Chapter 176 Hangzhou?
. "Really, will it be so fast?" Liu Xianghe stared at His Highness, looked at His Highness An in disbelief, and then began to pack up according to His Highness's instructions. According to time, the Tianjun troops attacking Suzhou were able to surround Suzhou just now, and the battle was probably not yet launched. His Highness was confident about leaving Wuxi, saying that he was going to enter Suzhou City.
"Of course it will be true," Lin Haifeng picked up the letter he had just written to Dong Wang Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai and Wei Changhui, and then looked it carefully, then stood up, "If you don't believe me, I will make a bet with you, glar at us and stagger to Suzhou, and ensure that the city will be broken long ago. Haha, what are you looking at? Remember, send these three letters quickly with urgent documents."
"Gambling, no one dares to think that if you lose, what will you pay me for?" Liu Xianghe tightened his hands and urged Han Muyue, who was promoting him, quickly took someone to move his highness out of the house and looked at his highness proudly.
Lin Haifeng laughed, "What are you paying for?" He looked around the empty room that was about to become empty, "Oh, I really can't remember anything I can compensate for. Tell me, what do you ask me to pay?"
"People!" Liu Xianghe, who was wrapped in Lin Haifeng's clothes in the inner room, turned her head and looked at His Highness at the door, blurted out. As soon as she said that, she quickly turned around, her heart pounded, her face burned, and she immediately stammered, "People... I don't care about you to compensate." If Suzhou can take it down as His Highness said, it's better to lose yourself.
"Haha, that's it. If I lose, I have another very precious thing, which I will give to you when the time comes. But what if you lose?" Lin Haifeng leaned against the door frame and leisurely rolled up the cigarette.
Liu Xianghe sneaked into the cigarette purse that was in the armpit of His Highness, and felt happy, "There is nothing left. I... If I lose, I will be a little girl for you forever. I will always serve Your Highness, and I will definitely not need wages." She picked up the neat clothes bag and went away from Han Muyue who had just come in to get his hand to pick up the bag. "You don't need to take this, I will carry it out myself to avoid messing up and inconvenient when looking for it."
"I'm at a loss to take this king. Isn't there another meal for nothing?" Lin Haifeng shook his head, chuckled, stretched out his tongue and licked the cigarette paper, and rolled the cigarette.
"There is such a bad-hearted prince. Whoever ordered the girl must give her some food." Liu Xianghe shouted aggrievedly, sticking out her tongue and making a face. When she turned around, she ran into Huang Zaixing who came in.
"My God, such a big bag is not afraid of being crushed." Huang Zaixing laughed and moved the door open.
"Those who are not afraid are all clothes or something, not heavy." Liu Xianghe smiled sweetly, walking outside the door, and shouted, "Minister Huang, your general staff should be quick."
"Hurry, hurry up, we mean we'll leave after we're going." Huang Zaixing agreed with a smile, turning his face a little strangely to look at King An.
"This ghost spirit is afraid that he will lose the bet, so he wants to set off quickly." Lin Haifeng laughed, "Minister Huang, is there anything wrong with it?"
"The batch of cannons from Shanghai have been equipped to Zeng Shuiyuan Department. Now, Qin Rigang is probably mentally unbalanced again. In addition, Lin Fengxiang's military newspaper has arrived," Huang Zaixing also smiled and handed over the military newspaper he had just received to His Highness. "Lin Fengxiang also placed the teaching brigade, which was originally a reserve team, on the right wing of Qin Rigang in southwest of Suzhou, which seemed to be too focused on the direction of Hangzhou."
"Haha, Qin Rigang is a good man in war, just like to be petty about trivial matters." Lin Haifeng smiled and looked at the military newspaper and nodded, "Well, Lin Fengxiang's deployment is very good. In my judgment, Yiliang was helpless in the end, even if he ran away, he would not choose to go to Shanghai. This guy and the foreigner couldn't pee in the same pot, so he naturally didn't want to see the foreigner's face. Even those under his command would understand that it might be safer to go to Hangzhou." He raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "Okay, it's ten o'clock, Suzhou has started to start now. Let's go and see the gardens in Suzhou."
