In the face of Shi Dakai's pressing step by step, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang finally did not have to support it hard, retreated, first abandoned Changzhou, and then gave up Suzhou again, and all their forces shrank towards Songjiang Mansion.

Shi Dakai was really a little confused about the sudden change, although he had a certain upper hand in this battle, but it was not so easy to defeat the alliance of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, at least it would not be so fast.

"Give up Changzhou? What are you doing with Li Ergong? They can hold on for at least half a month, what kind of fame? ”

Shi Dakai shook his head fiercely and muttered: "No matter, since you want to run, then Lao Tzu will attack, take Changzhou first, now that my troops have the upper hand, the city walls of Changzhou City are strong, as long as they don't make mistakes, even if they have any conspiracy, they can't help themselves!" ”

Shi Dakai was sure that no matter how Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang played tricks, as long as they didn't divide their troops, the Hunan army and the Huai army would not be able to help themselves!

"Order, the army will take Changzhou immediately, and the two wings will protect Changzhou left and right, I want to see what tricks they want to play!"

Shi Dakai gave an order, and the army poured into Changzhou.

It's just that Shi Dakai had just gained a foothold in Changzhou and deployed his defenses, when the general of a reconnaissance battalion under his command ran over and shouted: "Yiwang, there's a letter from Henan!" ”

Shi Dakai raised his eyebrows, where is Henan? Could it be that Lai Wenguang can't support it so soon? No, Lai Wenguang and Zhang Zongyu control more than 100,000 troops, and Guo Ye's Baoding Town soldiers are only 20,000 at most, a disparity of nearly ten times, even if the Twist Army and the Taiping Army are not Guo Ye's opponents, at least it is not a problem to support them for a while, unless Guo Ye transfers a large number of troops from the surrounding areas, but now even if Guo Ye wants to transfer troops, there are no troops to adjust, the main green battalion in the Gyeonggi area has been taken away by Shengbao to Shaanxi, even if the remaining part is already in the defeat of Seng Lingqin, It's almost wiped out.

In this case, I really can't think of what else can happen in Henan, Lai Wenguang has always been cautious and resourceful, and there should be no problems.

"Call the messenger to me!"

"Chen Jiao, the commander of the Ruzhou Taiping Army, see the Wing King!"

Shi Dakai frowned and asked, "Chen Jiao, are you from Ruzhou?" What is the situation in Henan now? ”

Chen anxiously said: "Yiwang, our Taiping army and the Twist Army have been defeated in Henan one after another, in a month and a half, the main force of the Twist Army and the Northern Taiping Army has been surrounded and suppressed by the Qing Demon, Guo Ye led the Qing Demon to conquer Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Zheng County and Kaifeng one after another, unstoppable!" ”

"What!"

Shi Dakai was really scared, more than 100,000 people were surrounded and suppressed by the Qing Demon, this is the main force in Henan! It's incredible that it only took a month and a half to make people like this!

"Bastard! What are Lai Wenguang and Zhang Zongyu eating! Even if the Taiping Army's combat strength is average, but the Twist Army has tens of thousands of cavalry, which is elite, comparable to the Upper Mongolian cavalry! They were surrounded and suppressed by the Qing Demon so quickly, what use did they have? ”

Shi Dakai roared angrily.

It's no wonder that Shi Dakai is angry, he was still predicting the battle situation in Henan just now, thinking that even if Lai Wenguang and Zhang Zongyu can't stop Guo Ye, at least they can hold on for a while, Guo Ye wants to recover Henan, how can it take more than half a year, half a year, it is the best time for him to wait for the opportunity to defeat the Hunan army and the Huai army, and occupy the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as he takes the entire rich land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the money and grain will roll in, and when the time comes, he will turn the gun and fight Guo Ye, so he has absolute certainty, I didn't expect it, In just a month and a half, the main force of Lai Wenguang and Zhang Zongyu made the family fall down, is there anything more wasteful than this in the world?

"King Yi, King Liang and King Zun have all been killed in the battle of Kaifeng......"

Chen Jiao said in a low voice.

Belch......

Shi Dakai was completely speechless, first Zhang Luoxing, the king of Wo, then Zhang Zongyu, and now Lai Wenguang, all of them died in the war, so next, the remaining half of Henan is not messed up? Without the Three Kings in charge, the Twist Army and the Taiping Army are a group of rabble, vulnerable to attack! In two months at most, the whole of Henan will definitely fall!

Is this Guo Ye really arrogant? Could it be that the situation he carefully created was going to be destroyed in the hands of this Guo Ye? Unwilling!

In a month and a half, he killed the three major commanders and wiped out hundreds of thousands of troops, such an ability, even Shi Dakai himself thought that he would never be able to do this, you must know that Guo Ye only had less than 20,000 troops!

The gap, that's the gap!

Shi Dakai slowly closed his eyes, what should he do next? If it is only the capture of Henan, it is not the most terrible, the terrible thing is that Guo Ye suddenly entered Anhui and threatened his base camp, Anhui is now almost the only province that controls the whole territory, once Guo Ye enters Anhui, it will shake the foundation of the Taiping Army, and now the southern camp is in Zhejiang, the east camp and the Chinese army camp have entered Jiangsu, the west camp is far away in Jiujiang and Anqing, and there is only one Beida battalion in the north for defense, the Beida battalion is only 40,000 people, and there is a lack of enough foreign guns and artillery, The combat power is average, and it will definitely not be able to stop Guo Ye's heroic!

Shi Dakai understood that it was time for him to withdraw his troops now, and Changzhou, which he had finally occupied, was afraid that he would not be able to keep it, Changzhou was far away from Tianjing, almost four or five hundred miles away, and he was alone outside the kingdom of heaven, with enemies on three sides, and it was too difficult to defend himself, and it was impossible for him to leave too many troops when he returned to the division, but unfortunately, for the safety of the base camp, he had to give up the plan to capture southern Jiangsu!

"Summons, summon all the important generals, quick!"

Shi Dakai shouted.

The herald hurriedly ran out and summoned the generals.

"Guo Ye, is it really so powerful? It seems that I still have to take precautions and make a good deployment, but unfortunately, it would be great if the brothers were still there, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng and other people can not be alone, now, the old ability is insufficient, the young experience is insufficient, and it is still immature, it is the time when the green and yellow are not connected, but it is really a headache......"

Shi Dakai frowned, thinking bitterly about the next countermeasures, if his prediction is not bad, he will face an absolutely complicated situation, facing the Hunan army, the Huai army and the Chu army in the east, and Guo Ye, an unknown deadly threat in the north, who will die, but it is difficult to predict!

(To be continued.) )