"Master Jun, Master Jun, please, please, my family of eight has just such a little life-saving food, you can be kind to us to stay, let us stay! The grass people kowtow to you, the grass people kowtow to you! ”

Kneeling and holding the leg of a Taiping soldier, the white-haired old man cried so dark that he died and came back to life, but he still couldn't move the Taiping soldier who was holding a grain bag in his hand, and he was annoyed by the old man's entanglement, and the Taiping soldier kicked the old man over and scolded: "Get out!" Lao Tzu came to kill the demons and save the people, what are you howling when you order food? ”

"Master Jun, please, that's my family's last food!"

The old man still refused to give up, crawling on the ground and still holding on to the feet of the Taiping soldier, and the old man's young grandchildren also cried together, but in exchange, it was the Taiping soldier who stabbed the old man directly in the vest, the old man screamed and died, and his eldest grandson, a boy who was only eleven or twelve years old, also cried and pounced on the Taiping soldier, "Long hair, return my grandfather's life!" ”

"Bang", the gun went off, the half-grown boy also lay in a pool of blood, the Taiping soldiers kicked away the two corpses and strode away, leaving the old man's wife and a few poor children crying bitterly in the dilapidated courtyard, grief-stricken. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and similar scenes are everywhere in this village, and they can also be seen everywhere in the south of Zunhua Prefecture, Zhili......

Scrape the ground! A real scrape! In order to collect the grain and grass needed for the war, the partial division of the Taiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Army robbed all the grain that could be grabbed, and did not consider the people's life and death to collect grain and grab grain. In addition, the current military discipline of the Taiping Army is far worse than at the beginning, and during this period, there were still cruel atrocities of ** women and indiscriminate killing of innocents, which harmed the innocent people of Zhili, and more completely forced the entire Han people of Zhili to the side of the Qing army.

Even if such a ruthless hand did not have much effect, with the change of climate and environment, the financial money and grain of Zhili Hebei has long been not as rich as in the Han and Tang dynasties, it was already poor, and the Qing army relied on the mobile advantage of the cavalry and the bureaucratic system that could barely maintain the operation, and preemptively notified the people to leave and flee with food, so the food that the Taiping army could steal was not to be said to be supplied to the main battlefield in Tianjin, but self-sufficiency can only be said to be barely maintained.

The capture of Baodi, Fengrun and Yutian counties has become the last hope of the Taiping army's partial division, but when attacking Fengrun County according to the original plan, the Taiping army's partial division encountered more crazy and stubborn resistance than on the battlefield of Tianjin, when the Qing army in the city was scarce, the people in the city spontaneously walked to the city to participate in the defense of the city, using stones, wooden sticks, fists and teeth to resist the Taiping army's muskets and artillery, including women and children.

The Taiping army's tunnel blasting tactics blew down the Fengrun city wall again, but before the Taiping soldiers could cheer for victory, the people in the city had already rushed to the gap with sandbags to remedy, and at the same time, the granary in the city was also immediately ignited, the smoke rose to the sky, and the killing sound was like thunder, which demonstrated the determination of the Fengrun people to live and die with the city, and also demonstrated the firm determination of the Fengrun officers and soldiers to die and not leave a single grain for the Taiping army.

The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. The city of three miles, the Guo of seven miles, the ring and attack it without victory. It is still invincible to get the right time and place, but the time and place are not as good as the people's hearts. The united Fengrun army and civilians finally created a miracle, miraculously withstood the attack of the Taiping army, blocked the gap in the city wall, and completely shattered all the hopes of the Taiping army to seize the food in the city, forcing the Taiping army to abandon the siege of the city - what to fight when the food is burned? Is it a waste of bullets and gunpowder that cannot be replenished?

The Fengrun army and civilians not only kept the city, completely crushed the Taiping army's hope of seizing food, but also completely shattered the Taiping army's confidence in victory, so that Zeng Lichang and Wei Jun had to consider such a question - what if Yutian and Baodi were also like this?

At this time, the Qing army's surrender envoy also secretly came to Wei Jun's army, put the official letter and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry in front of Wei Jun, and once again persuaded Wei Jun, who had been listed as a key surrender target by the Manchu court a year ago, to defect anyway.

