Xiao Yungui feels more and more like a politician, politicians always agree with others in repeated disputes and compromises, which include threats, inducements and concessions, compromises, and almost all the despicable tricks are used at this time without the slightest sense of guilt, including abandonment and abandonment.

A few days ago, he showed his loyalty to Hong Xiuquan, and then sold Hong Xiuquan, and when he compromised with Yang Xiuqing, he once again provoked the relationship between Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, he did not feel any guilt because of this, on the contrary, he thought that he used this opportunity to show his strength to the East King, and confused the Heavenly King, so that the Heavenly King mistakenly thought that he was a loyal minister, and the two kings would not trouble the West Hall for at least a long time in the future.

In the defeat of Nanchang, there was no complete winner among the West King, the Heavenly King and the East King, but the West Hall was indeed the one who benefited the most. On the bright side, after the West Hall and the East Hall reached an understanding, they immediately restored the supply of money and food to Tianjing, and at the same time, the West King wrote to the East King to ask for his guilt, and sent a batch of gold and jewelry shells and foreign goods to the East King to make amends, and in the name of the West Palace Army, the whole army was announced, and Chen Yucheng was investigated and dealt with in Shanghai, demoted to a small soldier, and then reorganized with his 20,000 subordinates in Shanghai.

Chen Yucheng did not have the slightest complaint about this, because the letter brought to him by Zeng Wanmei had already told him the consequences, and when Zeng Wanmei asked Chen Yucheng about the content of the letter that night, Chen Yucheng did not tell all the contents of the letter, and he omitted the second half of the West Wangniang to tell him how the West Palace would deal with the aftermath. Xi Wang Niang bluntly told Chen Yucheng that he would bear some infamy and grievances, but Chen Yucheng did not feel wronged, and Xi Wang had talked to him in detail early in the morning, and he and his soldiers would go through this reorganization, in his opinion, this was a matter of early age.

But Chen Yucheng's soldiers were a little puzzled. Lai Wenguang, Chen Yangxing, and other Chen Yucheng generals in the Shanghai United Army wrote to the West King Chen Defense, in which they made an impartial statement of the gains and losses of the two armies of the East Hall and the West Hall in this battle, and Lai Wenguang and other generals hoped that the West King would distinguish between right and wrong and withdraw the punishment of Chen Yucheng.

Xiao Yungui had already returned to Shanghai, and after receiving the letter from Lai Wenguang and others, he only replied with the words "soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty", and then Lai Wenguang and others were also demoted. Then Xiao Yungui convened these generals for a long talk, the West King expected this situation in this reorganization, most of the generals under the West Hall were promoted by the leaders, and these generals even only knew the leading generals but did not know the West King. His reorganization is to get rid of this kind of atmosphere.

After Xiao Yungui demoted the thirty-four generals in the book, he had a separate conversation one by one, during which Chen Yucheng's generals were surprised to find that the king of the West knew everything about his own abilities and family affairs, and then patiently enlightened him. Let the generals know that the king of the west has a reason for this treatment, and reprimand them for having no vision. The king of the West himself wrote a letter to ask for guilt for the sake of uniting the overall situation. What are they going to make a fuss about? Is it really necessary to force the King of the West to kill Chen Yucheng and ask Tianjing for his guilt?

Lai Wenguang and the others were still very unconvinced, they did not resent the West King, but resented Tianjing and the East Hall even more. After Xiao Yungui led the blame to Tianjing and the East Hall again, he didn't explain anything more, to put it bluntly, he understood that he had to carry out the order. If you don't understand, you have to carry out the order.

Xiao Yungui's actions did not make the soldiers of the West Hall feel cold, on the contrary, they made them feel more centrifuged by Tianjing, obviously the West Hall did nothing wrong this time, but they were forced by the East Hall of Tianjing. The king of the west wrote to ask for guilt, Chen Yucheng was degraded, and the king of heaven did not come out to say a fair word in this situation, so the whole of the west hall held a bad breath.

