Dengzhou, Dingpingzhuang near Nanyang City.

Wang Shenzhi, who is already an elite sequence of the Taiping Army - a member of the Fire-Tour Team, looked at the towering courtyard wall and the wooden arrow tower on the dock wall, but felt a sense of familiarity.

The feeling of being. Because in his hometown of Guangzhou, Henan, hundreds of miles away, he also saw such a similar fort.

But such a wall has become something that the villagers in the village have been desperately seeking, and they don’t bother to give their wives, daughters, and even themselves, and they also want to get in the brain.

Where is it. Because the people on the Henan Plain where they live are really hard.

The rich soil and abundant irrigation water along the coasts flowing between the Great River and the Huai River have not brought much blessing to them, such as the lower class.

The fertility of the world has become the direct or indirect root of their deep suffering. As the saying goes, the three major sufferings in Henan: "The East Capital, the water is flooded, and the Huaixi thieves."

Because of the richness and abundant production of Henan, this place has become a severely affected area near the Dongdu, Luosuo and Qiankuo, and is also a place where all kinds of officials, nobles and their families gather together.

In the local area, generations have reproduction and rested and formed a huge base. The wanton mergers and acquisitions of local areas are even more troubled by generations.

Therefore, "The Song of the King and the Fa Cao" is sometimes sung:

"I got Yin Fozi in front, and Wang Lai Otter in the back.

The judge is a donkey bite melon and calls the cow to chew the foam.

I was very happy when I saw the money and drank it from scratch.

If you often encounter hungry yaksha, the people will not live."

Furthermore, the frequent wars since the Qianyuan period and the water conservancy has gradually become disrepair and deteriorated, causing the water in the Huanghuai River to flood every year; it often breaks the prefectures and passes through counties and drowns countless times.

, a large area of ​​rural villages are all fish and turtle zodiac country.

In addition, the Jie Zheng who respected the imperial court in Henan Province and many of Heshuo's vassal states that had been rebelling and attached for a long time, the continuous wars broke out at every turn.

The flood is considered a means of attack; the local people are the ones who end up suffering.

Therefore, "The Children's Rhymes in Yongchun" once sang: "There is no new wheat in the box, and the new wheat is no longer in the venue. In August and September, the dog barked at the empty wall." This is a description of this kind of disaster.

The tragic situation afterwards.

The combined factors of the first two have given birth to an even more gritty existence called "Huaixi Pirates". Strictly speaking, it not only refers to the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty.

The Huaixi warlord group that had been separatist for a while also included the land between the states of Shen, Guang and Cai, and the gangs of thieves and chaos that had been abundant for generations.

Compared with Huainan, which is the land of fish and rice, or the Heluo Plain covered by mountains, the land of Huainan is frequent and covered with haze,

The output of barren fields is limited but the court exploits it heavily;

In addition, after floods, in order to compete for the emerging territory, they often prefer the strong folk customs of fighting in the countryside; in this case, young and middle-aged people in the country want to survive in adulthood.

When they go down, they often either join the army in groups or go to Xiaojiao and think that thieves are thieves.

Between these two, the two-sided mutual transformation can be carried out through the court's recruitment and the officials and the officials and soldiers who are in chaos and become thieves, so the suffering is deep

Those who are severe and poisoned are naturally the Henan people who are close to the local area.

A song once sang: "To this day, the elders cried to the sky, and they hated the pain of Henan's connections."

Because there are almost no obstacles on the Great Plains, ordinary towns and villages cannot resist the abuse of these bandits and chaotic troops; only those families have great causes and great causes

Only when the rich and powerful families who were able to build docks and earthen buildings had the ability to support them accordingly.

Therefore, even if you enter the fort, you can only be oppressed and driven by people when you are working as a cattle and horse, but compared to being in a bad mood, you may die at any time when you are out of your mind.

The ending of daily life, or being entangled by the thief, is more attractive.

Once upon a time, the longing and dreams of the Wang brothers were just waiting outside a similar dock wall, looking at the food and cloth that were constantly transported in, looking forward to it

Just to find a place with food and shelter;

Of course, what they expect is not the kind of tenant who is sent to the ox and horse but is not even as good as pigs and dogs; but a certain degree of personal autonomy and status

The vassal of the main house such as the corps, the disciples, and the Zhuang Ding. This not only allows you to eat a whole meal, but also shows off your power in front of the villagers with sticks and whips.

