When Wang Jingyuan was about to be beaten with a stick, Lin Shaozhang, the commander of the Yansi Commander-in-General, actually stepped forward and said quite cautiously: "My lord, I think what Huang Jingyuan said is not unreasonable, our army is new to this place, we really have to be careful. ”

At this time, Zhu Xikun's right general also said: "Qing demon Wen Shaoyuan has been stationed here for a long time, and he has repeatedly defeated my heavenly soldiers, and today's battle did not hurt its roots, what Huang Jingyuan said is true!" ”

Seeing that there were people under his command who supported Wang Jingyuan, Zhu Xikun glared at the general on the left, and said indifferently: "This inspection point also knows that Wen Shaoyuan is not simple, but my strong army crosses, and there are many perfunctory people in the Qing Demon, Wen Shaoyuan has been defeated, and he will not do more entanglement." As long as our army strengthens its defense and sends more sentry posts, it can be guaranteed. ”

As soon as everyone in the audience heard this, Zhu Xikun said it clearly, and immediately said in unison: "The inspector is wise!" ”

Wang Jingyuan also said noncommittally: "My lord, I am wise!" ”

"Huang Jingyuan, the commander of the Second Army on the left, pay attention to the war, be brave and resourceful, and deserve to be commended, come to Japan to inspect and ask for credit for you! Now it's time to go down. ”

Wang Jingyuan saw that his words had reached this level, and it was useless to say more, so he honestly withdrew from the big tent, and when he left, he only listened to Zhu Xikun's order: "Cook early tomorrow morning, set off at the end of the day, and catch up with Li Linji, the third prime minister, as soon as possible." ”

Originally, I wanted to continue to advise Zhu Xikun to pay attention to beware, but I didn't expect him to be stubborn and careless, and one-sidedly thought that the officials of the Qing Dynasty were useless and perfunctory. However, Lin Shaozhang's performance impressed Jing Yuan, and he originally thought he was an embroidered pillow, but he didn't expect that he still had a little ability. Jing Yuan recalled the history, Lin Shaozhang seems to have risen in the Battle of Liuhe, all the armies in this battle were killed and wounded, but the first four armies led by him returned to Tianjing safely, this huge contrast made the East King also have to be surprised by his performance, so he was named the prime minister.

Since God destined the Northern Expeditionary Army to be stabbed here, Wang Jingyuan did not want to go against the sky, and began to strengthen the defense of his headquarters when he returned to the barracks. According to later records, the Battle of Liuhe was first triggered by Wen Shaoyuan sending spies to infiltrate and set fire to the Taiping army's powder magazine. The power of the explosion was so great that it overturned the entire battalion, and more than half of the casualties of the Northern Expeditionary Army were caused by the explosion. It was difficult for Wang Jingyuan to think that the Northern Expeditionary Army had so much gunpowder, in order to verify this matter, he specially sent Zhong Liangxiang to secretly investigate, and the results confirmed that the gunpowder allocated by Tianjing to the Northern Expeditionary Army was carried by Zhu Xikun's department, and the long-term shortage of gunpowder in the Northern Expeditionary Army in history was also because it was blown up in Liuhe. At that moment, Wang Jingyuan asked Zhong Liangxiang to determine the location of the powder magazine, and then decisively ordered the whole battalion to move the camp to two miles away from the powder magazine.

The sudden transfer of the rear camp immediately alarmed the commander-in-chief Li Zhenhui and the army commander Peng Yisong, and the two quickly found Wang Jingyuan. Wang Jingyuan didn't say much, and reminded him intentionally or unintentionally. Combined with Wang Jingyuan's performance in the inspection account, the two seemed to have an understanding, and simply moved their respective military tents closer to Wang Jingyuan. Ning Zongyang, the overseer, asked, and the two of them were at odds with him, deducing that the camp was low-lying and wet, which was not conducive to camping, so it was necessary to change to a clean place on the periphery. Ning Zongyang did not delve into this matter, but wanted to reprimand Wang Jingyuan for trespassing into the inspection tent and ramming the adults, but he was persuaded by Li Zhenhui.

After returning from Li Zhenhui, Wang Jingyuan went straight to the rear camp in the southeast of the camp, and immediately ordered the whole army to rest in the first half of the night, leaving only a few people on guard to keep enough spirit to prevent the enemy from sneaking up in the second half of the night. Although his subordinates are all monks who are second in the second zhang, they can't figure it out, but who is not convinced by the orders of the commander and the good man? Everyone shook their heads and went to sleep. Wang Jingyuan didn't sleep himself, it's not that he doesn't want to sleep, it's completely impossible to fall asleep. The Liuhe explosion not only caused heavy losses to Zhu Xikun's subordinates, but also led to the weakness of the Northern Expeditionary Army. If Zhu Xikun's troops met with Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang, they might really be able to capture the city of Beijing, after all, the Northern Expeditionary Army had reached the outskirts of Tianjin. For the first time in such a long time, I felt that I could change the course of the future world. However, the real situation, Zhu Xikun, who is careless and underestimates the enemy, even if he does not suffer here, there will be this one after all.

What Wang Jingyuan has to do now is to withstand the test of this big defeat, an army that has not fought to the death is not called a strong army, what he wants is a strong army. There are 540 people in the whole battalion, and there are not many who have really experienced a death battle, and the current rear battalion of the Second Left Army needs a bloody victory to gather military strength.

