Outside the city of Changzhou, the main force of Yu Shengjun's army was still fighting against Lin Chengting's troops.

However, at the same time under Tianjing City, Xu Yanqing's troops had already launched an attack on Tianjing City, which was empty of troops, and Xu Yanqing attacked Tianjing with the same method as he attacked Danyang and Zhenjiang, with the second mixed regiment as the fire support unit, and the main force of the siege was the cannon fodder troops of the three auxiliary defense regiments.

In order to give better play to the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary defense regiment, Xu Yanqing has greatly improved the treatment of the auxiliary defense regiment and given them sufficient food treatment.

In addition, if they are brave enough to fight and make meritorious contributions to the enemy, they will be selected to enter a separate combat battalion, although the soldiers of the battalion still belong to the scope of the auxiliary defense regiment, but the soldiers of the unit enjoy the same treatment as the regular army of Yu Shengjun, unlimited food supply, four taels of silver per month, and disability pension.

This can not only fully mobilize the active combat enthusiasm of the soldiers of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment, but also select the real elite soldiers from the Auxiliary Defense Regiment and train them.

Under the cover of the fire of the Second Mixed Regiment in the rear, the soldiers of these auxiliary defense regiments launched a charge again and again towards the tall city walls of Tianjing!

The soldiers of the auxiliary defense regiment who climbed to the top of the city and the soldiers of the Taiping Army on the head of the city fought fiercely!

In order to defend Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and others mobilized almost a force that could be used, the original more than 8,000 soldiers in Tianjing City, more than 6,000 people who retreated from Zhenjiang, Danyang and other places, and more than 6,000 people from the people in the city.

Even the healthy women, the old and the young, were driven to the top of the city!

On the first day of the siege battle, Yu Shengjun's auxiliary defense regiment was the head of the city, and although it was finally driven off the city, it still gave great damage to the defenders in the city.

On that day, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment were killed and wounded, while the Taiping army defending the city suffered at least 3,000 casualties!

Most of the casualties of the Taiping troops defending the city were not caused by hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment, but were wounded by artillery and guns from the second mixed regiment that acted as fire cover behind them.

But just when Xu Yanqing planned to continue to work hard and take down the Tianjing City. The herald brought Lin Zhe's urgent order.

Speaking of this herald is also unlucky, he ran all the way from Changzhou to Zhenjiang with three horses, and was intercepted by several small units of the Taiping Army on the way, but he still got rid of the enemy and arrived in Zhenjiang by relying on the rapid gallop of the horse.

But I found out after I arrived in Zhenjiang. Xu Yanqing had already given up Zhenjiang directly, and instead led his troops to Tianjing, he had to run wild for another day, and finally brought Lin Zhe's order to Xu Yanqing tonight, after arriving at Xu Yanqing's camp. The herald cavalry was already on the verge of fainting.

In the letter, Lin Zhe ordered him to withdraw before the arrival of reinforcements from the west of the thief army, and not to fight in the face of a strong enemy, but to preserve the strength of the army.

Hearing that there were at least forty or fifty thousand troops chasing after him, Xu Yanqing also knew that it was impossible for him to take Tianjing.

Although the army in Tianjing City is empty, there are at least tens of thousands of people, and it will take three or four days to take Tianjing even if it is a qiēshun lì, but now the enemy army is already behind his ass, and it will not take two or three days to appear behind him.

When the time comes, I will be attacked from front to back, and I am afraid that I will fall under Tianjing City!

After seeing Lin Zhe's letter, Xu Yanqing's expression was not very good-looking, and he went out of the camp tent and took another look at Tianjing City in the sunset. He sighed deeply: "Time is running out! ”

Xu Yanqing is like a wave, the blocks come and go quickly, he only attacked the city for a day after he rushed to Tianjing, but that night he quietly retreated, as if he had never appeared.

When Qin Rigang and Wu Ruxiao led their troops back to Zhenjiang, they found that Zhenjiang was empty, and when they heard that the Qing demon Xu Yanqing had led his troops to Tianjing, Qin Rigang hurriedly led more than 20,000 people from his headquarters to return to Tianjing, while Wu Ruxiao stayed in Zhenjiang.

With Xu Yanqing's initiative to retreat, the crisis of Tianjing was solved.

However, Xu Yanqing fought all the way to Zhenjiang. invaded Tianjing, and even almost took down Tianjing City, which still brought great shock or fear to the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, especially Hong Xiuquan. As a result, Yang Xiuqing, who was in charge of military affairs, was even more dissatisfied.

In addition, he was already full of suspicion of Yang Xiuqing, and when he heard that Yang Xiuqing's subordinate Lin Chengting was still unwilling to withdraw from Changzhou when he was facing the crisis of city destruction in Tianjing, he was even more determined in his heart to take Yang Xiuqing down.

Soon he sent a secret edict to Qin Rigang outside Tianjing City, asking him to lead troops into the city to kill Yang Xiuqing.

There are quite a few reasons for Hong Xiuquan to kill Yang Xiuqing, but the most critical point is that Yang Xiuqing, as a military advisor, completely hollowed out Hong Xiuquan's control of all military power. So much so that a considerable number of Taiping generals only knew Yang Xiuqing but not Hong Xiuquan, and Lin Chengting was the most obvious example.

Hong Xiuquan, who was completely hollowed out, naturally wanted to regain power.

On May 9th, Qin Rigang and Wei Changhui, who also accepted Hong Xiuquan's secret edict, each led 3,000 elite soldiers into Tianjing City, and after controlling various important places, they attacked the Dongwang Mansion that night to kill Yang Xiuqing and his family.

