"Why can't you have an advantage? At the beginning of Baoding Mansion, I was also twenty or thirty thousand people, the entire Baoding Town troops were all suppressed, now our troops are stronger than before, but the strength of the Qing army is much less, as long as we arrange it properly, we are absolutely sure to kill the Qing army in Henan! King Zun, you insist on preventing me from using troops, don't you have some other intentions? You know, my uncle died in battle, don't you want to avenge him? ”

Lai Wenguang smiled bitterly: "Zong Yu, you should know my friendship with your uncle, the two of us have known each other since fifteen years ago, and we are like brothers and sisters, Brother Luo Xing died tragically, why don't I want to avenge him?" However, you should know better than me, that Guo Ye is back, he has taken over the military power of the entire North China, how powerful he is, don't you know better than me? At the beginning in Shandong, tens of thousands of twisted troops were defeated by his thousands of twisted troops, are foreigners powerful? The army of Tsarist Russia was beaten by him and fled, and the British and French forces could not bargain in front of him. ”

Zhang Zongyu said angrily: "So what? No matter how powerful he is, he wants to defeat our army of fifty or sixty thousand just by relying on a few thousand people? Dream! ”

Lai Wenguang really had no choice, and said: "Zong Yu, there is also, we are now retreating to Xinxiang, but it is a strategy to retreat, you have now swept away Anyang and Hebi, and now the red land is thousands of miles, and the grain of the Qing army needs to be transported from Zhili and Shandong, they are not good at logistics, and they have penetrated into the Xinxiang area, and there will be constraints from all sides, this time is the best time for us to attack, can't we wait for ten more days and half a month for revenge?" ”

Zhang Zongyu suddenly burst into tears, and said sadly: "King Zun, I really can't wait for a day......"

Lai Wenguang sighed and said: "If we can't wait, we have to wait, we rushed to the area of Anyang, and we are not sure of fighting to the death with the other party, and now we can retreat to Anyang, at least we can delay the war until ten days later, ten days later, we will have the certainty of a real victory, which one do you say we should choose?" ”

Zhang Zongyu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you sure of a decisive victory?" Where does this begin? ”

Lai Wenguang said in a deep voice: "It's very simple, King Yi has promised us to transfer 1,500 rifles and fifteen foreign cannons from the Taiping army to us, with our current strength far superior to the Qing army, if we are supported by foreign guns and artillery, you say, can we take the absolute initiative?" Moreover, the Qing army marched into Hebi, their supply line will be very long, we have a large number of cavalry, can continue to attack their supply line, as long as the war interrupts their food route, hold on, not long, the Qing army will be discouraged, will be defeated! ”

Zhang Zongyu's eyes lit up, and he said urgently: "Really? Did the Wing King really promise to transfer some foreign guns and cannons to us? ”

Lai Wenguang nodded and replied: "Now the Yiwang is confronting the Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army, and the Taiping army has a certain upper hand, but now Guo Ye's training army has gone south, plus the training army, the pressure on the Yiwang has increased sharply, and now there is no certainty that the whole Jiangsu can be taken, if there is a situation in Henan, and the Twist Army and the Taiping Army are defeated, the elite of Baoding Town will quickly go south, all the way to Anhui, and the back of the Yiwang will encounter a huge threat, and now the troops in northern Anhui are very empty, If Henan is lost, it will be difficult for the Taiping army to withstand the attack of the elite of Baoding Town in Anhui, so we will become the most powerful barrier for the Yiwang to resist the elite of Baoding Town, in order to be able to hold Henan, the Yiwang has to transfer a part of the foreign guns and cannons to us to use......"

"Haha......"

Zhang Zongyu said excitedly: "Okay, good!" With foreign guns and artillery, we no longer have to be afraid of the elite of Baoding Town, their, Lao Tzu is angry with them, fed up, they will only rely on excellent firearms for long-distance attacks, if there is no firearms to help, we would have surrounded them a long time ago! This time, we are armed with firearms, and I don't believe that they will be able to escape from the palm of our hands! ”

Zhang Zongyu is full of confidence, he has always thought that his twist army is China's first cavalry, whether it is the Eight Banners, or the Mongolian cavalry, or the cavalry encountered in Baoding, are not the opponents of the Twist Army cavalry, but unfortunately, the battle of Baoding, his own cavalry elite ten to seven or eight, followed by the battle of Lufeng Mountain, almost all the elites were lost, but even if the cavalry is not the original elite, it can still be beaten by the Qing army and fled!

Lai Wenguang smiled bitterly: "Zong Yu, okay, we can't be careless now, Baoding Town fights, to tell the truth, you just suffered a careless loss, divided the troops to attack, and the result was broken by others, stealing chickens and rice, we are against the Qing army again, then we must not make such a mistake again......

Zhang Zongyu's face turned red and replied, "King Zun, I understand." ”

Lai Wenguang is right, if he had concentrated all the twisted troops outside Baoding City, the 50,000 army would definitely be able to take Baoding Mansion, even if the elite of Baoding Town was powerful, it would not be able to withstand the attack of 50,000 cavalry; If the uncle did not only take seven or eight thousand people to attack Jinan at that time, but mobilized more than 10,000 troops to attack Jinan, then Jinan is now only afraid that it is already in the bag, the root of it, or he and his uncle underestimated the elite combat power of the training army and Baoding Town, there is no doubt that the elite equipped with a large number of firearms, its combat power is far from being comparable to the cavalry of the Twist Army.

"King Zun, how long will it take for the Winged King's firearms to arrive in Xinxiang?"

Zhang Zongyu couldn't help but ask.

Lai Wenguang muttered: "Well, now that part of the foreign guns and ammunition have left Tianjing, now I am afraid that they have entered the territory of Henan, if the speed is fast, we can reach Xinxiang in half a month at most, what we have to do is to avoid a hard-to-face battle with the Qing army within half a month, and wait for the arrival of firearms." ”

Half a month, it's not long, it's short, it's not short!

Now the Qing army has begun to cross Handan, and it will take half a month at most to reach Xinxiang, and the time is really tight enough......

Zhang Zongyu said in a deep voice: "King Zun, how do you plan to arrange the next time?" After all, concentrating all the troops in Xinxiang City, the pressure on this heavy supply is not small......"

Lai Wenguang smiled faintly and said: "It's okay, we are behind Zhengzhou, at this time, we must not divide the troops, the strength is weak, and the food is not enough, then mobilize food from Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, we must concentrate our troops and form a decisive battle with the other party." (To be continued.) )