The two cities of Hanyang and Hankou were lost, the two lakes were shaken, the governor of Hubei, Chonglun, advocated abandoning the city to escape, and the newly appointed governor of Huguang, Wu Wenrong, advocated holding on. The Qing court ordered the Jingzhou general Taiyong and Nanyang Town General Baishan to lead troops to first aid, and the Shaanxi and Gansu Governor Shu Xing'a rushed from Henan to Hubei, while Wuchangcheng was extremely weak.

However, Shi Xiangzhen, who was the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, once again delayed the fighter plane, and divided his troops Zeng Tianyang to trace the Han River to attack Xiaogan, attack De'an Mansion, Shi Zhenlun and Shi Zhen often went to Jiayu's Paizhou, wanting to go upstream, abandon Wuchang and fight between Jiang and Han.

On September 20, Zeng Tianyang led the Eighth Army of the Right and the Second Army of the Later Army to break Xiaogan and kill Wei Kaidi, the general of Qian. The next day, the second army defended the city, led the right eight army to cross the water, did not arrive at Yunmeng County, the general soldier Baishan led the Henan soldiers to arrive, De'an Mansion was not hopeful, Zeng Tianyang retreated to Xiaogan.

On the first day of October, there was a Dongwangfu Chengxuan from Tianjing, and the Dongwang had the intention of taking Jianghuai, and ordered Shi Xiangzhen and Wei Jun to abandon Hanyang and Hankou, return east to seize Huangzhou, Qizhou and other places, and then allocate Zeng Tianyang's ministry to return to Anqing. And Tian Zhen's merit was awarded Zeng Tianyang as the autumn official and prime minister, and the subordinate generals were promoted to one level, Hou Yutian was promoted to the second deputy general of Jin, Wang Jingyuan was promoted to the eighth general system of Jin, and the eighth superintendent of the army was taken over by Yuan Hongmo.

On the second day of the first month, 5,000 people from Zeng Tianyang's department first abandoned Xiaogan, returned east from the Hanjiang waterway, and arrived at the Jiujiang River on the seventh day of the first month. After entering the territory of Anhui, Wang Jingyuan was assigned to lead the Right Eighth Army to capture Wangjiang County, and led the Eighth Deputy General Liang Xiuren, the Second Deputy General of Jin, Hou Yutian, and the Second Army to Anqing.

At this time, on the battlefield of Anhui, Zhou Tianjue, the squire of the Qing army, died of exhaustion in northern Anhui, and Yuan Jia led his army for three generations in the military department. The former governor Li Jiaduan has been dismissed, and the new governor Jiang Zhongyuan is still in Hubei. Only the political envoy Liu Yuzhen hid in Luzhou to build a new provincial capital, and was ready to retreat anytime and anywhere.

Lu Xianji, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, was diligent in the war, and took Li Hongzhang to wander away from Shucheng and Lujiang. Even the death of Yao Ying, a Confucian and friend of Tongcheng, did not dare to mourn filial piety. On the contrary, Hengxing, the commander-in-chief of Hanzhong Town, who came to Anhui, and Zhang Xiyu, the former envoy, were sent to Tongcheng, so that they could support Tu Anhua, the commander-in-chief of Wannan Town, who was stationed in Liantan, north of Anqing City, and Mei Guocheng, a guerrilla soldier stationed in Jixianguan.

Zhang Yintang, the envoy who was originally stationed at Jixian Pass, has been transferred to Huizhou Mansion in southern Anhui, hoping to assemble the green camp group training in the southern Anhui Prefecture. This Zhang Yintang was lonely before his death, but many people remember him a hundred years later, he has a son named Zhang Peilun, and then a great-granddaughter named Zhang Ailing.

Since the end of August, the Wing King arrived in Anqing, with a clear strategy, orderly attack and defense, and all the generals are not convinced. Disbanded the regimental camps, appointed township officials, persuaded the people to farm, and settled the hearts of the people, focusing on building an Anhui base area with Anqing as the center. Wang Jingyuan knew that this was the famous Anqing Yi system, which was the most effective reform attempt of the Heavenly Kingdom, not only was the Heavenly Kingdom system implemented here, but also had an impact on the collection of grain per mu, the establishment of customs and taxes, and the opening of science and scholars.

