The news that Taiping General Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun came to attack Yang Xiuqing one after another was like a bolt from the blue, which suddenly shook the entire land of China, caused a huge sensation, and completely changed the direction of the situation of China's civil war.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself was of course the most affected. On the premise that the warlordization of the major Taiping army had already been very obvious, this incident undoubtedly directly led to the complete division of the Taiping Army. Although Yang Xiuqing, who was shocked, issued a statement at the first time, denied all the accusations made by Wu Ruxiao against him, claimed that Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun were here to rebel and demanded that Taiping Army in various places send troops to attack, except for a few Yang Xiuqing's best friends, most of the Taiping Army warlords chose to support their troops and wait and see, and contacted Wu Ruxiao one after another, and then responded.

Soon, after Ye Yun came, Huang Zichao, the garrison of the Taiping Army in Changzhou, also chose to raise an army to fight against Yang. Tan Shaoguang, who was guarding Suzhou, and Lu Shunde, who was guarding Suzhou, repeatedly confirmed that Wu Ruxiao's evidence was true, and they also successively raised the banner of challenging Yang. Although they did not directly send troops to Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun to help, they also took the opportunity to get rid of Yang Xiuqing's control and formally seize the position.

Yang Fuqing, who is currently stationed in Yangzhou, is a member of the Yang Xiuqing tribe, and firmly does not believe that Yang Xiuqing will betray the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He chose to go south to serve the king, helping Yang Xiuqing temporarily block the army of Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun, and also caught Yang Xiuqing off guard. The Zhongyang Sect and the Yang Sect fought hard in the Guazhou area of ​​Zhenjiang, fighting.

Taking advantage of Yang Fuqing's opportunity to temporarily block the Wu Ye coalition, Yang Xiuqing naturally tried his best to win the support of the generals of the Taiping Army in the upper reaches. As a result, with the promise of Yang Xiuqing's envoy, Huang Wenjin, the general of the Taiping Army who has always been Yang Xiuqing's direct line since the Jintian Uprising, chose to continue to support Yang Xiuqing. However, Lin Fengxiang and Lin Qirong, who were more important in their geographical location, continued to retain their attitude. They neither sent troops to challenge Yang nor continued to express their loyalty to Yang Xiuqing. They chose to work hard to contact Wu Ruxiao and understand the truth.

The major army leaders of the Taiping Army, which were lined with mountains, were also divided. Li Kaifang, who was loyal to Yang Xiuqing, did not believe in any explanation of Wu Ruxiao's envoy, decisively chose to continue to be loyal to Yang Xiuqing, and also led his army to reinforce Yang Xiuqing as soon as possible. The same was true for Ji Wenyuan, who was also loyal to Yang Xiuqing, but Ji Wenyuan's army shouldered the important task of fighting against the Qing army in Shandong and failed to send troops south, so he could only speak out for support.

What made Yang Xiuqing very angry was that Shi Dakai, who had the most strong relationship with him among the major armies of the Taiping Army, chose to hold troops and wait and see this time, and did not express his support for him at the first time. Zeng Lichang and Li Shixian's troops, who were following Shi Dakai to attack Weng Xincun's father and son, were also expressed their willingness to follow Shi Dakai's leader and wait and see, forming a slight confrontation with Yang Xiuqing.

In this case, Yang Xiuqing's best choice is of course to fight quickly. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the heads of the Taiping Army had not yet made up their minds to raise an army to attack him, they quickly eliminated Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun to destroy the evidence. In order to do this, Yang Xiuqing also sent his elite direct line to advance eastward and joined forces with Yang Fuqing's army to attack Zhenjiang. Unfortunately, because of the heavy losses in the Northern Expedition, and the deterioration of combat effectiveness in the prosperous areas of Nanjing for a long time, the Yang family army launched many attacks on Zhenjiang, but they were still unable to quickly attack Zhenjiang and eliminate Ye Yunlai. Wu Ruxiao's army actively advanced westward to help Ye Yun share the pressure and gain time to wait for other Taiping Army leaders to react.

At the same time, Yang Xiuqing certainly did not forget Wu Chaoyue, the biggest upstream threat. When the situation was already in danger, Yang Xiuqing naturally did not dare to dream of joining Qing to fight against Wu. He honestly sent his confidant Hou Renkuan to Hubei to contact Wu Chaoyue, claiming that Wu Ruxiao, Ye Yunlai and others had slandered his accusations, and that he had absolutely no collusion with the Qing court. He expressed his willingness to continue to work with Wu Chaoyue to destroy the Qing Dynasty, and also asked Wu Chaoyue to remain neutral in the civil war of the Taiping Army and not provide any support and help to Ye Wu's rebels.

