Li Kaifang didn't let Lin Shaozhang wait for a long time, and on the third day of the destruction of Anqing City, that is, on the twenty-sixth day of the first month of the Heavenly Calendar, an army of nearly 50,000 people appeared outside Anqing City. Looking at the crowded team, Jing Yuan saw such a large formation for the first time in his life, and at a glance, the outside of the city became a sea of people.

"Wouldn't it be nice if I could lead tens of millions of troops one day!"

"You, what a good tone? When you become a pawn commander, you think about thousands of troops? Jiang Wan has been Jing Yuan's long-term follower since she followed her all day long, and when she saw him talking big at this time, she couldn't help but ridicule.

"Heroes emerge in troubled times, isn't the Wing King only in his twenties?" Jing Yuanqi underestimated herself and talked about her idol, the Wing King.

"Okay, I'll see when you can become king!"

Jing Yuan's official position is too small, there are one hundred and twenty-five people with the same official position as him in one army in this city, not to mention the seven over-staffed armies outside the city. Small people like him can't affect the development of the situation at all, and the real big people are gathered in the governor's yamen. At this time, in the governor's yamen, it was really a group of virtuous people, and the young people were salty. The three prime ministers sat side by side in the main hall, the general and the general supervised the army on both sides, and the army commanders and division commanders were a large number of people stationed under the hall, so the lineup was only under the account of the king of wings.

"The three Prime Ministers, His Royal Highness the Wing King, ordered the lowly to wait here to receive the land army to board the ship." Lin Shaozhang stood at the bottom and said.

"This matter has been received by the Prime Minister of the East King, but this Anqing is the capital of a province, it is a pity to give up!" Li Kaifang, who was on the throne, frowned and said, although he knew that the East King was dedicated to Jinling's strategy, but this Anqing was not far from Nanjing, and it was upstream, an extremely important barrier.

For Li Kaifang's pity, Lin Fengxiang on the left hand did not agree, and only listened to him: "Lao Li, you are wrong, Nanjing is the foundation, as long as it is captured, the world will shake, and this Anqing City is not a piece of cake." ”

"The two of you don't fight, now that His Royal Highness the East King has an order, I'll go to the rendezvous as soon as possible!" Seeing that Li and Lin had different views, Hu Yihuang and Xi Nidao, who were in an awkward position.

"Okay, let's go immediately." After all, Hu Yihuang is an old hero, and Li Kaifang does not dare to refute his face. Seeing that Lin Shaozhang was still standing at the foot of the steps, he asked again: "Lin Jianjun, can His Royal Highness the Wing King make arrangements for your department?" ”

"Back to my lord, His Royal Highness the Wing King orders to obey the dispatch of the prime minister!"

"Good! The second army on the left was temporarily under the command of Ji Wenyuan, the deputy general of the soil. ”

Ji Wenyuan is the fourth person in the land army, he is brave and daring to fight, Lin Shaozhang has long heard of his name, and he happily accepted the promise at the moment. After arranging the Second Left Army, Li Kaifang did not dare to delay, and immediately ordered the whole army to board the ship, turn the land route into a water route, and chase the water route army.

On the banks of the Yangtze River, more than 10 improvised wharves have been erected, and more than 50,000 troops and countless baggage loads are constantly moving towards the warships. The second army on the left and the third army on the back boarded the ship at the wharf outside Xicheng together, and Wang Jingyuan's troops did not have any baggage, and easily came to the riverside. "Wow! There are more ships than the day before yesterday! There are tens of thousands, right? Yuan Hongmo shouted as he looked at the river with sails in the sky.

"How is that possible? A boat can carry hundreds of people, and our Seventh Army has a total of more than 50,000 people? Are you going to settle accounts? Hu Yongxiang shrewdly calculated the accounts for Song Luzhou.

"Hu Liangsima is right, the day before yesterday was a war, and the ships of the Chinese army and the rear army all stayed on the side of the Wangjiang River, so Yuan Liangsima said that there were few ships." Zhong Liangxiang explained that he was a veteran and naturally knew the reason.

