Suzhou Humble Administrator Garden was originally the palace of Prince Zhong of Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. His old nest was thrown away. His Highness Zhong was furious and once again gathered 200,000 troops to fight the British army to the suburbs of Wuxi. The court's policy of amnesty in the world played a good role in disintegrating. Most of the people who were trapped were just making a living. After hearing about the power of foreign guns and cannons, a large number of Taiping soldiers fled before the decisive battle began. The soldiers who fled to various places did not make things difficult for the surrounding Hunan Army. According to military needs, these deserters were arranged to evacuate the battlefield in an orderly manner on fixed routes. Local officials must arrange porridge factories for refugees so that deserters who have no way out will no longer be bandits.

Officials in various places do not take the ability to expel refugees as their political achievements, but the ability to shelter refugees as their standard. Every half month, whether this policy that is crucial to quickly pacifying civil unrest has been implemented. Good officials who implement it are praised, but if they are not implemented properly, they will be demoted.

The two compradors of Qi Taiyu and Xurong Village were responsible for military rations, clothing, military camps and other war materials, which ensured the logistics of the Hunan Army and the British Army and greatly improved the integrity of military supplies. A large number of officials and businessmen, including Li Hongzhang, Hu Guangyong and Zeng Guofan's younger brother Zeng Guoquan, were very dissatisfied with this and kept writing letters to impeach the two compradors to monopolize military supplies, and created incidents that were not conducive to the two compradors.

Li Hongzhang did not show off his body, but Zeng Guoquan was quite outspoken. Zuo Zongtang, who was a staff member under Hunan Governor Luo Bingzhang, couldn't stand it. He ignored his affection with Zeng Guofan and came forward to defend the comprador. Zeng Guofan called his younger brother to scold him and apologized to the court.

Zeng Guofan thought that the court could not always rely on foreigners and would not punish him. Unexpectedly, Zeng Guoquan was instantly deprived of his post, and he was ordered to go to Beijing to file a lawsuit. Zeng Guoquan tried hard to persuade his brother not to go, otherwise there would be many dangers. Zeng Guofan could not take any attention and asked Li Hongzhang for advice. Lord Li said: "According to the court's recent style, there should be no problem. Teacher, please go with confidence."

After some confusion, Zeng Guofan went to Beijing sadly, full of anxiety. After Zeng Guofan left Anqing, Zuo Zongtang was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang, and together with Li Hongzhang, led the Hunan Army to cooperate with the British army to fight against the Taiping Army. Hu Guangyong's great backer Wang Youling was demoted to a first-level warning.

Zeng, Wang was a top commander on the front line, holding heavy troops, but he retreated as soon as he said that he had withdrawn, which greatly demonstrated the authority of the court. Fortunately, the current situation is very good, and the situation has not deteriorated. Li Xiucheng learned of the news of the change of commander of the Hunan Army, and believed that when he reached the final opportunity for the decisive battle, the 200,000 army fled 150,000 and came out in full swing. The Taiping Army, whose combat power is not much inferior to the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Army, launched a tide-like charge towards the main force of the British army.

Hong Xiuquan was waiting for the good news of King Zhong Li Xiucheng in Tianjing City, but there was no news for more than ten days. When he felt something was wrong, the officials who went out to spy on the intelligence came to report: "The 200,000 army has been wiped out, and the whereabouts of King Zhong are unknown. According to a very small number of soldiers who fled back, the collapsed army was properly placed by the Hunan Army, so few people go towards Tianjing. Now we have less than 50,000 soldiers guarding Tianjing."

Hong Xiuquan is a thorough charlatan. He firmly believes that he has seen God in his dreams, and he has entrusted his orders to come down to earth to save all spirits. His delusions all come from a Christian sermon book called "Advice of Good Words" bought on a street stall in Guangzhou in his early years. That book gives Hong Xiuquan a very novel feeling that he was repeatedly eliminated in the imperial examination.

Hong Xiuquan was praised by adults when he was a child, but unexpectedly he became a loser in his life when he grew up. After the next failure, he could no longer withstand the blow and fell ill. In a daze, he imagined that he had seen God. By chance, after repeated twists and turns, with the help of Feng Yunshan and others, he finally formed a rebellion team with the descending gods as the core selling point.

