The Taiping army attacked the city for a day without progress, Feng Yunshan came to visit Li Yunzhong, hoping to borrow some explosives to blow up the city wall, Li Yunzhong sent the demolition battalion to follow Feng Yunshan, two hours later, the demolition battalion returned, it turned out that the city of Guilin was full of rocks or something, and it could not be dug up.

On September 8, Ulantai, the deputy commander of Guangzhou, who had followed the pursuing Taiping army, led his army to the Jiangjun Bridge in the southern suburbs of Guilin. Seeing the banner of Wudutong from afar, Xiang Rong on the upper floor of Guilin City was happy, and secretly thought that he was saved now.

Li Yunzhong ordered the Second Army to go to intercept, Zhang Sui plotted to use the breech gun captured in Yong'an City, and the first shot injured the thigh of Ulantai who ran in front, followed by the Cantonese army who rushed forward in fright, turned around and ran, leaving Ulantai alone on the bridge moaning, struggling to crawl backwards, leaving a shocking bloodstain. Zhang Suimou saw that Ulantai was wearing an official uniform, and asked someone to carry him down, and died of his injuries.

This scene, let the heart of Xiang Rong in the city pull out the cold, but also let the Qing army in Guilin fall into deep fear, the morale of the Taiping army was greatly boosted, and the attack on the city became more and more violent, under the cover of bursts of gunsmoke, the Taiping soldiers set up a ladder, the square table wrapped with wet cotton on the top of their heads, and bravely attacked the city, even women and children were shouting and cheering on the side. On September 15, fierce battles continued at the West Gate, South Gate, and Wenchang Gate. On the 18th, the Taiping army set up piglets on Elephant Trunk Mountain to bombard the city, and the prefect's yamen was hit by a cannon, and frightened the government to hide in the hall near the Shuidongmen, Xiang Rong watched many officers and soldiers secretly shrink back, and quickly boosted morale, shouting loudly: "The officers and soldiers in the city will each be rewarded with one tael of silver per day, and one thief will be rewarded with five taels of silver." Most of them were a group of poor people, who were forced to come up and use guns, fire pots, rolling wood, rolling stones, and pouring boiling water, scalding porridge, and boiling oil. For a time, the cannon inside and outside the city rumbled, and the valley was resounded.

The Taiping army camped the main force of 6,000 people along the west gate, the south gate, and the Wenchang gate, forming a half-moon-shaped encirclement of the provincial capital Guilin. During this period, Li Yunzhong ordered and invited Li Yunzhong to attack the city together, but he was refused, and he only got a promise not to let the Qing demon reinforcements get close to the city

On September 20, after the Qing army suffered repeated setbacks, it transferred more than 30,000 reinforcements from ten provinces, including Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Henan, Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hui, Suzhou, and Guizhou, in an attempt to gather the Taiping army under the city of Guilin. Li Yunzhong led the army to continue northward, straight to Quanzhou, the northernmost part of Guangxi, and in the evening the whole army arrived at the city of Quanzhou, Li Yunzhong ordered people to camp under the city, and did not attack the city, the city of Quanzhou was high and thick, poor and had no strategic value, and Li Yunzhong did not want to waste his efforts.

The governor and county of Quanzhou can be frightened all night in the city, the poison is ready, there are only 600 defenders in the city, even if the people are forcibly requisitioned, there are only more than 2,000 people, and there are tens of thousands of thieves in the city, and the city will be broken in a few days.

Xiang Rong stood on the city wall and watched the reinforcements enter the city one after another, full of ambition, the Taiping army fled in a hurry overnight, such a great achievement, I don't know how the court rewarded, the more I thought about it, the more excited I was, the admiral was already a first-class official, I am afraid that he was going to be promoted to a knighthood and a false title, and the prince was a young prince? Ha Lu Ha.

Saishana heard that the Taiping army was attacking Guilin, and immediately moved from Yong'an to Lipu, and a day later moved from Lipu to Yangshuo, Saishana sat on a heavy army of 30,000 people, and was in Yangshuo Shouyang Academy, more than 130 miles away from the provincial capital, but he did not dare to personally return to the provincial capital to command the battle, and repeatedly played with "physical illness", hoping to shirk responsibility. It was not until September 26 that the Taiping army had been evacuated from Guilin for a week.

Jiang Zhongyuan can be said to be extremely disappointed in Saishan'a, fearing the enemy but fighting, and shirking responsibility...... Hearing that the Taiping army had moved north from Guilin and marched to Hunan, he was afraid that they would go back to harm Xinning, so he took Chu Yong to chase after the Taiping army without asking Saishan'a.

