Ji'an, the main force of the Qing army's Jiangxi green battalion was gone, the Nanchang portal was opened, and Zhang Chaoxuan, the governor of the Qing Jiangxi, had no soldiers and horses in his hands to resist the Taiping army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to Tang Sanshui, the governor of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, who guarded Jishui County, heard that Ji'an was slaughtered, he was so frightened that he fled without a fight, and led his troops to retreat to Linjiang Mansion. The next day, the Taiping army came to the city, and He Jie, the county governor of Jishui, led the gentry in the city to present the yellow book Ding Bo, and called it "welcome the soldiers of the great tomorrow", knelt down on the road, and opened the city to surrender.

On the third day of the first month of August, the Taiping army marched north, and the Qing army stationed in the three counties of Xingan, Xinyu and Xiajiang under the jurisdiction of Linjiang Prefecture surrendered when they heard the news, and no officer or soldier dared to resist the city.

On the seventh day of August, the fifteen towns of the Taiping Army conquered Qingjiang County, where the city of Linjiang Mansion was located, pursued and killed Tang Sanshui, the governor of Guangdong Province in the Qing Dynasty, until Fengcheng, and captured Huang Xuanchao, the prefect of Linjiang, Xu Xuezeng and others.

After seizing Lin'an Mansion, Zhou Shixiang led his troops to continue to attack Ruizhou, and sent the town general Jiang He and others to attack Yuanzhou Mansion, defeating more than 3,000 troops of the Qing general Zhang Xiankui and occupying Yuanzhou. The four counties under the jurisdiction of Yuanzhou Prefecture, Yichun, Fenyi, Pingxiang, and Wanzai have all descended, and officials of all sizes have abandoned the top belt and changed their crowns. Some officials were not dressed when they found it, so they spent a lot of money to buy it from the Taoist, or from the opera. All kinds of old clothes are well-dressed, birds and beasts are not distinguished, and they are full of farce.

A small number of Qing court officials in Linjiang and Yuanzhou who were unwilling to surrender were arrested and killed, and Liu Tongchun, the commander of the Qing Jiangxi palm print, was captured in Yuanzhou.

Liu Tongchun left his wife and children and his family when Jin and Wang returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and Qiao disguised himself as a monk and fled to Nanjing to ask for help, and later provided a geographical map of Jiangxi for Tan Tai, the general of the Qing army who went south, and made great contributions to the Qing army's attack on Nanchang and its nearby prefectures and counties. If it weren't for this person, Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren would not have been defeated so quickly, and the more than 200,000 people in Nanchang City would not have been slaughtered.

Zhou Shixiang tried Liu Tongchun on a blind date, Liu Tongchun scolded back, Zhou Shixiang was furious, ordered to cut off the person's tongue, and nailed his ten fingers with a big nail, making him miserable. After a night of torture, the blind man Li tied Liu Tongchun on Nancheng Street, called the people to watch, and executed Liu Tongchun with a waist cut. Later, Linjiang Kuaima reported to Yuan Zhou and ordered to arrest more than 300 people surnamed Liu in the Marshal Mansion of the Liu Family in Yuanzhou, and all of them were killed, so that the traitors would not be left behind.

The main force of the Taiping Army on the West Road was progressing smoothly, and Zhu Qinglai's department in the new second town of the East Road also marched at a fast pace, Wen Ji'an was lost, the Admiral Liu Guangbi died, and the Fuzhou Linchuan guard Liu Shiyuan led his troops to attach, and then invited himself to attack Fuzhou City. The Qing army in the city held out for two days, did not break and fled, and Fuzhou was subordinated. According to the order of the military marshal's office, Zhu Qinglai killed all the officials and gentry in the city, and defended Fuzhou with Liu Shiyuan's troops, and Zhu Qinglai led his troops to attack Raozhou in the east. Tang Yongzhong, the defender of Qingrao Prefecture, took the city anyway, and so far, all the four prefectures east of Jiangxi fell into the hands of the Taiping army. When the news reached Nanchang, Jiangxi Governor Zhang Chaoxuan wrote to the Qing court with a heartache, saying that Jiangxi had become chaotic, and there were no strong cities in the province, only two isolated cities in Nanchang and Jiujiang. The gains and losses of Jiangxi Province are only in the evening!

On August 14, the Taiping Army's Xinyi Town attacked Ruizhou, and Zheng Qiren, the deputy general of the Ruizhou Right Association, secretly communicated with the Taiping Army to sell their formations and return to the camp when the two sides were fighting outside the city, resulting in the killing of Jiang Renxin, the general soldier of Ruizhou in the Qing Dynasty. Zheng Qiren held Wang Jian, the prefect of Qingrui Prefecture, hostage, and others to open the city and surrender.

