Xianfeng appointed three imperial envoys to encircle and suppress the Taiping Army. Among them, the Jiangdong camp in Zhenjiang was stationed by Li Weiguo's Shanghai army and secretly colluded with the Taiping Army. Both sides were acting and never a real war broke out. In the Jiangbei camp in Yangzhou, Qishan Governor Jishan, he was an old fox and guarded the Yangtze River defense line all day long, without seeking merit but without any mistakes.

Only Xiang Rong, who was stationed in the Jiangnan Camp of Xiaolingwei, wanted to make achievements and fought with the Taiping Army all day long. In less than half of the 150,000 troops brought by Anqing, he fought for more than half of them. He eliminated the disabled, but the number of soldiers fighting was less than 30,000.

In contrast, after half a year of development, the Taiping Army has gained a foothold in Tianjing, with an elite force of more than 200,000, and a firearm battalion of thousands of people. The Qing army battalion has no power to fight back.

For more than half a year, Li Weiguo and Qishan's troops were not damaged. Only Xiang Rong's troops lost 80,000 or 90,000 people. Xiang Rong was not stupid yet, and immediately came back to his senses and scolded Li Weiguo and Qishan for being shameless.

On this day, Xiang Rong fought with Taiping arms again, losing thousands of people. He returned to the Jiangnan camp tent in a shame and called his confidant deputy general to inquire.

"What happened to you?"

The deputy general was named Zhang Cheng. He said, "General Qi, I have already found out clearly these days. Li Weiguo is not in Jiangdong Camp at all, and has returned to Shanghai County long ago. Although the Taiping Army has 50,000 troops in the direction of Jiangdong, they are all old, weak, sick and disabled. Every time they attack, they are bluffing. The Shanghai army in Jiangdong Camp only fired guns and shot back and never pursued them. In the Jiangbei Camp, they only prevented the Taiping Army from crossing the river and had no intention of taking the initiative to attack."

Xiang Rong immediately smashed the tea bowl and said angrily: "Damn it, a little fox and an old fox are so fucking me inside and outside!"

Zhang Chengdao: "General, if you have the truth, you don't seek merits but not mistakes. Anyway, the rebels have no intention of breaking through. I think it's better for us to learn from Jiangdong Daying and Jiangbei Daying, and only defend but not attack. After the court asked, it's impossible for you to blame the general, and Li Weiguo and Qishan could not escape. But if the general fights hard with the rebels and loses his troops, the court will ask him, and you will not be able to escape."

Xiang Rong sighed, "Aren't I also eager to seek merit? Who would have thought that the two foxes, Qishan and Li Weiguo, did not move their troops and let me fight against the rebels alone. Now we just want to do so. After all, we have lost 70,000 to 80,000 troops. How can the court not blame it? Now the only way to break through Jinling as soon as possible!"

Zhang Cheng also knew that he was wrong in one step, so he suggested: "There is a lot of high and deep Jinling City, and it may be difficult to take down the weapons in our hands alone. If we had the foreign guns and cannons in Li Weiguo's hands, I wouldn't believe that even if a hundred cannons were placed, I wouldn't believe that even if I could not open the walls of Jinling?"

Xiang Rong nodded and said, "What you said makes sense. Li Weiguo has a lot of cannons in his hands, but he can't lend them to me!"

Zhang Chengdao: "General, Li Weiguo refused to borrow it. Is it okay for the emperor to speak?"

Xiang Rong asked, "What do you mean?"

Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "The general only needs to formulate a joint combat plan and ask the emperor to speak up and transfer Li Weiguo's artillery team to come over. In this way, if the general breaks through Jinling City, he will naturally be the first to make a contribution."

Xiang Rong thought about it, so he immediately discussed countermeasures with Zhang Cheng and the others.

Soon, a memorial was reported to the court. The general content was that the Shanghai army guarding Zhenjiang had no achievements and asked the court to transfer the Shanghai army to approach northeast of Jinling, and then transfer the troops from Jiangzhongyuan, Jiangxi to junction south of Jinling, replenish the troops of Jiangnan camp, and transfer the troops north of Jianghuai to junction west of Jinling, and transfer the Red single ship from Guangdong to block the river, cover the Qishan army in Jiangbei to cross the river, and fight against each other, and wipe out the Taiping Army in one fell swoop.

