Chapter 136: Bao Chao Soldiers Ning Guo

Within three days, all units of the Taiping Army withdrew to Suzhou one after another, and Li Xiucheng urgently summoned Chen Bingwen, Tan Shaoguang, Gao Yongkuan, Li Mingcheng, Cai Yuanlong, Ji Qingyuan, Liu Zhaojun, and others to discuss the battle situation.

Li Xiuchengdao: The battle of Shanghai was a failure, but it was because of Li Hongzhang's demons. Shanghai, Tianjing, Zhejiang, our army has repeatedly failed to fight well, can there be other strategies to resist the enemy?

Gao Yongkuandao: Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang are both sent out by Hunan demons, which is really hard to shake.

Li Xiucheng said: Li Hongzhang defended Shanghai, Zuo Zongtang attacked Zhejiang, Zeng Guoquan besieged Beijing, and the three Hunan demons went hand in hand.

Feng Tianyi Liu Zhaojun said: Confucian Huang Wan said, British and French foreigners, if you don't really want to be embarrassed by me. Why can't I give it up? The way of the husband and the soldier, when the fortification and attack, avoid the front and frustrate. Those who compete with me for the world are demons, not Britain and France. In today's Ningning, Fang will pass through the Central Plains, the territory of the Central Plains is only two or three, and the troops required are very large, so I should treat Yining and not fight, and it is not appropriate to lose foreign aid to provoke the border.

Li Xiucheng sighed: The territory of the Central Plains, put aside for the time being, Shanghai must not be taken?

Liu Zhaojun said: Huang Wan offered a plan and said, tell it clearly and ask it strictly, Yang give up and Yin attack it, Xu Yitu, slow it down. The Celestial Empire has restored the old things, and the ruler soil projectile is not what I have, how can there be a corner of Shanghai that is born alone! Without him, with foreigners, the ears of slowness!

Tan Shaoguang said: If I slow down, Li Hongzhang, Wall and the British and French demon armies will inevitably advance step by step; Suzhou is adjacent to Shanghai, and the nearest place is only dozens of miles away.

Li Xiucheng said: Zeng Guoquan Demon Army, from top to bottom, benefit in the water army, I work hard, the waterway is difficult to fight, the army often wins, its momentum is very strong, this must be considered in the long run. However, the king of heaven was in a hurry, and he had to help, and I ordered, Li Mingcheng troops, quickly marched westward, and rescued Tianjing; The rest of the troops, reorganize the army, take a short break, and fight again in Shanghai.

Zeng Guoquan led more than 20,000 people, gathered Yuhuatai for more than a month, and his heart was also terrified, urgently looking for Peng Yulin and Zeng Guobao, and said: Jinling City is wide, look up and can't see, can only surround its southwest two sides, deep ditch and high base, take the water division as the foundation, take the river surface as the grain road, first for self-consolidation, Xu Tu to make thieves.

Zeng Guobao said: Brother Xueqin's water master is really related to our life and death.

Peng Yulin said: Brother Ji Hong's knowledge and knowledge, Yulin will never forget until he dies, Yulin will not die, and the waterway will be smooth. Battlefield killing, life and death are fateful; Break the city and kill in vain, how can you bear it! Yuan Fu must strictly restrain his subordinates and never repeat the mistakes of Anqing.

Zeng Guoquan said: Brother Qin's words are extremely true; If there is another offender, I will punish him.

Peng Yulin said: If the reinforcements do not come, I am a soldier, if the thieves besiege it with all their might, it is bound to be dangerous!

Zeng Guobao said: Li Zhaoshou swept away Liangpu, Tianchang, and Liuhe, and crossed the river to capture Shibu Bridge, Longtan, and Dongyang. Duxing A also sent the Ministry to restore Guanyin and Yanziji; Although the three divisions traveled slowly, they were all in solidarity with our army.

Zeng Guoquan said: This is to see the wind and make the rudder! If our department repeats a little, Li and the others will immediately collapse. Brother Di repeatedly played the Qing Duolong Abe to attack Jiuhuanzhou, but the imperial court ordered many departments to enter Shaanxi, which was really chilling. Now it seems that Bao Chaoting's army is our only reliance; I immediately consulted Di Shuai and consulted the Bao Department to help.

Zeng Guofan received the consultation, and then the Bao Department must be Xun Kenning Kingdom, and transferred to Gaochun and Lishui.

Staff member Zhao Liewen said: After the death of Runshuai, Bao Bu no longer has the courage of the past.

Zeng Guofan said: Bao Chao's heart is ape, I will play again to ask the two palaces to strictly supervise.

When the two palaces hear the music, they will negotiate.

