At the foot of Lianshan, Shi Dakai convened a meeting of the generals.

"The main force of the Shanghai army recently captured Xiaolingwei and surrounded Tianjing. The Heavenly King and the East King sent an urgent order to order me to lead the army back to aid. What are your good plans?"

After listening to Shi Dakai's brief explanation, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Wei Jun and other generals were extremely surprised. Some advocated returning to help immediately, while others believed that the Shanghai army could not conquer the Gaochishen city of Tianjing, so there was no need to return to help.

Chen Yucheng advocated returning troops to rescue. He said: "Li Weiguo has always been cunning. He used his troops to Sanhe Pass and secretly raided Meiling, causing the entire Beiwang army to be wiped out. Now he used his old tricks again, and used two thousand Shanghai troops to defend Longtan Town to delay our army and ordered the main force to attack Tianjing. The last general suggested that His Highness the Wing King should return to the rescue quickly, otherwise Tianjing would be in danger!"

"No! If you return to Tianjing, you will be the plan of Li Weiguo to siege Wei to save Zhao!" Li Xiucheng immediately objected. He was covered in wounds and was wrapped in white cloth like a rice dumpling. This anxious thing suddenly teared the wound, which made him grit his teeth in pain, but he insisted: "Li Weiguo's Shanghai army is less than 50,000, and he wants to divide his troops to defend the entire Jiangnan Province. How can he be the opponent of my 100,000 elite Taiping Army? Li Weiguo knew that he could not defeat us, so he took a plan to siege Wei to save Zhao, hoping to withdraw our army."

Wei Jun immediately said, "If Li Weiguo just sieges Wei to save Zhao, our army will withdraw. When the siege of Tianjing is untied, we will return to the army to attack Shanghai. This will also make the king feel at ease. Li Weiguo will encircle Wei to save Zhao, so we can't do it again."

Li Xiucheng snorted coldly and said, "You are so light. I have a 100,000 army in the east. How can I retreat just by retreating? Do you know that the army is out. How much money and food are spent?"

Wei Jun was silent immediately. He understood what Li Xiucheng meant that the 100,000 Taiping Army fought eastward and consumed a lot of money and food every day. At present, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is surrounded by enemies on all sides and the finances are tight, but it cannot withstand the toss and struggles.

Chen Yucheng said disapprovingly: "Tianjing is our foundation. Once there is a loss, what can we do if we win the Eastern Expedition?"

Li Xiucheng shouted, "I think you just don't want to go east. You are thinking about returning to the western front because you are worried about your mistress in Jiujiang, right?"

"Fuck! Don't you swear!" Chen Yucheng was told by Li Xiucheng and immediately said furiously: "Do you have no worries in Jiujiang? It's not that you don't want to go back, but that you just suffered the defeat of the Shanghai army. You just want to get back your face! What qualifications do you, a defeated general, have to say to me?"

"Chen Yucheng, don't you think my knife is not good?"

"What, you have a knife?"

Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng immediately started arguing, and they were about to start a fight after a disagreement.

"Enough!"

Shi Dakai stopped drinking immediately. His two apprentices really gave him a headache. He kept working against each other and would not have been at peace for a day.

"You two bastards, do you think I'm dead?"

"I dare not!"

Seeing that Shi Dakai became popular, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng hurriedly shut up.

Shi Dakai snorted coldly, glared at the two of them fiercely, and said, "Whether it is Xiucheng or Yucheng, what you said makes sense."

Wei Jun immediately asked, "What does Your Highness Wing King mean?"

Shi Dakai stood up, stood with his hands behind his back, paced back and forth, and then said: "The predecessor of Tianjing was Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. The terrain was dangerous, the city was high and the pond was deep. After being occupied by us in recent years, it was reinforced and repaired. There were 50,000 elite Taiping Army soldiers in the city, and the food and grass in various parts of the Kingdom of Heaven were concentrated in Tianjing. It would be no problem to say that it could block the Qing army for several years. Even if Li Weiguo's Shanghai army was very strong, it would be fine to hold on for three or five months."

Wei Jun said: "What does Your Highness Wing King mean is that we will not return to Tianjing?"

