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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 148: Farce Continuously

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    When the civil and military officers of Anqing City were scrambling to flee, the governor Jiang Wenqing knew that he would not be spared, so he sent a letter to Zhou Tianjue, the governor of the city who was helping to suppress the bandits outside the city, in order to express his ambition to die for the city.  In doing so, Chiang Kai-shek was suspected of working hard to earn a living. He was the governor of a province and could not leave no matter what. Even if he escaped with his life, Xianfeng and the court would not let him go. So Chiang Kai-shek simply fought to the end in the name of loyalty.  The book tearfully writes about his loyalty to Lao Chiang, and how he sold out his unscrupulous teammates who were just trying to escape for their lives. It also details the escape of hundreds of officials in the city, so that the Qing court could later hold these unscrupulous colleagues accountable.  Even if he is about to die, he still needs a few people to support him.

    Zhou Tianjue, an 80-year-old man, was also one of Xianfeng's most trusted officials. In the first year of Xianfeng's campaign, he failed to defeat the Guangxi Taiping Army and was dismissed from his post. Later, he was demoted and retained, and finally promoted to Cao Governor.  When Old Man Zhou received the order from the imperial court to help guard Anqing, he had just finished his mission to exterminate the Feng and Ying bandits. After receiving the order, the old man took more than a hundred Goshiha and rushed to Anqing non-stop.  But after arriving in Anqing, the north of the city was already broken, so Mr. Zhou did not enter the city. He only dared to support outside the city. After receiving Jiang Qingwen's letter, he immediately wrote back to Jiang Qingwen and gave him a strategy for retreating to Luzhou.

    Zhou Tianjue's strategy of retreating to Luzhou can be said to be Jiang Wenqing's only way to survive. He was the governor of the province and did not have to die in Anqing. However, Jiang Wenqing seemed to be blinded by loyalty and insisted on dying in the city, rejecting Zhou Tianjue's kindness.  .  Unexpectedly, Zhou Tianjue's letter was read by his staff, masters and others. After it spread, the few Qing officers and soldiers in the south of the city couldn't help but flee. They all said that the governor intended to retreat to Luzhou. Everyone  Now that everyone has an excuse to retreat, who will stay?

    As a result, all the Qing troops in the south of Anqing City had fled before the Taiping troops arrived.  Seeing that the situation was over, Jiang Wenqing prepared to commit suicide.  All his staff and masters fled, and the governor had no choice but to write a suicide note by himself. I don¡¯t know whether it was because he had been an official for a long time, his staff had too many ghostwriters, the eight-legged essay had deteriorated, or the governor was mentally confused. In short, it took him several hours to write it.  A few lines of suicide notes.  After finally writing it, Lao Jiang ordered his loyal servant to go out of the city with the suicide note to Zhou Tianjue, hoping that he would report it to the court and build a temple and ancestral hall for Lao Jiang himself in the future.  After the servant left, Lao Jiang Tunjin committed suicide, but it seemed that he was not careful about the portion and his stomach hurt for a while, but he did not die.

    After the loyal servant returned, Old Man Zhou seemed moved by Lao Jiang's loyalty and ordered the loyal servant to bring back a pot of poisonous wine, hoping to help Jiang Wenqing.  Governor Jiang, who had swallowed the gold before he died, had given up his will to die again, and immediately drank poisonous wine from poison master Zhou Tianjue and waited to die.  Not only did the poisonous wine and gold produce a chemical reaction, but Chiang Kai-shek was born with toxic antibodies. The more he drank the poisonous wine, the more energetic he became.

    Seeing that they could not survive despite such efforts, Governor Jiang¡¯s family shouted for God¡¯s will. The young man held Jiang Wenqing in his arms and was about to run for his life. However, he did not expect that when he arrived at the gate of the mansion, he encountered Taiping soldiers wrapped in red turbans.

    Looking at the Taiping soldiers with dazzling swords and guns in their hands, Jiang Wenqing knew that he would not be spared. He roared and rushed forward. One of the Taiping soldiers was unable to withdraw his sword in time and stabbed Governor Jiang in the chest. This time, Governor Jiang finally fulfilled his wish and achieved his reputation of loyalty.  .

