"God bless us! Kill the demons! Go to heaven......"

This was the first time Emperor Daoguang had heard the slogan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with his own ears! The roar of tens of thousands of people at the same time almost collapsed the tower of Yongdingmen.

At the same time, the cannon fire of the Taiping army became more intensive, and the iron bullets hit the head of Yongding Gate like raindrops, although the city wall was strong, but the battlements of the city wall were still broken one after another, and the flying stones hit many of the city guards, and the screams suddenly rang out.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... Go down to the city and avoid the cannons, minions, please! Mu Zhang'a and Nerjing both knelt down in front of Daoguang and pleaded bitterly.

"Okay, I'll avoid it first......" Emperor Daoguang took a breath, no longer insisted, and was escorted by several imperial guards to the bottom of the city tower, but he didn't go far, but moved to the Temple of Heaven on the edge of Yongding Gate, and supervised the battle nearby! The imperial guards in yellow coats stood under the Yongding Gate Tower, all with steel knives in their hands, who dared to escape, but they could be killed or buried!

At the same time, the first tentative siege of the Taiping army began, and about 5,000 soldiers with red cloth wrapped in their heads, led by a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom military flag, rushed to the moat with a shout. Each soldier carried a bag of dirt on his shoulders, and any of them did not ascend the city, but filled in the ditches (moats) to create the conditions for the subsequent troops to attack the city.

However, before they approached the moat, the cannon of the Qing army on the city wall rang out, more than a dozen cannons fired at the same time, and the hit was quite accurate, and several tumbling iron bullets went straight into the formation, sweeping down dozens of people along the way, and a solid bullet from about 8,000 catties of cannons fell directly near the banner of Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west. But Xiao Chaogui didn't even blink his eyelids.

The charging Taiping army was equally imposing. Braving the fire of the Qing army, he quickly rushed to the moat. Countless bales of dirt were thrown into the drained moat ditch, and one section of it was soon filled in to the ground. The cheers of the Taiping army rang out again, and the morale was extremely high! There is no doubt about it, the city of Beijing is in front of you! After defeating Beijing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will sit in the world! At this time, the momentum is not high, so it's strange.

"Siege!" Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, shouted, "Brother Tian has a will, attack Beijing and kill Daoguang!" ”

"Attack Beijing. Kill Daoguang, rush ah......"

The impatient warriors of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who had been waiting for a long time, shouted and began the first wave of impact on the Beijing city wall!

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In the Old Summer Palace, Yang Xiuqing didn't seem to know that Xiao Chaogui didn't listen to the order and attacked the city without authorization.

"Mr. A, do you want this king to go and be richer than Zhu Jishi?" Yang Xiuqing stared at one eye and looked at Ali Guo with some tears and laughter. Coming all the way north, the Taiping army has done its best to "collect" civilian wealth. However, the gold and silver in the Eastern King's Sacred Treasury were only three or four million silver dollars, and they could not be compared with Zhu Jishi at all.

"Uh...... Your Majesty, war is not simply about who has money. However, if a country wants to maintain long-term peace and stability, it is absolutely impossible not to develop its economy and production. It is equally impossible to sustain a long war without great wealth. I guess you understand the roads, right? ”

Ali Guo had a hypocritical smile on his face. Eloquently. Although the British Empire is the hegemon of the world, it will not make a villain mask to put on their diplomats, and it is not a good way to dominate by pulling hatred everywhere. The British Empire only showed her vicious side when she needed to play the villain - and it was certainly not the time to pretend to be a villain and bully the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

On the one hand, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not easy to bully, and the 150,000 Eight Banners New Army was defeated by the Taiping Army, which was less than half of them, in a few hours! The country of Ali is aware of the situation of the new army of the Eight Banners of the Dao, which is probably equivalent to the army of the Sikh Empire and the Kingdom of Mysore, right? The same number of East India Company mercenaries can completely destroy them in a matter of hours...... In other words, the combat effectiveness of the elite units of the Taiping Army is roughly equivalent to that of the East India Company mercenaries, and the number is likely to exceed 100,000! If the British wanted to defeat them, they would have to send at least 30,000 to 40,000 genuine British troops. It's not that it can't be done, but it's not necessary, because the capture of Beijing by the Taiping army and the creation of a state that can confront Zhu Ming will not do any harm to the British Empire - it will not even affect the interests of Britain in commerce, because there is not much market for British goods in northern China, and the only thing that can be sold in the past is opium, but in the future it can be replaced by arms, which is not too much of a loss.

