On the same day, in order to sit firmly on the country, Hong Xiuquan ordered the name of the country to be changed from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the "Kingdom of God", believing that in this way he could further obtain God's protection. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It's just that the Taiping soldiers in the city and the guards of the city tower didn't buy it and complained.

Two days later, one night, upstairs at Jubaomen.

Looking at the capture army that began to erect cannons and artillery on the Yuhuatai outside the city, Zhang Lichao, the imperial forest guard in charge of guarding the Jubaomen, shook his head and sighed: "Long live is not the long live of the previous two years!" He thought that by changing the name of the country, he would be able to defend the city steadily, no wonder he no longer paid attention to us holy soldiers! ”

The Taiping soldiers surrounding him were silent, and they all knew in their hearts that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not last long.

"Hugh has to say hooray behind his back!" Suddenly, there was a burst of drinking, but Li Xiucheng, who was patrolling here, heard Zhang Lichao's complaint and hurriedly shouted.

"It turned out to be Deputy Commander Li! I've seen it! Zhang Lichao bowed his hand, not thinking at all, and retorted: "Deputy Li is in charge, and the brothers are guarding the city, should they have enough food to have their strength?" But now? How can you eat three porridge meals a day? ”

Li Xiucheng said: "This is also something that can't be helped!" The Heavenly King has decreed that from today onwards, all the people in Tianjing City will only have one porridge meal a day, and the other one will be fed on 'sweet dew'. The brothers had already calculated it, and the king himself began to eat 'sweet dew' for food. ”

Then, Li Xiucheng took out a wild vegetable dumpling from his pocket behind him, took a bite of it, and said, "This is 'sweet dew'." Even the king of heaven eats this, and my brothers also eat this, the purpose is to save more rice and grain, and give the brothers porridge to drink, so that they can have the strength to fight! ”

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Lichao heard this, not only did he not appreciate it, but said with a smile: "Deputy Li is in charge, how many days can this last?" Without food, it is impossible to hold Tianjing! ”

Li Xiucheng was silent. Naturally, he also knew, but now he can't change food.

Zhang Lichao didn't say anything more. He already knew in his heart that today's generals and generals of the kingdom were just accompanying the king to play his dream of heaven, and in a few days, when the dream woke up, everything would be liberated.

At this moment, a trumpet sounded outside the city, and a kite, carrying a letter, fell into the city. Li Xiucheng ordered someone to pick up the kite and take down the letter to look at it, but it was the captive army outside the city who began to issue an ultimatum, warning the defenders in the city that there was only one last day, and in another day, they would attack the city.

In the letter, in the tone of the old brothers in Guangxi, he persuaded the Taiping army in Tianjing City to open the city gate and surrender as soon as possible to avoid the flames of war. After reading it, Li Xiucheng was silent, and tore the letter to shreds with a black face.

Li Xiucheng continued to patrol the city, comforting the guards and Taiping soldiers at the city gates all the way, worrying all the way, the situation was not optimistic! The Taiping soldiers defending the city had no will to fight at all, and in the face of the begging army that also came out of the Taiping soldiers, there was no comparison at all. Li Xiucheng walked to the Yifeng Gate worriedly, it was already the hour.

He yawned, and was about to step up his efforts to finish patrolling the nearby Jinchuan Gate and Shence Gate, and then went down to the castle tower to rest. Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers from the east. Immediately afterwards, there was a rumbling footsteps, like ten thousand horses galloping.

At this time, a Taiping soldier under the city rushed to him and reported to him: "Oh no, the deputy commander, the army outside the city has entered the city from the Shence Gate!" ”

"What?" Li Xiucheng was stunned! He grabbed the soldier and roared, "How did they get into the city?" ”

"It was the guard of the Shence Gate, who was reversed by the Marquis of Xingguo, and opened the city gate to let them into the city."

"Damn Chen Chengying!" Li Xiucheng overthrew the messenger, and he was completely sleepy, so he ordered two guards to hurry up and notify the Taiping soldiers stationed in the city to come and intercept him, and he himself immediately led the rest of the guards and ran towards the Shence Gate.

As soon as I passed the Jinchuan Gate, I heard a tidal wave of killing shouts coming from the east of the city, and the entire northeast corner of Tianjing City had been lit by a torch, and the figure was shaking.

At first glance, Li Xiucheng knew that at least five or six thousand people had entered the city of the Southern King's captive army outside the city. There is nothing to do, and now, I can only rush to the Heavenly King's Mansion to save the Heavenly King from Tianjing City!

So, he hurriedly turned around and ran towards the Heavenly King's Mansion in the center of the city!

And behind him, a shout suddenly sounded: "It's Li Xiucheng!" Brothers, let me go forward and capture Li Xiucheng alive! ”

The person who shouted was Chen Chengying, who led the troops to Zhenjiang a while ago.

