The siege of Tianjing was solved, and the meritorious deeds were rewarded, Hong Xiuquan enshrined Liu Xuanlin as the chief general of Jingdong, Wu Dingcai as the chief general of Pingxi, Huang Wenjin as the chief general of Dingnan, Zhang Lexing as the chief general of the expedition to the north, and Li Shixian as the king of the Zhongzhengjing Guard Army of the Nine Gates of the Heavenly Dynasty.

Li Shixian was very happy to be a prince, and immediately invited him to march into Zhejiang and Fujian, raise grain and pay for capital, and open up the territory. Chen Yucheng was resentful of his intentions, and said that Anqing was in danger and would be rescued immediately.

Ganwang Hongrenji said: From Tianjing, the west is far from Sichuan and Shaanxi, the north is from the Great Wall, the south is from Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangdong, all of which are five or six thousand miles away, but the east is far from Suzhou and Hangzhou, Shanghai, less than a thousand miles away. 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 will be sent from the south to Jiangxi, and an army will be sent from the north to Qihuang and Hubei will be taken together, and both sides of the Yangtze River will be owned by us, and it will be possible to last for a long time.

Li Xiucheng said: Ganwang Chitose is reasonable. Although this battle was won, only 5,000 demons were killed, and the main force of the demons was still there; Four years ago, the Holy Army broke through the evil of Xiang Rong, but stopped in Danyang, and did not complete the work, and the legacy is still in trouble. We must not repeat the mistakes of the past, and the poor will chase after them. The meaning of Weichen is to gather the whole army, compete for Danyang, capture Suchang, and then divide the troops to enter the north and south of the river, and the two roads will return to Hubei.

Hong Xiuquandao: On the occasion of this great victory, the army will rest for three days, and the whole world will celebrate. However, the demon was not stopped, and Li Xiucheng immediately led the army to capture Su Chang, with a deadline of one month, and the return was cleared.

On May 18, 1860, Li Xiucheng, together with Chen Yucheng, Yang Fuqing, and Li Shixian, raised 60,000 troops and besieged Danyang. Chen Yucheng took the lead and was eager to try.

Xiuchengdao: Brother Ying is resting for a while, we are deadlocked, and it is not too late for my brother to come out.

Li Xiucheng, Yang Fuqing, and Li Shixian joined forces to attack the east gate. Zhang Guoliang and Xiong Tianxi swore to refuse. Li Xiucheng couldn't attack for a long time, so he broke into an army and moved to Ximen. Simon is outnumbered and broken at the first touch. Zhang Guoliang was shocked, personally led an army, and struggled to protect it; The rout is congested, and it is impossible to advance; Guoliang rode a horse, stepped into the moat, and crossed the river to the west gate to defend against the enemy.

Guoliang died, and the Qing army was defeated. Li Xiucheng, Yang Fuqing and others waved their troops forward and killed more than 10,000 people under the general soldiers Wang Jun, Xiong Tianxi, deputy general Cai Qirong, and Zhixian Fang Jitai. He Chun was in danger and timid, supervised the remnants, and fled to Changzhou.

The Taiping army found Zhang Guoliang's body and whipped him wantonly. Li Xiucheng stopped and said: The two countries are fighting each other, and each is loyal to its own affairs. Although life is an enemy, death can still be an enemy? To the pagoda under the funeral.

Chen Yuchengdao: The fierce demons, Zhang Guoliang, Hu Kunyuan, Zhou Tianpei, Xiong Tianxi, etc., have all died in battle; Zhang Yuliang, Liu Jisan, and Ma Dezhao have been panicked like lost dogs, and these remnants of the army are not to be feared.

Li Xiucheng said: The military order of the king of heaven, the deadline is one month, to capture Suchang, and then divide the troops to enter the north and south of the river, and the two roads will be until Hubei will return. Brother Ying can cross the river and attack Yangzhou with a full pepper; I obtained Su Chang, that is, traced the river upstream, and returned to Hubei with the brotherhood.

Chen Yuchengdao: Whether the attack is successful or not, the deadline is one month, and then I will be with my loyal brother and Anqing.

On May 21, 1860, the kings divided their troops, Li Shixian attacked Jintan, Chen Yucheng attacked Yangzhou in the north, and Yang Fuqing assisted Xiucheng to attack Changzhou.

