Li Yunzhong asked people to bring up the two spies caught on the road, wanting to see if he was Hong Xiuquan's brother, and after a while, Jin Wen and Yinwu came up with a man less than thirty, and the two came to stand next to Li Yunzhong.

Li Yunzhong asked, "Who are you?" Where are the people? ”

The man said with a smile: "In the lower Hunan clan, the surname Jiao Mingliang, claiming that Hong Daquan is just to save his life, I heard in Hunan that the general attacked the city and pulled out the village, invincible, known as 'Li Baisheng' Today, it is really in vain." ”

Li Yunzhong was secretly happy, he didn't expect his reputation to spread to Hunan, so it was really twice the result with half the effort to enter Hunan, so he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Do you know the situation in Hunan?" Don't hide it from my brother, I plan to enter Hunan, I don't know what Your Excellency thinks? ”

Jiao Liang laughed for a while, saw that Li Yunzhong was confused, and explained: "Don't hide it from the general, I am the leader of the Hunan Heaven and Earth Society, this question is the right person for the general, Hunan has been plagued by natural and man-made disasters in recent years, and our Heaven and Earth Society has repeatedly caused incidents, but they have all failed and sacrificed many congregations." Jiao Liang sighed

Hu Yihuang said: "I didn't expect the officers and troops in Hunan to be so able to fight, so wouldn't it be ...... for us to march into Hunan" He looked at Li Yunzhong.

Jiao Liang retorted: "The Hunan officers and soldiers are all a bunch of waste, and they will collapse when they encounter them, and those who suppress the rebels are regimental training and volunteers. After speaking, he slapped the table with his fist.

It turned out that since the Hunan gentry experienced the Sichuan-Chu White Lotus Uprising, many landlords and officials were ruined. Therefore, the gentry hated the people's riots, and there was a little sign of it, and the local gentry raised their own money and food, and recruited soldiers to suppress it.

Li Yunzhong said: "It seems that the training of the Hunan gentry is our great enemy, and everyone should pay special attention to it in the future." ”

"Yes," they replied, bowing down.

After just two days of repairs in Lipu, he received the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army coming straight to Lipu County, Li Yunzhong secretly cursed the bad luck, let the people in the city flee for their lives in all directions, and immediately gathered the whole army to continue to drive north. Guangxi is mountainous, from Lipu County to Hunan is even more difficult to walk, there are only two roads suitable for the march of the army, one is to continue to the north through Guilin, Quanzhou, the other is to march to the northeast, you can enter the Hunan border, but there are few people, the road is very difficult to walk. Li Yunzhong considered that it was really dangerous to take the second road, and now he was short of food and clothing, and even if he arrived in Hunan, he was tired.

Ordered Hu Yihuang's first army to march in the direction of Guilin, Li Yunzhong led the army later, but Jiao Liang, a native of Hunan, proposed to Li Yunzhong to go to Hong Xiuquan's army, Li Yunzhong secretly foiled: Jiao Liang is a traditional scholar, and a scholar who is as rebellious as Hong Xiuquan is after all one in ten thousand, and when he meets Feng Yunshan, there is already green smoke on the ancestral grave, and Jiao Liang can't talk to them.

After the Taiping army broke through from Yong'an, Xiang Rong couldn't sleep and eat, looked at the map all night, guessed that the Taiping army's target was there, and called Zhou Xineng, the general of the Taiping army, for questioning. Zhou Xineng was originally serving as a military commander in Yang Xiuqing's Chinese army, but he was captured and betrayed, and Xiang Rong originally planned to beat him into the Taiping army, so that he could join forces with the outside, but who knew that the Taiping army broke through and left, and this plan was in vain.

Xiang Rong rubbed his brows and asked, "When you were in the thief army, did you hear that the thief army was going to attack there?" ”

Zhou Xineng bowed down and replied: "The last general has not heard of it, but it is ......"

"But what, if you have something to say, just say it." Xiang Rong said

Zhou Xineng replied: "However, the last general guessed that the commanders of the thief army were all from poor families and liked to raid the homes of the rich to gather money, so they must have gone to a prosperous place." ”

Xiang Rong looked at the map, looking for the most prosperous place nearby, the thief broke through to the north, the most prosperous place in the north was Guilin, his mind was blank for a while, he stood up and was dizzy, holding on to the table, Xiang Rong said hoarsely: "Come on, prepare the horse quickly." "Guilin is going to be attacked by thieves again, so he should commit suicide as soon as possible, so as not to affect his family. Thinking of this, he didn't have time to take the army, so he only led dozens of personal soldiers to Guilin day and night, and immediately wrote a note of impeachment against Xiang Rong and asked his cronies to send it to the capital.

