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More than a month after the establishment of the capital (May 8), an elite corps led by Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang set out from Pukou for the Northern Expedition. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Kai's skin is slightly yellow and his appearance is rough.

Lin Fengxiang is brave and good at fighting.

can be called the first-class warrior of the Taiping Army.

But the Northern Expedition was a solid military adventure.

20,000 people wanted to smash Huanglong, capture the "thief" and take the "king......

Isn't the joke a bit too big?

You must know that although the Daqing Company is in frequent crises and does not operate well, the chairman (Xianfeng) still controls 80% of the shares - most of the country's cities and nearly one million troops. Do you want to reach out and swallow it in one bite, first of all, to think about digestion?

Fortunately, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang are capable, and they are a powerful combination, all the way to win the generals, and even break the state and county.

In June, he entered Henan, wiped out more than 3,000 Qing troops in Guide, went north to Liujiakou, and planned to cross the Yellow River to Shandong. Because the Qing soldiers burned the boats and blocked along the river, the Northern Expeditionary Corps had to march westward along the south bank of the Yellow River, and on the 18th, they forced Kaifeng.

The thousands of Taiping troops who served as blockers were cut off by the Qing army, and before they could cross the river, they lost most of them.

In July, Huaiqing entered the siege, and Yu Bingtao, the prefect of Huaiqing, led his troops to defend it, and the Taiping army could not attack it for a long time.

In September, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Shanxi and regained its entry into Zhili via Henan. On the 29th, more than 10,000 people from the Governor of Zhili, Nerjing, were defeated, and the military town of Linwei Pass was captured!

The Taiping army took advantage of the victory to go north, and even broke through Zhili Shahe, Renxian, Longping, Zhaozhou, and Shenzhou.

The long drive goes straight in, and the Jingshi is shaken!

More than 30,000 households of the gentry in Beijing fled.

The Northern Expeditionary Corps took the opportunity to advance eastward, and the forward reached Yangliuqing in Tianjin.

Emperor Xianfeng was also preparing to flee to Rehe, and he appointed Shengbao as the minister of Qincha, Prince Hui Mianyu as the general under order, and Horqin County King Monk Greenqin as the counselor minister, and mobilized the army to attack together.

On October 15, Seng Lingqin led 4,000 Mongolian troops to Tunzha Zhuozhou to block the Beijing division.

The Qing army broke the embankment and released water, and the Northern Expeditionary Army's attack on Tianjin was blocked, and it was based on Jinghai and Duliu Town.

It was the middle of winter, and it was snowing heavily. The Northern Expeditionary Army lacked food and clothing, and its hands and feet were frozen and black, and they endured hunger and cold to resist the siege of tens of thousands of Qing troops and regimental training.

Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang respectively led their troops to hold on and asked for help from Tianjing.

Because the Northern Expeditionary Corps was brutal and murderous all the way, and pursued excessively extreme policies such as burning books and destroying temples, forcing religious believers, coercing them to join the army, confiscating their property, and "eliminating demons" and "reasoning," ordinary people and intellectuals fled and avoided them when they heard the news. And an army that lacks local support and strong reserve assistance is destined to be lonely and vulnerable?

——As soon as the devil entered the village, the people welcomed the uncle, and the aunt pulled his sleeve and said that the child drank a sip of the water in his hometown and stuffed red dates and eggs into his pocket, even in the movie!

On February 4, 1854 (the fourth year of Xianfeng), Yang Xiuqing sent 7,500 third-rate generals Zeng Lichang, Chen Shibao, and Xu Zongyang to set out from Anqing to support the Northern Expeditionary Corps.

The beginning went well:

Red flags fluttering......

On March 11, it crossed the Yellow River, occupied Feng County on the 19th, and entered Shandong. Absorbed tens of thousands of idle vagrants.

In April, the reinforcements of the Northern Expedition were blocked by the Qing army in Linqing, Shandong, and lost the battle, so they had to retreat south, and the troops fled one after another. Zeng Lichang fell into the water and died, Chen Shibao was killed, and Xu Zongyang fled back to Tianjing alone.

The aid operation fell through.

Li Kaifang led 600 cavalry to break through the siege and go south, receive reinforcements, and was besieged in Gaotang Prefecture, Shandong.

Lin Fengxiang insisted on Lianzhen. Seng Lingqin led 30,000 Qing troops to dig trenches around the city and besiege it for a long time, and at the same time lure it down. The Taiping army surrendered to 3,000 people.

On March 7, 1855 (the fifth year of Xianfeng), Lianzhen fell, and Lin Fengxiang was injured and arrested.

After the fall of Lianzhen, Li Kaifang, who was guarding Gaotang Prefecture, led the crowd to break through and was lured by Seng Lingqin to Fengguantun in Chiping County. The Qing army broke the canal to irrigate, Fengguantun was an ocean, the water depth in the low-lying places was five or six feet, and the soldiers stood barefoot in the water, full of maggots. The Taiping army held out for two months, ran out of ammunition and food, and failed to break through several times, and on May 31, Li Kaifang was captured and taken to Beijing for execution.

The Northern Expedition failed.

Expedition to the West

Banner hunting.

A few days after the Northern Expeditionary Army set off, Yang Xiuqing sent Hu Yihuang, Lai Hanying, and Zeng Tianyang to lead more than 1,000 warships and 20,000 infantry troops from Tianjing to the west.

The Western Expeditionary Army traced the river and quickly captured Hezhou, Taiping, Chizhou, and Anqing in Anhui.

Hu Yihuang is in charge of Anqing. Lai Hanying led more than 10,000 people including Zeng Tianyang and Lin Qirong into Jiangxi, Lianke along Luzhou County, and the forward reached Nanchang City.

Nanchang was held by Jiang Zhongyuan, an "old friend" who was hated by the Taiping army.

Jiang Zhongyuan took out the enthusiasm of the ambush at the Lingyi Ferry a year ago, went into battle shirtless, and repeatedly supervised the army out of the city to meet and shell the ships of the Taiping army, but they were all repulsed, and the Taiping army launched several charges, but the bombardment of the city failed. The battle was fierce, and the two armies were in a stalemate.

The Taiping army besieged the city for three months and was forced to retreat.

The Western Expeditionary Army was divided into two routes.

One was led by Hu Yihuang and Zeng Tianyang, marched to the north of Anhui, and even went down to Jixianguan, Tongcheng, and Shucheng, and forced Luzhou.

Jiang Zhongyuan, who was newly appointed as a senior military and political officer in Anhui, was full of enthusiasm with a brand-new letter of appointment. In order to burn the three fires well and live up to the grace of the saint, he galloped all the way and rushed to Luzhou City with reinforcements.

On the night of January 14, 1854, the fog was thick. Under the cover of the fog, the Taiping army went up the ladder and entered the city, engaging in street battles with the Qing army.

Luzhou fell.

The official seal has not yet been heated, and Lord Jiang's life has come to an end.

Unwilling to surrender, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.

The other was led by Wei Jun and Shi Xiangzhen and took Hubei to the west. The army occupied Jiujiang, left Lin Qirong to lead the troops to garrison, and captured Tianjia Town in one fell swoop, defeated the Qing army in Huangzhou, and Wu Wenrong, the governor of Huguang, threw himself into the water and died. The Western Route Army took advantage of the victory of Lianke Hankou and Hanyang to capture Wuchang.

In February, the 20,000 troops of the Western Expeditionary Army marched by land and water under the command of Shi Xiangzhen and Lin Shaozhang and advanced into Hunan.

Fuyue Prefecture, Kexiangyin, Zhanjing Port.

