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Since the end of 1853, Zhang Lexing accepted Lai Hanying's proposal, and began to turn the small twists that had been scattered everywhere into large twists, and then elected the general leader of the whole twist from the large twists. After half a year of preparation, the Twist Party gathered at the Pheasant River, sacrificed to heaven and earth, announced an uprising, and gave up the name of "Great Han" that had been imagined before, and officially accepted the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Anhui Provincial Self-Defense Army, and Zhang Lexing was publicly elected as the commander-in-chief of the Self-Defense Army.

The Anhui Provincial Self-Defense Army is divided into five flags, Zhang Lexing himself is the general leader of the Yellow Flag, Gong Deshu is the general leader of the White Flag, Hou Wei is the general leader of the Red Flag, Wang Guansan is the general leader of the Black Flag, and Han Wan is the general leader of the Blue Flag. Under the five flags, there are five sides each, and each side has a leader sub-unit, with a few thousand people in each banner, tens of thousands of people in the big ones, and nearly 100,000 people in all.

Judging from the marching discipline announced by Zhang Lexing at the beginning for all flags to observe, this army itself is different from other nomadic armies:

1. Wherever the soldiers arrived, they beheaded the adulterous women.

2. Rape of a young child and beheading.

3. Those who kidnap women and children and hide them and do not give them will be beheaded.

Fourth, those who do not obey the order and restrain will be beheaded.

Fifth, the pawn is unreasonably armed and dares to refuse the leader's beheading.

Sixth, when he was in battle, he deliberately leaked it, fetched food, went to the countryside to look for property without permission, and beheaded those who were adulterous women.

Seventh, those who collect grain without an order will be beheaded.

8. Those who flee without permission when facing the enemy will be beheaded.

9. Get up and listen to the three horns and cannons; Those who do not fire the cannon and go first [are] beheaded, and those who fire the cannon and then go are beheaded.

10. Those who set fire to the camp without permission will be beheaded.

11. Those who deliberately go down the road when traveling.

12. The artillery wagons of each detachment on the road, and the staff of the first and then the second is forty. 1. Set up camp, change the outside and the door, and take turns in shifts; Forty rods for those who make mistakes.

13. Those who injure people's lives without reason in the camp will be killed once.

14. Staying at a friend's house, not eating food in this house, taking one thing in vain, and forty rods.

15. Those who privately spread rumors will be beheaded.

16. False reporting of military information, and discretionary convictions.

XVII. Those who defend the camp and act recklessly.

18. Guns and medicines for winning battles shall be distributed for public use; Those who take it for themselves shall be convicted according to the law.

After the formation of the army, although the Self-Defense Forces have firmly adhered to the idea of independence from the beginning to the end, the Self-Defense Forces have not been able to actively cooperate with the Celestial Forces in combat. In the vast area north of the Huai River, Zhang Lexing not only adopted a proactive strategy, thus holding back a large number of Manchu troops, but also favorably supported the development and consolidation of Lai Hanying's base areas south of the Huai River.

After the Celestial Army suffered a heavy setback in Shouchun, Wei Changhui gave up the struggle for the initiative on the battlefield and blindly hoped to recuperate in order to make a comeback in the future, and regarded the activities of the Self-Defense Army in Huaibei as a rare opportunity for himself to rest and recuperate, and at the same time he was worried about completely bringing this army under his command. When the Self-Defense Army still refused to cross the Huai River to the south, Wei Changhui simply used the inability to look at the self-defense army as an excuse to watch the gradually inferior Self-Defense Army fight hard under the encirclement and suppression of a large number of Manchu troops.

In a year's time, Wei Changhui's Pingwan army regained its vitality and had 150,000 people, but the self-defense army had nearly 200,000 horses when it was prosperous, and only more than 10,000 people remained, and Wang Guansan, Han Wan and other general leaders were also killed one after another. Faced with the Manchu Qing army, which began to enter the Huaibei battlefield, they had to retreat across the Huai River.

Despite this, the Celestial Empire gave them a high rating. Zhang Lexing was summoned by the King of Heaven and the King of the East in Tianjing, and also met King Ning, who was known as the god of heaven, and witnessed the earth-shaking changes in Tianjing. Both the King of Heaven and the King of the East praised their contributions to the Celestial Empire, and the King of the East repeatedly said that the Self-Defense Army was the son of the people of Anhui Province and the hope of the people of Anhui Province. In order to train reserve generals for the Self-Defense Army, Dongwang also specially gave him dozens of places for the Red Army University to study soldiers, and repeatedly instructed him to send the most loyal, reliable, and outstanding young generals to study at the Red Army University.

The Celestial Empire did not treat the Self-Defense Forces as outsiders.

However, the situation in Luzhou caused the panic in the Self-Defense Army to have the upper hand in the Celestial Empire. This tired division, which had been fighting for a long time after hardships, was not placed in the rear for necessary reorganization, but was always arranged on the front line of the periphery of Luzhou, and took on the heavy task of fighting the Qing army again. Liu Naixin, chief of staff of the Pingwan Army, repeatedly approached Zhang Lexing to persuade him privately, persuading Zhang Lexing to give up the name of the Anhui Provincial Self-Defense Army, and said in a beautiful name that only in this way would the people in the base areas be willing to serve them, otherwise, they would not be able to replenish their troops.

