Chapter 137
.Zhang Shoulin and Li Xianzhang brothers led the soldiers of the two guards to the north gate at the fifth anniversary. They were quite worthy of Zeng Guofan. According to Zhang Shoulin's intention, all the officers and soldiers of the guard camp were to be pulled away except for Zeng Guofan's personal guards. Zhang Shoulin was such a person. He would either do it or do it, just ask you, General Zeng to completely sweep the floor. However, Li Xianzhang didn't think so. After all, this was in Zhuzhou. Once the news leaked, it would be a great thing. It would be better to be safe.
The people defending the west gate of Zhuzhou were Zeng Guohua's subordinates. Although there were Taiping Army camps on both sides of the west and south, and there was a little wind and panic in the east recently, the outside of the west gate had been very calm. The habit became natural. Under the pressure of the cold air in early winter, the soldiers on the top of the city hid in Tibet, or a few people gathered together to protect the heat on their bodies. The soldiers at the gate of the city also flashed in several corners of the door, and some had already fallen asleep.
Zhang Shoulin saw that more than 200 of his troops were approaching, and the soldiers at the city gate were still not moving. While going up to wake up the sleepy city guards, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "What kind of invincible army is this? It's simply a mob who has lost all his will to resist!"
"Kai Kaicheng?" An older soldier looked at Zhang Shoulin in confusion, "Then the young ones should go and ask the sentry officer first. If there are strict orders, they cannot open the city if they don't get the order from their superiors." Because of his thin clothes, his body trembled a little in a gust of cold wind.
"Where is your sentry officer?" Zhang Shoulin asked angrily.
"In" the veteran looked into the city, "It should be in the room in front, or maybe I went to something else." He said hesitantly, with a little helpless look on his face.
"I won't be in the house. I'm not sure which woman's bed I've been sleeping in." Another soldier spat hard on the ground and muttered.
Zhang Shoulin's eyes suddenly widened. He was a scholar, but when he was young, he advocated martial arts, and gave birth to a fierce and straightforward personality. "Do you *** want to play tricks on me? Open the city gate quickly, or I will kill you bastards!" He cursed angrily, pulling out his waist knife from his ribs. He vented his anger at Zeng Guofan on the soldiers guarding the city.
Li Xianzhang, who was pressing the formation behind, came up to stop Zhang Shoulin, and looked at people from the top of the city from time to time. He looked at the veteran carefully and couldn't help but smile, "Old Wang, it's you. Haha, I've been so arrogant."
Lao Wang looked at Li Xianzhang, and the panic just now was much less. He grinned, bent down and fisted to greet Li Xianzhang, "Is it the master? Are you going out of the city together?" Lao Wang is not old, he is just in his early thirties and is as strong as a cow. He was originally a tenant of Li Xianzhang's family. When recruiting troops in Xiangxiang, it was Li Xianzhang who mobilized him to join the Hunan army.
"Yes, Lao Wang," Li Xianzhang smiled and shook his cold hand. "Hurry up and open the city. We went to Changsha to request support under the command of the commander of the Grand Marshal. Our hometown is gone, and the young and old don't know what's going on. If you don't kill me, you're afraid nothing will be gone."
"Who said no," Lao Wang immediately waved his hands to several subordinates and signaled them to open the city gate. Seeing that the brothers in the guard camp of the Grand Marshal's Mansion could not wait to step forward and pull the city gate, he looked at Li Xianzhang with a worried expression and whispered, "Master, be careful, it is said that Liuyang has returned to others, and it is probably impossible to calm down when going to Changsha here. Alas, it is good to be able to return home alive. The golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as your own dog nest!" At this point, Lao Wang's eyes flashed with bright tears.
Seeing the city gate open, Zhang Shoulin led his soldiers out of the city like a brave man. When Li Xianzhang pulled Lao Wang's hand, an impulse surged in his heart, "Old Wang, send me a ride. Maybe we can hardly imagine seeing the enemy." As he said that, without saying anything, he pulled Lao Wang and left the city gate.
It was not until he rushed out of the smallest place from the city gate that Li Xianzhang let go of Lao Wang's hand and looked at the confused Lao Wang. He pointed to the brothers of the guard camp who had turned around and rushed west, "Lao Wang, we are going to join the Taiping Army, otherwise the country is not a country and the family is not a family. You should go with us too. If you don't want to join the army, then you can go home. The Taiping Army will also give you land, marry and have children in the future, live a good life, and be worthy of your ancestors."
Lao Wang was stunned at first, then he took Li Xianzhang's hand in reverse, and never looked back at the closed Xicheng Gate, "Master, let's go quickly, why don't you give it up!" As Li Xianzhang said, from then on, Lao Wang had his own land. However, in order to maintain his own land forever, Lao Wang did not go home, so he stayed in the Tianjun army. He had no big shots, but before entering the Hunan Army, Li Xianzhang showed him a big shot, Wang Youtian. Later, he met King Yi in Changsha, and King Yichang changed his name to him, Wang Guitian. Later, when he was expeditioning to Xinjiang, Wang Guitian, the son of the peasant, fell there forever for the sake of his brothers and sisters all over the world, and for the honor of the motherland. From then on, there was a proud name in the history of the Tianjun, Wang Guitian, the colonel of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Army, Wang Guitian.
