May 2, 1848 AD.

Luoyang, an important town in Henan Province.

The fortified city has been broken, and the flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is flying high above the ancient city of Luoyang. When Yang Xiuqing rode into the city, the battle in Luoyang City was not finally over. The Eight Banners stationed in the Luoyang Man Camp in the northwest corner of Luoyang City were still carrying out a desperate battle

resistance!

Their family members had left Luoyang for Beijing a month ago. However, the less than 500 Eight Banners soldiers in the city had to stay and die with the city. If they all left, Henan Fubiao would have tens of thousands of green camps.

Are the soldiers still willing to stay in Luoyang City and wait to die? But even if these Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are still in Luoyang, they have not given much encouragement to the Green Camp soldiers in the city.

Wu. After the Taiping Army used the "hole siege" method to blast through the Kaifeng city wall, the resistance of the Green Camp soldiers and Tuan Yong immediately collapsed. The officers and soldiers of the Luoyang Banner Camp had to retreat to their homeland of 200 years - Luoyang Manchu.

The battalion put up a final resistance. However, the number of just a few hundred people and more than a hundred years of leisurely play had already decided their fate.

"Kill all the officials who are pure demons! Kill all the bannermen too!"

When entering the city, Yang Xiuqing issued these two orders! This is the consistent policy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. All the bannermen, officials, and gentry who fall into their hands all the way north will only end up dead! Of course, if Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and the others

If they fell into the hands of the Manchus, they would not survive either, and it would be impossible to die happily. In this case, why did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treat the Qing demons and gentry leniently?

Yang Xiuqing's order to kill all the Luoyang bannermen was quickly implemented. The battle at Luoyang's full camp that afternoon ended with the annihilation of the Eight Banners in Luoyang. However, there were a lot of Qingyao officials and gentry in Luoyang - Luoyang was originally Henan.

After the Taiping Army invaded the important town in western Henan, officials and gentry from various places they passed fled one after another, and most of them gathered in what they considered a

The safe city of Luoyang ended up falling into the hands of the Taiping Army. The official vacancies, the candidate officials, and the distinguished gentry were all arrested. Thousands of them were arrested in total, and they were all detained in an open space outside Luoyang City for surgery.

Wenzhan! After the killing, they set up several huge pyres, stacked the corpses of Qing Yao and the gentry in a mess, lit the pyres, and burned them all.

The casualties of the Taiping Army dug several rows of shallow pits near Luoyang, and buried their bodies in thin-skinned coffins. Crosses were erected in front of each grave. There were more than a dozen rows in neat rows in Luoyang.

During the battle, two to three thousand officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army were also killed. According to Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, they had all gone to heaven and lived happily with their Heavenly Father and Emperor God.

In the next few days, brigades of Taiping troops drove over from the south one after another and gathered around Luoyang City. After entering Henan, the Taiping troops no longer coerced the old and weak, and conquered important cities such as Nanyang, Ruyang, and Xiang.

They will leave troops to garrison the city and Yecheng. At the same time, they will recruit as many young men as possible to join the army. Therefore, the number of troops not only did not decrease because of the troops left to defend the city, but also expanded to more than 300,000!

A few hundred miles west of Luoyang is Kaifeng, the last important town on the road to Beijing. And to the north of Luoyang is the Yellow River chasm!

"His Royal Highness the East King!" Hu Yihuang smiled and walked into the lobby of the East King's Mansion in Luoyang City, greeting him with a smile, "The brothers who went to the north bank to scout came back and found no trace of the main force of Qing Yao. However, Gong in the east of Luoyang

A large number of Qing troops were discovered in the county."

"So the monk demon leader is preparing to fight me in Kaifeng City?" Yang Xiuqing burst out laughing as he spoke, "The demon demon is gone, and Zhu Jishi and I will fight for it from now on!"

"Dong Wang, is this Kaifeng city considered a fortified city?" Hu Yihuang asked in confusion, "If the monk demon leader places a hundred thousand soldiers with eight banners in Beijing, it will be really difficult for us to deal with it."

"What's not easy to deal with? Use gunpowder to break open the dams of the Yellow River and flood the city... These Eight Banners soldiers are said to conquer the world with their bows and horses. That's their ability in field warfare. Now they only want to defend the city. Based on this, Qing Yao

My strength is also exhausted!"

While the two were talking, someone came from outside to report that Prime Minister Hong Rengan had escorted a batch of gunpowder from Xiangyang to Luoyang and was seeking an audience outside the palace.

Yang Xiuqing's palace was located in the former Luoyang County government office in Luoyang City. Since he did not lead his family on the Northern Expedition, a large number of trusted generals lived in the palace, and the security was very tight. Tough guards were deployed from the gate to the second gate and the lobby.

There were still many Taiping Army civil and military officials standing at the door waiting to report on important military and political matters.