Seeing Shi Dakai nodding, Li Xiucheng was immediately overjoyed and glared at Chen Yucheng in a demonstrative manner.

Chen Yucheng couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, doing this is a disobeying the orders of the Heavenly King!"

Shi Dakai said expressionlessly: "The army orders will not be accepted by the foreign military!"

Chen Yucheng refuted unwillingly argued: "But we all see the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army. Just one Longtan Town and two thousand Shanghai troops, it actually blocked our army for seven days, causing our army to lose more than 4,000 troops, but the other party lost only three or four hundred people and escaped unscrupulously. Isn't this a problem? Now that Li Weiguo has led tens of thousands of troops to besiege Tianjing, can you guarantee that Tianjing can be defended?"

This made Shi Dakai's heart feel. If he had never seen the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army before, he could have no doubt about his judgment. However, since he fought with the Shanghai army in Longtan Town, he had seen the powerful combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army and said that he was worried at this moment that it would be a lie.

However, Shi Dakai had his own persistence. He believed that Li Weiguo did not dare to fight his main force head-on, but sent troops to attack Tianjing, which was simply a plan to surround Wei and save Zhao.

"As long as Tianjing can hold on for two months, I will be confident in attacking Shanghai!"

Li Xiucheng immediately agreed, "Your Highness of the Wing King is indeed a clever one. Li Weiguo wants to use the strategy of surrounding Wei to save Zhao to lead us back to Tianjing, so we simply go straight to Shanghai. Shanghai is Li Weiguo's nest. I heard that he has established industries in Shanghai, with hundreds of factories and an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, with deposits of tens of millions of taels of silver. Once our army arrives in Shanghai, Li Weiguo will definitely return to Shanghai. We will also come to surround Wei to save Zhao, and even take over the way Li Weiguo returns to the army to capture Shanghai."

Wei Jun’s position was not firm. When he heard Li Xiucheng’s words, he immediately turned to Li Xiucheng and said excitedly: “Shanghai is rich and it must be a great achievement if it can occupy it.”

Seeing that Wei Jun also supported Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng sighed and stopped talking.

Shi Dakai immediately sent someone to send a letter back to Tianjing, informing Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing of his plan, and then led his army to continue the eastward expedition and headed to the Dantu City, the capital of Zhenjiang Prefecture.

In the city of Tianjing, the Heavenly King's Mansion.

This place was once a classical garden with Jiangnan characteristics, known as Xu Garden. It was the Han Palace during the Ming Dynasty and was changed to the Liangjiang Governor's Office after the Qing Dynasty. After the Taiping Army occupied Jinling, it began to build the Tianwang Palace based on the former Liangjiang Governor's Office, and later expanded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Palace.

In fact, there is also a large-scale imperial palace in Tianjing City. The Nanjing Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynasty covers an area of ​​one million square meters and is larger than the Forbidden City in Beijing. The Forbidden City is basically a copy of the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

Hong Xiuquan couldn't stop such a super palace, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

As the Eastern King, Yang Xiuqing really wanted to live in this Ming Dynasty Grand Palace. He even secretly sent someone to repair it secretly, but Hong Xiuquan did not live in, and Yang Xiuqing did not dare to live in it himself. Unless Yang Xiuqing rebelled, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was now attacked from all sides. Yang Xiuqing did not dare to rebel and could only endure it.

In the Heavenly King's Mansion, Hong Xiuquan convened the officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to hold a meeting and refused to return to help. He also formulated a plan to surround Wei and rescue Zhao and told him.

The ministers were immediately in an uproar and accused Shi Dakai of making trouble, and even ignored the safety of the Heavenly King. In fact, they were afraid that Tianjing could not be kept.

Yang Xiuqing naturally had to eliminate dissidents. At that time, the six most powerful kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Heavenly King, and the five kings in the east, west, south and north wings. Now the Western King and the Southern King are gone, and the Northern King is also severely injured by Yang Xiuqing's secret destruction. Not only did Wei Changhui lose 20,000 elite troops, but he also paid for his personal soldiers and guarding the Tiexini Camp. For Yang Xiuqing, it is no longer worth worrying. Now only the wing king Shi Dakai is left.

