That night, the generals of the Xuan Army who gathered in the Sijing camp really felt that Guan Lao was always really angry this time. They were nervous and excited, and secretly rubbed their hands, waiting for the military order to fight.

In Guan Zhuofan's big tent of the Chinese army, Wall was in front of the hanging map, holding a slender pole in his hand, pointing and pointing, and carefully explained the current situation of the confrontation between the two armies, where is the long-haired army, who is the main general, how many people, and how is the equipment, all of which are like treasures, and they are all very clear.

Wall's identity is the assistant and chief instructor of the Xuan Army, and he also plays the role of a chief of general staff. Now it seems that it was done very well, and this month's contact battle was not in vain.

"Yixuan, the general situation, that's it." Wall put down the short club, rubbed his hands, and looked at Guan Zhuofan, "How do you want to fight?" ”

"What do you mean by Lao Ding?" Guan Zhuofan asked rhetorically first and looked at Ding Shijie.

"I discussed with Wall and Lao Zhang, 'emphasizing the north over the south'. First of all, the Kezi group was used to lay down the middle of Liantang Town, and separated the long hair from Hangzhou from Tan Shaoguang. Ding Shijie, the chief soldier, pointed to the map and said, "South of Liantang is Huang Wenjin's troops, and Jiang De's group can be used to see him and ignore him." After taking Liantang, Huaer led a regiment of foreign guns and a regiment of Xianzi to the north, and responded with a horse team, along the line of Zhujiajiao and Dianshan Lake, drove Tan Shaoguang to the north, and Zuihou surrounded Qingpu, and then began to attack the city - I just don't know, whether Changmao took Forrest and transported it away. ”

"How sure are you?"

"Please rest assured, the boss is 100% sure." Ding Shijie, who has always been calm, said a lot this time. "This month. We have long figured out the reality of long hair. But we haven't done it yet. The generals and soldiers below were already screaming. ”

"Hmm, since that's the case......" Guan Zhuofan stared at the map. Ding Shijie has such confidence, which shows that there is an overwhelming advantage in combat power, "I want to change my style of play." ”

"Yes, please instruct the boss."

"The seven twelve-pounder French guns, have they come up?" Guan Zhuofan asked. These seven heavy cannons are the goods he put at the bottom of the Qibao pressure box. An order has been given to transfer to Matsue.

"It's already in place."

"Good!" Guan Zhuofan patted lightly on the case, "Lian Tang is the main attack of Ixan as it is." The other regiments will concentrate at Nanqiao overnight and decide to open fire in the early hours of tomorrow morning, giving you a day to completely defeat Huang Wenjin from Hangzhou! ”

Guan Zhuofan's jihua is to change the original "heavy north and light south" to "first south and then north". Huang Wenjin's subordinates were drawn from Hangzhou and Jiaxing in Zhejiang. The combat strength is not as strong as the Taiping army from the Suzhou base camp, and the number is only more than 10,000. Therefore, the connection between the two Taiping armies was cut off first. Then completely defeat Huang Wenjin along the way, and you can let go of Tan Shaoguang and Li Xiucheng. As for Qingpu, Guan Zhuofan has other plans.

"If Longhair gets Forrestal, he must be like a treasure, of course he won't put him in Qingpu City." Guan Zhuofan walked to the map, picked up the thin pole, and analyzed while pointing, "After you defeated Huang Wenjin, the whole army immediately marched north, bypassed Qingpu, and drove Tan Shaoguang north according to what you said, so that Qingpu would become a lonely city." ”

"Yixuan, according to what you said, Forrest should no longer be in Qingpu City, is there any point in us besieging Qingpu again?" Wall reminded Kwan Zhuofan.

"Gao Yongkuan's 5,000 people dare to enter Qingpu City, he is dead." Guan Zhuofan said lightly, "I'll take the lives of these 5,000 people and exchange the 38 people of Forrest back." ”

I see! Wall understood.

"Please, boss," Ixan asked, "Have you been holding on to the same place since my Kezi regiment defeated Liantang?" ”

"Nope! As long as you complete the blocking mission, I'll give you a new goal! The pole in Guan Zhuofan's hand slowly moved westward and stopped at a small circle on the map.

Kunshan? The generals of the Xuan Army in the tent looked at each other, and their faces showed an expression of excitement.

Kunshan County belonged to Suzhou Prefecture and was the territory of the Taiping Army. Guan Zhuofan instructed Ixan to attack Kunshan, that is, the Xuan army was finally no longer limited to the defense of Shanghai, and was about to move to the lost territory.

"Li Xiucheng always thought that Shanghai was easy to bully, one dozen two dozen three dozen fights, endlessly." There was a sneer on the corner of Guan Zhuofan's mouth, "This time, let him know that it hurts." ”

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The garrison is in front of the South Bridge, and Huang Wenjin, who served as the commander of the Taiping Army's South Road, is Li Xiucheng's son-in-law, and he has always been extremely unconvinced that his wife and brother Li Rongfa died in the hands of Xuan Jun, and he hated Guan Zhuofan and Wu Jianying. If it weren't for Li Xiucheng's strict order, ordering him to only defend and not attack, he would have attacked Nanqiao on a large scale a long time ago.

"Rongfa is still too young!" He often said to the left and right with a heartache, "I fell for the poisonous plan of Guan Demon Head, and Wu Jianying, a dog who was in battle against the water, and then I lost the battle." This time, if it weren't for King Zhong's military order, I would have broken the South Bridge and cut off Wu Jianying's head to pay tribute to Rong Fa's spirit in the sky. ”

"Dashuai, it's better to be careful." The left and right inevitably reminded him, "Last time, the Xuan army was only three or four thousand, but now it has exceeded 10,000, so I can't be careless." ”

"What's so great about Xuan Jun? After so many days, that's it. Huang Wenjin was disdainful, "Among the demons, Zhao Jingxian, who can fight the most, is not the same in my hands!" ”

The Zhao Jingxian he said was indeed a person who was extremely capable of fighting in the official army, and such a person was taken down by him, and other people were not in his eyes Huang Wenjin.

