The serious consequences of sticking to Jiangning are now finally apparent, both of them are extremely proficient in strategy, and the two of them clearly understand that if the king of heaven continues to set the capital of Tianjing, it will only make Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng and other soldiers fight at both ends, look forward and backward, and be exhausted and drag down their own army; Fighting on both sides, constantly fighting fires for Tianjing, so that any attack can only be stopped, the attack cannot be thorough, the fighters continue to give up, and the results of victory are constantly abandoned, even if Tianjing cannot be guaranteed, and at the same time affect the political power building in these places, Shi Dakai's local political power building policy that was effective in Anhui and won the support of the people cannot be carried out smoothly, and every time in addition to attacking the city and plundering property, it cannot be supplemented to the local people who voluntarily join the Taiping Army, and the troops without fresh blood injection are doomed to embark on the road of extinction.

"It's useless to say this right now," Chen Yucheng said something that was incommensurate with his age, and he calmly analyzed, "Now we can only let Zeng Guofan go, and go back and completely exterminate the Qing Demon Jiangnan camp outside Tianjing City, we must have no Qing Demon within a radius of three hundred miles from Tianjing City, and in the future, we will not be tied down on our expeditions everywhere!" "Lest you do now, with no work or little work.

"That's all there is to it, Mingjin." Li Xiucheng waved his hand tiredly, "Wait until we sweep away the Qing demons in the Jiangnan area, and then settle the account with Zeng Guofan!" ”

"How to be a teacher, but we have to discuss it carefully."

"Not bad!" Li Xiucheng raised his eyebrows, lifted his spirits, swept away the decadence just now, opened the map on the case with blazing eyes, and greeted Chen Yucheng, "How to exterminate the Qing demon." Let's discuss it carefully, the Qing Demon wants to make us run around and work hard, let's play with them! ”

The people regard food as the sky, and to solve the problem of three meals a day for the vast number of soldiers and civilians in Tianjing City, it is a very headache for people to solve the old and difficult problem. The three major battlefields of Tianjing, Zhenjiang, and Yangzhou have a strength of about 20,000 or 30,000, and according to the proportion of the military dependents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there are at least 40,000 or 50,000 family members, plus the original residents in Tianjing City, at least 100,000 mouths are waiting for food every day. It is calculated according to one pound of rations per person per day. I also have 100,000 catties every day! That's a terrifying number.

Outside Tianjing City. The direction of grain collection is nothing more than the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. The camp south of the Yangtze River blocked the grain routes on the southeast side, and the camp in the north of the Yangtze River blocked the grain routes on the north side. In this way, the direction of grain is only Anhui in the west. The Taiping Army ran Anhui. In addition to obtaining an upstream barrier. It is to get food from the nearest place. However, Anhui's supply capacity is relatively limited. In order to completely solve the problem of famine, it is necessary to seize Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan, which are important grain-producing bases.

Solving the problem of eating at the Tianjing base camp has always been one of the strategic tasks of the Western Expedition. Start with the Western Crusade. Until the Hunan army showed its sword, there was no problem with the food supply in Tianjing. Jiangxi, Anhui, and Hubei all became the hematopoietic bases for Tianjing's logistics supply, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a strong naval division, and the Qing army did not have a single ship, and the Yangtze River became the main artery for the upstream provinces to transport grain to Tianjing. But I didn't expect to kill a Cheng biting gold halfway, the Hunan army led by Zeng Guofan, in Xiangtan, Yuezhou, Wuchang, Tianjia Town, successively defeated the Western Expeditionary Corps, burned a large number of warships and civilian ships, Jiangxi base was all lost, Anhui was full of wolf smoke, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's grain base was left, and the grain transportation tools suffered heavy losses, which directly led to the famine in Tianjing. After breaking the Jiangbei camp, the Jiangnan camp is still under the nose of Tianjing, and the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is still surrounded by the Qing army. If the Jiangnan camp is not broken, Tianjing will still be hungry!

"Brother," Li Xiucheng's name was Chen Yucheng, he thought of a method, but it was still a prototype, and he wanted to say it and discuss it with Chen Yucheng, "Do you know which plan is the most amazing in Sun Bin's art of war?" ”

Although the most taboo in the kingdom of heaven on the bright side is the hundred schools of thought and the way of Confucianism, for these traditional things, the king of heaven Hong Xiuquan specially set up a book deletion bureau and vowed to delete all the four books and five classics in the world. But these generals of the Taiping Army, in private, love to read this military book that is regarded as a poisonous weed, a flood and a beast.

Chen Yucheng is like a treasure about the art of war, and smiled when he heard this, "What the eldest brother said must be that Wei Wei saved Zhao?" ”

"Not bad!" Li Xiucheng high-fived, "That's exactly what happened!" ”

In 354 BC, King Hui of Wei wanted to let go of his old hatred of Zhongshan, so he sent the general Pang Juan to attack. This Zhongshan was originally a small country adjacent to the north of Wei during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and was subdued by Wei, and later Zhao took advantage of Wei's funeral to forcibly occupy Zhongshan, Wei general Pang Juan thought that Zhongshan was just a small place, and it was very close to Zhao. From there, the king of Wei was pleased to be like a hegemon, that is, he allocated 500 chariots with Pang Juan as his general, and went straight to Zhao to besiege Handan, the capital of Zhao State. King Zhao had no choice but to ask for help from Qi in an emergency, and promised to give Zhongshan as a gift after the siege was lifted. King Qi Wei agreed, ordered Tian Ji to be a general, and used Sun Bin, who was rescued from Wei, to lead the army and set off.

Tian Ji wanted to go straight to Handan, Zhao State, but Sun Bin stopped him and said: "To solve the mess, you can't make a fist to fight, resolve the fight, you can't participate in the fight, you must grasp the key point to settle the dispute, take advantage of the situation, and the two sides can naturally separate because they are restricted." Now the elite soldiers of the Wei State are pouring out of the country, if I attack the Wei State directly. That Pang Juan will return to the division to rescue, so that the siege of Handan will definitely be relieved. If we ambush Pang Juan on the way back, his army will be defeated. Tian Ji did according to the plan. Sure enough, the Wei army left Handan, and on the way back, they fell into an ambush and fought in Guiling, the Wei soldiers were tired from a long distance, and they could not form an army, Pang Juan barely packed up the remnants, retreated to the Liang, and the Qi division won a great victory, and the siege of Zhao was lifted. This is the famous story of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" in history. Thirteen years later, the army of Qi and Wei met again on the battlefield, and Pang Juanfu fell into Sun Bin's ambush again, knowing that Zhi's poor army was defeated, so he killed himself. Sun Bin is famous in the world and has passed down his art of war.

"Qing Demon wants to besiege and harass Tianjing City to save this 'Zhao' of Zeng Guofan in Guichi, and I also want to find a Daliang City to save this 'Zhao' of Tianjing City!"

The emperor was numb to the news of Zeng Guofan's defeat again, so Xingzhen approved a "military machine discussion", so that the military opportunity to discuss with the military department how Zeng Guofan should be punished, and then threw it aside, Xingzhen often thought that the current Xianfeng Emperor is more and more like Cai Henggong, who is jealous of illness and medical treatment, these military failures, can not look at it and don't worry about it, but in recent days, Rong Lu, who is fighting everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River and bombarding Jiangning City, is extremely concerned, to the extent of the ruler of this trillion people, the military generals and above, the emperor will be slightly concerned, After all, Rong Lu is just the chief soldier. If Wu Yundi hadn't captured Li Kaifang alone, and he was a relative of the harem, the emperor wouldn't know that there was such a person in the Jianrui Camp at all. (To be continued......)