Chapter 16 Yunshan Daozhou

A few hours later, in a canyon on the northeast side of Miaotou Beach, a team of nearly 10,000 people sat listlessly on the ground, drinking water and resting, which was the rear army separated from the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Of the nearly 10,000 troops, nearly half of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and the remaining women's battalions accounted for more than half. The large army had already taken a boat down the river, and the Taiping soldiers who were left behind naturally felt a sense of abandonment in their hearts, and their morale was low. After Feng Shaoguang ordered the broken ships and excess baggage to be burned, the rear army of more than 9,000 people immediately set off along the river to the north, and walked throughout the day, only to travel more than ten miles.

Knock knock, knock knock, a few rapid drum beats sounded, waking up the Taiping army who were resting on the spot.

But he heard someone shouting, "The Father has another revelation." The King of the South has received another revelation from the Emperor God! Brothers, come and see. ”

Chen Guitang, the second pawn commander of the brigade in the former division of the Second Army, followed the crowd and looked at a raised rock surrounded by the crowd, Zeng Guanlan and Xie Xiangcai were holding a pair of white paper, about half a meter wide, and then slowly unfolded to be more than two meters long.

I saw Feng Shaoguang, with the help of his personal guard Liu Shengbang, jump on the rock and shout loudly to everyone: "Brothers in the rear army, listen to me!" ”

At that moment, 200 guards shouted in unison: "Brothers of the rear army, listen to the words of King Nan!" ”

"Now our rear army is separated from the main force of the kingdom of heaven, and the number of soldiers who can fight is less than 2,000. This goes to Yongzhou, there is an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the back. If you march like this, you will inevitably be harmed by the Qing Demon. ”

"For this reason, Yun Shan is worried, and now, he can only silently pray to God the Father, to foretell us to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and if the Heavenly Father is empty, let us tell the decree on this wordless white paper."

Two hundred guards followed suit, and the sound resounded through the sky, startling a flock of birds to flee far away.

When everyone saw that it was really a wordless blank paper, would the Father really manifest and send down a revelation decree? Immediately, there was a lot of discussion in the crowd.

"King Nan lied to us. The Heavenly Father's decree has always been transmitted directly through the King of the East, when did it pass to the King of the South, or was it written? ”

"Hey, Erniu, you don't know? When he came out of Quanzhou City a few days ago, the Heavenly Father sent an edict to the King of the South, knowing in advance that the Qing Demon was ambushed in Lingyidu. Later, the Qing Demon was defeated!"

"That's it. Anyway, I still think that the will of the Heavenly Father is also passed on to the East King. ”

"What do you know, the king of the east or the king of the south brought it into the Holy Sect single-handedly! King Nan is also the third son of Heavenly Father, second only to Heavenly Brother and Heavenly King. Besides, the king of the east is not very literate, but the king of the south is the first champion of the kingdom of heaven, and he is the most literate! ”

"Don't make any noise, you guys, see if Heavenly Father really has an edict."

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Chen Guitang also stood in the crowd, and saw Nan Wang take a bowl of water from his side, put water in his mouth, and sprayed it on the white paper, and immediately, two lines of eye-catching red characters appeared on the white paper.

"Looking at the clouds in the south on the clouds, the clouds are in sight"

"Passage State Lower East Passage State, Daozhou Changtong"

A magical scene, everyone was stunned! Chen Guitang's eyes widened, revealing a look of disbelief. He was a member of the Eastern King's lineage, and he had always believed that only the Eastern King could deliver the decree on behalf of the Heavenly Father. Therefore, from the beginning of the Jintian regimental camp, he became an eyeliner of the Eastern King faction beside the Southern King Feng Yunshan. This time, the king of the south received the abnormal event of the decree of the heavenly father, and he didn't know if there were any other eyes of the king of the east in the army, but for him, he must report it to the king of the east as soon as possible. However, at present, the control is extremely strict, and there is no way to get out, but to find another opportunity.

Seeing is believing, and everyone felt that the Father had really appeared and issued an edict.

"I'm not mistaken, there is obviously not a single word on the blank paper, and suddenly big red characters appear, this must be the magic power of the Heavenly Father. By the way, brother, what is written on it? You know I'm illiterate. ”

"Erniu, now you believe the words of King Nan. This is to say Wangyun Mountain, Daozhou, or something, the Heavenly Father really came to the edict, telling us how to seek good fortune and avoid evil! ”

"I know the word, Wangyun Mountain is in the south of Wangyun Mountain, Yunshan is in sight, and the passage state is often passed in the east channel state, but I don't understand what it means. Heavenly Father's edict is not easy to understand, let's listen to what King Nan has to say! ”

"I know Wangyun Mountain, just the mountain in front, I heard the people here say that it is called Wangyun Mountain. Hey, no, isn't Yunshan the name of the King of the South? ”

For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the crowd.

