The military newspapers on the front line kept coming back, Qiao Zhiqing summed up the news, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, the reason why Li Xiucheng had the opportunity to send troops south turned out to be caused by him.Li Xiucheng Shanghai battle, although there is no vitality and great injury, but it is also a loss of soldiers, morale plummeted, after going north to aid Nanjing, and the auxiliary king Yang Fuqing, the god king Hong Renji and other thirteen kings in Dongba Town to join the division, the strength of the army reached as many as 300,000 people, claimed to have 600,000, and the mighty towards the Yuhuatai Zeng Guoquan Department killed.Yuhuatai is a beautiful hill surrounded by pines and cypresses, about 100 meters high and about 3 meters long.5 kilometers, the top is in the form of a platform, composed of 2 closely interdependent hills, it is a commanding height in the south of Nanjing, and it is a place where soldiers of all dynasties must fight.Zeng Guoquan ventured to break through, only a pitiful 30,000 troops, digging trenches and setting up trenches in Yuhuatai, erecting forts, shrinking the camp for self-protection, these 30,000 people are the elite of the Hunan army, all equipped with foreign guns and foreign artillery, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.Li Xiucheng was anxious to win, after encircling Yuhuatai, he set up camp at the foot of the mountain, adopted the tactics of crowds, and sent a large army to rush to the mountain in batches under the rain of bullets and bullets, and suffered tens of thousands of casualties within a few days.Li Xiucheng was indignant, and hurriedly gathered the foreign guns and cannons in the Taiping army, formed a team of more than 10,000 people, and finally rushed into Zeng Guoquan's camp with wooden planks.The Hunan army knew that there was no way out, and they all fought bravely to kill the enemy, Zeng Guoquan was shot in the left cheek, and his face was bloody, but he still crossed his horse and commanded the enemy in the camp.Both sides were all red-eyed, fighting back and forth several times.Finally, the Taiping army was demoralized and was beaten out of the camp by the Hunan army.Li Xiucheng saw that this stone in Yuhuatai was difficult to gnaw, so he changed his strategy and sent an elite detachment to attack the grain route of the Hunan army.Peng Yulin, the sailor commander of the Hunan army, who was responsible for transporting grain to Zeng Guoquan, had more than 10,000 sailors under his command and were equipped with three ironclad warships.After three months of fierce battles between the two sides, the Hunan army fought more and more fiercely, and every battle must be won, Li Xiucheng had no power to resist, and Li Xiucheng had no choice but to give up the plan to besiege Yuhuatai, and led the army into Nanjing City from the south gate.King Hong scolded Li Xiucheng at the time, cut off his title, and immediately ordered Li Xiucheng to lead the army to the north, in a vain attempt to cross the Yangtze River and raid Hubei through Anhui, and once again use the method of encircling Wei to save Zhao to attract the Hunan army to come back.History has long been disrupted because of the appearance of Qiao Zhiqing, the Taiping Army's Tianjing Defense Battle was not to mention a few months in advance, and even the fate of King Chen Yucheng will take a complete turn, and this matter has to start with the bag that Qiao Zhiqing gave to Gu Yunfei.Due to the Qing army general Duo Along led a large army to besiege Luzhou, Chen Yucheng decided to abandon the city and go north, intending to join the expedition to Henan and Shaanxi, the king of Fuwang Chen Decai, and the king of Zun Lai Wenguang.After breaking through to Shouzhou, he was warmly welcomed by Miao Peilin, who promised to join Chen Yucheng to attack Henan.After receiving the news from the fire fox, Qiao Zhiqing concluded that Miao Peilin would definitely betray Chen Yucheng to the Qing army, so he gave Gu Yunfei a tip, Gu Yunfei received Qiao Zhiqing's instructions, and led the troops and horses to attack Shouzhou in the starry night, at this time Duo Along was besieging Luzhou, and thought that Gu Yunfei was a reinforcement sent by Qiao Zhiqing, and generously gave Gu Yunfei a way out, Gu Yunfei passed through Luzhou and rushed straight to Shouzhou, just when the city of Shouzhou was in turmoil, Miao Peilin was taking the twist army around to strangle Chen Yucheng's more than 2,000 men, and