Shi Zhenji received Shi Da's military order to enter Fujian, hesitated for more than a month, until the end of March 1857, Fang Kaidong's deputy prime minister Chen Xiangrong and Liu Yuanda, from Jianchang directly into Fujian, half a month, Kedelug, Taining, Jianning, Shaowu.

Yang Fuqing was even worse, wandering for two months, Fang entered Fujian from the lead mountain, captured Jianyang and Chong'an, and on April 21, 1857, entered the county seat of Jianning.

Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, did not dare to slack off, and dispatched the troops of Fujian and Zhejiang to encircle and intercept.

Ninghua and Tingzhou Tiandi will be in vain, slaughtering pigs, eating wine, visiting and forming alliances, intending to cause trouble.

When Shi Zhenji heard the news, he dispatched troops and responded from afar. inspected Liu Yuanda to conquer Ninghua in a battle, forcing the county magistrate Lu Fenguang to hang himself; Fight again and Keting Prefecture, capture and kill the prefect Tingying.

Shi Zhenji couldn't help but be overjoyed, put on a banquet, rewarded Liu Yuanda, drank three rounds, and took advantage of Liu's unpreparedness to draw a knife to kill him.

Chen Xiangrong, deputy prime minister of the winter official, asked why.

Shi Zhenji said: "Liu Nai is a general, embezzling holy things, arson and disturbing the people, the crime deserves death!" ”

Liu Yuanda's subordinates all refused to accept the stone, and more than 10,000 soldiers were angry and made trouble in Tingzhou.

Pang Lizhong of Changting Zhixian took the opportunity to attack the city, Shi Zhenji was defeated, and asked for help from Yang Fuqing. Fuqing is also under siege and has no time to take care of himself.

Shi and Yang attacked Fujian for two months, and then fled back to southern Jiangxi.

Emperor Xianfeng praised the Fujian governor Wang Yide for his good adversity, and then sent an edict to the official and Hu Linyi to aid Anhui quickly.

Hu Linyi received the decree and said that Li Mengqun said: "The second holy decree, the matter of aiding Anhui is urgent; I would like to ask Lord Zhentai to lead an army by himself, gradually advance to the turn of Hubei and Anhui, advance and attack, retreat and defend, killing two birds with one stone. Jiujiang, Wuchang in the west, Anhui in the east, with the flow in the placket, the waist of Wu Chu. In the current situation, there is no one who attacks Jiujiang! ”

The official text said: "When Duolong Abe enters and occupies Xiaochikou, the three-way army will attack Jiujiang and will be able to succeed." ”

Hu Linyi said: "Jiujiang city wall, north facing the river, west of the dragon open river, thieves with the Great Wall Shenhao encircled, and surrounded by three forts. In the south, Gantang Lake, separated by the new dam, and the inner and outer forts, are connected with the dam. Its small east gate is Baishui Huzhou, and the road leads to Meijiazhou and Hukou County. Its big east gate leads to Nanchang, Nankang and Linrui roads. On the other side of the small pond, the Jiujiang bandits rely on the lips and teeth, the thieves have built a new city for two years, and the fortress outside the city is built to Junhao, and the artillery positions are densely arranged, which is also very difficult to attack. ”

The official said: "At this moment, it is really difficult to divide troops to aid Anhui. ”

Hu Linyi said: At this time, aid to Anhui can only be gradual, and do not make a big show and make extraneous branches. ”

Li Mengqun said: "With a little more troops, you may be able to take a young mountain, Kelu'an, chase Tongcheng, and peep at Anqing." ”

Hu Linyi said: "The army is in a hurry, greedy and greedy, and the current situation is only to attack Jiujiang." ”