However, a severe drought that was barren and a thief riot that followed, made their little hope and expectation vain.

You should know that under the war and famine of that year, as a distant clan of the Wang family in Taiyuan who had been in the five squads, the Wang family in Gushi in Guangzhou was one of the largest clans in the family.

All of them were starved to death and fled. And the remaining small surnames of the other side also embarked on the old path of joining the thief/entering the army.

Then, Li Hanzhi, who was also a thief but was recruited into an official army, worked under the governor Li for several years; until he encountered the Taiping thief who was defeated and was defeated.

After captive, the brothers realized that there was another new way of living and life as a son of man.

However, since we can live with dignity and decent life, who is willing to continue to follow the seemingly accustomed to the people who think that they are clothes.

What about eating habits, or doing bad things that make accusations for tigers,

But the determination to live a better life still did not change much, and it became stronger. Compared to those who have been promoted as the flag head

My cousin Wang Yanfu may be picking up the words I read in his early years again, and worked hard to learn various instructions to seek his elder brother Wang Shenchao, whom he sought from a military officer.

Even Wang Shengui, the younger brother who was determined to go to the dance team to get life and death to make a future; Wang Shenzhi was shocked by the power of Taiping arms after the Battle of Dantu.

He was moved, so he decided to apply for the report to the fire team and became an auxiliary (alternate) soldier.

Although it is an auxiliary sequence of candidate properties, the corresponding requirements and standards are not easy at all. You have to hold several molds of different components and shapes every day.

He imitated heavy objects and threw them back and forth countless times to master and familiarize themselves with the corresponding feel and weight;

Only after the palms are grinding out the corresponding calluses, and there is enough maturity and conditioning of the body, will it enter the next selection and elimination stage and start training.

Practice the corresponding accurate head and distance. Only then can he officially obtain the status and card reliance of a fire-sucking assistant.

The selected pitchers first started with a large wooden frame five steps away, and then turned into a medium wooden frame ten steps away, a small wooden frame fifteen steps away

The last one is the vine basket with twenty steps as the basis.

However, it is said that the best veterans can even throw things directly onto the target of the specific person within 20 or 30 steps, so they are also qualified to be above the rest

More grenadiers are above grenadiers, and receiving additional perks is called "old grenadiers".

Then, it was the turn of strengthening training for the corresponding throwing distance. The equipment used also began to transform from wood and stone models to the real stuffed iron slag and sand.

Live ammunition, and came into contact with harassment training that simulates the battlefield environment.

In fact, as a member of the firefighting team, the priority of throwing is still ahead of the accurate end. After all, as a very dangerous fire killer, it is a failure.

If you lose it, there is still a considerable probability that you will accidentally hurt your own people.

Almost every day the arms that people trained seem to swell, and they need to be extremely tired afterwards, and rub each other with medicinal oil along the meridians to eliminate

Retreat. Of course, some people can't help but slack off and slack in private, which is that they disappear into the sequence of the firefighting team;

Because their arms are very likely to be abandoned, they have to forcefully withdraw from the active service sequence. After a stage of practice, many people will find that

His arms became so thick that he won several times in his private party between his brothers.

At this stage, they were not yet elected. They were just throwers who could get a basic salary slightly higher than ordinary soldiers; they could follow behind the grenadiers and old grenadiers, and then prepare to replace and replenish their positions without having to carry a basket of bullets lightly.

Therefore, harassment training as a simulated practical combat is also higher than the original adaptability intensity.

They need to be scattered with arrows without pointed heads and deliberately throwing sand, blocks, and wooden sticks on the face, or even the bravado of the team cavalry. They can still throw the bullets in their hands relatively steadily, instead of accidentally dropping them to the ground.

Only after passing this stage with a successful throwing rate of nearly 80%, can they be called a grenade in a standard fire-dropping team. As the backbone sequence personally mastered by the captains of each battalion, they must not only be able to stand in the front row and throw arrows at the enemy with arrows, but also be able to get close to them and rush to kill the enemy.

