Shi Xiangzhen arrived, and Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan, urgently ordered Wang Xin, the governor of the county, and Zhu Sunyi, the governor of the prefecture, to lead 3,000 soldiers to meet the enemy bravely, and quickly consulted Zeng Guofan: Is Changsha protected? Jun training first?

Zeng Guofan sat sullenly for a day, noncommittal; The generals wrote a bloody letter to the battle. The state clan pondered for a night, and said: The thief was ordered to aid Anhui Province on November 23 of the previous year, and it has been two months since then. Once it was played, as soon as the warship was completed and the cannon was solved, it set off, and it was played twice on the record.

The Hengzhou shipyard was completed on the 26th of the first month, and the minister set off on the 28th. The shipyard in Xiangtan has not yet been completed, and the ministers must delay for several days to supervise the work day and night. When he arrived in Changsha, he supported more than 10000 pieces of military equipment, carried more than 200,000 medicines, and had to keep urging for several days, that is, he went on a long march and galloped downstream.

The ships run by the ministers, such as the Tuo Gu No. 1, the Fast Crab No. 10, the Changlong No. 50, and the three-board boat No. 150, were all modeled after the Guangdong warships, and the No. 120 fishing hook boats were remodeled, and the No. 100 baggage boats were hired. The artillery was borrowed from Guangxi 150. The number of purchasers in Guangdong was 80 last year, 240 this year, and more than 100 users in this province.

The courage recruited, 5,000 by land, 5,000 sailors. The land armies are numbered, with 500 people as large battalions and small battalions under 500 people. The waterway is divided into ten battalions, with five main battalions in the front, rear, left, center, and right. In addition to the main battalion, it is divided into five deputy battalions. The main camp flag is a solid color, and the secondary camp flag is bordered. The land has been practiced for a long time, and the poor sense is available; The waterway is too sudden, and there is nothing to be feared.

The prepared grain platform brought 12,000 stone of rice, 18,000 stone of coal, 40,000 jin of salt, 30,000 jin of oil, and all the utensils needed in the army and the craftsmen who applied them were all carried with them. Combined with the long-term husband and retinue of the land route, the hired ship sailors of the water route, and the soldiers of the grain station and the Ding service, the total army was about 17,000 people.

The ministers are shallow in intelligence and lack of experience, so they are not enough to dominate the public. However, when the situation is difficult and the people's hearts are discouraged, if it is not widely called for and the prestige is raised, the thief will not be encountered, and the soldiers will have been depressed. It is to go back and forth with Fuchen to deal with the merchants, and try their best to operate, in order to do this. The success or failure of things, there is no time to think deeply, whether there is a salary, and there is no time to be familiar with the plan, but it is expected to boost people's morale a little, that is, the sincerity of the minister's service.

Before the minister, he said that he would wait for Zhang Jingxiu to release the cannon to Chu, but he could be released, and he returned from Guangdong, knowing that Zhang Jingxiu was staying in Guangdong Province and could not go to Chu. The renewing cannon cannot be missed. The downstream thieves are anxious for the spark, and the ministers must not be delayed. Merge Chen. All the departure dates of Weichen are played by the post 500 miles. Emperor Fu begged for the Holy Instruction. Sincerely.

Zeng Guofan was distracted, and he discussed with Chen Shijie, Guo Songtao and others again and again, and made a dispute with the Cantonese bandits.

The text said: The traitor Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing have been in turmoil for five years! Poisoned millions of creatures and ravaged more than 5,000 miles of prefectures and counties, and all the ships and people, rich and poor, were plundered and plundered, leaving no grass behind. And those who were taken captive among the thieves were stripped of their clothes, and they were robbed of money, and those who did not offer the thieves five taels of silver were to be beheaded. The man gave Mi Yihe a day, drove it forward, and drove it to build the city. The woman gave rice a day, drove it to the night vigil, and drove it to transport rice and pick coal. And if a woman refuses to untie her feet, she shall be beheaded enough to show her to the people. The ship's owners and those who plotted to flee carried their bodies upside down to show the boats. The Cantonese bandits are in peace and prosperity, and they regard the people who have been threatened by our two lakes and three rivers as not as good as dogs, pigs, cattle and horses. It is cruel and cruel, and no flesh has heard of it without being shaken.

