Chen Daxi and Zhang Zongyu's twisted army continued to expand their military strength by scattering grain in Lushi and Xixia, and suddenly received a letter from Pingyu. It is said that after the Taiping Army's westward expedition, the Qing army increased its forces to relieve the siege of Xincai and Yingzhou. Zhang Yao led his troops to live in Guo Louji and harassed Pingyu Street. and equipped with foreign guns and cannons, Luo Jie's shotgun team could not resist. Wang Yuguo was killed by Zhang Yao's troops and asked Chen Daxi to return to Pingyu for reinforcements. When Chen Daxi heard that Wang Yuguo had died in battle, he cried loudly and decided to go back immediately and attack the Qing army Zhang Yao. To say that this foreign gun is a foreigner's thing, why is Zhang Yao suddenly equipped with a lot? It turned out that after the Second Duck Slice War, the Qing court ceded land and paid compensation, which was supported by foreigners. The foreigners trained and equipped a large number of foreign guns and artillery teams for the Qing Dynasty to assist the Qing Zhengfu in suppressing the rebels. At the same time, the Qing court sent Zhou Fengshan, the deputy general of the Hunan army, to Henan to help in the war. So, the situation was reversed all at once.

After Chen Daxi returned to Pingyu Street, he sent many sentry horses to inquire about the news and study countermeasures. At this time, the soldiers of the Twist Army are from Dadong Village, and they are willing to persuade thousands of poor families in the village to join the Twist------ just because the owners of the village have been persecuted too tightly in recent years, and if they do not sell their children and daughters, there is only a dead end. Chen Daxi was overjoyed when he heard this, so he sent this person back to Dadongzhai. This big Dong village connects the Mao River and the Honghe River, and is adjacent to Shangcai and Xiangcheng, and the Shangqing army is the main road for transporting grain on the water. If this village is captured, the Qing soldiers will inevitably try their best to besiege it, so that the siege of Pingyu Street can be lifted. Due to the combination of inside and outside, almost no knives and guns were used, and Dadong Village was taken. Subsequently, Chen Daxi ordered to attack the shooting bridge, Wei Zhai, and Qin Zhai, which were practiced by the Qing Corps. Wei Zhai and Qin Zhai were then breached, and in this way, the Qing army's land grain transportation routes were also cut off. Zheng Yuanshan, the governor of Henan, was furious when he heard that Chen Daxi had captured several villages and cut off the grain route. Urgently ordered Zhang Yao to shoot the bridge to guard. On April 25, the Twist Army and the Qing Army fought in Fanzhai, and the defenders of the Pingyu Street Twist Army went out to fight, killing the garrison Xu De, and the Qing soldiers were defeated. The next day, more than 10,000 people besieged Yongle Village, and Zhang Yao gave first aid, but we killed him and fled.

In early May, the wheat is ripe. Chen Daxi summoned Zhang Fenglin, Wang Dianshu, Shi Buguang, Huo Guangyu and other leaders of the Twist Army, and decided to "demarcate the border and harvest" and "armed protection". The troops led by the various armies to harvest the wheat according to the regional pictures. Sent detached troops to besiege the main stockades in various places, so that they did not dare to go out of the villages to grab wheat. Sent active troops to ambush various places and harass Zhang Yao and other Qing troops, so that they did not dare to block the wheat harvesting operation. The twisted army "planted hemp stalks all over the place, thinking that it was the border of harvesting wheat", and the twisted army and the people carried it shoulder to shoulder, and reaped a bumper harvest. Seeing this, Zhang Yao urgently ordered the Qing soldiers and landlords to grab the wheat. Zhang Yao personally led the troops down to the wheat field, and saw the crowds of the Twist Army and civilians surging, and they were in full swing. He rushed over with the Qing soldiers, but the soldiers of the Twisted Army Wheat Collector ignored them and only lowered their heads to cut the wheat. Just as he was in doubt, the cannon roared loudly, bows and arrows were fired, and the Qing army suffered countless casualties. Zhang Yao was about to fight back, but he saw the smoke rising from his own camp in the rear, and he knew that something was wrong. At this time, Chen Daxi, Luo Jie, Chen Wen, He'er, and Chen Tianjue (Chen Daxi's nephew) divided their troops to kill in five ways, and the Qing army was in chaos, leaving behind the dead and wounded, and only fled towards the camp. In this battle, the Qing army did not dare to go out of the village for a few days, and the wheat in the field had already been collected by the Twist Army.

At this time, Chen Daxi suddenly received a letter from Chen Decai, the king of the Taiping Army. It turned out that after their vanguard left Tongguan, they were blocked by the Qing army when they came to Henan, so they had to turn to Hubei. After Chen Decai led the main force out of Tongguan, he fought with Yang Feixiong, the deputy general of the Qing army, in Henan, Yang Feixiong was injured and fled, and all of them were annihilated. Later, I heard that the king of England had taken up justice in the city of Beijing, and there was no point in going east. So after the Taiping army was blocked by the Qing army in Luoyang, they wanted to march to Nanyang. The Qing army was strong, and Chen Decai wrote a letter to Chen Daxi, asking Chen Daxi to personally lead the twisted army to reinforcements. At this time, Pingyu Street was besieged by Zhang Yao and was in a state of stalemate. The soldiers were reluctant to go west. It is believed that going west to reinforce them will lead to the destruction of their hometown and the slaughter of their families by the Qing demons. But Chen Daxi analyzed the interests and tried his best to convince everyone that if the Taiping army failed, then Pingyu Street would also be destroyed. If Pingyu Street is in danger, he Chen Daxi will come back immediately to rescue him. At the same time, in order to protect Pingyu Street, Chen Daxi invited the Twist Army from Linquan and Yingzhou to enter Henan to coordinate defense. Let Zhang Fenglin of Zhengyang and others send some sergeants to help. The Pingyu Street Twist Army was led by Chen Wen, Ma Zhong, Chen Tianjue and others. Chen Wen led the banner under the banner of his own Chen Daxi and commanded the whole army in order to confuse the enemy. At this time, Chen Daxi's son Wan Sheng was thirteen years old and had learned a good martial arts. Chen Daxi's mother was afraid that Chen's family would be lost, and the family would be affected. asked Wansheng to go with Chen Daxi, and He'er was not at ease, so he also followed. So, the four of us and four horses, rushed to Linquan that night. Subsequently, all the twisted troops arrived, counting more than 43,000 people. In mid-June, they met with the Northwest Taiping Army at Tang County (now the Tang River in Nanyang), and at this time, the Taiping Army in Yunxi and Zhang Zongyu's Twist Army had also arrived to converge and jointly advanced towards Nanyang.

