Tang Wencan led the soldiers to finally get rid of the pursuit of the Qing army's horse team, and caught up with the retreating large army of Yancheng, and the long fleet discharged more than ten miles long on the Salt River. Among them, there are a large number of logistics soldiers and personnel of the Fu Han Army, and there is also a combat battalion like Tang Wencan's battalion, as well as four supernumerary recruit battalions.

I didn't think that I could catch so many people in Yancheng before, so Chen Ming formulated the framework of four new barracks, and when he found that the people who had joined the army in Yancheng were overcrowded, he could only temporarily overdo it.

Three or four hundred salt ships, the fleet of ships marching on the salt river during the day, did not show anything. But in the evening, the team went ashore to camp, and the gossip was quickly transmitted in one camp after another.

Among them, the news of Liu Yong's assassination is the most exciting.

Tang Wencan heard the news at noon, and outside the control of the Qing army in the south, the Fu Han army passed the news very quickly. Happy at noon drank several bowls of wine, the Qing army lost a humerus minister, this is a great joy for the Han army, after the news came in the team, even the people in the new barracks looked excited. And he also thought of his favor to Xiao Changchun and Wei Changkong, these two have made a great contribution this time, and this time it is really implemented.

By the time this team arrived in Taizhou along the Salt River, the city of Taizhou had become a military camp for the Fu Han army.

Another Han army was gathered, as well as two battalions and four supernumerary new battalions, three or four thousand more people at once, and the total strength of the Han army in Jiangbei has exceeded 40,000, so counting the remaining troops in Yangzhou, Gaoyou and along the south of the Yangtze River, the total strength is more than 50,000, 50,000 soldiers. If we add the logistics baggage troops, it is certain that 70,000 will not be as high as 65,000.

Since the rebellion in Fujian, many people from the south of the Yangtze River and northern Jiangsu have come to join the army, many of whom are boatmen along the canal, or the landless and proletarian destitute class, Chen Ming has selected 2,000 people from them to send to Jiujiang, the warships produced by the latter's shipyard have reached a certain scale, and the entire purpose is to conduct drills and drills in the naval division battalion.

But none of the new barracks were sent to Jiujiang and Anqing. The Qing army's southward march and the upcoming battle in Jiangsu have too much to do with it, and no matter how bad the combat effectiveness of the new barracks is, it is also a force.

The camp of the Fu Han army started from Jiangyan Town in the west of Taizhou City and ended in Tangtou Town in the east of Taizhou City, and the joint camp was dozens of miles. Tang Wencan has not seen such a large formation, a few months ago, when the Fu Han army crossed the Yangtze River in two ways, the appearance of hundreds of battles was not inferior to the current situation. But the team merged into it, and immediately he felt a difference.

"It's a lot of morale." Tang Wencan asked his familiar companion for questions.

Although the companion was only a battalion lieutenant, he was the battalion lieutenant of the main battalion, and he knew more about it. Five days have passed since Liu Yong's assassination.

"If you don't cheer up, the governor will retreat to the south of the Yangtze River. You only know that the secret camp killed Liu Yong, and you don't know what the current Shandong group training is like, right? They have ruined Yancheng terribly. Murder and looting jianyin, all kinds of bad things have been done. The large army of the Qing army rushed to Yancheng, and after a detailed search for two days, the city gate could not be opened, and the military discipline of the Green Camp and Eight Banners was also very poor, and the people of Yancheng were already suffering. As soon as the city gate was opened, hundreds of people escaped from Yancheng, and all the actions of Shandong Lian Yong and the Manchu and Han soldiers were opened.

The dark camp also took the opportunity to release rumors, only saying that without Liu Yong in the Shandong regiment, no one would be the master for them, and they would be used as cannon fodder by the masters of the Eight Banners. Now the 10,000 Shandong regimental exercises have been disturbed......"

"The enemy is in civil strife, and such an opportunity is at hand. If you can't muster up the fighting spirit and miss it in vain, it's really a waste. The battalion deputy said that in the end, Tang Wencan could feel a surge of fighting intent from his body.

As soon as Liu Yong died, tens of thousands of Shandong regimental exercises were in chaos, which Tang Wencan did not expect. His intention to assassinate Liu Yong in the secret camp only saw the deterrence and the morale of the other. I never thought that Liu Yong was so important to practice Yong in Shandong.

The discoloration on Tang Wencan's face made his friend very complacent, Tang Wencan's foundation was shallow after all, although he was a full-time battalion officer, he was not as well-informed as him. He was definitely the second batch of people in the army to know the news of the chaos in the Shandong regimental training, and the first batch were all heavy generals at the command level.

Above the level of the Fuhan military camp is the brigade, but the several brigade-level formations formed by Chen Ming are all excellent fist troops, and he really can't look down on the new battalion leaders who don't have iron armor and hold swords, guns and guns, so he brewed an extra title of 'command'.

Command, as few as two battalion heads, or as many as three or five battalion heads, is a kind of temporary dispatch. The commander-in-chief is the same, but he has more troops under him, and most of the people who can take charge of the commander-in-chief are heavy generals at the level of brigade commander. For example, Chen Yongsheng in Jiujiang, Gao Pingshan in Anqing, Huang Jie before, and Chen Qi in the teaching brigade.

"Now the morale in the army has swelled a lot. In Yangzhou and Zhenjiang, the governor of the capital originally ordered to gather the boats and receive the large army to cross the river, but now he finally controlled Gaoyou, and the large army moved to Taizhou. ”

"It's a shame that the governor didn't let him retreat again, otherwise the main battalion would have been lost up and down, from the big head soldiers to the faces of the battalion officers, and all the losses would be clean, and there would be no drop left."

