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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 155: Everyone has his own troubles

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    From near to far, when the order from the King of the West arrived in the hands of Li Yiwen in Wuchang, it was already six days later. Li Yiwen was troubled by the rumors that had been circulating these days. After receiving the order from the King of the West, Li Yiwen hurriedly read it and was delighted.  Extremely worried, he immediately summoned the generals to discuss the matter.

    In the Wuchang governor¡¯s office, Li Yiwen¡¯s generals arrived one after another, including Shuiying General Lu Shunde, Guards General Chen Yucheng, and Li Yiwen¡¯s military commanders.  After all the generals gathered, Li Yiwen ordered people to circulate the Xiwang's order to all the generals, and then said: "The Xiwang's order has been clearly explained, and we are ordered to quickly inform the soldiers and civilians. This so-called rumor of pushing back the demon is actually a trick.  During the speech, Mr. Zuo also reinterpreted the meanings of the thirty-four hexagrams that Qingyao called, and ordered the military officers to read and recite them thoroughly before telling them to the soldiers and civilians to reassure the people." Following Li Yiwen, he recited Zuo Zongtang's explanation of doubts.  The thirty-four hexagrams in the Tuibei diagram are explained in the article, which is exactly the opposite of the rumors of the Qing army. It indicates that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will achieve great things.

    A rough man stood up and said loudly: "Li Qiandian, the rumor of Qingyao is really powerful. People in the three towns have been talking about it in recent days and have repeatedly banned it. Now that the King of the West has a way to dispel the rumor, we can calm down the people."  We have to rely on great talents like Mr. Zuo to explain Chinese characters. With his words, are we afraid that the people will not be convinced? I, Cai Yuanlong, have said that it is the time when our kingdom of heaven is prosperous.  Will we be defeated? This is simply ridiculous!"

    This Cai Yuanlong is from Yuezhou, Hunan. During the Battle of Yuezhou, he led hundreds of people from his hometown to join Li Yiwen's tribe. He fought bravely and was a straightforward person, which was highly appreciated by Li Yiwen.

    Cai Yuanlong's words resonated with the generals. In recent days, I don't know where the rumors came from. Some "Tui Bei Tu" came out. Several poems were sung in style, but the generals like Li Yiwen of the Taiping Army  Li Yiwen was illiterate, had no way to refute, and did not know how to calm the people's hearts. Li Yiwen could only order the army to strictly prohibit rumors, but it was difficult to control them among the people, so the more rumors were banned, the more rumors became common.  Now that the King of the West's order had arrived, even the manuscript on how to dispel the rumors was clearly stated. Cai Yuanlong was outspoken and immediately clapped his hands and praised him for his kindness.

    A dark and thin man next to Cai Yuanlong said in a deep voice: "Commander Cai, what matters is not that the people can dispel the rumors. As long as we in the West Palace win a few more battles, the so-called rumors of defeat will naturally be disproven. What is critical right now is  "The king of the middle will kill the king, I'm afraid that the Heavenly King and the East King of Changsha will become suspicious of us in the West Palace after hearing these words of sowing discord."

    The person who spoke was Gao Yunguan, a native of Qichun, Hubei Province. He served under Li Yiwen when he conquered Wuchang. He was also a powerful and scheming person, and he was also valued by Li Yiwen.  Gao Yunguan's words are on point. It doesn't matter how anxious the people are. As long as the morale of the Taiping Army is stable and they win a few more battles, the rumors will naturally be self-defeating. What's embarrassing is that there are also words about kings killing kings, saying  The King of the West wanted Nanjing to be independent. When such rumors spread to Changsha, there was no guarantee that the other Taiping troops would not have other ideas, and that the King of Heaven and the King of the East would not have other ideas.

    Li Yiwen smiled slightly and said: "Qing Yao is evil-minded and wants to alienate our Taiping Army. The King of the West also knew this, so he also issued an order in the announcement to inform the entire army and the people that our troops in the West Palace are still part of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.  , the King of Heaven is still our common master, and we King of the West still obey the orders of the King of Heaven and King of the East. In order to dispel the doubts of the rest of the friendly forces, the King of the West ordered to voluntarily abandon Wuchang, Jiujiang, Tianjia Town, Anqing and other places, allowing us to keep some of the defenders  Waiting for the Changsha brigade to send troops and horses to deliver, the remaining troops will quickly march eastward to Nanjing to gather together."

