Jiang Wan saw that Wang Jingyuan was speechless, and left silently, leaving Wang Jingyuan alone in the empty tent.

Wang Jingyuan has been deeply confused, Tianjing's internal strife, the Hunan army and the Huai army are flanked on both sides, the Dadu River Shida is cornered, Chen Yucheng loses Anqing, and finally Tianjing falls, these appear repeatedly in his mind like a movie, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is empty after all. Wang Jingyuan tried his best to think about where to save, the power struggle between the Eastern King and the Heavenly King in Tianjing was irreconcilable, and the Xiangyong practiced by Zeng Guofan had already taken shape, and with the power of the whole country, the rise was inevitable. And after the king of heaven held power, he was extravagant, suspicious of the ministers, and later rewarded and punished excessively, indulged in religion, and finally died and the country was destroyed. This kingdom of heaven is also moving step by step towards glory and perdition, and it is destined to be a lamentation.

The victorious Qing Dynasty did not prosper, but fell into the invasion of foreign powers again and again, and the country was in turmoil for a hundred years, killing endlessly, and the people were struggling to survive. Wang Jingyuan felt how small he was, and he was so powerless in the face of the torrent of history. At this moment, if he had been fighting for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and had been lucky enough to survive to the end, he would have been besieged by the Qing army and defeated to death. If he defected to the Qing army, he would be rejected by the scholars, and finally be like Wei Jun, and be depressed for the rest of his life in the grief and indignation of the country's misfortune.

Why did there be a crossing, why did it cross to this sad and troubled era, when China was the most humiliating, the British and French allied forces looted our Old Summer Palace, Tsarist Russia cut off 1.4 million square kilometers of land, Japan stole Taiwan, extorted 200 million taels of silver, and the Eight-Nation Coalition slaughtered the loyal and brave men of the Boxers, which is a national misfortune and a national misfortune, and the disaster of weakness and poverty will be the disaster of future generations.

Wang Jingyuan thought deeply, if he used his strength to turn the tide of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and help the Winged King to determine the world, it would be difficult to guess the heart of the Winged King, and it would be inevitable that the rabbit would die and the dog would be cooked, and he would not be able to obey the hundred generals of the Heavenly Kingdom. However, the Qing Dynasty also had no clear lord, Xianfeng Tongzhi had a limited lifespan, and Cixi used the female protagonist to gain power, and there was no way to govern the world, and he betrayed the country to seek peace. Zeng Guofan destroyed the Kingdom of Heaven, Li Hongzhang killed the Twist Army, Zuo Zongtang pacified the rebellion and recovered Xinjiang, and his fame was prominent for a while.

Vainly attempting to reform the government through the reform of the law, with the same example as Tan Si, will be slaughtered by the Manchu rulers. Wang Jingyuan did not have any hope for the Qing Dynasty, and only by replacing the Qing Dynasty could he follow the Meiji Restoration and revive China. However, throughout the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, only the national army swept the world in a few years with the Northern Expedition in a corner of Guangdong. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom set its capital in Jiangnan, fought on all sides, and was besieged. Shi Dakai's map of Sichuan, known as Tianfu, has difficult internal and external transportation, which is not conducive to development. The Yunnan-Guizhou borderland, the Han people are sparse, and it is difficult to achieve a climate. There are only two Guangzhous, west of Vietnam, north of Wuling, southeast of the sea can trade with all countries.

If we can seize the two Guangxi base areas, set up industries, and recruit troops, we may be able to accomplish great things. However, Wang Jingyuan is still a supervising army, even if all the 2,500 people of the Right Eighth Army follow, it is not so easy to reach Guangdong, and later Shi Dakai's expedition is also difficult and dangerous. What's even more serious is that there are many bandits in the two Guangxi associations, and they have always excluded immigrants from the north, and the two families are still not tolerated. Most of the Right Eighth Army were Jiangnan people, and there were very few people in Liangguang, so Wang Jingyuan rashly led more than 2,000 people to attack Guangdong, and only those who were wiped out. Only by setting Liangguang as the goal, and temporarily developing and growing in the Taiping Army, if you can lead a large army on an expedition at the peak of the Heavenly Kingdom, the victory rate is quite large.

Thinking about it, Wang Jingyuan found out that Jiang Wan had already left, and pursued out, her tent was lit with oil lamps, and the figure sat alone, presumably she had no intention of leaving the Taiping Army. Wang Jingyuan was inconvenient to disturb, so he went back to rest.