    All the soldiers of the Taiping Army looked at each other. Originally, Xiao Yungui's order to the armies was not to kill Qing officials easily, but to capture all those who could be captured alive. From now on, the Taiping Army would have to punish the Qing officials who had committed serious crimes. Unexpectedly, Jiang  The governor took the initiative to reach for the knife, which stunned a group of Taiping soldiers.

    When Xiao Yungui saw Jiang Wenqing's body, he didn't say much and ordered the crying young boy of the Jiang family to take the body back. The Qing court was concerned about his death, and Jiang Wenqing became the third person to die at Xiao Yungui's hands.  A governor.

    After the fall of Anqing, Zhou Tianjue retreated to Luzhou. Xianfeng's decree soon arrived, ordering him to act as governor of Anhui and clean up the mess in northern Anhui.  Xiao Yungui rested in Anqing for three days, and then sent General Zhu Xineng to lead 3,000 veterans and 7,000 Anqing recruits to guard Anqing.  Xiao Yungui made up his mind. Now that nails are being hammered along the Yangtze River, even if he cannot defend the back and needs to evacuate, he cannot easily give up these cities to the Qing army like Hong Yang did in history.

    By this time, no matter how stupid you are, you know that the final target of the Taiping Army must be Jinling City, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. Xianfeng stepped up the deployment of civil and military officials to rescue Nanjing, and appointed Tianshi Zhou Tianjue as the governor of Anhui to clean up northern Anhui.

    After Zhou Tianshi arrived in Luzhou, he began to use his strengths. He reported to Xianfeng that the Taiping Army was good at fighting. If they only met with swords, all the generals in the world would not be their enemies. The only way to win was poisoning. He was called an old minister but had three things.  One hundred thousand kilograms of rotten intestinal grass will definitely destroy the guts of Hong and Yang.  Zhou Tianshi creatively started the first biological and chemical weapons war in history.

    Xianfeng also intended to promote this funny drama and ordered Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, to collect 300,000 kilograms of rotten intestines within one month.  For a time, drug farmers in Guangdong and Guangxi went to the mountains to collect herbs. Zhou Tianjue also sent more than 3,000 soldiers to join the massive army of herb collectors. The mountains rich in intestinal grass were completely barren, and many drug dealers made a fortune.  On Jinling RoadWhen Xiao Yungui heard the news, he was obsessed with money. He immediately ordered the Anqing garrison Zhu Xineng to collect tens of thousands of kilograms of intestinal grass and sell it to Zhou Tianjue through Baoqing Chamber of Commerce and Guiyun Trading Company. In exchange for a large amount of money, he purchased a batch of gunpowder.  Food supplements Zhu Xineng's ministry in Anqing.  In this way, not only did the Anqing garrison get a lot of benefits, but the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce and the Guiyun Company also made a lot of profits. What's even more rare is that the two companies were awarded awards by Zhou Tianshi, saying that they were businessmen who really knew how to handle the imperial court.

    How do you use Zhou Tianshi¡¯s poisonous weeds?  He sent people to spread poisonous weeds into the rivers, hoping that after drinking the poisonous water, the Taiping troops along the river would die of intestinal rupture.  But it is a pity that the neutralizing ability of nature exceeds Zhou Tianshi's imagination. These poisonous weeds did not cause any trouble to the Taiping Army. Moreover, Xiao Yungui had already instructed all the armies that drinking water must be boiled before drinking. So Zhou Tianshi poisonous weeds  The biological and chemical weapons campaign failed.

    However, Zhou Tianshi still went to the court to claim credit, saying that no fewer than ten thousand long-haired bandits were poisoned along the river. Xianfeng was overjoyed and received a generous reward.  Then Zhou Tianjue resigned as soon as he saw the opportunity, and resigned from the post of governor of Anhui because of his old age and inability to take care of both military and civil affairs. Emperor Xianfeng thought about it. He was an eighty-one-year-old man and he was too embarrassed to let others take care of him.  So Li Jiaduan, the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, was appointed as the governor, and Zhou Tianjue, who was old at the Rongzhen, was appointed minister of the Ministry of War to help handle military affairs.

    Xiao Yungui had no time to pay attention to the Qing government's deception. After resting for three days in Anqing, he immediately raised his troops and headed east along the river. Along the way, Chizhou and Tongling were all attacked in one fell swoop.  The important town of Wuhu is already close at hand.