    Hearing this, all the generals were extremely surprised. Following the buzzing discussion, a long-faced man stood up and said in an angry voice: "Check, we have worked hard in Wuchang. Last month, we repelled several attacks by Qingyao. Three towns outside  It¡¯s arranged like an iron barrel. Do you want to give up? Besides, more than half of the soldiers in our army are from Hubei. It will be very difficult for them to move eastward and away from their homeland."

    The man who spoke was Wang Anjun, commander of the Third Army, who was also from Hubei. Like Gao Yunguan, he also entered the camp in Wuchang. He was quite popular among the Hubei recruits and was also a general under Li Yiwen.  After hearing what he said, the generals all echoed his words, which showed that the generals were still quite reluctant to give up the city along the river.

    Li Yiwen stood up, walked a few steps with his hands behind his hands, and said slowly: "The letter from the King of the West made it very clear that at the moment our West Palace should focus on the overall situation and would rather compromise than fratricide. What is Wuchang? West Palace.  The King can even let Nanjing out! The King of the West has sent envoys to ask the King of Heaven and the King of the East to move to Nanjing and establish the capital as the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven, let alone ours."

    At this point, all the generals were silent, and Li Yiwen said again: "The King of the West also said in his letter, but there are recruits from Hubei who are difficult to leave their homeland, they can stay as defenders and be incorporated into the Changsha brigade. The same is true for us  The Taiping Holy Soldiers are still our brothers. The Western King¡¯s order has been issued, let¡¯s start preparing.However, if there are any soldiers who want to stay, they can form an army and be guarded by Gao Yunguan and Wang Anjun, waiting for the delivery. The rest of the soldiers and horses will march eastward with the general.  "

    In addition to giving Li Yiwen an order, Xiao Yungui also wrote a secret letter to him. The reason was for no other reason than Li Yiwen's two men, Gao Yunguan and Wang Anjun.  These two people were Nawang Gao Yongkuan and Kang Wang Wang Anjun who later killed Mu Wang Tan Shaoguang and surrendered to Li Hongzhang in Suzhou. When Li Yiwen reported to appoint them as military commanders, Xiao Yungui did not want to appoint them, but thinking that they were still young now,  He didn't do anything treacherous, and he was afraid of hurting Li Yiwen's kindness, so he just treated it as if nothing was wrong.  Now that Wuchang is about to be abandoned, it is best for these two people to stay with the Changsha Brigade and then fight with the West Palace. Xiao Yungui is afraid that one day these two people will have a brain attack and kill him, which will cause trouble for the city. So this kind of  It's better to kick out the time bomb early.

    So Xiao Yungui sent a secret letter to Li Yiwen, asking these two people to stay with the garrison. Li Yiwen always obeyed the words of the King of the West, so he said it. Unexpectedly, Gao Yunguan and Wang Anjun did not object.  They just looked at each other and stood up together to take orders.  Seeing that the second general had no intention of following him eastward, Li Yiwen was quite disappointed, but seeing that the second general was unwilling to go eastward, he had to give up.

    Three days later, the Wuchang Taiping Army was ready. Among the 20,000 Hubei recruits, more than 10,000 were unwilling to march eastward and stay in Wuchang. The remaining 20,000 horses and thousands of water camp soldiers broke camp and marched eastward along the river.  When marching eastward, Li Yiwen left half a year's worth of food and grass for the Wuchang defenders, as well as some firearms and red powder, which were enough for their defense, and took away all the rest of the supplies.  Even the head offices of Baoqing Company and Guiyun Company were moved together. He Yuanlun, Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin also received a letter from Xiao Yungui, asking them to move eastward to Nanjing. Xiao Yungui planned to keep the head offices of the two companies.  Set it on your own site and leave semicolons in other places.  So the Wuchang Taiping Army began a large-scale relocation in advance, moving down the river in a mighty manner.

