"Jiao Yujing?" Zeng Guofan searched in his mind for a long time before finally thinking about who Jiao Yujing was: "Are you Jiao Yujing from Xiangnan Military Recruitment Hall?"

"That's right!" Although Jiao Yujing was already a battalion officer of the Hunan Army, he was still the kind of person who was controlled and used in the Hunan Army, and even his own battalion head could not be dispatched: "I am Jiao Yujing. In the past, he was the head of the Hunan Army's military recruitment hall. If the minister wanted to find someone to stick to Nanchang, and no one was available, please come to me!"

Now the officers of the Hunan Army blushed. No one in Hunan Province could be used to this extent. Even Sichuan people like Bao Chao refused to stand up, but they made Jiao Yujing, a leader of the Tiandihui who had just reborn for a while, come forward.

However, Zeng Guofan responded and then asked, "Can you give me a reason?"

That's right, this really requires a reason. Even old men from the Hunan Army like Li Xubin and Bao Chao have lost their determination to stick to Nanchang. However, Jiao Yujing's rehabilitation leader actually stood up to stick to Nanchang. No wonder Zeng Guofan suspected that he had ulterior motives.

This made Jiao Yujing feel a little anxious. He held the knife in his hand tightly and finally leaned his body against the wall. Finally, he spoke: "I have a hatred for taking away my wife with the Red Stolen Liu Juehuo, and this hatred is irreconcilable!"

Seeing that his neck was red, Zeng Guofan believed it: "Is that true?"

"It's true!" Jiao Yujing was almost cursing: "Mr., if there is no one available, just use me!"

Zeng Guofan took a rest and looked back at the old people of the Hunan Army. These Hunan Army generals and battalion officials lowered their heads, but did not dare to stand up and defend Nanchang City.

Nanchang City has reached an unpreservable level. Zeng Guofan often sighed: "Hunan has produced many talents since ancient times, but I didn't expect that today, the old rain and new knowledge are not as good as you, Jiao Yujing. It's all!"

He made up his mind: "Yu Jing led the third battalion of Hunan Army, and the Gan Yong in the city, who was fully in charge of guarding Nanchang City, and as for the other troops, he served as a national rescue army!"

This statement that acts as a mobile force is purely a beautiful word. Everyone understands it, that is, the timing is not good, so they have to escape far away. Unfortunately, many heroes in Hunan are not as good as the leader of a newly-affiliated bandit!

...

At this time, the Hong army outside the city was also quarreling about whether to continue attacking Nanchang City.

"Enough is enough!" Lu Ziyun said this: "Now, the glory of capturing Nanchang City will be handed over to our Second Division... No, it is enough to be the Second Army!"

Yesterday's victory made him feel a lot more confident. Even if he couldn't win Nanchang City, the main force of the First Army had already given an annihilated blow to the Hunan Army, especially the blows suffered by Li Xubin and Liu Changyou, the main forces of the two Hunan Army, were even more devastating. It is estimated that within three or five months, these two Hunan Army had no combat power at all.

Qu Jie is usually gentle enough, but now at this critical moment, he said: "Ziyun, your second division has let Li Xubin go again this time..."

The last time in Fuzhou, the Second Division was careless and let go of the main force of Liu Changyou's army. This time, under Nanchang City, the Second Division made another careless mistake and let go of a part of Li Xubin's army. According to the information obtained by the Hongjun, there were at least hundreds of remaining Li Xubin's troops who broke out, including Li Xubin himself.

This made Qu Jie very dissatisfied with the Second Division. After all, after so many days of siege and attack, most of the combat effectiveness of Li Xubin's troops had been lost. When he broke through the siege, he even abandoned all the wounded. Moreover, on that day, the First Division and other Hongjun troops of various units worked together to defeat the Hunan Army outside Nanchang City. The morale of Li Xubin's troops had been extremely low, but in this situation, Li Xubin actually let him run away.

This is a big problem. Although the Hong Army does not have a high evaluation of the Hunan Army, based on the experience passed down by the old Taiping Army, as long as the Hunan Army does not suffer a completely annihilated blow, as long as the skeleton is still there, it can be rebuilt in just half a year. Of course, there is a big gap between the combat effectiveness of the rebuilt troops and the old troops.

Li Xubin, the Hunan Army, is the most powerful Hunan Army outside Nanchang City. Although the First Division can now leave, the Second Division may continue to meet Li Xubin in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Thinking of this, Qu Jie continued: "A bigger question, if our First Division leaves, can your Second Division be able to gain a foothold in Jiangxi!"

