There was a unique cold air after the snow, but Chen Yucheng's mood seemed to be like a fire, and his heart was full of burning feelings.

Like many twisted heads, he raised the red flag and joined the formation of the Hong Army, which was set up by his clan, subordinates and friends, although he could still maintain a little loyalty to Hong Xiucheng, but these subordinates were unwilling to follow Hong Xiuquan anymore, let alone continue to stay in the clouds in this icy Huai River.

Therefore, he was forcibly erected, but this is also Chen Yucheng's original intention, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom At this time, who can still maintain all the loyal ministers of Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, A scholar studied the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the later period, and said a very interesting sentence, saying that Hong Xiuquan's "pure minister" in the later period of the Heavenly Kingdom was only Hong Renji.

However, at this time, the Ganwang was still stranded in Hong Kong and had never reported to Tianjing—in fact, he would never have come to Tianjing, and the Kingdom of Heaven could no longer find a second pure minister like Hong Renji who remained loyal to the Hong family, strictly speaking, they were still loyal to the great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and the Manchus, and to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but for the Hong family, they lost hope in the so-called worship of God.

Therefore, Chen Decai, who was beside him, said: "King Ying, now join forces with Du Jinchan, meet with Yingjie in northern Anhui in one fell swoop, and attack Kaifeng, and then the time will show the heroism of the King of England!" ”

Chen Yucheng himself is willing to maintain loyalty to Hong Xiuquan, but his subordinates are half-hearted, Chen Yucheng in history has both loyal to the Kingdom of Heaven to the last moment, and also led more than 100,000 people to surrender to the Qing army renegade, among which the proportion of old brothers in Guangxi is particularly large.

Now that Liu Chang is openly recruiting the old Ministry of Heaven, they are naturally willing to change their banners, but Chen Yucheng is the young man who has fought countless times under the banner of Tianping Heaven after all: "Also, let the Heavenly King go quickly......"

"The King can go, but the team has to stay for us!" It was Lai Wenguang who said this, he was Chen Yucheng's favorite general: "At least half of it must be left!" ”

Now that Chen Yucheng has changed banners, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can't even keep the flag, so he said without scruples: "Let's go north." Enough strength is required! ”

Chen Yucheng pondered for a while before finally agreeing: "This matter, don't use my banner, we have to leave some measure in a fight with the Heavenly King and the Monarch!" ”

In fact, he is now changing flags in the name of supporting Du Jinciao, and if he is also able to get by in the face, but he also knows it. This is the last time they will show mercy to the Heavenly King, and when the banner is officially changed, they will never have any affection for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as they do now.

This will be the final blow to the kingdom of heaven.

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Chen Yucheng's change of banner can be said to be the heaviest blow in the history of the Twist Army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it only took half an hour for the entire Pheasant River Set to be replaced with a red flag. What followed was a self-fighting battle throughout northern Anhui.

From this moment on, the twist is no longer a unified whole, they have formed a hardliner and moderate because of different choices, that is, the so-called "king faction" and "Niangniang faction", and soon different twist armies because of different personal ideals, joined this big fight, and even those who want to remain neutral Twist army, have joined this twist to twist the fire.

The twist, like a weed, paid the price of countless blood in this fight. There was even an incident of slaughtering villages, different big flags, small flags, and different clans had fires, and it was already a tragedy, and even more tragedy, the same big flag, the same small flag, even the same clan, and even the same family, all raised their swords and guns to cut each other because of their different positions.

This one even crushed the little strength that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had preserved. Except for the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan after fleeing with hundreds of people. The rest of the Taiping Army, except for Wei Jun's department. Almost in response to Chen Yucheng's banner of changing banners, and the first thing they did after changing banners was to point their guns at their former allies, the Twist Army.

Not to mention that behind them there is the main force of Feng Sixian's Eighth Division, and this most tragic scene in the history of twisting finally came to an end with the execution of the head twisted in rows on the vortex river, which also means that the Hong Army basically controls the entire northern Anhui.

Therefore, the spring of the eighth year of Xianfeng can be particularly cold for Ye Mingchen, the king of Yue, even so cold that he can't curse loudly.

According to various sources, the Rainbow Army had greatly consolidated their superiority in the past winter, and they had conquered all of Jiangsu and Anhui, uniting their territory along the Yangtze River, which had only occupied a small area along the Yangtze River at the height of its glory in the past.

