When the civil and military officials of Anqing City were vying to flee, the governor Jiang Wenqing knew that he could not be spared, so he sent someone to Zhou Tianjue, the governor of Cao who helped to suppress the thieves outside the book city, and died in the name of his own will. Lao Jiang is suspected of selling his life to make money, he is the governor of a province, no matter what, he can't go, even if he escapes with his life, Xianfeng and the court will not let him go, Lao Jiang simply carried out the name of loyalty to the end. In the book, he tearfully wrote about his old Jiang's loyalty, and by the way, he betrayed those unscrupulous teammates who only cared about fleeing for their lives, and wrote in detail the deeds of the escape of hundreds of officials in the city, so that the Qing court could investigate the guilt of these unscrupulous colleagues afterwards.

Zhou Tianjue, an eighty-year-old man, was also a member of Xianfeng's reliance, Xianfeng's first year of exterminating the Guangxi Taiping Army was unfavorable and was dismissed, and then demoted and retained, and Zuihou was promoted to Cao Governor. When the old man Zhou received the will of the imperial court to help guard Anqing, he had just finished the errand of exterminating the Feng and Ying bandits, and after receiving the will, the old man took more than 100 Goshhama to Anqing non-stop. But after arriving in Anqing, the north of the city has been broken, and the old man Zhou did not enter the city, but dared to support outside the city, and after receiving Jiang Qing's letter, he immediately replied to Jiang Qingwen and gave him a strategy to retreat to Luzhou.

Zhou Tianjue's strategy of retreating to Luzhou can be said to be Jiang Wenqing's only way to live, and he can't actually die in Anqing as a provincial governor, but Jiang Wenqing seems to be carried away by loyalty, and he has to die in the city, refusing Zhou Tianjue's kindness. Unexpectedly, Zhou Tianjue's letter was read by the staff, the master and others, and after it spread, the few Qing officers and soldiers in the south of the city couldn't stop fleeing out, saying that the governor intended to retreat to Luzhou, and the big guys had an excuse to retreat, who would stay?

As a result, the south of Anqing did not wait for the Taiping army to arrive, and the Qing army had already fled. Jiang Wenqing saw that the general trend was gone, so he prepared to commit suicide. I don't know if it's because he has been in office for a long time, the staff has too much ghostwriting, and the eight strands of literature have degenerated, or the governor has been in a state of confusion, so he wrote a few lines of suicide note for a few hours. Finally wrote it, and Lao Jiang ordered his loyal servants to go out of the city with a suicide note to Zhou Tianjue, hoping that he would play the imperial court and build a temple for Lao Jiang himself in the future. After the servant left, Lao Jiang swallowed gold and committed suicide, but it seemed that the weight was not good, and his stomach hurt for a while, but he did not die.

After the loyal servant returned, Old Man Zhou seemed to be moved by Lao Jiang's loyalty, and ordered the loyal servant to bring back a pot of poisonous wine, hoping to fulfill Jiang Wenqing. Governor Jiang, who had swallowed gold and had not died, was encouraged to die again, and immediately took the poisonous wine of the poison master Zhou Tianjue and waited for death. Not only did the poisonous wine and gold have a chemical effect, but Lao Jiang was born with toxic antibodies, but the more he drank this poisonous wine, the more he drank it, the more energetic he became.

Governor Jiang's family couldn't die when they saw such a toss, so they shouted God's will together, and the family was about to flee for their lives with Jiang Wenqing, but they didn't expect to meet the Taiping army wrapped in red turbans at the gate of the mansion.

Seeing the Taiping army holding a sword and gun in his hand, Jiang Wenqing knew that he could not be spared, and rushed forward with a roar, and a Taiping soldier could not collect the knife and stabbed Governor Jiang in the chest, this time Governor Jiang finally achieved his name of loyalty as he wished.

The soldiers of the Taiping army looked at each other, the original order given by Xiao Yungui to the armies was not to easily kill the Qing court officials, and those who could be captured alive were all captured alive.

