Compared with the Taiping army, the Qing army in Dongliang Mountain was frightened. Pan Xien was already frightened, thinking that the Taiping Mansion fell into the hands of the Taiping army, and Xiling was afraid that he would lose his life. He is thanks to Song'an, if he hadn't gone out of the city with him, I'm afraid that he Pan Xien would have followed in the footsteps of Lu Jianying and Jiang Wenqing, and would have been loyal to the Qing Dynasty. At this time, he didn't care about any civil and military dignity, and regarded Song'an as a savior. Song'an was also a swollen face and a fat man, and bragged hard in front of this boss who could hear the sky, but when there was another long dragon of lights under the mountain, he was completely wilted, and that long dragon could only be the backup team of the Taiping Army. Song'an didn't dare to brag anymore, so he immediately conspired with Pan Xien, abandoned the military camp, and fled from the cliff behind the mountain unconsciously.

The Sixth Right Army led by Zeng Tianyang, deputy commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, marched into the temporary camp with gongs and drums, and the high-profile reinforcements all held torches, which really made the Qing soldiers guarding the village break into a cold sweat. But Zeng Tianyang did not rush to attack the village, but chose to wait for the next day.

Soon after the Sixth Army of the Right Army was stationed, Zeng Tianyang held a military meeting, and Wang Jingyuan was finally able to get on the stage, although he was to accompany the last seat. Zeng Tianyang was already fifty-five years old at the time of the Jintian Uprising, but he was extremely fierce and brave, and he was a famous cadre of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and often boasted of Huang Zhong. However, with his later achievements, compared with Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang, Luo Xuan, Wei Zhijun, etc., although there is no ability of Li, Lin, and Luo to fight every battle, and there is no Wei Zhijun's ability to conquer Wuchang City, but the only one who can take charge of the Western Expeditionary Army is Zeng Tianyang, but it is similar to Huang Zhong, and it is short-lived after all.

In the big tent, the temporary commander and the first inspector on the left of the palace Zeng Tianyang deservedly sat in the main seat, and the twelfth commander of the palace left of the sixth and eighth right armies was on the right, and the leading generals of the sixth and eighth armies on the right sat in two rows, and the lower right was Cheng Ying, the sixth superintendent of the right army, and Yang Rusong, the commander of the sixth army on the right. The lower left is Zuo Chongji, the eighth superintendent of the Golden Eighth Army, Hou Yutian, the eighth superintendent of the right, and Huang Jingyuan, the commander of the Eighth Army on the right. The rest are the same officials in the corners on both sides. Among these generals, it is worth mentioning that Huang Wenjin, the sixth superintendent of the right army, met Li Shixian in history and almost killed Zeng Guofan in Qimen.

First of all, Zeng Tianyang encouraged everyone, saying that the soldiers fought day after day, broke the enemy and won, and worked hard. Among them, he praised Huang Jingyuan, the commander of the Right Eighth Army, who led the troops well and had a good strategic vision (only later did he know that Hou Yutian, the superintendent, had said good things in front of Zeng Tianyang). Wang Jingyuan didn't dare to say anything on the left side of his mouth, and he didn't dare to do anything on the right, and he won praise from all his colleagues.

Then, Zeng Dashuai conveyed the order of the king of the east that Anqing must be conquered in mid-May, and at the same time asked the generals to govern their subordinates and pay attention to military discipline. Then, it was announced that the reinforcements led by Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of Chunguanzheng, had been drawn from Tianjing. The five armies led by the third from the right, the fifth from the right, the second from the right, the second from the front, and the third from the first three of the water camp were fully 7,000 men, and they would meet in the coming day to attack Xiliang Mountain on the other side of the river. This news undoubtedly gave a shot in the arm to the soldiers of the Western Expedition who had been fighting for days, and besides, the sixth and eighth right armies were originally subordinates of Prime Minister Hu Cheng, and most of the old brothers in Guangxi, who were the backbone, were Hu Yihuang's hometown party, and the arrival of the old chief naturally had the backbone.

