In 1850, on the first day of August in the thirtieth year of Daoguang, the square in front of the Guilin Mansion was overcrowded, and a military dispatch ceremony was being held here. On the high platform, Li Hongzhang, Lao Chongguang, and Xiang Rong stood side by side, reviewing the green battalion generals who walked in front of them. They set out from here today and went straight to the target of the eradication.

Guangxi Province has a fixed number of 23,000 green battalion soldiers, and in addition to miscellaneous personnel and vacancies, only 14,000 can go to the front line to fight. In order to carry out this purge, Xiang Rong's army not only replenished the vacant places, but also reduced the number of miscellaneous personnel, bringing the number of combat soldiers in the whole army to 18,000.

In addition, he also took advantage of his good relationship with the governor of Guangdong Province to seconded 2,000 officers and soldiers in the name of assisting in the defense. This gave him an army of 20,000 and could go directly to the front line of this clearance.

As for the auxiliary work such as the logistics and transportation of grain and grass, Lao Chongguang requisitioned about double the number of civilian soldiers, who were responsible for the original grain and grass soldiers in the green battalion, but their number had been reduced.

To this end, Lao Chongguang and Xiang Rong have cooperated to set up several large warehouses in Guilin and other important assembly areas to store grain, grass and other military supplies.

These military material warehouses were all assigned to the green battalion to defend. Although the defensive strength has decreased due to the increase in the combat strength of the first line, Lao Chongguang has dispatched double the militia force to participate in the defense, which can be regarded as impregnable.

He has always been brave in fighting against the military gate, so the generals he brought out also have a fierce temperament. The procession walking in front of him, although the clothing, weapons, and queue were not very neat, showed a high fighting spirit and a solemn momentum.

Xiang Rong looked at his proud results, and couldn't help nodding his head, expressing his satisfaction, and at the same time, he also greeted the generals of Tongguò.

Lao Chongguang remained silent, knowing that this could not explain anything, because he understood that this purge was not a simple battlefield confrontation, and the stronger side was naturally more likely to win. He is not even sure whether the troops are strong or not.

His 2,000 vigilante group did not participate in today's parade. He didn't even let them come here, but drove directly to Guiping, which was the focus of the purge. He also didn't intend to let this life-saving hole card participate in the general clean-up operation, and only played it when his life was in danger.

Although Li Hongzhang is calm on the surface and the ancient well is not wavering, he is worried inside. The situation that Eagle Diving reported to him in the past two days really didn't reassure him.

There are various signs that there are masters on the other side who have intervened, and nine times out of ten it is the Mai Ke that Lord Zeng is worried about, but he can't find any clues to determine the target, let alone catch the other party.

Li Hongzhang discussed this situation with his own captain of the guard. The captain of the guard has no choice but to strengthen protection. At the same time, he also reported to his division and the guard president Ling Kangfu, and asked them to help with ideas to deal with it.

This guard leader is from Shaolin, he is a master of the silent generation, and he is a brother with the monk guards around Zeng Guofan. The martial arts of this lonely junior brother are even stronger than his senior brother Shangao, because the senior brother was born earlier than him. He has spent all his years on improving his martial arts.

If it weren't for the assassination of Master Zeng last time, so Kang Fu was ordered to equip every subordinate cadre with a guard, and the senior brother would not disturb this martial arts junior. Due to fate, Zhiyuan was appointed as Li Hongzhang's guard commander, and he also came with him this time. His escort team is different from Lao Zeng, there are no monks, monks, laymen, and nuns, but all monks, all of whom are Zhiyuan's teachers and nephews.

As the army marched out, these officers also set off. The governor, the overseer, and the assistant of the Qincha went to the front line with the army together, which was also an unprecedented importance.

Originally, Lao Chongguang could not go, but Li Hongzhang insisted that he had to go, and he had to accompany him. At the same time, this Lao Chongguang has also been killed for a long time, and he also has this desire to participate in the war. Lao Chongguang's subordinates also include his own long-term use of the escort team, and its background is even more bizarre - they are all the descendants of the former Tusi in "Changing the Land and Returning to the Stream".

As a member of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was naturally a firm executor of the central court to implement the "reform of the land and return to the stream", depriving the original Tusi of her hereditary privileges and sending "mobile officials" from other places to manage the natives, which was originally a life-and-death conflict, but Lao Chongguang relied on his skillful political skills and friendly personality charm to resolve countless grievances, so that these older generations of Tusi have their own place, and their juniors are grateful to Dade and devote themselves to serving and being his guard.

Speaking of Lao Chongguang's real work on the battlefield, in addition to his commendable courage, the level of force is really not worth mentioning. Originally, the original intention of these guards was to protect him from victimization in the indigenous area, but when he moved elsewhere, these people were unwilling to leave him and became lifelong followers.

As for Xiang Rong himself, this lifelong military leader naturally has his own personal soldiers to escort him, in fact, the entire Chinese army protects him. Not only the Chinese army, but also the front army, the rear army, the left army, and the right army also guarded the Chinese army and defended it at all levels.

The army walked step by step, and today was the first day, and the opening ceremony was delayed for some time, so it only marched forty miles in one day. There happened to be a large area of farmland here, although there were still some crops that had not been harvested, and no one cared, so at the sound of an order, the army camped on the spot.

Knowing that this time it was not a war with the regular army, the opponents were just some ordinary people, and the road was safe and sound, so there was no need for everyone to be nervous, and they were not comfortable finding themselves, so the army set up camp according to the pattern of the four armies and defending the Chinese army, and after eating the dry food they brought, they began to rest. In general, there are no encampment fences, internal and external sentinels, only a few patrols at the outermost level, which walk around the barracks from time to time.

Wang Cai, a big-headed soldier who had not been in the army for a long time, marched for the first time and felt fresh everywhere. A forty-mile march in a day was a breeze for him. When he was doing farm work, even if he carried a weight of 150 catties, he had to walk 180 miles a day. Dinner is really good, this kind of cake can only be eaten during the New Year's holidays, right? This tent is also very good, and when I used to be a farmer, it was common to sleep in the open air. What's more, there is a blanket, which is covered with it.

So he was satisfied. The order to sleep came and he soon fell asleep. There was nothing dissatisfied, and naturally I had a good dream. He was playing in the pond next door with his favorite second girl next door to the village. When he saw a big carp, a fierce man stabbed down and caught it. Then hold on to the water and go up. Huh, how did the fish in my hand become the thighs of the second girl?

I didn't know what to do, but I suddenly felt a pain in my toes, and I saw that the carp was biting its big toe. At this time, he was holding the thigh of the second girl and felt strange, and he didn't pay attention to it, saying that the fish bite was just a mosquito bite, and ignored it. Suddenly, the pain came violently, and he woke up, looked at his feet, and immediately screamed.

"There are snakes!

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