Wuchang Snake Mountain Yellow Crane Tower, this building since the Three Kingdoms era was built, ushered in many historical celebrities, literati and writers, but today there are a group of special guests here. It was summer, and the three towns of Wuhan were extremely hot everywhere, but the Yellow Crane Tower on the top of the Snake Mountain was close to the Yangtze River, and the wind blew in the Xixi River, so there was a trace of coolness.

A large number of Taiping soldiers wearing the old uniforms of the Taiping Army surrounded this place, three steps and a post, five steps and a sentry, the tourists who want to go up the mountain are politely persuaded to return, and the soldiers guarding the mountain only say that the Wing King has an important gathering in the Yellow Crane Tower today, and will come to play again another day.

The tourists only proudly went home, but no one complained about it, the winged king Shi Dakai subdued the three towns of Wuhan, where he was a military and political affairs large and small, and treated the common people very well, and everyone was respected, and I heard that the winged king had a conference to be held in the Yellow Crane Tower, which must be a major military event, and no one came to disturb it again.

Standing on the top floor of the Yellow Crane Tower, raise your eyes to look around, the field of vision is broad, here is nearly 90 meters above the river surface, the scenery on both sides of the river is in sight. In the corridor outside the hall on the top floor, Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was wearing a yellow horse coat, wearing a hood, and embroidered with the word "winged king", but it was still the royal costume before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"Father-in-law, are you missing Princess Huiqing and the children again?" A soft voice interrupted Shi Dakai's thoughts, and when he looked back, it was his daughter-in-law Han Baoying, only to see that she was wearing a heroic new military uniform of the Kingdom of Heaven, with a straight trouser line, a bronze epaulette on her shoulder, and three medals of different shapes on her chest were very eye-catching.

Shi Dakai was slightly stunned when he saw Han Baoying, he almost couldn't recognize this righteous girl after not seeing him for a few years. At this time, Han Baoying not only changed her clothes, but the most important thing was the change of temperament.

"Bao Ying. You've changed a lot. Shi Da laughed, the one who stopped his horse's head on the official road on the south bank of Hankou back then. The little girl who clenched her fists and shouted that she wanted to join the Taiping Army to avenge her parents has now become unrecognizable to Shi Dakai, and the temperament of the soldier and the feminine beauty are very strange but there is no sense of disobedience gathered on Han Baoying, faintly with that arrogance of giving up who else is gone.

Han Baoying smiled heartily, grabbed Shi Dakai's arm and laughed softly: "Father-in-law, did you make fun of me like this when I just came back?" ”

Shi Dakai was in a good mood when he saw Han Baoying, and said with a smile: "Our four girls have cultivated themselves at the Shanghai Military Academy, of course they have changed. ”

Han Baoying said with a bitter face: "The military academy is very bitter, I also wrote to you before, don't you believe it?" Shi Dakai laughed: "Believe." How can you not believe it? He looked around and said, "Have all the people sent by Tianjing arrived?" ”

Han Baoying came to his senses at this time, and after standing upright, he saluted Shi Dakai with a standard new military salute and said loudly: "Qiyu Yiwang, Han Baoying, the staff officer of the Tianjing Garrison Headquarters, has come to report, and Li Kaifang, the secretary of the Tianjing Military Department, and his party are already waiting downstairs, please go and meet the Yiwang." ”

Shi Dakai was slightly startled by Han Baoying's move, he didn't expect that his righteous daughter had been over there for a long time, and her actions had become the same over there. But at this time, it turned out that the person closest to him also performed this salute, and Shi Dakai was still a little surprised.

Shi Dakai coughed and nodded quietly: "Then let's go down, Li Shangshu is a guest from afar, and I am here to pay tribute to my ancestors." I didn't go to greet him in person, but I was lazy. ”

Han Baoying said with a smile: "It's Li Shangshu who said, let's just come here to see the Wing King." It's not good to greet the king of the labor wing. ”

Shi Dakai nodded and said, "Well, this Li Kaifang is getting more and more tactful." Well, let's go down. ”

The two of them came down to the hall on the first floor of the Yellow Crane Tower under the escort of several winged hall guards. I saw that a lot of people had gathered here, all of them were military and political dignitaries from the Wing Palace, as well as Li Kaifang and others from Tianjing, all of whom were old men from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Seeing the arrival of the Wing King, Li Kaifang and the others naturally closed their mouths and stood aside, and the Wing Hall and others all stepped forward to pay respects, but Li Kaifang and the others all performed a military salute, half kneeling, half standing down and looking particularly abrupt.

Shi Dakai waved his hand and flattened his body, everyone in the Wing Hall got up, and Shi Dakai's father-in-law, Huang Yukun, was the first to speak: "Li Shangshu, although you are guests from afar, but Heaven also has the etiquette of Heaven, shouldn't you kneel down and worship when you see the Wing King?" ”

As soon as these words came out, all the people in the wing hall looked at Li Kaifang and the others with burning eyes, and among Li Kaifang and his party, there were Zeng Lichang, the head of the household department, and Zhao Shunping, the commander of the Tianjing Navy, who were a little stunned when they heard the words. Since the reign of the King of the West in Tianjing, these three kneels and nine bows have been gradually abolished, and what everyone is accustomed to is a military salute or a bow of the hand, even if they see the King of the West, they don't have to kneel and worship anymore.

