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It's already night, Xianfeng is still reading the folds, and the pen is drawing dots on the folds from time to time, which is very diligent.

Yes, Xianfeng had an irrepressible excitement in his heart.

After more than a year of humiliation, this time, we are finally going to win a big battle!

More than half a month ago, both Seng Lingqin and Shengbao reported to him a great victory. One of the long-haired thief chieftains, the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Qin Rigang, the puppet king of Yan, was nearly 50,000 people (Shengbao falsely reported more than 10,000 more), and was led by Seng Lingqin and Shengbao to first break through the left wing of the thief soldiers, and wiped out more than 5,000 thief soldiers, and even the thief chief Ji Wenyuan, who led the left wing, was also killed, and the head had been salted with lime and sent to the Beijing Division.

A few days ago, Xianfeng also placed the head of the thief chief in the Taimiao, worshiped the ancestors and ancestors, and comforted the first emperor of his Xianfeng's ability. He also let all the ministers of the DPRK and China visit it.

If it weren't for the fact that the man's head was too coarsely pickled, it was really disgusting, and Xianfeng even thought about making a wine jug out of it. In the end, it was Xingzhen who persuaded him, and he handed over Ji Wenyuan's head to the imperial guard Su Shun, and asked him to establish a "Jingguan" made of human heads for people to admire. And this thief chieftain surnamed Ji became the first person at the bottom.

He wants to let the rebel mob know the fate of rebellion!

This afternoon, he received another report from the monk Greenqin that he and Shengbao had compressed the long-haired thief army in Jinghai City. Although due to the severe cold, the water was almost splashed into ice, so that the long-haired thief soldiers who were cowering in the city barely held the Jinghai, but seeing that the combat power of the thieves slowly decreased, it would not be long before they could be wiped out.

Xianfeng also saw that the monk Lingqin mentioned that he had almost broken through Jinghai City several times, if it weren't for the thieves who were not afraid of death, I am afraid that the head of the thief chief Qin Rigang would have been sacrificed by now.

However, in the past two days, Seng Lingqin and Shengbao discovered that the thieves in the city had run out of gunpowder and even had insufficient food, so they began to peel the bark of trees in the city and eat them. I believe that there is no need to wait for the beginning of spring, and the long-haired thieves in Jinghai City can fight down.

Raised his head and rubbed his eyes, thinking about looking at a few more folds, so he went to pamper Xingzhen, Xianfeng picked up a book again, opened it and looked at it, but it was the Heilongjiang general Yinglong and the Jilin general Jingchun jointly played, and there was a leader named Neviskoy in Russia in the north, who led a Russian army of hundreds of people to break into the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and establish a Nikolaevsk post on the shore of the estuary.

Not only that, this Russian general named Neviskoy also led people to hire Cossacks from Russia to open up the wasteland here, carried out Cossack military migration to the left bank of the Heilongjiang River, and wanted to gradually occupy it, and also renamed the Heilongjiang River to the Amur River, and renamed Sakhalin Island in the Qing Dynasty, declaring that these were all Russian territories.

Moreover, the areas to be discussed as defined in the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu were occupied along the Udi River. Because of the dispute with Russia, Jing Chun and Yinglong did not dare to start a war without authorization, and made their own opinions, so they reported to the imperial court.

Syllable!

Xianfeng is furious! Emperor Shengzu's men were defeated, and the Russians dared to break the contract and provoke again. Hundreds of people came to invade the land where the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty arose.

What he didn't know was that as early as two years ago, shortly after he ascended the throne, the new Ili general Yishan and the counselor minister Buyantai signed the "Sino-Russian Ili Tarbagatai Trade Charter" with Russia in Ili, Xinjiang, allowing Russia to continue to encroach on Xinjiang's lands.

Today's Manchu is no longer the Manchu Qing of 170 years ago; Today's Russia is not the Russia of 170 years ago.

Xianfeng looked back, and his anger was even greater!

Yinglong and Jingchun, two Qing generals from Yipin, actually reported that they had sent 2,000 banner soldiers to expel the 500 Russian soldiers led by Neviskoy, but unexpectedly, they were defeated by the Russian troops with sharp muskets. Therefore, the two of them reported to Xianfeng and applied for another 1,000 musketeers from Shengjing to be sent to support.

