After four thousand miles apart in Luocheng, Hu Qi drove for five or six years.

The plants and trees are declining and the swords are outside, and the soldiers and swords are blocking the old riverside.

I miss my family and stand in the moonlight in the morning, and I remember my brother and I sleep in the clouds and the sun.

Hearing that Heyang was approaching to take advantage of the victory, Situ was anxious to defeat Youyan.

"Hate Farewell"

Tang Dynasty: Du Fu

——I am the dividing line—

The news that Tongguan changed hands and the southern bank of Shaanxi and Guo prefectures were successively captured by the Taiping Army soon rolled down the river channel, and the wind spread to both sides of the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

In Huaizhou, more than a hundred miles away from Tongguan, Wangwu County, a beautiful cloak with a white hair, described the increasingly thin and dry Heyang Jiedushi Zhuge Shuang; he asked carefully, and his subordinates who were responsible for leading troops to fight to be feinted and supportive. Every detail of what they saw and heard:

"You mean, just one night, Tongguan, where tens of thousands of people were guarding, was knocked down?"

"It's fine if Guozhou is the first to be hit. Shan County has only a Jiancheng and Chuji, but under the leadership of Wang Gan, can't he last for a day?"

"So, the Taiping Army has been able to load firearms and bombard the shore along the river? Even if it is not the big river, it will be rampant..."

"How did they pass through the Sanmen Waterway, the mainstay? Can you still walk without wind without the wind if you don't drag it?"

"The current Taiping Army has advanced to Mianchi and officially joined forces with the troops of the Zhu family in the eastern capital?"

"This is the explanation of the great commander. How dare the villain be lazy or careless? But there is a slightest statement. I know that there is no place to die."

The general, who was sweating and slutty when asked, also swearing and swore on the spot:

"I have seen it with my own eyes. The violent sound of firearms in front of the formation is like thunder, and the mountains are shaking and the earth is shaking, the stars are falling like rain, and the city is completely unstoppable and there are many casualties and injuries, and the corpses are everywhere... "

"The Taiping soldiers seemed to have a unique skill to protect themselves, and repeatedly rushed to the fireworks and cannons and stones, but calmly rushed to the city without any injuries. In a moment, they climbed the city one after another and broke into the door..."

"They also have magic to make the flying boat blow up and hang in the sky and see everything in the world; wherever the flag is caused, no matter how armor, horses, plants, moats and camps, they are all attacked like powder!!"

"The Taiping Army's warship is said to have obtained the secret method of "Trojan Horse and Flowing Cow" in the suicide note of Zhuge Wuhou in the past. Therefore, there is no wind or fiber, and no need for people and animals. You can also swallow and vomit smoke and clouds and see the waves of the river as if entering a flat lake!"

"If this happens, who can stop this world? Who can fight a bird fight? Why don't you go home and plow the fields early on?"

However, Zhuge Zhongfang, the military commander of the Yanei capital, felt worse and worse, and he couldn't help but interrupt:

"The young marshal's clarification is that this is what the villain personally experiences, so I dare not hide it from it at all."

The general complained:

"I'm just worried that those people used bluffing methods, even you hid it."

However, Zhuge Zhongfang was a little angry and said:

"To be honest, Xiao De saw the King (Zhongying) Lian Shuai with his own eyes, and even checked the broken Shanxian gate; later he went through the Dayang Bridge to fight with the Hezhong Army who came to help..."

The general, however, was full of panic and lingering fear, and explained:

"If the firearms of the Taiping Army warship burst out and the vanguards of the Hezhong Army were chaotic, I was afraid that I would not have the chance to stand in front of you and say these words..."

Seeing that Zhuge Zhongfang was a little unwilling to say something, Zhuge Shuang said again:

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, go down and get fifty pieces of silk and have a good rest."

After the general thanked him and left, Zhuge Shuang recruited several other generals who participated in the war and were present, and took turns to Zhuge Zhong's side from their respective perspectives and positions. He had to become silent and then turn into a rhetorical question:

"What do you mean by sir?"

"What I mean? What I mean is that I hope you can listen to both sides and be clear, instead of relying on the temporary support of those around you, I feel that the characters in the world are like this!"

Zhuge Shuang looked at her only adult son who was a little helpless and said:

"Will adults have to surrender to others so much as they have been running for so many years? There is no other way around."

Zhuge Zhongfang was still a little reluctant to come:

"Do you think I have a choice? Maybe there is room for both ends of the rat before, but now that they are on the side of the bed, do you have to seek trouble?"

However, when Zhuge Shuang saw disappointment flashing in her eyes, she sighed heavily:

"The rest of my life is gone, and the only thing I care about is how can my son be at his own risk in the future!"

"Sir! I'm too underestimating my son!"

