The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sent Lin Fengxiang, the deputy prime minister of the heavenly official, and Li Kaifang, the prime minister of the local government, to lead the army from Yangzhou to the west, and met with Ji Wenyuan, the deputy prime minister of the spring official, who set off from Tianjing, with more than 20,000 people, and the order of the king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, "the division and the road, the rapid approach to Yandu, and the time to seize the land without greed", on May 24, the third year of Xianfeng, he went north from Pukou, and quickly entered Anhui, and entered the territory of Henan on June 13, and entered the territory of Henan on June 13. Just waiting for the cavalry of the monk Greenqin to give the Taiping army a ruthless blow.

On June 13, a red steel current roared towards the outside of Shunde Mansion (now Xingtai) towards the south, passing through the city, the prefect of Shunde Mansion was carried up on the city wall of Shunde Mansion with weak hands and feet, seeing the neat appearance of the army, the army that was full of anger, and saw the bright yellow Da Xuan with the words "Minister of the Imperial Mission" written on it, stroked the official uniform that he was hurriedly putting on, let out a sigh of relief, slapped his own relatives in a circle, and scolded: "Blind your dog eyes, this is the army of the imperial court." , the dead slave actually came to tell the mansion that it was a thief attacking, which made the mansion so embarrassed that he was about to commit suicide in the mansion! After scolding a few words, he still didn't understand his hatred, and kicked the unlucky pro-entourage to gnaw the mud, and the pro-entourage covered his red face and didn't dare to make a sound, and the prefect scolded a few words to relieve his hatred, and calmly rolled up his horseshoe sleeves, and then pointed to another pro-entourage and said: "You go and ask Zhou Tongzhi to say that the government asked him to go out of the city to see the minister of the Qincha and bring some grain and grass, although we have not received an edict here, but presumably the army went south either to suppress the twist, or to suppress the thief!" Even if the emperor has no will to donate in Shunde Mansion, he still has to do his best! ”

"Wow!"

Monk Greenqin immediately stroked his beard in the green jade lion given by the emperor, and did not react to the underground Zhou Tongzhi's kneeling, but indifferently ordered him to get up, he is the king of the county, and he is the minister of the Qincha, there is no need to return the salute to the Tongzhi from the five products, knowing the meaning of Zhou Tongzhi, Monk Greenqin is eyebrows, some admire the prefect of Shunde Mansion, not blindly the vegetarian corpse meal corrupt and incompetent, so he smiled and said: "The prefect and the mind of the same knowledge, this king will accept it, but the wine is just enough, the army is outside, Don't dare to drink and make mistakes, this king will play today's affairs to the emperor, so that the emperor can know the loyalty of the officials of Shunde Mansion. Seeing Zhou Tongzhi's joy, and hurriedly saluted, Monk Greenqin hugged his fists at Zhou Tongzhi, and was ready to whip south.

"Report!" A signal soldier in red clothes galloped to the front of the monk Lingqin's horse, and before the horse could retract its hooves and stand firm, he rolled off the horse, knelt on one knee, clasped his hands into fists, and saluted the monk king: "Qi Qi monk king, the rebellion has entered Henan on the tenth day of the sixth month, and it is already approaching Guide Mansion!" ”

"Okay, the front immediately called the letter horse, day and night, to Henan to find the strong army of northern Shaanxi, and ordered the governor of Shandong, Li, to merge the boats of the Yellow River to Cao County, Shanxian County, and not allow other private crossings, if there is a Taiping army intending to seize the boat, immediately burn it. The three armies were ordered, one man and two horses, non-stop, and they had to rush to Zhangde Mansion (now Anyang) today to rest, and the king should arrive on the bank of the Yellow River before the 16th. ”

"Wow!"

Monk Greenqin looked at Zhou Tongzhi, who was uneasy when he learned about the military situation on the ground, and resolutely said: "It's about the military situation, and the one who leaks it will be killed." This king is less accompanied! Drive! ”

"Yes, yes, yes! The lower officials wish the monk and the king a victory, and the horse will be successful! Zhou Tongzhi wiped the sweat from his forehead, and hurriedly saluted and congratulated loudly.

Hou Fangyu, a famous literati in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, once said, "Yuzhou is the heart of the world, and the county is the heart of Henan Province." "Guijun is the name of Guide Mansion, that is, the ancient city of Shangqiu in the Ming Dynasty. It has been a north-south traffic fortress since ancient times, and the importance of the geographical location of the ancient city can be seen from the horizontal plaque hanging on the city tower: the east city tower, "Xu Huai guarantee"; Xicheng Tower, "Guan Shaanxi Throat"; Nancheng Tower, "Nantong Ancient Chamber"; North City Tower, "North Gate Lock Key". Such a dangerous geographical location makes it a place full of wars, and Tang Va, Ge Bochu, invaded Suicheng, Liu Xiu, fought Liang Huangchao, and besieged the Song Dynasty, and now there is one more: the Taiping army captured Guidefu.

In the South City Tower, under the plaque of "Nantong Ancient Bo", a steady stream of Taiping soldiers in red clothes are entering the city, some are washing the blood in the doorway, there are several teams carrying the corpses, Lin Fengxiang, the deputy prime minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, looked at the plaque of "Nantong Gubo" silently, Li Kaifang, the local official on the side, frowned and listened to the report of the soldiers in the search city, Li Kaifang listened to the report, waved his hand to let the soldier go down, and said to Lin Fengxiang: "Jinghu Hou, The food and grass in the city had been used up during the defense of the city, and the gold and silver had been distributed to the people of the city, and the iron cannons had captured a few pieces, but the gunpowder was gone. ”

"This is probably the Satanic wife who is far away in Beijing again! What kind of strong walls are clear, making the heavenly soldiers and generals come all the way to the poor and call Hanako, what's the use of laying down the city!? If there is no grain and grass army, it will not be able to hold out for a long time, Dinghu Hou," Lin Fengxiang called Li Kaifang's knighthood, with an angry look on his face, "In the future, when we hit Kyoto of the Qing Demon, we must cut Satan's wife with a thousand knives to solve the hatred of this marquis!" ”

"What now? The attack on Guide killed many veterans brought out from Guangxi, and these veterans died one less than one, and the regimental training in Luyi also killed hundreds of our troops. It seems that we want to reason with Guide Mansion and see how many people in Guide Mansion can join our Heavenly Army. ”

"Let's try it," Lin Fengxiang didn't feel any hope for this, since crossing the Yangtze River, this tried and tested "reasoning" has lost its effectiveness, "I hope that there are also ordinary people who can recognize the face of the demon and join the army of our heavenly kingdom!" ”

"No matter how many people belong to the Heavenly Army, we will only rest for the night tonight, and we will start immediately tomorrow morning, the Guide Mansion is already by the Yellow River, let's find a boat and cross the river immediately!"

"Okay, I'll give the order."

As for why the reasoning of the Taiping Army will fail, Yi Guifei Niangniang, who is far away in the Forbidden City of Beijing, has long expected it, "That's because the feudal remnants of the northern people are more stubborn, what?" Your Majesty, you don't know what feudal remnants mean? The meaning of the word "E" is that the people north of the Yangtze River are loyal to the emperor and the imperial court, and many people can't be taken away if they rebel, so you can rest assured. ”