After leaving Hangzhou, Li Xiucheng was very cautious, he did not immediately withdraw from Zhejiang, but took the Qing soldiers around the mountains for a few circles. After Li Shixian withdrew from Zhejiang, he found a time when it was raining heavily, braved the rain to travel north, crossed the East Tianmu Mountain, got rid of the pursuing soldiers, and entered Anhui.

When the Qing soldiers thought that they had driven all the Taiping troops out of Zhejiang and celebrated their crowns, they did not know that Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian were rushing to the Jiangnan camp of the Qing army to carry out the final siege on them.

At this moment, Chen Yucheng had received the news of Li Xiucheng's return, he had already made a move against the Jiangnan camp, in order not to alarm the enemy, he first asked his generals Lan Yucheng and Lai Wenguang to sweep the stronghold outside the Qing army camp.

Li Shixian, who returned first, did not go directly to the Jiangnan camp, but made a feint attack on Changzhou to confuse the enemy and make the enemy unable to distinguish the direction of the Taiping army's main attack.

The time for the general offensive finally came, with Chen Yucheng and Li Xiu as the core, and the Taiping army from all walks of life totaled more than 100,000 people, gathered near the camp in the south of the Yangtze River.

Chen Yucheng was responsible for attacking Jiangdong Gate, Li Xiucheng was in charge of Yaohua Gate in Northeast China, Li Shixian was in charge of Hongshan and Yanziji, Wu Ruxiao was in charge of attacking Yuhuatai, and Lai Wenguang and others were in charge of Gaoqiaomen. Yang Xiaoshan's strategic plan was finally realized, and the Taiping army successfully carried out a counter-encirclement of the Jiangnan camp, forming an internal and external attack with Tianjing City.

The Taiping army held torches and threw fireballs into the Qing camp as soon as they saw it.

When the Qing army saw the torches scattered all over the surrounding mountains, they found that they had been surrounded, and there were fires everywhere, and they were in chaos. The weak-willed crawled out of the camp to save their lives, and the strong-willed resisted even tried in vain to rely on the long trench wall to make a final struggle.

The Taiping army was lucky, this month and spring deducted a month's salary from the Qing army, and the Qing army already complained, and seeing so many Taiping troops attacking, it was even more demoralized.

Soon Chen Yucheng's team made a breakthrough in the southwest, he built a pontoon bridge in Maogongdu, broke through the outer wall of the Jiangnan camp, killed the general soldier Huang Jing and others, and more than 50 Qing army camps in the southwest were broken by Chen Yucheng.

And Li Xiucheng also made smooth progress in the northeast, hitting all the way to Cangbo Gate and Gaoqiao Gate, where Hechun's Dashuai camp was built.

Faced with the Taiping army's army all over the mountains, He Chun had to abandon the camp he had painstakingly managed for many years, and fled with the remnants of the defeated army.

The siege of southern Tianjing for many years was finally lifted, and the Taiping army killed thousands of Qing soldiers, and the booty was also very rich, and the spring did not have time to take away more than 100,000 taels of silver, which was not issued to the Qing soldiers, all of them were cheaper than the Taiping army, and the guns and gunpowder were also captured by the Taiping army.

But the fighting can't stop yet, and Kazuharu escapes, and if he doesn't step up his extermination, he will inevitably make a comeback.

The Chen-Li coalition army continued to march south, intending to take the entire southern Jiangsu in one fell swoop.

At this time, Admiral Zhang Guoliang finally rushed back, he was originally sent by Hechun to support Huzhou, but he pounced. When he found out that the main strategic attack of the Taiping Army was the Jiangnan camp, he rushed back non-stop.

As a result, it was still too late, and the Jiangnan battalion collapsed under the blows of the Chen-Li coalition army in just a few days, and Zhang Guoliang could only be stationed in Danyang, in a vain attempt to organize the Taiping army's footsteps to the south.

