Chapter 145: Li Xiucheng Folds Jiangpu

Xiao Qingyan, the registered commander-in-chief, rushed to attack Jiangpu, Bao Chao did not allow it, and said: Di Shuai's judgment is wrong, the loyal chieftain army is running east along the upstream, and has now reached the border of Tianchang County. After a short break, wait for Peng, Yang, Liu, and Mao to arrive on land and water, and then attack.

Xiao Qingyan said: Lord Titai is reasonable......

Bao Chao hurriedly interrupted: You and I are peers, what do you say, what do you call an adult, is your brother's food enough?

Xiao Qingyan said: When Runshuai is there, he is full of money; When Xi Shuai was there, he was still able to make a living; Now, I'm hungry.

Bao Chao sighed and said: How similar you are to me! There are more soldiers and less silver, less relatives and more sparse ones, two silver of three rivers and two lakes, the whole set of Yuhuatai, Zeng Jiushuai Junhao two roads, build two sides of the wall, stop in it, leisurely and happy. The quick dispatch team told each other that our army was about to cross the river and attack.

Bao Xiao's second division attacked Liangpu, Zeng Guoquan was surprised, and urgently ordered the general soldier Li Chendian, the deputy general Zhao Qinghe, the general Yan Lizhou, and the deputy general He Yugui to attack Yuhuatai and the stone fortress outside the Jubao Gate.

In the early morning of June 13, Li Chendian gave the order to attack, and at dawn the next day, eleven stone fortresses were all breached.

Zeng Guofan got the report, happy to play: on the north bank of the river, Bao Chao, Peng Yulin and other departments advanced by land and water, and from then on entered Jiangpu and Jiuhuanzhou, or their branches and leaves could be cut; On the south bank, Zeng Guoquan broke through the stone barrier and tried to pull out Jinling, and the general trend was improving.

When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard the music, she said happily: Zeng Chen Guoquan, Bao Chen Chunting and other two sides attacked together, attacking together, and Jinling Hong will be destroyed retrograde; Li Chen Hongzhang, after driving the rebellion out of Shanghai, re-entered and occupied Changshu, Taicang, Kunshan, the land of southern Jiangsu, except for Suchang, and is about to be fully restored; However, after Zuochen Zongtang was promoted to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he was defeated in Fuyang, and he could not be attacked repeatedly, and it has been nearly two months, and he immediately passed the decree to urge.

Zuo Zongtang received the order and said: The two palaces are thousands of miles away, and they know the opportunity of Zhejiang! After our army captured Tangxi, Lanxi, Longyou, and Jinhua, it divided its troops and garrisoned them; The thief army in southern Anhui has not been destroyed, and it is necessary to divide the troops; Therefore, there are only more than 10,000 people who attack Fuyang. And the army of thieves and rebels came from Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Changshu, and Shimen. Thieves and rebels gather like ants, and An can achieve it overnight. Ordered Jiang Yili, Fuyang Jiancheng, if it can't be pulled out suddenly, be sure to set up camp to embellished the city thieves. I sent troops from Yanzhou to garrison Xincheng, escorted the division ships, and curbed the thieves to help and transport wages. I immediately led the army from Fuyang, from Xincheng and Lin'an to Yuhang, in order to divide the thief's momentum and transfer the thief back to help.

Zong Tang ordered to stop, that is, to sparse: only in terms of the situation of returning to Hangzhou, non-heavy troops from Xincheng and Lin'an directly smashed Yuhang, and could not strangle Hangzhou's voice, but Fuyang's back.

The minister originally planned that after Liu Dian's army cleared southern Anhui, he could divide the water and Lin'an to attack Yuhang. Although Hui, Xiu, Qi, and Yi were purged in this way, and the thieves from Chi belonged to Jiande to commit Jiangxi and Jing, Liu Dian's army was difficult to retreat, and he was afraid that he would be tight and tight, so he still had to take into account Jiangxi.

There are more than 30,000 people in the army, except for Liu Dian and Wang Wenrui, there are 10,000 people in Anhui, and Jiang Yili's whole army is also 10,000 strange.

The rest of the battalions were allocated to Xincheng, Tonglu and Yiqiao in Shao County downstream, and outside the two counties of Chun'an and Sui'an in the upstream, it was still necessary to divide Quzhou, Jinhua and Yanzhou, and the troops were not thick. Seeking dysentery is a stagnant military affair.

Li Hongzhang is in the land of southern Jiangsu, although he has won many battles and lost land, he is also anxious, and he said: Weichen can worry about the third, but the fortunate two,

Chasu, Chang, Hangzhou, and Jia are the most prosperous areas in the southeast of the country, and they have been fighting against the public for four years, collecting grain and taxes, taking fine and using macros, and from time to time they use the wealth to help Jinling, and transfer them to all roads. Jinling is its old nest, and Su, Chang, Hangzhou, and Jia are the foundation of Jinling, and the thief will defend and strive for it, in order to become a horn, in order to obtain the source of food, which can be worried.

There is a lot of water in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in the counties of Sujia. When the army is expected to sigh at the ocean, it is difficult for me to be easy to defend as the previous Changshu to solve the siege, Taicang and Kunshan Stack, and the thieves are no less than forty or fifty thousand, and the thieves of Sujia are not afraid of the cold, but they still resist with all their strength, and the danger of covering the terrain is enough to consolidate themselves. The minister marched from Songhu to the remote corner of Su Province, opposite Jiaxing, Su Jia and Tutu did not have this force, and Shejia Tusu was often contained, which was worrying about the two.

