After carefully asking about the situation of the messenger sent by Liu Lichuan, Wu Chaoyue realized that he had misunderstood Liu Lichuan. The counterattack of Zhenjiang was not the idea of ​​Yang Wending and Liu Lichuan, but the masterpiece of the imperial envoy Xiang Rong and the new Jiangnan admiral Deng Shaoliang, and passed the tactical plan approved by the Emperor Xianfeng Emperor, and the Qing army in Jiangyin also had to act in accordance with the order.

But it was not completely wronged Liu Lichuan. Wu Chaoyue had long emphasized the importance of Jiangyin's heavy land to the rear of Shanghai. When Xiang Rong, Deng Shaoliang and others did not name the Shanghai regiment training to participate in the war, Liu Lichuan, who was so obsessed with greed, never consulted Wu Chaoyue's opinions. He agreed to help Yang Wending counterattack Zhenjiang at once. He shamelessly reached out to ask Wu Chaoyue for bullets and grenades, and used the precious silver of the old Wu family to earn his official position.

Due to the constraints of transportation conditions, even the direct training team was unable to fully arm all the troops. Of course, Wu Chaoyue did not want to give Liu Lichuan another bullet. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue was even more unwilling to Liu Family Army to participate in the Zhenjiang counterattack, but hesitated for a long time and was hesitant.

Fortunately, Wu Chaoyue now has a very reliable aide Zhao Liewen. Someone has discussed it when encountering problems. After calling Zhao Liewen to explain the situation, Zhao Liewen immediately told Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, you cannot object to this matter, and you cannot use official civil order to prohibit Liu Lichuan from participating in the war. Although Liu Lichuan is your subordinate, he is now standing behind Jiangsu Governor Yang Wending. If you openly ban Liu Lichuan from participating in the war, you will not only give him a handle, but will fail to counterattack Zhenjiang in the future. Maybe you will take the blame for the crushing defeat of Zhenjiang."

Wu Chaoyue frowned and nodded, and said with a distressed expression: "I know this. If I firmly refuse to allow Liu Lichuan to participate in the war, then in the future, the counterattack of Zhenjiang will fail. Yang Wending and Deng Shaoliang will definitely insist that they were defeated because I pulled them back. But if I agree to let Liu Lichuan participate in the war, if Zhenjiang cannot fight and pay this army that can barely defend Jiangyin, then my trouble will definitely be even greater."

"It's not that if Zhenjiang cannot be defeated, it's that it's definitely impossible to defeat it." Zhao Liewen said in a shocking way, saying: "In Brother Yu's opinion, the Zhenjiang counterattack that the court decided to launch this time was completely a blind command by the emperor and the court, shirking responsibility, and Deng Shaoliang forced the ducks to put them on the shelves. He had no chance of winning. Before the war began, he was doomed to suffer a crushing defeat."

I had long discovered that Zhao Liewen did not like Emperor Xianfeng and the Qing court very much. Wu Chaoyue was not surprised by Zhao Liewen's words. Zhao Liewen was becoming more and more arrogant and said: "Weiting, Xiang Rong stationed troops to Xiaolingwei, and established a Jiangnan camp twenty miles east of Jiangning City. Do you think he was really trying to attack Changmao's main force to restore Jiangning? On the contrary, his actions were actually the most clever passive fear of war, avoiding the decisive battle with Changmao's main force!"

Here we must introduce the situation of Xiang Rong and the Qing army's Jiangnan camp. As mentioned earlier, due to the repeated forced by Emperor Xianfeng, Xiang Rong was forced to lead 50,000 Qing troops to Jiangpu. Yang Xiuqing chose to take the initiative to retreat and hand over Jiangpu small county for strategic reasons, so that Xiang Rongbai could choose a contribution to the restoration of Jiangpu. Then, under the forced force of Emperor Xianfeng, Xiang Rong crossed the Yangtze River south, took the lead and touched the Xiaoling Guard, and fought two small battles with the Taiping Army in the field. Then Yang Xiuqing didn't know what medicine he had taken, and suddenly chose to retreat to defend the city. Xiang Rong also took the opportunity to set up a camp in the Xiaoling Guard and established the Jiangnan Camp, which was well-known in history.