    Emperor Xianfeng sternly ordered Xiang Rong to speed up the pace to catch up with the Taiping Army, and dispatched a large number of Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers to Nanjing for rescue.  After several days and nights of quarreling, the Qing court's Military Aircraft Department finally came up with a strategy. Emperor Xianfeng didn't have any ideas, so he approved the strategy with a stroke of his pen.

    The overall layout of the Qing army was that General Xianghou of Jiangning presided over the defense of Nanjing, Jiangsu governor Yang Wending guarded Zhenjiang, the new governor Yang Dianbang occupied Guazhou, 20,000 horses from the Xiangrong Department rushed from the south of the Yangtze River to aid Nanjing, and more than 10,000 Qishan soldiers from the north of the Yangtze River rushed to the north of the Yangtze River to aid Guazhou.  , trying to annihilate all the Taiping troops under the walls of Nanjing.  The little emperor is ignorant of affairs, and his deployment is comparable to that of the two gentlemen Zhao Kuo and Ma Di. Just imagine that the Taiping Army of the West Palace down the river has 100,000 people. There are at least 50,000 combat-effective troops, and the two or 30,000 in the south of the Yangtze River  The Qing army had no fighting spirit and was insufficient to defend the city. How could they fight a war of annihilation?  Therefore, Xiang Rong and Qishan, the two main forces, all used excuses to delay and refused to participate in the Battle of Nanjing as ordered. The two generals were very clear-minded. The situation in front of them was exactly this: the first to arrive will be defeated first, the last to arrive will be defeated first, and those who arrive together will be defeated together.  Undefeated.

    The Taiping Army's frontline was directed towards Wuhu. Although the city of Nanjing was in danger, the internal fighting among the civil and military officials in the city was in full swing.  In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was a governor above the governor, and the governor ran errands in the same city. Although the governor was nominally the superior of the governor, his power was not greater than that of the governor. This is why it is said that county officials are not as good as current managers.  The governor cannot interfere with the governor's administration, so since the Qing Dynasty, governors have often fought endlessly.

    Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, and Yang Wending, the governor of Jiangsu, had a quarrel over the defense deployment of the Wuhu generation. Yang Wending, Xianghou and others decided to join forces to join Lu Jianying, hoping to drive away this troublesome person.  Under Yang Wending's instruction, many officials in Nanjing wrote letters to Governor Lu Jianying, expressing that they were not welcome to return to the province. The court's intention was to have you, Governor, go ahead and suppress the long hair. What will you do behind the scenes when you come back?  After Lu Jianying shamelessly retreated from Jiujiang all the way to Nanjing, he stayed behind closed doors for three days. No subordinate officials came to ask for greetings or advice, and he simply ignored the retreating governor.

    Governor Yang Wending had long wanted to rub oil on the soles of his feet, but he had no suitable excuse to escape from the place of right and wrong, so he said that he could not cooperate with Governor Lu Jianying who could only run away, so he had to leave, trying to pass the responsibility for his escape to Governor Lu Jianying.

    This move played into Lu Jianying's wish. Governor Lu was also angered by Yang Wending's non-violent and non-cooperative attitude. He wanted to punish Yang Wending. At the same time, he planned to take advantage of the chaos to take Nanjing City's silver grain plate home and make a small fortune.  , drove away Yang Wending and just did his own thing.  Lu Jianying made up his mind to drive Yang Wending away, and sneered that Yang Wending was waiting for the governor in Nanjing.  After Yang Wending collected evidence that he was indeed driven away by Lu Jianying, he evacuated quickly.  The two largest officials in Nanjing, one for money and the other for life, ruined pre-war Nanjing into a state of disgrace.

    On February 27, the third year of Xianfeng, after the West Palace Taiping Army captured Wuhu, forward Li Kaifang's troops arrived in Nanjing and encountered the Qing army.  Wuchang traveled 1,800 miles along the river from Nanjing. The West Palace Taiping Army actually attacked Nanjing in a month, marching an average of more than 60 miles per day. The weak resistance of the Qing army along the way was really shocking.  This also made the reputation of the King of the West spread far and wide, and at the same time created a military miracle that would never be replicated by future generations. He ran for 1,800 miles in one month, defeating those he defeated and conquering those he attacked. The ancient city of Jinling  Has been completely exposed to the sword of the Taiping Army.
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