In the military tent, after Xiao Yungui made up his mind, he instructed Tang Erniu to find Bai Zetang's secret agent in the army, followed by a pen and squatted on the ground to spread the paper on the stone and wrote a few words, then handed the secret letter to Bai Zetang's secret agent and said: "Later, this king will release the more than 100 Qing demons captured in Kunshan, you mix among them, pretend to be a homeless person and sneak into Jiading City, find Zhou Zhaoyao in the city, and let him act according to the instructions in the letter." ”

Zhou Xiuying secretly admired this king of the west, he seemed rude, but he couldn't imagine that he couldn't pick up a pen and write like Xiucaigong, and seeing that he wrote quickly, he must be very knowledgeable. Zhou Xiuying, who can only write her own name, naturally admires the literate Xiwang, but she doesn't know that this kid's traditional Chinese characters are ugly, and many of them are still lacking in pen and stroke.

The secret agent is the leader of Bai Zetang, he often sends letters back and forth, and the braid on the back of his head is also true, after receiving the letter, he sealed the letter into the wax pill, and swallowed the wax pill with one mouth. Zhou Xiuying sighed in surprise when she saw it, Xiao Yungui smiled and said: "Miss Zhou, don't be surprised, this brother's name is Long Yan, he has a unique skill, that is, he can hide an egg in his mouth, and he can't see it when he usually eats or talks." ”

Zhou Xiuying's face was slightly red and she snorted: "I thought he swallowed the secret letter." Everyone laughed together.

After Long Yan hid the letter, he changed into a sloppy outfit, most of the Kunshan Qing Army exercises are strong men, and many people do not have uniforms, they are all wearing their usual village clothes, this Long Yan looked like a regimental trainer who had lost a battle.

After bidding farewell to Queen Xi, Long Yan was taken to the prisoner camp by the Taiping army as a regimental training captive, and after Long Yan entered the camp, he squatted in a corner and did not say a word, only to see that these regimental training prisoners were tired enough to transport the Taiping army's baggage during the day, and many people fell asleep at the end, and no one cared about Long Yan's arrival.

At midnight, the torch at the gate of the camp flickered, Long Yan saw the agreed haode signal lit up, stretched out his hand and pushed a regimental trainer next to him, the regimental trainer turned his head sleepily, and was about to open his mouth to scold, Long Yan covered his mouth and said in a low voice: "Brother, the long-haired thief guarding us is asleep, let's escape, I heard that we will take our sacrificial flag a long time ago, and if you don't escape, you will die." ”

The soldier was startled, looked at Long Yan's eyes, and sure enough, he saw several Taiping soldiers at the gate of the camp sleeping on wooden stakes, and whispered in surprise: "Then let's sneak away." ”

Long Yan said in a low voice: "No, I don't know if there are any long-haired patrolmen outside, call everyone to flee together, there are many people and chaos, we are easy to escape." ”

At that moment, the two of them separately woke up more than 100 regimental training prisoners in the camp, and everyone saw that the Taiping soldiers guarding were asleep, so they escaped from the camp one by one. Not long after leaving the camp, he was discovered by the Taiping army patrolling the camp, and everyone scattered and fled as soon as they shouted, and Long Yan led dozens of people to Jiading City.

When they arrived at the city of Jiading, their own regimental training came forward and shouted, there were many Jiading people in the regimental training in Kunshan, and the Qing army in the city was mostly local regimental training, and they also recognized the people under the city. The Qing army defending the city was still very cautious, and asked them why they had come here, and everyone replied that they had run out of the chaos. Mr. Qian still didn't believe it, and after pulling two people in the basket to ask carefully, he did not suspect him, but he didn't dare to open the city gate late at night, so he ordered people to put down the ropes and baskets to pull dozens of people into the city one by one.

After Long Yan arrived at the head of the city, he took advantage of the unpreparedness of everyone to sneak down to the city and went straight to the foothold of Bai Zetang in Jiading City.

