Since the Jintian Uprising, the Taiping Army has fought more than 100 battles, made countless meritorious contributions, and the top leadership has promoted and rewarded them. Naturally, it will lead to more soldiers and fewer soldiers, but it cannot reduce the combat effectiveness, and in the absence of soldiers to replenish it, it will only be strong at both ends and weak in the middle. Therefore, in the Taiping Army, the two corps and the third level are full, and the brigade divisions are mostly fictitious. In particular, the brigade commander is at the first level, which is actually the deputy position of the division commander. The division commander commanded ten commanders, who were directly under the division commander in peacetime, and were only occasionally assigned to his brigade commanders in wartime. Looking at the Taiping Army, this is the case, according to the establishment of an army of more than 13,000 people, at this time there are only more than 5,000 people. After the capture of Wuchang, the whole army expanded to the 25th Army of the land camp, but in fact there were only more than 100,000 people.

Like Zhong Liangxiang, who is the same as the commander, that is, it is used to reward military merits, and Peng Yisong transferred him to be Jing Yuan's deputy, on the one hand, it is also a transfer to a substantive position, and on the other hand, it has the intention of containing supervision. However, he was kind-hearted and very respectful when he saw Jing Yuan, which made Jing Yuan quite satisfied with this deputy in his thirties.

Jing Yuan's official title is "Left Second Pawn Commander of the Rear Battalion of the Second Left Army", and "Rear Battalion" is the number of the division commander Peng Yisong. "Left" is the rank of the brigade, and the nominal commander is Wu Zhengyuan, the commander of the left battalion under Peng Yisong. However, he is considered the leader of the division and has no direct command. "Second Pawn Chief" refers to Jing Yuan, and later learned that the original rear camp only had the left first pawn and his own left second pawn, the left third, left fourth, and left fifth were all false leaders, and only the commander of the light pole was the commander, and the Taiping Army's false exaggeration was really staggering.

The commander did not have the right to lead the troops to fight, and the camp outside the Anqing Trial Hospital was also the station of the second pawn on the left. After the Taiping army broke through Wangjiang, whether they wanted it or not, they took all the young men and women in the city captive. The sturdy men had already been divided by several division commanders of the Second Army on the left, and the rest were also asked by other armies, and only the newly established women's battalion was in the test yard, and no one had yet come to receive them. Because of the strict abstinence in the Taiping Army, the other division commanders were afraid of accidents, so they pushed this drudgery to the good old man Peng Yisong. Peng Yisong was also very anxious, seeing that it was almost dark, he didn't dare to guarantee that all the soldiers under his command were pure-hearted, and if something went wrong, they would be beheaded according to the laws of heaven.

Jing Yuan didn't have the heart to worry about Peng Yisong, with the help of Zhong Liangxiang, he and the scribe Lu Yaoling quickly completed the registration of the pawn, the so-called register is to record the name and place of origin of the soldiers and the time of entering the camp. Speaking of origin, the eight CD are from Anhui, and half of them are from the two lakes, and the old Guangxi only has two Sima Ren Guixin and five military commanders under him.

Before dinner, Zhong Liangxiang brought people to bring clothes and hats, and the two Sima and above were red robes and hoods, and the soldiers were all wrapped in red scarves and wore yellow vests and blue-edged uniforms, but everyone's clothes were written with job titles. The pawn changed into these clothes and suddenly looked new.

Since the Taiping army went east from Wuchang, the land and water armies marched together, the king of the east and the king of the north sat in the rear army of the navy, guarding the king of heaven, and the wing king Shi Dakai commanded the advance of the navy, and his subordinates had Qin Rigang, the prime minister of the heavenly officials, the first commander of the left of the palace, Luo Xuan, and the fourth commander of the right of the palace, Lai Hanying, and other generals. Dong Wang Ai led the seven armies of the first one, the first second, the first three, the first five, the first right, the fourth right, and the third after the third to attack the prefectures and counties along the river, and successively captured Huangzhou, Guangji, and Huangmei. After the advance of the navy captured Anqing, leaving Lin Shaozhang's troops to defend the city and the land army, Yiwang continued to lead the vanguard of the navy down the river and pointed directly at Jiangning.