Thirty-seven-year-old Zhao Jingxian is the minister of Huzhou League Training, and he is actually the governor of Fujian. He is a native of Huzhou, born in a person, but heroic and strategic, has been leading troops to fight with the Taiping Army in Zhejiang, played a great reputation, is in addition to the Hunan Army, rare can make the Taiping Army feel feared by the figure, plus can be civil and martial, so he has been with Hu Linyi who died of illness, Jiang Zhongyuan who died in battle was called "three masters".

When Hangzhou was besieged by the Taiping army, all the reinforcements stopped at a standstill, but Zhao Jingxian was the only one who fought bravely and led the troops to advance the camp, breaking more than ten Zika of Tan Shaoguang's department.

After Hangzhou was broken, Zhao Jingxian retired to Huzhou, and resisted Huang Wenjin's 30,000 army with 4,000 soldiers. wanted to besiege the city and trap him, but Zhao Jingxian used a sailor to run a boat to firmly defend the big money mouth of Taihu Lake, and the Taiping army could not besiege him.

Unexpectedly, it was only November, and the climate took a sharp turn, and it actually snowed two swans in a row, which froze the surface of the 500-mile Taihu Lake into a huge crystal. This time, the Taiping army was cheapened, stepped on the ice from Dongting East Mountain, seized the big money mouth without effort, and finally blocked the grain road leading to Huzhou outside. As soon as the relief was cut off, everyone knew that Huzhou had become a dangerous city, and as long as it took more than a month, it would be out of food, and it would be impossible to hold it anymore.

In such a situation, according to the rules, the city guards must live and die with the city. But this time, the imperial court actually issued an unprecedented edict, pointing out that Zhao Jingxian "supervised and led the regimental training, killed the thieves and defended the city, and among the ministers of the regimental training, he was the most unusually focused", not only rewarded the rank of political envoy, but also ordered him, the governor of Fujian, to "explain the incident and immediately go to Fujian lightly to perform his duties", which was actually to give him an excuse to get out of the city quickly.

That is to say, the imperial court already knew that Huzhou must not be protected, but the famous city can be abandoned, and the national scholars cannot be abandoned, hoping to keep Zhao Jingxian for future use.

In terms of the situation at that time, if Zhao Jingxian led his troops to kill, the Taiping army would not be able to stop him. But he couldn't let go of the more than 100,000 hometown elders in Huzhou City, so he refused to go out of the city, only wrote a bloody letter, sent someone to take it out, and sent it to his uncle Zhao Binglin in Shanghai, showing his determination to live and die with Huzhou.

Determined to die, the whole army was excited, and every time the city was opened, it was even more sharp. The generals of the Taiping army suffered enough, so they warned each other, did not fight with Zhao Jingxian, only built a fortress with large stones, and slowly advanced to the city to fight a protracted battle.

In this way, when it came to Layue, the city of Huzhou saw that the food stock was about to run out, and there was no way to defend it, and the Taiping army had already begun to plan to break the city. Who knew that Zhao Jingxian fought to the death with 2,000 people in the middle of the night, and in turn broke the eastern base of the Taiping Army! Even if it was broken, all the grain stored in the fort was swept away and moved back to the city -- it was an unprecedented miracle that in the midst of the hardships and hardships of the siege, he actually robbed the enemy's military rations to survive.

Relying on this batch of grain, Huzhou miraculously lasted for another three months before it broke in March of the first year of Tongzhi. When the city was broken, Zhao Jingxian was already in shape, and in the face of the Taiping army rushing over, he almost didn't even have the strength to raise his sword, and was finally captured.

In the battle of Huzhou, Huang Wenjin lost his troops and lost his generals, and less than 20,000 of the 30,000 people remained, so he hated Zhao Jingxian to the point that his teeth itched, but in the end he did not dare to disobey the order of his father-in-law Li Xiucheng, and still sent Zhao Jingxian to Suzhou to be imprisoned -- such a talent, Li Xiucheng made up his mind to persuade him to surrender and take it for his own use.

During this time, it was when Tan Shaoguang and Guan Zhuofan fought in Shanghai, but Huang Wenjin's troops had been dragged to the foot of Huzhou City, otherwise the Taiping Army would have more troops, and the final result of the Battle of Shanghai would be difficult to say.

But no matter what, Huang Wenjin defeated this famous general of the imperial court after all, which is something he is extremely proud of, so now he doesn't take Guan Zhuofan's Xuan army seriously. Even this night, his subordinates reported that there seemed to be an abnormal movement in the Xuan army in front, which did not arouse his vigilance.

"Isn't it like this every day this month!" Huang Wenjin said nonchalantly, "This is not Gaoqiao, without the help of foreign gunboats, the Xuan army will only make a small fuss, don't worry about them." Command all the camps to be on strict guard. ”

The order was passed on, and he drank three taels of wine as usual, took off only a pair of trousers, lay on the bed on all fours, and fell asleep soundly. When he slept until the early hours of the morning, an earth-shattering noise suddenly outside the tent woke him up from his dream, and he rolled over and fell to the ground.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? He got up and asked in a panic.

"Dashuai!" A personal soldier ran in from outside the tent in a rage, "The Xuan army has fired!" ”

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(Two more will be served.) ）

*(To be continued......)