    Ten months ago, after the Qing army Zhang Guoliang sent more than 10,000 troops from Liling to Wuchang, it was planned that the Taiping Army would capture one place and abandon another as before, but they did not expect that this time the Taiping Army did not abandon the important towns along the river.  After Zhang Guoliang's troops arrived in Wuchang, they attacked several times, but were defeated by Li Yiwen. He lost more than 2,000 troops, but he could not even touch the walls of Wuchang City.

    On this day, Zhang Guoliang heard the news that the Changmao troops in Wuchang City were marching eastward in a mighty manner. He sent troops to attack Wuchang again, but still failed to take advantage.  Then Xiang Rong's messenger arrived, and Zhang Guoliang understood that the Changmao bandits were mobilizing some of their troops to move eastward, intending to start a new offensive in the east.  Xiang Rong learned that the cities occupied by the Taiping Army along the river were showing signs of troop deployment, so he led his troops to garrison outside Nanjing. However, the Taiping Army had already occupied the dangerous terrain outside the city, and Xiang Rong was unable to mobilize troops as he had historically done.  Xiaoling Guards in Nanjing set up a camp in the south of the Yangtze River, and had to retreat to Niushou Mountain to garrison.

    Faced with Emperor Xianfeng's strict order to regain Nanjing, Xiang Rong was miserable. Now that his hair has stopped, he would be like Amitabha if he did not launch an offensive. Xiang Rong has no intention of stroking the tiger's beard. He knows that the peace in front of him is  The army was exactly the troops of the Western King of the Taiping Army that almost killed him in the Xiangjiang River.  So he ordered Zhang Guoliang, Li Mengqun and other Qing troops to abandon the strategy of attacking important towns along the river and move closer to the outskirts of Nanjing. Xiang Rong, an old fox, had a premonition that the Taiping Army would make a big move this time as it gathered troops to the east.

    Sure enough, news came that day that Zhenjiang and Guazhou had fallen, and Jurong, Lishui, and Yangzhou were exposed to the Taiping Army's front.  It¡¯s okay to return to Yangzhou, which is Laoer Qishan¡¯s defense area, but Jurong and Lishui cannot be careless. Since Wuhu is still in the hands of the Taiping Army, if these two places are lost, the Niushoushan stationed by the Xiangrong Ministry will fall into death.  , his 20,000 Qing troops were in danger of being wiped out.

    Therefore, Xiang Rong immediately retreated to Lishui and Jurong without waiting for the arrival of Qing troops such as Zhang Guoliang and Li Mengqun. He had the foresight to block the way to Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai from the West Palace.  But what Xiang Rong didn't expect was that Xiao Yungui had long disliked Xiang Rong, a follower. It would be better for him to stand in the way of the army and annihilate it along the way, completely getting rid of this annoying fly. As a result, the Taiping Army and the Qing Army  Troops and generals were mobilized in full swing in the south of the Yangtze River, preparing for a bigger fight.

    "Compared with Xiang Rong's worries, the Heavenly King and the Eastern King far away in Changsha have more worries.  When the rumor of the "Pushing Back Picture" came, Yang Xiuqing understood at the first moment that it was Qing Yao's trick to spread rumors and stir up trouble, but after thinking about it carefully, Yang Xiuqing still felt a little strange in her heart.  The Western King Xiao Chaogui used to be his die-hard brother and his biggest ally in the upper echelons of the Taiping Army. The Western King would unconditionally support the decisions he made, and he would also unconditionally support the decisions made by the Western King.  In order to dispel the idea of ??the Heavenly King to win over the Xiwang, Yang Xiuqing even tried to get rid of the Queen of Xi and break the nepotism between the Xiwang and the Zhutang Wang family and even the Heavenly King.

    But at this time, King Dong felt that his former brother seemed to have changed and was no longer as easy to control as before. Ever since he led his troops north to Yuezhou to bring about Tian'anAfter the strange stone incident, Yang Xiuqing started to have a headache.  Without Qingyao's reminder, Yang Xiuqing began to realize that the power of the Western King had begun to expand. He captured dozens of towns along the way, including big cities like Nanjing and Wuchang. Regardless of the population, money, food, and firearms, they all belonged to the Changsha Taiping Army.  Ten times as much, would he still be willing to just be the King of the West?  How to fight back this rumor, stabilize the King of the West from betrayal, and maintain the good situation has become a problem that worries Yang Xiuqing.
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