Although the battle of Chaozong Street turned defeat into victory, the losses were really not small!
Forty-eight of the male saint soldiers were killed, and 41 were seriously injured! Eight of the female saint soldiers were killed...including Luo Yaoguo's female guard Ji Chunhua, who was only 28 years old, and her face was always pink. The girl was hit in the slender, white neck by a lead bullet fired by the Hunan Army's gunners on Chaozongmen Street. She bled a lot and was already dead when she was brought back.
Wang Xier, who had been with her for several months, was now shedding pearly tears while cleaning up her body and changing her bloody clothes.
And Luo Yaoguo looked at the young girl who had been silently by his side since the coir raincoat crossing turned into a cold corpse. He thought of how this little girl had taken care of him these days, and how he had followed him in reading "Anti-Jing" 》 He was so serious at the time that his eyes were a little moist.
Su Sanniang had seen many comrades die, so she didn't look too sad. But when she saw Luo Yaoguo's sad face, she also showed sadness. When she saw Jin Aduo being brought in, Su Sanniang was still cold and nervous. Pointing at him, he said: "You dare to come back, you Eight Flags Dog slave?"
"Don't dare, don't dare, I'll leave right away." Jin Aduo heard what Su Sanniang said and immediately turned around to leave. "Come back!" Of course Luo Yaoguo couldn't let Jin Aduo run away, so he quickly shouted.
The two female Taiping soldiers guarding the door of the shop immediately drew their swords and blocked Jin Aduo's way.
When Jin Aduo realized something was wrong, he quickly turned around and limped to Luo Yaoguo. Then he leaned on a stick, knelt down with difficulty, and bowed to Luo Yaoguo. "How is it? See you Zuo Jigao?" Luo Yaoguo asked with a stern face.
"I saw it," Jin Aduo said, "Zuo Jigao is at the Chao Zongmen. He has more than a thousand Hunan regiments in his hands. He is very fierce..." "Sure enough!"
Luo Yaoguo thought to himself: "Except for him, no one can damage this angel's 'physical body'!" "What did he say?" Luo Yaoguo asked coldly.
"He, he agreed to meet with Mr. Angel on the white ground of Chao Zongmen Rice Market..." Jin Aduo told Luo Yaoguo exactly what Zuo Zongtang asked for the meeting. "Okay, okay..."
Luo Yaoguo said "Okay" several times, then changed his face and said with a smile: "I have admired Mr. Ji Gao for a long time, and I have long wanted to meet him to discuss world affairs! A Duo, please go back again, Tell Mr. Ji Gao, when the fire in the Chao Zongmen rice market is extinguished, let’s meet on the ruins of the rice market!”
After saying that, he waved his hand, immediately stepped on two Taiping soldiers, and helped Jin Aduo out of the shop.
"I am Xiangyin civilian Zuo Zongtang. I have met your Excellency!"
"Your Majesty, Angel of Peace Luo Yaoguo, has met Mr. Ji Gao." Luo Yaoguo finally met Zuo Zongtang, one of the three heroes of the late Qing Dynasty!
On the white ground of the Chao Zongmen rice market where the fire was about to be extinguished, the two of them politely clasped their fists and saluted each other.
The soldiers on both sides retreated 150 steps away. On the commanding heights of Chaozongmen and Chaozong Street, there were people from both sides observing with binoculars. No one could even think of sneaking close. A fire had just passed. Among the ruins, there were only two of them, Zuo Zongtang and Luo Yaoguo.
Luo Yaoguo carefully looked at the short, fat man in front of him who was dressed in green cloth, wearing a small melon cap, standing with his hands behind his back. He had a round face, thick eyebrows, bright eyes, and seemed to have some wild air in his movements. This The madness in Hong Xiuquan can also be seen in Feng Yunshan!
They are all born in troubled times! "What a good man!"
Zuo Zongtang secretly praised Luo Yaoguo in his heart. Luo Yaoguo's figure was nothing at all among the post-00s generation in the 21st century, but in the late Qing Dynasty when per capita malnutrition was prevalent, he could be regarded as a burly man. Again. Coupled with his naturally righteous thick eyebrows and big eyes and an awe-inspiring aura of truth in my heart, although his right ear is wrapped with gauze, in today's troubled times, a good man has a few scars on his body to show his heroic qualities.
"The tall man who was shot by the Chen family's gunmen just now should be him, right?" Zuo Zongtang thought to himself, "Look at how he looks calm now, chatting and laughing with me. How can he look like he just escaped from death? Then He also wrote the three volumes of "Anti-Jing", right? I didn't expect that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom actually had a person like him!"
Even for a person like Zuo Zongtang, he felt that this son was definitely not a creature in the pond.