Yang Xiuqing's actions were obviously a bit too late. When his confidant Hou Renkuan was still rushing to Hubei, Jing Shou, an envoy sent to Hubei by the Qing court, had already begun to persuade Wu Chaoyue to send troops to advance eastward, and ran to Wu Chaoyue's Marshal's Mansion every day to request a summon. Every time he saw Wu Chaoyue, he would try his best to persuade Wu Chaoyue to take advantage of the situation and take the opportunity to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to seize the fertile land in Jiangnan. He also stated that as long as Wu Chaoyue attacked the Taiping Army, no matter what conditions he had, he could discuss.

Because the opportunity was really rare, there were quite a few calls for robbery within the Wu army. Even Zhao Liewen and Yan Jingming and other important officials of the Wu army suggested that Wu Chaoyue might as well consider destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first, occupying the prosperous land in Jiangnan, and then launching the Northern Expedition with a better geographical location.

People have selfish intentions. It would be false to say that Wu Chaoyue had not been attracted by the proposal of taking advantage of the situation. Especially when the Wu army was secretly prepared for the Eastern Expedition, taking advantage of the situation to take advantage of the situation and taking advantage of the situation to take advantage of the situation and robbing Jiangnan was actually a matter of Wu Chaoyue. However, the four words of national justice stopped Wu Chaoyue, and after hesitating for a while, Wu Chaoyue made up his mind to decide to be neutral with the Taiping Army.

When announcing his major decision, Wu Chaoyue summoned Zhao Liewen, Yan Jingming, Qian Wei, Wang Fu and others to confidants, and poured out their voices to everyone, saying: "Everyone, I know that the opportunity is rare now. Changmao is in turmoil and attacks each other. We sent troops eastward to eliminate Changmao not only grasped the great grasp, but also gained a prosperous land in Jiangnan. However, I decided to give up this opportunity."

Zhao Liewen and others, who are already familiar with Wu Chaoyue's personality, remained silent and waited patiently for Wu Chaoyue to explain the reason. Wu Chaoyue also said directly to himself: "I think so. If we now use our main force to the battlefield on the Eastern Front, what will happen?"

"First of all, Changmao will definitely hate us for taking advantage of the situation. Even if the civil war does not stop, the Changmao army downstream that did not participate in the civil war will definitely fight us to the end. Although we have the upper hand, we may not be able to quickly capture the cities along the Yangtze River. On the contrary, it may be possible to pay a heavy price."

"Secondly, we may take advantage of the situation at this time, which may backfire, resulting in Yang Xiuqing regaining the support of Changmao's morale. The heads of Changmao's army are not fools, and they will not understand the reason why a chopstick is easily broken. As long as the heads of Changmao with a little brain will definitely choose to join forces to fight the enemy. Yang Xiuqing will also take the opportunity to call on all Changmao to work together to fight our army and take this opportunity to reunite people's hearts."

"The third point is that the dangerous enemy is not Changmao. In fact, even if Changmao does not have civil strife, they are definitely not our opponents. Because Changmao's internal affairs are in a mess, it is not the hearts of gentry and students, and it is too harsh to the people with military force. The army and territory are seriously sluggish, and the official positions are complicated and chaotic. The heads of the big and small army basically listen to Xuan and disobey Yang. Even without Wu Ruxiao's uprising to fight against Yang, Changmao splits and civil strife is just a matter of time. If we want to eliminate Changmao, we can actually do it at any time and have a chance at any time."

"Our most dangerous enemy is the Beijing Rebellion Party. Since the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, Beijing has been the capital of China for more than 400 years. Even the villagers in the mountains know to listen to the words in the capital. Although the rebellion Party is weak now, as long as they still control the capital one day, they will have the central righteousness of the central government every day, and the morale of the army and the people will subconsciously look towards them."

"There is another advantage of the Beijing Rebellion Party, which is that it has a perfect political system. As long as the territory still in its hands can be effectively ruled, can develop production and receive money and food, and continuously obtain military pay. This is especially true for the army. Previously, the Beijing Rebellion Party could have ordered Senggelinqin to hand over the military power with one order. There is no possibility of a situation like the long-haired army. The heads of the big and small army are fighting on their own. On the surface, they are actually divided into pieces. Although such an army is relatively weak, it is actually the most difficult to deal with."

"Last point, the Beijing Rebellion Party may continue to receive support and assistance from foreigners. Not only is the Rakshasa Kingdom likely to continue to assist the Beijing Rebellion Party. As long as the price is sufficient, Britain and France may not consider supporting them. Moreover, even if the foreigners will not directly send troops to the Beijing Rebellion Party, as long as they continue to sell large amounts of weapons to the Beijing Rebellion Party, and delay the years, giving the Party a lot of time to equip advanced weapons and learn advanced tactics, they can still compete with us on the battlefield."

