The Taiping Army is not even the Spring Festival, on the 24th day of the lunar month, on the day of the Father's birthday, Hong Renxuan, who came back from Hong Kong, was immediately warmly welcomed by Hong Xiuquan, and after a conversation, he was immediately named "Ganwang", and let him participate in the government affairs, Hong Xiuquan after the death of his favorite minister Meng Chengen, did not believe in the two kings of Zhongying, the two only showed their strength in the military, and politically, all were grasped by Hong Xiuquan, Hong Xiuquan had no talent, only pretending to be a ghost, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in the military as the sky, but in political affairs it was a mess, It happened that his own brother returned from afar, Hong Xiuquan did not believe in others, but believed in his relatives very much, and on the 25th, the day of the New Year in Beijing, the imperial court held a military meeting to decide the next military strategy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hong Renji, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng, Li Shixian, Yang Fuqing, Liu Guanfang, and others congratulated the king in Tianjing, congratulated the victory of the siege and discussed the next step of the army. Chen Yucheng advocated the rescue of Anhui. Li Shixian advocated taking Fujian and Zhejiang in the south.

Hong Renji and Li Xiucheng advocated taking the lower reaches of the Yangtze River first, and Li Xiucheng talked eloquently, "For the sake of today's plan, from Tianjing, it is five or six thousand miles away from Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, the Great Wall in the north, and Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong in the south." However, the east is less than a thousand miles away from Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai. The potential of thickness is different, and it is easy to succeed by taking advantage of the victory. As soon as they got off the road, they took one million to buy 20 steamers and took them along the Yangtze River. Another army was sent from the south to Jiangxi, and an army was sent from the north to Qi and Huang to take Hubei. If both sides of the Yangtze River are owned by me, it can last for a long time. ”

Looking back at the model of "establishing-destroying-re-establishing-destroying again" of the two major battalions in the south and north of the Yangtze River, it is not difficult to find that the land east of Tianjing was the most ideal camp for the Qing army besieging Beijing. At that time, Zhang Guoliang died, but Zhang Yuliang did not die; He Chun committed suicide, and He Guiqing was left in Changzhou. The camp was defeated and gathered in Su Chang. It is not difficult to rebuild the third edition of Jiangnan Daying. In such a vicious circle, Tianjing broke the siege and fought endlessly.

The reason why the Qing soldiers besieging Tianjing could not disperse was that they were paid out of the southeast; Anhui, which is barren and barren, has long been unable to bear the heavy burden as the supply center of Tianjing. How can it be compared to the abundant Su Chang? In other words, if the Qing side lost the wealth of the southeast, it would be a major blow to their military and political affairs.

It turns out that in history, after Li Xiucheng broke through the camp in the south of the Yangtze River, he immediately waved his army south, and in a few days, he connected Danyang, Jurong, Changzhou, Wuxi, and Suzhou. None of the rich households in Jiangnan escaped, and now they are hindered by Zhang Guoliang and others, and nine out of ten rich households in Jiangnan have already escaped, and one acre of good paddy fields in Jiangnan has fallen to a price that no one wants.

On the first day of the eighth year of Xianfeng, Li Xiucheng led 20,000 horses through Changzhou, which had already been captured, and went south along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Xu Youren, the governor of Jiangsu, and Zhu Jun, the acting envoy, climbed to the head of Suzhou to look at the military situation and see the Taiping army cooking on fire outside. Xu Youren silently counted the fires that were lit, his heart seemed to be in his throat, he turned his head, and said to Zhu Jun, who was also pale: "The rebellious army is about 20,000 people. ”

"How's that for good? Although our Suzhou is a big city, we didn't say much about the Green Camp and Eight Banners, and it may not be helpful to rely on the thousands of regiments convened by Futai. Zhu Jun was sweating profusely and stomped his feet.

"Don't panic, Zhang Yuliang's department is still stationed on the cold mountain, although the rebellion is monstrous, but we are not without the power to resist." Xu Youren comforted Zhu Jun.

"But Lord Futai. This Zhang Yuliang was originally a general of the defeated army, how can he talk about his bravery? Zhu Jun is not very optimistic, "You must know that Zhang Yuliang was defeated by Li Xiucheng in the Jiangnan camp. Now, thinking that he will fight hard again? Xia Guan was really a little worried. ”

Xu Youren frowned, Zhu Jun's words were in his heart, which was also what he was worried about, looking up at the direction of Hanshan Temple, there was only one towering tower shadow in Hanshan Temple in the twilight. It seems that there is only a little bit of light flickering in the Hanshan Temple, Xu Youren faintly feels that something is not right, at this time, even if the lights are turned off to avoid reversing and finding the target to attack, he always has to make a fire to cook, right? Xu Youren thought of Zhu Jun's words just now, and couldn't help but change his face, could this be?

Zhu Jun saw that the governor's face was not quite right, looked towards the governor's line of sight, and saw that it was pitch black on the side of Hanshan Temple, and hurriedly called his own soldiers, "Hurry up, you go to Hanshan Temple to see, what's wrong with General Zhang?" ”

The soldier was a little timid, and called out, "My lord? ”

"What are you afraid of! At this time, Fa Wei is making a fire and cooking, and he has no time to attack the city, so go out from the south gate, go quickly! Zhu Jun scolded.

Xu Youren's hair was a little gray, and a few white hairs blew up with the north wind, Xu Youren turned his head and took a deep breath, "Let's defend Suzhou City first, we can't mess up our minds, Zhentai, let's go to patrol the city together!" ”

Zhu Jun smiled bitterly, "My lord, what else is there to patrol in this Suzhou City, the rich families have long been empty, if it weren't for the responsibility of defending the land, we should also follow the example of Governor He and them to flee to the south." ”

"We feudal officials, we have the responsibility to defend the land, how can we abandon the city and flee!" Xu Youren's eyes were blazing, "What's more, Suzhou City is not without the power to fight!" The rich families left the best, passed on the official's order, and demolished the mountains, stones, beams and trees in their garden! ”

"Wow!"

Li Xiucheng finished his dinner, dinner is the japonica rice of the imperial rice field out of Danyang, since the siege of Tianjing was broken, and continued to attack the city and conquer the city, the rice country in the south of the Yangtze River is all owned by the kingdom of heaven, not only the food consumption in Tianjing City has become wider, even Li Xiucheng is a large army outside, they are all eating on the spot, and the food is abundant. This is also the reason why Li Xiucheng's proposal to attack the Suchang area was approved by Hong Xiuquan.

Li Shixian is Li Xiucheng's brother, although his goal is to go to Zhejiang, but he is still in Li Xiucheng's army, Li Shixian said to Li Xiucheng: "King Zhong, why don't you take Suzhou City tonight." ”

Li Xiucheng waved his hand, "There is no need to be in such a hurry, the army has come from afar, it is originally tired, rest first today, brother, you arrange the brothers who keep vigil, the Qing demon does not dare to come to the night attack, but be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, it is always right to be prepared." ”

"Yes." Li Shixian said yes.

"Also pay attention to Zhang Yuliang of Hanshan Temple, but he is a tiger general," Li Xiucheng took a sip of tea, his eyes under the golden crown of the yellow scarf were shining, "I am not afraid of him, and tomorrow, someone will send this Suzhou city gate to this king!" (To be continued.) )