Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Above the city of Guilin, Chen Weixin, the governor of Guangxi who was waiting for the good news, stared blankly at the hundreds of remnants who had escaped from Dongjiang Station.

"It's less than two hours..."

The face of Su Jin, the prefect of Guilin, was ugly. Tongzhi Yao Shitai leaned slightly against the battlements, and if he looked closely, he could see that Yao Tongzhi was shaking violently.

The guards at the gate came to ask for instructions, and Chen Weixin waved his hands weakly: "Open the door, let Xu Zhen and the others come in."

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The soldiers responded, and soon the city gate was slowly opened. Seeing that the city gate opened, hundreds of Qing soldiers who had recovered their lives from Dongjiang Station hurriedly rushed into the city. When they entered the city, these remnants were also in shock, gasping for breath while leaning on the city wall. They fled all the way just now, but they were frightened and exhausted.

"Lord Futai, you will be incompetent at the end!"

Xu Tianyou, who was pale and covered in blood, looked at the Governor Governor with a guilty look on his face. When the battle was like this, he really had no face to see the governor. If he hadn't thought that Guilin City was still there, he would have wiped his neck when the battle was defeated. Not only could the five thousand soldiers not be able to deal with the opponent's two thousand coming soldiers, but they also called them to encircle and destroy them. Only after desperately breaking through the encirclement, they managed to get back so many 400 people. This battle, Xu Tianyou really can't say. To say what is in the stomach, it is a belly of bitterness.

Cang Wu's two guards, Chen Hongye and Cang Wu's soldier, Li Bensheng, were also very lucky, and they even ran out. This is the second time the latter has recovered his life from the Taiping Saber, and he ran all the way. It was really turbulent, and the grass and trees were all soldiers. The slightest movement behind him made his vest go cold, and he wanted to give up several times. Immediately jump off and sit on the road and resign. If it wasn't for the poor brother Chen Hongye still thinking about him and dragging him to run, Li Bensheng would have really become a prisoner of the Taiping Army.

The two brothers and sisters got off their horses tremblingly. They couldn't move their legs, and they dangled there constantly. If it wasn't for a few battalion soldiers with sharp eyes and quick hands and feet, these two adults would have fainted on the spot.

After sitting and resting for a while, Chen Hongye and Li Bensheng felt that their blood and tendons became more active, so they gritted their teeth and supported each other to the top of the city. The battle is lost, but the Governor cannot be seen.

Gui Ping's Daoist Wang Yanbin hid in the back at the beginning of the fight, and ran the fastest. He only thought about saving his life along the way, and he didn't have time to think about other things, and he didn't even think about it. When Ping An entered Guilin City, he found two The inner thighs were rubbed by the saddle, and the blood flowed down his legs, and every step he took was as painful as his heart.

Mr. Wang has suffered this kind of hardship before, and his brows were furrowed, but he didn't dare to cry out, there was no way, all the officials and gentlemen in the city were staring at him, I really couldn't bear the pain. Shouting out, I am afraid that Gui Pingfen is the biggest official that Lord Wang has ever served in his life.

"It's good to be able to come back, it's good to be able to come back, victory and defeat are common things in the military..."

At the top of the city, the Guangxi governor Chen Weixin was comforting Xu Tianyou, the Guilin general who was remorseful. Xu Tianyou didn't need to say more, the governor also knew that this battle was lost, and the defeat was very bad and very ugly. He didn't know how to face it, so he could only try his best to comfort Xu Tianyou. After all, Guilin's city defense had to rely on him. Furthermore, these words of comfort were said to Xu Tianyou, but rather that the governor was comforting himself.

After comforting him, he found that Xu Tianyou had a lot of blood on his body. Chen Weixin did not dislike it, but asked with concern: "Xu Zhen is injured?"

Seeing that the governor was concerned about whether he was injured, Xu Tianyou was immediately moved: "Master Futai, rest assured, the last general was not injured, but the last general... Alas, the last general is incompetent, the last general is useless, and the last general has buried thousands of soldiers. .. the end general really has no face to see Futai..."

"Xu Zhen, don't say these things. It's still because Benfu is impatient, thinking that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, but if you don't want to, it hurts Xu Zhen."

Chen Weixin sighed, this matter is really his responsibility, if he hadn't wanted to eat the rushing Taiping army, Xu Tianyou would not have been ordered to leave the city.

Guilin prefect Su Jin still had some hope in his heart, and he asked with a bit of luck: "Although thousands of troops in our army have suffered a crushing defeat, I think that the Taiping bandits are afraid that they will also retreat with heavy losses, right?"

