19. Hiding from the sky and crossing the sea (4)
Rong Lu slowly rode into the Moling Pass, the previous troops had cut off the wounded soldiers of the Taiping Army who fell on the edge of the gate, and the blood flowed all over the ground, but Rong Lu was no longer the young master of the Eight Banners of the capital who saw the corpse with a tight throat before, and he was accustomed to killing, Rong Lu slowly looked around, the pass was in a mess, the streets were scattered with flags, knives and guns, these things, the apricot petals were blown off by the wind, some floated into a pool of blood, the pink trembling apricot petals were sprinkled in the dark red pool of blood, some bewitching and beautiful, There were still some sporadic gunshots in the depths of the alley, Rong Lu was silent, just sat on his war horse and waited for the subordinates who swept the pass to return, the horse under his crotch was a little impatient to smell the smell of blood and gunpowder, and the mixed smell of some floral fragrance, shook his head, and sneezed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Deshan came to report, "Lord Commander, the rebellious commander who guarded Moling Pass was caught by us, and he drank and fell to the ground in a house, and now he just woke up, crying and begging for mercy." ”
"Cut," Rong Lu said lightly, pulling the reins of his horse through the messy Moling Pass, "what's the use of this waste?" It's also embarrassing to bring it back, and the head is hung under the apricot blossom tree outside, and the pass is burned for me. ”
"Wow!"
Zeng Guofan sat gloomily in the cabin, this battle was still lost in the end, the Wuhu camp that had been operating for half a year was destroyed, the last time the emperor did not care about the defeat at Hukou, and gave himself the real shortage of the governor of Jiangxi.
Hu Linyi entered the cabin, and when he saw Zeng Guofan so low, he couldn't help but open his mouth to comfort: "Disheng, there is no need to be like this, this is just the destruction of the big camp and the loss of some baggage, our children are all good, Lao Jiu's cavalry is still there, you are now the governor of Jiangxi, this grain, grass and silver salary will be lost." You can raise it back at any time. ”
"Hey, I can only think like this, Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng are indeed our great enemies, and these two people will not be eliminated. I'm afraid that there is no intention of calming down the rebellion," Zeng Guofan nodded, "What's even more frightening is the age of the two of them, Runzhi, that four-eyed dog is only in his twenties!" ”
"Exactly." Hu Linyi nodded, "Right now, the Jiangbei camp has been broken, in the Jiangbei area, except for Li Hongzhang, the monk king is clearing the river Huai, I heard that the letter from the capital, the military plane means to let the monk king or Shengbao go north to Shandong, and after preparing for the flood, we must prevent the people's rebellion, even if the two kings of the northeast are killed and Shi Dakai escapes, but our encirclement is still not successful!"
"Exactly, this Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng are in one place, and they are eyeing Wuhu County, and I am now deadlocked in the water division, but the two of them still want to go west for the third time, and they are eyeing Jiangxi, Anhui and even the two lakes. It's not a problem for the old man to shrink on the boat," Zeng Guofan said distressedly, and he didn't even care about saying that he was "shrinking", "I have to go ashore to fight," Zeng Guofan thought of one thing, and the disturbance was even better, "This Ronglu's musket team doesn't know where to go, and the scouts went to investigate Tu, but they couldn't find out about him." It's really annoying. ”
"Brother Zeng, don't worry, Rong Lu is light and simple, and the troops are fast, and twenty percent are here. There are no outstanding leaders in the left near Fa Rebellion, and they are naturally fearless. ”
"Runzhi, what you said is very true, just speaking of this," Zeng Guofan was a little excited, "Brother Wei looks at the arrogance of rebellion in recent years, since Jiangning City has rebelled against the inner bar. Died the two kings of the Northeast, that Hong Xiuquan was suspicious of Shi Dakai, and forced the prestige of the Wing King, who was quite skilled in military affairs, to go south, the emperor once issued an order to me, asking me to surrender this person, not to mention that Shi Da was happy and arrogant, and it was impossible to bow down to my defeated general, since he led the army south to Zhejiang, and then went to Fujian, the old man knew that this person could not make any big waves, he had no fixed place, but he had no clear goal, and he would inevitably perish," Zeng Guofan turned his words, "But this is not something to say for my brother, Runzhi, have you found that in this rebel army, except for Ercheng, there don't seem to be any capable talents? ”
Hu Linyi thought slightly, and couldn't help nodding yes, "Yes, what the big man said is very true, when Chen Yucheng was in Wuhu, the big handsome made very slow progress," the two had a very good relationship, and they were not afraid to speak at all, "Then Li Xiucheng was surrounded by Zhang Guoliang in the small city of Jintan, and it was originally a stalemate, but as soon as Chen Yucheng arrived, the two converged, and then broke Zhang Guoliang's department, and then the east and west, the Jiangbei camp died, and the fleeing escaped, there is no green camp north of Jiangning, and now it is coming west to conquer us, which can be seen that this is rebellious, There are no generals who can come to the stage! ”
Li Zicheng was defeated by the capture of Beijing, and it was blindness and decay that defeated him. Hong Xiuquan set the capital of Nanjing, and he was still blind and rotten when he was defeated. The wise and wise king of heaven has been reduced to a godly pervert, who spends his days with the vanity of God and the beauty of ecstasy; The brothers of Jinlan fought for power and profit, and for the sake of the indefinite glory and wealth, it eventually evolved into the "Heavenly Incident". The death of high-ranking generals such as Yang Xiuqing, the cornerstone of the Heavenly Kingdom, Wei Changhui, the king of the North, and Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, and the departure of Shi Dakai, the king of Ji. So far, the five kings of Shouyi have died and left. At this time, the kingdom of heaven is like a person whose hands have been chopped off, although his footsteps are still slowly moving in, but he is already powerless, not to mention that the severed hands are still bleeding, and it urgently needs someone to come out to help it plug the wound, so that the blood will not dry up so quickly, and it will die so quickly. At this time, a pair of young people from Teng County came out at the right time, not only blocked the blood spray from the wound, but also led the person with the severed hand to resist and walked through the last seven or eight years of his life. They are the dazzling "twin stars" Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng in the late Heavenly Kingdom.
In the battle to defend Tianjing, one took the overall situation into account and the region, and the other was invincible in a roundabout way. When they defeated the main force of the Qing army, Dexing, in the southeast of Chuzhou, they attacked Pukou and destroyed the camp in Jiangbei, and the Qing army was annihilated more than 10,000 people, and General Jiangning died in the Shifo Temple. Subsequently, he took advantage of the victory and divided his troops to sweep the battlefield in northern Jiangsu, clearing troops from all directions, and Li Hongzhang was trapped in Chuzhou and did not dare to go out of the city. This series of victories not only made Li Chenwei famous, and the Taiping army regained the military spirit that it had once lost, but more importantly, it destroyed the Jiangbei camp, relieved the enemy's threat of cutting off Tianjing's supply, and alleviated the Tianjing crisis, so that the passive situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after the Tianjing Incident and Shi Dakai's departure began to reverse, and the strategic deployment also changed from defense to attack. In the battle of Wuhu, 6,000 people of the enemy Li Xubin and Zeng Guohua were annihilated, the siege of Wuhu was relieved, and more than 60 military camps were cleared. (To be continued.) )