"Mr. Guozong, all the brothers in the city are ready."

Wei Jun looked at the Hunan Army who was preparing to attack the city under the city, took a deep breath, and said to the generals: "Wuchang was surrounded, and the situation in Hubei was getting worse day by day. The prefectures and counties occupied by my heavenly soldiers were successively captured by the Hunan Army. Yesterday I received Tianjing

The emperor ordered our army to break through. Now the Hunan Army is not prepared under the city. Everyone obeys my order. After opening the city gate, the entire army rushed out of the city and defeated the Hunan Army. No pursuit is allowed. All teams drove to Jinkou to the west.

The town gathers, and there is my Tianjun Navy to help me.”

"Abide by the order"

Wei Jun said: "Open the city gate!"

"kill"

All ten thousand defenders in Wuchang City rushed out of the city. The Hunan Army troops were caught off guard. Looking at the aggressive Taiping Army, they threw down the ladder and ran back.

Looking at the troops in the headquarters that were about to collapse, Luo Zenan shouted vigorously: "Hold on, everyone come forward to kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"

After a while, the defeated soldiers submerged Luo Zenan, and there was only one-sided massacre on the battlefield. The Hunan Army's front formation collapsed the back formation. Li Xubin and others had no choice but to retreat with the defeated soldiers, intending to recruit the defeated soldiers from behind and regroup.

Seeing that the Hunan Army was defeated further and further away, Luo Zenan was so angry that his whole body trembled. He waved his sword to stop the defeated soldiers from meeting the enemy. He ran and shouted: "Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy... Everyone goes back to kill the enemy."

"Bang bang"

A burst of smoke floated by, and Luo Zenan lay weakly on the ground, suddenly feeling mocking in his heart. He didn't expect that he would die on the battlefield in this way.

The Hunan Army finally stopped fleeing to the Yangtze River. Li Xubin was gathering his army on the Yangtze River. In less than half an hour, he led the Hunan Army to yell at the city of Wuchang. The Taiping Army had long disappeared, and all he saw was a messy battlefield.

The Hunan Army flags were thrown all over the ground, with dead bodies facing the city walls, and many wounded soldiers lying on the ground wailing.

Li Xubin, Li Xuyi and others watched hundreds of injuries gathered in a circle, as if mourning something. When they thought that their mentors had disappeared, they had a premonition that they would not decline and rushed towards the other side.

When the wounded saw the magistrate rushing over, he shouted sparsely: "The magistrate is dead!"

Li Xubin and Li Xuyi looked at Luo Zenan's body, panicked and cried loudly. Their teacher-student friendship with Luo Zenan for more than ten years is separated by the yin and yang today.

Hu Linyi, Liu Rong, Wang Feng and others rushed into the city when the Taiping Army retreated. Looking at the long-distanced governor's yamen, Hu Linyi was filled with emotion.

Liu Rong smiled at Hu Linyi who was stunned and burst into tears, saying, "Why did Runzhi act like such a young daughter? Our army has fought for a year and finally recovered Wuchang. Runzhi should be happy!"

Hu Linyi explained: "The students just cried with joy. Since being appointed as the governor of Hubei, the students have only stayed there for three nights. Now they are revisited in the old place, and I feel deeply touched!"

Wang Feng was serious and joking, "Next time, we can't transfer all the troops in Wuchang. This long hair is a hunting dog, and his nose is full of a sharp nose. He captured Wuchang twice while our army was on the expedition, and the city was empty."

Hu Linyi took the lead in entering the governor's yamen and said with a smile: "Pushan is right. Even if the entire Hubei area falls, Wuchang must be defended. Every time we capture Wuchang, our army will suffer tens of thousands of casualties, which is really not worth the loss.

Hu can no longer do business at a loss."

The generals were excited about the capture of Wuchang. The depressed atmosphere of the previous few days was wiped out. He heard Hu Linyi laughing at himself and laughing in unison.

"Hahaha……"

Hu Linyi listened to the generals' stomachs screaming and ordered to the guards: "Go and prepare a banquet. In order to capture Wuchang this month, I have no desire to eat. Today I finally tasted what I wish.

Have a good drink.”

An ignorant general advised: "Changmao just retreated, and our army was having a banquet here. Will it be ambushed by Changmao?"

Wang Feng smiled and said, "Changmao is scared. I think they have fled to Jinkou now, so why dare to kill someone to shoot back? Besides, there is Mr. Zhongyue outside the city. Changmao fled from Wuchang and was hit by Mr. Zhongyue head-on.

I still have the courage to counterattack Wuchang, haha..."

The banquet was full of wine and the wine was mixed. Although the generals were military generals, most of them turned from literary to military. They still retained the reserve of literati and were not as unrestrained as ordinary military generals.

Liu Rong raised her glass to everyone and said, "Everyone respects Runzhi for a cup. Over the past year, the Hunan Army has suffered several setbacks, and Runzhi has come forward to turn the tide, especially when Mr. Zeng returned home and was worried about his miserable death. The Hunan Army had no leader.

Zhi came forward to lead everyone to continue to fight against the rebels. The Hunan Army not only did not weaken, but instead grew stronger. There are currently 40,000, 60th Battalion Land Division, 220th Battalion Navy, and more than 1,000 large and large warships! I believe the Hunan Army is

Under Runzhi's leadership, we will surely be able to eliminate the rebels and revive the Qing Dynasty!"

"The last time I will wait for Mr. Jing Lin!"

The personal guard came in and reported: "Report to all the experts, Lord Li is outside, he...he..."

Hu Linyi didn't hear anything behind the guards hesitate. Hearing that Li Xubin and others were outside, he stood up and excitedly said, "Mr. Zhongyue is here, everyone will come with me to greet you!"

