After sending the latest Tang newspaper about the movements of the Qing army in the southwest, Tang Sanshui tactfully told Zhou Shixiang that his "friendly relations" with the Taiping army were probably about to be suspended. There is only one news in this latest Tang newspaper, that is, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, has been defeated on all fronts, and the Qing army has invaded Yunnan and is pressing towards Kunming.

According to the Qing Fangtang Newspaper, Li Dingguo Bing and Huang Yue commanded the Ming army of various departments in Yunnan to launch a counterattack against the Qing army preparing to enter Yunnan, and he ordered Feng Shuangli, Bai Wenxuan and other troops to march to the Anshun area of Guizhou, and ordered the forward Qi Sansheng and Li Rubi to lead more than 30 battalions of soldiers and horses to march to Pingba, and he led his headquarters to march to Guanling, hoping to launch an attack on the Qing army of the three routes at the same time to recapture Guiyang. At the same time, Li Dingguo also contacted Wang Youjin, Marquis of Ningguo, and Wang Guangxing, Marquis of Jingchuan, who were stationed in Youyang, Sichuan, to lead troops from Sinan Mansion to attack Meitan in order to contain the Qing army. However, due to the change in the war situation in Guangdong, the Qing army's military conference held at Yanglaobao in Guizhou did not give the troops time to rest and recuperate, but accelerated the pace of the attack on Yunnan, and attacked Yunnan before Li Dingguo gathered the troops to attack Guizhou. As a result, the simultaneous march of the Qing army on the three routes disrupted Li Dingguo's deployment, forcing Li Dingguo to withdraw all his troops and horses in order to protect Yunnan with all his might. As a result of this move, the Ming army in Yunnan could no longer concentrate on launching an offensive against the Qing army, and it was in a situation of fighting separately.

In order to prevent the Doni Department from going deeper, Li Dingguo ordered Bai Wenxuan to lead the troops to block, Bai Wenxuan lost the battle, and Liu Zhenguo, the general of the general of the army, was killed. On the left side, the Manchu and Han Qing troops led by Zhao Butai advanced to the Luoyan ferry of the Beipan River, and the Ming army was held by sinking ships. Cen Jilu, the prefect of the Tu Prefecture who surrendered, offered advice to the Qing army and smuggled across the river from ten miles downstream at night. After dawn, the Ming army guarding the ferry found that the Qing army had crossed the river and retreated in a hurry. Zhao Butai hurriedly assaulted, defeated the Ming army Li Chengjue's 10,000 troops at Liangshuijing, and defeated Li Dingguo's army at Shuanghekou and Lugou. On the right side, Wu Sangui's army crossed the river from Wusa Fu and entered Yunnan, passed through Zhanyizhou and Jiaoshui to Luoping, and joined up with Doni and Zhao Butai, and the Qing army quickly advanced to Kunming by several roads.

After reading this Tang newspaper from the Qing court, Zhou Shixiang understood why Tang Sanshui euphemistically said that he could no longer cooperate, because he would lose confidence in the Ming Dynasty and no longer be optimistic about the Taiping army. He couldn't demand that Tang Sanshui be able to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and he couldn't accuse Tang Sanshui of wavering and treachery, because this guy was originally a rider. The cooperation between the wall faction and itself is also purely based on the exchange of interests. Now that the Ming Dynasty, which Zhou Shixiang is loyal to, is about to end, Tang Sanshui naturally has to consider whether there is still a need for continued cooperation. Obviously, Tang Sanshui made a decision, no matter how good Zhou Xiucai is, no matter how he can be promoted to become rich, it is better to clear up the relationship, after all, the Ming Dynasty is about to end.

