In Tengxian County, Guangxi, after defeating Jiang Zhongyuan's pursuers, Chen Yucheng led the cavalry troops to quickly rush to Tengxian County. In order to consolidate the defense line in Wuzhou, Luodingzhou, Deqing Prefecture and other places, the main force of the Qing army and the young and strong people in the rear cities of Guangxi such as Tengxian County were all transferred, and now there is only one guerrilla leader in Tengxian County who led 500 Qing troops and more than 2,000 regiments and horses trained by local gentry to defend the town.

Chen Yucheng used the captured Qing army uniforms and banners of Jiang Zhongshu's department to order a cavalry to dress up as a Qing army and open the city gate of Teng County, and then the Taiping cavalry seized the city gate, and then the Taiping army that arrived quickly followed up, and Teng County was broken on the same day.

Chen Yucheng is a native of Tengxian County, and when he returned to his hometown after many years of absence, Chen Yucheng felt like a world away. In his early years, his parents died, and he was brought up by his uncle Chen Chengying, and he also followed his uncle to join the Taiping Army.

The Battle of Tengxian annihilated the Qing army and more than 2,000 regimental trainees, and the rest were taken prisoner. After Chen Yucheng occupied Teng County, he released the young and strong people who had been forcibly requisitioned, opened a warehouse and released grain to help the people, and left a cavalry battalion of more than 400 people, organized the people of Teng County to defend the city, and then explained to the cavalry battalion commander who stayed behind. Afterwards, Chen Yucheng led a large army to replenish food and some supplies, and then quickly went to Xunzhou Mansion.

The commander of the cavalry battalion who stayed in Tengxian Town to guard was named Zhang Chaodong, who was also an old Guangxi Taiping Army and a native of Tengxian County.

Tengxian is the only way to transfer materials in the rear of Guangxi, and a large number of weapons, gunpowder, and grain are stored here. There were even eight 3,000-pound cannons, although in the eyes of Zhang Chaodong and other new army officers, these cannons, muskets, and gunpowder were outdated. But it can be used to defend the city. So the Taiping army quickly armed the young people in the city and placed artillery to defend the city.

While mobilizing the people to participate in the defense of the city, Zhang Chaodong ruthlessly suppressed the gentry and wealthy tycoons who helped the Qing army training regiment to train soldiers and horses in the city.

Jiang Zhongyuan learned in Wuzhou that it had been two days since the loss of Tengxian County, and Jiang Zhongyuan still had 20,000 horses in Wuzhou, so it stands to reason that he could not sit idly by and watch Chen Yucheng make trouble in the Heavenly Palace behind him. However, Jiang Zhongshu's death told Jiang Zhongyuan that the Qing army and the Taiping army still could not fight a field battle, especially the cavalry led by Chen Yucheng. This elusive cavalry war law Jiang Zhongyuan was deeply jealous.

On the fifth day, the latest news came one after another, first the scouts sent to Tengxian County fled back with nine deaths, saying that Chen Yucheng led the army to continue westward. Teng County was also garrisoned by the Taiping Army. But the specific strength is ominous, but judging from the men and horses taken by Chen Yucheng, the number of Taiping troops in the city will not be too much.

Jiang Zhongyuan is still hesitating, he is afraid that this is another trap set by Chen Yucheng for him, but Xunzhou Mansion can not help it, once Chen Yucheng takes Xunzhou Mansion, he can attack the soldiers and horses of Lao Chongguang, the governor of Liuzhou and Guangxi, and Lao Chongguang is leading more than 30,000 Qing troops to besiege the local righteous army He Gou in the vicinity of Xiangzhou. To the south, you can go south to Yulin State. Here, Xi Yinglong, the governor of Guangxi, led 20,000 Qing troops and Hu Youlu, Zhu Hongying and other rebel armies. Therefore, once Chen Yucheng takes the Xunzhou Mansion, it is very likely that he will quickly attack the Qing army in the south or north. As a result, if he joins forces with He Goubei, Zhu Hongying, Hu Youlu and other rebel troops, the situation in Guangxi will become out of control.

