Yi Zhizuo has no good feelings for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Although this internal friction greatly weakened the national strength of the Qing Dynasty and shook the foundation of the Qing court's rule, it was also an unprecedented catastrophe. Tens of millions, at least more than 50 million people died in this civil war, which caused a devastating blow to the economy of Jiangnan. The huge losses were truly immeasurable.

He would never let the tragedy happen again no matter what, but he needed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to restrain and divert the attention of the court, so as to ensure that Yuan Qi could rise and grow rapidly and steadily. He knew very well that this degree was not easy to grasp. To put it nicely, he was walking a tightrope. To put it nicely, he was playing with fire!

After hearing Huang Dianyuan's words, he said slowly: "Whether to support the Taiping Army depends on the attitude of the court. Even if you need to support it, it depends on whether the Taiping Army is obedient. At present, it is better to watch the wall. As for whether the Taiping Army can become a climate?"

Speaking of this, he smiled, "Brother Yourong, let's talk about your experiences and feelings in Guangxi first."

Just then, Lin Meilian came in with the wine. Huang Dianyuan not only had a great alcohol tolerance but also had a life of alcohol. He was not polite at the moment. He poured a glass of himself, sniffed it, and then drank it in one gulp. Then he poured another glass of wine. Then he explained what he saw in Guangxi and some of his own opinions and ideas.

Faced with Yi Settlement, he had nothing to hide. He noted the disaster in Guangxi, the conflicts between Guest and Turkey, the local governments in Guangxi's resolute governance of the association party, and the Tiandi Association and the Association took the robbery of wealth as their ambition. The mutual tolerance pattern formed between the two sides, and he did not bother with the attitude of the city, and told them in a casual manner.

After hearing what he said, Yi Zhifo finally understood why the situation in Guangxi was so chaotic. After all, it was the result of the indulgence of the government. But after all, it was the reason for Daoguang, which was the empty treasury. Daoguang was tired of politics and liked to listen to good things. In addition, the court's financial difficulties and the treasury was not money. Daoguang was tired of seeing the complaints of the bandits who reported the disaster and reported the situation, and Mu Zhang'a tried his best to contribute to his preferences and whitewash the peace. The officials below naturally followed suit.

Hong Xiuquan pulled flags and fired fire in Jintian and called Wang Jianhao. The Taiping Army stayed in the countryside of Jintian for a long time and did not capture the city. He did not want to attract large-scale encirclement and suppression too early. It is not surprising that Huang Dianyuan felt that the Taiping Army was difficult to become a climate. At this time, there was no difference between the Taiping Army and the Party, but he was just openly called Wang Jianhao.

After pondering for a moment, Yi Jingzu said: "The times create heroes, and heroes create momentum. Have you heard of these two sentences by Brother Rong?"

The times create heroes, and heroes create momentum? After a little stumble, Huang Dianyuan said: "What the big shopkeeper means is that the current situation will create the Taiping Army?"

"The great famine in the late Ming Dynasty could make Li Chuang, and the great famine in the current day can make the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." Yi Zhizu said slowly: "Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan is just a loser, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, and Shi Dakai are farmers, miners and charcoal workers. How big ambitions and ambitions can they expect?

Ambitions gradually expand with the increase of strength. Hong Xiuquan called Wang Jian from the beginning. Although it was not desirable, it was enough to show that his ambition was quite large. The implementation of the Holy Library system was actually an idea of ​​equalizing the rich and poor, and it was still fundamentally different from the Guangxi Tiandihui."

After a pause, he continued: "As long as the Taiping Army can withstand this encirclement of the Green Camp of the Three Provinces, it will inevitably break out of its cocoon and turn into a butterfly. Brother Rong may as well wait and see."

"The shopkeeper has confidence in the Taiping Army, so let's take a look." Huang Dianyuan smiled and said, "See if the shopkeeper is wrong this time." As he said, he continued: "The green camp of the three provinces entered Guangxi, can the shopkeeper understand the generals in the leadership?"

"The Governor Huang Entong of Guangdong and Guangxi is not necessary to say much. He is a civil servant and has no experience in commanding troops, but this person can stretch and bend and let go." Yi Zhizu said kidly: "Guizhou Admiral Zhang Bilu is a veteran. In the early years of Jiaqing, he was brave and brave. He participated in the Zhanggere rebellion in Xinjiang and is known for his bravery and good combat.

Hunan Admiral Xiang Rong, 58 years old, was born in the army. He once followed the Shaanxi-Gansu Governor Yang Yuchun to suppress the rebellion of Li Wencheng, the Tianli Cult in Hua County, Henan Province and the rebellion of Zhang Geer in Xinjiang. Due to his military achievements, he was promoted to the admiral step by step. He had rich experience and was quite prestigious in the court."

