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?Zhao Ziqiang complained, saying that the defeat of Gao Jinku had affected his fifth town, causing his fifth town to be unable to fight back against the Qing army's fast-forwarding, so he gave up one after another as a last resort. The land lost the city and retreated to the north in embarrassment, but in his bones he was dissatisfied with Shao Jiugong's appointment as the governor of Guangxi. Because he was dissatisfied with Shao Jiugong, the governor, he was afraid of war, but the essence of fear of war was to avoid war, or to sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight. There is one sentence that Zhao Ziqiang is inconvenient to say, that is, he is actually very happy to see Xiao Beishan taken by Xian Guoan. Good steel is used on the blade. If the fifth town turns from an auxiliary force in the battle of Liuzhou to a key force that decides the success or failure of the war, and even defeats the army of Xian Guoan in one fell swoop, Zhao Ziqiang believes that he can definitely replace Shao Jiugong as the governor of Guangxi.

In the Taiping Army, seniority is important, but military exploits are even more important. No matter how old Shao Jiugong is who suffered a defeat, it is impossible to convince other generals in Guangxi, let alone continue to sit in Guangxi. At that time, the military commander's office will have to consider a new candidate for the governor of Guangxi, and he will definitely be the first and only candidate, Zhao Ziqiang.

The important position of governor is more attractive than the future of the fifth town, and it has more righteousness and power. The Taiping Army currently controls only Guangdong and Guangxi. If he can serve as the governor of Guangxi, Zhao Ziqiang will be able to jump out of more than a dozen town generals and become a pivotal figure in the Taiping Army. Getting promoted and making a fortune has always been his goal. In just one year, if he jumped from a small green camp to the governor of a province, the speed of promotion is probably unprecedented, and no one has come since. As for whether the governor was appointed by Zhou Shixiang or given by the Yongli court, Zhao Ziqiang didn't care, he only cared about whether he could be the governor. To put it bluntly, a town general surrenders and a governor surrenders, but there is a difference between heaven and earth, and the treatment in the past cannot be compared.

Whether in the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, there has never been a military general serving as governor of a province, but now, unlike in the past, Zhou Shixiang opened up the example of Shao Jiugong, and he could not stop other generals' ambitions for the important position of governor. Zhao Ziqiang is just one of them, and there will be more in the future.

For the sake of the governor of Guangxi, a de facto vassal official, Zhao Ziqiang could not save Xiao Beishan. What he wanted was the failure of Shao Jiugong. Only when Shao Jiugong was defeated could he show his ability as Zhao Ziqiang. It's just that now Yu Shizhong took the Brigade to the south to solve the siege of Xiaobei Mountain without authorization, which disrupted Zhao Ziqiang's plan and made it a little difficult for him to make a decision.

In terms of combat effectiveness, Yu Shizhong's C Brigade was directly transferred from the second town. The equipment and training of the old four towns were better than the other towns, and most of them had fought with the Manchu army, so Yu Shizhong's The brigade was better than the two brigades Li Guoan and Hu Mingyi. But there are only more than 2,000 people who can fight, and there are 30,000 to 40,000 Qing troops under Xian Guoan. Without Yu Shizhong's brigade, Zhao Ziqiang would not have the confidence to fight against the Qing army with only the two brigades Li Guoan and Hu Mingyi. If there are two more brigades in his hands, he will not retreat all the way from Guizhou to Tongshan Fort.

After all, Zhao Ziqiang's remaining two brigades are stronger than those of Weiyuan Hou Guo Dengdi, Gao Jinku and others, but they are not necessarily better than the Qing army, because they are originally green battalions. The reason why Zhao Ziqiang was able to play the prestige in the Battle of Chaohui was not because of how capable his subordinates were, but because of the ruthless killings that captured the Qing troops and the regiments in Chaozhou. In Chaozhou, his reputation among the people, Zhao Ziqiang, is no worse than that of Manchurians, and he can even be compared with the "ma old ghost" who can stop children from crying at night.

Similarly, Zhao Ziqiang was able to make Zhou Shixiang fancy to be the town general of the fifth town, and loyalty accounted for most of it. Because Zhao Ziqiang can be trusted, Zhou Shixiang was able to tolerate the tragic massacres he did in Chaozhou, otherwise, Zhao Ziqiang's head would have been taken by him to appease the people of Chaozhou. And Zhao Ziqiang's loyalty is built on the foundation that the Taiping army can fight and that he can follow the promotion and make a fortune. Without this foundation, the word loyalty is just a piece of shit.

Right now, Zhao Ziqiang is still loyal to Zhou Shixiang, otherwise he would not want to cheat Shao Jiugong in order to seek the position of governor of Guangxi. But now the Brigade C, which is the most capable of fighting, went south without authorization, and there were two brigades left with similar combat strength as the Qing army. In addition, the troops were not as strong as the Qing army. Zhao Ziqiang was actually having a headache now. It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married. It sounds free and easy, but after thinking about it carefully, it's not hard to hear that these eight words contain a lot of helplessness. Without the capital to deal with Xian Guoan, Shao Jiugong would be defeated. The position of governor of Guangxi is probably very far away from Zhao Ziqiang. It is impossible to say that the situation in Guangxi will collapse from now on. Zhao Ziqiang does not want to see this. Like the generals under Xian Guoan, his family property is all in Guangdong. If the Taiping Army is defeated, it will also mean that he has been in vain for the past two years.