"Haha, Suzhou gardens are said to be the best in the world, and they are comparable to the mountains and rivers of Guilin, Guangxi." When Huang Zaixing mentioned his hometown, he couldn't help but show his pride on his face.
"Yes, Guilin is good, you can go back and take a look next year." Lin Haifeng came outside the yard, flew on his horse, and looked at Huang Zaixing again, "But now, let's first appreciate Suzhou gardens, and then drink the best Longjing in West Lake."
"Hangzhou?" Huang Zaixing was about to get on the horse, but he couldn't help but stop and looked at King An in confusion, "Does Your Highness mean to take Hangzhou first?"
"You have to make preparations." Lin Haifeng said, pointing to the side of the horse's four-kick that had already kicked the horse belt around. Liu Xianghe was screaming, and laughed, "Minister Huang, hurry up and get on the horse, otherwise our Secretary Liu will be red from the eyes."
As the sound of cannons in Suzhou sounded, Yiliang's eyes turned red, and he was in a hurry on all sides, unable to tell which was the main attack direction of the Taiping Army.
He had no choice but to temporarily order the reserve troops near Changmen to hold their troops and personally want to climb the city tower of Changmen to check the actual situation.
Outside the city, the fierce artillery fire of the Taiping Army continuously fired, and the soldiers on the horse road on the city were unable to gain a foothold. Yiliang, who had just stepped onto the city tower, hurriedly retreated. The foreign cannons were so powerful that their so-called cannons were simply a decoration in the city. Not only did the gunners not get close to the cannons, but they could not even get one or two cannons. Those thousands of pounds of cannons could even blow the other side.
The most regrettable thing is the four or eight thousand pound cannons he had put in with all his efforts. I remember that when he was in Humen, Lin Zexu seemed to be very useful when he played. Foreigners were afraid, why did it not work now? The world is so great that there are all kinds of wonders. Until now, Yiliang has no idea whether he should build a few cannons like others in the future.
General Li Yuanhao tasted the powerful foreign guns of the Changmao Red Army a few days ago. He secretly thanked many times that he was not very nervous at that time, so he personally led his troops out of the city. Now, when he heard and witnessed the opponent's thunderous artillery fire, his heart was really cold. He pointed to his subordinates who were hiding everywhere and looked at the Governor, "Sir, the long hair here is too fierce, and it may be difficult to defend."
"Prevent, be sure to defend!" Yiliang was shocked by the explosion of a landed shell not far away and couldn't help but snatch his ears tightly. "Changma cannot explode like this forever. When the bandits kick the city, they will go up and fight him in close combat." He looked at the soldiers who were killed and injured just now, and dusted the soil on his body. "I will send you a battalion of troops soon. You must hold on and buy time for the next arrangements for me."
Yiliang no longer had to watch anymore. Suzhou guards could not keep him in his heart. He left the Changmen and hurriedly ordered the reserved battalions to wait at Panmen in the south of the city. He himself led a small team of Geshiha to run to the southwest Xumen first. He wanted to find the governor Hao Lisu to implement his so-called next arrangement.
At the meetings convened by the Governor's Office, Yiliang always sang the tune of coexistence with Suzhou. In fact, he had already planned a way out for himself. He secretly sent people to Hangzhou to 800 miles to request Hangzhou's support for Suzhou. Although the rescue was delayed, the messenger returned to the land of Rudi, which means that there was really no Taiping Army in the south of Suzhou. It seems that the tactic of the Taiping Army besieged the Three Ques and One is to make the defenders abandon the city and take Suzhou as soon as possible. As the saying goes, don't chase the enemy, and Changmao is also afraid of it. Okay, since that's the case, then I'll give you Suzhou. Unintentionally, he compared himself to the position of "gangsters".
Chapter completed!