Wang Jingyuan was promoted by the Wing King, the East King Jianba, and Hu Yihuang was kind and kind-hearted, and the good people recognized by the heavens naturally would not have any objections. Soon Wang Jingyuan's military marshal license was in hand, and the Right Eighth Army was stationed at the pagoda bridge outside Xiaguan, across the river from Pukou. Wang Jingyuan simply returned to Pukou first, took Yuan Hongmo and other 200 subordinates, and then went to take office.

In the Taiping Army, the commander was the lowest level of general position, and the title was no longer "good man", but "adult". In the early period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the military system was still complete, and there were only three or four hundred high-level generals like the inspection generals, and as the commander of the army who managed an army, he was already regarded as a middle and high-level general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If such a position is not from the Jintian Uprising, or the old brothers in Guangxi, it is very difficult to be awarded, you must know that Luo Dagang, who laid the first city for the Kingdom of Heaven, is still the fifth inspection point of the palace, not to mention those people from the two lakes who took refuge late and did not have a good record. Wang Jingyuan, as the first person to be promoted to the rank of military commander in Anhui Province, naturally won the envy of many people, and many of his Anhui people were even more popular. Since Song Luzhou, Lu Yaoling, Hu Yongxiang and others escaped from prison in Anqing and joined the Taiping Army, they were not only intimidated by Wang Jingyuan's martial arts as a pioneer, but also obeyed his style of leading troops through weal and woe, and had already been willing to live and die for him. Zhong Liangxiang, Ren Guixin and other old Taiping soldiers have been under Wang Jingyuan's rule for a long time, whether it is because of military life or people's hearts, they have gradually returned to their hearts.

Liu Zhaojun, a native of Guangxi, was born as a farmer, and he threw himself into the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement led by Hong Tianwang very early. He is short in stature, and he is a disadvantage at all on the battlefield where he is charged, but he has a skill, this person is more able to jump, and he is more than a foot in one leap. In the Qing Dynasty, one zhang was equivalent to three meters one in later generations. This high jump ability, let him go to the Olympics, and winning the championship is not a problem at all.

But it's a pity that this guy didn't participate in the Olympics, but he participated in the Taiping Army, but his jumping skills were also showcased. The Taiping army fought a great war, and the Qing army couldn't beat it at all, so why can't it be defeated? can only hide, hiding in the walled city with a wall several feet high, the Qing army thought that it would be enough to close the door, but I didn't expect Liu Zhaojun to jump up, big cities and small cities are not trivial matters. In this way, this guy jumped from Guangxi to Jiangnan with the Taiping Army, made many military exploits, and his official position was promoted from a holy soldier to a division commander, which is not bad, he has crossed several levels, you must know that not everyone in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is Wang Jingyuan, and he is the only one who joined the army before March.

Originally, Liu Zhaojun took dozens of brothers to hone and hone his temper, and he would rise in a few years, according to what he said, the prime minister's inspection point is not a problem, and history is also played out like this, and then the king of heaven sealed the kings, and this guy also became one of the two thousand kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, he met Wang Jingyuan, two days ago, the military commander who was at odds with him was transferred away for no reason, and four of the five division commanders were taken away, leaving him alone. He is not a confidant of the military marshal, and it is normal that he has not been taken away, but he heard that the new military marshal is from Anhui, and he is a little puzzled. I want to fight all the way from Guangxi to Tianjing, not to mention that I have experienced a hundred battles, it is also a life of nine deaths, and it is okay to be ridden on the head by a wine bag and rice bag before, and I am still an old brother in the Jintian regimental camp, why is there an Anhui guy who and pee on his head this time. Thinking of these, Liu Zhaojun's heart suddenly swelled with a feeling that he had never met a talent.

When he saw Wang Jingyuan's deity, Liu Zhaojun became angry when he didn't meet it, this military marshal is obviously still a bare-ass doll, to put it mildly, our old Liu has fought more battles than he shit! Although he was a little angry, he still held back.

In the camp of Xiaguan Pagoda Bridge, Zuo Chongji, the general system of the Golden Eighth Army, read out Wang Jingyuan's license for promotion to the Right Eighth Army very solemnly. The military system of the Taiping Army, the general system is sorted by five elements, the front army is changed to "fire", the rear army is "water", the middle army is "earth", the left army is "wood", and "gold" is naturally the code name of the right army. Zuo Chongji, the commander of the Eighth Army of the Golden Eight, is the supreme commander of the Eighth Army on the right, but he is not Wang Jingyuan's top boss, and there is also a deputy commander of the Eighth Army of Jin, Hou Yutian. Zuo Chongji, Wang Jingyuan is not familiar with it, but he knows Hou Yutian. Yutian, the prince of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, after the fall of Tianjing in history, this guy also went to Hong Kong and secretly funded the prince Li Shixian, but in the end he was slaughtered by the Qing government.

