Chapter 163: Zuo Zongtang Cleanses the Kingdom of Heaven (6)

Meizhou fell, the governor of Liangguang Ruilin, and the governor of Guangdong, Guo Songtao, were all panicked, and they quickly joined forces: the Guangdong army defended many forces, and only Fang Zhaoxuan and others and Tichen Gao Liansheng, Liu Qingliang, and Kang Guoqi were specially pursued and suppressed. And all the battalions were plagued too much, and they were chasing in the miasma of the mountains and rivers every day, each line was a hundred and ten miles, uninhabited, the food was cut off, and the hunger and disease invaded, and the situation was really poor.

After the defeat of Wang Haiyang, the backflame has declined, and if there is a gap, he will take advantage of it, and he is determined to escape death. In terms of the current form, we do not suffer from the gathering of thieves, but suffer from their lightness. If you gather, you can be annihilated in a corner, and if you channel, you may extend to the four realms.

Wang Haiyang entered Meizhou, Zuo Zongtang was superimposed with joy and sorrow, and immediately issued an order, and the Guangdong military Zhaoxuan and Deng Anbang Department quickly went to Nankou to camp; Li Futai, the secretary of the company, must go to the west of Meizhou City as soon as possible and lead the armies on the West Road. Bao Chao's Ting Department and the various units of the Jiangxi Army were stationed in the Xianggong Pavilion in the northwest of Meizhou, and the president's west and south wings. Kang Guoqi was stationed in Jiaoling, Gao Liansheng, and Liu Qingliang were stationed in Kwailing, and they were stationed in the northeast; Liu Dianchi went to Songkou, the president of the southeast defense; Zhu Mingming, an alternate Taoist, immediately entered the Sanhe Dam and strangled the thieves into the capital city of Chaozhou.

Before the armies gathered, divide the land to build a siege, thieves come, do not fight with the waves, guard the pass, do not let escape. The barracks should be intermittent, and if they are about to leave, so that the thieves will not be aware of them. Once all the roads are taken, then the time will be combined, one side out of the team, the other side of the camp, and the removal of the lock, can trap this remnant.

Zong Tang ordered the repetition: the thieves were trapped in Lianping and Xiaping, and the embers were not enough, because the army of Jiangxi Long and Ding did not encircle, and the army of Lianping in Guangdong failed to intercept it, causing Meizhou to be taken away between ten days and days, and the fierce flames were flickering. There are many bandits in Guangdong and those who have been dismissed. If it is allowed to run around, there will be no end to the war.

The generals of the Qing army received Zuo Zongtang's military order, galloped to the surroundings of Meizhou, divided the land and built a siege, and could not be strangled. The two armies held each other for more than a month, Gao Liansheng and Liu Qingliang took the lead in pouring out of Kuiling, hoping to force the city and camp in Fengzhai, and just built a fortress, tens of thousands of Taiping troops, all over the mountains, the gun team in front, the cavalry team in the center, the infantry team in the rear, and killed blatantly.

Wang Haiyang led 10,000 troops and rushed straight towards Liu Qingliang's Chinese army more than ten times, killing six sentinel chiefs, one county magistrate, and one county cheng, and the soldiers were even more innumerable.

Gao Liansheng rushed to meet the battle, and hurriedly dispatched the foreign gun team to counterattack, the Taiping army was fearless, the front team threw itself to the ground, and the rear team advanced one after another, killing more than 1,000 people under the guerrilla Zhu Tisheng and the rebel general Qian Guiren on the spot.

Gao Liansheng and Liu Qingliang did not dare to fight again, retreated to their old nests, and shrunk to protect themselves.

Zuo Zongtang heard that Huang Shaochun and Wang Debang were in charge of the second department, and galloped into Taziao from Songkou, and contacted Gao Liansheng, Kang Guoqi, and Liu Qingliang to control Wang Haiyang.

Liu Diandao: Since then, the trend of Meizhou East Road, Southeast, Northeast and North Road Changwei has gradually formed.

Zuo Zongtang said: Only the West Road is empty, and Bao Chao is urgently waiting to come. After Bao Chao arrived, he divided the armies of the east and west roads into evenly factions, and gradually approached. There are many soldiers in the vicinity, and it is enough to prevent and suppress, so the troops are divided to cross the river and go around the South Road, and the situation of locking and encircling on all sides can be achieved.

Liu Diandao: Before Bao Zhi, Li Futai led the Guangdong army and intercepted it first.

Zuo Zongtang sighed: It can only be like this!

Li Futai, the secretary of Guangdong, received the order and hesitated.

Zhu Yongfu, the curtain guest, advised: Although the thieves are poor, there are still tens of thousands of people, all of whom have the heart of death, which is conducive to sleepiness and not suitable for attacking. If you attack it, you will run away, and the good land will be ravaged by it, and our division will be tired of running for your life. If it is surrounded and entrenched, the trap beast will be useless. Zuo Jue Shuai Zongtang built a siege with divided land, and the top of this strategy is also.

Li Futai said: Bao Chao is not here, the Fujian army is at the eastern end, we are outnumbered, if the thief seeks an opportunity to enter the perfect area of western Guangdong, our crime is unforgivable. Zuo Shuai's strategy seems to be excellent, but in fact it is loophole in the west; Our department will not move for the time being, and wait for Bao Chaoting's army.