The man came to the Taiping military camp, dismounted and knelt down and said: "The grass people Wang Haiyang, lead the hundred brothers of Yuanquan Jiao to return to the kingdom of heaven!" ”

"It's him!" Wang Jingyuan and Lu Yaoling secretly screamed at the same time, and each looked surprised.

"Old Lu, do you know this person?" Wang Jingyuan preemptively said, he knew that there was a tiger general under the account of Li Shixian, the king of the late Heavenly Kingdom, who was named Wang Haiyang, and he was also named King Kang. After Li Shixian, Wang Haiyang was the only general who could command the entire army, and his sacrifice hastened the destruction of the rest of the Taiping army, and of course his boss Li Shixian also died at his hands.

"I had a relationship with him, this person is a bandit in Dingyuan Mountain! Do adults know that? Lu Yaoling was a little puzzled.

"In the early years of Xianfeng, I saw its wanted notice in Hezhou! You can talk to him," Wang Jingyuan pretended to be calm.

"Yes!" Lu Yaoling believed it to be true, so he went out of the camp and said: "Yo, this is not Wang Da's master!" ”

"Oh, Lord Lu, you're ...... When did you join the Heavenly Army" Wang Haiyang recognized Lu Yaoling for the first time, although others didn't know what this old master meant, but at a glance, they knew that the two were familiar with each other.

"Come, I'll introduce you!" Lu Yaoling picked up Wang Haiyang and pulled him to the camp, this is Wang Jingyuan leading the generals to greet him.

"Haiyang, this is my lord Wang Jingyuan, and he is also from our Anhui, and now he is the commander of the Right Eighth Army of the Taiping Army!" Lu Yaoling deliberately accentuated the word "my master".

"Grass people Wang Haiyang meet the military marshal! When the grass people came, they met the Qing soldiers and killed the Qing general! Wang Haiyang knelt down and presented a demon head, and turned around and motioned to the two companions who came with him to present their swords and official robes and official seals.

Wang Jingyuan saw that this was the robe of the deputy general of the Qing Demon, and he dared to love Song'an, and when he ran away, he bumped into Wang Haiyang, the god of killing!

Look at half of the official seal engraved with "Anhui Anqing Association Deputy General Guan Fang" in Chinese seal script, and the other half is nine stacks of seal Manchu, sure enough, it is the official seal of Song'an, Wang Jingyuan was overjoyed, and beckoned Wang Haiyang and others to enter the camp.

At the moment, I learned that Wang Haiyang dared to act boldly, and he was always at enmity with rich families, and he and his brother Wang Hailin and his friend Liu Tianbao were living in the distant mountains. And has a lot of connections with Lu Yaoling, Lu is a well-known twister in the township, and often travels back and forth to Dingyuan to traffic illicit salt, so he has a lot of contacts with Wang Haiyang.

"Haiyang, what do you hear about my family in Dingyuan?" Lu Yaoling was arrested and sent to Anqing last year, and it has been more than a year since she met an acquaintance and inquired in front of everyone.

"Old master, the little ones only heard that you got into a lawsuit last year and were arrested and imprisoned in the provincial capital, and there is no big movement in your village, but Chen Xuezeng and Ji Heizhuang, who came to invite me to attack Dingyuan a few days ago, have looked for you!" Although Wang Haiyang is young, his words are respectful.

"How are they now? What other heroes have risen? Lu Yaoling seemed to have a little impression of these two people.

"There was a Taiping army to fight Fengyang Mansion, Chen Xuezeng and they broke the city together, but the Taiping army soon abandoned the city, crossed the Huai River and continued to go north, many twisters did not want to go north, Chen Xuezeng led to attack Dingyuan City, and was later led by the county order to suppress people."

"That's my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Northern Expeditionary Army, when did it break Fengyang?" Since Liuhe failed to return south, Wang Jingyuan heard the news of the Northern Expeditionary Army for the first time.

"Back to my lord, April 22, more than 20 days ago!" Wang Haidao.

"Well, I am two days late, it should be April 20. You have a meritorious role in killing the Qing demon, and you are an old acquaintance with Lu Yaoling, so I sent you to be a brigade commander under his account, and still brought the original people, and you can go to the prison army to get a license in the future. ”

"Lord Xie, the grass people are willing to smear their livers and brains, and they will die!" Wang Haiyang bowed his head and thanked him.