Li Kaifang smiled slightly, stepped forward and said, "His Royal Highness the Wing King, even if we see the King of the West in Tianjing, we only salute and don't need to kneel." ”

Huang Yukun snorted and said, "This is in Wuchang, not Tianjing!" As soon as these words came out, the people of Tianjing and others all changed color, and some of the people in the Wing Hall turned their faces and didn't dare to look directly, Han Baoying saw this and hurriedly said: "They are all old brothers of the Heavenly Kingdom, why bother?" ”

Shi Dakai coughed at this time and said, "Uncle Yue, let him go, there is no need to worry about subtle things." Then Shi Dakai said politely: "Let's all sit down and talk." ”

After Li Kaifang and the others bowed and thanked them, they each sat down, and the important ministers of the wing hall, Huang Yukun, Zhang Suimou, Zhou Zhuqi, Guozong Shi Zhenji, Shi Xiangzhen, and the generals Lai Yuxin and Li Fuxuan also sat down.

After everyone sat down, Shi Dakai opened his mouth and said: "Brother Wang of the West of the West has written to invite him many times, and wants Shi to enter the Tianjing auxiliary government, but the terrain of the three towns of Wuhan is dangerous, and there is the threat of the Qing Demon Hu Lin's wing in the north, and the threat of the demon head Zeng Guo in the south, so he really can't leave, so Shi also wrote to the West King to say goodbye. Recently, I heard that Brother Xiwang led a lone army to the north alone, deep into the demon cave capital, and even the foreigners who were enemies of the Qing demon were also beaten, but I don't know why? ”

Li Kaifang gulped and said: "The foreigners harbor evil intentions, and they say that they are crusading against the Qing demons, but in fact they want to support the pro-foreign new demon court in the north, and then ......make enemies of our heavenly kingdom." Li Kaifang analyzed the military and political objectives of the British and French coalition forces and the current international situation.

The more Shi Dakai listened, the more he frowned, and asked a few words from time to time, but none of the people in the wing hall could interject. Zhang Suimou, the first strategist of the Wing Palace, sighed secretly, many years ago, the Wing Hall was not as good as the West Palace, and now the West Hall has been operating in Tianjing for many years, but the Wing Hall has always been like sitting in a well and watching the sky, and I don't know how much it is behind the West Hall of Tianjing.

After listening, Shi Dakai touched his beard under his chin and said: "Brother Xiwang is really a wise and brave person, and he has done such a decisive thing in the fire, there are few such courage in the world, so I dare not speak lightly of war." ”

Li Kaifang bowed slightly, but the corners of his mouth smiled slightly, and he thought secretly: "The Wing King has always been more resourceful and less decisive, and his work is burdened by his reputation. ”

Then Shi Dakai frowned and said: "According to what you said, although Britain and France are temporarily unable to make a large-scale eastward crusade, they will still come back to retaliate after a year and a half, and my heavenly kingdom is still at war with the Manchus and the Rakshasas in the north. ”

Hearing this, Li Kaifang still secretly admired, worthy of being the Wing King of the Heavenly Kingdom, his vision was still extremely unique, he could see the overall situation at a glance, and said at the moment: "Yes, now Kaifang has come to Wuchang to meet the Wing King, which is to discuss this move to pacify the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty." ”

Shi Dakai hummed and said: "The Qing Demon is my feud, so naturally it is to be exterminated, what is the strategy of Brother Xiwang." ”

Li Kaifang coughed, and several staff officers who followed from Tianjing behind him unpacked their bags on their backs, took out a few huge maps and spread them out on the floor in the hall. Everyone in the wing hall stood up and watched, only to see that this map was extremely fine, completely different from the map they used before, on which rivers, roads, mountains, lakes, and towns were densely spread on it, and at a glance, people with a little insight were secretly shocked, this is the map of the Chinese universe.

I saw that in addition to rivers, roads, mountains, lakes, and towns, there were dense red and blue colors marked with military momentum, which could be seen, because the red situation above contained the deployment of Wuchang's Yidian military horses.

Seeing this, Zhang Suimou and Huang Yukun are both as dead as ashes, all the deployments and troop strength of the Wing Hall are clear on this map, it can be seen that Tianjing knows the bottom of Wuchang's side, and at first the two of them also said that the Wing Hall was ironclad, and they didn't expect that people had already made it clear what was false and real without moving.

Li Kaifang saw that the map was laid out and said: "Next, let Chief of Staff Han explain the current situation of friend and foe." ”

Han Baoying was not modest, but just saluted the people and other groups present, and then took a long bamboo whip and cleared his throat and said: "This is a national map with a scale of 10 millionths, that is to say, a centimeter on the map, oh is about a third of an inch of distance, which represents a distance of 100 kilometers, oh, 100 kilometers is 200 miles......" Han Baoying represented the meaning of the scale on the map and the key points of each place like a few treasures, and the mountain elevation marked on the map and other map elements were said first, and then I looked up and found that the people of the wing hall were like listening to the book of heaven.

Li Kaifang coughed and said: "Chief of Staff Han doesn't need to explain this, just talk about the deployment of the battle situation." ”

Han Baoyingxiu's face was slightly red, and he talked about the current military situation of the Taiping Army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty...... (To be continued......)