Li Xiucheng's life in the past two years has not been easy at all, first he led an army of 600,000 to abandon the old nest in Suzhou to return to Tianjing, but she was defeated by the new firearms army of more than 20,000 people in Zeng Guoquan District, and the old nest in Suzhou was also copied by Li Hongzhang. After being defeated and returning to Tianjing, Li Xiucheng knew that he was no longer able to return to Tianjing, and strongly persuaded Hong Xiuquan to let the city go, get rid of the burden of Tianjing City, and then seek a way to win with guerrilla warfare, but the Heavenly King had lost the slightest bit of enterprising spirit and became a religious madman who only knew the Heavenly Father.

Hong Xiuquan decisively rejected Li Xiucheng's proposal to break through, and he couldn't come up with any effective way, but forced Li Xiucheng to go out of the city again and again to die. Finally, there was a food problem in Tianjing City, and Li Xiucheng used this as an excuse to once again put forward a proposal to break through. Then Hong Xiuquan went completely crazy, his mouth was full of nonsense words such as the blessing of his father, and he even took the lead in eating "Mana". No one can say what the Mana in the Book of Exodus in the Bible is, but the Mana that Hong Xiuquan eats, Li Xiucheng knows, is a kind of wild grass like pigweed. Mana's miraculous effect manifested very quickly, and in less than two days, Hong Xiuquan died, and it is unknown whether he went to see his heavenly father.

After Hong Xiuquan's death, Li Xiucheng and Hong Renji enthroned the Young Heavenly King Hong Tianguifu and built the second generation of power core of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with the Young Heavenly King as the nominal head, Hong Renji in charge of internal affairs, and Li Xiucheng in charge of the military. But at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had run out of oil, and even had no strength to struggle for the last time. Li Xiucheng struggled to support it for less than a month, but the Hunan army still used the Jinxi-style artillery bought from Northern Manchukuo to collapse the city wall of Nanjing, and rushed into the city of Nanjing to start a hand-to-hand and bloody battle.

Li Xiucheng protected the young king Hong Tianguifu before rushing out of the city wall after several conflicts, but in order to ensure that the young king could get out, Li Xiucheng gave his BMW horse to Hong Tianguifu. As a result, as soon as he left the city, Hong Tianguifu let go of the BMW and rode away, and Li Xiucheng, who was riding a horse, could no longer catch up with his young king.

Not only was the horse running slowly, but its physical strength was not very good, Li Xiucheng only escaped less than thirty miles, and the unlucky horse fell on the side of the road and could not move. Li Xiucheng, who had already become the commander of the light pole, was hungry and thirsty, so he had to find some food and drink in the wilderness near Fangshan, first fill his stomach, and then think about a plan to get out.

"Who are you?" Li Xiucheng was still walking the mountain road, and a loud shout suddenly sounded on his side.

"Passing by!" Li Xiucheng, the leader of the peasant rebel army, met two peasants in the mountains, Li Xiucheng felt a deep fear, he knew these people who lived in the war zone all the year round, and they were willing to kill people for a steamed bun. Fortunately, Li Xiu became the cover for the young king to break through and changed the uniform of the Qing army, and now the Qing army is strong, and the peasants in these two mountains dare not act rashly for a while.

"Where are you going? How did you get here? "The two young mountain farmers are very fine, Li Xiucheng's state is too embarrassing, and the mountains in this mountain are not a big road, but it is very abnormal to pass by here.

"The matter of the official is also asked by you!" Li Xiucheng put on the face of a low-level official, straightened his hat to cover his long hair, and showed his waist knife to intimidate the two.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" The two apologized repeatedly, but walked out of the grass, holding a long weapon such as a hoe, and faintly surrounded Li Xiucheng.

"Is there any water?" Li Xiucheng was a little scared, but his tone was still barely tough.

"The villain has it!" A peasant took out a bamboo tube from behind his waist, hurriedly walked a few steps and sent it to Li Xiucheng, although he respectfully sent the water over, but he was mainly observing Li Xiucheng. His eyes kept rolling around Li Xiucheng's body, looking to see if Li Xiucheng had any injuries and valuable ornaments.

Li Xiucheng is still very qualified in clothing, that is, standing face to face with a Qing army, as long as he does not answer the number of the battalion, Li Xiucheng will never show his stuffing. But the peasant is not the same as the soldier, the soldier looks at a person to distinguish friend from foe, but the peasant is to look for money. Li Xiucheng's service was indeed fine, but he still missed some things, such as the red velvet rope that seemed to be connected to good things, such as some gold and jade corners. These things are not enough to reveal his identity as a loyal king, but they are enough for two peasants who are barely trying to survive in the troubled times to kill him. Li Xiucheng's figure is not very burly, but a little thin, and the loss of qi and blood is not what a master has changed, so the two farmers raised their hoes to him boldly with confidence.

Li Xiucheng is definitely ranked in the top ten among China's world-famous generals, and he has become a powerful figure in China when he swept Jiangnan. However, Li Xiucheng belongs to the type of wise general, and his own force value is a bit low, if he goes head-to-head, Li Xiucheng will definitely not be able to beat Guoxing, and it is difficult to say whether he can beat Zeng Guofan. It is precisely because of his own kung fu that Li Xiucheng did not mix well in the early stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he did not have the opportunity to attack the city first and become a hero like Chen Yucheng. That is, in the late period, the generals who were both civil and military in the early stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom died and fled, and Li Xiucheng had a bright future. It was not until he had thousands of troops and horses that Li Xiucheng had the opportunity to perform, and little by little he began to show his talent and stepped onto the throne of the loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In the face of the oncoming hoe today, Li Xiucheng did not burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, but instinctively raised his knife to block, and then was swept away by the hoe, and was hit twice on his back and knees, and immediately fell to the ground. When the two peasants saw Li Xiucheng fall to the ground, they picked up their hoes and wanted to step forward and end up with Li Xiucheng, but Li Xiucheng fell too hard, and the tasseled hat rolled to the side, and the long flowing hair that was scattered saved Li Xiucheng's life.