Hearing this, Chen Weixin also looked at Xu Tianyou nervously. It doesn't matter if you lose the battle, but if you can delay the Taiping army's advance to Guilin, it will undoubtedly be a great achievement.

Unexpectedly, Xu Tianyou gave a wry smile, shook his head and said, "The Taiping bandit is too powerful, I'm afraid it won't hurt you in the slightest."

Su Jin was startled and lost his voice: "Taiping bandits are so powerful!"

Xu Tianyou said sadly, "It's not inferior to the real Manchuria."

Su Jin moved his cheeks, but couldn't say anything. The governor was also speechless. Rao was prepared in his heart, and he also learned from the line supervisor that the Guangdong Ming army was powerful. The city of Wuzhou also proved that the Guangdong Ming army could fight, but after all, he had never seen it with his own eyes. The Ming army was no worse than the Manchu soldiers, so he truly felt the fear.

Chen Hongye and Li Bensheng supported each other to go to the city, and they couldn't say a word when they stood on the side. Wang Yanbin also shivered and went to the city. Seeing that the atmosphere in the city was not right, he leaned aside knowingly, not wanting to touch Lord Futai's bad head.

"Lord Futai, what should we do now?"

In the end, it was Guilin Tongzhi Yao Shitai who broke the unusual calm.

"Whether to defend or retreat, please ask Lord Futai to get a charter." Without the defeat of Dongjiang Station, Su Jin, the prefect of Guilin, would stick to the faction, but now, he is shaken.

Xu Tianyou remained silent. He was afraid of being beaten by the Taiping Army. If he really wanted him to make up his mind, he thought it would be better to abandon Guilin and retreat to Yunnan to join the line supervisor. If the land is lost, the people and the land will be lost. At present, the Ming army in Guangdong is powerful and fierce, and Wuzhou is the springboard. It can attack Guilin by land and Liuzhou and Xining by water. The main force of the Qing army in Guangxi was buried in Wuzhou by Ma Xiong, which made the three governments in Guangxi want to stick to it. There are not enough defenders. With today's defeat, half of the elite defenders of Guilin have gone, and the rest are soldiers and horses pieced together from various counties, what can they be used for. So at this juncture, giving up Guilin is the best policy.

Xu Tianyou wanted to give up Guilin, but the governor didn't say anything. He was also the chief military officer of Guilin, and he was directly responsible for Guilin. If the governor did not speak out, he would withdraw as the chief military officer, and he would be held accountable afterwards. , so Xu Tianyou could only keep silent.

Chen Weixin was also considering whether to stick to Guilin. He couldn't make up his mind, so he asked Xu Tianyou: "Xu Zhen thinks he has a certain degree of confidence in holding Guilin?"

"Three points." After speaking, he felt that he had estimated too much, and Xu Tianyou hurriedly changed his words: "Actually, at most one point."

"one cent?"

Chen Weixin's face was even more ugly~www.NovelMTL.com~ After thinking about it, he finally made up his mind, and said to the officials: "The army of Ming Dynasty is strong today, and Guilin has no grasp of it. I wanted to abandon the city and enter Yunnan. You wait. What's your opinion?"

How can the officials have any opinion, they are eager for the governor to quickly order the retreat. No one objected or discouraged, Chen Weixin ordered the city to be abandoned. The next day, the fifth town of the Taiping Army learned from the people who escaped from the city of Guilin that the Qing army had abandoned Guilin. Yu Shizhong, the Brigade School Brigade Commander, immediately ordered the whole brigade to station in Guilin City, and at the same time reported to the town general. At the same time, the gate of Liuzhou was also opened, and groups of Taiping troops in fiery red uniforms filed in from the gate.

The Qing army in Liuzhou took the initiative to surrender at Kaicheng, but it was half a day too late for the surrender time given by the Taiping army. But no matter what, the Qing army in Liuzhou surrendered voluntarily. However, Zhou Shixiang, the Taiping army commander who entered the city with the second, sixth and ninth towns, was furious after entering the city. He ordered Su Lin, the prefect of Liuzhou Prefecture. He and Guangxi Admiral Xuezheng Huang Ding detained the two deputies, and then said to them: "This commander always says one is one, and two is two. If you want to come down half a day ago, you will have to come down half a day! . . . You guys don't know what's wrong, you insist on procrastinating for half a day, what's in your mind! I don't want to be wordy with you, I said in the letter that if you open the city gate a moment later, I will kill your whole family. Do you think that this commander is joking with you? ... Come on, find out their whole family and cut them all down, let them know whether the commander's words count!" (To be continued.)