Seeing that the officers and soldiers in the city only attacked the soldiers and horses outside the city a few times, they began to dig deep fortresses around and build a walled city. Not knowing what the officers and soldiers were doing, Li Yunzhong went to Hong Xiuquan and others to discuss it. When he arrived at the government office, he saw

Yang Xiuqing and the others were looking around a box. He stepped forward and saw the words on the box: Hong Xiuquan, Li Yunzhong, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, and Feng Yunshan. He asked them: "What is this box?"

Feng Yunshan said: "It was sent by officers and soldiers from outside the city. Xiuqing and the others are discussing how to deal with it."

Li Yunzhong said: "What are the good officers and soldiers doing sending boxes? Are they filled with human heads?" Thinking of human heads, no important figures in the Taiping Army have fallen into the hands of the Qing army recently.

Yang Xiuqing ordered people to put the box in the yard, called a prisoner to open the box, and said, "I'm afraid Qing Yao will use his trap to harm people."

Li Yunzhong thought to himself, what a fuss, there was a 'bang', the prisoner was dripping with blood from the bombing, and lay on the ground without a sound. Li Yunzhong felt frightened. He really didn't expect that there were such advanced people in the Qing army, so advanced at once.

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Xiao Chaogui said: "Thankfully Xiuqing was alert, otherwise we would all have been killed."

Yanjing

Xianfeng looked at the three memorials with no expression on his face. There were pieces of teacups on the ground. He was really angry with these three minions. They talked a lot. They all said that the city would be destroyed soon, but after waiting for so long, they were all

A secret report of losing troops and generals, not achieving an inch of success, and standing still.

Saishang'a was just awarded the Chief Military Minister by Xianfeng this year. He prided himself on knowing soldiers. Now he saw that the emperor was hurting the Guangxi rebels. He couldn't bear it. He knelt on the ground and said to the emperor: "These are the incompetence of the generals.

I am familiar with the art of war and would like to share the Emperor's worries and personally go to Guangxi to pacify the rebels. Please allow the Emperor's permission."

Xianfeng looked at Saishang'a with some relief. Originally, he dismissed Mu Zhang'a, but there was no one available, so he chose Saishang'a. Only then did he realize that he was just a warrior and did not know how to manage politics, but he was indeed loyal and courageous.

There is no use for Li Xingyuan to share my worries. I just want you to supervise the division and suppress the bandits.

Thinking of this, Xianfeng said: "According to the decree, Li Xingyuan appointed himself as the Imperial Envoy Minister. He did not make any achievements. Instead, he made the rebels bigger. He was dismissed from his post and investigated. Grandpa Saishang is loyal to the country, knows the army and is good at fighting. Now Saishang'a is appointed as the Imperial Envoy Minister.

, moved to Guangxi to suppress bandits, and admired this."

A few days later, Saishang'a rushed to Hunan with the imperial edict and discussed the suppression of bandits with Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan. During the dinner, Saishang'a frowned and Luo Bingzhang hurriedly asked.

Saishang'a sighed and said: "The officers and soldiers have been defeated repeatedly in battles, all because the generals are greedy for life and afraid of death. The Green Camp is even more unbearable. I have to think of another clever strategy."

I saw Luo Bingzhang whispering a few instructions to the people next to him. After a while, the man led a man in his thirties in, pointed at him and said to Sai Shang'a: "This man's name is Jiang Zhongyuan, and he is known as the strongest man in Xinning."

Although the Jiang family of the Jiang family did not lead many Chu warriors, they all fought bravely and were invincible. They suppressed Hui Party uprisings many times and made great contributions. Today they still hold the title of county magistrate."

Sai Shang'a looked at Jiang Zhongyuan, the more he looked at him, the more satisfied he became. He called him in front of him and said to him mysteriously: "The rebels in the Taiping Army are very difficult to deal with. They are not the same as the bandits you destroyed in Hunan."

Jiang Zhongyuan asked: "What's different about these rebels? Are they powerful?"

Sai Shang'a took out a letter written by Guangxi officials to himself and pointed to one paragraph for Jiang Zhongyuan to read: "Once the bandits joined the God-worshipping cult and rebelled, they were not afraid of death. The subordinate officials and others captured all the soldiers alive.

