When leaving Beijing, Huang Zhongyin, the imperial history of Huguang Road, and Ji Yunfei, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, explained that if he had the opportunity to pass by the boundary of Yangzhou Prefecture, he would go to visit Han Xiufeng, who had been the same as Taizhou Prefecture. In fact, even if Huang Zhongyin and Ji Yunfei didn't explain, Liu Cunhou wanted to visit his fellow villagers who had renovated the disrepaired hall in just one year.

I never thought that as soon as I arrived in Qingjiangpu, I heard that my fellow villagers had killed more than 400 bandits at Wanfu Bridge, which was not far from Yangzhou City, and fought a big victory! I was going to go to the meeting by the way, but I met a man general who was also going to serve in the Jiangnan camp, thinking that Zhenjiang and Jiangyin were occupied by bandits, and the road was not easy to walk, so I simply handed over the letters of Huang Zhongyin and others to the family sent to Qingjiangpu by the villagers, and went through Anhui with the Manchu general, and went around the Jiangnan camp in Xiaolingwei from the west.

The Taiping bandits were close at hand, and they were separated from the imperial army by a high and strong city wall, but the bandits dug many trenches and traps outside the city wall and built more than a dozen camps. The officers and soldiers were also not idle, and they were also digging trenches and building fortifications. The bandits did not rush out to kill, and the officers and soldiers did not attack inside, and the attacking and defending sides confronted each other like this.

It has been eight days since I arrived in Jiangnan Daying, and I met with the minister Xiang Rong when I first arrived, and Huang Zhongyin and Ji Yunfei's letters were all accepted by the adults, but they were put aside and not opened, and asked a few words about the capital, and asked Xue Huan, the former Jinshan magistrate who also came to serve a month ago, to help settle down.

It wasn't until yesterday that I realized that Lord Xiang didn't want to read Jingxin, but that he couldn't read or write. Thinking that the fellow villagers who came all the way to join him were not as brave and good at fighting as he imagined, but an old man in his sixties who could no longer ride a horse and could not fight, Liu Cunhou couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Just thinking about whether it would be reused here, Xue Huan came back with a bearded military attaché, the military attache didn't look very old, but the grade of the complement on his chest was not low, and he was actually from the fifth grade, which battalion should be the thousand general, or it could just be from the top of the fifth grade.

Liu Cunhou hurriedly got up and said, "Cousin, I haven't seen you for a long time, what are you doing?" ”

"What can you do, help Xiang Shuai go to Peng Yuwen to urge food." Xue Huan threw down the official document, picked up the tea on the table and drank it, and at a glance, he knew that he had not rubbed his mouth, and his mouth was dry.

Liu Cunhou has heard a lot about the people and things in the camp in the past few days, and knows that Peng Yuwen, the new envoy, is now the chief grain station of the Jiangnan camp, and he naturally wants to go to him because of the lack of food, so he can't help asking: "Did you rush it?" ”

"It's not that easy." Xue Huan glanced up at the military attache who followed up, and said angrily: "Xiang Shuai pursued all the way from Guangxi to Jiangning, but the grain and salary in the camp was still supported by the three provinces of Guangdong, Sichuan and Zhejiang. ”

"How much will it cost you in a month now?"

"Three hundred thousand taels of silver." Xue Huan put down the cup, and said hatefully: "Peng Yuwen said that Guangdong finally got 200,000 taels, but was intercepted by someone in the middle of the road, and I don't know how to report to Xiang Shuai." ”

"Who is so bold?"

"Hunan Governor Luo Bingzhang, according to the liberation officer in Guangdong, seems to have been instructed by Zeng Guofan, saying that he wanted to run a ship."

Although Liu Cunhou was not an official who entered the imperial examination, he was like thunder to the name Zeng Guofan, not only knew that Zeng Guofan even dared to scold the saint, but also knew that Zeng Guofan was the leader of the Beijing officials from Huguang when he was in the capital, and he didn't know what to say, Xue Huan got up again and said: "Zhongshan, this little brother heard that you are from the capital and wants to ask you about someone." You talk first, I'll report to Xiang Shuai. ”

"Business matters, business matters."

