The tenth day of August in the fourth year of Xianfeng, Wuhu County, Anhui Province.

At this time, it was already the third watch in the middle of the night, and a young man in his twenties with his head wrapped in a yellow cloth and wearing a yellow dragon robe and royal clothes was reading a letter carefully in the Wuhu County Yali, with a dead wind lamp and a cup of warm tea at hand. This young man has thick eyebrows and big eyes, the bridge of his nose is high, although he is young, but the corners of his eyes reveal a dignified majesty, scolding Fang Xuan's momentum, he silently read the letter in his hand, this is the secret letter written by the East King Military Division and the nine thousand years old in Tianjing City, he sat on the Taishi chair of Huanghuali wood, closed his eyes and thought about it carefully, and thought of what the spies from Jiujiang came to tell a few days ago: "The Qing Demon has been practicing water masters in Poyang Lake, and it is roughly estimated that there are 4,000 water masters!" After making up his mind, he picked up his pen and wrote down a line of words, reminding himself that he was going to do this tomorrow, and after finishing today's military affairs, the young man stretched his waist, stood up and raised his legs and walked out of the signing room. ”

This person is none other than Wing King Shi Dakai, "No need to be polite, you patrol by yourself, I'll take a walk and move your muscles." Shi Dakai didn't have the slightest, waved his hand, and paced around the yard by himself. The pro-soldiers did not dare to disobey the order and still patrolled.

In August, although Beijing is still a hot summer, but the Yangtze River is near, the night is already a little cool, the leaves of the osmanthus tree in the yard faintly have dew, Shi Dakai looked up at the half round of bright moon on the head, and a trace of floating clouds, and couldn't help but get a god.

Winged King, this is the title given to him by the Heavenly King when Yong'an was divided, the Winged One. Feathered Celestial Empire, this is also the expectation that the King of Heaven and the King of the East give themselves. The heavenly soldiers and generals are invincible in the south of the sky, but they can reach Hubei. Since the Battle of Wuchang, although the Kingdom of Heaven has captured Tianjing, the fortune of this Kingdom of Heaven is really not good.

The Battle of Wuchang lost the King of the West, and 40,000 troops died in the fire, which was the elite brought out by Jintian! After that, although it was smooth sailing and successively captured Anqing, Jiujiang, Wuhu, and then Tianjing, the Qing demons in Tianjing burned half of Tianjing City, and also built two large camps outside the city, one south and one north, to clamp Tianjing. But the two people of the Northern Expedition, Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang, were wiped out in Henan, and no one escaped back! The two men and horses of the Western Expedition were deadlocked for a while under the city of Anqing, and the soldiers went to Jiangxi and Anhui in two ways, but the results were not good, and Hu Yihuang was blocked in the city of Luzhou and it was difficult to advance half a step. At the end of last year, he quietly collected the flag and went to check outside the Luzhou Mansion in the starry night. But I had to helplessly find that this Luzhou Mansion was like a turtle shell, and no matter how sharp my teeth were, I couldn't bite it. Until they heard the news of the failure of the Northern Expedition, the two large battalions in the south and north of the Qingdemon River thought that a counteroffensive was promising. began to move, and the Eastern King Army Division issued an order, ordering the two armies of the West Expedition to return to Tianjing to support. But he ordered himself to be stationed in Wuhu, and the people from Tianjing said that it was the idea of the king of the north. "The Winged King brothers have military talents, but now they have to lead the troops to try their skills." What's so difficult about this, now that the sailors have practiced a little, even if Anqing can't be attacked, watch me go upstream, and take the land of Jiangxi and Anhui Yangtze River! It just so happened that he broke his wrist with that Zeng Guofan.

Shi Dakai had made up his mind, so he stopped pacing, entered the bedroom, prepared to rest, and looked at the imperial poems sent down by the king of heaven, which has a sentence "each practice for a long time to be a mother", Shi Dakai suddenly thought, I heard that the fire attack plan of the Wuchang War was the idea of the concubine of the Qing Demon Emperor, it seems that it is also the father of this woman who transported 150,000 taels of silver in Luzhou Mansion, if this woman is really full of tricks, it should not really be the reincarnation of Satan's wife to hinder the prosperity of my heavenly kingdom, right? Shi Dakai scoffed, how could he believe this kind of nonsense, it's just that some ignorant soldiers in the underground are arrogant, and the heavenly father and brother are here, and they are afraid of Satan's wife and a woman.

On August 11, Shi Dakai from Wuhu County led the water and land armies to launch simultaneously, the shouts shook the sky, on the 15th, Kechizhou Mansion, the Taiping Army spent a Mid-Autumn Festival in Chizhou Mansion, and continued to go south on the 16th, at this time Zeng Guofan, who was training water division in Poyang Lake, had already received the news, the whole army was on alert, and the water and land armies sent troops to Jiujiang, sitting at the mouth of the lake, and waiting for the battle.

On 17 August, a light boat came from the direction of Huangzhou. The scouts of the Hunan Army's naval division battalion in Poyang Lake hurriedly sent two small boats to intercept them.

"Stop! The barracks are important, no trespassing! ”

A man in his forties standing on the light boat remained silent, waved his hand and asked the companion on the side to send the name post, the scout took the name post, opened it and took a look, it read: "Brother Disheng is on top, Brother Lin Yi is headed", and there is a fold of white paper, a bright red seal on it, the scout knew that an important person was coming, and hurriedly saluted, "Adult, wait a minute, the small one will go to pass on the handsome." ”

The middle-aged man nodded and signaled that it was okay, a small boat turned around and went to the camp of the Hunan Army Navy to spread the news, and the other stayed behind, which was to accompany the visitors, and it also had the meaning of surveillance.