Then, a very ridiculous scene happened. When the old nest in Nanjing was directly threatened by Xiang Rong, the Taiping Army used the wing king Shi Dakai as the commander of the Western Expedition, sent troops to counterattack Taiping Prefecture, Wuhu and Anqing and other upstream cities, while Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan's troops were used as the Northern Expedition Army, and went to Liuhe and Chuzhou to attack Fengyang. The two groups divided the troops and ignored the Jiangnan camp that was close to each other. Xiang Rong shouted slogans and took back Nanjing and restored Jiangning, while staying safe with the Jiangning Taiping Army twenty miles away and did not invade each other.

Back to the topic, after listening to the question raised by Zhao Liewen, Wu Chaoyue, who had long been full of doubts about this, immediately asked: "Xiang Rong established the Jiangnan Camp and confronted the main force of Changmao, which is actually for the purpose of passive fear of war? How can this be solved?"

"Xiang Rong and Hong Yangfa Ni have a tacit understanding!" Zhao Liewen said even more astonishingly, saying: "Brother Yu dare not say that Xiang Rong and Hong Yangfa Ni secretly colluded, but they can be sure that they have a tacit understanding! Hong Yangfa Ni tacitly agreed to station Xiang Rong's troops in Xiaolingwei, and asked Xiang Rong to give the court an explanation, which also made the court dare not mobilize Xiang Rong's army; Xiang Rong acquiesced Hong Yangfa Ni tacitly opened up the territory and expanded the territory with empty troops in the court, and everyone was happy!"

Zhao Liewen's analysis once shocked and surprised Wu Chaoyue, but after careful consideration, Wu Chaoyue found that this was not alarmist. The current situation was indeed very beneficial to both the Taiping Army and Xiang Rong. The Taiping Army only needed to put out a little power to restrain Xiang Rong's main force and take the opportunity to free up his hands to expand territory. Xiang Rong only needed to be stationed in Xiaoling Guard to explain to the Qing court, so there was no need to worry about being forced to take a risk of battle with the Taiping Army three times a day. If Xiang Rong had no tacit understanding with the Taiping Army, he would probably not even believe the ghost.

After observing his words and expressions, seeing that Wu Chaoyue had already recognized his analysis, Zhao Liewen continued: "The so-called Zhenjiang counterattack is actually the product of Xiang Rong and Hong Yangfa's tacit understanding! In the current situation, ghosts know that Zhenjiang cannot be fought, but Xiang Rong submitted a request to launch the Zhenjiang counterattack. The purpose is nothing more than to give the court an explanation, so that the court feels that even if he does not move, it is also extremely important. At least it can make Changmao unable to take action to reinforce Zhenjiang."

"But in fact? Zhenjiang's battle was not his Xiang Rong's fight. It was not someone else's responsibility if he lost. It was Deng Shaoliang and others useless. But if a miracle happened and Deng Shaoliang captured Zhenjiang, his credit would definitely be indispensable! You can attack and retreat or defend. No matter whether you win or lose, he is invincible. Xiang Rong's wishful thinking, the imperial envoy, is really admirable!"

"It's really admirable." Wu Chaoyue nodded, admired her sincerely, and then said gritting her teeth: "But this bastard has made me suffer. As long as Yang Wending and Liu Lichuan defend Jiangyin, I could rest assured in Shanghai. Now, the old bastard Xiang Rong forced Yang Wending to counterattack Zhenjiang, and I would be in trouble."

"The trouble is very big." Zhao Liewen's views on this are both the same and very different, saying: "But Weiting, I think what you need to worry about is not to lose all Liu Lichuan's army, nor is it the survival of Jiangyin. In my opinion, Liu Lichuan's Lian Yong and Jiangyin will not encounter any danger."

Seeing Wu Chaoyue looking at him in confusion, Zhao Liewen explained: "Weiting, don't underestimate our Lord Yang of Futai. He was a Jinshi in the 13th year of Daoguang. He only took seventeen years to climb from a sixth-rank chief to a provincial governor and a provincial governor. How could he be good at it? He could not see through Xiang Rong's wishful thinking? He took a step back ten thousand steps, even if Yang Wending could not see through Xiang Rong's real intention, with his temper and character, how could he really lead the army and Changmao to the end, and would rather die than retreat?"

