From near and far, when the order of the king of the west arrived in the hands of Li Yiwen in Wuchang, it was already six days later, Li Yiwen was distressed by the rumors that had spread in these days, and after receiving the order of the king of the west, Li Yiwen hurriedly read it, and was overjoyed, and immediately convened the generals to discuss the matter.

In the yamen of the governor of Wuchang, Li Yiwen's ministry will arrive one after another, including Lu Shunde, the general of the water battalion, Chen Yucheng, the general of the Guards, and Li Yiwen's commanders of various armies. After all the generals gathered, Li Yiwen ordered the West King warrant to circulate to the generals, and then said: "The West King's warrant has been clearly explained, and we are ordered to quickly announce to the army and the people, this Qing Demon's so-called rumor of pushing back the picture is actually a pretending to be a ghost, and Mr. Zuo also re-explained the meaning of the Qing Demon's so-called 34 hexagrams, and ordered the military warden to read and recite it well, and then told the army and the people to calm the people's hearts. Following Li Yiwen's recitation of Zuo Zongtang's 34 hexagrams, the explanation in the text is just the opposite of the rumors of the Qing army, and it indicates everywhere that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will achieve great things.

A rough man stood up and said loudly: "Li Check, the rumors of the Qing Demon are indeed powerful, the people of the three towns have been talking about it in recent days, and they have been banned repeatedly. Speaking of this, you have to rely on a great talent like Mr. Zuo, with his words, are you afraid that the people will not be convinced? I, Cai Yuanlong, said that our heavenly kingdom is the time to prosper, and if we use our mouths to move our mouths, we will be defeated? It's ridiculous! ”

This Cai Yuanlong is a native of Yuezhou, Hunan, and led hundreds of people in the township to join Li Yiwen's ministry during the Battle of Yuezhou.

Cai Yuanlong's words resonated with the generals, and in recent days, I don't know where the rumors have come out, and what kind of "push back map" has come out, and several poems have been sung in a good way, but the generals of the Taiping Army Li Yiwen Department are not literate, and they can't refute it, and they don't know how to calm the people's hearts, Li Yiwen can only order rumors in the army to strictly prohibit rumors, but it is difficult to control among the people, and these rumors are banned more and more. Now that the order of the King of the West has arrived, even the manuscript on how to dispel the rumors has been clearly indicated, Cai Yuanlong was straightforward and immediately clapped his hands for goodness.

A thin black man beside Cai Yuanlong said in a deep voice: "Marshal Cai, what matters is not that the people wear rumors, as long as we win a few more battles in the West Palace, the rumors will naturally be self-defeating." At the moment, it is the sentence that the king of the middle and the king of the east kills the king, I am afraid that the king of heaven and the king of the east of Changsha will listen to these words to sow discord, and what suspicion will they have in our west hall. ”

Gao Yunguan, a native of Qichun, Hubei, who spoke, was under Li Yiwen when he broke Wuchang, and he was also a strong party, quite scheming, and also valued by Li Yiwen. Gao Yunguan's words are to the point, no matter how panicked the people's hearts are, as long as the Taiping army is stable and wins a few more battles, the rumors will naturally be self-defeating, and the embarrassment is that there are also the words of the king killing the king, saying that the king of the west wants to play Nanjing to stand on its own, such rumors spread to Changsha, it is difficult to guarantee that the rest of the Taiping army will not have other ideas, and the king of heaven and the king of the east will not have other ideas.

