Chapter 169: Lai Wenguang vs. Yin Longhe (1)

The news of the defeat of the Song and Shu armies reached Beijing, and Yu Shi Mu impeached Zeng Guofan for being arrogant and willful, ungood at suppressing bandits, and ineffective in supervising teachers.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: For more than a year, the generals sent by Zeng Guofan have spared no effort to drive Lu, Henan, Chu, Anhui and other provinces, and there are quite a few thieves. The imperial history is played, and there is no doubt about it.

Empress Dowager Ci'an said: Outside eastern Hubei Province, Shaanxi twisting is becoming more and more rampant, Zhang Twist a group from Xuzhou to the west, around Tongguan, Shangzhou, Qinling, encircled Huayin for more than 40 days. Liu Songshan could not chase and suppress, Liu Rong intercepted unfavorably, defeated in Huazhou, after more than 700 casualties, reverted to the defeat of Baqiao, 30 battalions of Xiangyong, lost most of them, Admiral Yang Desheng, Xiao Jishan, Xiao Changqing, the general soldier Xiao Deyang, and the alternate Dao Xiao Degang were all killed in the battle array.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Now that the Shaanxi army has been dispersed, there is no other army to adjust, and bandits are harassing everywhere, and there is almost no land and no thieves. Zuo Zongtang will go to Shaanxi and Gansu immediately, and there is no need to come to Beijing for the time being, that is, he will enter the customs by way of the existing troops, and make proper preparations to meet his expectations. What does the sixth master mean?

Prince Gong said: Only when the power belongs to one person can you focus. Zuo Zongtang is full of promises, and Shaanxi and Gansu are promising; Zeng Guofan quickly returned to Jinling to sit and guard, and Li Hongzhang was unrestrained.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: The governor of Shaanxi and Gansu is not enough to control the governor, so Zuo Zongtang sent the minister Guan Fang, and the prime minister of Shaanxi and Gansu military and political affairs with full powers. Quickly pass the edict, Zuo Chen Zongtang must also gallop to the road. In addition, since the Zeng vassal had accepted the Liangjiang Governor's Seal, all the inspectors' salaries and local affairs were of great importance; And Jinling must not be without merit and hope. He immediately returned to the provincial capital to deter him. The governor is loyal to the country, and since he should be the body of the court, he is reluctant to promote the country. All military intelligence arrangements are still subject to Li Hongzhang's consultation at any time to benefit from the information.

Zuo Zongtang received the order and said: Now that the western affairs are urgent, he will not dare to stay in Wuchang and not advance, which will cause the military plane to be missed, nor will he dare to act rashly and regret it. Wechen does not seek overnight success, but seeks the final victory.

Submission, slow advance and rapid war, first twist and then mix, first Qin and then Long. The twist bandits are fluttering and galloping, and they make good use of riding, which is very difficult to control. In the overall situation of the Western Expedition, there is no chance of winning unless the horse team is increased and the car camp is emphasized. The rook and the cannon are combined, and the chariot battalion and the infantry team block the horse thief, and the horse team copies the horse, or there is a chance to win.

In addition to bringing 3,000 personal soldiers, he reverted to Hunan to select 3,000 of the old department, and asked Liu Dian to be the envoy of Gansu to help handle the military affairs of Shaanxi and Gansu, and quickly recruited 6,000 brave soldiers in Hunan, and Gao Liansheng also rushed north from Guangdong to 6,000.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. The ministers went north to suppress the salary of silver: Zhejiang was asked to pay 840,000 taels per year, and Guangdong and Fujian each gave 480,000 taels; For the remaining deficiencies, Taoist Hu Xueyan borrowed 1.2 million taels of silver from foreign merchants in Shanghai.

All of the above items are necessary for the suppression of bandits, and the Empress Dowager and the Emperor Shengjian allow it. Sincerely.

The Empress Dowager Cixi took over and said: Zuochen Zongtang uses soldiers, is good at judging the timing, and will win every battle; This time he stopped in Wuchang and slowly advanced into a rapid battle, or it may be appropriate; Exactly what you want. Has Zeng Chenguo been to Xuzhou to consult with Li Chen Hongzhang? The Military Aircraft Department must repeatedly urge it. Zeng Chen Guoquan, be sure to quickly attack the generals of Xianghuai, annihilate Lai, and let the thieves rebel between the Tangbai River and the Xiang River.

Zeng Guofan connected the edict, and then did not postpone, on the sixth day of the first month, set off on the road, and went to Xuzhou on the 15th.

Li Hongzhang greeted him and said: My teacher has worked hard, my teacher has worked hard, please go to the room to rest.

