Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang and Hu Linyi are silent at the moment, and their eyes are flashing. All three of them are old crafty people. This road was chosen by the Qing court. Although it was forced by the situation, the arrows had to send them for help except on the surface, so they didn’t expect foreigners to make moves in this war.
After all, it will cost a lot of money to invite foreigners to the Qing court once, and the price of inviting those powerful people is no less than the price of buying care cannons.
Jiangnan is the purse of the Tatar Qing Taiping Army. According to Jiangnan, the transportation stopped and the Manchu money was cut off. At that time, if there was no problem with the Taiping Military Department, the momentum was greatly weakened due to the Tianjing Incident. The Tatar Qing almost had a chance to turn over.
Even though the Qing army has won a decisive victory over the Taiping rebels, several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have been completely smashed in the tug-of-war many years earlier, and even if they recover in the short term, they will never become surplus.
In the Qing court, the state treasury is also poor enough to starve to death. Now the situation is not to mention that the signing of the unequal treaty of silver has made the state treasury lose money and even become a problem of self-protection. Every time it is forced to pay foreigners to "help", it is like cutting the flesh of the court.
At this stage, we can rely on these "military commanders" of the Qing court to cut the demon and get rid of the demon and then help them. After all, it is not a day or two for those foreigners to be greedy. Now everyone is staring at this piece of fat in China. At present, there are also silver coins that can promote these hungry wolves to verbally establish their roots.
Secondly, the so-called county magistrate is not as good as the head of the front-line army, and it is not a fool to break through Tianjing. If a foreigner has a strong hand, the credit for suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not fall into their hands, which is equivalent to risking the future of their official positions. These three people are very white in their hearts
Tianjing City has been surrounded for several months now. There are so many powerful people, bring up the rear, but none of them, Taiping rebels can defend Tianjing City today.
The first reason is that foreigners deliberately don’t contribute to the work and want more money from the Qing court. It is also another factor that the front-line army leaders are reluctant to kill the Taiping Army so early and take credit.
In fact, Ceng Guoquan also knows this, but because of killing his brother, he got into the hate vortex and was blinded by hatred, but he immediately reacted when he saw the silence of the three men.
Long-haired thieves will be wiped out sooner or later, but sooner or later, they will be anxious for this moment, so that they will lose more benefits in the future.
"As far as I can see, Tianjing has been broken, but it’s just these two days. There is no such thing as a strong man in heaven who is not worried about what kind of resistance they can make, but they are afraid that Wang Lei is coming. If so, there will be some trouble."
Hu Linyi touch white beard eyes full of wisdom speculated that.
Hearing this, both Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang turned their attention to Ceng Guoquan yard, and some of them, Ceng Guoquan, had seen Wang Leiren.
"The inverse thief strength is high, but before our army, there are especially left adults and Li adults who can turn up the waves, but that guy’s field is very strange. When I met that day, I observed for a long time and didn’t understand the subtlety, so I suffered a big loss. If he really appeared in Tianjing, two adults must be careful." Ceng Guoquan said.
Chapter ninety-nine Magic Star
Zuo Zongtang smiled faintly. "I did admire the man named Wang Lei who dared to sneak into Songjiang (Sea) foreign concession six months ago and personally killed a foreigner. I can’t do this."
Li Hongzhang also nodded and said, "Although the camp is hostile to this person and kills foreigners, I also sincerely admire it."
Being a strong junior, they know that those old-fashioned masters of the holy order are not separated from each other. According to the etiquette of strength and weakness, this Wang Lei really deserves the word "heroic", which is why Zuo Li and Li have already had a plan. Wang Lei is bound to plant it.
"Two adults, this is probably what the first emperor said in his dream. The magic star has had a dream omen since Pangu’s creation of heaven and earth. It is said that now the magic star will be eradicated. The queen mother has ordered to see that person again and kill him at all costs." Ceng Guoquan and Wang Lei almost died in each other’s hands with a crushing defeat, and Wang Lei was even more sharp and extraordinary at that time, and his deterrent was as sharp as breaking his fighters’ hearts at a glance.
Being shot down by Wang Lei at a glance has broken the heart of Ceng Guoquan fighters. Unless Ceng Guoquan can personally kill Wang Lei, this life will be a dream.
