The curtain of the two palaces, the young emperor was confused, the quiet Qing court, a group of military ministers headed by Prince Gong, and the ministers of the prime minister Yamen, all respectful, clichéd topics, and repeated plots made all people tired and bored.

The Empress Dowager Xi yawned, but she didn't dare to make a sound, tried her best to suppress the restlessness of her inner world, and quickly sat down, with long nail covers and delicate painting oil paints, witnessing the empty and luxurious life of the court,

"Sister, take a look." The Empress Dowager Ci'an looked at the recital, and suddenly her voice changed,

Empress Dowager Xi took it, glanced at it quickly, and stood up involuntarily from her seat: "The monk king was defeated, and the thief army broke Xinxiang." ”

"Yes, thieves are rampant, and the monk army's army has been temporarily frustrated." Prince Gong hurriedly replied,

"How much is the loss, how many thieves are in the army, who is the leader, what kind of weapons are there, the battle of Xinxiang, what is the process." The Empress Dowager of the West raised several questions in a row, showing political acumen and skillfulness.

"Queen Mother, it's like this." Prince Gong cautiously peeked at the two empress dowagers, and told what he knew concisely,

In fact, the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces has some understanding of the great changes in the Northwest Region, the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom, and the Luoyang Army, the whole province of Shaanxi has "fallen", the famous general Duolonga was captured, and most of Henan has fallen.

The depressing atmosphere and worried sighs made the Qing court enter an era of unrest.

The little emperor Tongzhi, while listening, boredly peeking at the light at the palace door, imagining the beautiful game life outside, in the protracted meeting, couldn't help but close his eyes, and fell asleep,

The Qing court deliberated for a day before confirming three measures: first, to expedite the 800-li expedition and mobilize the Hunan army and Huai army in the southeast to reinforce Henan, second, to recruit troops from Mongolia and the northeast region again to supplement the troops of the monk king, and third, to immediately go to the embassies of Western countries, and Prince Gong, the prime minister of the Yamen, to contact the foreigners and ask for more assistance in weapons and equipment.

"Minister, the bandits in the northwest have caused great harm, and I must ask for the support of all countries in the West, otherwise, it will be difficult to exterminate this thief for a period of time after that, and we must focus on the northwest bandits, light the southeast, and the flow of flood and rebellion will be imminent, but the Huai army can be encircled, and all the Hunan troops will come north."

Luo Yang didn't have a chance to care about his mother's Qing court, he wasn't bored enough to send soldiers to infiltrate the Qing court to collect intelligence, although, he also attached importance to reconnaissance methods, which were all battlefield tactical reconnaissance, he only believed in one, fist and force, and then believed in one, the people's heart, only firmly establish the benefit of serving the people, and serving the majority of the bottom people as the policy benchmark, everything is easy to say, he believes that society can never be absolutely fair, but, a regime and government, You must take fairness and justice as the core of your policy, otherwise, you are finished, which has nothing to do with the length of a regime, has nothing to do with the ability to rule, technology, and your quality.

After Xinxiang was rectified and supplemented, Luo Yang waved his army straight to Anyang, and was determined to eliminate the main force of Seng Lingqin.

A great news came, Henan's twisted army came to converge,

Luo Yang didn't know much about the Twist Army, he only knew that they were also the rebel army of the Henan people against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were the brothers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he didn't expect that the Twist Army was actually so powerful.

Originally, the Twist Army and the Qing Army Monk Greenqin fought to the death in the Huai River area, where it was the hometown of the Twist Army, the strong hometown concept, so that although they accepted the banner of the Taiping Army, the military system, the attire, but still on the Huai River, when the army was extremely large, there were more than 200,000 people, because the alliance advocated Le Xing was defeated by the monk Qinqin, was betrayed by a traitor and died, the Twist Army hated the Qing court very much, and now, they have changed the infantry to cavalry, forming a strong mobile combat capability, becoming a threat to the north of the Qing army, In response to the important forces of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jiangnan,

Chen Decai, the general of the Taiping Army who returned from Shaanxi, rushed to the two Huai, converged with the Twist Army, and held back the main force of the Qing Army's northern line, Monk Greenqin, therefore, the situation of the Luoyang Army in the Northwest was known to the Twist Army, when Henan changed greatly, and the news of the Battle of Kaifeng spread, the Twist Army was greatly surprised, and then divided into two parts, all the way under the leadership of the Taiping Army Fuwang Chen Decai and the Twist Army Youwo King, continued to be active in Huainan, in response to the Taiping Army, one route under the leadership of Zhang Zongyu and Ren Huabang, and went north to pursue Seng Greenqin,

In Luoyang, Qiu Yuancaijun received his comrades-in-arms from afar, reported the situation, and the generals of the Twist Army heard that most of the Seng Greenqin army was annihilated in Kaifeng, and had just been annihilated in Xinxiang, and was very excited, and immediately led the main cavalry force, went north to Xinxiang, and went north to Anyang, and finally caught up with Luoyang in Qi County,

50,000 cavalry of the Twist Army, when they arrived around the county seat, the mighty formation made Luo Yang overjoyed.

After the welcome, he stepped into the military tent, the capture of the county seat, experienced a skirmish, and the Qing army guarding the county town was thousands of people, ridiculously intercepting the Luoyang army, and as a result, a few shells bombarded the past, and the city gate was blasted open.

Zhang Zongyu and Ren Huabang and other generals of the Twist Army visited the traces of the capture of the county seat, especially the traces of damage at the huge burst, and they were all amazed.

"In the Ruiwang army, there is such a powerful cannon." Zhang Zongyu sighed,

"yes, yes, we've never seen such a powerful cannon." Other generals also said,

Although the cavalry of the Twist Army is powerful, however, the quality of the individual soldiers is not as good as that of the Monk Greenqin Army, because the Twist Army was originally an ordinary peasant on both sides of the Huai River, and the horseback riding skills were generally learned after joining the army, and the Monk Greenqin Army was the Mongolian Army and the minority army in the northeast zone, and the people on horseback, therefore, compared with the cavalry alone, the Twist Army was not an opponent, plus the cannons and foreign guns equipped with the Monk Greenqin infantry, they were not opponents, and for several years, they have been suppressed by the Monk Greenqin and other armies. Even the old league advocated that Lexing was defeated and captured, and was cut down by the monk Lingling Lingchi, that battle, the twisted army was 200,000, and the Qing Dynasty official army was only 20,000, so the skills and tactics of the people's army were much worse than those of the Qing Dynasty official army.

Now, with great interest and gratitude, the Twist Army came to see Luo Yang, because it was Luo Yang who defeated their biggest enemy, Seng Greenqin.

Luo Yang personally led everyone and visited the troops, first the infantry, although the number of infantry was not much, but a large number of foreign guns were equipped, so that the generals of the Twist Army saw it, and they were terrified, and the rows of neat and orderly cannons, whether it was foreign artillery or flying thunder artillery, made them even more admired.

"No wonder there are so many cannons."

"The foreign cannon is powerful, it can bloom and hit people."

Luo Yang personally manipulated and demonstrated the bombing power of the flying thunder cannon, which shocked all the generals of the Twist Army.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have been fighting in Lianghuai for many years, and your hard work is high, and the grandeur of your cavalry has made this king slanderous, hehehe." Luo Yang praised the other party enthusiastically,

"King Rui, your troops are terrible elite soldiers, no wonder that Monk Greenqin bastard will lose." Zhang Zongyu and Ren Huabang said in unison,

Zhang Zongyu, King Liang of the Twist Army, Ren Huabang, King Lu of the Twist Army,