Lu Guangzu heard what Zhao Ziqiang didn't say, and he fell silent. Lu Guangzu was never a person who was afraid of death. Back then, he went to Sichuan to defeat Zhang Xianzhong from Prince Hauge of the Qing Dynasty, and fought against Sun Kewang in Hunan. When the whole army retreated, he took the headquarter and became the queen of the whole army. No matter what battle, he was always there. Courage to charge, never retreat lightly. However, in the Chaohui War, Wu Zhenchaoha's entire battalion was wiped out, which made him feel afraid for the first time. People are either never afraid, and after fear, there will be a second and third time

Because of fear, Lu Guangzu surrendered in Kaicheng after knowing that the Jidu army had been annihilated. After joining the Taiping Army, with the continuous victories of the Taiping Army, the fear of this idea disappeared in Lu Guangzu's heart, but Dushan Prefecture and the subsequent battle of Nandan , made him fear again.

The fear of fighting with Zhao Ziqiang was actually avoiding the war. Lu Guangzu was really afraid because he was watching Shao Jiugong's jokes and seeking the position of governor of Guangxi for himself.

Lian Guoan, who Lu Guangzu had dealt with before, knew that he was good at leading and using troops. After Li Dingguo killed Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan in Guilin, he did not want to take advantage of the situation to eliminate Lian Guoan and other Dingnan vassals. However, it was Xian Guoan who led the remnants of the Dingnan clan to defeat Li Dingguo's siege, and in turn reoccupied Guilin, but Li Dingguo was helpless.

When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong, half of Guangxi was controlled by the line Guoan. When the Taiping Army was rising in Xinhui, Pingnan King Shang Kexi and Guangdong Governor Li Ruitai had proposed at that time. This proposal was to invite Guangxi Xian Guoan attacked the Ming army in Guangdong, including the Taiping Army, so as to completely unite Guangdong and Guangxi, and then heavily invaded Yunnan. At that time, the Qing army in Guangdong had nothing to do with the Taiping army, but Shang Kexi and Li Ruitai both believed that if Xian Guoan led the troops, the situation in Guangdong would survive, and the Taiping army was nothing to worry about. It is not difficult to see that Shang Kexi waited. In people's minds, Xian Guoan has real skills.

Because he knew Xian Guoan, Lu Guangzu was afraid, so he did not fulfill the responsibility of the lieutenant's persuasion, and let Zhao Ziqiang take the fifth town to run 300 miles all the way, from Guizhou to Tongshan Fort. Now, Zhao Ziqiang has a headache and Yu Shizhong went south without authorization, weakening his troops, so that he does not have much capital for the situation after Shao Jiugong's defeat, and Lu Guangzu also has a headache how to deal with the trouble caused by this unexpected situation.

Regardless of whether Yu Shizhong went south in disobedience or not, as the chief general and deputy general of the fifth town, he would sit and watch the Shizhong brigade fall, and it would be unreasonable to let them explain afterwards. Therefore, Lu Guangzu suggested that Zhao Ziqiang should immediately lead the whole town south, no matter whether he could or not. If you beat Guoan over the line, you have to do your best, so as not to be unable to explain things afterwards. But he never thought that Zhao Ziqiang was unwilling to go south, even if the consequences of this incident were serious, he would not just go south to relieve Shao Jiugong.

Zhao Ziqiang is not someone who doesn't know how to measure. He already regrets that he shouldn't sit and watch Guoan besiege Liuzhou, but he really doesn't dare to send troops south, because he can't trust the two brigades Li Guoan and Hu Mingyi, and he is very afraid that going south will eat defeat. Without Yu Shizhong Brigade, Zhao Ziqiang really lost his confidence and confidence.

When Lu Guangzu was silent, the urgent report of the Brigade came over and learned that Yu Shizhong led the Brigade to defeat the Qing army Xu Tianyou and Tong Zhengliang. With a jump, his face showed joy. He didn't expect that the Qing army could not deal with the mere 2,000 soldiers under Yu Shizhong.

Zhao Ziqiang was also stunned when he heard the news~www.NovelMTL.com~ stood there for a long time without speaking, Lu Guangzu thought that he still did not want to go south, and was about to persuade that since Yu Shizhong had won such a big victory, the whole town should be When they immediately went south to respond, in order to expand the victory, they saw Zhao Ziqiang summon the military staff of the town command post and ordered him to write a military order, but it was a supplementary military order that the town command post agreed with Brigade C to go south to relieve the siege.

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Lu Guangzu really couldn't figure out what medicine Zhao Ziqiang was selling in this gourd. Yu Shizhong was obviously disobedient and went south. Why did you give him a military order? Your town general will be shameless?

Zhao Ziqiang saw that Lu Guangzu was confused, and after the staff went down, he grinned at Lu Guangzu: "Damn, I was frightened by Xian Guoan a few days ago, thinking that he can fight more, but now it seems that it is not average. Since Zhong has given us a good start, he will go to meet the other side of Guoan. If we lose, it is Yu Shizhong's business. If we win, it is our credit. "

In Lu Guangzu's speechless eyes, Zhao Ziqiang issued a military order, ordering Li Guoan brigade and Hu Mingyi brigade to immediately go south to meet Shizhong brigade, and the town command post immediately moved forward.

The military order was issued, and the Fifth Town was mobilized immediately. Within half an hour, Hu Mingyi and Li Guoan sent people to report urgently that they had already led their troops to the south. Zhao Ziqiang ordered the town command post to be moved to the Li Guoan brigade for direct command, and ordered Hu Mingyi to rush to the Songjiawolou area to join the town command post within an hour.

On the southern front, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of Yu Shizhong's brigade disappeared from the sight of the Qing army exploring horses, but instead of retreating as the Qing army imagined, they retreated to the Songjiawolou area to set up an ambush. To be continued.