Zhuge Zhongfang felt vaguely unconvinced when he heard this:

"This is not an underestimation of my son! Hezhong has always been in the key points of the four battles, and everyone is surrounded by powerful neighbors and strong towns. I have also tried my best to deal with each other and weigh the pros and cons of the four directions before I can defend the foundation of this side and be safe and secure, so that I will not be able to take advantage of it."

Zhuge Shuang shook her head heavily and said:

"But my power is finally exhausted, and I am even more worried about the survival of the family and the family behind me; whether it is Wei Bo, Cheng De, or the Wang family in the river, the person who has something to do to deal with?"

"Sir, you're too pessimistic! I still have tens of thousands of armored men in the river and hundreds of thousands of household registrations. Can't I?"

Zhuge Zhongfang couldn't help but comfort him.

"No! Now that the pass is connected with Heluo, the town has no more room for maneuver...."

Zhuge Shuang said decisively as if she had made up her mind:

"Instead of becoming a thorn in the eyes of others' great cause, it is better to seek opportunities to devote it to a strong man before it cannot be defended and lead to the disaster of overturning. At least it may be able to get a lifetime of wealth and succession of descendants!"

"Isn't it better to be eliminated by those arrogant soldiers and powerful soldiers who are planning to rise to power, or those who are fighting against enemies outside? At least now the Taiping Army has been established and has a wide territory, and the people who are supporting them can still have the tolerance of a thousand gold market horse bones."

"But if I missed this best opportunity to sell at a price, whether it was in Wei Bo, Chengde or Hezhong's hands, I am afraid that it would be a rare luxury for me, Zhuge clan, to live in a humble manner...

"Therefore I have made you the leader to seek Shangdang, but it is just to give more money to others in the future world pattern, and to seek a good end for our clan!"

"It should be noted that the news of the change of flags has not yet been heard by Zhu family in the Eastern Capital. My Zhuge family and the Heyang army can still achieve the first-class achievements, but if others take the lead, it will be a lower-minded and more passive situation."

Looking at Zhuge Zhongfang who was under the impact, he was obviously in a daze and walked out in a daze. Zhuge Shuang, who was so angry that she was sweating, let out a big sigh; in a sense, he was not worried about any changes in this relatively mediocre son.

But he was more worried that Zhuge Zhongfang could not suppress the generals under his command, so he colluded with the foreign town to find another way out, or chose others to support him among his other descendants; the mild case was that the flesh and blood were damaged, and the severe case was that the family was overturned.

Therefore, he needs to take advantage of his last little time and spirit to be able to normally create a certain faita fact before the matter; in this way, even if there are any repetitions and variables in the future, the Zhuge clan can escape the bloody circle of successive vassal states and gain the possibility of sacrificing family members in the new dynasty.

After all, he was able to stay in Heyang and deal with all parties for a long time, and to work hard to ensure one party, relying on the accurate position of judging the situation and knowing how to advance and retreat? For this reason, Zhuge Shuang was willing to eliminate some potential unstable factors by taking the opportunity to go out again.

Although people inevitably compare him with "multi-name slaves" like Qin Zongquan, Liu Hanhong and others, which is quite criticized; however, compared with his cruelty and strict control methods, he still cared for his relatives and family members.

So soon after, he suddenly felt sad and under great pressure from the river governor Wang Chongrong, who was turning around the east bank of the river.

Because the Heyang army from the east gave up the follow-up struggle in Shangdang, and sent troops to the Zhiguanxing (now Jiyuan-----Houma) between Wangwu Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain, threatening Jie County, which was the fundamental place, came from behind Anyi.

Therefore, Wang Chongrong, who was known as the 50,000 army, left 15,000 troops to guard against Hedong's pursuit of victory in Jinzhou (now Linfen, Shanxi) and Qinzhou (now Qinyuan, Shanxi), and had to divide 10,000 troops to go back and ensure that the Yanchi between Jie County and Anyi was complete.

However, when his remaining men tried to cross Pujin Ferry, one of the three Tianjins, (about 13 kilometers west of Yongji City, Shanxi Province), he was once again attacked by a half-degree modified Taiping Army gunship that was flowing upwards and declared a failure;

As a result, only more than 3,000 vanguards passed the iron cable pontoon bridge at the Pujin Ferry, and then the approaching Taiping cannon ships broke the subsequent marching queue and bridge deck, and lost contact with the east coast; they plunged into the pocket position preset by the Taiping Army on the west coast.

Therefore, I watched the east bank fighting and fireworks rolling for an afternoon and calmed down in the second half of the night; after the sky brightened again, there was only a temporary battlefield with corpses everywhere near the bridgehead;

The Hezhong Army prepared materials overnight and tried to use the fire attack tactics of a small boat loaded with firewood from the upper stream. After they were once again sunk and shattered by the warships anchored in the river with guns and cannons, they could only give up their plans to continue to repair the bridge ferry.
Chapter completed!