Longtan Town, at the foot of Lianshan Mountain, Shi Dakai convened a meeting of the generals.

"The main force of the Shanghai army captured Xiaolingwei a few days ago, and the troops besieged Tianjing, and the king of heaven and the king of the east sent an urgent order, ordering the king to lead the army back to help, what is your good strategy?"

After listening to Shi Dakai's simple and concise explanation, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Wei Jun and other generals were extremely surprised, some advocated immediate reinforcement, and some thought that Tianjing City was high and deep, and the Shanghai army could not attack it at all, so there was no need to return to help.

Chen Yucheng advocated returning to the army to rescue, he said: "Li Weiguo has always been cunning, when he faked the army at Sanhe Pass, he secretly raided Meiling, causing the entire army of the Northern King to be annihilated. Now he repeats his old tricks, with 2,000 Shanghai troops to hold Longtan Town to delay our army, and order the main force to attack Tianjing, the last general suggested that His Royal Highness the Wing King should return to help as soon as possible, otherwise Tianjing is in danger! “

"No! If you return to Tianjing, then Li Weiguo's plan to save Zhao from besieging Wei is also! Li Xiucheng immediately objected, he was covered in wounds, wrapped in white cloth like zongzi, this anxiety suddenly ripped the wound, and the pain made him grit his teeth, but he still insisted: "Li Weiguo's Shanghai army is less than 50,000, and he has to divide troops to defend the entire Jiangnan Province, how can he be the elite opponent of my 100,000 Taiping army?" Li Weiguo knew that he couldn't beat us hard, so he came up with a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, wanting to make my army withdraw. ”

Wei Jun suddenly said: "If Li Weiguo only besieges Wei to save Zhao, our army will withdraw, and when the siege of Tianjing is lifted, we will return to attack Shanghai, so that the king of heaven can rest assured." Li Weiguo carried out a siege of Wei to save Zhao, so he couldn't do it again. ”

Li Xiucheng snorted coldly and said, "What you said is light, my 100,000 army is crusading eastward." How can you say that you will retreat when you retreat, do you know how much money and food is spent when the army is out on the march? ”

Wei Jun was silent for a moment. He understood what Li Xiucheng meant, the 100,000 Taiping army was on the eastward expedition, and the daily consumption of money and food was very huge, and now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the finances were tight, so it could not withstand the toss back and forth.

Chen Yucheng said disapprerovingly: "Tianjing is our foundation, once it is lost." What if we win the crusade? ”

Li Xiucheng shouted: "I think you just don't want to go east, and you are bent on returning to the Western Front, are you worried about your concubine in Jiujiang, right?" ”

"Fart! You don't have much blood! Chen Yucheng was told by Li Xiucheng. Immediately said angrily: "Don't you have a concubine in Jiujiang?" It's not that you don't want to go back, but you just suffered the defeat of the Shanghai army and want to get back face! What qualifications do you have to say about me, a defeated general? ”

"Chen Yucheng, don't you think my knife is not good?"

"What's the matter. Do you have a knife? ”

Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng immediately quarreled. If you don't agree with each other, you will start fighting.

"Enough!"

Shi Dakai immediately stopped, his two apprentices really gave him a headache, and he kept doing it, and there was no time for a day to settle down.

"You two bastards, when I'm dead?"

"The last general will not dare!"

Seeing that Shi Dafa was on fire, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng hurriedly shut up.

Shi Dakai snorted coldly and glared at the two of them fiercely. said: "Whether it's Xiucheng or Yucheng." There is some truth to what you say. ”

Wei Jun suddenly asked, "What does His Royal Highness the Wing King mean?" ”

Shi Dakai stood up, stood with his hands in his hands, paced back and forth, and then said: "The predecessor of Tianjing is Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the terrain is dangerous, the city is high and the pond is deep, it has been strengthened and repaired after being occupied by us in recent years, there are 50,000 elite Taiping troops in the city, and the grain and grass from all over the Kingdom of Heaven are concentrated in Tianjing, enough for 50,000 troops to eat for three or five years, it is no problem to say that it can block the Qing army for several years, even if Li Weiguo's Shanghai army is very strong, at most it is always no problem to withstand it for three or five months." ”

Wei Jun said: "Then His Royal Highness the Wing King means that we will not return to Tianjing?" ”

Seeing Shi Dakai nodding, Li Xiucheng was immediately overjoyed, and glared at Chen Yucheng demonstratively.

