"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it! Although the two camps in the south and north of the Yangtze River are not subordinate to each other, they are dependent on each other after all, and if they are broken again, I am afraid that the situation in southern Jiangsu will be ugly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Xingzhen said categorically, "The concubine thinks that it is enough to let them hold the camp, and there is no need to go out of the camp to face the reconquest at the moment, you must know that the fist is the most terrifying before it is hit, because before it is hit, you never know how heavy the fist should be." ”

"Attacking in the west and defending in the east, this is the current policy, what does the emperor think?"

Emperor Xianfeng nodded, "What you said is very true, then order He Guiqing, He Chun, Xianghou, and Zhang Guoliang to guard the city, and send it to the Military Aircraft Department like this, and ask the Military Aircraft Department to draw up an order." ”

"Yes," Xingzhen meekly obeyed the emperor's wishes, and wrote a line of small characters with a blood-red red pen on the fold, and now the emperor is becoming more and more lazy, except for a few people in the military aircraft department and Su Shun, the six ministers of the Jiuqing family and noble ministers are rare to declare, in addition to the military in the south, political affairs are rarely taken care of, just perfunctory Xingzhen wrote "know", "according to the proposal" or "handed over to the ministry to play" such ambiguous words do not need to bother to give a decision, only the military and the military aircraft and the queen will discuss, Every day, I just listen to the play in the garden, or hang out with the concubines.

After taking care of the political affairs, Xingzhen talked to the emperor again, talking about the concubines, Xingzhen smiled and said: "When I got up this morning, Yuchang sent someone to me to say that she was not feeling good and wanted to invite a doctor, and the concubine had already asked the doctor to go to her to take a look." ”

"What's wrong with her, what's wrong?" Emperor Xianfeng said lazily.

"It's said that my heart is a little stuffy, and the little eunuch should come to report the news, so it must be no big deal." Xingzhen said, helped collect the excerpts of the chapter, and asked the little eunuch to take it out and return it to the military aircraft department, "Is the emperor going to call it today?" ”

"Don't call it, it's not a big deal at the moment, let the people in the military aircraft department take care of it, and they will break it. Just look at the excerpts. Emperor Xianfeng said, "This winter is not too cold, presumably the spring color in the garden must be excellent, and I will take you to Wanchun Garden and Qingyi Garden to visit at that time." The willow trees and peach blossoms over there are better than those in this garden. ”

"Yes."

The two talked a few words, and the little eunuch stumbled in, and hurriedly kowtowed, "Congratulations, congratulations, long live!" ”

"Panicked. What's the joy? The emperor frowned on the kang, Ruyi's voice was a little harsh, he took out a jade snuff box, put it in the sunlight and shone it, the blue color was very transparent. Xingzhen also looked at Ruyi.

Ruyi raised her head and glanced at the queen, then lowered her head again, her voice was full of joy, "The imperial doctor said, the imperial doctor said." Yuchang has been in his body for three months! ”

"What? But is it true? The emperor was overjoyed, threw it in the snuffbox, and asked repeatedly.

"The Tai Doctor who originally asked for the pulse was not sure, and he specially invited the Tai Hospital to ask for the pulse, so it was decided, and there must be nothing wrong with it."

"Good, good." Xianfeng stroked his palms and laughed, and Xingzhen also hurriedly congratulated the emperor, "Since you and Concubine Li, no one in the Six Palaces has been pregnant, and now Yuchang is still blessed!" Emperor Xianfeng said to Xingzhen. His eyebrows twitched, and he looked very happy.

"Yes, Yuchang now has a body, which shows that he is blessed. The concubines will ask someone to take good care of Yuchang's fetus, and the emperor doesn't have to worry. Xingzhen also smiled happily on her face, without the slightest hint of sourness.

"There's a queen here, and there's someone I'm worried about, go, queen. Follow me to see if Jade is always there. ”

"Yes." Xingzhen was held by the emperor and meekly walked out of the Qinzheng Palace.

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On the 19th day of the first month of the sixth year of Xianfeng, Li Xiucheng's troops crossed the river and arrived in Liuhe, making a posture of intending to go north to attack the Qing army stationed in Zhenjiang, after the Tianjing Incident last year, Zhenjiang and Guazhou in Jiangbei were lost one after another, and the Qing army of the Jiangnan camp entered the Tianjing Gaoqiao Gate and the dragon's neck, and entered the Moling Pass, and the Jiangbei camp was to clear Zhenjiang and other places, and moved to Jiangpu and Pukou on the other side of Jiangning, and joined the Jiangnan camp to narrow the encirclement of Tianjing.

At this time, the Jiangbei camp happened to be rebuilt, the soldiers were wide, the material was abundant, the commander Dexing A had more than 15,000 soldiers, focusing on the steep gang, Anding Bridge and Xiaodian between Pukou and Jiangpu, and was stationed in the west to Jiangpu Shijiqiao, Gaowang, east to Guazhou, Sancha River, north to Lai'an, Shiguanji's vast area, stretching for more than 200 miles; In the Yangtze River, there are sailors patrolling boats cruising back and forth, responding with resources, and the momentum is huge. Dexing'a even proudly played to Emperor Xianfeng: "The horses and infantry of all roads are brave, more or less, choose to distribute, if there is a police, they will bravely step forward, and if there are many thieves, they will be added; Xianghou's army is stationed in the Stone Buddha Temple, no matter where it is urgent, it can be dealt with. ”

Speaking of it, it was seamless, Li Xiucheng sneered, and the subordinates in the tent were unknown, "The Qing demon is really stupid, if 15,000 people choose a critical place to defend it, my more than 10,000 men and horses will definitely not be able to attack, but now this Dexinga thinks very highly of himself, and thinks that he is sure of both offense and defense, but he doesn't know that now that he is scattered and deployed, it just gives us the opportunity to break through!" Li Xiucheng coldly ordered: "Immediately send an order to the Navy Division, first seize the Jiufu Continent between Tianjing and Pukou, and ask Xue Manzi's department to enter Wuyi Town, press to the south, and the commander will lead the headquarters by himself, and go to Sanchahe and Dexing A to meet him for a while!" ”

"But what if Li Hongzhang, who was in Chuzhou, led the army south to help? His musket is powerful, I'm afraid Xue Manzi can't resist it. "One of the generals raised his concerns.

"It's okay, Li Hongzhang won't go south, I look at his style of marching out of the army, he has never sought merit, but he has no fault for his cautious meaning, after returning from the Western Expedition, Li Hongzhang will shrink to the Luzhou Mansion and not come out, until after February of the old year, "that is, after the Tianjing Incident," this is pouring out of the nest, following the old thief of Zeng Guofan to pick up cheap, and now the situation in Jiangnan has become a pot of porridge, he Li Hongzhang does not dare to come to the fire, and if he really dares to go south, by that time, I am afraid I would have solved the camp in Jiangbei long ago, Turn the horse's head and come to deal with him! ”

On the third day of the first month of February, Dexing'a forgot the emperor's will to "stick to the top", sent troops to attack Wuyi Lane from Xiaodian, and fought with Xue Manzi for three days, Xue Manzi's Taiping army rose up to meet the battle, defeated the Qing army, and annihilated three or four thousand enemies.

On the seventh day of the first month of February, it was a clear day, two lazy scouts huddled behind the camp gate and basked in the sun, and an older scout stretched his waist, "We are not bad today, but we are very idle." (To be continued.) )