Li Xiucheng slept well, got up in the morning and played a set of boxing, and inspected the Taiping army's position with great vigour. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Li Xiucheng was overjoyed, "It's not in vain that the king waited for a day, it seems that Suzhou City can be down today!" Pack up your armies and attack the city at any time! ”

"Yes!"

Xu Youren and Zhu Jun didn't sleep all night, so they sat down until the rooster crowed, Xu Youren turned around and went inside, and after a while, he changed into his official uniform and came out, and said to Zhu Jun: "The peace in the city will be handed over to you." ”

"Futai, please go to yourself." Zhu Jun also got up and gave his hand. "As long as the official is in one day, Suzhou City will naturally be safe for one day."

Xu Youren nodded, hugged his relatives and went out, walked to the governor's line, Xu Youren turned over and got on the horse, ready to inspect each city gate in Suzhou, and arrived in front of the gate, Xu Youren dismounted, ready to go to the city to take a look, just walked into the alley next to the female wall, a team of green battalion Qing soldiers walked towards Xu Youren and his party, scattered, and waited until the group saw the governor's banner and did not kneel down to avoid, but also walked straight up, Xu Youren's patrol felt that something was wrong, and shouted: "What person, see the governor and don't kneel down to salute!" ”

"Do it!" A low voice sounded from the green battalion, the green battalion soldiers pulled out their weapons from their waists, and fought against the unsuspecting patrol standard, puff is the sound of knives seeing bones and flesh, Xu Youren suddenly changed, he was a little flustered at the beginning, and then calmed down, "What are you panicking, these are spies, and there is a reward for killing this official!" ”

The unprepared patrol soldiers didn't have time to resist, so that a few people killed in front of Xu Youren, a rude man sneered and swung a knife at Xu Youren's head, and was desperately blocked by the patrol soldiers on the side, which made the knife biased, cut off Xu Youren's top wear, and cut off a piece of scalp and a few strands of hair.

Xu Youren was bleeding all over his face, and he didn't have time to erase the bloodstains, the patrol mark around him had been cut to the ground, and Xu Youren was not afraid of death. Ying shouted angrily at the Taiping army who slashed at him with a knife: "Traitor! Sell the city and rebel, the fathers in the city will not let you go! ”

"Report, the door has been opened, please Chitose show me!"

"Good!" Li Xiucheng, who was recuperating with his eyes closed, jumped up. Haha laughed, "It is really pleasing to get the big city of Suzhou so effortlessly!" Hurry into the city, I'm afraid those internal should not last long! "It's a shame that I have quietly sent people into the cities of Jiangnan when I broke the Jiangnan camp for the second time, and the momentum was like a rainbow before. Without attacking the city, he has abandoned the city and fled to, and now the back hand left behind is finally used under this Gusu city!

Zhu Jun walked out of the governor's yamen, at this time the street was already in chaos, people were running around in panic, except for his own soldiers, no one paid attention to the envoy standing at the governor's gate, Zhu Jun listened to the shouting and killing sound that was getting closer and closer, sighed, turned around and said to the relatives on the side, "You all disperse." At this time, it is still too late to get out of the city. ”

"Your Excellency!" The chief guard knelt down, "Let's go with my subordinates!" ”

"Confused, this official is a provincial platform, how can he do this thing of abandoning the city, go quickly!" Zhu Jun turned his head, slammed the door of the governor's yamen hard, and went to the flower hall.

The guards looked at the chief guard, who gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, "Go." Bring the adult's daughter, and we'll kill them!"

The flower hall is carved with beams and paintings, and there is only a white silk swaying in the wind, and Zhu Jun stepped on the round stool. Tie Bai Aya in mid-air with a dead knot, close his eyes, and gently kick his feet, and his whole body hangs in mid-air, fulfilling his responsibilities.

On the third day of the first month of the eighth year of Xianfeng, Li Xiucheng used Neiying to ambush Xu Youren, the governor of Jiangsu, at Changmen. Xu Youren scolded endlessly, and then sacrificed the city gate, Li Xiucheng captured Suzhou, and the acting envoy Zhu Jun committed suicide and martyrdom, his daughter was missing, Xu Youren's concubine was killed, and his son was martyred.

Zeng Guofan grimaced, and was silent in the tent, "As soon as this official took office, a big city fell, naturally this governor, the governor of Liangjiang, was derelict in his duties, and I will write an excerpt and ask the emperor for his guilt later." ”

"Your Excellency has only been in office for less than half a month, how can this matter of Suzhou City have anything to do with your lordship?" Hu Linyi comforted.

Zeng Guofan shook his head slowly, "This official naturally has his due responsibility, but we can't wait like this any longer!" "Now taking advantage of the fact that the main forces of the rebellion are all in the east - Chen Yucheng is also attacking Yangzhou," pass on the official's order, Wang Jinxiu! ”

The Admiral of Anhui stood up and obeyed the order, "The last general!" ”

"I order you to lead the headquarters and go up the north of the river, and you must go to Jiangpu before February!"

