Chapter 20: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

December 18, 29th year of Daoguang, Forbidden City

Emperor Daoguang, who was lying on the hospital bed, looked at Lin Zexu's performance, and was depressed, he was ready to leave Lin Zexu to the next emperor, so Mu Zhang'a has been suppressing him in the past few years, and Daoguang has also turned a blind eye, so that the new emperor can promote Lin Zexu after he ascends the throne, so that he will be grateful to the new emperor and die.

Daoguang has been in accordance with the secret reserve system established by Emperor Yongzheng, and has established the fourth son of the emperor Yi Xu as the crown prince, and the holy decree is hidden behind Zhengda Guangming Bian, and now he regrets it a little, the Qing Dynasty is already stormy, but the sixth son of the emperor Yi? Both civil and military, should I let Yi? Inherit the unification and give the little sixth son another chance.

"Someone, Xuan Yi, Yi? See the driver. Daoguang said to the little eunuch who came in.

Ai Xin Jueluo. When Yi Su heard that his father had summoned him, he hurriedly called his teacher Du Shoutian to discuss Daoguang's intentions.

Du Shoutian said: "The fourth elder brother is not as eloquent as the sixth elder brother, remember, what the emperor asks you, you just cry, just express your filial piety, if it is really prevarication, you must answer carefully, such as: I pray for the emperor day and night, I hope that the emperor will live a long life, and you must not compete with the sixth elder brother." ”

Yi Su nodded, deeply convinced.

Daoguang saw that his two sons were in front of him, so he took out Lin Zexu's recital, let the two sons read it separately, and asked them what they thought.

Just listening? The head of the talk is the Tao, the mouth is like a hanging river, and the most lucrative one also recommended Li Xingyuan to replace Lin Zexu as the minister of the Qin mission to suppress bandits, and Daoguang nodded again and again.

Yi Su saw that the big thing was not good, and when it was his turn, he howled and cried, making Daoguang inexplicable, only to hear Yi Su sob: "Erchen hopes that Huang Ama will live a long life, and I will never have to worry about these problems." ”

Daoguang is an old man who thinks that Yi Su is pure and filial, and he has always advocated governing the country with filial piety. Do you think it is easy again? Ill-intentioned, he thinks? is so thorough about national affairs, do you hope that you will die early so that you can inherit the throne. Heart-to-heart? A trace of guilt also vanished.

A month later, Daoguang died of illness in the Summer Palace, and Yi Su ascended the throne, and the year was changed to 'Xianfeng' the following year. The edict is established again? For Prince Heshuo Gong. This makes the newly enthroned Yi Su more and more jealous? Rise up, and don't allow him to meddle in the affairs of the state.

After Li Yunzhong heard that Lin Zexu died of illness in Wuzhou, out of reverence for the national hero, he ordered the whole army to wear linen and filial piety for one day. After Li Xingyuan, the new minister of the Qin Mission, arrived in Guangxi, he ordered the governor Xiang Rong to lead the Wuzhou army, and the governor Zhou Tianjue to lead the armies of Guilin and Yong'an to attack Tengxian together.

Li Yunzhong saw that the officers and troops were menacing, and he also carried several cannons. Hong Xiuquan ordered himself to go to Jintian to participate in his birthday, immediately withdrew from Teng County and went to Jintian, and ordered Mengsheng to defend Pingnan County: if the officers and soldiers came to attack with all their strength, they would also retreat to Jintian. Li Yunzhong didn't want to fight hard with the officers and soldiers. He intended to use the mountains so that the artillery on which the officers and soldiers relied would be useless. On the way to withdraw the troops, many homeless people secretly left the team, and Li Yunzhong also let it go.

In fact, he looked up to the cannons of this era too much, unlike the cannons that exploded in a radius of dozens of meters in later generations, the cannons carried by the Qing army could only scare people, and they could only be effectively killed unless they hit directly, and they were used in sieges to kill and injure the defenders with the blasted stone chips.

