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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 345: Seeking Advantages and Avoiding Disadvantages

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    Xiao Yungui felt that he was becoming more and more like a politician. Politicians always reached an agreement with others through repeated disputes and compromises, including threats, inducements, concessions, and compromises. Almost all despicable tricks were used at this time.  There is no sense of guilt whatsoever, including abandonment and abandonment.

    He had just expressed his loyalty to Hong Xiuquan a few days ago, and then sold Hong Xiuquan. When compromising with Yang Xiuqing, he once again provoked the relationship between Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing. He did not feel any guilt for this. On the contrary, he  He believed that he had used this opportunity to show his strength to the East King and confuse the Heavenly King into thinking that he was a loyal minister. At least for a long time in the future, the two kings would not cause trouble to the West Palace again.

    In the defeat in Nanchang, there was no complete winner among the King of the West, the King of Heaven and the King of the East, but the West Palace did benefit the most.  On the surface, after the West Palace and the East Palace reached an understanding, they immediately restored the money and food supply to Tianjing. At the same time, the West King wrote to the East King to apologize, and sent a batch of gold, jewelry, shells and high-quality foreign goods to the East King to apologize.  In the name of the West Palace War Department, he informed the entire army that Chen Yucheng was dismissed from his post in Shanghai and investigated. He was demoted to a small soldier and then reorganized in Shanghai with his 20,000 subordinates.

    Chen Yucheng did not complain at all about this, because the letter from the Queen of the West that Zeng Wanmei brought to him had already told him the consequences. When Zeng Wanmei asked Chen Yucheng about the content of the letter that night, Chen Yucheng did not  Telling him all the contents of the letter, he omitted the second half where the Queen of the West told him how the West Palace would deal with the aftermath.  Queen Xi told Chen Yucheng bluntly that he would bear some infamy and injustice, but Chen Yucheng did not feel aggrieved. King Xi had discussed it with him in detail early in the morning, and he and his soldiers would experience this reorganization.  It seemed to him that this was something he had planned long ago.

    "But Chen Yucheng's soldiers were a little confused.  Lai Wenguang, Chen Yangxing and other generals under Chen Yucheng sent a letter to the Western King Chen Bian to the thirty-four generals of the Shanghai Allied Army. The book gave an impartial account of the gains and losses of the two armies in the East Palace and the West Palace. Lai Wenguang and others  The general hoped that the King of the West could distinguish right from wrong and withdraw the punishment against Chen Yucheng.

    Xiao Yungui has returned to Shanghai. After receiving the letter from Lai Wenguang and others, he only replied with the words "It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders." Later, Lai Wenguang and others were also demoted.  Xiao Yungui then summoned these generals for a long talk. The King of the West had expected this situation during this reorganization. Most of the generals under the generals in the West Palace were promoted by the leading generals themselves. These generals even only knew the leading generals.  But I don¡¯t know the King of the West.  His reorganization is to get rid of this trend.

    After Xiao Yungui demoted the thirty-four generals who submitted the letter, he held separate conversations one by one. During the conversation, Chen Yucheng's generals were surprised to find that the King of the West knew everything about his own abilities and family affairs.  , and then patiently Chun Chun enlightened.  Let the generals know that the King of the West has his own reasons for handling it this time, and reprimand them for having no vision.  King Xi himself wrote a letter to apologize for the sake of uniting the overall situation.  Why are they still making a fuss?  Is it really necessary to force the King of the West to kill Chen Yucheng and plead guilty to Tianjing?

    Lai Wenguang and others were still unconvinced. They did not resent the King of the West, but instead resented Tianjing and the East Palace even more.  After Xiao Yungui led the trouble to Tianjing and Dongdian again, he didn't explain anything anymore. To put it bluntly, he just said that he had to execute the order.  You have to follow the orders even if you don¡¯t understand.

    Xiao Yungui's actions did not chill the soldiers of the West Palace. On the contrary, they felt even more alienated from Tianjing. It was clear that the West Palace had done nothing wrong this time, but it was forced by the East Palace of Tianjing.  The King of the West wrote a letter to plead guilty, and Chen Yucheng was demoted. The King of Heaven did not come out to say a word of justice in this situation, so everyone in the West Palace held back a breath of evil.