After half a sound, the gate of the sailor standing high on the shore of Poyang Lake was opened, and three cannons rang out, and a group of people came out of it, and a person stood on the shore and shouted loudly towards the flat boat coming from Huangzhou: "Runzhi, since you have arrived, why don't you go ashore?" Do you want to let your brother go into the water? ”

The middle-aged man hurriedly asked his relatives to dock with him, and when he got ashore, although he was wearing civilian clothes, he also hurriedly saluted: "Hu Linyi, the lowly political envoy of Hubei, is handsome!" ”

It turned out that this person was Hu Linyi.

Zeng Guofan helped Hu Linyi, held Hu Linyi's hand, and laughed, "Runzhi, Runzhi, I'm looking forward to you, come and come, you and I will enter the account together." ”

Hu Linyi saw that the gate was wide open, and the soldiers on both sides were mighty, and Zeng Guofan was about to pull himself into the barracks together, so he hurriedly broke free and said that he didn't dare to go with Zeng Guofan, "How dare you go with the marshal, the marshal first, the marshal first." ”

"Brother, brother, when I saw that it was your greeting, I knew that it was not the master who came to fight the autumn wind, but the charcoal in the snow! With such kindness, how can I not be courteous? You're welcome, you and I will go into camp together! After Zeng Guofan finished speaking, he clasped Hu Linyi's hand tightly, and without saying anything, the two entered the military tent together.

Hu Linyi was grateful, Zeng Guofan not only promoted himself, let himself jump from Guidong to Wuchang in one fell swoop to be the Hubei envoy, and immediately transferred to Hubei as the political envoy, and gave himself such dignity, and when he sat down in the main tent, Zeng Guofan introduced the generals in the tent one by one, Hu Linyi couldn't help but stand up, bowed his hand, and said to his own intentions: "The humble post came to bring 30,000 stone of grain and grass this time, which is the labor fund of the Hubei military and civilians to the marshal." Zeng Guofan was overjoyed, "good, good" "Humble post in Huangzhou trained 3,000 sailors, 5,000 regimental training, the marshal spread the Huguang, said that the rebellion and the westward march, the humble post led the regimental training to help the marshal, and now the regimental training has been in Jiujiang! ”

"Good!" Zeng Guofan stroked his palms and laughed, and nodded again and again, "Runzhi, Runzhi, you have sent a big gift to your brother, okay, last year, we blocked the rebellion in Jishui County, and now our army is in full swing, and we just happened to train the sailor again, just to see the quality of this rebel who dares to come west!" Zeng Guofan thought for a while, "Runzhi, your department is in Jiujiang, it just so happens that Jiujiang is empty, we can become a corner, echoing from east to west across the mouth of Poyang Lake, if it is a rebellion, it will inevitably make him in a dilemma." ”

"Yes, Marshal." The people in the tent will answer yes with a bang.

"I expect that Shi Dakai will not let Anqing go aside, fortunately there is Wang Jinxiu in Anqing, the old man does not have to bother to support Anqing, and he will take care of his own Jiangxi, but it is inevitable to delay some time, let's wait for work in Hukou and Shi Dakai to fight each other!"

Anqing hangs lonely on the riverside, the majestic city stands in front of Shi Dakai's eyes, as far as the eye can see, the land and water armies of the Taiping army will surround Anqing City, and it is really a bird that can't fly out.

Shi Dakai nodded to the herald, the herald waved the big red order flag a few times, layer by layer of orders, the artillery battalion of the Taiping army roared in turn, a burst of smoke under Anqing City, the feather arrow battalion also took turns to go into battle, towards the head of Anqing City, the whizzing arrow rain did not enter the smoke caused by the artillery, and I don't know if there was anything to shoot, after a while, the river wind blew the smoke away, and only some white spots were exposed on the wall of Anqing City, Shi Dakai was slightly unhappy, with a wave of his right hand, an order, and the siege began.

Since the battle of Wuchang of the Taiping Army, in addition to going down the river to break through Anqing for the first time, it has never stepped into the gate of Anqing. Upstairs rained down feather arrows, the Taiping army was shot to the ground one after another, the heavenly soldiers who were not damaged will continue to rush forward on the ladder, the cannon sound that sounded in connection with the two or three times did not care, one after another the ladder was erected, but there were one after another ladders were put down, it was the time when the city wall was in full swing, a gong sounded in the city of Anqing, and a big flag with red characters on the city was erected at the head of the city, and there was a big "king" word written on it, and there was a small character on the side, which was written "Minister of Qincha, Governor of Anhui" The words.

The Qing army at the head of the city cheered, and became more and more desperate to get up, and the Taiping army under the city saw the word "king" in the big fight, and the momentum couldn't help but be taken, and the offensive slowed down.

On the sailor ship of the Taiping Army, one of Shi Dakai's personal guards looked at the flag that was suddenly erected, and turned around and said: "King Yi, it is Wang Jinxiu, the governor of Anhui who is the Qing demon, who personally came out to supervise the war, and I am afraid that today's war will ......."

"That's it," Shi Dakai knew that Wang Jinxiu killed the head of the King of the West with a knife under Wuchang City, which gave a deep shadow to the hearts of many generals and soldiers, he waved his hand, "Mingjin retreats," how can Shi Dakai not hate, there are only three of the five kings of Shouyi left, and one is folded in the hand of the person in front of him, and he can't wait to slash this demon, but now the army's heart has declined, and no matter how bold he is, it will be fruitless. And in the coming day, I will settle the account with you. Shi Dakai made up his mind and ordered: "Go directly to Jiangxi by land and water, there is no need to waste time on the edge of the Yangtze River." ”

On August 18, Shi Da, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, attacked Anqing to no avail, and marched westward against the current, connecting the two counties of Wangjiang and Pengze, with great momentum and Jiangxi shaking. (To be continued......)

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