When Li Yunzhong rushed to Jintian with a large army, he found that there were 20,000 or 30,000 people in Jintian Town, plus more than 60,000 people he brought, Hong Xiuquan took Feng Yunshan and others to welcome Li Yunzhong to Wei Zheng's house in Jintian Town, no, Wei Zheng had already changed his name to Wei Changhui.

Late at night, Feng Yunshan asked Li Yunzhong to say something again, and after a while, Li Yunzhong sent Feng Yunshan out of the door expressionlessly.

On the second day, Hong Xiuquan held a pledge meeting in Jintian, established the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, and the rebel army was unified as the Taiping Army, and established the front, rear, center, left, and right five armies, Yang Xiuqing was the chief general of the Chinese army, Xiao Chaogui was the chief general of the former army, Li Yunzhong was the chief general of the right army, Feng Yunshan was the chief general of the rear army, and Wei Changhui was the chief general of the left army. Hong Xiuquan was called the King of Heaven, named Li Yunzhong as the 'Heavenly Master', and named Yang Xiuqing as the military advisor.

With Li Yunzhong's military law as a reference, a new military law was promulgated: first, obey the order; Second, don't do men and women; Three, autumn did not commit any crimes; Fourth, the public heart and the suffocation, each according to the constraints of the leader; Fifth, work together and do not retreat from the battle.

Others cheered and looked excited, but Hu Yihuang, Zhang Suimou and others showed anger on their faces, saying that the main general of the first army of Hao Lu disappeared and fell on Wei Changhui's head.

After the oath was completed, Hong Xiuquan convened all the army commanders to discuss the matter and announced the number and number of each army.

Yang Xiuqing commanded the Chinese army, 5,000 people, mainly 1,000 people from the Bauhinia Mountain area, 2,000 people from Shi Dakai Development in Guixian County, and 2,000 miners organized by Qin Rigang. The former army Xiao Chaogui commanded 3,000 people, the source was 2,000 charcoal burners, 1,000 were selected from the people, and Feng Yunshan's rear army of 8,000 people including Meng Sheng, Hu Yihuang, Zhang Suimou, and Ling 18 were all among them, and Zhang Suimou was transferred to Li Yunzhong's right army with a few personal soldiers. Wei Changhui's left army of 4,000 people, except for the Wei family's clansmen, the rest were the remaining people from the middle army and the front army, and Li Yunzhong's right army was 7,000 people, and some elite bandits from Luo Xuan were transferred to the right army. The women were unified into a battalion, Hong Xuanjiao was the commander, and Su Sanniang was appointed deputy commander at Li Yunzhong's suggestion. When the troops were withdrawn from Tengxian County, some displaced people who were unwilling to rebel took the opportunity to escape, and Li Yunzhong's strength was reduced, but his cohesion was greatly improved. Seeing that no one objected, Hong Xiuquan looked at Li Yunzhong slightly apologetically, and then said: "Yesterday, Xunzhou Deputy General Li Dianyuan occupied Siwang Taro and cut off the retreat to Pingnan County, Xiuqing, what do you think." ”

Yang Xiuqing said: "The purpose of the official army is obvious, that is, to trap us in Guiping County, and wait for the arrival of the official army brigade, and then come to the decisive battle, we should jump out of the mountain, divide the troops into several roads, so that the officers and soldiers are exhausted, and then converge in Pingnan County, the officers and soldiers are broken, and the battle is fought by the right army with combat experience, in addition, Zhou Fengqi also brought two thousand Qing soldiers from Xunzhou Mansion to Jintian direction, and the former army ambushed in Jintian Wangaoling, after defeating the official army, there is no need to return to Jintian, you can attack other county capitals. ”

Li Yunzhong suddenly remembered that after attacking Tengxian County, Luo Outline proposed to lead troops to attack Yong'an at night, saying that he was seventy percent sure that Yong'an Mansion could be captured. At that time, Li Yunzhong did not want to make a big fuss, so he made a bird of the head and led the imperial court to send a large army to encircle and suppress it in advance, and now the time is ripe.

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