Chapter 161: Zuo Zongtang is in a hurry

Liu Dianguan Zongtang Shuwen said: Qiyu Zuo Shuai, is it not the general and Wang Erthief to be annihilated in Fujian?

Zuo Zongtang said: Definitely! The two thieves work together, its momentum is very large, it is very difficult to digest, it is necessary to enter Guangdong one by one, and then gather the whole army to kill the rebels.

Liu Diandao: Drove thieves into Guangdong, Guo Yunxian was annoyed?

Zuo Zongtang said: Guo Yunxian is my best friend, and the Zuo and Guo families also have marriages; It's even better. However, Guo Yunxian was vainly in the territory, and the battle in Fujian and Central China was continuous, and our army was exhausted, Guo Yunxian did not send the main force to suppress it, so that the thieves fled and the good situation was lost.

Liu Diandao: Guo Yunxian is the acting governor, and the military situation is all due to the delay of Ruilin, the governor of Liangguang.

Zuo Zongtang said: In the past, Hu Runzhi Gong also served in Hubei. The Qing Dynasty official system, the superintendent and the governor stand side by side, and supervise each other; Guo Yunxian's corpse is a vegetarian meal, which is not worth a damn. If the two brothers of Ke'an and Xiangquan, one of them took care of Yuedi, and the two chiefs of Shi and Wang had already been killed.

Liu Diandao: Zuo Shuai is raised, Ke'an is ashamed; Ke'an has something to say, I don't know if I should talk about it or not?

Zuo Zongtang said: But it doesn't hurt to talk about it.

Liu Diandao: The puppet young king has folded, and Zuo Shuai has been convicted of purifying the handsome; Now Guo Yunxian is impeached, and the Hunan people are all said to be Zuo Shuai and unkind.

Zuo Zongtang said: Soldiers, the way to survive in the land of death and life. We are not effective in attacking and suppressing, or we are slashed and killed by the two chiefs of the servants and Wang. Profit the country, regardless of relatives or relatives. Spread my military order, Kang Guoqi Department, quickly out of Longyan; Zifuxi attacked Wang and drove him into Guangdong. Wang Kailin's department quickly went to the border of Guangdong and Fujian to set up defenses, rendezvous with Fang Zhaoxuan's army, and strangled the thieves to the south. Brother Ke'an led the main force, guarded the moderate village in the south of Longyan, and ran to Zhangzhou with Wang, and became one with the rebellious. The rest of the troops, Gao Liansheng, Huang Shaochun, Wang Debang, Liu Mingzhen, Guo Songlin, Yang Dingxun, Liu Qingliang, etc., advanced one after another, encircled Zhangzhou, and completely annihilated Li Shixian's army.

Kang Guoqi received the order, that is, out of Longyan, from the small road to attack the back road of Maoshe, and defeated it with one blow.

Seeing this, Wang Haiyang quickly went to the upper, middle, and lower Kuiyang, Meilin, and various mountain trails in the field school, and dug the village to stop the Chu army; Only stay all the way from Nanjing to Zhangzhou, in order to communicate with the king.

On April 22, Liu Diandu led the main force to arrive, that is, ordered the Taoist Zhang Hengxiang and the deputy general Zhang Fuzhai to attack Xia Kuiyang from the left; Kang Guoqi attacked Kuzhu and copied the back road of the Taiping army.

Zhang Hengxiang attacked head-on, Zhang Fuzhai raided with strange soldiers, and took down Kuiyang's back; The Taiping army was defeated, and Wang Haiyang rushed to the aid of Kuiyang. Liu Dian received the news and personally led the main force to intercept it; The Taiping army was defeated, and both the lower and middle Kuiyang were lost. Wang Haiyang counterattacked from Shangkuiyang, Meilin, and Changxiao, and fought fiercely for a day, each with casualties, and they could not hold each other.

In the evening, Wang Kailin drove his troops to Kuzhu, met with the Kang Guoqi Department, and attacked back and forth. The Taiping army resisted stubbornly, and the bullets hit Wang Kailin's mount, and the Chu army was frightened, and the offensive was reduced.

When Wang Haiyang heard the news, he personally led two reinforcements and copied Wang Kailin's army in two ways, killing and wounding more than 200 Chu troops. Wang Kailin and Kang Guoqi suffered a fiasco and did not dare to attack again.

At the moment of war, Wang Haiyang urgently summoned Wang Zong, Wang Dali, the heavenly general Hu Yongxiang, Kaiwang Tan Tiyuan, Fengwang Huang Penghou, and Youwang Li Yuanji to discuss the way out.

Wang Haiyang said: Li Dian demon, the offensive is very urgent, if we don't find a way out, we will definitely be defeated.

