Before, Zhang Lexing, Gao Yongqing and others all came from Henan to contact their old friends, wanting to mobilize these two or three hundred thousand twisted troops, but they did not expect that except for Li Zhaoshou and a few people, the hearts of these two or three hundred thousand twisted people were not controlled by them at all.

The twisted army is some bloody men, and they made a promise in Du Jinchan, naturally they will not break it, and someone immediately said: "Du Niangniang, borrow your sword!"

"Good!" As soon as Du Jincian heard the sword, her face immediately turned red, and she handed over the short sword with her hand, and then Wang Huaiyi used the short sword to pierce her hand, drenched in blood, and couldn't bear to see it, but Wang Huaiyi said happily: "From now on, we will follow Du Niangniang and His Majesty Emperor Zhenyuan, as long as Your Majesty does not abandon us old twisters, we will follow Du Niangniang to death in these hundreds of thousands of stars and grasses in northern Anhui!"

"Follow Du Niangniang and His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Long live the mother!"

With such a call, the twisters formed an alliance in a familiar way, and almost everyone stabbed themselves with this short sword before handing it back to Du Jinchan, who also clenched the sword: "I will never abandon you twisters!"

From now on, this sword in her hand has a deeper meaning than before, holding this short sword not only has the role of Shangfang sword in northern Anhui, but also in every corner of the country, there will be Anhui villagers who are excited about this sword and can't afford to kneel.

And now the thousands of twisted troops have already cheered, they have heard the details of the negotiations, Emperor Zhenyuan has taken care of their stomachs and found a way out for them, but the premise is to cross Zhang Lexing, the leader of the old alliance, first.

As long as you can eat enough, even if it is the idea of beating Zhang Xingle's father, everyone shouted Long live His Majesty the Emperor, and then began to shoot into the sky to celebrate.

This is also the gunfire that Ren Huabang heard at first, and he hurriedly brought an infantry company to protect Du Jinchan and Liu Sanniang. But what I saw was a jubilant scene, escorted by tens of thousands of twisted troops, Du Jinchan's convoy re-drove to the Pheasant River Collection.

Several twisters have already assured everyone that when they arrive at Pheasant River Market, they will immediately set up Wuyang County, and set up thousands of tables for a flowing water banquet, and this money does not need to be paid by the officials, and they will find a way for these twisters themselves -- in a few years, their small treasury will definitely have a lot of money.

And saw that Du Jincian and Liu Sanniang were all right. Ren Huabang also breathed a sigh of relief: "Two mothers, the villain Ren Huabang is already in the Pheasant River, no, yes...... Wuyang County has prepared a banquet, please ask the two ladies to hurry over!"

"No hurry, no hurry!" Liu Sanniang enjoyed the jubilation now: "We want to see our old friends more." Old brother, feel their mood, you raise more wine and food, and we will assist the officers to sweep away Li Zhaoshou and Miao Peilin, and then fight Zhang Lexing......"

Ren Huabang nodded, with the support of these tens of thousands of twisters, the situation in northern Anhui has changed greatly, he just wanted to say something, but Du Jincian over there asked: "You are Ren Zhu Ren Huabang, right?" ”

"The villain is Ren Zhu Ren Huabang!" Ren Huabang laughed for the first time: "That's right." The villain is Ren Zhu, before in Hefei, the villain's horse team was unfortunately defeated by the army, which is both unfortunate and fortunate!"

Du Jincian nodded and said: "Sure enough, it was Ren Zhu Ren Huabang, and when he left Beijing, His Majesty specifically mentioned you." ”

Ren Zhu couldn't help but be happy, he was a rising star in the twisting army, and his qualifications were very shallow. The reason why he was able to serve as the commander of the 12th regiment. It was completely the love of the elders, but he didn't expect Liu Jiehu to specifically mention him: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your great kindness." ”

He was concerned about what Liu Chang had said. And Du Jinchan quickly said: "Your Majesty said, in the provincial capital before, although Ren Zhu was defeated by my hands, it is not a crime of war, and his people are useful, I don't know if I am willing to go out of Anhui to serve the country!"

This Ren Zhu Ren Huabang is definitely a well-known figure in the history of the war between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twist Army, Zeng Guofan said, "Ren Huabang's horse is the most fierce. Cheng Xiang Yu's wife, the strange masterpiece among the people", Li Hongzhang said that he "Ren Zhu dominated for ten years, with 10,000 horses, the three eastern provinces and the Mongolian horse team, all of which were exhausted, and he was the first class cavalry general today", and he was regarded as the first cavalry general in the same year, and Ren Zhu died within dozens of days, and the two twist armies in the east and west were also completely destroyed, and it is conceivable that his identity in the twist army.