Since the three generations of Tang Yu, the saints of all generations have supported the famous religion, the people of the people, the monarch and the minister, the father and the son, the upper and lower, the respect and the humble, and the rank cannot be reversed. Cantonese bandits steal the cause of foreign Yi and worship the religion of God. Since his hypocrisy of the king, he has been called a brother by arresting soldiers and serving as a lowly soldier, saying that only heaven can be called a father, and in addition, the fathers of all people are brothers, and the mothers of all people are sisters. Farmers cannot cultivate their own land to pay for endowments, but it is said that the fields are the fields of the kings; Merchants cannot buy their own goods for interest, but say that the goods are the goods of the king; Scholars cannot recite the scriptures of Confucius, and there is no so-called Jesus, the book of the "New Testament", and the thousands of years of Chinese etiquette, righteousness, and human ethics, poetry and books, once swept away. This is not only the change of my Qing Dynasty, is the strange change of the famous religion since the opening up, I Confucius Mencius wept bitterly in the nine plains, all those who read and read, and Wu can sit with their hands in their hands, do not think about what to do.

Since ancient times, there is merit, and if there is no God, the king governs the Ming, and the Shinto governs the secluded, although the chaotic ministers and thieves are extremely ugly and often fear the gods. Li Zicheng to Qufu did not commit the holy temple, and Zhang Xianzhong went to Zitong to also sacrifice Wenchang. The Cantonese bandits burned the scholars of Chenzhou, destroyed the wood master of Xuansheng, ten philosophers and two houses, and the ground was full of messes. The heir is the county that he passed, and the temple was destroyed first, that is, the loyal ministers and righteous people such as the dignified king of Emperor Guan Yue also defiled his palace and mutilated his head. As well as Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, city gods, and shrines, all of them will never be burned, and no image will not be destroyed. Si and the ghosts and gods are angry, and those who want to be shaken in the underworld are also.

At the behest of the Son of Heaven, the headquarters commanded 20,000 troops, marched by land and water, and vowed to lie down and taste the guts, kill this rebellion, save my captive ships, and find out the people who were threatened. It not particularly relieves the diligence of the monarch's father, but also comforts the hidden pain of Confucius and Mencius. Not only for the revenge of the killing of millions of living beings, but also for the regret of the upper and lower gods Xue was humiliated.

It is to spread the distance and the saltiness to make it known. If there is a bloody man, call on the righteous brigade to help me conquer the people, the headquarters will be cited as a confidant, and rations will be given. If there is a gentleman who embraces the Tao, and the Catholic rampant in the Central Plains, and is angry to defend the Tao, the shogunate of the headquarters will be treated as a guest teacher. If there are righteous and benevolent people, those who donate silver and salary, within 1,000 catties, will be given a certificate of actual receipt, more than 1,000 gold, and please pay for it. If anyone has been trapped in the thieves for a long time, and he has come to find his own return, and kills his leader, and he has come to surrender with the city, he will receive the official title under the account collected by the headquarters and the hall. If anyone is threatened for years, his hair is a few inches long, he abandons his weapon in battle, and he returns to sincerity with his bare hands, he will not be spared death. Repatriation.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Yuan and Ming Dynasty, the group of thieves was like hair, all of them were in turmoil by the lord, and they could not be flattened. Today, the son is diligent and diligent, respects the heavens and compassionates, does not give the field, does not draw the household, and uses the profound benevolence of the saints to beg the tyrannical scoundrel thief, no matter how fast it is, it will eventually perish, and it will not wait for the wise to be clear. If the people who are under duress are willing to obey and resist the punishment of heaven, the soldiers will press and the jade will be burned, and they will not be able to distinguish more

The headquarters of the Tang Virtue is thin and can be fresh, and the word loyalty is the foundation of the march, there is the sun and the moon, there are ghosts and gods, there is the water of the mighty Yangtze River, and there is the soul of the martyrs of the loyal ministers and martyrs who were martyred in the past. It is like a law, no neglect!

