However, the main focus was on Qian Shan’s attack on Yingde five days later, which shocked Zhu Jinglun. He actually captured Yingde Fangshan and fled back to Guangzhou. He knelt in front of Zhu Jinglun and confessed. Zhu Jinglun immediately scolded him. It is common for military strategists to win or lose. Where is there a general who always wins?
Fangshan brought in Zhang Qian Shan’s main force Tan Cai, which should be said to be assured. How did things suddenly turn over and ask carefully before knowing?
"It seems that my father-in-law is really a malicious role."
Zhu Jinglun couldn’t help feeling after knowing the details.
"I deserve to die!"
Fangshan knelt down again to confess his sins. At this time, he was in a mess, unkempt and wearing a robe. Obviously, he didn’t change clothes.
The situation is very simple. He was attacked by Zhang Qian Shan. The root cause is still too careless. He and Tan Cai have indeed agreed and made sure that the other party is credible. There is nothing to doubt. Zhu Jinglun is convinced because Tan Cai is as ambitious as Zhang Qian Shan, and his generation is not willing to be inferior.
The problem is that Tan Caiyuan is not as ruthless and sophisticated as Zhang Qian Shan. He has been keeping his nephew in touch with Fangshan, but who knows that Zhang Qian Shan is still aware of it?
On the fifth day of his stationing troops in Yingde, Zhang Qian Shan quietly cleaned Tan Cai and Tan Cai’s main hands, and that day was the date when Fangshan made an appointment with Tan Cai to start fighting. Tan Cai turned back in Fangshan’s army, and then Fangshan would send someone to cover Fangshan head-on and promise to give Tan Cai a magistrate title and give it to him for management.
Who would have thought that when Fangshan attacked according to the agreement, Zhang Qianshan was ambushed in the middle. Instead of attacking the other side, Zhang Qian Shan cavalry attacked the city.
At that time, Fangshan also said that he was calm and entrusted the military action to the officer. He slept in his room and imitated Xie An’s chess. As a result, he didn’t play well enough to escape in his pajamas.
"It may be a coincidence that you don’t lose. Maybe Zhang Qian Shan would have killed Tan Cai. It may be a coincidence to see through Tan Cai’s plot."
Zhu Jinglun comforted
I’m afraid that Tan Cai is unwilling to be treated by others. Zhang Qian Shan has long been calculating that Tan Cai is a good soldier. It is impossible for them to get along well with each other from the beginning. It is Zhang Qian Shan’s timing that is too good. Although it is unlikely that he will make mistakes by mistake, it cannot be ruled out that people just have this fate. Of course, Zhu Jinglun is more comforting Fangshan.
"So what now? Why not transfer the five pits to Guangzhou? "
Fangshan’s confession is not because he lost the battle, but because the consequences of this defeat are very serious. Zhang Qianshan’s occupation of Yingde can be as close as guangzhou fu’s. He took the Yingde Conservation Corps and stationed in Yingde Jun Hong, and almost lost everything. At present, the troops left behind in guangzhou fu are all recruits. It is very dangerous for Zhang Qianshan to kill guangzhou fu at this time.
"The five pits will never move!"
Zhu Jinglun insisted that since the Qing court launched a three-way offensive, he had always suspected that Zuo Zongtang had transferred the Chaozhou Five Pits Army and let Zuo Zongtang enter Guangdong, which worried him more than letting Zhang Qian Shan enter the city.
"Don’t worry, my father-in-law is not the kind of person who cares about the past and the future. It is estimated that he will still talk to me about conditions. He will never make efforts to consume with me and then let Jiang Yili and others pick up cheap. The Qing court is currently our enemy and his enemy for Zhang Qian Shan."
Zhu Jinglun expected well. The next day, Zhang Qian Shan wrote to him and said that he had wiped out the British and German bandits, which reassured Zhu Jinglun. However, he found a small group of bandits trapped in Fogang and Qingyuan, and he expressed his willingness to continue to pursue and annihilate these bandits.
This is the deal. Zhu Jinglun will give Fogang and Qingyuan to Zhang Qian Shan, and then Zhang Qian Shan will not continue to swear with him.
Zhu Jinglun didn’t reply, and Zhang Qian Shan didn’t take a step, but firmly grasped the site of Nanshao Liandao and merged Tan Cai. He also digested Tan Cai’s power when needed.
According to Zhang Qian Shan, the bandits who broke into Qingyuan and Fogang probably refer to the defeated troops of the Great Jun Hong and the Conservation Corps. Together, the two armies have more than 21,000 troops. After a big defeat, the Conservation Corps left more than 5 people, and Jun Hong suffered a heavy loss. But they chose to escape instead of surrendering to Zhang Qian Shan, which made Zhu Jinglun satisfied. Although the Yong ying and the peasant army changed their troops, they finally had at least loyalty with their continuous throwing of a lot of money.
Zhang Qian Shan is watching, but where did Jiang Yili launch a fierce offensive? At this time, Chaozhou area is not peaceful.
At the beginning of the month, an army suddenly entered Guangdong from Fujian and attacked Guangdong from Fujian. Generally, there are two roads, one is to attack Zhenping, Jiaying Prefecture, and the other is to attack Tai Po, Chaozhou Prefecture.
Zhu Jinglun certainly knows the importance of these two places. In addition, they have kept a brigade reserve in Jiaying State ready to reinforce them. They have also put a brigade backup in Chaozhou. He believes that the elite of Wukeng Army can defeat one enemy and ten enemies in guarding the city.
