At 8 o'clock in the morning of January 8, 1851 (the seventh day of the 30th lunar month of Daoguang), on the rhinoceros ridge on the west side of Jintian Village, the flat ground was already full of solemn soldiers of the Heavenly Army. On this special day, in this special place, the flames of the Taiping Rebellion will be ignited.

The village was surrounded by tents of Qing soldiers, who tried to strangle them again after the first two attempts to extinguish the crowds here failed miserably, and the Manchu center mobilized the troops of the five local provinces to form a Jintian battalion.

Although the composition of this large battalion was mainly composed of Green Battalion soldiers, 20,000 people came from the Manchu imperial garrison, that is, the Eight Banners. led them to be the only one who maintained the warrior's fierceness and inherited the blood of the Manchu ancestors.

Although there were only 20,000 soldiers in the Eight Banners, they were no worse than the 180,000 green battalion soldiers who had gathered temporarily.

This prince, who has served as the commander of many Manchu Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Mongols, has an unparalleled deterrent ability against these Eight Banners.

Therefore, he was sent to lead the Manchu-Han coalition army to suppress this henchman who was unsuccessful in the second purge.

This decision was made by the new Manchu Emperor Xianfeng himself, and he came to this conclusion under the direct influence of his mentor Du Shoutian.

Du Shoutian had a close friendship with Zeng Guofan, and because of this relationship, Zeng Guofan soon established a very close relationship with the new emperor.

Therefore, in front of the new emperor who was eager to do things, Zeng Guofan was extremely favored.

Emperor Xianfeng was almost obedient to Zeng Guofan, so there was the current situation.

The minister in charge of the entire encirclement and suppression. It is even more interesting, in history, Lord Lin Zexu, who was also the minister of the Qin Mission, was ordered to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and died of illness before he took office.

And this time the purge was carried out in advance, and he was strongly recommended by Zeng Guofan, so he caught up with this crucial battle.

In the Manchu camp, there is Lin Zexu in the text, and there is the monk Greenqin in the martial arts, commanding the most powerful Eight Banners soldiers at present. A large number of Green Battalion soldiers. The total number of troops reached 200,000 to carry out this purge.

In addition to the highly respected Lin Zexu and Monk Greenqin, the Manchu civil and military officials who had suffered a fiasco last time also came over.

But the general of the defeated army. It's hard to put it into words. They don't have much to say.

Even Li Hongzhang. Although the title of his assistant Qincha is still there, he also adheres to the jade rule of "silence is golden", and does not have to do so. Never open your mouth.

He is very self-aware, and in the last encirclement and suppression, he had all the right to speak, but he was defeated and lost.

Although you can't absolutely judge heroes by success or failure, you always fail, and you can't be linked to heroes.

Even in terms of official title, Lin Zexu also suppressed Li Hongzhang, not to mention the history of the governor of Liangguang and the minister of the Qincha, he is also the minister of the Qincha in this purge!

Therefore, Li Hongzhang can only say less.

Most of these people believe that it should not be difficult to deal with these unscrupulous people, who are fierce but in fact a rabble.

Although Li Hongzhang and others have other ideas, it is a pity that they are not the mainstream.

Lin Zexu and others thought so, but Mai Ke thought completely differently.

The fact that so many Qing army forces have been attracted here is actually a trap for him! It is much more efficient to gather the enemy's living forces together and solve them in one drum than to disperse them against the enemy!

At this time, a passionate trumpet sounded, and I saw a hundred trumpeters standing on the high platform, raising their trumpets to the sky at the same time, and sounding the assembly trumpet neatly.

This is the name of Mai Ke, imitating the military horn of the army of later generations. However, he could not find a standard military horn, so he took more than a hundred of them from the military band of Peter's naval fleet, and made up the number for the time being.

In fact, these trumpets are much better than those trumpets, and Peter has criticized McKe countless times for being purely tyrannical.

As soon as the horn sounded, the soldiers who had been standing there quickly separated and stood in a square on both sides of the slope of the training ground in front of them.

Then from that ancient camp poured out a steady stream of soldiers, all armed with spears, more than a foot long hair tips, shimmering with a bright sheen, and the bright red spear tassels.

At this moment, a group of cavalry rushed out of the village like a tiger descending from the mountain. The current general is Shi Dakai, who has crossed Shi Dakai, one of the brothers of the Brotherhood League, and the sixth brother of Mai Ke.

