Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Times
Zhou Xiuying's words seemed to be asked casually, but as soon as the words were finished, her starry eyes that could talk were already staring at Liu Chang, and her hands unconsciously grabbed her horse chopping knife.
Not only her, but almost all of the old departments of these Little Knife Society are very concerned about this issue, wondering what Liu Chang will do with their old departments of the Little Knife Society, at least not as cold as the Heavenly Kingdom treats the Little Knife Society.
Liu Chang already had a plan: "Miss Xiuying, my team here has just opened, and it is very shabby, so I can only force the brothers of the Little Knife Club to form a sentry first, and you will be the sentry commander, Miss Xiu." ”
Zhou Xiuying is a female general who commands hundreds of people in the Little Knife Society, and has repeatedly broken the Qing army, and in the fourth year of Xianfeng, she even personally led 200 soldiers to kill the city of Shanghai to break the Taiyong, but although there is only one sentry in the name now, at least the rest of this Heaven and Earth Society is preserved.
Liu Chang continued: "The rules on our side are three rows per sentry, three shifts per platoon, ten people per squad, plus a total of 100 miscellaneous soldiers per outpost, and the brothers and sisters you bring with you are all arranged by you freely, and I have supplemented thirty Dongxiang veterans for the shortage, plus fifty Qing soldiers who were captured by Panshizhai in the previous time. ”
This may be a sentry shelf, Zhou Xiuying didn't expect that Liu Chang not only did not dismantle the old department of her batch of small knife clubs into her own troops, but instead made up for her the establishment of a hundred people, which was really unexpected, her hand was released from the horse chopping knife: "Xiuying thanked the inspection!" ”
However, Liu Chang said: "Miss Xiuying, I also said ugly things to the front, I treat people with sincerity, and I hope you can be sincere to me!" The reason why our Red Turban Army has a small capital and can clear the army to the end is that military discipline is like iron, orders are prohibited, and there is no crime against the people! ”
He knew that although the Little Knife Society Uprising was called the Little Knife Society Uprising, it was actually a large alliance of many local and foreign gangs in Shanghai, and the party system alone had almost seven different local and foreign gangs, and the union of so many gangs would inevitably be mixed with a lot of scum, not to mention that these gangs and the mountains were vying for power and profit with each other, and the Fujian Gang and the Guangdong Gang, the two largest gangs, even had a merger.
Zhou Xiuying herself is from a small local tyrant family in the countryside of Qingpu, and has experienced so many disputes within the Little Knife Society, but she understands Liu Chang's intentions: "I am a countryman from Qingpu, and the dog officials in the county are too hateful, and the countrymen are so hateful that they can't survive for many years, but the dog officials still have to chase the money and grain from a few years ago, don't think that we countrymen don't understand anything, those money and grain have long been posted on the exempt imperial list, it is really the official forcing the people to rebel, and I have to rebel!" ”
"If you can survive, who will still do this murderous and rebellious business, we are doing the right thing for heaven, the inspection must be strict in military discipline, the order is prohibited, and there is no crime against the people, Xiuying I am a hundred in favor!"
She knelt down for Liu Chang: "The inspection is worthy of us, we are also worthy of the inspection, after the inspection, we will be our lord, let us go east to the east, and west to the west, never ask more questions!" ”
Not only Zhou Xiuying, but also the old departments of these knife clubs also knelt down for Liu Chang, in their eyes, although this Liu inspector is too young, but from now on he will be their leading big brother: "What the inspector says should be done, let's do it, what should not be done, who dares to violate military discipline, I Zhou Xiuying chopped him with a knife!" ”
"Good!" Liu Chang had already taken Zhou Xiuying's hand and took her up: "Miss Xiu, I will entrust this sentry to you!" ”
Zhou Xiuying also stood up generously: "The great kindness of the inspection, Zhou Xiuying will repay him with death, but I want to ask the inspection, what is his idea of the kingdom of heaven!" ”
She didn't suspect that Liu Chang, the thirty-six inspection points in front of the hall, was an impostor.
Liu Chang's appearance was only fifteen or sixteen years old, but at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did produce many extremely young generals, and when these generals led the army, they were not inferior to those fifty or sixty-year-old veterans in the Qing army.
A typical example of this kind of young general is Chen Yucheng, he was born in 1837, last year (1854, Xianfeng four years) when the Taiping Army conquered Wuchang again, he personally led 500 warriors to the city, the brigade continued to advance, and conquered Wuchang City in one fell swoop, 18-year-old Chen Yucheng was promoted to the right 30 checkpoints of the palace because of his merits, commanding the 13th Army and the 4th Army of Shuiying, and was already the commander of tens of thousands of troops.
Chen Yucheng, the right thirty checkpoints of the palace, because he is particularly good at returning to the horse pistol tactics, so he is known as the "thirty checks back to the horse pistol", and Liu Chang is only slightly younger than Chen Yucheng, but his wisdom and courage do not seem to be inferior to Chen Yucheng, and it is logical that he serves as the thirty-six checkpoints in front of the palace in heaven.
It's just that when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is mentioned, Zhou Xiuying inevitably has a resentment in her stomach.
At the beginning of the incident, the Little Knife Society did not contact the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but wanted to take advantage of the situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sweeping the south of the Yangtze River to rise up and divide one side, so at the beginning of the incident, they used the name of the Ming Dynasty.
However, when the Qing army began to counterattack, the Xiaodaohui had to seek the support of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they used the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and repeatedly contacted the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, trying to borrow the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to capture Shanghai.
However, the clumsy strategic level of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom once again made meritorious contributions, and they did not notice the special status of Shanghai in the Far East at all, but only saw that the internal organization of the Little Knife Society was loose, and it was a far cry from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in terms of religion and ideology, and did not give the Little Knife Society even the support of the situation, but publicly stated that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had nothing to do with the Little Knife Society uprising.
The wishful thinking of the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to let the knife and the Qing army fight for both defeats, and the Taiping army came out to pick up the cheap, but in the seventeen-month Shanghai offensive and defensive battle, it was always only the knife would support the endgame alone, and the knife would do everything possible, but in a Jedi like the county town of Shanghai, it encountered a joint attack by the Qing army and the British and French armies, and finally there was only one way to fail.
As for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's death or not salvation, whether it is Zhou Xiuying or the old department of these knife clubs, they all have a stomach full of resentment, and the question she raised is precisely the most sensitive.
Liu Chang looked around first, and then lowered his voice: "I am one of the thirty-six checkpoints in front of the Heavenly Kingdom Palace, but I was assigned to the Red Turban Army, what do you say I have to do with the Heavenly Kingdom!" ”
He continued: "There are some things that can only be done, not said! ”
Zhou Xiuying understood, and she gave her hand very directly: "If you want to make your own piece of the country, that's the best, I don't want to follow those people in Tianjing." We are willing to swear to follow the inspection point to fight the country and fight for a rich future! ”
It's just that Zhou Xiuying's next question is more sensitive: "But since the inspection point wants a piece of the country, I don't know how much money there is now?" ”
Liu Chang also told the truth directly: "Liu Mou commanded less than 1,000 men and women, and there are only three sentry posts that can be pulled out directly!" However, not only do I have the land of Rock Town, but I also have plenty of time. ”
He speaks with confidence, time on his side.
Heroes make the times, and the times make heroes!
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