The wind swept the clouds.

Wake up, the days of smooth sailing are not long left!

The Taiping army will soon have a difficult opponent......

Zeng Guofan.

As early as 1853, 43-year-old Zeng Disheng, a cadre on leave without pay, bought guns and artillery in his hometown to form a new army.

The Hunan Army divided the water division and the land division.

The army is divided into battalions, with each battalion having one battalion officer, four sentry officers, and 685 brave men, and the firearms mainly include carrying guns, bird guns, and mountain splitting guns. Yongding mostly recruited peasants from the Xiangxiang area, and their wages were generally about three times that of the National Defense Corps (Green Battalion).

Enlisted persons must register in the register of residence, fill in their place of origin, address and the names of their parents, brothers and wives to prevent them from fleeing.

There are 447 sailors in each battalion, and there are 1 fast crab boat, 10 long dragon boats, and 10 sampan boats, a total of 21 boats. Each dragon ship is equipped with seven cannons and four sampans, all of which are imported wrought iron cannons with long range and great power.

The ships were also equipped with muskets, swords and spears for close combat.

In addition to Luo Zenan, Peng Yulin, Li Xubin and other scholars, the selected generals of the Hunan army also selected a small number of military soldiers who were proficient in martial arts as battalion officers, so as to train water and land soldiers and teach them to master the necessary skills and formations.

In fact, the whole army only obeyed the orders of Zeng Dashuai.

By the beginning of 1854, Zeng Guofan had trained more than 17,000 people in the 15th battalion of the land division and the 10th battalion of the naval division of the Hunan army, and they were assembled and on standby.

The main force of the Western Expeditionary Army was led by Lin Shaozhang to Xiangtan and engaged in a fierce battle with Taqib, the vanguard of the Hunan Army.

Relying on the superiority of ship artillery, the naval division of the Hunan army attacked back and forth. The Taiping Army's water battalion, which was temporarily formed by civilian ships, lacked artillery and did not know how to form formations, and it was difficult to resist the attack of the Hunan army, and hundreds of large and small ships were destroyed in three days, with more than 1,000 casualties.

Lin Shaozhang led the brigade to move to the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River.

Unexpectedly, he was chased by the Hunan army and sailors halfway, so he abandoned the ship and landed on the shore and turned back to Xiangtan.

The Hunan army designed to capture the city of Xiangtan.

The Taiping army lost more than 10,000 people and suffered heavy casualties.

Zeng Guofan learned of the victory of the Hunan army in Xiangtan, and while proud, he personally supervised the five battalions of the naval division and 800 troops of the army to attack Jinggang from Changsha.

The south wind rises suddenly, and the water is fast.

As soon as the Hunan warships broke into Jinggang, they were fiercely bombarded by the artillery fire of the Taiping Army on the shore, and they had to abandon the ship and go ashore.

Zeng Guofan sat in Baishazhou, holding a sword and supervising the battle.

Seeing the defeat of the water division, the army retreated.

In the first battle of Jinggang, the Hunan army was defeated by land and water, and the battleships suffered serious losses in artillery and armament. Zeng Guofan committed suicide by throwing himself into the water twice, but was rescued by his attaché and fled back to Changsha in a hurry.

The Great Rout!

After more than two months of replenishment and recuperation, Zeng Guofan went into battle and launched an attack on the Taiping army again.

Zeng Tianyang was unfavorable in the face of Taqibu, and the Taiping Army's naval division was ambushed by the Hunan Army's naval division in the area of Junshan and Leigong Lake in East Dongting Lake, and lost many ships.

The Hunan army entered and occupied Yuezhou.

Zeng Tianyang supervised 400 warships and counterattacked Yuezhou. The Hunan army was divided into five ways to meet the battle, and the Taiping army was defeated by land and water, losing 76 ships, more than 280 cannons, and 1,000 casualties, so they had to retreat to Linxiang.

Wei Jun led his troops from Wuchang to help, and led 600 warships with Zeng Tianyang and Lin Shaozhang to counterattack Yuezhou again.

Yang Zaifu of the Hunan army led the sailors to meet the attack on Chenglingji, and set fire to the wind, and more than 100 Taiping warships were burned, with more than 1,000 casualties, and had to withdraw from the battle.

Chen Huilong, a general of the Qing army, supervised the Guangdong naval division to support the Hunan army.

The two sides fought again at Chenglingji, and suddenly a southerly wind blew, and Zeng Tianyang ordered a small fleet of ships to attract the Qing army into the narrow water, and then set fire to the ship. Chen Huilong ran aground in the fierce battle due to the heavy size of the ship, and the Taiping soldiers took advantage of the situation to climb the deck and hack him to death.

Chu Ruhang, the captain of the Hunan Army's naval division, led a ship to the rescue, but was also killed by the Taiping army.

Zeng Guofan was sad and weeping.

Zeng Tianyang led his troops to land from Chenglingji and camped according to the danger.

Tazib led his troops to attack.

Zeng Tianyang, a veteran who was close to the sixtieth year, suddenly turned into a fierce Zhang Fei, single-handedly entered the enemy formation, and stabbed Taqib's war horse to death with a spear. Taqib hurriedly dodged. Zeng Tianyang stabbed again, and the Hunan army rushed up and shot him to death.

The Taiping army was defeated and took Wuhan.

The Qing army followed up and carried out a general attack on Wuhan in three directions:

Li **** led the sailors to Parrot Continent, attacked back and forth, and burned more than 300 ships of the Taiping Army's sailors;

A total of 4,000 people from Luo Zenan and Li Guangrong of Jingzhou attacked the garden and burned the Taiping army barracks;

The Jingzhou army led by Kui Yu attacked Hanyang Shrimp Toad, rushed into Tucheng, and broke through the camp of the Taiping army in Parrot Island.

Wuchang guards Shi Fengkui and Huang Zaixing are all civilian cadres and cannot cope.

In a hurry, it was decided to abandon Wuhan.

In the process of retreating, the Taiping army was intercepted by the Hunan army Taqib and lost more than 1,000 people, and more than 1,000 warships moored in the Han River were burned by the Hunan army because they did not have time to sail.

After the fall of Wuhan, Yang Xiuqing ordered Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, to stick to the defense line of Tianjiazhen.

The Taiping army erected two iron chains between Tianjia Town and Banbi Mountain on the south bank.

In order to strengthen the defense, Yang Xiuqing also sent someone to send a wooden flute from Tianjing as a fortress in the river.

The wooden hoop is huge, with wooden castles, watchtowers, and guns, which is equivalent to a miniature aircraft carrier.

On November 23, 20,000 troops of Qin Rigang fought against Luo Zenan in a battle against Banbishan, suffering thousands of casualties, and the rest retreated to Tianjia Town;

The Hunan army descended from the cliff and cut off the iron chain of the Hengjiang River.

The next day, the Taiping army hooked the iron chain in the middle of the river at the foot of the mountain on the south bank.

The Hunan warships were dispatched, and the momentum was huge. Taqib and Luo Zenan led a land division of 6,000 men to line up on the south bank to help the prestige.

The Hunan Army's naval division went down the river on the south bank, and melted in front of the iron chain, breaking the chain. The second team of the naval division immediately stepped forward to launch an artillery attack, destroying two gunboats of the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army's naval divisions were in chaos and retreated.

The third team of the Navy Division set fire to the Taiping warship.

It was a strong southeast wind, and the ships could not be withdrawn, and most of them were burned.

On December 3, Tianjia Town and Banbishan River fortifications, which were painstakingly operated by the Taiping Army, were completely broken through by the Hunan Army!

