 The second siege consisted of nearly 200,000 Qing soldiers by March 1858, but they were routed when Li Shixian's Taiping force broke out of the capital in May 1860.With the Qing routed, Li Shixian was able to occupy all of the rich Zhejiang Province.In 1862, the Qing ordered Zuo Zongtang to attack Li Shixian in Zhejiang province.