Chapter 273: Tianjing Incident
Hong Xiuquan wrote a secret edict against Yang Xiuqing, which was secretly issued by Chen Chengying to Wei Changhui, the king of the north, Shi Dakai, the king of wings, and Qin Rigang, the king of Yan.
At this time, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were collecting grain and grass near Tianjing, and the two of them received a secret edict and immediately joined forces to discuss the matter of punishing Yang.
And Shi Dakai was very conflicted when he received the secret edict, he was in Jiangxi, stopping and stopping along the way, and he was unwilling to participate in the plan to kill Yang Xiuqing this time. Because he felt that although Yang Xiuqing was domineering, his contribution to the kingdom of heaven was too great, and he was unwilling to touch the blood of his own brother in his hands.
Wei Changhui saw that Shi Dakai was delayed in coming to converge, so he threw him away and joined forces with Qin Rigang, a total of 6,000 elite soldiers to prepare to attack Yang Xiuqing.
With the cooperation of Chen Chengying in Tianjing City, he quietly entered Tianjing City at night.
And Yang Xiuqing was arrogant and indulgent, and he didn't expect that someone would do anything to him, and the Dongwang Mansion was very lax.
In the early morning, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang surrounded the Dongwang Mansion, and the soldiers of the Dongwang Mansion were caught off guard and almost ready to die.
Yang Xiuqing had just gotten up and was washing his face when he was arrested by the Beiwang's own soldiers. He never expected that at this time, Wei Changhui would actually lead troops into his Dongwang Mansion.
Wei Changhui, who hated Yang Xiuqing for a long time, finally raised the butcher knife and cut off Yang Xiuqing's head. Yang Xiuqing didn't understand until he died, why did Wei Changhui dare to do it to himself? He couldn't imagine that Hong Xiuquan, who he thought was a puppet, would do it to himself.
The order of the King of Heaven is to kill only one Yang Xiuqing, after all, Yang Xiuqing's subordinates are also his subordinates, there are too many people in Tianjing City who are related to the East King, if they all have to be killed, how many must be killed?
But Wei Changhui ignored it, he suppressed it for too long. And he thinks that it is because Yang Xiuqing is not ruthless enough that he has led to today's end, so he must cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Wei Changhui killed hundreds of people up and down the Dongwang Mansion, completely venting his resentment that he had been suppressed by the Dongwang.
Hong Xiuquan learned that he couldn't stop it, so he could only issue a holy decree to the outside world, declaring: The east is against Yang Xiuqing's plot, and he wants to say long live, and he is innocent of death.
But when the people of Tianjing City learned the news, it could be said that they were frying.
Many of the teams in Tianjing are descendants of the East King, and with the supremacy of the East King, how can they say that they will be killed? And it's all over the place, and everyone wants to ask for an explanation.
Wei Changhui was a little nervous at this time, he was afraid that these people would avenge Yang Xiuqing and come to trouble him.
As a result, he asked Chen Chengying to pretend to be in the name of the Heavenly King, and publicized that he wanted to punish Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, so that the subordinates of the Eastern King could see it. More than 6,000 descendants of the East Kings laid down their weapons and were tricked into several huge houses, where they were locked and set on fire with the explosives that had been arranged.
Pity these battle-hardened old brothers, who did not die under the knife of the Qing army, but were slaughtered by their own people. After the explosives were blown up, the team of the Northern King came in with sharp knives in hand, and they showed one arm out, and when they came in, they cut down people when they saw them, and hacked to death the few who were not killed.
After Wei Changhui killed these people, he was still not at ease, and he launched a new round of purges in the city. The massacre lasted nearly a month, killing more than 20,000 people in total.
Hong Xiuquan issued several edicts to him to stop and not kill again, but Wei Changhui had already killed the red eye and couldn't listen to the advice at all.
Through continuous killing, Wei Changhui was no longer the obedient follower of the East King, he showed his true face. He wanted to replace the East King and let the Heavenly Kingdom enter the Northern King Age.
At this time, Shi Dakai left the team in Anhui and arrived in Tianjing alone, and he asked why the king of the north killed so many people?
However, Wei Changhui thought that Shi Da was happy to Yang Xiuqing and came to crusade against him, so he did not answer, but he had a killing intent towards Shi Da in his heart.
That night, someone told Shi Dakai that the king of the north wanted to kill him, and with the help of his henchmen, Shi Dakai climbed down the city wall along the rope and escaped from Tianjing City.
Wei Changhui couldn't find Shi Dakai, so he sent Qin Rigang to chase after him, and surrounded the Yiwang Mansion on the other hand, killing all the men, women and children in the Yiwang Mansion.
At this time, Wei Changhui can be said to be angry with the people and gods in Tianjing, and he himself felt this, he did not stop, but led his troops to the Heavenly King's Mansion, preparing to kill even the Heavenly King, so that he became the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Hong Xiuquan had already defended him, he firmly defended the Tianwang Mansion on the one hand, and announced that all the soldiers in Tianjing, Wei Changhui, were traitors to the north, and everyone was punished.
Wei Changhui was unable to capture the Heavenly King's Mansion, and his troops also showed signs of mutiny, and his subordinates left him one after another, and finally he only had 300 people left in his hands who were still loyal to him.
The king of heaven ordered the subordinates and accomplices of the North King not to blame in the past, and only killed the North King alone, Wei Changhui was completely alone now, and a few days later, Wei Changhui, who was alone, was caught by the masses at a checkpoint.
The King of Heaven ordered Wei Changhui's five horses to be divided into corpses, accused of indiscriminately killing civil and military men and women.
At this time, the winged king Shi Dakai had already led the army straight to Tianjing, and demanded that Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying, the two accomplices of the northern king, be killed to calm the people's hearts.
Although the Heavenly King was reluctant, in order for the Wing King to assist and support him, he still ordered to kill Qin Rigang and Chen Chengying, and sent the heads of the two of them and the head of the Northern King Wei Changhui to Shi Dakai.
When Shi Dakai arrived in Tianjing with a large army, at this time, all the soldiers and civilians of Tianjing pinned their hopes on Shi Dakai and called on the Heavenly King to hand over the military affairs to the Yiwang to deal with.
But at this time, Hong Xiuquan was worried that Shi Dakai would become the new king of the East and put himself in the air, although he handed over the military and political power to Shi Dakai, but he reused his two brothers Hong Renfa and Hong Renda to contain the Yiwang in court politics.
The two brothers Hong Renda and Hong Renfa have no real skills, but their ability to cause trouble for the Wing King is not small, and they like to report to the Heavenly King that the Wing King is not.
Shi Dakai is upright and has a strong sense of self-esteem, and he believes that the Heavenly King cannot fully trust him. A chill rose in his heart, and he was arrogant and unwilling to be restrained and suppressed by the villain, Shi Dakai was completely disappointed in Heaven, so he decided to leave by himself.
Shi Dakai left Tianjing with thousands of people, and posted farewell letters along the way, explaining the reasons for his departure from the kingdom. Under his inspiration, about 100,000 Taiping soldiers and civilians followed him out of the kingdom of heaven.
Shi Dakai ran away, the family separation was over, and the vitality of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which had just suffered a heavy blow, was seriously injured again.
At the same time, the Hunan army had completed its reorganization and planned to make a comeback, and it had already sharpened its knives around Hunan. The situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to become dangerous again.