And now up to Jiangsu, up to Hubei Yichang, they occupy almost the entire Yangtze River, and even the two lakes of the two most powerful provinces against the Taiping army, now almost the whole territory has fallen, now Hubei is still not in the hands of the Hong Army, only more than 20 counties, and Hunan is only left with most of southern Hunan, and these two places can not last long, Bao Chao's Hunan army has withdrawn to Sichuan in advance, and Zeng Guofan has repeatedly sent letters, asking to retreat into Guangdong.

This means that the red thieves have occupied the territory of the seven provinces, and their vanguard has invaded Henan and Shandong provinces, and the Liang Wangjun, who lost a lot of losses in the retreat, was almost rushed across by the pursuing red thieves, and simply withdrew directly to Hebei, and now there is no Qing army in Henan and Shandong that is too combative.

In this case, the south has become the next target of the rainbow army, and the two sides have carried out many early battles in Wuling, although the Yue Wang army has achieved some small victories, but the overall situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to Ye Mingchen.

So he had to meet with the Spanish consul again: "Your Excellency, we need more support in the battle to defend the Holy South, yes, more volunteers, more rifles, more artillery, more ammunition, and more loans!" ”

After a few months of contact, he already understood what the Spanish Empire was all about, among the so-called powers, this Spanish state can be said to be the weakest one, not only was it trampled by French soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars, but it also broke out a civil war more than ten years ago, which hurt the vitality of the country.

In this case, they are completely half-hearted about this war, if it weren't for the hostile attitude of the Hongjun towards Catholicism, maybe they would have directly abandoned Ye Mingchen and colluded with those traitors of Liu Jiehu.

It's just that the Spanish consul didn't consider the issue of continuing to strongly support Ye Mingchen: "Dear Lord Wang, I know that you need military support now, but the whole of Luzon, the whole of Spain, has exhausted some strength to support you, you should believe this!" ”

Ye Mingchen was a little annoyed, he now knows a lot of the inside story of the Spaniards, and the ghost believes that the Spaniards are wholeheartedly supporting him, if this old empire is willing to support him, maybe now the Yue Wang army has counterattacked to Wenzhou!

Now he has only one true friend, and that is the Russian Empire, but in this case, he cannot export, he can only say sincerely: "Your Excellency, I would like to ask, after all, what can I do to have His Majesty the Emperor of Spain and my true ally!" ”

The consul lowered his head, but he was still willing to reveal a little truth: "I know that you are also working hard, and you have received certain results, now there are not only thousands of foreign volunteers in Guangdong Province, but also tens of thousands of new troops, but ......"

He changed his words: "You are still subordinate to the government of the north under the banner, a barbarian regime that has lost all credit in Europe, and cannot provide you with any situational support, even a little psychological support, on the contrary, it is precisely because of this that the inhabitants of Guangdong Province, and even in the south, are suspicious of you!" ”

"I understand!" Detective Ye Mingming has already understood this: "I can declare that I have disassociated myself from the Qing Dynasty government!" ”

"It's not enough!" The consul continued: "Our majesty the king is destined to form an alliance with only another king! ”

"Very good!" Ye Mingchen very much agreed with the Spaniard's suggestion: "After I go back, I will immediately cut off relations with the barbarians, but is the Spanish government willing to support me to become an emperor?" ”

"Yes!" The Spanish consul smiled harmlessly: "But my own government, for the time being, only supports the scope of the new government, and it is within the existing scope......"

This is the reluctance of the Spaniards to intervene excessively in the Chinese civil war, after all, if they want to support the new government to continue to advance northward and start a comprehensive decisive battle with the Rainbow Army, I am afraid that the Spanish government will first have to consider the problem of its own financial bankruptcy, and the historical Spanish finances are worse than ordinary people imagine, even in the case of a large amount of gold and silver imports from the Americas, it still declares many national financial bankruptcies, not to mention the current signs of decay.

"I thank you for your kindness!" Ye Mingtan has a desire to soar in his heart, as long as he maintains the existing scope of governance, this is almost half of China, two Guangzhou, Yunnan and Guizhou, enough to achieve several generations of foundation, he is a scholar to achieve today's career, can not be proud.

Scholar Wanhu Hou, today is not a Wanhu Hou, but the foundation of Wandai, and even the king of the world, as long as this Spain fully supports, he Ye Mingchen can achieve all miracles.

"My country hereby congratulates His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Thank you very much, as long as our country can possess the south, there will be a good reward!"

"No need to be rewarded!" The Spanish consul said with a smile: "You only need your country to lease Guangzhou Bay!" ”