Although there are two bosses, it is still the marshal Wang Jingyuan who manages the Right Eighth Army on a daily basis. When the elder Feng Yunshan formulated the Taiping military system, in order to prevent the generals from manipulating the military power, he deliberately set up three levels of generals in the first army: the general system, the army supervisor, and the army commander, and stipulated that the general system was in charge of the combat command, and the army commander was the sole commander in charge of the army on weekdays.

After consulting the two superiors, Wang Jingyuan immediately issued the appointment license stamped with the seal of the Wing King. The original headquarters of the Left Second Army and the Right Eighth Army were merged, and after the merger, there were 1,700 people, and they were reorganized and reorganized. However, Liu Zhaojun's left battalion did not move, in order to show his affection, and the rest of the troops were organized into four divisions, Yuan Hongmo was the commander of the front battalion, Hu Yongxiang was the commander of the rear battalion, Lu Yaoling was the commander of the middle battalion, and Ren Guixin was the commander of the right battalion. Xie Zhenke is the commander of the army marshal and captain, serving as the brigade commander, and is in charge of 40 army marshal lieutenants. As for Zhong Liangxiang, he was not good at fighting, and he himself intended to change to a civilian position, so he ordered him and Jiang Wan to be the military marshal's secretary and handle the military Chinese book.

The next day, that is, the eighteenth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, a yellow pennant with boundless black characters was raised in the Pukou barracks, and next to the word "Taiping" was written prominently, "Marshal Huang of the Right Eighth Army", and Wang Jingyuan finally had a seat in the Taiping army with strict ranks. Although this was an important step for Wang Jingyuan to leap from a lower-level officer to a high-ranking general, he had not yet entered the eyes of the highest level of the battle in the Heavenly Kingdom. A few days after the Liuhe fiasco, the good news that the Northern Expeditionary Army had conquered Chuzhou came, and then Linhuai Pass, Fengyang and other places were repeatedly breached.

At the same time, Tang Zhengcai, the fifth commander of the palace left in charge of the affairs of the Admiral's water camp, was building ships in the Dawang Temple in Xiaguan to prepare for the western expedition. And Wang Jingyuan's Right Eighth Army was often transferred, unloading the timber sent by the Taiping Army in Zhenjiang, and the materials that could be taken in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were also Zhenjiang Xiaomao Mountain, and went up the river to Xiaguan.

At the beginning of the establishment of the capital of the Kingdom of Heaven, the decision-making level had a strategy, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty was overthrown and the world was unified, it was necessary to invade Yanjing in the north; If you want to consolidate your power and replenish your troops, you must conquer Huguang to the west; If the Qing court's financial resources were cut off and their own power expanded, they must conquer Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the east. The Taiping army was the first to go east, Li Kaifang occupied Yangzhou, Luo Xuan occupied Zhenjiang, and later failed to touch Suchang because the Qing army's Jiangnan camp was horizontal. Yang Xiuqing, the supreme military commander of the Heavenly Kingdom, chose the Northern Expedition, and after the power had developed to a certain extent, he would go eastward. Tianjing is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and since ancient times, those who have established the foundation here have all strived to go upstream, and those who come to invade often go down from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. For example, Jin destroyed Wu, Sui destroyed Chen, and Wu Yue was destroyed according to Jing Chu first. Another example is that Ming Hongwu first destroyed Chen Youliang in Wuchang, stabilized the foundation, and then carried out the Northern Expedition. In the later period of the Heavenly Kingdom, the loyal king Li Xiucheng liked the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River and abandoned the river defense, which led to the fall of Wuchang, Jiujiang, Anqing and other important river defense towns one by one, and finally Tianjing was difficult to support alone. Western expedition at the same time,

The king of the east was determined to seize the Yangtze River, and repeatedly went out of danger, and the son of heaven guarded the country, and stationed heavy troops in Tianjing, containing Xiang Rong, Qishan and other southern Qing troops, and then sent Li Kaifang to the north to expedition to hold back the northern Qing army, and then marched west to strengthen the strength. As the highest military commander, Yang Xiuqing was able to command the Taiping Army to conquer cities all the way, continue to grow, and finally poke half of the south corner of the Yangtze River, and his outstanding military talent cannot but be admired.

