Liang Huafeng was defeated in the Niuhe River, and tens of thousands of people were exhausted. Only more than 600 cavalrymen fled back to Changzhou with him.

Upon hearing Liang Huafeng's defeat, the Grand Secretary in Changzhou City was so scared that his face was gone and he was not fluent. After seeing Liang Huafeng, he hugged him and cried bitterly, and repeatedly said, "What should I do now? What should I do now?"

How did Liang Huafeng know what to do? His soldiers lost most of them. At present, except for a few hundred cavalry, there was not even a defender in Changzhou City. How could he defend?

In the Taiping Army, since the Biniuhe Victory, the Taiping Army's Northern Route Army has not stopped for a moment, and the infantry and cavalry work together to quickly advance towards Changzhou City.

The Xinyi Town, which set out from Liyang, Nanjing, arrived in Yixing in two days under the command of the King and the Assistant Minister of the Town. The officials, gentry and soldiers in Yixing had long wanted to surrender. As soon as the Taiping Army arrived, the magistrate Hu Yongkuan, Qianzong Wu Wenjia and others opened the door to surrender.

After appeased the officials and gentry of Yixing, and after the people were relieved, the king and the assistant minister led the cavalry eastward to Changzhou, occupied Zhongxi on the 24th, and the vanguard entered Wujin County on the 26th. Like Yixing, the officials and gentry of Wujin did not resist and surrendered. On the 27th, the Taiping Army on the North Road and the Taiping Army on the West Road met at the Changzhou City, and more than 15,000 troops surrounded the Changzhou City, but opened the south gate.

After surrounding three palaces and one, Liang Huafeng knew that the Taiping Army had not been surrounded and killed, but he just let the defenders in the city not be determined to defend. But at this time he had no intention of defending Changzhou again. In the early morning of the 29th, the southern gate of Changzhou suddenly opened, and hundreds of Qing cavalry surrounded Liang Huafeng, and his forehead was black and fled south, obviously to escape to Suzhou.

The king and the auxiliary minister wanted to lead the cavalry to chase after him, but Zhou Shixiang had a commander to come, saying that the enemy should not be chased, and let Liang Huafeng go to Suzhou.

After Liang Huafeng and Ere Hei escaped, Changzhou Prefect Zhou Angui and others joined forces with the gentry in the city to leave the city and offer Huang Bo surrender. At this point, Changzhou was restored.

Zhou Shixiong asked Zhou Angui to remain the prefect of Changzhou, and ordered Anmin to issue a notice. He also ordered the Taiping Army to enter the city to not invade the people. He also ordered all the young and strong men in Changzhou who were captured in the Niuhe River to be dispersed and ordered them to go back to their own houses. At that time, the Taiping Army's military discipline was recited in the streets and alleys, and they were the king's army. The men in the family were taken away by the Qing army, and they burned incense and prayed, hoping that the Taiping King's Army of the Ming Dynasty would last forever and not be like the Zheng army in the previous period.

After Liang Huafeng and his forehead fled from Changzhou, they first fled to Wuxi County. After staying for half a day, they felt unsafe and fled to Suzhou overnight. The people of Wuxi described the Qing army that escaped from Changzhou as "the northern soldiers were frightened and frightened when they heard about the wind."

In fact, Liang Huafeng is now like a frightened bird, with wind and cranes and trees all over the country. What made him even more frustrated was that he didn't know if Guan Qizhong from Suzhou would bring him into the city. However, even though he knew that Guan Qizhong and Jiang Guozhu were hostile to him, Liang Huafeng had to go to Suzhou because he had nowhere to go.

When they arrived at the city of Suzhou, Erseihei called the door himself. Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu were both surprised after receiving the report. After discussing, the two believed that Liang's army had no more troops and could pose a danger to Suzhou. Changzhou has been lost, and the Taiping Army will inevitably attack Suzhou in the next step, so Liang Huafeng could be allowed to enter the city to defend. After all, Liang's army still has hundreds of cavalry, which can be used in great use at critical moments. Besides, the person who came to call the door was Erseiheihei. If no one was allowed to come in, the emperor knew that in the future, he might not have any good results for them.