A few hours of fire turned 100,000 stones of rice and half of Chaozong Street into ashes. The air around him was still hot, but Luo Yaoguo was extremely calm in his heart. He was not burned by the fire because of the Hunan hero in front of him. Food rations for three hundred thousand people without any irritation.
Not only am I not angry, I am even very impressed!
He dumped the two to three million mouths of Changsha City as a burden to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and burned down the largest rice market in Hunan, causing Changsha in Luo Yaoguo's hands to suddenly fall into grain... In this way, Zuo Zongtang could use Changsha, which was suffering from a grain shortage, to The city trapped the Taiping Army. If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wanted Changsha, it would have to provide food rations for a population of two to three hundred thousand people. Not only could the Taiping Army not be able to obtain supplies within the city of Changsha, they would also have to raise food supplies from everywhere to supply Changsha.
But where can they go to collect food?
Chenzhou Prefecture, Guiyang Prefecture and the southern part of Yongzhou Prefecture, which have been firmly controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, are mostly mountainous. They don't have much food. They have raised so many mouths of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for several months. They have already spent the old foundation copied from the gentry and powerful people. It’s almost done. If we need to adjust the food supply from there, will the people’s hearts still need it?
As for raising grain from around Changsha City, the only big town controlled by the Taiping Army outside Changsha City is Zhuzhou Town. How much rice can be raised? To feed the 200,000 to 300,000 people in Changsha City, as well as the Taiping Army, the Taiping Army We must attack the counties and large towns along the Xiang River south of Changsha to raise food from there - the Xiangjiang waterway north of Changsha is not so easy to open, and if we attack cities and territories far away from the Xiangjiang River, even if we succeed, the food will not be transported for a while. To Changsha.
In addition, Zuo Zongtang does not necessarily give up the whole of Changsha. As long as he guards Tianxin Pavilion, Chaozongmen, Yingchunmen, and Tiefo Temple, relying on the support of the Xiangjiang River Waterway and the surrounding regiment training armies, he can always hold on for a period of time. And this period of time , it was enough for Zuo Zongtang and others to mobilize the gentry and organize group training in the territory north of Changsha and west of the Xiangjiang River.
If the Taiping Army abandons Changsha and abandons the city to go north to attack Wuchang and Jingzhou, then Zuo Zongtang and others will be able to recover the lost territory - of course they will organize a gentry regiment to recover the provincial capital! With such credit, they will be replaced by a bunch of Taoists, prefects, prefectures, and county magistrates Isn’t that an exaggeration?
Of course, the Taiping Army could also try not to care about the lives of these two to three hundred thousand people and let them starve to death.
But in this case, do we still need the ideal of "having food to eat together, clothing to wear together, fields to cultivate together, and money to work together"? There are tens of thousands of words in the first volume of "Anti-Jing", but none of them is as convincing as a city starving to death. If it were Yang Xiuqing and the warlord Xiao Chaogui came to fight, they might be able to do this. But Luo Yaoguo cannot do this. His "Tao" is different from those two...
In addition, even if Luo Yaoguo ignored the lives of the 200,000 to 300,000 people in Changsha City and divided his troops to seize the territory west of the Xiangjiang River and north of Changsha, the gentry regiments there were obviously armed, and it would not be as easy to succeed as in southern Hunan. Instead of smashing the sign, To seize those state capitals that are as hard-nosed, it is better to abandon Changsha and go north to pinch the soft persimmons... What a good calculation, no, it is not a calculation, this is a strategy!
Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo smiled and talked to Zuo Zongtang: "Mr. Ji Gao is indeed the Zhuge Kongming of today. He can make me passive everywhere after just a little trick. I admire you! It's a pity that Mr. Ji Gao is on the wrong team this time. Qing Yao My strength has been exhausted...Sir, please don’t treat Qing Yao as Ji Han, and don’t do anything you know you can’t do.”
Zuo Zongtang smiled, stroking his beard and said: "Where did Luo Tiantian come from? Luo Tian used three volumes of "Anti-Jing" to stir up the storm. He exposed the Manchu and Han family in the Qing Dynasty and was known as the Han official in the world. , The gentry knows that today's world is similar to the Yuan Dynasty... This is a great strategy! Zongtang admires it very much."
These two even cherish each other!
Luo Yaoguo said with a smile: "If what I know is correct, Mr. Ji Gao is still a commoner in Xiangyin, right? I think Mr. Ji Gao has Zhuge's ambitions and must live in the countryside to wait for the Lord. Now that the world is in chaos, he is already a good man. In the autumn of the founding of the nation, Xianfeng, the ruler of the barbarians, was by no means a wise ruler of the Han people. Sir, are you willing to serve in our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and work together to achieve great things?"
Chapter completed!