As soon as Qi Zhiquan, the prefect of Runing, took office, he encountered Chen Daxi's uprising, and he thought that this was the fault of Jin Chaodong of Ruyang Governor's County, so he took a copy and removed Jin Chaodong from his post and changed it to Liao Yuntai, who was murderous, as the commander of Ruyang County. He also ordered the guerrillas Wang Tianbao and Han Chengxuan to lead troops to Pingyu Street to suppress Chen Daxi. This Han Chengxuan is Xincai Zhi County, who once killed Tang Yunlong, Duan San, Qin Xin, Zhang Zuokui and others, the leaders of the Twist Army. Wang Tianbao is a guerrilla general transferred from elsewhere, and he is very invincible on weekdays, thinking that the Twist Army is a rabble. They are high-spirited, and they think that the matter of "suppressing Chen" is easy to capture.

Pingyu has already heard the rumors here. Just after Gaoping Temple, Chen Daxi ushered in with the twisted army. Wang Tianbao and Han Chengxuan were overjoyed, thinking that Chen Daxi had thrown himself into the net and saved their strength to advance into peace. In order to compete for the first credit, without waiting for Wang Tianbao to lift the gun, he was stopped by Han Chengxuan and said: "Kill chickens and use cattle to kill, and look at the lowly position to capture this guy." After speaking, he slashed at the young general under Chen Zi with a knife. said that it was too late and that was fast, without waiting for Han Chengxuan to come to him, Chen Daxi had already used a meteor flying hammer, which was in the middle of Han Chengxuan's ribs, then Han Chengxuan turned over and fell off the horse, Chen Daxi caught up with another hammer and was about to kill him, at this time Wang Tianbao rushed to the horse, killed Chen Daxi, and saved Han Chengxuan. During the fighting, Wang Yuguo came from Gaoping Temple and transferred the Qing army. Wang Tianbao is a battle-hardened person, he hurriedly jumped out of the circle, ordered the Qing soldiers to set up a formation, helplessly twisted the army's arrows like locusts, fireballs and artillery flew wildly, and the Qing soldiers fled in all directions. Chen Daxi and Wang Yuguo led the soldiers of the Twist Army to besiege and kill, and the corpses of the Qing army were all over the field. Wang Tianbao and Han Chengxuan were seriously injured and fled back in embarrassment.

In this battle, "the soldiers suffered many casualties", and the army "benefited from it". Qi Zhiquan, the prefect of Runing, hurriedly reported to the governor and the political envoy and asked for troops to be sent to suppress it. At this time, Qinglian had been removed from his post, and Yan Shusen, the political envoy of Hubei, was appointed governor of Henan. Yan Shusen wanted to send troops to Runing Mansion, but Chen Daxi went north to fight, and at the same time joined the twisted army Jiang Tailin, Dong Chaoxuan, and Wang Huaiyi in Bozhou to attack Kaifeng. Yan Shusen urgently dispatched troops for reinforcements. The Twist army left Kaifeng, went west to Weichuan, and marched in a hurry to defeat the Qing troops in Mi County, and feinted to attack Yi and Luo. Yan Shusen urgently ordered Yuzhou, Mixian, Xinzheng, and Dengfeng to train to guard the tiger prison. The Twist Army went south again, entering Nanyang from Changge and Xuzhou through Xiangcheng and Yexian to occupy the Tang River. He also besieged the city of Nanyang Mansion day and night. Since Nanyang is an important place in western Henan, Yan Shusen and Mao Changxi, the minister of regimental training, jointly went up to the army to promote Zheng Yuanshan, the governor of Zhengzhou, to be in charge of the defense of southern Henan and the military of Runing Mansion. Transferred Li Xutao, the general of Hubei Yichang, Yu Jichang, the deputy general, and 1,000 Jilin cavalry to Henan to assist in the suppression. But the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and Chen Daxi had already left Nanyang, commanding tens of thousands of troops to attack Runing Mansion.

Runing Mansion is the main road in southern Henan and the political center of southern Henan in the Qing Dynasty. There are two generals in Fucheng: one is Liu Zhonglu and the other is Chen Yuzhen. In ordinary times, he was often ostracized and oppressed, and he had long been anti-Qing. Chen Daxi sent acquaintances to say it, and promised all kinds of things. Both of them are willing to act as internal responses and help break the city. Due to the strict guarding of the city gate by the Qing court, for a while, the Twist army could not be attacked. Chen Daxi came up with a plan. The folk Qingming Festival should carry the statue of the city god to the city to parade, and the officials and people will go out of the city to participate in this day, which is very lively. Chen Daxi ordered Wang Dianxuan and dozens of others to sneak into the city first, and under the pretext of arson, they assisted Liu Zhonglu and Chen Yuzhen to join forces and take Runing Mansion in one fell swoop. However, for some reason, Liao Yuntai knew about this matter and arrested Wang Dianxuan. learned that Liu Zhonglu and Chen Yuzhen were also involved, but they had no choice but to hold heavy troops and couldn't start. It was secretly reported to the group practice in Caigou Town, Cai County, and hundreds of people in Tuanyong were distributed at the intersections of various streets and intersections. Later, he secretly captured Liu Zhonglu and Chen Yuzhen on the street, as well as all the twisted troops in the city. That night, above the prefect's lobby, Liao Yuntai and Qi Zhiquan ascended to the hall, and the regimental exercises lined up in two rows, and Liu Zhonglu and Chen Yuzhen and the Twist Army were launched, and they were all killed one by one.

The sneak attack failed, and Chen Daxi was very angry and blamed himself. At this time, thousands of twisted troops came to defect to Chen Daxi. Let's stop for a moment and talk about the situation on both sides of the enemy.

