Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Cough cough cough … Ceng Guofan leaned on the bed, and started coughing hollowly and intensely, his face unhealthy red. Seeing that his brother was so agitated, Ceng Guoquan immediately walked over and patted his back.

After drinking a few mouthfuls of tea, Ceng Guofan finally calmed down and shook his head while sighing, "I'm tired, I'm really tired. I've already explained everything that needs to be said to you, but you still can't put down the desires in your heart. How can you be sure that the next step will be a success? "

"Forget it, don't explain yourself. I don't want to hear it. I don't have the energy to listen to it either …" Someone come! " Following Ceng Guofan's shout, a guard whose expression was as simple as old farmer's rough hands and feet walked in. The black cloak he was wearing actually had a few patches on it.

"Pass down my order, Zigzag Camp is to move to the south of the river to defend the Wei Hui Manor … Three days later, we will leave camp and I will personally escort Zigzag Camp north! "

"Big brother!" Ceng Guoquan was going crazy, he subconsciously wanted to grab Ceng Guofan's hand, but all he saw was a flash, and the old farmer had actually thrusted himself in front of Jiu Shuai, and Jiu Shuai's hand was grabbing onto the old farmer's shoulder.

"Jiu Shuai, please take a seat. The great marshal has not finished speaking!"

Ceng Guofan waved his hand: "It's no big deal, my own brothers can't harm me, get down!" After saying that, the old farmer gave a simple and honest smile as he retreated two steps, opening up a gap between the two brothers.

"Continue to send my order …" The eagle had worked hard for many years for the country, bestowing the best of the best with the fourth rank, bestowing the Foshan Field with 120 days, a mansion … Eagle! Take the ten or so disciples you have trained and go to Foshan Martial Arts School! "If you wear the fourth rank, I can give you forty thousand silver taels. It will be enough for your South Shaolin faction to flourish …"

Ceng Guofan's voice was calm and indifferent, as if he was deciding whether the legume would be eating sweet or salty in the morning. And in the small courtyard outside the study, the eagle was kneeling on the ground, behind it were a few of its disciples that it had summoned.

There were only four men in black standing beside them. All of them were as simple and honest as the old farmer. Each of them wore a tattered, weather-beaten black cloak, and each of them was patched up with a piece of cloth.

However, just these four people standing in four corners — the north-east, the northwest, the south-east, and the south-west — intimidated the eagle and his disciples into not moving at all. An invisible pressure pressed down on them so hard they couldn't breathe.

"Thank you for your kindness, Marshal!" The eagle hit its head on the ground, its entire body trembling like a sieve.

"Hawk, I know my ninth brother has done you a favor. You just want to repay this debt of gratitude!" However, if a gentleman does not do what he wants, then I've blocked your kindness today. In the future, if Ninth Brother wants to order you to do something, you can just push it onto me! "

With that, Ceng Guofan said in an exceptionally strict tone, "Alright, you've taken the reward, and since you're so grateful, let's go quickly! Remember, without my personal order, no one can order you around from now on! "Remember …"

Jiang Nan had already been at peace for four years, and many people had already forgotten what the marshal's might was like. However, Ceng Guofan had given his subordinates a deeper impression today;

In Ceng Guofan's eyes, the Xiang Army was one entity, in fact, the entire Jiangnan region was one entity, but within the Xiang Army, there were many factions and mountains.

Ceng Guoquan's roots were his Zigzag Camp, which was also the Battalion Head who had made the most contributions in capturing Nanjing City. Xiao Letian's combat power was also extremely revered by, and when he was in the Tanggu, the scene of dozens of horses trampling over his Green Battalion was still extremely shocking.

This was the home of the Zigzag Camp, and all the vegetation here was the most familiar to the people of the Zigzag Camp. As long as the Zigzag Camp did not leave Jiangnan, no one could defeat them in this world, not even the foreigners.

But once the Zigzag Camp went north, the soil and water would immediately subside. Where was the Wei Hui Manor? That was the border between the four provinces of Shanxi, Shandong and Henan. If you didn't rebel against the armies on all sides, they would be your shield, so naturally, you would be as stable as Mt. Tai.

If you had even the slightest bit of ill intent, the garrison troops from all directions would rush over like mountains pressing down from the heavens. They wouldn't even need to attack you; they could trap you to death even if you were tired.

The eagle was taken away, from the start to the end, it did not even dare fart, the next thing that happened was that Ceng Guofan made a big change for the middle ranking military officers. The generals that Ceng Guoquan used the most conveniently were all transferred away by Ceng Guofan in the name of promotion officials, and the new officers that were sent in were all all the handsome general's steel rods.

They were the elite generals who were capable enough to intimidate arrogant soldiers but only listened to the marshal.

Ceng Guoquan was already dumbstruck. He never thought that his brother would be so heartless as to actually use such an overbearing method to block him. He wanted to resist but seeing his brother leaning on the sickbed, his mouth filled with bitterness, he could not say anything.

The military orders were sent out one by one. Finally, the atmosphere in the study returned to silence. The two brothers and the black-clothed old farmer were like statues, not saying a word for a long time.

The bell suddenly chimed, and Jiu Shuai opened his mouth and said, "Big brother, you are determined to be the loyal subject of the imperial court? Just be a dog under the Manchu? "

Ceng Guofan did not directly answer him. After being silent for a moment, he sighed and said, "Oh you, you started studying in father's private school when you were five, and entered the capital to study by my side when you were seventeen. What temper do you have?

"Do you know what my father told me when he escorted you to the capital? They say that you have a 'less sense of wonder'. This is father's evaluation of you... "You have talent, but your temper is too weird. You're blaming Father for not being able to figure it out!"

At that time, I once said that 'The road is long and there is no way to call for help.' When I thought about it during the middle of the night, I was shocked. However, in that time of crisis, Ninth Brother, you will recruit three thousand Xiang Yong from Rong and head to Jiangxi to assist your elder brother. Amongst all the famous generals of the Xiang Army, Ol'ninth, you are the rising star, but you are also rising the fastest. You are the one who is truly from my direct line of descent … "

"My good brother! That year, you fought your way down from Juan and then attacked Jingde Town. Then, you used a long and arduous method to attack the Anhui province's capital, Anqing. Thereafter, you besieged the Taiping Army's lair, Nanjing. In between, you relied on fifty thousand exhausted troops to stop the six hundred thousand Taiping Army reinforcements that repeatedly attacked for forty-six days … "

"Your merits are unimaginably great, but your domineering temperament is enough to cause one to have a headache. In order to take down Nanjing as one of the world's greatest achievements, you refused the reinforcements sent by the Imperial Court and me, and it took you two and a half years to conquer Nanjing despite the long siege and the iron barrel-fighting strategy of digging tunnels into the city. After entering the city, your Zigzag Camp began a massacre, and even the location of the Heavenly Kingdom's Holy Treasury was unknown … "

"My brother, tell me, is father's evaluation of you wrong? Less Qi Losing... I can't let you mess around with me just because of these three words! Big brother, I still have a few more years to live. I can't just watch you walk down the underworld's dead-end path! "