The old man's momentum stunned everyone for a while.

If he said Jiangyin dialect, it would be fine, and a group of soldiers in the palace might not be able to understand it. However, he recited the words of the drama in general, the words were correct and round, and the words "Daming" and "Manchurian" were heard in his ears. From this point of view, isn't this old man in front of him a rebellious criminal? Seeing that he was about to take people.

Among the Xuan army, there are not many real Manchurians, but Guan Dashuai is a genuine brand of Zhenghuang Banner! Everyone peeked at him, but they saw the handsome man standing in the middle, silent, not knowing what he was thinking. The little girl in the red jacket ran in, knelt on the ground and didn't speak, just crying while kowtowing to these "masters" and pleading.

"This person is crazy about acting." Guan Zhuofan finally spoke, and there was no trace of joy or sorrow in his voice, and he said dryly, "Mr. Liu, I remember that this ancestral temple was established by the imperial court?" ”

"Yes, the handsome man is really knowledgeable!" Liu Xunjiao was thrilled, and when he asked, he hurriedly replied, "This ancestral hall of Yan Liheng was built in the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong and was approved by Emperor Gaozongchun, but I didn't expect it to be here." ”

After the fall of Jiangyin, the city was slaughtered, and since then, the people of the entire Jiangyin area have adopted an attitude of non-cooperation with the imperial court. This situation was not changed until the Qianlong period, when the imperial court allowed Yan Yingyuan to repair the shrine in Jiangyin and took the initiative to show favor to the people of Jiangyin.

"In that case, it's inconvenient to bother." Guan Zhuofan said lightly, "Go!" ”

Walk?

This sound of leaving made everyone quite unbelievable, a case that can be determined as a big reversal. Say put it away, it's open! Everyone is thinking. This is why Guan Dashuai is a man. dare to do this, if you change the Han member, I am afraid that I will immediately be suspected of thinking about the future.

However, when the big handsome said to go, who would dare to say anything more? Túrin hurriedly put on the oil coat in his hand for Guan Zhuofan, and dozens of people put away their knives and guns, got on their horses, and galloped towards the barracks in the heavy rain.

When he entered the Chinese military tent, Guan Zhuofan changed into dry clothes for himself by his own soldiers. On the other hand, he sent someone to call Liu Xunjiao over.

"Mr. Liu, did you see that old man, did he have the big knife in his hand?"

"Yes, I thought of it too." Speaking of this matter, Liu Xunjiao was extremely cautious, looked at Guan Zhuofan's face cautiously and said, "At the beginning, Yan Liheng was so rebellious that he dared to fight against the heavenly soldiers in Jiangyin, and his general, surnamed Yang, was the one who held the knife for him. This old man who guards the shrine. Maybe it's the descendant of that general. ”

"Mr. Liu, you don't have to worry too much. Two hundred years ago? Guan Zhuofan put on his clean and warm boots, stomped his feet on the ground, and said with a smile, "If this is the case, then they have been passed down from generation to generation and guarded the shrine for Yan Yingyuan, and they can be regarded as righteous servants." I see that the old man is very sick, his granddaughter is also a sensible child, and now that there is a war, the people around him have run away, and you can find someone to take care of it in the past two days, and send some food and money. ”

"Yes!" After all, Liu Xunjiao is a scholar, and he really respects Yan Yingyuan in his heart, but how dare he say this feeling? At this moment, listening to Guan Zhuofan say this, he gladly agreed. "I will do what the commander said, and then call the doctor in the camp to go and see the disease for him."

Liu Xunjiao didn't know that Guan Zhuofan was shocked by this trip to the ancient ancestral hall, and his heart was still stirring, but he covered it up very well and didn't show it on his face.

"Hmm." Guan Zhuofan seemed to have put aside this matter and began to talk about military affairs, "Early tomorrow morning, call a few of them to the big tent to have a meeting and discuss the deployment of attacking Jiangyin." ”

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The Taiping Army's defender in Jiangyin was Chen Chengqi, the uncle of King Chen Yucheng. He didn't have the ability to guard Jiangyin like Yan Yingyuan two hundred years ago. The Xuan army only took four regiments to attack the city, according to Guan Zhuofan's "waist and one blow" method of play, feints at the south gate and north gate, mainly attacking the east city, only half a day's work, and destroyed the city gate with artillery fire, and two sections of the city wall of more than ten zhang respectively.

The first to break into the city was Bai Qiwen's second foreign regiment. Although Bai Qiwen wanted to make meritorious contributions, the more than 3,000 people of the Second Foreign Regiment had just returned to the establishment of the Xuan Army from the Changsheng Army, and they were eager to win a battle to prove themselves, so they rushed very fiercely, not only defeating the Taiping army on both sides of the gap in one fell swoop, but also entering the city at a very fast speed, interspersed with encirclement in the battle for alleys, so that the Taiping army had no time to organize resistance. On the way back to the county government, Chen Chengqi, the "king of Ran," was intercepted, and together with more than a dozen of his own soldiers, he was stabbed to death by the soldiers of the Second Foreign Regiment with bayonets in the alley in a white-knuckle fight.

Jiangyin started, and the Xuan army could be trained as before, waiting for the news that the Huai army had conquered Wuxi. However, Guan Zhuofan found that with the gradual expansion of his troops, he was faced with a new problem -- how to balance the relationship between the various regiments.

