On this day in October of this year, Yang Xuan rushed to Kuizhou with his soldiers and horses, and everyone worshiped the White Emperor City together, and then swore to die and marched eastward.

At that time, as the advance of Guo Chonglie's 3rd Town, Liu Wenxiu's 13th Town had already occupied Yiling, and now it was marching towards Yaoting, and the main people who participated in the oath were Guard Town, Liu Weiming's 6th Town, Jin Tongwu's 7th Town, Cao Xun's 8th Town, and Li Laiheng's 15th Town.

Accompanied by a cadre of civil and military personnel, Yang Xuan was draped all over his body, rode a war horse to the outside of the camp gate, and saw that there were already crowds of people around, and everyone was quite excited, this was the first mighty eastern crusade since the Manchu Qing invaded the Central Plains.

Yang Xuan raised his right hand and waved it back and forth to the crowd several times, and when everyone saw this, they shouted one after another: "The volunteers will win, long live the volunteers." ”

Stepping into the camp, the camp was already full of pennants, and the flags of each battalion and each brigade were fluttering in the wind.

With each brigade as a unit, the commander's horse stood majestically in front, and the subordinates lined up in a neat formation and stood behind.

When Yang Xuan entered, in the deep drumming, everyone was rhythmically singing the military songs of the Volunteers, including the Song of the Volunteers, China Will Not Die, the Three Disciplines and Eight Points to Pay Attention to, Man Jianghong, Jingzhong Serving the Country and the Song of the Eastward Expansion that had just been adapted.

This is based on Chen Yi's "Song of the New Fourth Army", which is related to the eastward expansion, and the lyrics are to the effect: "

Thousands of miles to the aid of Genting City

Blood stains our names

Alone on Huaying Mountain

Inherited the honor of the martyrs

Thousands of struggles, wind, snow, hunger and cold

Thousands of miles to fight, poor mountains camping

Gain a wealth of experience in the struggle

Exercise the spirit of hard sacrifice

For the happiness of the people

For the survival of the nation

Consistently stick to our struggle!

The athletes of the world converged into a stream of iron to resist captivity

The athletes of the world converged into a stream of iron to resist captivity

Eastward, eastward! We are the Volunteers of Iron!

Eastward, eastward! We are the Volunteers of Iron!

Eastward, eastward! We are the Volunteers of Iron!

The head of the Yangtze River is on the shore of the Han River

Let us gallop vertically

Go deep into the front line and win all battles

There were cries of killing the enemy

Charge valiantly and annihilate the Tartars

Shout, call the people

Carry forward the fine traditions of the revolution

Create an iron-blooded Volunteers

For the happiness of the people

For the survival of the nation

Consolidate the united and resolute struggle

Fight against the Tartars, hold high the banner of marching and fighting

Fight against the Tartars, hold high the banner of marching and fighting

Eastward, eastward! We are the Volunteers of Iron!

Eastward, eastward! We are the Volunteers of Iron!

Eastward, eastward! We are the Volunteers of Iron!

Tens of thousands of people sang these songs to the accompaniment of snare drums, not to mention, they looked very tragic, and the morale of the various departments was very strong.

When they saw Yang Xuan and the others walking over, everyone was even more emotional, and they all ripped their throats and sang, looking very enthusiastic.

Yang Xuan thought while walking, in the 268 years of the brutal rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644~1912, instead of the 276 years as some Manchu scholars say, they said that the 8 years of the Ming Dynasty's rule were the Manchu Dynasty rule and raped the will of the Han nation), first there were the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty who carried out an arduous anti-Qing struggle, and then the generals Li Chengdong, Jin Shenghuan, Jiang Pai and others rebelled angrily, and finally the people of the southwest fought a decades-long war with them.

In the end, although the Southern Ming Dynasty perished, the war against the Qing Dynasty gradually turned underground, turned into ordinary people, and everyone formed non-governmental organizations such as the Heaven and Earth Society, the Hong Gang, and the Pao Ge, and after hundreds of years of resistance, finally buried the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a criminal regime.

