Yang Xiaoshan received an order from the imperial court to supervise the imperial history of the five provinces and go to the front line of bandits. He finally breathed a sigh of relief, during this time, Zeng Guofan's good news was frequent, so that he couldn't sit still anymore.

So Yang Xiaoshan found Prince Gong and said that he wanted to make meritorious service as soon as possible, and asked him to find a way to help transfer him to the front line. Although Yang Xiaoshan was a little disappointed that he did not have the right to lead troops, he could go to the front line anyway, so he could accept it.

There is another reason why Yang Xiaoshan left immediately, this Ulan Gege may have been holding back for too long, this illness is cured, and he is tired of being with himself all day long, and he will not be tired of it for a long time. Men and women are different, no matter how strong a man is, he has a limit, he hugs a big beauty every day, and his body can't bear it, not to mention that there is a wedding girl who has to be wet with rain and dew from time to time.

Yang Xiaoshan did not delay any time, and went directly south to Hunan to find Zeng Guofan, he was the fierce enemy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he did not enter the tiger's den to get the tiger, first penetrated into the enemy, and then found a way to help the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this is Yang Xiaoshan's strategy.

At this time, the situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was already very dangerous. Especially in the Jiangxi battlefield, after Shi Dakai left, the Jiangxi base area fought separately and was broken by the Hunan army, and large territories such as Ruizhou and Linjiang were "recovered" by the Hunan army, leaving only Jiujiang in the hands of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the guard general Lin Qirong was struggling to support it, and it was already the end of the strong crossbow.

Lin Qirong turned out to be Yang Xiaoshan's personal army captain, and after the victory in Jiujiang, Yang Xiaoshan asked Heaven to leave him here as the commander. Lin Qirong lived up to Yang Xiaoshan's trust, where he repeatedly broke the siege of the Hunan army, defeated Luo Zenan and other Hunan army generals, and also killed Tong Tianyun, a fierce general who could shoot a five-stone bow, and his official position was promoted all the way to the prime minister of the Spring Palace.

However, at this time, Jiujiang was already a lonely city, and Li Xubin, the fierce general of the Hunan army, could not break through Jiujiang, so he spent half a year building a camp on the north and south banks of Jiujiang, digging six long trenches, the trenches were more than 30 miles long, six meters deep, and more than 10 meters wide, surrounding Jiujiang City on three sides. At the same time, Peng Yulin led the Hunan army and naval division to blockade the north bank of the Jiujiang River, and together with Li Xubin, he said that the Jiujiang River was surrounded by water.

"Prime Minister Lin, there's news from Tianjing." A knife player came over and reported.

When Lin Qirong heard the news, his tightly knit brows finally relaxed, and he said happily: "What news, read it quickly." ”

His subordinates took the note brought by the carrier pigeon, read it, and their faces were bitter: "Prime Minister, the King of Heaven said that now the battlefields in various places are being attacked by the Qing army, and Tianjing has no soldiers to send. ”

"Marquis Zhentian。。。。。。 What's the use of me now that I want this marquis? Can you eat or can you be a soldier to fight? Lin Qirong closed his eyes, almost desperate, without reinforcements, Jiujiang was afraid that he would not be able to hold it.

"Prime Minister Lin, the old thief sent a letter of persuasion again, saying that the kings of Tianjing were killing each other, and the king of the east and the king of the north were dead, so let us surrender as soon as possible, not only can we avoid death, but also get the official title." Another subordinate came and reported.

"Fuck it, our men are defeated, let's bring him down, don't dream!" Lin Qirong snatched the letter of persuasion and tore it to shreds at once, Lin Qirong's belief was very firm, and he never had the intention of surrendering.

"Otherwise, we accept the invitation of the Wing King, he has an army of 100,000 by his side, let's go with him." A staff member suggested.

"No! The prince handed over Jiujiang to me, and I must not leave here. Lin Qirong replied.

"Then I'm afraid the Wing King won't come to our aid." The staff sighed.

Lin Qirong has put life and death aside, and the prince handed over Jiujiang to himself, and he has to live and die with Jiujiang. The Tianjing Incident is such a big thing, he can't hide it if he wants to, he knows it. But he also knew that Yang Xiaoshan had gone on a secret mission, and if the son of the world did not die, he had to follow the kingdom of heaven.

Although the Wing King Shi Dakai has a good relationship with him and has fought side by side, in his heart, he is only loyal to Yang Xiaoshan, as long as Yang Xiaoshan does not speak, he can't go anywhere. Jiujiang is an important stronghold on the Yangtze River, and if it is lost, the Qing army will be able to directly enter Anhui, and Jiangxi will also fall into the hands of the Qing army.

It has been besieged by the Qing army for more than a year, and the food has long been eaten, although Lin Qirong has vegetables in the open fields of the city to subsidize rations, but this little subsidy is a drop in the bucket, and the more than 10,000 defenders in the city are already so hungry that they can't hold weapons.

It was such a hungry army, which ran out of bullets, bows and arrows, and repelled the siege of the Hunan army many times. The city wall was blown up several times, Lin Qirong resisted it, and there was no stone, so he demolished the houses in the city, blocked the gap with bricks, and still held his position.

Lin Qirong took the lead by himself, sharing weal and woe with the soldiers, eating porridge without dry rice, eating wild vegetables without porridge, and finally having nothing but grass roots. Lin Qirong's personality charm infected more than 10,000 defenders, and in such a desperate situation, no one defected, and everyone followed Lin Qirong to advance and retreat, and live and die with Jiujiang.

The last day finally came, this time the Hunan army Li Xubin increased the blasting intensity, the Jiujiang city wall that was repeatedly repaired has long been dilapidated, and the southern city wall was blown up in this blasting A gap of more than 300 meters.

Lin Qirong led the soldiers who were starved and unstable to fight with the Hunan army. But the gap was too big, and it was finally rushed in by tens of thousands of Hunan troops.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Qirong led the Taiping army and the Hunan army in a fierce street battle. Li Xubin paid a huge price for this, and thousands of elite soldiers died in the lanes of Jiujiang.

In the end, Lin Qirong and 17,000 soldiers were all killed in the battle, and none of them surrendered, fulfilling his promise to live and die with Jiujiang.

Li Xubin, who won with difficulty, couldn't figure out why Lin Qirong, who had already run out of food, was still so able to fight, he asked Lin Qirong and his men to dissect the belly, there was not a grain of rice in it, and there was only green grass juice in the stomach. Everyone present was in awe of him.

Hu Linyi, the governor of Hubei who participated in the war together, once sighed to his friend: "In the past, the thieves of Jiujiang were all grass-colored when they dissected their abdomen. Three days and five meters, you can sit in a trap, the soldier is not as good as a thief, and its reason is difficult to pass. The meaning of this sentence is: For the Qing army, if there is no food for three days, there will be a mutiny, and the Taiping army can support it for so long, and the soldiers are not as good as thieves, admiring Lin Qirong's belief and tenacity.

As soon as Lin Qirong died, Jiujiang fell, Jiangxi fell into the hands of the Qing army, and the door of Anhui was opened. The arrogance of the Hunan army reached its peak, and Zeng Guofan even wrote on the recital to Xianfeng, "The long hair counts the day and can be flat." "He said that he would take Tianjing and arrest Hong Xiuquan within the year.

And at this time, Yang Xiaoshan finally arrived at the garrison of the Hunan army, can he still save the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under the dangerous wall?