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Chapter 228 The Arrival of Zhang Qixing
On October 1854, 10, after more than ten days of fighting, the Hunan Army finally boarded the military fortress of Wuchang!

After attacking the city of Wuchang, all members of the Hunan Army seemed very happy, and every general and soldier had a smile on their faces.

Although the battle was very hard this time, it was very worthwhile. From the day they came to the battlefield, they already knew that their lives no longer belonged to them.

At the celebration banquet, Zeng Guofan raised the wine bowl in his hand and said to the soldiers, "This time...our Hunan Army can achieve such a great victory...it is because of our generals and soldiers fighting bloody melee... ...".

"Where there is war, there is death. Death is not terrible. The terrible thing is that there is no brave heart. I know that many people died in this war. It is because of their sacrifices that we have won..." .

"Now, let's all offer a toast to those dead soldiers first." After Zeng Guofan finished speaking, he poured the wine in the bowl in his hand on the ground. After the soldiers at the banquet saw it, they followed Zeng Guofan and poured the wine in their hands on the ground , and then heard the sound of dripping water pouring.

Afterwards, Zeng Guofan filled another bowl of wine, thanked everyone present again, and said to everyone, "Everyone, eat and drink to your heart's content!".

Then I saw the whole Hunan Army burst into joy, everyone fought together, sat drinking and eating meat together!

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Compared with the feasting and festive situation of the Hunan Army, the Taiping Army was lifeless.

The reason couldn't be simpler. This was the most significant defeat of the Taiping Army in history. The previous Western Expeditionary Army was so brave. When the Qing Army lost its helmet and armor, the Hunan Army was almost wiped out by them.

Therefore, in the big tent of the Taiping Army, all the high-level personnel of the Taiping Army's Western Expedition gathered here, and Zhang Daoyi was naturally there.

Hu Yihuang and Lai Hanying are the commander and deputy commander of the Western Expeditionary Army!Wuchang's defeat made them very angry. The importance of Wuchang is self-evident.

Wuchang has already entered Hubei. As long as the city of Wuchang is well occupied, it will naturally be able to advance, attack, retreat, and defend. If it advances, it can capture Hubei, and then go north to join the Northern Expedition forces of the Taiping Army.

In this way, the two sides will echo each other, and they can naturally go straight to Qingting's old nest: BJ, and then they can replace him.

It can be seen from this that Wuchang is an important military fortress for the Taiping Army. This is an important reason why the Taiping Army captured Wuchang a long time ago.

I thought that when Wuchang was attacked, the fighting in the Hunan area was still at the superficial level, and it hadn't penetrated the entire territory of Hunan at all, so it started to attack Hubei.

"Zhang Daoyi! Why didn't you tell me such important news!" Lai Hanying jumped up and said angrily to Zhang Daoyi.

Lai Hanying said that the deputy commander of the Western Expedition of the Taiping Army had a high status and was only under Hu Yihuang.

From Lai Hanying's words, it is not difficult to see his dislike for Zhang Daoyi. He is blaming Zhang Daoyi for not being the first to speak out about the battle between him and me, so that the various departments of the Hunan Army can take advantage of it, which led to Wuchang. lose.

Although Lai Hanying is the deputy commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, the arrogant Zhang Daoyi is not very pleased with him, and then said, "This is something in our spiritual world. How can I tell you?".

As Zhang Daoyi said, he added with great disdain, "I'm the one to blame for the loss now. I owe it to you in the end. You didn't find it yourself. Who told you that you didn't defend well. If you had prepared early in the morning, would you be able to do this?".After Zhang Daoyi finished speaking, he looked at Lai Hanying with disdain.

"You...you...you!" Lai Hanying pointed at Zhang Daoyi angrily and said, "You are still reasonable, then let me ask you, have you won the fight!".

Everyone knows that Zhang Daoyi failed in the fight, so Zhang Daoyi was naturally speechless when he heard Lai Hanying's words, so he saw Lai Hanying continue to say, "If you hadn't failed in the fight, we would not have lost. The credit is due to you in the end." !”.

For a while, the two sides insisted on their own opinions, naturally not wanting to blame themselves for the failure of Wuchang.