The completely egalitarian system of the Celestial Dynasty was never implemented in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the matching regimental camp system and the sacred treasury system seriously hurt the people when they were implemented. The policy adopted by Yiwang Anqing was affirmed and supported by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was supported and praised by the people of Anhui, and the Anhui base area became the most important granary, military source and talent pool of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

On the eighth day of October, Wangjiang County Ya, Wang Jingyuan stood tall in the main hall, and the hall was full of Qing Dynasty gentry. After Wang Jingyuan and Zeng Tian divided the army, they immediately besieged the county seat and took this small county town in less than half a day.

"Report to the general system, the rank has controlled the county, the Qing demon county order is killed at the east gate, and now the city will be guarded and the general and classic history and other demons will be brought here! Please dispose of it! Liu Zhaojun, who was in charge of searching the city, knelt down and said.

"Okay, put a group of demons in prison, and gather the people of the whole city later, and the general system will hold a public trial meeting!"

"Public trial?" The generals will be amazed!

Peng Dashun is a small family born and raised in Wangjiang County, and in his early years, he also followed Anqing's master as an apprentice for ten years, before saving some money to return to Wangjiang to open a shop, and now people in their thirties have never married a daughter-in-law. On weekdays, I also get up early and be greedy for darkness, counting on saving some more wife.

But these days, you don't have to be greedy for darkness, and you don't need to get up early. Why? The long-haired soldiers have entered the city! Who would dare to do business on the street in this situation! Dashun is in business, and he has a wide range of knowledge, and he often hears the soldiers in the store talk about it, saying that this long hair is ...... No, in the morning, Wang Er next door said that he was going to change his words, called Taiping Army. Yes, it is this Taiping army, the soldier said that every time they beat a city, they will arrest young women to be princesses, and all men will be dragged to be soldiers. At the beginning of the year, when the Taiping army came from the west, they captured a group of young people, and they have not yet returned.

This Wangjiang county town has just been defeated, and there are a few idlers who dare to hang on the streets, but there are many Taiping troops coming and going.

"Hmph, I didn't buy any, and I sold a fart." The second Wang next door sneered.

"What do you know, there are so many Taiping troops coming and going, and none of them came to collect our stalls, which means that there is a show!" Dashun didn't pay much attention to him, and shouted to a group of patrolling Taiping troops: "Master Jun, delicious buns, come and taste them." ”

Wang Haiyang, who was in charge of the inspection, happened to pass by this section of the street, and saw the owner of the steamed bun shop selling on the street, and felt that it was still early at noon, so he took out some coins from his body. Although the Celestial Empire stipulates that private wealth is not allowed, the army still distributes some pocket money according to the rank.

"Shopkeeper, how do you sell buns?" Wang Haiyang asked politely.

The military master laughed, how can there be any shopkeeper in the shop. If the military master wants it, he just takes it. Peng Dashun saw that these Taiping troops were not as clever as the Qing soldiers, so he simply said generously.

"What are these words? How can there be food that doesn't give money, one, two, three, ......" Wang Haiyang said and counted the number of people, and said for a long time: "There are eleven people in total, just take eleven buns, and give you fifteen yuan." ”

"Master Jun, why do you want so much, ten cents is enough."

"Give, fifteen cents!" Wang Haiyang slapped the money on Peng Dashun's hand, turned around and said to the soldiers beside him: "Take it yourself, one for each person, not much!" ”

Peng Dashun looked at the bold Wang Haiyang, the Taiping army was really different from the Qing soldiers who oppressed the people, and believed in his own vision. Slowly let go of the hand holding the money, and hurriedly asked, "Master Jun, this money ...... Can this money be used? "It turned out that Huang Longyun gave the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to spend money, and Peng Dashun, who was used to using Qianjiadao Xiantongbao, of course didn't know it.

