Walking out of the endless mountains and mountains of Changyang County, passing through the Qingtong Gorge, you will arrive at one of the richest counties in the Yue country, Zhengyang County. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info trickling streams that flow out of the countless mountains of Changyang County gradually converge together, forming the only big river in the territory of Yue, the birthplace of Luoshui, meandering, all the way to Yuejing.

Luoshui traverses the entire Zhengyang County, and also creates this rich land, here, is the most populous and richest county in the Yue country, and it is also the most important granary in the Yue country, and has always been one of the places that the rulers of the Yue country attach the most importance to. A few years ago, Mo Luo rebelled, and Yue Guo immediately sent a 5,000-strong tiger army to Zhengyang County, in order to ensure that Zhengyang County was not lost.

Of course, later, because of Moluo's defeat at the Taiping Army, Zhang Jian, the general of Huben County stationed in Zhengyang County, led his troops to venture out of Qingtongxia in order to make meritorious contributions, and finally the general of the Shuntian Army Wu Xin calculated, and the whole army was wiped out in Qingtongxia.

This battle also caused Zhengyang County to lose several county seats. After destroying Zhang Jian's Tiger Ben army, the Shuntian army took advantage of the situation and attacked several cities in succession, and only then stopped the attack after exhausting its strength. With the fall of the Shuntian Army, these counties were taken over by the Taiping Army, and it has been almost two years since they were separated from Zhengyang County.

Zhengyang County was shaken by this, and the officials of the county, the rich gentry, were frightened a lot, and the people who escaped from Changyang County told the tragic scene where the Shuntian army passed, and there was no grass and no tiles, they all contributed money, raised funds, and established a people's army, determined to fight with the Shuntian army to defend their wealth.

In Shayang County, the five families led by the Liu family actually ruled that area, but Zhengyang County, but the power of the imperial court had the absolute upper hand, and the same thing was that the rich people were naturally unwilling to let the Shuntian army loot themselves and make themselves nothing. Therefore, the will of the people here to resist the Shuntian army is still relatively strong, and under the call of the Xu family, the richest man in Zhengyang County, they successfully recruited a civilian army of up to 20,000 people, and trained under the leadership of the imperial court officers to prepare to resist the invasion of the Shuntian army.

However, the defeat of the Shuntian army was so quick that it was beyond everyone's imagination, and after the Taiping army took over these places, they did not show the will to attack forward again, and moreover, as the two sides exchanged more and more in commerce, the people of Zhengyang County knew more and more about the Taiping army, but their fear of it became less and less.

This is a very different army from the Suncheon army, although in the mouths of the court officials, they are also first-class bandits. But the well-informed business gentry in Zhengyang County have their own judgments. There are even many people who disguised themselves and went to Shayang County in person, and visited Taiping City, and the prosperity of Taiping City made them even more breathtaking.

The five members of the Liu family lived like a fish in water under the system of the Taiping Army, not only thriving in business, but also rising step by step in the officialdom.

You must know that although they are rich, the court is also very jealous of them, and it is very difficult to step into the officialdom, like the Xu family is the first family in Zhengyang, and they have worked hard for many years, but they only do the position of a member of the military department.

Shang is naturally inseparable from power.

The situation in Yue can now be said to be changing three times a day, when Zhengyang County and Shayang County under the control of the Taiping Army, Taiping City's business became more and more prosperous, Xu Jie returned to Zhengyang County as the county guard.

So the sky in Zhengyang County changed.

The business exchanges between the two sides came to an abrupt end, which made many businessmen in Zhengyang County regret, you know, it was the honeymoon period between the Taiping Army and the imperial court, the Taiping Army went out of Yongping County, and the imperial court quelled the Luo Yishui Change, so that they thought that the two sides had agreed to a compromise, and naturally they could do business boldly and boldly, and at this time, the merchant gentry group led by the five families of Shayang County, and the Taiping Fang, which was directly controlled by the Taiping Army, also vigorously invited them to enter Changyang County for joint development, and the two sides naturally hit it off.

Under the poison of the Shuntian army, Changyang County can be said to be poor and white, and the economy and people's livelihood have been completely destroyed, but it is this situation that has given the businessmen endless business opportunities, and the businessmen of Zhengyang County, who thought they had the opportunity to make a fortune, flocked in and invested a large amount of money in Changyang County, in order to get a piece of the pie in the process of rebuilding Changyang County.

A lot of money and things have been invested, Xu Jie has come back, a ban, and all the investments have turned into running water, how can these gentry not be saddened?

No one's money is blown by the wind.

But this ban made everyone silent, the businessmen were naturally extremely sensitive to the policies of the imperial court, from this unprecedented ban, they smelled the huge gap between the imperial court and the Taiping army, and Xu Jie's next move confirmed their thoughts.

