As the saying goes, there is no army without a flag, and an army without a flag has no soul.

Li Xingzhi then discussed with the generals of the Jingbei Army, Qian Anning, and other civilian officials how to design the military flag, the battalion flag, and the team flag of the Jingbei Army.

For the military flag, all the generals are big and coarse, and they don't know the essentials at all, even Zhang Shaoqian and Lang Shaozhen, two generals from the Ming army and the Qing army, are not very good.

Qian Anning and Song Guangkun and other civil officials are very good at this matter.

According to the meaning of Qian Anning and others, since the Jingbei Army is still black, it is better to use black for the military flag, and the current three battalions of the Jingbei Army, the Gangfeng Battalion belongs to gold, the Rapid Fire Battalion belongs to fire, and the Zhenyu Battalion belongs to the earth, which is in line with the principle of mutual growth and mutual restraint of the five elements.

Gold begets water, water begets wood, wood begets fire, fire begets earth, and earth begets gold, and then if you expand the camp in the future, you must be named after wood and water.

The five elements represent the five sides, since the president of the Jingbei Army is the head of the five battalions, the military flag can be designed as a red unicorn flag with a black background, and then embroidered with gold thread on the three words of the Jingbei Army.

As for the Gangfeng Battalion, since it is gold, it is also embroidered with a sword halberd on a black base, and then it can be accompanied by the name of the army and the name of the battalion.

In the same way, the flag of the fire camp can be embroidered with fire, and the earthquake camp can be embroidered with Taishan stone, which is in line with the saying that the five elements are born together.

To be honest, Li Xingzhi doesn't understand this, but Song Guangkun, Li Youcai and others are convincing, and it is Qiankun gossip, and how the five elements of yin and yang are mutually reinforcing, and they have said a lot of truth.

Since the ancients believed in this thing, Li Xingzhi did not allow it, and immediately ordered Qian Anning to take charge of this matter, and asked him to do it as soon as possible, after all, once he blew up Abatai's camp, then Dolgon would definitely transfer troops to Gaoyang again.

Qian Anning was full of joy that Li Xingzhi handed over the matter of making military flags to himself, and such an important matter was not given to Li Youcai and Song Guangkun, which shows that the general still takes a fancy to an old man of the Jingbei Army like himself.

After arranging for Qian Anning to preside over the production of the military flag, Li Xingzhi ordered the generals to return to the camp to prepare, and after the production of the military flag was completed, the flag awarding ceremony would be held at the north campus of the city.

The time to make the military flag was not long, there were many women in Gaoyang City, and Qian Anning strictly supervised it, and on the third day of the task arrangement, all the military flags, battalion flags and team flags were all made.

Li Xingzhi asked Qian Anning to coordinate the flag ceremony.

The seventh day of Abbateun's army in Gaoyang, that is, the 21st day of October in the 11th year of Chongzhen.

Gaoyang County ordered Qian Anning, Fu Cheng Lu Zhong and other civil officials and ministers hurriedly came over to report to Li Xingzhi that the schoolyard in the north of the city had been sorted out, and all the team flags, battalion flags, and military flags had been completed, just waiting for Li Xingzhi to proofread.

Considering that the Qing army was currently marching under the city, Li Xingzhi instructed Qian Anning and others to take turns to present flags at the school with each battalion.

On the same day, in the Beicheng school field, the flag was displayed, and under the banner of the Li character with a pole and two feet high, Li Xingzhi stood on the platform with his whole body pierced by a sword, and behind him were a group of civil officials.

Yang Biao, the battalion officer of the Zhenyu Battalion, led hundreds of sword and shield soldiers to stand on the left and right of the Jiangtai, and Yang Biao personally led more than a dozen people holding various military flags on both sides of the Jiangtai.

The first to enter the school field was the Gangfeng Battalion led by Wang Zhong.

Amid the earth-shattering sound of drums and cannons, nearly 2,000 soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion stepped into the school field and immediately divided into four neat infantry teams.

Wang Zhong suddenly stepped out of the column and shouted at Li Xing: "General Qiyu, the four infantry units of the Gangfeng Battalion are all in place, please review them." ”

Li Xingzhi looked at the neat queue under the stage, and his heart was also excited, since the crossing, he has been preparing for this time to enter the Dongyu, and now these soldiers under the stage are his own capital to deal with the Dongyu.