Nanyang was guarded by the general army Tutana, and the governor Zheng Yuanshan was reinforced by the general He Yuanpu. The two led the Qing army to Tang County for defense. We fought hard for more than ten days, and then we stationed in Tongzhaipu, on the edge of the White River. It is fifty miles away from Nanyang. The Qing army was stationed on the other side of the Baihe River to resist. Due to the large water of the White River, the Qing soldiers collected nearby boats, and all of them were detained in the Qing camp, regardless of whether they were good or bad. We had no boats to use, so we had to make our own boats and rafts to force our way across the river, and we never thought that the artillery on the opposite bank was fierce, and our troops were repulsed three times by forced crossing, and there were many casualties. I found that the Qing soldiers were only heavily defended here, and the defenses elsewhere were weak, so I suggested that Chen Daxi divide his troops to rush to the crossing. As a result, the Tai Twist coalition army "lined up more than 100 teams" and "crossed the turbulent current", and the longitudinal more than ten miles were all twisted troops. Chen Daxi, Huo Guangyu, and Xiao Wenxin succeeded in rushing across the river, and the Qing army was in chaos. The Taiping army took the opportunity to fully cross the Baihe River and divide and surround the Qing army. He Yuanpu and Tutana desperately stood out and surrounded and hid in Nanyang City. We swept away all the Qing army, landlords' stockades, and regimental training forces. Later, outside Nanyang City, forts were built, camped villages, water from moats were discharged, tunnels were dug, and the city was sieged by level. At this point, from Baihe to Nanyang City, there are Tai Twist coalition forces everywhere.

In July, Qing troops from other places gathered in Nanyang. At this time, Tianjing was trapped, and Chen Decai, the king of Fu, decided to fight each other with the twisted armies of Tianjing and Huaibei in Hubei and southern Henan. In order to confuse the Qing army, the Taiwu coalition army relieved the siege of Nanyang City, from Zhenping to Xichuan, pretending to re-enter Shaanxi, and then went south to Hubei, occupying Suixian (now Suizhou) on the eighth day of August. Then, the leaders of the coalition army analyzed and believed that the Qing army must firmly defend the city of Anlufu, so the troops divided into two routes, all the way to De'anfu (now Anlu) to attack in a pattern, and along the way, captured various local armed stockades to expand the army. Chen Daxi led another way to attack the south, waiting for an opportunity to take Jingshan, Tianmen, and Yingcheng. Jingshan, open the door and the enemy fled from the wind. Yingcheng County sent generals and regiments to resist, but was defeated by Chen Daxi and captured Yingcheng County. The city is more than 100 miles away from Wuhan, and the Qing court urgently sent the general soldier Mu Zhengchun, the commander Shu Bao, and the general soldier of the horse team Hua Ling'a, and attacked the city by Yingcheng. When Chen Daxi heard about the situation, he abandoned Yingcheng and attacked Xiaogan with the Taiping army. After the Qing army swept into the air, they immediately rushed to Xiaogan to chase and kill, but the forward troops of the Taixuan coalition army had already attacked Xiaogan and killed the deputy capital of the Xiaogan Qing army, Deke Deng, and the county magistrate Han Tizhen. In addition to the city breaking, the local tyrants and inferior gentry in the city, and the landlords' regiments were liquidated together. By the time Shubao's cavalry arrived, the coalition forces had already left for Huang'an. At this time, the forward troops of the Taitwist coalition army were only more than ten miles away from Wuhan.

The Qing court urgently transferred back the troops of Duolonga and other troops to Xiangyang and Fancheng. Guan Wen, the governor of Huguang, and Zheng Yuanshan, the governor of Henan, also ordered a siege in an attempt to besiege the Tailuo coalition army. Seeing that the Qing army was strong, the coalition forces returned to Henan from Suizhou in late September. Because Chen Yucheng, the British king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, died in battle, Chen Xiucheng, the loyal king, presided over the military of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As soon as we arrived in Henan, we received a letter from King Zhong, ordering Wang Chen Decai to "set a score in person, so that he could go up and recruit enough men and horses to return as soon as possible to rescue the capital." "At this point, the Northwest Taiping Army has entered Shaanxi again, and we will also assist together. After Xinye and Dengzhou, they entered Hubei and captured Fang County. In late October, a letter came from Pingyu Street, saying that after repeated defeats, Chenjiazhai was in critical condition. Chen Daxi was shocked to hear and decided to return to Pingyu Street. In order to ensure the smooth entry of the Taiping army into Shaanxi, Chen Daxi left the large army to march with the Taiping army, and led me and 5,000 soldiers back to Pingyu County.