Xiang Rong fought on the battlefield for decades, and successively suppressed the rebellion of Guangxi and Xinjiang Tiandihui, and was very proficient in the deployment of troops and formations. His combat plan was very feasible.

So soon Xianfeng issued three imperial edicts, requiring the three imperial envoys to encircle and suppress the Taiping Army in accordance with Xiang Rong's plan, and to conquer Jinling and wipe out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by the end of the year.

The reason why Xianfeng had to wipe out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom before the end of the year was that Xianfeng had no money in his pocket. As long as this war was, the silver used to pay military expenses every day was like water flowing out. The Ministry of Revenue was already empty, and the temporary increase of the likin taxes by the court could not reach the Ministry of Revenue, and were basically intercepted by the local government to pay military salaries and local regiments to train armed forces. In this way, the group of civil and military officials, the emperor and the harem in the court, and more than one million bannermen's children who were not working hard to wait for the court to "relief" the silver. This was a deficit of tens of millions of taels of silver, which made Xianfeng feel a headache, so he had to urge the front line to finish the war as soon as possible.

In the small lotus building in Yu Garden, Li Weiguo was accompanying Fu Shanxiang to pick lotus seeds in the lake. After learning the news, he couldn't help but frown.

Fu Shanxiang said softly: "Although I don't understand military and national affairs, I feel that Xiang Rong must be unhappy this time. He has created such a plan of encirclement and suppression, and actually forced you to send troops to the forefront, so that he can make profits from it."

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Even my wife can see that there is something wrong. How can I fall into his trap when I am, my husband?"

Fu Shanxiang asked curiously: "What are you going to do, my husband?"

Li Weiguo smiled mysteriously and replied: "My wife forgot that there is something about cooperation between us and the Taiping Army?"

Fu Shanxiang was smart and understood everything at a glance. His beautiful eyes lit up immediately, but he asked with concern quickly: "Your Madam should not contact the Taiping Army too closely. After all, they are thieves. You are court officials. Once the matter is revealed, it may be very unfavorable to you."

Li Weiguo pulled Fu Shanxiang into his arms and said, "Don't worry, I'm prepared for it. If the matter is revealed, I will say it was a counter-espionage plan made by the enemy. As long as I destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in time, the court will have nothing to say."

Fu Shanxiang felt a little relieved and asked again: "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a million people. You only have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Can you really destroy them? If they can be destroyed, why does your husband stay still and sit still?"

"So there is something that my wife doesn't know?" Li Weiguo pretended to be surprised and joked with Fu Shanxiang.

"Hate! Do you think you are not talking? If you don't say it, I will ignore you!" Fu Shanxiang acted coquettishly in Li Weiguo's arms, pretending to be angry, and wanted to break free.

Li Weiguo laughed, and naturally refused, hugged her tightly, and explained: "My wife didn't know that although the Taiping Army had millions, most of them were refugees and forced men, and they had no combat power. Their real elite was just the Guangxi Hakka Army who followed Hong Xiuquan to raise troops, with only about 100,000 people. Although these troops were many, most of them used cold weapons such as swords, sticks, and other cold weapons. Although our Li family army had less than 40,000 troops, they were all equipped with foreign guns and cannons, and it would take only a matter of minutes to destroy the Taiping Army."

As Li Weiguo's wife and the first lady of the Li family army, Fu Shanxiang had seen the power of the Li family army's foreign guns and cannons in Anqing and Jiujiang. He defeated the Taiping Army without any resistance, so she believed that tens of thousands of Li family army were enough to compete with the hundreds of thousands of Taiping Army.

But Fu Shanxiang asked, "Then why did you not destroy the Taiping Army? The emperor was happy and might give me a rank-in official to sit down!"

