On the morning of September 1856, the gray city of Tianjing was still shrouded in bloody air, and the morning breeze could not blow away the bloody, but Lin Yaoke, a soldier of the Sun and Moon Army, who was far away in Jiangxi, smelled the smell of fragrant grass and dew. As a soldier of the Sun and Moon Army, he was kneeling in front of the simple Christian church in the military camp, praying.

But he was not attentive. The smell of horse manure in his nose made him look at the distance not far away. There was also a large group of people beckoning towards the shrine surrounded by incense in front. It was Hong Taizu's spiritual position, which was the unique scenic spot of the Sun and Moon Army. At the same time, he was afraid of God and Hong Wu Taizu.

In fact, Lin Yaoke worshipped Hongwu Taizu yesterday. Today he ran to God's side to kneel down. This is not what he did alone. Many people in the Sun and Moon Army are like this: multiple friends and multiple gods and multiple blessings. This is very obvious.

After praying, Lin Yaoke was not attentive when he was having breakfast. He squatted on the ground and pulled out the rice from the bowl a few bites, and then sat on the grass and played with a 50% new Minni rifle in his hand. From the marks and scratches on it, it can be seen that its former owner did not care about it, but at this moment it was Lin Yaoke's treasure. This was the reward he received for completing the hard formation training of left and right recognition after being recorded in the earthen gun team for military merits.

Finally, I can throw away the bird gun and replace it with a foreign gun. Everyone loves foreign guns!

The new friends next to them are all veterans of the local gun team. Seeing this young man likes weapons so much, they laughed. Everyone comes here like this, from bird guns, lifting guns to smoothbore guns, and now the new foreign guns that Lord Li Wenmao uses his own salary and the funds he repeatedly challenged the emperor to configure.

"Xiao Ke, are you going to marry this French gun as your wife?" A tattooed man next to him asked with a smile on his job.

"Yes!" Lin Yaoke couldn't quite understand his Guangxi accent, but he could guess it and directly called it yes.

Suddenly, the soldiers in this platoon burst into laughter and everyone's expressions were relaxed.

Opposite their camp was the Hunan Army camp, and the Sun and Moon Army had just experienced a failure. But these things seemed to have not affected their good mood at all, at least for the elite Earth Gun Team of the Sun and Moon Army.

Originally, the Sun and Moon Army was invincible in the Yangtze River field with its strong ships and cannons. If the emperor had not ordered the occupying of a strategic location, it would have assimilated a place and sent troops to the people from time to time, the Sun and Moon Army firmly believed that the Song Dynasty would have reached Beijing long ago.

However, these good luck have been challenged recently. The miscellaneous Hunan Army actually has foreign gun teams!

It was said that Zuo Zongtang, the Qing demon, bought 5,000 British foreign guns and many foreign cannons from Shanghai. He also hired foreign instructors. Now they have finally finished their training and have started to enter the Yangtze River battlefield.

Lin Yao's possible joining the Earth Gun Team was actually due to the loss of De'an City in Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi.

At that time, the Sun and Moon Army, stationed outside the city, was attacked by the Hunan Army's foreign gun team suddenly appeared. Although the vitality of the cannons was not as good as the other party, Lin Yaoke's troops were brave enough to fight. After the fence was bombarded by the Hunan Army's foreign guns, Lin Yaoke stood up from the wood chips and stones, shook off the dust on his body, threw the musket, picked up a big knife, and ran towards the gap. He had seen a foreigner waving his hands on the wooden ladder across the trench. Then, holding a saber as thin as a Western rib, he turned around and rushed in.

Other Sun and Moon Army soldiers were shooting wildly in the fortifications. Lin Yaoke and the other four brothers rushed towards the foreigner who was not sure whether they were idiots or heroes.

It is said that heroes are because this person is indeed powerful. An officer takes the lead in charge with a knife. Such courage is rare among Qing Dynasty officers;

Idiots are because the subordinates of this man, the Hunan Army holding foreign guns, faced their fearful Song Army. Under the artillery fire in the camp, none of them charged with the brave foreign leader!