The Qing army on the periphery of Tianjing suddenly gathered, and the troops were strong, eyeing the tiger. The division of the Northern Expedition has been carried out, and if the Taiping army wants to march westward again, it will have to consider the defense of Tianjing. Otherwise, Tianjing's troops will be empty, and the consequences will be serious. Wei Changhui, the king of the east and the north, commanded the defense of Tianjing, and the west of the inner line was fortressed by Banqiao Town, which was connected with Dasheng Touguan, Sanshanji and Yuhuatai. The east side is based on the Chaoyang Gate, which takes over the second inspection point on the right of the palace, Chen Zongsheng, and then garrisons at the upper gate, the Seven Bridges Urn, Tianbao City, and the Dragon Neck, against the Qing army camp of Xiaolingwei. In the north, Pukou is the front line, plus the troops stationed in Jiuqizhou and Qixingzhou, to jointly guard against the enemy from Chuzhou Liuhe.

Now that the Northern Expedition is winning and the time has come, the western expedition is imminent, and the Eastern King has to step up the integration of other troops. In the armies of the Kingdom of Heaven, according to the strength of the battle, it can be clearly divided into two parts. The first was of course the 25th Army before the Dingdu Tianjing, and the serial numbers were the top five of each road, these soldiers were sufficient, and they had been in the army for a long time, and many of them were old brothers who came out of Guangxi. And the rest is the newly built 70th Army after the capital Tianjing, although the number is large, but most of them are like the original Right Eighth Army, an army is only a few hundred people, some even dozens of people, morale is poor, many are Jinling people who are used to happiness, how can they fight.

It is difficult to choose the soldiers who will fight, and it will be even more difficult to choose the soldiers who will lead the troops, and the western expedition is a great plan of heaven, and the commander is naturally a brave and good fighter. Who is the most capable fighter in the kingdom of heaven? The king of the West, Xiao Chao, was noble, but he died. Who is the second capable fighter? Lin Fengxiang, he went to the Northern Expedition. That can only find the third capable fighter, but unfortunately Li Kaifang, who is ranked third, also went to the Northern Expedition. Dongwang searched and searched, but he didn't find any of them, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, and Ji Wenyuan were all his cronies, but they were all sent to Beijing by him. Now when he is handsome, Dongwang regrets it a little, and he knows that he can keep one. The cronies of the king of the east are not there, but the cronies of the other kings are still there.

The king of the north recommended Qin Rigang, the prime minister of Tianguanzheng, and pushed out the first member of the heavenly kingdom under the kings, but the king of wings was not bad, he recommended two at one time, Hu Yihuang, the prime minister of Chunguanzheng, and Luo Dagang, the fifth inspector of the left of the palace, Hu Yihuang was respected, even if Li Kaifang, the prime minister of the earth, did not dare to be arrogant. Luo Dagang is the first city in the Kingdom of Heaven to break the first city of Yong'an, and he is a famous general who has made meritorious contributions to everything. But these are nothing, the king of heaven strongly recommends Lai Hanying, the deputy prime minister of Xia Guan, Lai Hanying's merit is not high, but his sister is the second wife of King Hong, except for King Hong's first wife who is ethereal in the sky, the real queen of heaven, the uncle of the country, the king of heaven is really a good man and does not avoid relatives!

Seeing these recommendations, Yang Xiuqing's confused little eyes are even more unpredictable, but they can roughly guess. Whether it is Qin Rigang, Hu Yihuang, Luo Dagang, or Lai Hanying, they are not his cronies. Qin Rigang and Hu Yihuang are both high-ranking officials close to the status of the prince, let them lead the troops to the west, if they are meritorious, how can they be crowned? Of course, he can be crowned king, wouldn't he add two people who are fighting for power with him Yang Xiuqing? Luo Dagang, a non-God worshipper general who was excluded by the leadership in Guangxi, asked him to lead the troops, didn't he slap the kings in the face? As for Lai Hanying, although he is the uncle of the country, he is really not a person, he has no merit, he is not famous, and he is just a vain name. Just let him lead the troops, wouldn't it fuel the momentum of the Heavenly King?

Today's Kingdom of Heaven, although it belongs to his Hong family, but in the hands of Yang Xiuqing, the military power and wealth are all under his control, and Hong Xiuquan is just his puppet of Yang Xiuqing! Puppet? Yes, it's a puppet, the Hong family is willing to be a puppet, so let them do it, Yang Xiuqing thought that he had thought of a great trick.