Ordered in danger

In January 1855 (the fifth year of Xianfeng), Zeng Guofan entered Jiujiang.

shouted "clear the river and go straight to Jinling".

More than 10,000 ships of the Taiping Army were burned down, and they basically lost their ability to fight water warfare.

The whole army retreated to the mouth of the lake.

Faced with the grim situation, the Tianjing leadership ordered Shi Dakai to be the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army and lead the troops to reinforce.

Shi Dakai arrived at the mouth of the lake.

In view of the arrogance of the Hunan army and the strength of the naval division, he decided that Lin Qirong would guard Jiujiang, Huang Wenjin should be stationed at Hukou, and Luo Xuan would be stationed in Meijiazhou, waiting for an opportunity to break the enemy.

The north of the Jiujiang River is the Yangtze River, and the lake is vertical and horizontal.

Taqib and Hu Linyi led their troops to capture the city several times, but suffered many casualties, and finally could not succeed.

The Hunan army attacked Jiujiang and turned to attack Meijiazhou. The defender Luo Xuandu led the Taiping army to resist bravely with the help of fortifications, killing hundreds of enemies and repelling the attack of the Qing army.

Zeng Guofan decided to attack Hukou instead.

Relying on the superiority of the Hunan army's naval division, he first broke through the water camp of the Taiping army in Poyang Lake, cut off foreign aid, and then tried Jiujiang.

The Taiping army adopted the harassment tactic of "the enemy advances and we retreat, and the enemy retains and disturbs us".

Countless squads were dispatched at night, firing rockets and fireballs, beating drums and shouting, causing the Hunan army to be under martial law all night and dare not sleep.

Through observation, Shi Dakai learned that the Hunan Army's naval division was composed of two different kinds of warships: the large ships were called "fast crabs" and "long dragons," and the ships were equipped with heavy guns, which were relatively cumbersome; and the small boats were called "sampans," which had no canopies, and each ship had three or five small cannons and more than 20 oars, which operated with ease. These two types of warships work together and fight together, and if they manage to separate them, they can be destroyed separately.

The opportunity has really come.

On the 23rd, the naval division of the Hunan army destroyed the wooden flute set up by the Taiping army at the mouth of Poyang Lake.

Shi Dakai and Luo Gang planned to make plans and ordered their subordinates to block the waterway, but left a gap near the west bank! Xiao Jie, a battalion officer of the Hunan Army's naval division, led more than 120 sampan boats carrying 2,000 troops and rushed straight into the lake.

Shi Dakai ordered the water camp to quickly build two pontoon bridges at the mouth of the lake, lay wooden planks on them, and add earth and stones to cut off the Hunan army's sailors.

The river breeze is tight.

The Taiping army besieged the large ships of the Hunan army moored in the Yangtze River with dozens of small boats, and the small rowers with small hulls drilled into the old camp of the sailors and burned the enemy ships. Thousands of people on the shore also launched rocket sprays to cooperate in the battle. Due to the loss of the escort of small boats, the Hunan warships did not operate well, and dozens of large ships were burned to the point of "beeping and peeling" in an instant, and the river was red, and the rest fled in a hurry.

On the night of February 11, Lin Qirong and Luo Xuan concocted the same method, and held a lively fireworks festival, burning a large number of enemy ships with 100 fire bomb canisters in small boats, and capturing the ship of the commander Zeng Guofan.

Zeng Guofan fled in a small boat.

was ashamed, and once again staged "martyrdom", and was persuaded by Luo Zenan and others.

Shi Dakai and Hu Yihuang took advantage of the victory to counterattack.

Qin Rigang and Chen Yucheng took advantage of the weakness to advance westward, defeated more than 10,000 Qing troops under Yang Pei, the governor of Huguang, and occupied Hanyang for the fourth time.

Wei Jun led his troops to cross the river from Tianjia Town, occupied Xingguo, Tongshan, Chongyang, and Xianning, and attacked Wuchang with Qin Rigang's troops.

In late March, Luo Xuan led his troops to join Fan Rujie of the Taiping Army in southern Anhui and occupied Huizhou Mansion.

Since being attacked by the Taiping army, it was hit by a storm again, sinking 22 ships, destroying 21, and the rest retreated to Wuhan.

With practical actions, it confirms the wise saying that "happy families are similar, but unfortunately all are different".

On April 3, Qin Rigang and Chen Yucheng led the Taiping army to recover Wuchang City for the third time.

5,000 Hunan troops in the south of Luo Ze entered Hubei from Yining Prefecture in Jiangxi Province and threatened Wuchang.

Seeing that the Hunan army was making every effort to rescue Wuhan and Jiangxi's troops were empty, Shi Dakai decided to adopt the strategy of "encircling Wei to save Zhao", marching into Jiangxi and oppressing the Nanchang camp of Zeng Guofan.

On December 9, Shi Dakai led an army of 30,000 troops to occupy Xinchang, Jiangxi, and joined forces with tens of thousands of troops such as Zhou Peichun and Ge Yaoming. The division of troops and companies occupied Shanggao, Ruizhou, Xinyu, Xiajiang, and Zhangshu Towns, and advanced to Nanchang.

Zeng Guofan hurriedly dispatched Zhou Fengshan, who was besieging Jiujiang, to come to the rescue.

Zhou Fengshan captured Zhangshu Town.

On March 22, 1856 (the sixth year of Xianfeng), Shi Dakai concentrated his forces and launched an attack on Zhangshu Town. The Taiping army besieged in four directions, broke through the Hunan army camp under Zhou Fengshan, and killed more than 1,000 enemies. Zhou led the remnants of the army to flee to Nanchang.

Shi Dakai moved to Jiangxi, and in just three months, he successively captured more than 50 counties in seven prefectures and one prefecture, and Nanchang was in danger.

Zeng Guofan had nightmares.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing ordered the Taiping Army to return to help, and Jiangxi military affairs were changed to Huang Yukun to preside. Shi Dakai led 30,000 people out of Jiangxi and passed through southern Anhui to rescue Tianjing. This is the end of the Western Expedition.

Odd Soldier

Soon after the establishment of Tianjing, as an unwelcome guest, the Qing army established the "Jiangnan Camp" and "Jiangbei Camp" in the suburbs of the city and Yangzhou respectively, echoing each other and threatening Tianjing.

When the main force of the Taiping Army launched a large-scale northern expedition and a westward expedition, Tianjing was empty, and the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps took the opportunity to expand their forces and constantly launched attacks on the Taiping army.

At the end of 1853, the Taiping army was forced to abandon Yangzhou.

The Qing Dynasty mobilized 50 "red single boats" from Guangdong to the river near Tianjing.

The red single ship was originally a large merchant ship, and later refitted, the big one installed 30 cannons, and the small 20 guns, which could be cast on the port side and the bow of the ship, and the power was greater.

Tianjing's grain transportation was seriously threatened, and the soldiers and civilians in the city ate porridge to survive, and a large number of residents fled.

Zhenjiang's situation is precarious.

Yang Xiuqing was determined to transfer troops from the Anhui battlefield under the command of Qin Rigang to support Zhenjiang.

On February 1, 1856, Qin Rigang led Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng to fight with Xiang Rongqingjun and Jiangsu Da Ji Hang'a on the front line of Longtan, Dongyang and Tangtou for more than 40 days, without a victory.

Wu Ruxiao, the defender of Zhenjiang, sent troops to meet him many times, but he was blocked by the Qing army's naval division.

In order to break the stalemate, it is necessary to send people to inform the defenders of Zhenjiang and fight together......

The Qing army blocked the river, and gunboats patrolled day and night—

Who wants to take that risk?

