Chapter VII The Second Army on the Left

Jiang Wan had already fainted from crying, seeing his father leave tragically, heartbroken, Wang Jingyuan couldn't help but feel pity, and thought about how to help her.

Zeng Chunfa recognized Wang Jingyuan's position as the commander, let him lead the old department, responsible for guarding the governor's yamen, and ordered people to open the large and small south gates to welcome the army into the city. But the army did not enter the city, and the Wing King did not come, only Lai Hanying, the fourth commander of the palace who presided over the siege, entered the city with thousands of people. During this period, Wang Jingyuan looked at the imprisoned Jiang Wan, his hair was messy, and he lost the vitality and vitality that a girl should have, maybe he was also an enemy. Anqing, as the capital of Anhui Province, is naturally rich in seizures, but it has nothing to do with Wang Jingyuan. As soon as the army entered the city, the Micha who took care of the governor's family was taken away, the Taiping army veterans took over the task, and Jing Yuan left with a hint of guilt.

Zeng Chunfa was promoted to the general system of Mu Er because of his merits and led the headquarters to be responsible for the security of the city, and Jingyuan temporarily belonged to him and was sent to guard the west gate. Huang Wenjin, the guard of the Eastern King, occupied the Yamen of the Domain, and found a large amount of gold and silver, Wu Ruxiao, the general of Muyi, was responsible for receiving the cannon gunpowder in the city, and the other generals had their own divisions, and paid a total of 300,000 taels of silver, 40,000 strings of money, 30,000 stones of rice and grain, 180 bronze cannons, and countless gunpowder cannons. Lai Hanying ordered all the baggage to be carried to the ship, and thousands of people lined up in a long line to go back and forth inside and outside the city gate, and in less than a few hours the baggage was carried away.

Now that there are Taiping troops inside and outside, guarding the city gate is undoubtedly just a formality, and the whole army is busy carrying baggage, how can you notice Jing Yuan, a newly attached person. At nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, a group of Taiping soldiers and horses appeared in the southwest direction, with nearly seven or eight thousand people, and Jing Yuan immediately reported to Zeng Chunfa, who sent people to welcome this force into the city. First, there were more than ten generals with red coats and black boots, and then half were Taiping soldiers and half were ordinary people. Jing Yuan looked at the people carefully, they were all young men and women, presumably the generals from the regimental camp in the city welcomed Lai Hanying's temporary residence, that is, the governor's yamen, and the rest were all placed in the southwest of the city.

"Captain, when did you say they would give out clothes? How glamorous their clothes are! Look at our rags. Yuan Hongmo shouted.

"Yes, commander, there are more than 20 armies in the Taiping Army, all of which are led by the commander-in-chief, the supervising army and the military commander, and we don't know which military commander belongs to it." Lu Yaoling is quite meaningful.

"I'm talking about clothes! Where are you going! ”

"My silly big brother, it's time for you to go to school! We are now the Taiping Army, and if we are not incorporated into the commander-in-chief, not only will we have no clothes, but we will not be given food. Xie Zhenke said helplessly.

Jing Yuan has already thought about these problems, since he opened the West Gate to welcome Zeng Chunfa into the city, he has been working under him, presumably it will be his subordinates in the future, as for this clothes, and weapons, there will definitely be them at that time, I haven't heard that the Taiping Army does not give weapons in war.

"Huang Jingyuan! This good person has something to declare! Zeng Chunfa's Hunan interpreter ran out of nowhere and shouted.

Yuan Hongmo heard him shouting the name of the chief soldier indiscriminately, and said angrily: "Huang Jingyuan? Elder Pawn, he changed your last name! ”

"He is also called an adult, and an adult is called a teacher or above, and he is not allowed to call the commander 'adult'"

"My lord, they just joined the Taiping Army and don't understand the rules, I hope you will forgive me." Jing Yuan didn't want to have any unpleasantness with such an unknown figure, so he hurriedly apologized.

"It's okay to call me 'good man', God stipulates that anyone with the surname 'Wang' should avoid changing their surname to 'Huang' or 'Wang', if you don't have the surname 'Huang', your surname will be 'Wang'!" The interpreter sneered.

"Your father's surname is Wang Ba!" Jing Yuan was mentally slandered, but he knew that the Taiping Army had many rules, and he complimented him infinitely: "The surname is 'Huang', my lord...... What is the matter with the good men here? ”

"Benshan people are here to tell you that according to the order of Lord Zeng of the Second General System of Mu Zheng, you have been transferred to the Left Second Army under the command of Lord Lin of Mu Zhengmu Second and Second Supervisors! Hurry up and report to Xicheng, here Benshan people have taken over. ”

Zeng Chunfa was promoted, Jing Yuan knew about it, but he didn't know who this Lin Supervisor was, so he hurriedly asked, "Dare to ask the name of Lord Lin?" ”

"The prison lord's name is Lin Shaozhang! Now he is also a person who has a name in His Royal Highness the East King Nine Thousand Years Old, so you can wait for a good life! ”

"Lin Shaozhang! The big straw bag that failed miserably in Hunan and was later named the king of Zhang! Jing Yuan was stunned when he heard this, Lin Shaozhang is a famous straw bag, since his defeat in Xiangtan, the Taiping army has never attacked the lair of the Hunan army, and now he is assigned to his subordinates, isn't it a tragedy! I want to think so, but how dare I shirk, I can only resign myself to fate!