Zeng Shuai decided to launch a battle against the enemy army in Dongliang Mountain at dawn the next day, swept away the Qing army in this area, and quickly established the first gateway to the Tianjing River defense.

After the meeting, a moment later, the bangzi sounded, and the rhythmic percussion sound became a lullaby in Wang Jingyuan's ears, and as early as the meeting, his two eyes were constantly struggling. At this moment, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, he rushed in the direction of his tent. Unexpectedly, as soon as the tent was opened, I heard a burst of snoring, not only the earth-shattering crying ghosts and gods, but also like the noise of gongs and drums and firecrackers.

"MBD, which dog slept in Lao Tzu's tent?" The young marshal roared.

"Big ...... Your Excellency is back! Jiang Wan, who was at a few tables, saw Wang Jingyuan rushing in suddenly, and hurriedly answered.

How could this beautiful woman be in her tent? But Jiang Wan couldn't snore like thunder.

"What are you doing with me?"

"There are so many people that there are no separate tents." Jiang Wan's face was slightly red.

It turned out that in this western expedition, materials were scarce, and the general heavenly soldiers either squeezed dozens of people into a camp tent, or slept in the open air, and only the military commander level enjoyed an office + bedroom + living room camp alone. Jiang Wan naturally didn't dare to sleep with dozens of big men, unfortunately, there were a lot of mosquitoes in Jiangnan in May, and the weak and beautiful women were their opponents, and they would be defeated in less than half of them. After some ideological struggle, he had to come to Wang Jingyuan's tent with great reluctance.

Sleeping with beautiful women? There are several times in the world that such good things can be done. "No, this snoring ......"

"The two scholars of the Sixth Army on the Right have crowded my tent, so they came here, but someone came one step earlier than me......" Jiang Wan pointed to the bed slightly embarrassed.

Wang Jingyuan fixed his eyes and saw that there was a naked man sleeping on the simple bed, who else could this guy be if he wasn't Yuan Hongmo?

"Bah, Yuan Heizi, get out of here!" "This is Lao Tzu's shop! Yuan Heizi, did you hear it, I'm a military marshal! Get up! ”

No matter how much Wang Jingyuan screamed and scolded, this Yuan Hongmo couldn't move, and his snoring continued as usual. was so angry that Wang Jingyuan walked to the front of the shop and beat and kicked, how could this guy have rough skin and thick meat, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

Wang Jingyuan pretended to be very helpless and ordered Jiang Wan: "Go, call Lao Lu and the blind man to come over and drag this guy back." ”

After a while, Lu Yaoling, Hu Yongxiang, Zhong Liangxiang and other seven or eight of his right-hand men all came, Wang Jingyuan pointed to Yuan Hongmo, who was sleeping like a dead pig, and several of his subordinates immediately carried it willingly. Zhong Liangxiang grabbed Yuan Hongmo's right arm, Ren Guixin dragged his left arm, and Liu Zhaojun and Xie Zhenke each dragged one leg. Unexpectedly, the four of them did not lift Yuan Hongmo, and the more they exerted, the heavier it became. This is strange, Yuan Hongmo is not fat, why can't the four big men lift him.

Seeing that Yuan Hongmo couldn't wake up alive or dead, Wang Jingyuan didn't toss anymore, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and said to himself: "It's a pity, a jar of good wine was pressed under Yuan Heizi's butt like this......"

"Wine! Where? Before Wang Jingyuan's words fell, Yuan Hongmo slipped up.

"Be quiet, what are you shouting, I thought you were dead? What's the matter, alive again? ”

"It's dead, it's true, it's just that the Ten Palaces Yama said, your old man is the reincarnation of an immortal, and your subordinates, his old boy can't afford it!" Yuan Hongmo said solemnly.

"Oh, fairy? Which way is the fairy? Lu Yaoling asked with interest.