"I'll go. ”

A young officer, of medium height, with a dark spot under each eye, gladly took the order.

Oh, isn't this the person who led the 500 death squad in Wuchang to plant the banner on the city?

Chen Yucheng.

Qin Rigang nodded.

So the young general took a small boat, full of loyalty and fearlessness, and set off towards the boundless night. In front, there was a well-guarded defense line of the Qing army's naval division.

On April 1, Qin Rigang launched a general offensive and fought with the Qing army at Tangtou. Chen Yucheng and Wu Ruxiao led the army to soothe the back of the Qing army in a timely manner, and the enemy's position was in chaos.

The two Taiping armies met victoriously.

Qin Rigang defeated the Qing army besieging the city with all his might, and pulled out more than 120 barracks in two days.

On June 1, the Taiping army occupied Yangzhou.

Destroy the Jiangbei camp that the Qing army had been operating for three years.

The minister of the Chincha, Gilhang'a, committed suicide with a pistol.

Qin Rigang led his army to Yanziji and Guanyinmen in the suburbs of Tianjing, and prepared to enter the city to rest. At this time, Shi Dakai's troops who had returned from Jiangxi had also arrived in the area of Moling Pass.

Yang Xiuqing decided to strike while the iron was hot and destroy the Jiangnan camp in one fell swoop. He ordered the armies to continue the battle and break the rear of the camp to enter the city.

However, all the generals believed that the camp south of the Xiangrong River had been camped for a long time and was not suitable for a quick battle.

Yang Xiuqing was furious:

If you want to hit you, you will fight, what is so much nonsense?

The camp is broken within a limited time.

Those who disobey military orders will be killed!

On June 17, the Taiping troops outside the city launched an attack on the Jiangnan camp, and the Taiping troops in Tianjing City also went out of the city to help in the battle. Xiang Rong saw that the camp was in danger, and urgently ordered Zhang Guoliang to rush back from Lishui Starry Night and transfer troops to support.

At dawn on the 19th, Shi Dakai and Qin Rigang sent people to attack the Xianhemen camp, fought fiercely until late, and broke the Qing army.

Zhang Guoliang led his troops back to the camp and set up camp in Qingma overnight to hinder the Taiping army.

On the morning of the 20th, the Ten-way Taiping Army attacked the Qingma group, and at the same time, Yang Xiuqing also sent troops out of Tongjimen and went straight to the Qiurn Bridge. Xiang Rongzi led a large battalion to the rescue.

In the afternoon, Qin Rigang divided his army to capture the camp of the Qing army's horse team, and approached Xiaolingwei, and the Taiping army in the city also attacked by different routes, breaking more than 20 Qing camps nearby. Under the attack of several Taiping troops, the Qing army collapsed.

Xiang Rong and Zhang Guoliang were defeated and left Danyang.

Xiang Rong soon died of grief.

Sixth, you can really put on the score

Since King Hong entered Tianjing, he has plunged into the deep palace and enjoyed his wealth and prosperity......

This diamond is eleven years.

Hong Xiuquan entered Nanjing City at the age of 41 and died of illness at the age of 52, and lived a corrupt life in the glorious Heavenly King's Mansion for eleven years, neither commanding the killing of the enemy, nor asking about the government. Only twenty-five edicts have been issued in eleven years, and since the year has been blank, not a single edict has been issued in five years!

Beautiful women came one after another.

The "queen," "Ai Niang," "Hip Niang," "Miao Nu," "Yin Nu," "Ji Nu," and "Yuan Nu" add up to 1,169 people, and there are also many "female officials" who serve as cleaners, wash dishes, fold quilts, make beds, and lead chariots to sleep, about 1,200 people.

A total of more than 2,300 women served in the Tianwang Mansion, providing Mr. Hong with *******There are no eunuchs in the Tianwang Palace,

Because castration is a highly technical job.

Ordinary people can't do it at all.

The Taiping army once castrated 80 handsome young boys to serve as chamberlains, but 77 people died, and the remaining three had severe ulceration of the lower half of their bodies and became crippled for life!

Men are excluded in the palace.

To deal with so many beautiful women, you have to have a good body.

Someone's coming......

Cuihua, sauerkraut is definitely not good!

The best things in the world, six birds, six beasts, six scales, and six mediums.

Birds are pigeons, finch, pheasants, and eagles, chickens and ducks do not count; animals are cows, sheep, roe deer, and rabbits, and pork is not included; scales are bream, carp, sturgeon, and eel; shrimps, crabs, clams, turtles, and so on......

Recipes are changed every day, and no duplicates are allowed.

The plates and bowls of the Heavenly King's meal are all made of pure gold, twenty-four golden bowls and golden chopsticks, and every time he eats, he must play music, and the sound of drums, gongs, cymbals and cannons alternate until the meal is finished.

Twenty pounds of candles are ordered sixty a night.

Golden bathtub, golden toilet, golden night pot.

Embroidered gold dragon robe with gold buttons.

The crown weighs eight pounds, made of pure gold, and is "extremely ingenious".

Hong Xiuquan usually does not go out of the palace gate. Occasionally, I visit the Imperial Garden, ride the holy dragon gold car, and walk by the hands of several beautiful women.

Outside the palace, there are 64 people carrying the dragon and phoenix yellow sedan chair, and there are 1,000 people in the palace, 100 people in the palace, and 100 people in the palace, as well as the gongs and the music......

A young man in society who did not graduate from junior high school has turned over!

Hong Xiuquan was lying on the dragon couch, his heart was rolling, he had mixed feelings, and he started to create while sighing:

Ten thousand countries, ten thousand countries, ten thousand comes, ten thousand mountains, ten thousand rivers, ten thousand waves.

Thousands of miles of eyes and thousands of drills, all know ten thousand blessings and ten thousand merits.

No wonder I knocked on the door of the imperial examination four times that year, but I was all driven away by the examiner.

If you don't follow the Lord, you will never go up, and you will never see the sun.

The face is suddenly black and the body is fishy, and the beak is hungry and smells of burning sulfur.

Hong Sun is disgusted with those old and old sisters in Guangxi, who have stinky feet and can't brush their teeth, apply powder, or sprinkle perfume......

"Burning brimstone" is a punishment.

Saying goes:

Three women in one play.

If thousands of women only revolve around one man, competing for the wind and jealousy, pinching and biting, secretly competing, and chirping, it will be lively, and it can be a palace blockbuster.

Since ancient times, it has been difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs.

Hong Xiuquan's handling of harem disputes can be called "decisive" and drastic.

In addition to confinement, it is embodied in the "four-character policy":

Kick. Beat. Burn. Kill.

While insisting on poetry creation, Hong Tianwang also worked tirelessly to overcome medical difficulties, and changed the traditional abortion methods such as injections, medicines, surgery, traction, etc., which were convenient and practical, and easy to operate, thus filling an international gap.

Here's how:

Luck enough to shine on the pregnant woman's belly, step down, scream, blood, and get it.

King Hong also prescribed "ten dozen":

A dozen servants are ungodly,

Two dozen hard necks do not listen to teaching,

Three dozen eyes to see the husband,

Four dozen asked the king if he was not pious,

Five dozen irritability is not pure and quiet,

Six dozen speak very loudly,

Seven dozen beaks are silent,

Eight dozen faces are not happy,

Nine dozen eyes look left and right,

Ten dozen speeches are not leisurely.

"Burning sulfur" is to tie up the concubines and female officials in the palace who make mistakes or do not like the eyes in a large pot of water, heat them slowly, and boil their buttocks to death-

Compared with "burning sulfur", "killing" is a kind of enjoyment, after all, a knife down, simple and clear, save burning a Ujoba bow, boiled skin and flesh are rotten!