At the beginning of the Xuan army, there was no such problem, at that time in the face of Tan Shaoguang's army, the soldiers were simply not enough, and it was by relying on two telegraph lines and a Huangpu River to transfer limited forces to form a local advantage, and finally won the victory. One soldier is regarded as two envoys, and which unit can make meritorious service depends entirely on ability.

Now it is very different, not only the number of people exceeds 30,000, but also the equipment and firepower have actually formed an overwhelming advantage over the Taiping army, so who makes meritorious service and who does not, who makes great merit and who makes small merit, often depends on the distribution of the commander. In other words, taking Jiangyin as an example, although Bai Qiwen can fight, in fact, if he changes Forrest or Ixan, why can't he fight?

In this way, whether the coach is flat or not becomes the key.

He sat behind the military case and waved the small red flags on the map with the numbers of each regiment written on them, and pondered the problem with all his heart.

At present, the first-class main force of the Xuan Army is Daniel Zhang's horse team, Ixan's Kezi regiment, Forrest's Yangyi regiment, and Fang Jicheng's acting Xianzi regiment.

The second-class main force is Bai Qiwen's Yang Second Regiment, Wu Jianying's Jianzi Regiment, and Jiang De's German Character Regiment.

The third-class main force is the three newly organized regiments -- Liu Yulin's Lin character troupe, Zhan Donglu's Lu character troupe, and Zheng Guokui's Kui character troupe.

In addition to the ten regiments, there are Ding Ruchang's naval division, Liu Xunjiao's Chinese military camp, and Tulin's pro-military battalion. As for Zeng Bingzhong's thousands of green battalions and regimental bravery, which followed the Xuan army, they have not yet been counted.

He stared at the rows of small flags neatly arranged on the case, and suddenly reached out and swept them away, stirring them into a pile.

How to flatten? Such a powerful force, concentrated in such a small place, not to mention Jiangyin, even in the next battle of Changzhou, as long as three or four regiments are sent to attack with the Huai army, that Chen slanted eyes - "Protector Wang" Chen Kunshu will not be able to escape the fate of destruction.

After a period of nameless irritability, it suddenly dawned on me: which regulation says that you can only make a fuss around Changzhou? The two armies of Xuanhuai fought in Jiangsu and acted in concert, nominally, of course, they should listen to Li Hongzhang, the governor of Jiangsu, but their subordinates have raised a wolf pack, and now they can't eat enough, can they still be polite to Li Hongzhang?

it!

Guan Zhuo stood up, put the pile of scattered small red flags on the table in his hand, strode to the hanging map, and while pondering, he inserted the flags on the map one by one, and gradually crossed Changzhou and extended all the way to Jiangning.

When he was done, he clapped his hands, took a few steps back, admired his masterpiece, and smiled on his face. But I heard a report from outside, saying that Mr. Liu asked to see him.

"Ask him to come in." Guan Zhuofan returned to the desk and sat down, and saw Liu Xun walking in, with no joy on his face.

"Xuan Shuai, I have something to do." Liu Xun said with a solemn face, "The one who played with the big knife in Yingyuan Temple got colic, and the doctor sent it, but in the end he couldn't save it." ”

It turned out to be this thing. Guan Zhuofan was silent, and sighed in his heart - such a person, in the end, he still can't protect him, but he doesn't know how his little granddaughter, who depends on each other, should live?

"I have ordered a coffin to be made and sent to him. I've brought back his granddaughter, too. As if guessing what Guan Zhuofan was thinking, Liu Xunyan said, "Speaking of which, their family was 'Lehu' earlier, and the people near the left didn't like to see her, so I plan to hand her over to Jiangyin County to take care of." ”

Guan Zhuofan thought to himself, no wonder he danced with a big knife, he looked good, it turned out that he had really sang. However, Lehu is different from ordinary dramas, it is a cheap nationality, and the little girl is handed over to Jiangyin Zhixian to "take care", and she may not be treated well, don't be careless, and turn care into control, then it is not her original intention.

"Where's she?"

"It's right outside the tent." Liu Xunjiao looked at Guan Zhuofan's face and said, "She said that she was going to kowtow, and Xiexie restrained her grandfather's kind people." ”

At that time, a coffin was expensive, especially in troubled times, if the poor family encountered a funeral, a bed of mats rolled a roll, and a person was also sent. If you can nail a simple coffin with the door panel, it is already considered exquisite, if the descendants are virtuous and filial, and they have to find a real coffin to bury, then the matter of selling themselves into slavery is really not fake. Therefore, Liu Xun gave this coffin, and for the little girl, she would really be grateful to the bones.

"Hmm" Guan Zhuofan groaned slightly, then nodded, "Take her in." ”

The little girl was still wearing the red jacket, and when she entered the tent door, she knelt down to the side, although there was a hint of cringe in her expression, but a girl, in such a solemn scene in the barracks, was not frightened and panicked, which was already very unusual.

"This is Guan Dashuai," Liu Xun said softly, "You kowtow." ”

"Kowtow to Guan Dashuai." The little girl kowtowed, her voice trembling, half nervous, half hurt, "Xiexie Guan Dashuai restrained my grandfather." ”

Looking at her figure, Guan Zhuofan was upside down, and said in his heart that calling her a "little girl" didn't seem very accurate.

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(After the evening flight, I can finally leave home.) Tomorrow will resume two shifts a day, generally around 12 noon and around 7 pm. ）

*(To be continued......)