There are two sides to everything, some people are happy, some people are sad, and it is not for nothing to increase joy, but it must be built on the basis of realizing that it has been achieved together.

When the great river network was completed, the heavenly army was all overjoyed, whether it was a high-level or a small soldier, whether it was a human army of the heavenly army, or a variety of animal alliances, of course, the happiest were those aquatic friends.

It was those tiger sharks from the East China Sea that also entered the Great River basin from the mouth of the Da River this time.

It turned out that Mai Ke had successfully developed an armor based on their last failure, and these tiger sharks could keep the salt content of their skin unchanged forever after they were shipped.

As a result, they can roam in fresh water at will!

From now on, wherever there is water in the world, they can go!

The most tragic and unlucky is Li Hui!

This Li Hui was the governor of Shandong and the leader of the military campaign against the Celestial Army's advance into Shandong and the opening of the passage of the Great River into the sea.

What is rare is that Li Hui is both civil and military, especially in the arrangement of troops and the strategic use of troops.

The advance force of the Celestial Army, which had originally advanced along the newly opened new road of the Yellow River, had begun to move unhindered, and soon entered the hinterland of the land of Qilu.

Later, I learned that this was Li Hui's strategy to lure the enemy into going deeper, and after the Heavenly Army was deceived into their encirclement, they adopted the strategy of encircling but not fighting, and lured the Heavenly Army to come to the rescue.

It was Yang Xiuqing who sent troops to Shandong to rescue, and after he learned that the advance troops were surrounded, he personally led the whole army to the north and entered the land of Qilu to relieve them from the siege.

didn't expect this Li Hui to have a huge appetite, and in turn wrapped Yang Xiuqing's reinforcements into it.

Lin Fengxiang's headquarters of the nearby Northeast Corps also participated in the military rescue operation.

Their strategy is really not greedy, because Li Hui actually joined forces with the Zhili defenders. Mobilize an army of 800,000, twice as much as the heavenly army, and surround Lin Fengxiang and Yang Xiuqing together!

Most of these troops were the result of Xianfeng's last death order, and Snake 400 began to force Li Hui to collect reinforcements as requested, but was later persuaded by Li Hui. Use these people to deal with Lin Fengxiang and Yang Xiuqing's heavenly army.

His reason was that to get the heavenly army that was originally besieging the emperor to the land of Qilu was to disperse the pressure of the heavenly army on the emperor, and in essence, it was a more effective aid to the emperor.

The advance force of the Eastern Corps of the Celestial Army went upriver from the old course of the Yellow River to the new road of the Yellow River, and then entered the land of Qilu with it.

However, Yang Xiuqing and Lin Fengxiang's reinforcements took a different route, starting from the Middle Canal and passing through the four major lakes, namely Weishan Lake, Zhaoyang Lake, Dushan Lake, and Nanyang Lake. Then pass through the Lu Canal, and finally enter the new channel of the Yellow River, and join the advance troops at the south of the country.

The reinforcements traveled unhindered along the way, and when the two armies converged, the situation changed abruptly, and in a blink of an eye, they were directly surrounded by countless land and water Qing soldiers.

At this point, all the amphibious units of the Celestial Army were blocked, and it was difficult to move an inch.

Right now. They had to stay stranded on a waterway outside the city of Jinan, waiting for rescue.

Mai Ke received these news. Immediately contacted the general headquarters presided over by Liuhua and Zhang Yuan, and asked them about their understanding and arrangements for this matter.

The march to Shandong was part of the strategic deployment of the General Headquarters, and it was now known that they were besieged and trapped, and that they were being dispatched. Prepare for quick support.

However, according to the prediction of the six strokes, it is not a big problem for Yang Xiuqing to hold on for ten days.

Mai Ke reviewed the current situation of each unit and their location at a cursory glance, and had already made a decision in his heart.

His plan was to send out cavalry. The land of Qilu is just right for the cavalry to carry out the operation!

So, Mai Ke sent Luo Shande's 450,000 cavalry plus the cavalry of Hu Yihuang's Northwest Corps, and after completing the encirclement and suppression of the northeast reinforcements, he went straight to the Shandong battlefield without stopping.

Fighting with the cavalry, it was really very powerful, they didn't stop, they arrived at the front line in one day, and then they didn't stop and immediately attacked!

Although Li Hui placed many troops to prevent reinforcements, he did not expect that the Heavenly Army would be so desperate and crush all the cavalry! A full 700,000!

