"Knowing that the old man is a soldier of the fourth grade, he actually doesn't pay a lot of respects, how can such a person be mixed up in the green camp?" Zuo Zongtang walked down the city tower with disdain, ignoring the feather arrows flying overhead, and the Taiping army outside also began to attack the city, Zuo Zongtang glanced at Ambassador Zhu, who collapsed under the corner of the city wall, and opened his mouth to order his own soldiers, "Quickly send someone to the south to report the news, and go all the way to Hangzhou Mansion along the official road to report the news!" Immediately light up the beacon, hehe, I want to secretly attack Zhejiang by Chen Cang, and do my mother's dream! "In the end, there are still a few talents in Beijing, and the emperor actually made a will, let himself come to Deqing from the Yanzhou Mansion to garrison, and pay special attention to the people who come from the direction of Huzhou. Presumably it is about to take a bite on Hangzhou, and his Deqing County is just a rabbit with grass and a rabbit. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the fourth day of the fifth month of the seventh year of Xianfeng, Li Xiucheng risked to wear the Qing army uniform and tried to defraud into Deqing County, when he was already prepared by Zuo Zongtang, the two sides fought for half a day, Li Xiucheng bypassed Deqing County, and continued to rush towards Hangzhou, at this time Hangzhou had already received Zuo Zongtang's report, Zhejiang Governor Luo Zundian, Hangzhou General Ruichang had already reorganized the troops and horses, stationed in the city defense, although the various departments were afraid to avoid the war, in the end there were preparations, Li Xiucheng saw that the surprise attack could not be successful, and he could only fight steadily, while constantly attacking Wulin Gate and Qiantang Gate, Captured the Jade Emperor Mountain of Nanping Mountain and tightly surrounded the city of Hangzhou.

As usual in the siege of the city, Li Xiucheng commanded the Taiping army to dig tunnels under the Qijiayuan outside the Qingbo Gate, preparing to sneak under the city wall and stuff gunpowder to blow up the city. In order to attack the east and west, the Taiping army used coffins full of corpses excavated in various places to build countless camps in Mantou Mountain, among which only a few captured residents beat gongs and drums to attract the attention of the Qing army, causing the Qing army to waste a lot of artillery shells to bombard empty camps.

Li Xiucheng seized the time to command the Taiping army to attack the city. On the seventh day of the first month of May, the city wall around the Yellow Mudhole of Qingbomen was blown up, and more than 1,000 Taiping soldiers rushed in, and the Hangzhou general Ruichang desperately blocked it. Governor Luo Zundian, salt transport envoy Miao Zi, and Hangzhou prefect Ma Angxiao and dozens of other senior officials went to the city to personally throw stones to attack the enemy. The soldiers of the Taiping Army had to retreat, and Li Xiucheng turned around and conquered Xiaoshan County, Liangzhu Town and other nearby towns and counties to replenish the supply of grain and grass.

I heard that Hangzhou was almost captured. Emperor Xianfeng was extremely angry, and immediately issued an edict urging He Chun and Zhang Guoliang of the Jiangnan camp to send troops to rescue.

This time, he hit his own plan of "diverting the tiger from the mountain", after Li Xiucheng heard the news from the north. sneered slightly, even if he exposed his whereabouts in Zhejiang and did not capture Hangzhou City as he had planned before, but this plan of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" is a success now! Hechun Zhang Guoliang is about to divide his troops and go south..... Li Xiucheng ordered, "Pass on the king's general order." Leave a thousand people outside the city, and the rest will rush back to Tianjing with this king in the starry night! "After the victory in Tongling, Li Xiucheng has been named the king of loyalty, and Chen Yucheng has been named the king of England.

He Chun handed over the secret decree in his hand to Zhang Guoliang, silent, Zhang Guoliang finished reading the secret decree at a glance, overjoyed, and hurriedly patted his thigh, "This is indeed a good plan, we don't need to travel long distances to save Hangzhou." Just lure the enemy out and kill a horse gun, the emperor really understands the difficulties of our Jiangnan camp! ”

"Having said that......" He Chun no longer spoke, but if the pressure of staying behind was too great, if he couldn't resist it a few days ago, it would be a fake show, and the camp would be destroyed.

"We still need to think about it in the long run, besides, the governor in Changzhou, we haven't noticed it, and it doesn't follow the rules." He Chun put down the tea cup that he had been playing with for a long time. Set the tone.

Zhang Guoliang sneered in his heart, if he pretended to divide troops to rescue Hangzhou, it must be himself or another general soldier Zhang Yuliang who sent troops to rescue, and the commander of the Jiangnan battalion naturally could not be moved lightly. If he stayed in this camping in the south of the Yangtze River, and then faced the two blows of Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, he would not be apprehensive, it would be really hell.

Zhang Yuliang is Xiang Rong's old subordinate and a native of Sichuan, and he heard Hechun's perfunctory words. couldn't help jumping up, "Dashuai, this is an excellent strategy, our troops are not as good as the rebellion, so we have to carry out this strategy, if the imperial court has many troops and brave, why do you need to do this, the lower officials feel that the time cannot be lost, and the opportunity will not come again!" If you don't beat the pain and rebellion this time, how can you be worthy of the spirit of the handsome in the sky! ”

Hechun's face was a little gloomy, Zhang Guoliang saw Hechun's expression, and his heart was very happy, asking you to grab credit with Lao Tzu every day, Lao Tzu worked hard to go out to ambush the rebellious grain road, you just died in the camp and did not move the nest, and the emperor was blown by his own credit, so he didn't put the sentence "In the midst of strategizing, winning thousands of miles away" on his head, and now there is today, he and Zhang Yuliang agree to this plan, not to mention that this is the emperor's will, and he dares to resist the decree alone!

Zhang Guoliang rolled his eyes, this anti-thief who was originally a thief of the Heaven and Earth Society didn't rely on fighting and killing the current Jiangnan Admiral, "Dashuai, now this Ronglu general soldier is also in our camp, and they are all people on the same boat, why don't you recruit him and ask him what he means?" ”

He Chun took advantage of the situation and nodded, "Then please ask Zhonghua to come over and listen to what he means." ”

Rong Lu arrived at the handsome tent, looked at the secret letter, Zhang Yuliang said his opinion in one go, Rong Lu is a shrewd person, seeing He Chun Muran's face, he guessed a few points in his heart, smiled slightly, but thought of an idea, and said to He Chun: "Dashuai, the lower officials think this plan is feasible." ”

He Chun's face changed, Rong Lu was not in a hurry, as if he didn't see He Chun's uncomfortable face at all, he continued to take care of himself, "But at the moment, the stalls in our Jiangnan camp are too big, if the rebellion is really coming towards us, ambush on all sides, I'm afraid we can take care of the east and not the west, and we still need to shrink the camp to protect ourselves." "Although Rong Lu's self-protection is extremely high-sounding, no one here is a fool, and the self-protection of the camp is to rely on the deep ditch and high base of the Jiangnan camp to stick to the stubborn resistance.

"In this way, the Jiangnan camp can be foolproof," Rong Lu said this, turned his head to He Chun and bowed his head slightly and said respectfully: "The Governor is raising grain and grass in Changzhou, and reorganizing the army, if we act rashly here, the Governor will definitely be angry, and please ask the Marshal to explain in Changzhou in person." ”

He Chunchang breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and nodded again and again, "What Zhonghua said is extreme," and in a blink of an eye, he thought of a key point, "But this commander is the commander of the Jiangnan battalion after all," Zhang Yuliang pursed his lips with disdain, "If this commander wants to leave, I am afraid that the army's heart will be unstable." (To be continued.) )