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Under the command of Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of Chunguanzheng, and Lai Hanying, the deputy prime minister of Xiaguan, the army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first occupied Hezhou in Anhui, then passed through Taiping and Chizhou, and conquered Anqing, an important town on the north bank of the Yangtze River, in one fell swoop on 10 June. Subsequently, Hu Yihuang sat in Anqing, and Lai Hanying led Zeng Tianyang, commanded Lin Qirong and other more than 10,000 people to enter Jiangxi. On the 13th, Pengze was taken, and Kehukou, Nankang, and Wucheng were connected, and at the end of June, the whole army arrived at the city of Nanchang. Along the way, it can be described as a breakthrough, and the progress is rapid.

However, Lai Hanying was carried away by the victory of the light yì. When he attacked Nanchang for the first time, he did not consider whether there was a better strategic plan, but ignited the flame of anger in his heart even more, and vowed not to give up until Nanchang was taken. As a result, Nanchang City fought for me, and it became a stalemate. He had to quickly send someone to Tianjing to ask for reinforcements.

At the end of July, reinforcements led by Guozong Shi Xiangzhen, Shi Fengkui, and Wei Jun arrived in Nanchang. According to the edict of the king of the east, Shi Xiangzhen unified the command of the two armies and quickly changed his tactics. Using the method of encirclement and reinforcement, the Heavenly Army annihilated nearly 2,000 Qing soldiers sent by the Jiangnan battalion to Rongzeng to support the defense of Nanchang, killed the general soldier Yin Debu, and then quietly withdrew from the siege of Nanchang, and did not know where to go.

When the Qing soldiers garrisoned in Nanchang could not understand the enemy's intentions for a while, Shi Xiangzhen's army had already arrived outside Luzhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Long before the movement of the Heavenly Army to Luzhou, the Eastern Mansion Shangshu Hou Beifang advanced to Luzhou. He came to find Hu Yuanwei, the prefect of Luzhou, on the secret order of the king of the east.

Hu Yuanwei was born as a scholar, and because he did not have the backing of powerful forces, he had to borrow money among his relatives and spend countless amounts of gold and silver to donate to the real shortage of this prefect. He was cowardly by nature, and after he entered high school, he was once pointed at his nose and insulted by a woman in the neighborhood, but he was still extremely humble, and his mouth was submissive, and his relatives and friends all laughed at him.

However, no matter how cowardly you are, you may not lose your own strength. Although Luzhou is the temporary provincial capital of Anhui, it is not rich here, and the people are even more struggling to make a living. After Hu Yuanwei donated his official position, in the face of accumulated debts, he could neither deny nor scavenge from the people, and the dilemma made him feel more and more helpless. Watching his colleagues suddenly get rich, and thinking about the constant blackmail of his boss, he even regretted going to officialdom.

When he saw Hou Xiaofang, somehow, in addition to being surprised, there was also a faint sense of novelty. He was surprised that the other party could be said to be bold, as a rebel of the imperial court, he sent it to the door by himself, and he was reckless. The novelty is that as soon as the other party opened his mouth, he directly hit his life.

Judging from Hou Xiaofang's calm demeanor and fearless posture, it can be seen that the other party is completely prepared. In his words, Hu Yuanwei felt that the other party not only knew the garrison situation in Luzhou, but also knew himself well.

"There is a battalion of garrison troops in Luzhou City of 300 people, and of course, there are thousands of village warriors. But do you think they will do anything under the heavy pressure of our Celestial Army? Hehe, I don't think so. There are 100,000 heavenly troops, and the troops will come to the city in a few days, does Governor Hu still have any hope for your court? You are a good official, and it can be said that you love the people like a son, but as a court, only one and a half officials like you will not be able to save the lives of all the people. You must have heard that our Celestial Empire was raised to save all the poor people, and our purpose is one, to eliminate the unfairness of the world, and to restore peace to the people! ””

Of course, Hu Yuanwei knew what the soldiers in the city were like, except for playing prestige with the people, there was probably no more ability. However, it is not easy to get him to abandon the ethics he is familiar with. At least he still has doubts, the Taiping army despises the way of Confucius and Mencius, will they pay attention to corruption like themselves?

Hou Xiaofang had already seen through his thoughts, "Lord Prefect must still think that we just want to use you temporarily, say one thing and do another, right?" Yes, we are saints against you, and that does not mean that we hate a learned person. You can take a look, after the capital Tianjing, have we engaged in book burning and Confucianism? No. Our Heavenly Father has admonished us to do this, 'The books of Confucius and Mencius need not be abolished, and there are many truths in them.' Don't listen to people with ulterior motives. ”

"Your King Hong destroyed the Confucian Temple and smashed the tablet, this is all a fact."

