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People are very interesting, when you are an extremely ordinary person, or an extremely lowly person in the eyes of others, your life may not be very important. In order to survive, you will be willing to take a risk, as long as you can change your circumstances, even for a moment. Because, you are used to other people's words, your life is just a rotten life. However, as the status of people changes, it seems that your life has become more valuable, and people will inevitably have a kind of cherishing of life.

The life of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, is perhaps the best illustration of this qiē. A poor untouchable man with no tiles on the top and no land below, a monk Lai who can only rely on the bowl of porridge in the temple to prolong his rotten life, driven by the belief of being willing to cut his life, gambled with his life, and finally became a so-called body of ten thousand gold. He began to be ashamed that others would know that he had a despicable life, from a "pearl jade and white jade soup" mixed with glutinous leftovers as the world's first delicacy, to the first eunuch to taste before he could eat the palace feast in his mouth, he completed the "sublimation" of life. He no longer treats his life as a child's play, and even believes in himself, perhaps his life has been precious from the beginning.

Wei Changhui is this kind of person.

It can't be said that Wei Changhui is a person who is afraid of death, he was able to abandon thousands of family fortunes and embark on the road of rebellion, no matter what kind of mentality he had, no matter whether he was speculating, or he was also making a big gamble, he at least knew how dangerous this road would be. Like countless ordinary people in China, no one willingly took the road of rebellion until the last moment.

It's different now, he's the Northern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the nominal number three. Just as his close aide Liu Naixin guessed, no matter how difficult it was, he would not choose to surrender to the Manchus, because the Manchus could not give him such a noble status. In addition, from the very beginning, he had completely decided in his heart that the days of the Manchu Qing would not last long. Of course, he has a grander ambition buried in his heart.

He is now holding the secret edict sent by Hong Xiuquan in his hand. Yang Xiuqing conspired to usurp the throne and told him to quickly and secretly return to King Qin. This secret edict, for him, is tantamount to a long drought and a rainy day, and his opportunity to display his ambitions has finally come.

In his eyes, the Celestial Empire will replace the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it will be even more prosperous, as for whether there is a later Lin Haifeng. However, relying on Hong Xiuquan can't do it, Wei Changhui has never looked down on him at all. If the Celestial Empire is forever in the hands of such people, it is destined to fail to achieve great things. A founding emperor needs extraordinary wisdom and courage, not a retarded or madman who has not seen the world. Yang Xiuqing can't do it, he is indeed a little afraid of Yang Xiuqing, the reason is precisely what he looks down on Yang Xiuqing the most, a poor kiln worker who is full of carbon slag and can't read a single word, except for being arrogant, there is no merit at all. If this kind of person becomes the king of the Celestial Empire, it is simply an insult to the Celestial Empire. The Celestial Empire is noble, not a small grocery store, let alone a carbon shed.

What about Shi Dakai? This man was pretentious, young and vigorous, and thought that he could win a few battles, as if he were a military genius. In fact, it's just that, at best, it's just a pawn with no personal opinions. Don't look at his strong opinion of Yang Xiuqing, maybe he doesn't understand himself, once he leaves Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing to hold him, he is doomed to achieve nothing.

After all, Wei Changhui loves himself. Of course, the current Celestial Empire is different from before, and there is another competitive opponent Lin Haifeng. Lin Haifeng seems to be doing the same effort as him, he is doing his best to Yang Xiuqing on the surface, isolating the Heavenly King, but secretly taking advantage of Yang Xiuqing's trust in him to desperately cultivate his own strength. Sometimes I think about it, this trick played by Lin Haifeng seems to be even more clever than himself. He already truly possessed a sphere of influence of his own, which was even wider than what Tianjing could actually control. The only way to deal with this stumbling block is to try to get rid of him as Hong Xiuquan did with Yang Xiuqing. However, this is a later story, there will be time in the future, the most important thing at present is to set Hong Xiuquan back up first, and he, who has the great merit of King Qin, naturally wants to get Hong Xiuquan's return, and the position below one person in the Celestial Empire and above ten thousand people is at his fingertips. In the future, if Hong Xiuquan and Lin Haifeng fight each other, will they still be worried that they will not find a chance to eliminate them in the future?