On February 25, 1854, Zeng Guo Van Hengzhou swore an oath, ordered Chu Ruhang to be the commander of the navy, Taqibu as the vanguard of the army, 240 warships and 120 fishing boats, led an army of 17,000, and went east along the river.

Zeng Guofan's boat traveled to the Xiangjiang River, came to Changsha, and consulted the Hunan governor Luo Bingzhang on the completion of the eastward expedition, and recited: Guizhou Liping Mansion was promoted to Daohu Linyi, and was sent by the governor Wu Wenrong to Hubei. The officer brought 600 Qianyong, from Guizhou to Hubei, in the second half of the first month to arrive at Jinkou, at the right time when the Huangzhou division was defeated, the thief traced up, the member recruited Qianyong is a mountain people, not accustomed to water warfare, and also has no salary, no husband, no goods and medicine pot tent, can not advance. According to the officer, he asked for rations and ordnance on file. The minister and the minister sent a letter to the minister, sent someone to untie the delivery of medicine tents, and allocated 2,000 taels of silver to help. The minister planned to send Lu Yong to join the staff to help Hubei, but the bandits were harassing Yuezhou, Xiangyin, and the roads were blocked, and the committee members still turned back. Since the area around Yuezhou was disturbed by thieves, he should take the lead in conquering Yuezhou, so as not to block the north and south, so that the whole division can go east. It is now planned to temporarily reside the officer in the vicinity of Yuezhou, and the minister will immediately go east and meet with the officer to suppress it first.

Staff member Chen Shijie said: "Commander Di commands 10,000 soldiers, unprecedented, and does not enter Changsha to rest temporarily?" ”

Zeng Guofan sipped tea and looked around, and said abruptly: "Changsha Wucheng, close at hand, it's a pity, soothing suspicion and slander, not the slightest; Wang Xin boy, a native of Pushan, has a nickname, sighs, rugged and eccentric, and does not understand people's expectations. This son, only 3,000 Xiangyong, fought in Jinggang for three days, and finally thwarted the offensive of the thief army, and the real tiger general. My order: Deputy General Taqibu and Supervisor Zou Shouzhang took Lu Yong 2,000, and Yang Zaifu, the general of Qian, and Peng Yulin, a student, led the second battalion of the Navy Division to the north into Yuezhou and drove the thieves out of Hunan Province; Hu Linyi of Guidong Province and Lin Yuanen, the former magistrate of Pingjiang County, worked together to eliminate local bandits in Pingjiang. ”

Wang Xin, Hu Linyi, and Taqib attacked together. Shi Xiangzhen gradually became unable to support it, so he had to give up Ningxiang, Jinggang, and Yuezhou, and retreat to the Hubei region.

When Yang Xiuqing heard this, Lin Shaozhuan, the right deputy prime minister of the imperial decree of Chunguan, led 30,000 troops to help Shi Xiangzhen.

Zuo Zongtang returned to Hunan from Hubei and retired to Xiangyin, and occasionally met stragglers, Zongtang was surprised, and said Zuo Zongzhi said: "I heard that the thief will enter the Zimu Cave to get me and be willing." ”

Zuo Zongzhi said: "If the thief is deterred, he will be unloaded!" Zeng Guofan and Luo Bingzhang were invited three times, Zeng Guofan and Guo Songtao started from scratch, and they could be ignored for the time being; Luo Bingzhang pushes sincerity and harmony, everything in Chu Xiang is entrusted! You don't turn a deaf ear, do you want to caress you? ”

Zuo Zongtang said: "Acting to care for Xiaoyan? I'm also today! In this way, the body is already involuntarily, barely doing one thing? ”

Zuo Zongtang entered Changsha, Luo Bingzhang cried with joy, and he was about to pay everything for the military and government.

On March 30, 1854, Taqibu and Zou Shouzhang led Xiang Yong into Yuezhou City, and Zeng Guofan also entered Yuezhou Nanjin Port with the sailors.