Chen Yucheng couldn't help but say, "His Royal Highness the Wing King, this is disobeying the order of the Heavenly King!" ”

Shi Dakai said expressionlessly: "The general will not be subject to the military order outside!" ”

Chen Yucheng refuted unwillingly: "But we have all seen the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army, just one Longtan Town, only two thousand Shanghai troops, actually blocked our army for seven days, causing our army to lose more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, while the other party only lost three or four hundred people, and retreated. Doesn't that tell the story? Now that Li Weiguo is leading tens of thousands of troops to besiege Tianjing, do you dare to guarantee that Tianjing can hold it? ”

This said to Shi Dakai's heart, if he had not seen the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army before, he could have no doubt about his judgment, but since the battle with the Shanghai army in Longtan Town, he has seen the strong combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army, and it is a lie to say that he is not worried at the moment that he is not there.

It's just that Shi Dakai has his own insistence, he thinks that Li Weiguo does not dare to fight his main force head-on, but sends troops to attack Tianjing, which is simply a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao.

"As long as Tianjing can hold out for two months, this king has the confidence to attack Shanghai!"

Li Xiucheng immediately echoed: "His Royal Highness the Wing King is really clever, Li Weiguo wants to use the plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao to lure us back to Tianjing, then we will simply go straight to Shanghai, Shanghai is Li Weiguo's lair, I heard that he set up an industry in Shanghai, there are hundreds of factories, and there is an AIIB, with deposits of tens of millions of taels of silver, once our army arrives in Shanghai, Li Weiguo will inevitably return to Shanghai, and we will also come to rescue Zhao by encircling Wei, and even take Shanghai while Li Weiguo is on his way back to the army." ”

Wei Jun's position was not firm, and when he heard Li Xiucheng's words, he immediately fell to Li Xiucheng and said excitedly: "Shanghai is so rich, if it can be occupied, it will be a miracle." ”

Seeing that Wei Jun also supported Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng suddenly sighed and said no more.

Shi Dakai immediately sent a letter back to Tianjing, informing Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing of his plan, and then led the army to continue the eastward expedition, and the troops came to the city of Dantu, the seat of Zhenjiang Prefecture.

In Tianjing City, the Heavenly King's Mansion.

It used to be a classical garden with Jiangnan characteristics, Mingxu Garden, which was the palace of the Han Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty and changed to the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion in the Qing Dynasty. After the Taiping army occupied Jinling, they began to build the Tianwang Mansion on the basis of the original Liangjiang Governor's Yamen, and later expanded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Palace.

In fact, there is also a large-scale imperial palace in Tianjing City, that is, the Nanjing Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynasty. Covering an area of one million square meters, it is larger than the Forbidden City in Beijing, which is basically a replica of the Imperial Palace in Nanjing.

Such a super palace. Hong Xiuquan didn't stay, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Yang Xiuqing, as the king of the east, wanted to live in this Ming Dynasty palace very much, and he even secretly sent someone to repair it secretly, but Hong Xiuqing didn't live in it, and Yang Xiuqing didn't dare to live in it by himself, unless Yang Xiuqing rebelled. But now that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is being attacked on all sides, Yang Xiuqing does not dare to rebel, so he can only endure it.

Heavenly King's Mansion. Hong Xiuquan convened a meeting of the officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and told Shi Dakai that he refused to return to the aid and drew up a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao.

The ministers were in an uproar and accused Shi Dakai of messing around. He disregarded the life of the king. In fact, they themselves were afraid in their hearts, worried that Tianjing would not be able to hold it.

Yang Xiuqing naturally wanted to exclude dissidents, the six most powerful kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Heavenly King, the five kings of the east, west, north and south wings, now the king of the west and the king of the south are gone, and the king of the north was also severely damaged by Yang Xiuqing's secrets, so that Wei Changhui not only lost 20,000 elites of the lineage, but also lost 3,000 cavalry of his personal guards of the Iron Bear Battalion. For Yang Xiuqing, there is no need to worry. Now only the Wing King Shi Da is left.

