Chapter 198: Uncovering the Conspiracy
After a stick of incense, before he came to the courtyard where Luo Jian lived, he heard the shouts of hundreds of people in the courtyard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Feng Yunshan was so anxious that he hurriedly jumped off the horse and wanted to rush into the courtyard, but Lin Fengxiang stopped: "Holy King can't, the situation inside is unknown, you can't rush in, let Fengxiang go in first to see the situation." ā
After speaking, regardless of Feng Yunshan's disagreement, he rushed into the hospital with a few people.
After a while, the courtyard door opened, and hundreds of people walked out, covered in blood, divided into two sides. Lin Fengxiang also had some blood stains on his body, and walked over to report: "Holy King, it has subsided!" However, more than 20 people died and hundreds were injured. It was the Tan brothers who led people to clash with the guards of Luo Checkpoint. Brother Tan listened to the traitor's words and thought that Luo Jian had sent someone to control the Holy King, so he brought troops to the rescue. It just so happened that Luo Jian was not there, and as soon as the two sides talked, a conflict broke out. ā
The last person to come out of the courtyard was Tan Shaoguang, he was only slightly injured, but his face was pale, and it was difficult to see the extreme. Walking towards the Holy King, before he could reach his body, he knelt on the ground: "Holy King, Shaoguang mistakenly believed the slander of others, and led his troops to attack the Luo Inspection Mansion, causing a great disaster!" ā
Feng Yunshan's face was blue, more than 20 brothers died, just because Tan Shaoguang was gullible and provoked trouble, which couldn't help but make him angry.
However, this Tan Shaoguang is a holy sect brought in by himself, and he has been incorporated into the Paiwei Boy Scouts, and he has always been loyal to himself, and he is just about to put him in the General Staff for training, as a seedling for key training, and he doesn't want to punish him too heavily.
People are selfish, and Feng Yunshan is no exception. What's more, he is also for his own safety, although he is reckless, but he can also see how loyal he is to himself!
But he didn't punish him well, but he was worried that it would make Luo Xuan's heart gap. Feng Yunshan couldn't help but be in a dilemma!
"What a good job you kid did! Can you know what's wrong? Feng Yunshan shouted angrily.
"Shaoguang knows that he is wrong! shouldn't have rushed into the Luo Checkpoint Mansion to commit murder without asking! Tan Shaoguang knelt on the ground, his forehead touched the ground, and his forehead was already bloodstained, obviously he was afraid of the Saint King's anger to the extreme.
However, he will not regret it! As long as the Holy King is well, it doesn't matter what happens to him.
"Yours put aside!" Feng Yunshan suppressed his anger and asked, "Tell me what's going on?" From the beginning! ā
"Yes! Holy King. At noon today, Shaoguang heard rumors from his subordinates that the Holy King was persecuted by the traitors of the Heaven and Earth Society, disbanded the Holy Sect, and gave up the position of the Holy King of the Holy Army to Luo Jian. In a hurry, he led people to rush to Luo Jiandian's house, wanting to find him a theory. Unexpectedly, Luo Checkpoint was not there, but there was a brigade commander in his house, who spoke wildly, saying that if it weren't for Luo Checkpoint, the Holy King would have been arrested by the Qing Demon. As soon as Tan Shaoguang said this, his mood became excited again, obviously defending Feng Yunshan to the extreme.
"A brigade commander?" Feng Yunshan's heart moved, "Is it called Chen Manquan?" ā
"No, it seems to be called Chen Guitang! Saint King, Chen Manquan you are talking about is the brigade commander under my current command. Tan Shaoguang replied.
Feng Yunshan suddenly understood!
This Chen Manquan, as well as Chen Guitang, is obviously a spy, either sent by Hong Xiuquan, or sent by Yang Xiuqing, and has been lurking in his army early in the morning!
Feng Yunshan was furious and shouted at Lin Fengxiang: "Quick, send someone to block it and arrest this Chen Guitang first!" ā
Lin Fengxiang hurriedly led people into Luofu, and told the guards of Luofu that more than 200 people searched together, but Chen Guitang was missing.