That night, thousands of people in the Dongwang Mansion, including Yang Xiuqing's family, Dongwang's guests, subordinates, maids, and slaves, were killed, and then more than 20,000 people from the 'Dongdang' were killed, including more than 100 members of Lin Chengting's family!

The occurrence of such a big incident in Tianjing naturally shocked the whole of China, and Shi Dakai, who was far away in Jiangxi, urgently led his army east to return to Tianjing.

And in Changzhou, after Lin Chengting heard that his benefactor Yang Xiuqing was killed, and more than 100 members of his family, including his five-year-old child, were all killed, this man in his forties who had been defeated by Lin Zhe several times, but who had made a comeback again and again, seemed to have lost his soul.

In the tent, most of the other Taiping generals were also sad and angry, Lin Chengting's family members were killed because they were the 'East Party', and they were naturally members of the East Party as Lin Chengting's subordinates, and most of their family members were also killed.

"Master Hou, lead the army back to the west!" Li Cong'an on the side wiped away his tears, he had heard that his old mother was also killed, and the man who fought on the battlefield actually shed tears.

"If you don't wash Tianjing in blood, I, Lin Chengting, will be a son of man, a husband, and a father!" Lin Chengting tore the letter in his hand to shreds, and the voice full of anger seemed to spread throughout Changzhou.

At the same time, Lin Zhe, who was outside Changzhou, also learned the news that something big had happened in Tianjing. But after all, he is not from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he can only get some rumors from the spies, and he naturally doesn't know what happened specifically.

At dawn the next day, Xu Pengan sent him a letter. said that it was sent by someone in Changzhou just now.

opened the letter and looked at the payment first: it was Lin Chengting's name.

Looking at the content of the letter carefully, in the letter, Lin Chengting bluntly said that he would lead the army back to the west, set foot in Tianjing to kill King Yan, etc., and one of the sentences "bloody Tianjing" made Lin Zhe tremble.

Then he said that he hoped that Lin Zhe would not stop his revenge march. He will thank Yunyun one day, and at the same time say that Changzhou has collected the property of Zhenjiang and Changzhou, and there are 500,000 taels of silver, enough for 100,000 troops to eat the grain of half a year, and these are all sent to Lin Zhe.

This Lin Chengting is crazy!

Outside Changzhou City, Lin Zhe and Shi Langyi and a group of senior generals looked at Lin Chengting's new army that was retreating in the distance, and Shi Qingxuan on the side said: "Dashuai, do we really just let him go?" ”

"Dashuai, this Lin Chengting is not a kind person, let him go today, I'm afraid that if I meet him again in the future, I will be the enemy of life and death!"

Lin Zhe looked back at his many subordinates. Then he said lightly: "Don't chase after the mourning soldiers!" ”

This Lin Chengting is estimated to have lost his mind, and he wants to return to Tianjing with his men and horses to take revenge, if he wants to stop it, a big war will inevitably break out, and even if he can win a big battle, he will have to lose his troops.

Pursue? There is no benefit at all, why chase?

Moreover, if Lin Chengting's 20,000 new troops want to return to Tianjing, they will encounter the 30,000 troops of Hechun in front, as well as the armies of Qin Rigang, Wu Ruxiao and others, and finally cause a chaotic war.

And what Lin Zhe has to do is not to participate. Instead, he watched steadily from behind, and finally fished in troubled waters to get the greatest benefit for himself!

As a result, after Lin Zhebing entered Changzhou City without blood, he stopped advancing. I watched the play in the rear with peace of mind.

As for Lin Chengting, he led the army all the way back to the west, and on May 12, he encountered Hechun's 30,000 troops in the Danyang area, and Hechun didn't care what you Lin Chengting wanted to do, he immediately tried to intercept it.

Lin Chengting, whose eyes were already full of hatred, saw that He Chun dared to stop him. Today, he led his troops to engage in a field battle with him, and this time Lin Chengting was the first time that he really brought into play the combat effectiveness of the new army in his hands.

Lin Chengting's new army, which adopted line infantry tactics, only had less than half an hour, that is, it defeated Hechun's 30,000 troops in a frontal offensive battle, and Hechun was forced to lead more than 10,000 remnants of the wolf to flee eastward, and even sent a letter to Lin Zhe asking for help.

He and Chun took 30,000 remnants of the defeated army and wanted to intercept Lin Chengting's army of mourning soldiers, didn't they seek death?

After Lin Chengting defeated Hechun's interception, he crossed Zhenjiang without entering, and went straight to Jiangning, Wu Ruxiao of Zhenjiang looked at Lin Chengting's new army outside the city that was heading towards Tianjing, and his heart was also extremely complicated.

After being in contact with Lin Chengting for a long time, he knows more and more about Lin Chengting and his new army, he knows that this Lin Chengting's new army is strong, if there is still an army in the contemporary Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that can block the attack of Yu Shengjun, then there is only Lin Chengting's new army.

However, now, this new army did not fight with Yu Shengjun, but went straight to Tianjing, what did Lin Chengting do when he led his troops to Tianjing?

Even if Wu Ruxiao is a fool, he can guess that he is going for revenge!

As for Lin Chengting, after crossing Zhenjiang, it took less than three days to arrive outside Tianjing City, and when he heard that Lin Chengting led the army back to the west, and even shouted the slogan of washing Tianjing with blood, Hong Xiuquan was also panicked and hurriedly sent someone to appease Lin Chengting, and even said that he would make Lin Chengting the king of Ning.

However, Lin Chengting, who had been blinded by hatred, directly beheaded the envoy, and then sent the envoy's head back to Tianjing!

Riding on a horse, Lin Chengting waved the knife in his hand and pointed at Tianjing City: "Today, we are not here for Sheji, but for revenge!" ”

At this, he took a deep breath, as if he had used all his strength to shout, "Kill! , not one left" (to be continued.) )