"Hey...... These guys are really fast, and the walls that have collapsed have been repaired? ”

Even in Guangdong, in the early morning of December, the cold wind blows on the face, and the coolness is still seeping. Meng Songjiang, the commander of the rear battalion of the Eagle Yang Army, shrunk his neck and rubbed his hands while looking at the city wall in front of him.

"Commander, more than half a year has passed, and if we establish a country, no one is allowed to build the city wall......"

Cai Fei, the commander of the rear battalion armor wing, muttered on the side.

In front of the two is Yong'an County, in the past, the city wall was used as a target drill by Wang Tanghe, and it collapsed several times, but now it has been roughly repaired, and the traces between the old and new city walls are clearly visible. The figures at the head of the city were longing, running back and forth, looking extremely panicked.

"Don't call me a conductor! Call me Captain Left! ”

Meng Songjiang solemnly reminded his subordinates, Cai Fei pursed his lips, reluctantly bowed his hand to his boss, and shouted again in a lengthened tone.

After the establishment of the military system, the military positions and ranks corresponding to the people were also determined. In terms of military positions, wings, sentinels, and purpose officers are directly crowned as "chiefs", while the battalion is the commander, the army is the commander, and the army is under the command of the capital.

It's just a military position, and you have to have a military rank. Regarding the civil and military titles, and even the knighthoods that are further behind, Duan Hongshi, Fan Jin, Su Wencai and others have already come up with a whole set of things, but now the foundation is grass-roots, just a Heavenly King's Mansion, and there is no need to issue knighthoods.

Even if it is a military rank, it is not all thrown out, and it also seems very concise, and the officers at all levels below the army level are three levels: lieutenant, lieutenant, and captain, and each level is divided into two small ranks, left and right. Above the army level are lieutenant generals and miscellaneous generals, which are the promulgated rank lists. Although I didn't see what was behind, this set of ranks was close to the Han system, and everyone speculated that there must be four An, Siping, and four Zheng generals in the back, as well as four generals in the front and back and left and right and so on.

The foundation was founded, and now the whole army is a high rank and low rank, there are no generals, even the rank of Zhonglang General is only Fan Jin alone, Jia Hao and Wu Ya's two army commanders are only the left captain, and Meng Songjiang, the battalion commander, is only the left lieutenant, Cai Fei is a left lieutenant, the sentry commander under him is the right lieutenant, and the chief and deputy head are only "Xiaoshi", which is only the highest level in the soldiers.

According to the normal state in the rank list, the military command should be at the rank of lieutenant general, the battalion commander should be at the rank of lieutenant, the wing commander should be at the rank of lieutenant, and the commander of the sentry should be the lieutenant. Now let everyone go down to the next level, naturally leaving room for promotion.

But in the rear camp of the Yingyang Army, up to the commander Meng Songjiang, down to the ordinary soldiers, they still have their own understanding of this state, because they are the "rear" battalion, and their predecessor is the Foshan Wing that was connected in the Battle of Yong'an and the Battle of Shaozhou.

Meng Songjiang felt that his fate was twisted into a quagmire by the Foshan soldiers, as a disciple of Li Shi's "Song" generation, he could be a commander, and he was already outstanding among his peers, but he was still haunted by the "rear" label of his battalion. In his opinion, he can't compete with Fang Tangheng, the commander of the Qingpu battalion, after all, he is a senior brother of the senior generation, but he should always fight for the Songzi brothers of the left and right battalions, when he was the wing commander, Pang Songzhen of the left battalion and Li Songshen of the right battalion were still serving as small sentry commanders under Zhang Hanjin, not to mention An Wei of the front battalion, that kid was simply kicked at the back door...... "This battle can be a result!" The latter word can't be lost, and it's not bad to fight for the first lieutenant! ”

Looking at Yong'an County, which was putting on a sticky posture, Meng Songjiang's heart was burning.