This is the people's war, and the Han nation can not give up as soon as it still exists. In the Xinhai Revolution, Sun Yat-sen (another title of Sun Yat-sen, since 1995, Sun Yat-sen has officially held the highest position in Hongmen), Huang Xing and others ousted the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a criminal evil force, from power. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, relied only on the powerful military assistance of the United States and Britain.

In the cheers of everyone, Yang Xuan came to the altar that had just been built, after worshiping heaven and earth, he engaged in the ranks of the princes, and read aloud the Northern Expedition script, which was very long, written in half-literate and half-white language, for this kind of script, Yang Xuan was originally quite a little dissatisfied, the script, it should have been written in a language that ordinary people could understand, how to use some half-understood Chinese, so the effect was not greatly reduced?

After Master Wang finished reading, Yang Xuan walked to the front desk, took a deep breath, and shouted with all his strength: "Brothers, the barbarian Qing and his dogs and traitors are arrogantly shouting, keep their heads without hair, keep their hair without their heads, and cut us into money rat tails, so that we can be ashamed of our ancestors after death, what should we volunteer brothers do with this kind of person?"

When the crowd heard this, they shouted, "Kill him, kill him." ”

Yang Xuan continued to roar: "Brothers, someone wants us to abandon our Han clothes and force us to wear their ugly horse coats, what should we volunteer brothers do with this kind of person? ”

The audience sounded again: "Kill him, kill him".

Yang Xuan waved his big hand and continued to roar loudly: "Brothers, the barbarian Qing and his dog traitors have actually enclosed land on the land of our Han people, as long as they are trapped, innocent Han compatriots will become slaves of their banner people, what should our volunteer brothers do about this barbaric behavior?" ”

The voices in the audience came one after another: "Crusade against him, crusade against him." ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Yang Xuan's mouth, and he said majestically: "Brothers, the Barbarian Qing and his dog traitors have robbed our Han nation for decades, forcing the imperial court to increase the salary. Invaded the territory of our Han Dynasty many times, invaded our hometown, burned and looted in our hometown, fornicated our parents and sisters, and made me and others slaves and maids, what should we do with our loyal and righteous volunteers? ”

The crowd shouted, "Destroy him, destroy him." ”

Yang Xuan was overjoyed, took out his sword, clasped his hands tightly, and swore to the heavens: "I, Yang Xuan, the king of Shu, am not fighting for one family and one surname, but in order to maintain Chinese orthodoxy, maintain Chinese civilization, and ensure that our Han nation will not be wiped out by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

This duke announced that if I do not defeat the Tartars and restore the homeland of Jiangnan, I will not return to the homeland of Si (Sichuan).

Ladies and gentlemen, you know that loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and that I am determined to cut my will to tell my parents that I am going to fight against the Tartars, so that my hair can be used instead of a widow to accompany my parents. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, an attendant next to him took a pair of prepared scissors and cut the hair that Yang Xuan had combed on the back of his head.

In ancient times, there was a saying that the body was exposed to the skin, and in the past, the king of Yue, Goujian, in addition to lying on the salary and tasting the gall, was to cut the invention of the will.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao once cut off his beard himself in lieu of his capital crime.

The barbarian Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, issued a hair-cutting order, and forced the Han people to become money rat tails, which was simply a great shame for the Han doctors and aroused the general opposition of the people in Jiangnan.

Yang Xuan is now 26 years old, and his hair has already reached the waist-high position, and in the past, like everyone else, he cut off the hair below the waist and then coiled it on his head, and the cut hair was packed in a bag.

This made Yang Xuan feel quite unaccustomed, in his previous life, he often had an inch head, and sometimes even a bald head, but after the crossing, in order to respect the ancients' "parents who received the hair and skin of the body", if the hair was damaged for no reason, it was a custom of unfilial piety to the parents.

But during this period, Yang Xuan continued to explore the possibility of cutting hair, as the saying goes, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, as if only for loyalty can damage the hair, after paying attention, so there is such a show.

