The National Defense Forces controlled the perimeter of Pingjiang City and prevented any military supplies from flowing into Pingjiang City.

The Wehrmacht did not bypass them and moved westward into the hinterland of Hunan. It's not that they didn't do it in the past, but because both sides understood that in the southwest region, the only army that the Qing Dynasty could fight with was the Hunan army, and if the Hunan army was defeated, the door of the entire southwest region would be completely open to heaven. If the Hunan army cannot be defeated, the Hunan army will be nailed to the throat of the kingdom of heaven like a nail, which will have a great impact on the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore, even if the Wehrmacht had the ability to cross Pingjiang City and attack the hinterland of Hunan, it would not be possible for them to carry it out.

Hong Tiangui had already foreseen the situation in Pingjiang City, and he gave Chen Yucheng a death order, looking at the death of the Hunan army, and not allowing the slightest strategic material to be sent into Pingjiang City, he wanted to besiege the 100,000 Hunan army with 30,000 troops.

At the same time, Hong Tiangui led the army to choose a place where Jiangxi and Hunan met and built a large training barracks.

The 150,000-strong army was reorganized into five super armies by Hong Tiangui, and the training model of the National Defense Force was used as a blueprint to carry out basic physical training and ideological education.

Although Hong Tiangui made a fortune in Shanghai, this wealth was of limited help to the current Heavenly Kingdom, and coupled with repeated struggles, the consumption of weapons and ammunition was extremely amazing. It was already extremely difficult for the Kingdom of Heaven to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht, and the five newly formed armies were naturally unable to equip themselves with weapons and equipment like the First Army of the Wehrmacht.

However, there are a lot of shotguns and guns captured by the Hunan army in the previous wars, and the artillery guns cast by the Hunan army themselves are already advanced in the current China.

In accordance with the firepower allocation of the national defense forces, Hong Tiangui concentrated the use of all firearms, and the five new armies were newly organized, two of which were basically equipped with old-fashioned equipment, and the remaining three armies could only retain some of the guns used for training, and the usual training was mainly physical fitness and ideological education.

The arsenal in Tianjing City has been operating at full capacity for production, but it is limited to the lack of power, and the scale of production is far from meeting the needs of the whole army. These things can't be completed overnight, and it's useless for Hong Tiangui to be in a hurry. Now he can only rely on the equipment he has for limited training.

And this 150,000 army is not very important to Hong Tiangui, the old-fashioned army is just cannon fodder in the face of powerful firepower. The 30,000 members of the Wehrmacht fought against the hundreds of thousands of Hunan troops, and the fact that they were beaten to the ground is the best example.

Because of the Wehrmacht's strategy of encircling but not fighting, the originally tense battlefield unexpectedly calmed down. In Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces, provincial governors have been stepping up their training of new armies to cope with the sudden growth of the Taiping army.

Zeng Guofan's recitals were also sent out from Pingjiang City one by one, and they were sent to the capital in an urgent manner for 800 miles. The eyes of the entire Qing Dynasty were focused on this small city that arose because of the war.

The Qing Dynasty once again held an emergency court meeting, at which there was a fierce debate around the attitude of the Qing Dynasty towards the Hunan army, and the conservatives believed that the Hunan army of hundreds of thousands could not defeat the Taiping army of tens of thousands, which was really incompetent, and implored that Zeng Guofan must be removed from his post and investigated, and another merit must be selected to rely on Pingjiang City to counterattack the Taiping army. In addition, the Qing Dynasty should re-establish the Manchu Eight Banners in accordance with the ancestral system, and re-control the military power in the hands of the Manchus, so as to make the Qing Dynasty's country permanent.

The radical faction led by Prince Gong supported the Hunan army and Zeng Guofan as always. They suggested that the southwestern provinces organize troops to support Zeng Guofan, and purchase weapons and equipment to support the Hunan army at all costs, believing that as long as the weapons and equipment of the Hunan army are improved, the strange national defense force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will inevitably be left in the southwest.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an herself was biased towards conservatives, and she wanted to rely on the opinions of conservatives. But the Empress Dowager Cixi strongly supported Prince Gong, and for the first time stood on the opposite side of the Empress Dowager Ci'an.

The court was divided into two factions for a while, and the two factions were dissatisfied with each other, which made the court meeting since the death of Emperor Xianfeng extremely lively.

The little emperor sat on the throne obediently, watching with interest the ministers below embarrass each other, and the little guy who was less than seven years old just thought that his fight was very interesting, like a group of dogs fighting for meat in the harem.

The meeting could hardly go on. The Empress Dowager Ci'an had to announce the dissolution of the dynasty. In **, the Empress Dowager Ci'an pulled down her face for the first time.

"Sister Cixi, what are you going to do? The current Qing Dynasty is suffering from internal and external troubles, what is the benefit of blindly fighting the main battle at this time to the Qing Dynasty? Empress Dowager Ci'an's face was a little ugly. Cixi and Prince Gong teamed up to make the Empress Dowager Ci'an, who had always been indisputable, feel threatened for the first time.

"Sister, it's not that my sister intends to go against you, for the Qing Dynasty, the danger of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is far greater than that of Westerners, because Westerners bully our Qing Dynasty just to ask for some finances, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty wants the lives of our sisters, and it is clear who is superior and who is inferior. As long as it is for the purpose of exterminating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, all the costs are worth it. Cixi said in a deep voice. Although she was only a Lan nobleman when the first emperor was there, she handled government affairs with the vanguard, and her vision naturally surpassed that of the Empress Dowager Ci'an.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect this situation. But she was a little unwilling, because he was the empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty and a justifiable hostess. Now the biological mother of the Son of Heaven is not only named the queen mother, but her status is only a little worse than herself, especially after solving the eight ministers last year, Cixi has lost more and more of a respectful heart, and she has heard that Cixi is moody, and it is common to kill palace maids.

"The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother of the West is right, this year, relying on the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan, the Kingdom of Heaven has been victorious and has recovered several provinces, Zeng Guofan's ability is still there, although he is a Han man, but he is loyal to the Qing Dynasty. We should not completely veto him just because we lost this war. "Yi? whispered.

Empress Dowager Ci'an had a struggling look on her face.

"Sister, Zeng Guofan's great exploits in the past two years to exterminate the Taiping Army are extremely eye-catching, and now a defeat will lose everything, I think the current Hunan Army is better in his hands than in others. One failure does not mean eternal failure, and we should give him everything. Empress Dowager Cixi said in a deep voice.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an took a deep look at her, and the expression on her face was quite solemn.

"What if he fails again? There were few Jiangxi provinces in the Qing Dynasty that could defeat Zeng's domain. "The Empress Dowager Ci'an finally chose to believe in Cixi and Prince Gong once. Let Prince Gong Yi? Responsible for mobilizing the greatest manpower and material resources of the Qing Dynasty to purchase weapons and ammunition from the West, and re-equipping the Hunan army and the Huai army.

This news was sent to Pingjiang City through the night, and the Hunan army in the city was completely excited. The losses in weapons and equipment have already put the entire Hunan army in a precarious situation. As long as the armament is replaced, the Wehrmacht will lose the strength it possesses.