After a pause, he said: "Because the Guangxi Governor impeached me to indulge Yuan Qi in private firearms, he had to give Huang Entong 1,200 Western muskets and delivered 700." As he said that, he slowly shook his head and said: "The current situation is extremely unfavorable to the Taiping Army."

"It's really not optimistic." Huang Dianyuan agreed: "It's a dragon or a snake, it's up to this battle."

"Planning is up to people, and success is up to heaven." Yi Zhizu said: "We can only wait and see what changes are happening now."

At the end of October, the three armies of Guangdong, Hunan and Guizhou gathered over 10,000 troops in Guangxi. Together with the green camps and local regiment training mobilized by Guangxi Province, the total force reached more than 20,000. For a time, Guiping County was full of officers and soldiers wearing crocodile jackets and speaking various accents in different places.

Huang Entong, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was in charge of military affairs for the first time. When discussing the encirclement and suppression plan, he found that this job was difficult and not ordinary! Several generals did not agree with each other, but no one was convinced. Zhang Bilu was a veteran, old and old, and did not sell anyone's accounts. Xiang Rong was not a good-for-nothing lamp, and insisted on his own opinion. Guangxi Admiral Min Zhengfeng and Xunzhou Association Deputy General Li Dianyuan were familiar with the local terrain and understood the local people's conditions. He was also eager to wipe out the Taiping Army, and he was also fighting for reason.

The room was quarreling, but the generals in command were all loud, which was a loud voice. Huang Entong didn't understand military affairs and felt that this was reasonable and that was reasonable. He could not make a decision, and the generals even held their own opinions and argued endlessly.

The commanders were verbal battles, and the soldiers below simply found a place to start training directly. Guizhou, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi soldiers were not well-educated and had different habits. Tens of thousands of people gathered in a small county town, so there would be fewer frictions and misunderstandings. Especially the soldiers in Guizhou were all good at private fights. They would start fighting directly when they had disagreements. Then the loser called their friends to find a place, and instantly they escalated into large-scale group fights, with only a few swords and guns.

After two days of quarrel, insults and chaos, Huang Entong, who was in a hurry, finally adopted a compromise plan, and the troops of the four provinces were divided into four groups to fight!

The Green Camp in Guangxi attacked Dongling, the Green Camp in Guangdong attacked Zhao Village, and responded to the Green Camp in Guangxi. Sanlixu was the main battlefield, the Green Camp in Hunan attacked from the west, and the Green Camp in Guizhou attacked from the north, and at the same time divided the troops to plagiarize and cut off the Taiping Army's retreat. The remaining 6,000 troops were commanded by Huang Entong as reserve teams, ready for reinforcements at any time.

The Green Camp and the regiment trained more than 20,000 troops, which was more than twice that of the Taiping Army. An unprecedented battle of tens of thousands of people began.

As soon as the war broke out, there were constant reports. Relying on the advantages of Western muskets, Guangdong Green Camp Zhaocun Battle was victorious, easily defeated the Taiping Army of Zhaocun, and then reinforced Dongling, and captured Dongling with Guangxi Green Camp.

However, on the main battlefield of Sanliwei, the green camps in Hunan and Guizhou provinces encountered a tough problem and fought extremely hard.

Sanlixu is the main position carefully arranged by Yang Xiuqing. Yang Xiuqing, who attaches great importance to the position fortifications, fully utilizes the strengths of the miners and built a large number of defensive fortifications in Sanlixu. There are many mud walls and traps in the trenches. Even all the houses in the village have been turned into fortifications. There are earth walls outside the house, trenches are built outside the wall, and wooden walls are set up outside the trenches. Deep trenches are laid outside the wooden wall, and cross bamboo sticks are crossed in front of the stakes.

The hills are built with thick earth walls and cannons. The steep passes on the mountain roads are digging deep pits and burying bamboo sticks. The elite troops in the Taiping Army are all using Western muskets, with their ranges far from that of the Green Camp muskets. The entire Sanliwei can be said to be as well as iron barrels, and even the average city is not as good as that of the solid city.

As soon as the war started, Zhang Bilu and Xiang Rong complained. The two never expected that they would encounter such a difficult positional battle in this mountainous area of ​​Guangxi. In order to avoid being sent to this mountainous area of ​​Guangxi for a lifetime, they were also worried that they would be laughed at by the Guangdong-Guangxi Green Camp. The two could only bite the bullet and urge their subordinates to attack.

Fortunately, the Guangdong-Guangdong Green Camp did not take the joke sincerely. After the victory, it quickly advanced towards Sanlixu, forming a situation of encirclement on all sides. The situation was very good. Huang Entong also breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time she was secretly happy. This was a military merit. The court has always valued military merits. In this battle, it was mostly inevitable that it would be inevitable to be promoted to the title.

