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Seeing Lin Fengxiang's hesitant to speak, Zhou You couldn't help saying angrily: "Earlier, the Eastern King planned to go north and move the capital to the capital! Has he come?"

Lin Fengxiang, who was stunned when he heard the words, then said in a serious manner: "By the way, there is another news. The British and French allied forces are going north by boat. It seems that there are many troops. I am afraid they will attack Tianjin and even the capital from Dagukou. It seems that they And I don’t want us to easily take the Man Qing and replace it!”

"Of course! After all, they signed a treaty with the Qing court before, and we will not recognize those so-called trade indemnities and land cession treaties," Zhou You also nodded slightly and sneered, "Come on! This battle is inevitable sooner or later. We are thousands of miles away, how many people can they send here? Even if we rely on the advantage of firearms, our firearms are not bad. It is time to let them know that we are not as easy to bully as the Qing court."

"Arranging at Dagukou in advance, we don't have the conditions to fight a sea battle with them for the time being, but as long as they land, they will give me a head-on blow..." Zhou You said with a slightly moving expression, "No, first pretend to be defeated, come and invite you into the urn , when the time comes to wipe them out in one fell swoop, we can't scare them away. Otherwise, our coastline is so long, if they retreat and land from other places, it will be really troublesome."

"But if we can completely annihilate this group of British and French allied forces, it will take at least a few months, and at most a year or so after they send troops again. By then, we may have already captured the hinterland of the Central Plains, and even the southeastern provinces." , I can deal with them calmly and slowly," Zhou You continued.

In June 1856, the fleet of the Anglo-French allied forces approached Dagukou on the grounds of helping the Qing court to quell the domestic rebellion. Ironically, the one responsible for guarding Dagukou was Seng Gelinqin who had chosen to surrender and traveled around.

In this battle, because Seng Gelinqin had just joined the army and was eager to make contributions, and the surrendered Qing army under his command was driven to a dead end, it seemed like a dead end, so the resistance was extraordinarily heroic and the battle was extremely fierce.

Due to the abundant firepower, Seng Gelinqin took the lead, and his tactics were appropriate, he sank and damaged more than ten enemy ships, killed and wounded 600 British and French allied forces, and even seriously injured a commander of the British and French allied forces.

The Anglo-French allied forces were defeated, and then more troops were dispatched to bombard the Dagukou Fortress with fierce artillery fire. The battle was extremely tragic..

More than half of the troops under Seng Gelinqin's command were killed or injured, and the remaining soldiers all chose to die together. Many people in the British and French allied forces were killed by fire, thunder and gunpowder, which made the commanders of the British and French allied forces even more angry. The intention is to expand the war, take revenge, and occupy the capital.

Dagu fell, and the British and French allied forces drove straight in, quickly occupied Tianjin, which Zhou You voluntarily abandoned, and then advanced to Tongzhou, but when it was difficult to attack Tongzhou, Lin Fengxiang and Seng Gelinqin cut off the retreat.

Zhou You had 3 to [-] troops, and nearly [-] British and French allied forces besieged around Tongzhou. Relying on the power of the same sophisticated firearms, they fought a decisive battle with the British and French allied forces.

The battle lasted for a day or two, and finally, at the cost of thousands of casualties, more than 1 Zhou troops of the British and French allied forces were annihilated. Surround them and annihilate them all at Dagukou.

This battle completely made Zhou You and Lin Fengxiang famous all over the world, and also severely shocked the western powers.Especially Britain and France, almost going crazy!

But no matter how much they hated, no matter how much they wished to tear Zhou You and Lin Fengxiang to pieces, after the battle they realized how powerful Zhou You was, and the combat power of his soldiers and horses was indeed not comparable to that of the Qing court.Zhou's army is so powerful, even if Britain, France and other powers send troops to come, will they really be able to defeat Zhou You?

Not to mention the shock caused by the fighting against the Anglo-French coalition forces in Tongzhou and Dagukou, the most direct impact in China is that after Li Kaifang led his troops south to Henan, the battle became smoother and smoother. Many local civil and military officials of the Qing court even There is a trend of watching the wind and falling.

Next, in just over a month, with the cooperation of Shengbao, Li Kaifang, who broke through Kaifeng and went to Luoyang, has already swept through Henan and approached Suizhou in Hubei.

As expected, in Tianjing, after the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing was killed, Wei Changhui was executed by Hong Xiuquan soon after.Tianjing civil and military wanted to welcome Shi Dakai back to Beijing to assist the government, but Shi Dakai stayed in Jiujiang because of Hong Xiuquan's suspicion and refused to return to Tianjing.

Next, Li Kaifang quickly took down the cities of De'an, Anlu, Yichang, and Jingzhou in Hubei, and forced Hanyang.

At the same time, Luo Gang and Su Sanniang, who had besieged Changsha for some time, and with the successive surrenders of the surrounding prefectures and counties in Changsha, finally forced Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang, who was also hiding in Changsha as an aide, to choose Kaesong to surrender.

After all, the Qing Dynasty is dead. Seeing that the traveling Datong Army is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a faint tendency to sweep the world and change dynasties. Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang are not stupid and loyal people, they are both first-class smart people in the world. Naturally, he knows how to assess the situation and follow the trend.

After Changsha fell, Changde, Yiyang, Yuezhou and other Hunan prefectures and counties seemed to be waiting for the wind to descend. Luo Dagang and Su Sanniang also led the army and approached Wuchang.

At this time, Hu Linyi, the acting governor of Hubei, had been besieging Wuchang for a long time, trying to break through the city of Wuchang guarded by Taiping Army general Wei Jun.Facing the siege of Li Kaifang and Luo Dagang, Hu Linyi had to withdraw from Wuchang quickly.

Zhou You's men and horses joined forces in Wuchang in this way, and it can be regarded as a thorough connection between the north and the south, connecting the territories under his control into one piece.

At the same time, Zhou You's men and horses penetrated and developed rapidly in northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, constantly squeezing the living space of the remnants of the Qing court, and won the support and support of the poor people at the bottom.

In this way, quietly, the territory that Zhou You actually controlled surpassed the territory controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and vaguely surrounded the territories laid down by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Western Expeditions such as southern Anhui and Jiangxi, making the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lose the space to expand westward and northward.

Therefore, Shi Dakai, who led tens of thousands of Taiping troops out of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom due to the changes in Tianjing, could only choose to enter Fujian from Jiangxi to fight, hoping to open up a new situation in Fujian and then develop into Guangdong.

And Wei Jun, who had been trapped in Wuchang before and had no reinforcements, after being rescued by Li Kaifang and Luo Dagang, also joined Li Kaifang because of the death of his brother Wei Changhui, and was ready to follow Zhou You.

Hong Xiuquan of Tianjing was undoubtedly shocked and angry that Zhou You captured Hubei and even Wuchang City so quickly.His strength has grown too fast, not only does he not want to obey the orders of the kingdom of heaven, but he also takes over the generals and territories of the kingdom of heaven. This is the rhythm of annexing the kingdom of heaven!

Hong Xiuquan wanted to teach Zhou You a lesson, but found that with Shi Dakai's departure, he didn't have any powerful generals to dispatch, and it seemed that he didn't have the confidence to send troops to capture Wuchang!

No way, Hong Xiuquan realized that he had self-destructed the Great Wall. While regretting, he could only hide in the Heavenly King's Mansion and pretend to be deaf and dumb.At least, Zhou You has not really made an enemy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom so far.