    This kind of change in the West Palace was unexpected by Tianjing. Yang Xiuqing originally wanted to see the chilled look of the soldiers in the West Palace after the King of the West surrendered, but he could not imagine how Xiao Yungui turned around. However, everyone in the West Palace changed everything.  The unfair spearhead was aimed at the East Palace.  However, Hong Xiuquan did not expect that King Xi would compromise. What made him even more unexpected was that Yang Xiuqing, who always liked to beat up drowned dogs, did not pursue him fiercely this time.

    In mid-October, after receiving the letter of apology from the King of the West, the King of the East asked the Heavenly Father to come down to earth and criticize the King of the West in a few words in the Heavenly Father's imperial edict. The Heavenly Father did not pursue the matter anymore.  He greatly praised the new policies implemented by Xidian in Su Fu Province.

    After receiving the show of weakness from the West Palace, the Eastern King asked Qin Rigang to give up the pursuit of Chen Yucheng's troops, and instead began to command the troops in Jiangxi to continue fighting against Jiang Zhongyuan's Qing army.  At the same time, he ordered the emperor Yang Fuqing to be dismissed from his post, interrogated, and put into a prison cell.

    This tacit understanding between the East Palace and the West Palace made Hong Xiuquan feel very uneasy. Hong Xiuquan felt that he was being tricked by the East King and the West King, but then the West King's secret message made him relieved a lot.  Xiao Yungui's secret letter told Hong Xiuquan that he was holding back this time for the sake of the overall situation and asked the king not to worry. If the traitor's crimes are revealed in the future, he will definitely kill him.?The king who raises troops and works diligently says so.

    After reading this letter, Hong Xiuquan felt a little embarrassed. It seemed that the King of the West was still bearing the burden of the humiliation in order to hit the target with one blow and to save Hong Xiuquan from being blamed for his innocence.

    In this way, the aftermath of the defeat in Nanchang was resolved by Xiao Yungui. The West Palace seemed to have suffered a big loss, but Xiao Yungui turned these factors into things that were beneficial to him and used them. Through this matter, he began to attack Chen Yucheng's troops.  The reorganization has quietly made the military and people's hearts more alienated from Tianjing. The most important thing is that the invisible rift between Tianwang and Dongwang has become deeper.  Xiao Yungui's strategy of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is considered to be very successful. In fact, this is not his idea alone. He is also assisted by Hong Yun'er, Zuo Zongtang, Wang Kaiyun, Li Kaifang and others.

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    But he said that although Ronglu's side was defeated by Chen Yucheng's horse-returning gun, they only lost a few hundred soldiers and horses. Later, he and Zeng Guoquan both saw that Yang Fuqing, who stayed in Nanchang, was already a strong external force but a cadre inside.  As soon as the two gathered together, they sent a letter to Zeng Guofan, urging Zeng Guofan to lead his elite troops to pick peaches.

    After receiving reports from Ronglu and Zeng Guoquan, Zeng Guofan also judged that the sudden retreat of Chen Yucheng's troops in the Taiping Army must be a problem within the Taiping Army. He decided to seize the opportunity to conduct a training exercise in actual combat and immediately dispatched Luo Zenan, Li Xubin and other Hunan troops.  The general led 15,000 newly recruited soldiers of the Hunan Army into Jiangxi for reinforcements.

    At the same time, reinforcements from the Qing army from Guangdong and Guangxi rushed to Nanchang also arrived. The Qing army gathered a hundred thousand soldiers and horses at once.  Under the unified command of Jiang Zhongyuan, the Qing troops successively broke through Yang Fuqing's camp. Finally, Yang Fuqing could not withstand the successive attacks of Qing troops from all walks of life and had to retreat hastily.  On the way back, they were intercepted by the Hunan troops such as Ronglu, Zeng Guoquan, Luo Zenan and others, resulting in the loss of 40,000 troops.