"Wow!"

Zeng Guofan stood up, "Rong Lu, Zeng Guoquan!" ”

"The last general!" Two people came out of the ranks.

"The two of you will go out to the front line of the south of the Yangtze River, along the areas of Dangtu, Shengyang, and Lishui, and sweep the periphery of Jiangning City, and you will not be confined to the loss of one city, and you will definitely be terrified!"

"Wow!"

"Peng Yulin!"

"The last general!" Today's chief soldier of the Yangtze River Water Division, Peng Yulin is out of the ranks to obey orders.

"You lead the sailors, go down the river, burn the boat when you see it, bombard it when you see the boat, I can't go down the Yangtze River if I want to send a reverse piece of armor!"

"Wow!"

"Hu Linyi, this official ordered you to prepare the grain and grass in the army and pay for the needs of the army!"

"In addition, this official will also order Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang to solve the misfortune of Suzhou and Hangzhou respectively, if it is successful, this official will ask the emperor for a reward!" Zeng Guofan finally had the majestic style of the first feudal official at this time, only to see him stand up with blazing eyes, "This seat wants to let the hair go against the head, but not the tail!" ”

On the ninth day of the first month, Li Xiucheng led the elite quietly south, trying to sneak attack Hangzhou, never wanted to be stationed in Hangzhou Zuo Zongtang found out in advance, Zuo Zongtang led the Chu army to firmly hold Hangzhou, Li Xiucheng attacked for three days without success, turned the horse's head, captured Jiaxing Mansion, so far, north of Hangzhou, south of Jiangning, except for Shanghai, all for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan was overjoyed, personally wrote a poem to praise the loyal king Li Xiucheng, and set up "Sufu Province" in the south of the Yangtze River, the province of Suzhou, under the jurisdiction of Li Xiucheng.

Xingzhen saw the news of the fall of Suzhou in the Yangxin Hall and the emperor, and in her original indifferent heart, she couldn't help but get angry, this Taiping army was too violent, or captured Suzhou, and clearly bullied Jiangnan without soldiers, but fortunately, Zuo Zongtang gave his strength to block Li Xiucheng's offensive and protect Hangzhou, if both Suzhou and Hangzhou were lost, even if Zeng Guofan became the governor of Liangjiang, this bad account could not be counted on his head, and he had to take the blame and resign, responsible for the fall of Suzhou and Hangzhou.

"What an incompetent Zhang Yuliang!" The emperor was numbed by the bad news over the years, but when he saw the fall of Suzhou, he couldn't help but jump up and paced back and forth in the Heart Cultivation Palace, "Spread the decree, dismiss Zhang Yuliang's admiral, and let him go home and eat himself!" Emperor Xianfeng thought about it again, "No, wipe his admiral, give him a garrison, and let him continue to serve in front of the army!" ”

The emperor sat on the kang and let out a long breath, "This Zeng Guofan's plea is just a crime, he has just taken office, and he doesn't need to be responsible for Suzhou, but he still wants it!" Queen, you don't have to deal with the harsh wording, I heard Zeng Guofan's excerpt say that his marching schedule is very good, so that the two Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian are a game of chess, and they are not afraid of rebellion and undefeated! ”

Xingzhen nodded, "As soon as the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels, and this food will go out like water again." ”

"This can't be either, fortunately, Su Shun's meaning before, let the queen modify it again, and issued a new currency, now the treasury is fine, Su Shun said that he would send less Ding Yin of the Eight Banners, originally I was afraid that the Eight Banners would talk about it, and now I can't take care of it, so I can only drink to quench my thirst," At this time, Yang Qingxi came in to call thousands, "Long live the lord, the military planes have arrived." ”

"Is Su Shun here?"

"I'm here too, and we're waiting to call it up."

"Call him in!" The emperor said to Xingzhen, "Let's start it now," Xingzhen straightened the emperor's clothes, and helped the emperor press his temples, Xianfeng sighed with satisfaction, "If it's a trivial matter, the queen, you can do it, such a big thing, I haven't discussed it with Su Shun, I'm always not at ease, if the emperor is a man," Xianfeng smiled, "Then you can go to the front hall to discuss with them, I am more and more relaxed." ”

Xingzhen smiled, "The emperor loves to laugh, how can the concubine meet the minister of military aircraft, then the emperor will call it, the concubine will approve the irrelevant folds first, and wait for the emperor here." ”

"Okay," the emperor shook Xingzhen's soft twing, "and wait for me." Yang Qingxi lifted the curtain, and the emperor walked to the main hall to call the Minister of Military Aircraft to discuss the matter.

Xingzhen suddenly thought and forgot to ask the emperor how Seng Lingqin was defending in Tianjin, but thinking that Wu Yundi would enter the palace to see Yun Concubine in a few days, it would be enough, and when the time came, he would naturally know that now that Fan'er was beside him, Wu Yundi didn't dare not say it. (To be continued.) )