Soon, the Taiping army on the city wall received a reply from the Hunan army, agreeing to Yang Xiaoshan's offer to release the Hunan prisoners in exchange for the women and children of Tianjing City to leave the city.

Therefore, under the instruction of Yang Xiaoshan, the Tianjing City was full of notices ready to let women and children go out of the city, encouraging women to take their children out of the city, and each person was also given five taels of silver as travel expenses. Those who are willing to leave the city will gather at the south gate early tomorrow morning and go out of the city in order.

In the East Palace, a bright moon hung in the night sky, Su Qiaomei was reluctant to give up on Yang Xiaoshan in the hall, and the housekeeper Sister-in-law Zhu was found by Yang Xiaoshan to have something to explain.

"Lord Wang, I want to stay and live and die with you." Su Qiaomei wiped her tears, although she was a woman, she also knew that it would be more auspicious to defend the capital on this day.

"It doesn't matter to me, I have my own way. You take the child first and take this opportunity to escape. When you go out of the city, you and Sister-in-law Zhu and they go to the southeast together, and go to the Jurong Mountains to find Lao Wu. Before coming to Tianjing, I asked him to camp there. Lao Wu does things properly, if you find him, your safety will be guaranteed. Yang Xiaoshan comforted Su Qiaomei and said, in fact, he had no bottom at all about the battle below, so he could only take one step at a time.

"Sister-in-law Zhu, Qiaomei and the child will be handed over to you, you must take care of them." Yang Xiaoshan turned to Sister-in-law Zhu and said, Sister-in-law Zhu was born as a folk artist, and she has followed Qiaomei very early, and she has always been the housekeeper of the house, loyal and has kung fu in her hands.

"Lord Wang, the little one swears to protect the princess and the little prince, and no one can harm them, unless they step over my corpse." Sister-in-law Zhu assured.

Yang Xiaoshan nodded, these "big-footed barbarians" had been on the battlefield before, but later the Taiping Army grew stronger and no longer used female soldiers. When it comes to martial arts and loyalty, they are absolute women who don't let their eyebrows go.

"I'll put on makeup again tomorrow morning, so that no one will recognize you. You have to be careful to protect yourselves, you know? Yang Xiaoshan told again and again.

Yang Xiaoshan came to the side hall again to look at the child, he and Hong Xuanjiao's child Yang Jiye had fallen asleep, he was only six or seven years old, and he didn't know the sinister current affairs, and he slept peacefully.

Su Qiaomei held the child in the house and raised it as her own, but she never communicated with him much, she was really an incompetent father, Yang Xiaoshan secretly regretted it in her heart. Although Yang Jiye is fostered in the East Wangfu, the title is still inherited by the King of the West, and the external name is the King of the West, Su Qiaomei doesn't know that this child is actually her own, in the face of such a good wife and mother, Yang Xiaoshan really has no face to explain what is going on inside.

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In the early morning of the next day, most of the women and children in the city were gathered at the south gate of Tianjing, and only some elderly grandmothers felt that they were going to die anyway, so they might as well die in their hometown and refused to run away. Yang Xiaoshan is not reluctant, it is all voluntary.

"King Dong, that old Zeng asked you to talk to you in the pavilion ten miles outside the city, he claimed that the whole army was thirty miles back, I don't know what the hell he had to do?" Li Xiucheng received a letter from Zeng Guofan on the city wall, and hurriedly came over to report.

"Zeng Guofan wants to see me?" Yang Xiaoshan was a little curious, so he said: "Since he wants to see me, I also want to hear what he wants to say to me, prepare a horse for me, and I will go to meet him." ”

"Don't go, I'm afraid that this old demon will do some tricks!" Li Xiucheng felt unsteady in his heart.

"It doesn't matter, since people can take the initiative to retreat thirty miles, I'm still afraid that he won't be able to? Beat my guard of honor, and I'll go out of the city. Yang Xiaoshan smiled slightly.

Ten miles outside the city, this pavilion has long been damaged by the war, and there are several holes in the roof, and it looks completely unable to withstand the wind and rain. Under a large apricot umbrella outside the pavilion, Zeng Guofan, the governor of Liangjiang, sat under the umbrella and waited for Yang Xiaoshan's arrival. He was wearing civilian clothes, a small hat, an ordinary horse coat, and the usual appearance of an old man in his fifties, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yang Xiaoshan, and seemed to want to see Yang Xiaoshan very much.

Yang Xiaoshan only brought a few dozen personal soldiers and rode over, and the two stopped approaching after being separated by more than ten meters, after all, they were hostile sides, and they had to guard against each other.

