Dengzhou, Ding Pingzhuang near Nanyang City.

Wang Zhenzhi, who was already a member of the elite sequence of the Taiping Army, looked at the towering courtyard wall and the wooden arrow tower on the dock wall in front of him, but he had a sense of déjà vu

of feelings. Because in his hometown of Gwangju, Henan Province, hundreds of miles away, he had also seen such a similar dock fort.

And it is such a dock wall, but it has become what the villagers couldn't ask for, and they didn't hesitate to sacrifice their wives and daughters and even themselves, and they also wanted to sharpen their brains and drill into it

of the location. Because of the people who live on the Henan Plain, they are living too hard.

The abundant land and abundant irrigation water that flowed along the banks between the great river and the Huaishui did not bring much blessing to them

Ze and abundance; But it has become the direct or indirect source of their suffering. It is the so-called three major sufferings of Henan: "the eastern capital, the flood, and the Huaixi thief".

Because of the richness and abundant production of Henan, it has become the hardest hit area of the eastern capital near Luosuo and the poor, and it is also a place where various ministers and nobles and their families gather

In the local area, a huge base has been formed after generations of multiplication, and the wanton annexation of the local area by force and grabbing is even more troubled by generations.

Therefore, from time to time, "Wang Facao Song" sang:

"Before you got Yin Buddha, and then you got Wang Leprosy Otter.

The judge doesnkey bites melons, and calls people cows to chew foam.

Seeing the money full of joy, he drank it from the beginning.

When there is always a hungry yaksha, the people cannot live. ”

Moreover, since the Qianyuan Dynasty, wars and turmoil have occurred frequently, and the water conservancy has become increasingly disrepaired and decayed, resulting in the continuous flooding of the water of the Huanghuai River every year; At every turn, the state and county are drowned

, a large number of rural villages are full of fish and turtles.

Moreover, with the marshals who respected the imperial court in Henan, and many long-term rebel feudal towns in Heshuo, the intermittent continuous wars broke the embankment at every turn

flooding as a means of attack; In the end, it is the local people who bear the consequences.

Therefore, there was once a "Yongchun Middle Nursery Rhyme" that sang: "Xinhe does not enter the box, and Xinmai does not enter." In August and September, the dog barked at the wall. This is what is described

After the tragic death.

And the combination of these two factors has given birth to a more gnashing of teeth "Huaixi thief". Strictly speaking, it not only refers to the middle and late Tang Dynasty

The Huaixi warlord group, which had been divided for a while, also included the thieves and rebellious gangs that had been abundant in this land between Shen, Guang, and Cai Prefectures for generations.

Compared with the land of Huainan, which is mostly the land of fish and rice, or the Heluo Plain hidden by mountains. Because of the frequent floods and the land of Luze,

The output of barren land is limited, but the court is heavily exploited and relied on;

In addition, after the flood, it is often in order to compete for the new territory, and the fierce folk customs of fighting in the township; The young adults of the countryside here want to live in adulthood

Go down, often either go in groups to join the army and sell their lives, or go to Xiaoju and ** to think that they are thieves.

And between the two, it is usually possible to carry out the mutual transformation of one and two sides through the recruitment of officials and the defeat of officials and soldiers into thieves by the imperial court, so the suffering is deep

The people who are heavy and suffering from the poison are naturally the people of Henan in the neighboring places.

There was a song that sang: "So far, my father has cried to the sky, hating the bitterness of Henan",

Because there are few dangers on the great plains, ordinary towns and villages cannot resist the ravages of these thieves and rebels; And only those who have a big business

The wealthy families and surnames who were able to build dock forts and earthen forts have the ability to support them accordingly.

Therefore, even after entering the dock fort, there is only the part of being a cow and a horse to be oppressed and driven by others, but compared to being in the outside world, you may be ruined at any time

Daily, or the ending of being coerced into filling the gap without knowing when the thief did not know it, is still more attractive.

Once upon a time, the hopes and dreams of the Wang brothers were just squatting outside the similar dock wall, looking at the grain and cloth that were constantly being transported in, looking forward to it

It's just a place to find food to eat and shelter;

Of course, what they expect is not the kind of tenant who is enslaved like cattle and horses, but is not treated as well as pigs and dogs; Rather, it has a certain degree of personal autonomy and status

the vassals of the main family such as the tribe, the doorman, and the Zhuang Ding; In this way, not only can you eat and be full, but you can also play prestige in front of the villagers with sticks and whips.

However, a great drought in the red land, and the ensuing grass thief rebellion everywhere, made their little hope and expectation come to naught.