Thinking of the glorious history of Yang Wending running from Jiangning to Zhenjiang, and from Zhenjiang to Jiaoshan to Jiangyin, Wu Chaoyue nodded in focus and recognized Zhao Liewen's analysis. Zhao Liewen said: "From this, I dare to conclude that even if Yang Wending was forced by the court and the emperor to participate in the counterattack of Zhenjiang, he would definitely try his best to cheat and avoid fighting head-on with Changmao. If there is any slight disturbance, he will immediately flee back to Jiangyin with his army. So in my opinion, you should not worry about the safety of Jiangyin and Liu Lichuan. What you really should worry about is another more important point!"

"A more important point?" Wu Chaoyue was stunned. After a little calculation, Wu Chaoyue blurted out: "I was also forced to participate in the counterattack of Zhenjiang!"

"Yes, this is what you should worry about the most!" Zhao Liewen said firmly, "Although Xiang Rong does not have the power to mobilize our army to Zhenjiang to participate in the war, Yang Wending has the power. If he, the governor of Jiangsu, ordered you, Ning Zhenguan, to lead your army to Zhenjiang to participate in the war, would you go or not?"

Wu Chaoyue frowned, and then realized that what he should be worried about the most was actually this. If Governor Yang Wending ordered his subordinates to lead his army to Zhenjiang to participate in the war with official documents, what excuses he used to refuse to participate in this battle of defeat? The soldiers were not yet trained and lacked weapons and ammunition, would Yang Wen definitely listen to these excuses? Will the Qing court and the IX Emperor Xianfeng?

Worried, Wu Chaoyue could only ask Zhao Liewen quickly: "Since that's the case, how to deal with it?"

"Prepare for the future, bow your head to ask for peace to Yang Wending, seeking to establish an interest alliance with him." Zhao Liewen answered very simply, and then said quickly: "Weiting, I know that your Wu family and Yang Wending have had a marriage, so it will definitely be embarrassing to ask for peace to him. But in the officialdom, those who will serve as officials for the benefit of the interests of the irreconcilable enemy, even if they kill their fathers, can work together, but I don't know if you can do this."

Zhao Liewen underestimated some of Wu Chaoyue in this regard. It is true that Wu Chaoyue is a hedgehog, but Wu Chaoyue understands the principle of the importance of which is more important than anyone else. So Wu Chaoyue didn't even blink his eyelids and immediately said: "This is okay. Yang Wending is my boss and my elder. How can he lose face when bowing to him? I have no problem, I just don't know if there will be any problem with Yang Wending."

"There will be no problem with Yang Wending." Zhao Liewen replied without thinking: "Weiting, you forgot. You had previously offered to send reinforcements to Yang Wending to help him guard Jiangyin. He not only agreed at once but also leaned the reinforcements you sent as the Great Wall. This is enough to show that Yang Wending is a person who can distinguish the importance of the matter. So as long as you bow to him and let him know that accepting your bowing and asking for peace will be equally beneficial to him, then he will never refuse."

"What should I do?" Wu Chaoyue asked again quickly.

"Let me go to Jiangyin and bow to Yang Wending for peace for you." Zhao Liewen replied: "I will tell him in person that as long as he doesn't force you to pull you into the battlefield of Zhenjiang. When Zhenjiang counterattack failed, he was forced to retreat to Jiangyin. If Changmao chased him closely, you would definitely send troops to help him, do your best to help him win a battle and give an explanation to the court!"

"Will Yang Wen agree?" Wu Chaoyue asked worriedly.

"He will definitely agree!" Zhao Liewen answered decisively, saying: "This Zhenjiang counterattack was planned and initiated by Xiang Rong. The new Jiangnan Admiral Deng Shaoliang serves as the commander-in-chief of the front line. There is a tall one to hold on. Yang Wending will not worry that the court will use him as a scapegoat after Zhenjiang's defeat. All he needs to worry about is Changmao chasing him closely and choosing to take Jiangyin as his next goal. You promise to help him defend Jiangyin with all your strength, just facing his appetite. With his old traitor, it is impossible not to agree!"

I thought Zhao Liewen's analysis was very reasonable. Wu Chaoyue didn't even blink his eyelids and immediately said, "Huifu, then I'll help you work hard. I'll give you 10,000 taels of silver for you to control."

"Xie Weiting trusts."