The next day, just as Lin Shaozhang was wondering when Li Kaifang would arrive, suddenly a prison lieutenant came in and reported: "The second commander of the palace, Lord Meng, is here!" ”

"What is he doing here?" Meng Deen, the second commander on the right of the palace, is the favored minister of the king, Lin Shaozhang has always been unable to climb high, and he is not easy to slacken, so he hurriedly went out to greet him.

"Humble Lin Shaozhang meets the commander!"

"I heard that Anqing City was broken, and Lin Jian Jun's first achievement, it is really gratifying!" Meng Deen's fat face was full of smiles.

"The commander is falsely praised, and the humble position is just a rough martial artist." He is notoriously elegant, Meng Deen said this, obviously there is something to do, Lin Shaozhang didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and asked bluntly: "I don't know what the matter is when the adults come here?" ”

"Oh, this commander is on the orders of the Heavenly King, and has come to pick up some maids!"

Lin Shaozhang knew in his heart when he heard that he had more than 30 concubines in Yong'an, and he had been blessed with a group of people who specialized in collecting beauties to confuse the king. When attacking Changsha, the king of the west was still alive, and he contacted the kings to advise him to go to this person's position, but he did not expect that soon after the death of the king of the west, this person returned to the king of heaven.

Seeing that he didn't react for a long time, Meng Deen said, "I heard that you captured the daughter of Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui, where are you?" ”

It turned out that Meng Deen had already received the news that after Zeng Chunfa broke through Anqing, the daughter of the governor of Anhui was captured, and after Zeng Chunfa's short custody, she was sent to Lin Shaozhang. The North King was busy gathering the seizures and not having time to pick up the women's battalion. Although Lin Shaozhang hated these young people, he did not dare to go against the will of the king.

In just one day, Jiang Wan fell from the high-ranking governor to a prisoner under the stairs, and suffered the blow of her father's death, and was completely immersed in grief. Previously, Lin Shaozhang had ordered someone to bring rice, Jiang Wan didn't want to eat it at all, she thought about how good it would be if she died.

"Hahaha, that's it! The king likes it! By the window, Muntdeen stuck his head out and laughed. Several of his subordinates had already prepared, and immediately entered the house and dragged Jiang Wan out.

"Sure enough, it's a beauty! This Meng Deen is really picky. When Lin Shaozhang saw Jiang Wan, he couldn't help but feel a little disturbed in his heart.

"Lin Jianjun, what about the other women?" Meng Deen saw Lin Shaozhang staring at the future princess, and hurriedly interrupted.

"Oh, I'm being held in the test house!"

"Take this demon girl away, let's pick a few more!" Meng Deen didn't care about Lin Shaozhang's wishes, and pulled him away.

The second commander from the right of the hall was coming to Master Meng, and Peng Yisong immediately summoned the brigade commander and the commander, all of whom were lying at the gate of the test courtyard. Jing Yuan knelt at the end and looked at it secretly, Meng Deen didn't see it clearly, but saw Jiang Wan, but he didn't expect her to fall into Meng Deen's hands. Meng Deen didn't care about these low-level officers, and just led Lin Shaozhang into the backyard where the female prisoners were held. Peng Yisong had no choice but to lead his subordinates to follow boringly. Jing Yuan wanted to know what Meng Deen was doing with Jiang Wan, and followed Peng Yisong every step of the way. Lin Shaozhang originally thought that Meng Deen would only pick a few and leave, but he didn't expect him to pick forty-nine in one go, and in the end, the men he brought were not enough to escort, so he had to ask Lin Shaozhang to send someone to send them to the riverside.

Lin Shaozhang was embarrassed to refuse, and handed over the task to Peng Yisong, Wang Jingyuan did not wait for Peng Yisong to appoint an early request, Peng Yisong agreed to his request after a little consideration. Meng Deen said goodbye to Lin Shaozhang with great satisfaction, this time he chose fifty women of outstanding appearance, and when he thought of the Heavenly King praising him for his ability to do things, he couldn't close his mouth with joy. Jing Yuan silently led his men to escort the women, but from time to time he would look at a thin figure caught in the middle of the crowd.

