"My lord, report!" On the city wall of Anqing, the common people were also sent to carry the equipment to defend the city, and a patrol ran up in a panic, "A group of peace suddenly appeared in the city...... Long-haired army! ”

"What! Hairy! Wang Pengfei, who was observing the river with clairvoyance, was taken aback, "It's over, the long hair has an internal response!" ”

"My lord, what are we going to do?"

"Hurry up and hand over the city tower to Fu Jixun's Lian Yong! Let's go and exterminate the Taiping army at the North Gate! ”

"My lord, the Taiping army is attacking the West Gate, what are we going to the North Gate for?"

"Bastard! If you are told to go, you will go! ”

The subordinates ran away in a daze, and Wang Pengfei looked at the direction of the governor's yamen and scolded: "The old man is immortal, and he has to pull a cushion on his back when he is dying, and the official doesn't care about it." ”

Governor Yamen, Jiang Wenqing finally returned to safety with officials, which made them breathe a sigh of relief for the time being. However, Jiang Wenqing did not breathe a sigh of relief at all, "Daughter! Didn't Dad let you go! ”

"Dad, my daughter ran away halfway, and that Goshha ran away by herself for fear of your blame." It turned out that the little guard on the city tower was Jiang Wenqing's daughter Jiang Wan.

"Li San has been with me for many years, but I didn't expect him to ...... By the way, you can still go, and I will send another guard. Li San was Jiang Wenqing's personal guard, and Jiang Wenqing trusted him so he handed over his daughter to escort.

"Dad, Li San, who has followed him for many years, can't believe it, let alone others? You are not afraid that they will sell their daughter to the Taiping Army! ”

"Huh! If there is such a possibility, what should you do? ”

"If my daughter doesn't go anywhere, she has to be with her father."

"No, Anqing City is in danger, go quickly, by the way, do you remember that foreigner? Let him protect you, he believes in foreign religion, and the long-haired people also believe in this, and the long-haired will not embarrass him when the city is broken! ”

"Daddy! How can you entrust your daughter to someone else casually, I can take care of myself. ”

"My lord! Oh no! Oh no! Li Benren ran into the inner house in a panic.

"Li Benren, what's the matter? In a panic, you have to change your temperament, you have to learn to calm down, otherwise how to make a name for yourself in the court where the masters are like clouds! Jiang Wenqing attaches great importance to Li Benren's character and talent, and often imparts his experience as an official to this subordinate, and has other hopes for him.

"Thank you for your advice." Li Benren really didn't expect that Governor Jiang would be able to calm down when the soldiers were approaching the city, he himself couldn't, but in the face of the strong superiors, he didn't dare to say anything, and after slandering for a long time, he finally remembered the matter, and said: "There is an internal response in the city, and all the prisoners in the prison of the Inspectorate have escaped and are attacking Ximen!" ”

"What? You didn't say it earlier! Who should be inside? ”

"The prison said it was that foreigner! He is the leader! ”

When Jiang Wenqing learned that the prisoners had broken through the prison department, Jing Yuanzheng led the prisoners to the west city gate, but he did not choose to sneak attack, but directly played the banner of the Taiping army. Hundreds of thousands of troops outside Anqing City pressed the border, and at this time the people in the city were already panicking, and if there was an internal response in the city again, it would be enough to break the last bit of morale of the Qing army. And the West Gate he wanted to attack was not the main direction of attack of the Taiping Army, as long as this gate was quickly occupied, the Qing army could only break and flee. The key is to be fast, and because of this, Jing Yuan and the prisoners did not delay for a moment and rushed straight to the West City Gate.

However, before they reached the second street, they met the Qing soldiers who came to suppress it, Yuan Hongmo charged ahead, raised the big knife and cut it, and the guy who responded positively in the prison also followed to cover up and kill the past, this group of Qing soldiers only had dozens of people, maybe the patrol soldiers in the city, there were no powerful characters, after the two of them killed, a few fell to the ground, and then Jing Yuan shouted and took the remaining brothers all rushed over, how could the Qing soldiers parry, and fled in a hurry. Jing Yuan got some more weapons, but there were still twenty or thirty people with wooden sticks.

Anqing West City Gate, also called Zhengguan Gate, has not experienced war for 200 years since it was rebuilt in the early Qing Dynasty. This time, the long-haired army went east along the river, and the Qing soldiers guarding the gate thought that the west gate was the first to bear the brunt, but what they didn't expect was that the long-haired army came by boat to attack the big and small south gates, and did not go ashore to attack the city, which is undoubtedly a good sign for them, maybe the long-haired army is just passing through Anqing, and will soon attack Nanjing. However, the cannon roared outside the south gate, and the long-haired army didn't seem to want to leave.

Originally, Wang Pengfei's 2,000 Wolf Mountain town soldiers were stationed in the south of the city, including the large and small south gates, Fu Jixun, the prefect of Anqing, led 300 Fu pacesetters and 200 regiments to train troops to garrison the west of the city, and the remaining hundreds of soldiers were stationed at the second gate in the northeast. However, because the Taiping army mainly attacked the large and small south gates, the south of the city was in a hurry, so Fu Jixun had to transfer 300 Fu pacesetters to help guard the small south gate, leaving only 200 regiments to practice bravery. At this time, the guard of the city gate was a thousand generals left by Fu Jixun, although he was not fortunate enough to see the Taiping army with flags covering the sky on the river, but the continuous cannon sound was enough to surprise him with the strength of the Taiping army.

"The Taiping Army is coming!" More than a dozen panicked patrolmen shouted from Ximen Street.