Speaking incessantly, Wu Chaoyue paused, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and then said: "So, we must not seek immediate benefits and take advantage of the situation to attack Changmao, which is destined to be defeated. We can only kill the danger in the bud, give priority to the elimination of the rebellious party in the capital, and even if it is not good, we must take the capital and obtain the central justice, and then slowly eliminate Changmao."

After hearing Wu Chaoyue's heartfelt words, he knew that Wu Chaoyue would never waver his temper once he made up his mind. None of the important civil and military officials present opposed it, and all expressed their support for Wu Chaoyue's decision. Wu Chaoyue was very pleased and said, "Okay, since you have no objection, then that's it. We will issue an announcement tomorrow to announce a neutral position on Changmao's civil war."

"Let's go!" Zhao Liewen, who was most trusted by Wu Chaoyue, finally spoke up and opposed: "Master, you decided to continue to disrupt the party first, and I support it, but we must not make an announcement and express our neutrality directly."

When Wu Chaoyue and everyone looked at Zhao Liewen in confusion, Zhao Liewen explained: "If we directly issue a neutral announcement, it would be too cheap to Changmao and the Beijing Rebellion."

"If we do this, first of all, Yang Xiuqing doesn't have to worry about the hidden dangers of the upstream. She can do her best to deal with the Changmao King-to-responsible army from Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun. With the pressure greatly reduced, maybe he can quickly eliminate Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun, end the Changmao civil war and turn around and threaten us."

"The second is that if we issue a neutral announcement, the Beijing Rebellion Party will definitely understand that we are determined to attack them first, and will concentrate all our strength to stop us and increase the difficulty of our Northern Expedition. So, we will directly issue this neutral announcement that represents our moral integrity and faith. At most, we will only receive some moral reputation, but in fact we will suffer a great loss."

"But if we don't rush to express our attitude, the situation will be completely different." Speaking of this, Zhao Liewen smiled slightly and said, "First, Yang Xiuqing dared not rest assured, and Huang Wenjin, who has publicly expressed support for Yang Xiuqing, dared not go east to join the war directly. The civil war on Changmao may become bigger and bigger. Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun can also gain more peace of mind for us in the Northern Expedition."

"Second, of course, it can numb the Beijing Rebellion Party, making the Beijing Rebellion Party feel that we may take advantage of Changmao at any time. In order to facilitate this, the Beijing Rebellion Party will not only make huge concessions at the negotiating table, but may also neglect the preparations to create a chance for us to win."

After listening to Zhao Liewen's analysis, Wu Chaoyue realized that he was still too moral and forgot to use his pretty good credibility to seek benefits. He also nodded immediately and said, "Hui Fu Gao's opinion, our neutral position cannot be announced immediately. We must close our mouths first and make no statements about the Changmao Civil War."

"You can't stop talking at all." Zhao Liewen smiled and said, "Weiting, I think from now on, it's better not to meet Yang Xiuqing's envoy again. No matter how the envoy sent by Yang Xiuqing begs, you just won't meet or express your opinion, so that Yang Xiuqing can't understand your attitude and position."

"But if Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun come to send someone to see you, you can meet you publicly, one is to make Yang Xiuqing worry, and the other is to give Wu Ruxiao and Ye Yun some encouragement so that they can rest assured to fight to the end with Yang Xiuqing."

Wu Chaoyue agreed again and asked directly: "Where is the rebels in the capital?"

"Of course we have to meet." Zhao Liewen said with a smile: "After meeting, we will only talk about the romance, not the major military affairs, and not give a clear word. Only in this way, the rebellious parties in the capital will ask you to send troops to attack Changmao at all costs."

Wu Chaoyue laughed loudly and made the decision to adopt it on the spot. Then he accepted Zhao Liewen's suggestion and decided to increase troops to Jiujiang on the pretext of war in the downstream endangering the border. He not only put pressure on Yang Xiuqing, but also pretended to be ready to attack the Taiping Army at any time.

In Zhao Lie's article, Hou Renkuan rushed to Hubei to ask for a visit to Wu Chaoyue, but was flatly rejected. Hong Renyu, who had a good relationship with Wu Chaoyue, asked to see Wu Chaoyue but failed. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue had not made any statement about the civil war of the Taiping Army. After the news reached Yang Xiuqing, Yang Xiuqing indeed gave up the idea of ​​mobilizing the upstream army to go east to suppress the rebellion. He was worried about guarding against Wu Chaoyue day and night, and did not dare to put all his strength into the battlefield of suppressing the rebellion.
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