On the side of the Qing army, the officials of Nanjing City have become a pot of porridge, and they are all helpless in the face of the encirclement of the Taiping army, like ants on a hot pot.

Although Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, was present in Nanjing, he was already famous and his prestige was lost. As the second-in-command, Yang Wending, the governor of Jiangsu, had no confidence in him, and the Taiping army planned to slip away before it arrived.

"Master, we don't want all of our belongings in Nanjing?" The governor's wife, Yang, was still a little distressed.

"Take some gold and silver and leave, now it's important to save your life, while the long hair has not surrounded Nanjing, let's leave quickly, if you don't leave, it's too late." It doesn't matter if you lose your belongings, as long as you have a life, you can earn them back. "Governor Yang's head is still very clear, and he knows very well that Nanjing cannot be defended.

"But Lord Lu is still here, he is the emperor's Lord Qincha, is it difficult that he has no ability to defend Nanjing?" The Yang family was still very naïve, thinking that the Qincha appointed by the emperor were all capable people.

"Lu Jianying? He's fled thousands of miles, and it's better to count on his two legs than on his own. I don't know who he is? He only has the ability to coax the emperor, and he has no tricks when he encounters long hair. We can't put our hopes in him. "Governor Yang sees Governor Lu thoroughly.

"Master, let's leave like this, what if the emperor blames him?" Although Yang is a woman, she also knows that it is a big crime to escape from the battle, and she is a little worried.

"That's also something that can't be helped, if you don't leave, you'll definitely die. If you go, you don't have to die, we have no choice, I have already found an excuse to go to Zhenjiang to defend the city, the emperor will resign himself to his fate or not. "Governor Yang has no choice, and besides, he is not the first governor to escape, the Taiping army killed all the way, and there were many officials who escaped, and not all of them were killed.

The next day, after receiving the news that the governor of Jiangsu had escaped, Lu Jianying was furious, but he was helpless. He himself ran all the way, and he didn't have the face to talk about others, so he had to let the defenders block all the thirteen gates of Nanjing with earthen bags to prevent more people from escaping. He himself can't run anymore, Nanjing is lost again, Lu Jianying knows in his heart that Xianfeng must have his head. This is the bottom line of Xianfeng.

Lu Jianying didn't expect that he blocked the city gate, and he had an unexpected reaction. The Qing defenders stationed on Yuhuatai in the south of the city were afraid at first, they were worried that their retreat would be cut off, and they would not be able to return to the city after defeat. Jiangnan Admiral Fuzhu Hong'a took care of himself and returned to Nanjing City in advance with his team, and surrendered the Yuhuatai on the high ground outside the city to the Taiping army. Lu Qin made this stupid move, and before the battle began, he lost the dangerous place outside the city.

After that, our Lu Qincha did two very stupid things.

One happened on the night when the Taiping army first arrived, the defenders reported that there were long-haired ships on the river, Lu Jianying did not investigate, and let the defenders shell the river on the city wall all night, only to find that they were all long-haired empty ships at dawn, and a lot of gunpowder was wasted.

The second incident occurred outside Nanjing, where the 500 Qing soldiers defending the city collided with a small detachment of the Taiping army who came to investigate the situation. Let the artillery fire at the Taiping army from the tower.

As a result, the Taiping army, which had rich combat experience, immediately prostrate on the ground, while many of the Qing soldiers were new recruits and lacked experience in battle, and the shells on the Nanjing city wall hit more of their own people. Since then, no Qing soldiers have been willing to go out of the city to fight the Taiping army and go to be cannon fodder, which has greatly damaged the morale of the Qing army defending the city.

Lu Qincha is still a little self-aware, he knows that he is not capable, in order to defend Nanjing, he has to spend a lot of money to reward the capable people who defend the city, trying to find someone who can turn the tide. On this day, someone really unveiled the list, and Mao recommended himself.

"You're Lord Zou!" As soon as Lu Qincha saw this person, his eyes immediately lit up, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

The person who unveiled the list was Zou Heming, the governor of Guangxi who was originally in Guilin.

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I don't have an official position now, and I don't dare to be an adult." Back then, Zou Heming asked Sai Shang'a to climb the ladder into the city, and was ruthlessly participated in by Sai Shoufu afterwards. Xianfeng was angry that he let Changmao go and refused to support Jeonju, which led to the fall of Jeonju, so he dismissed him.

So this Zou Heming returned to his hometown of Nanjing. It was such a coincidence that at this time he bumped into the long-haired siege again. He saw that the reward of the bounty order was too high, enough to tens of thousands of taels of silver. He felt that he had successfully defended Guilin back then, and he had experience in successfully defending the city for Changmao. I was a little sorry for myself not to take this money, so I volunteered.

"Lord Zou successfully defended Changmao in Guilin back then, Lu admired, this time you must force the king to fall and save the people of Nanjing in danger." Lu Jianying was convinced of Zou Heming's ability and hoped that he would transplant his experience in successfully defending the city in Guilin to Nanjing.

"Lord Qincha, I also hope to contribute to the court at this critical moment, but I can't rely on me alone to defend the city, I have to have a helper." Zou Heming's meaning is obvious, he is asking for money and people.

"That's no problem, Lord Zou can open a city defense bureau with my warrant, and all the expenses can be withdrawn from me. If he succeeds in defending the city this time, Lu will implore the emperor to reinstate Lord Zou from his post. "Lu Jianying now as long as he can defend the city, money is a trivial matter, and he also used the official reinstatement to attract Zou Heming to do a good job.

So, this Zou Heming took Lu Qincha's silver and set up a city defense bureau, in fact, where did he have any experience in defending the city? Back then, it was Xiang Rong who guarded Guilin for him. He took the money, first he was greedy for a part, then his own men were greedy for another part, and in the end, the little money left recruited some villagers to defend the city.

However, most of these villagers are second-rate urban people who take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, how can these people fight? As soon as he saw that the Taiping army's legs were trembling, he began to find all kinds of excuses to desert. Tens of thousands of taels of silver were spent, and the combat strength of the defenders did not rise but fell, and the money was blind.

Zou Heming has been busy for so long, there are always discerning people who can see that he is just a wine bag and rice bag, and soon after, the political envoy Qi Suzao sued Zou Heming from Lu Qincha. After some examples of facts by the political envoy of Qi Bu, Lu Qincha reacted, because he trusted Zou Heming so much, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood, feeling that he had been fooled. I wanted to recruit again, but the money was not enough.

Lu Jianying had to ask Jiangning General Xianghou to help defend the city, but Xianghou didn't buy his account at all, he knew that the outer city of Nanjing could not be defended, and he had already concentrated his troops in the inner city, which is the so-called Mancheng. When the Qing army entered the customs, they did not believe in the Han people, and built inner cities in some important cities, which were only for Manchu people to live in, and used to monitor the movements of the Han people.