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Chapter 118 Eavesdropping
On the second day of the first lunar month in the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the Taiping Army set out from Wuhan, and thousands of naval warships sailed eastward. The army blocked the navy on both sides of the river and drove straight to Nanjing!
In fact, before this, there were many differences within the Tianping Army. Within the Taiping Army, there were three opinions on the future strategy, and the debate was very fierce: one was to enter Henan in the north and aspire to the Central Plains; the other was to enter Bashu in the west. disturbance"; the third is to go east to the south of the Yangtze River and occupy Nanjing.In the end, Yang Xiuqing's heartfelt aspiration of "the heavenly father descends to the earth and makes him go straight to Jiangning", determined the strategic policy of going east along the river, taking Nanjing as the foundation, and Xu Tu's aggressiveness!
After the Taiping Army occupied Nanjing, where did they go, and what is the future strategy?
Therefore, at this time, differences arose between the two main leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing.

The heavenly king Hong Xiuquan advocated dividing the army to guard the south of the Yangtze River, and the main force went straight to the Central Plains, took Henan as the foundation, and went straight to BJ.

Eastern king Yang Xiuqing couldn't figure it out.Thinking that conquering Nanjing marked the decisive victory of the revolution, the idea of ​​"establishing the capital and the world will be settled" came into being. Under the guise of "the heavenly father descended to earth", Hong Xiuquan agreed to establish Nanjing as the capital.

Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom changed the name of Nanjing to "Tianjing" in accordance with the will of the heavenly bodies. On February [-] of the same year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officially established its capital in Nanjing and renamed it "Tianjing", marking the official establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime!

On the first day of April in the third year of Xianfeng (1853), Lin Fengxiang, the deputy prime minister of the Taiping Army, and Li Kaifang, the prime minister of the local official, led the Taiping Army's [-] elite troops to the Northern Expedition from Yangzhou. The Northern Expedition failed, let alone talk about it!
What we want to talk about is that on April 1853th in the third year of Xianfeng ([-]), Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of the Taiping Army, Lai Hanying, the deputy prime minister of Xia, Zeng Tianyang, the first inspector on the left side of the hall, and Lin Qirong, the eighth commander on the right side of the hall, etc., Feng Dong Wang Yangxiuqing ordered more than a thousand warships to go back to Jiangxi and make a large-scale westward expedition.

On the [-]th, the Western Expeditionary Army occupied AH Xiliang Mountain, Yuxikou, and Yongjia Town.

Occupy Chizhou on the first day of May, and conquer Anqing on the fourth day.

Lai Hanying, Zeng Tianyang, Lin Qirong and others continued to march westward. They occupied Pengze, Jiangxi Province on the seventh day, Hukou on the [-]th, and Nankang Mansion on the [-]th.

On the [-]th, Wucheng was occupied, and on the [-]th, Nanchang was besieged.Zhang Fu, the governor of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and Jiang Zhongyuan, the inspector of Hubei, stubbornly defended the city. Lai Hanying decided to capture the nearby counties first, cut off their aid, and then attack the city with all his strength.So Fengcheng, Ruizhou, Raozhou, Leping, JDZ, Fuliang, Duchang and other places were successively captured by the Western Expeditionary Army.

So far, the whole of Jiangxi has been basically occupied by the Taiping Army. Naturally, Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi has also been included in the sphere of influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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Although Longhushan is a Taoist holy place, it is only a matter of the spiritual world. The spiritual world and the human world are one and closely related. With the occupation of Jiangxi by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Longhushan will naturally express its support for Qingting or surrender to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

For the people in Longhu Mountain, it is now a matter of life and death for Longhu Mountain. The leader of the Taiping Army in the Western Expedition has already gone up to Longhu Mountain once, and straight to the point he said to Zhang Lu, the head teacher of Longhu Mountain, "You Do you want to be a courtier of the Han people, or continue to be a running dog of the Qing Dynasty?".

At that time, Zhang Lu was not in a hurry to answer, but hesitantly delayed, "This is a big deal, he wants to talk to his senior brother!".

After the leader of the Taiping Army heard Zhang Lu's response, he said in a deep voice, "Well, well, but my patience is limited, otherwise..." As he spoke, the leader looked at it. Around Longhu Mountain, the expression is still playful.

Therefore, Zhang Lu had no choice but to call his brothers to see the Shangqing Palace for discussion.