"I have to let everyone see that our Foshan soldiers are by no means a bad breed! This battle is a great opportunity! ”

Cai Fei is also gearing up.

At the beginning of December, without waiting for the Qing court to gather troops to encircle him, Li Xi took the initiative to attack; although the troops had not yet been trained, the number of guns and artillery was insufficient, and the combat strength of the troops had declined seriously, he still had to take action before the Qing court's encirclement and suppression trend was formed, and even if it could not smash the Qing court's strategy of encirclement and suppression, it was necessary to create a favorable situation against encirclement and suppression.

The Yulin army went out of Lianzhou, the peak of the soldiers pointed directly at Wuzhou and even Hunan, the Longxiang army forced Gaozhou, and the Yingyang army pressed the remnants of the Guangdong Green Battalion gathered in Chaoshan to the east. This three-sided flowering is not only to expand the strategic space and clean up the remnants of the Qing army, but also to restore the prefectures and counties that have not yet been formally included in the jurisdiction.

Meng Songjiang got the task of controlling Yong'an and Heping to the north and pushing the line of control to the Guangdong-Jiangxi border.

"Our eight-pound cannon, it should be a bit difficult to deal with this city wall......"

The sentry commander of the rear battalion artillery post grimaced and expressed a tactful protest against the order given by Meng Songjiang.

The new eight-pound gun is a battalion artillery, and the wall thickness and the length of the gun body are deliberately reduced, so that the total weight is controlled at 500 catties, so that a mule and horse can pull and move flexibly, so the range and power of the artillery have also decreased a lot. It's not impossible to use it to bombard the city wall, but it's really a bit wishful thinking to blast out a few breakthroughs in one morning.

"Boom! I still have a way! ”

Meng Songjiang was determined, and with an order, eight eight-pound cannons were placed a mile away from the city wall, and Dong Dong began to work.

"Command...... Belch...... Captain! People outside the city said that Ba Xu had been promoted to an official and had been gone for two months, and a group of squires in the city said that we were thieves, and instigated the new magistrate to resist the city! ”

After a while, the sentinel came to report, Meng Songjiang took a breath, in the past, it was said that Yongan County Dianshi Ba Xuqi was an acquaintance, and he originally thought that he could persuade Yongan people through him, but now this plan is a chicken and egg fight.

"Captain, a veteran of Foshan Wing in the past, but he has specially practiced the ability to climb the city with ants on Lantau Island!"

Seeing the artillery fire blowing up clouds of smoke and dust on the city wall, but not seeing a large area of city bricks peeling off, Cai Fei said in his heart that this was a good opportunity to prove himself by relying on a tough battle, and resolutely asked for his life to attack the city.

"It's good ......"

Meng Songjiang groaned slightly, and nodded resolutely, in the eyes of outsiders, they all thought that their army only relied on sharp guns, and the veterans who came out of the two training camps on Cockscomb Mountain and Lantau Island knew it in their hearts, and they spent more than half of their time training them on how to win the face-to-face bloody battle, and now, let him Meng Songjiang show this ability!

The two of them were in high spirits, and they rushed to the front, and the knight led by them was still shouting: "Fang joins the army, please suspend the siege!" ”

Meng Songjiang and Cai Fei glanced at each other, and suddenly looked like a deflated ball, but they still let that guy catch up...... Fang joined the army was the industrial and commercial master Fang Hexin, who was beaten half to death by the same knowledge in the Fogang Hall, after the injury was healed, he didn't care about the previous experience at all, and continued to devote himself to work, and was favored by Li Xian, and was promoted to the army to join the army, handling military affairs as a civilian official, to put it bluntly, he played the role of supervising the army.

Fang and Xin only have the right of veto on big decisions, and have no right to interfere in small affairs. But this big decision cost Meng Cai and the others their lives, if he wanted to say that he couldn't fight first, they could only stare dryly, otherwise it would be a violation of discipline, so Meng Songjiang supervised his subordinates to hurry up and take Yong'an County before Fang Youxin could catch up with him.