At this time, a soldier from the famous Luo Outline came to report, saying that Chen Guitang had set up a ladder from the backyard and ran over the wall.
Lin Fengxiang hurriedly sent people to inform the holy soldiers guarding the city at the city gates, and the whole city was checked, and the chickens and dogs jumped for a while.
At this time, Fan Ruzeng sent troops to hurriedly find him, and it turned out that he had already caught Chen Manquan, who was about to escape.
Chen Manquan is short, in his thirties, with a pair of small eyes, revealing fear at the moment.
He was escorted to Feng Yunshan by four holy soldiers, and was pressed to his knees.
"Holy King, I was wrong! I was wrong! I beg you to be merciful and spare me! It was Chen Guitang who instigated me to do this. Chen Manquan cried and begged for mercy, and before Feng Yunshan could ask, he told the ins and outs of the matter.
It turned out that Chen Manquan and Chen Guitang were fellow villagers.
During Chen Manquan's stay in Daozhou with Feng Yunshan, Chen Guitang quietly wooed him, saying that Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, valued himself very much, and as long as he completed the task, he would be given the general system after he returned.
Chen Guitang persuaded Chen Manquan to join him again, saying that as long as he assisted him in completing the task, not to mention the general system, at least he would be a military marshal.
Since then, the two of them often collect some information and want to pass it on to the East King, but unfortunately the holy soldiers are strictly controlled, and they can't find the person who sent the letter, so they have been suffering from no chance. Later, both of them followed Luo Xuan and Tan Shaoguang to Guangdong respectively.
Today, when he happened to encounter the Holy King's reorganization of the military system and the Holy Sect, Chen Guitang felt that it was an opportunity to mess up the Holy Army. He hurriedly called Chen Manquan and asked him to instigate Tan Shaoguang to lead people to attack Luo Xuan, while he himself would take advantage of Luo's absence to instigate a group of brothers in the army to fight with Tan Shaoguang and others who came forward in Luo Xuan's mansion, provoking both sides and inciting infighting.
It turned out that the culprit was Chen Guitang! It's still sent by Yang Xiuqing! Feng Yunshan finally understood.
For Chen Manquan, Feng Yunshan did not intend to forgive. First, when so many brothers died, I wanted justice for them; Second, someone has to be held accountable for this.
Immediately, he ordered Lin Fengxiang to lead people to put Chen Manquan in prison, take good care of him, and wait for Luo Xuanquan to come back and hand him over for interrogation to eliminate the misunderstanding. Feng Yunshan didn't want Luo Outline to be estranged from him!
Chen Guitang failed to catch it in the end, this person was probably prepared and thought of a way out. This is also the city of Guangzhou is too big, and it is too easy for a person to hide and sneak out of the city.
However, although he failed to catch him, he was pulled out and avoided greater harm in the future! At the same time, this also reminded Feng Yunshan to take more precautions. He couldn't be sure, if there were any spies under his command, there were no spies of the East King.
However, he didn't pay much attention to this matter, but just asked Tan Shaoguang to apologize to Luo Outline in person, and gently sentenced Tan Shaoguang to 30 military sticks.
Fortunately, Luo Xuan understood Feng Yunshan's embarrassment, and he really didn't take it to heart, but just said that he was also responsible for the conspiracy under his subordinates.
Chen Manquan was beheaded for public display, accused of surrendering to the Qing Demon and instigating the Holy Army to fight! At the same time, Feng Yunshan also warned everyone not to fight among themselves, and to change the military system of the Holy Sect and the Holy Army, which was led by himself.
It's just a small episode, and the matter of the adaptation of the Holy Army continues.
The Taiping Holy Army was changed to the Chinese Capture Army, but there were too many Holy Army. Feng Yunshan called Zuo Zongtang to make a count, only to find that there were so many troops under his command, and even he himself was shocked!
There are 200,000 troops near Guangzhou City!
