At this time, the night sky was dim, and the cold moon seemed even colder in the cold autumn wind. Xiao Yungui tightened his cloak and felt that the weather was getting colder day by day. Just as he walked out of the house, Xiao Yungui called Yao Yuan, the officer of Zhengwei, to the side and gave a few instructions, asking him to take a few reliable brothers who had recently joined in Changsha, and follow Hong Xuanjiao tomorrow, and she would follow her wishes wherever she wanted.

Yao Yuan was a smart man. When he saw the King of Western Goddess's face, he must have been the King of Western Goddess who didn't give him a good look. The King of Western Goddess was afraid that the secret of the old brothers in Guangxi was not passed on. Everyone was tacitly informed. When he was still in Jintian, in order to boost his husband's leadership, the King of Western Goddess even used his Heavenly Father and Brother to come down to earth to teach the King of Western Goddess a lesson. Everyone knew about this.

After giving the order, seeing Yao Yuan looking narrow-minded, Xiao Yungui coughed lightly and snorted: "The Queen of the West has just arrived in Changsha. I am not familiar with the life here. I asked you to take your local brothers from Changsha as a guide to follow the guide. This is a big advantage."

Yao Yuan hurriedly bowed seriously and said, "I understand, I will definitely do this."

Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "You were originally under the command of the Southern King. I also appreciate your stuttering skills. If you do things well, I will naturally not treat you poorly, but you must also keep your mouth shut, what should you say and what shouldn't be said, and what shouldn't be said, and what should I be sure of you. Tomorrow, you will follow closely, there are still remnants of Qing Yao in the city. I want you to protect the Western Queen Mother. Do you know?"

Yao Yuan hurriedly agreed, Xiao Yungui nodded with satisfaction and said, "I am going to patrol the camp tonight, so I won't come back. I will ask Lin Qirong to bring some personal guards to guard this place later. If you encounter any trouble tomorrow, you can ask Lin Qirong for help." After that, Xiao Yungui stepped out of the governor's yamen. Yao Yuan sighed slightly and said, "This Western King really cherishes the Queen of the West."

Xiao Yungui left the governor's yamen, passed through another village, and came to Gongyuan Street. This Gongyuan Street was originally the most prosperous street in Changsha. It was paved with stones all the way, with shops lined up and merchants from all over the world gathered. But it was too late at this time, and many shops were closed. The streets were deserted, and few people passed by. Several teams of Taiping Army patrolmen passed by.

At the end of Gongyuan Street is Zhengdong Street, and then Zhengdong Street is Xiaowu Gate. Changsha City originally had nine gates. Two gates were blocked in the early Qing Dynasty. Now there are only seven gates left. From the North Ring Road, there are Xiangchun Gate in the north; Xiaowu Gate in the east and Liuyang Gate in the south; Huangdao Gate in the south; Xiangjiang River in the west, with the most city gates, and there are three gates in total, namely Daxi Gate, Xiaoxi Gate and Caochang Gate.

After Li Kaifang led the troops to pursue the army in the morning, he stationed the troops in Xiaowumen area. Xiao Yungui walked across Zhengdong Street with dozens of brand-name swords and hands and came outside the military camp of Xiaowumen. The Taiping soldiers guarding the camp saw that the Western King was coming, hurried forward to greet him and ordered his subordinates to report to Li Kaifang.

After receiving the report, Li Kaifang was a little puzzled. Didn’t the Western King leave his military camp for a while? Why did he return again? He hurriedly got up to greet him.

When he went to the camp to catch the King of the West, Li Kaifang led Xiao Yungui to his residence. This was a barracks converted into a south store at the end of Zhengdong Street. This was not occupied by the Taiping Army. After the Qing Shaanxi soldiers arrived in Changsha, Luo Bingzhang's garrison designated for the Shaanxi soldiers was here. The Taiping Army only continued to use it after entering the city.

When he sat in the house, Xiao Yungui's old illness was not cured and the injury came again. The mahogany chair in the house was hard and he was not very comfortable to sit. Seeing this, Li Kaifang immediately took two balls of soft cushions to put on him, and Xiao Yungui could only sit steadily.

After taking the tea that Li Kaifang had personally brought, Xiao Yungui could see that Li Kaifang was sincerely respectful and caring about himself. Seeing that Li Kaifang's gums were not unfolded, there were still several maps on the table next to him. He smiled and said, "Before coming to you, I thought you had already fallen asleep. One day the battle, Brother Li was still busy. It was a blessing for my heaven to have such a good general."

Li Kaifang heard the praise of the King of the West and said with a happier expression: "It is our blessing to be able to do things under His Highness the King of the West." He paused and continued: "Since the uprising, I have been following the King of the West to serve in the former army. The King of the West successively destroyed the cities and set up villages, and cherished his subordinates. Everyone respected the King of the West. After returning to the city, I heard that the King of the West blamed him and Zeng Shuiyuan. I admired the King of the West very much."

