Huaizhou. Milli state. Pheasant River Collection.

For the Twist Army, the Pheasant River set has a special significance, not only limited to Xianfeng five years, the leaders of the Twist Army met in this alliance, and publicly played the banner of the "Great Han Kingdom", the key is that the Pheasant River set can be said to be the starting place and foundation of the Twist Army.

No matter which flag of the Twisted Army, the Red Flag, the Black Flag, the White Flag, the Blue Flag or the Yellow Flag, their foundation is in the vicinity of the Pheasant River Set for hundreds of miles, in fact, the entire Pheasant River Set and the nearby territory of more than 100 miles are controlled in the hands of the Twist Army, and countless dock villages have been built.

These dock villages have not paid a penny of grain to the Qing Dynasty for many years, and the people in the dock village live a very happy and harmonious life, harmony and chaos coexist, but a hundred miles away, it is another copy of hell on earth.

The system of the twist army can be said to be in the people, out of the bandits, after grabbing enough money and food outside, they will return to their hometowns to live a good life, the big twist head gets the most share, the small twist head and the twist below each have oil and water, last year broke the Huai River town of Sanhejian, so that the twist of the pheasant river set can enjoy peace and happiness for several months.

But no matter how much money Sanhejian has, there is still a fixed number after all, and after a few months of expenses, the twisters have reached the time when the belt is getting wider again, and they are already talking about how to go out and do a lot of money.

A hundred miles away, there must be an enemy country, they can be said to be the most courageous army of displaced people in modern times, it is a twisted army composed of clans and blood relations, no matter what kind of big city, what kind of strong army, in front of their horse team and infantry, it can be said that they are overwhelmed.

And now they have heard a lot of good news, the old rival Qing army has been defeated many times by the new rainbow army to the south. As for the Taiping Army, which often liaises with the Twist Army but has many conflicts, it also retreated to Jiangbei under the impact of the Hong Army. Now the strongest force in the entire Anhui, Henan, and Jiangsu provinces is the Twist Army.

Therefore, the interest of the twisters is also getting higher and higher, and they are considering a farther goal, whether it is Yangzhou in March or Suzhou and Hangzhou, which are paradises on earth. As long as the general flag owners of each banner shout, there must be tens of thousands of twisters who are willing to work hard for the leader of the Han League and make a fortune.

"Yangzhou is good! It's just that there is a rainbow army there, and we may not necessarily take advantage of it in the past! ”

"I heard that ten Sanhejian can't compare to one Yangzhou, I think it's better to fight south!"

"Not to mention the ten Sanhe Tips, even the thirty Sanhe Tips are not as good as Yangzhou, and Huainan is our best way!"

"But Li Zhaoshou is here, and we will open the seal. The Yellow River is all for us! ”

Today's Pheasant River Set can be said to be full of people coming and going, and there are many big flags in the whole market town, including red flags, blue flags, white flags, black flags, and yellow flags. There are also blue flags with black edges, white flags with red edges, which represent the branches that are exhibited from the main branch of the five-way general flag, except for Zhang Lexing and Gong Blind, I'm afraid no one can figure out how many branches there are.

In fact, Twist is such a group where chaos and harmony coexist. Some of the general banner owners may not be able to control the small banners below, and the power developed by some small banners far exceeds the strength of the general banner itself, but everyone is nominally obedient to Zhang Lexing, the leader of the Han League.

"Brothers!" Zhang Lexing is a cheerful man in his forties, he arched his hands and said: "Since last year when the Three Rivers were broken, the cause of our Great Han Kingdom has been prosperous, and there are probably no less than 200,000 twisters from all walks of life, and recently there are Henan Li Zhaoshou brothers to vote!" ”

Li Zhaoshou stood up and arched his hand to everyone, he was a very talkative figure: "You are all my eldest brother, my eldest brother, if I do something wrong, please ask my senior brother to advise me a lot, we have no other ability, but these thousands of brothers under him are still a little bloody!" ”…,

After Li Zhaoshou finished speaking, Gong Deshu, the master of the White Flag, had already stood up, he was the chief military division of the entire Twist Army, and his words were very heavy: "I summoned you here today to find a golden avenue for our Twist Army!" ”

Although the twists below have their own pulses, everyone listened to Gong Deshu talking there very modestly: "You are in a hurry, I'm afraid you don't know two major things!" The first is that Yangzhou has recently been occupied by the red barbarians from the south, Tuo Ming'a is not in a hurry, and ran away without a few shots, and those demons in the heavenly kingdom are not good either, they lost Nanjing City, and now they are preparing to join forces with Chen Yucheng! ”

Chen Yucheng has dealt with Twist, everyone knows that this Chen Yucheng thinks highly of himself, regards Twist as a group of thieves, and does not really get along with Twist Army, so Zhang Long, the general of the Blue Flag, stood up: "What are Chen Yucheng and Hong Xiuquan?" I heard that they want to work together with us to fight against the Red Barbarians, I think this is very difficult to do! ”