In the past, Liang Huafeng was the enemy of life and death, but now he is the object of cooperation. Changes in the world are really impermanent. This ending is as Zhou Shixiang had expected earlier. Under the pressure of the Taiping Army, Liang and Guan will definitely join forces to keep warm.

However, after Liang Huafeng was put into Suzhou City, he was worried that Guan Qizhen would harm him and swallowed his troops, so he let his blacks face Jiang Guozhu. Guan Qizhen said that he would free up the military camp in the city for him. He and his subordinates lived in the military camp, and said that he was not loyal to his subordinates. He came to Suzhou this time to cooperate in defense, so he would not participate in any military discussion. If Guan Qizhen needed him to send troops, he only needed someone to send military orders.

Guan Xiaozhong knew that Liang Huafeng was afraid that he would take the slaughter. He smiled coldly and ordered people to vacancies in the west of the city to resettle Liang's troops. He was from Manzhou, a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, and had no military power, so Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu were quite polite to him.

Jiang Guozhu came forward to invite Wei Seihei to the Governor's Office for a banquet. Wei Seihei came happily, Guan Xiaozhong and Suzhou magistrate Yan Shaoqing accompanied him.

On the table, Jiang Guozhu made indirect moves and deliberately figured out whether there was a secret order given by the emperor from Liang Huafeng. Er Haihei was determined not to be solemn, and it was all the spies of the Ming army. Unexpectedly, he insisted not to be determined, but Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu were even more determined to have a secret order in Liang Huafeng's hand. Otherwise, why would Liang Huafeng be so wary of them after entering the city? If there was no ghost in his heart, could Liang Huafeng do this?

Guan Qizhong even speculated that this secret purpose was probably brought by the black army from the camp, but even if this is the fact, it is not the time to merge, because Suzhou City is now a powder barrel and cannot withstand any sparks.

After the Taiping Army captured Changzhou, it had marched towards Wuxi. The front probed the Mahjong, the Taiping Army brigade had advanced to Wangting in Suzhou Prefecture, and would attack Hushu Pass at any time. Suzhou City is now panic, and many people privately conspired to conquer the city. If it weren't for the strong suppression of Jiang Guozhu and the prefect Yan Shaoqing, Suzhou would have been defeated long ago.

Zhou Shixiang was happy when he used troops in Changzhou. When he was in Wuxi, he received an emergency delivery from Guangzhou. The regent had set off north under the protection of his own army, and now he had entered Jiangxi. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang wanted to take Suzhou in one go, completely pacify Jiangnan, and use Jiangnan as a gift for the regent to the southern capital to ascend the throne. At the same time, the secret report from the Military Information Department was also delivered to Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang only smiled contemptuously for the act of obstructing the regent from the regent to the north, and did not succeed in his actions to obstruct the regent from the regent from the north.

Zhou Shixiang wanted to quickly take Suzhou, and then returned to Nanjing to welcome the governor. Unexpectedly, the day after the army advanced to Wangting, heavy snow fell. In the south of the Yangtze River, there was little snowfall in winter, and usually snow was in the cold winter month, but it was rare to snow at the end of the winter month.

The heavy snow affected the army's operations, so Zhou Shixiang had to order the entire army to rest on the front line of Wangting. At the same time, he urgently ordered Nanjing, Zhenjiang and Changzhou to quickly make winter clothes.

As the snow was falling, Zhou Shixiang was also waiting, waiting for Liang Huafeng who fled into Suzhou City to fight with Guan Qizhen. Although this possibility became very small under the pressure of the Taiping Army, it was not ruled out that it would not happen.

What Zhou Shixiang did not expect was that he did not wait to take care of the news. Instead, he received a secret letter from another group of people in Suzhou City.
Chapter completed!