"Brothers of the kingdom of heaven." Feng Shaoguang pressed his hands weakly, watched the people of the Taiping Army who were talking quietly, nodded with satisfaction, and continued to shout: "Just now, a miracle happened. The brothers have also seen that God the Father Emperor has really given us an edict, a twenty-four word mantra. Now we are waiting for a partial division to protect all the brothers and sisters of the Heavenly Kingdom, and there are tens of thousands of Qing demons chasing and killing, and the situation is extremely critical! For example, today the father gave a twenty-four-character mantra and mentioned Yunshan, let Yunshan explain it. ”

"Thank Heavenly Father! Give me food and clothing! Thank you Heavenly Father for giving me the truth to save Yunshan and everyone! Feng Shaoguang knelt down reverently, raised his head and shouted to the sky.

"Thank Heavenly Father! Give me food and clothing! Thank Heavenly Father ............"

Everyone in the Taiping army also knelt down and followed Feng Shaoguang and chanted.

Seeing that the atmosphere was almost mobilized, Feng Shaoguang raised his hand and pointed to a high mountain behind him, and said, "This mountain is called Wangyun Mountain." And less than two hundred miles away, there is a mountain in the north of Daozhou City, which is the Cloud Mountain mentioned by Heavenly Father. And where we are now is on the east side of the passage, on the road to Daozhou. The Father's 24-character mantra tells us that the way to avoid misfortune is to change the route of the march and go to Daozhou! ”

"How do I get to Daozhou? Didn't the King of Heaven and the King of the East let us slowly follow the main force of the Kingdom of Heaven along the Xiangjiang River? We're going to Changsha. Chen Guitang hid in the crowd and shouted in a low voice.

"Who's hiding behind and talking nonsense? Is it the Heavenly Father or the Heavenly King? Have you not listened to the Father? Sister Hu had very sharp ears and shouted directly in the crowd. In her fifties, she is usually enthusiastic about helping others, and her prestige is very high among the lower brothers in the kingdom of heaven.

"How did Wang Dongwang explain that day? Doesn't Heavenly Father always teach us to listen to the King of Heaven? There were still voices in the crowd, I don't know whether they were afraid of the East King or their hearts were towards the East King, and they questioned the change of Daozhou.

"Humph! Who is Nanwang, who doesn't know the old brothers, will it still harm us? Not to mention the Father's decree. Even the king of heaven and the king of the east are here, and he must listen to the Father. A loud voice sounded, but it was a personal guard arranged by Lu Qi who was agitating everyone.

"Yes, King Nan is the most benevolent and righteous, but at the beginning, our family was brought into the Holy Sect by him. I believe in Nanwang! ”

"Let's go with King Nan, and we'll go wherever he says!"

"Yes, King Nan is the one who taught us, and we want to follow King Nan to Daozhou!"

Chen Guitang, who was hiding behind people, didn't dare to speak out. Chen Guitang had already realized that these sect members had been in the rear army for a long time, and they got along with King Nan on weekdays, and they trusted King Nan very much, and King Nan had always been friendly and caring for them, so it was impossible to incite them to oppose King Nan! He had no choice but to continue to lurk and find a way to report the information to the East King.

Feng Shaoguang ordered the rear army to shut down their flags, change the route of the march, turn south, and quietly march in the direction of Daozhou.

Originally, as soon as the rear army and the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom were divided, Feng Shaoguang had the intention of leading the rear army to attack Daozhou! He knew that the Taiping army in history easily occupied Daozhou City, and recruited as many as 20,000 or 30,000 troops in Daozhou, Yongming, and Jianghua. That's what he's all about! With enough troops, he can have the military strength to protect himself, and he can compete with the Qing army and the Heavenly King Dongwang.

Feng Shaoguang, who studied chemical machinery, saw the morning glory growing on the side of the road and thought of an idea to pretend to be a messenger from his Heavenly Father. He grinded the morning glory he picked into flower juice, heated it to leave the ash, and then mixed it with water to write the twenty-four characters on the white paper, which was still a blank sheet of paper on the surface. Morning glory juice contains a lot of anthocyanins, and when he sprays a mouthful of rice vinegar in his mouth on the white paper, the anthocyanins turn red when they are acid, and the red 24-character mantra immediately appears on the white paper.