After fierce resistance, the defense line arranged by Li Hui still collapsed!

Lin Fengxiang and Yang Xiuqing's reinforcements were rescued!

Only the advance force remained surrounded by the enemy.

Hu Yihuang, Yang Xiuqing, Lin Fengxiang, and Luo Shande got together to discuss how to eliminate the remaining Qing army and lift the enemy's encirclement.

At this time, Mai Ke's order came, and all the cavalry and most of the two corps were temporarily withdrawn from the Shandong battlefield to participate in the confluence of reinforcements from the west.

Everyone immediately changed the theme of the meeting, and decided that each of the two corps would leave 100,000 men to contain the enemy, cooperate with the celestial army in the encirclement, buy time, and all the rest of the people would go back.

After the main force withdrew, the remaining Celestial Army did everything possible to use illusions to confuse the enemy, but Li Hui quickly saw through the tricks of the Celestial Army and understood the current situation of the Celestial Army.

So he was furious and rejoiced, and the enemy was only 200,000!

So, he dispatched his whole army again and completely surrounded the remaining heavenly army!

The encirclement was quickly realized, with a total of 600,000 troops, surrounding the Heavenly Legion!

In the inner circle of the Heavenly Army, there was the 200,000 army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they surrounded the advance force of the Heavenly Army at the earliest.

In the innermost circle, there is the advance force of the Celestial Army, with a total of 100,000 people.

The general head of the Celestial Army is a fierce general who participated in the Northern Expedition in history, Ji Wenyuan, and the old brother Guangxi.

In the history of Ji Wenyuan, in May of the first year of Xin Kai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was awarded the imperial forest guard in Xinzhai in Xiangzhou.

In November of the second year of Renzi, Ke Hanyang, the deputy guard after the promotion.

On the twelfth, he was promoted to a deputy general.

In February of the third year of Guihao, the army attacked Nanjing, ascended to the right of the sixth command, and Wen Yuan led the crowd to ascend first.

On the 23rd, he was crowned as the deputy prime minister of Chunguan and patrolled the area along the river near Tianjing.

In March, the king of heaven ordered the Northern Expedition, with Wen Yuan's bravery, and ordered Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to lead the Northern Expedition.

Transferred to several provinces and reached Tianjin.

In every battle, you will be the first to fall into battle, and you will be meritorious. Seal the Huhou.

In February of the fourth year of Jiayin, the Northern Expeditionary Army retreated to the attached city, and the enemy commanders Monk Greenqin and Shengbao chased after and besieged the attached city.

On the 17th, the enemy attacked urgently, and Wen Yuan personally commanded it, and was wounded by a cannon in the forehead. Wrapped in wounds, he was unfortunately hit by several arrows in the waist and fell off his horse and died.

is such a heroic figure who died young like a meteor, and today he was entrusted with the great task of leading an army of nearly one million of 300,000 people against the enemy!

This No. 3 person in the Northern Expeditionary Army in history, now driven by the great changes in Mai Ke's history, finally has a chance to show his talents.

He knew that time was all about it, as long as he held on. The final victory will come!

Seeing that there were 200,000 Qing troops inside, while exerting pressure on the 100,000 brothers in the center, and at the same time provoking the heavenly army outside, Ji Wenyuan was very cool!

These people are a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh!

If you want to hold on, it's really uncomfortable to keep them!

So, Ji Wenyuan decided to pull out the thorn!

He sent someone to contact the brothers inside, and coincidentally, the person in charge of the inside, Zhu Xikun. He is also the general of the Northern Expedition in history!

Zhu Xikun is a native of Xibo Bai County.

In the Jintian Uprising, many people from Bobai County came to participate. Xi Kun was appointed as the commander of the right army, and in July of the first year of Xin Kai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was promoted to the first supervising army, led the first army, and repeatedly broke the Qing army.

In the autumn of this year, Ke restored the state of Yong'an in the west. The enemy came to besiege.

In October, the Qing Dynasty's minister Sai Shang sent the traitor Zhou Xineng to Yong'an Prefecture to respond to the internal response, and attempted to assassinate the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Zhu Ba is Zhu Xikun's uncle. When Yong'an Prefecture was trapped, it was very critical, and Zhou Xineng thought that he would definitely be able to incite him by taking advantage of the relationship between Zhu Ba and Xikun's uncle and nephew. Therefore, he secretly went to Xikun with Zhu Ba in the dark night, and tried his best to persuade Xikun to surrender to the enemy by means of temptation, saying that there was a reward.