But at this time, the morale of the Taiping army was at its peak, and the small town of Danyang could not stop the footsteps of the Taiping army at all. Li Xiucheng used the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west, feinting to attack the east gate, and then Chen Yucheng led his troops to suddenly enter Danyang from the west gate.

There were already many soldiers in Danyang City who had fled back from the Jiangnan camp, and when they saw the Taiping army entering the city, they fled one after another, bringing Zhang Guoliang's Qing army, which was still a little organized, into chaos.

Zhang Guoliang was originally a rebel general of the Heaven and Earth Society, and followed Xiang Rong from Guangxi to Nanjing, and was the most capable and calculating of other generals who recruited An, and the official was also the largest, and he achieved the position of commander.

But he died very poorly, he was in a panic when he fled, and when he urged the horses to cross the river, he did not expect that the river was too deep, and he drowned with men and horses.

In Danyang, Zhang Guoliang, the number two person in the Jiangnan camp, was eliminated, and Li Xiucheng continued to go south and take Changzhou directly.

Zhang Yuliang, the No. 3 person who was sent to Hangzhou to support, finally reached the vicinity of Changzhou at this time.

At this time, although Chen Yucheng had led his team back to his base camp in Luzhou, Anhui, Li Xiucheng's army still carried the aftermath of the great victory and effortlessly defeated Zhang Yuliang's 10,000 Qing troops in the field.

He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, who had been stationed in Changzhou, and Hechun, who had fled to Changzhou, saw that Zhang Yuliang had no hope, and the two continued to flee south, preparing to go to Suzhou.

The squires of Changzhou formed a group to beg the two not to leave, but He Guiqing actually let his soldiers shoot, killing eleven of them, wounding more than 100 squires who prevented him from escaping, and fled to Suzhou without looking back.

So Li Xiucheng picked up a bargain, and after four days of resistance by the militia in Changzhou, Kaesong surrendered, and the Taiping army went to Changzhou, an important city.

At this time, Yang Xiaoshan had already arrived in Suzhou, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed to the officials in the city that the Taiping army had preferential treatment of prisoners.

Yang Xiaoshan's mental tactics succeeded, and he left after speaking, but his words affected Xu Youren, the governor of Jiangsu, a large number of Qing army officials, and local squires.

Suzhou is a good place, and it is really rich in this era.

The richer a person is, the more afraid of death, in the face of the fleeing Hechun and He Guiqing, the governor Xu Youren refused to take them in and locked them out of the city gate, for fear that they would attract the Taiping army.

Seeing that Suzhou did not accept them, He Chun and He Guiqing actually connived at the Qing soldiers who followed them to wantonly rob the people outside Suzhou until the Taiping army came to Suzhou.

He Chun's heart is like ashes at this time, he can't fight, he can't run away, he is a man with a yellow flag, Xianfeng is kind to him, his performance is not the most eye-catching at the same time, but it is the highest official position, Xianfeng even expects him to break through Tianjing, win glory for the Manchurians.

But what he is waiting for now is the edict of dismissal, and He Chun committed suicide and died outside Suzhou.

The day after Li Xiucheng arrived in Suzhou, the Qing general Li Wenbing surrendered the city.

Li Xiucheng made a fortune in Suzhou, not only obtained a large amount of treasury silver, seized a large number of foreign guns and artillery, but also incorporated more than 10,000 Qing soldiers in Suzhou.

Closely followed by Li Xiucheng to continue to expand the results of the battle, the troops divided the road, and conquered Kunshan, Taicang, Jiading, Qingpu and other places. Li Shixian even hit Wujiang, Jiaxing and other cities in northern Zhejiang Province.

The king of heaven was overjoyed and gave the southern Jiangsu region the name of Sufu Province, which means the blessing of the heavenly kingdom, and congratulated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on having another very important base.

It was here that Li Xiucheng selected talents, established political power, collected taxes, and protected production, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was revitalized. Backed by the two provinces of Anhui and Sufu, Tianjing finally got rid of the danger of a long siege and reached another peak in history.