When all the important people arrived, Zhang Lu spoke out about the current situation in Longhushan.

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Inside Longhu Mountain, in a boudoir in a small courtyard, I saw a beautiful woman, wearing a very ordinary plain dress, laying bored on a sandalwood table.

Not far from the table was a sandalwood incense stick, emitting puffs of faint blue smoke, floating in the air, and entering the woman's body with the woman's breathing.

Suddenly, a white fox jumped onto the table. This white fox has nine tails!
The woman looked at the white fox on the table, and said indifferently to the white fox, "What happened down the mountain, why is it so noisy outside?".

The white fox, sitting on the table, looked at the beautiful woman, and then saw the corners of the white fox's mouth moving, and then words one after another, popped out of its mouth.

It said to the beautiful woman in this way, "Master, I see a lot of people coming down the mountain, and they have all kinds of weapons in their hands. I see there are also foreigners' guns?"

After hearing what the fox said, the woman asked him again, "Jiuyouhuan, how do they all dress and what are their characteristics?".

Nine Phantoms?Hearing this, I think everyone understands the identities of this woman and this fox. That's right, this woman is Zhang Qixing, and the white fox is naturally Jiuyouhuan.

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This matter has to be started this morning. Not long after Zhang Qixing got up, he heard the noise outside, and some little Taoist priests were still talking about something bad. Seeing that their expressions were a little nervous, he went to Ask them, they don't know what they said to Zhang Qixing, they don't know, they just say that there are many, many people who have come down the mountain.

Ever since, Zhang Qixing sent the nine-tailed fox Jiuyouhuan to go down the mountain quietly to find out, and then there was the previous conversation.

Jiu Youhuan thought for a while with his head down, and then said to Zhang Qixing, "They seem to be dressed very strangely, some are actually wearing costumes, and they don't have braids, and their hair flows all over their foreheads. Wearing a blue turban!"

Everyone knows that in the Qing Dynasty under the full rule, people wore long braids, and the hair above the forehead was shaved.

Zhang Qixing, after listening to Jiuyouhuan's words, after a while of contemplation, he said "Oh!" to Jiuyouhuan. At this time, Zhang Qixing already understood the identities of these people, and they should undoubtedly be the Taiping Army, but Zhang Qixing was surprised What's more, why did the Taiping Army come over so quickly!

Just as Zhang Qixing was thinking, he saw a little blood-red snake swimming into the house.

Needless to say, this little snake must be Xue Yimo, and Jiu Youhuan also saw her, and said to Xue Yimo, "Sister Yimo, why are you wandering out again? Didn't the master tell you not to?" Did you go out?"

Listening to Jiu Youhuan's words, Xue Yimo spit out his own letter quickly, like a child sticking out his tongue at an adult!
Then Xue Yimo walked to Zhang Qixing's side and said, "When will you take me to find my brother?" Xue Yimo has asked such words many times!
Zhang Qixing did not answer Xue Yimo's question directly, but asked Xue Yimo, "Didn't I tell you not to go out casually? Why did you go out to play?".

Xue Yimo also stuck out his tongue at Zhang Qixing, and then said speechlessly, "Damn, it's boring to stay here...".

"Then, you've been out for so long, have you found anything interesting?" Zhang Qixing, who said yes, is not the kind of character who is very good at coaxing children, so the relationship with Xue Yimo is neither close nor distant.

Xue Yi thought for a while, and then said, "I saw a lot of people coming down the mountain, which made me not interested in playing anymore, and then I came back, but when I came back, when I passed the Shangqing Palace, I saw A lot of Taoist priests come there, and they are all disgusting guys!"

Xue Yimo thought for a while while talking, and then continued, "There are those annoying Zhang Daoyi, Zhang Lu, Zhang Ping...".

Zhang Qixing watched Xue Yimo keep counting and counting, then interrupted Xue Yimo's words, and asked Xue Yimo lightly, "Then why are they all there? ".

After hearing this, Xue Yimo thought for a while, and finally said, "I remember, they seemed to be talking about the Qing Dynasty...the Manchus...the Han people...the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom...and they said that it would be better to take refuge in that side! ".

After hearing Xue Yimo's narration, Zhang Qixing had a rough guess in his mind, that is, they were discussing whether to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or the Qing court, but Zhang Qixing was not very sure about what Xue Yimo said intermittently, so Zhang Qixing decided to go there secretly. listen!
(End of this chapter)