This Taiping Heavenly Kingdom spent a lot of money after the Heavenly Kingdom established the capital of Tianjing, but the Heavenly Kingdom was always rationed and never circulated on a large scale, but it was widely distributed as a reward for war soldiers.

"What? You don't take that money? ”

"Master Jun, this ...... No one else recognizes this money. "Honest people tell the truth.

"Who dares not to do it, if you don't recognize the money of the Heavenly Empire, you just don't recognize our Heavenly Kingdom, it seems that you are the lackey of the Qing Demon! Brothers, grab it! Wang Haiyang's face changed.

"Yes!" A few holy soldiers didn't care about eating steamed buns, wiping their mouths and grabbing people.

"Wait!" Just as Peng Dashun was secretly complaining about his suffering, he suddenly heard someone shouting not far away. The man was protected by several holy soldiers, walking with great vigor, like a big leader, and the person who bought the bun just now knelt down directly when he saw him. I saw him walk into the steamed bun shop, look around, and then open the steamer and tear open a larger meat bun.

"Well, it's delicious, it's delicious, I've bought all this bun. Wang Haiyang distributed the buns to all the holy soldiers patrolling the street. ”

"Yes! Master General! ”

"Fellow, how much are these buns worth?"

"My lord, it's only worth a few hundred dollars!" Peng Dashun, who was in no danger, replied tremblingly, for fear of saying the wrong thing again.

"Xie Zhenke, give the store a tael of silver!" Wang Jingyuan instructed Captain Wei.

Peng Dashun didn't expect that the chief master would give dozens of steamed buns money, kneeling and kowtowing.

"The shopkeeper, please start, and later the general system will publicly try the Qing Dynasty's general, canonical history, and inspection officials in front of the ya, and invite the shopkeeper to go."

"Definitely, definitely!" Peng Dashun nodded like pounding garlic.

The scene of this bun shop was spied on by many well-intentioned people, and it soon spread secretly in the afternoon before the room. Gradually, the people of Wangjiang became bolder, opened their doors and windows one after another, and resumed their normal lives, and a few people walked around the streets.

Seeing this situation, Wang Jingyuan sent people to beat gongs and drums to the streets and alleys to post notices to the people, and by the way, released the news of the public trial of Qing officials, and invited the people of the whole city to watch. Although the ordinary people didn't know what a public trial was, they immediately became excited when they heard about the excitement.

In the afternoon, the public trial meeting was held as scheduled on the county Yaqian Street, and Wang Jingyuan asked people to move the public case in the lobby to the door and sit majestically on the Taishi chair. The Qing Dynasty officials knelt in a row at the county government level, waiting for the delivery.

The first people to come to watch the public trial were Peng Dashun, and then Peng Dashun's neighbor Wang Er came with a bench, and then the whole city rushed one after another, with two or three thousand people, which made Wang Jingyuan hold a villager meeting in the countryside in the future, and thousands of people besieged the city, chatting about new things. And here, more people are surrounding Peng Dashun to ask if the Taiping Army really gave money to buy steamed buns.

Presiding over the meeting was Lu Yaoling, the commander of the middle battalion, who, according to Wang Jingyuan's instructions, first read out the proclamation to the people of the city.

After reading out the notice, Lu Yaoling opened the second item of the conference, only to see him slowly walk in front of the Qing Demon, introduce their names and official positions to the people one by one, and then ask the people to report the bad things they have done. Wang Jingyuan clearly remembered that in the early years of the Celestial Empire, this was how he dealt with the landlords and gentry, arousing the people's indignation against the reactionaries, so as to seek support and consolidate the political power.

The Celestial Empire's tried and tested methods were embarrassed here. It turned out that the people had long been used to being oppressed by these corrupt officials and evil officials, and now that the Qing Dynasty has not been destroyed, how dare they commit the next offense. It looks like a killer move, otherwise the plan will be aborted! Wang Jingyuan called Xie Zhenke and whispered, and Xie Zhenke went invisible.