Danyang was defeated, He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, was shocked, and suddenly received a report from Jiangsu Liangtai Chawen Jing, saying that Changzhou was full of resources to block the palace, and Suzhou was very air-raided, so please be stationed in Suzhou to serve the people's popularity. Gui Qing found an excuse, that is, he followed him in person, and left in a hurry, and the people of Changzhou learned about it and knelt down to beg. Gui Qing fled desperately, shot at the people, and took the road.

He Guiqing said goodbye without saying goodbye, Zhang Yuliang paid homage to Hechun, and was ashamed to say that he was in Cao Ying.

He Chun lamented: We are waiting for Danyang, or we can turn the current situation, now Zhang Gong has gone, Danyang is lost, how can we resist the enemy?

Zhang Yuliang said: Xue Huandu, the commander of the Jiangsu domain, led the reinforcements and came at a gallop. Outside the city of Changzhou, the last general camped more than 40 bases, and Ma Dezhao swore to resist. and the handsome guard the city, for our horns.

Li Xiucheng went to Changzhou, first divided an army, and after detouring to Zhang Yuliang, he broke off the alliance of Zhang and He, reverted to the main force, and besieged Zhang Yuliang's camp. Yuliang was trapped and encircled, unable to counterattack, unable to enter the city, helpless, with horses to Zhaobu, kill the bloody road, and retreat to Wuxi. Seeing that the situation was not good, Hechun also escaped to Hushu Pass, bowed three times to the north, and hanged himself. The people of Changzhou swore not to surrender, regardless of the old and the young, as far as they could, and the infant city was firmly defended.

Li Xiucheng failed to persuade him to surrender, so he set up dozens of huge cannons, attacked the city with rockets, and ordered the soldiers to be attached to the city by the ants of the people's houses and attack the city walls.

Changzhou Deke, Li Yang divided his troops, and Yang Fuqing led his troops south to attack Yixing; Li Xiucheng marched into Wuxi.

He Guiqing fled to the outside of Suzhou, and Xu Youren, the governor of Jiangsu, hated his abandonment of the city and lost his division, and immediately went up to impeach, and quickly sent a message to all the gates, and all the people of the governor's yamen were not allowed to enter the city. Re-order: 12,000 strong men were hired, distributed inside and outside Gusu, and patrolled by section with the regiment; The people of the city, each family has a lamp, five families have a flag; Strangers, etc., are strictly checked, and beware of spies entering the city. He also consulted Su Song Taidao Wu Xu: If you use their troops to turn the crisis into safety, our country will report that only strength is dependent.

Wu Xu received the order and immediately met with the British and French envoys in Shanghai and pleaded for assistance in the defense of Shanghai. On May 26, 1860, the British and French ministers jointly issued a proclamation that the British and French forces would intervene in due course to protect the Shanghai Concession.

He Guiqing also knew that his actions were improper, and he said: After the fall of Jinling, the governor of Liangjiang took Suzhou as his station, and he took Changzhou as his museum. The defense of the large camp is where the grain station is located, so it is often temporarily stationed. When Hechun and others arrived in Changzhou, the officers and troops transferred were all from the big battalion, so the military affairs should be supervised, while Suzhou was unprepared, and the civil and military forces did not know the real military situation......

He Guiqing was under the city of Suzhou, wandering for a long time, and when he heard that the pursuers were approaching, he immediately packed his bags and went to Shanghai.

Zhang Yuliang and Ma Dezhao took over the defense of Wuxi, set up camp at the four gates in the city, and all the houses outside the city were demolished; Liu Jisan, the chief soldier of Tongyong Town, heard that Yixing came to aid along the waterway; Xu Youren, the governor of Jiangsu, also sent Zeng Bingzhong, the chief soldier of Tingzhou Town, to lead the sailors to help.

Zhang Yuliang said: The Holy Lord's edict ordered the brothers to control the armies in the south of the Yangtze River on their behalf, and the war was urgent, and the brothers were not polite. I will, Brother Ma has to protect the city of Wuxi. The high bridge in the north of Wuxi City, across the east and west of the Wulagoon River, the Wulagoon River leads to the Jiangyin Canal, and we are parallel to the water and land, and resist the thieves here. Brother Liu, Ji San, Brother Zeng, and Brother Bingzhong, together with Shi Baoyou, Wu Ben, and Zheng Kuishi, were stationed in Gaoqiao. Zheng Jimei, the prefect of Jiangning, was stationed on the line from Shuanghejian to Qianqiao to cover the back road of Gaoqiao. The city of Sikkim was garrisoned, and Jiang Zhishan was in charge of the sentry patrols of the various departments. I led the headquarters and stationed on the other side of the high bridge, calling the front and the back.