In Mo Village, Yang Xiuqing led three thousand elite troops to ambush here quietly, waiting for the Qing army to enter, Dongling, Zhaocun, and Sanliwei formed a huge pocket formation with a radius of thirty miles. This was what he carefully arranged to fight to smash the encirclement and suppression of the green camps in the four provinces in one battle.

However, the strength of Guangdong Green Camp exceeded his expectations. The rapid defeat of Zhaocun and Dongling gave him a deep sense of force. His pocket formation was huge, but his military strength was less than half of the opponent. If the Qing army rushed in, he would be able to hold him to death!

He was secretly upset and underestimated Qing Yao's combat power. The pocket array is now a joke. It is urgent. He has to choose a breakthrough and cannot be made into dumplings by Qing Yao.

"Report———A stream of clear demons is coming quickly here."

“How many people are there?”

"It's estimated to be around 2,000."

There is no way out! Yang Xiuqing was immediately excited and immediately stood up and sang: "Send the order to welcome the enemy!"

The rapid advance was the troops of Li Dianyuan, the deputy general of the Xunzhou Association, who was eager to make contributions, and met the three thousand elite troops led by Yang Xiuqing. The two armies met. The Taiping Army sang poems to worship God's Church and praise Heavenly Father, Brother Tian and leader Hong Xiuquan, as if they were injected with chicken blood and took drugs. They launched a charge without fear of death, and were braver than imagined.

When did Li Dianyuan's troops encounter this kind of fighting style that is not afraid of death? The two armies' muskets are fired and cannons are bombarded. They can still persist, but when they encounter close-knit melee fighting, they will immediately disperse, because the muskets do not have bayonets at all, and close-knit melee fighting, muskets are not as good as fire sticks. Seeing that the enemy's desperate charge was obviously to fight close-knit melee, they couldn't help but panic. Without waiting for the order, they hurriedly raised their guns to shoot. The chaotic queuing of guns could not curb the Taiping Army's charge like a tide. Before the enemy could approach, the entire team would be defeated.

The Green Camp has always been a battle of good luck. When faced with hard battles and death, it would be defeated immediately. The defeated troops of Li Dianyuan ran around, making the encircled troops unsure and hesitant to advance. However, the Guangxi Green Camp, which had suffered hardships and had experienced the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army, was like a frightened bird. When he saw the defeat in front of him, he immediately fled in all directions.

Yang Xiuqing, who had thought he had lost the battle, saw this good opportunity, so he immediately led his troops to follow him and kill him. Youdao was defeated like a mountain, and the escape quickly spread, and the entire battle situation immediately reversed.

In the battle of Sanlixu, he won first and then lost. Huang Entong was so angry that he almost vomited blood. The green camps of various provinces, from the commanders to the soldiers, all criticized and scolded each other. He finally calmed down and summoned the generals to discuss. After this battle, the generals also had a deep understanding of the combat power of the Taiping Army. No one was willing to fight with the Taiping Army. Finally, he decided unanimously to give full play to his military strength and took a battle - digging trenches and building forts to siege the Taiping Army, trapping the Taiping Army in this corner.

When the situation of the Battle of Sanlixu reached Guangzhou, Yi Zhizu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Yang Xiuqing, who was a charcoal-burning worker, was indeed a bit of a military genius. In this case, he could turn defeat into victory. What a pity. If he could be used by Yuan Qi, he would be a general who could stand alone.

After reading the information, Bao Shichen pondered for a while, but said, "The situation in Guangxi is now in a stalemate. It is unlikely to change in a short period of time. It is November now, what are the plans of the shopkeeper?"

Yi Zhizu nodded slightly, but this matter was a bit troublesome. According to the agreement with Daoguang, he should enter Beijing after the New Year, but the situation is unclear now. If he enters Beijing, the risk is really great. Originally, he thought that forcing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to initiate the incident early, the Taiping Army would definitely be able to disrupt the situation, but he didn't expect the Taiping Army to be so procrastinated.

If a plan fails, then there is only another plan. Fortunately, he did not dare to put all his hopes on the Taiping Army tree. After pondering for a moment, he said, "What if there is any change in Southeast Asia after the beginning of the year?"

"Go to Java to supervise the army?" Bao Shichen smiled, "The shopkeeper and I thought of going together. This is the most convenient thing. Just let the news be heard. Spain and the Netherlands formed a joint fleet to invade. Now, the shopkeeper must be ordered to go to the Nanyang Army. However, the news should be released early."

How could this matter be so simple? Yi Zhizu smiled unconsciously. If it was so simple, why did he spend energy to force worship God to raise trouble in advance? Daoguang asked him to come to Beijing, obviously to control him. If nothing unexpected happens, Daoguang will be about to die next year. You can't say that he will die. If he gets sick at the beginning of the year, just by the wind, Daoguang will let him go to Nanyang?
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