Wengui and martial arts, although Du San is already from the fifth grade, he did not dare to be presumptuous in front of Xue Huan, who has only been here for more than a month but has won the trust of the handsome, and respectfully sent Xue Huan away, only then did he grin: "Master Liu, my surname is Du, my name is Du Weifang, I am the third in the family, and the brothers in the camp call me Du San." ”

"It turned out to be Du Sanye, disrespectful and disrespectful."

"What's not disrespectful, I'm a rough man, you don't need to be so polite." Du San sat down with a big grin and said eagerly: "Master Liu, I heard that you are from the capital, have you ever seen my second brother?" ”

"Your second brother?"

"Brother Yi, his surname is Han, his name is Han Xiufeng, when I filled the gap and went to Guangxi to take office, he happened to take over from Second Master Fei to take care of the hall, you won't have been to our Chongqing hall, right?"

It turned out to inquire about Han Xiufeng, and Liu Cun was happy: "Brother Du, I don't hide it, I only went to the capital a few years ago, not only stayed in the guild hall, but also knew that your righteous brother just didn't have a chance to meet." ”

"You live in the guild hall, how can you not have a chance to meet?" Du San was confused.

"Brother Du doesn't know, the current Chongqing Hall is no longer the Chongqing Hall when you were there, and the current Han Zhixing is not the former Han Zhixing."

"Master Liu, what do you mean by that?"

Xiang Rong, the commander of the Jiangnan battalion, is a native of Chongqing, and the Chongqing and even Sichuan townsmen in the camp are naturally indispensable. Except for Xue Huan, Liu Cunhou really couldn't find a few people who could speak, so he couldn't help but sit down and talk about the changes in Chongqing Hall and Han Xiufeng this year.

Du San was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he waited for a while before he asked suspiciously: "Master Liu, so my second brother is in Jiangbei, not far from us?" ”

"It's not far, but it's not close."

"He is a civil official, why did he bring soldiers like me, and he fought with thieves and bandits, and won a big battle!"

"The bandits had already occupied Yangzhou at that time, and they divided their troops to invade Taizhou, and he naturally led the troops to fight as a state at that time."

"Is he seriously injured?"

"I don't know this, you don't have to worry, Ji Ren has his own natural appearance, he is blessed with great fortune, and it shouldn't be a big problem."

Thinking that Han Xiufeng was not only in Jiangbei, but also was already the deputy of the two Huai salt transportation divisions from Wupin, Du San was really happy, holding the teacup and saying excitedly: "If I can get out, I must go to Jiangbei to find him." If he knew that I would not die, and that I was working for Xiang Shuai, he would definitely come to me! ”

Liu Cunhou could see that his friendship with Han Xiufeng was really not shallow, and he couldn't help but smile: "I want to tell him that it is not difficult for you to be here, and you have the opportunity to ask someone to carry a letter." ”

Du San was about to speak, when someone outside shouted: "Du San, Du San, I've been looking for you for a long time, what are you doing here when you don't stay in the camp?" If I hadn't happened to meet Master Xue, where would I find it? ”

"What's the matter?"

"Military affairs, hurry up, Brother Zhou is waiting for us."

"Oh, here we are." Du San didn't dare to delay the military plane, and hurriedly arched his hand: "Master Liu, I will take a step ahead of me in military affairs, and I will come to you when I have time." ”

"Go ahead, military affairs matter."

Du San and his colleagues who came to find him rushed to the account of Zhou Tian, the capital of the security camp who had just been named "Shalama Yibaturu" by the Holy Lord, and found that not only Zhou Tianshou's younger brothers Zhou Tianpei and Zhou Tianfu were there, but Zhang Yuliang, Hu Songlin and Hu Songlin's son Hu Kunyuan and other fellow villagers were all there.

"Du San, why don't you stay in the camp and run?" Zhou Tianshou stared at him and asked unhappily.

