At this time, the Taiping soldiers outside the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Tianjing City were divided into four forces. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

One is the original East Hall Taiping Soldiers. Among them, there were more than 20,000 Anqing water and land Taiping soldiers, led by Zeng Shuiyuan, who announced their defection to the king of the south; The 5,000 Taiping soldiers in Jiujiang City were led by Hu Dingwen, and Yang Fuqing outside Danyang City led nearly 10,000 Taiping soldiers, all of whom gathered to surrender to the King of Shunnan or the King of Wings. The entire East Temple soldiers have been removed from five.

Another part of the Taiping soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom, there are more than 20,000 people stationed in Tianjing to guard the major city gates. Among them, more than 6,000 soldiers guarding the east hall of the four city gates, such as Chaoyang Gate, Jubao Gate, Yifeng Gate, Tongji Gate, etc., followed the Chaoyang Gate guard Jin Shuben and others to Danyang to defect to Yang Fuqing. The rest of the East Hall generals of the Zhumen, except for some who surrendered to the North King Wei Changhui, were all beheaded by the North Hall soldiers, while the East Hall soldiers were ignorant and continued to obey the newly appointed generals of the North King.

Most of the rest of the scattered soldiers of the East Temple were scattered, and the troops stationed in the states and counties of the Heavenly Kingdom were also at a loss, in a wait-and-see state, waiting for the end of this chaos in the Heavenly Kingdom. This part of the army is also quite a lot, there are tens of thousands.

The second is that the winged king Shi Dakai led 5,000 Taiping soldiers in Chao County, and also returned to the king of the south.

The third is the sergeant of the North Hall of the Northern King Wei Changhui. More than 3,000 people are in Tianjing City, plus the soldiers and guards of the Beiwang Mansion, there are about 4,000 people who can barely make up.

The rest are the Huangzhou Mansion and the counties of Qizhou, Qishui, Guangji and other counties in the territory of Huangzhou Prefecture, Wei Junbu and Zhang Zipeng's troops who defected, as well as the Taiping soldiers who retreated from defeat by Zeng Tianyang, this soldier is very powerful, plus the Tang Zhengcai Water Division controlled by Wei Jun, there are more than 15,600 people in total.

The fourth is the Taiping soldiers who are loyal to the king of heaven in the kingdom of heaven. The 4,000 Taiping soldiers led by Hu Yixuan in Luzhou City, and Lai Hanying, who was stationed in Tu City in Taiping Mansion, led more than 10,000 Taiping soldiers on land and water.

The nearly 10,000 Taiping soldiers in Zhenjiang Mansion have become the backbone under the leadership of Li Xiucheng, who is loyal to the Heavenly King. There are also Yizheng and the Taiping soldiers in Guazhou, who confronted the camp in Jiangbei, under the command of Xu Zongyang and others, protecting the waterline along the Yangtze River.

In addition, there were tens of thousands of Taiping soldiers as far away as Liaodong.

For a time, the forces of all parties were intertwined and intricate.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that if that part of the soldiers of the East Temple defects to the King of the South, the entire Heavenly Kingdom will suffer a heavy blow and its strength will be greatly reduced.

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Inside Zhenjiang City.

Li Xiucheng, who had a heroic face, was at a loss.

Now he is the general system, and he can be regarded as a middle-level general in the Taiping Army.

At the beginning, Yang Xiuqing urgently transferred Li Xiucheng from Anqing to Tianjing, and asked him to follow Yang Fuqing to lead the Taiping soldiers, pass through Zhenjiang Mansion through the Yangtze River waterway, and attack Danyang City. After arriving in Zhenjiang City, Yang Fuqing was afraid that Li Xiucheng would rob him of his command and credit, so he left Li Xiucheng in Zhenjiang and assisted Luo Jilong in guarding the city.

Luo Jilong is an old brother in Guangxi, and his whole family joined the Taiping Army. was originally in Xiao Chaogui's former army as a supervisor, and his sister married Xiao Chaogui as the princess of the West, and was named the uncle of the West Kingdom. After the death of the king of the west, he became the general of the east hall, because of his bravery, he must take the lead in every battle, and he is deeply respected by the king of the east.

After hearing that there was a turmoil in Tianjing, Luo Jilong had no master of the six gods for a while. At this time, Qi Shan, the commander of the Jiangbei battalion of the Qing army, felt that there was an opportunity, so he ordered someone to send a secret letter to recruit Luo Jilong, and secretly sent a Qing army of 10,000 people to take advantage of the fog to cross the Yangtze River by boat and attack Zhenjiang City.

The Qing army suddenly attacked and almost broke through Zhenjiang City. Fortunately, Li Xiucheng was well guarded, and Luo Jilong fought bravely to repel the Qing army. However, it is precisely because of Luo Jilong's courage in battle, he took the lead in every battle, led the Taiping soldiers to rush out of the city gate to kill the Qing army, and pursued the Qing soldiers, but he accidentally fell into the ambush of the Qing army and was seriously injured.

As a result, in the entire Zhenjiang City, Li Xiucheng, who was only the general of the general system, became the chief general of the Taiping Army.

Next, the situation changed, and news came one after another, which overwhelmed Li Xiucheng.

The King of the North not only killed all the family members of the East Hall of the East Palace, but also announced in the name of the King of Heaven that the subordinates of the East Hall were the same party of the East Thief, and cut off the generals of the East Hall everywhere.

Li Xiucheng was not only heartbroken by the tragic death of the East King, but also worried about the danger brought by his identity as a general of the East Palace.