Fortunately, although Tang Sanshui was shaken, he asked him to turn his face immediately to fight the Taiping Army, but he didn't dare to borrow ten more dares. Only when the southwest is completely pacified and hundreds of thousands of Qing troops go out of Yunnan to attack Guangdong, will Admiral Tang completely let go of his scruples and take action against Zhou Shixiang, a "nobleman". At that time, Admiral Tang would definitely give full play to the impression of "loyal ministers and good generals" in the eyes of the imperial court, otherwise, how could he make himself go further. What made Zhou Shixiang feel a little at ease was that Tang Sanshui assured that the previous cooperation between the two sides was still effective, and he didn't want to do things too much, such as Zhou Shixiang's request for him to send someone to Beijing to pick up Ma Harrier's son, and he had already started to do it

Zhou Shixiang didn't expect Li Ding's congress to be defeated so quickly, Kunming was already in an emergency, he didn't have time to continue to integrate the forces of Guangdong, and he didn't have the energy to spend it on the wall of the city in Qinzhou, he had to start entering Guangxi immediately, and in any case, he had to take Guangxi before Kunming was lost, so that even if Yongli could not be saved, there would be a Guangxi between Guangdong and the Qing army as a buffer, so that he would not be threatened by the Qing army's troops immediately.

Placing the battlefield outside Guangdong has a great bearing on the Taiping Army, on the various construction projects that Guangdong is currently embarking on, and on the morale of the military and people in Guangdong. On the contrary, it is undoubtedly a disaster.

Zhou Shixiang ordered the second town of Leizhou to abandon the advance on Qinzhou, and the whole town rushed to Deqingzhou, and then marched to Wuzhou, Guangxi, with the naval warships and Qi Hao's artillery battalion, and must take Wuzhou by the end of August, so as to obtain a solid starting point for the main force that followed up. In addition to ordering Tie Yi and Qi Hao to take Wuzhou, Zhou Shixiang also made them make a big noise, causing the momentum of tens of thousands of troops from Guangdong to come to King Qin, so as to force the Qing army into Yunnan as much as possible to send a piece of troops and horses back to Guangxi to relieve Li Dingguo's pressure.

The defense of Leizhou and Gaozhou was in charge of Geyi's first town, and even on the other side of the city wall, Zhou Shixiang was not worried that the governor would have a hot brain and lead his thousands of rabble to "regain lost territory" when the main force of the Taiping army entered Gui.

However, just in case, Zhou Shixiang still sent a secret letter to Ge Yi, explaining that if Lian Chengbi, Zhang Xiaoqi and others really stabbed the Taiping Army knife in the back regardless of the overall situation, then Ge Yi was responsible for solving these two governors, and then pushed it to the rebellious army or bandits. At the same time, Zhou Shixiang ordered the military marshal's mansion to take the three brigades of the first town as the structure, and then recruit troops to expand a town in the Gaolei area, which was temporarily under the unified command of Ge Yi.

On the ninth day of August, Zhou Shixiang held a meeting of King Qin in Zhaoqing. In addition to the generals of the Taiping Army, the participants were the princes, marquises, uncles, generals and generals who either took the initiative to return or were forced to return.

Dong Changqing, on behalf of Zhou Shixiang, reported on the large-scale entry of the Qing army into Yunnan, and everyone heard that the king of Jin was defeated and Kunming was in an emergency, and their faces changed greatly. Some of them are genuinely worried about the safety of the imperial court, and some are worried about their own future.

Zhou Shixiang got up and first thanked the generals who had come to attend the Qinwang meeting, and then clearly told them that three days later he would personally lead the main force of the Taiping army into Qinwang in Guangxi, and now the vanguard soldiers and horses had been traced from Deqing Prefecture along the Liujiang River to attack Wuzhou.

"Ben Bo personally led an army of 100,000 into King Guiqin, although the Qing army was overwhelming, but the soldiers under Ben Bo were all elite, Hugh said that the Han army green camp, even the Manchurian soldiers were not against me, so you don't have to be too frightened, think about the beginning"

After first exaggerating the actual number of soldiers and horses to emphasize the past achievements of the Taiping Army to appease everyone, Zhou Shixiang told the generals of the congregation that he would organize the soldiers and horses of the three towns, and the soldiers and horses of the three towns were adapted by the generals attending the meeting.

