Reading guide: The Taiping army is attacking the west, the whole province of Hunan is shaking, and the big-footed barbarians are reckless; The green battalion soldiers only guard the provincial capital, Yueyang has no soldiers and no officials, and Futai is in the gate.

The Great Qing Kingdom is like a big stage at this time, you sing and I will appear, and he will come again before I finish singing.

In the midst of this bustle, Luo Bingzhang, the dusty governor of Hunan, finally arrived.

Seeing that the officers and troops marching towards Yangzhou were getting more and more fierce, Xianfeng began to send a series of holy decrees to urge Qishan to rush to Yangzhou as soon as possible to supervise the army. The wording of the holy decree was harsh, and today ordered him to arrive as soon as possible, and Ming'er reprimanded him for being slow to act. Qi Shan saw that he couldn't get through, so he had to pull out the camp and march in the direction of Yangzhou while watching, and the speed was the same as that of an old cow. Tears spilled all the way, a few races on the Yangtze River. Huguang's troops became more and more empty.

At this time, it was difficult for Xiang Yong to be stationed in Changsha, and the hostility of the green battalion had reached a blatant level. The brave men were like thieves in Changsha, and when they saw the people in the green camp, they either hid or hurried back to the camp. Those who run slowly are either whipped or beaten with sticks. The waist pole can't stand up at all.

Under many constraints, Zeng Guofan was depressed at the same time, and the ringworm disease on his body began to attack again and again, and he didn't fall asleep until late every night. In addition, the food was not available, and the whole person quickly lost weight.

Because all the armies in Hubei have been transferred away by Qishan, the whole province of Hubei has been taken by the Taiping army at this time. Not only did Zeng Guofan not understand the imperial court's combat policy, but even many Wang ministers were confused by Xianfeng. Because Yueyang in Hunan is located at the junction of Hubei and Hunan, it is always between falling and not falling. The Taiping army had tens of thousands of troops in Chibi and Chongyangtun in Hubei, and surrounded Yueyang from both sides.

Yueyang originally had a battalion of Bao Qibao, led by a staff general. When the Taiping army moved towards Chibi, the general hurriedly told Bao Qibao.

Bao Qibao's troops were already insufficient, and he did not dare to send troops out at all. Hearing that Yueyang was in a hurry, he thought of Changsha first, so he hurriedly discussed with Luo Bingzhang, and transferred a battalion of soldiers stationed in Yueyang to the vicinity of Changsha.

Luo Bingzhang thought about it again and again, so he had to agree.

Yueyang is so empty, how dare the magistrate of Yueyang County sit idly by? On the grounds of dizziness, he asked Luo Bingzhang for leave.

Luo Bingzhang also knew that Bao Qibao's withdrawal from Yueyang was the root cause of panic in the Yamen of Yueyang County, but he was helpless, so he granted leave. The magistrate did not wait for the new official to take office, so he crawled back to the provincial capital, and then moved to a relative's house in the countryside to hide from the soldiers.

Luo Bingzhang took the political envoy Xu Youren to sign a plaque and asked a candidate to fly to Yueyang to act as the county seal. How do you know that this acting appointer sees that his life is more important than everything at this time, and the card has been hanging for seven or eight days, and he only pretends to be sick in Changsha and does not take office. For a while, he said that he was guilty of spinning sickness, and everything was turned upside down; After a while, he said that he had diarrhea, and he was so weak that he had to walk against the wall. It's all nonsense.

Luo Bingzhang finally tasted what it was like to be out of the house at this time.

The dragons in Yueyang County have no leader, and they began to be chaotic day by day.

In fact, at this very moment, the center of gravity of the Taiping military troops had slowly shifted from Hubei to Anhui and Jiangxi. But on the surface, it doesn't feel the slightest. In order to attract the attention of the Qing army and achieve its hard-won goal, before the transfer, the Taiping army mobilized a large number of men and horses to Hunan to kill, which was very fierce, giving people the illusion that the Taiping army was about to seize Changsha.

For a time, the whole province of Hunan was shaken, and the prefectures and counties along the Yangtze River fell into the hands of the Taiping army.

In a few days, the local officials in Hunan near the border of Hubei began to hide with gold and silver, and the people in the city also fled to Changsha with their children and daughters. There are slow-moving, strong men who are arrested and filled with barracks, and young women are incorporated into women's halls led by big-footed brutes; The more beautiful ones, some of them were detained by the generals at all levels for the purpose of venting their desires, and some of them were escorted to Tianjing to serve the officials at all levels below the prince. The situation of the women who were sent to Tianjing was relatively better, and the women who were included in the women's hall were bitter. Isn't it nonsense that the feet are already small, and it is already very difficult to walk, and they have to kill the enemy? Within a few days, most of the dead and wounded had already been killed, and the sight had become a burden. The big-footed barbarian doesn't care about this, if you don't leave, she will take off her shoes and hit her head and brainlessly, talking nonsense in Guangxi dialect that no one understands, and throwing it to the side of the road half to death, regardless of the consequences. Most of them are from Guangxi, and they are all mothers-in-law of thousands of charcoal burners, jumping foot gods, miners, and farmers who live in the depths of the mountains, and some are middle-aged widows who have never walked out of the mountains. According to the archives at the time, these people treated their same sex a hundred times more cruelly than men, like fierce gods, very scary. The people along the Yangtze River all call these big-footed barbarians "female impermanence". When it comes to it, all of them grit their teeth.

At this time, Luo Bingzhang was unable to lend a helping hand to the states and counties bordering Hubei, and only paid attention to the safety of Changsha every day. He didn't even dare to think that most of the Taiping army occupying Hubei was moving along the river to Anhui and Jiangxi at this time.

Bao Qibao had already become a frightened admiral at this time, and he didn't dare to go ten miles away from Changsha City. After Qi Shan drove to Changsha, Qinglin took several battalions of Fubiao Army, and lived in a high mountain and dense forest in Hunan. Despite this, he still has nightmares every night. Today, I dreamed that I let the Taiping army skin alive and was thrown into the river to feed Wang Ba, and Ming'er dreamed that she was hung on the city tower by the big-footed barbarian and was beaten by the wind and rain. Every time he woke up, he was sweating profusely, as if he had just taken a shower.

Qinglin had long forgotten that he was the governor of Hubei at this time. The whole province of Hubei was already shattered, but he only stationed troops in Hunan and did not dare to look in the direction of Hubei, but only sent groups of fast horses all day long to find out the situation of Zhang Liangji, Jiang Zhongyuan and others fighting with the Taiping army.

Hunan was not calm at this time. First of all, nearly 1,000 people in Hengshan County, the capital of Hengzhou, raised the banner of rebellion. When he was about to attack the county seat, Liu Changyou was given secret protection, and immediately supervised the two battalions of the regiment to rush over as if they were flying, and intercepted the rebels halfway. A small number of people fled into the mountains, and about 700 people turned to attack Youxian. Liu Changyou chased after him bravely, killing most of the people, and only a dozen people ran away; Almost at the same time, Zeng Guofan received a secret report: more than 300 people in Anren County took advantage of the time, although most of them used big knives and axes, but they broke the county government and killed the magistrate, opened the prison cell, released all the prisoners, and looted the official treasury granary. Zeng Guofan Fei passed on the great order: ordered the county's regimental training minister to be a candidate for the Zhizhou Zhang Rong group, gather the town of Xiaoyong, and Jiang Zhongji Chuyong, and will suppress it. And he killed more than 200 people, and their heads were hung all over the city, and the people who came and went were terrified.

Only then did the situation in Hunan gradually stabilize. (End of chapter)