Chapter Twenty-Three: The Reorganization of the Holy Army (I)

At noon on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Feng Shaoguang gathered everyone and officially announced: From now on, the God Worship Religion will be reorganized, and it will be called the Holy Religion on a daily basis, abolish the title of the Southern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and change the title of Taiping Holy King, and the Taiping Army will be renamed the Taiping Holy Army in the future. www.biquge.info He declared that the Holy Church worships the Emperor of Heavenly Father, and that it is the ancient Emperor of China, the God of Haotian, and the members of the Holy Sect can simply call it the Emperor of Heaven.

Haotian God is the supreme god of China since ancient times, and the emperors of all dynasties are worshipping Haotian God. The full name of Haotian God is "Haotian Jinque Supreme Supreme Nature Miao Mi Luo to the True Jade Emperor God", because the title is too long, it is inconvenient for the people to remember in their hearts, so, since the Song Dynasty, the common people began to call the last four words of the full name of Haotian God, "Jade Emperor God", referred to as the Jade Emperor!

Speaking of this, seeing that everyone was looking at him with admiration on their faces, Feng Shaoguang knew that he had fooled everyone. This is not surprising, originally, he Feng Yunshan was the most well-read and knowledgeable one in the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Originally, in the early days of the Kingdom of Heaven, he Feng Yunshan was the soul of the entire God Worship Sect, and the doctrines and rules in the religion were formulated and explained by him, but now, it is just that he has re-explained it!

Worship God, on the surface, it is created by Hong Xiuquan, but in fact, in the final analysis, it was built and developed by him Feng Yunshan. It's just that when he first started preaching, in order to make people believe, he found Hong Xiuquan, who was not in Guangxi, as God's spokesman in the world, the nominal leader of the church, and deified him. Now, if he wants to regain the power of the church, he must gradually eliminate his influence and make himself a spokesman for God.

Fortunately, the Holy Religion was founded by oneself, and the people around me basically preached with their own hands, and their own cronies had the final say on how to interpret and revise the doctrine.

Originally, worshipping a God of the Heavenly Father and Emperor that no one had ever heard of and came from the West, everyone was still a little puzzled in their hearts, but it was a bit illusory as a life-saving straw out of the predicament of reality. But this God, that is, Haotian God, or the Jade Emperor, is different. Everyone began to feel that God is not so far away, in fact, he has always been watching our land of China, and he has always been around everyone.

Now, Feng Shaoguang has clearly defined the God worshiped by the Holy Religion as the Jade Emperor God that has existed in China since ancient times, abandoned the previous God from the West, and revised it to the authentic Jade Emperor who is well-known in the local area. In this way, the Holy Religion was completely distinguished from Hong Xiuquan's God-worshipping Sect.

Seeing the expressions of the crowd, I know that most people still agree with their explanations. Feng Shaoguang was quite satisfied, and he went on to tell everyone that when he was attacked outside the city of Quanzhou, he was favored by God Haotian, and he was blessed with holy divine wind, became a holy body, and his soul was immortal, so he became a holy king.

In addition, the night before, the Emperor of Heaven suddenly issued an edict to him, Yun: The Kingdom of Heaven is only in heaven, it was built by the Emperor of Heaven himself, the universe is the only one, and the world is not allowed to establish the Kingdom of Heaven again. He also reminded him that he would reorganize the Taiping Holy Army, reorganize the Holy Sect and the Taiping Holy Kingdom, and create a prosperous world on earth, so that in the future, he could lead a group of people of the Holy Kingdom to visit the Emperor of Heaven.

As soon as these words came out, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Liang Litai, Huang Yukun, Su Sanniang, Hu Damei, Huang Yiyun, Zhou Shengkun and others looked at Feng Shaoguang's expressions and immediately changed. Longing, eager eyes! And with a hint of fanatical admiration!

No wonder the King of the South, oh no, is the Holy King! No wonder the Holy King was attacked but was safe and sound, no wonder the Holy King knew about the ambush of the Jiang Demon Head, no wonder the Holy King received the Emperor's edict several times, it turned out that the Holy King was the person designated by the Emperor of Heaven to establish the Holy Kingdom in the world. Since it is the instructions of the Emperor of Heaven, of course we must follow and assist the Holy King to reorganize the Taiping Holy Army, reorganize the Holy Sect, and establish the Taiping Holy Kingdom! At the same time, everyone's hearts turned around with such thoughts, and for a while, they were both excited and happy.