Zhao Liewen bowed, and was indeed very excited about Wu Chaoyue's trust and obedience to him. Wu Chaoyue waved his hand and smiled and said, "I'm wrong. I thank you, right? With you Huifu in the officialdom, I don't have to worry about things!"

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In Zhao Lie's article, when he rushed to Jiangyin on behalf of Wu Chaoyue to negotiate secretly with Yang Wending, Yang Wending, who was famously petty, made things difficult for him, finally accepted the 6,000 taels of silver from Zhao Liewen with both hands, nodded and agreed to establish an offensive and defensive alliance with Wu Chaoyue, and agreed not to recruit Wu Chaoyue to Zhenjiang to participate in this battle of defeat. When Zhao Liewen was overjoyed, Yang Wending said again: "Don't rush to thank you for now. Master Zhao, it's no point in saying that Wu Daotai has to come up with something practical to guarantee it?"

Zhao Liewen was stunned and thought to himself that you have already received 6,000 taels of silver. Do you think it is not enough? After a little change of thought, Zhao Liewen misunderstood Yang Wending's meaning, so he asked carefully: "Master Futai, is it enough to double the worship that year's holiday?"

"Master Zhao misunderstood." Yang Wending said with a smile: "Wu Daotai built an army to train troops, bought guns and cannons to hoard food and grass. It is just when money is needed everywhere. How can I bear to add burden to him in this regard? I want him to double the New Year's Day worship?"

"Don't you want money?" Zhao Liewen was extremely smart this time, but he couldn't guess Yang Wending's real intention. He could only ask more carefully: "So Master Futai, what do you want Wu Daotai to do?"

"When I was chatting with Liu Lichuan and Liu Lianguan, I heard Liu Lianguan say that Wu Daotai not only has no marriage to this day, but also has not even arranged a marriage." Yang Wending smiled even more relaxedly, and also smiled extremely treacherously, saying: "I have a granddaughter, who is thirteen this year, which is about the same age as Wu Daotai..."

Zhao Liewen completely convinced Yang Wending, the old fox, and admired the long-term vision of this old fox. Wu Chaoyue had already become a fourth-grade Taoist platform at the age of 18. He was good at fighting and had a bright future. It was a potential stock that could not be found. Yang Wending forced Wu Chaoyue to marry his granddaughter, not only to win more guarantees for the glory and wealth of his descendants, but also to send Wu Chaoyue to him with a more legitimate plan. He killed two birds with one stone and was no worse than another old fox Xiang Rong!

Understand that Yang Wending's wishful thinking was impossible. Just because he had something to ask for help, Zhao Liewen could only bite the bullet and answer: "Mr. Futai, this matter is very important. Please forgive the students for not daring to make decisions for Weiting. The students can only report to Wu Daotai truthfully and ask him to make a decision on his own."

"It's okay, go back and tell Wu Daotai, I'm waiting for his good news." Yang Wending, who is famously petty, is rare to be generous once. He nodded and agreed that he could wait patiently for Wu Chaoyue's reply.

Yang Wending did this, by no means a whim. During the Jiangning War, Yang Wending made an excuse to escape from the city first, and during the Zhenjiang War, Yang Wending abandoned the city again and fled. In fact, Emperor Xianfeng had issued an order to arrest Yang Wending at that time, all because Wu Chaoyue sent troops to help Yang Wending protect Jiangyin and barely fought a victory and arrested a general of the Taiping Army. Emperor Xianfeng changed the punishment for Yang Wending to be demoted to third-level crimes.

At that time, Yang Wending had actually wanted to form an interest alliance with Wu Chaoyue, but because he had a deep holiday with the old Wu family before, Yang Wending couldn't help but bow his head to seek peace with the old Wu family. Now that Wu Chaoyue has taken the initiative to extend an olive branch to Yang Wending due to the situation, Yang Wending certainly has to seize the opportunity to sell the power in his hands at a good price and take the opportunity to establish a stronger in-law relationship with Wu Chaoyue.

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As a time traveler, Wu Chaoyue certainly could not accept marrying a girl who didn't know what the company commander looked like as a wife, and he couldn't bear to put Xiao Luoli, who was actually only twelve years old at most, under his body to ravage. So after hearing Yang Wending's request brought back by Zhao Liewen, Wu Chaoyue was stunned on the spot. Maybe he didn't dare to make a decision for a long time. In the end, Wu Chaoyue had to adopt the method of dragging words and gritted his teeth and said, "Wait, wait and see, maybe there is no need to go to that point."