There were more than a dozen generals and schoolmen standing in the yard. They were all wearing white mourning clothes and covered with white cloth on their heads. They stood solemnly around a coffin with grief. The autumn wind swept across a fallen leaf and fell on the coffin, making the atmosphere even more sad.

"Haha... Mr. Zhongyue asked us to wait... This... what's going on!" Hu Linyi and others came out one after another, staring at the coffin in the yard, stunned.

When Liu Rong saw that Li Xubin's brothers were wearing mourning clothes, she felt dizzy. She didn't care about her gentle image before, so she rolled and crawled in front of Li Xubin, grabbed his clothes and said angrily: "What's going on? Where is the sir? Quickly

Say, where is sir!"

Wang Feng looked wooden and slowly came to the front of the coffin, leaned on it and cried silently. His right hand kept beating the coffin, making people feel sympathetic.

Li Xubin said sadly: "Changmao broke out from the city, our army was not prepared at all. The vanguard's siege was quickly killed and retreated. The rear army was unknown. Seeing that the front army retreated, they also retreated.

Unable to control it, the entire army collapsed and the gentleman died in the chaos."

Liu Rong's eyes were red and she cursed at Li Xubin: "It's a good thing that Mr. I have treated you the most. I don't care about your life or death. Your conscience is for the dog to eat!"

Li Xuyi explained: "At that time, Mr. Wang was supervising the battle in the former army, and my elder brother and I were in the back. I felt that the soldiers suddenly retreated. We thought Mr. Wang was reorganizing the army to attack the city, but we didn't expect that the army was disbanded and the army was dispersed. My elder brother and I were in the Yangtze River.

When I returned to Wuchang, Changmao had already retreated..."

Wang Feng looked up, his face was ferocious, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Where has the long hair retreated? I want to kill them without leaving any armor, pull their tendons, eat their flesh, and crush their bones and ashes!"

Li Xuyi was startled by Wang Feng's appearance and replied: "Changmao took a boat from Jinkou toward Jingzhou. We were chasing for a long time, but the ship was traveling too fast, so we were ashamed."

"Cough cough...puff..." Wang Feng was so angry that he spitted blood in his chest, shouted: "Kill the thief! Kill the thief!" After that, he fainted on the ground.

"Pushan...Pushan!" Liu Rong and others hurriedly stepped forward and called.

Hu Linyi stepped forward to check, and saw that Wang Feng was not seriously injured, so he staggered back and touched the coffin and cried: "I broke Zhiting last time to attack Wuchang to make me regret it for my life. Now I broke Mr. Zhongyue again for one

The small Wuchang City is not worth it! I regret not letting Mr. Zhongyue lead the troops... I passed my order, and the army attacked Jingzhou, and swearing to kill all the Changmao! Avenge Mr. Zhongyue."

"Haha... I was so happy to hear that Governor Hu was recapturing Wuchang! Hey, whose coffin belonged to? If you don't drag it out and buried it, why should you put it in the courtyard?" Huguang Governor Wen led the civil servants in and shouted to Xiao

Call.

"You..." Hu Linyi quickly supported Li Xubin who wanted to come forward to argue and said to Guan Wen: "Sir, I don't know anything. I just recovered Wuchang and the Jiangxi governor Mr. Zhong Yue died for the country. We are too sad. Please forgive me.

!”

Guan Wen was stunned and understood that he had just become a man of Meng Lang, but as the governor, he could not show his prestige in public, and said vaguely: "It turns out that it is Mr. Zhongyue, the court will definitely give more pensions. Several people will still be mourning and obedient. Governor Hu will recover Hubei as soon as possible.

In the whole territory, I can report my victory to the emperor, and I have said goodbye."

Seeing Guan Wen's insincere look, Liu Rong said hatefully: "Turn Yang Pei away, Guan Wen comes again. None of these borers are sincere in serving the country, and they only care about their own promotion and wealth. No wonder Zeng Gong was discouraged,

The court is unfair to our Hunan Army!”

To soothe people's hearts, Hu Linyi suggested: "Master Zeng has been worried for several months. Why not jointly recommend it to the emperor? What if we ask Mr. Zeng to come out again?"

Liu Rong knew Zeng Guofan's temper best and said worriedly: "I'm afraid that Mr. Zeng still has grudges. When the imperial court repeatedly forced each other, the position of governor of Jiangxi was lost several times. Mr. Zeng felt that he had no face to meet, and the imperial court did not give him a position of governor.

, How did Mr. Zeng come out willingly?"

Hu Linyi sighed: "Since Anhui Governor Jiang Minqiao died in his country, the court has not appointed the next one. I will recommend Zeng Disheng to the court, no! All the generals of our Hunan Army jointly recommended it."

Li Xuyi felt something was wrong when he heard this and asked, "Isn't this a threat to the court? What if the emperor is angry, what should we do?"

Liu Rong echoed: "Our Hunan Army system has already made the court doubt. If we threaten the court like this, wouldn't it be worse? Then Runzhi will be implicated, how can we face you!"

Seeing Hu Linyi silent, Liu Rong added: "I don't have to recommend Mr. Zeng to threaten the court like this."

Hu Linyi heard Liu Rong's words and asked happily: "Sir, please speak, please listen carefully, students."

Liu Rong replied: "Just just now, the governor of Huguang, Wen, ordered us to attack western Hubei. It is better for the Lord to use this as a condition to ask him to write to the court. The emperor is prepared for us Han people and trust Guan Wen, the Manchus, and Mr. Zeng has a great chance of returning.

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Chapter completed!