Chen Shijie said: "Hu Linyi of Guidong Dao and Lin Yuanen, the former magistrate of Pingjiang County, fought with thieves in Pingjiang and won the battle. ”

Zeng Guofan said: "Hu Runzhi's talent is ten times better than mine, this gentleman has arrived a year earlier, and it will not come to this." I order: the sailor to search the lake in the west; Taqibu led the land division, drove and suppressed Chong and Tong in the east, and wiped out the remnants of the enemy. ”

Suddenly the governor of Siberia sent an envoy to meet with the governor of Tsarist Russia, saying that Russia was fighting Kashmir with the British, and in order to prevent the British from attacking the territory of the Russian Far East, he was specially ordered by the Tsar to rush to the Pacific Ocean by way of Heilongjiang.

Emperor Xianfeng was furious and flatly refused.

The Russian High Priest in Beijing, Balardy, told the Governor of Siberia, Muravyov: Civil strife is raging in China, and I should take advantage of the fire to loot and capture Heilongjiang. The Qing Emperor is overwhelmed and will compromise with me. Don't miss out on this perfect opportunity.

After receiving the report, Muravyov led more than 1,000 troops to the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River to the areas of Tuntun, Miaojie and Kemer Bay.

Emperor Xianfeng urgently told Heilongjiang General Yige: Cantonese bandits are raging, and the war cannot be opened; Monitor closely, report at any time, and do not act rashly.

Prince Gong Yixin said: "Xu Naizhao cleared the knife and bandits, killed the woman by mistake, and Shanghai may also provoke. ”

Emperor Xianfeng said: "Xu Naizhao suppressed bandits for half a year, but he did not see results, and he was dismissed immediately. Gilhanga personally burned the cannon, took the lead, conquered the five cities, was loyal and brave, promoted to the political envoy of Jiangsu, temporarily appointed the governor of Jiangsu, commanded the armies of Shanghai, only suppressed bandits, and did not provoke the border. ”

Yi Xin said: "Qi Shan said: The army has no food, the soldiers have vegetables, no one is recruited to make up for the dead, and the art of Fu Sui is already poor, and there is no shortage of pay in other military camps, and the soldiers are not heard of." The responsibility of the war is the same, but the gluttony army is different, and all things are reasonable, which can not be described as peaceful. In case the army is disheartened, I am afraid that it will be out of control. ”

Emperor Xianfeng said: "Qi is good at his people, but in Guazhou, the cloud thieves can't hide, and in Jiangpu, he can't prevent it, and he is not sure about the matter." Only by drawing the team, the spy was captured, and it was played in a few days. Such a person is different from Zeng Guofan and Jiang Zhongyuan. ”

Yixin said: "Last month, Jiangbei camp Qu Tenglong, Dexing'a, Ju Dianhua and others jointly attacked Guazhou, but returned without results. Qi Shan commanded the army, and since Keyangzhou, there has been no record, and the loss of the big soldiers. ”

Emperor Xianfeng said: "The thief rebels to Zhenjiang as a nest, Guazhou is its horns, if you want to clear the river, you must be in the south of the water division after the recovery of Guazhou, with the water division south of Zhenjiang, and the remaining thousands of Qingshui land attack." If the Zhenjiang River can be recovered, then the sailors' ships can go directly to Jinling. I order: Qi Shandu led the Jiaoshan Landscape Division, advancing by land and water, and first conquering Guazhou. ”

Ye Changchun, the chief soldier of the Jiaoshan Water Division, was afraid of war, and sometimes Hou Feng repaired his master, and he was prone to war.

Qi Shan's re-attack on Guazhou lasted for more than a month, but to no avail. Again: Zhenjiang and Guazhou cut close to the heart of the river, and there are cannons set up by the Jinshan thief battalion, which are connected together, and the sound is connected. There are many warships, and it is difficult to stop. At present, the river water rises, and there are three trenches in Guazhou, leading the river to irrigate, which is often wide and deep. The ministers supervised the land attack. As soon as the thieves on the east coast saw the officers and soldiers, they closed the fort and fired artillery; The thieves on the west bank blocked the water, and they did not fight. A little closer to the trenches, the cannons rained. The present value is windy and uneasy. The only way to try to get around is to attack and suppress the camera.

Emperor Xianfeng sighed: "I only wait for Zeng Guofan, Hongshan boat? ”