Just when Jiang Zhongyuan was still hesitating to send troops to pursue, several gentry who had escaped from Teng County came to ask for a meeting. Jiang Zhongyuan immediately summoned them, it turned out that these gentry were more clever, and when they saw the Taiping army entering the city, they dressed up as ordinary people, and even the family property was gone, and they fled from Tengxian County among the people. When Jiang Zhongyuan asked about the situation in the city, several gentry said that there were not many real long-haired people left in Teng County, only a few hundred, and now the Taiping army was bewitching and co-opting the young and strong people everywhere in the city to become thieves.

So Jiang Zhongyuan no longer hesitated, and the next morning he personally led more than 10,000 Qing troops to Teng County, intending to pull Chen Yucheng's hind legs.

Jiang Zhongyuan's side raised troops to leave Wuzhou, and Zhang Chaodong of Teng County sent a team of cavalry to monitor the movements of the Qing army in Wuzhou. When Zhang Chaodong of Teng County learned that Jiang Zhongyuan had left Wuzhou, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered people to go out of the city to Xunzhou Mansion to report to Chen Yucheng.

It turned out that Chen Yucheng left a small number of soldiers and horses to defend Tengxian County in order to lure the Qing army in Wuzhou to attack, and he led a large cavalry team to stop at Wulin Port, which was more than 60 miles west of Tengxian County. After Zhang Chaodong came with the news, Chen Yucheng immediately led a large group of cavalry to prepare to kill a horse gun.

Jiang Zhongyuan rushed to Teng County in the afternoon of the next day, and after lunch, Jiang Zhongyuan immediately gathered troops to attack Teng County. Zhang Chaodong commanded the people in the city to defend the young and strong township soldiers, plus several 3,000-pound cannons in the city to cheer, thousands of Qing troops attacked for two hours, and Teng County was already standing still.

Jiang Zhongyuan was angry, he knew that one more moment outside the city would be more dangerous, because none of the scouts he sent out to the west to reconnoiter had returned, and he already felt bad about being cunning and cunning, but he couldn't retreat at this moment, if he retreated at this moment, it was very likely that he would be caught up by Chen Yucheng's cavalry halfway, and the only way to do this was to quickly conquer Teng County, and there might be a turnaround by virtue of Teng County's refusal.

Jiang Zhongyuan personally supervised the formation with his sword, commanded the Qing army to attack the city in turn, regardless of casualties, the township soldiers temporarily organized in Teng County were few and had no training at all, and it was already the limit to defend the city for two hours, and when it was about to collapse, Zhang Chaodong ordered his three cavalry company commanders to lead their respective cavalry units to kill from the north gate, and attacked Jiang Zhongyuan's siege troops from the flank by detouring to the east of the city.

The most ferocious offensive of the Qing army was interrupted, and the siege of the city was carried out with great vigor, at this time the Qing army was already declining and exhausted, and the morale could not be raised.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Zhongyuan sighed and said, "It's not a good thing, it's a plan for the four-eyed dog." Sure enough, in the evening, Chen Yucheng's cavalry brigade rushed back, and took advantage of the Qing army's dinner to raid the Qing army's camp outside Tengxian County.

Fortunately, it soon darkened, and although the Taiping army and the township soldiers in Tengxian County were carrying torches all night to intercept and kill the Qing army, they still let Jiang Zhongyuan, the old fox, run away. Jiang Zhongyuan fled to the edge of the Xijiang River with several staff members and guards, but fortunately he grabbed a small fishing boat, and Jiang Zhongyuan fled back to Wuzhou with five people.

Jiang Zhongyuan was good at defending but not good at attacking, and it was always easier to defend than to take advantage of the attacker, because the Qing army failed to defeat Teng County, which was defended by less than 3,000 young and strong people, and the officers of the Taiping army played a tight role in commanding and calming people's hearts.