Li Yiwen smiled slightly: "The Qing demon is vicious, and wants to use this to separate our Taiping army, and the king of the west also expected this, so there is also an edict in the proclamation to tell the whole army and the people, my soldiers and horses in the west hall are still a part of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the king of heaven is still our co-master, and our king of the west is still the king of heaven and the king of the east to order the head of the horse." In order to dispel the doubts of the rest of the friendly troops, the king of the west ordered to take the initiative to abandon Wuchang, Jiujiang, Tianjiazhen, Anqing and other places, so that we left part of the defenders to wait for the Changsha brigade to send troops and horses to deliver, and the rest of the soldiers and horses quickly marched east to Nanjing to gather. ”

Hearing this, all the generals were surprised, followed by the buzzing discussions, a long-faced man stood up and said angrily: "Check, this Wuchang, we have worked hard, we only repelled several attacks of the Qing demon last month, and the periphery of the three towns is arranged like an iron bucket, do you give up if you say give up?" Moreover, more than half of the soldiers in our army are from Hubei, and it will be very difficult for them to go east far away from their homeland. ”

The person who spoke was Wang Anjun, the commander of the Third Army, who was also from Hubei, and like Gao Yunguan, he also entered the camp in Wuchang, and was quite popular among the recruits in Hubei, and he was also a general under Li Yiwen. After listening to his words, all the generals echoed their words, which shows that the generals are still quite reluctant to give up the cities along the river.

Li Yiwen stood up and paced a few steps with his hands, and said slowly: "The king of the West said very clearly in his letter, at the moment, our West Hall should focus on the overall situation, and would rather compromise than kill each other, what is Wuchang?" The King of the West can even let Nanjing out! The king of the west has sent an envoy to invite the king of heaven and the king of the east, and ask the king of heaven and the king of the east to move to Nanjing, and set up the capital to build a number, thinking that the kingdom of heaven is fundamental, let alone us here? ”

Speaking of this, all the generals were no longer speechless, and Li Yiwen said again: "The king of the West also said in the letter, but there are Hubei recruits who are difficult to leave their homeland, they can stay as defenders and be incorporated into the Changsha brigade, the same is still our Taiping holy soldiers, and the same is still our brothers." The edict of the king of the west has been issued, so let's start to prepare, but if there are soldiers who want to stay, they can be organized into an army, which will be guarded by Gao Yunguan and Wang Anjun, waiting for delivery, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will march east with the general. ”

In addition to giving Li Yiwen an edict, Xiao Yungui also wrote a secret letter to him, for no other reason, that is, Gao Yunguan and Wang Anjun under Li Yiwen. These two people are the Nawang Gao Yongkuan and the Kang King Wang Anjun, who killed the Mu King Tan Shaoguang and surrendered to Li Hongzhang in Suzhou in the future, when Li Yiwen reported to the two as military marshals, Xiao Yungui didn't want to appoint the two, but thinking that the two were still young at the moment, they didn't do anything to betray, and they were afraid of hurting Li Yiwen's harmony, so they were okay. At this moment, if you want to abandon Wuchang, it is best for these two people to stay with the Changsha brigade, and then fight with the West Palace, Xiao Yungui is afraid that one day these two people will have a backlash in the back of their heads, and it will be troublesome to kill themselves and sacrifice the city, so it is better to kick out this time bomb early.

So Xiao Yungui sent a secret letter to Li Yiwen, naming and asking these two people to stay with the defenders, Li Yiwen has always obeyed the words of the king of the west, so he said it, but he didn't expect Gao Yunguan and Wang Anjun to object, just glanced at each other, and got up together to receive the order. Seeing that the second general had no intention of following him to the east, Li Yiwen was still a little disappointed, but seeing that the second general was unwilling to go east, he had to give up.

After three days, the Wuchang Taiping Army was ready, more than 10,000 of the 20,000 Hubei recruits were unwilling to stay east and stay in Wuchang, and the remaining 20,000 horses and thousands of water battalion soldiers marched east along the river. When he marched eastward, Li Yiwen left the Wuchang defenders with grain and grass for half a year, as well as a number of firearms and red medicine, which were enough for them to defend the town, and the rest of the materials were taken away. Even the general names of the two firms of Baoqing and Guiyun were also relocated, and He Yuanlun, Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin also received a letter from Xiao Yungui, asking them to go east to Nanjing. So the Wuchang Taiping Army began a major relocation in advance, and went down the river mightily.

