Zhao Ziqiang complained, saying that Gao Jinku's defeat implicated his fifth town, which caused his fifth town to face the Qing army's fast attack and fast advance, and had no power to fight back. He had no choice but to abandon the land and lose the city one after another and retreat northward. However, he was dissatisfied with Shao Jiugong as the governor of Guangxi. Because he was dissatisfied with Shao Jiugong, he was afraid of war. The essence of fear of war was to avoid war, or to sit in the mountains and watch tiger fights. There was a saying that Zhao Ziqiang was inconvenient to say, that was that he was actually very happy to see Xiaobeishan taken down by the line Guoan. Good steel was used on the blade. If the fifth town changed from the subordinate power of the battle of Liuzhou to the key force that determines the success or failure of the war, and even defeated the army of Guoan in one fell swoop, Zhao Ziqiang believed that he could definitely replace Shao Jiugong as the governor of Guangxi.

In the Taiping Army, qualifications are of course important, but military achievements are even more important. No matter how old Shao Jiugong has experienced his seniority, it is impossible to convince other generals in Guangxi, and it is even more impossible to continue to be in charge of Guangxi. At that time, the Military Commander's Office will consider the new candidate for Guangxi Governor. Zhao Ziqiang will definitely be ranked first and the only candidate.

The important position of governor is more attractive than the future of the fifth town, and has more righteousness and power. The Taiping Army currently only controls the territory of 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 generals of the town and become an important figure in the Taiping Army. Promotion and wealth have always been his goal for him. In just one year, if he jumped from a small green camp to a governor of a province, the speed of promotion may be unprecedented and no one to come. As for whether this governor was conferred by Zhou Shi or given by the Yongli court, Zhao Ziqiang did not care. He only cared whether he could be the governor. To be contrary to his will, a surrender to a town general and a governor surrender was different from heaven and earth, and the treatment of the past could not be mentioned.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, there has never been a military general who served as governor of a province, but now it is different from the past. Zhou Shixiang’s example of Shao Jiugong cannot stop other generals’ ambitions for the important position of governor. Zhao Ziqiang is only one of them, and there will be more in the future.

For the sake of the governor of Guangxi, the essentially territorial official, Zhao Ziqiang could not save Xiaobeishan. What he wanted was the failure of Shao Jiugong. Only when Shao Jiugong was defeated could he show Zhao Ziqiang's ability. However, now Yu Shizhong led the Bing Brigade to the south to resolve the siege of Xiaobeishan 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 Bing Brigade was directly transferred from the second town. The equipment and training of the old four towns were already stronger than the other towns, and most of them had fought with the Manchu army, so Yu Shizhong's brigade could fight more than Li Guoan and Hu Mingyi's brigade. But no matter how hard he could fight, he could only have more than 2,000 people. However, there were 30,000 to 40,000 Qing troops under the line Guoan. Yu Shizhong just bumped into him, and it was probably a little bit of a disaster. Without Yu Shizhong's brigade, Zhao Ziqiang was not sure about fighting the Qing army with just two brigades Li Guoan and Hu Mingyi. If he had two more brigades in his hands, he would not have retreated from Guizhou to Tongshan Fort.

After all, Zhao Ziqiang's remaining two brigades were stronger than those under the command of Guo Dengdi, Gao Jinku and others, but they were not necessarily much stronger than the Qing army, because they were green camp soldiers. The reason why Zhao Ziqiang was able to show his power in the Battle of Chaohui was not because his subordinates were able to fight, but because of the ruthless killing that shocked the Qing army surrendered and the regiments and camps in Chaozhou. In Chaozhou, Zhao Ziqiang's reputation among the people is no worse than that of Manzhou people, and he can even be compared with the "Old Ghost" who can stop children from crying at night.

Similarly, Zhao Ziqiang was able to make Zhou Shixiang take a fancy to the generals of the fifth town, and loyalty accounted for most of the factors. Because Zhao Ziqiang was trustworthy, Zhou Shixiang could tolerate the tragic slaughter of cities and villages he had done in Chaozhou. Otherwise, Zhao Ziqiang's head would have been used by him to appease the people of Chaozhou. Zhao Ziqiang's loyalty was based on the fact that the Taiping Army could defeat him and he could make money with promotion. Without this foundation, the word loyalty would be nothing more than nothing.

At present, Zhao Ziqiang is still loyal to Zhou Shixiang, otherwise he would not have wanted to cheat Shao Jiugong in order to plot the position of governor of Guangxi. But now the most capable Brigade C went south without authorization, and two brigades with similar combat power as the Qing army, and their troops were not as strong as the Qing army. Zhao Ziqiang is actually having a headache now. It is going to rain and his mother wants to get married. It sounds free and easy, but after careful consideration, it is not difficult to hear that these eight words contain a lot of helplessness. Without the capital to deal with the Line Guoan, Shao Jiugong was defeated. The position of governor of Guangxi is probably far away from Zhao Ziqiang. It is impossible to say that the situation in Guangxi will collapse from now on. Zhao Ziqiang is unwilling to see this. Like the generals under the Line Guoan, his property is in Guangdong. If the Taiping Army is defeated, it means that he has been in vain for the past two years.