Heavenly General Hu Yongxiang said: In the direction of Zhangzhou, the demon army is gathered, and it is not conducive to attacking; Rendezvous with the king of the chamberlain, far away. In the land of bitter bamboo, the demon army is thin, and it seems that it can be raided.

Wang Haiyang said: The left demon is vicious, this is to cut off the connection between me and the servant, and drive me into Yue's ear! Anyway, quickly attack and advance from Kuzhu place, march to Tai Po, and cross the river into Guangdong.

Kaiwang Tan Tiyuan said: His Royal Highness King Kang, a temporary decision, will quickly inform the king, in order to attack together.

Wang Haiyang: What's so difficult about this, Kuiyang to Zhangzhou, more than 100 miles, the elite soldiers ride quickly, half a day is coming, the demon army is in the way, send a few more ways to tell the king.

Wang Dali said: The military situation is urgent, when will it break through.

Wang Haidao: A counterattack, the offensive is cold, and the retreat is calm. Quickly pass on my order, Kuzhu and Daxi must hold on, and the rest of the departments will recuperate for ten days and besiege Tai Po.

Li Shixian was alone in Zhangzhou, unable to support it, and heard that Wang Haiyang attacked Dapu, Li Shixian did not slack off, that is, he ordered all the departments and reorganized the troops to prepare for the abandonment of the city; He also sent an army to attack Changle and Chixi, and marched into Tai Po, thinking that he should respond.

Li Dian's first army, fighting for half a month, strangled Wang Haiyang's soldiers, Zuo Zongtang was overjoyed, and said: Li Reverse Shixian was defeated by the official army one after another, and the situation was poor, and the plan was to bypass Anxi by the Zhangbei road, in order to copy the back road of the official army, but his plan was not successful; He also tried to collude with the bandits to cause trouble, and the revenge was quelled, Li was cunning and did nothing, and saw Wang Yi's defeat from Kuiyang to Merlin, and Li was stupid again. Each adversity is gathered in a corner, and its momentum is difficult to stand for a long time, and it will still think of rushing between times, in order to survive the remnants.

The situation in the southeast and southeast of Zhangzhou has gradually stabilized, and the troops in the northeast have been slightly single, and the ministers have made up for it recently. At the turn of the border defense of Fujian and Guangdong, the west road and the southwest road, the division of distant defense, there are more than 7,000 people in Wang Kailin's new and old Zhejiang battalions, stationed in Yongding; Fang Zhaoxuan has more than 5,000 people, stationed in Raoping and Tai Po. The division that is close to the suppression must be cleared by the borders of Longyan and Yongding, and the Nanjing can be conquered before the army can be moved to advance and gradually encircled.

The Soviet army of Guo Songlin and Yang Dingxun attacked Zhangpu from Zhangzhou, so that they could enter Yunxiao and Zhao'an, contact with the defenders of Huanggang in eastern Guangdong, and put an end to their plan to enter the sea. The Zhejiang army of the minister was divided into Nanjing and Zhangzhou to chase the thieves, in order to be peaceful, and could contact the defenders of Raoping in eastern Guangdong. It is close to the area of Tai Po in eastern Guangdong, and the general soldier Wang Kailin, Yanjian Shao Daokang Guoqi and Dusi Guan Zhenbang choke Yongding Fuxi, Hulei, and Shanghang intercept it.

The armies of Wang Haiyang and Li Shixian advanced to Tai Po and gradually approached Guangdong. The governor of Liangguang, Ruilin, was panicked and hurriedly played: Wang's rebel thief army was gathered in Guiyang, Kuzhu and other places in Tai Po, and it was the only way for the thieves to go to Guangdong. Tens of thousands of Zhangzhou bandits fled to Pinghe and Couxi, as well as Shangping and Xiaping, and they were bound to plot to go around Pingping, Dapu and other counties, and gradually reach the hinterland of Guangdong. According to statistics, there are more than 30,000 troops in the border defense of Guangdong, hundreds of miles in length and width, fortified everywhere, and the strength of the troops is almost unable to support.

Guo Songtao, the governor of Guangdong, watched Zuo Zongtang's use of troops and said angrily: Zuo Zongtang's achievements today also started from the beginning of contempt; What is the intention of driving 100,000 people today, not to completely annihilate the rebels in Fujian, but to drive the thieves into Guangdong? Impeachment must be played immediately.

Empress Dowager Cixi took over and told Zuo Zongtang again: The thief army must be transferred from the south road, and the strength of the Cantonese army is not enough to distribute.

Zong Tang received the order, was unmoved, and quickly attacked all the armies, if Wang Haiyang's rebel army did not cross the river, he must attack to the death; If you cross the river, you can't force it, except for Liu Dian's a little containment; The rest of the armies attacked together to annihilate Li Shixian's army east of the Tingjiang River.