"Our Taiping Army has strict military laws, and your troops must abide by it, and they must not continue to plunder and ruin the reputation of our army!" Wang Jingyuan was afraid that Wang Haiyang's bandit habits would be difficult to change, so he took the Dao Tightening Spell in advance.

At the same time, the Tianjing Headquarters rewarded the Right Eighth Army for breaking through the battles of Dongxiliangshan, Yuxikou, and Yuncao Town.

On 23 May, the generals in Yuncao Town received a license from Tianjing, and Dongwangfu promoted Wang Jingyuan to the rank of the Eighth Commander of the Golden Empire, and Yuan Hongmo to the commander of the Eighth Army on the right, while Hou Yutian of Yuxikou was appointed as the commander of the Eighth Army of the Golden Empire. He also ordered to abandon Yuncao and make every effort to guard Yuxikou and Xiliangshan to ensure the smooth transportation of the Western Expeditionary Army.

That night, Wang Jingyuan, who had just recovered from an arrow wound, led his army to abandon Yuncao Town, and the battalions assembled and marched to the Yangtze River. After meeting with Hou Yutian, he discussed in detail the current situation of the Sixth Right Army, its personnel transfers, and its military deployment. Since leaving Tianjing, the Right Sixth Army has experienced the Battle of Taipingfu, the Battle of Dongliang Mountain, the Ambush of Hujiadu, the Battle of Yuncao Siege and the Battle of Blocking the Enemy outside the town. In the past few days of fighting, the losses were relatively large, and one brigade commander, five commanders, two horses and 39 army commanders were lost before and after, and more than 500 holy soldiers were killed and wounded, and after the prisoners and Wang Haiyang's subordinates were replenished, the whole army reached 1,800 people.

Among the meritorious service recipients, Yuan Hongmo has been promoted to military marshal by the East King, and Hu Yongxiang, the commander of the rear battalion, has made the most meritorious service among the others. In the first class of brigade commanders, army commander Xie Zhenke, Yuan Hongmo's Hu Qixiang and Zheng Yonghe, Hu Yongxiang's Hu Chunfu, Guo Anhe, and Fan Xiukui, Zhong Liangxiang's Zhang Zhenbang, Ren Guixin's He Mingliang and Lu Chaoxing, and Liu Zhaojun's Liao Dashun and Zhan Delun made remarkable contributions.

After Yuan Hongmo was promoted, there was a vacancy for the commander of the fifth battalion, and Hou Yutian wanted to promote one from the brigade commander. However, Wang Jingyuan felt that there was no outstanding person among the brigade commanders, and Wang Haiyang was newly attached, and he only became the brigade commander not long ago, so it was not appropriate to be promoted quickly. It was proposed that Hu Yongxiang be transferred to the commander of the former battalion, and the military marshal Shuli Zhong Liang successively served as the commander of the rear battalion, and Hou Yutian agreed after a little consideration.

After the two agreed on the candidates for the commander of the former battalion, they discussed the expansion of the army and rectification, and the management of the movement, Hou Yutian planned to use the old inspection department Yamen as the station, as soon as possible to appoint the township commanders and two horses, supervise the people to make a register, and pay grain according to the mu. Wang Jingyuan didn't know much about the local civil affairs of the kingdom of heaven, and he didn't want to deal with that heart, since the old superior wanted to take care of it, he went with him. Hou Yutian saw that Wang Jingyuan was not interested, so he asked him to think about how to recruit troops and replenish his troops. In fact, Hou Yutian had a plan, he was really not a good hand in the military, rather than occupying the pit and not, it was better to hand it all over to Wang Jingyuan, and the credit would naturally not be lost to him.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in late May of the third year. The Northern Expeditionary Army Kexingyang, Deluo Coal Ship, crossed the Yellow River in Bishui County and advanced into North China. However, the Western Expeditionary Army was blocked in Nanchang, where the Taiping Army encountered its old rival Jiang Zhongyuan.

Jiang Zhongyuan was a good soldier, but he was quite good at fighting, and successively defeated the Taiping army in Guilin three times, set up an ambush to kill the king of the south in Lingyidu, and then participated in the defense of Changsha City, fought fiercely for three months, and the king of the west was killed. Not only did the Taiping army encounter the embarrassment of "not being able to win in every river", but also caused the two kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to fall, completely changing the development trajectory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

This time, Jiang Zhongyuan has been promoted to assistant to the military affairs of the Jiangnan battalion and the envoy to Hubei, and the Qing court originally transferred him to Anhui to intercept the Northern Expeditionary Army. On the way, the Northern Expeditionary Army crossed the Huai River to the north, Jiangxi Governor Zhang Fu to the Taiping Army will attack Nanchang and recruit thickly, Jiang Zhongyuan led thousands of people to rush to the aid of the starry night, and arrived in Nanchang two days before the Taiping Army, and once again let the Taiping Army encounter the embarrassment of "not winning every river".