When Xikun heard this, he was very angry and said angrily: "I will never do such a thing!"

Drive Zhou Xineng and Zhu Ba away.

The next morning, Xikun was sent to the Water Dou Army to build a book, and he planned to return in the evening and report back.

On this day, Zhou Xineng plotted a rebellion and conspired to solve the case for Yang Xiuqing.

Yang Xiuqing heard this with Xikun, and immediately replied, with a hundred scepters.

And he was in the prison army, and he did not know what was urgent, and he commanded another hundred rods.

When the rebels against Zhou Xineng and the counter-revolutionary Zhu Ba were executed everywhere, Xikun was also shackled to the court to show the public.

He shouted loudly: "Brothers, everyone must wake up, I, Zhu Xibao, rely on the power of my Heavenly Father, otherwise I will be killed by my blood uncle Zhu Ba!

This incident shows the firmness of Zhu Xikun's position.

In September of the second year of Renzi, to Changsha, the soil was promoted to a general system.

In November, Ke Hanyang, the deputy general of the promotion officer.

In December, Ke Jiechang, ascended to the third command from the left.

In February of the third year of the siege of Nanjing, Xi Kun supervised the attack on the big east gate, both grams, the third inspection of the left of the temple, and ordered to guard the big east gate.

In April, the king ordered Xikun and Huang Yiyun to lead the army with Lin Fengxiang on the northern expedition, landed from the auxiliary mouth, strayed into Liuhe County by the wrong way, camped outside the city, at night, the camp was on fire, more than ten gunpowder burst in an instant, the smoke burned in the sky, more than half of the soldiers were killed and wounded, and Xikun rushed out of the fire.

Xuan and Fengxiang are the same as advancing towards the Emblem and the South.

On the ninth day of the first month of May, he conquered Guide.

The next day, the Qing army counterattacked, and Xi Kun and Ji Wenyuan led the soldiers to attack, and defeated the Qing army again.

On the 16th, we arrived at Zhuxian Town.

In September of this year, the king of heaven rewarded the generals of the Northern Expedition and was named the Marquis of Hu.

On the ninth day of the first month of May, he conquered Guide.

The next day, the Qing army counterattacked, and Xi Kun and Ji Wenyuan led the soldiers to attack, and defeated the Qing army again.

On the 16th, we arrived at Zhuxian Town.

In September of this year, the king of heaven rewarded the generals of the Northern Expedition and was named the Marquis of Hu.

In February, when the Northern Expeditionary Army moved the attached city from Jinghai and Duliu, Xi Kun led the vanguard battalion to garrison outside the city, and the Qing army surrounded the Qing army with horses and steps, attacking from all sides, and all the battalions outside the city were breached.

Now these two are also facing a critical moment, and the idea of "pulling out the thorns" hit it off, and they immediately booked a time to do it together!

When the time came, Ji Wenyuan and Zhu Xikun broke out at the same time, and the inside and outside should be combined, and the arrogant enemy was trampled under their feet in an instant!

Before Li Hui could react, the 200,000 Qing troops in the middle had already collapsed!

And his attempt to take the opportunity to break through was also completely shattered by the defense arranged by Ji Wenyuan!

In this way, the two top generals of the Heavenly Army, Ji Wenyuan and Zhu Xikun, joined hands and withstood all kinds of attacks from the enemy!

Li Hui is indeed a rare talent, and the encirclement of the two is getting tighter and tighter, constantly consuming the living force of the Heavenly Army, making it more and more difficult for the two to hold on!

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the main stream of the renewed Great River rushed to the sky, splitting the encirclement of the Qing army at once, and their encirclement was self-defeating!

And Ji Wenyuan and the others in the encirclement also took up all of them with this fresh river channel and moved to Jinan City, which is a mile away!

This change can be counted in one fell swoop!

The encirclement that Li Hui worked so hard to manage was broken in one fell swoop!

The besieged Heavenly Army has been rescued from a situation where there is almost no way out!

The enemy's well-defended city misses in an instant!

The Manchu army led by Li Hui was stunned and demoralized, and there was nothing to add to it!

The morale of Ji Wenyuan and other heavenly army generals is high, and their morale is like a rainbow!

The river is unstoppable, and it is gone, leaving behind a Qing army with people on their backs and a high-spirited heavenly army!

How could Ji Wenyuan let go of this opportunity, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy did not know what was happening, he fought and began to attack the city in a big way, and all the city gates were not captured!.

(To be continued......) R1292