiefeng Mountain dominates the north entrance of the city, constitutes a natural barrier, the iron seal is divided into two peaks in the east and west, the west peak is higher than the east peak, and it is saddle-shaped. There is a city wall at the cliff between the two peaks, which stretches south according to the situation, and leads directly to the east town gate. But now the iron seal mountain fell into the hands of the Taiping army, and the city wall between the east and west peaks was also conquered by the Taiping army this morning.

Jiang Zhongyuan's defense was not tight, but he never expected that the Taiping army would start from Dongzhenmen, which was the most difficult to attack, and the other gates were just feints. There were originally more than 1,000 soldiers sent by Jiang Zhongyuan to defend the Tiefeng Mountain, but yesterday it was foggy, and the Taiping Army actually took advantage of the situation to attack the mountain, and took the Tiefeng Mountain under the cover of artillery, and then attacked the city wall under the Tiefeng Mountain.

"Brother, retreat to the inner city, this place is about to be lost!" Jiang Zhongjun ran to the front with a bloody face and said loudly: "Long Mao is about to be killed, and the sons can't stop it." ”

Jiang Zhongyuan knew that this time it was not as good as in Zhaoqing Mansion, this time the Changmao encirclement was heavy, and the fortified entrenchments were widely spread, and it was impossible to break through at all, and the common people in the city were not the ones who defended themselves, and the people of Guangxi were fierce, and the Qing army collected food in the city in order to defend the city, and forcibly recruited strong men, if it were not for the strong suppression of the Qing army, I am afraid that it would have already been reversed, Jiang Zhongyuan believed that once the city was broken, the Qing army would not be able to fight street battles at all, and the people in the city were afraid that they would have to open the door to meet the Taiping army.

"The inner city? Can the outer city be broken and the inner city still be defended? Jiang Zhongyuan didn't look back, just said lightly, as if he had aged more than ten years overnight.

Jiang Zhongjun stomped his feet, ordered the guards to set up Jiang Zhongyuan and went down to the Dongzhen Gate, only to get down to the Dongzhen Gate, only to see a team of young men guarding the city open the Dongzhen Gate regardless of a qiē, and let the Taiping army outside the city enter the city.

Jiang Zhongjun was furious and led people to step forward to kill more than ten young men in the city one after another, but soon the Taiping army poured in like a tide, and Jiang Zhongjun had to lead people to escort Jiang Zhongyuan to retreat into the city, wanting to retreat into the inner city to continue to defend.

The inner city of Guilin is the Jingjiang Wangcheng, that is, the Jingjiang Palace, the Jingjiang Wangcheng was built in the Ming Hongwu five years, and ordinary people can not enter. The main buildings in the palace are constructed in strict accordance with the regulations made by the imperial court on the palace of the feudal princes, and are lined up along the central axis, with the front being the carrier gate, the middle being the carrier hall, the rear being the dormitory, and finally the imperial garden; The temple is built on the left, and the altar is built on the right, constituting a splendid and large-scale building complex. The circumference of the inner city wall is about 3 miles, 7.92 meters high, 5.5 meters thick, the inside and outside are built with giant square bluestone masonry, which is more solid than the outer city, and the inner city is guarded by thousands of Qing soldiers at this moment, as long as you escape into the inner city, you can still hold it for a few days.

Turning a few streets, there were shouts of killing everywhere, and the gunshots and fighting in front of them were becoming more and more intensive, and there were shells flying over the head from time to time.

Although the Tiefeng Mountain was lost yesterday, because the mountain was too high, the Taiping Army had not had time to transport the artillery up, and it was unthinkable that the Taiping Army should carry the artillery on the Tiefeng Mountain in just one day, so that the entire Guilin City was only afraid that it was covered by the Taiping Army's artillery, and even the inner city was no exception. (To be continued......)

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