Once Ruizhou is lost, there is no city or pond south of Nanchang that can stop the Taiping army. There are no soldiers and horses to defend in the city of Nanchang, and the governor Zhang Chaoxuan took the strict order that the officials of the feudal territory should not abandon the land, and they could not defend, fight, or retreat. As long as the officials such as Zuo Buzheng Tong Fengcai and other officials sent people out of the city to call on the four gentry to enter the city to assist in the defense, and ordered the right Buzheng Wang Ting to go to Jiujiang to summon the Jiujiang general soldier Yang Yuan to lead the troops to guard the provincial capital. Yang Yuan saw the order, but refused to rescue the provincial capital on the grounds that Jiujiang was outnumbered.

Jiangxi Imperial History Li Zhicui secretly asked Zhang Chaoxuan to return to the Ming Dynasty with Nanchang anyway, Zhang Chaoxuan was furious and ordered the general soldier Chen Sheng to hunt down Li Zhicui. Chen Sheng did not obey the order, and ordered his subordinates to treat Li Zhicui well, and his subordinates were puzzled, Chen Sheng said: "Li Gong's strategy is just to protect us, Nanchang will be lost today, why commit suicide in vain, it is better to make a good fate, in order to seek a way back." ”

On August 21, the Taiping army finally arrived at the city of Nanchang, and Zhang Chaoxuan ordered the general soldier Chen Sheng and others to levy the young and strong to defend it. Chen Sheng conspired with Li Zhicui to capture Zhang Chaoxuan and open the south gate to welcome the Taiping army into the city.

After Zhou Shixiang entered the city, he ordered Zhang Chaoxuan, Tong Fengcai and other puppet officials to interrogate why they did not surrender.

Zhang Chaoxuan didn't say a word, but Tong Fengcai shouted: "There is a difference between the flag and the Han, how can there be a reason for the flag man to descend to the Han dog in the world!" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shixiang didn't talk nonsense, and ordered Zhang Chaoxuan, Tong Fengcai and other Han army flag officers to dismember and abandon the corpses, and then issued an order that the Han officials in Jiangxi Province would surrender anyway, and they would all be given their original positions. If the flag killer comes to surrender, the official will be promoted to one level; After killing the full official, the official will be demoted, and the official will be promoted by two levels.

On the 23rd, Zhou Shixiang ordered Li Zhicui to go to Jiujiang with his token, claiming that the Great Tomorrow soldiers and horses would march more than 100,000 people, and only by surrendering quickly could they avoid being slaughtered. Chen Yuan, the chief soldier of Jiujiang in the Qing Dynasty, was so frightened that his face was like dirt, and he fled. On the way, they met Tang Sanshui, the governor of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, who fled in a hurry, and the two pondered carefully, if they fled like this, the Qing court would definitely punish the crime in the future, so under the leadership of Tang Sanshui, Chen Yuan went to Ruichang City west of Jiujiang with him, and reported the crisis situation in Jiangxi Province to the Qing court, and sent people to Anqing for help.

In Jiujiang City, after Chen Yuan fled, other officials and some gentlemen also dispersed in a hurry, and the important town of Jiujiang was maintained without an official in an instant, falling into a state of "anarchy" in later generations.

Hearing the situation in Jiujiang, Zhou Shixiang laughed silently. Two days later, Jiujiang Shimin sent several representatives to Nanchang to welcome the Ming soldiers to take over Jiujiang City. Ge Yi was ordered to lead his troops to take over Jiujiang, and then occupy Hukou, Pengze and other places. So far, except for a few places in Jiangxi that are still in the hands of the Qing army, the rest of the prefectures and counties are all owned by the Taiping army.

Li Zhicui joined the new lord and wanted to seek new achievements, so he made a plan to Zhou Shixiang, saying: "A few days ago, the puppet governor Lang Tingzuo sent an envoy to ask for troops to rescue Jiangning, and now the soldiers should take advantage of the momentum of breaking bamboo, and go down the river with the banner of Qing soldiers, threatening to send reinforcements from Jiangxi Province, Jiangning will open the door to accept it, and its generals can be captured immediately. Then change the banner, sow the year, sacrifice the mausoleum, Teng Shandong, the Central Plains will hear the wind in response, the north and south of the river, the west and the mountains, Shaanxi, who has to be Qing also? ”

Zhou Shixiang attached great importance to this suggestion, and on the one hand began to deploy the march to the south of the Yangtze River, on the other hand, he ordered the Hunan Field Corps to command Zhao Sihai to send troops to attack Changsha, and then the Hunan Army joined forces with the Northern Expeditionary Army to take Jiangnan along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to deal with the Shunzhi army from Beijing. Just as Zhou Shixiang was preparing to start the eastward expansion on Li Zhicui's strategy, there was a great change in the city of Nanjing.

(To be continued.) )