The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 87 Go and pass the Anti-Scripture to the enemy! (Chapter )

"stand at attention!"

"To the right. Look!"

"Look forward!"

Following the command of Zhu Ba, one of the "Twelve Disciples", more than ninety students from the instructor's crash course, carrying wooden spears, formed three crooked horizontal rows on the training ground behind the barracks of the former Qing army's Daozhou City Defense Camp.

Zhu Ba, who had the face of a bull demon, had a stern face and walked back and forth between the three rows of people with a thin bamboo stick in his hand. He seemed to be looking for anyone who was not standing straight or who did not look "right", "left" or "forward" as commanded, and he would hit them without mercy.

Luo Yaoguo and Su Sanniang watched from the side with their arms folded.

He had just been named the "General of the Upper Army" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, becoming one of the six major generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, along with General of the Central Army Yang Xiuqing, General of the Front Army Xiao Chaogui, General of the Rear Army Feng Yunshan, General of the Right Army Wei Changhui, and General of the Left Army Shi Dakai.

Under the Upper Army, there are three armies in total: the Upper First Army, the Upper Second Army, and the Upper Female Army.

Among them, the upper one and the upper two are all male troops, with a total of more than 9,000 people. The upper female army is formed by adding some Hunan girls from Daozhou to the female camp front army brought by Su Sanniang, with a total of about 3,000 people.

The three armies have a total of 12,000!
There were a lot of people, but equipment and officers were still scarce. There were enough officers and equipment for the female army, but Luo Yaoguo couldn't transfer the female officers to lead the male soldiers. So he could only use Yu Mieqing's personal soldiers as "military experts" to train the new recruits first; at the same time, he trained his own lecturers and prepared to send them to work with the "military experts" from the old army.

Among Luo Yaoguo's most trusted disciples, there seemed to be a boy with military talent, that ugly and ferocious young man named Zhu Ba. He was originally a bully among the beggars in Etang Town. With his ferocity and loyalty, he formed a small beggar gang. Later, he joined the first batch of the Taiping Army and performed well in the attack on the Huang family mansion. He was one of the eight activists who knocked on the door and naturally became Luo Yaoguo's disciple.

However, what really made Luo Yaoguo realize his military talent was that he led his team to cut off Wu Shibin's retreat route in the Battle of Etang and killed Wu Shibin in battle.

Because of this military achievement, he has the highest official position among the "Twelve Apostles" and was promoted by Luo Yaoguo to the rank of sergeant, so he can be sent down to serve as a brigade lecturer.

Although Luo Yaoguo had several famous Heavenly Kingdom generals under his command, including Su Sanniang, Zeng Tianyang, Li Shoucheng, Li Shixian, and Chen Picheng, but except Su Sanniang, the others were old brothers of the Taiping Army from Guangxi, and could not be considered Luo Yaoguo's confidants.

Therefore, Zhu Ba, who showed military talent, naturally became the focus of cultivation.

Luo Yaoguo not only arranged for Yu Mieqing to teach him military tactics and Ji Dapao to teach him artillery skills, but also arranged for him to be the military training captain of the lecturer crash course, responsible for managing and organizing military training - this arrangement was also related to the fact that Luo Yaoguo felt that he was not good at leading troops.

After all, he is just a scholar and delivery boy in the 21st century. If he did not have an innate divine body and an appearance of "wearing yellow clothes, riding a bicycle, riding purple thunder, and descending from the sky", he would be mistaken for an angel and he would definitely not be able to lead troops.

But he couldn't always rely on Su Sanniang to lead the troops to fight, right? So he still had to train a few more gold medal fighters.

However, the team is still a bit disorganized under Zhu Ba's command. I wonder if he has any solution?
With a "snap" sound, Zhu Ba unceremoniously slapped the big butt with the bamboo stick in his hand, accompanied by a stern reprimand: "Xu Yuegui, stop twisting your butt, stand up straight!"

The one who was beaten was Hong Daquan's wife Xu Yuegui. She was not tall, but she had a plump body, with a curvy figure and a slender waist. She twisted and turned when she walked. It was nothing at ordinary times, but now it was military training! How could she be so timid?

Xu Yuegui frowned after being hit hard on the buttocks. She was about to lose her temper, but Luo Yaoguo and Su Sanniang had already walked up to her.

Seeing Luo Tianshi coming, Xu Yuegui's anger immediately dissipated. She even tried to straighten her chest, looking convinced.

Just obey!
Luo Yaoguo nodded approvingly to Xu Yuegui, the female gang leader.

After Zhu Ba established his authority over Xu Yuegui, the dozen or so new brothers from the Tiandihui who came with Jiao Hong and the sisters Xu Yuegui and Xu Xianggui suddenly became more serious. They all puffed out their chests and protruded their bellies, looking strong and healthy.

Their "second sister-in-law" didn't dare to be disrespectful to Zhu Ba even after being beaten, so how dare they be disrespectful?

The performance of these new brothers from the Tiandihui was also noticed by Archangel Luo - anyone who was dissatisfied would not only be kicked out of the lecturer class, but also be expelled from Luo Yaoguo's upper army.

After all, among the more than 10,000 people in the upper army, there are more than 6,000 new brothers from the Tiandihui!
If any of these new brothers in the Tiandihui are dissatisfied with the officers and lecturers sent by him, the "Angel of Peace", then this team will be difficult to lead.

Next, Zhu Ba used the bamboo stick in his hand to hit seven or eight students who did not stand in the right position, and finally made the team more orderly.

I've just started practicing, and it's pretty good to have reached this level.

Today's queue is almost full.

Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo opened his throat and shouted: "Yu Mieqing, step out!"

"Yes!" Old Master Yu was a veteran and a subordinate of Luo Yaoguo, so he naturally did not dare to disobey. He immediately followed the order and stepped out of the line, clasping his hands, but did not kneel - this was the new military salute that Luo Yaoguo had established for his Taiping Army. In the upper army, there was no need to kowtow to this angel master at every turn.

"Can you use the English flintlock rifle?" Luo Yaoguo asked.

"Yes!" Mr. Yu answered loudly.

The old man also collected several good Western guns, which were all given to him by merchants from the Thirteen Hongs when he was leading troops in Guangdong. Of course, he was familiar with them, but he never thought of letting all his musketeers use flintlock rifles.

The shotgun that uses a matchlock to ignite the chamber is a standard weapon, and using a flintlock is beyond the standard. What does the Green Camp need such good equipment for? Do you want to rebel?
However, Luo Yaoguo knew that before breech-loading rifles dominated the battlefield, muzzle-loading flintlock rifles and bayonets were the best equipment available to infantrymen. Those with better conditions could use rifled rifles and Minié bullets, while those with less favorable conditions could use smoothbore rifles and Nessler bullets. The "Hundred-Step Bullet" that Luo Yaoguo took out and taught Wei Changhui to cast was the Nessler bullet.

The flintlock musket plus the "hundred-step bullet" is the best equipment that Luo Yaoguo can get for his soldiers for a long time in the future.

There aren't many good equipments now, but training can begin first. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom today doesn't have the conditions to wait for equipment to wait for people!
"Yu Mieqing," Luo Yaoguo ordered, "From now on, you will be responsible for teaching everyone how to use the flintlock rifle correctly!"

He glanced at the other students again, and then said seriously: "Students, the formation you are practicing now is the basic formation used by Westerners with flintlock rifles. You must practice both the formation and the flintlock rifle!
Okay, I have to go discuss military affairs with the Southern King. You guys should train Sanniang first, and I'll leave this to you!"

"Yes!" Su Sanniang, who was the monitor of the lecturer class, clasped her hands and bowed like Yu Mieqing.

"Jiao Hong, Xu Yuegui," Luo Yaoguo named two more people, "You two come with me to the Southern Palace."

"Yes!"

Xu Yuegui and Jiao Hong, who had just been hit by a bamboo stick, stepped out together, saluted, and then left the playground with Luo Yaoguo.

The palace of Southern King Feng Yunshan in Daozhou is located in the original Daozhou government office, diagonally opposite the office of the city guard lieutenant general where Luo Yaoguo currently lives, with a large parade ground between the two places.

The big parade ground has now become a "big market". Many farmers from the surrounding villages around Daozhou City pick fruits, vegetables, fish and meat and set up stalls here to sell them to the Taiping Army stationed around the "big market".

Although these farmers who carried fruits, vegetables, fish and meat into the city had not yet received their share of the land and wealth, they all knew about the policies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In recent days, the Southern King Feng Yunshan had sent many new brothers from the Hunan Tiandihui who were under his command to the countryside to carry out propaganda with Volume 1 of "Anti-Scripture" and "The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom".

At the same time, all the high-interest loans and land rents owed by poor farmers in Daozhou were frozen, and would be dealt with when the land and wealth were divided.

All usury owed to landlords and gentry will be waived, debts between farmers will be repaid at reduced interest rates, and as for land rent, it will be uniformly capped after the land is redistributed.

In short, the burden on farmers around Daozhou was suddenly reduced a lot, and their consumption capacity and enthusiasm for investing in agriculture also increased a lot.

The market in Daozhou City also experienced a brief period of prosperity.

Luo Yaoguo seemed to be in a good mood. While walking in the bustling market, he greeted Xu Yuegui beside him: "Sister Yuegui, Zhu Baduo offended you just now, please don't take it to heart."

Xu Yuegui smiled and replied, "What are you talking about, Angel? Yuegui is now a female general under Angel. If she makes a mistake, she will be punished by military law."

Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "You didn't do anything wrong just now. I asked him to find an opportunity to beat you with a bamboo stick to show his authority, so that the new brothers of the Tiandihui will know that the Taiping Army has strict military discipline. I will give you a drink to apologize later."

In fact, it was Zhu Ba's own idea to use Xu Yuegui to establish his authority, not Luo Yaoguo's instigation. However, he was worried that Xu Yuegui would cause trouble for Zhu Ba later, so he simply took the responsibility.

After hearing Luo Yaoguo's frankness, Xu Yuegui's grievances disappeared, and she smiled and said, "If the angel needs Yuegui, just use her. Yuegui has thick skin and can endure the pain. As for apology, I dare not ask the angel to pay for it."

"Brother Jiao, Sister Yue Gui," Luo Yaoguo said to Jiao and Xu when he walked into the Southern Palace, "I have an important task for you two. You can take classes in the lecturer crash course while directing your brothers to start the work. After the lecturer class is finished, you can go on the business trip yourself."

Jiao Hong and his brother and sister-in-law looked at each other, then clasped their fists and asked, "I wonder what important mission the angel has entrusted us with?"

Luo Yaoguo looked around and didn't see any outsiders, so he lowered his voice and said, "Your first mission is to preach the scriptures!"

"What sutra are you preaching?"

"Of course, we should spread the Anti-Scripture!" Luo Yaoguo said, "You must spread the Anti-Scripture to the enemy as soon as possible! In the Qing Dynasty, who can't rebel? Our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has its own anti-law, and those gentry officials also have their own anti-law. Only when everyone rebels on their own can we create a brand new situation!"

(End of this chapter)