Once a person has so many thoughts, it is strange if he is not afraid of death!

A few days ago, Wei Changhui secretly confessed to Wei Zheng, the commander of Luzhou's urban defense, that Wei Zheng was solely responsible for the military affairs of Luzhou during his temporary absence. He would not say that he was going to return to Tianjing on the edict of the Heavenly King, although Wei Zheng was still close to him, but proudly claimed that he intended to personally command the men and horses responsible for rescuing Chaohu. When the soldiers and horses under the command of Lin Haifeng in the west had already had small-scale contact with Zhang Lexing's troops in the southeast of the city, and brought Lin Haifeng to command the various heavenly armies in the Jiangbei battlefield, Wei Changhui's desire to leave was even more urgent.

The tide of battle has begun to turn, and once it goes down again, Lin Haifeng may soon be able to pull away from here, and then the things planned by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan may be in vain. Yang Xiuqing is used to that kind of high-flying days, and she is also carried away, and Yang Xiuqing can't drill the trap set by Hong Xiuquanshe. But this Lin Haifeng is different, this is a treacherous guy, if he is given free time, he can't hide anything.

Now, there is such a commotion in Luzhou City, Wei Changhui's first reaction is to think of Li Zhaoshou and Xue Zhiyuan and others. Damn, these goddamn traitors! He couldn't care so much that he didn't even have time to ask what was going on in the city. He panicked, for fear that he would not be able to leave Luzhou again. So, he just sent someone to inform Wei Zheng, who was busy dealing with the mutation, and hurriedly left Luzhou from the south gate. Naturally, he would not go to the front line of Chaohu Lake as he said before, but rushed all the way to Anqing from the west of Chaohu Lake.

Wei Changhui finally chose a path of no return for himself. As the main general, he can only be regarded as escaping from the battle, and the last thing he shouldn't have done is that in addition to taking away his guard battalion with him, he didn't bring a division of Hu Dingwen's army, which had been prepared earlier and had been transferred to Nancheng for several days, and he brought a division of Zhou Degui with him. He knew that Tenkyo would not be a place where problems could be resolved peacefully, and what was needed there was to speak with real knives and real guns. After weighing, it was Zhou Degui who reassured him more.

It is a pity and a sad thing is that Wei Changhui's temporary change plan did not go through anyone, and Wei Zheng, as the commander of the city defense, did not know about it at all. He weighed himself repeatedly, but he forgot about the thousands of people in Luzhou, as well as the loyal and brave soldiers who had followed him.

Wei Zheng quickly sent people to check which direction was broken by the Qing army, and on the other hand, he mobilized men and horses, put out fires and grabbed food, first quelled the riots in the city, and reinforced, which may be in danger, at any time to reinforce the defensive direction that may be in danger.

As the commander of the city defense, Wei Zheng knew very well that according to his current defense deployment, if there were no unexpected changes, it would be difficult for the Qing army to form a breakthrough in which direction in a short period of time. Although there was chaos in the city, he firmly believed that the current unexpected changes were only confined to the city, and that there were spies of the Qing army destroying it. Even so, the losses were too great, and it is not difficult to imagine from the situation that the arsenal must have been completely destroyed, and the sky-high flames of several granaries told everyone, and there were very few things that could be saved.

The real development of things is even worse than Wei Zheng's estimate. Not long after the people he sent to Beicheng went out, the news of the urgency at the North Gate came back. When Wei Zheng heard this, he couldn't help but be furious. There are two divisions of Hu Dingwen of the last three armies in Beicheng, even if they are all wooden stakes, then the Qing army has to cut them for a while, why is it so can't help fighting?

Before he had time to ask about the details of the situation, Hu Dingwen was seriously injured, but the bad news of the loss of Beicheng followed.

Until now, he finally knew that there was only one division of the last three armies in Beicheng, and Zhou Degui's division had been transferred out of Beicheng by the king of Beicheng, and his whereabouts were unknown.

King of the North? Wei Zheng glanced towards the south of the city in disbelief.

