It turned out that the general alliance of the Twisted Army advocated Le Xing, and finally made up his mind to lead 100,000 twisted troops to defect to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. According to Yang Xiaoshan's prior agreement, he took the leaders of the twisted army from all walks of life to find Chen Yucheng in Luzhou, and he led the way to Tianjing to meet the king of the east.

Knowing that there was such a large force in northern Huibei coming to defect, Yang Xiuqing couldn't help but be overjoyed, which greatly enhanced the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

At the reception banquet, Zhang Lexing told Yang Xiuqing about Yang Xiaoshan and himself. Yang Xiuqing knew that they were coming for Yang Xiaoshan's sincerity, so he hurriedly asked Chen Yucheng to take Yang Xiaoshan out of prison, and Xiaoshan made such a great contribution this time.

After repeated discussions between Dongwang and Zhang Mengzhu, an agreement was finally reached. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom transferred all the prefectures and counties in northern Huizhou to the Twist Army, and the Twist Army all received banners and nominally belonged to the Taiping Army, but only cooperated in the battle near Huibei. This is the bottom line promised by the leaders of the other twisted armies, these twisted armies have a strong sense of region, and they are afraid of fighting across provinces, and they are only willing to move around the periphery, which is equivalent to listening to the seal and having a limited listening tune.

In several prefectures and counties in northern Huibei, the Taiping army originally had very few troops, and the main forces were concentrated along the Yangtze River. That side was only temporarily taken over and assigned to the Twist Army, in fact, there was nothing to lose, but the benefits of joining the 100,000 cavalry were real, although they could not be fully incorporated into their own team, but Zhang Lexing had already expressed great sincerity, and his personal team was willing to fully cooperate with the Taiping Army to fight.

On behalf of the Kingdom of Heaven, Yang Xiuqing rewarded all the leaders of the Twist Army, and the highest reward was naturally Zhang Mengzhu, who was awarded the title of "General of the Northern Expedition", which is already very high, you must know that the main general is only under the military division. Yang Xiuqing was able to grant such a high military position to Zhang Lexing so generously, largely because Zhang Lexing expressed his willingness to hand over his youngest son Zhang Zongbao to Yang Xiaoshan.

In Yang Xiuqing's eyes, this action is tantamount to leaving his family in Tianjing as a hostage, which is a great sincerity. He never expected that this was Zhang Zongbao's own effort to ask his father to do this, he admired Yang Xiaoshan too much, Yang Xiaoshan and the new world he said had a strong attraction to him.

After Yang Xiaoshan was released, he learned that Shi Dakai had gone to attack the Jiangnan camp. originally thought that he would be frozen by the East King for a while, but the result was unexpected, and soon he was ordered to lead his troops into battle. It was not the Jiangnan camp that went to the Jiangnan camp, but the Jiangbei camp built by Qishan.

If Xiang Rong's Jiangnan camp was a barrier to prevent the Taiping army from entering southern Jiangsu, then Qishan's Jiangbei camp was a barrier to prevent the Taiping army from entering northern Jiangsu.

It seems that the function is similar, but the life in the camp is one in the sky and the other in the ground.

Xiang Rong did his best for the Qing court, and his 10,000 people not only had to prevent a small group of Taiping troops from flowing into southern Jiangsu to steal grain, but also constantly harassed Tianjing, and made some achievements to give Xianfeng a good job, and he also had to take care of the local defense, which can be said to be heartbreaking.

On the other hand, Jiangbei Yingying was much more comfortable that day. Building houses, planting flowers, planting trees, stacking stones, raising birds, storing dogs, weaving fences, building sheds, taking drugs, listening to music, buying jade, repairing watches, buying paintings, reading yellow books, gambling, playing chess, playing leaves, pretending to be sick, marrying (robbing) wives, and doing business, this is the daily life of these Eight Banners soldiers in the Jiangbei camp.

These Qing soldiers are not good at fighting, but they are good at harassing places, because the place they occupy is too good. Because of the failure of the Northern Expedition, the Taiping army hardly fought in the north. The defenders of Yangzhou went to be reinforcements for the Northern Expedition, and the empty city was left to Qishan to be the camp in Jiangbei.

So Qi Shan began to exert power in the big camp, the only stronghold of the Taiping army in Jiangbei, Guazhou, on the opposite bank of Zhenjiang, there were less than 2,000 defenders, and the city was small. Qishan's tens of thousands of troops couldn't be conquered.

Qi Shan was not even willing to attack, for fear that the Taiping army would retaliate and disturb his comfortable days in the camp in Jiangbei. He also used the excuse of encircling and suppressing the Taiping Army to eat the military salary of the imperial court and the donations of the local government, and lived a life of self-respect.

But as the situation of the war changed, the imperial court began to pay attention to the camp in the north of the Yangtze River. There are also people in the local area who continue to impeach Qishan for harassing the locality, and Xianfeng also constantly sends people to inspect the camp in Jiangbei. Katsuho was also sent here to sit as Qi Shan's deputy.

Qi Shan felt that he couldn't pretend anymore, but fortunately, Shengbao was not a good official, and after the bribe, he actually went along with him. However, Xianfeng urged him tightly, and he had to explain to the court what he had to do.

Qi Shan knows his skills very well, not to mention siege warfare, even field warfare, and his rotten Eight Banners soldiers are not good. After thinking about it, Qi Shan really came up with a way to make a difference.

He led his troops across the river from Yizheng into the high-capital zone between Nanjing and Zhenjiang, where he continued to build camps with the intention of cutting off the connection between Tianjing and Zhenjiang. Of course, in doing so, Tianjing's grain road was not greatly affected, but Zhenjiang was miserable. Because water and land transportation has been cut off, it is facing the crisis of food shortage.

The defenders of Zhenjiang turned out to be Luo Outline, and later Luo Outline led the naval army to help Yang Xiaoshan fight Jiujiang, but Zhenjiang lost half of the defenders, leaving only Jiao Er with more than 4,000 people to garrison. However, he defended very tightly, and in the face of Qishan's encirclement and suppression, he repelled several attacks without hurry. But after a long siege, Zhenjiang's food was no longer enough, so he hurriedly sent people over to ask for support.

Yang Xiuqing knew that the stakes were very high, although Qishan in Jiangbei was not as strong as Xiang Rongqiang, but the camp he built in the high-capital camp was very troublesome, because Xiang Rong sent people to guide them to build, and these camps built with the terrain were difficult to break. Yang Xiuqing sent people to try to attack several times, but they all failed.

Yang Xiaoshan led the troops to Gaozi, and couldn't help frowning, he could see that the other party had put a lot of effort into this camp, and the defenders were as high as tens of thousands, and he brought more than 5,000 people from Tianjing to attack here, which was like hitting a stone with an egg.

All the defenses of these camps were directed in the direction of Tianjing, and three trenches were dug and various strange traps were added.

"Dashuai, the other party can't call out to fight, so they will stick to their turtle shell." Chen Yucheng walked over from the front in a huff.

Qi Shan knows that his soldiers are weak, and he is not stupid, he has made up his mind to hide under the turtle shell, and no matter what you do, he will not come out. planned to consume the Taiping Army alive, and he did it the first few times, and he succeeded.

Yang Xiaoshan took the guards and carefully looked at Qishan's camp, and after repeated observations, he finally found a way.

"Yucheng, come here, I have an important task to give you." Yang Xiaoshan whispered a few words to Chen Yucheng.

Chen Yucheng was still depressed just now, but after hearing this, he opened his eyebrows and laughed, "Big brother, it's really yours, this idea is so good!" ”