When attacking the city of Guangzhou, Feng Yunshan personally led 20,000 people, joined Lin Fengxiang's 5,000 people, and Liang Peiyou and Huang Dingfeng's more than 10,000 people, making it 35,000 people.
Luo Xuan and Chen Yucheng led another 25,000 men, plus He Lu's rebel army of 30,000, which was 55,000 men.
Li Wenmao led 70,000 righteous troops to join the holy army, and finally Lu Shunde incorporated 40,000 Chen Kaiyi's army, which is 110,000.
Combined, that's 200,000. This does not include the 4,000 Green Battalion soldiers and 12,000 Minfu Regiment brave men who were captured in the city of Guangzhou.
In the area of Guiyang, Chenzhou, there were nearly 18,000 holy soldiers led by Liang Litai, plus 7,000 people led by Qiu Changdao, for a total of 25,000 people.
In the area of Yongzhou and Daozhou, Jiang Tianyi's rate has expanded by more than 8,000 troops, and there are 4,000 sailors led by Peng Yulin, and the garrisons in various counties are not counted, so there are a total of 12,000 people.
In the area of Nanning Mansion in Guangxi, 15,000 troops led by Luo Qiongshu and 35,000 troops led by Li Kaifang, as well as 10,000 rebel troops stationed in Guixian and Wuzhou, totaling 60,000 people.
Overall, the total is close to 300,000.
With so many holy soldiers, it is inevitable that they will be reorganized, and they can no longer be allowed to endlessly expand their numbers, but they have not increased their combat power.
Feng Yunshan decided to keep 200,000 elite soldiers as a standing army, imitating the field army of later generations, and training diligently; The remaining 100,000 were all converted into garrisons, which were used as local garrisons, half soldiers and half peasants, to develop collective advantages, and to select patches of land confiscated from large landlords as garrison sites and cultivate farms.
In this way, Feng Yunshan announced that on the basis of the original Holy Army, 15 divisions of the Capture Army would be established!
There are 8 first-class divisions from the 1st Division to the 8th Division, and 7 second-class divisions from the 1st to 7th Divisions.
Set up 28 brigades of the Capture Army!
Among the standing armies, there are four first-class brigades, including the 1st Brigade to the 4th Brigade of A, and 4 second-class brigades, including the 1st Brigade to the 4th Brigade of B. Among the garrisons, all of them are brigades, including 10 first-class brigades from the 11th Brigade to the 20th Brigade and 10 second-class brigades from the 11th Brigade to the 20th Brigade of the B20th Brigade.
In this way, 200,000 people in the standing army and 100,000 people in the garrison army are exactly included.
Immediately afterwards, next to the "Regulations for the Establishment of the Chinese Capture Army", the list of high-ranking generals appointed by the Holy King was promulgated:
The division commanders of the 1st Division to the 8th Division were: Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Chen Yucheng, Liang Litai, Luo Xuan, Luo Qiongshu, Su Sanniang, and Chen Tianshi.
The division commanders of Division B 1 to Division B 7 were: He Lu, Huang Dingfeng, Lin Qirong, Qiu Changdao, Liang Peiyou, He Zhigou, and Jiang Tianyi.
The brigade commanders of the 1st Brigade to the 4th Brigade were: Luo Feide, Wang Dacai, Huang Zhonghuan, and Chen Shuitai.
The brigade commanders of the 1st to 4th B brigades were: Zheng Yuanbo, Zhang Bashan, Li Shibao, and Chen Yihe.
The remaining lieutenant commanders of the garrison will be selected and appointed at a later date.
Due to the serious shortage of muskets, they could not be deployed in the divisions and brigades as scheduled, so they could only be temporarily replaced by shotguns and knives and spears. However, each division and brigade is equipped with more than one regiment of bird guns and one battalion of foreign guns for the training of soldiers in the army.
And artillery, most of which are fixed iron and copper cannons that are difficult to move, are also difficult to deploy in the army. (To be continued.) )