In the misty water vapor, the floating bridge spanning half a mile wide Huai River seemed to arrive in an instant. Just half a day later, the Taiping Green Flag, which was waving like a forest, was erected in the military camp on the other side that was razed to the ground.

As the main general, Zhu Cun was also deeply touched because this might be his last chance to lead his troops out. After all, as two brothers in the new dynasty led one side outside, it was really enough to attract taboos and criticism from everyone.

However, compared to Zhu San, the younger brother who was able to join the Taiping Army very late, Zhu's qualifications for the Taiping Army were old enough, so old that he could support his old age without any fear of wealth and prosperity and benefit his descendants; but Zhu San was different, so without damaging his general and position, he would rather give more opportunities to the other party to show off.

So after this time, he had to find a way to write a letter to retreat bravely; even if he couldn't retire suddenly, he had to temporarily retreat to the second-line garrison position; in this way, the two brothers could advance one by one, so that they could each carry forward their families under the new trend system created by the Taiping Army.

Then, he calmed down and temporarily held a military meeting in the ruins of military camps and issued an order:

"This time the combat cycle is tentatively set to be between four months and six months. It is to open up the canal route along Huaihang before it snows, connecting Huaidong, Duji and Tianping Army land routes into one, which is the most basic stop line."

"During this period, the most priority target was the Qin Zongquan army of the Caizhou thief, which was the first to be hit; Shi Pu from Wuning Army; Zhu Xuan from Taining Army was second; at the same time, the navy was given priority to alert and guard against abnormal movements from Wang Jingwu of Pinglu Army...."

"At a later time, the grain and equipment, husband and soldiers of the Jiangdong Road will be jointly organized by Jiangdong Road, and the supplementary troops of Lingdong Road will arrive at Yancheng Port, Chuzhou to gather, and cooperate with the six garrison battalions of the Chuzhou Guard Defense Zone to make a feint attack on the Lianshui Army in Haizhou, Taining Zhen;"

"So we only need to focus on dealing with the Caizhou thieves. These people are in the Central Plains and the two Huai Rivers have been rampant for many years. This time, the Cai thieves once again lost their foundation as the hometown party, and then became the king of the Western Qin State. This time, the four difficulties that were cut off from the inside and outside were eliminated;"

"If you can join the siege this time, you will never be able to escape and continue to cause disaster. Of course, no matter how many miscellaneous streams and cannon fodders are killed, it is meaningless. You must seize the head of the township party headed by Qin;"

"As long as these elderly thieves are exhausted, even if Qin himself escapes, it will be useless, and it will be difficult to cause another storm; the only worry that is concerned is the three nearby towns of Huai Shang; so we must try our best to fight and decide quickly, and do not give these people the opportunity to react."

"As long as we move fast enough, we can even go north to rescue the Tianping Army; after expelling the Wei Bo army, gathering the power of Duji and Tianping Army, we will naturally have enough upside and pressure on the three towns on Huaihang..."

Then, the 15,000 Taiping Army who had traveled through the Huai River reposted supplies and equipment in small vehicles and ships at the mouth of the Huanshui River, and used mules and horses to travel 80 miles lightly, heading straight to the city of Qi County, Suzhou; and the Caizhou/Xi Qin Army, who were left behind in the city, reacted.

In the uproar, the Qi County garrison sent messengers to ask for help, while trying to close the city gate and guard it for a while. However, the Taiping Army rushed into the city gate and easily exploded the relatively thin southern city gate;

As a result, the moment the Taiping Army entered the city, the defenders in the city were in an uproar and rushed to escape from the north gate facing their backs. So half a day after the Taiping Army captured Qi County, Cai Jun from the town of Yanqiao (City) more than 20 miles away came to help.

However, Zhu Cun used a trick to continue to keep Cai Jun's flag on the north city, and piled up firewood and set fire to light cigarettes on many places on the top of the city, and made people fight and make drums and whistle. As a result, the Cai Jun who came to support did Shangdang and crashed into the ambush circle inside the north gate without hesitation.

Then at this time, the other two sub-departed troops passed by the city also fought to the rear of the Cai army, cut off its retreat in half and robbed and captured all the behind Zibo equipment mules and horses. Therefore, after dark that day, the Cai army was declared defeated.

However, at this moment, Zhu Cun was still unsatisfied and took action again. Then he left only two camps to guard the prisoners and seize them on the spot, and led the remaining large numbers of people who had the extra energy to attack the town of Suzhou's Zhuzhi Hanqiao (City) overnight.