When Lai Hanying, deputy prime minister of Xia Guan, led Zeng Tianyang to inspect and commanded Lin Qirong to arrive in Nanchang with more than 10,000 people, Jiang Zhongyuan had successfully taken over the city defense of Nanchang. Referring to his successful experience in defending the city many times, Jiang Zhongyuan burned down all the houses outside the city to prevent the Taiping army from digging tunnels to attack the city in advance. Later, he arranged an interception at Zhangjiangmen, the main attack of the Taiping Army, and beheaded 36 deserters and escaped generals in front of the battle, and the morale of the army was stable.

Jiang Zhongyuan personally commanded and repelled more than a dozen charges of the Taiping army before and after. And when the Taiping thieves were defeated and retreated, Jiang Zhongyuan led his troops out of the city and then pursued them. The Taiping army could not attack for a long time, so they adopted the tactic of digging tunnels, digging more than a dozen roads, Jiang Zhongyuan also dug tunnels to meet the attack, and actually burned and drowned hundreds of soldiers in the Taiping army's earthen camp, so more than 10,000 Taiping troops surrounded Changsha for more than 20 days, and the food gradually ran out, and the Qing army continued to come with reinforcements from all over the place.

On June 24, the second wave of reinforcements of the Western Expeditionary Army arrived at Yuxikou, and this time the army came with two members of the royal family, the Northern King and the Wing King, and the lineup was luxurious. Wei's has Wei Jun, the younger brother of the Northern Prince, Wei Zhixian, the nephew Wei Yilin, and the cousin Wei Yide. The Shi family has Shi Dakai's brothers Shi Xiangzhen and Shi Fengkui, and nephews Shi Zhenlun, Shi Zhenchang, Shi Zhengang, and Shi Zhenji. The brothers and nephews of the two kings were all named national emperors, second only to the kings of the same clan of the Heavenly King, and their status was the same as that of the officials. According to the later achievements, in addition to Wei Bin and Shi Fengkui's corpses, the overall performance of the Guozong of the North Wangfu and the Yiwangfu is better than that of other kings, Wei Jun and Shi Xiangzhen have the talent of commanders, Wei Yide and Shi Zhenji can stand alone, Wei Yilin, Shi Zhenlun, Shi Zhenchang, and Shi Zhengang are all brave and good generals.

The clans of the kings have fought with them since the Jintian Uprising, and many of them have contributed a lot. But after the capital, these people were not granted real positions, and this time the Nanchang war was tight, and the Tianjing side actually sent all the Guozong surnamed Wei Shi except for Wei Bin, the brother of the Northern Wang, which is not difficult to think of as the decision of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East.

This expedition was also respected by Wei Jun, Shi Xiangzhen, Shi Fengkui, and Wei Yide, all four of whom were given the rank of admiral, and together they led the troops to Nanchang to help Lai Hanying, and the two surnamed Guozong brought out the 13th Army from Tianjing, but the number was only 10,000, which shows that these military systems are extremely incomplete. The four Guozong passed by Yuxikou, and when they saw that the army of the Eighth Army on the Right was neat, they stationed some holy soldiers at Yuxikou with Shizhenji, and ordered Hou Yutian to lead the Eighth Army on the Right to go out with the army.

After a lapse of one month, the Right Eighth Army embarked on a new journey. Two days later, the fleet arrived at Anqing City, and the clansmen of the four major countries led a large army to help, and Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of Chunguanzheng, met him at the crossing bridge. After capturing Anqing last month, Lai Hanying, deputy prime minister of Xia Guan, and Zeng Tianyang, the first inspector of Dianzuo, led the army to continue westward and attack the capital of Jiangxi Prefecture, and Duhu Yihuang sat in Anqing. After Zhu Guozong led the army to stay for a day, he rushed upstream with all his might, leaving only Wei Zhixian and Shi Zhengang to lead the two armies to assist Hu Yihuang to defend the city.