The Taiping army passed through Lipu County and did not enter the city, directly through the city, which was much beyond Li Yunzhong's expectations, and quickly let the army speed up, almost at the same time as the Taiping army arrived in Guilin, perhaps Yang Xiuqing was afraid that Li Yunzhong would attack Guilin first, and did not let Xiao Chaogui, who served as the forward, rest, let him attack Guilin immediately, before the siege, Xiao Chaogui had a plan, so that the Taiping army held the banner of the Qing army, wore the Qing army uniform, and pretended to be Xiang Rong's remnants of the defeated army to try to earn the city from the south gate, he didn't know that Xiang Rong had entered Guilin City half a day earlier. On the city tower, Xiang Rong, who had a proud face, pulled his throat and shouted loudly to the Taiping army under the city: "You gang of thieves, I have been waiting for a long time and have seen through your tricks." "There is no way, the Taiping army can only forcibly attack the city. In the afternoon, the large forces of the Taiping army arrived at the city of Guilin one after another, and a bloody battle soon began.

Li Yunzhong took the generals of the army to watch the Taiping army attack the city on a high ground in the north of the city.

Luo Xuan pointed to the Taiping army that was attacking the northern city and said: "The defenders in the city have long been prepared, and the Taiping army will not be able to defeat Guilin in this way, unless the city gate or city wall is blown open with explosives." ”

Meng Sheng looked at the fireworks that rose from time to time under the city, and said, "I'm afraid they won't blow up the city gate with explosives, but will only use them as fireworks." ”

Suddenly, there was a milky voice: "It's not right for them to attack the city like this." ”

Li Yunzhong wondered how there was a child here, looked in the direction of the sound, and was startled, this child actually had four eyes, saw everyone looking at him, and hid behind Chen Chengying shyly, poked his head out from time to time to look at everyone, and then retracted his head.

Chen Chengying hurriedly shook off the child, stepped forward and knelt down to Li Yunzhong and said: "General forgiveness, this son is my nephew, both parents died, and he has been carried by me, because he is not yet thirteen years old, so he has not joined the Boy Scouts." ”

Li Yunzhong stepped forward to take a closer look, it turned out that there was a mole under his eyes, which looked like four eyes from a distance, he touched the child's head and asked, "Child, what is your name." ”

"I'm not a child, I'll be thirteen years old next month, my name is Chen Picheng." The kid replied

Li Yunzhong said: "Pi Cheng, if you don't add one, it will be called a failure, this name is not good, it is better to change an auspicious name." Li Yunzhong said

Chen Chengying hurriedly held Chen Picheng down, knelt down and kowtowed to Li Yunzhong. said: "Don't thank the general for the name." ”

Li Yunzhong hurriedly waved his hand, he didn't want to lose face in front of everyone, and said, "I can't do it, let's let the second brother come." ”

Hu Yihuang was also interested, and he did not shirk, saying: "Everyone in the world likes gold and silver, but these two words are too cheesy, and jade is more valuable than gold and silver, and it sounds elegant.

Li Yunzhong heard that gold and silver were cheesy, looked at the embarrassed Huang Jinwen and Bai Yinwu on the side, touched his nose and said: "Yes, yes, the word 'jade' is good, you will be called Yucheng in the future, Chen Yucheng?" …… Chen Yucheng! Li Yunzhong looked at Chen Yucheng carefully, his age and family background also matched, and he was sure that he was the famous "King of England" in later generations.

Li Yunzhong asked: "You just said that they attacked the city wrongly, so how do you say to attack the city?" ”

Chen Yucheng pointed to the Taiping army that was attacking the city and said, "They have come all the way, and they are extremely tired, but the city has already been prepared. If they send people to take turns to attack the city, it will be easier to break the city if the officers and soldiers in the city are exhausted. ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded their heads, not for how many seconds it was, but for a thirteen-year-old child to think of this.

Li Yunzhong said: "You can follow me in the future." ”

"General Xie" Chen Chengying said happily, as long as the people who come out of the general's side, they will be reused, and all the senior generals in the army have stayed by the general's side.