In the end, even Yang Xiuqing couldn't look down on it, and borrowed Heavenly Father to repair Hong Sun, so he was slightly restrained.

But at this moment, Yang Xiuqing, the number one who holds military and political power, also began to faint, infinitely expanded, and his head was bigger than his body?

The East Wangfu originally set up the left and right prime ministers of the East Palace, rotated and abolished, set up six 72 Shangshu, about 24 Chengxuan, about 32 servants, about 8 praises, 1,600 guards; other Diandongyu 800 people, Diandonglong 300 people, Diandongcai 300 people, Diandongle 240 people, as well as Diandong cannon, Diandong horse, Diandong kitchen, to 3,564 people.

Yang Xiuqing has a talent for rehearsals.

Travel regardless of the cost, the scene must be magnificent!

The court rode a gold-topped embroidered dragon yellow sedan chair carried by forty-eight people, wearing a golden crown, a dragon yellow robe, and eight dragon yellow satin boots. The big gong is sounded, the big drum is beaten, the lantern is played, and the tooth card is carried by more than 100 flags of dragons, phoenixes, tigers, and cranes, and more than 100 poles flutter in the wind; in front of the sedan chair, a five-color dragon lantern that is one zhang high and dozens of zhang long is opened, and the road is swaggered through the city, and the "East Dragon" of Weizhi is passed.

Two boys stood in the sedan chair, whisking flies and holding tea.

The sedan car was followed by hundreds of civil and military officials.

There were more than 1,000 spear-wielding guards.

The lively race passed the Shehuo temple fair.

It's a pity that this idea is not directed properly......

On a hot summer day, Yang Xiuqing sat down in a sedan chair with glass inlaid water to raise goldfish......

In addition to the profligacy of the Heavenly King and the Eastern King, there are more than 310,000 civil and military officials at all levels, most of whom are relatives of the emperor and enjoy the glory, and soon hollowed out the gold and silver in the treasury and sucked it dry!

According to the first message sent by Zhang Jigeng, a spy of the Qing army, in September 1853, the silver taels stored in the puppet sacred treasury when the city was broken were more than 18 million taels, and only 8 million taels were left at this time.

Two months later, the sixth message said: There were still more than 8 million taels in the first 9 months of the Pseudo Holy Vault, but now there are only more than 1 million taels of less.

The Taiping Rites System stipulates that:

Where the king of the east, the king of the north, the king of the wings and the princes, the prime minister out of the sedan chair, if the officials and soldiers of the court and the central government do not avoid it, and those who rush the guard of honor will be "beheaded and not left";

If the king of the east drives out, if the officials and soldiers can't avoid it, they should kneel beside the road, and if they dare to walk on the opposite side, "behead and leave nothing"!

Outside the city, there are two large camps in the south and north of the Yangtze River, surrounded by strong enemies, and the flames are in full swing.

The woman is unusual

Fu Shanxiang.

Like a man's name.

But it's a woman, a beautiful woman.

Beautiful and mysterious.

The Taiping Army set the capital of Nanjing, changed it to Tianjing, and began to open a branch to recruit scholars.

In addition to the civil and military departments, there are also female departments.

Women are allowed to take the exam.

The content of the examination was mainly essays and poems, and later additional theories were added. The poems basically follow the Qing Dynasty Bagu trial poems, but the titles of the Four Books and Five Classics are abandoned in content, from the "Old Edict Sacred Book", "New Testament Sacred Book", and "Mandate of Heaven Edict Edict".

"Heavenly Father Seven Days Caused Mountains and Seas Ode", "Unification of the Rivers and Mountains and Peace of Peace", "Heavenly King and East King Worry about Labor and Comfort of the World's Meritorious Theory" and so on.

The admission criteria are also broad.

More than 800 of the more than 1,000 candidates in Hubei were admitted, and 84 people were selected in Qianshan County in the Anqing Township Examination.

Reward crowns, robes, and crosses, and parade through the streets.

Go home and listen.

Jinling woman Fu Shanxiang won the first place in the women's department.

Called "Female Champion".

She was sent to the East Palace, where she served as the female secretary of the East Palace, responsible for reviewing documents and books, and was soon promoted to the title of "Reward Prime Minister".

If you believe the description of the barnyard official history, Fu Shanxiang should be a native of Jiangning County, Nanjing.

He was only in his twenties when he took the exam.

Her father is also a well-educated talent, he has not been lifted, and he once privately read the ** "Tiangai Lou Collection" and "Nanshan Legacy Collection" at that time, and wrote some whining satirical poems.

Fu Shanxiang is very beautiful.

There is not only the beauty of Jiangnan beauties, but also the tenderness of traditional women.

He is quite familiar with literature and history, and works hard.

Such an outstanding beauty works in the East Wangfu, and has intimate contact with General Manager Yang (Xiuqing) all day long, and it seems unreasonable not to have a little melon field and Li Xia?

The rest is vulgar.

It's like a promiscuous TV series.

Fu Shanxiang's intervention caused strong dissatisfaction from another woman. This person is Hong Xiuquan's righteous sister and the widowed wife of Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West.

Hong Xuanjiao's original name was Yang Yunjiao.

Worshiped Hong Xiuquan as a brother and sister, gave the surname Hong, and changed his name to "Hong Xianjiao". Because the Hakka dialect "first" and "xuan" have the same sound, it became Hong Xuanjiao.

After her husband died in Changsha, Hong Xuanjiao was very painful.

But her grief was soon overshadowed by the life of war in full swing.

Hong Xuanjiao led hundreds of female soldiers, wielded double swords, and went to the front line to fight with the male army.

rushed into the Manchu army, and the sword skills were mysterious.

Fight all the way to the city of Nanjing.

After entering Tianjing, Hong Xuanjiao lived alone in the Xiwang Mansion, although the brocade clothes and jade food were still lonely.

She needed a man she liked to soothe her manic heart.

Yang Xiuqing appeared at the right time.

Domineering

overbearing

Arrogant

selfish

There is also a car (super luxury), and a house (the king's respect).

Commander-in-Chief of the Rebellion......

Top 10 Outstanding Rogues of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom......

Who is not on him?

The two quickly got together and staged a hot emotional drama.

Some people also said: They were originally very good, but they only married Hong Xuanjiao to him because King Hong wanted to pull Xiao Chaogui into the cage. This is already the case, the raw rice is cooked and the rice is cooked, and the two bury their feelings in the bottom of their hearts......

Super girl Fu Shanxiang killed, snatched love with a knife, how can Ms. Hong not be angry?

I am a princess and competitive, even if I can't do anything to Yang Silong, but it's not easy to clean up your little female secretary who is in charge of copywriting!

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty......

It's a mistake to look good.

"Into the Prison".

There are generally two theories about Fu Shanxiang's ending:

First, the Tianjing Incident and died in the chaos;

Second, during the office of Dongwangfu, he got acquainted with Qian Dongping, a literati who was good at speculation, and the two escaped from the city in disguised clothes, held hands, and lived their own happy lives.

It's all the fault of the dancing gods

On the night of March 2, 1854, the wind was dark and the sky was dark. At about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Yang Xiuqing suddenly went crazy......

Dancing with his hands and sweating all over.

"Come to God".

He ordered Lu Xianba and Chen Zongyang to be locked up and interrogated one by one. Lu and Chen were both founding generals in important positions.