"Master Fang, you're going to die."

Meng Songjiang said helplessly.

"The journey is still long, and it is worth it to live as a soldier, and it is worth it for me to go to this body with my house!"

Fang Youxin is also a scholar, and said righteously, making Meng Songjiang, Cai Fei and others roll their eyes, saying that you are fat, you will gasp...... "Our credit is gone......"

Watching Fang and Xin's carriage go away, Cai Fei wanted to cry without tears, Meng Songjiang sighed, he also wanted to get it, Fang and Xin went out, absolutely one against the two of them, because he had a top-secret weapon.

The shelling stopped, and a carriage came to the city with a white flag, saying that it was a messenger. The guards were bombarded, and they were already panicked, and they didn't dare to stop them, so they directly hung Fang Youxin alone with a hanging basket, and then the guards were stupid.

"What's the hair!? Quickly spread the word that the people who can be the masters of this city have come to see this official! ”

Fang and Xin shouted grinningly.

After a while, a seven-rank Qing official came over with a dozen or so squires, looking at the faces of these people, it seemed that they had just quarreled, and Fang Youxin seemed to be just right to relieve them.

After a while, several old men in the squire knelt down tremblingly, and shouted with tears while slamming their heads: "Old ...... The old man is waiting to kneel to welcome the heavenly official! Woohoo......"

The Qingguan blinked his eyes for a while, the corners of his eyes were wet, his knees were weak, and he knelt on the ground, choking in his mouth: "I don't want to say it today, I can actually see my Chinese appearance!" ”【1】

The big red scarlet robe, the cloud goose embroidered, and the pair of hard wings of the black gauze hat are swaying leisurely, in this era full of blue official uniforms, I can't move my eyes at a glance, plus the awe-inspiring temperament of Fang Youxin, it really overflows with the taste of a big country and an important minister.

"I heard that some people are bewitching the public, saying that my Chinese army is the army of the king, and this official is the military room and letter of the Heavenly King's Mansion, and I can't bear to see you being slaughtered by the sword soldiers, so I came here to let you see it, and let you know that the soldiers raised by the king of heaven will be restored to Huaxia and be distinguished. You can't continue to help the torture and resist the heavenly soldiers! ”

Fang Youxin said in a deep voice, Nazhi County and the squires glanced at each other, and then looked at the surrounding soldiers who also knelt on the ground, and each felt that there were steps, sighed, and knelt down again.

"I'm willing to ......"

Looking at the self-bound magistrate and a group of squires, Meng Songjiang said to Fang Hexin angrily: "Master Fang, don't expect the county town behind to be as smooth as this......

Fang Yuxin shrugged: "A little less hard work is even a point......

Meng Songjiang choked up in his heart and said, this is less hardship and tiredness, it is simply less credit!

Fang Youxin then sighed: "The remote land in eastern Guangdong, in the past, it was said that there was less poison from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were many elders left, and the love for the previous dynasty and my Huaxia is still there, our road is easy, but the road to the west is troublesome." ”

Meng Songjiang frowned: "West? ”

Fang Youxin nodded: "West, Xinhui ......"

In Xinhui County, Zheng Wei, the former battalion commander of the Longxiang Army, was so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded, "Do these bastards want to send them to death!?" ”

The end of the cannon sound was still in mid-air, and a large group of women and children were pouring out of the city, one by one standing under the city, trying to rely on their own flesh and blood to block the shells, and it was these women and children who made the shelling of the British and Chinese officers and soldiers stop abruptly.

"This is Xinhui, they are Xinhui people......"

Zheng Yong, the deputy commander of the Long Xiang Army and the commander of the former battalion, narrowed his eyes, and the memories of the older generation flowed into his mind.

"We still have to fight not only against the Tartars, but also against the hearts of the people who are pressed down by the Tartars."

He shook his head with mixed feelings, for more than 60 years, he didn't expect Xinhui people to be so "martyred".

(To be continued)