The town of Yanqiao, which had just sent reinforcements, was almost unprepared and wary; he was disguised as the Taiping selection of the Cai army, rushed into the city gate with a rush among the defeated deserters, and threw bombs and set fire to kill them.

So when most of the troops led by Zhu Cun personally arrived at the city after several hours, the gates of Yanqiao Town, which was large and strong in the city, were already open. The defenders in the city were not able to regain the gates after a short period of fighting, but were defeated by the stormists who broke into it with pearl guns and grenades.

Then when Zhu Cun's formation was launched, the sound of several light mountain cannons hanging onto the city's head, the remaining defenders in the city began to shake and confuse; although in the middle of the night, the Cai army, who were entrenched in the city, showed their tenacity and tenacity as an elderly thief.

However, their fierce resistance in return was useless. Although Cai Jun, who retreated into Yacheng, used the cover of darkness to rush out from the alleys and repelled the tentative attacks of the Taiping Army several times, when the cannon carts and flying fire thunder were sent into the city overnight, their stubborn resistance became a sound among the ruins.

Therefore, after dawn that day, the capital of Xiqin, which was newly released for less than a few months, together with the newly built palace towers and mountains of wealth, goods, and the relatives and family members who claimed to be Qin Zongquan, the King of Xiqin, became the spoils of the Taiping Army.

Qin Zongquan, who was still in Songzhou, suddenly found that he had become the usual lonely man again. However, before he could order the messenger to be executed and use means to block the news, the news spread first.

So, when Qin Zongquan, who announced his promotion to a general in the prefecture of Songcheng (now Shangqiu, Henan), hurried to the front hall, he found that most of the generals present had not arrived, and those who had arrived were closely related to the Qin clan.

However, before he could get angry on the spot, someone rushed in and reported that many troops in the city had left the camp without authorization and rushed out of the city gates. Therefore, within just one day, more than 30,000 people, known as "50,000 people", under the command of Qin Zongquan, the "West Qin King" Qin Zongquan, had left three times in a blink of an eye.

Therefore, for a moment, Qin Zongquan discovered that not to mention the fact that he wanted to raise troops to regain the capital and bridge, even maintaining the current situation was problematic; because the remaining troops were in panic and everyone was uneasy, and he needed his follow-up suppression and comfort.

But all this did not end. Within a few days after the news spread, Ma Yin, the former vanguard commander of the Cai army who was released by the Taiping Army, secretly connected and persuaded him, Lingbi, Hongxian, Linhuan, Mengcheng and Yongcheng in Bozhou, almost surrendered, and even the left-behind generals who killed Cai army took the initiative to surrender.

From this, it can also be seen that the Cai thief led by Qin has been rampant in Huai for many years. How did he ruin the anger of heaven and people and how he was unpopular? However, he was afraid of his cruel and fierce means and force for a long time and was unable to resist. Therefore, now that he has revealed a little sign of decline and disadvantage, he has suffered a fierce backlash without hesitation.

Or, for these scholars who were poisoned and "flies scattered, birds scattered, people scattered, and thorns covered the wilderness", even after the Qin family Cai thieves who had "poached the common people and fed with salt corpses", the situation they had to face after the fall of the Qin family, which was originally "poached the common people and fed with salt corpses", could not be worse than before.

Therefore, the Taiping Army just released food and relief on the spot, and promoted some suggestions and strategies slightly, and it seemed to have achieved good results. After the people in the places that suffered from disasters understood the legend that the Taiping Army, which also liked to kill and refine medicine, was not that true, and the mood of bottoming out and rebounding was also extremely intense.

Because the torture of cruel reality has made the psychological bottom line of these remaining people so low that they cannot be lower. Coupled with strict military discipline and appropriate means of comfort and rescue, it will easily spread across this vast Huanghuai Plain.

This result certainly caught the three towns of Huai Shang, which had formed the "Three Kings Alliance", off guard, but at the same time it also brought a problem for Zhu Cun. Because in the face of the declining situation of Caizhou for many years, even people from Linhuai, Sizhou, Linhuai, Xuzhou, Suqian, and Xiapi, which were originally in the Taining Army, came to surrender and invite troops.

In this case, the 5,000 troops that Zhu Cun brought over the Huai River were far from enough to take over and control these places, let alone continue to pursue and attack Qin Zongquan's headquarters, and deal with the "Three Kings Alliance" on Huai Shang, which may cause friction and confrontation.

But no matter what, the chaos of Huai Shang's chaotic situation, which has been entangled for many years and has been rising one after another, has also seen a big breakthrough again due to the chain reaction brought by this accident.
Chapter completed!