Chen Zongyang admitted that he had sex with his wife, Xie Wanmei, four or five times in private, but denied that he had evil thoughts about other sisters. Lu Xianba also confessed that he had secretly cooperated with his wife several times.

Yang Xiuqing announced in public:

Chen Zongyang and his wife were beheaded together for "repeated violations of the rules of heaven, and their crimes are unforgivable"; Lu Xian removed the marquis and made meritorious service for his crimes.

Q: Is it illegal to sleep with your wife?

Violate.

The laws of the Celestial Empire stated:

Wherever the whole family enlists in the army, men and women are separated and are not allowed to be together.

Husbands and wives meet once a week, as if they were visiting a prison. The two are separated by ten meters, and there is a female police officer next to them, who does not squint, and then shouts in a high-pitch tone similar to a loudspeaker, and is not allowed to approach, not to whisper, and not to be close in private......

Otherwise, whether it is married life, consensual sex, or rape, as long as there is sexual intercourse, it will be punished as a "*** crime, and there will be no forgiveness for killing."

The king of heaven had eighty-eight wives, and the king of the east had fifty-four wives.

Yang Xiuqing was too heavy and suffered a loss of liver and kidney, so he ate tonic drugs such as cinnamon, deer antler velvet, and Korean ginseng, causing blindness.

You eat dry rice, can't you let us drink soup?

No way.

you.

Except for a few Heavenly Brothers and Heavenly Brothers, the only privileged person who has been granted an exception is Qin Rigang.

"Heavenly Father descending to earth" is becoming more and more frequent.

The Heavenly King was also not often preached, kneeling on the spot to listen to the Divine Decree of the "Heavenly Father".

Late at night on July 19th, Yang Xiuqing "jumped the gods" and went to the Golden Dragon Palace, the king of heaven was a little late to greet him, and the "heavenly father" was furious and scolded: "It's been a long time and you haven't opened the door, you really should fight!"

Hong Xiuquan knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Crowned Yang Xiuqing as "Comforter Holy Divine Wind".

As soon as the Heavenly Father "descended to possess the body", all the officials of all sizes coveted and sweated all over their bodies.

The light is beheading, and the heavy is "cutting meat", "pumping intestines", and "splitting the corpse of five horses".

Wei Changhui, the king of the north, greeted him in every possible way.

Every time Yang Xiuqing arrived, he respectfully greeted him in a sedan chair, and thanked him repeatedly: "The little brother has a tender belly, and if he is not taught by the fourth brother, he almost doesn't know." ”

The Northern Prince's Mansion Chengxuan Zhang Zipeng radically changed the water camp, and the East King was angry with Wei Changhui and beat him with hundreds of rods.

Yang Xiuqing pretended to ask his Heavenly Father to go down to criticize the shortcomings of the Heavenly King and wanted to spank him, Wei Changhui knelt on the ground, begged in every possible way, and begged the East King to "forgive" him......

In 1855, Yang Xiuqing issued the "General Essentials of the March".

Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, wrote in the report: King Mengdong issued a book of "General Essentials of Marching", and the humble lord knelt down to read it, and was grateful. It shows that my Dongwang has worked hard to plan military aircraft and state affairs, and he is meticulous.

Yang Xiuqing's power leans towards the government and the opposition, and his relatives will inevitably be pretending to be powerful.

Uncle Yang passed by Qin Rigang's mansion, and because the servants did not stand up to greet him, he angrily beat this person with 200 leather whips and handed them over to the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.

The director of the criminal department is Huang Yukun, the father-in-law of the winged king Shi Dakai.

Huang Yukun believes that since he has been whipped 200 and has given an explanation to the law, he can't make any more trouble. Uncle Yang was angry and overthrew the criminal case in the court!

Yang Xiuqing ordered Shi Dakai to explain the matter to him.

Huang Yukun resigned angrily.

Qin Rigang and Xingguo Marquis Chen Chengrong also submitted their resignations one after another.

The king of the east was furious, and locked his hair and waited for a dry man. Qin Rigang beat 100 boards, Chen Chengrong 200 boards, Huang Yukun 300 boards, removed the marquis, and was demoted to a soldier. The servants of the Qin Mansion split the corpses of five horses!

General Manager Yang was satisfied.

Qin Rigang was furious.

The laws of the Celestial Empire have been reduced to a page of waste paper, and the comradeship of life and death is not worth a. For the rest, there is only **naked power......

The board is slapped on the ass, and the hatred is engraved in the heart.

Brewing and fermentation.

It will explode at any time......

Wei Changhui supervised Jiangxi, and Shi Dakai went to Wuhan.

Yang Xiuqing stretched out his hand to ask for imperial power.

He "danced" to summon Hong Xiuquan, singing and dancing, stupid and crazy: "You and Xiuqing are my sons, he has so much credit, why is he called 'nine thousand years old'?"

Hong Xiuquan knelt and didn't dare to stiffen his head: "The king of the east fights the country, it should be long live."

"Is the prince of the East King more than a thousand years old?"

Hong Xiuquan said: "Long live the East King, and his son is also Long live. Long live all generations. ”

Yang Xiuqing laughed:

"So good, I'm going back to heaven. ”

Killing people is like slaughtering chickens and dogs

Yang Jiuqian-year-old probably "jumped the gods" and jumped stupidly, his brain was a mess, and he was completely immersed in the colorful "enthronement ceremony", and he didn't even remember his father's surname.

Rabbits bite even when they are in a hurry.

No matter how incompetent the Hong puppet is, he will never stretch his neck and wait for someone to cut it!

What's more, if you are willing to live in mediocrity, drink porridge and eat pickles, how good it is for Hong Renkun to be the child king in the poor ravine of Huaxian County, why bother to work hard to make a revolution and tuck his head into the waistband of his pants?

On the night of September 2, 1856, the autumn wind swayed.

Wei Changhui, the king of the north, was ordered to return to Tianjing from Jiangxi with 3,000 soldiers, and Qin Rigang also rushed from Danyang to rendezvous.

Chen Chengying, the Marquis of Xingguo, responded inside, quietly opened the city gate, and let the Wei and Qin armies enter Tianjing City.

Together with the garrison troops of Fu Xuexian (Wei Changhui's subordinate), they occupied the key strongholds in the city and the streets leading to the Dongwangfu according to the predetermined plan.

Xu Zongyang, a senior civil servant in the North Palace, was imprisoned by Yang Xiuqing for his defeat, and hated the East King to the core. Xu personally took the dead soldiers as the vanguard and entered the East Palace.

Qin Rigang and others followed him.

Yang Xiuqing has undressed and gone to bed. The law enforcement team broke into the house, went straight to the bed, and stabbed Dongwang in the chest with a "Huo" knife, and the tip of the knife pierced through the back due to excessive force.

Another knife cut off the head.

Throw it into the fish tank.

Yang Xiuqing's eyes were not closed.

The East Prince's Mansion suddenly became a frightened hornet's nest...... Wei Changhui commanded the ambush soldiers to rush in, and the royal soldiers drew their swords and refused, and the two sides scuffled.

The corpses inside and outside the palace were piled up, and flesh and blood were everywhere.

At dawn, a nearby mob took the opportunity to crowd into the Dongwang Mansion and set fire to it and looted it, while the mob carrying stolen goods walked around indiscriminately, trampling on the wounded and undead, and screaming incessantly.

killed Yang Xiuqing, and there are still many subordinates of the East King in the city.

Wei Changhui took it into his heart and lied that the Heavenly King had sent an edict to deal with him and Qin Rigang, and all the officials and soldiers under the Eastern King could go there, and all of them would be pardoned and ignored.

More than 5,000 of Yang Xiuqing's subordinates watched the execution.