Zeng Guofan stood up, motioned to his subordinates to take it easy, and then said to Yang Xiaoshan: "You are the legendary King of the East?" Why does the old man feel so familiar, where do you seem to have seen it? ”

Yang Xiaoshan laughed: "I have never met, how can I be familiar?" But he was shocked in his heart, could it be that Zeng Guofan saw his identity hidden in the Qing court before?

Zeng Guofan saw that Yang Xiaoshan didn't admit it, so he didn't ask. Instead, he coughed twice, opened his official tone and said, "This governor is here to tell you that you will be shocked and exhausted, and you will run out of ammunition and food." Now that the Hunan army has gathered from all directions, there are more than 200,000 in total, and you have become unable to fly. Remembering that Heaven has the virtue of a good life, this governor agrees that your women and children will flee for their lives out of the city, and I hope that you will change your mind and surrender to this governor, this is your only way to live。。。。。。 ”

Yang Xiaoshan interrupted him and said loudly: "The battle has been fought to this extent, what's the use of saying this?" Now the people left in Tianjing City are the people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the dead are the ghosts of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so you don't have to be long-winded. ”

Zeng Guofan nodded, Yang Xiaoshan's words he had already expected, they were all diehards. He waved his hand and said to the guards behind him, "Come on, show them something." ”

When Zeng Guofan's guards heard the order, they immediately picked up a plate and handed it over. Yang Xiaoshan's personal soldiers cautiously walked over and took it.

Yang Xiaoshan lifted the red cloth on the plate and saw that there was a waist card on it, which belonged to Chen Decai, the king of Fuwang.

"The reinforcements you are counting on were wiped out by the whole army in Huoshan, Anhui, with a total of more than 200,000 people, and your Fuwang Chen Decai committed suicide in fear of crime, this is his waist card, yes." Zeng Guofan's tone was full of pride. "The Taiping army in Zhejiang heard that it was also divided, and most of them fled south to Fujian. Tianjing is already a lonely city, and no reinforcements can save you. ”

Yang Xiaoshan frowned, and his intuition told him that what Zeng Guofan said was true. Historically, Tianjing did not wait for a reinforcement to come, and now I am afraid that it will really repeat the mistakes of history.

In front of the enemy, of course Yang Xiaoshan couldn't show it, he diverted the topic and said: "The other roads are winning one after another, and your Hunan army is still besieging the city, if it drags on like this, I'm afraid that the little emperor can't wait to transfer other troops." ”

Yang Xiaoshan's ridicule is what Zeng Guofan is most worried about, this day the capital has been besieged for almost two years, according to his understanding, the West Buddha Lord Cixi has ordered Li Hongzhang of the Huai Army to come to Tianjing to help suppress. This is also what Zeng Guofan is most unwilling to do, it is a great credit to lay down Tianjing, and he is extremely reluctant to let others get involved.

Zeng Guofan didn't expect such a young Dongwang to be so eloquent, and he didn't know what to say for a while, and finally said the main purpose of his appointment to meet Yang Xiaoshan: "Your Excellency is in his prime, handsome and chic, both civil and military, but it makes this governor think of an old friend, but unfortunately he is missing, and he is not alive or dead. ”

Yang Xiaoshan trembled slightly, knowing who Zeng Guofan was going to mention, but he couldn't help but not let Zeng Guofan discover his abnormality.

Zeng Guofan saw that Yang Xiaoshan did not react, and continued: "He is the king of Changjun in my Qing Dynasty, and he has just been posthumously named Prince Chang. It's a shame to leave at such a young age. His wife, the lord of Ulan, also died in childbirth, and his newborn son became an orphan. For the sake of this grandson, the old prince monk Greenqin even refused the emperor's order to reinstate him and come to Henan to help suppress him. ”

"What Ulan died?" Yang Xiaoshan's heart was like a knife, he really couldn't hold it anymore, turned his back, endured his grief, and said stiffly: "If the Governor is willing to join hands with my Heavenly Kingdom to deal with the little emperor of the Qing Court, my Heavenly Kingdom can also make you a king, what do you think?" ”

"You !!" Zeng Guofan looked around nervously, this is a heart-wrenching sentence. When it comes to this, I can't talk about it anymore. But he was unwilling, and when he saw that Yang Xiaoshan was leaving, he still shouted: "Are you the king of Changjun?" Yang Xiaoshan, are you Chang Shan? ”

Yang Xiaoshan didn't look back, and motioned to his soldiers to turn around and go back to the city: "When the women and children are all gone, we will release your captives and leave!" His tears were already rolling in his eyes, and if he stayed here, they would all be exposed.