"Where did so many ships come from?" Jiang Wan interjected, although everyone didn't know her details, but after all, she was personally recruited by the chief and good people, and she couldn't be underestimated.

Seeing everyone talking there, Jing Yuan couldn't stop talking: "I'll tell you this!" Since our army collected thousands of Dongting Lake merchant ships in Yiyang, many fishermen and merchants have taken refuge with ships along the way, and in addition to the large number of seizures, there are tens of thousands of large and small ships. ”

"The good man knows so much about our army!" Zhong Liangxiang didn't expect that Jing Yuan, a newly attached person, even knew about the collection of ships in Dongting Lake.

"That is, we good people have entered the camp in Hubei, how can he not know!" Yuan Hongmo mentioned Wang Jingyuan's glorious deeds with a big grin.

Jing Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and scolded secretly: "Yuan Hongmo of the dog day, which pot is not opened!" ”

"Camp in Hubei? Aren't the good guys newly attached? "This confuses Zhong Liangxiang.

"Oh, I was sent to Anqing as a spy a few days after I entered the camp."

"Spies?" When a group of people hear this word for the first time, how can they figure it out.

"It's a pathfinder!"

"Hmph, a spy is a spy, what a spy!" Jiang Wan snorted coldly.

"I can't stay anymore, it's all a bunch of dangerous people." Jing Yuan was afraid that he would be too far away, so he hurriedly ran to the dock to ask for a boat.

It is the military warden who arranges to board the ship, don't look at these guys who have no real duties, but they have great power, especially the holy treasury and holy grain. It was the treasurer and the quartermaster, each with the same position as the overseer of the army. Jing Yuan didn't dare to offend, so he was a grandson with his tail between his legs, and after some flattery, he finally asked for a medium-sized warship about twenty meters long for the whole pawn. The men who had just entered the camp heard that it was still a medium warship, and they were all smiling, and they couldn't wait to see the weapons on the warship, only the veterans were secretly happy.

As soon as they got on the ship, all the recruits, including Jing Yuan, were dumbfounded, this can also be called a warship? The nearly ten-meter-long cabin was empty, and there was not even a bow and crossbow, let alone artillery, which made the subordinates with swords and spears a little disappointed. It's not so much a warship as it is a troop carrier. On board there were twenty-five sailors in charge of driving the ship, all of whom were under the jurisdiction of one water battalion and two horses. The sailors did not delay, and as soon as they got on board, they immediately set sail and gave the dock to the next group of people.

The Taiping Army's water camp marched with its own rules, and the boat of the second pawn on the left did not fly solo, but followed closely behind the ship of the commander's flag, communicating with the flag from time to time. I don't know anything about the more advanced Jing Yuan, so I can only rely on Zhong Liangxiang to translate, but the translation is just those few sentences, which is nothing more than a hurry up. But as soon as the ship drove fast, something went wrong. More than a dozen Chinese recruits from Anhui, including Yuan Hongmo, couldn't stand it, and they all vomited a lot.

"No more! No more! Lao Tzu is not the king of the water! I can't stand this sin, I want to get off the boat! Yuan Hongmo howled like a pig.

"Hey, there are also things that your old Yuan is afraid of? Ha ha! Seeing him seasick, Hu Yongxiang laughed happily. Jing Yuan observed that among his subordinates, Lu Yaoling was more or less a strategist, and he could charge into battle, and he was highly respected among the soldiers and soldiers, and he could reconcile all kinds of contradictions. Xie Zhenke spoke coldly, he didn't like to talk and laugh, and he was a desperate person when he started a fight, but it seemed that something was missing. And Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang are like living treasures, they love to play and joke, but they are also the fierce generals that Jingyuan relies on the most. As for Zhong Liangxiang, who just joined, he is not embarrassed or impatient, he is a guy who is compatible with water and fire, and it is a good material when it is forged. There is also that old brother Ren Guixin, this guy is not only not smiling, but also seems to be a little estranged from the recruits, and he is always far away when he usually discusses matters, I am afraid that he is a little dependent on his status as an old hero in Guangxi. The last subordinate was Jiang Wan, who was dressed as a man, "Hey, what about people? Jing Yuangang wanted to comment on this anomaly, but he didn't expect the person to disappear.

