At around 3 a.m. on January 24, 1855, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, and Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, killed Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east.

On January 25, Wei Ze led his army to withdraw from Tianjing City.

On January 26, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, and Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, killed nearly 3,000 people in the eastern palace.

On January 27, Wei Changhui, the king of the North, began a massacre of the relatives of the Eastern Wang's tribe who tried to flee in Tianjing City.

On January 28, Wei Changhui, the king of the North, personally ordered, "Yang Zhiyu's party must be cut down and eradicated!" The killing of the families of the people who had been killed by Yang Xiuqing before began in Tianjing City.

On January 29, due to the number of killings, some of the corpses thrown into the river rushed down the Yangtze River, and Wei Ze's troops learned that a full-scale massacre had taken place in the city.

On January 3o, Wei Ze's troops left the Qixiashan camp and began to retreat in the direction of Changzhou.

On February 1, Lin Fengxiang, who was guarding Huai'an, received a third letter from Wei Ze, which described the massacre in Tianjing City and clearly informed Lin Fengxiang that Wei Ze wanted to break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Putting down the letter, Lin Fengxiang's face seemed to have a layer of frost. Wei Ze's first letter was delivered to Lin Fengxiang on January 27. Wei Ze sent people to take a fast boat under the banner of King Qi's customs clearance, first down the river, and then into the canal, heading straight for Huai'an. Finally arrived in Huai'an in three days. I saw that the first letter was written, and the king of heaven ordered the king of the north to kill the king of the east. Lin Fengxiang's first reaction at that time was that Wei Ze didn't know where he heard the rumors. But after reading the letter carefully, Lin Fengxiang couldn't laugh. It was clearly written in the letter that Wei Ze was in Tianjing City.

Lin Fengxiang knew very well that Wei Ze was not an alarmist person. Moreover, Wei Ze clearly told Lin Fengxiang that he himself was in Tianjing City, so it was even less likely to tell nonsense. In the letter, Wei Ze also introduced what he knew, when the East King was going to seal Long Live the Emperor, there were many rumors in Tianjing City that the East King was going to kill the Heavenly King.

Even if he was in Huai'an, Lin Fengxiang was not ignorant of the news in Tianjing City. The high-pressure measures taken by the East King before Feng Wansui were really quite appalling, and Lin Fengxiang was actually a little suspicious that the East King wanted to overthrow the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. Now the king of heaven killed the king of the east, which made Lin Fengxiang extremely sad.

But Lin Fengxiang can't think about the situation in Tianjing City, he is far away in Huai'an, far away from Tianjing City. Now Lin Fengxiang is defending the northeast direction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Qing army's troops centered on Xuzhou have been uncertain recently, and Lin Fengxiang also feels more difficult to defend the important city of Huai'an.

Before Wei Ze left Anhui, he set a strategy to defend the river and Huai, and Lin Fengxiang was very supportive of this strategy. As long as the Huai River is held, the Taiping army will attack Zhejiang to the east and fight to the sea. At that time, a real line of defense could be built with the Huai River as the boundary. Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, and Wei Ze broke the camp in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River, and in the Battle of Hukou, the king of the wings, Shi Dakai, broke the Hunan army upstream. Wei Ze also Chen soldiers in Changzhou, ready to enter southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Seeing that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was able to steadily occupy the six provinces of the Yangtze River Valley. Once such a situation is reached, the Northern Expedition is just around the corner, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be destroyed overnight. Lin Fengxiang never expected that such a thing would happen when the situation was very good.

Wei Ze's first letter was delivered to Lin Fengxiang on January 27, and on the night of January 28, and during the day of January 29, Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan, who were also stationed in Anhui, sent letters to Lin Fengxiang. It is said that Wei Ze sent a letter to the two of them, informing the king of heaven that he had ordered someone to kill the king of the east.

In the following days, Lin Fengxiang was anxious, and his head turned white. But not only did the situation not get better, Wei Ze's second letter informed Lin Fengxiang that he was squeezed out of Tianjing City by the people of Dongwangfu, and he was completely unable to grasp the news in Tianjing City.

The third letter was even more straightforward, informing Lin Fengxiang that there had been a massacre against the families of Dongwang's subordinates in the Tianjing City. Wei Ze made it clear that he wanted to break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Of course, Lin Fengxiang didn't completely listen to other people's news, he himself also sent a messenger and a spy, the messenger went to Tianjing City to ask for a meeting with the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, and the spies naturally inquired about the news. Without waiting for these people to come back to their lives, Wei Ze gave such an earth-shattering news.

As the old brother of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lin Fengxiang couldn't wait any longer. He immediately ordered someone to prepare a boat, and he personally rushed to Changzhou by boat, first to meet Wei Ze. No matter what he was born to, Wei Ze was the number one general of the Heavenly Kingdom, and he held the most powerful field army in the Heavenly Kingdom in his hands. Once Wei Ze broke away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it not only meant that there was a huge gap in the strategic layout south of the Yangtze River in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also meant a heavy loss of the Taiping Heavenly Army's power.

Of course, this may also be a conspiracy of Wei Ze, the number one general under the East King, but Lin Fengxiang and Wei Ze are more familiar, and the lives of the Northern Expeditionary Army were also saved by Wei Ze. Based on such a sense of trust, Lin Fengxiang is also willing to take a risk.

It was sunrise on February 1, and on February 4, Lin Fengxiang only brought more than 200 people to the Changzhou area. As soon as they landed, Lin Fengxiang's troops were besieged by the Wei Ze troops. To Lin Fengxiang's surprise, Wei Ze's troop banner had completely changed. It was no longer the yellow flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but a crimson flag. In the upper left corner of the flag, there are five yellow stars, one large and four small.

And the uniforms of Weeser's troops have also completely changed, no longer yellow robes, but blue-gray short clothes with two sections on the top and bottom. The top is a placket, and the bottom is a pair of pants that are wider at the thighs.

From the changes in this clothes, it can be seen that Wei Ze is really about to break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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