At the urging of Yang Xiaoshan, the governor of Anhui, Fu Jixiu, wrote a letter and ordered Su Xiuhuai, the governor of Chuzhou, to secretly arrest Li Zhaoshou and execute him.

What Yang Xiaoshan and Fuji didn't expect was that this Li Zhaoshou was very thief and intercepted the news first. Knowing that the imperial court was going to kill him, Li Zhaoshou rebelled again, he invited 47 officials of Chuzhou in the name of a banquet, and then killed them all without doing anything, and then hung out the banner of "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" after changing the banner.

In order to show his loyalty to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Zhaoshou not only gave the heads of 47 officials of the Qing court to Chen Yucheng, but also turned around and attacked Miao Peilin nearby.

Chen Yucheng doesn't look down on people like Li Zhaoshou, but now he has no time to deal with him, so he has to solve Li Xubin's urgent need first.

At the same time, Li Xubin, who was in the limelight, made a mistake that he regretted for the rest of his life. He saw that the defense of Sanhe was relatively strong, and his subordinates fought continuously, and he was afraid of war, so he ordered to rest in Sanhe for three days, and he also asked people to go to Anqing to ask for reinforcements.

Three days changed everything, the Qing soldiers in Anqing turned out to be Hu Linyi's people, but Hu Linyi had been sent home by Yang Xiaoshan at the moment, and it was the governor of Hubei who took over the army. The official text is not from the Hunan army, he is a Manchurian, and he looks down on Li Xubin very much, thinking that he is too arrogant, not humble to himself, and unwilling to give Li Xubin a foil.

After receiving Li Xubin's letter asking for reinforcements, Guan Wen smiled evilly, and said to his subordinates in a playful tone: "Hasn't this Li Xubin always been very good, claiming to be invincible?" He has always been invincible, and there is no shortage of my support army. ”

The official text said that Li Xubin used troops like a god, had no use for aid, and refused to send reinforcements.

And Chen Yucheng's reinforcement Li Xiucheng used these three days to get very close to his destination Sanhe.

Li Xubin couldn't wait for reinforcements, and three days later began to attack Sanhe Town, but was met with Lai Wenguang's stubborn resistance, and the battle was very fierce. Three days later, all the nine brick fortresses on the periphery of Sanhe fell into the hands of Li Xubin.

Lai Wenguang had no way to retreat, relying on the last Sanhe town to maneuver with Li Xubin, and when the battle was at its fiercest, he asked Chen Yucheng for reinforcements five times a day.

Chen Yucheng's reply was very simple, he must stick to Li Xubin and don't let him run away.

Because at this time, Chen Yucheng led 20,000 people to Jinniu Town behind Li Xubin, cutting off his retreat, and Li Xiucheng also led 20,000 people to Baishi Mountain in the southwest of Sanhe, and jointly claimed 100,000 with Chen Yucheng, camped for dozens of miles, and formed a trap on Li Xubin.

At the beginning, when Li Xubin learned that Chen Yucheng was out of Luzhou, he also arrogantly cheered up his subordinates, and proudly said that if Chen Yucheng came, he would clean up with him.

When he found out that it was not only Chen Yucheng, but even Li Xiucheng had come, and he had been surrounded by tens of thousands of troops from the Taiping Army, he began to panic.

Although surrounded by the Taiping army, Li Xubin still maintained his true character as a fierce general, and he planned to take advantage of Chen Yucheng's unstable foothold and attack his Jinniu Town first. As long as a hole is torn here, your team can easily jump out of the encirclement and retreat south to Tongcheng.

At dawn, Li Xubin's seven battalions of infantry and one battalion of horses attacked Jinniu Town in three ways, on the left, center and right. He and the rest of the people hid in the stone fortress where the Taiping army had lost to prevent Lai Wenguang from coming out and sneaking up on his back.

Li Xubin's 4,000 breakthrough team was indeed violent, and soon killed Chen Yucheng's team, and the two sides couldn't tell the winner for a while.

At this time, a heavy fog suddenly came, and Chen Yucheng felt that the fog was not good for his side with many people, so he ordered the army to retreat and set up an encirclement behind him.

Li Xubin's breakout team thought that Chen Yucheng was scared, and felt that there was a drama in this breakthrough, so they hurriedly took advantage of the situation to catch up. As a result, Chen Yucheng was surrounded by three layers of land on a barren grass hill.

Li Xubin also wanted to lead the rest of the people to rescue, how could Lai Wenguang and Li Xiucheng let him go easily, they first dug up the river embankment, making the surrounding polders into puddles, making it difficult for Li Xubin to leave easily, and encircling Li Xubin's camp.

Chen Yucheng finished solving the Qing army's breakthrough team on the barren grass hill, and together with Li Xiucheng and Lai Wenguang, he narrowed the encirclement of Li Xubin. The artillery of the Taiping army was already able to directly penetrate Li Xubin's camp.

And Li Xubin's shells had already run out, and he had to replace the shells with broken iron pots and tiles as a means of returning fire.

The momentum of the Taiping army grew stronger day by day, and Li Xubin's men fought less and less, and finally there were only more than 1,000 people left. Facing the pressure of the Taiping Army, Li Xubin had to bow his arrogant head and lamented: "Defeat today!" It revealed the loss and despair in his heart.

Li Xubin's younger brother Li Xutao and adjutant general Peng Ruixiang, who were stationed on the south bank, abandoned Li Xubin and led two small battalions of men and horses to rush out of the camp and flee.

The Taiping army knew that Li Xubin at this time had already been annihilated by the main force, and the generals of his cronies had defected, and the former Hunan army was now a lamb to be slaughtered.

The final general offensive began, and Li Xubin knew that the defeat was decided, so he committed suicide in Dalongtan in despair.

Zeng Guohua, the sixth brother of the accompanying general Zeng Guofan and the son and daughter of Li Xubin, was killed by the Taiping army in the chaos.

Li Xubin, the elite army of more than 6,000 people, and more than 400 civil and military generals, almost did not survive. The Taiping army swept out several baskets of red and blue tops on the battlefield of Sanhe. Subsequently, the Taiping army took the military might of the great victory of Sanhe, and successively recovered the lost territories such as Tongcheng and Shucheng. Previously, all of Li Xubin's victories in Anhui were spit out again.

The news of Li Xubin's defeat and death and the annihilation of the whole army exploded in the Qing court, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which could not be imagined to be unable to do it at the moment, fought another big victory in a key sense, and a generation of famous generals capsized in the small Sanhe.

The battle of Sanhe made the whole Hunan army cold, Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi were sad after hearing the news, and they couldn't eat for several days, and at the same time put a psychological shadow on the Hunan army, and the good situation that was finally fought was ruined.

Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng fought because of this and saved the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Hong Xiuquan decided to promote a group of second-generation elites of the Heavenly Kingdom. He appointed Chen Yu as the commander-in-chief of the former army, Li Xiu as the commander-in-chief of the rear army, Li Shixian as the commander-in-chief of the left army, Wei Jun as the commander-in-chief of the right army, and Meng Deen as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army in charge of the government.

In the face of the fierce counterattack of the Qing army, almost all the young generals who could fight were under the original Yang Xiaoshan's account, but Hong Xiuquan was afraid that they would elevate him, and appointed a man of his own to occupy the position of the chief general of the Chinese army, which shows that he still has his own set of careful thoughts.