In fact, the reason why Feng Shaoguang wanted to change his name to the Holy King was to sever the relationship with the Heavenly King Dongwang.

The King of the South is the title of the King of Heaven, if this title is used again, then it will not be able to separate the Holy Religion from the original God Worship Sect, and it will inevitably be subservient to the King of Heaven and the East King, if it is not controlled by it, it will inevitably damage Feng Shaoguang's reputation. It is better to take advantage of the reorganization of the army this time, change the name by the way, and at the same time change the Taiping Army to the Taiping Holy Army, which is different from the Taiping Army of Hong Yang and the two, and has not completely torn the face, and the soldiers below can also accept it. This will help him to completely control the team without being interfered by Hong Yang and the others. Moreover, the Manchus would think that the Taiping Holy Army was only a branch of the Taiping Army, and their attention would still be focused on the main force of the Taiping Army, which would also reduce the pressure on the Holy Army.

Feng Shaoguang also knew that most of the Taiping soldiers he brought out were his original old sect members, and no one would object to changing the doctrine and changing the name; And the new members of the Villagers' Association Party were forced by life, rebelled against the Qing court, and had a herd mentality, so they found him as a platform, and they didn't care if he broke away from Hong Yang's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As for the secret agents such as the Heavenly King and the Eastern King in the individual hidden army, now that their own power has just begun, there is no need to worry.

As a traveler of later generations, Feng Shaoguang knows that if an army wants to be invincible, the most fundamental thing is that it must be soldiers, and it must have the spirit of fighting and not being afraid of death. In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping army believed in God, believing that dying in battle was just an early day to go to heaven to visit God, so they did not retreat in every battle, so that the Qing army thought that "the Taiping thieves and soldiers all take medicine, they are not afraid of death, they still don't feel pain when they are wounded in more than a dozen places, they don't retreat to the death, and they are invincible!" ”

As a result, Feng Shaoguang is ready to adapt the method of applying the invincible army of later generations, plus using religious ideas to carry out the armed forces. He ensured his absolute control over the armed forces and established the basic principle that "the Holy King commands the Holy Religion, and the Holy Religion commands the armed forces at all levels." The combat effectiveness of such an army must not be underestimated.

Mainly through the "Holy Army, every soldier must establish a holy religious group to protect the interests of the soldiers, and to preach the ideology of the soldiers." "Officers and soldiers are equal in personality, and it is forbidden to beat and scold soldiers at will" and other sets of strategies for administering the army, so as to improve Feng Shaoguang's control over the Taiping Holy Army, strengthen the cohesion of the Holy Army against the soldiers, and closely unite the officers and men at all levels to burst out with strong combat effectiveness.

The establishment of the Holy Army still mostly uses the original Taiping Army, which was actually conceived and established by the original Feng Yunshan.

Five people are in a team, and the commander of the army is in charge of charging, breaking the enemy, winning, and winning the four soldiers, all of whom are soldiers.

Five Wu for two, two Sima Guan strong, brave, majestic, resolute, mighty five chiefs, two Sima both concurrently serve as strong Wu Chang, brave Wu Chang concurrently serve as deputy two Sima, a total of 25 people.

Four taels are pawns, the chief of the pawn and the teacher of the Holy Church, in charge of the east, west, south, and north, the four two horses, plus 1 full-time deputy teacher of the Holy Church, 1 deputy head of the pawn, and 1 secretary envoy, a total of 104 people.

The five pawns are brigades, the brigade commander is also the secretary of the Holy Religion, the five commanders of the first, second, third, fourth, and Wu, and the five chief of the guards, plus 1 full-time deputy secretary of the Holy Church, 1 assistant (with the same position as the deputy brigade commander), and 2 scribes, totaling 525 people;

The five brigades are divisions, the division commander is also the teacher of the Holy Religion, the commander of the five brigades of the front battalion, the rear battalion, the right battalion, the left battalion, and the middle battalion, and is equipped with 1 full-time deputy teacher of the Holy Religion, 1 assistant (with the same position as the deputy division commander), 1 division lieutenant, and 1 scribe, totaling 2,630 people;

The five divisions are the army, the commander and the imam of the Holy Religion, the commander of the five divisions in charge of the front battalion, the rear battalion, the left battalion, the right battalion, and the middle battalion, and then 1 full-time deputy patriarch of the Holy Religion, 2 assistant ministers (with the same position as the deputy commander), 3 lieutenants, and 3 scribes, totaling 13,160 people.

Above the military commander, there are superintendents, commanders, generals, commanders, inspectors, prime ministers, and military advisors.