After Zeng Zhaoyang left, Feng Yunshan ordered Chen Yucheng to lead the 3rd Division and Peng Yulin to lead the 7th Division of nearly 20,000 people to send troops from Changsha to capture Yuanzhou Mansion and attack Nanchang all the way. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Liang Litai, on the other hand, led the 4th Division and the 5,000th Water Division to train troops and defend the boundaries of Changsha and the Xiangjiang River, while capturing the counties below Changsha Prefecture.

Because there were tens of thousands of Qing troops guarding the city of Fuzhou, especially in the city of Fuzhou, there were more than 30,000 Qing troops defending the city, which was difficult to conquer for a while, and entered the stage of stalemate.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan thought of not attacking Fuzhou for the time being, but sweeping the surrounding small counties and strategically besieging them. Then, once the occupation of Nanchang, the west of the province, and then send troops to Zhejiang, completely blockade the Fuzhou area, whether it is forced to surrender or attack, it is all up to the capture army.

No matter what, in the three provinces of Chixi, Fujian and Zhejiang, Feng Yunshan must be in his hands.

The rich mineral resources in the area of Chixi, especially copper, gold, silver, sulfur and tungsten, occupied the first place among the provinces in the country in later generations.

Among them, especially Dexing Copper Mine, thanks to the stock of Xixi Copper, which has been trapped in his previous life, Feng Yunshan knows it very well.

Dexing Copper Mine, the largest open-pit copper mine in Asia, has the second largest reserves in the world, not only large reserves but also concentrated, shallow burial, and a very high proportion of ore concentrate copper ore mined.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, there were already sporadic mining, but only in caves. Later, in the fifties of the twentieth century, it was discovered that there were two large-scale mineral deposits at the foot of Peacock Mountain, which could be mined in the open pit, and most of them were sulfur-copper ore and copper-gold-silver associated ores.

Feng Yunshan remembers that when he bought the stock, he also saw that the annual report said that the two open-pit deposits of the Dexing Copper Mine alone could produce 120,000 tons of copper per year, accounting for a quarter of the country's copper production in later generations; With an annual output of more than 5 tons of gold and more than 20 tons of silver, it is the largest associated gold mine and associated silver mine in the country.

Of course, that was the output of later generations under the condition of mechanical mining and advanced refining methods, and there will naturally not be such a large output in this era, but open-pit mining, it is a big deal to invest more miners, plus the use of steam engines, it must not be too little.

Even if there is only one-tenth of the output, it is 20 million catties of copper output, and according to the consistent calculation of every 7 catties of copper coins, it is also an income of nearly two million taels of silver.

What's more, there are tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver associated minerals.

There are not only mineral deposits, but also Jingdezhen porcelain, which is sold to foreigners to make a profit, but it is second only to tea and silk, but after the nineteenth century, the porcelain business slowly declined, but no matter what, Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital, is still the best place in the country for porcelain quality.

Therefore, Chixi must be in control.

And Fujian's tea and Zhejiang's silk are the most profitable businesses today, and Feng Yunshan also has to control them in his hands. What's more, there is another Shanghai there, and the tariffs of Shanghai alone far exceed the income of the two provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou.

In the middle of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Chen Yucheng led more than 11,000 people from the Third Division of the First Division, starting from Changsha and passing through Liling, and easily captured Pingxiang and Yuanzhou.

At the same time, Peng Yulin led 8,000 people from the 7th Division, combined with the garrison of Ganzhou Mansion, and successfully captured Ji'an Mansion.

The capture of Erfu City was very smooth, and there was little resistance.

After careful investigation, Chen Yucheng and Peng Yulin learned that it turned out that the Taiping Army was in the vanguard of the westward expedition and besieged Nanchang City, and Zhang Fu, the governor of Xixi, and Jiang Zhongyuan, the Hubei Inspector, transferred all the garrisons of the state capital near Nanchang Mansion to Nanchang Mansion to rescue Nanchang City.

So, the two joined forces and marched north to the territory of Linjiang Mansion.

The prefect of Linjiang and the deputy general of the Linjiang Association led hundreds of Qing troops to flee in despair, and the people of Linjiang Mansion City and some city defenders opened the city gate and dedicated Linjiang City to the captive army.

Chen Yucheng and Peng Yulin occupied Linjiang Mansion City without much effort.