So in the big tent of the Taiping Army's westward expedition, a quarrel broke out for a while, and the two sides kept talking about each other, and each side refused to give in.

I don't know how long it has been like this, I saw Zhang Daoyi rushing out of the big tent angrily, still angrily chanting, "His grandma, Dao Lord, why have I ever been so angry and blamed me?" Now, if it weren't for me, Daoist, would you be able to be so powerful?".

Zhang Dao became more and more angry when he thought about it, so he flew towards the distance. He wanted to vent his anger, otherwise he didn't know what he would do out of anger.

I saw Zhang Daoyi angrily holding the Heavenly Master Sword in his hand, slashing out, a sword shadow appeared in the sky, and chopped towards a cliff.

After a sword strike, he saw the cliff not far from Zhang Daoyi collapse, and then he saw huge stones rolling down from the cliff one after another!

Zhang Dao looked at the falling stones and felt better. He looked at the sky and yelled, "Yan Yunyang, I will definitely tear you to pieces!".

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At the gate of Wuchang City, Zeng Guofan and others led the generals of the Hunan Army into two factions and stood at the gate of Wuchang City.As if waiting for someone, no, it should be a scene of preparing to receive someone, but that person hasn't arrived yet.

When it was noon, they saw a pair of people and horses approaching Wuchang City not far away.

The pair of men and horses looked like this. In front of the pair of men and horses was a group of guards riding tall horses. There were two carriages in the middle. The carriage looked very luxurious, and a group of infantrymen followed behind.

This was a rather solemn battle, and the couple stopped in front of Zeng Guofan and the others.

Then I saw Zeng Guofan leading the people behind him, knelt down to the people in the carriage and shouted, "My humble minister Zeng Guofan, leading the generals of the Hunan Army, welcome Your Royal Highness, a thousand years ago!"

Then I saw a woman coming out of the carriage. This woman was Zhang Qixing, the Seventh Princess of the Qing Dynasty, Aixinjueluo Qixing.

Speaking of, why did Zhang Qixing come to this place?

There are two reasons. The first is that he has been in the capital for a long time, so he wants to go out to relax or something. The second is that the news of the Hunan Army's victory has spread to the capital, and Xianfeng wants to award a reward. The position of the Hunan Army.

Due to these two reasons, Zhang Qixing came to Wuchang. Wuchang is a frontier place. Generally speaking, royal nobles like Zhang Qixing should not come, but Zhang Qixing still came.

After Zhang Qixing got out of the carriage, he waved his hands to Zeng Guofan and the others, and said, "Pingshen, get up!"

Then I saw Zeng Guofan and others standing up slowly, and Zeng Guofan who stood up came to Zhang Qixing respectfully, and said, "Your Highness, I must be tired after traveling all the way. The old minister will take His Highness to rest now." !”.

"Don't worry, I have two purposes for coming here this time. The first purpose is to see my army of the Qing Dynasty, and the second is to take the emperor's order to reward me!".

After Zhang Qixing said this, he continued to say, "Zeng Guofan accepts the order!" As he spoke, he saw Zhang Qixing take out an imperial order.

Zeng Guofan naturally knew the purpose of Zhang Qixing's trip, but he didn't expect Zhang Qixing to be so direct, and he started to get down to business as soon as he came.

But Zhang Qixing had already issued the imperial edict, so Zeng Guofan had no choice but to accept it.

Then I saw Zhang Qixing chanting like this with the imperial decree, "Following the heavens, the emperor's edict said: In the first battle of the Hunan army, we will show off our army's prestige and make the rebellious officials and thieves extremely terrified...".

Then there was a very long discourse, which mainly talked about the heroism of the Hunan Army and the wise leadership of Zeng Guofan and others.

Then came the rewards to Zeng Guofan and the generals of the Hunan Army. Zeng Guofan was appointed as the governor of Hubei. The governor is the largest official in a province.

When Zhang Qixing uttered the words "Bestowed by the Emperor", he saw Zeng Guofan and others shouting respectfully, "Thank you Lord Long En!", and casually took the imperial decree from Zhang Qixing's hand respectfully.

(End of this chapter)