Li Xiu, the puppet loyal king, became the crown of the kings, not very resistant to war, but the most cunning, possessing the land of the four counties of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jia, and Hu, and the rest of the puppet kings were all their sworn friends and listened to the command. Since last year, in an attempt to save Jinling, they have divided the south and north of Anhui, and they have also tried to circumvent Yangzhou and Lixiahe in order to gain a long-term situation. Our army is approaching Suzhou, and the chief is wandering up and down Jinling, and then he will look back and send his henchmen to guard Sujia. If the attack here is too hasty, then the crowd will come to help, or another attempt will be made, and there will be three people to worry about.

Jiang, Anhui, and eastern Zhejiang each have heavy troops to intercept them, and they are thousands of miles away, and there is no predation. Wen Baochao and Zeng Guoquan sent various armies to Fuchao County, Hanshan, and Hezhou, and have chased them to Jiangpu and Pukou. If Du Xing'a, Wu Tang and others can do their best to block and cut off the road for the northern thieves to cross the river, then the armies will be divided into divisions and suppressed, which is easier to clean up.

Previously, Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian were located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their momentum was growing day by day. In recent years, it has repeatedly suffered setbacks to the official army, and there have been hundreds of thousands of injuries from all sides, and there are not many elite plans. The armies captured no less than dozens of cities, and half of their anointing was gone. However, it is fortunate that our army will advance steadily, gain an inch, and not lose the opportunity again.

Over the past year, the land of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai has been shrinking day by day, Hong Xiuquan was frightened, and said: How can I protect my land in the future? My people, who is the official to protect them? Outside Tianjing City, I have been solid for 11 years, but today it is broken by demons, why?

Hong Renji said: The Hunan demon has now activated the cannon, the cannon is sharp, and the stone is burned.

Hong Xiuquandao: Taicang and Kunshan of Sufu are lost, and Suzhou is in danger; After the fall of Jinhua in Zhejiang Province, the demon army has arrived at the city of Hangzhou, and quickly issued an edict, ten edicts a day, and ordered Li Xiucheng to return from Jiangbei to help, near Tianjing, and Suzhou from afar.

Li Xiucheng, the loyal king, received the order, and was also anxious, and said: Jiangpu and Pukou are still in my hands, quickly withdraw the siege of Tianchang and Lai'an, and the army will go south from Yizheng and Liuhe, and cross to the south through Liangpu and Jiuhuanzhou to aid Beijing.

Li Xiucheng's army marched south, and Bao Chao, Peng Yulin, Yang Zaifu, Xiao Qingyan, Liu Lianjie and others urgently gathered to discuss it.

Bao Chaodao: There is no water division for thieves, hundreds of thousands of people, crossing the Yangtze River, if you lose the mouth of Pukou and rely on Jiangpu, there will be chaos! I intend to concentrate all my efforts to capture Liangpu and draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.

Yang Zaifu said: This strategy is very good, the thief army is strong, and it is poor, so there is no need to volley head-on; Thieves gather by the river, there is no boat to cross, no land to rely on, doomed to chaos, we take advantage of the chaos to punish them.

Peng Yulin said: Jiuhuanzhou lies across the heart of the river, connects Liangpu in the north, and Xiaguan, Straw Shoes Gorge, and Yanziji in the south are each other's horns, and the lock and key of the Jinling waterway occupy this key pass, and the overall situation is determined.

Bao Chaodao: Jiuhuanzhou is once and for all. Quickly consulted Zeng Yuanfu, dispatched a strong team, and echoed each other from afar.

On June 25, Bao Chao, Peng Yulin, Yang Zaifu, Liu Lianjie, and Xiao Qingyan launched in unison, land and water, besieging Pukou and Jiangpu.

The Hunan army was strong, and the defenders of Liangpu were cold and retreated without a fight.

Li Xiucheng's army of more than 200,000 troops arrived at the edge of the river, and when he heard that Liangpu was lost, the army's morale was in turmoil. Li Xiucheng also attacked the kings, who covered and protected, who resisted and who crossed, and the division of labor was also clear; However, the kings are also afraid, and the yin and yang are violated.

Bao Chao took the opportunity to urge all the ministries to go out of Liangpu together, press towards the riverbank, and wantonly drive and kill. Peng Yulin and Yang Zaifudu also led the sailors, shelled and shot, and killed the soldiers crossing the river.

The Taiping army of more than 200,000 troops, crowded and chaotic, collapsed, and the number of successful crossings to the south was less than 50,000.

Li Xiucheng wept bitterly, and faced Chen Tianwang Hong Xiuquan: On this trip to northern Anhui, I lost more than 100,000 soldiers before and after.

Hong Xiuquandao: What's the benefit of saying it again, the north-south diplomatic situation is in trouble, and the loyal compatriots can have other strategies to stifle the demon?

Xiuchengdao: Su, Chang, Hangzhou, Jia, connected into a piece, the only perfect area of the kingdom of heaven, this domain is not lost, and the kingdom of heaven is unharmed. Suzhou is in an emergency, and it will rush to help!

Hong Xiuquandao: Loyal compatriots are reasonable, and quickly bring the heavenly army back to aid Jiangsu and Zhejiang.