I saw him holding a green dragon glaive knife in his hand, riding a tall horse covered in jujube red, followed by his 20,000 cavalry warriors. Everyone has a long-handled big knife in their hands and a jujube red war horse under their crotch.

Behind Shi Dakai, in front of the cavalry brigade, there were two guards in front of the team, a big man with a single color, and the weapon they used was the Fang Tian painting halberd. There is a general in front of each escort team, the one on the left is Yang Fuqing, majestic and murderous, and the one on the right is Lin Qirong, who is as steady as a rock, and is more powerful than Mount Tai.

Mai Ke was familiar with the dazzling appearance of these two generals in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so he was promoted to be Shi Dakai's lieutenant.

At the same time, on the other side of the village, a group of cavalry ran over like a dragon out of the water. The first fierce general is Hu Yihuang, who is also one of the brothers of the Brotherhood League.

I saw him holding an eight-point steel spear in his hand, riding a rare fine horse covered in snow-white, followed by his 10,000 cavalry soldiers. Everyone has a long-handled steel spear in his hand and a silver-maned war horse under his crotch.

Unlike Shi Dakai's cavalry team, Hu Yihuang was followed by his scout army, and the two leaders followed him left and right. The young hero on the left is Chen Ruiguo, and the young tiger on the right is Li Rongfa. There were 300 people in the two teams, all of whom were fourteen or fifteen years old, and each of them was athletic and agile like an ape. This is Hu Yihuang's subordinate team.

These two leaders are the leaders of the Boy Scouts of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they have left unforgettable traces like meteors.

Behind the Hu Cong team, there is the elite cavalry of the Hu family's army, 20,000 warriors, all with big shoulders and round waists, and extremely majestic.

At this time, the brigade that poured out of the ancient camp had already stood in four square formations, each team of 10,000 soldiers, and at the front of the team, each standing a general, was the commander of the field army of the Heavenly Army.

The heavenly army wants to encircle the enemy on all sides, so the troops are divided into four routes. Each of the four generals leads an army.

The first is Wang Quanzhou, who is now in command of the Eastern Route Army of the Heavenly Kingdom.

The second is Li Baohong, who is now in command of the Southern Route Army of the Heavenly Kingdom.

The third is Jiang Hanxiong, who is now in command of the Western Route Army of the Heavenly Kingdom.

The fourth is Wang Jianmin, who is now in command of the Northern Route Army of the Heavenly Kingdom.

In addition, there are also Zheng Ping and Sun Gang's 20,000-strong squares, as the mobile forces of the headquarters, standing on the left and right sides respectively.

The last to come out was a group of infantrymen in white dresses and white top hats, with white-gloved hands. Holding the latest style of Mao Sui musket. He walked over with a straight step. It didn't seem to be very different from the other soldiers, but there were obvious differences in skin tones, white or black, and even red.

At the front of the line was Captain Harry. Holding an unsheathed command knife in his hand, the two vice-captains lined up on the left and right. On the left is Bai Juwen. On the right is Robert, who together leads a team of 1,000 foreign guns as a sharp blade to break the enemy.

In addition, the Celestial Army also prepared 50,000 male soldiers. Hide in the troop transport hole and jump into battle as soon as you need to.

If an accident happens, there are 100,000 soldiers in training on the Holy Mountain, all of whom can rush to the battlefield and treat the actual battle as a drill.

The preparation of the Heavenly Army can be described as foolproof, and the only thing that has room is how many people die.

The foreign guns came to the front of all the queues, lined up in two lines, and with Harry's order, all the team members raised their right hands and saluted the people standing on the rostrum.

Standing on the rostrum were four people. Hong Xiuquan, who has now changed his name to Hong Xinfu, Mai Ke, who has no definite position, but everyone respects him as the supreme leader of course, and Hong Xinfu is no exception; Zhang Yuan, the chief coach of the army, that is, the actual commander-in-chief; and Gavin, who exercises the duties of chief priest.

These four people lined up, with Hong Xinfu and Mai Ke in the middle, Zhang Yuan on the left, and Gavin on the right.

At this time, with the salute of the foreign spear team, all the infantry cavalry soldiers behind saluted together.

The four people on the stage returned the salute together.

Zhang Yuan shouted: "Finish the ceremony!" The sound range was wide, reaching as far as the sky, and each of the 100,000 soldiers on the field could hear it clearly.