But this wing king Shi Dakai has made great achievements and holds 150,000 elite soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Even Yang Xiuqing, the Taiping Army military advisor (equivalent to the Chairman of the Military Commission), only controls 80,000 elite soldiers, which is far less awesome than Shi Dakai. However, this Shi Dakai does not sell Yang Xiuqing's face, so Yang Xiuqing will get rid of Shi Dakai next.

Now the opportunity has come. Yang Xiuqing suddenly said furiously: "The brother of the Wing King is getting more and more disobedient now. He actually ignores the safety of Tianjing and ignores the orders of the brother of the Heavenly King!"

Hong Xiuquan also looked bad. After all, Shi Dakai even resisted the order when he saw his order, just as he was hitting Hong Xiuquan in the face.

"Brother Wing King's plan is not unreasonable!"

At this time, Hong Xuanjiao spoke. Since the failure of the Northern Expedition Army, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang were captured and killed, for her own life, she finally made a deal with Sushun, betrayed Li Weiguo, and then returned to Tianjing and changed her temperament.

Of course, Hong Xuanjiao's major change in temperament has nothing to do with Li Weiguo, and she does not regret betraying Li Weiguo, but to come back to take revenge. Because Yang Xiuqing kept asking Hong Xuanjiao to participate in the Northern Expedition, which was to appease the Tiandihui army led by Su Sanniang, but in fact it was a ill-intentioned intention to put Hong Xuanjiao to death and cut off Hong Xiuquan's arms. Yang Xiuqing deliberately used the Western Front to urgently fight, but refused to reinforce the Northern Expedition Army, which wiped out the entire Northern Expedition Army and almost killed Hong Xuanjiao.

Now that Hong Xuanjiao has returned from a lifetime of death, she wants to seek revenge on Yang Xiuqing.

Previously, Yang Xiuqing almost killed Wei Changhui. Now Yang Xiuqing has to plot against Shi Dakai again, so Hong Xuanjiao naturally cannot sit idly by. Hong Xiuquan was not good at talking to Shi Dakai because of his face. So Hong Xuanjiao said: "There are 50,000 elite Taiping soldiers guarding me in Gaochishen in my Tianjing City. There is sufficient food and grass. It is completely fine to block Li Weiguo's Shanghai army for a year and a half. Li Weiguo must be afraid of Brother Yiwang and worried that his nest will not be able to be defended, so he attacked Tianjing. This is clearly a plan to surround Wei and save Zhao, which was discovered by Brother Yiwang."

Yang Xiuqing looked at Hong Xuanjiao with complicated eyes. Although Hong Xuanjiao was Hong Xiuquan's sister, she was not a real sister, but just a chess piece used by Hong Xiuquan. At that time, Yang Xiuqing wanted to marry Hong Xuanjiao, but unfortunately Hong Xuanjiao liked Xiao Chaogui. Even if Xiao Chaogui died, Hong Xuanjiao did not agree to marry Yang Xiuqing. This love triangle made Yang Xiuqing finally make her cruel and use the Northern Expedition to get rid of Hong Xuanjiao. Unfortunately, she missed the degree of hatred between Sushun and Li Weiguo. So Sushun actually gave up catching a big fish like Hong Xuanjiao in order to attack Li Weiguo, which was beyond Yang Xiuqing's expectations.

But there is no medicine for regret in the world. Since Hong Xuanjiao is back, Yang Xiuqing knows that she will face Hong Xuanjiao's revenge. First, Wei Changhui is defeated by the general. Yang Xiuqing wants to cure Wei Changhui's crime, which makes Hong Xuanjiao ruined it. Now Yang Xiuqing is going to deal with Shi Dakai, and Hong Xuanjiao stands out to disrupt the situation, which makes Yang Xiuqing feel so angry that she is so angry that she is so angry that she is too angry.

However, Yang Xiuqing could not let go of Hong Xuanjiao in her heart, otherwise she would have to kill her secretly. There was no need to go around in a big circle and let the Qing army kill Hong Xuanjiao by using the Northern Expedition.