"If I really do that, I will be the biggest fool in the world!" Li Weiguo smiled and saw that Fu Shanxiang still didn't understand, so he explained again: "The rabbit died and the dog cooked the birds and kept the bow. If I immediately destroyed the Taiping Army, Xianfeng would definitely think that the Taiping Army would be easily destroyed, and would not be grateful to me, and would even be afraid of the military power in my hands. He would like to cut off my military power immediately. In that case, my husband, I will lose the Li family army as a supporter, and I will be slaughtered. On the other hand, if I do not destroy the Taiping Army, I will follow the

They were consuming, and I slowly developed my strength and strengthened the power of the Li family army. In this way, the one who was anxious was Xianfeng. In order to eliminate the Taiping Army, he had to rely on me, and if he wanted to rely on me, he had to continue to give me benefits. The Taiping Army will never be destroyed, and my status will be as stable as Mount Tai. Therefore, the Taiping Army is not only not my enemy, but my helper now. When one day my husband is not afraid of Xianfeng, the Taiping Army will become my enemy and I will destroy them."

After listening to Li Weiguo's words, Fu Shanxiang looked at him blankly with beautiful eyes, as if he didn't want to know his husband.

After seeing each other for only two years, Fu Shanxiang didn't dare to think that his husband was growing so fast. He was not a fifteen-year-old boy, obviously more cunning than the old fox in his seventies or eighties.

Fu Shanxiang tilted his head and faced Li Weiguo with a pretty face and said suspiciously: "Are you really my husband? Why do I feel that you are more cunning than my father?"

Bang!

Li Weiguo waved his hand and slapped Fu Shanxiang on his buttocks, pretending to be angry: "Bold, dare to question your man, see how I deal with you!"

Slap sex!

Li Weiguo lifted Fu Shanxiang's buttocks and slapped him. He didn't hit him hard, but it made Fu Shanxiang feel embarrassed and angry.

Fu Shanxiang was a lady from a scholarly family after all, so how could he bear such treatment? He immediately screamed and struggled, begging for mercy loudly.

"My husband, please spare me, I know I am wrong! I dare not do it anymore!"

However, the more Fu Shanxiang begs for mercy, the more excited Li Weiguo is.

Tomorrow, Li Weiguo will return to Jiangdong Camp. There may be a big battle this time, so it is not convenient to take Fu Shanxiang with him. Thinking that he would not have a wife to warm up the bed for the next period of time, Li Weiguo whispered in Fu Shanxiang's ear: "Madam, I want you."

When Fu Shanxiang heard this, he looked shy and thought that her husband would go to war tomorrow, and he didn't know when he would come back to reunite with his wife. So he nodded slightly and said nodded, which was considered to be agreeing.

Li Weiguo was very happy, picked up Fu Shanxiang in the waist and walked towards the bedroom.

Seeing this, the maids and maids following behind all smiled and stopped tactfully and stayed in the distance.

I don't know how many times I asked for it.

At dawn, Fu Shanxiang snuggled in Li Weiguo's arms like a kitten. Although there were tears in the corners of his eyes, he had a satisfied smile on his face.

Li Weiguo still wanted to sleep in, but was woken up by Zhang Xiaoliu.

Wu Yong and Fu Xuexian came to see her off. Li Weiguo did not dare to neglect her and hurriedly got up. Seeing that Fu Shanxiang was sleeping soundly, he did not wake her up.

"Sir, as the foreman of this encirclement and suppression operation, please be careful to prevent him from being trapped!" Seeing Li Weiguo, Wu Yong immediately reminded him to be careful.

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Don't worry, if Xiang Rong doesn't come to provoke me this time, if you dare to provoke me, I will join forces with the Taiping Army and cheat him to death!"

Wu Yong smiled and said, "It's good that you are prepared for yourself. Wu Yong will feel relieved. Without further ado, the adults will return to Jiangdong Daying early. There is no adult in Jiangdong Daying in the province, so Xiang Rong will do small tricks."

Li Weiguo nodded and said goodbye to Wu Yong and Fu Xuexian.
Chapter completed!