Chapter 210 Qing Yao
When the explosion at the entrance of the fish market across the river sounded, Shang Zhixin, the prince of the Pingnan King who was sitting outside Xinhui City, was awakened just after sleeping. He didn't care about wearing clothes and boots and rushed out of the tent and looked up at Xinhui City, but he thought the explosion came from Xinhui City. In his sight, Xinhui City was still shrouded in the darkness, and he could not hear any movement quietly. If it weren't for the lights that would suddenly flash on the top of the city, it would only make people feel that Xinhui City was a dead city and empty.
In the relatively quiet Xinhui City, the Qing army camp outside the city was blown up, and the crowds were filled with noises. Everyone was nervous and asked each other what had happened. Some Qing soldiers who were awakened by the explosion were confused and thought it was the Taiping Army attacking the camp in Xinhui City. They fled everywhere in panic. Some timids even screamed, which scared the officers in the camp so much that they were in their throats, for fear that one of them would roar accidentally.
Seeing this, Shang Zhixin frowned. As the prince of the King of Pingnan and from the Junzhen family, he looked like a reckless man in the eyes of outsiders, and was defeated by the Xinhui siege, which was the commander of the commander for the first time, and lost his prestige, he was much stronger than those playboys in his bones, and his ability to kill the enemy and command the battle was much higher. Otherwise, Shang Kexi would not be assured to let him continue to take charge of the army.
Without hesitation, Shang Zhixin ordered the panicked soldiers to suppress the panicked soldiers, and asked Goshha left and right and left, "Where is the sound?"
The left and right Geshiha was also confused, not knowing where the loud noise came just now. Seeing that they didn't know, Shang Zhixin couldn't help but be angry. He sent someone to call the generals on duty tonight.
Qin Guocheng, the commander of the Shang family's soldiers, arrived first, and at the same time brought Shang Zhixin a shocking fire at the Yushikou Naval Camp!
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"It exploded, it exploded!"
"It's a fire. It's a fire, the Qing Yao Navy has a fire!"
The Taiping Army and the Qing Army on the city wall heard loud noises at the same time, but they saw a fire in the Guangdong Navy camp more than ten miles away before the Qing army under the city.
Since when the Taiping Army’s name for the Qing army has changed from “Tartars” to “Qing Demon”. It is said that this is because their commander Zhou Shixiang was unwilling to call the Han green camp soldiers as Tartars, but he did not know how to call these Qing soldiers who betrayed their ancestors and helped the evil, so he simply called them monsters and the “Qing Demons” who helped the evil.
The term "Qing Yao" was first popular in the camp of the trap, because most of the members of the camp came from the Laofengzhuang Copper Mine. The Baihu Tieyi and others in the camp were all Luo scholars before following Zhou Shixiang. Therefore, under the secret promotion of these Luo scholar officers, the soldiers of the camp quickly agreed to killing and setting fires. The Qing soldiers who did all kinds of evil were monsters and ghosts, and they were sent by God to kill demons and eliminate demons.
Driven by the camp, not long after, the lower-level soldiers of the entire Fifth Battalion of the Taiping Army agreed with the title of "Qing Yao". Although there is no sign that the Luo Cult has begun to spread throughout the army, there is evidence that the Luo Cult, led by Tieyi, is willing to promote the Luo Cult they believe in throughout the army, and the term "Qing Yao" largely meets their missionary needs.
Among the senior officials and officers of the Taiping Army, such as Song Xianggong and other traditionally educated officials and officers were dissatisfied with the title "Qing Yao", believing that this term can easily lead outsiders to misunderstand that the Taiping Army was a team that worshiped gods and worshiped ghosts, or even a religious army, just like the Yellow Turban Army or the Red Turban Army of that time.
Song Xianggong believed that once the Taiping Army was given an association with the religious team, the Taiping Army would become the common enemy of the world, and at that time, both the Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty would consider it as an enemy. After all, the orthodox world is Confucianism, and Confucianism is the most hostile to gods and ghosts. Now, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Southern Ming Dynasty, they regard Confucianism as orthodox, and gentry scholars from all over the world also respect the way of Confucius and Mencius. If the Taiping Army evolved into a religious team, these people would become hostile to the Taiping Army, whether they support the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty. This would make the future of the Taiping Army fall into a situation where there is no support or help at all. This would definitely be fatal to the survival of the Taiping Army.
However, the opposition and concerns of Duke Xiang of Song and others were not adopted by Zhou Shixiang, or Zhou Shixiang did not take their worries at all. When he found that the title of "Qing Yao" was very popular with those soldiers in the army who were ignorant of big words, he simply formalized the title and used the title of "Qing Yao" to all the Qing army on various occasions. This made Duke Xiang of Song and others very helpless. They had to emphasize to some battalions that this monster is not the other monster, and used this to undermine the anti-damage effect that the title of "Qing Yao" brought to the Taiping Army.
Duke Xiang of the Luo Sect also mentioned Zhou Shi, and even vaguely stated that the formation of the army in the trapped camp was not conducive to the future development of the Taiping Army, and the religious background of Baihu Tieyi and others was also likely to bring hidden dangers to the Taiping Army. I thought that Zhou Shixiang, a scholar-born Qianhu, would resonate with his reminders, but I never thought that when Zhou Shixiang learned in detail about the so-called Luo Sect was a branch of the evolution of the Maitreya Sect, which was the Red Turban uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, or the White Lotus Sect, which changed its name, he became interested in the Luo Sect and sent someone to call officers from Tieyi and other Luo Sects to talk for a night.
Afterwards, no one knew what Zhou Shi was saying to Tieyi and other Luo scholars, and even Duke Xiang of Song didn't know, because Zhou Shi didn't say much, just said vaguely, and finally laughed it off. Duke Xiang of Song continued to ask questions, and he avoided talking.
With the attitude of the commander, Duke Xiang of Song naturally could not say much about this matter. The matter of the Luo Cult was put on hold. However, no matter what the people around him said, Duke Xiang of Song always gritted his teeth and did not mention the term "Qing Demon", and only called the Tartars or the Qing army.
When the explosion came, Duke Xiang of Song and Zhou Shixiang stood silently behind the mercedes and waited. When the loud noise came to his ears, his heart trembled suddenly. Although he was very dissatisfied with the "clear demon" statement of the soldiers behind him, he was still excited in an instant. He was as excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood. His eyes were staring at the direction of the fish market entrance. When the flames soared into the sky, his fists that had been clenched were then relaxed, and he murmured in a tone of great gratitude: "It's successful, it's successful!"
Successfully, the fire finally got up!
At this moment, Zhou Shixiang's heart was even more excited than Duke Xiang of Song beside him. The fire at the entrance of Yushi determines the survival of the Taiping Army. In the torture of waiting, he hoped that the fire would soar into the sky countless times, but he hoped that it would disappear with the passage of time until the loud noise came.
Chapter completed!