He looked at the two thousand sergeants on the school field and shouted violently: "Wang Zhong, deputy battalion officer of the Gangfeng Battalion, came to the stage to receive the flag. ”

Wang Zhong received the order loudly, held his head high, and strode onto the general's platform.

Li Xingyi took the military flag handed over by Yang Biao, turned the flag and handed it to Wang Zhong, and suddenly shouted: "The flag is in the people, and the flag is dead." ”

The flag is red on a black background, embroidered with two crossed arrow halberds, and written with two big steel blades, the flag is one zhang five high, and the top of the flag is equipped with a shiny spear tip.

Wang Zhong calmly took the military flag and shouted: "The flag is in the people." ”

Li Xing looked at Wang Zhong in a deep voice and said, "Wang Zhong, this general will grant you the guerrilla rank of Jingbei Army and assist this general in commanding the Gangfeng Battalion. ”

Wang Zhong was also excited at this time, and knelt down on one knee with a flag in one hand and saluted: "Thank you to the general, I will definitely fight bravely to kill the enemy and not disgrace the prestige of my Jingbei Army." ”

Immediately afterwards, the teams of the Gangfeng Battalion were coming to the stage to lead the flag.

The newly promoted White Pole Soldier C Team Zheng Jinhai and Team D Zheng Zhoutong, both of whom were superior Mandarin Duck Soldier spearmen in this Gaoyang Defense Battle, and the brave and combative Acton died at the hands of Jinhai.

These teams were all carefully selected by Li Xing, Wang Zhong, and others, and they had made outstanding achievements among the officers and men at the grassroots level, and Li Xingzhi also promoted them to the rank of officers and soldiers in an eclectic manner, and they were to accompany them as a reserve force for the officers of the Jingbei Army.

With Li Xingzhi's order, Li Mingda, an officer of the first team of the Mandarin Duck Soldiers, Yang Fei, an officer of the second team of artillery, Jin Hai, an officer of the third team of the white pole soldiers, and Zhou Tong, an officer of the white pole soldiers, came to the stage to receive the flag.

According to the military system of the Ming army, Li Xingzhi also gave these officers the military positions of 100 households or 100 trial households.

The officers of the various teams who received the military flags were all enthusiastic, and one by one they waved the team flags desperately under the banner of Li Xingzhi's generals and shouted, "The flag is in the people, and the flag is dead." ”

More than 2,000 soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion were also infected, and they would keep hitting the ground with knives and guns, desperately shouting, "The flag is here, the flag is dead." ”

Li Xingzhi saw that the morale of the soldiers was high, and he was also infected by them.

He drew his sword sharply in front of the soldiers of the whole battalion, pointed directly at his general flag and shouted: "My Jingbei Army is mighty, and my Gangfeng Battalion is mighty." ”

On the school ground, with Li Xingzhi's shouting, the atmosphere reached its peak, and all the officers and soldiers kept hitting the ground with the weapons in their hands, and followed Li Xingzhi to shout: "My Jingbei Army is mighty, and my Gangfeng Battalion is mighty." ”

After the review of the Gangfeng Battalion was completed, Li Xingzhi summoned the Rapid Fire Battalion, the Earthquake Battalion, and Zhang Shaoqian's cavalry brigade into the school in turn, and took turns to carry out the flag-awarding ceremony.

Yang Biao, Li Rui, Zhang Shaoqian, and the traitorous Lang Shaozhen and other generals were awarded the rank of guerrilla in the Jingbei Army by Li Xingzhi like Wang Zhong, and as for Qian Anning, Song Guangkun and other literati, Li Xingzhi also awarded them the post of counselor of the general's palace.

After the whole army gave the flag, Li Xingzhi ordered the rear camp to kill pigs and sheep to reward the three armies, of course, Li Xingzhi rewarded his own troops at the same time, but also did not forget Huang Wenchang and other friendly troops in Gaoyang.

Regarding Li Xingzhi's great momentum and the awarding of the flag to the whole army, Xin'an County Ling Lu Liangzhi was quite complaining, as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, he naturally did not want a thief like Li Xingzhi to become big.

In Gaoyang, he was only forced by the situation, but now in Gaoyang City, the Jingbei Army is dominant, where does he dare to say more, he only thinks that after the Dongyu retreats, he will write a letter to impeach Huang Wenchang, collude with thieves, and cover up defeat into victory.