In 1861, the Empress Dowager Cixi authorized Zeng Guofan to govern the military affairs of the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi. In this way, the Qing army on the front line against the Taiping army was all under the unified command of Zeng Guofan, and the Hunan army became more arrogant from then on, colluding with and relying on foreign invaders to attack the Taiping army in southern Jiangsu. Zeng Guofan sent Zeng Guoquan to lead the main force of the Hunan army to attack Jinling (now Nanjing); sent Li Hongzhang to lead the Huai army to attack Suzhou and Changzhou with the "Changsheng Army" commanded by the Englishman Gordon; Zuo Zongtang was sent to lead a part of the Hunan army to attack Zhejiang. The British and French invaders organized a mixed reactionary armed force at home and abroad to assist Zuo Zongtang. The conquest in the early stages led to the collapse of the leadership class.

Emperor Xianfeng collapsed in Rehe, and the crown prince Zaichun succeeded to the throne, and the year name was Tongzhi. He is still in his prime, and he has not been able to hold power in person. His mother, Yehnara, was to hang the curtain, and several of the king's ministers opposed her and were killed by her. Since then, the curtain of the Empress Dowager Cixi has been opened.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom deployed the Second Western Expedition, planning to attack Wuchang from the north and south of the Yangtze River with the two main forces of Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng respectively to rescue Anqing. Chen Yucheng marched quickly, conquered Huangzhou in one fell swoop, and approached Wuchang, at this time the British diplomat Pasha Li met Chen Yucheng; Asked the Taiping army to withdraw, due to the slow march of Li Xiucheng's troops, the Taiping army was not sure to capture Wuchang in the short term, and the Hunan army stepped up the siege of Anqing, Chen Yucheng decided to order his subordinate Lai Wenguang to lead the troops to stay near Wuchang, continue to wait for Li Xiucheng's troops, and he led the main force back to Anqing. Li Xiucheng advanced to the southeast of Hubei and recruited 300,000 troops in nearby places, and learned that the Taiping Army on the eastern front was not in a good position, and heard that Chen Yucheng had returned to Anqing, so he gave up the attack on the three towns of Wuhan and marched eastward instead, and captured a large area of Zhejiang with Li Shixian's troops. Chen Yucheng returned to rescue Anqing, and Hong Renji, Lin Shaozhang, Wu Ruxiao, Huang Wenjin, etc. also came to cooperate in the battle, but failed; In June, Jixian Pass and Chigangling were lost, and in August, Chen Yucheng and Yang Fuqing recaptured Jixian Pass and rescued Anqing, which was rejected by Duolong Abe, the deputy capital of the Qing Dynasty.

In May, the Taiping Army Li Renshou occupied Yongkang, and the township militia desperately defended it, and the Taiping Army advanced and retreated. In August, tens of thousands of Taiping troops, led by Xiao Dafu of Tian'an, occupied the county seat and sent Wei Tianfu to fight Guan Zhiying. The Taiping Army informed An Min that "every door is hung with a card" in all parts of the county, and military cards are set up in each township and every road, and the county except Fangyan Mountain and Juchen Mountain are under the occupation of the Taiping Army.

In September, Zeng Guoquan conquered Anqing, and the Taiping defenders Ye Yunlai, Wu Dingcai and more than 16,000 people of the whole army were all killed. In September, Shi Dakai went north and south from Guangxi, crossed the Yangtze River to the north, seized Chengdu, established a Sichuan base area, and moved to the three provinces of Shu, Guizhou and Yunnan, and entered Sichuan four times. On October 20, the Taiping Army was led by Huang Laichang, the local 18th Bureau Rebel Army, and under the command of Dai Wang Huang Chengzhong, they conquered Yuyao. Geng Tianyi Ruan Shizhen is in charge of the county government. Show the whole people's hair, set up township officials all over, and the officials have the names of the supervising army division, brigade division, Sima, and the commander of the army, and set up a famous brand in each household. Peasants from all villages joined the Taiping Army. In Ansanqiao Village alone, there are seven layers of young adults who participated. On October 27, the Anglo-American and French consular representative of Ningbo, Yazhi, came to Yao to consult with Huang Chengzhong to discuss the protection of foreigners after the Taiping army marched into Ningbo. At the end of the year, Li Xiucheng captured Hangzhou, Zhejiang governor Wang Youling committed suicide, and the Taiping army successively captured most of Zhejiang.

In the spring of 1861, Gong Deshu and Chen Yucheng joined forces with more than 100,000 troops on the second westward expedition, from Tongcheng through Huoshan to enter Hubei. After attacking the Huguang Governor Guan Wen and the Hubei Governor Hu Lin's Wing. On March 14, when more than 50,000 allied troops fought against the Qing army Cheng Daji at Luotian Songzi Pass, he rode straight and was cut off from the left side by Wang Mingtao, a general of Cheng Daji's department, and was killed by a cannon in the back.

In 1861, the Twist Army was particularly active, breaking through the old estuary of Hubei, Xiangyang and Fancheng. One group entered Shandong, approached Jinan and Yantai, and was repulsed by the British and French armies. In the winter of 1861, Zhang Lexing was stationed in Yingshang. In December, Su Tianfu and Zhang Lexing set off from Huaiyuan and led all the personnel to cross the Huai River to the north and return to the Pheasant River. After Su Tianfu led his troops back to Yongcheng, he changed Liu Ji to Xincheng County, built brick villages, dug deep trenches, and stationed them to defend them.

Here is the focus of the point, in September 1861, Anqing was lost, Sun Kuixin's troops were defeated in the trailer river, went to Luzhou, and the garrison of Dashu Mountain (in the western suburbs of present-day Hefei) was assassinated.