But this wing king Shi Dakai has made great military achievements, holding 150,000 elite soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and even Yang Xiuqing, the military division of the Taiping Army (equivalent to the chairman of the Military Commission), only controls 80,000 elites in his hands, which is far inferior to Shi Dakai's bull breaking. It's just that this Shi Dakai doesn't sell Yang Xiuqing's face, so Yang Xiuqing will get rid of Shi Dakai next.

Now that the opportunity has come, Yang Xiuqing suddenly said angrily: "Brother Yiwang is becoming more and more disobedient now, and he even ignores the safety of Tianjing and ignores the orders of Brother Tianwang!" ”

Hong Xiuquan's face was also not good-looking, after all, Shi Dakai saw that he still resisted his order, just like slapping Hong Xiuquan in the face.

"Brother Winged King's plan is not unreasonable!"

At this time, Hong Xuanjiao spoke, since the failure of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang were captured and killed, in order to save her life, she finally made a deal with Su Shun, betrayed Li Weiguo, and then returned to Tianjing.

Of course, Hong Xuanjiao's temperament has nothing to do with Li Weiguo, and it is not that she regrets betraying Li Weiguo, but that she is coming back to take revenge. Because at the beginning of the Northern Expedition, Yang Xiuqing let Hong Xuanjiao participate, ostensibly to appease the Tiandihui army led by Su Sanniang, but in fact, he harbored evil intentions and wanted to put Hong Xuanjiao to death and cut off Hong Xiuquan's arm. Yang Xiuqing deliberately refused to reinforce the Northern Expeditionary Army because the war on the Western Front was urgent, which wiped out the Northern Expeditionary Army and almost killed Hong Xuanjiao.

Now Hong Xuanjiao has come back from nine deaths, just to find Yang Xiuqing for revenge.

Yang Xiuqing almost killed Wei Changhui before, but now Yang Xiuqing wants to calculate Shi Dakai again, Hong Xuanjiao naturally can't sit idly by, and Hong Xiuquan is embarrassed to mention Shi Dakai to speak, so Hong Xuanjiao said: "My Tianjing City is high and deep, there are 50,000 elite soldiers of the Taiping Army guarding it, and there is enough food and grass, and there is no problem at all to block Li Weiguo's Shanghai army for a year and a half. Li Weiguo must have been afraid of Brother Yiwang, worried that his lair would not be able to hold it, so he would attack Tianjing, which was clearly a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and was recognized by Brother Yiwang. ”

Yang Xiuqing looked at Hong Xuanjiao with complicated eyes, although this Hong Xuanjiao is Hong Xiuquan's sister, she is not her own sister, but she is just a chess piece used by Hong Xiuquan. At the beginning, Yang Xiuqing hoped to marry Hong Xuanjiao, but unfortunately Hong Xuanjiao liked Xiao Chaogui, even if Xiao Chaogui died, Hong Xuanjiao did not agree to marry Yang Xiuqing, this love triangle made Yang Xiuqing finally ruthless, and used the Northern Expedition to get rid of Hong Xuanjiao, but unfortunately after thousands of calculations, it was impossible to calculate the degree of hatred between Su Shun and Li Weiguo, and Su Shun actually gave up capturing a big fish like Hong Xuanjiao in order to fight Li Weiguo, which was really unexpected by Yang Xiuqing.

But there is no regret medicine in the world, since Hong Xuanjiao is back, Yang Xiuqing knows that he has to face Hong Xuanjiao's revenge, first Wei Changhui lost his troops and will come back, Yang Xiuqing wants to cure Wei Changhui's crimes, so that Hong Xuanjiao will be confused. Now that Yang Xiuqing wants to deal with Shi Dakai, Hong Xuanjiao has stood up again to disrupt the situation, which makes Yang Xiuqing hate it so much.

It's just that Yang Xiuqing can't let go of Hong Xuanjiao in her heart, otherwise she can be killed secretly, and there is no need to go around in a big circle to borrow the hand of the Northern Expedition to let the Qing army kill Hong Xuanjiao.

"Jiaojiao sister, you don't understand military affairs-"

"Call me Sister Tian!"