Not to mention Wei Zheng, who is the commander of the city defense, even Hu Dingwen, the commander of the rear third army who is on the front line, has no idea where his previous division has gone. In the past few days, the Qing army's attack on the north gate has not been interrupted, and the second division has been replaced by the third division, and it is difficult for people who have not experienced cold weapon combat to imagine, especially in the face of foreign guns and cannons of the Qing army.

The Second Division was later transferred to Nancheng, and Hu Dingwen did not know what tasks they were performing, and it was impossible for Wei Changhui to let him know. The 1st Division was the only reserve that was not consumed, and he did not want to devote his last elite forces to this attrition at first, the war may be fought for a long time, and he needed an army that could turn the tide at a critical moment.

Today's Qing army is attacking with extraordinary ferocity. Hu Dingwen saw that Fang Laogen's third division could not suppress the momentum of the Qing army, and decided to use the first division that was unanimously recuperated. It is a pity that the main force of the 1st Division, excluding the baggage troops that have not yet had time to set off, has completely driven away. Where to drive or what to do, he didn't know at all.

Hu Dingwen was surprised. From following the Celestial Army to today, it was the first time he had encountered such an incomprehensible situation.

Call for help, and then mobilize a person who can take up arms and fight the Qing army at the head of the city. As a commander of nearly 20,000 troops, he had to wield the broadsword in his hand like an ordinary soldier to drive away the enemies who poured up the walls.

But at this most difficult moment, the cannon behind him was full of gunfire and fireworks. He, like all the soldiers who insisted on the front line, would not have thought about where the earth-shattering explosion behind him came from and what had happened. The inertia of being a soldier of the Celestial Empire drove them to just open their blood-red eyes to face the crazy opponent opposite them.

"Commander, if there are no more reinforcements, it will be difficult for us to support it." Fang Laogen, who was covered in blood all over the killing, his eyes were red, and Fang Laogen, who had already staggered when he walked, his voice was full of sadness, "Damn, where did the Qing Demon get into the city again?" “

"Kill!" Hu Dingwen cut down a Qing soldier who rushed to the head of the city, and desperately assisted Fang Laogen to knock down a ladder against the city wall, shouting in his hoarse voice, "Our reinforcements will arrive soon, brothers, you are a good man, you are a bad seed, see it now, kill me to death!" “

"Boom!" An explosion rang out beside Hu Dingwen with his shout.

Hu Dingwen's body shook twice and fell in a pool of blood. He clearly knew that it was not a cannonball fired by the Qing army that exploded in front of him, but a grenade produced by the Celestial Empire that was thrown from behind him. He also saw Fang Laogen, whose flesh and blood had become a blur in the explosion.

Fang Laogen had a beard on his face, his name was the same as that of a person, he was originally less than thirty, but it sounded like fifty was not a lot. Just before going to the city, Hu Dingwen was still joking with Fang Laogen, "Laogen, when will you invite me to eat candy?" “

"Mid-Autumn Festival." Fang Laogen looked at the military commander who was younger than himself and smiled heroically.

Hu Dingwen also laughed at that time. In fact, he knew in his heart that Fang Laogen didn't even know where his beloved woman was. The Celestial Empire used to prohibit the union of men and women, but now that it is banned, the busy war does not give them any chance to think. The Mid-Autumn Festival is just a good wish for Fang Laogen to himself, to him, and to all the brothers!

Women are always a man's favorite topic, no matter how noble you are.

As a military commander, Hu Dingwen was on the line between life and death, thinking of his subordinates who had returned to heaven. When he fell, he may still be feeling sorry for Fang Laogen.

(Thank you for your support, congratulations on your Mid-Autumn Festival reunion!) It's really hard for me to imagine the cruelty back then, and it's hard to imagine the loyalty of the warriors of the Celestial Empire. The decay of the upper echelons does not explain the fault of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is great, and that is the embodiment of a national spirit. Let's go back and sing the ode to the heroes of the Celestial Empire, and think about ourselves.

Bleeding wounds do not shed tears, and flag-raising poles do not kneel. The clenched fists do not let go, and the pawns who cross the river do not retreat. People live in one breath, and it is rare to fight once. There is a road of life and death, gather and scatter a glass of wine. Don't judge heroes by success or failure, why judge heroes by success or failure, and set up a monument! ）

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