"Brother Zhou, I ......"

"Don't let me go, get down to business." Zhou Tianshou saw that all the people who should have come had arrived, motioned for Du San to stand aside, looked around at everyone and said with a straight face: "Brothers, Xiang Shuai just received a six-hundred-mile urgent official document from the imperial court, which said that Changmao had divided his troops to invade the capital in the north!" ”

"What does this have to do with us, isn't there Qishan in Jiangbei?" Zhang Yuliang asked subconsciously.

"Speaking of Jiangbei, half of the bandits who went to the capital went from Yangzhou. Qi Shan not only did not encircle it, but also begged the Holy Lord to send 2,000 soldiers to Jiangbei to Xiang Shuai. ”

"Go after those bandits who went to the capital?"

"It's not a trivial matter for the bandits to invade the capital, how dare he wait for Xiang Shuai to chase and suppress, and the saint doesn't dare to wait, he has already ordered Shengbao, who has been in an urgent position for six hundred miles to help with the military affairs of the Jiangbei camp, to lead the troops to chase him. He said that Shengbao had taken away thousands of soldiers, and the camp in Jiangbei was empty, so he asked the Holy Lord to transfer troops from us, and the Holy Lord approved it. ”

"He doesn't have enough soldiers on his side, but we have enough soldiers on our side?" Hu Songlin asked subconsciously.

"The Holy One doesn't care about that." Zhou Tianshou said helplessly.

Hu Songlin thought about it and said: "Since you must give him 2,000 soldiers, then give it!" Ask Xiang Shuai if he can send all those Cantonese Yankees and Eight Banners soldiers to Jiangbei, so that they don't get in the way here. ”

"You think beautifully, people said that they would transfer 2,000 Sichuan soldiers."

"Transfer Sichuan soldiers, one or two thousand?"

"Do you think Xiang Shuai is willing, it's useless to say anything now, you can only send 2,000 soldiers to Jiangbei," Zhou Tianshou paused, and then said: "Xiang Shuai has already spoken, the soldiers are from each battalion, one battalion is out of four hundred, and the same is true for those who lead the troops, one battalion comes out of another." ”

Without waiting for everyone to speak, Zhou Tianpei blurted out: "If I don't go, I won't be in Jiangbei!" ”

In Jiangnan, there is Xiang Shuai to take care of him, and when he goes to Jiangbei, he has to listen to Qi Shan's orders, and Hu Songlin said without thinking: "Don't look at me, I won't go." ”

"Brother Zhou, don't look at me, I won't go." Zhang Yuliang hurriedly said.

In front of him were all old brothers who had a fateful friendship, Zhou Tianshou didn't plan to send them, and his eyes shifted to Du San, who entered the camp halfway: "Du San, you have already taken the top belt from the fifth grade, you can't always wait, this is an opportunity, why don't you take a trip?" ”

No one else dared to go, and Du San didn't dare to go, so he suddenly said with a bitter face: "Brother Zhou, you know how many catties and taels I have, it's okay to do chores for your big brothers, it's really not good to let me lead the troops to fight." Besides, you don't know where I came from the top belt of the five grades, you don't know......"

His top belt from the five products is to the commander of the promotion, the reason for the protection is not because of the military exploits, but to the commander in Hunan suffered from dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea, the camp of those Lang Zhong helpless, just when everyone was in a hurry, he offered a bottle of cinchona cream that is said to be very expensive, Xiang Shuai served it in less than three days, and then he shared a little military merits to protect him to do the current from the five products of the alternate co-organizer of the garrison.

Jiangbei wants to fight, and this side also wants to fight.

The battalion was going to draw 300 soldiers to Jiangbei at once, and Zhou Tianshou was already very distressed, how could he not let Zhou Tianpei, Zhang Yuliang and Hu Songlin, who could fight, go, and other old brothers who could fight, and said coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, let you go, you will go." As for not going to fight, just a few battles! Besides, it's not just you, there are thousands of generals. ”

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