“...... I am a dignified man, what is a Tartar as a horse and a cow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info strong man drank all the wine in the bowl, and did not look back on the journey of a thousand miles. The golden drums roared in unison, and the yellow dragon swore endlessly! ”

Amid the loud singing, more than 2,000 officers and men of the Second Brigade of the New Second Army of the Taiping Army, stationed in Rugao County, Yangzhou Prefecture, drove out of the barracks and marched towards Haimen, more than 300 miles away.

Before dawn, many of the people around the station were still asleep, and the sudden loud singing made many people be alarmed, and they pushed open the doors of their houses and came to both sides of the road.

"Taipinglang, where are you going?" Some people asked loudly while rubbing their still confused eyes.

For this Taiping army, which has been stationed for several months, the local people are not afraid, but very close. Because since the Taiping army was stationed here, not only has the law and order improved, but the lonely and widowed elderly people in the village have often been taken care of by them.

The old people all said that they had never seen such a good army and such a good soldier in their lives. The people who had good deeds called the soldiers of the Taiping Army "Taiping Lang", and over time, the people liked to use "Taiping Lang" to refer to these different officers and soldiers. The soldiers of the Taiping Army also wanted the people to call them "Taiping Lang", because it was a good omen and their mission. They exist to make the world peaceful.

Because of the military order, the Tailang who went south did not dare to tell the people who inquired where they were going, and they themselves did not know. There were only two people in the entire team who knew the destination of the march, one was their brigade school, and the other was the ambassador of the Anjun Army.

"Folks, we're going to practice."

Seeing that there were more and more people on the road, they were all asking them where they were going, so he ordered them to go down, and said in a unified voice that they were going to go for long-distance training. The word "training" is understood by the people near the station, because I have seen many times before that the Taipinglang people went out to run for a few days with their bags and then came back.

Qian Wen, the ambassador of the Anjun Army, looked white and clean, and did not look like an officer at all, but a scholar. In fact, Qian Wen is indeed a showman, and he is also the head of their county. If it weren't for the Qing army, maybe he would be a man by now.

It was not Qian Wen's intention to become a member of the Taiping Army, and like many in this army, he was forced to join the Taiping Army at first. At that time, he was very resistant and disgusted with the Taiping Gang who had dragged his family into the same way as the Liukou, but now, he is proud to be a member of the Taiping Army.

Unlike the misinformation that the Taiping Army did not attach importance to readers, the Taiping Army actually attached great importance to and was willing to absorb readers. As a talent, Qian Wen and the few scholars in the army were trained by Zhou Shixiang, the marshal of the Taiping Army, and promoted them to important positions in the army step by step and became middle and senior generals.

Qian Wen was very impressed by a sentence that the marshal said in the training class, and it can be said that it was imprinted in his heart, and the gist of this sentence was that the Taiping Army attached great importance to readers, because readers mastered the power of words. But in the past, this power was not owned by ordinary people, so the greater this power, the more the people did not benefit from it. What the Taiping Army has to do now is to give this power to all people in the world, so that everyone can grasp the power of writing. The strength of the body cannot be considered strong, only the strength of the mind and the body is the real strength. As long as you think right, the more knowledge, the better.

Seeing that the people on the side of the road were so supportive of the Taiping Army, and even some people were a little reluctant to hear that the Taiping Army was going to leave the garrison for a period of time, Qian Wen was quite moved, he rode to the brigade school Cheng Dazuo, and said to him: "See, this is what the marshal said about the military and civilian fish and water situation." ”

"I'm a soldier, from the common people. We are good to the people, and the people are naturally good to us. ”

Cheng Dazuo laughed, he has a nickname called "Cheng San Barbarian", which means that no matter what happened to him before, he relied on his fists and big knives to solve it, and never reasoned with others, because he couldn't talk to others. But since he and Qian Wen teamed up, the nickname of these three barbarians has been a bit out of character, because this Qian Anzhi is really patient enough, and with his help, he can even read more than 300 words, which is something that I never dared to think of before.

However, this is still a big gap from the requirements for participating in the general officer class of the Army University, and the minimum requirement for further study at the Army University is to know 1,000 words, so Cheng Dazuo thinks that he can't relax, as long as he camps and rests in the future, he has to spend half an hour to ask Qian An'an to teach himself, and after the success of the Northern Expedition, he can also read 1,000 words, so that he can go to the Land University and be promoted to a more senior general in the future.

"I don't know which one of us or Hu Jiu will arrive first, we can't lose again this time."

Thinking of Hu Jiu at the Brigade School of the A Brigade, Cheng Dazuo was unconvinced, the army and the town had organized three big competitions before, but their Brigade B lost to the Brigade A, Hu Jiu's guy pulled him to drink every time he won, saying that he wanted to celebrate, and his face was so angry that his face turned green. This time, the two families received military orders to march to Haimen at the same time, and they couldn't lose to him Hu Jiu no matter what, otherwise the B Brigade would really make people eat to death.

"I heard that the candidates for the brigade school of Brigade C have not yet been decided, and this has to be allocated, so the military department will not have selected people yet, right?"

Qian Wen was curious about who the military department would send to take over the position of the C Brigade Academy, and this matter had a lot to do with it, because if the new C Brigade couldn't do it, then it would be troublesome for them to cooperate on the battlefield.

"Hu Jiu inquired, and the town said that Lu Da came down. Whatever, let's just do our own thing. Let's go, we only have three days, if we can't get to the place in three days, it is a trivial matter for you and me to lead the army, and if we delay the great cause of the Northern Expedition, it will be difficult to forgive the sin of ten thousand deaths. ”

Cheng Dazuo flicked his whip, the mount neighed, and galloped out.

Qian Wen looked back at the barracks he had put a lot of effort into building, looked at the freshly plastered barracks, and looked at the military flags lowered in the camp, he bit his lip lightly, and then whipped his horse.

Yangzhou, Rugao, Guazhou, Taizhou, Hai'an, Gaoyou....

More than 20,000 officers and men of the New Second Army marched forward without hesitation along various roads, large and small.

They have only one goal - the seaside.

So many Taiping troops were deployed in Jiangbei at the same time, which naturally attracted the attention of people with intentions. When this information finally gathered into the hands of the Qing army in Xuzhou, they noticed that these Taiping troops were all heading south, and combined with the news that the emperor and the ministers of the Dingwu court in the southern capital were holding each other, the Qing army came to a surprising and encouraging conclusion, that is, the thief Xiucai raised troops to force the palace.

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