Although it is not a few miles away from Anqing, Wang Jingyuan does not plan to go back at night, on the one hand, Meng Deen will not give up, and it is bound to be investigated, so he can only find some men's clothes for Jiang Wan to change into, and mix them into the barracks. On the other hand, the city gates have long been closed, and there are secret sentinels everywhere outside the city, and one of them is accidentally shot into a hornet's nest by a bow and arrow. Wang Jingyuan took Jiang Wan to find a village. The villagers are long gone, some are just broken walls, and the houses are all with their mouths wide open, telling Jing Yuan about the disaster suffered by the village. The village was obviously set on fire, and Jing Yuan didn't know who the murderer was, maybe it was the Qing army who fled, or it was the Taiping army who went out to raise food.

Jing Yuan's temporary habitat was a low house with a roof still on, and after he settled Jiang Wan, he looked around for some unburned wood and set up a bonfire in the low house. However, the bonfire did not warm them in the slightest, and the soaked clothes made Jiang Wan tremble a little. Jing Yuan searched the village several times before he found a few pieces of unseemly clothes from a broken cabinet that had been searched countless times. He gave the room to Jiang Wan to change his clothes, and ran to the cold wind to change by himself. Jiang Wan saw it in her eyes and remembered it in her heart. She wanted to know his past, a beggar who went to the temple to steal tribute to eat? Or are you a wandering foreigner? He must have a colorful past.

Jing Yuan was called in after Jiang Wan changed her clothes, and Jing Yuan looked at Jiang Wan who was wearing men's clothes, wearing a belt and leggings. However, Wang Jingyuan was attracted by her big feet, Jiang Wan seemed to understand, and said with a little embarrassment: "I am a flag man, and I have been so big since I was a child!" ”

Wang Jingyuan realized that he was out of shape, and immediately apologized: "I'll go find you a few more?" ”

"No, you don't! It's quite comfortable, but it's a little itchy. Jiang Wan knew that it was a small insect, and it was common for people who didn't take a bath before.

"Hehe" Looking at the handsome face in the firelight, Jing Yuan couldn't help but smirk.

"What's your name?"

"Wang Jingyuan"

"It's a nice name, have you read a book?"

"Just a little bit of writing!"

"Yo, you're quite modest! How did you get out of prison? ”

……

The two of them chatted for half the night, and finally fell to the fire in a daze.

When Jing Yuan got up the next day, it was already dawn, and his dried clothes were neatly placed beside him, but Jiang Wan didn't know when he left. Jing Yuan hurriedly changed his clothes with a hint of loss, and was about to rush to the military camp in the city, when suddenly a familiar and moving voice sounded behind him. "Are you going to leave me alone?" When I turned around, I saw that the greedy little girl who worshiped Buddha was still there.

In the Anqing test yard, Yuan Hongmo found a broken basin out of nowhere, and burned the yellow table paper weakly. "Cry, cry for me! Our lives were saved by the Captain! No one kowtowed to his old man during his lifetime, and no one could cry after he died! Hu Yongxiang scolded a few of his mourning subordinates.

"Yes, blind man, let them cry harder, or the pawn will not hear you underground!" After Yuan Hongmo finished speaking, he took the lead in crying.

"Who said I couldn't hear it!"

When everyone heard this, they were shocked, it was difficult to become a haunting in the daytime, and when they looked up, Jing Yuan appeared by the gate with a strange man. Everyone was overjoyed, and they all ran to hug and pinch to see if it was true.

"You guys really want me to die, you don't have any conscience!"

Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang both smiled and said nothing, only Xie Zhenke replied: "Last night, the pawn jumped off the Yangtze River, the waves were big, we thought the pawn was ......, but I didn't expect the pawn to be a great blessing!" ”

"If you don't die, you will have a blessing!" Lu Yaoling also said.

"Who is this little brother?" Xie Zhenke noticed Jiang Wan in men's clothes and looked at it curiously.

Jing Yuan pushed everyone away, pulled Jiang Wan and introduced: "He, he is my queen!" ”

"Hey, what kind of aftermath is this guy's fine skin and tender meat?" Yuan Hongmo stretched out his hand and wanted to pinch Jiang Wan's white and tender little face.

"Hey, I wanted to rescue that girl for the command, but I didn't want to float downstream without even looking at a shadow, but I didn't have the strength, fortunately, this brother named Hanako rescued me with a bamboo pole, and he is also our life-saving benefactor, so I will not let him come to our camp, and I will have him with my Wang Jingyuan's food!"

"The elder is a good man who values love and righteousness, and my old Lu admires it" Lu Yaoling smiled and said: "How do you call the little brother?" These big feet are not small! ”

Wang Jingyuan secretly shouted that it was not good, this ginger was really old and spicy, and he couldn't hide Lu Yaoling's eyes, but he didn't break it, I'm afraid it was still towards himself.

Jiang Wan tried her best to pull out the rough voice and said: "The villain's name is Changshou, I don't know the surname, I wandered from Shandong" Changshou is her brother's name, as for the hometown, Jiang's belongs to the white flag of the Han army, from the Liaodong Han army that entered the customs from the dragon in the early Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Shandong is quite similar.

"Okay, in the future, Changshou will be my entourage, everyone take care of it!" Jing Yuan felt that he couldn't let these guys talk nonsense, and the more he talked about it, the more he didn't have to go. "Ahem, did the brigade commander have any orders last night?"