Next is the Ruizhou Fucheng and Fengcheng around Nanchang, both of which were occupied by Zeng Tianyang, the commander of the Taiping Army's Dian Zuojiu.

Chen Yucheng and Peng Yulin couldn't help but have some headaches, how to deal with them? Is it difficult to meet the Taiping Army?

Just as Chen Yucheng and Peng Yulin were discussing whether to make a detour to Fuzhou and then transfer to Nanchang City, or to greet Zeng Tianyang first and take the road, suddenly a report came from the front, saying that the Taiping army had begun to withdraw from the occupied Ruizhou Mansion and Fengcheng and other places, and went to Poyang Lake.

Chen Yucheng and Peng Yulin were overjoyed, marched separately, one south and one north, and occupied Ruizhou and Fengcheng respectively, getting closer and closer to Nanchang City.

What they didn't know was that in Poyang Lake, a tall and strong man in his fifties touched his beautiful beard and sighed secretly: "King Nan, Tianyang really wants to lead the army to you!" However, now that you are strong and strong, there is no shortage of people raised by heaven, and it is more useful to continue to find out news for you in the kingdom of heaven. Ruizhou Fucheng and Fengcheng have withdrawn, and I have sent a detailed secretary to inform Chen Yucheng. ”

The tall and strong man held a blank piece of paper in his hand, and sighed again: "This kind of secret paper invented by the King of the South is really useful. Writing with paste, even if someone else intercepts it, you can't see anything. ”

After speaking, he kept in his hand, and wrote on the white paper with a brush stained with paste: Thousands of Qing demons rushed to Nanchang Mansion from Jiujiang and Beibei to rescue, Zhang Fu, the governor of Xixi in Nanchang City, and Jiang Zhongyuan, the Hubei inspector, led 10,000 people to hold out, and Lai Hanying led his troops to attack for a long time, which made Yang Xiuqing very dissatisfied.

After writing, the strong man blew dry the white paper, called a personal guard, and asked him to send the white paper to a hardware store in Fengcheng City.

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And in Nanchang City, a sturdy middle-aged man wearing a three-grade official uniform with a sapphire on his head saluted the civil official with a dignified face on the main seat next to him, and said: "Lord Futai, Jiang sent a careful investigation that the number of long-haired thieves besieging Nanchang City is not large, and the leader is called Lai Hanying, who is the brother-in-law of the thief chief Hong Xiuquan. The other detachment was led by a thief named Zeng Tianyang, who somehow left Ruizhou and Fengcheng and retreated into Poyang Lake. ”

The majestic civil official is about forty years old, dressed in a second-grade supplement, but he is Zhang Fu, the governor of Xixi. And the sturdy middle-aged man is Jiang Zhongyuan, who has disappeared for a long time.

Zhang Fu nodded at Jiang Zhongyuan, for fear that he would snub the other party, and said slowly: "Lord Jiang, Benfu is not familiar with military affairs, but he wants you to help him more." What do you want, but what should you do? ”

According to Jiang, the reinforcements from Mubei and Jiujiang will immediately arrive outside Nanchang City, and Jiang can send someone to sneak out of the city and contact the long-haired thieves in Nanchang to attack him. Lord Futai led 4,000 people to sit in Nanchang City, and Jiang led 7,000 people out of the city and defeated the long-haired thieves in one fell swoop. "Jiang Zhongyuan, please fight.

"Good! According to the words of Lord Jiang. Ben Fu waited for the good news of Master Jiang's great destruction of the long-haired thief soldiers. Zhang Fu is full of confidence in Jiang Zhongyuan.

He is now in the name of dismissal and retention, supervising the war in the west, but by the long-haired thieves of the western expedition to attack the city and plunder the land, the war is extremely erosive, fortunately reported to the imperial court, sent to the north according to the envoy Jiang Zhongyuan led 4,000 Chu Yong to help.

The long-haired thieves attacked Nanchang City several times, but were heroically repelled by Jiang Zhongyuan's 4,000 Chu Yong. Zhang Fu saw that Jiang Zhongyuan was well organized, so he allocated half of the Nanchang garrison to Jiang Zhongyuan's command.

As long as Nanchang City is defended, presumably the imperial court will restore him to the position of governor of the west because of the merit of defending the city. Therefore, Zhang Fu trusted Jiang Zhongyuan more and more and obeyed him. (To be continued.) )