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Wuhe County, Fengyang Province.

Early in the morning, a team of chariots and horses outside the east gate slowly drove out of the city gate. Yue Wenhai sat in a carriage at the head of the handle, lifted the curtain and took one last look at his hometown. "I don't know if the old man will have a day to return to his hometown...... "He is almost fifty years old, and he is about to reach the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, but he was forced to live in Lingnan, traveling thousands of miles, how miserable his heart is.

Mrs. Yue on the side looked at the bitter look on her master's face, and she felt very uncomfortable. Since the Chen family rebelled in Lushan, as the noise in the General's Mansion became louder and louder, Yue Wenhai's life became more and more difficult. Who made him a two-term magistrate in Lushan? Last winter, Yue Wenhai was directly put into the prison of the Yamen of Shandong. Fortunately, the official was a good official, and the Yue family really had no close personal contact with the Chen family, Yue Wenhai lost his official position, but saved his life. The family then returned to their hometown of Wuhe County in Anhui Province. As a result, it was only after two months that the Mixed Yuan Sect raised troops at the junction of eastern Henan and northern Anhui, and this northern Anhui could not live in peace.

The Yue family is a pond fish that has been affected!

Yue Wenhai subconsciously felt that northern Anhui was not safe, he looked around, Henan and Anhui were all places of right and wrong, Huguang could not stay for a long time, Jiangnan had become a den of tigers and wolves, only Hebei and Shandong were considered stable, but Yue Wenhai had been an official in Shandong, and he knew that Shandong was only calm on the surface. Now that the momentum of the anti-army is getting stronger and stronger, he is not optimistic about the long-term peace and stability of Shandong. And Hebei, hehe, it's better to stay away from right and wrong.

Yue Wenhai set his target in Guangdong, he has a friend who is an official in Guangdong, and the official road is smoother than him, and he is already a general judge in a government. The family went to Guangdong, and they didn't plan anything, just for peace. The signboard of the general judgment is enough!

Yue Wenhai's destination to the east is Haizhou [Lianyungang], where there are sea boats to Songjiang, and it is very simple to change ships to go south when they arrive in Songjiang.

As an old man who is nearly half a hundred years old, as a pure insider, a northerner who has not crossed the Yangtze River in his previous decades, Yue Wenhai, who can't even swim, is extremely afraid of the sea, and he is also extremely afraid of the climate in Lingnan. Although the current Lingnan is no longer the miasma of the Tang and Song dynasties [Northern Song Dynasty].

In fact, there are not many official gentry families in Wuhe County and the Yue family who have begun to move, but most of them have gone to Fengyang Mansion City. It is a small number of people who want to move to other places, and if Yue Wenhai goes thousands of miles like this, there are very few.

Since the rebel army of the Mixed Yuan Sect broke the capital city of Yingzhou, and the leader of the thieves, Fan Mingde, joined Liu Song and Yang Ji, the two thieves, there were already 5,000 people in their sect, and they took grain to lure the poor peasants who could not eat enough, and the number of troops exceeded 10,000 in just a few days. Now its soldiers are attacking Suzhou, Fengyang is shaking, and the people are panicking, where in this world is there still the scene of peace in the prosperous era three or five years ago.

Yue Wenhai was born in Jinshi, has read books, and knows the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. That historical scene is too similar to the world today. All of them were in the heyday of the dynasty, and they were all emperors who were very happy, favored their relatives, spent extravagantly, and frequently used troops outside......

Yue Wenhai compared Li Longji with Qianlong in this way, in fact, the situation in the Tang Dynasty during the Anshi Rebellion was absolutely different from the current situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But when people are 'forced' to a certain extent, they tend to 'ignore' many small details, and only insert and contrast things towards the big rhythm.

Yue Wenhai still does not believe that the Fu Han army can successfully oppose the Qing and the Han Dynasty, but he believes that this 'uprising' is the 'Anshi Rebellion' of the Qing Dynasty, and it is the dividing point of the Qing Dynasty from prosperity to decline.

"Who would have thought that a father and son who were respectful in front of him two years ago would now become the giant thief chief of the troubled country?" Yue Wenhai could still remember Chen Hui and Chen Ming in his mind. The latter is still only a young man under twenty, but he has won many battles, and has destroyed many commanders and towns in the Qing Dynasty and sealed the territory......

"The world's famous generals?? Absurd, real absurd! ”

……

At the same time, Lushan.