Zhang Long's idea has won the approval of many people, the reason why the twist was attached to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the past was entirely because the heavenly soldiers were strong, and the twist was difficult to support alone, but now the situation has changed fundamentally, the heavenly kingdom only left Chen Yucheng, Wei Jun and a few other troops, now it should be a god-given opportunity for the twist to annex the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zhang Long continued: "The long-haired team, lasting more than and the elite owes it, it is a good time for us to start, and when the long-haired is annexed, we can drink the Yangtze River all the way!" ”

"How can it be so easy!" It was Gong Deshu Gong Blind who spoke, and he had already dropped a heavyweight bomb: "I'm afraid you don't know yet, right?" And the state has come to the red barbarians. ”

Hezhou and Chaohu can be said to be within the scope of activities of the Twist Army, although it is close to the Yangtze River, but the Twist in northern Anhui still sends a team to the Yangtze River from time to time to make a circle and fish some oil and water back, so someone asked: "How many red barbarians came?" How strong is it? ”

The person who spoke was also the same as Zhang Long, both of whom were born in the Blue Banner, but compared to Zhang Long, this person was the most famous cavalry general in the Blue Banner, called Ren Zhu, and Gong Blind immediately said: "There are many red barbarians who have crossed the river, that is, thousands of people, and they have gathered some regiments in the local area to train and be strong, and now they are operating between Chaohu Lake and Zhouzhou." ”

Li Zhaoshou, who was newly invested over there, heard that it was just a team of thousands of people, and immediately shouted: "Senior brothers, aren't you afraid of these thousand red barbarians?" If you seniors don't dislike it, I, Li Zhaoshou, am willing to fight this front! ”

As soon as Li Zhaoshou said this, Zhang Long also felt that there was a lot of oil and water to be fished: "Okay! Let's work together to bring down Chaohu Lake in Hezhou, this is a good place! ”

Last year, the Sanhejian was laid, which has made these leaders of the Twist Army very happy, and according to Zhang Long's understanding, these Sanhejian is just a commercial town in the Huaihe River Basin, and it has reached such a rich point, and Hezhou and Chaohu are all important commercial towns on the Yangtze River, and they are not many times richer than Sanhejian.

As soon as Zhang Long shouted like this, his interest in twisting his head rose, and even Su Tianfu and Hou Shifeng, the two influential general flag masters, stood up and shouted: "Beat the red barbarians back to Jiangnan, Jiangbei is our territory!" ”

At this time, Zhang Lexing had already cleared his throat, and his nephew beside him, Zhang Zongyu, who was known as the "Little Yama King" in the Twist Army, snorted coldly: "Shut up for me!" ”

At this time, Zhang Lexing said: "Brothers, brothers, the momentum of the red barbarians is very strong, but in two or three years, it has swept the five provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Anhui, and the south of the Yangtze River is all for it, and it is said that it has also won the support of foreigners. ”

This is all the truth, the passion of twisting the head was poured a basin of cold water at once, you must know that there are only a thousand red barbarians in Hezhou, but in southern Anhui, there are 10,000 thousands of red barbarians under the command of Feng Sixian, it is said that they are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and they can rush to the aid of Hechao at any time. …,

And Zhang Long's personality jumped out, and when he thought that the Red Barbarians had successfully defeated even strong armies like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Jiangnan Daying, and Seng Lingqin, he immediately said: "Since the Red Barbarians are so strong, then we should not make enemies, why don't we send a team to meet up!" ”

It was only when he said that Gong Deshu and Gong Blind, the military advisor and the general flag master of the White Flag, had already poured another basin of cold water: "Now the envoy sent by Liu Jiehu has arrived at Pheasant River Collection, but you really want to be rich?" ”

The twisted capital present knew that the rainbow army had just risen in the south of the Yangtze River, and the momentum was very great, and it was claimed that the road to the wind was overwhelmed, that Feng Sixian just brought more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but the entire southern Anhui was pacified in ten days, and this Feng Sixian was indeed a powerful person, in the past, the Twist Army also planted some nails in southern Anhui, but although he first arrived in southern Anhui, in a short period of time, he pulled out a small half of the nails planted by the Twist Army, and the remaining nails were also broken.

It's just that Zhang Long is the most jumpy: "Then what should I do?" If you can't be an opponent, you have to be a friend, right? No war and no peace, I'm afraid it's a dead end, in my opinion, now the red barbarians have only a thousand people across the river, it's still too late to start, and it's too late to make friends now! ”

Although Zhang Long has a lot of problems, what he said is indeed the truth, and now Zhang Lexing said a few words of the truth: "It's just that there are too many friends who come to our Pheasant River Set now, some are sent by Yuan Jiasan, some are sent by Fuji, and Yinggui, Seng Greenqin, Shengbao are sent, and Hong Xiuquan and Chen Yucheng are sent, so that these friends don't meet, I have tried my best!" ”

This is the truth, not to mention that the representatives of the various forces cannot meet, even the representatives sent by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing army are not easy to meet with each other, Zhang Lexing has worked hard, but he also knows that the situation is pressing, the Hong Army has now occupied two important strongholds in Jiangbei - Yangzhou and Hezhou, and as long as the Hong Army is given enough time, I am afraid that there will be a steady stream of reinforcements to Jiangbei, and the contact with the Twist Army is probably imminent.

And now the Blue Flag's Liu Vicious has spoken: "Alliance leader, tell the truth!" What do you want us to do? (To be continued)