The next day, Wang Jingyuan was refreshed, and when he practiced in the morning, Jiang Wan was still in the army and smiled. A few days later, the Second Army and the Eighth Army on the Right followed Zeng Tian to recuperate from a long battle, and the Wing King was specially allowed to rest.

On the third day of the ninth month, Zeng Tianyang led his troops to Jiujiang and learned that Shi Xiangzhen led the water division to be blocked in Tian Town and stationed in Longping Town, Guangji County. The new governor of Huguang, Wu Wenrong, did not arrive, and the old governor Zhang Liangji sent Tang Shuyi, the envoy of Hubei, to lead Xu Fengyu of Han Huangdedao, Zhang Ruying, the governor of Hanyang Prefecture, and Yang Changsi, the general soldier, to guard the Yangtze River Pass Tian Town, and Dai Wenlan, the capital of the Qing army, also led 2,000 troops to help.

On the fifth day of the first month, after Zeng Tianyang and Shi Xiangzhen rendezvous, after discussion, Zeng Tianyang attacked Tianzhen, and Shi Xiangzhen led the army to occupy Fuchikou and sweep away the Qing army on the south bank. Zeng Tianyang was divided into two ways for the Japanese army, Zeng Tianhe led the second army to patrol on the river, personally led the right Eighth Army to seize the north bank of the important town of Wuxue, 30 miles away from Tianzhen, and then ordered Wang Jingyuan to spread spies.

The terrain around Tianzhen is dangerous, known as the natural danger. The mighty Yangtze River flows here, after Tianjia Town, the Yangtze River flows from the southeast to the east, the river surface narrows abruptly, the river flow is like a bundle, the shape is like a throat, the river surface is only more than 170 zhang wide. The mountains in the north of the river are steep, and the half of the mountains on the south bank face each other, overlooking the river.

In less than two days, there was a Wuchang Mansion that had been reformed with Lao Guangtai to lead the tide to kill Lao Guangtai and surrender, the leader of Bu Xingyou, has been awarded the six products to wear, since the Tao is the Guangdong Heaven and Earth Congregation, once in the Chaoshan area, cruising the huge ocean, robbing business travel, officers and soldiers can not control. Wang Jingyuan carefully investigated, and reported the truth of Tian Town, and reported to Zeng Tianyang: "Check your lord, recently, the guard of Youtian Town, Lao Guangtaibu, Chaoyong Buxing, has anyway, and there are about 9,000 demons in Tian Town, and there are many artillery positions to curb the river. ”

"Bu Xingyou, I have heard from Luo Outline that he is also a good man, and it is not too late to serve the Celestial Empire now, and he will be used under your account, but who is the commander of the Tianzhen Qing Demon now?" Zeng Tianyang stood by the river, looking at the direction of Tianzhen.

Wang Jingyuan didn't think that this Bu Xing had a name in Luo Xuan, and Zeng Tianyang couldn't ask him for it. At that moment, Zeng Tianyang asked about the enemy's situation, he had already prepared, and hinted to Xie Zhenke and Jiang Wan beside him, the two of them opened the map marked by the spies, and he pointed to one of them and said: "My lord, Tang Shuyi, the political envoy of Hubei Province, the leader of the Qing Demon, is stationed on this Beiyang City Mountain, and Yang Changsi, the chief soldier of Tian Town, is guarded by Yang Changsi, the chief soldier of Tianzhen under the mountain. And this mountain col civil engineering city in front of us, Daotai Xu Fengyu is guarding here, and Dai Wenlan is in the north of this Yangcheng Mountain, in addition to Jiang Zhongyuan, the leader of the Qing Demon two days ago, he also came here! ”

"Oh? Why did this guy come to Hubei again? It's really ghostly," Zeng Tianyang frowned.

"There are not many Chu Yong with the head of the Jiang Demon, only more than ten people accompanying him!" Wang Jingyuan knew that the Taiping Army and Jiang Zhongyuan had a deep enmity like the sea, but he was helpless against him.

"Okay, the big war is coming, it's commendable that you can probe so carefully, but have you ever thought about this way to break the enemy?" Zeng Tianyang still admires this young general very much.

"I think that we can advance by land and water, bombard the artillery position by water, and attract the attention of the Qing demon, and my right Eighth Army should abandon the notch civil engineering city, storm the small camp in Beishan, and then attack the Qing Demon Artillery Formation in Beitai Mountain after taking it" Wang Jingyuan talked eloquently.