It was Tazibu that first discovered the defection of the Grand Marshal's Guards. It was said that Tazibu was the most tiring person in Zhuzhou City. He was the temporary commander of the Hunan Army's land camp, responsible for the defense of the entire Zhuzhou city. However, since he fought for the northern aid to Changsha, the extremely noble Marshal Zeng, who had no plans in his mind, stopped here abruptly. First, there was only the Taiping Army encirclement in the west, and there was no enemy situation in other directions. According to the strength of the existing Hunan Army, since he could not fight alone,
Then you should either enter Changsha, meet with more than 10,000 defenders in Changsha, and fight the Taiping Army with the hard city. Or you might as well retreat south or go east to Jiangxi to develop. Now, Liuyang was occupied by the Taiping Army, and a part of the Taiping Army in Jiangxi also moved to Pingxiang and Liling. There were simply a group of "unrestless people" in the west of the city. Don't say that you don't want to leave, it's too late to leave. He believed that as soon as the Hunan Army left Zhuzhou, it would immediately scatter.
What's even more terrifying is that he received a report just now that he had appeared in a fleet in the south of the city along the Xiangjiang River. He was excited at first. Could it be that Chu Ruhang's navy came to reinforce? But the news that followed made him unable to get excited no matter what. It was a navy of the Taiping Army! It's over, Hengzhou is over! Taqibu, who ran to the south city, almost sat on the ground and cried.
Tazibu turned around and had to go crazy and ran straight to the Grandmaster's Mansion. However, as soon as he arrived at the door, he heard that Zhang Shoulin and the others led the troops from the guard camp left. His mind was buzzing again, which really corresponded to the words of the words "Thousands of people breaking the drums and hammering the walls, and everyone pushed them. Because he had never ordered Zhang Shoulin to do anything, Zhang Shoulin must have had other intentions. So, his Grandmaster's Mansion did not go in again, and it was useless to enter, but instead disturbed the Grandmaster's sweet dream.
He sent someone to notify Zeng Guohua, who was responsible for defending the east and west directions, and ran to Ximen with the guards beside him. It was so tired! The commander of the Shengming did not equip horses in the camp, and he ran around with his legs. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but hate Zeng Guoquan, who was once arrogant. He robbed all good things, and asked him to take away more than a dozen war horses from the entire army. Fortunately, he contributed all to Changmao.
When Tazibu arrived at the west gate, the sky began to brighten. Tazibu didn't know how he persisted.
Standing on the top of the city, the outside was still as calm as before, as if nothing had happened here.
Zeng Guohua, who was late, was awakened from the Red Chamber in the city. After a night of tossing and drinking, he still felt weak all over. Looking at Tachibu with a blue face, he looked at his lazy subordinates. Zeng Guohua pulled out the guard's waist knife and slashed the back of the sergeant who was on the vergeant last night with one knife. If he had been torn down by this knife, half of the sergeant's arm would have been split, but today, the knife was actually resisted by the sergeant's hard collarbone.
Listening to the heart-wrenching tragic roar from the whistleman, Tazibu could no longer bear it. He rushed to Zeng Guohua and raised his hand and slapped him. Zeng Guohua fell to the ground with his face on the sky, and his knife flew away.
"Please this bastard for me," Tazib pointed at Zeng Guohua who had not woken up on the ground, and ordered loudly. Then, he stepped forward and helped the blood-filled whistleman, "Come here, hurry up and send this brother to the doctor's place to treat him."
Zeng Guohua's hysterical curses and the whistleman kept crying and gradually faded away. Tachibu looked at the gathered soldiers and brave soldiers and sighed. "Brothers, forget it, just pretend that nothing has happened. I tell my brothers that Changmao does not talk about loyalty. In order to temporarily use some people, they will make beautiful propaganda and bewitch them. There is only a way out when they really get to them. You can see from the current situation of the war that they are very afraid of our Hunan Army, and they dare not attack us now. Why? That is, most people in Xiangxiang are actually dissatisfied with them at all. They are dragging their backs and fighting with us. The brothers are all at ease. The general has concentrated hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. As long as they defend Zhuzhou, everyone will have a lot of money to make, and there is nothing at that time."
After some hard work, Tazibu walked away with his heavy body. He had more things to do, and although he hadn't had a good rest for a few days, he was still persisting. Because he knew in his heart that the real irreconcilable enemy of the hair was him.
The soldiers and soldiers also dispersed, they were laid off, and at least today's task has been completed. What are you going to do? Take a rest, sleep and give tomorrow to God. Go and drink. It is best to have a beautiful or beautiful shop like the boss lady, and just live by.
However, no matter what they did, they would have doubts about Tazibu’s remarks just now. If you have money, you can buy you for your own father and mother?
Chapter completed!