Chapter 165: Zeng Guofan's Painting of the River Circle (6)

Pan Dingxin, the commander of Shandong Zhensi and Ding Army, received the military order of Zeng Guofan, supervised the 12th battalion of Huaiyong, moved from Tianjin to Jining, and joined Li Zhaoqing Wuyi Army to resist Zhang Zongyu's army. The two armies of Pan and Li joined forces to aid Yun, but the formation was not strict, and they were defeated in the battle.

Soon, Zhou Shengbo and Zhou Shengchuan brothers led the Sheng army to chase after them.

Pan Dingxin said: The thief will be Ren Zhu, as brave as Xiang Yu; Last year, it was rumored that the brother did not move, and after the surprise soldier copied the thief, the thief began to retreat, and then broke away. It is rumored that the brother is brave and resourceful, and Dingxin is ashamed of himself.

Li Zhaoqing is also attached.

Zhou Shengbo said: Brother Pan is new and does not know how to twist bandits; In time, it will be invincible. Di Shuai praised Brother Zhaoqing for his courage and intelligence, worthy of great responsibilities, and talented in both civil and military affairs; I look at Brother Zhaoqing in the army strict and thoughtful, the battle is lawful, and the soldiers share the joys and sorrows, even the hearts of the soldiers, and must be blue.

Li Zhaoqing said: The Yi army has just begun, hundreds of ends are waiting to be lifted, and Brother Zhou has won the award; Yuncheng has repeatedly been in an emergency, one can't be saved, and the second can't be saved?

Zhou Sheng preached: The thieves besieged the city of Yun, lured me to attack, but it was actually a siege of the city to send reinforcements; Lai, Ren two bandits are coming, the thieves are huge, our troops are outnumbered, temporarily rest and wait and see, Liu Xingsan, Liu Songshan army arrived, and then the decisive battle.

In early May 1866, Liu Mingchuan led the Ming army into Shandong, that is, the armies of Heding, Sheng, and Yi, and fought with Lai Wenguang and Zhang Zongyu in Juye and Heze.

The Huai army's guns were fast and sharp, and the twisted army could not be defeated, so it was divided into two branches and scattered.

Lai Wenguang and Ren Zhuxi entered the Yu realm. Pan Dingxin pursued the Ding army, and Li Henian, the governor of Henan, also ordered Song Qing to lead the Yi army, Zhang Yao to lead the Song Wu army, and Shanqing to lead the horse team to join forces to intercept it. Lai Wenguang and others galloped through the Yu Realm, fighting and leaving, waiting for the opportunity to move.

Zhang Zongyu and Youwo King Zhang Yujue, Jing Wang Niu Luohong and others went south to Fengxian County, Dangshan, Jiangsu, and turned into Liu Mingchuan, Li Zhaoqing, and Liu Songshan to attack, Zhang Zongyu was defeated and returned to Lunan.

The twisted army regained and overflowed, Zeng Guofan did not dare to slack off, and rushed from Xuzhou to Jining to coordinate the overall situation; Yan Jingming, the governor of Shandong, heard this, that is, together with Ding Baozhen, the political secretary of Shandong, and visited Zeng Guofan.

I haven't seen him for five years, Yan Jingming is not polite, and he is straightforward: all twists are immortal, the provinces of Lusu, Henan, Anhui and Hubei are still changing frequently, and Di Shuai has repeatedly dismissed Xiangyong, is this? Suddenly cut Yong Ding Yi Qi Rong's heart, why don't you send Xiang Yong to punish this remnant?

Zeng Guofan was displeased, and said: Destroy this remnant, Li Shaoquan's Huai Yong is enough!

Yan Jingming said: The ability of the soldiers is strong, and the generals are strong; The talents of the generals are also drawn. Li Hongzhang's Jianghuai general, even if he uses it, he has to work very hard? Jin Guochen, Cheng Daji, Xiao Sifu, Liu Lianjie, Zhu Nangui, Wu Weishou, Xiao Qingyan, etc., are all fierce generals, and Di Shuai uses his three or four, who does not sharpen his knife Huo Huo!