Yang Xiuqing was quite enthusiastic about Hong Rengan's arrival. He personally stood at the lobby door to greet him. When he saw Hong Rengan coming in, he greeted him enthusiastically. Even when Hong Rengan wanted to kneel down to greet him, he was rejected by him.

Hold on.

"Brother Rengan, it's just some gunpowder. Why don't you bring it yourself?" Yang Xiuqing laughed.

"Dongwang, this gunpowder is our magic weapon for conquering cities and territories! Kaifeng, Beijing, and Taiyuan on the way north are all fortified cities, and they cannot survive without large quantities of gunpowder. This time, Nanwang asked me to send 30,000 kilograms of fine black gunpowder.

, all bought from Zhu Jishi."

"Really?" Yang Xiuqing raised his eyebrows, clapped his hands and said, "Haha, with so much gunpowder, the embankment of the Yellow River is no longer a problem!" As he spoke, his expression suddenly condensed, "Does Zhu Jishi want us to lay down the embankment?

Beijing?"

Hong Rengan shrugged: "It's probably like this...Dongwang, in Zhu Jishi's eyes, we seem to be worse than the Manchus!"

After listening to Hong Rengan's analysis, Yang Xiuqing nodded slightly, but did not answer immediately. He pondered for a long time before speaking.

"He wants to spread the word to the world after we defeat the Daoguang demon head! Qingyao governors like Lin Zexu, Kong Fanhao, and Xu Jishe will only surrender to the Ming Dynasty, not to me, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"

This is also the reason why Yang Xiuqing began to focus on the construction of base areas after the Taiping Army invaded Henan. He did not want to wait until the Taiping Army captured Beijing and Zhu Jishi recruited the whole world with a few edicts, leaving the city of Beijing for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

"By the way, have Zhang Lexing's people arrived in Xiangyang?"

"Not yet. At the end of last month, he, Gong Deshu and others mobilized tens of thousands of people and raised troops in Woyang County. They are still active at the junction of Shandong, Henan and Anhui."

Hong Rengan said eloquently: "In addition, Miao Peilin also flew the banner of governor of Anhui in the Ming Dynasty in Fengtai County in northern Anhui, recruiting powerful people from several surrounding counties, with a crowd of no less than 10,000 people. I heard that Miao Peilin and

Zhang Lexing also gathered an alliance in the Pheasant River and agreed to fight against the demon together."

"King Dong, why not send an army to attack Shaanxi now!" Hu Yihuang suggested from the side. "I heard that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was recruiting new Eight Banners in Gansu and Shaanxi, and many young men signed up."

Originally, Yang Xiuqing wanted to use Zhang Lexing to conquer Shaanxi, but Zhang Lexing obviously did not listen to orders and refused to move at the junction of Sulu, Henan and Anhui.

"We can't divide our troops now. We should concentrate our forces for a decisive battle with Qingyao!" Yang Xiuqing thought for a moment before waving his hands and said, "It's not advisable to divide our troops too much before taking Beijing. We should recruit the Nian Party to Kaifeng City for a round. After Kaifeng is taken,

It won’t be too late to divide our troops and plunder the land in all directions.”

"Rengan," Yang Xiuqing looked at Hong Rengan again, "since you came to Luoyang, you don't have to go back to Xiangyang. You can go north with the army. When you get to Beijing, you will have to contact the foreign brothers."

Foreign brothers refer to foreigners who believe in Christianity. In the view of the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at this time, since foreigners all believe in God, they are naturally brothers with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As long as they can contact them, they can certainly buy foreign guns and foreign weapons from them.

With guns, it would not be difficult to destroy Zhu Ming and conquer the world.

"Contacting foreign brothers... I'm afraid it's not easy." Hong Rengan frowned and said, "Dong Wang, you don't know that our religion of worshiping God is different from the foreigners' Christianity. In their eyes, we belong to

It’s heresy…”

"What? Heretics? Don't they all believe in God and Jesus? Are they still divided among themselves?" Yang Xiuqing blinked her one eye in confusion.

Hong Rengan smiled bitterly: "Foreigners are very serious about religion. They have fought wars in history because of their different religious understandings, which are called religious wars! If they understand our teachings, I am afraid they will not regard us as brothers.

of."

"That's it..." Yang Xiuqing was right. He was the fourth son of God's family, and he still played tricks of God's possession. Of course, those foreigners who believed in God couldn't admit it... They must also have religious leaders who played God's possession.

!It seems that the foreign devils can’t be counted on, but it doesn’t matter, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom still has a magic weapon!

Yang Xiuqing thought for a while, and suddenly said to the official in the East Palace beside him: "Write a letter to King Nan and ask him to come to Henan Mansion to take charge of the situation. Tell King Nan that I have recently figured out a "Celestial Land Acre System", which can become my kingdom of heaven.
Chapter completed!