The knife in the hand of the lonely warrior was separated by a brother's ground spear. Lin Yaoke cut him to the ground with one knife, and then everyone rushed forward and cut him into slices of mutton.

But De'an soon fell under the fierce artillery fire of the opponent. General Zhu Qingzheng immediately sent the powerful general Li Wenmao to come with a large number of reinforcements and camped between the Hunan Army and Jianchang City in De'an and Nankang Prefecture.

Nankang Prefecture is located between Jiujiang Prefecture and Nanchang Prefecture, and is squeezed into dumbbell shape by the latter two major prefectures, occupying the north shore of Poyang Lake. Jianchang is located on the dumbbell hammer to the west of Nankang Prefecture, and is located west of Poyang Lake, between Nanchang and Jiujiang De'an City.

Although De'an was lost, the soldier Lin Yaoke killed the foreign instructor of the Hunan Army and made great contributions. He had trained the foreign gun front during the training in De'an, and could distinguish the left and right. He would shout "Forardmarch", and he would know that he would walk in step by step. When he shouted "Tengrut", he would know that he would turn right, so he was organized into the treasured earth gun team of the Sun and Moon Army as he asked.

The local gun team was not the same. The salary was a lot higher than that of other soldiers. This was obtained by the emperor's general Zhu Qingzheng's dynasty for the use of taxes on Jiangxi in the northern war zone of Ganzhou. He also learned the strategy of supporting elite soldiers with high salaries, because it was actually very cost-effective. When the Sun and Moon Army assisted the Gaohau Foreign Spear Corps, they saw with their own eyes how they were invincible. Wherever they pointed, Qing Yao and Taiping Army were immediately defeated.

Their income is worthy of their high salary.

The earth gun team actually had a good profit, and Qing Yao was afraid when he saw them.

Therefore, the earth gun team is also the essence of the Sun and Moon Army. Some elite soldiers of the powerful generals were absorbed. For example, the tattooed man on Lin Yaoke's left, Lao Li from the Guangxi Tiandihui, actually participated in the uprising three times in the Qing Dynasty. The Sanlaizi on the right was from Fujian, Xiaodaohui, and always lamented that he was born late and did not catch up with the Emperor Xiamen rescue. Otherwise, he would have been a member of the awesome Song Dynasty Royal Navy in Annan. The gentler young man on the opposite side was nicknamed "Zhihuzhe" because he always liked to say Zhihu". He was a local from Guangdong. He was a scholar, but he hated the Qing Dynasty. He repeatedly finished the imperial examination and was rejected. He had to go to Jiangxi to join the Sun and Moon Army, which was not very strict. He was the pistachio of this platoon.

In short, there are people from all over the world, many of them are members of the Communist Party or losers who have rebelled. They cannot enter the Royal Army and Royal Navy of the Song Dynasty, which are harsh and rich in income and fierce competition, and they come to join the Sun and Moon Army. Some even travel thousands of miles. They feel that this is the new dynasty in the future.

At this moment, they were in front of them the 3,000 foreign gun team and 4,000 Lu Yong from the Hunan Army's Handan learning torch, totaling 7,000 people, while Li Wenmao's troops brought 2,000 earth gun teams. They also added 500 people, reaching 2,500 earth gun teams using foreign tactics, and brought 1,200 cavalry and 2,000 cold weapons hand-to-hand combat troops, totaling 5,700 people.

The number of people is not as large as that of the Hunan Army, but the morale is high. Since the Gaomao Legion swept across Jiangxi, the earth-spike team trained by the Sun and Moon Army itself also swept across. The Hunan Army, which uses hot and cold weapons, is not their opponent, so that cavalry cannot be missing every land battle--the earth-spike team defeats the enemy. When the cavalry goes to chase, the Hunan Army and the Green Camp run too fast on both legs.

So, no one took the Hunan Army in front of him seriously. Especially these bastards were crazy and actually camped in the wild and wanted to fight with them. Isn’t this suicide?

Although the other party actually "learned" them and set up a foreign gun team, the Earth, Sun and Moon Army is not the mob that was beaten to pieces by the dead soldiers under the Confucian patriarchal law of the Hunan Army. They are used to seeing the backs of the Hunan Army when they escaped.