Lin Shaozhang is not as bad as Jing Yuan thought in his heart, Mr. Luo Ergang commented that he is knowledgeable and talented, but he is not a general. However, now his leading troops are still quite good in the battle, not long ago he also made a contribution to the attack on the Yueyang campaign, was promoted to the supervision of the army, and led the second army on the left, and the troops who entered the city from the southwest were led by him, and the Taiping army also sent Lin Shaozhang to lead the division to capture Wangjiang before attacking Anqing. Lin Shaozhang plundered Wangjiang and forced all the young men and women in the city to camp. The regimental camp is the rule of the Taiping army, since the Jintian regimental camp, all the places occupied have regimental camps, but it is not like in Jintian, the old and the young are both old and young, in these places only the young and strong, Wuchang has accounted for two-tenths of the city's young and strong people are coerced.

Lin Shaozhang's camp is located in the Anqing Xue Palace, and there are soldiers with yellow edges and red vests everywhere, and the buildings in the palace have long been destroyed beyond recognition.

"Alas! I said you can't go, adults are still waiting! The captain of the overseer who led the way shouted.

Jing Yuan shook his head regretfully, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believed in worshipping God, and Confucianism was the target of attack from beginning to end, and its destruction of Confucian culture was not much different from the special period of later generations. The Captain of the Overseer led him all the way to the Dacheng Hall. As soon as Jing Yuan stepped into the door, he saw two classes of generals in the main hall, and a young commander in the middle was sitting on the Taishi chair, which was the red-coated general he saw in the afternoon, and now he took a closer look, he was in his thirties, with a long face and a wide forehead, and a white face and a slight beard, not as rough as a soldier. Lin Shaozhang saw Jing Yuan looking at himself, his eyebrows widened, Jing Yuan hurriedly kowtowed and bowed: "Humble king...... Huang Jingyuan, meet the Prison Guard! "I didn't expect to say the wrong name, and I blamed Sect Master Hong for what he was evasive, so that he sold his ancestors.

"You're the prisoner who opened the gates? That's amazing! Lin Shaozhang didn't blame Jing Yuan, but joked with a pleasant face, and his words were quite similar to the language of the north.

Jing Yuan found that this big straw bag was quite kind, and his nervousness was suddenly relieved, and he replied: "My lord has won the award!" The Taiping army relieved the people upside down, and the people flowed from it, and we just responded to the time. ”

"I didn't expect you to be a scholar, but did you pass the exam?"

"Back to my lord, I studied in a private school for a few years when I was a child, and I never took the exam." Jin Shi lifts people, Jing Yuan has never been hit, but he can read the sage book for more than ten years in later generations!

"It's enough to know a few words, the king said that if you read too many books, you will become a demon! You have to remember! Lin Shaozhang was extremely sure.

What is the truth of this, Sect Master Hong is talking nonsense, Jing Yuan is not used to seeing it in his heart, but he is still very respectful on his face, "I understand my humble position!" Remember! ”

"Peng Yisong!" Lin Shaozhang shouted towards the outside of the hall.

"Humble duty!" A big man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist immediately walked in from outside the door and replied in a thick Hunan dialect.

"He will be assigned to your division, add some men and horses to him, make up the number of pawns, and then register and make a book."

"Humble command!" After receiving the order, the commander named Peng Yisong turned to Jing Yuan and said, "You go with me!" ”

When Jing Yuan heard that there was finally an establishment, he was overjoyed and immediately retired to Lin Shaozhang. Jing Yuan really didn't have any impression of this general named Peng Yisong, maybe he died in battle early, and Jing Yuan didn't study it deeply. Peng Yisong's temporary camp is also next to the school palace, which was originally the Anqing Trial Hospital, but now the plaque on the gate has already been smashed, and the stone statue of Kong Sheng has been pushed to the ground, with missing arms and legs. Peng Yisong returned to the camp and drew a team of two Sima from his subordinates, all of whom were veterans of Liangguang, and gave Jing Yuan a full pawn of one hundred and four people.

Peng Yisong simply understood the situation of Jing Yuan's subordinates, and gave his subordinate positions without consulting him, Yuan Hongmo was the two Simas in the East, Hu Yongxiang was the two Simas in the South, Xie Zhenke was the two Simas in the North, and Lu Yaoling was only appointed as the chief secretary of the two Simas because he was over fifty years old. and gave two other important positions to his former subordinates, a Hunan man named Zhong Liangxiang was appointed as the deputy chief of the guard, and Ren Guixin, a Guangxi man, became the Western Sima. Although Jing Yuan is not satisfied with other people's criticism of his troops, he can only pretend to be a grandson at present.

But fortunately, the veterans sent by Peng Shishuai are not general, deputy commander Zhong Liangxiang, a native of Hanyang, Hubei, was originally a general of the Qing army, after the Taiping army withdrew from Changsha, Xiang Rong selected a strong tail to chase, and he was selected. However, Major General Xiang Rongbing was defeated at the foot of Wuchang City, and he and more than 1,000 Xiangyong were captured. After being captured, he felt that the Taiping army treated the captives well and sincerely surrendered, because he was quite literate and could charge into battle, and was soon appointed as the commander of the same position. Originally, Jing Yuan thought that it would be enough to get a treasure, but he didn't expect to see Ren Guixin, who was tall and strong, extremely burly, a good fighter, or an old brother of Liangguang who participated in the Jintian Uprising, but he was born in the Heaven and Earth Society, and then offended the division commander, so he was suppressed by the brigade commander into two Sima.