Li Xiaomei held Xiao Chen Ding and fiddled with a team of small toys carved from jade, gold and silver upside down on the bed. Among them, there are the trophies that Chen Ming collected all the way down to the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the skilled craftsmen in the city who recruited after he conquered Nanjing City, and quietly carved them. The value is definitely not expensive, just that small box, 100,000 taels of silver dare not guarantee, 70,000 taels of silver is more than enough.

Together with this small box, there was another box that was sent to Li Xiaomei, which was full of jewelry that women liked.

The rubies the size of pigeon's eggs, bright and beautiful, with a strong red color, give people the feeling as if they were a burning fire, flowing blood; There are also blue sapphires like a pool of seawater, and even very rare red and blue semi-raw gems, which were carved into a pair of cross-necked mandarin ducks by skilled craftsmen; There are also pieces of coral agate jewelry, thumb-like pearls, and the best mutton fat white jade......

Each of them was personally selected by Chen Ming, and they all represented Chen Ming's heart. And there was also a letter in this little box with a lot of words. He asked for a little wife in Hubei, and this matter may not reach Li Xiaomei's ears. Chen Ming's letter is not a guarantee to Li Xiaomei, men are the sky these days. It was to soothe her heart.

The two small boxes were sent back to Lushan by the secret camp, and this was not the first time that Chen Ming had used the secret camp to send things to Lushan. Last year, when Xiao Chen Ding turned one year old, he asked the secret camp to send it to Lushan.

The expeditionary force led by Chen Ming and the base area seem to be separated by a long distance, but there is always a secret communication channel between the two sides.

The Fu Han Army is still a traditional army in essence, and its mental state is inferior to the 20,000 elites of the Taiping Army in the Northern Expedition. So how do you solve this problem?

Letters from home. Communicate family letters on both sides. Most of the veterans in Chen Ming's team are from Ruzhou and Nanyang.

The beacon fire lasted for three months, and the family letter was worth 10,000 dollars. During the exhausting campaign, the arrival of a letter from home will bring immeasurable encouragement to the soldiers.

Chen Ming didn't dare to say that the general's mansion could take care of all the soldiers' families in place, but every soldier had a settling-in allowance after joining the army, as well as a foundation for military merits, and even some soldiers left their military salaries to their families.

And the family letter will spread, and its impact is not only on the soldiers who received the family letter, but also on the veterans who did not receive the number of families, as well as the recruits and prisoners who joined along the way, etc., in the face of the 'beauty' depicted in the family letter, will they not reverie? This has a huge boost to the morale of the entire army.

Also, not everyone can send the letter to the family of the Fu Han Army at any time. Each team sends a letter once a month, and there is only one guaranteed place in a team of 100 people, and the rest depends on the performance of this team. The maximum number of places is five. To a certain extent, this also motivates soldiers to fight bravely.

As for how to send hundreds of letters back to the base area, they were divided into a dozen or twenty or thirty people and set off in batches, and letters were not a heavy thing, so that the huge investment of the Han army in the dark camp could not be guaranteed, and if it was not possible to ensure that most of the letters in each batch arrived safely at the base area, Chen Guang and Chen Liang could also go back to their hometowns to rest.

Chen Ming sent something to his wife and children in the base area, which was a very common thing.

In 18th century China, after marriage, women were completely dependent on men, and Li Xiaomei was very happy after receiving the small box sent by Chen Ming. Chen Ming asked people thousands of miles away to send things to her mother, which is the most direct manifestation of hanging her mother and mother in her heart. What made Li Xiaomei feel happiest was the letter inside, and all of a sudden all the sour water she had accumulated in her heart during these days was gone.

Looking at Xiao Chen Dingle fiddling with delicate little toys, the expression on Li Xiaomei's face was very happy and happy.

……

On the battlefield of Yuncheng, Chen Erbao appeared in front of the Qing soldiers with the main force of the Fu Han army. Chen Huizu was in a hurry in Chenzhou, and the troops on the front line of Yuncheng could not retreat at all, they were under strong pressure, and once they retreated, the whole army would collapse.

There will never be a shortage of cannons in the base, although gunpowder is still difficult, most of the sulfur and saltpeter are transported by the Deng family of Yuzhou Yuanjiao, and a small part of the general's mansion produces it by itself, just like the burning pyrite sulfur, the general's mansion has been doing it since it got the process. It's just that there is a problem with the yield.

But at the moment, the battle of Yuncheng is very important, and Chen Erbao definitely has no shortage of ammunition at hand. The Fu Han army was menacing.

Chen Huizu could only watch Liu Song and Yang Ji walk out of Chenzhou Mansion with Shi Shiran, a member of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and enter the Anhui territory.