No one thinks that these idiots can do anything, we learn from the crusaders and foreigners!

"Brothers, I look like I'm in a good mood today." At this time, a young man in a robe holding a horse whip and walked towards the group of people holding foreign guns with smiles.

"Little horse." Everyone immediately recognized him. Ma Wuyan, who was among the cavalry, greeted him with a smile.

The tattooed Guangxi man, Lao Li, smiled and said, "We will go out for half an hour today, and the rest will depend on your cavalry."

"Yes, when General Li Wenmao comes, the Hunan Army will get out immediately!" Lin Yaoke laughed and agreed: "The Sun and Moon Army has no nobles now. I think General Li Wenmao should be promoted to baron this time."

"Bad, it should have been promoted long ago, but Hai Jing is just a little scheming. It is difficult to advance if he doesn't believe in God!" "Zhihu" angrily upset his commander.

"Hey, brothers are so motivated. It seems that this bounty is indispensable. I'll go feed the horses." Seeing the group of guys wearing strangely Western buttons and tight sleeves, quarrels, and started to quarrel again, the cavalry horse Wu Yan was a little jealous and stood up and walked towards the other side in disappointment.

"Xiaoma, don't leave. This time I have to rely on you to wipe your butts! Take us two more cannons!" Sanlaizi smiled maliciously.

"As soon as foreign guns and cannons fired, the demons ran around; the cavalry ran around. We were bounty and fed!" Old Li said the songs in the earthen gun team. Everyone laughed.

An hour later, Lin Yaoke stood in the array of earth gun teams outside the camp. In the distance was the Hunan Army array, and they arranged a crab formation that was exactly the same as the Sun and Moon Army. The Hunan Army foreign gun team was in the center, and infantry on both sides protected the flanks, which was a complete copy.

But plagiarism is plagiarism, and everyone thinks this crab array has incredible magic.

This is what they witnessed with their own eyes.

The first time I carried a foreign gun, hanging on my shoulder, the ammunition bag was heavy, standing in the array line, not when I was a sailor, squatting under the steamer baffle, nor when I was a soldier, I was lying under the fence with a bird gun in my hand. I watched without any obstacles with the enemy, and Lin Yaoke couldn't help but become nervous.

"Don't be afraid, let's go over and as soon as the guns are set off, Qing Yao will wet his pants." Old Li next to him comforted the novice, "I have beaten 4 times, and it's like this every time."

The foreign cannons sounded behind him, and the military band played the strange music. The company commander shouted with a machete: "Forardmach", Lin Yaoke and other brothers immediately lined up in a row and walked forward in unison. The Hunan Army opposite was the same!

The first foreign gun array vs. foreign gun array in the Far East began like this.

Before they entered the rifle range, the artillery of both sides began to yell at each other.

They were all foreign guns, and they were almost the same far away. Without having to bet on their face to face, the artillery soldiers naturally ignited the fire with great enthusiasm. Soon before the two foreign gun teams approached, the open space in front of them was splashing with mud and smoke.

Listening to the thunder and thunder made by both sides, watching the shells flying around the place where they passed, Lin Yaoke only felt his thighs tremble, and the Minnie gun, which had already been filled with ammunition in his hand, also shook, and it seemed that he was stepping on cotton under his feet. The ground was soft!

He soon entered the middle combat area. Both sides could take away the lives of people. Amid the roar and choking smoke, Lin Yaoke could clearly hear someone beside him screaming and falling to the ground. When he opened his eyes, he could see his own shells crossing their heads and shooting into the other party's array line. Suddenly, the man's legs disappeared immediately. He held the big mouth of blood like a spring and rolled in the array, howling. Although he couldn't see the faces of the group of demons walking towards him, Lin Yaoke knew clearly that their faces must be as white as himself, as white as ghosts.

"Shoot...shoot...shoot..." Lin Yaoke walked forward on the cotton-like ground, muttering in his heart, wishing he could hear the order to fire. But a shell of the Hunan Army hit him. With the loud noise, Lin Yaoke only felt that his prayer seemed to have become bigger, so big that he could hear it.