More than 10,000 Qing troops were annihilated, more than 6,000 people surrendered, and more than 1,000 people fled in all directions, killing more than 10 generals below the general level of the Qing army. At this point, the Qing army in Wuzhou no longer dared to send troops westward to rescue, and Chen Yucheng's springboard strategy was successful.

On the third day after the end of the Battle of Tengxian County, Chen Yucheng led the cavalry brigade and 3,000 Qingzhuang Township soldiers recruited from Tengxian County and nearby to Xunzhou Mansion, and they transported the 3,000 catties of artillery captured in Tengxian County. Although Chen Yucheng's cavalry fought fiercely at night, because they were all lightly armed, there was no siege artillery at all, but fortunately, the Qing army in Tengxian County prepared eight for them.

Later, Chen Yucheng shelled Xunzhou Mansion, and the Qing army in Xunzhou Mansion was less than 2,000 people, all of whom were panicked. Chen Yu thought that the Xunzhou Mansion would resist for some time, but he did not expect that the day after the bombardment of the Xunzhou Mansion began, the Xunzhou Governor Gu Yuankai and the Guiping Governor Wang Lie surrendered.

Chen Yucheng's troops occupied Xunzhou Mansion without bloodshed, and then left a regiment of cavalry and township corps to guard Xunzhou Mansion, and the local civil affairs Chen Yucheng still appointed Gu Yuankai, Wang Lie and others to govern.

Gu Yuankai and Wang Lie originally did a good job in Xunzhou Mansion, but after Jiang Zhongyuan arrived, he wanted to stick to Wuzhou and other places, so he urged Gu Yuankai and Wang Lie to pay more money and grain, organize young and strong people to go out with the army, and tossed Xunzhou Mansion to the ground. Moreover, Jiang Zhongyuan did not like to see the two of them, and often provoked and even insulted the two, because after the Taiping army arrived in Xunzhou Mansion and began to bombard the city, it was important for the two of them to save their lives together, and the current prestige of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was already a situation of changing dynasties, so the two wisely chose to surrender.

In fact, in the history of the Taiping Rebellion in later generations, there were examples of mutual surrender between the Qing army and the Taiping army, and there were not a few. The most famous character is Miao Peilin, this guy is to the extreme, when the Taiping army is strong, he is the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and when the Qing army is strong, he is the minister of regimental training of the Qing court.

After Chen Yucheng conquered Xunzhou Mansion, after resting for two days, he led two cavalry regiments to rush to the border of Xiangzhou in Liuzhou Prefecture, where there were 30,000 Qing troops led by Guangxi Governor Lao Chongguang who were besieging the righteous army of He Gou in Xiangzhou.

He Goubei was ordered to return to Guangxi to contact the rebel army in Changsha that year, he was born in the Heaven and Earth Society, and after returning to Guangxi, he contacted some figures of the Heaven and Earth Society, and successfully held an uprising, and then joined forces with Hu Youlu, Zhu Hongying and other rebels, this rebel army once developed to more than 100,000 horses, and captured Xunzhou Mansion.

But after occupying Xunzhou Mansion, Zhu Hongying wanted to sacrifice the old routine of the Heaven and Earth Society, and rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. He Goubei was a person assigned by the Taiping Army to go south, so naturally he did not agree to set up another country name, so he asked the righteous army to obey the orders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zhu Hongying was very ambitious, so she naturally didn't agree, but Hu Youlu was a good man, so he lived a thin mud and built a country name of the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom, with the year name Taiping Tiande, which was regarded as the first class of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

He Gou was furious, so he led his men and horses to the north, and since then the two rebel armies have parted ways, and the good situation in Guangxi has changed since then. By the beginning of this year, there were less than 10,000 of He Gou's men and horses, and they were besieged in the mountainous areas around Xiangzhou, while Hu Youlu and Zhu Hongying still occupied several prefectures and counties in Yulin Prefecture, and there were still tens of thousands of people, but they were mostly old and weak. (To be continued......)