Useless stuff! Xianfeng scolded secretly. Two thousand eight banner soldiers, they couldn't even beat the other party's 500 people, they ended up in a fiasco, and they still had the face to ask for help!

The banner soldiers of Shengjing are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the banner soldiers of the important land of Beijing, it is Shengjing that is the most important. However, think about it, the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, Heilongjiang cannot be taken away by Russia. Xianfeng had no choice but to hold back his anger, and agreed to send a thousand musketeers from Shengjing to help expel the Russian soldiers who had broken into the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

After the matter in the north, Xianfeng picked up another excerpt, but it was the excerpt played by Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian, and Xianfeng didn't know how many times he had urgently called for help.

Xianfeng was even more out of mood, and immediately turned gloomy, and threw Wang Yide's book to the ground.

It's not that he doesn't want to save, it's that there are really no soldiers to send. In the north, this is almost to the boundary of the Jingshi, if you don't send heavy troops to resist, how can you clean it up? In the south, the entire Yangtze River was plundered by long-haired thieves, Anqing, Nanchang, and Jiujiang were captured, fortunately, the Jiangbei camp recently conquered Yangzhou, otherwise, if Yangzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang and Zhejiang, which are heavy on grain and taxes, were seized by long-haired, the Qing Dynasty would really be over!

In this case, needless to say, Xianfeng could only grit his teeth and give up Fujian, who only had tea endowment. But this Wang Yide, who doesn't know what to do, has come to ask for help three or four times, and he is not worried about me at all. For now, it's up to you, and I'm really out of armies. Moreover, there is no salary for the soldiers.

The current plan is to first open up the waterway of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to ensure that the grain and tax silver in Jiangsu and Zhejiang can be transported to Beijing.

Xianfeng had a plan in his heart, and after exterminating Jinghai, the long-haired thief army, he sent Shengbao to quickly go south, defend Yangzhou and Zhenjiang, and unite the two camps in Jiangbei and Jiangnan to recover Jiangning City.

It's just that, before that, other places, such as Fujian, can only give up for the time being.

Internal and external troubles, north and south, Xianfeng's joy of besieging Jinghai just after receiving the report was wiped out by these two reports.

Now, Xianfeng can only hope that the thieves in Jinghai will be exterminated as soon as possible, and there will be a great victory that will invigorate the Qing Dynasty and sensational the imperial court!

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Inside Jinghai City, Tianjin Prefecture.

Qin Rigang locked himself in the "Yanwang Mansion" with some despair.

Of course, the so-called "Yanwang Mansion" is only the lobby of the Jinghai County Ya, plus a partial room, and the rest of the rooms are arranged for the Taiping soldiers for dozens of people. Since he was named King of Yan, the situation of the Northern Expeditionary Army led by him has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and now it is besieged in this small county town.

Jinghai City is small, there are not many dwellings in the city, now the weather is cold, but there is a shortage of cotton clothes, and there are only more than 10,000 cotton jackets in the Taiping army.

As for the quilts of the people in the city, they are even more sought-after, and they have been requisitioned by the Taiping army early. In the men's hall, hundreds of people huddled together and shivered, they had no quilt to cover, they could only bake the fire all night, but the beams and door panels that could be removed were removed and chopped into the fire, and in a few days, even the fire had not been baked, but they were afraid that they would freeze to death at night.

In the past few days, people in both the men's and women's halls have begun to starve to death and freeze to death, and the rest of those who are not dead are also hungry and have no strength, and they don't even have the strength to think about escaping.

Qin Rigang was also a little chilled. He felt chills even though he was lit by firewood taken from the wooden cabinets of the people's houses.

More than 35,000 soldiers of the Taiping Army were besieged for more than a month, and after more than ten battles with the Qing demons, only more than 3,000 or 4,000 people were killed and wounded. But in the past few days, the number of Taiping soldiers who have frozen to death and frostbite has reached 3,000.

Qin Rigang never thought that the heroic old brothers of Guangxi did not die on the battlefield with the Qing Demon, but died in the cold in their sleep. He thought with some despair, would Tianjing not send reinforcements at all? So what's the point of holding on to yourself and a cadre of soldiers in Jinghai City? (To be continued.) )