Killing my brother’s revenge and hindering the advanced revenge, he is full of hatred for Wang Lei. Left and Li are not, but their status is peaceful, but there is a bonus that he can look up to "the strong in heaven", that is, the queen mother also wants to buy two people’s faces. Compared with Zeng Guofan’s death, the Zeng family’s momentum is not as good as before, although it is not sunset, but the strong in heaven, bring up the rear’s own confidence is insufficient. He dare not be presumptuous and politely wake up before them.
Hu Linyi chuckled, "The four foreigners are reflected here. That Wang Lei killed their captain, Wall. If he dares to appear in a foreigner’s zenith, the strong will surely take revenge, but in this way, it is not that we ask them to do it."
Hearing this, a bright ginger in Ceng Guoquan’s eyes is really getting hotter as he gets older. Compared with Hu Linyi, he is still a little immature. Immediately, he stepped forward with a smile. "There are four powerful people, and that Wang Lei is no matter how severe it is, then it will be entangled by four experts. What can it do?"
Zuo Li and Li also smiled without saying a word. The Qing court could invite the four powerful people to stop the most powerful people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom without spending a penny. The Qing court was very satisfied with this strategy.
However, this is also because Wang Lei dared to sneak into the overseas concession to kill the foreigners. Without this accident, how could foreigners work?
Although Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang said that Pei Wang Lei dared to kill foreigners, Wang Lei also offended foreigners, which meant that Ceng Guoquan didn’t hear it.
After the war between Zuo Zongtang and Li Xiucheng, the war between the two sides ended soon because the Lord retreated, and the Taiping Army returned to Tianjing, and the Qing army temporarily stopped siege.
However, everyone can feel that the Qing army did not give up the siege, but was waiting for something. A storm was brewing in Beijing the day before.
Da da da!
200 miles away from the battlefield, a team of Qing troops from other places are patrolling. They have received information that long-haired thieves have been found in this area.
"Report to your Excellency that there is a situation ahead!"
Suddenly, a short Qing army emerged from the forest in a weed ring and knelt in front of the patrol leader.
"lead the way!"
The captain of the patrol immediately ordered "Yes". The little Qing army got up and got into the forest. The Qing army quickly turned around with the seven bends in the forest. About a quarter of an hour later, before a group of Qing army came to a small mountain stream, the thick blood flowed from the side along the running water. It was clear that the bottom stream had become turbid and reddish, and it smelled of thick blood.
"Go and have a look!"
See this situation patrol captain face a change immediately take the lead against the current.
Several branches crossed their armor, and the prickly lobules cracked the skin, revealing a faint blood stain. The owl hung upside down and stared at this group of uninvited snakes, hissing and sticking out its tongue. The more quiet it was in the forest, the heavy breathing and footsteps of the Qing army finally came.
It didn’t go far before them, and there was a slightly open forest path. The patrol captain just took two steps forward and suddenly the bodies appeared everywhere in front of the Qing army.
"This this is how to return a responsibility-"
In broad daylight, the captain of the Qing patrol felt a thrill in his heart. These dead people died miserably, with dark and deep blood all over their faces, as if they had seen evil spirits. Their eyes were wide open and their pupils were full of fear.
"Big man … look at that!"
At this moment, a frightened Qing soldier pointed to another body.
The captain of the patrol hurriedly looked and saw a body half leaning against a tree, curled up with his legs and twisted face. It seemed that he was in great pain before he died, but the way he died turned out to be that he hacked himself to death with his own knife, as if he could not bear the pain and committed suicide.
With this discovery, the patrol then looked around and turned over the body, and saw many cases like this one in succession, such as biting off the tongue, the body was full of blood, the tree seemed to hit a tree and died, and two bodies were stabbed by the other side’s sword and sat opposite each other with a relieved smile on their lips, and their hands were still holding the hilts …
One man and two men were an accident. Look at this situation, many people committed suicide in this strange way. What happened in this forest? A crow crowed and flew over the patrol captain. He looked around quietly and felt more and more cold. A bad cold in his heart dared not dwell on it.
"Captain, it seems that all these people are sent by Changquan." A Qing army found something again.
"It’s really a pity that those hateful foreigners have sent four powerful people to take advantage of us!" Ceng Guoquan hates that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a national enemy and hates him. He can’t wait to immediately attack Tianjing City and wash the Taiping soldiers and civilians clean.