captured Chen Yucheng alive on the spot.Miao Peilin didn't have time to be happy, only to hear the gunfire outside the city, more than 10,000 guns under Gu Yunfei's men roared in unison, Miao Peilin's twist army was a group of rabble, although there were more than 10,000 people, and all of them were cavalry, but after three or four rounds of charge, they were surrounded by ten foreign gun formations commanded by Gu Yunfei, and after killing more than 1,000 people and horses, they completely let the city escape, Miao Peilin and more than 100 guards were captured alive on the spot in Shouzhou County.After Gu Yunfei reported home, because Miao Peilin had surrendered to Shengbao, the commander of the Jiangbei camp, his tone was very tough, and asked Gu Yunfei to let him go immediately, otherwise he would offend Shengbao, and even Qiao Zhiqing would have no good fruit to eat.Where would Gu Yunfei listen to his nonsense, and without thinking about raising the big knife, he slashed at Miao Peilin's neck, poor Miao Peilin's generation of heroes died a few years earlier when he met Qiao Zhiqing.After Gu Yunfei rescued Chen Yucheng, he took him to Shaanxi, Gu Yunfei admired Chen Yucheng very much, and had the idea of defecting to him before, and the two naturally talked endlessly.Gu Yunfei kept confiding in Chen Yucheng about Qiao Zhiqing's character, and informed Chen Yucheng of the cause of Tan Shaoguang's death, hoping that he would change his ways and serve Qiao Zhiqing's disciples like himself.But Chen Yucheng was loyal and courageous, although he was grateful to Gu Yunfei for saving his life, and felt resentful of the loyal king Li Xiucheng's small belly chicken intestines, but he never moved to betray the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and after borrowing a horse from Gu Yunfei, he separated from Gu Yunfei in Xiangyang and went north to Henan to find his troops.Gu Yunfei did not embarrass him, and continued to lead the army across Xiangyang and rushed towards Yan'an Mansion.Shaanxi is being tossed upside down by the Hui army at this time, the Guanzhong area has been uninhabited for ten miles, chickens and dogs do not hear each other, whether it is the state capital or the village, all the Han people were slaughtered by the Hui army, the villages and villages are full of blood, and the bones are everywhere.After Chen Yucheng went north to Henan to find his uncle Chen Decai and Lai Wenguang, he learned of the tragic atrocities of the Hui army, the Taiping army and the Hui army supported each other and attacked Xi'an together, but what the Hui army did in Hanzhong made a huge difference between the two armies, and the Taiping army was also a flesh-and-blood Han people, of course, they could not watch their compatriots being killed for their own selfishness, and finally the Hui army and the Taiping army developed to the point of meeting each other, Chen Decai did not want to go to this troubled water again, so that Lai Wenguang retreated to Luoyang, Henan after discussion.Chen Yucheng was anxious about the safety of Nanjing, and he didn't care about the plan to march into Shaanxi, so he immediately led Chen Decai and Lai Wenguang's 20,000 cavalry south to aid Nanjing.When passing through Shouzhou, they happened to meet the Northern Expedition led by Li Xiucheng, although the two had a gap, but for the safety of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they temporarily put aside their personal grudges and joined hands again.Li Xiu divided 100,000 troops, led by Chen Yucheng to attack Anqing Mansion, and he led another 100,000 troops to attack Lu'an Mansion.Zeng Guofan almost fainted after learning of this military situation, Hubei troops are empty, Hunan troops are concentrated on the front around Nanjing, if Li Xiucheng succeeds, seize Hubei, will inevitably drive straight to Changsha, when the city of Nanjing can not be defeated, his head is afraid that the court will also take away.After thinking about it, Zeng Guofan still sent a 100,000 urgent military report to Zeng Guoquan in Yuhuatai, so that Zeng Guoquan was prepared, and once Lu'an and Anqing were lost, he would quickly retreat to the rescue.Chen Yucheng deserved to be a member of the Taiping Army, and it took only three days to attack the city one after another and attack outside the city of Anqing.After losing Anqing City for a year, he came to this place where he was defeated again, and Chen Yucheng felt countless emotions in his heart.Anqing City was recruited by Li