    Shu Xing'a, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu of the Qing Army, was killed in the battle, and more than 30,000 troops were lost. The Taiping Army suffered even greater losses. More than ten generals below the checkpoint in the East Palace were killed or captured. The entire Nanchang Campaign plus the Taiping Army in the West Palace  The losses totaled more than 50,000 casualties, and countless pot tents, firearms, grain, grass, and flags were lost. Moreover, the Taiping Army failed to pull out the nail in Nanchang and failed to achieve the campaign objectives. This can be regarded as the Taiping Army's biggest failure in the past three years.

    With this achievement, Jiang Zhongyuan made the greatest contribution. He was awarded the title of Yiyong Baturou Yong. After adding the title of governor, he was entrusted by Xianfeng with the actual power of governor of Jiangxi, Fujian and southern Jiangsu for military and political affairs.  Jiang Zhongyuan did not die in Luzhou like in history. In fact, this man has always been the biggest enemy of the Taiping Army in the early days. It was only because of his low official position that he was besieged and died by the Taiping Army in Luzhou. Otherwise, only Jiang Zhongyuan participated in the battles of the Taiping Army.  None of them got any relief.

    This time Jiang Zhongyuan gained real power in two and a half provinces, and Jiang Zhongyuan was located in the hinterland of the Taiping Army, making him the biggest threat to the Taiping Army.  After learning that Jiang Zhongyuan had been promoted to an official position, the Western King Xiao Yungui once wanted to mobilize the three newly reorganized divisions to march into Jiangxi.

    Jiang Zhongyuan was very capable. Compared with Zeng Guofan's tortoise tactics of using naval forces to supply supplies, fortify strongholds, and fight in vain, Jiang Zhongyuan's use of troops frightened Xiao Yungui even more.  It should be noted that in the Battle of Reiyidu that year, Jiang Zhongyuan dared to ambush the Taiping Army's brigade of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses with more than a thousand Chu brave men under his command.  This battle not only resulted in the Taiping Army losing troops and generals.  The Taiping Army generals who experienced this battle all said that if the Qing troops who were watching from a distance could quickly encircle them, the Taiping Army's brigade might have been wiped out at Coiyidu.  There will be no subsequent Battle of Changsha or the Soaring of the King of the West.

    It¡¯s a pity that Jiang Zhongyuan¡¯s official position at that time was too small, and Qing generals such as He Chun and Xiang Rong would not listen to him.  History is always strikingly similar. The Taiping Army's defeat at Coiyi Crossing is very similar to the Red Army's defeat at Xiangjiang River during the Long March. However, the Red Army learned lessons after experiencing the defeat at Xiangjiang River. The Taiping Army's defeat at Coiyi Crossing and its capital in Tianjing were  After that, the leadership quickly deteriorated.

    Although Xiao Yungui had the idea of ????attacking Nanchang in advance, the actual situation did not allow him to do so. Not to mention that the East Palace and the West Palace were still suspicious of each other. Even if the West Palace mobilized three divisions, it might not be able to defeat them.  At that time, there were still more than 100,000 Qing troops gathered in Nanchang, so Xiao Yungui temporarily gave up the idea and shifted his attention to Fujian.

    Li Tingyu and Wang Yide from Fujian had gathered more than 50,000 troops and were stationed on the front line between Wenzhou and Taiwan. They were eyeing Ningbo County in Sufu Province in the West Palace. Xiao Yungui decided to first destroy this Qing army in Fujian that was always threatening his hinterland, and continued  Expand the territory of the West Hall.  So after the reorganization of the three new divisions was completed, Xiao Yungui ordered Li Xiucheng in Ningbo to take over as commander of the First Army. Next were the First Division led by Li Tianxi and Chen Alin, and the Second Division led by Pan Qiliang and Chen Zhiming.  Division, Zhou Lichun and Huang Wei's third division.

    Because Lin Qirong and others who were originally appointed were familiar with the operation of the military academy, Xiao Yungui continued to stay in Shanghai as the principal of the military academy and other positions.  The Third Division of Zhou Lichun and Huang Wei was originally going to Ningbo, but because of Chen Yucheng's incident, the Third Division was urgently sent to Jiangxi. What they had to face was Jiang Zhongyuan's Qing army.Crazy counterattack.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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