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It happened that there was a famine in northern Anhui and Shandong, and there were many hungry people. Although Zhou You and Li Kaifang didn't have many troops, in just two or three months, they gathered tens of thousands of people by plundering powerful and evil gentry and opening warehouses to distribute grain. All the people and horses.

And like Zhou You with a mobile warehouse, he can take out a large amount of ordnance and even firearms with a wave of his hand. Not to mention that the rebels who quickly gathered under his command regarded him as a god-man, even Li Kaifang couldn't help suspecting that Zhou You was a god descended from the earth save them now.

Next, Zhou You and Li Kaifang led tens of thousands of well-equipped rebels all the way to Lian Town where Lin Fengxiang was located.Having experienced a little baptism of war and having spiritual beliefs, their fighting power is not inferior to that of the Taiping Army.

Therefore, even if it was the elite Qing army that besieged Lin Fengxiang and the others, once the wandering troops arrived, relying on the power of their firearms, they still defeated the Qing army and relieved Lin Fengxiang of the siege.

At this time, Lin Fengxiang, although there were only two or three thousand remnants and defeated generals around him, these Taiping soldiers who had experienced the baptism of war and life and death were called real elites, and they could be called reborn from the ashes.

With their joining, the tens of thousands of horses organized under Zhou You's command became even more powerful, and then the troops were divided into two groups. Li Kaifang led more than 2 people and then dispersed into Shandong and Hebei for development. Zhou You and Lin Fengxiang led the most elite 3 Thousands of people rushed to Cangzhou.

Now that I have come to the north, I have traveled around with tens of thousands of horses in hand, and I have reached the border of Zhili, the gate of the Qing court. If I don’t try to conquer the capital and destroy the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop, it would not be a pity. Well!

This is also the ultimate goal of Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and the others all the way here.Therefore, even if Zhou You didn't want to attack the capital now, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang would not give up easily.

The reason why Li Kaifang led people to develop in Shandong and Hebei and continue to grow the team is to leave a retreat. Even if the capital cannot be conquered, he can retreat into the borders of Shandong and Hebei and continue to take the road of encircling the cities from the countryside so that the Qing court The capital was surrounded by a sea of ​​peasant wars.In this way, it is only a matter of time before the capital is captured and the Qing Dynasty is overthrown.

Since the main force of the Qing army besieged Lin Fengxiang Yulian Town before, Cangzhou has now become the logistics base of the Qing army.With the defeat of the main force of the Qing army, Seng Gelinqin led his troops back to Cangzhou, so Zhou You and the others can be said to have chased the defeated remnants of the Qing army to Cangzhou.

Therefore, as soon as Seng Gelinqin retreated into Cangzhou, he ordered the gates of the city to be closed tightly, and for a while he didn't even have the courage to fight.Facing Cangzhou, which was guarded by the main force of the Qing army, Zhou You and the others were at a loss for a while.

But for Zhou You, it doesn't really make much sense whether he wins Cangzhou or not.Therefore, Zhou You and Lin Fengxiang continued to go north without hesitation, heading towards Tianjin.

He wanted to see if Seng Gelinqin would watch them go north again.Tianjin is in danger, and even the capital has become dangerous. Even if Seng Gelinqin wants to hide in Cangzhou City, Emperor Xianfeng will quickly call him north to King Qin.

Sure enough, Zhou You and Lin Fengxiang had just led troops to Jinghai, and before they had time to attack Tianjin, Seng Gelinqin led troops to kill from Cangzhou.At the same time, as the commander-in-chief of the Qing army's suppression of the Taiping army, Sheng Bao, who was also the imperial envoy, also rushed to lead the troops.

Zhou You led people to wait for work, and gave Seng Gelinqin a head-on blow in Jinghai, causing the Qing army he brought to defeat again, and almost killed Seng Gelinqin. Went to attack Tianjin, crossed the river directly and fought towards the capital along the canal.

Although there are quite a few troops around the capital, and there are tens of thousands of defenders inside and outside the capital, a lot of troops have been dispatched to encircle and suppress Lin Fengxiang and others before, so that the defenses of Tongzhou, Tianjin and other places are empty.

Although there are still tens of thousands of Qing troops in the capital, the Eight Banners soldiers who were once very powerful have long been decadent and degenerate. They have seldom experienced wars, so that their combat effectiveness has seriously declined.

Even though the equipment of the defenders of the capital of the Qing court is still relatively good, it is still not enough to fight a tough battle. I am afraid that they will not be able to defeat the Taiping army, let alone the army led by Zhou You equipped with a lot of firearms, artillery and other firearms. The elite soldiers.

Historically, in the Opium War a few years later, the British and French allied forces were less than 2 people. With foreign guns and cannons, they easily defeated the Qing army, forcing Emperor Xianfeng to flee to Chengde, Rehe, and occupied the capital.

Now, with Seng Gelinqin's troops suffering successive defeats and Shengbao's troops not yet able to come back to help the capital, the relatively empty capital is naturally powerless to defend against the enemy.

Accompanied by the Qing army from the Fengtai Camp who came to stop Zhou You's men and horses, they were beaten into a panic and defeated. Zhou You, who took advantage of the victory and chased after him, went straight to the outside of the capital city in one go.

This time, Emperor Xianfeng didn't even have time to escape, and accompanied by Zhou You's men and horses to the capital, he didn't even dare to escape.After all, if he ran again at this time, he might be intercepted and killed by Zhou You, so why not come out and die?

However, is it really safe to sit in the capital?With the defeat of the Fengtai camp, the defenders in the capital had fewer troops, and their morale was also in chaos.

After all, since the founding of the Qing court, this is the first time that this kind of soldiers have come to the city. It can't help but remind people of the Ming Dynasty that was beaten to the capital by Li Zicheng. Is the Qing court going to follow in the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty and perish?

While the people of the Qing court in the city were panicking, Zhou You also directly mobilized artillery to storm Andingmen. After a burst of shelling, Lin Fengxiang personally led the troops into the capital in one fell swoop..

The siege battle went smoothly unexpectedly, because the artillery that Zhou You got was too powerful, and the fighting power of the Eight Banners soldiers was really not good enough.

Even Zhou You didn't expect that the battle would be so smooth. No wonder the Qing government suffered repeated setbacks in the face of foreign invaders.

Even the Eight Banners soldiers are so rotten that they need to use the power of the Han army to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Nian Army, and the White Lotus Sect uprising.

If the Qing army could stop Zhou You's troops at Andingmen, perhaps there would still be some morale.Now that the city is easily broken, it is conceivable how serious the blow to the morale of the Qing army is, so that the entire capital quickly fell into chaos..

Zhou You and Lin Fengxiang led their men to the Forbidden City in the inner city of the capital almost like a smashing bamboo. The troops under their command also dispersed to chase the scattered and fleeing Qing army, and quickly controlled the gates of the capital. The Qing army who had time to escape from the city, and all the Manchu dignitaries, officials, gentry and wealthy households in the city also became turtles in the urn, fish on the chopping board.

Although the defense of the inner city was stricter, due to insufficient troops, coupled with low morale and floating hearts, it was quickly conquered. Zhou You and Lin Fengxiang were able to lead troops directly into the Forbidden City...