Luo Yang repeatedly stated that he wanted to release Li Hongzhang and ask him to lead troops to fight again, but he didn't dare to leave.

"Hmph, you really want to be angry with this king, this king gives you a chance, because I like your command art and style, and I like to hit such a powerful Huai army under your command, hahaha, this king is already addicted, if you don't recruit troops anymore, this king is a hero and lonely." Luo Yang finally revealed the mystery, so that Li Hongzhang's old face had no place to rest.

He is not old, he is in the prime of life,

Li Hongzhang's courage is too small, this is unchangeable, this is character, character determines fate, such a person became the mainstay of the late Qing Dynasty, it can only be said that the power and art of the Empress Dowager Mingxi is at work, and he wants to try his best to suppress the power of Zeng Guofan, as a result, weighing the pros and cons, he chose his students, just because Li's character is inherently weak, and the Empress Dowager West's keen and intelligent eyes chose him,

Li Hongzhang is a talented slave in Chinese history, compared to the iron-clad Zuo Zongtang, his style is more than one or two.

Relying on such people to reverse the fortunes of Chinese history, the real ZTE is the.

However, such a person can guarantee the interests of the Qing Dynasty and the Manchu elites.

After examining and identifying all the surviving Huai army officers and clerks, Luo Yang released many ordinary Huai army soldiers and asked them to go to Shanghai and other places to find the British, and asked them to take a large amount of money to ransom people.

Press the collapse of the Huai army is not tabled, in Nanjing City, embattled, Hong Xiuquan, the king of the Golden Dragon Palace, is already sick and dying, half a year earlier than the fate of history, is about to end, several palace concubines are waiting by the bedside,

"Call them." There was a stream of phlegm blocking his throat, Hong Xiuquan was already having difficulty breathing, even if he spoke, he couldn't figure it out.

The people who came every day waited outside the palace gate, and when they heard the call, they hurried to come: "King of Heaven." ”

There are seven or eight people who came today, including his eldest son Hong Tianguifu, Zhong Wang Li Xiucheng, Ganwang Hong Renji, King Ying, 3,000 years old, his nephew Hong Quanfu, and so on.

Motioning for everyone to get up with his hand, Hong Xiuquan asked Li Xiucheng about the latest news about the war, and Li Xiucheng looked embarrassed: "Heavenly King, the siege of the thief army is urgent, and our army is still resisting. ”

"Grain and grass."

"Basically, it's gone."

"Then, let's eat nectar." The so-called nectar is a weed,

Besieged by the Hunan Army and the Eight Banners Green Battalion and other armies, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has reached the most critical juncture, because the Qing army's weapons and equipment have been rapidly improved, and a huge advantage has been achieved.

"Heavenly King, I suggest to you that the siege of Tianjing is deepening, and our army cannot break it, according to Weichen's opinion, it is better to let the city go." Li Xiucheng plucked up the courage to say,

This suggestion was told to Hong Renji, but he didn't agree, but Li Xiucheng knew that Tianjing City could no longer hold it.

Hong Xiuquan hesitated for a long time to figure it out, and he immediately struggled to be helped up, pointing at Li Xiucheng: "You bastard." ”

Hong Xiuquan had already made such a plan, but unfortunately, he knew that once Tianjing got out of the way, not only would his life be adrift, but more importantly, it would seriously hit the morale of all Taiping Tian** soldiers.

One is military significance, the other is strategic and political significance, the high and low are distinct, it is not that Hong Xiuquan is incompetent,

"You say, how can you not hold the city?"

