Chapter 421: Hong Xiuquan (Chapter 2)
"Shi Dakai wants to rebel!"
"Shi Dakai wants to rebel!"
Again, Hong Xiuquan scolded angrily. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"How can you turn your back on the Lord and abandon the soil, and give up Anqing and Wuhu to Zhu Shun!"
After last year's "infighting among the kings," after Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, was killed, tens of thousands of people in the East Hall were executed, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang were executed, and Shi Dakai led hundreds of thousands of soldiers to leave Tianjing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom suddenly appeared in a situation where "there were no generals in the court and no one in the country." There was no one in charge of the court one after another, and the two kings of An and Fu were like crabs without feet, dizzy, and they didn't know what to do. Hundreds of officials have put on the concert, asking the king of heaven to remove the two kings of An and Fu, and welcome the king of wing to return to the dynasty to govern. Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to admit defeat, and issued an order to depose the two kings of An and Fu, remove the prince, and change the title of Tian'an and Tianfu, but even so, Shi Dakai could not be recalled.
In the face of the Qing army's counterattack in southern Anhui and other places did not know how to respond, Shi Dakai led 300,000 elite Taiping troops from Anqing, Wuhu and other places to the north to "go north" to the Qing demons, but the Tianjing Gate was wide open, and what made Hong Xiuquan even more annoyed was that the righteous army in Hubei actually took the opportunity to seize Anqing and Wuhu.
This is not the most deadly place, and the most worrying thing is that Zhu Wei has openly broken with the Kingdom of Heaven, and even issued some kind of "Eastern Crusade Declaration" -- as a courtier of the Kingdom of Heaven, he actually wants to crusade against the "evil people and bandits", and also declares what it means to "relieve the people from hanging upside down".
Uncle can bear it, but aunt can't bear it......
In front of Hong Xiuquan, he was Mengdeen, in the kingdom of heaven, he can be said to be an alternative, originally called Mengsheng, first changed to Mengdetian, and then changed to Mengdeen, the previous name was changed to avoid secrecy, so as not to collide with the "God Worship Society" founded by Hong Xiuquan; The latter name was changed, and after Hong Xiuquan ascended the throne of the "Heavenly Dynasty" and the title of "Heavenly King", it not only avoided offenses, but also appeared to be the grace of the "Heavenly King". Two changes of name, killing two birds with one stone, Mengde's scheming, good at inviting pets, can be seen.
In the history of the Taiping rebellion, Meng Deen was not a big role. But there is one thing that is different, and that is his close relationship with the sect leader Hong Xiuquan. At the beginning of the Jintian Incident, Meng Deen was the imperial forest guard beside Hong Xiuquan, and Hong Xiuquan lived in a simple place in the "Golden Dragon Palace", and did not easily summon the ministers, but Meng Deen was one of the very few people who could meet the "Heavenly King" when he entered and contacted the civil and military forces when he went out. After Hong Yang's infighting and Shi Dakai's departure, Meng Deen was entrusted with important responsibilities by Hong Xiuquan, promoted to the head of the government, and became the second in command of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom".
In a way, it is the Grace that is the real winner of the heavenly strife! It's just that no one knows how long this winner will last.
At this time, Meng Deen had already heard that Hong Xiuquan had lost his temper there, and Meng Deen's heart was full of sorrow, maybe he was the real big winner of the heavenly strife, but from the current point of view, it is very likely that this big winner will not last long.
After Shi Dakai's "Northern Expedition", the righteous army began the "Eastern Expedition". The rebel army first divided the troops into two routes, one from Huangmei to the north along the river, and the other from Wuhu to take the landing of foreign ships, and the two roads advanced along the river at the same time, so it can be said that the Taiping army's river defense was finished.
Although the Taiping army had hundreds of thousands, there were only more than 30,000 people in the Xiangrong Jiangnan camp at the beginning, which made the Taiping army helpless, not to mention that Zhu Yifeng's righteous army had 100,000 people!
What's even worse is that the small local regimental training has always been hostile to the Taiping army. Now that the Righteous Army is crusading eastward, these local regimental exercises, which are known as "protecting the Qing Dynasty", have not stopped the Righteous Army, but have risen up one after another to respond to the Righteous Army, and the situation in the entire Anhui Province has been corrupted in an instant.
In the face of such a bad situation, Meng Deen was simply at a loss.
Seeing that Meng Deen didn't speak, Hong Xiuquan asked,
"Deen, is Shi Dakai going to rebel? Could it be that he colluded with Zhu Yi and wanted to borrow Zhu Rui's knife to kill me? ”
This will make Hong Xiuquan even forget his identity as a "heavenly king".
Meng Deen really didn't want to answer Hong Xiuquan's question, he thought for a moment and said.
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, the Wing King is really distressed to leave this time, if he is bewitched today and fails to change his mind, whether he is now conspiring with Zhu Rebellious, it is unknown, now the Wing King is leading 300,000 troops, and he wants to smash the Yellow Dragon and the Northern Expedition to clear the demons, which is also for the great cause of the Kingdom of Heaven......"
Meng Deen could see that Shi Dakai was forced to leave, which can be said to be extremely unhappy. However, when he said that he was going to go on a northern expedition, the king of heaven was even more frowning and thought that the threat of Tianjing was about to be resolved, so he naturally ordered to agree to his northern expedition. and is ready to transfer other generals to take over Anqing.
But now it's good, after Shi Dakai's Northern Expedition, the righteous army took advantage of Jianghang and quickly occupied Anqing and Wuhu, which were empty. And the rebels have broken with Heaven!
