Chapter 488: The Only Remaining Yang Brothers
Wei Changhui was worried that when Shi Dakai left Tianjing and returned to Hezhou, he would gather his subordinates and come to attack him. Pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info plus the many Taiping soldiers in Tianjing City are purely wait-and-see attitude, they are under the banner of the King of Heaven, these Taiping soldiers will listen to their orders, if once Shi Dakai also threatens that he is ordered by the King of Heaven, I am afraid that it will be difficult to say.
Therefore, on the one hand, Wei Changhui ordered Wei Yibang to lead his troops to chase and kill Shi Dakai, and on the other hand, he wanted to seize the time to control Tianjing City. Otherwise, once the Qing demon reacts, especially the tens of thousands of Qing soldiers in the Jiangbei battalion in Yangzhou, they are not vegetarians. Fortunately, there are still nearly 20,000 Taiping army sailors stationed on the two water surfaces of Yizheng and Guazhou, blocking the entire Yangtze River, otherwise, it is really possible that the Qing demon will take advantage of the situation to attack Tianjing City.
At this time, in addition to the Chaoyang Gate guard Jin Shu's ability to flee the soldiers, the rest of the Jubaomen, Yifengmen, Tongjimen and other Dongdian cronies and generals, after hearing that the North King in Tianjing City had killed the East King and was still searching everywhere to hunt and kill the East Palace's subordinates, they also led their soldiers to abandon the city and go to Danyang and other places to defect to the East King's brother Yang Fuqing, --- Guozong.
In this way, in the entire Tianjing City, there are only less than 20,000 Taiping soldiers. However, most of them are ordinary soldiers, the original middle and lower-level generals, all of whom are subordinate to the East King, and now they have been almost killed by the Northern King's personal soldiers, together with the city gate guards, Wei Changhui also appointed his own cronies and clansmen to serve, the purpose is naturally to completely control the ordinary Taiping soldiers in Tianjing City as soon as possible.
In order to completely wipe out the influence of the East King, and felt that he had taken control of the situation, Wei Changhui announced in public at this time that he was ordered by the Emperor of Heaven to kill the East King Yang Xiuqing and his comrades who wanted to rebel and rebel, and the traitor Yang Xiuqing had been killed, and in addition to the East rebel party in Tianjing City, more than 2,000 people were arrested and imprisoned.
Prepare for the next day in front of the Heavenly King's Mansion, and publicly execute the Eastern Rebel Party.
Therefore, the rest of the Taiping generals in Tianjing City, in order to prove that they had nothing to do with the Eastern Rebellion, had to go to the execution site in front of the Tianwang Mansion, report the crimes of the Eastern Rebellion remnants, and sign the detention to witness the execution.
Wei Changhui is ready to tie all the soldiers in Tianjing City to his chariot.
It may be that Wei Changhui thinks that he has eliminated all the dissidents, and in the entire Tianjing City, he has monopolized the power and can turn over the clouds and rain at will.
As a result, the tyrannical Wei Changhui forced Hong Xiuquan to issue an edict, not only to install his cronies and clansmen in Tianjing City to serve as officials more unscrupulously, but also to order the generals who fought outside Tianjing City to replace them with subordinates in the North Palace.
Not only that, Wei Changhui asked the Heavenly King to deliberately issue an edict, announcing that the Wing King Shi Dakai was also the Eastern Rebel Party, and also colluded with the Qing Demon to murder the Heavenly King and offer a reward for the capture of Shi Dakai.
At this time, Hong Xiuquan was distressed.
As soon as he heard Wei Changhui announce that he had killed Yang Xiuqing, he was originally happy, thinking that he could sit back and relax in the future, but for Wei Changhui, he really didn't see it as his opponent.
didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, Wei Changhui would be so crazy! This is simply an even more ferocious wolf, even more brutal than Yang Xiuqing.
Hong Xiuquan had no doubt that if he disobeyed Wei Changhui, maybe he would be killed in the Heavenly King's Mansion. Thinking that there were only 3,000 palace guards in the Heavenly King's Mansion, plus thousands of miscellaneous maids and maids, etc., it was not enough to defeat Wei Changhui, who was in the limelight, so Hong Xiuquan gave in.
Wei Changhui asked for whatever edicts, he was satisfied one by one, and sent someone out of the Heavenly King's Mansion.
Although he announced that Shi Dakai was a rebel according to Wei Changhui's intentions and offered a reward for his capture, he was looking forward to the Wing King Shi Dakai being able to escape from Tianjing City, quickly lead the troops to King Qin, kill back to Tianjing City, and protect himself.
In Tianjing City, for a while, it seemed to settle down calmly.
Outside Tianjing City, among the generals who fought abroad, they did not hand over military power to the subordinates of the Northern King who came to hand over according to Wei Changhui's wishes, nor did they follow the idea of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, after the death of the Eastern King, he was loyal to him Hong Xiuquan.
The generals who are fighting abroad are developing in a direction that they don't expect!
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Outside Danyang City, inside the Taiping Army camp.
Yang Xiuqing's younger brother, Yang Yiqing, adorned two white streamers on the top of his head, and came to see Yang Fuqing, the commander of the army, crying.
"Yiqing, what are you doing here? Get rid of the white streamers! Yang Fuqing, who was no longer the Emperor of the Kingdom, frowned and exclaimed.