At this time, Jiang Wan was pouring the sea and turning the river at the stern of the boat, how could she withstand this toss when she was coming and going from a small car. "A woman is a woman, how can she fight!" Jing Yuan shook his head and brought her a bowl of water. Said softly: "After you go ashore, let's go, this is not your place!" ”

"Who said I couldn't stay!" After speaking, he wiped his mouth, and wiped all the thin and thick ones.

"Good man! I have something to discuss with you. Zhong Liangxiang didn't know when he appeared behind him.

"Oh, let's go inside and talk." Jing Yuan handed the water bowl to Jiang Wan and led Zhong Liangxiang into the cabin.

"Good man, news has just come that His Royal Highness King Yi has led the front army to conquer Chizhou Mansion this morning, and the middle army and the rear army will also rush over, and my second left army and other seven armies will turn into the vanguard under the leadership of Prime Minister Li Cheng and approach Nanjing!"

"Okay, how long do you think it will take to get to Nanjing?" Jing Yuan was not surprised by the speed of the Wing King's siege, but expected a big battle.

"If nothing happens, we will be able to attack Jiangning within ten days."

"Okay, then let the brothers recharge their energy and prepare for the siege."

"Yes, the subordinates will arrange it, but there is still something to be done urgently." After Zhong Liangxiang finished speaking, his eyebrows tightened.

Jing Yuan hurriedly asked, "Well, what's the matter?" ”

"Yesterday, because I was on the shore, I was busy with the task of defending the city, and I didn't make sense, and now I want to immediately announce ten heavenly strips......" "Celestial strips? Isn't that the Jade Emperor's order? Jing Yuan wondered. No, the Heavenly Ordinance is a heavenly commandment taught by the Father! Worship God is our state religion, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army must join the religion, worship God, worship, and be baptized! In addition to this, there are sixty-two beheadings! ”

"Sixty-two? So much, the Heavenly King is really ruthless,......" Jing Yuan said in astonishment.

Before Jing Yuan finished speaking, Zhong Liangxiang immediately blocked his mouth and whispered: "Good people are cautious!" ”

Jing Yuan knew that the origin of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the worship of God, and now it is also the state religion, which has infiltrated all aspects of the social life of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, even if it is a march and a war, it is necessary to worship. Helplessly: "Okay, then it's up to you to preach!" ”

"Tiantiao and beheading can be said by me, but this worship must invite the veterans of Jintian in the army to come."

"So complicated? Okay, you've got it right away! ”

Around noon, several veterans beat gongs and drums on the deck, and all the soldiers were gathered to kneel together.

I saw Zhong Liangxiang standing in the middle, and shouted in a frustrated voice: "At the beginning of the Jintian Uprising in my generation, it was easy to talk about it, the cold and heat were scorching, the mountains and rivers were dangerous, and it was hard to become the emperor. On a peaceful day, you will go up the ladder to heaven with your feet. The husband dies and has his husband, and the wife dies and has his wife, and there is no complaint or evil lamenting that the demons have swept away the blessings of heaven, and there is a heavenly father and brother to carry him. ”

"What kind of poem is this, why isn't each sentence seven words, and there are long and short?" Yuan Hongmo made a fool of himself again.

As soon as he finished his incisive remarks, Jing Yuan scolded loudly: "Fart, you can't read, you know what poetry, just listen and don't ask!" ”

Now everyone listened honestly and didn't dare to scold. I saw Zhong Liangxiang take out a roll of yellow cloth and said in a heartfelt voice: "The Heavenly Father Emperor God sent the Heavenly King to govern us and others, and authorized the Heavenly King to rule over the rivers and mountains of China, this is the gift of the Heavenly Father, so you should listen to the Heavenly King's orders, and read the Heavenly Decree below!" ”