On 20 April, Li Xiucheng led a large army from Pukou to Lishui, and then marched to Zhejiang with his cousin, Li Shixian, the commander of the Left Army. On the first day www.biquge.info of the fifth month, after capturing Anji, Changxing, and Huzhou, Li Xiucheng left Li Shixian's army to stay in Huzhou for containment.

Deqing County, Zhejiang.

The pear blossoms outside the city of Deqing have withered for some days, and now the branches are sparse and hanging with green pears, which was originally the place where the Jiangnan has not heard of the sword soldiers for a hundred years, and now because the Taiping army captured Jiangning, now Deqing has also become the forefront of war preparedness, and the big head soldiers are increasing day by day, the inspection department of the east gate was originally a patrol department with the most oil and water in Deqing County, and now it has been taken over by a team from inside and outside Deqing County, but it is a lot colder, which has become a joke after tea and dinner of several other inspection divisions. The East Gate Inspection Division wanted to make a scene with those small black and swarthy regimental training soldiers who came from other places -- this is also to see that those regimental training officers are all children of good families, who speak well, and they are not forced to buy and sell, so they pretended to have the courage to take a few ruffians and gangsters to find trouble with a soldier who led the troops, and when they arrived at the front of the garrison camp and saw those bloody eyes, the East Gate Inspection Division was a little timid, and said a few words about the scene, but before they were ruthless, the regimental training inside seemed to have been ordered by someone, and they lined up out of the camp with guns. The East Gate Inspection Division hurriedly hugged his head and joking, if he died, he didn't know who would be cheaper with the remaining oil and water and net worth!

The East Gate Inspection Division lined up at the gate of the city to enter the city, and the relatives on the side gave themselves parasols, but this Ambassador Zhu was still extremely unhappy, it turned out that this gate was guarded by himself, and he wanted to collect money! These rednecks from Hunan, in addition to routine inspections, actually did not collect taxes, wasting Lao Tzu's good checkpoints in vain, looking at the silver flowing away in vain, Ambassador Zhu closed his eyes fiercely. That's it, out of sight, out of mind, not painful!

A few of the pheasant countrymen behind him were in a commotion, shouting at the back, and Ambassador Zhu turned his head impatiently and scolded. "What the hell is called! The city gate is half opened, and it will be your turn to enter the city, sir. ”

The relatives on the side squinted their eyes behind them and looked at them carefully, and said in the ear of Ambassador Zhu, who had his eyes closed: "Master, it's a group of soldiers from the Green Battalion, it doesn't seem to be a group of soldiers in our city." ”

"That's why I said that those hillbillies in the back are rare and weird......" Before Ambassador Zhu's lazy words fell, a terrible horn sounded in the city, and Ambassador Zhu's eyes widened, "These Hunan Yankees are too uninformed, right?" Obviously a soldier of the Green Battalion, is it still worth blowing the trumpet and being vigilant? ”

A few soldiers who were originally in charge of searching and entering the city at the east gate heard the sound of the horn and had no time to search, so they hurriedly called people into the city, "Hurry up and enter the city, the city gate will be closed soon!" ”

Ambassador Zhu and a few of his entourage were surrounded by panicked mountain people behind them and entered Deqing County. The thick city gate was quickly closed, a mountain man's pheasant took a chance and flew out of the cage, the scene became more and more chickens and dogs jumped up, Ambassador Zhu's hat fell off a long pheasant feather, the tip of the feather trembled and hung in front of Ambassador Zhu's eyes, a group of regiments on the side practiced on the city wall, and the two small soldiers guarding the gate called a team of regimental exercises, and surrounded the group of people who had just entered the city that had not yet been checked.

Ambassador Zhu dragged the pheasant feather off and shouted to the team training captain who was surrounding him: "What is this for? The officials have all entered the city. Still doing something around this official! ”

The captain smiled, and bowed his hand and said, "Master Zhu, don't worry, this is routine, in case you stand outside and be affected." So let's go into the city first, and then do a routine search. The captain also smiled at the mountain people who were busy grabbing pheasants: "This big brother, just send that pheasant of yours to our camp, and we will buy it at the price." ”

Ambassador Zhu hissed, "There are also soldiers from the Green Battalion outside, what are you doing so much?" "Aren't you afraid of being robbed of the goalkeeper's errand?

The captain laughed but said nothing. Ambassador Zhu was about to ask again, when a burst of cheers sounded on the city wall, interrupting Ambassador Zhu's words, and the team searched for a group of people who had entered the city, and the captain hurriedly saluted Ambassador Zhu and led the team up the city wall.

What's going on? Ambassador Zhu looked at it suspiciously, and suddenly there was a loud "boom", and Ambassador Zhu was frightened, this is the sound of the artillery placed by these Hunan Yankees on the city wall, what's the matter, and the artillery is moving?

Are the soldiers of the Green Battalion outside?

When the green battalion soldiers arrived outside Deqing County, the guns on the city wall were also ready, and a green battalion soldier under the city shouted to the regimental training soldiers on Deqing City: "Brothers in the city, we are the Huzhou Green Battalion from the north!" Please open the gates and let the brothers go in and rest! ”

The people in the city did not move at all, but one of the teams was replying, "Wait a minute! Wait for my adults to come and talk to you! ”

The people under the city were in a commotion, but they didn't say much, wearing the gray uniform of the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army, standing on the ground scatteredly, after a while, the head of a middle-aged man appeared on the city wall, only to see the middle-aged man look at the green battalion soldiers below, and said: "Is it the green battalion from there?" ”

"If you go back to adulthood, we are the green camp of Huzhou."

"Tell your stewards to come out and talk back!"

Among the green battalion soldiers under Deqing City, a man in his thirties wearing a Fan Yang hat with a fierce expression came out, and saluted the middle-aged man in the city with a fist, "The mark is in charge here." ”

"Oh?" The middle-aged man glanced up and down suspiciously, "Why did you come to Deqing County?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, you will send some things to Hangzhou that the chief soldier has ordered, and you will have to rest for a while in Deqing before setting off."

The middle-aged man on the city wall nodded, "The old man is in the middle of the military department." ”

The men in the city didn't salute again.

Zuo Zongtang smiled clearly, twisted his beard slightly, not to mention not letting the green battalion soldiers outside the city enter the city, but turned to other things, "The old man heard that among the rebellions, the most heroic ones are naturally Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng," The eyes of the man in his thirties under the city narrowed suddenly, and he glared at Zuo Zongtang, who was complacent on the wall, "Look at your age and appearance, it will not be a four-eyed dog, then it must be Li Xiucheng, the prime minister of Tianguanzheng?" Zuo Zongtang laughed, "Just with your three-legged cat's tricks, you still want to deceive my Deqing County?" Left and right, fire the gun, bomb the! ”

"Boom, boom!" The cannons on the city wall roared angrily, emitting dazzling fires, and the green battalion soldiers under the city made an uproar, tearing off the green battalion uniforms on their bodies, revealing the original red robes, and it was really the Taiping Army! (To be continued.) )

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