"The immortals in the east are the ...... Donghua Zhenjun is reincarnated, and the Jade Emperor sent your old man down to manage the East. ”

"The military commander is Donghua Zhenjun?" As soon as Yuan Hongmo finished speaking, everyone was surprised, and Hu Yongxiang was full of suspicion.

"Come on, don't you just see that this military marshal searched for a jar of wine from the boatman in Tianjing, and don't clean up all this nonsense, if I hear it again, I have to break your legs!" Wang Jingyuan threatened.

"It's true, I dreamed that the Jade Emperor had made a holy decree......" Yuan Hongmo was very serious.

"And said! Shut up! Long ribbon, take out the jar of wine under the table, and pour some for everyone, but first say yes, don't get drunk! Don't mess around! Especially you, Yuan Heizi! ”

"Yes, yes!" When Yuan Hongmo heard that he was directly named by the military marshal, he stood up straight and replied with a "snap".

Wang Jingyuan looked at Yuan Hongmo's serious appearance, and laughed: "Come on, pour wine!" ”

Wang Jingyuan has never been impressed by the rules and precepts of the monks of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the soldiers are trying to survive in swords, guns, swords, and halberds every day. This is not a risk to share the rare relaxation on the battlefield with these subordinates who always support themselves regardless of life and death.

The next day, the Taiping army launched a general attack on Dongliang Mountain, the cannons of the Jiangshang Water Division roared in unison, and Wang Jingyuan led the right Eighth Army to charge, the morale was completely lost, and the Qing soldiers without a commander had to surrender and survive. These Qing soldiers were all recruited from nearby states and counties, and their bodies were strong, so Wang Jingyuan and Hou Yutian worked together and asked Zuo Chongji to find Zeng Tianyang. This guy is also very active in this regard, after all, he is the general system of the Right Eighth Army, and one more soldier of the Right Eighth Army is also counted as his soldier.

Zeng Tianyang can also be regarded as rewarding the right Eighth Army for his exploits in the first battle of Dongliang Mountain, so he appointed the Right Eighth Army to select 800 people and gather 2,500 people, which is the basic number of the armies of the Heavenly Kingdom.

Dongliang Mountain was broken, the Qing army was sandwiched by the Yangtze River, and the plan to prevent the Taiping Army from falling through.

At this time, the Qing army on the north bank was in charge of Li Dengzhou, the governor of Hezhou, and his subordinates had 2,000 green battalions in Hezhou and several thousand urgently recruited local regiments in Hezhou. In addition, there were Pan Xien and Song'an, who escaped from the south bank, and the two of them lost two battles in a row in the south of the Yangtze River, and fled to the north bank almost naked. Fortunately, Pan Xien is a civil official, and he is not a local main hall, so he has no responsibility to defend the land. If the Qing court wants to pursue it, it will at most be ineffective in resisting thieves. Song'an, on the other hand, as the main local defense general, not only lost the county but also wiped out the entire army, and his crime is probably not enough to cut him ten times.

However, Songan did not sit back and wait for the head to be killed, but asked to join the command of Li Dengzhou's troops, in an attempt to make meritorious service for his crimes. Li Dengzhou's official residence is from the fifth grade, and the post of deputy general of Song'an is from the second grade, although the Ming and Qing dynasties emphasized literature and light martial arts, but there is a huge gap between the two. Moreover, as a civilian official, Li Dengzhou does not practice martial arts, and in this war-torn world, he has to rely on this general of the defeated army in order to protect the territory and peace. Although Song'an lost the battle, he was quite thick-skinned and not polite at all, and directly grasped the command of the Hezhou army.

Perhaps anxious to atone for his sins, Songan launched a defense along the river very seriously. Previously, in the two battles on the south bank, his troops were significantly smaller than the Taiping army, and he was only beaten on land. Now that he has the advantage of the riverbank, he adopted the strategy of defending the water village, placing sentries in secret, strictly preventing the Taiping army from coming ashore, and concentrating the only few earthen cannons in his hand to attack the river fleet.