In the distance, a general, who was also dressed in an earth-gray thief uniform, stood up and replied loudly: "Lord Zeng, Peng Yulin of Hengzhou Mansion is so polite!" Lord Zeng's move to save thousands of lives is a great good! ”

After speaking, he raised his head and looked at Zeng Guofan, whose face was crumbling like ashes, with a look of unbearability, and said, "What Lord Zeng said, Peng already knows." Pen%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info Peng can make his own claim and agree to Lord Zeng's request to surrender! The captives of our Holy Kingdom will never kill prisoners for no reason, and this must be clear to adults! In this case, please lead your men to lay down their weapons and surrender! ”

Zeng Guofan looked at the polite, elegant but majestic Peng Yulin, and suddenly felt in his heart, it turned out that this was Peng Yulin, the handsome sailor in Hunan who he had asked to visit but couldn't visit, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, no wonder the Yue thief could do such a thing, even Zuo Zongtang, Guo Songtao and the Peng Yulin-like figure in front of him could be in the bag, think about it, the thief chief Feng Yunshan, who called himself the Holy King, didn't know what he looked like.

Although Zeng Guofan knew that the main envoy he had assassinated was this person, and the culprit who had fallen to the current field was also this person, he did not resent him much in his heart, but felt a kind of melancholy that he could not meet.

Because, if he were himself, he would do the same. This is a kind of sympathy between heroes, Zeng Guofan can even feel that the thief chief who is far away in Guangdong has always been very concerned about himself, otherwise, he would not be so deliberately plotting to kill himself, attack himself, and not let himself have any space and time for development.

However, all this has nothing to do with me!

He calmly said to Peng Yulin: "Thank you, General Peng!" Zeng immediately sent an order to go down, so that all the Hunan army brothers in the city would surrender to your army. They are all villagers from Munan, and I hope that General Peng will not embarrass them and let Zeng's family go! After speaking, Zeng Guofan no longer looked at Peng Yulin.

He turned around, looked deeply at the brothers, and suddenly shouted: "Brothers, for the sake of the brother to affect the family, even to you!" I hope that this last one will make General Peng treat you well! Those who listened to their brothers have all descended to the Holy Kingdom, and the Qing Dynasty is no longer good. If I had known earlier, hehe....."

After speaking, the hand under the robe flipped over, but it was a short sword, and I don't know when, Zeng Guofan hid the short sword that had fallen in the robe again. At this moment, he suddenly shook out, and in the cries of the Zeng brothers, and in the screams of thousands of Hunan soldiers, he slammed into his abdomen.

This model of a generation of famous ministers who should have been famous in modern Chinese history, at this moment, fell on the street at the mouth of the alley in this Wuchang City.

The Zeng brothers hugged up and cried with confidence. These Hunan army soldiers, who had a lot of complaints about Zeng Guofan, also had moist eyes at the moment, after all, what Lord Futai said in the end, let that General Peng not embarrass them.

Peng Yulin was also shocked there!

He shouted, "Mr. Zeng, why do you have to do this!? The Holy King is talking to you, although he knows that you will not surrender to the Holy Kingdom, but he also orders Peng to accept it with all his heart. Unexpectedly, Peng was about to speak, so he ......"

Zeng Guofan endured the severe pain in his abdomen, and when he heard Peng Yulin's words, he had a kind of recognized achievement.

And Zeng Guoquan next to him, but picked up the sharp knife in his hand, and wanted to lead the troops to step forward to kill Peng Yulin, as soon as he took a step, he was pulled by Zeng Guofan violently, and with all his strength, he said with difficulty: "Lao Jiu, listen to the words of the eldest brother, surrender to General Peng!" The eldest brother is begging for death by himself, and the eldest brother is tired, so he has to take a good rest, and by the way, he can accompany his parents and be filial to the two of them. ”

Under Zeng Guoquan's difficult support, he yelled at several people with great difficulty: "Promise me, surrender ......" and then turned his head to look at Liu Rong and Taqibu and the soldiers of the Hunan army.

Seeing that his mouth was full of blood and terrifying, the Zeng brothers suddenly felt that their hearts were like knives, and they nodded tearfully and agreed.

And Liu Rong and Taqib, one of whom is Zeng Guofan's long-term friend, naturally understands that Zeng Guofan is protecting them, and the other is Zeng Guofan's hand-picked confidant, and he has long regarded Zeng Guofan as his father and teacher. Taqibu ordered the generals of the Hunan army to throw down their weapons on the spot, and the clanging sound was non-stop.

Zeng Guofan looked at the people who were about to surrender, his eyes became fluttering, but there was a sense of relief in his heart for no reason. When he was dying, his thoughts were spinning like flying.

