After the destruction of Jinling City, the Taiping Army could completely survive.
Because the Taiping Army scattered everywhere, if united, there are still millions of people.
Moreover, under the escort of Li Mingcheng, the King of Yang, the young lord escaped from the encirclement of the Xiang army on the same day, and soon arrived in Guangde.
Guangde is more than 400 miles away from Nanjing.
Even if the Xiang army that captured Tianjing chased after it overnight, it would not be able to catch up within three days.
This also gives the fleeing a chance to breathe.
At that time, along with the young lord escaping, there was also the Dry King Hong Renjie.
This man was a man of great talent and great talent, who knew western culture very well, and could also be said to be a rare intellectual in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
According to his vision, as long as Huang Wenjin, who was besieging Huzhou at that time, gave up his original combat deployment, joined forces with Wang Haiyang's ministry, jointly supported the young lord, played the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and captured Changsha, the Heavenly Kingdom still had the hope of zhongxing.
Therefore, they rushed to Huang Wenjin's camp.
But Huang Wenjin's thoughts at this time were contrary to his ideas.
At this time, Huang Wenjin only wanted to stand on his own mountain and did not want to be subject to others.
Moreover, when King Gan presided over the government, he was jealous, feeling that the other party was immoral, talentless, and vain, flashy and unrealistic, and completely relied on the clan brothers to listen to and believe, and occupied a high position.
This creates a kind of resistance invisibly.
Although King Gan had made the vision crazy at that time, he just wouldn't buy it.
Who is Huang Wenjin?
Who is Wang Haiyang?
Huang Wenjin was the King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, nicknamed The Yellow Tiger. Because of his bravery and good fighting, Zeng Guofan feared him for three points.
In his opinion, if he gave up the siege of Huzhou and went away with the young lord, he was bound to be subject to the King of Gan, and there was no longer any possibility of independence.
In his mind, the master is dead, and he should be the boss. What young lord is not a young lord, in his opinion, has no practical use. On the contrary, he had to provide him with food and drink, and he had to obey his assistants, which was psychologically difficult for him to accept as he still had heavy soldiers.
He did not have the political foresight of Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period, and he did not know how to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes.
As a result, he was still stubborn and still wanted to gnaw down the bone of Huzhou.
Wang Haiyang was the King kang of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and at that time, he was known as the Pillar of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At that time, he still had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and was in the area of Changting, Liancheng, and Shanghang.
The reason why Huang Wenjin is reluctant to join forces with him is that he believes that the other party is not a person who is willing to live under the people, and it is difficult for him to control it.
As a result, when the bone of Huzhou was gnawed down, the reinforcements of the Xiang Army general Huang Shaochun led the troops one after another.
At this time, the Xiang Army was no longer the Xiang Army at the time of the Great War in Yuhang. At that time, more than 13,000 Xiang troops had been killed by Huang Wenjin.
However, at this time, the Xiang army was highly morale, everyone was competing for merit, and its momentum was unstoppable.
Huang Shaochun's battle knife was a slash, and none of his soldiers were retreating from the battlefield, and they attacked heroically one by one.
At this time, the soldiers of the Taiping Army were already at the end of the crossbow, and they were about to collapse with one touch.
Huzhou City was thus lost.
In the middle of the escape, a cannonball exploded, and Huang Wenjin was blown up on the spot, and within a few moments, he was killed.
This battle is known in history as the Battle of Huzhou.
Only when the entire army of this war was destroyed could it be called the real end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Because from this day on, the young lord who escaped, there were few followers left, and he wanted to go to Wang Haiyang and had no one to rely on to escort him, and his news had long been cut off.
The most fatal thing is that after Huang Wenjin's death, King Gan protected the young lord, and when he arrived in Shicheng County, Jiangxi, he was pursued by the Xiang army Xi Baotian, and all the soldiers with him fled, and the king of Gan was captured by the Xiang army, and the young lord became a real loner.
At this time, the young lord was 16 years old, and he was already terrified and uncertain.
He had hidden in a cave, and because of hunger, he had to get out of the cave and mingle with the fleeing refugees.
There are always sellers who seek glory. On the way, he was recognized by the horse wranglers of Hong Renzheng.
After this person recognized him, he was overjoyed and immediately led him to the camp of the local Xiang Army.
Before entering the camp, the young lord still thought that his life should not be killed, and he met his father's soldiers and horses.
But after entering the camp, he realized that he was greeted by Su Yuanchun, a general of the Xiang Army.
According to relevant historical records, at that time, Su Yuanchun really had the heart to spare his life and let him go.
But Su Yuanchun's boss Xi Baotian did not do it, and he had long wanted to make a contribution to the world.
When Xi Baotian learned that the young lord had been captured, he personally rode to the camp and, without hesitation, escorted him to the local inspector Shen Baozhen.
It is said that before the young lord was killed, he knelt down and wept bitterly, begging for his life, claiming that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising was done by his father and had nothing to do with him, and shouted long live the Qing Emperor.
It is also said that when the young lord was tortured, the executioner went down with a knife, and his screams were so loud that the sun was lost.
But whether this is the case or not, there are no photographs and audio recordings to check.
His death, however, truly proclaimed the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Because from that day on, although the Taiping Army still had remnants of soldiers, it no longer had the soul of faith.