The official document still took advantage of the deep blood feud between Wei Jun and Wu Chaoyue to instigate Wei Jun's rebellion, and promised to give Wei Jun the opportunity to execute Wu Chaoyue's family in the future, and at the same time, the official document also clearly told Wei Jun that he already knew about Yang Yuanqing's death order to Wei Jun, pointing out that if Wei Jun did not make a decision earlier, he would inevitably be able to escape Yang Yuanqing's poisonous hands! And this time, Wei Jun did not take down the Qing army envoy and present it to Yang Yuanqing, but quietly sent the Qing army envoy away, asking the official document to give him a few more days to think about it......

At the same time, the main force of the Taiping army also fell into despair under the city of Tianjin, and launched four large-scale sieges successively, but the result was that each time it was defeated by the Tianjin army and civilians who were united in the same heart, and the Qing army in Tianjin, which had won consecutive battles, became more and more united, and the more they fought, the more morale was high, but the Taiping army was more demoralized the more they fought, and the more internal contradictions were exposed, the generals were centrifuged, suspicious of each other, and the quarrels continued, which really showed the signs of defeat.

Fortunately for the worried Shi Dakai, when the main force of the Taiping Army still had the strength to fight, Yang Yuanqing, who had completely lost confidence in breaking through Tianjin, finally made a wise choice, adopted the suggestion of Yang Fuqing of the same sect, and decided to leave an army to defend the already scarred fleet of steam gunboats, and personally led the main force of the land division to the north, desperately launching an attack on the capital.

Hearing Yang Yuanqing's decision, Shi Dakai, who no longer knew how many fights he had quarreled with Yang Yuanqing for this matter, was relieved, and his face, which had been gloomy for many days, finally showed a little relieved smile, and decided that he could keep the last hope for the success of the Northern Expedition. However, what Shi Dakai never expected was that the Qing army in Zhili was actually waiting for this day, waiting for the separation of land and water of the Taiping army. So......

Therefore, when Yang Yuanqing and Shi Dakai led the main force of the Taiping Army to Langfang and prepared to storm the capital in one go, bad news suddenly came from the rear - the main force of the Tsarist Far East Fleet and the Qing Army Naval Division led by Wu Quanmei suddenly appeared at the mouth of the Haihe River and launched a frantic attack on the Taiping Army Naval Division, which was already greatly injured.

"I said I couldn't go straight to the capital! And now sure enough! Really! ”

As if he was really prescient and roared, Yang Yuanqing yelled and ordered the whole army to return to Dagukou, but Shi Dakai immediately made a decision and immediately shouted: "I can't go back!" Tell the sailor fleet to break through to the south, and tell Zeng Yu, who is guarding the Dagu pass, to break through and go north, and join forces with us to fight the capital! At this time, we have no possibility of turning back, so we can only break the cauldron and go straight to the demon capital! ”

At the critical moment when it was necessary to break the kettle, the command of the Taiping Army happened to be in the hands of a rookie, ignoring Shi Dakai's correct advice, Yang Yuanqing still insisted on asking to return to the army to rescue Dagukou. Shi Dakai objected again and again, and Yang Yuanqing once again showed Yang Xiuqing's golden saber, clearly telling Shi Dakai that if he didn't listen to his orders, he would execute Shi Dakai on behalf of Yang Xiuqing!

The thunderous Shi Dakai was held down by Zeng Jinqian and Zhang Suimou, and the main force of the Taiping Army also hurriedly turned around and went south under the pressure of Yang Yuanqing, but unfortunately, when the main force of the Taiping Army hurriedly withdrew to Dagukou, the steam fleet of the Taiping Army had been wiped out, and the flagship Zhendemon and two iron-hulled steamships were also captured by the Tsarist fleet, and at the same time, the Taiping Army Zeng Yuxiu Department on land was also heavily damaged by the Qing Army in Tianjin.

The mad Yang Yuanqing personally hacked to death Zeng Yuxiu, the thirteenth person of the Taiping Army when Yong'an was established, and launched a fierce attack on the Qing army in Tianjin, but unfortunately, under the cover of the artillery fire of the Tsarist Russian fleet and Wu Quan's American army, the Taiping army's attack was defeated, many important generals were killed, and morale completely fell into a trough.