However, the fighting capacity of the other side was beyond the black dog’s expectation. Tai Po and Zhenping kept asking Chaozhou and Jiaying for help. Zhang Baoming in Jiaying State and Black Dog in Chaozhou were all unable to sit still. They repeatedly explained the situation at the front line and hoped to send reinforcements, but Zhu Jinglun insisted that they should stay where they were and not leave their posts without leave.
Jiang Yili stormed Wuzhou Fujian army stormed Tai Po and Zhenping Zhu Jinglun’s rescue was not urgent. This is a perfect time for ambitious Zhang Qianshan, and I believe Zuo Zongtang thinks so, too.
Zhu Jinglun finally decided that all this was planned by Zuo Zongtang, because he really couldn’t think of anyone who had so much energy and resources except Zuo Zongtang, and it was impossible to mobilize Jiang Yili or Zeng Guofan.
So what is happening now must be that Zuo Zongtang wants to see Tai Po and Zhenping in an emergency, and Zhang Baoming and Black Dog ask for rescue. This is what Zuo Zongtang wants to achieve, but Zhu Jinglun can’t let him achieve it.
Section three hundred and sixty surfaced
"Emperor, do we temporarily give up Fogang and Qingyuan?"
The emergency military situation in Chaozhou and Wuzhou at the same time made Fangshan feel the crisis. At this time, Guangdong is like being torn at both ends and Zhang Qian Shan’s knife is in the middle. Compared with those two directions, Zhang Qian Shan is the only thing to talk about. After all, it is not necessarily driven by in-laws. If the two counties can temporarily exchange Zhang Qian Shan for the big mobilization army to counterattack and win, how can it be cost-effective?
Zhu Jinglun disagreed.
"You still don’t know my father-in-law. If we remain tough, he will be suspicious and worried, but once we show weakness, he will bite further."
Zhang Qianshan is a wolf and will never be satisfied with this. Zhu Jinglun knows very well that there are too many such histories.
"Now, although we are in an emergency, it may not be dangerous to be surprised. Jiaying State and Chaozhou are attached to mountains. Even if they are captured by the Qing army, can they be like this? Step by step, I went to Guangzhou by mountain road. It’s even more difficult. Now Zhang Jingxiu and Zhang Baoming are calling on local groups to reinforce us in a few days. "
Zhu Jinglun explained
Say bad Chaozhou, he lost Qingyuan and Fogang, which belong to guangzhou fu, and he was too close to Guangzhou to afford to lose them.
Xie Qi came running in a hurry in the war room next to him.
"Jiang Yili’s Xiang army bombed and collapsed Wuzhou city wall, and our army is fighting a bloody battle. Zhaoqing Baoke Group has gone to support the current situation."
The news was sent back from Zhaoqing, which is Wuzhou’s backup.
Former Zhu Jinglun asked Hou Jin to be in charge of coordinating the Xin ‘an Second Army and the Baoke Group. His order was to support Wuzhou at any time, so he immediately sent reinforcements when he saw that Wuzhou was in danger.
Zhu Jinglun muses "Jiang Yili this is the blood? What is this? He, he, 30 thousand people can break into Guangdong? What benefits did Zuo Zongtang give him! "
Through this battle, Zhu Jinglun found out that Jiang Yi Ligen was a warlord, and it was no wonder that he didn’t protect himself from the Tseng brothers. I’m afraid his attack on Wuzhou this time was more casualties than where the Xin ‘an army was. What interests made him so desperate to attack Wuzhou?
"Chaozhou once again sent for help, saying that Tai Po almost lost the enemy troops and broke into the city many times. Our soldiers fought bloody battles and fought back, but our army suffered heavy losses. At present, there are more than 5 casualties."
"What about Zhenping?"
"Zhenping is relatively calm at present, and we clearly understand that the army is going to round up and help."
There is a brigade with 2,000 troops in Tai Po, which is really weak, but since the other side has entered, can it still be beaten out?
What is Tai Po instead of Zhenping Zuo Zongtang is bent on saving Tai Po by himself. Tai Po belongs to Chaozhou Prefecture and is connected with Chaozhou Waterway. Although it is closer to Jiaying Prefecture, it is often smoother to flow upstream from Hanjiang River.
"It seems that Zuo Zongtang wants Chaozhou!"
Zhu jinglun determined that
He had never suspected that Zuo Zongtang wanted to plot Chaozhou before, because it was difficult for him to understand that even if they occupied Chaozhou, they could not always March along the mountain to the Pearl River Delta. It can be said that Chaozhou is of little significance in military strategy. If Zuo Zongtang had destroyed Zhu Jinglun’s troops, it would be possible to go from Chaozhou South, but it would be impossible to entangle with Zhu Jinglun in the mountain area without enough troops.
But now the other side is trying to drive Chaozhou army.
"What other troops do we have?"
Zhu jinglun asked
"At present, the best training conditions are Chaozhou Army and Guangzhou Army"
Xie Qi replied.
Chaozhou Army is the adapted army of Yong Yong Ying brought by Zhuo Xinghe and Wen Xingrui, while Guangzhou Army is the adapted army of Xiang Yong in 14 counties of Guangzhou.
The Guangzhou army has a good foundation, and the Chaozhou army is the most skilled in rifle and artillery exercises. The other kind of foundation is good. They used to belong to the elite troops.
I thought about it carefully. "How many people have not left the flag soldiers?"
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