This kind of change in the west hall was unexpected by Tianjing, Yang Xiuqing originally wanted to see the chilling appearance of the soldiers in the west hall after the king of the west was soft, but he couldn't think of how Xiao Yungui turned around, but the top and bottom of the west hall aimed all the injustices at the east hall. But Hong Xiuquan didn't expect that King Xiwang would compromise, and what he didn't expect was that Yang Xiuqing, who had always liked to beat the water dogs, did not chase after him this time.

In mid-October, after receiving a petition from the King of the West, the King of the East pretended to ask the Father of Heaven to come down to earth, and after criticizing the King of the West in a few words in the Father's decree, the Father did not pursue the matter further, but greatly praised the new policy implemented by the West Temple in Sufu Province.

After receiving a sign of weakness from the West Palace, the Eastern King made Qin Rigang give up the pursuit of Chen Yucheng's troops, and instead began to lead the troops and horses of the Jiangxi side to continue to fight against the Qing army of Jiang Zhongyuan's troops. At the same time, he ordered Guozong Yang Fuqing to be dismissed from his post and imprisoned in a cell.

This tacit understanding between the east hall and the west hall made Hong Xiuquan feel very uneasy, Hong Xiuquan had a feeling that he was being played by the East King and the West King together, but then the West King's secret letter relieved him a lot. Xiao Yungui's secret letter told Hong Xiuquan that he forbears this time in order to take care of the overall situation, and asks the Heavenly King not to worry, if the thief's crime is revealed in the future, he will definitely raise troops to serve Wang Yunyun.

After reading this letter, Hong Xiuquan was a little embarrassed, it seems that the king of the West is still enduring humiliation in order to be able to hit with one blow, and in order to make Hong Xiuquan not bear the charge of not being guilty.

In this way, the aftermath of the defeat of Nanchang was resolved by Xiao Yungui, and the West Hall seemed to have suffered a big loss, but Xiao Yungui turned these factors into things that were beneficial to him to use, and he began to reorganize Chen Yucheng's department through this matter, and quietly made the military and people's hearts more centrifugal to Tianjing, and the most important thing made the invisible rift between the King of Heaven and the King of the East deeper. And Xiao Yungui's hand to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages can be regarded as a very successful game, in fact, this is not his idea alone, he also has Hong Yuner, Zuo Zongtang, Wang Minyun, Li Kaifang and others behind him.

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said that although Rong Lu's side was defeated by Chen Yucheng's return horse, he only lost hundreds of soldiers and horses, and then he and Zeng Guoquan both saw that Yang Fuqing, who was not leaving in Nanchang, was already a strong foreign cadre. As soon as the two of them combined, they sent a letter to Zeng Guofan, and Li Chen asked Zeng Guofan to lead elite soldiers and horses to pick peaches.

After receiving the reports from Rong Lu and Zeng Guoquan, Zeng Guofan also judged that the sudden retreat of Chen Yucheng's troops on the Taiping Army's side must be an internal problem of the Taiping Army, and decided to seize the opportunity to use actual combat to train troops, and immediately sent Luo Zenan, Li Xubin and other Hunan army generals to lead 15,000 newly recruited troops of the Hunan Army into Jiangxi for reinforcements.

At the same time, the Qing army reinforcements rushed to Nanchang from Liangguang also arrived, and the Qing army gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses for a time. Under the unified command of Jiang Zhongyuan, the Qing army broke through Yang Fuqing's camp one after another, and finally Yang Fuqing could not support the repeated attacks of the Qing army from all walks of life, so he had to retreat in a hurry. On the way to retreat, he was intercepted by Rong Lu, Zeng Guoquan, Luo Zenan and other Hunan troops, losing 40,000 soldiers and horses.