When Xiao Yungui saw Jiang Wenqing's body, he didn't say much, and ordered the crying Jiang family to bring the body back, and the Qing court had his own worries about his posthumous affairs, and Jiang Wenqing also became the third governor to die at the hands of Xiao Yungui.

After the loss of Anqing, Zhou Tianjue retreated to Luzhou, and Xianfeng's will soon came, ordering him to act as the governor of Anhui and clean up the mess in northern Anhui. Xiao Yungui rested in Anqing for three days, and sent the general Zhu Xineng to lead 3,000 veterans and 7,000 Anqing recruits to guard Anqing. Xiao Yungui made up his mind, now that nails are being hammered along the Yangtze River, even if he can't hold it and wants to evacuate, he can't easily give up these cities to the Qing army like Hong Yang did in history.

At this time, no matter how stupid people are, they also know that the goal of the Taiping Army must be Jinling City, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Xianfeng stepped up the dispatch of civil and military personnel to rescue Nanjing, and appointed Zhou Tianjue as the governor of Anhui to clean up northern Anhui.

After Zhou Tianshi arrived in Luzhou, he began to play his strengths, and said that the Taiping army was good at fighting, if only the blades were met, the world's commanders were not their enemies, and the key to victory was only to poison the way, saying that the old minister had 300,000 catties of rotten intestines, and he would definitely wear the intestines of Hong and Yang. Zhou Tianshi creatively started the first biological and chemical weapons battle in history.

Xianfeng also intended to promote this funny drama, and ordered Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, to collect 300,000 catties of rotten intestines in one month. For a time, the medicine farmers of Guangxi and Guangxi went to the mountains to collect medicines, and Zhou Tianjue also sent more than 3,000 soldiers to join the huge army of medicine pickers, making all the mountains rich in rotten intestinal grass a single inch of grass, and many medicine merchants made a fortune. Xiao Yungui, who was on the road to Jinling, heard the news, and this kid was obsessed with money, and immediately instructed the Zhu Xineng Department of the Anqing Defenders to collect tens of thousands of catties of rotten intestine grass and sell it to Zhou Tianjue through the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce and Guiyun Firm, in exchange for a large amount of silver, and bought a batch of gunpowder and grain to supplement Zhu Xineng's Department in Anqing. In this way, the Anqing garrison not only gained a lot of benefits, but the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce and the Guiyun firm also gained a lot of profits, and what was even more rare was that the two firms were awarded the commendation of Zhou Tianshi, saying that they were businessmen who really knew how to do things in the imperial court.

How is Zhou Tianshi's poisonous weed used? He sent people to sprinkle poisonous weeds into the rivers, hoping that after the Taiping troops along the rivers drank the poisonous water, they would die of rotting intestines one by one. But it's a pity that nature's neutralizing ability exceeds Zhou Tianshi's imagination, these poisonous weeds did not cause any trouble to the Taiping army, and Xiao Yungui has long instructed all armies that drinking water must be boiled before drinking in the future, so Zhou Tianshi's poisonous weeds' biological and chemical weapons battle failed.

However, Zhou Tianshi still went to the court to invite merit, saying that there were no less than 10,000 long-haired thieves poisoned along the river, and Xianfeng was overjoyed, and the reward was rich. Then Zhou Tianjue saw that it was good, and because he was old, he was unable to take care of the military and civil, and resigned from the post of governor of Anhui, Emperor Xianfeng thought about it, an eighty-one-year-old man, and he was embarrassed to let the family work, so he changed to Li Jiaduan, the waiter of the Criminal Department, as the governor, and Zhou Tianjue was old in the Rong Formation, and the rank of the squire of the Reward Department assisted in military affairs.

Xiao Yungui didn't have time to pay attention to the Qing court's deception, he rested in Anqing for three days, and immediately raised troops and then went down the river to the east, along the way Chizhou and Tongling are all down with a drum, and Wuhu, an important town in the west of Jinling, is already close at hand.