Adapting people's soldiers and horses into the town soldiers of the Taiping Army, this is undoubtedly a red . Naked annexation meaning, Zhou Shixiang originally thought that someone would stand up against it, but no one opposed it if he didn't want to attend the meeting, but there was no one to oppose it, even if there was, this would be all knowledgeable and silent, and the Taiping Army's vigorous actions and strength a few days ago made them very aware of current affairs. They don't want to be the second Xianqiyu, that guy's head will still be hanging on the east gate tower of Zhaoqing. And the East Gate Tower was the only place for the Taiping Army to arrange for them to enter the city. Hang the head of the disobedient Xianqiyu on the place where you must pass, what kind of heart does Zhou Shi Xiang'an have, there are no fools in the generals, can you not know?

No one objected, so Zhou Shixiang motioned to General Dong Changqing's marshal to draw up a new plan for the three towns and listen to these people in detail.

The three new towns are the ninth town, the tenth town, and the eleventh town of the Taiping Army. The ninth town will be served by Weiyuan Hou Guo Dengdi, and the deputy general will be Qingfengbo Li Guangbo. The town has three brigades, the first brigade was reorganized from the Zhangping Bo Zhou Jintang Division, the second brigade was reorganized from the Zhou Tengfeng division of Haibei Province, and the C brigade was reorganized from the Weiding Bo Shi Shangyi Division.

The tenth town will be served by Wang Xing, the general of Guangningbo and Huben, and the deputy general will be Li Changrong, the general soldier. The town also has three brigades, Wang Xing's headquarters was reorganized into the A Brigade, the Jingxiang General Deng Yao's was reorganized into the B Brigade, and the volunteer teacher contacted by Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of the Cabinet Department, was reorganized into the C Brigade.

The eleventh town was reorganized by Gao Lei's general army Gao Jinku, Gao Jinku served as the town general, and the deputy general was served by the general Feng Zhengbo Xiong Chaozuo. In addition to the high into the treasury department of more than 3,000 troops in the eleven towns, there are also generals Zhang Yue, Wang Han and other departments, the town has three brigades.

This time to go to King Qinwang in Guangxi, I think there will be no shortage of tough battles, big battles, and evil battles, and the degree of tragedy will never be lower than any previous battle, whether the Taiping Army can win, or whether it can achieve strategic goals, Zhou Shixiang has no bottom in his heart. But he knew that as long as he was defeated in Guangxi, some of these generals present would definitely jump out and make trouble, and even a considerable number of them would turn around and surrender to the Qing court. This means that even if Zhou Shixiang can return from Guangxi to Guangdong, he will face a situation of internal and external troubles.

Therefore, Zhou Shixiang must take these people away, but these people are all titles registered by the Yongli Imperial Court, marquis, uncles, generals, and general soldiers, although they were strongly suppressed by the Taiping Army, and were willing to accept the adaptation of the Taiping Army, but in name Zhou Shixiang was unable to control them, but he had to take them all to King Qin, so as not to cause trouble in the rear, so Zhou Shixiang made a compromise, these three towns were only nominally attached to the Taiping Army, and became the formed towns under the jurisdiction of the Taiping Army, but the officers appointed him not to interfere, and he also provided grain and grass. He also promised that after the soldiers of the three towns followed him into Guangxi, they could "pay for their merits".

The so-called "reward for land and merit", that is, the division of territory.

Zhou Shixiang promised to compile the generals of the three towns in the new form, and after entering Gui, the people in the city of Xiafu will be the lord of this government, and the same will be true for those in the lower prefectures and counties. The more territory under the territory, the greater the strength of the department, and after the war, the king of Qin can report to the imperial court for actual authorization. In other words, in the military conference of King Qin initiated in the name of Xingping Bo in Zhaoqing, without any authorization from the Yongli Imperial Court, Zhou Shixiang carved out territory for the newly formed generals of the three towns as the most powerful military leader, and guaranteed that the Taiping army would rush forward and never let the generals become cannon fodder.

Zhou Shixiang compromised and gave the greatest sincerity to make the generals speechless, and under the leadership of some officials who were really willing to work on the king, such as Zhou Tengfeng of Haibei Province and others, they expressed their excitement to Zhou Shixiang.

(To be continued.) )