"Just what I want! This inspection point will send my brother an order, tomorrow land and water will advance together, this inspection point and General Hou will lead Lu Yaoling, Zhong Liangxiang, and Liu Zhaojun to attack Tucheng head-on, and you and Yuan Hongmo will lead Hu Yongxiang, Ren Guixin and others to attack Beishan! ”

The next day, the three watches cooked, the time went out to fight, Zeng Tianyang led the inspector and the right Eighth Army to approach the notch Tucheng, digging a deep ditch three or four zhang wide under this Tucheng, the inner side of the wooden fence, the fort, the outer side of the dense nail bamboo sticks, wooden stakes, very dangerous.

On the one hand, Zeng Tianyang ordered Zeng Tianhe on the river to lead the second army to bombard the Qing army's position in Tianzhen by water, and on the other hand, he let the inspector take the lead, and two hundred guns were raised to disturb the enemy in turn, and then ordered Lu Yaoling's troops to pave the long wood that had been prepared long ago.

On the north mountain, Wang Jingyuan asked Bu Xingyou to lead the way, led Guixin and other soldiers, took advantage of the Qing army's meal, held a short knife, touched the highest small camp wall, and quickly threw torches to attack the camp. The Qing army was caught off guard, and there were many bamboos and trees in the camp, and the fire broke out everywhere. At this moment, Yuan Hongmo led Hu Yongxiang to break through the gate of the Qing Demon and attack the camp. Wang Jingyuan then joined the battle, and after a few vicious battles, he occupied the small camp. Later, Wang Jingyuan's team attacked from top to bottom, mainly attacking by fire. The Qing demon Xu Fengyu was being harassed by Zeng Tianyang, and he did not dare to divide his troops to save him, and was successively defeated by Wang Jingyuan and four other camps.

The northern flank of the Qing army was dispersed, Wang Jingyuan led his troops to dive from the mountain, and Zeng Tianyangli should join forces, break through the notch of the Qing army's Tucheng, and kill Xu Fengyu, and the whole army came to Beitai Mountain to kill the generals. Zhang Ruying and Zeng Tianhe on the river were in the middle of an artillery battle, and overheard that the Taiping army broke through the eastern defense line and personally led troops to come to help, just when they met the right Eighth Army, and the two armies quickly took over.

Zeng Tianyang was extraordinarily brave, and wherever the spear went, the Qing soldiers died when they touched it. Seeing that the main general was so brave, Hou Yutian, Wang Jingyuan, Yuan Hongmo and other subordinates were not ambiguous, Wang Jingyuan personally chopped Zhang Ruying, which was the first high-ranking official of the Qing Dynasty to die under his knife. As soon as the main general died, the Qing demon fled in all directions, and at this moment, Liang Xiuren, the second army behind the river, led the army to land, went straight to Beitai Mountain, and joined forces with the right Eighth Army to seize the Qing demon position. Tang Shuyi was on Yangcheng Mountain, and when he saw that the Taiping army was powerful, he did not dare to lead his troops to rescue, so he abandoned the camp and joined Dai Wenlan and went to Huangzhou. Jiang Zhongyuan had no soldiers in his hands, and he didn't dare to stay longer, so he had to follow Tang Shuyi's actions.

Tianzhen only left Yang Changsi a Qing army, Yang Changsi is the general army of Gaozhou, should have fought to the death to atone for his crimes, how can his subordinates see that the political envoy and the envoy have run away, the army's heart is scattered, and when Taiping arrives, the Qing army camp is empty. Tianzhen successively destroyed more than 2,000 people of Xu Fengyu and Zhang Ruying, and later, Shi Xiangzhen broke through Banbi Mountain on the south bank, and there was no more important pass in Wuchang. Zhang Liangji, the old governor of Huguang, was transferred to the governor of Shandong, without a single soldier, and the new governor Wu Wenrong had just arrived, and there were no soldiers and horses to follow, and Wuchang was empty. Shi Xiangzhen and Zeng Tianyang sent the two departments together, and Wei Jun of the Jiujiang Taiping Army left Lin Qirong to command Lin Qirong to defend the city, and also led his subordinates to the west, and the three armies gathered nearly 30,000 people, all the way to the west, but there was no obstruction. On the 16th, Shi Xiangzhen and Zeng Tianyang raised Kehanyang, Wei Jun occupied Hankou, and Wuchang City was close at hand.