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Chapter 437: Two birds with one stone

Although Shi Dakai was still half-believing and half-doubted, he could not refute the words of the Western King at this time. The killing of each other in the Tianjing incident caused great damage to the heavenly kingdom. If the king was killed in the battle to fight against the traitors, the heaven would be even weaker. Wei Zhijun on the Huai River was more likely to surrender to the Qing Dynasty than Yang Fuqing.

Shi Dakai didn't say anything at the moment. What's the point of enduring a little grievance for the sake of the great cause of heaven? After all, there are injustices and debts. His biggest enemy is Wei Changhui, and the other soldiers in the North Palace are innocent after all.

After thinking about this festival, Shi Dakai no longer entangled in the matter of advancing immediately, and instead discussed how to disintegrate the Beidian Army in the city. He believed that as long as the king-supporting army was launched, he would only ask the chief culprit and not the threat, the chances of the lower-level generals and officers in the Beidian Army surrender would be very high, and they would turn against each other when they really attacked the city.

The King of the West did not refute the King of Wings this time. When the King of Wings said that he had old friends and whoever was in the North Palace, he could win over them, the King of the West would follow suit.

After a moment of discussion, Shi Dakai suddenly talked about the shortage of food in the army and wanted to borrow a batch of food and grass for emergency response. Without blinking, Xiao Yungui ordered someone to invite Zuo Zongtang and ask him to allocate a batch of food and grass to Dasheng Pass to the Yidian soldiers.

Shi Dakai was overjoyed immediately. He should know that no food would be gathered. If the Western King took advantage of the lack of military food in the Wing Hall to poach, although Shi Dakai could guarantee that his veterans in the Wing Hall would not turn to the Western King, he could not guarantee that the newly encamped East and North Halls would not seek refuge with the Western King. Did he guess wrong? The Western King is really a man with a strong man, with only heaven in his heart, without any selfish thoughts?

Until he walked out of the Xiaolingwei camp of the West Palace unimpeded, Shi Dakai did not understand the true face of the Western King. He rode on the horse and seemed to be saying to himself. He also seemed to be asking Zhang Suimu: "Is the Western King really going up to defend the king this time for the Kingdom of Heaven?"

Zhang Suimu's face was still solemn, and he frowned and said, "I can't see anything now. When I enter Tianjing, I will know. If he is willing to obey the order of the Heavenly King, he will be the Western King of Heaven, otherwise it will be the second Eastern King Yang Xiuqing."

Shi Dakai sighed and said, "Suimu. Whose fault did you say that you have come to this point today?"

Zhang Suimu was speechless for a moment, and Shi Dakai continued to say slowly: "Is the East King wrong? He helped the heavenly kingdom to conquer a huge country. If there were no East King, I was afraid we would not even get out of Guangxi. Is Wei Changhui wrong? If I were to change places, maybe I could only force people to kill people helplessly. The West King was even more wrong. He did not get involved from beginning to end. And what about me? What was my fault? I did not stop Wei Changhui decisively at the beginning?"

Zhang Suimu said: "It was the King of Northern who was heartbroken and turned into a demon, which had nothing to do with His Highness. Perhaps the biggest mistake was the King of Heaven. If he hadn't ignored military and political affairs all year round, why would the King of Eastern China be like this? If he hadn't used people, why would the King of Northern Palace kill people like a mess? If it weren't for him..."

Shi Dakai was stunned. Then he raised his hand and stopped, "Maybe the Heavenly King is really wrong, but we know these words well, so there is no need to say them." Following Shi Dakai stared at the distant city of Tianjing and sighed: "Recalling how happy it was when Jintian Village raised an army, everyone was fighting together to kill Qing Yao together, but they didn't expect that many brothers did not die at the hands of Qing Yao, but died at the hands of their own people."

Zhang Suimu suddenly said, "Maybe this is what the West Palace Army said. This is the test given to us by God, the Heavenly Father."

Shi Dakai smiled bitterly and nodded slowly and said, "It is indeed a test given to us by God, God of Heaven. After returning, he will tell you what you heard from the West Palace and tell you. Many brothers actually have doubts..."

Looking at Shi Dakai and his group walking further and further, Xiao Yungui smiled on his face, and then turned back to Zuo Zongtang and said, "When the soldiers from the Yidian Palace come to move food and grass tomorrow, they can reveal the news to the Citi soldiers of Yang Fuqing's troops."

Zuo Zongtang nodded slightly and said, "The Yang Fuqing tribe is not rich in food and grass this time. The group of Citi soldiers cannot escape the habit of the world, and they are not welcomed by Yang Fuqing tribe's regular East Hall Army. There are very few food and grass. After they arrived in Chunhua, the group of Citi soldiers would rob the house and rob the house of food. They were simply a group of crazy bandits. If they knew that such a batch of food and grass was transported to Dasheng Pass, they would definitely be robbed in the middle."

Xiao Yungui laughed in a silence and whispered: "Yang Fuqing's Citi soldiers robbed the food and grass of the Wing King. The two families might fight and they can't get together. We have a name and justifiedly dealt with this group of bandit-like Citi soldiers. Yang Fuqing could not fight Shi Dakai, so he could only obediently throw himself at us, just killing two birds with one stone." After that, the two laughed together.