Since the establishment of Bai Zetang, Tong Qiangsheng, He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao and others each led a team of brothers to go east, Tong Qiangsheng went to Shanghai, Zhou Zhaoyao was active in Jiading, Kunshan, Taicang and other places, and He Bin went to Songjiang, Jiashan and other places to collect information in various places. At the same time, the Guiyun Firm and the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce also began to send caravans to Shanghai and other places to establish branches, and Zhou Zhaoyao set up a branch of Bai Zetang in Jiading City.

Long Yan found a house where Zhou Zhaoyao and the others were hiding, and handed over the secret letter to Zhou Zhaoyao. Zhou Zhaoyao opened the letter and saw that it was a letter written by the King of the West himself, although the traditional Chinese characters of the King of the West were ugly, but Zhou Zhaoyao still understood, tonight's three watches, the King of the West will send troops to feint to attack the South Gate, and when the Qing army at the North Gate reinforces the South Gate, let Zhou Zhaoyao gather the manpower in the city and set fire everywhere, so that the Qing army is in chaos, Zuihou opens the North Gate and should join forces to break through Jiading.

After Zhou Zhaoyao got the order, he immediately arranged for dozens of brothers in the city to act separately, fortunately, there was still a caravan of Guiyun Firm in the city, Zhou Zhaoyao found the leader of the caravan, and asked his men to copy the guys, and follow Bai Zetang's brothers to prepare the things that set fire.

At the time of the third watch, the south gate really sounded cannons, hundreds of Taiping troops stormed the south gate under artillery fire, Zhou Zhaoyao saw that the Taiping army outside the city feint attack, so he immediately ordered everyone to set fire in the south of the city, east of the city and other places to create chaos. Seeing the fierce artillery fire of the Taiping army, they were already flustered, and seeing the fire in the city, they were even more heartbroken, and the Qing army guards saw that the momentum was not good, so they had to send men and horses from the north gate to support.

Zhou Zhaoyao and others, who were hiding at the corner of the street, saw the Qing army at the north gate leave, and after Zhou Zhaoyao released an arrow into the sky, he immediately led Bai Zetang and nearly 100 people from the Guiyun Chamber of Commerce to shoot the Qing army at the north gate. In less than a stick of incense, the north gate was broken, and the Taiping army broke into the city and fought with the Qing army.

"Surrender or die!" The soldiers of the Taiping army rushed violently, while shouting the slogan of surrender, the Qing army in the city saw that the north gate had been broken, and the fighting spirit was completely lost, and soon dispersed, and most of them surrendered, and a few troops opened the west gate and fled to Shanghai.

It was the hundreds of Taiping troops led by Tang Erniu who feinted to attack the south gate, and Xiao Yungui led Li Zuoche and Zhou Xiuying to break through to the north gate, and joined forces with Zhou Zhaoyao, Long Yan and other Bai Ze cousins at the city gate, and the north and south armies of Zuihou met in the south of the city. After the two armies met, Xiao Yungui immediately ordered Li Zuoche to clear the remnants of the enemy in the city, and Tang Erniu led people to rectify the prisoners.

After the cleaning was completed, tens of thousands of taels of silver and a large number of grain and cloth were found in the Yayu warehouse in Jiading City County, and more than 1,000 captives captured by Xiao Yungui carried materials, and a batch of silver, grain, and cloth were also distributed to Zhou Xiuying and other Qingpu rebels, and the grain and cloth that Zuihou really couldn't take away were distributed to the poor people in the city. followed Xiao Yungui and left the guards, and the rest of the soldiers and horses rested immediately after a full meal.

By the dawn, Zhou Lichun and more than 2,000 Qingpu rebels finally arrived in Jiading to join the Taiping army. Zhou Lichun originally thought that he would go to Jiading today and attack Jiading with the Taiping army, but he didn't expect that the Taiping army had captured Jiading overnight, and he arrived with more than 2,000 people and swaggered into Jiading City.