The thieves and spies were captured and tortured in the local area, but they were not afraid and did not seek survival like ordinary people. This is because they believed in God and could go to heaven after death, so they refused to move until death."

After Jiang Zhongyuan read it, he felt that the Eight Banners Green Camp, which the imperial court relied on as the Great Wall, was really useless. He thought that the Chu Yong he had recruited and the farmers with a little training were more effective than the Eight Banners Green Camp. Why not let them join the army to wipe out the rebels? He thought

He expressed his thoughts to Sai Shanga.

Sai Shang'a fell into deep thought, nodded slowly, and said to Jiang Zhongyuan: "This plan can save a hundred thousand soldiers. You must recruit and train your bravery immediately and follow me into Guangxi to suppress the bandits."

Luo Bingzhang was slightly comforted when he saw the speculation between Jiang Zhongyuan and Sai Shang'a. When he received the news of Hong Xiuquan's rebellion, he was extremely frightened. He knew Hong Xiuquan and they were both from Huaxian County, Guangdong. He was afraid that he would be implicated by this little fellow and would go to Guangxi.

He worked very hard to transport troops and food. He couldn't figure it out. Hong Xiuquan also read books like "The Analects" and "Mencius" and took the imperial examination route. Why did he want to rebel? How did he know that Hong Xiuquan took the imperial examination?

Frustrated, he read a book called "Good Words to Encourage the World" in his depression. From then on, he developed rebellious opinions. He believed that the biggest monster in the world was the emperor of China, and even dreamed of overthrowing him.

When Jiang Zhongyuan followed Sai Shang'a to Guangxi, Chu Yong had 10 people with him, and he also invited his right-hand assistant Liu Changyou and three brothers Jiang Zhongjun, Jiang Zhongji, Jiang Zhongshu, as well as uncles and brothers such as Jiang Zhongxin and Jiang Zhongyi

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When Li Xingyuan, who was under Yong'an City, heard that Xianfeng had sent a new imperial envoy to replace him, he went to the city in person to supervise the battle regardless of his serious illness. Ming Xiangrong, Wu Lantai and others attacked the city with all their strength. The two of them fought desperately for the top spot.

Yong'an fought for three days in a row. Li Xingyuan could not stand it and died in the army first. His suicide note said: "The thief cannot be defeated, which is disloyal; the thief cannot be raised to death, which is unfilial. After his death, he should take regular clothes and use it to express his guilt." Xiang Ronghe.

Ulantai withdrew his troops to recuperate, and decided not to attack Yong'an before the imperial envoy arrived in Dacheng.

Xiao Chaogui saw that Yong'an not only had not been captured by the Qing army, but had become more and more stable. It had held on for more than six months, with less than 2,000 casualties. He summoned all the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom together and said: Jesus is coming to earth.

Brother Tian pointed at Hong Xiuquan and said: "Xiu Quan, you can do this, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chao has done a lot of great work, why don't you reward them all."

Hong Xiuquan said: "My younger brother is already writing a tribute to the reward, and I am going to make a large number of ministers."

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In August 1850, Hong Xiuquan planned to divide the kings and called the army generals to discuss it.

Li Yunzhong objected: "Today, it is not appropriate to confer a king on an area as big as a palm. It will only make the Qing army work harder to encircle and suppress. There is also a king who burns books and whips the portraits of Confucius and Mencius wherever he goes. These are all like the Qin Dynasty.

Tyranny, if this continues, all scholars will oppose the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so how can they join it?"

Yang Xiuqing retorted: "What the Heavenly King does is what Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother calls him to do. How could it be wrong? I think you have been tempted by evil spirits. You should admit your mistake."

Feng Yunshan advised: "The purpose of establishing the kingship now is to stabilize people's hearts. We have discussed that we will break out of Yong'an in a few days and attack Guilin. Then we will occupy Guangxi."

When Li Yunzhong saw that they wanted to break out of the encirclement, he didn't even discuss it with him. He obviously wanted to make him a scapegoat in Yong'an. He immediately went out to summon his old troops and asked the right army to move to the north of the city. Without notifying Feng Yunshan, he also brought the rear army to the north of the city and summoned everyone.
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