Qin Rigang and Wei Changhui showed their excellent performance skills, lying on the ground, bowing their heads and being tortured, and the thick wooden sticks with the mouth of the "Ping Pong" bowl broke several times.

After the execution, the unit was recruited.

The East King's subordinates obediently handed over their weapons and walked into the two large houses where they were contained.

After all these people entered, Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, who had been beaten half to death just now, jumped up, closed the doors of the courtyards, and commanded the men and horses to attack the unarmed soldiers and civilians, as vigorous as two tigers!

The corpses floated out of the river from the Guanyin Gate, bound and linked, and could not be counted.

More than 20,000 people were slaughtered in more than half a month.

Shi Dakai returned from the front line in Hubei, and in the face of the bloody rain, he severely reprimanded.

But Wei Changhui was already red-eyed at this time, couldn't listen to other opinions, and even wanted to kill Shi Dakai. Shi had no choice but to fall a rope from the city and escape, and Wei Changhui killed his entire family.

Shi Dakai immediately led an army of 40,000 to ask for guilt.

The king of heaven saw that things were not good, and he unloaded the mill and killed the donkey.

Wei Changhui jumped over the wall in a hurry and led his subordinates to attack the Heavenly King's Mansion, wanting to get rid of the supreme commander and break the net. The more than 1,000 female soldiers who were responsible for guarding the Heavenly King's Palace fought desperately to prevent him from entering the door.

After holding each other for a long time, Hong Xiuquan ordered the female soldiers to raise the banner of "Wing King", and the rebels fled one after another.

Wei Changhui absconded in disguise.

Captured.

The king of heaven divided his five horses into corpses, cut them into pieces of flesh and hung them in the streets and alleys of Tianjing City, and ordered the arrest of Qin Rigang and Chen Chengrong, sentenced to beheading, and abolished the title.

——Qin Rigang is a high lord, and the heroic wind of the camp in the north and south of the Yangtze River is still there, and a famous general died in internal strife!

Seventh, you are wrong, Heavenly King

Before the "Tianjing infighting", the Taiping army had controlled the three major strongholds of Anqing, Jiujiang and Wuhan in the upper reaches, and occupied a fairly broad area in Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinces. Qin Rigang's capable generals Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng participated in the opportunity to open up the downstream territory to the vicinity of Shanghai, Wei Changhui stuck to Jiangxi, and Shi Dakai presided over the Hubei military and dealt with the Hunan army with ease.

The Taiping army had a favorable military situation.

The Tianjing incident was a nightmare.

Many soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles did not die in the southern and northern wars, but fell in the same room for less than a month.

The Qing generals were ecstatic.

confidently reported to the Qing court: "Hong Yang is a bandit, and he will not suffer from injustice in this year. ”

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has reached its most dangerous time!

Shi Dakai came out at the right time to turn the tide.

Shi Dakai, the winged king who participated in the Jintian Uprising at the age of 20, has a clear attitude and is astute.

He was only 24 years old when he burned the water division of the Zeng Guo Domain.

Even the enemy admits that Shi is "the most cunning and good at fighting" and "does not attach much to the heresy of slang", and he is not at all interested in the tricks of Hong and Yang that the Heavenly Father descends to earth, the soldiers and the people are united, and men and women live separately. When the garrison was in Anqing, it advocated "paying grain and paying taxes as usual" to appease the people to continue production as usual.

The internal strife subsided, and Hong Xiuquan sent people to welcome Shi Da into the city to assist the government and take charge of the overall situation.

The military and civilians cheered.

They believed that with the Wing King's ability and prestige, it wouldn't be long before he would be able to drag the shattered ship of the Celestial Empire into a normal orbit!

But people rejoiced too soon.

Hong Xiuquan was by Yang Xiuqing a few times, and he was still in pain, and he was also afraid when he saw Jing Rope, how could he dare to lose power? So, after conniving at the dictatorship of the East King, he made another unforgivable mistake......

The two elder brothers, Hong Renfa, were crowned as "King An" and Hong Renda as "King Fu".

It is used to contain Shi Dakai.

This caused disgust and resistance from many soldiers:

Those who are crowned princes and princes must be convincing to the hearts of the people, such as Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan, Shi Dakai, Hu Yihuang, and Qin Rigang, or rich in strategy, or establish military merits, or be proficient in government affairs......

No one said a word.

The Hong brothers are different.

In addition to their surname "Hong", they have no resourcefulness, no merit, no level, they come to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and they don't know anything about the war in the military camp. Greedy, selfish, stupid, fierce......

The miasma of mixing up the good military affairs is a miasma, and everyone is gnashing their teeth.

Look at what you've done.

Your great cause of the country is your family's kangtou!

Although the Hong brothers don't understand, they can play tricks-

Horizontal trolleys.

Shi Dakai convened a meeting of the generals to discuss the situation, and everyone "surrounded and listened". These two living treasures came uninvited, digging their nostrils, snorting, interfering in government affairs and pointing to the east and west, and they got rid of the face of a villain.

Naturally, the Wing King doesn't eat this set.

Angry shooting.

Hong Renfa and Hong Renda preemptively sued Diao.

Boss Hong's surname is a family, both public and private, and he constantly reprimands and criticizes Shi Dakai.

The contradictions are becoming more and more intense, and it is almost time to shoot the bricks and move the knife.

Or bleed to do Yang Xiuqing second, or......

The Winged King looked up to the sky and sighed.

In May 1857 (the seventh year of Xianfeng), due to exclusion and suspicion, Shi Dakai was forced to lead 100,000 (one said 200,000) elite soldiers to leave.

Bloody Jiujiang

Tens of thousands of people died in the "Tianjing Incident", Shi Dakai fled in anger and took away a large number of elite troops, and the military situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

Dexing'a rebuilt the camp in Jiangbei outside the city of Yangzhou.

The minister of the Qin Mission, He Chun, and the rebel general Zhang Guoliang built a camp in the south of the Yangtze River and once again surrounded Tianjing.

Wei Jun abandoned the city and fled, and Wuchang and Ji'an were lost one after another......

The focus of contention between the two sides was concentrated on Jiujiang.

Jiujiang is connected to Wuchang in the west and Anqing in the east, and the strategic location is very important. It is guarded by Lin Qirong, the twelfth inspection point on the right side of the hall.

In 1855, Tianjia Town in Wuchang fell, and the Hunan army went down the river and pointed directly at Jiujiang.

Lin Qirong led his troops and horses to meet the battle, and slashed Tong Tianyun.

Cooperate with Shi Dakai to break the waterway army of Zeng Guofan.

Luo Zenan, the general of the Hunan army, sighed and said: "Jiujiang is not big, and Meihuazhou is a small city, so it should be easy to capture." But as soon as our army arrived at the city, the long hair raised its flag and fired, and the armor was distinct, which made people look at it discouraged. ”

Zeng Guofan fled to Nanchang, and the general Taqibu led the army to besiege Jiujiang.

Lin Qirong said to his subordinates: "Zeng Demon Head was beaten to the point of urine, how can Taqibu let him die in my hands sooner or later." ”

Taqibu Jiutun fortified the city, resentful, vomited blood and died.

The Hunan army returned in vain.

In order to strengthen the defense, Lin Qirong built a new city in Xiaochikou and arranged artillery positions closely.

The Hunan army Zhou Fengshan surrounded Jiujiang again, but still could not take advantage.

There is internal strife in Tianjing, and the kingdom of heaven is in turmoil.

Zeng Guofan thought that the time had come, so he wrote a letter to Lin Qirong, saying:

You are Yang Xiuqing's confidant, and now that he has been killed, you must be very uneasy.

