Yang Xiuqing sighed and said: "King Yi, it's not that I have the ambition of others to destroy my own prestige, but it's Li Zhen who is too powerful. When Li Zhen was still in Shanghai, Li Xiucheng was defeated by Li Zhen in a row. I scold Li Xiucheng.
It's stupid and useless. It's a pity that when Queen Xiao was defeated and lost more than 30,000 troops, and then I lost more than 10,000 soldiers, I have to say that Li Zhen is very powerful. This man is young but cunning.
Old fox."
Hearing this, Shi Dakai frowned and said: "Brother Dong Wang is proficient in the art of war and is an outstanding commander; Li Xiucheng is good at fighting and is a good fighter; Queen Xiao is brave and brave and invincible on the battlefield. You were all defeated by Li Zhen.
This shows that Li Zhen cannot be underestimated."
When Yang Xiuqing heard this, she felt much better.
At least, give him a step down.
Shi Dakai then said: "Brother Wang, I don't know much about Li Zhen. I mostly hear what others say. You have personally fought with Li Zhen and have been in contact with Li Zhen. Please tell me in detail."
Yang Xiuqing said: "Okay, let me start from when I first met Li Zhen."
Immediately, Yang Xiuqing started talking about the time when he met Li Zhen, from Li Zhen's mission to Nanjing to ask for ransom, and then to Li Xiucheng's attack on Shanghai... one by one, one by one, and finally involved the recent war. Not only that, Yang Xiuqing told them all
He told everything he knew about Li Zhen in detail, hoping to help Shi Dakai more.
After everything was said, Shi Dakai fell into silence.
He closed his eyes and thought about Li Zhen in his mind.
After a long time, Shi Dakai opened his eyes and said slowly: "Brother Wang, Li Zhen is an opponent, but please rest assured, Brother Wang, I will definitely defeat Li Zhen." In fact, Li Zhen and Shi Dakai are about the same age, and Li Zhen is
Zhen Zhen is twenty-three or four years old, and Shi Dakai is not very old either. He is still a young man of twenty-four years old.
Because of this, Shi Da happily aroused his desire to win.
Yang Xiuqing looked at Shi Dakai and said solemnly: "King Yi, your main task next is to deal with Li Zhen's main force. You must be careful when you lead the army to attack Li Zhen."
Shi Dakai waved his hand and said seriously: "Brother Wang, don't worry, I have my own plans. I have no plans to leave Tianjing in the short term. I will not lead my troops to fight until I collect all the news about Li Zhen."
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Beiwang Mansion, in the main hall.
At this time, there were only two people in the palace, not a single attendant. One of these two people was Wei Changhui, King of the North, and the other was Qin Rigang, King of Yan.
Wei Changhui said in a deep voice: "King Yan, King Yi is back."
Qin Rigang said: "I know."
Wei Changhui said: "King Yi has returned with his army, and King Yi is still talking to Yang Xiuqing in the East Prince's Mansion. If we take action, we will definitely alarm Shi Dakai's soldiers. What do you think?"
Qin Rigang snorted and said: "Shi Dakai is invincible in all battles. He is the god of war in the army. If Shi Dakai stays in Tianjing, we must not take action. Otherwise, if we disturb Shi Dakai, we will lose more than the gain. Not to mention taking down Yang Xiuqing, even ourselves.
Being involved, the only thing we can do now is to wait, Shi Dakai will always deal with Li Zhen, and we have plenty of time, so there will be no problem."
Wei Changhui said: "Okay, let's do it like this."
The two people got together and continuously discussed the details of dealing with Yang Xiuqing.
At this time, Yang Xiuqing had no idea that danger was approaching him.
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Time flies and it is already early August.
During this period of time, the development of the camp has been on track, and everything is developing in an orderly manner. During this period, because there were no Taiping Army attacks, he also had a rare leisure time.
In the military camp, drills are taking place.
Li Zhen took Long Ao and slowly patrolled the camp.
Long Ao looked at the soldiers in the army and thought of something Huang Qiang had told him. Long Ao took two steps quickly, followed Li Zhen's pace, and lowered his voice and said: "Commander, it is already August now. The time for Madam to give birth is not far away. What are your plans next? If you don't wipe out the bandits, how will you get to Beijing?"
Li Zhen immediately stopped and the expression on his face changed.
Li Zhen has always avoided things about Zhi Lan.
Because Li Zhen faced a problem, he could only go to Beijing to see Zhilan after wiping out the bandits. However, once the bandits were wiped out and there was no one to restrain the Manchus, Li Zhen would probably lose room for promotion and even face the Eight Banners. The disciples rose up to attack the situation. However, Li Zhen did not destroy the bandits and could not go to Beijing to meet Zhi Lan.
Such a difficult decision made Li Zhen very embarrassed.
In fact, Li Zhen has been thinking about ways to get the best of both worlds, but in the end it is difficult to think of a way. Although Xianfeng is extremely kind to Li Zhen and hardly restricts Li Zhen, a person who can achieve the position of emperor is definitely not a bad person. Blood-stained people, once Li Zhen offends Xianfeng, he will definitely be hit.
"Report."
Just as Li Zhen was deep in thought, a soldier quickly ran over and stood in front of Li Zhen, raising his hands and saluting.
Li Zhen recovered his thoughts and asked, "What's the matter?"
When Long Ao saw this, he sighed in his heart.
He brought up Zhi Lan's matter because he wanted to discuss it with Li Zhen and resolve the matter completely. But now he was interrupted by soldiers who suddenly ran over. In addition, Long Ao found that Li Zhen didn't really want to talk about it. Things, I feel sorry for.
The soldier reported with a serious expression: "Commander, a group of people came outside the camp. The leader is Zeng Guofan. He brought more than ten people with him and wanted to see the commander."
"Zeng Guofan."
Li Zhen raised his eyebrows, put his hand on the soldier's shoulder, and asked uncertainly: "Are you sure it's Zeng Guofan?"
"Well, it's really Zeng Guofan."
The soldier nodded and said affirmatively.
"Hahaha……"
Li Zhen laughed loudly, let go of the soldier's hand, and walked quickly towards the camp entrance. This smile, and Li Zhen walking quickly towards the camp entrance, made the soldier who reported the news and Long Ao stunned, because the two No one understood why Li Zhen laughed when he confirmed that the person coming was Empress Zeng Guofan. Could it be that he was an old acquaintance.
At this moment, Li Zhen was indeed in a comfortable mood.
Famous ministers who dominated the late Qing Dynasty took the initiative to visit, and Li Zhen was extremely happy.
Li Zhen was very familiar with Zeng Guofan.
Moreover, Li Zhen knew that Zeng Guofan had not jumped over the dragon gate at this time and was depressed, because at this time Zeng Guofan had lost consecutive battles and was almost beaten to death by Shi Dakai. After Li Zhen came to the entrance of the camp, his eyes quickly looked at the door I glanced around and finally landed on the person standing in the front.
This person has thin cheeks, protruding cheekbones, a long and thin face, deep and long noses, a pair of triangular eyes, and a pair of brow eyebrows. He is not angry but powerful, which creates a sense of disobedience. .
Li Zhen took a look and suddenly had an unusual feeling.
This person must be Zeng Guofan.
He had already made up his mind, strode forward to greet you, stretched out his hand, and said proactively: "Brother Bohan (Bohan is Zeng Guofan's name), I have admired you for a long time. I welcome you here."
ps: Third update, finally done. Call it a day. I won’t have to work on the weekend tomorrow, so I can sleep in. I’m so happy.