After Lin Yi's words were finished, he accompanied the official document to sparse: Hubei is the key point in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Wuhan is the thoroughfare of nine provinces, and there is something to fight for in the southeast. It was lost three times, and it was attacked for two years and then overcome. At present, the camera is anti-crackdown, so that thieves will not take advantage of the time to run up and make the same mistakes as before. Ye sent Li Xubin from the south bank, Duolonga, Kong Guangshun, and Wang Guocai from the north bank, and Yang Zaifu led the sailors to attack from the river road. At present, Huangzhou on the north bank to Huangmei, Wuchang to Xingguo on the south bank, have been cleared, and the areas of Chong and Tong have been searched and arrested; Li Xubin arrived in Jiujiang and joined Zeng Guofan to attack; Yang Zaifu destroyed the thief camp outside the city; However, the thief base at Xiaochikou was not pulled out, and Bao Chao was sent to assist. Anhui's Yingshan, Taihu Lake, Susong, and Wangjiang border Hubei, all of which are thieves and have the heart to watch the offender. The kingdom of Yu was stationed in Huangmei Dahepu and Jielingyan, Kong Guangshun was stationed in Konglongyi in Qishui, and Bayan A led the horse team to support all roads to consolidate the northern gateway of Chu. The Taoist priest is wide and fast, the two mountains of Tianjia Town are facing each other, and the sailors are difficult to stay for a long time. Taking into account the overall situation, our army has already built up the momentum of breaking through the bamboo and building a strong position in the upper reaches of the land and water. The seven provinces in Jiangxi are not peaceful, and Wuchang still has elbows and armpits. If the thief forces Wuchang from Tongcheng, Chongyang, and Xingguo, and goes out of the Jiangxi army, he should stick to Wuchang, thinking that the back road is fundamental. The camera is planning, making progress step by step, and still guarding against it step by step, and there is no risk of looking back at the military situation, and there is an inexhaustible source of benefits for the transfer of salary.

On April 20, 1857, Li Mengqun and the general Zhao Hongju led 3,000 brave men to advance into western Hubei, and on May 4, they were again in Yingshan.

Chen Yucheng got the news and ordered the armies of Qizhou and Qishui to go north under the starry night; He also dispatched 20,000 troops from Lu'an, Huoshan, and Shouzhou to enter Hubei quickly.

Li Mengqun quickly greeted Hu Linyi: Around Yingshan, there are thieves everywhere, Huo Liusu and other places, thieves are very blazing. Luo Tianheng from Qishui and Qizhou, there are more than ten thief camps; There are more than 10,000 bandits in Qizhou and Qishui, and they have diverged into the downstream. The officers and soldiers are all behind the thieves, please send troops to help suppress them and stop them upstream.

The battle moved north, Hu Linyi paused, and ordered Duolonga and Bao Chao to temporarily abandon Xiaochikou and camp in Susong; Duxing A also ordered the general army of Anyi Town to enter Huangmei and respond to Li Mengqun. He also transferred 3,000 brave from Wuchang and Xingguo to help Yingshan.

Duolonga and Bao Chao received the order, led 3,000 troops, and arrived at Susong.

Bao Chaodao: The thief built seven bases according to the mountain, dug three roads, densely arranged wooden fences, bamboo sticks, plum blossom pits, more than a few zhang wide, and it was very difficult to attack.

Duolong Adao: Our army is fast, the thieves are not detected, they are frontally contained, and after the attack.

That night, Duolonga attacked the Taiping military camp from behind, broke the sixth base in a row, captured the defender Li Zhaoyu, and the Taiping army of Susong was defeated.

The kingdom is only a soldier to Huangmei, with Meicheng is secluded, not enough to shield, please guard the Shuanglin Station. Duxing is not allowed. Guocai ordered the deputy general Shi Qingji to defend the city, led an army, and set up a camp in the west of the city.

In early May 1857, Chen Yucheng's 20,000-strong army entered Hubei from Anhui, and Li Mengqun was defeated in battle, and more than 10,000 troops of Li were scattered in all directions. Chen Yucheng entered Yingshan, Ke Huangmei, besieged and killed Wang Guocai, the general soldier of Anyi Town, and camped in Dahepu for 50 seats, which were 30 miles away; It was divided into an army, marched south along Huangmei, attacked Guangji, and peeped into Wuxue to block Li Mengqun's back road; Divide another army, march west along Guangji, enter Qizhou, and clamp down on the Wuxue passage.