The ideal is full of reality and skinny, and the cruel facts quickly completely shattered Wu Chaoyue's dream. In the situation where no discerning eyes are optimistic, the Qing army's counterattack on Zhenjiang finally began vigorously. According to the dispatch of the imperial envoy Xiang Rong, the new Jiangnan Admiral Deng Shaoliang led the eight thousand Qing army to set off from the Jiangnan camp and attack east by land. General Hechun commanded the three thousand navy troops to advance on the water. Jingkou deputy commander Wenyi led the two thousand Qing army to set off from Danyang to head north. Yang Wending also led more than 2,500 soldiers who had been pieced together from Jiangyin to go upstream, and cooperated with the troops and horses to attack Zhenjiang City from all directions! Then...

Then, he was naturally defeated! After the Qing army's front-line commander-in-chief Deng Shaoliang led his army to meet with Wenyi at Gantangqiao, he found that Luo Dagang, the garrison commander of Zhenjiang of Taiping Army, divided his troops to defend Guazhou. The troops in Zhenjiang were relatively empty. Deng Shaoliang and Wenyi were greedy for merit and led their troops forward, but they were ambushed by the Taiping Army. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Taiping Army fighting with the Qing Army at Guanyin Mountain, the Taiping Army ambushed in the woods of Buding Mountain suddenly broke out and attacked the Qing army behind the Qing army. The Qing army was defeated and killed more than 300 people by the Taiping Army.

Then, as agreed, General He Chunhe, who should attack Guazhou Island, reported to the court as a matter of course that the Taiping Army was closely guarded in the Guazhou area of ​​Zhenjiang and had many forts, and there were no chance of advancing. The Qing Navy was forced to retreat to the old Jiangkou. Yang Wending and Yang Futai were even more slippery. As soon as he received this news, he immediately hid on Jiangxin Island in Taipingzhou. He used the excuse that he could not contact Deng Shaoliang and other troops, and he refused to move forward to Zhenjiang. He even slept on the boat and was ready to run to Jiangyin at any time.

Under such circumstances, the two first-rank officials, Xiang Rong and the commander-in-chief of the front, Deng Shaoliang, were naturally reminded of Wu Chaoyue, the famous Qing general of the Qing Dynasty. Although they did not have the power to directly dispatch Wu Chaoyue to lead their troops to Zhenjiang to participate in the war, they also in unison forced Yang Wending, who had this power, to order Wu Chaoyue to join the war. While Yang Wending explained the training and weapons issues for Wu Chaoyue, he smiled and sent people to Shanghai to send letters from Xiang Rong, Deng Shaoliang and others to make decisions on his own.

Of course, Wu Chaoyue understood Yang Wending's meaning very well. Yang Wending would not agree to marry his granddaughter today. Tomorrow, Yang Wending could not withstand the pressure from Xiang Rong and Deng Shaoliang and ordered Wu Chaoyue to Zhenjiang to participate in this battle of defeat! Forced, Wu Chaoyue had to order Zhao Liewen with tears in his eyes and said, "Hui Fu, write back to Yang Wending for me and tell him that I will send someone to his hometown in Dingyuan and propose to his granddaughter."

"Weiting, have you decided?" Zhao Liewen asked with a wry smile: "Are you really planning to marry Yang Futai's granddaughter?"

"Anyway, I want to marry me, just marry me." Wu Chaoyue said with a sad face: "My grandfather has forced me to marry a wife all day long. Instead of letting him marry someone I have never seen before, it is better to use it for me to do business for myself."

Seeing Wu Chaoyue's painful expression as if his parents had died, Zhao Liewen wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. He could only quickly write a letter for Wu Chaoyue and help Wu Chaoyue agree to accept Yang Wending's extortion. Wu Chaoyue sighed to the sky, "Good luck makes people feel bad. I didn't expect that I would sacrifice my lust, and I didn't expect that my lifelong happiness would be ruined by myself!"

"God blessed, I hope that Yang Wending's granddaughter is still good-looking, not too beautiful, as long as it is good-for-life. Jesus blesses Amitabha." (To be continued.)
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