May is coming, and the summer harvest is just around the corner. The patience of the common people has gradually come to the critical point of the outbreak, in these places where there is a shortage of food in eastern Henan and northern Anhui, vicious incidents of looting and murder occur frequently during these days, and no one dares to go out alone at night. The doors of every house are closed, and there are kitchen knives next to the bed. It's all caused by the word 'hunger'.

Now the Mixed Yuan Sect is raising its flag in Yingzhou, Chenzhou, gathering thousands of sect members and thousands of victims in a few days, isn't that the case?

Now Liu Song and others are leading the army to besiege Suzhou in Fengyang Prefecture, and there are people from the surrounding areas rushing to it every day, and they are already known to the outside world as 50,000 people.

The uprising of the Mixed Yuan Sect could be described as sudden for the Qing court. The local governments of Chenzhou and Yingzhou were not aware of it at all, and the Qing court's eyes were completely on the Fu Han army, as a result, Luyi and Yingzhou suffered heavy losses, and a large amount of grain and straw stored by Chenzhou for the army was burned. This made the Qing court and the local government have an atmosphere and shame that they have been exploited by the Mixed Yuan Sect.

After receiving the news, Chen Huizu quickly rushed to the capital city of Chenzhou, but he only brought a hundred and ten personal guards, not a large army. Because the Fu Han army on the front line of Yuncheng suddenly counterattacked, it was very violent and violent, exerting huge pressure on the Qing army on the opposite side. This Qing army, which was closest to the Mixed Yuan Sect Army, could only bear the fierce attack of more than half of the Fu Han Army while watching the Mixed Yuan Sect Army walk out of Henan. When the two rebel armies converged in Yingzhou Mansion, and when a large number of poor people in northern Anhui converged into the rebel army, the team led by Liu Song and the three of them expanded rapidly like blowing up balloons.

At the earliest, when he was in Yingzhou Mansion, he only called 10,000 people, but after he walked out of Yingzhou and entered Fengyang, it became 20,000 people, and the army marched to the city of Suzhou, and the team rose by 10,000. When the Mixed Yuan Sect Army stopped under the city of Suzhou for a few days, Liu Song publicized 50,000 people to the outside world.

shocked the people of the General's Mansion and others. Are there so many people in northern Anhui who participate in the Mixed Yuan Sect? In other words, the impression of the White Lotus Sect in the hearts of ordinary people is not very good? The Ming and Qing dynasties continued to demonize it, and the White Lotus Sect was a rebel professional household in the hearts of many people and gentry, and it was never successful.

"Perhaps, ......, the situation in northern Anhui has really reached the point where it is on the verge of breaking out." Chen Hui was pleased to see that the Mixed Yuan Sect Army was growing rapidly at an unexpected speed. Their presence immediately relieved considerable pressure on the General's Mansion, and in the entire Eastern Front battlefield, except for the Yuncheng battlefield, the Qing army horse team was not transferred, and the Xuzhou battlefield, at least 3,000 Northeast horse teams and Mongolian horse teams were withdrawn, and there were also some green battalions, and the garrisons of Guide and Kaifeng were also mobilized, and the target of these Qing soldiers was obviously Suzhou.

Lushan and Suzhou are separated by thousands of miles, and how Liu Song, Yang Ji, and Fan Mingde will decide, the general's mansion cannot interfere. What Chen Hui has to do now is to take advantage of the great opportunity to give the Qing army a heavy blow.

"What did the Left Deputy Governor say?"

"Didn't say the time?"

"I asked him to give me a moment. When will you win the battle for me? ”

The map hanging on the wall on Chen Hui's right hand is the map of the Yuncheng battlefield, where there are 3,000 guards, and now there are 20,000 more people brought by Chen Erbao, and the red arrows representing the direction of the Fu Han army are densely packed. And the Qing army units represented by black have been fully turned to the defensive. The Fu Han Army there can be said to be the largest mobile corps under Chen Hui.

"Send a message to Chen Erbao again......"

"No, no. Don't ask. Chen Hui stopped suddenly, his face still full of anxiety, but he forcibly resisted his impulse. Because just now he remembered several 'exhortations' written in Chen Ming's letter to him, and the first one in the list was 'Don't command remotely', Chen Hui, who was sitting in General Lushan's mansion, did not know the specific situation of the front line, and the more the time came to the war, the more patient he became, don't put too much pressure on the commanders of the troops on the front line, and don't give the commanders of the front line rigid goals and orders.

Chen Ming couldn't give his father the great achievements of Chang Kaishen, but the defeat of Ge Shuhan in guarding Tongguan during the Anshi Rebellion was recorded in the history books, although there were various complex reasons here, Li Longji forced Ge Shuhan to attack but it was also the biggest reason.