Hu Linyi was shocked, and went to Huangzhou in person, saying that the Jingzhou general Duxing said: "If the thief is a thief, he has a cave, he has to go to Qizhou, and he crosses the river, and I have no way out!" If the Anqing thief army goes down the river, and the bandits in Hukou and Jiujiang pour out of the nest, I will be in a desperate situation! Yang Zaifu sailor, immediately rushed to the aid of Wuxue to prevent thieves from advancing westward. ”

Duxing said: "I ordered the Bayan Ama team to immediately rush to the aid of Guangji and take care of Qizhou; Will Yang Zaifu water division, clean the back road. ”

Hu Linyi said: "Without further ado, Duolonga and Bao Chaobu rushed to Huangmei, and they were dead and slow; Jiujiang Li Xubin Department, temporarily withdrew from the siege, and aided Qizhou and Huangmei; Ruizhou Liu Tenghong and Wang Xinbu helped Xiaochikou. Each will receive the order, be sure to do it immediately, violators, sluggish, beheaded! ”

Li Xubin received the order to postpone the attack on Xun, and was depressed, and wrote to the governor of Jiangxi, Qi Ling: Since the arrival of 8,000 people in Xun, he originally thought of digging a long siege and cutting off his grain transportation, so Xuncheng can be trapped. By March, a large number of rebels had disturbed the north shore. General Du led his troops to garrison thousands of horses on the riverbank, all of whom went to Huangmei to intercept them, and consulted a certain allocation of 1,700 men from the south bank to garrison Xiaochikou on the north bank. Due to the disturbance of Qizhou by another unit, another 1,800 people were allocated to help. There are more than 4,000 brave people stationed on the south bank, blocking all roads in the southwest, and the thieves dare not flee, and the momentum is not enough to prevent them from receiving help. Seeing this sad city, I can't help it.

Not long after, Li Xubin replied to Zeng Guofan: If you come back, you must not go to Jiangxi, it seems that you have been on the top.

Duolonga received the order, led his troops against the rout, gathered Bao Chao Tingzi battalion, and stationed troops under Huangmei City.

Duolong said: "Hu Zhitai is said to be the elite of thieves, only four-eyed dogs and one ear. This dog is against the good and destroys the enemy, Brother Bao is afraid? ”

Bao Chao said: "Since I have been in the army, I have taken the lead, taken more than 100 battles, created more than 100 scars, and never said goodbye!" ”

Duolong said: "The thief is against the ten-mile shop, the big river paves the camp, the distance is far away, I attack one shop, the other shop will be saved, the brother is dangerously ambushed, I divide the dead soldiers to attack the camp, can win." ”

Bao Chao said: "When you lose in a row, don't divide your troops, join forces to attack Dahepu, kill the enemy, the four-eyed dog will be saved, and join forces to raid." ”

On June 3, 1857, Duolonga and Bao Chao attacked the Taiping Army's Dahepu camp at night and broke many camps.

Chen Yucheng rushed to the aid and was defeated by the ambush army, Yucheng stabilized his position and held on to Shilipu. Duo, Bao vicious battle for more than a month, repeated attacks and gains, occupy ten miles of shop, Chen Yucheng retreated to Wuzu Mountain.

At the beginning of July, Li Xubin led 2,000 troops, Xiangyang Tongzhi Tang Xiehe led 800 bravery, and Li Xuyi led 1,000 Ruizhou reinforcements to the front line of Guangmei.

