Li Hongzhang urged the British mercenaries to leave the army quietly at midnight while the army was resting.
"How can you fight this battle if you quit before you start?"
Li Hongzhang looked anxiously at the departure direction of the British mercenaries. He was worried that if the soldiers found out that the British had disappeared early in the morning, the morale of the army would be turbulent.
"Adult, do we still want to attack the Fuxing Army in the south?" Li Hongzhang’s adjutant looks pale, saying that the strong are gone. Is it impossible for Huai Army to throw straws against the wind?
Li Hongzhang shook his head. "What are you going to do to die? Get ready to withdraw. Don’t announce the news of withdrawal yet. Give orders to those who command the morale. If there is chaos, even withdrawal is a big problem."
"Yes," the adjutant was relieved, "but I’m afraid the queen mother will be more critical of my adult."
Li hongzhang or "to huai army even if I’m not the queen mother also won’t like to me; If the Huai army is gone, even if I am loyal to the Queen Mother Yu Daqing, I will be the first to take my knife. The same is true for Zuo Zongtang, but now that Zuo Zongtang has dropped the Fuxing Army, he is no longer worried about these things. I know Wang Lei who has always appreciated Zuo Zongtang and will never harm him. "
The adjutant heard Li Hongzhang talk about Zuo Zongtang and suddenly gave birth to a feeling of being used in a rabbit’s heart and wondered if it would be better for him if Li Hongzhang dropped the Fuxing Army.
"Well, go home. It’s too windy outside." Li Hongzhang sighed and then walked back to Shuaiying.
Li Hongzhang’s worries really came true. When the soldiers woke up early in the morning and found that the British mercenaries had disappeared, they suddenly became noisy. This time, all the soldiers in each battalion surrounded them, and they were angry one by one.
"It’s hateful to say that the British will join us beforehand. It’s really a lie to play with us as monkeys!"
"How can we beat the short-haired demons without the strong foreigners!"
"Is it that we can’t die in vain? Why do we have to protect them and die in vain?"
The soldiers didn’t even do morning exercises, and they quarreled for days. The senior officials gave them an explanation.
However, these soldiers also don’t know anything, so they can ask the higher level to talk.
It won’t be long before the army pulls back. I don’t know from which population the news leaked.
"Retreat yesterday, didn’t you say you would continue to attack south? Why are you retreating again?"
"One order a day is true and false."
"Who knows if it’s really a retreat?"
The soldiers were angry again. They felt that the high-level officials had changed their ways to deceive them, which worried them whether it was because the front line had been defeated and whether the Fuxing Army had come after them.
Retreat is a stronger technical activity than attack, and the test is the will and organizational ability of an army.
Huai army camp is almost fried pot.
"It’s outrageous who leaked the news. I’m not strictly forbidden to disclose the news that we are going to retreat. What the hell are you doing!"
Li Hongzhang blushed with anger, and his neck was thick, facing several leaders and getting angry and roared.
Li Hongzhang didn’t expect that his order was leaked out early this morning last night, which made it so difficult to clean up outside.
"Adult, we don’t know which one revealed the retreat. We didn’t even tell our cronies around us." The leaders looked at each other, and I looked at you. Finally, I replied bravely.
Li Hongzhang took a cold look at the group leader. He knew the virtue of these hands clearly, but he knew that these people must have told their cronies about the retreat, otherwise it would be impossible for the retreat to get out.
Feel Li Hongzhang’s eyes, and the leaders can’t help but bow their heads and dare not look at Li Hongzhang.
"This is extraordinary." Li Hongzhang looked somberly. "This means that there are Baath Army spies in your hands. It is these Baath Army spies who have disturbed our morale and deliberately leaked air."
"What’s the matter!"
"Damn it, the spies of the Fuxing Army are so rampant that they have sneaked into us!"
"Be sure to find out and cut it."
These leaders are all Huai army elders. When they heard the word spy, they suddenly shouted one by one, and they were very angry and immediately clamored to find out the spy.
"Hum, when you find out, you still don’t know what Yaomian is going to be like! Now it’s a critical moment, and then the Huai army will be finished. "Li Hongzhang’s face is almost black into charcoal, and these people are simply a group of idiots."
Of course, he knows that there are spies in the Huai army, and there are quite a few of them, especially among the younger generation. If you check those people, there will be no chaos.
At this moment, Li Hongzhang suddenly remembered one of those articles written by Wang Lei in recent years, which said that the military victory of the Fuxing Army and the Qing court war was the trail and the victory was the avenue. In the past ten years, Wang Lei waved the banner of Han nationalism to revive the Han family and recast the Chinese orthodoxy, which was very popular among young people in the Qing court-controlled areas.
In the past, when Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang talked about this terrible opponent, they were most afraid not of the other side’s force but of Wang Lei’s theory. Both of them were very depressed to find one thing. The more capable their students are, the better they are, and the more likely they are to be attracted by Wang Lei’s theory.
"Sure enough, it’s a good fighter!"
Li Hongzhang suddenly felt exhausted at this moment. He lost the war ten years ago, and now it is just a result.
"What should we do, my Lord?" The leaders looked at Li Hongzhang and waited for his decision.