As soon as the words fell, everyone sighed, and then there were many discussions, each other, and the voices were boiling, as if a pot had exploded on the battlefield.

"Quartermaster, it's 400 miles from Hezhou to Jingjiang City, and we have to walk for three days. From Jingjiang to Heyang, it is also more than 2,300 miles, and we will be tired to death. "The chief Xiong Wanmin came over with a few soldiers pushing the artillery.

"Twenty miles in an hour, six hours in a day, one hundred and twenty miles, three thousand six hundred miles in a month. From Jingjiang to Heyang Town, more than half a month is enough. Liu Yuntian said.

"One hour and twenty miles, you can walk for one hour, but six hours to maintain the same speed, basically impossible, right?" Xiong Wanmin raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically.

"Yes, yes. Which kobold military division was kicked in the brain by a donkey, and gave such a brainless military order! Zhang Weijun shouted, "I'm going to go, you're going to go." ”

"Captain Zhang, the military order is like a mountain, you have to go if you don't go." Zhu Rongchu said very seriously.

"It is more than 2,300 miles from Heyang Town to Kyoto, and it will take more than a month to walk, and when we get there, the daylily will be cool and cold, and a thousand people will fight against more than 10,000 eagles and French coalition forces, and there is a hair!" Zhang Weijun sat on the ground, his head tilted.

"There are so many troops in the north, do they eat dry food? They can't beat it, and we still lose if we go. Dai Da Niu pushed a shell into the barrel, "Anyway, we are all losing, I'm afraid of eggs, our weapons will not be much worse than those of the Fan Army." ”

"It's not a question of weaponry. Pushing artillery, food, etc., the speed is much slower. Especially the heavy artillery, which is still pulled by a horse-drawn carriage, and it is already very good to be able to walk twenty or thirty miles a day...... Anyway, within ten days, I won't be able to reach Heyang Town anyway. Zhang Weijun tossed the revolver aside.

"Captain Zhang, don't complain, if you complain too much, you will break your gut." Ran Jiufeng, who was in the army, carried the medicine box and stood in the crowd and said.

"Sister Jiufeng, I'm not complaining, this is simply impossible, knowing that it can't be done, why do we have to send thousands of miles of heads to cut down the army?" Zhang Weijun continued.

"Captain Zhang, what's so terrible about Fanjun, it's not like you have a head on your shoulders." Ran Jiufeng said with a smile, "Didn't you also cut off the heads of more than 200 Eagle Strike Li Shui Division Marine Corps soldiers in Panyu?" ”

"That's a sneak attack, it's incomparable." Zhang Weijun stood up, "Now the army is a large-scale attack, and we are running for a long distance, which is very difficult, it is even more difficult than climbing to the sky." ”

"By the way, Lord Zeng didn't send us an army, why should we listen to him?" Ran Jiufeng said.

"But Lord Zeng is the secretary of the military department." Hei Dashuai said.

"There will be soldiers. Lord Xi said that our Jingyi Battalion is his and General Gong's private army, and there is no need to invade Kyoto for an army and expose all of his family background. ”

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Gong Changyu pondered, what the soldiers said made sense, and the military orders under the Jingbei battalion were not appointed by the emperor, so they could be ignored completely. But this King of Beishan Qin is a chore, and if the soldiers of the Jingyi Battalion arrive in Kyoto, they are the pawns of the Qinghe Army, and they are put in front as cannon fodder, no, I have to go back to Jingjiang City to discuss this matter with Mr. Xi Qitian, and I have to think carefully about the thankless matter.

Everyone looked at the main general Gong Changyu and didn't speak, their brows were tightly locked, and they let them shout, knowing that they were bored, and the discussion gradually became quieter until the audience quieted down.

"Brothers, you followed me Gong Jichang, ran from Jingjiang City to Hezhou, suppressed bandits for many days, and now it seems that it is about to be completed, but the damn army is in the north, and the Beijing division is in a hurry, and we have to withdraw our troops. Although General Ben did not receive the holy decree, as a bloody soldier, he had to stand up bravely! Gong Changyu pulled out the Lock Dragon Divine Sword, stood on a ridge, and pointed straight to the blue sky, "Even if our Jingyi Battalion is going to Jingshi to fight soy sauce drops, we have to go to Jingshi for a while to meet those red-haired monsters and yellow-haired monsters, even if it is a bloody battle to the last drop of blood...... Those who offend my Chinese will be punished even if they are far away, kill all the troops, and raise the prestige of our country! ”

When the sergeants below saw Gong Changyu so impassioned, they clenched their fists one by one and shouted slogans: "Kill all the troops!" Raise the prestige of our country! ”

"Kill all the troops and raise the prestige of our country!"

The rousing shouts echoed through the valley for a long time. The blue wolf army on the top of the cottage saw from a distance that Gong Chang had ceased fire on their own, retreated for several miles, and did not come out to pursue, because they had already guessed that this Jingnan army with the blue flag was going to the battlefield of the Central Plains and fought against the army that invaded the Central Plains.

The leader of the Blue Wolf Army held a telescope and noticed that the troops of the Jingyi Battalion had withdrawn from their positions in an orderly manner, and they were very happy to open up to themselves. Just after Gong Chang met them and walked out of the valley, the leader ordered a few empty cannons to be fired to see off the departure of the Jingnan army. Later, when the desperate blue wolf army fought with Gong Chang again, as soon as the war began, all of them chose to surrender and joined the "Xi Family Army".