Feng Shaoguang sent the fine battalion to spread out in an all-round way, leading the rear army to avoid the polders on the edge of the Xiangjiang River, and inquiring about the Qing army information from the direction of Guilin Quanzhou, and sending Li Kaifang to lead people to erase the traces of the brigade's march to avoid attracting the Qing army to pursue.

On the other side, Lu Qi took hundreds of soldiers of the guard battalion to inspect back and forth in front of the marching team, strictly preventing anyone from leaving the team and scattering, so as not to leak the news. The scattered mountain people they encountered along the way were all taken to the personal guard camp for temporary detention to prevent people from knowing that the Taiping army had appeared. At the same time, he ordered the two Simas, Wu Chang and others in each battalion to lead everyone to shout the beat of 121, and their footsteps followed the rhythm of the slogan all the way, and the speed of the march was greatly accelerated.

Two days later, Feng Shaoguang led the Taiping rear army of more than 9,000 people to Shuikou Mountain, 60 miles away from Miaotou Beach. According to the detailed work of the reconnaissance behind, a Qing army of several thousand men passed through the Huangsha River two days ago and pursued the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom along the Xiangjiang River to the north.

Hearing the news, Feng Shaoguang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In the previous life, the Taiping army in history was heavily damaged in Lingyidu, attacked Yongzhou, was pursued by the Qing army that followed, and did not conquer it, and then got rid of the pursuing troops to conquer Daozhou. If he led these more than 9,000 followers to follow the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom and traveled north along the Xiangjiang River, he would probably be caught up by the Qing army's pursuers in a few days, and the outcome would be self-evident.

Sent Zeng Guanlan, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to lead more than 200 people, dressed as passing merchants, to the polders to purchase a large number of food and other things, without alarming the people on the polders.

Feng Shaoguang and other Taiping rear troops climbed over the sparsely populated deep mountains and old forests, passed through the steep Biandanao, and marched all the way to the southeast. Along the way, the guards and the camps were scattered in all directions around the marching congregation, and all the people they encountered were coerced into the congregation, and after passing through three polders along the way, nearly 1,000 people were persuaded and coerced. On the one hand, more than 700 people, under the propaganda and persuasion of officials at all levels of the rear army, joined the Holy Religion one after another and became members of the Kingdom of Heaven. On the other hand, there were still more than 400 people who refused to join the Church and just wanted to return to their hometowns, and Feng Shaoguang also promised them that in another half a month, after the Taiping army did not need to hide their whereabouts, they would be let go home.

Along the way, the pro-guard battalion strictly controlled the cultists, trying to keep the marching route of the rear army strictly secret, so as not to teach the Qing army and the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom to know. Feng Shaoguang was just making a time difference, and when the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom was far away, and there was a Qing army in the middle, he naturally couldn't take care of the rear army. When he expands his troops in Daozhou and has a certain number of troops, everything will change.

On the 28th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the Taiping Houjun and others finally crossed the mountains and forests, and arrived at a mountain pass called Niu Lukou, and saw that there was a Yao cottage next to it.

Feng Shaoguang ordered the Taiping Houjun to raise the yellow silk flag of the Heavenly Kingdom's Cloud Stepping Holy Dragon, beating the war drums, and more than 10,000 sect members were camping and resting next to the Yao Village outside the mountain pass.

A short and stout middle-aged man, with a simple face, called himself Zheng Yuanbo, the owner of the Zheng family's Yao Village, and led more than 300 Yao Zhuang to visit. Feng Shaoguang saw that the owner of the village was leading several Yao Han, and knelt down to him three times and bowed to him: "Yaomin Zheng Yuanbo and others meet the king!" ”

"This king is Feng Yunshan, the southern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! Why have you come to see this king? ”

"The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rejuvenated the righteous army, punished the Manchu Qing Hulu, and restored the righteousness of all ethnic groups in the world, such as the Han Zhuang Yao Tu! We have been bullied by corrupt officials and evil officials for a long time, and we have been insulted, so I specially raised the village to take refuge! Zheng Yuanbo replied with a smile on his face.

"Oh, a good match? Where do you and your family go? Feng Shaoguang asked.

"I have ordered to scatter and take refuge with relatives in the mountains, so as not to be harmed by the Manchu government." Zheng Yuanbo said resolutely.

"If you vote for me, you can listen to my orders and respect my military regulations?"

"Do as you are told!"

"Okay, you wait and restrain the people, sink the old and weak, this king will break you up and organize you into various camps, are you willing?"

"I want to! When we take refuge in the king of the south, we will be assigned by the king of the south. Zheng Yuanbo looked resolute and said with hope: "I hope that the king of the south will treat us well." ”

"Of course! From now on, we will all be brothers in heaven, and we will treat each other well! Feng Shaoguang said with a smile.