The officers present, after hearing these words, immediately stood up one by one, stood up straight, and said loudly: "I am willing to die for the inspection!" ”

Liu Chang immediately read out to them the order that had already been written: "It is hereby scheduled that the whole army will attack and advance to Taizhou on March 21, the fifth year of Xianfeng, and seize Taiping County as soon as possible, and ...... for this purpose."

His voice also became solemn: "All the Dragon Gun Battalion, the Nanxi Battalion, and two-thirds of the auxiliary troops will complete their assembly on March 20 and attack and advance towards Taiping County. ”

Some officers also understood why Liu Chang had transferred the Jintang Sentinel separately and not incorporated it into two infantry battalions, and it turned out that the Jintang Sentinel had stayed in the Panshi Village to guard the only base of the entire group.

Liu Chang continued to give orders: "From now on, each infantry battalion will be renamed an infantry battalion, each infantry post will be renamed an infantry company, each infantry platoon will be renamed an infantry platoon, and each infantry shed will be renamed an infantry squad!" ”

This is only a nominal name change, but the following order is very powerful: "In the two battalions of Longgun and Nanxi, a new light artillery company will be built, equipped with four field artillery, and the equipment will be transferred from the artillery team, in order to support the dispatch to Taizhou, the original artillery team will be reorganized into three artillery companies, a field artillery company, a siege artillery company, each equipped with six artillery pieces, and a left-behind artillery company will be formed, which will be responsible for the left-behind business and equipment maintenance of Panshizhai and the formation and training of the new artillery company. ”

Liu Chang did not say the specific size of the artillery company left behind, but in view of the fact that there are still a large number of bronze artillery in Panshi Village, the scale of this artillery company will not be too small, and then Liu Chang announced the next order: "Each team of the auxiliary force shall be renamed the company accordingly and included in the battle sequence of our army. and complete the assembly. ”

This is Shi Yunqing and Shi Huiji, they are worthy of cheering, just for the name of this company, Shi Huiji also made a small sacrifice, he originally had one hundred and thirty or forty people, and there were many people on the way to Panshi Village, and now there are nearly two hundred people under him, but Liu Chang's various companies are basically three rows and nine shifts, and the full strength is only one hundred and twenty people, so in order to gain Liu Chang's trust, he took the initiative to propose that his company should also be reorganized according to the establishment of one hundred and twenty people, and the excess personnel can be transferred to other auxiliary units.

Compared with him, Shi Yunqing has much more small abacus, and now his vanguard company is still active on the south bank, with as many as one hundred and fifty or sixty people in the whole company, and the entire company maintains a strong independence, so although he has a longer relationship with the Dragon Lance Battalion, Liu Chang is more inclined to retire in everything.

After reading out this series of orders, Liu Chang relaxed, waved his hand to everyone, and motioned for everyone to sit down and have a good talk: "Is there any opposition to marching to Taizhou?" ”

"Nope!" This is everyone's resounding answer: "I am willing to share the glory and disgrace with the inspection"

Now there is only such a piece of land as Panshizhai, and it is subject to Zhai Zhenhan, of course, the officers are willing to develop to Taizhou, and when the time comes, they will have their own future.

Liu Chang also looked at the group of officers under him with considerable satisfaction, and nodded: "Okay, that's the kind of thing, let's have a good talk next, first of all, let's talk to you about something, let's go to Taizhou this time, we are going to do it alone, and it is no longer suitable to play the banner of the Red Turban Army, so I discussed it with a few company commanders, our team is called the Rainbow Army, the rainbow of the rainbow!" ”

"Good!"

"That's a good name!"

"Hongjun, Hongqiao's rainbow?"

The renaming of the unit as the Rainbow Army can not only be distinguished from Zhai Zhenhan's Red Turban Military Region, but also be respected; Zhai Zhenhan played the banner of the Rainbow Army in the early days of the uprising, and now there are a large number of officers and men from Hongqiao in the troops, accounting for almost one-third of the entire army, and nearly half of the officers and men at the first level of the company and platoon.

Therefore, Hongqiao is very satisfied with the renaming of the army as the Hongjun, and their satisfaction is that everyone is satisfied, and this matter is passed: "But we have to enter Taizhou to play the banner of the Hongjun." ”

However, Yun Tianzong, the old platoon commander of Nanxi Sentinel, asked: "Check, since we have changed our name to Hongjun, should this banner be changed?"

Not only should the name be different from the Red Turban Army, but the banner should naturally be different, and soon everyone reached a consensus: "Since it is the Rainbow Army, it should be a red flag!" ”

Although the Red Turban Army has a "red" character, the flag it is carrying is a yellow flag, and the Hongjun is determined to play the red flag: "In the name of my Liu Chang, I am the chief inspector and commander of the Hongjun, of course, it is still the same sentence, everyone knows these things, and they can only be implemented in Taizhou." ”

"All preparations will be completed on March 20, and the official departure will be on March 21, are you confident?"

All the officers stood up again and replied in unison, "Don't worry." ”

Liu Chang was very satisfied, he clapped his hands gently, and wanted to say something, but someone knocked on the door outside. "Check, something is wrong"

"What's the matter?"