A few days ago, in the city of Wuchang, he searched for several fine works, instigating the officers and soldiers of the Hunan army to turn their backs on him, leave Wuchang, and return to their hometowns to live. After severely torturing these people, he learned that only one of these people was sent by the Cantonese thieves to spread rumors, and the rest turned out to be the original Hunan army soldiers who spontaneously spread the news for the Cantonese thieves.

After careful interrogation, he realized that after the Cantonese thieves occupied Munan, they carried out the redistribution of land, so that the landless tenants and the poor villagers with little land had land to plant, and confiscated the fields of the official gentry like himself as public land, rented them to the villagers for cultivation, and bought the hearts of the people, and won the support of the people in most areas, including his hometown Xiangxiang.

The Cantonese thieves set up township offices in the occupied areas and helped the people through the township officials to gain the approval of the villagers. In the Xiangxiang area, the elders of their hometown quickly fell to the Cantonese thieves, and used various means to make the children of their hometowns who participated in the Hunan army leave them.

Thinking of this, Zeng Guofan thought that the Cantonese thief would become strong after two years of hard work. He had long heard that he had followed the example of the West in his jurisdiction, wantonly set up factories and mines, built railways, and manufactured guns and warships.

If you become a member of the imperial court, what should you do, can you be as good as a Cantonese thief? A thought suddenly popped up in his heart: "I have failed!" Perhaps what the Cantonese thieves have done is the real way to enrich the people and strengthen the country. But I didn't have a chance to see it again. ”

He only felt that his heart was empty at the moment, and suddenly spit out a few mouthfuls of blood, and his abdomen cramped sharply, he knew that time was running out, so he grabbed Zeng Guohuang's arm with great effort, and said hoarsely: "Guohuang, after I leave, you will be the eldest brother of the Zeng family, take good care of your younger brothers, and my children." ”

After speaking, Zeng Guofan shouted: "The time is not in me!" The arms that were grabbed by Zeng Guohuang and Zeng Guoquan loosened, and they passed away suddenly.

…….

Because of Zeng Guofan's order, the main generals of the Hunan army and the thousands of Hunan soldiers surrendered at the entrance of the street, and it became extremely easy for the captive army to occupy Wuchang.

In the city, the Hunan soldiers who guarded the city gate were already rumoring in private that the Holy Kingdom had long lost the heart to resist if they treated their relatives well, but wanted to serve the Holy Country as soon as possible and return to their hometowns to farm. Even, spontaneously organized to force the already pitiful green battalion soldiers in Wuchang City to surrender together.

However, the Hunan army sailors in the sand lake outside the city were divided into two factions.

First, Yang Zaifu and Zou Shouzhang, both from the south of the country, obeyed Zeng Guofan's words, and saw that the Hunan army under them was in their hearts, so they took advantage of the situation to surrender to the 10th Division of the Naval Division of the Capture Army.

The other is Chu Ruhang and Xia Luan. Chu Ruhang and Xia Luan were both from Jiangsu, a place where literati flourished, and they were deeply influenced by the Manchu Qing Dynasty's loyal monarch thoughts, and they only wanted to repay the country with death. Hearing that the governor Zeng Guofan ordered the Hunan army to surrender to the Cantonese thieves before committing suicide, he was very unwilling and forcibly ordered the Hunan army soldiers to rush out of the Shahu Lake, wanting to kill the Yangtze River and flee to the north.

Helplessly, the soldiers of the Hunan army under his command are all children of Hengzhou, Yuezhou, and Changsha, and they are rumored that their hometown is very good under the rule of Cantonese thieves, and they are unwilling to fight against the holy country again. So, under the leadership of his subordinate sentinels, they rebelled out of the sailors, went straight to the shore, and surrendered to the 3rd Division and Wei Junbu on the shore of Shahu Lake.

Chu Ruhang and Xia Luan had to lead less than half of the Hunan army officers and soldiers in the camp, a total of more than 400 people, to flee to the mouth of Shahu, but they were blocked there by the 10th Division of the B Division several rounds of artillery fire, sinking a few long dragon boats, the Hunan army sentry officers under their hands chilled, and lowered a few more posts, in the end, only Chu Ruhang and Xia Luan's flagship fast crab boat plus three henchmen and sentinels of the three long dragon boats, were surrounded and intercepted by the 10th Division and Tang Zhengcai Zhang Zipeng's department, the whole army was annihilated, Chu Ruhang and Xia Luan would rather die than surrender, and committed suicide by throwing themselves into the water.

Qinglin, the governor of Mubei, and Lao Guangtai, the governor of Wuchang Mansion, who escaped not far from the city, were soon caught up by the 300 cavalry led by Wei Jun, and after killing dozens of people, Feng Peiyuan, the governor of Mubei and Lao Guangtai, the Tongzhi of Wuchang Mansion, would rather die and commit suicide, but Qinglin, the governor of Mubei, surrendered immediately after being surrounded by Wei Jun.

At this point, the entire Wuchang area was conquered by the captive army.