After the news reached Wei Jun's army, he was already shaken Wei Jun did not hesitate, and immediately rebelled and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and raised a butcher's knife against the friendly army Zeng Lichang, but Zeng Lichang was lucky to notice and prepare in advance, and was not defeated by Wei Jun's sudden sneak attack, but he still couldn't parry the main force of the Qing cavalry led by Wei Junjun and Shengbao, and was forced to break through and go south to find the main force to meet.

The entire army of the Navy Division was annihilated, Wei Jun rebelled, and the situation on the battlefield of Zhili was completely reversed. However, by this time, the weakness of the Taiping army's machine power, which was far inferior to that of the Qing cavalry, was also infinitely magnified.

Even the little girl Feng Wanzhen thought that the Qing army needed to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and the Manchu court and the Qing army commander Guan Wen would certainly not let the main force of the Taiping army flee back to Lunan to regain its strength, under the command of Guan Wen, the main force of the Qing army under the Shengbao Department almost effortlessly caught up with the main force of the Taiping army, and was not in a hurry to fight with the Taiping army, but desperately harassed and delayed, buying time for the pursuit of the main infantry force, forcing Yang Yuanqing to order to abandon the unnecessary baggage and go south at full speed, but even so, But he still couldn't outrun the four legs of the Qing cavalry.

In the rush to flee, Li Shixian's division of the Taiping Army, which was the poorest equipped, was first defeated by the cavalry of the Qing army, and the Shi Dakai army, whose quality of soldiers had seriously declined, also deserted, and countless people surrendered. Although Yang Yuanqing's main force was relatively cohesive and well-equipped, it suffered from the fact that it was all infantry, and the speed could not be improved at all. The more than 50,000 troops at the time of departure from Dagukou had just fled to Dezhou, on the border between Zhili and Shandong, and there were less than 30,000 left.

In Dezhou, the defeated army of the Taiping army was intercepted by the most tenacious blockade, the old fox Luo Bingzhang while seizing the south bank of the New Yellow River into the sea of the Qing River was tightly fortified, while mobilizing all the Qing troops and regiments in northern Shandong that could be mobilized to fight a blocking battle in Dezhou, as a result, after a hard battle, although the Taiping army successfully defeated the Qing army in Dezhou, but wasted a precious day, giving the Shandong New Army the opportunity to seize the front of the own army. And the bad thing is that the Taiping army ran out of food.

"We can't go further south, we have run out of food, the villages and towns in the south must have been cleared by Luo Bingzhang's old Qing Demon, and the Shandong Qing Demon has rushed ahead of us again, and it will definitely be a dead end for us to continue to go south. He could only go southwest, plunder grain and grass along the way to provide for himself, go to the Daimyo's Mansion to meet Chen Yucheng, and then find a way to retreat east to Yanzhou. ”

This is the conclusion that Shi Dakai came to after the war in Texas, but Yang Yuanqing was still a little hesitant, but Shi Dakai finally vented the anger that had been hidden in his heart for many days, and shouted: "If you want to go south directly to find death, I won't stop you!" I myself went southwest with the army! After that, we went our separate ways, and there was no more contact! ”

Li Kaifang, Yang Fuqing and others also firmly stood on Shi Dakai's side, forced to helplessly, Yang Yuanqing could only reluctantly nod, agreed to reroute to the southwest, retreat to the east and west of Shandong, which had not been affected by the war before, snatch the poor food in the hands of the people, and retreat to Yanzhou in a roundabout way.

But it's still a pity that Shi Dakai's hand was also expected in advance by the two old foxes of Guanwen and Luo Bingzhang, and he mobilized the Qing army and landlord regiments in the south of Zhili early to prepare for the war, not seeking to annihilate the defeated army of the Taiping Army in one fell swoop, but only to completely drag the Taiping Army down and drag it across.

At the same time, the Tsarist side of Russia has also officially informed Britain, the United States, France and other Western powers, making it clear that it will enter China's Yangtze River inland river operations, promising never to infringe on the interests of Britain, the United States, France and other countries in China's Yangtze River Valley, and demanding that Western countries remain neutral in the war between the Tsarist Russian army and the Taiping army and the Wu army!