Lin, you will face three dangerous enemies, first, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, second, the newly returned but unstable motley army (Citigroup), and third, the Qing army outside the city.

Isn't it sad that you are dead?

If you shave your hair and surrender to sincerity, and make meritorious service to atone for your sins, I should play the emperor and ensure that you are promoted and rich.

Think about it.

Isn't Zhang Jiaxiang an excellent example?

Lin Qirong was furious when he received the letter, and shredded and scolded: "This old demon dares to stir up discord and blind the dog's eyes!" Gather rice and grain and prepare for defense.

In 1857, the Qing army Yang Zaifu and Li Xubin commanded the Marine Corps and Chen Bing Jiujiang.

The fierce battle lasted for six days and nights, and there were many casualties.

Lead the army to retreat.

The Qing army changed its strategy and turned a strong attack into a long-term siege.

The trench was dug for thirty miles, and it was surrounded on three sides.

Due to the fall of Wuchang, Shi Dakai withdrew all the elite soldiers in Anhui, and Jiujiang did not receive any reinforcement and has become an isolated city.

Lin Qirong asked Tianjing for help, but Hong Xiuquan had no troops to send, so he had to give him the title of "Marquis of Zhentian".

In October, Yang Zaifu and Peng Yulin broke through Xiaochikou, Hukou and Meijiazhou in Jiangbei, and blocked the river with water divisions, completing the final encirclement of Jiujiang. The Hunan army attacked Jiujiang day and night, while the Taiping army lost its troops in the fierce battle and could not be replenished, and Jiujiang was in danger.

Lin Qirong actively organized the military and civilian war of resistance.

In May 1858 (the eighth year of Xianfeng), a traitor named Hong Bingkui, who was very familiar with the terrain of Jiujiang, offered advice to the Qing army:

Jiujiang is unbreakable on all sides of many stones, but the area around the east gate is like a belly, and it can be passed through the tunnel.

So Li Xubin ordered the troops to step up the siege of the city, and on the one hand, he personally supervised the work and secretly excavated five tunnels from the southeast. Three of them encountered underground rivers, and two tunnels were dug under Jiujiang City.

The Hunan army successfully blasted and collapsed the southeast gate for more than ten zhang.

The Taiping army backed the city wall, concentrated firearms to resist, killed more than 700 Qing soldiers who landed in the city, and still held on to Jiujiang City.

The 16th battalion of the Qing army poured out to attack the four gates.

The gunpowder buried in the tunnel exploded again, the masonry flew sideways, "more than 100 zhang of the city", and a big gap was blown open in the Jiujiang city wall. The red-eyed Qing army swarmed in.

Lin Qirong led the Taiping army to persist in street fighting.

In an instant, flames erupted in Jiujiang City, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

After more than two hours of bloody battles, more than 17,000 soldiers of Lin Qirong's department were all martyred.

The Hunan army sent people to find Lin Qirong's body, showed it to the public, cut open his stomach, cut the corpse into small pieces of flesh one inch square, and killed all the people of Jiujiang who supported the Taiping army.

"The Chronicle of Pingding Yuekou" contains:

"Those who have been in Rong for a long time say that the weight of killing and poking in the city is not more than the battle. ”

Wind and rain

In 1858, clouds hung over Tianjing.

The Qing army was rebuilt in Jiangbei and Jiangnan, threatening Tianjing.

Wei Jun gave up Wuhan, Hubei was lost, and the Hunan army on the eastern front captured Hukou and Jiujiang, Lin Qirong's whole army was martyred, and Jiangxi was shaken!

Within the Kingdom of Heaven, "there are no generals in the DPRK and no one in the country", and the morale of the army is weak.

Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to restore the system of chief generals of the five armies and promoted a group of young generals:

Feng Chenyu became the chief general of the former army, Li Xiu became the chief general of the rear army, Li Shixian was the chief general of the left army, Wei Jun was the chief general of the right army, and Meng Deen was the chief general of the Chinese army and the commander of the main army.

- Meng Deen, also known as Meng Detian, won the favor of the king because of his flattery and wholehearted support for beauty pageants.

In early July, young junior generals Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng, and Li Shixian held a military conference in Zongyang Town, Anhui Province.

Li Xiucheng analyzed the situation and believed that the Jiangbei camp in Pukou cut off the transportation, which caused great pressure on Tianjing, and decided to conduct a joint operation and terminate the Jiangbei camp.

After the meeting, Chen Yucheng, Li Shixian, and Wu Ruxiao's 20,000 Taiping troops advanced from Qianshan and Shucheng to Luzhou.

Defeat the Qing generals Lin Rui and Xiao Kaijia.

Occupy Luzhou.

Li Xiucheng led the army from Chuzhou to Pukou to move from An, and his troops included Chen Kunshu, Wu Dingcai, Su Zhaopu, Tan Shaoguang, and Lu Shunde, with less than 5,000 troops.

After Chen Yucheng captured Luzhou, he led the main force straight to Chuzhou, and in September, he arrived in the area of Wuyi Town to join Li Xiucheng's army.

Tens of thousands of troops were concentrated.

Chen Yucheng marched into Pukou and confronted the Jiangbei camp.

The minister of the Qin mission, Dexing Ayoupukou, sent troops to capture Wuyi, and the Taiping army rose up to meet the battle, defeated the Qing army, and annihilated 3,000 of its men. He took advantage of the victory to launch an attack on Xiaodian and defeated Feng Zicai, the general soldier of the Jiangnan battalion who came to reinforce him.

On the 26th, Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng oversaw the army broke through the Qing camp and went straight to Pukou, where they attacked the Dexing'a camp, and the Taiping army of Jiuhuanzhou also crossed the water to help the battle, killing more than 10,000 enemies and burning all the camps of the Qing army. Again set foot on the camp of Jiangbei.

Dexing'a led the remnants to flee to Yangzhou.

Chen Yucheng's general Wu Dinggui stayed in Luzhou, and the imperial court sent generals Du Xing'a and Li Xubin to lead the army to support Anhui.

Li Xubin walked very fast, trotted all the way, and successively trapped Qianshan, Tongcheng, and Shucheng, and led 6,000 troops to Sanhe Town on November 3.

Sanhe Town is located at the key point of water and land, and is the southern barrier of Luzhou.

Wu Dinggui complained to Chen Yucheng.

Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng led their troops to Sanhe Town, where they camped for dozens of miles between Baishi Mountain in Jinniu Town, cutting off the retreat of the Hunan army.

Li Xubin was arrogant and conceited, sent troops to three routes, and attacked Jinniu Town at night.

Chen Yucheng seized the advantageous opportunity and met the front with a small number of troops, while the main force outflanked the rear of the Hunan army from the left flank.

In the early morning of the 15th, the town of Sanhe was foggy.

The Hunan army was in disarray.

The Taiping army quickly ate the Hunan army on the left, and cut off the retreat of the center and right roads, and besieged it in the area of Yandungang.

Li Xiucheng rushed to help in the battle, and Wu Dinggui also led his troops to attack from the camp in Sanhe Town.

The Taiping army soon surrounded the Hunan army camp and broke through seven camps.

The Hunan army attacked dozens of times in a row, but all of them were repelled by the Taiping army, and Li Xubin failed to break through and committed suicide. All 6,000 Hunan troops were annihilated.

Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng took advantage of the victory to march, recovering Shucheng and taking Tongcheng, scaring Bao Chao and Duxinga, and connecting Qianshan and Taihu Lake, and turned to fight in Anhui. (To be continued.) )