Behind the rostrum was the military chaplain, with a total of six hundred priests. When they encounter such ceremonies, they perform the duties of corporate prayer, and they are usually scattered among the various regiments of soldiers.

At this time, Luther, the chief military pastor, walked to the rostrum, with Mike on his left and Liang Fa on his right, and the two served as Luther's deputies and were responsible for the pastoral affairs of the entire army. This Luther was a member of the Covenant of One Heart and was in the same church as Mai Ke before he crossed over.

He came to the four big leaders, shook hands with each of them, and then stood facing the army on the left, and said in a deep and strong voice, "Now please Pastor Mai Ke to pray for our uprising!"

The sacred music of the military pastoral group behind them sounded solemnly, and everyone entered into sacred silence. In this context, Mai Ke's prayer with infinite strength goes straight to the bottom of everyone's heart.

"Beloved Heavenly Father, we are here today to raise the banner of rebellion and begin our journey to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the Manchus.

"May our desires and deeds be in accordance with your will, and may every man's deeds be acceptable to you for your glory.

"Pray that your Holy Spirit will be with us every day, not only to preserve our victory on the battlefield, but also to gain the approval of our hearts so that more lost souls can be saved and returned to their heavenly homes.

"The grace of the Lord Jesus, the love of the Father, and the touch of the Holy Spirit be with us, now and forever!

"In the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen!"

The crowd responded in unison: "Amen!"

The sound shook the sky, and the mountains shook. The sun also jumped out of the mountains to the east at once, shining a thousand rays of light on these soldiers who were peaceful in their hearts and high-spirited.

At this time, the military chaplains behind were singing in unison the "Amen Song" in response to prayer.

"A-door!a-door!a-door!"

As soon as the hymn stopped, the military pastors all returned to their teams, except for the elderly Rev. Liang Fa, who took his place, his son.

Then Zhang Yuan gave an order, and all the generals attacked separately according to the prior plan, only listening to the sound of horses' hooves, and the footsteps moved away, moving quickly, but in an orderly manner.

Mai Ke looked at his watch, the hour hand pointed to eight o'clock, which was the moment when Heaven agreed to start at the same time!

The first to come into contact with the enemy were the cavalry.

Prince Seng Lingqin, as before, stood at the forefront of the cavalry brigade.

He, as usual, got up early. exchanged some hostile information with Lin Zexu and others.

There was nothing new about the situation, and they thought it was another ordinary day -- the Qing army could not attack it, and the chaotic people could not rush out.

Li Hongzhang and others, as always, only brought their ears and did not speak.

Suddenly, some voices came from Kaneda Village, which seemed to have not appeared before.

Lin Zexu and Seng Greenqin were full of doubts, not knowing what they were.

However, Li Hongzhang, Xiang Rong and others, who have rich combat experience with the Heavenly Army, have changed their faces!

They discerned the sound of the assembly trumpet, the sound of prayer, and finally the last "Amen" that resounded through the heavens and the earth!

This is the usual procedure for the Celestial Army to have heavy actions. Otherwise, they would never be so formal, so fanfare!

And the heavenly army that is being surrounded by the Qing army. There is no reason to do these procedures other than to break through.

Li Hongzhang, Xiang Rong and the others exchanged glances, and they all saw in each other's eyes that they were serious, and even panicked!

After all, in the experience of these people, such gatherings and prayers followed. They were followed by their failures!

At the same time, everyone also conveyed a message. Let Li Hongzhang be the first bird. Sue sù Lin Zexu and Monk Greenqin what is going to happen.

In the face of life and death, Li Hongzhang didn't care about anything else, so he had to put forward his own judgment head-on. It is said that the enemy may immediately have a large-scale operation, and this operation is likely to break through the encirclement, trying to break the encirclement of the Qing army battalion.

Therefore, he built yì, immediately formed a team, ready to meet the enemy!

It's not enough to just deal with the enemy, but also to plan for the worse!

His implication was to prepare to flee for his life!

But the two who can call the shots, who can listen to the first part, have reached the limit of patience, and the latter one is regarded as a deaf ear and disdainful.

After listening to Li Hongzhang's half-built yì, the Qing army camp immediately moved, and the cavalry and infantry took their places.

Monk Greenqin is also an experienced person, and he does not only listen to Li Hongzhang's words, but also relies on his own observations.

