The Taiping army had been stationed in Daozhou for more than a month, and with the sharp increase in numbers, they quickly ate up the grain in Daozhou City. Seeing that the Qing army began to surround Daozhou City again, Yang Xiuqing decided to move to Chenzhou.

"There are many old brothers in the army who want to go back to their hometown in Guangxi to have a look." Wei Changhui is also true, many people in the Taiping Army miss their homeland and want to go back to Guangxi.

"Now that we have decided on the strategic policy of marching to Nanjing, we can no longer waver. Xiaoshan has just conquered Chenzhou, and we can go there to get food first. Then send an elite army directly into Changsha, the provincial capital, to catch him by surprise and complete our strategic plan. Yang Xiuqing insisted that it was never advisable to return to Guangxi.

This plan is also a copy of the division of troops to attack Yong'an in Jintian that year, and the people in the camp could not easily leave the city. It is more prudent to send an advance team to occupy the target first, and then the army will set off to station.

Everyone nodded, there was no opinion, if Changsha could be captured, it would be too helpful to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"Changsha is a provincial capital, and its scale is larger than Guilin. Therefore, the key to this attack is a quick word, so that the enemy mistakenly thinks that we are still in Chenzhou, and if we are not prepared, Changsha can be taken. Yang Xiuqing calculated very clearly, the Taiping army has never been able to capture a big city since the uprising, as long as the Qing army desperately resists, it will be very hard to attack such a state city as Quanzhou. And in a provincial city like Changsha, the Qing army will never give up easily, and this bone is too difficult to gnaw if it is fought hard.

"The difficulty of attacking Changsha is very high, Changsha is very crucial for our Heavenly Kingdom to march into Nanjing, and we must let the best generals of our Heavenly Kingdom lead the team." Yang Xiuqing couldn't help but look at Yang Xiaoshan, and suddenly turned his head again: "King Xi, this arduous task is entrusted to you, you take Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang there." ”

Yang Xiaoshan was a little stunned, he could clearly see what Dongwang meant, he deliberately wanted to suppress himself, otherwise he wouldn't look at himself first and then let Xiao Chaogui go.

But this time was different, the king of the south died in battle, and Yang Xiaoshan understood that it would be the turn of the king of the west later. Although he didn't know where King Xi died, he knew that it was a crucial battle, and it was likely to be Changsha, so he couldn't let King West just go and take this risk.

"Kill chickens with a knife, this time Changsha will let Xiaoshan and I come." Yang Xiaoshan rarely took the initiative to ask for help.

Everyone was a little surprised, Yang Xiaoshan never fought for credit, why was he so active this time?

"Isn't it stumped that I'm not the best general in Heaven?" Xiao Chaogui frowned, a little displeased. The king of the east has ordered his own generals, and you jumped out at this time, showing that you are competing with yourself.

Xiaoshan didn't mean this, King Xi insisted on going, but Xiaoshan didn't dare to object. If possible, please take the hill with you. Yang Xiaoshan thought to himself, if I am by your side, at least I can still watch you, and I won't let you go to dangerous places, so maybe I will save your life. But this cannot be said explicitly.

"No need, this operation must be fast, there are too many people to get up quickly, and it is easy for the Qing Demon to discover our intentions. Xiaoshan, you also have another task, the location of Yongxing next to Chenzhou is particularly important, you take your men and horses to garrison there, and Chenzhou is a horn to defend against foreign enemies. Yang Xiuqing vetoed, his meaning was obvious, he felt that Xiaoshan was a little arrogant, so he pressed him with the king of the west, so that he didn't think that the king of the east only could rely on himself.

Yang Xiaoshan couldn't say if he was suffering, he didn't mean it at all, but now everyone thinks that he intends to fight for merit, in fact, he can't wait to be lazy for a while, fighting is to kill people, and it is risky.

"That's it, everyone goes back and immediately arranges for someone to do it." Yang Xiuqing announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Walking out of the camp of the East King, Yang Xiaoshan still did not give up, and ran to Xiao Chaogui and reminded again: "If Changsha is not easy to fight, the West King must not fight hard, do not fight for the courage of the moment, everything is based on safety." ”

"Xiaoshan, does this king look like a person who is afraid of death? Changsha is at your fingertips, just wait and see. Xiao Chaogui snorted coldly and turned to leave.

Yang Xiaoshan sighed, his kindness was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs. This time it is really benevolent and righteous, life and death are up to fate, I hope Changsha is not the place of death of the king of the west.

After the Taiping army entered Chenzhou, the next day Xiao Chaogui, Lin Fengxiang, and Li Kaifang led 5,000 elite soldiers to set off from Chenzhou, avoiding the real and taking the false, and did not take Hengzhou, which was heavily defended, but chose to take the mountain road of Anren and Liling.

Although the six-hundred-mile mountain road is difficult to walk, the Qing army here is negligent in defense, and several small mountain cities are almost empty, Xiao Chaogui only took half a month to cross these mountain roads and go straight to the city of Changsha.

Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan, did not believe that the Taiping army was going to attack Changsha at first, he always thought that the Taiping army would attack head-on from the side of Hengzhou, who knew that Xiao Chaogui cunningly bypassed his defense line. It was not until the Taiping army captured Liling that Governor Luo suddenly realized that he hurriedly ordered martial law in the whole city and mobilized a large number of people to consolidate the city defense.

Fu Cheng, the chief soldier of Xi'an Town, who was stationed on Myokoling in the south of the city, received a letter from Governor Luo asking him to build a Tucheng defense in Myokoling. But he ignored it, he didn't believe that the Taiping army would attack Changsha at all.

Changsha is close to the Xiangjiang River, the city wall is all brick and stone structure, a radius of 14 miles, there are nine city gates, a total of 10,000 defenders. With such a strong city and a heavy defense, how could the Taiping army easily capture it? The Taiping army of several thousand men could not contain Changsha at all, so they could only choose one or two city gates to attack.

"The defenders of this Myoko Ridge have no fortifications at all, and they are not even firmly entrenched in the camp, so our army will be able to take it when they attack it." Lin Fengxiang, who secretly observed the enemy's situation, was overjoyed.

"There are not many of them, about two thousand, and they haven't realized that we are here." Li Kaifang added.

"Don't be anxious, tonight we will complete the encirclement of the Qing army in Myokoling, and launch a general attack at dawn in the morning, we must completely annihilate this enemy, and we cannot let them retreat to Changsha City. It is important to destroy the enemy, and it is even more important to capture their artillery, we don't have much artillery with us this time, so let's take them here to shoot, just to replenish. Xiao Chaogui made the final arrangement, to attack Changsha, he first had to pull out the nails around him and seize their supplies for the final siege.

In the early morning of the next day, the Taiping army on Myoko Ridge launched a surprise attack on the Qing army, the general soldier Fucheng was taken by surprise, dozens of large and small officials such as its staff generals, garrisons, etc., plus 2,000 officers and soldiers were all annihilated, and the Taiping army also captured hundreds of thousands of catties of grain and rice, more than 10 artillery pieces, 4,000 catties of gunpowder, countless mules, horses, oil and salt, and the results were very brilliant.

Xiao Chaogui's first battle in Changsha was fought very beautifully. After capturing Myokoling, the south gate of Changsha was their next target.