"You don't understand military affairs in Jiaojiao"

"Call me sister Tian!"

Seeing Hong Xuanjiao staring at him, Yang Xiuqing had no choice but to change his words: "Sister Tian, ​​you don't understand military affairs. Then Li Weiguo's Shanghai army is not the Qing army we used to deal with before. If the Qing army came to attack the city of Tianjing, no one would know that there was no one in a year or two, without a 200,000 or 300,000 troops, the Qing army would definitely not be able to break the attack. But the Shanghai army used foreign guns and cannons. With the bombing of cannons, the iron plate could explode a hole, let alone the city wall."

Yang Xiuqing's words were reasonable, and many officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom immediately agreed. Whether they understood or did not understand, the Eastern King was now in a strong position and almost followed the Eastern King's words.

Hong Xuanjiao doesn't care about that. She obeys the status of God-worshiping religion. If she fails to reason, she will cheat and others will have no choice but to do anything to her.

I heard Hong Xuanjiao say, "Brother Tianwang, you must believe Brother Yiwang!"

Hong Xiuquan didn't want the power of the Northern King to be greatly reduced. The King of Wings was suppressed by Yang Xiuqing again, so he continued the steps given by Hong Xuanjiao and followed the way and said, "What Jiaojiao girl said is reasonable. The brother of Wings is always a strategy. He has never lost a battle since his debut. Although his plan this time is a bit dangerous, it is just a dangerous one that Li Weiguo can't guess. If we can defeat Li Weiguo in one fell swoop, we can get a steady stream of firearms and countless wealth. For the Kingdom of Heaven, it is worth a bet."

Yang Xiuqing still had to speak, but Hong Xiuquan immediately said that he was tired and immediately retreated from the court.

Yang Xiuqing had no choice but to glar at Hong Xuanjiao fiercely, and turned around and left.

The south of Tianjing City, Xiaolingwei, and the Shanghai Army camp.

In the central army's tent, Li Weiguo and Chen Jingnan and other staff surrounded the battle stand, staring at a map of Jinling, discussing how to attack Tianjing.

"Report"

"Jiangdong camp, Wu Senjun Fei Ge passed on a letter!"

Chen Jingnan walked up quickly, took the letter from Feige, read it quickly, and then came to Li Weiguo.

"Longtan Town and Lianshan are lost!"

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "I asked Peng Xiangzhang to hold on for three days, but he held on for seven days and exceeded the task. It's good! I'll give Wu Yong a reward!"

Chen Jingnan took the order and immediately showed concern and said, "But Shi Dakai did not retreat. Instead, the army attacked Dantu and the Jiangdong Camp in Xiaomaoshan!"

Li Weiguo frowned and said, "I only gave Wu Yong five thousand people. I wonder if he could stop Shi Dakai's 100,000 army? If necessary, Wu Yong could give up the Jiangdong camp in Xiaomaoshan, and just keep the Danzhe."

Chen Jingnan received the order again and said: "According to the tips, Shi Dakai has obviously received Hong Xiuquan's transfer order, but he did not return to help. Has he seen through our plan?"

Li Weiguodao: "Shi Dakai has a strategy. He can see that we are planning to surround Wei and save Zhao, but he may not be able to guess that we have a plan to surround Wei and save Zhao. It is true that we surround Wei and rescue Zhao!

Chen Jingnan nodded and said, "I hope, if Shi Dakai sees through our plan, then Wu Yong and Dantu will be in danger!"

Li Weiguo snorted coldly and said, "Shi Dakai wants to compete with us for patience, but unfortunately he forgot a key factor!"

Chen Jingnan immediately asked: "What is the key factor?"

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "The biggest difference between me and Shi Dakai is that I am the master and have patience. Shi Dakai is a minister after all, and his master may not be patient."

Chen Jingnan's eyes suddenly lit up. He understood what Li Weiguo meant, so he said, "What should the Lord do next?"

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, slapped the map of Jinling City with his palm, and said, "I don't believe that Hong Xiuquan is not afraid of death!"
Chapter completed!