You must know that under the war and famine of that year, as the Taiyuan Wang clan does not know how many generations of the five suits have been produced, the Gushi Wang clan in Gwangju is even the main sect of the family

, all starved to death and fled seventy-seven eighty-eight. And these small surnames of the side branches are dead and leftover, and they have also embarked on the old road of thieves/joining the army.

Later, he worked under Li Hanzhi and Li Tingshi, who were also grass thieves, but were recruited into official soldiers, for several years; Until he met the Taiping thief and was defeated

After the captivity, their brothers learned that they had been born as sons of man, and that there was a new way of living and living.

However, since you can live with dignity and dignity, who is willing to continue to follow those officials and soldiers who seem to be accustomed to stripping the people of their clothes

The convention of eating, or doing those bad things for the tiger,

It's just that the original determination to live a better life hasn't changed much, and it's only become stronger. And compared to those who have already been promoted as the banner leader

Cousin Wang Yanfu may be picking up the words he read in his early years again, and trying to learn all kinds of rules and instructions to seek from a military officer.

even wants to go to the jumping team to get the future of life and death; Wang Zhenzhi was shocked by the power of the Taiping army's firearms after the Battle of Dantu

and impressed, he decided to ask himself to report to the fire team and became an (alternate) assistant.

Although it is an alternate auxiliary sequence, the corresponding requirements and standards are not easy at all. Every day, you should hold several molds with different weights and shapes

Quasi-heavy objects, reciprocating throwing exercises countless times to master and familiarize themselves with the corresponding feel and weight;

After the corresponding calluses are worn out in the palms of the hands, and there are enough familiarity and physical conditioned reflexes, it will enter the next stage of selection and elimination and start training

Practice the corresponding accuracy and distance. It was only then that he had to officially obtain the status and license of a fire-throwing auxiliary.

The pitchers who were selected started with a large wooden frame five paces away, then a mid-wood frame ten paces away, and a small wooden frame fifteen paces away

The last is the rattan basket with twenty steps as the benchmark.

However, it is said that the best of them can even throw something directly at a specific target in twenty or thirty steps, and therefore are qualified to be above all others

The multi-grenadier and grenadier are on top of the grenadiers, and receiving additional perks are called "old grenadiers".

Then, it's time to intensify the training for the corresponding throwing distance. The equipment used also changed from wooden and stone models to real stuffed iron slag and sand

live ammunition body, and was exposed to harassment training in a simulated battlefield environment.

In fact, as a member of the fire throwing team, the priority of throwing far and near is still before the head. After all, as a rather dangerous piece of lethal firearm, missed

If you lose it, there is still a high probability that you will accidentally injure your own people.

Every day, almost every day, the arms that people practice seem to be swollen, and they need to be extremely tired after the fact, and even rub each other with medicinal oil along the meridians to dissipate

Stand back. Of course, there are also people who can't help but slack off and lazy in private, and as a result, they disappear into the sequence of the fire-throwing team;

Because there is a high probability that their arms will be abolished, they have to forcibly withdraw from the active sequence. And when you finish a stage, many people will find out

His arms have really become thicker. So much so that in this private gathering between his brothers, he won a few wrists with great pride.

At this stage, they have not been selected, and they are a thrower who can get a slightly higher basic salary than the average pawn; It is possible to follow closely behind those grenadiers, old grenadiers, and then be ready to take their place and fill their place. There is no need to carry a loaded basket lightly.

Therefore, as a simulation of actual combat, the harassment training is also a higher level than the original adaptability intensity.

They were required to march in relatively orderly formations, while receiving the scattering of arrows without pointed ends and the deliberate head-on raising of dust, clods of earth, and sticks; even the bluffing harassment of squad cavalry; And you can still throw the bullet body in your hand relatively steadily, instead of falling to the ground by mistake.

Only after surviving this stage with a successful throwing rate of nearly eighty percent can one be called a grenadier of a standard fire throwing team. As the backbone sequence personally mastered by the lieutenant of each battalion, they must not only be able to stand in the front row and throw arrows and arrows against the enemy, but also be able to operate the guys to charge the enemy and kill the enemy at close range.

As for the older grenadiers, it is a special honor and status that is unattainable in the everyday state; It is only after many outstanding performances on the battlefield that it is possible to be named.

Therefore, this time is also Wang Shenzhi's first battle in the sequence of the Taiping Army's fire team; The armed work teams in Shannan were strengthened in units of teams and fires, so as to complete the basic actual combat tests in the relatively low-intensity anti-rebellion work and local conflicts.