Before the tenth month, after more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Qing army Zhang Guoliang drove from Liling to Wuchang, it was planned that the Taiping army would lay down one place and abandon one place as before, but he did not expect that this time the Taiping army did not abandon the important towns along the river. After Zhang Guoliang's soldiers arrived in Wuchang, they attacked several times, but they were all defeated by Li Yiwen, and they lost more than 2,000 soldiers, but they didn't even touch the city wall of Wuchang City.

On this day, Zhang Guoliang heard the report that the long hair in Wuchang City went east and again, and he waved his troops to attack Wuchang again, but he still failed to take advantage. Later, Xiang Rong's messenger arrived, and Zhang Guoliang realized that the long-haired thief was mobilizing part of his troops to move eastward, intending to start a new offensive in the east. Xiang Rong learned that the cities occupied by the Taiping army along the river had signs of transferring troops, so he led his troops and horses to the periphery of Nanjing to station, but the Taiping army had already occupied the dangerous terrain outside the city, and Xiang Rong could not set up a Jiangnan camp in Nanjing Xiaolingwei as in history, so he had to retreat to Niushou Mountain to garrison.

In the face of Emperor Xianfeng's strict decree to him to recover Nanjing, Xiang Rong was miserable, now that the long hair can stop, it is already Amitabha Buddha if he does not launch an offensive, Xiang Rong does not plan to go upside down the tiger's whiskers, he knows that the Taiping army in front of him is the Taiping army in Xiangjiang that almost killed his own soldiers and horses. So he ordered Zhang Guoliang, Li Mengqun and other Qing troops to abandon the strategy of attacking important towns along the Yangtze River and move closer to the periphery of Nanjing.

Sure enough, news came on this day that Zhenjiang and Guazhou had fallen, and Jurong, Lishui, and Yangzhou were exposed to the Taiping army. Yangzhou is also okay, that is the old Qishan defense area, but Jurong, Lishui is careless, because Wuhu is still in the hands of the Taiping army, if these two places are lost, Xiang Rong Department hoarded Niushou Mountain will fall into death, his 20,000 Qing troops are in danger of being annihilated.

Therefore, Xiang Rong did not wait for Zhang Guoliang, Li Mengqun and other Qing troops to arrive, and immediately retreated to Lishui and Jurong, which was a relatively prescient blockade on the road of the West Palace's march to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. But what Xiang Rong didn't expect was that Xiao Yungui had long been displeased with Xiang Rong's fart, and it was better for him to block the way to the army, annihilating it by the way, and completely removing this annoying fly, so the Taiping Army and the Qing Army were in full swing to deploy troops in Jiangnan and prepare for a bigger fight.

Compared with Xiang Rong's troubles, the Heavenly King and the East King who are far away in Changsha have more troubles. When the rumor of "Pushing Back Pictures" came, Yang Xiuqing understood at the first moment that this was a trick by the Qing Demon to spread rumors, but after recalling it carefully, Yang Xiuqing still had a strange feeling in his heart. Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, was his hardcore brother in the past, and he was also his biggest ally in the upper echelons of the Taiping army, and the decision he made would be unconditionally supported by the king of the west, and he would also support it unconditionally. Even in order to dispel the idea of the King of Heaven to win over the King of the West, Yang Xiuqing even moved to get rid of the Queen of the West and break the nepotism between the King of the West and the Zhutang royal family and even the King of Heaven.

But at this time, Dongwang felt that his former brother seemed to have changed, and he was no longer as easy to control as before, since he led his troops north to Yuezhou to make a strange stone from the sky, Yang Xiuqing began to have a headache. There is no need to be reminded by the Qing Demon, he Yang Xiuqing began to find that the Shili of the King of the West had begun to swell, and he captured dozens of cities and towns along the way, including big cities like Nanjing and Wuchang, whether it was more than ten times that of the Taiping Army in Changsha in terms of population, money, food, and firearms, was he still willing to be only a King of the West? How to fight back against this rumor, stabilize the king of the west from betrayal, and maintain the good situation has become a problem that Yang Xiuqing is worried about.