Lu Guangzu heard that Zhao Ziqiang had no words, and he was silent. Lu Guangzu was never a person who was afraid of death. He went to Sichuan to defeat Zhang Xianzhong from Prince Su of the Qing Dynasty, and fought against Sun Kewang in Hunan. When the entire army retreated, he led his headquarters as the rear of the entire army. No matter what battle, he was brave enough to charge and never retreated lightly. However, in the Chaohui War, the entire camp of Wu Zhenchaoha was destroyed, which made him feel afraid for the first time. People either never feared, and after being afraid, there would be a second and third time.

Because of fear, after Lu Guangzu opened the city to surrender after knowing that Jidu's army was destroyed and joined the Taiping Army, the fear of this thought was completely lost in Lu Guangzu's heart, but the battle between Dushan Prefecture and the subsequent Nandan made him afraid again.

The fear of war with Zhao Ziqiang is actually avoiding war. He is different in his real intention of seeking the position of governor of Guangxi for himself by watching Shao Jiugong jokes. Lu Guangzu was really afraid.

Lu Guangzu had already dealt with the man in the past and knew that this person was good at leading troops and using troops. After Li Dingguo killed King Kong Youde of Dingnan in Guilin, he was either unwilling to take advantage of the situation to eliminate the troops of other Dingnan vassals, such as the Dingnan vassals, but Shi Guoan led the remaining soldiers from Dingnan vassals to defeat Li Dingguo's siege and instead occupied Guilin again. Li Dingguo was helpless in this.

When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong, half of its rear routes were controlled by the Line Guoan. When the Taiping Army rose in Xinhui, Shang Kexi, King of Pingnan, and Li Lutai, Guangdong Governor General, made a proposal at that time. This proposal was to invite Guangxi Line Guoan to attack the Guangdong Ming army, including the Taiping Army, to completely unite Guangdong, and then to join forces to Yunnan. At that time, the Qing army in Guangdong had no way to deal with the Taiping Army. Shang Kexi and Li Lutai believed that if the Line Guoan led the troops, the situation in Guangdong would survive. The Taiping Army was not worth worrying. It is not difficult to see that in the minds of Shang Kexi and others, the Line Guoan had real skills.

Because he knew about the line Guoan, Lu Guangzu was afraid and did not fulfill his responsibility for persuading the deputy general. He allowed Zhao Ziqiang to lead the fifth town to rush 300 miles, retreating from Guizhou to Tongshan Fort. Now, Zhao Ziqiang has a headache about Yu Shizhong's unauthorized journey south and weakening his troops, so that he did not have much capital to spend on the situation after Shao Jiugong's defeat. Lu Guangzu is also having a headache about how to deal with the trouble caused by this unexpected situation.

Regardless of whether Yu Shizhong disobeyed or not, as the chief and deputy general of the fifth town, he sat down and watched Shizhong's voyage be defeated, and no matter how they explained it later, it was unreasonable. Therefore, Lu Guangzu suggested that Zhao Ziqiang lead the entire town to the south immediately. Regardless of whether he could cross the line Guoan, he would always do his best to avoid being unable to explain it later. But he did not think that Zhao Ziqiang was unwilling to go south. Even if the consequences of this matter were serious, he would not want to go south just to rescue Shao Jiugong.

Zhao Ziqiang is not a person who knows the right position. He already regrets that he shouldn't have been on the line and besieged Liuzhou, but he really dares not send troops south at the moment because he can't trust the two brigades of Li Guoan and Hu Mingyi. He is very afraid that going south will lead to a defeat. Without Yu Shizhong's brigade, Zhao Ziqiang is really out of confidence and no confidence.

When Lu Guangzu was silent, Brigade B's urgent report came over. When he learned that Yu Shizhong led Brigade B to defeat the Qing army Xu Tianyou and Tong Zhengliang's troops and beheaded for nearly a thousand levels, the entire brigade was chasing the Qing army south to flee to the Qing army. Lu Guangzu's heart was thrilled and his face showed joy. Unexpectedly, the Qing army could not deal with more than 2,000 soldiers under Yu Shizhong.

When Zhao Ziqiang heard the news, he was stunned for a moment and stood there for a long time without saying anything. Lu Guangzu thought he still did not want to go south and was about to persuade that since Yu Shizhong's brigade had such a great victory, the whole town should immediately go south to respond in order to expand the results of the battle, but Zhao Ziqiang called the military staff of the town command post and ordered him to write a military order, which was a supplement to the military order that the town command post agreed to the south to rescue Brigade C.

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Lu Guangzu really couldn't figure out what Zhao Ziqiang sold in this gourd. Yu Shizhong was obviously disobeying his orders, so why did you make up for the military order for him? Is your general in the town still shameless?

Zhao Ziqiang saw that Lu Guangzu was confused. After the staff officer continued, he grinned at Lu Guangzu: "Damn, I was scared by the straight Guoan a few days ago and thought he could fight. Now it seems that it is just ordinary. Since Yu Shizhong has made a good start for us, then go to meet him straight Guoan. If he loses, it is Yu Shizhong's business. If he wins, it is our credit."

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

When the military order was issued, the fifth town immediately mobilized. Within half an hour, Hu Mingyi and Li Guoan sent someone to report urgently. They had led their troops south. Zhao Ziqiang ordered the town command post to move to Li Guoan's brigade to direct command, and ordered Hu Mingyi to rush to the Songjiawolou area to meet with the town command post within one hour.
Chapter completed!