After Chen Hui received Chen Ming's letter, he also specially found two editions of Tang books, the old and the new, and studied them fiercely for a while. Now he can press the anxiety in his heart, and he can still remember the persuasion in his mind, he can only say that after sitting in the position of general, Chen Hui's own quality has also improved.

Of course, Chen Hui held back his mouth, but in his heart, he still gave Chen Erbao's ability a big hello. After Chen Ming divided his troops in Xiangyang, the battalion officer-level generals left behind in the General's Mansion became the backbone generals in the war. After the great expansion of the strength of the Fu Han Army, these people were promoted to brigade commanders one by one, and were also awarded the rank of captain.

The latter, Chen Ming mentioned it very early, but at that time, there were few major generals in the Fu Han army, and he himself was embarrassed to really get the rank. However, after he left with his troops, the strength of the Fu Han army increased to 50,000.

The regular structure was upgraded from the initial battalion level to the brigade level, and the military rank system was also formally established.

It is called a soldier, a sergeant, a captain, a general, and a handsome, and it is divided into five levels.

Needless to say, first-class soldiers, second-class soldiers and third-class soldiers, it was easy for the common people in the Qing Dynasty at this time to understand this, because the Manchus themselves made first-class guards, second-class guards, third-class guards, and what kind of first-class public and first-class waiting.

When the military rank is established, it must be combined with some of the people's thinking and the current social environment, and some peculiar smells cannot be blindly eliminated.

In fact, it is natural for the soldiers of the Fu Han Army to accept the first and second class soldiers very quickly. And soon it was popularized and expanded, such as the medals in the army, which were slowly given the title of first-class merit, second-class merit, third-class merit, and fourth-class merit by the soldiers themselves, and no longer used gold medals and silver medals to describe them.

And the word 'soldier' is also easy to understand by officers and soldiers, soldiers. The same is divided into three levels, and the title is not called first and second, but 'upper, middle and lower'. In the explanation, the General's Mansion is interpreted as 'since ancient times', that is, the Chinese people have had such a name in the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago. One gentleman, one secretary, one doctor, one sergeant, one sergeant, and one corporal. And the upper, middle and lower levels are clear and clear, and there are no doubts.

As for the 'school captain', if you look at it according to the Western military rank system, it is a colonel-level officer, and it is the middle level of the army.

The setting of the General's Mansion is: plus captain, left lieutenant, and right lieutenant.

Chen Erbao's current military rank is the highest plus lieutenant among the school-level officers, and his 'number' is Yokono, Captain Yokono. Except for him, all the cadres in the General's Mansion are left captains and right captains, and it is easy to understand that the left is respectful.

In the entire Fu Han Army, the only one who was awarded the rank of 'general' was Chen Ming. This is also the lowest first class in the rank of generals.

Since his parents know their children best, Chen Hui swears to God that his precious son has never learned military writing and counseling. But in the process of the rise of the Fu Han army, Chen Ming became the embodiment of the god of war and won every battle. Even Chen Hui himself used the word 'born' to describe this matter, when Chen Ming was fighting the Battle of the Rolling River, the situation was more risky than the current Yuncheng battlefield, but Chen Hui felt that his heart was stable. He was just relieved that Chen Ming would not lose the battle. Unlike these 'captains' in the General's Mansion now, when fighting defensive operations, he can still wait with peace of mind; when fighting field and offensive battles, there is always chaos, and the battalion heads, which are as few as five or six, and as many as one or twenty battalions, they just can't go smoothly, and when they are in a hurry to dispatch troops, people look at them and tremble psychologically, and they are worried about it, and they can't let go of a hundred of them.

As an aside, Chen Ming has read books for so many years, watched TV movies, and played war games, and he is congenitally stronger than Chen Erbao and other natives. When the battalion leaders and teams stood still on the battlefield and raised the battle flag, Chen Ming looked at them as a combat unit. What kind of array should be discharged, how many units should be placed in the front, a few in the middle, and a few in the rear, how much space should be left in the transfer between the units, and how much space should be left between the units, so that they can not make mistakes in the rush and not block up when they are in an emergency transfer, Chen Ming in the 21st century can certainly get rid of Chen Erbao's three streets in terms of coordination.

If this thing wants to grow, it can only be through experience. Just like those founding generals of the Red Dynasty who didn't go to school [there will be resistance during the war and the like], isn't it just a war, and the officers under Chang Kaishen who are born in a professional class are not fighting on the battlefield?

In fact, Chen Erbao is also a pond fish that has been affected, and he has been affected by the glory of Chen Ming's victory in a hundred battles. (To be continued.) )