He heard the movement in the village, and he also felt that something extraordinary might be happening today.

The rich experience of war made his perception sharp and he felt the tension of the atmosphere.

So, as soon as he and Lin Zexu and Lao Qin met briefly, the two reached an agreement, and he himself led the cavalry to make preparations, and Lin Qin sent to supervise the infantry.

At this time, Monk Lingqin heard the sound of horses' hooves and quickly approached, his face changed slightly, and he immediately ordered his 20,000 cavalry to be ready to launch a charge against the enemy at any time.

His cavalry was divided into three armies: left, center, and right. He led the Chinese army by himself, the right army was mainly inlaid with white flags, supplemented by the whole red flag, and he was the general of the army.

The left army is dominated by the whole blue flag, supplemented by the red flag, and the commander of the army also does not use the old general, but another confidant Seng Gechuan.

The Chinese army is the Eight Banners of the League, which is the commander of the monk and the prince. By this period, the combat power of the Eight Banners of Menggu was actually much higher than that of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The whole team in advance, but also make preparations to deal with the enemy, so that the soldiers will block, the water to cover, according to the routine are very correct measures to deal with the enemy, but I did not expect that the opponent did not play cards according to the rules at all.

If you cower behind the barracks, forget it, and since you're in the wilderness, don't blame me for being surprised, it's the normal practice of the Hereafter.

As a result, the 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers saw two torrents, one red and one white, like lightning, and they had come to the front in the blink of an eye, and before they could wait for the second blink, the two torrents were already like two sharp knives, cutting into the Eight Banners Cavalry.

Hu Yihuang handed over Seng Geyue to Chen Guorui and Li Rongfa to deal with, and went straight to Monk Lingqin in the middle. Shi Dakai on the left also had the same thought, let the monk Gechuan go, left it to Yang Fuqing and Lin Lin Qirong, and also let the horse come over and go straight to the monk and the prince.

At this time, the monk Lingqin was forty years old, although he was not younger, he still had more than enough courage. Seeing the crisis of the situation, he waved the mace, a heavy weapon in his hand, and responded. This mace weighs eighty pounds, and I don't know how much blood I have drunk from strong enemies.

The Qinglong Yanyue Knife in Shi Dakai's hand also weighed eighty catties, and the two collided, and there was a loud bang, deafening, sparks splashed, and both of them shook.

Sure enough, they were evenly matched!

The monk and the prince suffered the loss of his age, and Shi Dakai was inferior in horsepower. After all, Mongolia is a land of horses, and the best horses must be given to the most capable ones.

The two are evenly matched, but there is still a Hu Yihuang here!

Hu Yihuang's comprehensive martial arts index is only higher than Shi Dakai's, and he can fight against any powerful opponent alone, but this is not a personal hero, and of course he will not talk about fighting alone.

The sound of the collision over there had not fallen, and the sharp white blade of a spear had already pierced the chest of this prince out of nowhere!

The fastest cavalry has engaged here, the infantry is rapidly approaching, and a larger battle is on the horizon!

At this time, where is Mai Ke?

At a height of three thousand meters above Jintian Village, people who are not particularly eyesighted cannot see him at all, and Mai Ke, Liuhua, Zhang Yuan, and Hong Xinfu are staring at a screen of the whole territory there.

This screen is a new function newly developed by Mai Ke, that is, the transmission of long-distance images and sounds.

And this screen is now playing the live process of the six major fronts of the Celestial Army.

This is also a new way for Mai Ke to participate in this nationwide anti-Qing campaign.

In the past, he was a firefighter, where the danger was, all day without touching the ground, running around, like a headless fly.

Fortunately, there was no major mess, and the preparations for the anti-Qing Dynasty were completed so-so.

Ever since he had been taught about wisdom at Mount Kinabalu, he felt that his previous approach was too far from wisdom, and in fact, many seemingly successful things just showed that he had no wisdom.

Ahem! Saying that it is not wise is a euphemism, and to put it bluntly, it is stupid!

Therefore, he is determined to make a difference, starting from himself, starting from now, and trying to be a wise person.

So, he got such a three-dimensional screen and watched it remotely, just like he was there.

On the holographic screen, all other battlefields are launched on time!

An anti-Qing act of unprecedented scale has swept the whole country with the momentum of a prairie fire!.

(To be continued......)