XVIII. Breaking the Camp Again (1)
History has quietly changed at this time, in the original history, the south of the Huai River, the whole territory of Jiangxi, west to Wuchang, east to Shanghai in the southeast half of the country all owned by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, since the city of Wuchang was captured by the Taiping army for the third time, a down-and-out literati in Xuzhou, Henan Province wrote in his diary in horror: "Now the rebellion is rampant, flooding the southeast, looking at the Central Plains, claws to explore Wuchang, I am afraid that it is a northern and southern dynasty again." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
And now, through the defense of Wuchang, a lot of elite soldiers have been trained, as well as the rise of many regimental exercises, and the monk king quickly solved the team of the Northern Expedition, Zeng Guofan and others took advantage of the Tianjing incident to counterattack in one fell swoop, attacking Wuhu County day and night, Wuhu was in a hurry several times, fortunately, the Taiping army guarding Wuhu was the deployment left by Shi Dakai, and Chen Yucheng of Moling Pass came to support, which was able to maintain an invincible and undefeated situation; Li Hongzhang's headquarters in the north is close to Wuyi Lane, only sixty miles away from Jiangpu, the gateway of Jiangning in the north of the Yangtze River; Zuo Zongtang went to Zhejiang, reorganized his troops and horses, and was ready to go north to support the Jiangnan camp at any time.
"Now the country is in difficulty, Yucheng," in the Taiping Army camp in Danyang, a man in his thirties with majestic and heroic hair slowly opened his mouth and said to Chen Yucheng, who was sitting opposite him, and set the tone, "That old boy of Zeng Guofan in the west, if the two of us don't go, I'm afraid that the brothers over there won't be able to resist," the tone was full of contempt for Zeng Guofan, "But right now, in the camp of Jiangnan and Jiangbei, one is threatening the grain road, and the other is eyeing Tianjing City day and night, and we must solve these two things and then turn around and go to the west to solve them!" ”
"Exactly," Chen Yucheng nodded at the best friend in front of him, "The King of Heaven has entrusted us with a heavy task, only asking us to fight bravely to kill the enemy, and we must also think about how to do it, but there is one point, such as the storm in the capital today, the Wing King is leaving, which greatly hurts the hearts of the army, and even the King of Heaven regrets it." The two of them said in private, and some words were said naturally without any fear, "I also suffered from a head wind because of this, and I gave us power." But if Tianjing City is besieged by Qing demons again like before, hehe, now Chaoli is not a good person! "In the city, the king's favored servant Meng Deen is in charge of the government, and this man is not a good bird.
"It's always better to solve one of these first!" Chen Yucheng said, and spread out the map with Li Xiucheng. Li Xiucheng took a few closer looks, "Let's go north first, what we want is to fight down, not to be entangled with the Qing Demon, I see that Zhang Guoliang in the Qing Demon Camp in the south is really a fierce general, if he is entangled with him for a few days, I am afraid that there will be trouble again, and the Jiangbei camp is related to the grain road of Tianjing, the grain road is preserved, and Tianjing City is a male city." Even if it's around for a year and a half, it doesn't matter! ”
"Just listen to my brother," after discussing the military, the two talked about other gossip, talking about the changes in Tianjing City, Li Xiucheng was stunned, "I don't know what happened to this Heavenly King, although the two brothers were cut off from the king, they still controlled the government, and there were incompetent people like Meng Deen, and the situation in the heavenly kingdom was getting worse and worse." ”
"My brother is too worried. As long as we win a few battles and sweep away the army of the demons, the Heavenly King will naturally be encouraged, which will naturally benefit the government. "Chen Yucheng doesn't care much about these things. He always believes that as a general, as long as he fights a good battle, he doesn't need to worry too much about these political affairs.
"That's what you said, then is this Yangzhou your brother going, or am I going?" Li Xiucheng pressed this topic and did not mention it. Instead, he asked.
"Listen to my brother."
"Well, then I'll go to Yangzhou, you were originally a subordinate of the Wing King, and it is naturally more convenient to command the old department, so Wuhu will be handed over to you." Li Xiucheng thought for a while and arranged the task, "I was originally the old department of the East King, if the army is pulled out near Tianjing, I am afraid that the head wind of the King of Heaven will be more serious," Li Xiucheng smiled bitterly, and he had to avoid suspicion, "Brother, you go to Wuhu Town to guard first, and when I solve the Jiangbei camp, I will come west to help you clear southern Anhui!" Li Xiucheng narrowed his eyes, and the intention of killing was faintly revealed, "When the west is calmer, let's free up our hands to have a good time Zhang Guoliang!" ”
"Yes!" Chen Yucheng stood up, clasped his fists and saluted, the meaning of this salute is not because Chen Yucheng's official position is smaller than Li Xiucheng, but Chen Yucheng admires Li Xiucheng's strategic vision very much, and can find the enemy's weakness in the subtleties, so as to attack it in one fell swoop, he only needs to move forward bravely, after Chen Yucheng saluted, he went out of the tent to rectify the soldiers and horses of the headquarters.
"Send an order to Li Shixian in Tianjing City, I want him to keep an eye on the Qing demons in the Jiangnan camp, so as not to make trouble in Jiangbei for me!" Li Xiucheng instructed the heralds, "Let's cross the river and go north, go to Liuhe first!" ”
"Yes!"
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The ninth day of the first month of the sixth year of Xianfeng is a weather after a heavy snowfall, Xingzhen listened to the emperor's dictation in the Qinzheng Palace, and then copied Zhu Pi, the room of the earth dragon in the hall is warm like spring, there is a pot of spring orchids cultivated by the flower room on the side of the incense burner, the flower color is pure white, there is a state of Lingbo, the emperor looked at the orchid a few times, stopped what he said, "This orchid blooms well, the flower room is very careful." ”
"Yes, the people underground know that the emperor likes orchids, how can they not serve them carefully," Xingzhen said casually, and picked up another fold, "Now that this hair has eased down, it seems that he is going to fight again, this He Guiqing's fold, how do you want to deal with him, the emperor?" After Lu Jianying's death, He Guiqing, the governor of Zhejiang, succeeded him as the minister of Qincha, and was actually appointed as the governor of Liangjiang to supervise the military affairs of Jiangnan and Jiangbei.
The emperor frowned slightly, Da Zhengyue, he really didn't want to mention these troubles, "It's just to ask me to give more grain, grass and silver salary, besides that, what else can I do, Empress, tell me what you mean." ”
"Yes, this rebellion actually abandoned Wuhu and wanted to drive Zhang Guoliang first, it can be seen that Hong Xiuquan in Jiangning City has been frightened by the heavenly might of the emperor's army," Xingzhen first praised the emperor, and the emperor smiled proudly, "After relieving the siege of Jurong, he crossed the river several times and cleared the periphery of Jiangning City, it seems that in the next step, the camp in Jiangnan and Jiangbei will be in danger again." ”
"The fish bones are in the throat, don't vomit or be unhappy, these two big camps of the emperor are really uncomfortable for Hong Xiuquan, this fish bone can't be pulled out, I'm afraid Hong Xiuquan can't sleep well at night."
"Queen, what you said is very true, but the two camps have just been broken before, and Lu Jianying and Xiang Rong have died in battle because of this, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold it this time!" Emperor Xianfeng said worriedly. (To be continued.) )
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