Zeng Guo said: The soldiers I have cut are all exaggerated; The fierce man of Hunan, Zeng Guoquan has dispatched Peng Yucheng to recruit Hunan Yong to aid Hubei, Bao Chaoting's army is driving north day and night, Guo Songlin's Songzi battalion has arrived in northern Hubei, and Wu Changqing, Liu Bingzhang, and the state of Wenbang have also arrived in Suqian. The soldiers are not expensive, Bao, Peng, Guo and the Huai Department work together, and the remnants of this area can not be destroyed!

Yan Jingming sighed and said: The people of the north are also ashamed of the soldiers, and they miss the opportunity; After being in the army for a long time, seeing the success or failure of the army, we must seek the reason for it, and know that we do not seek generals but soldiers, and there are soldiers and no soldiers. Lord Ding Baozhen knows the soldiers, and I will go up and let the virtuous within the month.

Zeng Guofan said that Ding Baozhen said: The lord of the domain reduced 4,000 soldiers with 500 silver taels, and Zeng admired it.

Ding Baozhen worshiped the national domain and said: The small skills of the people are not enough to worry about; Zhang Zongyu twisted the bandits to return to Lunan, and our department is willing to be the forerunner, kill the enemy before the battle, and share worries for Di Shuai.

Zeng Guo Domain: Hunan and Huai are all chasing divisions, and the feudal platform and Zhongcheng adults are mainly sticking to the Yellow River and canals, and strangling the thieves to the north and eastward.

Yan Jingming said: We are all national plans, and we are acquaintances, so don't call you an adult again. With all due respect, Huang and Yun are thousands of miles away, and my troops are insufficient, so it is inevitable to take care of one or the other.

Zeng Guofan said: The thief army is more than 10,000, and the wind and grass are moving, and the second brother immediately understands that the second brother relies on the river defense, delays a little, and pursues the army.

Yan Jingming said: Do your best and obey the destiny of heaven, just according to the will of Di Shuai, we will go to plan the transportation and Huang defense.

Zeng Guofan thought about it again and again, and said: We wait for the horses to take fewer steps, and it is difficult to control the galloping, and my gambling thieves do not cross the Yellow River; There are two brothers, and they quickly add high walls along the canal and set up wooden sheds on the sandy land to protect the perfect area in the east; This armament, there have been my burdens, yellow defense, river defense is uneven, and it has nothing to do with the second brother.

In early June 1866, Zhang Zongyu, Zhang Yujue, Niu Hongsheng and others besieged Cao County, but they were jointly stranded by Liu Songshan and Li Zhaoqing; Zhang Zongyu and others returned to Feng County, Beibei, and entered Suqian in the east, where they fought with Liu Bingzhang, Wu Changqing, and Kuang Wenbang for two days, and were defeated again; Then he went west from Suining, and in Xuzhou, he rejoined Lai Wenguang and Renzhu.

Zhang and Lai discussed for a long time, and the day was divided, Lai Wenguang and Ren Zhu re-entered the Yu realm, wandered for half a month, and were defeated by Pan Dingxin, Lai and Ren had no choice but to force the Jialu River and rest and wait.

Zhang Zongyu led his troops south to Dangshan, and fought two battles with Song Qing and Ma Dezhao, both of which were defeated; Zhang Zongyu did not dare to fight again, but also into Yu rush, at the end of the month, forced to cross the Shahe, into Shangcai, sent troops to search, only to know that Lai Wenguang, Ren Zhu two departments have entered Xuchang Xiangcheng.

When Li Henian, the governor of Henan, heard about it, he urgently attacked Song Qing, the chief soldier of Nanyang Town, and Ma Dezhao, the governor of Guyuan. Song and Ma Deling set up an ambush in Shangcai Shao Town, killing more than 1,000 twisted horsemen; At the beginning of July, he fought again on the Cai Honghe River, and beheaded the white flag and twisted the first journey of 100 people below the four elders, and the Song and Ma divisions also suffered heavy casualties.