Emperor Xianfeng Yan Yan Xiang Rong accelerated the pace to catch up with the Taiping army, and sent a large number of Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers to Nanjing to rescue. After several days and nights of quarrels, the Qing court's military aircraft department finally came up with a strategy, and Emperor Xianfeng had no opinion, so he approved this strategy with a stroke of his pen.

The general arrangement of the Qing army was that Jiangning General Xianghou presided over the defense of Nanjing, Jiangsu Governor Yang Wending guarded Zhenjiang, and the new Cao Governor Yang Dianbang took Guazhou, Xiang Rong's 20,000 horses galloped from Jiangnan to aid Nanjing, and Qishan more than 10,000 Jiangbei soldiers rushed from Jiangbei to aid Guazhou, in an attempt to annihilate the Taiping army under the city of Nanjing. The little emperor does not understand affairs, and the deployment is on par with Zhao Kuo and Ma Tan, just imagine the 100,000 Taiping troops in the West Hall down the river, and the army with combat effectiveness is at least 50,000, and the 20,000 or 30,000 Qing troops in the south of the Yangtze River who have no fighting spirit are still too weak to defend the city, so how can they fight a war of annihilation? So Xiang Rong and Qi Shan, the two main forces all used the excuse to delay, refused to follow the order to participate in the Battle of Nanjing, the two generals were heartbroken, and the situation in front of them was: first to first defeat, then to last defeat, the same to the same defeat, not undefeated.

The Taiping army pointed directly at Wuhu, and although the city of Nanjing was in danger, the internal fighting of the civil and military officers in the city was in full swing. The Manchu Qing Dynasty set up a governor above the governor, and the governor was in the same city to run errands, although the governor was nominally the governor superior, but the power was not greater than the governor, and the so-called county officials were not as good as the current management. The governor could not interfere in the governor's administration, which is why the governor often fought endlessly since the Qing Dynasty.

Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, and Yang Wending, the governor of Jiangsu, quarreled over the defense deployment of the Wuhu generation, and Yang Wending, Xianghou and others decided to unite and participate in Lu Jianying, hoping to get rid of this person who was in the way. Under the instruction of Yang Wending, many officials in Nanjing wrote letters to Governor Lu Jianying, saying that the governor was not welcome to return to the province, and the imperial court decreed that you should block the long hair in front of the governor, what should you do in the rear when you come back? After Lu Jianying cheekily retreated from Jiujiang all the way to Nanjing, he closed his door for three days, and no subordinate officials came to greet him or ask for advice, and directly ignored the retreating governor.

Governor Yang Wending had long wanted to smear oil on the soles of his feet, but he was suffering from no suitable excuse to flee from this place, so he said that he could not cooperate with the governor Lu Jianying, who could only escape, so he had to leave, trying to put the responsibility for his departure on the governor Lu Jianying.

This move was in Lu Jianying's arms, and Governor Lu was also angered by Yang Wending's non-violent and uncooperative attitude, and was trying to rectify this Yang Wending, and at the same time he was planning to take advantage of the chaos to go home the silver grain plate in Nanjing City, make a small fortune, and drive Yang Wending away to do his own errands. Lu Jianying made up his mind to drive Yang Wending away, and ridiculed Yang Wending for relying on the lack of governors in Nanjing. After Yang Wending collected evidence that he was indeed driven away by Lu Jianying, he quickly evacuated. The two biggest officials in Nanjing, one for money and the other for life, ruined Nanjing before the war.

On February 27, the third year of Xianfeng, after the Taiping army of Xidian conquered Wuhu, the vanguard Li Kaifang's troops arrived in Nanjing and encountered the Qing army. Wuchang traveled 1,800 miles along the river from Nanjing, and the Taiping army of the West Temple actually attacked Nanjing in a month, marching more than 60 miles a day on average, and the weak resistance of the Qing army along the way was really shocking. This also made the prestige of the West King good at fighting far and wide, and at the same time created a military miracle that is difficult to replicate in later generations, running 1,800 miles in a month, breaking those who were broken along the way, and those who were hit were subdued, and the ancient Jinling City was completely exposed to the blade of the Taiping army.