"Yes, the King of Heaven also believed in Confucius and Mencius back then, and studied the four books hard. However, fraud in the scientific field, greed for money in the officialdom, you have used the so-called etiquette on foreigners, but you are extremely exploitative of the people. The tablet of Confucius and Mencius has long been used as a fig leaf by you, how many of your officials have really paid attention to it in their hearts? The main theme of the Analects is nothing more than five words: 'gentleness, kindness, courtesy, frugality, and letting', and who has done it? What the King of Heaven smashed back then was the inequality that you imposed on the people, but you officials who were the best lost the tablets of Confucius and Mencius in their hearts. Our Celestial Empire advocates having food to eat, clothes to wear, and everyone is a brother and sister, is there anything contrary to what your saints said? ”

Hou Beifang's eloquent talk can't be said to have touched Hu Yuanwei. He is a native of Guangdong, and the court's incompetence in dealing with foreigners is also unforgettable. Those who are full of the way of the saints, but have a belly full of male thieves and female prostitutes, are even more full of them. After many contacts with Hou Beifang, although he was not really convinced, when the Taiping army really surrounded Luzhou like an iron bucket, he still gritted his teeth and made a decision in order to save the people in the city from being devastated by the war. He sacrificed the Shuixi Gate, so that the Taiping army could occupy Luzhou.

From the withdrawal of the siege from Nanchang to the incident in Luzhou, Shi Xiangzhen, Hou Baofang and others, who knew the inside story, admired the prediction of His Royal Highness King An. In accordance with the pre-deployment of the East King, Shi Xiangzhen began to send men and horses with Lai Hanying to clean up the surrounding small counties, mobilize the local people in the suburbs of Luzhou, divide the fields and production, kill the local tyrants and bully, expand the armament and war, and immediately sent a secret envoy to Wuyang in Huaibei to contact the Zhenghuan twisters who were making trouble there.

In the past month or so, all the rural cities in the area controlled by the Tianjun in the western part of Tianjing have been vigorously organized, and there have been two simas who can rule over 25 households, and brigade commanders, division commanders, and military commanders who can oversee more than 1,000 households. The cultivators of the Celestial Empire have their fields, have sympathy for each other, rescue each other in times of need, do not close their doors at night, do not leave any stone unturned, the world is one family, and share the sacred ideal of peace, the strict military discipline of the soldiers of the Celestial Army, the amiable image of calling people brothers when they meet people, and the behavior of buying and selling is not only fair but even intentionally paying more silver taels, so that the people who have received real benefits have praised each other. In return, more and more people are joining the ranks of the Heavenly Army.

It was at this time that Shi Dakai arrived in Anqing.

At the same time that the momentum seemed to be about to cross the Huai River north, Shi Dakai left Lai Hanying to lead his headquarters and the newly recruited 20,000 horses to garrison Luzhou, and only transferred Shi Xiangzhen's troops to the south. A few days later, Shi Xiangzhen's banner appeared again under the city of Nanchang.

Jiang Zhongyuan, the new deputy to the military affairs of the Jiangnan battalion and the Hubei envoy, received an urgent military report from Nanchang, and without saying a word, he immediately ordered 3,000 military horses to leave Jiujiang and rushed to the aid of Nanchang. Due to the delay in judging the enemy's situation, a month ago, he was still halfway to the tail chasing Shi Xiangzhen's department, and he got the news of the loss of Luzhou, for which he was reprimanded by the imperial court. Who would have thought that when he had just arrived in Nanchang, he hadn't even had time to enter the governor's yamen, and the emergency distress document that followed him came.

Jiujiang is in a hurry! Jiang Zhongyuan fainted. What kind of battle is this fighting? How is this possible? When he stepped up the city tower and saw that the banner of the thief outside the city was far away, he had no choice but to believe in this fact, and the cunning long hair was using the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain. He hurriedly bid farewell to Zhang Fu, the governor of Jiangxi, and embarked on the road to return. Anqing has been lost, and Jiujiang cannot be lost again no matter what, otherwise the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi will be threatened by Changmao.

Ideas are ideas, but the road is too long. Jiujiang to Nanchang, it has taken nearly four days to come, there is no sufficient rest, and then you are in a hurry to rush back, no matter how anxious you are, the feet of the soldiers are all long.

Jiang Zhongyuan led this exhausted army, and finally was able to hear the bursts of artillery from the direction of Jiujiang City, but before he could see the shadow of the city, he stepped into the ambush circle of the heavenly army, which had been waiting for him for a long time. Just like the Quanzhou Lingyidu, where he relied to start his home, he set up an ambush in advance, cut down the Musai River, and intercepted the Taiping army, which not only brought heavy losses to the Taiping army, but also caused the martyrdom of Feng Yunshan, the king of the south. Today, fate is such a coincidence, in the ambush circle of the heavenly army, they are greeted by breathtaking angry shouts, as well as swords and swords that cover the sky and the sun. The difference is that he and his subordinates have long lost the spirit and courage of the Heavenly Army, they are only fatigued and have lost any ability to resist.

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