The man who came drank all the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and said with a tone of fortunacy, that he was a member of the main battalion, and he was also among the disgraced people. When the team retreated from Gaoyou, he was hot all the way, and at that time, the team already knew the news of Liu Yong's assassination, and the military spirit was quite excited. It stands to reason that when the team marches, the chief and deputy battalion officers of each battalion have to follow the team one after the other. But it was so embarrassing that the officers of their battalion had only walked for a day, and as soon as they saw the cavalry walking by, or meeting with the artillerymen, they bowed their heads and shoulders, ashamed to see people. The next day he said that he was sick and ran away to the ship of the baggage troops. Leaving him alone to march with the army, the next day was really embarrassing.

Fortunately, the team walked to the tile kiln shop, and the governor suddenly ordered the whole army to turn to Taizhou instead of Yangzhou. Then there was news in the team that it was Chen Qi, Huang Jie and other generals in the army who knelt in front of the governor and pleaded bitterly, vowing to fight to the death with the Qing army. The governor of the capital couldn't save the face of the generals in the army, so he promised the army to turn to Taizhou and fight a decisive battle with the Qing army in this salty land!

Tang Wencan is in his forties, thick-skinned, and has always been at the head of the non-main battalion, and does not understand the pride of the main force.

The person who came gritted his teeth and said to Tang Wencan fiercely: "We are all veterans pulled out by Lushan Nanyang, or we are old people who have taken refuge in northwest Hubei Province. Along the way, he broke Jingzhou and Wuchang, swept the Yangtze River, and crisscrossed the south of the Yangtze River, how many Tartars have you defeated under your hands? How many fortified cities have been broken? "The veterans of the Fu Han Army are recognized by the world as elite warriors.

As a result, he entered Huai'ancheng and crossed the Yellow River, which was obviously a great thing, but he became unable to fight. The Tartars came from the north, and before they crossed the Yellow River, the Governor retreated with his troops. As soon as the army retreated to Huai'an, then retreated to Gaoyou, and retreated to Yangzhou three times, most of the land in northern Jiangsu would be completely lost in less than half a month, and the faces of the old and young masters were lost.

The cavalry battalion and artillery unit laughed at our infantry, and I was angry and annoyed. ”

This person is different from Tang Wencan, don't look at his good friendship with Tang Wencan, but he is not from Tang Wencan's background, but he has served in the Han Army early and has been in the main camp, although he was transferred to the recruit camp for a while when he was injured in the middle, he caught up with Tang Wencan's group, and the two sides made a friendship. But the pride of the main force, the arrogance of sweeping across Hubei and the Yangtze River, the ambition to sweep the south of the Yangtze River, these world's first-class elites who dare to fight, what they think and what they look at are really different from people like Tang Wencan.

The latter, as a non-main force, has a complex composition, the surrendered green battalion, the people and the ruffians and hooligans, and some poor workers, mixed together, are a group of rotten soldiers, whose combat effectiveness is not much stronger than the green battalion, and if it is rotten, it has no face, no skin and no dignity; And the former is the pride forged by victory, and it is more painful for them to suddenly look up to the latter than to kill them.

Hu Wenxian came to Tang Wencan's side after Tang Wencan's wine, and he is now the clerk of Tang Wencan's camp. Show talent, a person with meritorious reputation, who performed well before, and now his position is higher.

"Camp, are all the people in this main camp so arrogant? Looking at this person's words, he doesn't take the official army seriously. ”

When Hu Wenxian surrendered to the Han army, Yancheng had long since lost its main battalion. Moreover, his time in the Han Army was still short, and it was the first time he saw the people of the main battalion talking like this for the first time today, and he was very surprised in his heart.

"If you can fight from Henan to Jiangnan in a year, sweep more than 100,000 troops along the way, and break through many famous cities, you can be so good!" Tang Wencan glanced at the clerk who had just joined the army, "You kid, study hard in the army." When did you sneak into the military academy of the teaching brigade, and collapse in it and howl and study for a year or two, it is enough for you to use it for a lifetime. ”

As a non-main force, it is very understandable that the pride and pride of the main battalion leader of the Fu Han Army can be understood. Although outsiders may seem to be the same, many people may not know that there are still main and non-main forces in the Fu Han army. But their own people know their own affairs, and the gap between the non-main force and the main force can be three streets.

Tang Wencan grabbed a piece of pig's head meat and swallowed it fiercely, what morale is high and morale is low, Tang Wencan doesn't feel anything. He didn't think the 'rumors' circulating in the army were fake, but he felt that if the Fu Han Army was really demoralized, it would definitely be the main battalion that was down, not their non-main forces that didn't even have rattan armor.

If the Fu Han army wants to fight a big battle with the 50,000 Qing army going south, the top beam must be the head of the main battalion. And these non-main forces of them are beating the side drums. "Wait, when the Qing army arrives in Taizhou, there will be a really good war. If we can win this battle, three or four percent of the world's qi will be attributed to the Grand Governor. ”

Tang Wencan, who had a little poor understanding, obviously thought of a reason for the morale of the Fu Han army, but he just said it on his lips, and did not associate it with the current morale of the Fu Han army. On the contrary, it was Hu Wenxian, whose eyes lit up when he heard Tang Wencan's words.

But isn't it, if the Han army wins this battle, the Qing army will really have nothing to do with Chen Ming for a while, and then these tens of thousands of troops will have a lot to do when they sit in the southeast, and they will really have three or four percent of the gas to win the world. There are so many people up and down the Fu Han army who understand this, coupled with the news and words deliberately released by Chen Ming, and the method of agitation on the other hand, the morale of the Fu Han army has been re-inspired. (To be continued.) )