At this time, Zeng Shuiyuan, the former ministers of the East Temple of Anqing, and Fu Xuexian announced that they would lead the East Temple soldiers in the Anqing area to break away from the Kingdom of Heaven, be loyal to the King of the South, and throw themselves into the arms of the Taiping Holy Kingdom in the south. Immediately afterwards, the Wing King Shi Dakai also announced his separation from heaven in Chaoxian County and his allegiance to the King of the South; Jiujiang Mansion East Palace, the fifth left Chengxuan, Hu Dingwen also led 5,000 East Hall soldiers to take refuge in the South King; Even, Yang Fuqing, who was besieging Danyang City, also announced that he would join the Wing King Shi Dakai, in fact, he was also loyal to the King of the South.

This series of shocking news dealt a series of blows to Li Xiucheng, who was bent on serving the kingdom of heaven and was loyal.

So many elites in the East Temple, as well as so many elite Taiping soldiers, have left the Kingdom of Heaven and defected to the King of the South, which is a devastating blow to the Kingdom of Heaven. It is impossible for the King of Heaven to be indifferent, it shouldn't be the current uncontrollable appearance.

He was confused and worried about the future of Heaven.

After hearing these news, he immediately sent a letter to the Heavenly King, asking the Heavenly King to stop the Northern King from making trouble like this again, and at the same time declared the East Temple soldiers innocent and pardoned all the East Temple subordinates. But two days passed, and there was no response to the sea.

Just when Li Xiucheng was hesitant and was about to go to Tianjing to ask for clarification, a guard in the imperial forest in the palace of the Heavenly King, who claimed to be Lai Wenguang, secretly sneaked to Zhenjiang City, found Li Xiucheng, led the secret edict of the Heavenly King, and asked him to lead the troops into Beijing and be escorted by King Qin.

It turned out that Hong Xiuquan was indeed as Li Xiucheng guessed, and he was not calm about the generals of the East Hall of Heaven who led his Taiping soldiers to abandon the Kingdom of Heaven and turn to the King of the South.

When he heard Zeng Shuiyuan and Fu Xuexian announce that they would lead the Taiping soldiers of Anqing to return to the king of the south, Hong Xiuquan was angry and worried, and later, Shi Dakai, the king of wings, Hu Dingwen of Jiujiang, Yang Fuqing of Danyang and others announced their defection to the king of the south one after another, and Hong Xiuquan was completely panicked.

He sent a secret edict ordering Wei Changhui to kill Yang Xiuqing, in addition to forcing him to be sealed long live and force him to take the throne, there was also a point that he wanted to appease Feng Yunshan, the king of the south, by killing Yang Xiuqing. imagined that Feng Yunshan would be grateful to him for this and return to the embrace of heaven.

Before he could reveal this meaning to Feng Yunshan, this series of shocking things happened. Originally, he wanted to merge the entire holy kingdom into the kingdom of heaven, but he didn't expect that the pieces of territory that his kingdom had finally occupied, in the cities, and these tens of thousands of Taiping soldiers, broke away from the kingdom of heaven and took refuge in the king of the south.

Although in his concept, with the character of Feng Yunshan, the king of the south, he would be relieved a few more words, and then write a letter to persuade him personally, he should return to his embrace. But after all, he has not yet returned to Heaven. Hong Xiuquan had to think, if Feng Yunshan really stopped obeying his orders, wouldn't it be that most of his Heavenly Kingdom had already been removed?

Therefore, Hong Xiuquan was a little afraid. He never thought that killing Yang Xiuqing would make such a fuss.

Originally, he was also going to endure Wei Changhui, the king of the north, for a while, and when he suppressed the subordinates of the East Palace, and at this time, the Wing King also escaped from Tianjing City, and with the loyalty of the Wing King, he would definitely summon the Taiping soldiers to escort King Qin, and then he would have the chance to win, and there would be no danger, and then issue an order to destroy Wei Changhui.

Unexpectedly, the current situation has made him unable to wait any longer. If it drags on any longer, not only will the soldiers of the East Hall turn their backs on them, but perhaps, some other ordinary Taiping soldiers who were originally loyal to the Kingdom of Heaven will also be disappointed in themselves, and the entire Kingdom of Heaven will really fall apart completely and be destroyed.

At this point, Hong Xiuquan really regrets it. The king of the East should not be killed, even if he is put under house arrest, it is much better than killing.

Regarding the defection of the Wing King to the King of the South, Hong Xiuquan was angry and regretful. The angry thing is that the Winged King is also a white-eyed wolf, and after following him for so many years, he is still not loyal enough to himself, and he even wants to take refuge in the King of the South. regretted that in the past two years, King Yi has been suppressed by Yang Xiuqing, but he has not been able to say a word for him, so he has not been able to win him over and make him still loyal to King Nan.

But no matter what, Hong Xiuquan still wrote a few handwritten letters to Shi Dakai and Zeng Shuiyuan, entrusting a few guards around him to send them out of the city. Unexpectedly, he was captured by the patrol soldiers of the Northern King, and the secret letter was also searched.

Wei Changhui was furious.

directly beheaded Hong Xiuquan's messenger on the spot, sent the head to the Heavenly King's Mansion to warn him not counted, and personally brought another thousand soldiers from the North Hall to the gate of the Heavenly King's Mansion, knocked on the door, and asked the Heavenly King to come forward and ask the Heavenly King to explain why he fornicated with these rebellions of the Heavenly Kingdom!