Battlefield information is changing rapidly, and great changes may occur at any time, and Liu Chang's sudden major event will not affect the normal training of the troops and the plan to advance to Taizhou.

It's just that everything doesn't go as planned, and the two things that come from the report are not good news.

"After our Red Turban Army Hu Zuolong and Zhao Qibu took Taishun County, they once again recovered Fuding County in Fujian, and there were signs of mobilizing troops to the Zhejiang-Fujian border in the direction of Fuzhou.

This is equivalent to the Red Turban Army taking two more county seats, but it is not a good thing for Liu Chang.

"The Qing Demon Niu Deshun Department went south from Taiping County, and now the troops are in Yandang Mountain, the two young marshals are afraid that they will not be able to resist, please check and immediately lead the troops north to fight a decisive battle with Niu Deshun."

The southward pace of the Qing army was unexpected by Liu Chang, and it also disrupted Liu Chang's pace of preparation, so everyone waited for Liu Chang's decision, and Liu Chang quickly gave the order without hesitation: "Our army will not move, according to the plan, prepare for war"

Whether it is the order given by Lao Tzu or his son, Liu Chang is determined not to be interfered with by them, and first do his own thing well, unless Niu Deshun can kill the rock village out of Liu Chang's surprise, completely disrupting Liu Chang's preparation plan, in that case, Liu Chang will not mind letting him see the power of the 700-shot salvo.

"Get everything ready by March 20"

Wenzhou City.

The Daotai Yamen was already overcast, and the vanguard of the Red Turban Army appeared near the city wall several times, and finally left calmly under the gaze of the defenders.

Since the news of Ryan's loss came, Wen said that Yu Shufeng seemed to have lost his soul, and he didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of him.

Watching Qing Lian put down the chess pieces one by one on the chess game, his heart seemed to be on fire, but he didn't know how to exit.

Fortunately, Qing Lian spoke first: "I really didn't expect it, in just a month or two, so many new and old colleagues died at the hands of the red turban thieves."

Yu Shufeng's heart was already in turmoil, and he had already lost this game of chess, but he quickly fell randomly: "Yun Si is very generous, and he can still be so calm and relaxed when he burns his eyebrows now." ”

"Yu Dao" Qinglian also said frustrated words: "You don't know that I'm also messed up, thinking back to the years ago, we played the game, Wenfu Wenwu watched the chess from the sidelines, how many laughter and laughter were there at that time, and how many people are left to watch the chess gentleman now?" ”

Too many civil and military officials had died, and Yu Shufeng could casually report their names: Adjutant General Chi Jiangong, Dusi Zhangcheng, guerrilla Zhuo Dalin, Pingyang Governor ...... -- even the prefect Ruichun, who had been singing against him all day, died in the army.

He couldn't help but sigh for a while, and finally could only grab a chess piece: "It's a pity that I have worked hard for forty years, and it is easy to climb to such a position, but I actually encountered such a dead end, Yunsi, I heard that Taishun County has also fallen?" ”

"Zhentai just received an urgent report, Taishun County has been declared lost, and now there is only one lonely city in Fucheng in Quanwen, and the officials who can call the shots are only the three of you and me......"

The three people present, Qinglian, the envoy of Zhejiang Yanyun, Yu Shufeng, the Taoist of Wenzhou, and Ye Bingzhong, the chief soldier of Wenzhou Town, who shook his head directly without understanding the chess game, were the three giants who decided the fate of Wenzhou Mansion.

Yu Shufeng sighed and sighed even more: "Taishun County has been lost, and the previous Yunsi personally went out of the city and was defeated, three thousand seven hundred went out of the city, and less than two thousand returned to the city, we can only wait for that edict"

What kind of edict to wait, it is naturally the edict that executes the three of them, and the Wenzhou Mansion has developed to such a rotten situation in front of them, and they can't escape their responsibilities as the main officials.

Speaking of this, Yu Shufeng sighed again: "Yunsi is a Manchurian blue flag, maybe he can save his life"

Qinglian fell fiercely: "It's just a Manchurian basket flag, a generation of slaves, what use can it be, Yu Dao, you are a Han, you can still leave in battle, I am a Manchurian, I have the responsibility to defend the city, I can't go"

Speaking of this, he raised the fallen flag again, and said to Yu Shufeng and Ye Bingzhong, who was watching the chess on the sidelines: "Daotai, now the city is thousands of red turban troops, if the center knows about this situation, it will definitely use our three loyal dogs, although the edict sent down is harsh, but most of them have escaped death......

"The disposition of the three of you and me, most of them is to take off the crown, dismiss and stay in office, and make meritorious service for crimes..."Qinglian, the banner man, is very familiar with the operation of the center: "Now we have to worry about the tens of thousands of red thieves outside the city, once the city is broken, the three of you will ......."

He couldn't go on anymore, lost his usual calm bearing, and sighed again: "The most worrying thing now is the thief of Liu Jiehu." ”

Ye Shanzhong, the chief soldier of Wenzhou Town, who was just watching a lot of chess, said: "Yunsi, Daotai, there is a glimmer of life right now, and it has something to do with the thief of Liu Jiehu"..."