Hongzhang to form the Huai Army to conquer Shanghai in the south, there was no source of soldiers, Zeng Guoquan led the Hunan army to attack Nanjing, the defenders in Anqing City were only more than 10,000 people, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled with old equipment.Chen Yucheng learned the lesson of the last rescue of Anqing, and he worked steadily and steadily, and was not in a hurry.Outside the city of Anqing, dozens of camps were built, and the city was surrounded by water, and the source of grain and grass in the city was completely cut off.After several rescues, the small Hunan army around Anqing City was defeated by Chen Yucheng, and they no longer dared to collide with Chen Yucheng.After more than ten days of siege, the city was cut off from food and water, and the Hunan army guarding could not withstand the torment of hunger and thirst, so the city was opened and surrendered.Chen Yucheng wanted to order the slaughter of the Hunan army several times to pay tribute to the spirit of the Anqing Taiping Army, when Zeng Guofan slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops and people in Anqing City, Chen Yucheng hated him no matter how much he hated, he couldn't give this kind of order to destroy human nature.Li Xiucheng's attack on Lu'an Mansion was not so smooth, the Qing army adhered to the policy of deep ditches and high bases in various cities, avoided the battle, coupled with heavy rain for several days, the morale of the Taiping army was low, epidemics were frequent, lack of food and grass, Li Xiucheng basically failed to capture a city, detoured to attack the city of Lu'an, and after attacking for more than ten days without results, he led the army to retreat to Nanjing City through Shouzhou.After Chen Yucheng took the Anqing Mansion, he immediately set off an uproar in all parties, the Taiping army in Nanjing City suffered defeats, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted for a while, and even Hong Xiuquan, who was sick Longzhong, seemed to return to the light, and summoned civil and military officials to the early dynasty for the first time, rewarded Chen Yucheng fiercely, and restored Chen Yucheng's title, and handed over all the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to Chen Yucheng to be unified, and even the loyal king Li Xiucheng was subject to his control.Li Xiucheng lost the battle, so he naturally had no face to refute, but he still had nowhere to express his grievances, Chen Yucheng's soldiers and horses were also transferred by him, no matter how he said it, he also had half of the credit, Chen Yucheng was just a little better luck than him, but it was a pity that King Hong now only recognizes the result and does not pay attention to the process.The kings who had a holiday with Li Xiucheng also took the opportunity to fall into the ground, especially Hong Xiuquan's elder brothers Hong Renfa and Hong Renda, who even intensified their efforts to take Li Xiucheng's military power for themselves, and wantonly slandered Li Xiucheng's mistakes in front of King Hong.King Hong Tiancheng originally looked at Li Xiucheng unpleasantly, it was Li Xiucheng who decided to attack Shanghai, and did not stop his edict, which led to the situation of the sunset of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom now, and later issued an edict when the kings returned to Beijing to help, Li Xiucheng also delayed in every way, and now there is Chen Yucheng alone, Hong Tianwang does not need to rely on Li Xiucheng, after discussing with two incompetent and treacherous brothers, the next day he ordered Li Xiucheng to be transferred to Changzhou, and his soldiers and horses were transferred to Hong Renji.Li Xiucheng really held back his wish, he had no second heart for King Hong, and wanted to revitalize the great cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he did not expect to be suspicious of others, and ended up like this, after arriving in Changzhou to garrison, he was depressed and angry in his heart and had the idea of making meritorious contributions, in a vain attempt to make a name for himself in southern Jiangsu again, so that King Hong Tianwang looked at him differently.So he rectified the soldiers and horses in Changzhou for three days, and sent a secret report to his cousin Li Shixian to cooperate in Zhejiang, and three days later Li Xiucheng personally led the army south, only forcing Wuxi City, the gateway to Suzhou
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