Gong Changyu took a thousand soldiers of the Jingyi Battalion to travel day and night, non-stop, spent two days, and at noon on the third day, miraculously appeared by the Jingjiang River.

At this time, Xi Qitian and more than 100 officials and squires from Jingjiang City had already greeted their arrival ten miles outside the city, and saluted with fists: "Everyone, I, Xi Qitian, have summoned you back from Hezhou, I'm really sorry." I have prepared the food and drink, and when I enter the city today, everyone will drink hard. ”

"Lord Xi, the military situation is urgent, we still won't enter the city, let's go north to Heyang Town." Gong Changyu hugged his fist.

"What kind of line is this, the soldiers are tired, the people are sleepy and tired, and if you don't eat this farewell banquet, isn't it sorry for the hearts of Jingjiang's fathers and villagers?" Xi Qitian climbed Gong Changyu's shoulder and said.

"Yes, we learned that the general was going to Jingbei camp, and specially raised silver taels, killed pigs and sheep, and rewarded the soldiers." A squire said.

"Sir is gracious. We waited for the pursuit of the blue wolf army to return in vain, and we deserved it. Gong Changyu returned the salute to the squire.

"General, you have the greatest credit for keeping one side safe." Squire said.

"Sir, we can't accept the people's invitations to eat at will, otherwise it will be a violation ......of military discipline," Gong Changyu still refused.

"General, this banquet was voluntarily paid for by us, so you might as well go to the city. Please—" said the squire.

"That general can't eat it. All right. Gong Changyu nodded slightly, and finally gave in.

As a result, the soldiers of the Jingjie battalion drove into Jingjiang City. After lunch, Mr. Xi Qitian told Gong Changyu that all the foreign artillery equipment was left in Jingjiang City, and everyone was lightly armed and rode to Heyang Town, Jingbei.

"My lord, we have about a thousand people, where are so many horses?" Gong Changyu asked.

"I've collected 800 horses from all over the world, plus the original 200, it's exactly 1,000." Xi Qitian said with a smile, "You can follow me to the north gate to have a look, and you will know." ”

"Really?" Gong Changyu rubbed his hands.

"Is this still fake? When did this official lie to you? Xi Qitian said.

"Brother Qitian, this time the army invaded the Jingshi, and there were so many people in Lord Zeng, why didn't he go?" Gong Changyu asked.

This is the genius of Zeng Fan. Think about it, Lord Zeng Fan took advantage of the loophole of the holy decree, went to the road, and asked Emperor Xiantong for instructions, did he want him to go or did Hu Linyi lead his army north? This fold has been going back and forth, and it will take more than a month to walk on the road, and by the time the emperor replies, the content is likely to become 'peace has been negotiated, there is no need to come' ......" Xi Qitian smiled.

"Oh, I see." Gong Changyu said with a forehead.

"A year ago, Prince Angge successfully used shore artillery at the mouth of Dagu to inflict heavy damage on the Yingfa coalition forces that had forcibly landed. This battle sank 4 enemy warships and killed more than 400 soldiers, which was very happy, so that Emperor Xiantong had confidence in the regular army, and did not immediately issue an edict to let King Qin immediately. However, the war soon got out of control, and the army attacked all the way to Weihai in Tianjin, and Emperor Xiantong panicked and hurriedly issued an edict to let Lord Zeng take the Jingnan army to King Qin. Xi Qitian smoked a pipe of hookah.

"If the Qinghe army is wiped out by the Fan army, the emperor is captured, and the Qinghe court falls, does Lord Zeng want to be the emperor?" Gong Changyu suddenly realized Zeng Fan's sinister intentions, the water of officialdom was too deep.

"Hey, where did you go, the Fan army invaded, they won't kill Emperor Xiantong, because it's very useful to keep him......" Xi Qitian smiled-

In fact, Zeng Guofan did not send troops, and he still had his own plans, the blue wolf army was still a big problem for the Qing and the country, if the Jingnan army rashly went north, the blue wolf army was very likely to counterattack the Jingbei camp.

Although the Jingnan Army is very strong, it is only relative to the Blue Wolf Army. If he encounters the Eagle Law Alliance, he will definitely not be able to take any advantage, Zeng Fan has no chance of winning in his heart, he is still a little afraid of the Fan Army, and he will fight his old book.

If the heart is not dark, the large army of Jingnan Army and all its branches will be exhausted in the process of bloody battle with the Fan army. At that time, Zeng Fan, a military department Shangshu, will not be a fart when he speaks in the imperial court, and those royal and aristocratic birds will not bird you! must leave a way for himself to live, even if he carries the infamy of supporting the army and self-respect, and risks being demoted, Zeng Fan will take risks.

After listening to Xi Qitian's analysis, Gong Changyu was not so anxious in his heart: "I finally know the reason why Lord Zeng Fan is so prosperous in the officialdom, because he has a strong private army loyal to him, and with strength, he can win the respect of others." I'm afraid that in a few years, there will be a situation of separating the feudal towns again. ”

"Brother Jichang, don't think so long-term. After a few years, you and I have long been wiped out, and the feudal towns will be divided by them. Xi Qitian pulled out his revolver and shot it at the crows flying in the sky, "Right now, Lord Zeng Fan asked you to report to Jingbei Camp, this trick is too damaging......"