The Taiping army called, which can make the brave practitioners who usually show off their martial arts and mighty terrified, and before they had time to listen to the patrol to explain clearly, they heard the east side of the street shouting and killing, and the commander of the city guard hurriedly ordered his men to prepare for battle. The Lian Yong were already frightened, but now that the Taiping Army has appeared in the city, I don't know if the south gate is lost, and it is too late to escape, how can they prepare for war. The voice from the east grew louder and clearer, and all I could hear was chanting incessantly: "Taiping mighty!" "Now the Lian Yong was shocked, this voice seems to be thousands of people." The Taiping Army is coming, run! I don't know who shouted, the Lian Yong who fell into a panic suddenly realized, and with a bang, they all abandoned their positions and fled towards the north of the city.

When Jing Yuan came to the gate of the city, the Qing soldiers ran away, and the banner and sword were thrown to the ground. I thought there would be a fierce battle, but I didn't expect that a shout would scare away the Qing soldiers. Looking at the blue sky, "Freedom!" Jing Yuan exclaimed lightly.

"Brother Wang, we have made a fortune, these guys have left so many weapons! Cannon! And cannons! Lian Yong was in a hurry to flee for their lives, how could they have time to carry these burdens, looking at these weapons, Yuan Hongmo shouted happily.

Jing Yuan ignored him, he was thinking about it while fully enjoying the joy of freedom. It has been seventeen days since he crossed over, he has been beaten by the governor, he has been imprisoned by the probationer, and now he has succeeded in launching a riot and regaining his freedom, all of which seems to be a dream, but it is so real. Looking at these strange and familiar Qing Dynasty "brothers", Jing Yuan couldn't help laughing, he knew that if it weren't for the Taiping army pressing the border, and the Qing soldiers had no intention of defending the city, he would not have been able to scare the Qing army away. If he hadn't started to escape, these prisoners would have been released after the Taiping army broke through the city, was it right or wrong for me to do so now? Why did you return to the Qing Dynasty by yourself? The Taiping army artillery outside the southern city was still howling, and Jing Yuan looked at it unconsciously, did he really want to follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

"! Just do it with them" Jing Yuan suddenly said, as if talking to himself, as if he was talking to someone, and everyone knew that the boss was going to speak. I only heard Jing Yuan say: "Brothers, we have laid down the West City Gate, and then we will welcome the Taiping Army into the city!" I, Wang, have already decided to follow the Taiping Army to the end, what about you! ”

Most of the people under him were thinking, only Yuan Hongmo said with a big grin: "I Yuan Hongmo is following you!" A few of the people who were with him were clamoring to stay.

Jing Yuan smiled knowingly, and then turned his gaze to Lu Yaoling and Xie Zhenke. They have taken great care of themselves since they were imprisoned, and they are also important assistants in escaping from prison, and Jing Yuan is looking forward to them.

However, the two of them never spoke, and Jing Yuan was unexpectedly the squinting person who actively responded to the riot, and the squinting person was actually the one-eyed dragon. When he encountered a Qing patrol, he took the lead in the battle, and his courage was no less than Yuan Hongmo, but because he was in a hurry to attack the city gate, Jing Yuan never spoke to him alone. In the face of his refuge, Jing Yuan didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. Then more than a dozen people said that they would stay, and Jing Yuan said angrily when he saw this: "Today, the imperial court is tyrannical, the officials are corrupt, and the Quartet is constantly revolting, who can live in the troubled times?" Besides, the eldest husband should make meritorious deeds, seal his wife and son, and the princes and generals are all born to fuck each other? ”

"Hooray, hooray! Long live the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! ”

"Brother, your surname?" Jing Yuan found the one-eyed dragon.

"Back to the general's words, the villain's name is Hu Yongxiang."

"Hu Yongxiang? Isn't that the fierce general of the later Taiping Army? Hu Yongxiang is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom leader in the late period of the Kang Wang Haiyang's right-hand man, although blind in one eye, but brave and good at fighting, repeatedly made great contributions, but only a "heavenly general", although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom history books do not describe him much, but Jing Yuan still admires him can hold on with Wang Haiyang to the end.

"The Taiping Army also has a name for Hu Yongxiang?" Jing Yuan's inexplicable question confused Hu Yongxiang.

"Oh, I'm talking about Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he is a rare fierce general in the Heavenly Kingdom, you will see him in the future." That is, he is a famous general, and Jing Yuan naturally collects it. Jing Yuan carefully inquired about his place of origin, etc., and then learned that he was a Dongliu man, because he offended the squire in his hometown and ran to the mountains to become a bandit, and was surrounded by the official army last autumn and was arrested, and now there are more than a dozen of his brothers left.

Jing Yuan thought of reorganizing his brothers according to Hu Yongxiang's situation, and he appointed himself as the commander of the Taiping Army according to the system of the Taiping Army, and the eighty-four people under his command were divided into four two, of which Yuan Hongmo was the two Sima in the east, Hu Yongxiang was the two Sima in the west, Lu Yaoling was the two Sima in the south, and Xie Zhenke was the two Sima in the north. They were divided into four more soldiers, and the names of the troops were not as detailed as those of the Taiping Army. Jingyuan divided their positions again, Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang one was outside the city, the other was inside the city, Jingyuan prepared for the Taiping army to attack from the outside, so he and the large army attacked the city, and the Qing army attacked, so they withdrew outside the city. And Lu Yaoling is in charge of the city gate, and Xie Zhenke is in charge of the city tower.

Everything has been arranged, Jing Yuan began to think about how to contact the Taiping army, and now the cannon is roaring, if he goes, won't he be used as cannon fodder for the Qing army. However, it was not certain that all the Qing soldiers in the south of the city had fled, so they had to guard the wide open gate and wait for the Taiping army to enter the city.