Thinking that last year, under the guidance of the Luohan Gang, Zhou Lichun led people to defeat Jiading City, but then the Qing army counterattacked, Zhou Lichun and others had to retreat to Qingpu, and walked through the Jiading City Gate at this moment, Zhou Lichun couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Entering the city, Zhou Xiuying and several big men wrapped in turbans greeted them at the city gate, and this stupid girl beckoned from afar: "Daddy, the prince of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has come to greet you!" ”

Zhou Lichun was taken aback, he didn't expect that the king of the west would take a few Taiping generals to greet him at the gate of the city in person, Zhou Lichun was a little frightened, hurriedly jumped down from the old ox cart, walked a few steps forward, and saw that among the current few big men, the leader was different from others, and his head was wrapped in a yellow scarf. ”

A pair of fan-like hands held Zhou Lichun, and the king of the west wrapped in a yellow scarf said with a smile: "Zhou heroes are exempt from courtesy, I have heard the name of Zhou heroes to resist the Qing Dynasty for a long time, and this king has admired them for a long time, and it is really a blessing to see them today." ”

Zhou Lichun knew that King Xi was a learned person when he heard it, and he spoke in four words and four words, and he also smiled at the moment: "I am a peasant in the countryside, just because I can't live anymore, thanks to the promotion of my hometown, I led the big guy to fight against the government, and King Xi is the big hero." ”

Xiao Yungui admires the straightforwardness of Zhou Lichun's father and daughter, and also values that they are all natives of the surrounding towns and counties in Shanghai, there are more than 3,000 of them, if they can join the Taiping Army, it will naturally be a big help for the Taiping Army to attack Shanghai, and he will not go around with Zhou Lichun at the moment, and ask directly: "Now that I am recruiting talents in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, I wonder if Zhou Yingying and the brothers in Qingpu are willing to be officials in my Heavenly Kingdom?" ”

Zhou Lichun's face was happy, but he was a little hesitant, Xiao Yungui saw it, and asked with a smile: "If there is anything unspeakable about Old Hero Zhou, you might as well say it bluntly." ”

Zhou Lichun clenched his fists and said: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, the old man doesn't dare to hide it, most of our brothers worship the second brother Guan, and the big guy is afraid that after entering the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he will worship the God of the foreigner." ”

Xiao Yungui understood when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Emperor Guan is a Taoist god, it turns out that you believe in Taoism. "Most of the characters in the Heaven and Earth Society are worshipping the second brother of Guan, especially the most prosperous Tiandi in Guangdong, they believe that after worshipping the second brother of Guan, the righteousness can be like-minded, until the Heaven and Earth Society is gradually replaced by the triad, this custom still continued, and later the triad infiltrated into Hong Kong and other places, and many gangsters in Hong Kong in later generations still worship the second brother Guan from this.

Xiao Yungui said in a deep voice: "My Heavenly Kingdom believes in God, but God of the Heavenly Father Emperor is a god that we Chinese have worshiped since ancient times, Zhou Hero, you are new to here, you can listen to our teachings first, if you think our teachings are good, whether you convert to God, or still worship Second Brother Guan, my West Hall is not forced here." Xiao Yungui didn't want to discuss what God and Second Brother Guan at this juncture, he had long been dissatisfied with the worship of God to exclude other doctrines, for this reason, many people threw themselves to the Qing court, he planned to gradually begin to dilute the doctrine of God worship, in the future, Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places are his own territory, he doesn't want to make the people here turn away from him because of doctrinal issues, and he didn't want to say the words of freedom of belief at the moment, Xiao Yungui didn't expect that since then, the doctrine of the West Temple has also begun to change.

Zhou Lichun and others had a trace of doubts dispelled, and immediately Zhou Lichun announced that the whole army would join the Taiping Army.