Obviously, the king of the north wants to annex their armed forces, which have always been independent, and break the previous pattern of listening to tunes and not listening to announcements. As the commander of the Self-Defense Army, Zhang Lexing has had an account in his heart since the beginning of the alliance. At the beginning, since he gave up the title of "Great Han" expected by the banner owners and accepted the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, sooner or later, he would have to fully integrate into the Celestial Empire. Whether or not to withdraw the name of the Self-Defense Army now is completely ambiguous for him. Even if he kept it, he would not continue as before. In Tianjing, he saw hope for the future, and without the systematic and meticulous political strategy of the Celestial Empire, it would not have been possible to overthrow the Manchu regime, which had had been rooted for nearly 200 years, with a single armed force.

However, he knows better that as these armies under his command, they have not completely gotten rid of the kind of thinking they used to think when they were twisted, and even when the men and horses were at their peak, they still maintained the consistent style of "living for the people, and going out for twisting". Erratic guerrilla warfare is their specialty.

Now, the soldiers who were already homesick are being treated like a stepmother again, Zhang Lexing can bear it, but the soldiers under him are complaining. Go, a kind of thought that would rather die in battle than stay and suffer this nest of anger has gained the upper hand in the self-defense army that has not yet stabilized.

In the face of this grim situation, Zhang Lexing's original incomprehensible idea of abolishing the Self-Defense Army disappeared. If we want to really achieve a great cause, we cannot keep the current self-defense army, and this kind of army, which is more important to loving the hometown than loving the great cause, will not be able to become an atmosphere if it stays. Many people nominally love their hometown, but in fact, it is still personal hedonism that plays a role in their heads. He first found Gong Deshu.

Gong Deshu, the leader of the White Flag, who was born poor and knew a little about book history, was born with a pair of photophobic eyes, and always squinted during the day, so people gave him the nickname "Gong Blind". Don't underestimate this "blind Gong", he is not only resourceful, perhaps because of the defects of his eyes during the day, at night, his eyes are also extraordinarily sharp, and stealing camps and robbing villages is his forte. After the final loss of the old base of Pheasant River Collection, Zhang Lexing accepted his construction, led the remnants of the Self-Defense Army all the way non-stop, flickering east and west, breaking through the blockade of the Qing army on all sides, and dragging Chong'an, the general soldier of Hebei Town of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who was chasing after him, until he reached the Zhangou on the bank of the Xiqi River.

The arrogant Chong'an chased for more than ten days, the soldiers were sleepy, and Zhang Lexing, who thought that there was a big river in front of him and there were chasing soldiers after the soldiers, had already reached a desperate situation, as long as he had a good night's rest, he could completely solve the big trouble of the court in Huaibei in front of him. Who would have thought that in his eyes, he had not stopped for more than ten days, and he was a self-defense army that blindly ran away, but at night the soldiers killed him in four ways. The self-defense army surrounded Chong'an's defenseless 5,000 men and horses from all sides, and the sky was not bright, except for a small number of Qing troops who fled with their lives without a trace, most of the Qing army, including Chong'an, was annihilated, and the self-defense army achieved a rare huge victory under the declining situation, which boosted the morale of the army. It also created a great opportunity for the Self-Defense Army to go south.

Gong Deshu was not only a military genius, but also quite a political visionary. As early as the beginning of the uprising, he insisted on completely attaching to and accepting the proposition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was a rare and excellent assistant to Zhang Lexing, and it was also a backbone that he could not lack once he had uncertain problems.

Gong Deshu also feels the same way about Zhang Lexing's worries and thoughts.

"Marshal, it won't work if you don't seriously rectify the current army." Gong Deshu watched the guards who came to pour tea exit the door, and said with the same concern, "The problem now is no longer a problem of people leaving in a hurry. ”

"What, do you have any other news?" The cup that Zhang Lexing brought to his lips stopped.

"Yes." Gong Deshu nodded affirmatively, "Recently, General Li Zhaoshou, who just arrived in Chuzhou to guard, and Liu Yongjing of the Blue Banner and others have been in a hot place, and it is said that they are planning some ulterior secret activities. ”

"This ......" Zhang Lexing's hand holding the cup shook subconsciously, and the hot water overflowing from the cup made him feel excited. He knows the new leader of the Blue Banner Liu Yongjing, who is nicknamed the hungry wolf, is a person who likes to be the king and enjoy the wealth, and there is such a folk song in his hometown Shunheji, which is enough to explain this person's qiē: "The hungry wolf races the imperial court, and all wins and guards the dragon." Miss Cai of the East Palace, Dai Xiuying, and Dai Xiuying, the mother of the West Palace. At the moment, among the people who are noisily leaving in the flags, it is precisely Liu Yongjing and others who are the most happy. The Blue Banner was, and still is, the most powerful force in the Self-Defense Forces. Badouling is the defense ground of the blue flag and the white flag, and among the nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses, 4,000 people are all subordinates of the blue flag. Once they make a move, it will not only affect the defense of the Badouling area, but also bring a fatal blow to the Self-Defense Army.

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