"Long hair?" The first farmer to do it recognized Li Xiucheng's Taiping Army identity at a glance, and both of them stopped what they were doing. Li Xiucheng was overjoyed in his heart, if these two people had been taught by the Heavenly Sacred Sect and had their hearts set to the kingdom of heaven, they would not only be able to save their lives, but they might also be able to escape with their strength.

"Search him, maybe you can get a reward!" Li Xiucheng's illusion was immediately shattered, the two of them had no feelings for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the only reason for being interested in him was to be able to send it to the Qing army to receive a reward.

Li Xiucheng was trampled on the ground with great disrespect, and the two peasants untied his belt and tied His Royal Highness King Chung into a hairy crab. The gold, silver and jade pendants were all cheered by the two and put them into their pockets, but the mighty seal of the loyal king made the two of them fall into a state of wooden chickens for a long time. Li Xiucheng has been thinking about how to pretend to be a small soldier, how to escape with his life at the hands of the brutal Qing army, and then go out and make a comeback. However, as soon as the big seal on his body was revealed, he knew that he was finished, and the only way to do this was to die.

The two peasants didn't actually know the words on the gold seal, but they had also worked as part-time robbers for a while, and they had some knowledge, and there was no doubt that this gold seal must be the stuff of the big people. The two discussed for a while, packed up all the valuable belongings on Li Xiucheng's body, found a hiding place to hide, and then hung the big seal on Li Xiucheng's neck, and escorted Li Xiucheng down the mountain. Li Xiucheng opened his mouth a few times, but finally did not speak, and calmly walked to the Qing army camp at the bottom of the mountain.

The Hunan Army and the Marines of the Northeast Army under the mountain have not stopped, the Hunan Army is to grab money and people, and the Northeast Army is to find people, and both sides are frantically grabbing territory. The sentry posts of the two armies are intertwined, there are many Hunan soldiers and northeast soldiers are fierce, and there will be some friction between the two sides from time to time. Moreover, all levels of the Hunan army knew that the Northeast Army was watching them, and it was for the imperial court to prevent them from rebelling, and they already had a pimple in their hearts, and after a little friction between the two sides, they were ready to do it every day. That is, the Northeast Army was well-equipped and well-trained, and the Hunan army, which bought weapons from Northern Manchuria, muttered in his heart, otherwise the fight would have started a long time ago.

The two peasants escorted Li Xiucheng down the mountain to look for the camp of the Qing army, and just happened to bump into a sentry post shared by the Hunan army and the Northeast army. For this strange combination of prisoners, the soldiers of the Hunan army didn't care much because they had seen a lot, but the Northeast Army had a very high sensitivity. Although the Marines at this guard post only sent a squad to garrison it, the squad leader immediately sent someone to cage the prisoner sacrifice group to his side, and after seeing the Great Seal, he even sent someone Pegasus to deliver a message to the base camp of Shence Gate. The squad leader arranged everything in an orderly manner, but he neglected to comfort the two peasants who were taking prisoners, the two peasants who were waiting to get rich were only interested in silver, and the squad leader did not mention the matter of silver for a long time, and they did not do it.

"Master Jun, this is a long-haired prince, how can it be worth a thousand taels!" The peasant has his own peculiar cunning, and he found that the squad leader had been hiding all the time, and he didn't want to make a noise, so he immediately shouted at the top of his voice.

"Whisper, rest assured! Let's make sure, your silver is indispensable! The squad leader was afraid that the Xiang army would know the inside story, so he hurriedly covered the peasants' mouths. However, the sound of the peasants just now has alarmed the soldiers of the Hunan army, and they are not interested in one or two remnants of the Taiping army, but if they can capture a prince alive, they can exchange a few taels of silver.

The Hunan army here also rubbed against the Northeast Army, but without firing a shot, more than 30 of them did not get the 12 Northeast Army, so they have always been very afraid of the Northeast Army. Several soldiers of the Hunan Army didn't want to start a dispute with the Northeast Army for the sake of a prince of the Taiping Army, after all, the prince of the Taiping Army had almost 3,000 people, and it was not very valuable. However, the sentry commander of the Hunan army found an abnormality, and the arrogant Northeast Army became extremely nervous, not only putting on a vigilant formation against the Hunan army, but also began to load bullets into the gun, looking ready to fight at any time. People sharpened their knives, and the sentry commander was naturally more nervous, and after a few more glances, the Hunan army sentry commander saw Li Xiucheng, and recognized Li Xiucheng, this sentry commander had participated in the Nanjing offensive and defensive battles, and had seen Li Xiucheng.

"Hurry up and report to Jiu Shuai, Li Xiucheng has caught it!" The sentry commander pulled his hardcore brother and asked him to report to Zeng Guoquan, while he also began to mobilize men and horses to prepare to fight with the Northeast Army, and he had to snatch Li Xiucheng at all costs.

While the squad leader and the sentry chief were anxiously waiting, a rapid sound of horses' hooves disturbed the quiet, Zeng Guoquan arrived before Tan Shaoguang, and he brought more than 2,000 people over.