"The holy decree has arrived" Xiang Rong looked excitedly at the eunuch who came to deliver the decree, and led the Guilin officials to kneel down to receive the decree.

I only heard the eunuch read: "Xiang Rong has the grace of God, fears the enemy but fights, lies about his exploits, dismisses him, demotes him to a commoner, and allows him to make meritorious contributions in the army." ”

Xiang Rong, who was exhausted, was only disheartened when he heard it, and when the eunuch finished reading the holy decree, he even forgot to accept the holy decree, and hobbled to the house to pack up his things and prepare to go home to retire.

Zhang Guoliang caught up, supported Xiang Rong, and said: "Junmen, you have nothing to do, what's wrong with this court, those who have meritorious service will not be rewarded, and those who delay the fighter will not be punished." This also allows us to suppress bandits. ”

Xiang Rong shouted: "Shut up, you can slander the court, this must be the villain's slander on the emperor, you have to stay in the army and serve well." ”

"Then what do you want to ......," Zhang Guoliang looked at the disheartened Xiang Rong and asked.

Xiang Rong patted him on the shoulder, waved his hand, ignored Zhang Guoliang, who was stunned in place, and walked away.

Li Yunzhong rushed to Lingyidu, only to see that the river was bottomless, and transported the collected boats to the soldiers to cross the river, and after the whole army crossed the river, the boats were taken over by the vanguard of the Taiping army.

Since Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of the Ling Canal to communicate the Xiang River and the Li River, Hunan and Guangxi have influenced each other, especially when the war is in chaos, when the rebel army is untenable in the province, they will go to the neighboring provinces to kill.

As soon as the army entered Hunan, it entered the boundary of Lingling Mansion, and the prefect of Lingling Mansion saw that the army was besieging the city, and the army was transferred to Guangxi, and there were only 300 defenders in the city.

This made Li Yunzhong surprised, since the start of the army, he has not seen the scene of the generals defending the city abandoning the city and fleeing, it seems that the troops of Hunan and several surrounding provinces have been transferred to Guangxi. Li Yunzhong established the Han government in Lingling Mansion, appointed himself the king of the Han Dynasty, and played the political slogan of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China", and asked the army to proclaim the slogan "The cultivator has his land and is exempt from tax for three years" every place he visited.

The First Army attacked Daoxian, the Second Army marched in the direction of Guiyang, and Li Yunzhong led the Fourth Army and the rest of the people to stay in Lingling Mansion for the time being, considering the next step and inquiring about the situation of the Taiping Army.

Yu Wanqing, the governor of Hunan stationed in Daozhou, saw that the Han army was coming, and hurriedly fled with his family, and the first army occupied Daozhou without blood.

Guiyang Prefecture Zhizhou Li Qishao usually fish and flesh the people, do all kinds of evil, heard that the Han army is coming, frightened, abandoned the city, with the looted money fled to the countryside, every time he fled to a place, he heard that the Han army is coming, saw the people spontaneously go to meet the scene, he was in a hurry, thought of the ancient abandonment to stop the pursuit of the story, the gold and silver treasures still all the way, when he fled to the town, the local people suddenly shouted: "The thief is coming!" The thief is coming! Frightened to learn that the Lord of the Mansion thought that the Han army was chasing him, and in order to avoid humiliation, he jumped into the river and committed suicide.

Many local coal diggers in Daozhou and Guiyang joined the Han army, and Li Yunzhong saw that they were very good at digging tunnels, so he organized them into the blasting battalion and expanded them into a blasting regiment, with a total of 4,000 people, which could not only fight but also blast the city wall during the siege.

Li Yunzhong learned from the local officials that Changsha was empty of troops, and the city wall had not been repaired for a long time, and it was not strong, so he immediately made a desperate bet and ordered the whole army to put down all the territory and immediately go to Changsha at full speed.

Luo Bingzhang never expected that he would meet his little fellow soldier in this situation, his heart went up and down, and after a while, he thought fiercely: Hong Xiuquan, you are just a failed talent, a rebellious descendant of Huaxian County, you dare to compete with me, a dignified Qing Dynasty Jinshi senior, I know that I am the target of your jealousy and hatred, you do this, aren't you forcing me to fight hard with you, I don't think about my future, and I have to fight for myself in front of my hometown, otherwise who will be willing to study and take the Jinshi in the future.