At the arch gate in the northeast of Jingzhou, the school yard of the middle battalion of the general army pacesetter is in routine drill.

The commander of the middle battalion is General Zhang Tianfang, who is the younger brother of Deputy General Zhang Tianwang.

When Wang Wu led the team to aid Lao Mu Kong through the territory of the Zhang brothers in Suokou Cave, he was worried that the Zhang brothers might be cleared at first, but the Zhang brothers not only did not have the intention of surrendering the Qing, but led the department and their families to rescue Lao Mu Kong with Wang Wu.

As a result, the Zhang brothers became the remnants of the Ming army brought out by Wang Wu from Wushan, and their troops accounted for about one-third of the soldiers in the middle camp.

Compared with Wang Wu, who was born in the old Shun army, the Zhang brothers are actually more "regular".

Because the Zhang brothers were born in the landlord class of the Ming Dynasty, and the elder brother Zhang Tianwang learned to be famous, they were mortal enemies with the peasant army before the Qing army came to the future, and after the Qing army went south, they also clashed with the loyal battalion that had been reorganized into the Ming army.

He Tengjiao, who was the supervisor at the time, appointed Zhang Tianwang as the deputy envoy of the Huguang Inspectorate Department, and then under the persuasion of the governor of Huguang, the Zhang brothers joined forces with the loyal battalion to resist the Qing Dynasty, and retreated to Kuidong together and persisted in the War of Resistance here for 16 years.

Wang Wu never considered the influence of class elements on the army, and he believed that the struggle against the Qing Dynasty since Jiashen was not a war between classes, but a war between aggression and counter-aggression.

It is true that the Aixin Jueluo family was an official of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and it is appropriate to call it a rebellion in some terms.

However, when this family created a script outside the Guan, set up officials, and began to plot to ban the inheritance of Han culture, force the Han people to become Manchuria, and make the Han land a Hu land, the nature of the rebellion immediately changed to invasion and colonization.

Therefore, as long as any force is in the anti-aggression camp, no matter what it has done in the past, it is the target of Wang Wu's active wooing.

This is the case with the Zhang brothers.

But the Zhang brothers were also the most resistant to shaving their hair among the generals under Wang Wu, and even Zhang Tianwang planned to sneak back to Xishan with his younger brother and the troops at first.

That is, you take your sunny path, and I take my single-plank bridge.

Don't use any reason to convince me to betray my ancestors, betray the Ming Dynasty, and be that pigtailed ghost.

It's just that under Wang Wu's patient persuasion, as well as the king of Han and the Hong Ministry, etc., there is no objection to Wang Wu being patient outside, and the situation at that time is very unfavorable to the Xishan base area.

However, he was also unwilling to be an official of the Qing court in Jingzhou, so he handed over his subordinates and his family to his younger brother Zhang Tianfang, and took the ashes of dozens of martyrs of the Zhang family to his hometown.

Wang Wu did not dissuade him, nor did he remove Zhang Tianwang's rank of deputy general because of this, but still retained it for him.

And asked Zhang Tianfang to bring a message to his brother - "The day he cuts his braids is the time for Brother Zhang to take revenge!" ”

Therefore, at present, the general of Jingzhou Green Camp is nominally second only to Wang Wu, and it is Ma Sizhong, who was born in the Shun army.

Ma Sizhong will not be in Jingzhou, not because he is unwilling to shave his hair and forbear, but because he accompanied the king of Dong'an to the obvious mausoleum of Anlu Mansion.

Anlu Mansion is the Chengtian Mansion of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and there is Emperor Zhu Youqi, the biological father of Emperor Jiajing of Ming Shizong, who is buried in the territory.

Unable to go to the Southern Capital Xiaoling, Zhu Shenglang, the king of Dong'an, who worships the ancestors of the Thirteen Tombs of Yanjing, can only use the Xianling Tomb as a place of sustenance for the ancestral shrine of the old country.

