And just when Xianfeng was worried, what he was most worried about happened!

At the beginning of July, Qin Rigang, the Yan King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led more than 20,000 soldiers of the Northern Expedition of the former Taiping Army, defeated thousands of Eight Banner soldiers of Sa Bing'a, the deputy capital of Jinzhou, and Torunbu, the deputy capital of Xiongyue, who went to besiege them, and successively occupied Xiongyue, Gaizhou, Haicheng and Liaoyang City, absorbing a large number of Han refugees and slaves, and the strength of the army suddenly increased to nearly 50,000. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Shengjing's general Yixing was greatly frightened, and regrouped his forces to defend within fifty miles of Shengjing City, and did not dare to send troops to encircle and suppress before the reinforcements arrived.

This made Qin Rigang's Taiping army even more unimpeded, sweeping all the way from Liaoyang to the northwest to sweep the Huangzhuang along the way, seizing a large amount of grain, and rescuing and sweeping thousands of Han slaves into the army, with a strength of nearly 60,000 troops.

Qin Rigang saw that Fengtianfu outside Shengjing City was heavily defended, and knew that Shengjing City, as the accompanying capital of the Qing Demon, was absolutely heavily garrisoned, so Qin Rigang decided to lead the Taiping army to continue to sweep the various imperial villages outside Shengjing City.

At this moment, an astonishing news came, which surprised Qin Rigang.

It turned out that as early as a year ago, in the area of the Horqin Left Wing Rear Banner of the Zhelimu League in eastern Mongolia, which is close to Fengtianfu, thousands of Mongolian and Han tenants gathered to resist rent.

The resistance tenants who had been pacified by the Qing demons, and then the Taiping army attacked Fengtianfu, and when the Qing army shrank its forces back to Shengjing, it began to rise again.

The Beziderek Seren of the right banner of the Zhuo Suotu League, drew the flag as a soldier in order to fight south. Because of the tension of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's troops, the Mongolian bannermen were seriously extracted, and more than half of the Mongolian bannermen in the Bazhijian area of the Tumut Right Banner were extracted, and the forced conscription was poor, resulting in the extinction of the Mongolian bannermen in the Bazhijian area, and the abject poverty was like washing.

The banner people of Bazhijian had no way to ask for help, and it happened that the Qing army suddenly transferred a lot of troops, so the herdsman Futai gathered hundreds of bannermen, launched a riot, slashed and killed the armor and banner soldiers sent to collect taxes and draw ding, and occupied the Bazhijian area.

With the leadership of this rebellion, the Zhuosuotu League and the Zhelimu League in western Liaoning broke out one after another Mongolian banner people and Han slave uprisings, with a huge momentum, and thousands of people captured the Xinmin Hall area of Fengtianfu.

In the rear banner of the left wing of Horqin of the Zhelimu League, there was also an anti-rent uprising led by two Han people, Meng Yuling and Huo Yi, mainly Han tenants and slaves, and a small number of Mongolian banner people rebelled more than 2,000 people, captured the front banner of the left wing of Horqin, and entered the border of Tieling County, Fengtianfu.

Qin Rigang was overjoyed. While sending people to contact the Xinmin Hall and the rebel army in the area of Tieling County, he hurriedly sent his second brother Qin Rinan to lead tens of thousands of Taiping troops to attack the Xinmin Hall and the north of Jinzhou Mansion, completely cutting off the connection between Fengtian Mansion and the area around Jingshi Zhili.

At the same time, Qin Rigang led the remaining 40,000 Taiping troops, like a snowball, all the way to the periphery of Fengtianfu, all the way to attack the emperor's villages and villages, all the way to recruit soldiers, and rob food and soldiers.

The strength of the Taiping army of the Qin Rigang Department increased greatly, reaching 50,000 men, and it was further approaching the Shengjing City fifty miles.

Because the Taiping army was too strong, the timid Shengjing general Yixing continued to gather his troops, and in the face of Qin Rigang's pressing step by step, he retreated step by step, and finally relied on the city.

But Qin Rigang was not satisfied, and united with the Xinmin Hall Righteous Army and the Tieling Righteous Army, and directly led the troops to rush into Shengjing City within ten miles, attacking Shuangzhou Castle and Puhe City in the north of Shengjing City.

The Eight Banners guarding the town were timid and fearful of battle, and fled to Shengjing City as soon as the battle began. Both castles were soon occupied by the Taipings.

The Qing army was helpless, and the Shengjing general Yixing was afraid of being impeached by the imperial history, so he led 3,000 horse banner soldiers and 14,000 foot banner soldiers to meet the Taiping army.

Qin Rigang sent several brothers and cronies to lead thousands of Taiping troops, with the original elite Taiping soldiers in front and the people strong and brave in the back, swarming forward to attack the Qing army, breaking the Qing army's assembly resistance in one fell swoop, and killing the Qing soldiers to a crushing defeat.

Yixing led his own soldiers to flee to Shengjing City in a panic, leaving more than 10,000 banner soldiers behind, and was slaughtered by the Taiping army more than 3,000 people, and the remaining 7,000 people, in addition to 5,000 people who fled back to Shengjing City, the remaining 2,000 people were captured nearly 1,000 people, and hundreds of them all fled and disappeared.