At this time, Zhong Liangxiang, who was on the side, said to Jing Yuan: "Pawn chief good man, during your absence, I will act as a substitute." ”

"It's okay, that's how it is! Everything has to be a head! Seeing that he could be honest with himself, Jing Yuan became more and more respectful, so he solemnly announced: "In the future, whenever I am absent, the words of the deputy chief of the guard will be my words, and respecting the deputy chief of the deputy will be respecting me!" ”

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, and Zhong Liangxiang deeply felt Jing Yuanzhi's trust, and arched his hand and said: "Thanks to the trust of good people, Zhong is willing to repay with broken bones." ”

Jing Yuan helped him up and teased: "You don't need to break your bones, as long as you teach everyone the rules and regulations of the Taiping Army, and the marching army." ”

"Zhong must know everything, and he must say everything!"

"What is the situation in the army now, why is there no one except for the city gate?"

Zhong Liangxiang replied: "Hui Shanren, this morning the middle and rear armies on the river have been opened, leaving only our army here to meet the follow-up land army. ”

"Well, that's for the best!" Jing Yuan smiled at Jiang Wan.

Last night was very calm, except for a pawn commander and a prisoner who jumped into the river, nothing else happened, in fact, this is not a big deal, there are thousands of soldiers in the whole army, and the death of one is of course nothing, as for the captive, many people do not know whether it is a man or a woman, except for a few people who know that she is the daughter of the governor of Anhui in the Qing court, but these people are just a whim.

After settling down the hearts of the people, Jing Yuan followed Zhong Liangxiang to the Yamen of the original inspection envoy, Peng Yisong, the commander of the rear battalion of the Second Left Army, had moved to this office, and the higher military marshal Li Zhenhui lived in the Yamen of the political envoy, Lin Shaozhang, the supervising army, moved to the Governor's Yamen, and Zeng Chunfa, the highest Mu Er, accompanied Luan by the side of the Heavenly King, and in the empty city of Anqing, the second army of the left was dominant.

Since the fall of Wuchang, the Great Qing Dynasty has been insensitive to the fall of ordinary cities, and hundreds of thousands of troops with long hair have gone east, and the loss of Anqing is inevitable, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. But everyone's eyes did not stop at Anqing, the capital of a province, but all focused on Jiangning downstream! Jiangning is now Nanjing, although it and Anqing are the provincial capital, but the treatment is definitely not a grade, even in later generations, Hefei can not be compared with Nanjing. Whether it is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in history or the capital of Nanjing in the former Ming Dynasty, this proves that Nanjing is a capital, not just a city.

Although the Qing Dynasty fixed its capital in Beijing, Nanjing was still recognized as the vice-capital, and even the prosperity of Kyoto could not compete with it. Now that Anqing has been broken, the next step for the Taiping Army must be Jiangning. Jiang Ning's gains and losses are a proof of strength in politics. Once the Taiping Army succeeds, it is bound to gather more vigorous popularity; Once the Qing Dynasty misses, it will inevitably affect morale and hurt national fortunes. The two are competing for strength, but Wuchang and Anqing have been lost one after another, what strength does the Qing Dynasty have at all? Lu Jianying led the army to block in Jiangxi, and retreated 800 miles after only one battle, how could he still have the courage to raise troops to fight against the Taiping army, only to mobilize the surrounding people and horses, and wait for reinforcements.

Just when the Qing army and the Taiping army were playing offensive and defensive games, the land army led by Li Kaifang finally arrived. Speaking of this army, it is also strange that this army has three leaders, namely Li Kaifang, the prime minister of the local official, Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of the spring official, and Lin Fengxiang, the deputy prime minister of the heavenly official, but who is the supreme leader? This issue is very complicated, as far as the official system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is concerned, the prime minister currently has thirty-six members of the heaven, earth, spring, summer, autumn, and winter six officials, the heavenly officials are higher than the local officials, the local officials are higher than the spring officials, and the prime minister is higher than the deputy prime minister. However, according to the qualifications, Hu Yihuang worshiped God to teach the old people, and the heroes of the uprising who destroyed their families and relieved the suffering, as early as the establishment of Yong'an, he had already worshiped one of the two prime ministers, Chunguan Zheng, and under the six kings of Shouyi, only Qin Rigang was on top of it, the eighth position of the real Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Li and Lin were just the guards of the prison army at the beginning, so the land army should be respected by Hu Yihuang.

However, Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang originally belonged to the former army, and since the beginning of the Jintian Uprising, the former army was the descendants of Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, and they had been the main force of the battle until the king of the west died in a cannon outside Changsha. So the king of the east swallowed the men and horses of the former army, Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang made many military exploits and became the favorite generals of the king of the east, and their status rose, and Li Kaifang became the prime minister of the local government second only to Qin Rigang, surpassing the prime minister of the spring official Hu Yihuang.

There are seven armies in this land Taiping army, the first and third belong to Li Kaifang, the first two and the first five belong to Lin Fengxiang, the first from the right and the fourth from the right belong to Hu Yihuang, and another general, Ji Wenyuan, a deputy general, commands the last three armies. Most of these seven armies are the front army under the command of the king of the west, and there are many veterans in Guangxi, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, and they must be the vanguard in every major battle, and this attack on Nanjing is no exception. King Yi ordered Li Kaifang and the others to hurry up, board the ship offshore with the receiving army in Anqing, and go straight to Jiangning.