More than a year after the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom actually had the same heart as Ming Spiegel, if it wasn't for Zhu Yifeng's unwillingness to do it, it is estimated that when everyone was killing each other, he would have gathered together with his 20,000 troops and naval fleets in Chongming at that time, and then took Tianjing under the "Qingjun side", killed Wei Changhui, Qin Rigang and others, and then directly killed the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan who commanded behind the scenes, and then planted it to Yang Xiuqing, Wei Changhui and others, who in the world can say anything?
But why didn't he do it in the first place?
Everyone couldn't guess it before, but now that Shi Dakai walked like this, they immediately guessed it.
It's not that Zhu Yifeng doesn't make a move, but he is waiting for the opportunity, just like his old ancestor, he is not not not doing it when he is celebrating the festival, he has been waiting, waiting for the strength of others to run out, and defeat the opponent at the lowest cost.
Now, Shi Dakai led 300,000 elite Northern Expeditions, what other forces in the Kingdom of Heaven can stop Zhu Yi?
"Deen, then you say, what now? If Tianjing is conquered by Zhu Rebellion, will there still be a great cause of heaven? If you don't send anyone to summon the stone brothers back? ”
As soon as he was nervous, Hong Xiuquan forgot about his previous accusation against Shi Dakai.
"Heavenly King, the minister thinks that the Wing King will not be able to be summoned back now."
Meng Deen looked at Hong Xiuquan's slightly nervous expression and spoke.
"Dazi won't come back? Then who will stand in the way of Zhu Yi? ”
Meng Deen sighed in his heart, Shi Dakai's influence in the Taiping Army did not diminish with his departure from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Opposite. Because when he was in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he made great achievements. Many Taiping generals were willing to follow him, which was why there would be 300,000 elites on his northern expedition.
It's good now, Shi Dakai left like this, not only taking away the elite of the Heavenly Kingdom, but also making the Heavenly Kingdom fall into the trap of being attacked by the enemy. Seeing the rebel army advancing Tianjing, how could the big guy not be in a hurry? After all, this is about everyone's net worth.
"Your Majesty, the most important thing now is to keep Tianjing!"
"Yes, yes, keep Tianjing, Deen, in your opinion, how to keep this Tianjing? If you don't give up Yangzhou and transfer Li Xiucheng to Tianjing? ”
Meng Deen was able to understand Hong Xiuquan's thoughts, and transferred Li Xiucheng back to Tianjing City to take charge of the defense of Tianjing City, at least to keep Tianjing for a while.
Last year, Li Xiucheng and Qin Rigang tore up the Qing army on the eastern front, and repeatedly repelled the counterattack of the Qing army, after Qin Rigang was executed, he took over the 150,000 troops left by Qin Rigang as prime minister, and after Shi Dakai left, he has been blocking the Qing army on the eastern front, and his transfer from Zhenjiang to Yangzhou was on the order of the king of heaven, ostensibly to block the Qing army, in fact, it was because the king of heaven still had the intention of preparing to solve the "stone rebellion" by force.
But who would have thought that before the king of heaven could dispatch troops to solve the "stone rebellion", Shi Dakai used a northern expedition to pull away 300,000 elites of the Taiping army, and as for the originally seemingly docile "Zhu Rebellion" in the west, he jumped out to "relieve the people from hanging".
Among the generals of the Taiping Army, only Li Xiucheng had the ability to fight after Shi Dakai left. Now the Heavenly King transferred him back to wait until the Eastern Front was completely ceded to the Qing army.
"Your Majesty, should you transfer Li Xiucheng back to the court, or will you order him to lead the army back to the court?"
Mund's asked tentatively.
This is the most critical place, in the Suzhou area, Jiangsu Governor Xu Youren still has tens of thousands of Lian Yong to mobilize, if only Li Xiucheng is transferred back to the DPRK, then the defense of the Eastern Front will not be empty, but if it is ordered to lead the army back to the DPRK, then it means that Li Xiucheng will have to give up Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and other places, and then what if the Qing Demon takes the opportunity to counterattack?
"Now the defenders of Tianjing are only 200,000, and they are all old and weak, so naturally they want to transfer Li Xiucheng to lead the army to return to the court, as for Yangzhou and Zhenjiang, they will be cheap for the time being!"
Without the slightest hesitation. As the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan naturally knew what choice he should make, he finally obtained the long-awaited monarch power, how could he be willing to be replaced by others like this, and even his surname could not be saved?
"Besides, it can't be cheap, when Zhu Rebell's rebel army arrives, it is bound to want to surround Tianjing, when the time comes, how will Xu Demon Tou let go of Zhu Rebell's rebel soldiers, then there will naturally be a demon rebellion war, and then Li Xiucheng will guard Tianjing, Tianjing will naturally not be lost!"
Despite the King's promises, Mund's mind was too idealistic. He actually tried to use the Qing Demon to contain Zhu Yi, which was obviously unlikely, so wouldn't Xu Demon sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, or send troops to attack when he was both defeated.
However, Hong Xiuquan didn't seem to think of these at all, he saw that Meng Deen didn't speak, and asked again,
"Denn, what do you think? Can Tianjing hold it? ”
After hearing this question from the Heavenly King, Meng Deen wanted to ask rhetorically.
"What if the Qing Demon does a mountain and watch the tiger fight?"
But Mond's, who knew the King of Heaven, knew very well what could be said, especially at this time, and these words could never be said
"Your Majesty's clever calculations are beyond the reach of the ministers! I have a heavenly father and a heavenly brother to protect each other, so I naturally have no worries! ”
"Well, what Deen said is very true, I want to enter the palace to let Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother bless the Heavenly Kingdom!"
Hearing the King say this, the drum beat in the bottom of his heart, and when he thought of the current situation, he suddenly realized a problem - perhaps, it was time to make a choice!
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