Under the severity, Li Xiucheng told about the difficult conditions of defending the city,

"That's good, I'm with you, you have few soldiers, then the guards in the Golden Dragon Palace, only fifty people will be left, and the rest will go to help you, even if the female officials in the palace and so on, only ten people will be left, and the rest will all participate in the battle, as for the food, you can figure it out yourself, and also, the gold and silver in the Golden Dragon Palace, reward the officers and soldiers, and boost morale." Hong Xiuquan coughed: "Send people out of the city again, and immediately unite with the Twist Army of Huaishang, Li Shixian of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and let them relieve the siege." ”

"Yes, Heavenly King." Li Xiucheng agreed with a wry smile,

"What are you afraid of?" Hong Xiuquan saw Li Xiucheng's reluctance, and said with a smile: "Tianjing is besieged, not to mention ten times, our army has broken the Qing Demon, what can it be this time, I know that the Huaishang Twist Army has 200,000 cavalry, which is several times that of the Qing Demon Army, Li Shixian's army, there are many foreign cannons and foreign guns, if you can join forces in one place, and the north and south will attack, then the Hunan army and the Huai army will inevitably be defeated. ”

"Yes." Li Xiucheng was reminded like this, and suddenly came to his senses,

At this time, Hong Tianguifu said on the side: "King Zhong, in fact, the momentum of our army is not only here, but also the southwest wing." ”

"You're talking about the Wing King Shi Dakai." Li Xiucheng was a little annoyed, but for the sake of face, he could only explain in a low voice: "His Royal Highness the Wing King has gone to Heaven last summer." ”

"Hmph." Hong Tianguifu said with a smile: "King Zhong forgot, although the Wing King went, his subordinates were very capable, they had occupied most of Sichuan, and went north to destroy the Qing Demon in Shaanxi, went east out of Henan, and defeated the enemy, its military strength is far from what we can imagine, its commander Luo Yang is brave and abnormal, not long ago, didn't the king of Fuwang Chen Decai send someone to report it." ”

Li Xiucheng really didn't know about this information, because he was besieged by the Qing army and the news was blocked, but he didn't know that Chen Decai's army on the outskirts of Hubei, although there were more than 10,000 people, was very powerful, and he contained tens of thousands of Qing troops, and there were even more surprising secret reports.

"The minister really doesn't know, if this is the case, Weichen must unite all the ministries and destroy the demons."

When Hong Xiuquan and others were discussing, the Hunan army camp outside Tianjing City was even more worried, or rather, it was a thunderbolt from the sky.

The general who led the army, Xiangshuai Zeng Guoquan, was already stupid in the chair and at a loss,

For a long time, in the oppressive atmosphere, no one dared to speak,

There was a reconnaissance cavalry report, and the defeated Huai army who fled from Anhui brought terrible news, the Huai army was completely annihilated, and even the commander, Li Hongzhang, the governor of Jiangsu, was captured.

The cruel Great Zeng Guoquan thought that the person who came was sent by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and used a strategy to attack the heart and divide the world, so he didn't believe it at all, so he hung the man up, whipped him, cut it with a knife, poked it with an awl, and made him half dead, but still didn't change his answer, and then, several groups of people fled from Anhui, all of whom were defeated soldiers of the Huai army, and they were all caught and beaten by him, until someone held Liu Mingchuan's handwritten letter and told him that he believed it,

Originally, Liu Mingchuan, who was already going home, happened to meet the defeated soldiers of the Huai army who fled home, only to know that the situation had changed greatly, and his ancestor Li Hongzhang was really finished, under grief and indignation, Liu Mingchuan decided to rebuild the Huai army, so he went out of the mountain to recruit troops and horses, and at the same time, sent someone to Zeng Guoquan to warn him to be careful of Huaxia Tian**'s attack,

"Hahahaha." Zeng Guoquan, who gritted his teeth, suddenly laughed: "It's nothing, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, besides, if the Huai army loses, the land south of the Yangtze River will be the place where our army gallops." ”

"Nine Marshals." Because of the ranking problem, Zeng Guoquan has always been known as the Nine Shuais: "What should we do." ”

"How to do it, it's very easy to do, while the Huaxia Army hasn't arrived yet, we will destroy Hong Xiuquan first."