Xiao Yungui waved his hand and smiled. Li Kaifang was a clever and flexible person, and he flattered himself whenever he had the chance. But looking at his current expression, he really admired him, King Xi had the courage to blame himself. He immediately cursed and said, "You are just good at speaking." He then closed his face and said slowly: "I treat everyone equally. If you have any merits, you will naturally reward you. If you have any merits, you will naturally punish you. In this battle in Wujialing, you and Brother Lin are the first meritorious. The letter of victory sent to the Chenzhou Brigade has been ordered by someone to draft it. I am asking the Heavenly King to entrust you as the seventh left inspection point in front of the hall, and Brother Lin as the eighth right inspection point in front of the hall. This great victory in Wujialing plus the merits of conquering Changsha, I think the Heavenly King will allow you."

Li Kaifang was surprised and happy when he heard this. He was only in the general system. There was still a general above the general system. He had only reached the position of inspection at two levels. In Wujialing, Xiao Yungui did not take the first merits and asked the Heavenly King to advance to the third level of himself and Lin Fengxiang. He was really a good guard and stood up to thank him.

Xiao Yungui raised his hand to stop and asked again: "It's so late, what are you still busy with?"

Li Kaifang replied: "I'm looking at the latest Changsha map presented by the army."

Xiao Yungui nodded, but he remembered from Xiao Chaogui's memory that to know the enemy's knowledge, we must also understand the geographical conditions of the enemy, study the terrain and easy terrain, and calculate the distance and distance of the road. In every gram of a city in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we must search for pictures, recruit scholars to draw and map, and examine the distance and distance of the road. To marching, we must issue a route list, draw all the roads on paper, and divide them to each museum to show the trend, order and order. In recent days, there have been statutes in each army to take charge of this matter. The maps, county annals and picture albums in the city have been collected by the Taiping Army. The proprietors who know literacy have sorted out and presented them to the generals of each army to illustrate the diagrams.

Xiao Yungui also has one, but he had not had time to take a closer look. After hearing what Li Kaifang said, his face turned red. He was just subordinates who could still look at the map at night. He was the leader of the army, but after returning home, he was just thinking about stealing jade and incense, which really made Xiao Yungui feel ashamed.

"Brother Li is really mean, but can you tell me what?" Xiao Yungui coughed lightly, took out his tobacco pipe and lit it, and took two hard sips.

Li Kaifang took a map and placed it on the table next to Xiao Yungui and said, "I have looked at it for a long time, but I feel that it is not the best way to trap our army in the city. We were suffering from insufficient troops in the past. Now the King of Western power has raised a lot of food and money, and has expanded a lot of troops these days. I think it's better to leave the city to guard the danger, just like when we were in Yong'an, we would like to guard the danger and not the spray."

Xiao Yungui said oh, and at the reminder of Li Kaifang, he remembered that the Battle of Yong'an was the first battle of the Taiping Army to defend the city. Faced with the superior forces of the Qing army, the Taiping Army creatively adopted the deployment of "guarding danger but not guarding the nozzle", focusing the main forces at dangerous places, echoing each other's mobility, defending the line with points, regaining the weakness of insufficient troops and changing the drawbacks of one-sided dependence on moats. The Taiping Army successfully defended with disadvantages for half a year, and the strengths of this deployment were fully utilized.

Although the Taiping Army had begun to be granted officials at all levels when they were in Yong'an, and even developed to the point where all veterans had official positions, the entire army was actually concentrated, unified in orders, prohibited orders, reactions, and responses could be maintained quickly. During the Battle of Yong'an, the Qing army had made local breakthroughs many times, but they were often blocked by the Taiping Army who were quickly mobilized to provide assistance.

During the defense, the Taiping Army was good at building bases. Not only was the fortifications perfect, but it could also flexibly configure tunnels, moors, mines and other defense facilities to form a thorough defense system. When the fortifications were destroyed by the superior artillery fire of the Qing side, or if the enemy broke through a place, it could quickly launch field battles, resist the front team and build the back team to remedy the bases, thus shattering the Qing side's dream of quick decision.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yungui nodded heavily and said, "Brother Li, you are right. Let's just keep the risk and not the spray, you continue."

Seeing Xiao Yungui adopting his own strategy, Li Kaifang looked excited and cleared his throat and continued, "The battle in Wujialing in the morning is an example. If we can guard the important areas outside the city, occupy Wujialing in the north, Kaifu Temple relies on the Liuyang River, build and deploy defenses in Ma'andui, Gaohedui, Gaoling Temple and other places in the east, and there is a Xiangjiang barrier to the west. Three multiple cannons can guard the river surface. The south is the Miaogaofeng, Caigongfen, Jinpenling and other places, so that all sides can be guarded by danger."

Xiao Yungui followed Li Kaifang's instructions on the map to check one by one, then sucked two puffs of smoke and said, "Okay, just do what Brother Li said. After Brother Lin returns to the city tomorrow, we will take a walk from south to north and take a look at every dangerous place from south to north, and select and dispatch the generals to go out of the city to build a base and guard the danger!"

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