Wang Jingyuan sat nervously in the tent, Jiang Wan on the side kept adding water to his tea bowl, everything in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom pursued the public ownership of the holy treasury, there were no merchants, no trading, necessities like tea were military supplies, not ordinary holy soldiers could drink. In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, whether it is the doctrine of worshipping God, or the edicts of the Heavenly Father and the Heavenly King, they all propagate that all people in the world are children of God and that everyone is equal. But the truth is that the kingdom of heaven is not equal, and it has a very rigid hierarchy within it that binds the masses in all aspects of life. What Wang Jingyuan hates most is the division of social hierarchies, the kingdom of heaven he dreams of is more extensive and truly equal than that of socialist China in later generations, but the real kingdom of heaven is completely unattainable, and he is looking forward to a change.

After the time drum in the army was struck three times one after another, Wang Jingyuan, who was still pondering, suddenly woke up, and immediately woke up Jiang Wan, who was sleeping on the copy, and called the lieutenant on duty, and ordered him to notify the whole battalion to gather and prepare for battle. Wang Jingyuan strode out of the camp tent, looked at his sleepy-eyed subordinates, was furious in his heart, and immediately called someone to bring a drinking water truck, so that all the soldiers and soldiers washed their faces. After soaking in the cold water, most of the people were still a little unconscious, but at least most of them had opened their eyes.

Wang Jingyuan stood in front of the big tent and shouted loudly: "Although our army defeated the Qing Demon during the day, the leader of the Qing Demon did not go far, but followed the army from a distance, ready to attack us at any time. Tonight, our army is encamped here, with the enemy city in front and the pursuers behind, and it is already under the enemy's back. The demons are cunning and cunning, and if they can't beat us head-on, they will sneak attack in the middle of the night. So from now on, the whole battalion is ready for war, and the soldiers will not return to the camp if they do not sit on the ground! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" The Holy Soldier shouted weakly.

"Be louder!"

All the soldiers shouted in unison, "Understood! ”

Because he did not know which direction the Qing army would attack, Wang Jingyuan had to order his subordinates to form a regimental formation to defend, and immediately ordered Yuan Hongmo and Ren Guixin to lead the middle battalion and the right battalion to be responsible for defending the east and south of Liuhe County, Zhong Liangxiang and Hu Yongxiang to lead the left battalion and the front battalion to defend the west and north of the Chinese army battalion to the enemy, and Lu Yaoling's rear battalion to respond in the center. After the military formation was arranged, Wang Jingyuan kept an eye on the movement near Zhu Xikun's Chinese army camp on the one hand, and took Jiang Wan to inspect the entire position on the other side to prevent his subordinates from relaxing.

Time passed bit by bit, but there was still no movement in the Chinese army, and Wang Jingyuan didn't know if history would continue along the original trajectory, but he had to prepare for the worst, after all, this team was his magic weapon in this era. Among them are some of his most trusted men, and since they have followed him, he must not let them die in vain. Seeing his subordinates forcibly open their trembling eyes, Jing Yuan was helpless, so he could only wake up one by one, and in the end he really had no choice but to open his eyes and close his eyes, as long as he was still standing, he didn't say anything.

However, when he walked to Yuan Hongmo's defense area, the situation was quite serious, as a brigade commander, he took the lead in sleeping on his back, snoring like thunder again and again, Wang Jingyuan had to think about ruling him. ordered someone to bring a basin of cold water and splashed it on Yuan Hongmo's body, and immediately he was so cold that he screamed at the sudden cold water, and scolded indiscriminately: "Grandma bear, which king is looking for death?" ”

"It's me, okay, you Yuan Heizi dare to scold you, Lao Tzu and me!"

Hearing someone answer, Yuan Hongmo was about to scold again, but when he looked back, it was Wang Jingyuan, and he didn't dare to scold, touched his head, and pretended to be confused; "Huh? What's going on? Qing Demon called? ”

Seeing Yuan Hongmo's messy appearance, Wang Jingyuan's anger had long since subsided, and he quipped: "Beat you, you kid don't take precautions to sleep?" The demon cut off your head and didn't even know it. ”

Yuan Hongmo saw that Shi Shuai's anger was completely gone, and he grinned: "Hehe, isn't this demon here yet......"

Before these words fell, a loud noise suddenly came from the direction of the camp of the Central Army in the northwest, as if arguing with Yuan Hongmo, the sound came one after another, and everyone looked at each other in shock, but Wang Jingyuan knew that it was the explosion of the gunpowder magazine in the camp, and the development of things did not deviate from the original trajectory, and what should come is still coming.

"Rush! Kill! Exterminate the bandits, everyone has a reward! ”

"The demon is here! We're surrounded! ……”

"Rush, protect the inspector and rush out!"

Outside Liuhe City, a life-and-death battle between the Northern Expedition echelon of the Taiping Army and the Qing Army kicked off, Wen Shaoyuan, the leader of the Qing Demon who lost during the day, sent people to sneak attack the gunpowder magazine of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and hundreds of loads of gunpowder exploded instantly, and the huge impact completely destroyed the camp of the Taiping Army. And at this moment, the Qing army lurking not far from the camp heard the sound, and thousands of shouts of killing came from all directions.

"What about Xu Zongyang? What about Huang Yiyun! Zhu Xikun roared, he didn't fall in this sudden catastrophe, but he regretted that he shouldn't have listened to the advice of the little master last night. Now, the Chinese army, which accounts for half of the total number of troops, has been bombed to the bottom, and thousands of brothers have died in vain in one day, and what face does he have to lead the army.

"Xu ...... Commander Xu patrolled in the rear team and did not return ......"

When Zhu Xikun heard Xu Zongyang's inspection, his eyes suddenly burst into flames, and he shouted: "Patrol! The Chinese army camp has been blown up, which door is he patrolling? This checkpoint...... I want to sue the king of heaven......" Before he finished speaking, he was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood.

"My lord! My lord! Let's move closer to the back! ”

"Fart! Father...... Never back down! Brothers...... Break through with me! Come on! Zhu Xikun held his body and led the few remaining subordinates to meet the Qing army that rushed up.