Yang Yiqing said dissatisfiedly: "The king of the East made our eldest brother, he was killed by Wei Changhui's dog thief, can't we, as brothers, wear linen and filial piety?" Fuqing, although you are not a blood relative of the eldest brother, but the eldest brother has always cared for you, and you even named your own name Fuqing, don't you hate Wei Changhui and are unwilling to avenge the eldest brother? ”
Yang Fuqing sighed and said, "Who said I don't hate Wei Changhui anymore?" But what time is it? Aren't you causing trouble? Now is the most unlucky time for our Yang family, hundreds of people in our Yang family have been killed, only you and I are left with the surname Yang, don't you just give people an excuse to slaughter us again? ”
"So is it just living like this? It's better to kill in Tianjing City and find Wei Changhui to fight to the death. Yang Yiqing said, thinking about how good Yang Xiuqing was to him, and couldn't help shedding tears.
"No! Although there are many original subordinates of the Eastern King in Tianjing City, they have now been almost killed by Wei Changhui, and they must have been replaced by his cronies. The walls of Tianjing City are thick, and with more than 15,000 of us, we will definitely be sent to death. Moreover, it is not possible in the general sense, if you really do that, it will confirm the rebellion of our East Temple, and instead give Wei Changhui an excuse. Yang Fuqing sighed and continued: "The only way to do this now is to conquer Danyang City first, and then there will be a place to stay; Second, by the way, wait, waiting for the time when the king of heaven will come forward. The king of heaven can't just let Wei Changhui make trouble, he won't care! ”
"Heavenly King?" Yang Yiqing became excited, jumped up and scolded: "Hundreds of members of our Yang family were slaughtered, and the eldest brother died tragically, aren't they all the instigations of the Heavenly King?" This old thief is more insidious and worse than Wei Changhui! ”
"Yiqing, be quiet, beware of the wall with ears!" Yang Fuqing's face changed, and he shouted repeatedly.
"Afraid of what? It's a big deal, the two of us surnamed Yang will also be killed together! Yang Yiqing was full of anger: "Isn't it the secret edict of the Heavenly King who slaughtered our Yang family with blood?" Without the permission of the Heavenly King, Wei Changhui did not dare to lead troops into the city and kill the East Palace! ”
Yang Fuqing sighed heavily again, he couldn't even convince himself, he actually knew very well that most of the Heavenly King's secret edict to kill the East King was true.
Because of this, he didn't know where to go!
At this moment, there was a report from a soldier outside the camp tent: "Guozong, an urgent edict has come from Tianjing. ”
Yang Fuqing and Yang Yiqing glanced at each other, and they both felt a sense of solemnity.
took the edict, and when I looked at it, it was really nothing good: he ordered the two of them to return to Tianjing first, and later the Taiping army in Danyang was taken over by Guozong Wei Zhitai.
Yang Fuqing smiled bitterly: "It's still here!" Wei Changhui is really ruthless, there are only two of us left in the Yang family, and we won't let it go. ”
Yang Yiqing said loudly: "Brother, we are against him!" If you really return to Tianjing according to this edict, you will definitely die! ”
Yang Fuqing's face trembled, and he said with a sad face: "This is exactly Wei Changhui's purpose!" He just wants to force us to rebel, so that he will have more excuses to not kill the wrong Dongwang Mansion! Whether it's anti or not, we're all a dead end! ”
"No, Hui Tianjing will naturally be arrested and killed, this edict is issued by the King of Heaven, he will definitely not save us. On the contrary, we have so few soldiers that we will not be able to attack Tianjing at all, and there will be no supplies, as long as Tianjing cuts off our food and grass, we will starve to death for a few months at most. ”
Yang Yiqing also cried: "So, the left and right have to die?" ”
When the two of them were at a loss, outside the camp tent, the soldiers knocked on the wooden door of the camp tent and reported: "Guozong, the sergeant patrolling outside the camp has picked up two letters!" ”
Yang Fuqing took the letter, and when the soldiers came out of the camp, he carefully tore open the two envelopes, and picked them out to see that the first one was written by Xiang Rong, the Qing Demon Lord in Danyang City.
Yang Yiqing also squeezed forward to take a look, it turned out that Xiang Rong learned about the chaos in Tianjing, knew that Yang Fuqing and Yang Yiqing's entire army was killed by Wei Changhui, and they lost their backer Yang Xiuqing, so they surrendered to the two of them.
Xiang Rong promised to protect Yang Fuqing as the Taoist platform and Yang Yiqing as the prefect to the Qing court, on the condition that the two of them lead the Taiping defenders besieging Danyang to surrender to the imperial court.
Seeing this, Yang Yiqing couldn't help but feel a little moved, but because he had been fighting with Qing demons all year round, he was embarrassed to say it.
Yang Fuqing glanced at Yang Yiqing, shook his head and said, "Yiqing, if the East King has a spirit in the sky, he will never allow our brother to take refuge in the Qing Demon." Moreover, we killed so many Qing demons, and they were willing to let us go? It must be a lie, don't bother with it! ”
As soon as Yang Yiqing heard this, his heart also settled, and he nodded and said, "What my brother said is true!" You can't kill the demon! It's really not good, it's better to fight to the death with the Qing demon, and it won't be a shame for Dongwang and the Yang family. ”