Zeng Guofan said: The task of suppressing bandits is heavy, there is Lao Shaoquan, but there is a good way to punish thieves?

Li Hongzhang said: Guo Songlin's army was defeated by De'an, Zhang Shushan was killed, and the thief benefited Zhang, can the teacher order the Ting army to enter Hubei quickly?

Zeng Guofan said: When I heard that Zhang Shushan had passed away, I immediately rushed to the aid of the Thunder Army.

Li Hongzhang said: Thank you to the teacher, Liu Ming's ministry has taken over with Lai Twist, Ting and Ming work together, invincible, and will be punished.

Zeng Guo Fan Dao: It is rumored among thieves that Lai Chieftain is good at scheming, and Ren Chieftain is good at fighting; The soldiers of the Tang chieftain are invincible. Ren Chief's horse is the toughest, Cheng Xiang Yu's hand, and the strange master among the people; Tang Chief Rirong, originally under the command of Shi Chief Dakai, escaped from Ascension, went out of Shu into Shaanxi, and became a demon in a hundred battles; These two chiefs, Shaoquan can have a special strategy to deal with?

Li Hongzhang said: Qi Qi Teacher, Hongzhang found that the Tang chieftain was strong, but he still opened the banner of the chieftain and refused to surrender slightly; Although Chief Lai and Chief Ren did not speak, they were really jealous; I have ordered the rebellion. Although the chief of Ren is hard-hearted, but under his command, the fish and eyes are mixed, and it is by no means monolithic.

Zeng Guofan said: I hope that Yuan Fu can integrate all the armies and punish the thieves against the rivers and rivers of the Jiang and Han Rivers.

The twisted army defeated Guo Songlin first, and Zhang Shushan was punished second, and morale was greatly boosted. The kings discussed where to go, and Tang Rirong, the king of Germany, said: There are two strong demons in the north and Ming, the Yangtze River in the south, and the Han River in the west.

Zunwang Lai Wenguang rejected Zhuge Kongming's "Longzhong Pair".

Tang Rirong was indignant, and said: The Han River on the West Road is blocked, and our 100,000 troops will not be able to swim across the river, and they will be demons! I think at the beginning, I was the striker of the Wing Hall and the main general of the Middle Banner, and I fought in Sichuan for two years, and I didn't know the difficulty of Shu Road!

That night, when Tang Rirong was asleep, he was killed by Lai Wenguang.

The kings were puzzled, and Lai Wenguang said: Intercepting Tang Rirong's money to clear the demon document is for the sake of the overall situation, and he has to do it.

The generals under the command of King De were not angry, and discussed in private, and said: King Yi died, and King De did not surrender to the rice grain dam, in order to invite the favor of Lingding, and not to descend to Heishidu, in order to protect the integrity of the leader, not Zheng Yonghe, Ma Rong and his generation.

B said: Our new victory, Jianghan is shaken, Bashu is frightened, everything is destroyed, there is no battle, the most foolish person in the world does not fall to the destruction of the lord and the country, but to this moment?

C said: Dedian takes the winged king as the priority, and still spreads the winged king's flag, and is jealous, so he kills, and he has to wait for us, one stone and two eagles, why not?

Ding said: There is no excuse for the crime you want to add, Lai can kill King De today, and he can kill us tomorrow, the timing is right, and he will go.

Bao Chaoting's army and Liu Mingchuan's army were advancing day by day, and Lai Wenguang summoned the kings again to discuss attack and defense.

King Lu Ren Zhu said: The demon army is 70,000 or 80,000 people, gathered on all sides, if I can't completely annihilate one, it will be very difficult to cross the Han River.

Lai Wenguang checked the map of public opinion, pondered for a long time, and said: Jiukou Town, located between the Han River and the Yinlong River; In this section of the Han River, the river surface is narrow, the water flow is slow, and it can be crossed; Here, the soil is fertile and watery, the material is abundant, the grain is abundant, and the supply is abundant; Liu Demon Ming came from the east, if he attacked, he would cross the Yinlong River, and it was very difficult for the cannon to accompany him, so I could take advantage of its half-crossing to hit it. Bao Demon Army, send a fierce force, just contain it.

Li Yuntai, King of Wei, said: If you divide the troops, you will be single, it is better to break Liu Demon with the army, and then break Bao Demon to be stable.

King Lu Renzhu is also attached.

Lai Wenguang said: The thunder department of the Bao demon and the Ming department of the Liu demon are the most fierce of the demons. Passing on my military order, the army rushed to the west bank of the Yinlong River, built a fortification, and rested and stood by.