Yixing, who fled into Shengjing City, no longer dared to move the idea of sending troops, and immediately ordered all the bannermen and Han Zhuang men in the city to take turns to defend.

Taking advantage of the situation to pursue, Qin Rigang led tens of thousands of Taiping soldiers to besiege Shengjing City. But in the face of life and death, even the timid Yixing held on to Shengjing, mobilized tens of thousands of bannermen and Handing in the city to desperately defend the city, and repelled the Taiping army's attacks again and again. Qin Rigang sent people to dig the crypt and wanted to use gunpowder blasting to blow down the city wall, but several times they were discovered by the Qing army in the city, and they excavated and killed from the inside, destroying all the plans of the Taiping army.

At this time, the civil strife in Tianjing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as well as the news that Shi Dakai, Yang Fuqing and other original East Hall soldiers, Wei Jun and other original North Hall soldiers defected to the Southern King and joined the Taiping Holy Kingdom. The veterans of the Taiping Army under the rule of Qin Rigang were all fluctuating and unable to attack the city, and the war entered a stalemate.

Qin Rigang had no choice but to order the Taiping army to surround Shengjing City, besieging but not attacking.

Fortunately, the news that the captives captured Suchanghang and other areas in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang also came, and the Qing army was demoralized and unable to fight back.

Qin Rigang hurriedly carried out activities among the officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army, and forcibly ordered some of the few soldiers loyal to the King of Heaven and the King of the East to attack Shengjing City, and died tragically one after another, taking advantage of the situation to firmly control all the soldiers of the Taiping Army of the entire Northern Expedition in his own hands.

On this day, Sa Bing'a, the deputy capital of Jinzhou, and Tolumbu, the deputy capital of Xiongyue, who were tortured by Qin Rigang with a red-hot soldering iron, finally failed to withstand it. Sa Bing'a, the deputy capital of Jinzhou, couldn't bear the torture and committed suicide by biting his tongue while people were not paying attention, while Torunbu, the deputy capital of Xiongyue, couldn't stand the pain and surrendered to Qin Rigang, willing to serve Qin Rigang as the master.

As a greeting gift for his surrender, Torombu revealed a shocking news to Qin Rigang: "Your Royal Highness King Yan, the criminal minister has a good idea, which can not only blow the morale of the Qing army in the city, but also add a lot of wealth to the holy treasury of my Taiping army. Perhaps, you can also force the Qing demons in Shengjing City to come out and fight to the death with our army. ”

"Oh, what is the idea, can you let the Qing army do this?" According to Qin Rigang's usual temper, he actually wanted to put this Qing Demon Head Ling Chi to death. But when he thought that he was now a force, he could no longer only care about his own pain and kill people like before, so he still used this Tolumbu as a horse bone to attract more demon soldiers to surrender to him.

"His Royal Highness King Yan, in this prosperous land, the Qing Demon Manchu people have three ancestral imperial tombs. The largest is Zhaoling, 10 miles north of the city outside the city of Shengjing, and the people in Shengjing are generally called Beiling. It is the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of the Qing Demon Emperor Taizong and Empress Xiaoduanwen Borzigit, and a group of concubines are buried in the harem one after another. There is also a Fu Mausoleum, which is the mausoleum of Nurhachi, the Qing Emperor of the Qing Demon, in the eastern suburbs of Shengjing City, twenty miles away. If it is ......" Tolunbu didn't say any more, just looked at Qin Rigang with a smile and flattery, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Tolumbu was also helpless, his wife and children were captured in Xiongyue City, and for the sake of his own life and the preservation of his wife and children, he shamelessly committed adultery.

Qin Rigang looked at the Han army in front of him with a yellow flag, betrayed his ancestors, and asked the Taiping army to dig up the ancestral graves of their Manchu royal family, his heart was dark for a while, and he nodded again and again: "Tolumbu, you have done a good job, and you are sincerely obedient to this king." Then you will take the lead in digging the grave, and the king will send some soldiers to help you. After the event, the king has a reward! ”

Qin Rigang deliberately asked this Torum Bu to preside over the digging of the grave. Torenbu knelt down and said, "King Yan, the criminal minister does not ask for a reward, only asks King Yan to allow the criminal minister to change back to his original Han name!" ”

"What? Are you Han? Aren't you full of demons? "Qin Rigang is strange.

"King Yan doesn't know, the ancestor of the criminal minister was surnamed Cui, the ancestor was originally directly affiliated to Chaoyang Cui's family, and was later annexed by the expiration period and became the Han army with a yellow flag, and now, the criminal minister can be rescued by King Yan and be able to liberate the body of the demon, so I implore King Yan to allow the criminal to change back to the surname Cui." Tolumbus fell to his knees and pleaded.

Qin Rigang said with a smile: "In this case, the king will give you to change back to your original surname." Your name is Cui Lunbu. ”

"King Xie Yan's gift!" Tolunbu, who changed his name to Cui Lunbu, was overjoyed and hurriedly led a group of Taiping troops to the nearby Beiling.

There was nothing to do, and the evil Qin Rigang called a few brothers and confidant generals, and after arranging the troops to be properly arranged, he himself, surrounded by a group of guards, went to Beiling together to watch Cui Lunbu's digging of the tomb.