"I am a man, why do you make a horse and a cow for the Tartars? A hero drinks all the wine in the bowl and never turns back through the journey of a thousand miles. The golden drums roar together, and they will never stop until they break the Yellow Dragon!"

Amid the loud singing, more than 2,000 soldiers of the B Brigade of the Third Town, Rugao County, Yangzhou Prefecture, drove out of the military camp and marched towards Haimen, more than 300 miles away.

Before dawn, many of the people around the station were still sleeping. The sudden loud singing sounded alarmed many people. They pushed open the doors and came to both sides of the road.

"Taipinglang, where are you going?" Some people asked loudly while rubbing their confused eyes.

The local people were not afraid of this Taiping Army that had been stationed for several months, but were very close to each other. Because since the Taiping Army was stationed here, not only has the security of the public, but the widowed and widowed people in the village were often taken care of by them, and it was common for them to carry firewood and water. During the busy farming period, the Taiping Army also organized people to help them farm.

The elderly people say that they have never seen such a good army or such a good soldier in their lifetime. People who have good things call the soldiers of the Taiping Army "Taipinglang". Over time, the people like to call these unique officers and soldiers by "Taipinglang". The soldiers of the Taiping Army are also willing to call them "Taipinglang" because this is a good omen and their mission is to make the world peaceful.

Because of the military order, the Taipinglangs who went south did not dare to tell the people who were asking where they were going, and they themselves did not know. The only team knew that there were only two people in the marching destination, one was their voyage school, and the other was the Anjun Ambassador of Scholar Baijing.

"Friends, we are going to practice."

Seeing that more and more people were on the way, Colonel Cheng of the travel school was asking them where they were going, he ordered them to go on a long-distance training. The people near the station understood the word "training" because they had seen many times before, Taipinglang went out for a few days to run with their clothes on their backs before coming back.

Anjun ambassador Qian Wen looked fair and didn't look like an officer or a scholar at all. In fact, Qian Wen was indeed a scholar or a chief of the county. If it weren't for the Qing army, he might have been a juren now.

It was not Qian Wen's original intention to become a Taiping Army. Like many people in this army, he was forced to join the Taiping Army at the beginning. At that time, he was very resistant and hated the Taiping Army, which had brought his family in like bandits. Now, he is proud to be a member of the Taiping Army.

Unlike the misrepresentation of the outside world that the Taiping Army did not attach importance to scholars, the Taiping Army actually attached great importance to and was willing to absorb scholars. As a scholar, Qian Wen and one of the few scholars in the army were trained by Zhou Shixiang, the commander of the Taiping Army, and gradually promoted them to important positions in the army and became middle and senior generals.

Qian Wen was deeply impressed by a sentence that Da Zheng said in the training class. It can be said that it is imprinted in his heart. The general meaning of this sentence is that the Taiping Army attaches importance to scholars because scholars master the power of words. But in the past, this power was not owned by ordinary people, so the greater the power, the less the people get benefits from it. What the Taiping Army needs to do now is to give this power to everyone in the world so that everyone can master the power of words. The strength of the body cannot be considered strong, but only the strong thoughts and bodies are truly strong. As long as you have the right thoughts, the better the knowledge.

Seeing that the people on the roadside supported the Taiping Army so much, some people were reluctant to leave when they heard that the Taiping Army was about to leave the garrison for a while. Qian Wen was quite moved. He rode a horse to the voyage school Colonel Cheng and said to him: "Did you see it? This is what the general said about the military and civilian relationship."

"I am a soldier, from the common people. We are good to the people, so the people will naturally be nice to us."

Colonel Cheng laughed. He had a nickname called "Cheng San Barbarians", which said that no matter what happened to him, he had to solve it with his fists and a big knife. He never argued with others because he could not argue with others. But after he was working with Qian Wen, the nickname of these three barbarians was a bit inconsistent with his name, because Qian Anzhi was really patient enough. With his help, he could even recognize three hundred words, which was something he never dared to think about before.

However, this is still far from the requirement to participate in the general class of the Army University. The minimum requirement for further study at Lu University is to know a thousand words, so Colonel Cheng thought that he could not relax. As long as he set up a camp and rest in the future, he would have to spend half an hour asking for money to teach him. After the success of the Northern Expedition, he could also know a thousand words. In this way, he could go to Lu University and be promoted to a higher-level general in the future.

"I don't know which one of us or Hu Jiu will arrive first, so we can't lose again this time."

When he thought of Hu Jiu, the brigade A voyage school, Colonel Cheng looked dissatisfied. The army and the town had organized three major competitions before, but they both lost to the brigade A. Hu Jiu always took him to drink every time he won, saying that he wanted to celebrate, which made him so angry that his face turned green. This time, the two families received military orders at the same time and could not lose to him, Hu Jiu, no matter what, the B voyage would have killed him.

"I heard that the candidates for the brigade C travel school have not been decided yet, and this is going to be transferred. There will be no one in the military headquarters yet, right?"

Qian Wen was curious about who the military headquarters would send to pick up the location of the Band C voyage school. This matter has a lot to do, because if the new Band C voyage is not good, then it will be troublesome for their town to cooperate on the battlefield.

"Hu Jiu has inquired about it. The town said it was from Lu Da. What if he doesn't care, we can do our own things well. Let's go, we only have three days. If we can't get to the place for three days, it is a trivial matter for you and me to lead the military. If we delay the great cause of the Northern Expedition, we will be unable to forgive our crimes even if we die."

The Grandpa Cheng swung his horse whip, and the rider neighed and galloped out.

Qian Wen turned around and looked at the military camp that he had devoted a lot of effort to build. He looked at the newly painted barracks and the military flags that had descended from the camp. He bit his lip and then whipped his horse.

Yangzhou, Rugao, Guazhou, Taizhou, Hai'an, Gaoyou

More than 20,000 New Second Army officers and soldiers followed various roads, and moved forward without hesitation.

Their only target is the seaside.

So many Taiping troops were deployed at the same time in Jiangbei, which naturally attracted the attention of those interested. When this information was finally gathered in the hands of the Qing army in Xuzhou, they noticed that these Taiping troops were all heading south. Combined with the news of the stalemate of the Dingwu court in the Southern Capital, the Qing army came to an astonishing and encouraging conclusion, that was, the thief scholar raised his troops to force the palace.

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