It turned out that Chen Chengying had already received a secret letter from his nephew Chen Yucheng, saying that the Holy King had promised that as long as he led his soldiers to surrender to the Holy King, he would not be to blame for the past, and he could still receive the Holy King's reuse.

Chen Chengying was overjoyed and kept looking for opportunities. He knew that the king of heaven was not at ease with him, and he had been sending people to supervise him, so he kept quiet and showed more loyalty to the king. At the same time, he quietly installed his cronies as guards in the Shence Gate.

Finally, the opportunity came, and he was appointed by the Heavenly King as the former army commander, and led the troops to Zhenjiang together with Hong Renda. But unexpectedly, not long after the troops left Tianjing City, the King of Heaven fell ill again, Hong Renda was called back to Tianjing, and the entire front army of thousands of people had his unified command, so under his slight arrangement, the commanders and brigade commanders at all levels under his command agreed to follow him to the King of the South. So, not far from Yanziji, they defected to the Fifth Division of the Capture Army, which was rushing to Tianjing City.

Immediately afterwards, he made an agreement with the guards of the Shence Gate to dedicate the city tonight. The Taiping soldiers in the city were already disappointed in the Kingdom of Heaven, and the King of the South outside the city was originally the backbone of the Kingdom of Heaven, so everyone had a strong sense of identity with it, so it was natural that the Taiping soldiers defending the city surrendered one after another.

There was a shout of killing in Tianjing City, but in the Golden Dragon Hall of Tianjing Mansion, there were gloomy clouds.

When Li Xiucheng rushed to the Tianwang Mansion, the entire Tianwang Mansion was already brightly lit, and in the Golden Dragon Palace, Meng Deen, Xu Zongyang, Lin Shaozhang, Hong Renfa, Hong Renda, Hong Xuanjiao and others were already serving beside Hong Xiu's body.

"Long live, the army of the Southern King has entered the Tianjing City!" Li Xiucheng cried with a sad face, and rushed to Hong Xiuquan's side and said.

Hong Xiuquan closed his eyes, and the old god was saying, "Impossible!" My country is as stable as a mountain, and my Tianjing weighs like a thousand catties, how can it be broken? Besides, Heavenly Father is bless me! Even if I sleep every day, I can be a king, and I can sit steadily. Don't bother me! ”

Xu Zongyang waved his hand at Li Xiucheng: "Deputy leader, it's useless." Long live the sickness again! No matter what he says, he won't listen! ”

"No! Can't watch Banzai go on like this! Brothers, if you believe in Xiucheng, listen to me. Come on, long live the back, we take advantage of the fact that the enemy army has not occupied the entire Tianjing City, and break through from the Jubaomen in the south of the city! Li Xiucheng shouted suddenly.

But no one paid any attention to him!

Li Xiucheng was in a hurry and said, "You, why don't you move?" Don't want to break through? ”

Xu Zongyang coughed twice and said, "The outside of the city has been surrounded by the captive army, how can I escape?" It's better to keep long live, and live and die with long live! ”

Before his words fell, several guards of the Heavenly King's Mansion came in to report: "Long live, the Tongji Gate in the south of Tianjing City and the Taiping Gate in the east of the city, the Taiping soldiers guarding the city gate have all surrendered to the enemy and sacrificed the city gate, and tens of thousands of southern thieves and enemy troops have entered Tianjing City." I've already killed the Heavenly King's Mansion, long live, prepare early! ”

Hearing such a report from the palace guards, Hong Xiuquan finally opened his eyes and said expressionlessly: "Placing sacrifices, I want to worship the Heavenly Father, pray to the Heavenly Father, and beg his old man to give me a retreat!" As long as his old man makes a move, these southern thieves are not to be feared! ”

Xu Zongyang and Lin Shaozhang looked at each other, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

And Meng Deen finally couldn't help it, and said, "Hurray, let's break through first!" Tianjing City has been broken, and the southern thieves have already entered the city! ”

Li Xiucheng roared even more eagerly: "Long live, Your Majesty begs you to wake up, wake up!" Tianjing City has been occupied by the King of the South! If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave! Quick, break out with the ministers! ”

Hong Xiuquan closed his eyes again: "I won't leave!" You have to go, you go! This heavenly capital is mine, this heavenly palace is also mine, I have the favor of my heavenly father, and no one can take away my country! ”

Saying that, Hong Xiuquan actually read the verse he had made: "The king of heaven descends to Allah, why bother and dare to fly!" ”

Everyone couldn't laugh bitterly, Li Xiucheng knelt in front of Hong Xiuquan, his forehead was bloody, Meng Deen couldn't look at it, and stepped forward to persuade: "Brother Xiucheng, don't persuade me!" The King of Heaven is reluctant to leave this Heavenly King's Mansion and is unwilling to leave! It's useless to persuade you, I'll wait for you to be a courtier, and accompany the king to the national disaster! ”

Li Xiucheng was helpless, nodded, and said: "In this case, we will go to the national disaster together!" ”