Ma Sizhong's name is Beiban, but he is actually a guard.

brought more than 20 good hands to secretly protect the king of Dong'an.

Because this prince is the only relative in the mainland other than King Han at the moment, he can't be negligent.

And I am also afraid that if the king of Dong'an falls into the hands of the Qing army, it will bring huge trouble to Jingzhou.

Since he became the commander of the middle battalion, Zhang Tianfang has always paid close attention to the training of the officers and men of the middle battalion, and led the officers and men of the middle battalion to go out for "training" many times during Wang Wu's visit to Jiangnan.

The Chinese army barracks is located in the northeast arch gate of Jingzhou, far away from Mancheng, so Zhang Tianfang did not know what happened in Mancheng at this time.

After receiving the military order, he also confirmed: "General Wang wants my battalion to surround the city and prevent a single Tartar from escaping?" ”

The pro-soldiers who were in charge of the order to the middle camp nodded in response, but they didn't pay attention to what they all said was that they would not let a Tartar out of the city, and General Zhang Shen confirmed that he would not let a Tartar escape.

The two sound similar, but the actual meaning is very different.

Regarding the disturbance of the flag soldiers of Taishan Temple in Caoshi City yesterday, Zhang Tianfang was generally clear, because several of the battalion soldiers who participated in the beating of the flag soldiers at that time were on rest in his battalion.

When they returned, they told the story.

Because the people who were mainly involved in this incident were the people in the pro-military camp, after learning that Xu Lin, the commander of the pro-military camp, had sent someone to the prefect's yamen to "report the case" and ask the prefect Li Wen to come forward to deal with it, Zhang Tianfang did not come forward.

After all, it was the flag soldiers who suffered the big losses.

The general is not there, and Jingzhou is still headed by stability, and if it can not intensify the situation, it will not intensify the situation.

Unexpectedly, the general who had just returned to Jingzhou passed down such a military order, and the pro-military battalion fought with the Eight Banners garrisoned in the city, and the situation had slipped towards an irretrievable situation.

"So, General Wang is going to make a move on the city?"

"This?"

The herald didn't know how to answer this question, but he wanted the general to transfer troops everywhere, and said that if the Tartars were not handed over, the old and the young, the men and women would not be kept, and the chickens and dogs would not be left, and most of them would have to be done.

How could the Tartars hand over the Tartars!

As a result, he nodded and said yes in a daze.

"Good!"

Zhang Tianfang, who had been continuously confirmed, was full of murderous aura, stepped forward to the side of the high platform and waved the triangular red flag, and the soldiers on the side immediately sounded the trumpet.

Hearing the sound of the trumpet, the officers and men of the middle battalion who were exercising immediately stopped their movements and shouted the trumpet under the leadership of the officer and gathered in the center of the school field.

There are five teams of 200 people each.

When dispersed, it occupies the entire school yard, but when it is assembled, it occupies only a quarter of the school yard.

Looking at the soldiers in front of him, who were sweating and holding contradictory crossbows, Zhang Tianfang raised his voice to tell the soldiers loudly the military order he had just received.

"The Tartars all over the city kill people indiscriminately in the city, and they don't treat us Han people as human beings at all, and they don't take our Han people's lives seriously. Ge Laozi, although I, Zhang Tianfang, have shaved my hair with everyone, but we are also Han, and having braids on the back of our heads does not mean that we have to grovel to his tartars!

If he can slaughter the people today, he will kill us tomorrow! If surrender is to make us inferior, to regard ourselves as inferior, and to let our compatriots be slaughtered by his Tartars, then we will use the knives and guns in our hands to let him know that we still have a mouthful of blood, and the last pride! ”

After speaking, he drew his sword and pointed in the direction of the city: "The whole battalion listens to the order, and the target is all over the city!" ”

At the same time, at the Shuiying station, Wang Shengming, who was now the former general of the Great Western Army and is now temporarily leading the Shuiying, picked up a wine bowl and shouted to dozens of officers: "Everyone, see you all over the city!" ”