The 20,000 people's army was expanded to 30,000, and the Xu family had a lot of money, and the family paid half of the money for the expansion of the army, and the rest of the money was naturally for the other gentry to bleed. Up to now, the merchant gentry can only grit their teeth and put money into the people's army, it is obvious that Xu Jie's actions represent the meaning of the imperial court, and the imperial court has asked the Taiping army to do it. At this time, they invested the capital in the people's army, and maybe after the imperial court defeated the Taiping army, the silver they had invested in Changyang County would have a chance to be recovered.

Later facts also proved their conjecture.

At the beginning of June, Xu Jie led 20,000 Zhengyang County soldiers and 30,000 civilian troops to attack several subordinate counties of Zhengyang County under the control of the Taiping Army.

Shocked, but also glad, they felt that they were on the right track to follow Xu Jie's pace, the Taiping army was still a first-class bandit army after all, and it could not be His Majesty's opponent, as soon as His Majesty the Emperor made a move, he united the Qin army to give the Taiping army a fatal blow.

The attack was extremely smooth at first, the Taiping army shrank the defensive line, and the only remaining battalion Shaoshan Battalion gave up two county administrations, and the whole army retreated to Gongxian County, which was the closest to Qingtongxia.

Xu Jie is naturally high-spirited. When he was personally released from prison by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and entrusted with important tasks, the grievances in his heart had long since disappeared, and all he thought about was to assist His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to do a great cause, and the first thing was to eradicate the tumor on the Taiping Army.

Take the Shaoshan camp, attack Changyang County, and then take advantage of the situation to march into Shayang County and capture Taiping City, this is his plan, after doing all this, the position of the military department Shangshu is already beckoning to him.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's dissatisfaction with the current military department Shangshu Zhou Tai was revealed in his conversation with him.

Until before hitting Gong County, Xu Jie had always been smooth sailing, and the rumored Taiping Army who was good at fighting was not good, of course, this was probably because the so-called Shaoshan Battalion in front of him was adapted from the former Shuntian sergeant, but so what? The main force of the Taiping army is now in Yongping County, as long as this last stumbling block is taken, his tens of thousands of troops can rush into the territory controlled by the Taiping army, unscrupulous.

But when he arrived in Gong County, the Taiping Army's Shaking Mountain Battalion, which was about to leave before, seemed to have changed overnight, and he fought for several days with heavy losses, and he didn't even climb up to the top of Gongxian, a small county town.

The 5,000 soldiers of the Shaking Mountain Battalion are like iron arms of a copper wall, standing in front of him.

Xu Jie can do the military department of the outside Lang, of course, there are a few real skills, the strong resistance of the Taiping army is also in his expectation, if this army is defeated, the Taiping army will no longer be able to hold their base camp, naturally to resist desperately, but their own ten times the opponent's strength, is grinding, can also grind the opponent down, I believe that when the news of the destruction of most of the Taiping army in the Yongping Army comes, the opponent's will to resist in front of him will also collapse.

So, he was not in a hurry.

This is a big game, and he is one of the few people who knows the trend of this big game. It made him look confident.

He is not in a hurry, Dazhu, the main general of the Shaking Mountain Battalion opposite him, is naturally happy to see it, like Xu Jie, he is also waiting, waiting for the good news from Zhongping County, and he is not fighting alone, Liu Xingwen's 5,000 city gate army in Xingyang County is also coming to him. It is estimated that when Liu Xingwen arrives, it will be time for the whole army to start a major counteroffensive.

The Taiping Army has never been a single military operation, and when the military is closely prepared, another important figure in the Eagle's Nest, Tian Zhen, has secretly infiltrated Zhengyang County.

Tian Zhen used to be the person in charge of the Eagle's Nest, and with Guo Jiuling joining the Eagle's Nest, his position has retreated to second, but when it comes to real power, he will be ranked third, because Qin Feng's cronies, Qianmian, who is in charge of all field affairs, have far more resources in his hands than him.

This time, Qianmian was in charge of the affairs of Yuejing City, and Zhengyang County was handed over to Tian Zhen, which also gave Tian Zhen a chance to show his skills and show Qin Feng his value, which was also something he desperately wanted to do. With the expansion of the Taiping Army step by step, the Shayang Five families seem to be more prosperous, but in the structure of the entire Taiping Army, the original sitting order is quietly changing, the Liu family is going downhill, and the Chen family is rising step by step, which is something that the blind can see, he naturally hopes that the Tian family can go to the next level, and make greater contributions and make his position more stable, which is the foundation to ensure that the Tian family rises step by step. Didn't you see that Old Man Liu went to war with the army with a cane for the sake of Liu, regardless of his old age and the secret injuries on his body.

Liu Xingwen's city gate army was used again this time, and it was not unrelated to Old Man Liu's move.

This is an opportunity for a power reshuffle, and he naturally has to seize it firmly. (To be continued.) )