Empress Dowager Ci'an said: The mourning family once said, Duolong Abe entered Shaanxi, and Zeng Guoquanxiang fought alone. This Jinling flood is actually the head of all thieves.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Li Hongzhang entered Shanghai, Zuo Zongtang entered Zhejiang, all of them were the arms of the Zeng Department, Bao Chaoting's Department, be sure to move the camp into the force, quickly pull out the strong city, as soon as Ningjun recovered, that is, from Guangde to Gaochun, Lishui, sweeping every day, together with the Jinling water and land armies, pounding holes and capturing canals. Jiangbei capital Xing'a, Li Zhaoshou, although has captured Liangpu, Liuhe, the river has also been cleared, but the camp layout, can not be a little careless, Jiangbei situation prevention is more important than suppression, in order to forge ahead in the meaning of stubbornness.

Prince Gong Yixin said: Queen Mother Shengming. Duolong Abe entered Shaanxi, Yuan Jiasan retired due to illness, Shengbao was the main caretaker, Zeng Bao and Peng Yang Li Zuo were all looking eastward, Anhui Province was connected to Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the affairs of this province should be supervised by a powerful officer.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Li Qing continued to be appropriate, governed the army strictly, indifferent to Rongli, and was a rare talent, and was awarded the governor of Anhui, assisted the Manchurian commander to win the guarantee, and determined the military affairs of Anhui. The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the monarch and the minister die in the society, which is also their duty; Meritorious service will be rewarded, and fault will be punished, which is also fundamental; Weng Tongshu, the former governor of Anhui, was ineffective in suppressing bandits, repeatedly lost land, and was severely punished by the Ministry of Communications!

Yi Xin said: Zeng Guofan's impeachment of Weng Tongshu is reasonable and insightful.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Yes! Shouzhou fell, Yuan Jiasan and Weng Tongshu did a joint thing, and had the responsibility of supervising military affairs, and handed over the decree to the ministry. However, Wei Nian the minister supervised the military affairs of Anhui for three years, and when it was difficult, he tried his best to support it, and everything was still stable. The ministers of Hunan, Chu, Anhui and Suzhou, that is, many princes are the dragon Bao Chaohu, and Bao Chao's thunder army, must be supervised again and forge ahead.

Bao Chao rushed into Jinling again, and was sad.

The crowd will ask why.

Bao Chaodao: After the death of Runshuai, our department has become a partial teacher! The food and wages are not continuous, and the morale of the army is unstable.

Song Guoyong, the chief soldier of Xuanhua Town: After Luzhou Kehou, Jingzhou General Duolonga repeatedly refused to follow the order to the east, and Di Shuai was helpless.

Bao Chaodao: Duolong Anai is full of people, relying on official documents, advancing and retreating freely; I only know one bao, more courage and less strategy, where to go? Only to attack Ning County to the death, Bo people are happy.

Lou Yunqing, the chief soldier of Zhengding Town, said: Yang Fuqing, Liu Guanfang, Hong Renji, Tong Ronghai and others are all bandits, and we are destined to be difficult.

Bao Chaodao: Facing difficulties, why not be afraid of hardships! If you want to break Ning County, you must first clean up the fortresses outside the city, and the west of the city will look at the city, and it will be prominent and prominent, and you must pull it out first. I order, Lou Yunqing, that is, out of Lingang; Chen Desheng's department, that is, out of Yikou, ambushed under Wangchenggang City; Song Guoyong, Zhou Yongsheng, and Wang Yanqing attacked together, fought and retreated, luring the enemy out of Ganggang. Huang Qingdu led ten battalions, waiting for the enemy to arrive, and immediately outflanked the two wings. Looking at the danger of the city, the thieves of Ningjun will come out and rescue; When the enemy poured out, Wei Zhijun's troops immediately wandered the back road and cut off the way back for the thief army; If the back road of the thief army is intercepted, it will inevitably be chaotic; Lou Yunqing and Chen Desheng's troops took the opportunity to outflank again, completely annihilated Yang Fuqing's thief army, and captured Ningjun.

On June 11, 1862, Bao Chao gave the order to attack.

The Taiping army of Wangchenggang went out to meet the attack, but was ambushed; Yang Fuqing, the auxiliary king, and Liu Guanfang, the king of Xiang, went out of the city to rescue, but they were also besieged, and they fought for a day, suffering countless losses; Yang Liu had no choice but to abandon the outer base and enter the city to protect himself.

The Thunder Army took the opportunity to besiege on all sides, attacked the city on a ladder, and attacked for five days in a row, but to no avail.

On June 22, Tong Ronghai, the king of protection, was ordered by Li Xiucheng to lead an army of 60,000 and came to help.

Bao Chao was fearless, and secretly summoned Zhang Yuchun, and the face-to-face teaching was appropriate.

Zhang Yuchun took Bao Mi Ling, took advantage of the excitement, and returned with the excitement, saying that the Tong Department was willing to shave his hair anyway and serve the country wholeheartedly.

Bao Chao is also happy, but he said that the generals said: the city is high and the walls are wide, and it cannot be attacked repeatedly; The thief is also coming, who can do anything? There are many dragons and tigers in the past, and they are already in the past.