At the end of the Luzhou Conference, the generals gathered their forces according to Yang Xiaoshan's plan and prepared to destroy the Jiangbei camp of the Qing army.

The commander of the Jiangbei battalion is Manchu Dexing, who fought with Qishan in his early years and made some military achievements. Later, Qi Shan died in battle, and he escaped with his life.

Because he is a Manchurian and is from the Zhenghuang Banner, Xian Fengming knows that this person is mediocre, so he can only promote him, because there is really no one available, so he has to pick a general among the short ones.

Dexing'a was lucky, taking advantage of the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping army fell into chaos and recovered a lot of lost territory in Jiangbei.

In order to prevent the Taiping army from attacking again, he lined up his 15,000 soldiers and horses on the line from Jiangpu to Pukou, and arranged sailors to patrol the river, so as to achieve a comprehensive defensive posture of "fortifying everywhere and responding to each other."

But he never expected that the situation had changed now. Li Zhaoshou of Chuzhou rebelled, and the Chen and Li coalition forces took advantage of Chuzhou to attack directly from Jiangbei.

His long snake formation faced the wrong direction. The Taiping army came from behind, cut him apart, and broke each one. The riverside defense line that Dexing'a painstakingly built collapsed in less than ten days.

Chen Yucheng's army broke through the Qing camp at the steep hill and attacked the Jiangbei camp from the east road, Li Xiucheng led his troops to detour behind the enemy and copied the back road of the Jiangbei camp from the west, and the Taiping army defenders in Jiangxinzhou also took the opportunity to cross the river and cooperate with the battle.

Seeing that the Taiping army was attacking at the same time, Dexing Ah panicked, and there was no way to resist at all, seeing that the camps were captured by the Taiping army. He boarded a military ship along the river, left the camp, and fled.

The commander slipped away, and the remaining Qing troops were even more unwilling to fight, and the Chen and Li coalition forces killed more than 10,000 Qing troops with the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, conquered Jiangpu and Pukou successively, and destroyed the Jiangbei camp that the Qing army had finally re-established.

After settling the Qing army on the other side of Tianjing, Chen and Li divided their troops into two routes according to the plan, Chen Yucheng was responsible for attacking the nearby city of Lu'an, and Li Xiucheng continued to pursue and was responsible for attacking Yangzhou in the east.

Relatively speaking, Li Xiucheng made relatively smooth progress, the Qing army fled like an infectious disease, the defeated army of the Jiangbei camp fled to Yizheng, Li Xiucheng chased after him, and they fled together with the defenders of Yizheng, so the defeated army followed Dexing'a and fled all the way north.

Li Xiucheng did not encounter decent resistance, and successively recovered Yizheng, Guazhou, and Yangzhou.

Li Xiucheng followed Yang Xiaoshan's advice and did not kill all the officials of the Qing court, and the Qing court officials who did not have the blood debt of the Taiping Army were paid by him to go home, and Huang Qinding, the prefect of Yangzhou, was the first person to enjoy the preferential treatment of prisoners by the Taiping Army.

Chen Yucheng was not as smooth as Li Xiucheng, and Wen Shaoyuan, the magistrate of Liuhe, was a hard stubble. This person has a lot of experience in defending the city, and in the Jiangbei area, the Taiping army has swept several times. Only his Liuhe County has never been breached.

One is because Liuhe is relatively speaking, the location is not so important, and it is not at the key node. The Taiping army could get through it after a little detour, so it didn't take the effort to fight it. The second is because this Wen Shaoyuan is indeed very set, reducing taxes and abolishing harsh laws in the local area, and is very popular among the people in Liuhe, so he is willing to help and cooperate with him to defend Liuhe City.

But this time, Wen Shaoyuan was not so lucky, this time it was Chen Yucheng, the first fierce general of the Heavenly Kingdom, who came to attack.

But Wen Shaoyuan was still determined to fight to the death with the Taiping Army, because at this time, Liuhe took in many defeated generals of the Jiangbei battalion, plus the local conscription of more than 10,000 people, which gave him more confidence. And he also counted on Shengbao in Henan, Hechun in Jiangnan Daying, and Dexinga to come to his rescue.

It's a pity that the reality tells Wen Zhixian that you think too much.

Dexing'a was too busy to take care of himself, he fled to Shao Bo in one go, he didn't care about Liuhe at all, and not a single soldier came.

Henan's victory is under the pretext that the situation in northern Anhui is complicated and it is unable to go south to support.

Only Hechun of the Jiangnan battalion promised to save him, but as soon as the reinforcements sent reached the river, they were blocked by Li Xiucheng and could not cross the river.

Chen Yucheng knew that Liuhe was already a lonely city at this time, so he was not in a hurry. There are more than 10,000 defenders in this Liuhe city, and the city wall has been much taller and thicker in recent years under the auspices of Wen Shaoyuan, and the strong attack will inevitably cause great losses.

Chen Yucheng built an artillery position outside the city, bombarding the city of Lu'an constantly during the day, and beating gongs and drums at night, so that the defenders of Liuhe could not sleep well. At the same time, he had the earth camp excavate several siege tunnels.

After a month of preparation, the earth camp finally dug the tunnel under the Liuhe city wall.

With a loud bang, the walls of Liuhe were blown down, and the Taiping army launched a final general attack on the Liuhe Qing army. Liuhe City, which had been holding on to the riverside for six years, was finally broken by the Taiping army.

The myth of Wen Zhixian defending the city was shattered, and he knew that he had resisted the Taiping Army for so many years, and he would definitely die a dead end, so he resolutely committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, but he was not a man. The other Qing troops died, surrendered, and fled, and the Taiping army did not suffer very strong resistance, and the losses were not large.

With the Jiangbei coast, the last stronghold of the Qing army was lost, and the Jiangbei camp completely collapsed. The imperial court was furious, and directly disbanded the establishment and number of the Jiangbei battalion, dismissed Dexing'a, and handed over the Jiangbei military affairs to the unified command of Hechun of the Jiangnan battalion.

In this battle, the Chen and Li coalition forces completely wiped out the Jiangbei camp. Their eyes were set on the Jiangnan camp, which was even more difficult to fight.

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At this time, the Qing court received bad news from Guangdong. Twelve years have passed since the Treaty of Nanjing, and the British have made demands to revise the treaty and continue to blackmail the Qing court.

But the Qing court and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had fought for so many years, and there was no money to pay them any more, and the British shamelessly made an excuse, saying that the several merchants arrested by the Guangdong sailors were British and had extraterritoriality. In fact, the real identities of these people are all opium smugglers.

The French also used the pretext that a priest was killed in Guangxi, and joined forces with the British to put pressure on the Qing court. In fact, he was a scoundrel, and he was sentenced to death by Xilinzhi County for doing evil in the local area.

The British and French demands were not met, so the British and French troops came to Guangzhou, and the governor Bai Gui surrendered. Governor Ye Mingchen was captured.

Ye Mingchen prides himself on being "Su Wu on the sea". He is known as the Six No-Governors: no fighting, no peace, no defending, no death, no surrender, and no leaving.

The British and French had no choice but to deal with such a governor, and in the end the British sent him to Calcutta, India, to make further plans.

This Governor Ye died of hunger strike in India, and his actions are really incomprehensible to future generations.

Seeing that the Qing court had lost this Governor Ye, the British and French still did not seem to react, so they waved their troops north, captured the Dagu Fort, and forced Tianjin.

As soon as Xianfeng saw that this was about to hit the doorstep, he finally gave in, and once again signed the "Treaty of Tianjin" with Britain and France, which humiliated the country.