Therefore, Ali Guo is now playing the role of a friend of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"We will have wealth, and when we build the city of Beijing, we will have a lot of wealth." Of course, Yang Xiuqing could feel the sincerity of the other party, and he also knew that Zhu Jishi, a big guy, had offended many foreigners, at least foreigners in China did not like him.

"As far as I know, there isn't much silver in the city of Peking...... "Ali Guo felt as if he was talking to a robber." Under His Majesty, wealth is to be obtained by production, not by robbing ...... Disaster. Zhu Jishi is very good at this, Guangdong's industry and commerce are developing very fast, and now he has got Jiangnan, I think you know that Jiangnan has always been the most developed area of industry and commerce in China, right? ”

Zhu Jishi was originally a big capitalist, and he also gathered a team of Eskopel. The top management team from Europe, led by William, certainly knows how to promote the development of industry and commerce in the Ming Kingdom. Yang Xiuqing is still a bit of a genius in war, but compared to managing the economy, the gap between him and Zhu Jishi is too big.

"Mr. A, this king has formulated a "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", as long as it can be implemented, it can gather a country's financial resources in the holy treasury and gather sand into a tower, which is enough to make the country's military use perfect." Yang Xiuqing ordered to take a hand-copied newspaper of "Tianchao Tianmu System" and handed it to Aliguo.

"This is ......" Ali Guo knew Chinese, but it was still difficult to understand what was said in the thin booklet in his hand. After reading it several times, I realized that I had a general meaning - there are two core contents of "Tianchao Tianmu System", one is to divide the land equally and engage in egalitarianism; Second, it is necessary to carry out strict militarized management of the entire society so as to concentrate financial and material resources on military affairs.

It is really impressive that an illiterate peasant can propose such a system!

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"Attack Beijing, kill Daoguang, rush ......"

The tide-like Taiping warriors once again attacked the city of Beijing! Cannons, spears, spears, birds, and bows and arrows were all in a mess. The ladder was also erected, and the warriors with shields and steel swords scrambled to climb up. The resistance of the Qing army also reached the most tenacious time, from stones, bows and arrows, rolling logs to foreign guns and cannons, they all desperately beckoned down. The two ministers defending the city, Mu Zhang'a and Nerjing, are both supervising the battle on the Yongding Gate Tower! Baskets of silver dollars and ingots were brought out, and those who killed the enemy were immediately rewarded with silver for white flowers.

Even so, the Taiping offensive was unstoppable, and they poured into the city as if they were crazy, and no matter how many people were killed, more people were filled. Soon hand-to-hand combat began on the Yongding Gate Tower and the nearby city walls!

"Good! Good! Playing well, you deserve to be the elite of my West Temple! ”

Xiao Chaogui held a telescope in his hand and supervised the battle at the front line about a mile and a half away from the Yongding Gate Tower, applauding loudly from time to time. This is the third wave of the Taiping Army's offensive! In order to cooperate with this wave of offensive, Xiao Chaogui also ordered Li Kaifang to send light infantry to the bottom of the Yongding Gate Tower, and snipe the Qing soldiers at the head of the city with a long-range rifle. As long as you hold on for a while, and wait for the follow-up reinforcements to continue to climb the city, Yongding Gate will be captured!

At this moment, Xiao Chaogui's heart suddenly felt a sharp pain! As if slammed by something, the tall body suddenly became unsteady and fell to its knees. He looked down and saw that the yellow robe on his chest had been stained red with blood, and there was faint green smoke coming out.

Hit by a foreign gun? How is this possible? There is still a mile and a half away from the head of Yongding Gate! What foreign gun can fight so far? Thinking of this, his meaning was already blurred, and he fell to the ground with a pop, and a heart-rending roar sounded in his ears: "Oh no! The King of the West is dead! The king of the west is dead......"

I'm going to die? It's ridiculous, Beijing City is right in front of you, how can you die? Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, had a dark eye in front of him, and he had no consciousness at all.

On November 22, 1848 in the Western calendar, the third person of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, was killed in battle under the city of Beijing! (To be continued......)