The Citi soldiers under Yang Fuqing were one of the Tiandihui soldiers who entered Jiangxi after the failure of the Guangdong Uprising last year. Since the long-term attack on Guangzhou, Chen Kai and others led most of the Tiandihui soldiers to Fujian to join the West Hall. One of the Tiandihui soldiers, which was known as 100,000, led by Chen Rong, Deng Xiang, Lu Wei, Tan Xing, Tan Fu and others, went from Chaling to Yongxin, Anfu, and Fenyi to enter Jiangxi and other places. In the autumn of that year, due to the oppression of the Hunan Army and Jiang Zhongyuan's troops, the Taiping Army Yang Fuqing's troops rescued Changsha from the three routes of Nanchang. The two armies met in Wanzai on October 19 of that year. Soon the name of "Citi" appeared. Since then, "Citi" has become the special number of this Tiandihui troops originated in Guangdong and entered the Taiping Army in Jiangxi.

However, because this Citi army was supported by the establishment, Yang Fuqing had no time to rectify the rebel army. Most of the rebel army in the world were extremely habitual. Over time, the banditry became even more powerful. From the initial deception to the later open robbery. When Yang Fuqing was planning to strictly manage the situation, he did not expect that the Tianjing Incident would happen. Then Yang Fuqing had to give up the idea of ​​reorganization for the time being. Later, he went to Beijing to serve the king. Yang Fuqing was worried that something would happen sooner or later that the Citi army would have an accident in Jiangxi, which would threaten his retreat, so he brought 30,000 Citi soldiers together.

These Citi soldiers were originally called 100,000, but they included the elderly, weak, women and children. After returning to the Taiping Army, only 30,000 soldiers were left to use. The number of people was greatly reduced, and the remaining elderly, weak, women and children stayed in Jiangxi to farm.

Because the Citi Army was not from the orthodox Taiping Army, it was looked down upon in the Dongdian Army. It often received the least food and supplies, the worst ones, and it was even worse after leaving Jiangxi. Yang Fu's Qing army was not good at food and grass, so there was very little food and grass assigned to the Citi Army, so the Citi Army began to feed the grain everywhere and get the grain and grass by itself.

The Yidian had better food, and finally bought it with silver. If there was no one, I wrote the IOU. The people around Tianjing, the famous Yidian, still bought it. The Citi soldiers were not good, so they had to rob it. Yesterday, the Xidian Army cleaned up a Citi army of more than 300 people, but there were 30,000 Citi soldiers near Tianjing, so Xiao Yungui thought of taking advantage of this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

After returning to Dasheng Pass, Shi Dakai immediately ordered people to prepare and sent Shi Zhenji to take two thousand men to the West Palace camp to collect food and grass early the next morning.

The next morning, Shi Zhenji led two thousand troops to the West Palace camp to collect food and grass. The West Palace was extremely enthusiastic, which made Shi Zhenji and others feel the enthusiasm of their brothers. When the generals of the West Palace asked if they needed to send troops to escort, Shi Zhenji refused without thinking. This is near Tianjing, the hinterland of the Heaven Kingdom, and there are no clear demons. Even the North Palace Army has shrunk into the city, so why should we send more troops to escort? In fact, Shi Zhenji was still worried that he would have had more contact with the strangely dressed West Palace soldiers, and his soldiers thought to him.

After leaving Xiaolingwei Camp, he traveled for more than twenty miles. Unexpectedly, there were several people who had moved in the woods ahead, with tens of thousands of people, but there were no signs. The leader of the man was also wrapped in a red scarf and shouted that the Yiyi Palace Army had put down the food and grass and left.

Shi Zhenji was furious and came forward to ask. The man was anxious and seemed to be afraid that the Yidian Army would come near Dasheng Pass, so he shouted, and more than 10,000 people rushed forward to grab the grain.

Shi Zhenji was furious and ordered his subordinates to protect the grain. After the two groups of people were crowded together, they first started to take action and then used their knife. Soon they fought in chaos. Although the Yidian soldiers were elite, the number was small. The group of people was even more hungry and robbed the grain. The Yidian soldiers could not stop them and had to take the injured people away. The group of people grabbed the food, and then quickly retreated after collecting the body.

After Shi Zhenji fled back to Dasheng Pass and reported to Shi Dakai, Shi Dakai was furious and immediately raised his troops and brought Shi Zhenji to come. However, when he arrived at the place where he grabbed the grain, everyone had already left. Before Shi Dakai was furious, he took the troops and horses to search privately. Finally, he found a few lonely men. After taking the food, he found out that the person robbed the grain was Yang Fuqing's Citi army.

At that moment, Shi Dakai brought his troops to Chunhua to ask for food and grass, and asked Yang Fuqing to give an explanation.

However, Yang Fuqing led his troops to Chunhua. He was forced to come this time, and he was always worried that the Heavenly King would hold the East Palace accountable, and he was even more worried that the Western King would annex his troops. Therefore, he had been hiding behind the two groups of people, and planned to retreat to Jiangxi when he saw that the momentum was not good, and he would go back to Jiangxi to become his own local emperor.

The grain and grass that Yang Fuqing went to fight this time was purchased enough, and Jiangxi was rich and there were enough grain and grass in several counties north of the country. However, after the army arrived in Chunhua, the granary caught fire for no reason. Although the rescue was timely, a lot of grain and grass were still lost.

Then Yang Fuqing reduced the food for the Citi Army to ensure the food and grass of his confidants. However, Yang Fuqing agreed to them to buy food everywhere. Anyway, this place was outside Tianjing and not in Jiangxi. If you rob it, you would just rob it.

When Shi Da drove his troops over, Yang Fuqing was heard from the spy. At first, he said that Shi Da had come over and hurriedly ordered people to raise troops to prepare to face the enemy. Then he realized that it was his subordinate Citi army who robbed the Wing King's food and grass!

Yang Fuqing cursed the bandit-like Citi Army in his heart. He was really brave and actually grabbed the Wing King's head, but he had to bite the bullet and go to meet Wing King.
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