The corresponding performance and results will also determine the order of the military they are selected to go to; For example, the First Army, which has the title of "Chang Cong" or the Second Army, which is known as "Soaring", are the first choice for people to hope for. Then, the Fifth Army, which is dominated by the naval army...

It's just that the specific situation in the territory of Shannan Dongdao; It is also different from Jingnan, which is full of high mountains, gorges and rivers, Hunan and Jiangxi, where hills and rivers stretch, or Liangling, where the mountains are undulating and only rich in big rivers, and even Jiangdong, Zhejiang, and Xuanshe, where the land is rich in fertility and water, but the people's customs and military are relatively weak.

More with the strong, fierce, and conservative colors of the Northland. Compared with the relatively uncivilized and relatively unpopulated southern parts of the country, the history of human development and aggregation here can even be traced back to the legendary Xia Yu era.

After Zulong unified Liuhe, this is the largest iron-smelting center in the world; At the turn of the Han Dynasty, Nanyang County became the imperial hometown of the rise of Han Guangwu. Chuyan, a famous water conservancy project in Nanyang, is as famous as Zhengguo Canal in Guanzhong and Dujiangyan in Chengdu, and is known as the three ancient agricultural irrigation areas in the country.

The poet immortal Li Bai praised in the "Southern Capital Journey" made during the travels: "Qing song curbs the flowing clouds, there is spare time for dancing, invites you to visit Sheng Wanluo, and the crown is returned with the wind." ”

Therefore, the natural base and influence of the families who have been born here for generations are far from being comparable to those states and counties in the south. Although after the turmoil and tribulation since the Tang Dynasty, it has died out and fallen a lot, but what remains is all the hard bones of the conservative diehards.

They are also more conservative than those in the southeast, along the coast of Liangling, or along the river. Although support for the replacement of the vassals and local governments was limited, once the Taiping army touched on the fundamental interests of their ancestral control of the township, the backlash and resistance were particularly fierce.

Therefore, the corresponding anti-rebellion and clean-up work carried out here is closer to the hinterland of the traditional Nanyang Basin as it moves further north. The intensity of obstruction and resistance also increased with the ratio of casualties between friend and foe;

So much so that it is often necessary to dispatch fire throwing teams piecemeal, or even the formation of the model team, to strengthen into the corresponding sequence, in order to knock on the corresponding stubborn forts/dock forts. This Ding Pingzhuang is one of them, and the owner of Zhuangzi can trace the first hero of the Qianyuan Dynasty to Guo Ziyi.

From its seventh branch of Guo Shu's lineage, he served as Sinong Shaoqing, and later made military exploits in the Zhu Zhu Rebellion, and was promoted to the general of Zuojin Wuwei and was named the Duke of Qi. Because the Empress Dowager Guo, who was in charge of the Five Dynasties (the daughter of Guo Ai and Princess Shengping), lost power, and the settlement after moving to Nanyang was also repaired by the past dynasties.

There are not only arrow towers and moats that imitate the northern fortress, but also earthen and stone dock walls and reserved battlements and troughs that are enough to hide people running on them, to deal with the robbers and homeless people who are swarming from all directions. It's a pity that they encountered a completely different Taiping army.

Wang Xianzhi is trying to recall the various specific matters and attention to details in the previous local enemy situation briefing; At the same time, watching the shooting team responsible for suppressing the wall, they easily shot those Zhuang Ding who came out of the high wall and stood up one by one.

Suddenly, a bang exploded at one of the only two entrances to the dock wall. With the dock wall gate that collapsed in the billowing scorching smoke; Wang Zhenzhi became more and more serious and awakened in his heart; These recalcitrant strongholds that have been broken generally have only two outcomes.

Either they were demoralized and began to flee, or they lost their fighting spirit and fell to their knees and begged for mercy, or they were trapped in despair and fought to the death. And this is also where these firethrowers begin to show their expertise.

To explain to you,

The second child of this cat's family began to get sick a few days ago, and the morning before yesterday he was admitted to the hospital because of a major breathing difficulty in his throat; Therefore, the cat has been staying in the hospital with the bed and running until the middle of the night yesterday to come home, during which a total of four hours of sleep, really sleepy, and a little chest tightness and panting.

After insisting on tutoring the boss's homework, he lay down and didn't update; Only now did I get up and conceive and update this chapter.

Then, in the background, I checked again the manuscript fee I was going to pay, as well as the amount of tax deduction that I might get, and then thought about the child's medical expenses that had just been spent several times this amount, but I couldn't help but feel depressed and couldn't help myself;

I'm not overlooking too much because of my writing. In other words, I've been sticking to a result that doesn't cost you well.

(End of chapter)