When Li Xiucheng's army was completely defeated, he still did not wake up and was addicted to his delusions, believing that God would never let him fail and that there would be a turning point, so he decided to resist stubbornly.

The attack of the Chinese and British Allied Forces was not in a hurry. They needed to implement the court's lenient policy towards the Taiping Army, constantly accept deserters, and also used a phonograph to record words of persuading surrender, and advertised them with a high decibel loudspeaker every once in a while.

The entire Tianjing was finally surrounded and was in a mess. Li Xiucheng, who had not died in the disaster, returned to Tianjing and persuaded His Majesty the Heavenly King to "let the city not leave." However, the Heavenly King scolded Li Xiucheng angrily, saying that he was the son of God, and that the heavenly soldiers and generals were about to arrive, so he should not talk nonsense and disturb the morale of the army.

Li Hongzhang had a young general who was not afraid of death. He patted his chest and expressed his willingness to enter the city of Tianjing with generous conditions to persuade the surrender. Li Hongzhang was very accurate in seeing people and said that Hong Xiuquan was a lunatic. Although the court meant leniently, there was no need to risk his life to persuade the surrender.

The young player wanted to make great contributions, so he insisted on his own opinion. Zuo Zongtang admired the young player very much and believed that he had the style of an ancient sage. Since he was so eager to make contributions, let's give it a try.

The young general practiced his passionate speech several times, and brought the letter of encouragement to surrender signed by Lord Li and Lord Zuo to enter the city with a sigh. Soon, the young general's head was thrown out of the door by the defenders. The defenders' leader shouted: "My heavenly army is blessed by God, and will win every battle. Never surrender. If the Qing Yao has the courage, he will attack the city quickly. You will definitely not return!"

The morale of the Taiping Army was greatly boosted, and Zuo Zongtang was so angry that he regretted that he had killed the young general and notified the British army to launch a general attack.

After waiting for the sound of gunfire and not coming to attack, Zuo Zongtang ran to the foreigners to ask why. After a translator muttered, Zuo Zongtang heard an unknown news - the East India Company Air Force came to assist in the war, and asked him to slow down for an hour before launching the attack.

After listening to the translation's explanation, Zuo Zongtang realized that the airship troops had already appeared on the European battlefield and achieved good results. Therefore, they had something to do with the Qing Dynasty. After the war between the East India Company in Italy was basically over, two airships were transferred to help the British army fight.

British general Grant was dissatisfied with the East India Company's intervention again, but the Duke still had to give face, just one hour later. He pinched his watch and asked the soldiers to pay attention to the sky and see what the Air Force assisted in the war.

It should be said that the Lombardy army commanded by Mazini was not very good. Fortunately, the airships kept reconnaissance in the sky and repeatedly discovered the secret combat intentions of the Sardinian army. Therefore, the Lombardy army was able to gradually gain absolute initiative in the battlefield, and in a decisive battle, he dropped the bombshell with the airship, destroyed the Sardinian army's arsenal, collapsed the will of the Sardinian army, and decided to surrender unconditionally.

When Tang Ning pacified the capital city, he found that the beheading trick was particularly effective, so he decided to recruit airships to Tianjing to siege and help the war. Given that the appeal of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mainly comes from Hong Xiuquan's "personal charm", he has to admit that being able to fool others into believing that you are the son of God also requires charm, just like the Virgin Mary fooled others to believe that she was a virgin Jesus, but if another wife said this, she would have been beaten to death by her husband. (http://).

Singapore is the Asian center that Downing worked hard to run. He secretly built the most powerful arsenal here. Even the most important heavy cruisers were made in Singapore, and of course other weapons could not be behind. The bombs put into use in Italy were all amateur things. Those installed in Singapore were called "epic". Each bomb even had a name.

This is a super bomb weighing one ton that reaches the limit of airships. Krupp exhibited a heavy artillery at the International Industrial Expo of 6 pounds, and a ton is 2,200 pounds. 500 pounds is the starting point of the bombshell. Droping this kind of bomb can explode a huge pit as big as a basketball court on the ground. The killing radius of its shock wave is about 100 meters, and the power of 2,200 pounds is several times greater. You can imagine what the scene is, and the huge rocks will be lifted by the shock wave to a height of dozens of meters.
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