It's just that Ren Zhu at this time is not an old qualified twister, just a rising star who has no weight in the twisting army, as soon as he heard Liu Chang carry himself like this, he immediately knelt down: "Your Majesty loves Ren Zhu, Ren Zhu is naturally willing to repay him with death, I don't know where to fight in Anhui?" ”

Du Jinchan told Ren Zhu: "This time our army will fight with the Qing Demon and the Russian horse team in the north, so there is the establishment of Zhou Xiuying's cavalry army, and there is still a lack of a cavalry brigade commander on his side, one of the cavalry is adapted from the Twist Army horse team, and the other regiment is the Rainbow Army's hundred battle elite cavalry, if General Ren is willing to go to serve, he can also go to serve in a regiment of selected horses in northern Anhui, and all expenses will be written off by Feng Sixian's supervising army according to the actual situation!"

Ren Huabang couldn't help but be overjoyed, he kept kowtowing on the ground, and said in a loud voice: "Thank you Your Majesty for your love, thank you for your love!" The villain is willing to serve His Majesty and Niangniang. ”

In his heart, Liu Changgui is the emperor of a country, and the personnel he usually pays attention to are all key positions at the provincial and military levels, how could he think that he is such a head of the production group, it must be Du Jincian who blew the pillow wind in Liu Chang's ears before he was promoted and appointed.

Among the Twist Army, although some of the old generals have already held positions at the division and brigade level of the regular army, none of them have served as the chief officer, and they can be said to be the first person, not to mention these three regiments with cavalry, one regiment will be the old brothers brought out of northern Anhui, the most convenient but, there is also a regiment is also an old brother of the Twist Army, which should be trusted, and another regiment is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, which is definitely enough for a war.

He is very optimistic about his future.

With his support, Du Jinchan's Xuanfu Northern Anhui this time seemed to be much smoother, at least there was no such situation where the local government collapsed, everyone respected the short sword in Du Jinchan's hand like a god, but Liu Sanniang looked funny, while the two of them were eating privately, she said with a smile: "I didn't expect this short knife, in addition to being used for shaving, it has such a use, I really can't think of it......"

Du Jinchan's face turned red, but he fought back: "When Your Majesty pampers you next time, I will help you get ......."

Liu Sanniang is not afraid of such a paragraph: "Okay, let's wait for Your Majesty's favor together, and see which one Your Majesty favors first......"

When it comes to the topic of women, Du Jinchan is not an opponent at all, she lowered her head, and did not dare to face Liu Sanniang, and the atmosphere became ambiguous.

Liu Sanniang felt more and more funny, and when she wanted to say something, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and then a bad news came: "Gao Yongqing of Guide Jinlouzhai has joined forces with Liu Gou, and now he has conquered Ma Muji and is besieging the county ......"——

Guide.

This place was renamed Shangqiu in another time and space, but in this time and space, Shangqiu is just a small place name that can be highlighted on the map, because of the opening of the railway, Shangqiu continued to expand, and finally swallowed Guide, and there is no longer a long history of Guide Mansion can be found on the map, only Shangqiu County.

This place can be said to be a place where soldiers must fight, the famous Zhang Patrol guarding Suiyang is here, but there are several battles to defend the city that determine the fate of China, such as King Liang Xiao insisted on Suiyang, and Li Zicheng attacked Guide Mansion twice, and even Song Gaozong Zhao Gou ascended the throne here, and today's Guide Mansion was once again besieged by the enemy.

But compared with the famous battles in history to defend the city, today's defensive battle of Guide is a mess, the regular army in the city is almost only two infantry platoons and some baggage soldiers, health soldiers and other non-combatants, in the face of a tidal siege, this force seems to be unable to hold the city wall, fortunately a small number of militia were temporarily mobilized, plus the people in the city were mobilized, barely maintained a defensive state.

But the situation is getting worse and worse, from the beginning of the battle the defenders are in a state of setbacks everywhere, first the basic militia and ordinary militia of Jinlouzhai almost all participated in the mutiny, and even some of the township soldiers participated in the rebellion, and then a platoon of Ma Muji's township soldiers and a platoon of the Guide Independent Battalion were almost completely wiped out, only three people broke through and came back, they only brought despair, and the main force of a company of the Guide Independent Battalion is now missing.

"Where is Governor Liu?"

"Where is Zheng Zhixian?"

"Where is Camp Commander Chu?"

"And where is Company Commander Zhang?"

Several commanders who were the center of the guard did not know their whereabouts, and the siege outside the city became tighter and tighter, and soon an infantry squad in Nanchengguan and thirty or forty baggage soldiers and militia who assisted them in the garrison were all broken by the rebels, and there was not even anyone who fled back to report the news, and according to unreliable information, the township platoon, the basic militia company, and the independent battalion company and platoon near Shangqiu were almost all gone, at least one thing is certain, that is, the rebels also held a lot of modern firearms in their hands, such as firing rifles and flintlock guns, There are also some small Western cannons.

Under such an offensive, the entire Guide City could be breached at any time, and the defenders in the city could not even find a reliable commander, so they had no choice but to elect a departing Daqingzhi County to serve as the garrison commander of the whole city.

The dismissed Liu Zhixian could only reluctantly take office, he knew that after the rebellious army entered the city, the first gentry class like him would not be spared: "Please rest assured, I swear not to stand with Gao Yongqing, the sect of the Divorced Hexagram." ”