Taking the cut long hair from the hands of the attendants, Yang Xuan bowed three times, took it with both hands and looked at it for a long time, and then said: "Please bury the widow's long hair next to the grave of his parents, so as to inform the widow's parents that I swear to die and go east." ”

The people around him nodded with tears on their faces.

Yang Xuan turned around and said to everyone again: "The eldest princess is weak and sickly, and the two sons are still in their prime, I hope that the eldest princess can understand my determination to serve the country, and in order to relieve the pain of lovesickness for the eldest princess, I specially cut off my beard as a commemoration." ”

Yang Xuan held his beard in front of the mirror with one hand and the scissors with the other, cutting off the beard on his face.

The eldest princess next to her, Zhu Shuying, and her wife Ma Fengyu and Liu Lian'er couldn't cry anymore, and the two solemnly took their beards, bowed three times, and then put them in a brocade bag for good keeping.

Everyone saw Yang Xuan's behavior so extreme (in the eyes of people at the time, it was like self-destruction), many people burst into tears, everyone raised the weapons in their hands and shouted loudly, the voices came and went, and you could be heard clearly within a radius of several miles.

Yang Xuan was overjoyed in his heart, then turned his head and said to everyone: "Everyone, I swear this time that if I can't destroy the Tartars, I swear not to return to the teacher."

I swear that all my Han compatriots will be treated equally, those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, those who have been killed in battle will be punished, and those who have died in battle and wounded in war will be compensated.

Although we have died nine times in life, hundreds of thousands of brothers in our volunteer army will protect the foundation created by our ancestors and ancestors, jointly expel the Tartars, restore China, relieve the people, and create a prosperous world together.

If this goal is not achieved, he will not withdraw from the army. ”

Yang Xuan just finished speaking. The salute was bursting, and in the sound of military drums, everyone burst into tears one by one, and shouted one by one: "The slogan of expelling the Tartars, restoring China, relieving the people, and creating a prosperous world together."

A battalion commander walked to the front stage, Yang Xuan handed over a battalion flag to him, and after obtaining the battalion flag, in a cheer, the general battalion commander waved the flag, ran to the front of the team, and led the brigade out of Futu Pass and along the mountain road out of the river.

As the saying goes, if something is good, it will be very bad, some people saw Yang Xuan cut off his hair and beard so cruelly, and many generals actually cut off their hair and beards one after another.

Of course, Yang Xuan knew the importance of this, and seeing that everyone was like this, he asked people to take out the bags that had been prepared a long time ago, and asked them to wrap them and mail them to the soldiers' homes through various post stations.

Yang Xuan seemed to be full of energy, regardless of the summer heat, he handed over a military flag and a military flag to each general camp, so that it took 2 hours for the whole army to set off before slowly hitting the road.

Seeing the Northern Expedition of the Volunteers, people from all over the country came to pay tribute, but due to Yang Xuan's strict order, the ministries did not dare to accept the people's rewards, which caused everyone to be amazed.

I don't know who started, everyone sang the song of the rebel brave army, Manjianghong, eastward marching eastward, spreading for dozens of miles, the army and the people are usual, the scene is not tragic.

Seeing the last army disappear out of sight, Yang Xuan hugged his fists with his wife Zhu Shuying, Ma Fengyu, Wu Zhaoyuan, the left chief of the palace, and Lei Yuelong, the right deputy envoy of the palace, and Ye Dabin, Fan Mingshan and others, who were left behind in the rear, and said: "Everyone, the army is traveling far away, and the soldiers and horses are going first, and whether this Eastern Crusade can succeed depends on you."

General Xuan traveled with the army, and I hope that everyone will work with one heart and one mind to help our three armies with food and grass, and jointly achieve the feat of expelling the Tartars, restoring China, relieving the people, and creating a prosperous world."

When everyone saw Yang Xuan say this, they fell to the ground one after another, regardless of the obstruction.

Yang Xuan smiled and arched his hand to everyone, and the accompanying staff Qian Bangqi, Yin Chengqi, Wang Xiang, Wang Fuzhi, Huang Yingyun, Ren Su, Zhang Lang and others boarded the warship moored next to them and set sail.