Shu Xing'a, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu of the Qing army, was killed in battle, more than 30,000 soldiers were lost, and the Taiping army suffered greater losses, more than ten generals below the inspection point in the east hall were killed or captured, the entire Nanchang campaign plus the loss of the Taiping army in the west hall, a total of more than 50,000 people were killed and wounded, and countless pots, firearms, grain and grass, and flags were lost, and the Taiping army did not pull out the nail of Nanchang and failed to achieve the campaign goal, which was the biggest defeat of the Taiping army in the past three years.

With this merit, Jiang Zhongyuan made the greatest contribution, won the Yiyong Batu Luyong, and after being added to the rank of governor, he was entrusted by Xianfeng with the real power of the governor's Jiangxi, Fujian, and southern Jiangsu. Jiang Zhongyuan did not die in Luzhou as in history, this person has actually been the biggest enemy of the Taiping Army in the early stage, but in history, the official and the lowly position were besieged and died by the Taiping Army in Luzhou, otherwise as long as Jiang Zhongyuan participated in the battle, the Taiping Army failed to please him.

This time, Jiang Zhongyuan gained real power in two and a half provinces, and Jiang Zhongyuan's location was the hinterland of the Taiping Army, which became the biggest threat to the Taiping Army. After learning the news that Jiang Zhongyuan had been added to the rank of knight, Xiao Yungui, the king of the West, once wanted to mobilize three newly reorganized three divisions of Haode to enter Jiangxi.

Jiang Zhongyuan is very capable of this fang, compared to Zeng Guofan's turtle tactics of using water army supplies, hardening the village, and fighting in a stupid battle, Jiang Zhongyuan's use of troops made Xiao Yungui even more afraid. It must be known that in the Battle of Lingyidu that year, Jiang Zhongyuan dared to ambush the Taiping Army's brigade of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses with more than 1,000 Chu Yong. This battle not only caused the Taiping army to lose its troops. The generals of the Taiping Army who experienced this battle all said that if the Qing army, which was watching from a distance, could quickly surround it, maybe the Taiping army's brigade would have been reimbursed in Lingyidu. There will be no later battle of Changsha and the king of the West soaring.

It's a pity that Jiang Zhongyuan's official position at that time was too small, and Qing generals such as He Chun and Xiang Rong would not listen to him. History is always strikingly similar, the defeat of the Taiping Army is very similar to the defeat of the Xiangjiang River during the Red Army's Long March, except that the Red Army learned a lesson after the defeat of the Xiangjiang River, while the Taiping Army quickly corrupted the leadership after the defeat of Lingyidu and the establishment of the capital Tianjing.

Although Xiao Yungui had the idea of attacking Nanchang in advance, the actual situation did not allow him to do so, not to mention that the East Hall and the West Hall were still suspicious of each other, even if the West Hall mobilized the strength of three divisions, it might not be able to defeat the more than 100,000 Qing troops that were still gathered in Nanchang at this time, so Xiao Yungui temporarily gave up this idea, and he shifted his attention to Fujian.

Fujian's Li Tingyu and Wang Yide gathered more than 50,000 troops, and were stationed on the front line of Wen and Taiwan, eyeing Ningbo County in Sufu Province in Xidian. Therefore, after the reorganization of the three newly formed divisions was completed, Xiao Yungui ordered Li Xiucheng in Ningbo to take over the post of commander of the First Army, followed by the first division led by Li Tianxi and Chen Alin, the second division led by Pan Qiliang and Chen Zhiming, and the third division led by Zhou Lichun and Huang Wei.

Lin Qirong and others, who were originally appointed, were left in Shanghai by Xiao Yungui because they were familiar with the operation of the military academy, serving as the principal of the military academy and other positions. Zhou Lichun and Huang Wei's Third Division was originally going to Ningbo, but because of Chen Yucheng's incident, the Third Division was urgently sent to Jiangxi, and they would face a frantic counterattack by Jiang Zhongyuan's Qing army. (To be continued......)