Seeing Hong Xuanjiao's glare, Yang Xiuqing was helpless, so she had to change her words: "Sister Tian, you don't understand military affairs, then Li Weiguo's Shanghai army is not the Qing army we used to deal with." If the Qing army comes to attack Tianjing City, you don't need to say it, everyone knows that without a year and a half, there is no two or three hundred thousand troops, and the Qing army will not be able to break it. But the Shanghai army used foreign guns and foreign artillery, and when the cannon bombarded, the iron plate could blow up a hole, not to mention the city wall. ”

Yang Xiuqing said reasonably, and many Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officials immediately agreed, whether they understood or not, at present, the East King is powerful, and almost all follow the words of the East King.

Hong Xuanjiao doesn't care about that, she obeys her status in the God Worship Sect, and if she can't reason, she will cheat, and others can't do anything about her.

I only heard Hong Xuanjiao say: "Brother Heavenly King, you have to believe Brother Yiwang!" ”

Hong Xiuquan didn't want the power of the Northern King to be greatly reduced, and the Wing King would be suppressed by Yang Xiuqing again, so he followed the steps given to him by Hong Xuanjiao, and pushed the boat down the river and said: "What Jiaojiao Sister said makes sense, the younger brother of the Wing King has always been strategic, and he has not lost a battle since his debut." Although his plan this time is a bit dangerous, but it is the danger that Li Weiguo can't guess, if we can defeat Li Weiguo and occupy Shanghai in one fell swoop, we can get a steady stream of firearms and countless wealth, for the kingdom of heaven, it is worth a gamble. ”

Yang Xiuqing wanted to speak, but Hong Xiuquan immediately said that he was tired and immediately retreated.

Yang Xiuqing was helpless, glared at Hong Xuanjiao fiercely, and turned to leave.

Tianjing City South, Xiaolingwei, Shanghai Army Battalion.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Weiguo, Chen Jingnan and other staff members gathered in front of the battle platform, staring at a map of Jinling, discussing how to attack Tianjing City.

"Newspaper—"

"Jiangdong battalion, Wu joins the army and flies the pigeon to pass the book!"

Chen Jingnan walked forward quickly, took the flying pigeon book, read it quickly, and then came to Li Weiguo.

"Longtan Town and Lianshan are lost!"

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "I asked Peng Xiangzhang to hold on for three days, but he held on for seven days, exceeding the task, not bad!" Order Wu Yong to be rewarded! ”

Chen Jingnan received the order, and immediately showed a worried look, and said: "However, Shi Dakai did not retreat, but the army attacked the Dantu and Xiaomaoshan Jiangdong camp!" ”

Li Weiguo suddenly frowned and said, "I only gave Wu Yong 5,000 people, I don't know if he can stop Shi Dakai's 100,000 army?" Ordered Wu Yong to abandon the Jiangdong camp in Xiaomaoshan if necessary, as long as he held the Dantu. ”

Chen Jingnan received the order again, and said: "According to the report, Shi Dakai has obviously received Hong Xiuquan's order, but he doesn't come back, has he seen through our plan?" ”

Li Weiguo said: "Shi Dakai has a strategy, he can see our plan to encircle Wei to save Zhao, but he may not be able to guess that we still have a plan, it is false to encircle Wei to save Zhao, and it is true to encircle and send reinforcements!" ”

Chen Jingnan nodded and said, "I hope, if Shi Dakai sees through our plan, then Wu Yong and Dantu will be in danger!" ”

Li Weiguo snorted coldly and said, "Shi Dakai wants to fight with us, but it's a pity that he forgot a key factor!" ”

Chen Jingnan suddenly asked, "What are the key factors?" ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "The biggest difference between me and Shi Dakai is that I am the master, and I have patience. He Shi Dakai is a minister after all, and his master may not be patient. ”

Chen Jingnan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he understood what Li Weiguo meant, so he said, "Then what should the Lord do next?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, slapped his palm on the map of Jinling City, and said: "Give me a strong attack on Tianjing City, I don't believe that Hong Xiuquan is not afraid of death!" ”

Chen Jingnan suddenly smiled and said, "The Lord sees it, I'll arrange it!" (To be continued......)