As for the old grenadier who goes further, it is a special honor and identity that cannot be achieved in daily life; it can only be named after many outstanding performances in the battlefield.

Therefore, this time was also Wang Shenzhi's first formation in the Taiping Army's fire-blocking team sequence; he strengthened the armed work teams in Shannan with teams and fire as units, so as to complete the basic practical trials in the relatively low-intensity anti-revolutionary work and local conflicts.

The corresponding performance and results will also determine the order of the army they will be selected to go there; for example, the First Army with the title of "Frequently Following" or the Second Army called "Chifei", are all the first choices that make people hope. Then, the Fifth Army dominated by the navy...

However, the specific situation in the eastern road of Shannan is different from Jingnan where the mountains and the Grand Gorges meet and rivers, Hunan, Jiangxi where hills and waters extend, or the two ridges where the mountains are undulating and the rivers are rich and rich, and even the land is rich and prolific, but the people are customs, and the army is relatively weak.

It brings more strong, fierce, and conservative colors to the north. Compared with the southern regions where the culturalization was late and relatively deserted, the history of human development and gathering here can even be traced back to the legendary Xia Yu era.

After Zulong unifies Liuhe, this place was the largest iron smelting center in the world; at the time of the two Han dynasties, Nanyang County became the hometown where the rise of Guangwu in the Han Dynasty. The famous water conservancy project Chuyan, Nanyang, is as famous as the Zhengguo Canal of Guanzhong and Dujiangyan of Chengdu, and is also known as the three ancient agricultural irrigation areas in the country.

In the "Nandu Travel" written by the poet Li Bai, he praised it: "The clear songs curb the flowing clouds, the gorgeous dances have free time, and invites the traveling of Wanluo, and the cap returns with the wind."

Therefore, the natural base and influence of the aristocratic families that have been born here for generations are far from comparable to those of the southern prefectures and counties. Although, after turmoil and suffering since the Middle Tang Dynasty, a lot of them have disappeared and lost, the remaining ones are all hard bones among the conservative and diehards.

They are also more conservative than those in the southeast, the coastal areas of the two ridges or the rivers where business travel is popular. Although they have limited support for the replacement of impermanent and local governments, once the Taiping Army touches on the fundamental interests of their countryside for generations, the rebound and resistance will be particularly fierce.

Therefore, the corresponding anti-revolutionary and cleanup work carried out here is as the northward moves, the closer it is to the heart of the traditional Nanyang Basin; the obstruction and resistance encountered are also increasing with the enemy-wealth casualties ratio;

So often, the fire-striking teams are dispatched in pieces, or even the teams are organized to strengthen the corresponding sequence, so that the corresponding Guzu/dock fort that refuses to stick to. This Dingpingzhuang is one of them. The owner of the Zhuangzi can trace the Qianyuan Dingnan number one hero Guo Ziyi.

From his seventh branch, Guo Shu, he served as the Shaoqing of the Sennong. Later, he made military achievements in the Zhuli Rebellion and was promoted to the General of the Left Jinwu Guard and was granted the title of Duke of Qi. Because Empress Dowager Guo, who was under the supervision of the Five Dynasties (the daughter of Guo Ai and Princess Shengping), lost power, moved to the settlement after Nanyang, which was also repaired particularly strongly by the past dynasties.

Not only are there arrow towers and moats that imitate the northern city blockage, but there are also earth and stone dock walls and reserved sluices that can cover people's rushing around to deal with the thieves and refugees who are rising from all over the world. Unfortunately, they encountered a completely different Taiping Army.

Wang Shenzhi was trying hard to recall the various specific matters and attention details in the previous local enemy information notification; at the same time, he watched the shooting team responsible for suppressing the wall, and easily shot Zhuang Ding who emerged from the high wall and stood up, without any backhand power.

Suddenly, a tremor exploded at one of the only two entrances on the dock wall. With the door of the dock wall being knocked down by the burning fireworks, Wang Shenzhi became more and more serious and awakened; these stubborn strongholds that were broken into the encirclement generally had only two results.

Either they are very depressed and start to flee or lose their fighting spirit and kneel down and beg for mercy, or they are trapped in despair and fight to the end. This is also the main place where the firefighters begin to display their expertise.
Chapter completed!