The Anhui battlefield of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has reached the point of being out of control, Chen Yucheng sent his generals to Henan and Shaanxi to recruit troops, and there were no more available people in his hands, and Zeng Guofan's eyes were very vicious, and he took advantage of the weakness to enter and went straight to Luzhou.

Chen Yucheng still had less than 10,000 Taiping troops in his hands, and he sat alone in the Luzhou General's Mansion, looking at the map on the table. Following the breakthrough of Anqing, Chizhou, Tongling, Wuwei, Yunchu, Dongguan and other places in the lower reaches of Anqing fell into the hands of Zeng Guoquan; The grain route in Luzhou has been cut off by the Hunan army. Tongcheng, Shucheng, Susong, and Lujiang in northern Anhui were all captured by the Hunan army, and the barrier in the south of Luzhou was lost. Huangmei, Guangji, Huangzhou, Suizhou and other places on the western front of Luzhou were all abandoned because of the lack of troops. And the troops of Shengbao and Yuan Sanjia in the north of Luzhou are still eyeing each other.

Luzhou is already an isolated city, completely besieged on all sides. Chen Yucheng has stood out from the Boy Scouts, from a young boy soldier to the current famous King of England, he has always been smooth sailing, and has never suffered such a desperate situation in front of him.

"King Ying, Luzhou is already a dead place, we can't stay here anymore, the lesson of Anqing is just around the corner, and there is only one death if you are alone in the lonely city." His staff suggested.

"But where can we go? The brothers fought in the north and south for more than a year in the Anqing area, and most of the remaining thousands of brothers were from Luzhou, and they were unwilling to travel far away. One of the generals retorted.

Chen Yucheng did not want to give up Luzhou in his heart, and if he gave up Luzhou, the last and largest base of the Anhui Taiping Army, he would fall into the hands of the enemy.

Anhui is the territory that he finally fought with a knife and a gun, there is a brilliant record of breaking the camp in the north of the Yangtze River and completely annihilating Li Xubin, and this is also the place where he is king, what a nostalgic memory. What can you do without giving up here? Can't do anything!

"The King of Heaven has replied." A staff member walked over.

Chen Yucheng's expression moved, in the past few days, he heard that the protector Chen Kunshu led troops to the Tianjing area, so he wrote to the king of heaven and asked to send troops to Luzhou to come to the rescue. "Read." Chen Yucheng said to his staff.

"The edict of the Heavenly King said: Anqing is lost, and the rescue of the British king is unfavorable, which makes me very disappointed。。。。。。 Chen Yucheng is now removed from all positions and titles, and temporarily replaces military affairs. The more the staff read, the more frightened they became, and they almost didn't finish it.

Hong Xiuquan's edict not only did not give Chen Yucheng reinforcements, but severely reprimanded him, and also cut his title and official position. Chen Yucheng is indeed responsible for the war situation in Anhui, but what Hong Xiuquan should do now is to comfort and enlighten Chen Yucheng and actively support him to fight again.

The accusation of the Heavenly King made Chen Yucheng's self-confidence even more damaged, and his state of mind collapsed even more.

However, Hong Xiuquan cannot be blamed entirely, now Li Xiucheng, who is the most capable in the Kingdom of Heaven, is fighting with Li Hongzhang's Huai army in Shanghai, Li Shixian is fighting with Zuo Zongtang's Chu army in Zhejiang, and the strength of other kings is not enough to resist the Hunan army in Anhui, and Hong Xiuquan is also without soldiers.

The rope of the Hunan army besieging Luzhou became tighter and tighter, and more and more camps appeared around Luzhou, and there were few Taiping strongholds left outside the city. Luzhou is like a copy of Anqing, and Zeng Guofan, the big python, is ready to strangle Luzhou this time.

The arrogant Chen Yucheng had to write a letter of distress to the nearby kings in such a critical situation. He wrote several letters for help to Chen Decai, the king of Henan, and Zhang Lexing, the king of Wo, but they were intercepted by the Qing army.

Chen Yucheng waited left and right and saw no reinforcements, so he had to write a distress letter to Chen Kun, the protector, Chen Yucheng had never written a letter for help, but now the hero is at the end of the road, there is really no way.

In a distress letter to the protector Chen Kunshu, Chen Yucheng advised: "The military aircraft should be in a hurry. The situation in Luzhou is extremely urgent. Honest and worried, between breaths. If you love me, you will benefit the city, pray quickly, do not delay, pray that the brother will arrive at the end of February and the beginning of March, and it can be saved. ”

The urgency and helplessness in the letter are heart-wrenching, and Chen Yucheng's character will never ask for help unless he has to. It's a pity that this letter for help still fell into the hands of the Qing army, and his brother Chen Kunshu did not receive it. Moreover, the Qing army in the Tianjing Jiangpu area attacked very urgently, and even if it was received, it was a question whether Chen Kunshu could come on time.

The days passed, and the artillery of the Qing army outside the city was already under their noses, and the shells fell in the city day and night, and Luzhou was in danger.

At this time, a letter from Miao Peilin gave Chen Yucheng a glimmer of hope, in which Miao Peilin persuaded Chen Yucheng to come to his Shouzhou, he could help Chen Yucheng deal with the Hunan army and let him regroup.

Miao Peilin has said before that this person is an opportunist, initially he and the Twist Army Alliance advocated Le Xing to vote for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later after the Tianjing Incident, Miao Peilin rebelled, Britain and France entered Beijing, and he returned to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom anyway. Now that the Hunan army is irresistible in Anhui, Miao Peilin is ready to rebel again, and he wrote this letter to deceive Chen Yucheng as a bargaining chip for himself to change his court again.

Compared with Li Zhaoshou, who likes to ride the wall repeatedly like him, this Miao Peilin is different, he is not like Li Zhaoshou who harms the people and crisscrosses the township. He was a showman, he was a tutor before the uprising, and he had great ambitions, and he liked to compare himself to his fellow villager Zhu Yuanzhang the most, and put forward the political strategy of "building a high village, accumulating grain, destroying thieves first, and then becoming king".

On the one hand, he felt that the imperial court was already corrupt and hopeless, and on the other hand, he also felt that the Taiping Army was embarrassed by the heavy responsibility, and felt that they were a bunch of uneducated peasants, and the mud could not support the wall. He once wrote a couplet: What kind of Catholicism, dare to call the heavenly father and brother, mourn the family, destroy the heavenly reason, and actually stir up the blue sky and the white sun, when to stretch out the sky to ask for the power of heaven, genius has eyes; These magistrates are all ruffians, ghosts, and people, and they are pitiful and blessed and the famous area is a hell, and they draw land taxes everywhere, and the land has no skin.

Miao Peilin is indeed a little talented, but he is more of a trick of power, and his heart is higher than the sky, but his strength is never enough to meet his ambitions.

Although Chen Yucheng knew that Miao Peilin's character was not good at the moment, he was even more reluctant to flee back to Tianjing, and he also hoped to make a last fight in Anhui to wash away the shame of his previous failure. So he took a chance and planned to go to Shouzhou to have a look.

Chen Yucheng is worthy of being the number one fierce general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, under such a siege by the Hunan army, he led three or four thousand people to storm the Qing army camp from the east gate of Luzhou at night, and he was still able to break through the siege in style and break out of the siege.

Chen Yucheng crossed the Banqiao River, got rid of the pursuing soldiers, and went all the way to the east, and the whole army marched day and night, and it took only three days to reach Shouzhou and join Miao Peilin.