In October, the night is longer than the day, and the weather is cooler. When Diao Degui and Diao Han, father and son, were woken up by the sound of military horns, they only felt very cold. They had heard of cold in the north before, but how cold it was, and finally had an understanding after arriving in the "north" of Huaibei. If you are in Yongxing's hometown, you can still wear single clothes at this time. Now I feel a little cold in the morning without two clothes.

After hurriedly eating breakfast, the father and son picked up their weapons and rushed to the place where their troops were. The battalion officer pulled his throat and said in Hunanese: "Do you know what we are going to do today?" ”

"Yes!" Not only the three fathers and sons of Diao Degui and Diao Han shouted hard, but other Hunan officers and soldiers were also shouting with strong passion.

The battalion officer shouted, "It's good to know!" Now that you know, then everyone can work hard, as long as you do a good job, everyone can eat enough, and there is no shortage of money to spend. ”

Soon, the troops of the Hunan army were dispatched. Although Diao Degui is also forty years old, according to the standards of this era, he belongs to the age of half of the earth. But at this time, he was in high spirits, and his actions were no less than that of a young man. Three years ago, Diao Degui was the richest man in Xiangyindu, near Yongxing, Hunan. Because of the collusion with the official army to attack a small detachment of the Guangfu Army, Diao Degui and his son Diao Hansan had to flee into Yongxing City first, and when the Hunan army fled from Yongxing to Changsha, Diao Degui and his son also fled to Changsha.

Diao Degui didn't know that his name was on the history of the Guangfu Army and became a representative figure in history. He just felt safe if he fled to Changsha. Unexpectedly, the Guangfu Army actually seized Yuezhou first, closed the door and beat the dogs. Changsha was soon taken by the Liberation Army.

After taking Changsha, the first major action of the Liberation Army was revenge. There is a Yongxing man named Zhou Jinguo in the Guangfu Army, and Zhou Jinguo's family is in Changsha as a Hunan army. After the news was learned by the Hunan army, the governor of Hunan signed the order to cut off the head, so starting with Mao Hongbin, hundreds of officials gave Zhou Jinguo's family an order. It was a public execution, and Mao Hongbin and others were hanged on a high platform.

When they hanged the gang, they still had pants to wear, but they had pants but no belts. The officials were also decent, and their hands tied behind their backs were holding their pants hard. As the rope tightened, the gang bounced like dying fish, and their pants slipped down.

When a person hangs himself, he has to cut off his skull. This scared Diao Degui enough. Mao Hongbin only signed the order to be executed, and it was not the people of the Guangfu Army who were killed, but the Hunan army under Mao Hongbin. That's how brutal it is. But he Diao Degui is a genuine person who has betrayed the Guangfu Army, and dozens of people have died in the Guangfu Army. He fell into the hands of the Liberation Army, and he was afraid that he would be cut by a thousand knives.

After a period of captivity in extreme fear, fortunately, the Liberation Army has never embarrassed the soldiers from the common people. Diao Degui's father and son, who had made up nonsense, were soon released, and they went all the way east to find the Hunan army. Hunan, which was under military control, was so terrible that the father and son didn't want to stay in Hunan for one more day.

Leaving Hunan, the father and son suffered countless hardships, because they had little money, kowtowed at the ferry, and finally found a boat to cross the river. They caught up with the Hunan army in Luzhou. And the Hunan army happened to be during the retreat, and the father and son followed the Hunan army to Huaibei.

After more than a year of withdrawal to Huaibei, the days have become more and more difficult. Not long ago, Lord Zeng told everyone a piece of news that the future will be better. Zeng asked for the "restoration of the Ida system". Diao Degui didn't know what the Jingtian system was, but the scholars in the Hunan army, as well as the Hunan landlords and gentry who later defected to the Hunan army, told everyone that it was a very good system in ancient times.

According to Diao Degui's feelings, this well field system is the establishment of a grange, and in addition to the landlord, the grange is a tenant farmer. The landlords were armed, and the landlords and the army under the landlords were covered by the war. These tenants have contracted the work.

Combined with the current situation, Diao Degui believes that Zeng is preparing to build a number of such granges in Huaibei, and the landlords of the granges are naturally the Hunan army, and the local people are tenant farmers. The grain and silver money of the grange were used by the Hunan army.

This practice undoubtedly meets the expectations of all the Hunan army, everyone comes out to serve as soldiers, and what they want is not to become landlords, at least to become a member of the landlord group? The landlord regiment of the entire Hunan army undoubtedly greatly met everyone's needs.

Even though the march was hard, Diao Degui and Diao Hansan still had no dissatisfaction. The father and son strode forward with the team, and the shadow of a village gradually appeared on the horizon. The Hunan army then stopped.

"I'll tell you again, Master Zeng said, occupy Huaibei and fight back to Hunan. Everybody's clear! We're still going home! The battalion officer shouted to the crowd.

"Occupy Huaibei and fight back to Hunan!" "Occupy Huaibei and fight back to Hunan!" The Hunan soldiers roared over and over again.

Everyone wants to fight back to Hunan and completely kill the Guangfu Army who made everyone unable to return home. Now only by taking a solid position can we have the strength to fight back Hunan. Occupying Huaibei and building a series of granges in Huaibei was the first step.

Seeing that the feelings of the Hunan army had been aroused, the battalion officer waved his arms and gave a clean order, "Go!" ”

The Hunan army was divided into five teams, and four teams of infantry surrounded the village in four directions. The fifth group is cavalry, which uses their mobility to circle the village, ready to plug any possible omissions.

An hour later, Diao Degui and his son carried knives to check in a private house. Because of his age, although Diao Degui also participated in military operations, he did not have to charge on the front line. Besides, the opponent is just the people of Huaibei, and there is no need to get everyone to the point where they have to fight.

There were already a lot of corpses on the roads in the village, and there were also corpses in the houses and yards, and the Hunan army had never been tolerant of the rebels before, and they killed the rebels in Jiangxi, Anhui and other places like cutting grass. Zeng Guofan's nickname is Zeng Shaved Head, that is, he kills people like shaving his head. In the past year or two, a large number of people like Diao Degui have joined the Hunan army, and the Hunan army only has the idea of killing the rebellious people.

Diao Degui and his son Diao Hansan searched door to door for anyone who had not been found, because Diao Degui searched too seriously, and he didn't search the three for a while. Diao Hansan was young and impatient after all, so he couldn't help but persuade: "Dad! Let's just take a look, I don't think the brothers will be so sloppy! ”

After listening to his son's words, Diao Degui said angrily: "It is our own business to search for the chaotic people. Since it's our own business, then don't worry, search carefully! ”

After reprimanding his son, Diao Degui turned his head and continued to search little by little. R1058