Huangmei won a small victory, the reinforcements were all coming, Hu Linyi was a little calm, and said: Chen Zhiyucheng led more than 30,000 people from Tongcheng, and tens of thousands of hungry people in Anhui Province, and the force went up, Meizhou, Guangji area, Chongshan and mountains, and the roads were different. There are occasional flat places, and many paddy fields are muddy. The thieves haunted the mountain paths and ravines, so that our horse team could not be used, and the foot soldiers were also difficult. The thief may sneak out of Lin Mang, after copying me; or hide in the poor valley, before you want me. Our army attacked from the east to the west, although it won a lot, but the thieves did not retreat to the death. Xingduo Longa, Li Xubin, Bayana, Bao Chao and other generals will be brave, repeatedly frustrate the thief's spirit, and the people's hearts will be a little settled.

Emperor Xianfeng was very relieved and said: "The Yangtze River of my province, bandits are raging, and the punishment is in full swing, and it is a little successful. However, the British, French, and Russian provinces of the Pearl River and Heilongjiang have repeatedly disturbed the borders, and the left bank of the Heilongjiang River has been occupied by Russia. Ministers, do you have a good way to eliminate it? ”

The imperial history of the left capital and the Han army of the Red Banner all said in the same way: "Check the advance and retreat of the Russian Yi in Heilongjiang, and actually look at the growth and decline of the Guangdong thief and the Yingyi; The Guangdong thieves, the Yingyi, and the Russians are thousands of miles apart, and it is difficult to integrate. The high priest of Oyi, who has been stationed in the capital for a long time, must be meticulous, immediately executed, and cut off his ears and eyes. ”

Emperor Xianfeng said: "The Cantonese bandits have not been settled, and the war is tight; Half of the armies of the three provinces of Manchuria were transferred to the south, and it was difficult to retreat. The end of the war with the Russians should not be opened suddenly. The current situation is as good as enduring humiliation and maneuvering; When the Cantonese bandits are pacified, they will be swept away immediately. Su Qinghui's eyes looked at the situation, his eyes were like torches, and he was reading the book of the Li Fan Academy; Yixin, don't study in the study, and make up the red flag Mongolian capital on the same day. ”

Su Shunfu was promoted again, his confidence doubled, and then Chen Zengguofan's knowledge and Hu Linyi's talent.

Emperor Xianfeng said: "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it; Cone wrapped in a sac when standing out! I must prioritize the urgency, but we must observe the words and colors. ”

Xiangxiang, Hunan. Zeng Guofan's period of worry expired.

Zeng Guofan was unwilling to join the army namelessly, and said: Long live my emperor, long live, long live. Weichen has been in Beijing for 14 years, in the army for 5 years, and there are four people in the hall. I didn't support one day before I was alive, and I didn't abide by the three-year system after that, and I was ashamed, and it was really difficult to be safe. In today's situation, those who are not governors and have the power of inspectors must not govern the army. Even if we can manage the army, we must not also be able to raise salaries. The ministers and guests are in a vacant position, and there is no talent for change, and I am afraid that the overall situation will inevitably be delayed. The military of Gandi is gradually improving, and the young minister is alone, and he does not see any damage. He still calls for the grace of heaven to be in the final system.

Emperor Xianfeng hated Zeng wantonly, so he said: Zeng Guofan was a commander of the army, just when Jiangxi was in a tight situation, he should not have asked for rest. However, according to repeated requests, the love words are sincere. I knew that the squire was not a person who was afraid of difficulties, so I allowed him to open the army first and temporarily maintain the registration system. If there is an urgency in Jiangxi, he will go to the barracks immediately to take the lead of the governor. In addition, the various military camps have places where talents are needed, and they are sent by special order, and the squire shall not be allowed to desecrate and be appointed. Hubei according to the envoy Li Mengqun, has always used troops, both land and water, is still opportune, new at the turn of Hubei and Anhui, although there are setbacks, but there are also small successes, with Anhui political envoy. Duolonga, strangled and rebellious, is named as the deputy capital. Bao Chao, who has made many military exploits, was promoted to the chief soldier of Suijing Town, Hunan. Du Xing'a, Li Xubin, Li Xuyi, etc., are excellent. Wang Xin, who has repeatedly destroyed the enemy, I am Baturu.