The weather in Liu Du town

65438+1October 65438+March arrived in Zhangdeng Town, only 30 kilometers away from Baoding. Taiping Army marched into Zhili, shaking the capital. Emperor Xianfeng deposed Naer Jing, appointed Shengbao as an imperial envoy, Prince Mianyu of Hui as an appointed general, and King Sengqin of Horqin as a counselor to "suppress the Communist Party" together with Shengbao. On June 5438+05, 4500 soldiers from Beijing Battalion and Mongolian "Ma bu" or horse stance just look entered Zhuozhou to shield the capital and cooperate with Shengbao Army. After resting in Shenzhou, Lin Fengxiang led the army eastward on 22nd, captured xian county, Jiaohe, Cangzhou and other places, and occupied Jinghai County in the southwest of Tianjin and its subordinate Liu Du Town on 29th. The striker arrived at Xiaozhikou Village, 5 kilometers away from downtown Tianjin.

On the day when the Taiping Army occupied the Jinghai, Shengbao arrived with troops, and1October 5 165438 entered Tianjin City. SengGelinqin also moved to Yangcun (now Wuqing) in the northwest of Tianjin. Qian Xin, the magistrate of Tianjin, and Xie Zicheng, the magistrate of a county, led more than 7,000 soldiers to guard Tianjin, and destroyed the canal levee, diverted water around the city, and blocked the actions of the Taiping Army. When Lin Fengxiang and others saw the enemy before and after, they were short of troops, so they didn't attack Tianjin. They built bases and dug trenches in Jinghai and Liu Du to lend a helping hand. With the cooperation of 20,000-30,000 landlords in Tianjin counties, Sheng Bao and Sen Gelinqin led 20,000 Qing troops to besiege Jinghai and Liu Du. The Taiping Army stubbornly resisted with strong fortifications and persisted for one hundred days. However, due to being trapped for a long time, reinforcements have not arrived, food and machinery are scarce, and food and clothing are scarce in the middle of winter. On February 5 of the following year, I had to leave the sea of tranquility and break through the south.

On the 6th, it occupied Fushu Town and nearby villages in Hejian, and held on to January, making it difficult to supply grain, grass and ammunition. On March 7th, it broke south again in the fog, passed through xian county, and arrived in Fucheng on the 9th, surrounded by the Qing army. On the 25th, after his death, the Taiping Army was in a more difficult situation. Fortunately, at this time, the Northern Expedition reinforcements had crossed the Yellow River, and the Qing court ordered the Qing army with a winning rate of more than 10,000 yuan to go to Shandong to stop the blockade, which eased the pressure of the Fucheng Taiping Army and was able to persist.

The leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom originally planned to send reinforcements to the north as soon as the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Tianjin. Due to the tension in the periphery of Tianjing and the battlefield of the Western Expedition, the 7500 Northern Expedition reinforcements led by Xia Guancheng Xiangzeng, Xia Guancheng Deputy Prime Minister Chen Shibao and Dongguan Deputy Prime Minister Xu Zongyang arrived as late as1February 4, 854, starting from Anqing and passing through Tongcheng, Shucheng, Lu 'an, Zhengyangguan and Yingshang. Arrive in Panlongji 1 1