It was getting dark, but fortunately there was not too far to go, and Meng Deen's boat was docked at the riverside pier, and on the Yangtze River was a sea of lanterns, and the lights were brighter and brighter. Although the Wing King left first with the front army, the thousands of ships of the rear army were still there. Meng Deen first got on the patrol boat, and several female officers at the ferry lined up the selected women and checked them one by one before they were brought aboard. Jing Yuan looked at this scene and thought that these women might be dedicated to the king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan was lustful, and he had so many wives that he had to use numbers, and his absurdity was far better than that of the Qing emperor. Jing Yuan sighed, not knowing if he was aiding and abetting.

Jiang Wan passed the inspection and walked on the bridge like a walking corpse. Perhaps out of guilt, Wang Jingyuan watched from the shore for a long time. Suddenly, there was a "poof", and Jiang Wan fell straight into the river, "No! With a roar, Jing Yuan rushed over. Seeing that he had rushed to the bank of the river, Jing Yuan did not stop and jumped into the Yangtze River.

As soon as the subordinates saw that the commander had jumped into the river, they all gathered around the river, looking at the turbulent river, but did not see any figure, Yuan Hongmo was so anxious that he wanted to jump into the river, Lu Yaoling stopped him in time, and scolded loudly: "Do you know how to swim?" ”

Yuan Hongmo was stunned and said: "The pawn is gone!" ”

Meng Deen also heard shouts from the shore on the boat, and a prison lieutenant hurriedly ran into the cabin and reported: "Lord Commander, Jiang Wenqing's daughter has jumped into the river!" ”

"What! How is her! I can't go down and fish yet. Mund's said angrily.

"There is a pawn commander who jumps down, the river is turbulent, I'm afraid it will ......"

"A bunch of waste, bring the others up, the king of heaven is still waiting, you are waiting here, if you are rescued, you will take it, if you can't save it, you will go down to accompany her!"

As soon as Wang Jingyuan jumped into the river, he didn't care about the turbulence of the river, he was familiar with the nature of the water, he plunged into the water, rushed to Jiang Wan's side with the help of water, hugged her, and tried his best to lift her up. Fortunately, he was saved in time, and it didn't take long for a cough to be heard. The two were washed by the river for about two miles downstream before they encountered a shoal, and Wang Jingyuan used his last strength to drag Jiang Wan ashore.

The cold river wind was blowing wildly, Jiang Wan had cried into tears, her father was killed and she had collapsed, she wanted to die, but she was desperately saved by this long-haired thief who lied about being a foreigner, and he was the one who opened the city gate yesterday and killed her father.

"Why save me, I just want to die with dignity!" Jiang Wan cried helplessly.

"Miss Jiang, please calm down! Lingzun's matter, I'm sorry, I didn't know that the Taiping Army would kill him! ”

"Hmph, can a word of sorry bring my dad back to life?" Jiang Wan said sarcastically: "You arrest me to receive merit and ask for reward, and return your life-saving grace." ”

"I won't hand you over to someone else, I've made a big mistake and killed your father, I want to protect you!" Although Jiang Wenqing was not killed by Wang Jingyuan, he also died because of him, he wanted to make up for his mistakes and protect the thin woman in front of him. Said: "Now that the army is in chaos, you disguise yourself as a man and follow me back to the camp, and when you arrive in Nanjing, I will send you away." ”

Jiang Wan didn't know whether he was true or fake, and thanked him politely: "I understand your kindness, but it still can't change that I hate you!" ”

"There are warring soldiers everywhere, how can you escape as a girl, if you are arrested and become a princess, won't I hurt you again, then I have to hate myself" Wang Jingyuan's face was grim, and he was determined to make up for Jiang Wan's mistakes in his heart, and said, "You and I will go to find suitable men's clothes first." ”

Jiang Wan hesitated for a while, the hatred in her heart was slightly relieved, she was not afraid of death, but she was afraid of losing her reputation, and she was reluctant, but she had to follow Wang Jingyuan.