At that time, the Central Plains Twist Army had been swept away, and a little Twist Army was driven to Henan, Henan, Shandong and Henan have gradually recovered their vitality since the Yellow River flood, and the treaty ports such as Guangzhou and Ningbo have resumed their sales before the Second Opium War, and the arms trade in Ningbo Prefecture and the tea and silk trade exported from Guangzhou have restored their pre-war prosperity, and even exceeded. It is no wonder that the rulers in Beijing will regard Hong Xiuquan, who is thousands of miles away and sitting in the Heavenly King's Mansion, as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, how can such a peaceful world in Haiqinghe Yan be so rampant. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yuhuatai Qing army camp.

"Congratulations to Zhongtang, congratulations to Zhongtang!" All the generals under the command of the Huai army were all smiling, and their own marshal had been added to the rank of scholar of Tiren Pavilion, which meant that Zeng Guofan had jumped from a feudal official to a member of the center, although they also heard the tone of the angel who announced the decree saying that they would strictly order the attack, but in the eyes of these pure generals, this was not a matter at all. It is only necessary to know the seven provinces in the southeast, and it is completely up to which Hunan villager in his early fifties who is sitting behind the handsome case has the final say.

Zeng Guofan smiled bitterly, waved his hand to let the kneeling people get up, "Get up," and smiled at Hu Linyi, the governor of Hubei: "This is a hot potato, not so easy to take." ”

"Why should the marshal be modest, this situation is extremely good, and the discerning people have already seen that the destruction of the flood is not far away." Hu Linyi's words were not sycophants, since the Xianfeng period Jiangnan Jiangbei camp was destroyed again, Shi Dakai went west again, marking the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from the Tianjing Incident to ease up, re-reached the military peak, but with Shi Dakai's departure, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also fell into the situation of no one in the court, even if there is Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng two rookies in the army to maintain, it is always impossible to avoid the miserable scene of the river declining, Li Xiucheng and the Huai army in Suzhou to start a tug-of-war, but unfortunately Zeng Guofan besieged Jinling again, Hong Xiuquan issued ten heavenly decrees in three days, so that Li Xiucheng returned to aid Jinling, Li Xiucheng was helpless, the tired army expedition at night, but was defeated by Zeng Guoquan under the Tianjing City, Hong Xiuquan was furious, and immediately issued an order to behead Li Xiucheng, fortunately, the public will plead hard, so that Li Xiucheng's title of loyal king was demoted to the protector of the country, still guarding Jinling, and refused to let Li Xiucheng leave Jinling. also had to retreat to Lishui and eyed the Hunan army camp in Yuhuatai.

In August of the 11th year of Xianfeng, Li Xiucheng led the army from Jinling, gathered in Dongba, divided the army into two routes, one from Moling Pass, one from Banqiao, Shanqiao straight to Yuhuatai, Chen Yucheng from Lishui to the north. On the 3rd day of the first month of September, a general attack order was issued, and the army surrounded the front for 50 or 60 miles. It was a battle, although Zeng Guofan's "heart has been used up and his courage has been shattered", so that the Hunan army "has exhausted all the flesh and skin", saying that "there has never been such a long siege since the spontaneous rebellion and rampant rebellion". However, the Hunan army had a naval division to transport ammunition and materials, so that it could fight for a long time, while the Taiping army had to be transported by land, and the armies set out from August, without winter clothes, and the weather was already cold in October, and there was no food in Tianjing, so they stormed for more than 40 days, and on October 15, the armies had to retreat.

"In such a retreat, he completely lost the spirit of the previous domineering in Guangxi and Huguang, and besides, in addition to the handsome strong wall and clear the wilderness, he imitated the edict of the Queen Mother, and issued the 'Killing Rebellion Order' in Jinling, mobilizing regiments from all over the country to practice sniping and sporadic rebellion, and now I am afraid that outside those big cities, there is no trace of rebellion."

"What Runzhi said is that now Hong Xiuquan is still in the middle of the day, majestic, about twenty percent of the blessings, the old man who is guarding Jinling is naturally not afraid, and he is surrounded and boiled to death! If it's still the same as before, wandering around and poisoning all over the place, it will take some effort,"

Thinking about the tragic battlefield scene of the Taiping Army's siege of the Yuhuatai camp a few days ago, Hu Linyi still shuddered, "It's a pity, Hong Xiuquan is also a generation of heroes, but he can't see through the words fame and fortune so much, if he lets the city don't go, leaving behind this glory and wealth, now we can't help him, it's a pity, it's a pity." ”

"It's very true, he was ascended to Jinling, holding the rich land in the southeast squinted, confused, said that he was the overlord of Chu Jinyi night walk, but he also overestimated him, but if he ruthlessly left Jinling, he would be the same talent as Han Gaozu," Zeng Guofan had no shortage of praise for his enemies, "When Gaozu entered Xianyang, he didn't take anything, and he didn't accept a daughter, and then he was willing to retreat to Bashu, which achieved the Han family's 400-year hegemony. ”

"Pass the order!" Zeng Guofan raised his eyebrows, and issued an order majestically, "Let him come a thousand ways, I will only go all the way!" The various departments only besieged Jinling, and the rest of the wanderers did not care, Shengbao has already gone down from the southeast of Shandong, this great achievement of exterminating the flood rebellion, can not be taken by others! (To be continued.) )