Chapter 163: Zuo Zongtang Cleanses the Kingdom of Heaven (4)

The Empress Dowager Cixi took over and said angrily: Wang is really a thief! The Cantonese army is afraid of its hands, who is at fault?

Prince Gong Yixin said: Guo Songtao reported that the Cantonese officers would extort money and passively avoid war; Impeachment of the governor of Guangdong, Ruilin, for selling bribes to collect his wealth, shielding and protecting the Guangdong army, and deceitful and deceitful to delay the military aircraft. Ruilin, Li Futai and others impeached Guo Songtao for ignorance of soldiers and obstinately restricting him.

Empress Dowager Ci'an said: Guo Chen Songtao said, Zhuo Xing, Fang Zhaoxuan and other illegal matters, Ruilin will not investigate. Changle was lost, Huizhou was under martial law, Guo wanted to be stationed in Huizhou, and he was short-sighted. Ruilin will discuss the division, reprimand, and declare to the public: The governor wants to rectify, Zhuo Xing and Fang Zhaoxuan will oppose. The discord between the superintendents and the discord is on the paper.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: The governors of Guangdong attack each other, how can they concentrate on suppressing bandits!

Empress Dowager Ci'an said: Sun Changxiao, the former minister of Jiangxi, asked for the military affairs of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi provinces, and needed to be controlled by powerful and important personnel in order to completely annihilate the rebels; Zuochen Zongtang seems to be able to do it.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Only by being single-minded can we eradicate the remnants of the Cantonese bandits. Then the edict was passed on, during the period of Zuochen Zongtang's suppression of Wang rebellion, in addition to having the right to control the armies of Guangdong and Jiangxi aiding Fujian, the armies of Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces were all under control and dispatch. In addition to supervising the military affairs of the three provinces, Zuo Chen visited the various sections in which Guo Songtao participated in the nearest office.

Zuo Zongtang received the decree and sighed: In the past, I and Guo Yunxian, and the white water cave, built a house with thatch, talked about the past and the present, so unhappy. And to this day, Yunxian has to be in the territory, although he is diligent and down-to-earth, but he is more than honest; self-proclaimed Shi Jian is of the same value, and grievances are in order to help each other. However, the world is difficult, people's hearts are unpredictable, and honor and disgrace cannot be shared.

Liu Diandao: Zuo Shuai and Guo Zhongcheng are also friends of the general horn, and it is also fast to get together and drink in their spare time.

Zuo Zongtang said: National events are not allowed to be mixed with personal friendship. In the battle of Huangpiwei, the Guangdong army watched from the wall, and if the two armies of Gao Liansheng and Kang Guoqi were completely destroyed, the war in Guangdong and Fujian would have no end. Di Lao once said that Guo Yunxian is good at studying and arguing about Taoism and winning worldly fame, which is indeed not his forte. If there were one or two people in Guangdong, Wang would have been swept away.

Liu Diandao: Zuo Shuai still wants to impeach Guo Yunxian?

Zuo Zongtang said: Bao Chunting's fierce army will enter Guangdong soon, and I will consult Guo Yunxian to provide military salaries; Guo Yunxian was as ruined as Xiang Yu by the Thunder Army, but he did it; The fire burns the eyebrows, and there is still leisure to argue about the long and the short; I am not willing to impeach, Guo Songtao is slightly close to the trivial, and it is really self-inflicted.

Liu Diandao: Qiyu Zuo Shuai, after the Huangpiwei War, the morale of the army declined; In the past few days, the epidemic has been raging, more than half of the people in all departments are sick, and there are many people who have died, and Taoist Zhang Hengxiang and deputy general She Youmin have also died of illness. Kang Guoqi Department, especially serious; Kang was too sick and brave, and he pleaded to withdraw temporarily.

Zuo Zongtang said: Wang Wei is also in dire straits, and the Kang Department cannot be temporarily withdrawn; Quickly from Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi and other places, widely seek famous doctors, quickly come to the barracks, and treat the sick and wounded. Where are the rebels of Wang Haiyang?

Liu Diandao: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, after the battle of Huangpiwei, Wang Thief was intercepted by the Jiangxi army, and Wang Thief was injured in the back. Liu Kunyi, the governor of Jiangxi, said that there were no more than 30,000 thieves, and there were less than 10,000 capable fighters.

Zuo Zongtang said: Liu Kunyi is stationed in Ganzhou, which is also rare. Quickly pass on my order, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong armies and Bao Chaoting's troops, must take suppression as a defense, step by step to force Lianping, Heping County border, and gradually encircle the long circle, in order to gather annihilation.