"What's the problem!" Now Huo Qiu had to defend the Second Division and the second army to be established: "Old Commander, don't worry, the whole Jiangxi, no... It's enough to have our Second Division in the entire upstream. You just have to rest assured that the brigade will return to the east!"

"No!" Qu Jie made up his mind: "Anyway, the First Division had already suffered 300 casualties yesterday, and even a few hundred casualties would be the case. Today we will try to attack Nanchang City and strive for the general attack tomorrow!"

"This..." Huo Qiu said: "It's almost noon now!"

Although the battle generally ended last night, the finishing work continued until this morning, and there were even sporadic firefights in some areas. You should know that this was more than 20,000 Qing troops. Although half of them fled back to Nanchang City, continuing to sweep these Hunan troops took a lot of energy to the Hong Army.

Just now, the Third Regiment came to report that they had caught a large group of fish that had escaped during the search and suppression. This team of Qing troops gathered in the Ludang by the river. Although it originated from five or six camps, the total number was as many as a hundred.

Moreover, from yesterday to now, the entire First Army has fought for twenty or thirty hours in a row. Many officers and soldiers have just drank a sip of water and used a meal, which can be said to be extremely tired.

But Qu Jie's eyes flashed with the rare perseverance in his life: "Missing the present means missing the future. There are still thirty-six hours before my First Division returns to the east!"

Decision is made!

...

Fumar felt very depressed.

Although his actions in Ningbo Prefecture are somewhat controversial, and he is actually just the third person in Ningbo Port. The real dictator in Ningbo is the extremely poor family of Liu Changliu, but he has to be in Ningbo Port and even in eastern China, and such good days have passed because of the French.

In fact, the French had sent an illegal special consul in Ningbo to Ningbo in an attempt to replace Fumar, but Fumar kept the French out of the traditional diplomatic rules.

However, although the French consul did not land in Ningbo, it caused Fumar a lot of trouble, and many Westerners began to avoid contact with him directly.

Although the French's actions did not receive the tacit approval of the British, and Britain still maintains a neutral position on the Far East issue, the problem is that this expedition in the Far East was a joint effort between France and Russia. This alone seems to mean that the future of the Hong Army and Ningbo Port is not good.

In fact, Fumar did not sympathize with the rebellious group of Hongjun. He even criticized the Liu Juehu, but his attitude was on one hand and interests were on the other hand.

Now the entire future of Consul Fumar has been placing all on the neutralization of Ningbo Port. In fact, the fate of the entire Ningbo Port and the Hong Army is one. Therefore, Fumar has broken the oath of neutrality and even publicly acted as a spy for Liu Juehu.

Not only did he send people to inquire about the news about the French in Shanghai, but he even acted as a spy for the Hong Army. He leaked the French army's troops, organization and even weapons and equipment to the Hong Army, and even hoped that the Hong Army could achieve several victories on the battlefield.

However, based on the information he obtained, he was secretly worried for the Hong army that although some of the French and Russian troops who participated in the war did not arrive in Shanghai, the final force would reach about 10,000.

Even in Europe, this is a large force, and in the East this is an astonishing number, not to mention that they can still receive continuous reinforcements from the country. Although the French Empire is isolated from the Far East for thousands of miles, the Russian Empire is different. They can get reinforcements from the Far East very quickly.

According to Fumar's intelligence, before the Crimean War, the Russians had an army of 14,000 in Siberia. Although they couldn't figure out how much troops the Russians had increased after the outbreak of the Crimean War, Fumar estimated that perhaps Russia could invest 10,000 or even more troops in eastern China.

According to what he knew, although the Hong Army had tens of thousands of troops in eastern China and had been armed with European weapons and equipment, these troops were at most considered to be the army of the Napoleon era, and only a few elite troops had the standards of the July dynasty.

However, there are great questions about the combat effectiveness of these troops. After all, the entire Hong Army has only been established for less than two years. Compared with France, which has historical heritage, the Russian army is very different, let alone the training and equipment of the ** team and the Russian army are better than the elite troops among these rebels.

More importantly, according to Fumar's intelligence, until now, most of the elite troops of the rebels are far away in the distant Jiangxi Province, with only the third division in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. It is difficult for Fumar to make an accurate judgment on how much combat effectiveness the other infantry brigades have in front of European troops.

But he could not accept the military failure of the Hong Army, which meant that all his operations in the past year had gone out of nothing. Therefore, a small group opposed France and the Russian Empire's interference in China soon formed around Fumar. Now Fumar is talking with another backbone of the small group about how to destroy the expedition: "Earl of Demons, can you give me a good advice?"
Chapter completed!