"God or Taizu of Hongwu, or Guan Yu's appearance?" Lin Yaoke raised his head and found that the whole brothers in his row were muttering these two words: "Cum!"

The company commander walking beside Lin Yaoke, who was whispering: "Dan's your mother! Daan's your mother! Daan's your mother!..."

This is not hatred when killing enemies, but more of the feeling of cursing God. Just listening to his tone, you know that he is afraid of the Hunan Army's foreign gun team who is getting closer and closer but not turning around and running.

He held a gun in his hand and did not fire the gun. Two groups of people. 3000 vs. 2500, silently pressed against the cannons that each other shot at each other, staring at the other party as if possessed. No one is afraid!

"Boom!" There was an explosion in front of him. Lin Yaoke knew it was a cannon, but he saw a stream of white smoke shooting out from the long queue of the Hunan Army.

"The other party fired his gun!" Lin Yaoke felt his head blank and immediately stopped, raising the heavy rock-like rifle in his hand. To be honest, he was afraid that it would slide out of his sweaty hand, and then pulled the trigger directly as if he had been waiting for 10,000 years. The buttstock hit his chest heavily, and a burst of white smoke suddenly came out of the muzzle.

Lin Yaoke felt exhausted in the white smoke shrouded in the muzzle.

But he was not the fastest to fire the gun. Someone of the Sun and Moon Army and the Hunan Army fired the first shot. Then the white smoke rose up on both sides. Both sides stopped in panic and fired bullets at the other side. The foil was the commander of both sides shouting with relief: Fier (fire)! What happened in the future. Lin Yaoke couldn't remember. The last thing he remembered was that the company commander next to him seemed to be extremely excited and shouting wildly: "fire!" But at that time, his platoon had already been flooded by the smoke after he fired the gun.

Then when he had memories again, he was already standing in his own camp, leaning on his knees and panting wildly, and hanging his rifle belt with his little fingers.

Then came the roars and scolding of the commanders, but their confidence was also weak.

In fact, half an hour after the battle, the Sun and Moon Army's earth gun team was fired under the Hunan Army's artillery, and the front line was in chaos and the entire army was in chaos;

However, the Hunan Army failed to win. They ran away with the Sun and Moon Cannons fired, and the foreign gun team was in chaos;

General Li Wenmao's face turned blue. He witnessed the whole process behind the formation, but he was neither afraid nor angry, but stunned.

In fact, this time, both sides were marching towards each other foolishly, and then they were bombarded by artillery, and then both sides turned around and ran away. The lethality of the musket was equal to zero!

Both sides shot at each other without reaching the effective range!

"One minute! Just one minute! I will dare to transfer the horse team up!" Li Wenmao immediately roared after closing his dumbfounded mouth.

What the hell is this going to fight?

As long as the Sun and Moon Army stands upright for one more minute in front of the musket line, you can see the fleeing Hunan Army everywhere, as he has seen countless times before!

But the Hunan Army's foreign gun team insisted on standing for a minute!

As a result, the so-called elites on both sides turned around and fled in the midst of the sky-shaking artillery fire, which was not bad for a second!

The casualties of the war also proved Li Wenmao's judgment. In the musket battle of nearly 6,000 people, the Sun and Moon Army had only more than 30 casualties, almost all of which were caused by the opponent's artillery, and only 3 people were shot in the musket!

"My mother! Why are you defeated?" In the military camp, Li Wenmao held his revolver and roared angrily at the officers who were no longer in the face.

The whole army was thrilled.

Both the Sun and Moon Army knew that this famous martial arts actor was a good commander if he won. No one would be short of bounties or rewards. If he didn't have enough money, he paid out of his own pocket. He was an angel at this time;

But if you are defeated, he will not blink his eyes when he kills people, and before killing you, he must scold you with all the swear words in his stomach. At that time, you wish you would die early, and he is a devil at this time;

Li Wenmao directly shot a battalion commander and six company commanders, and massacred the first platoon to run to the ground, and the body was hung at the camp gate, which was prepared for tomorrow's battle;

The chief general of the Hunan Army was Li Xubin, also a famous brave general. He also killed more than 20 people and was also in Yingkou. The foreign gun team that Lord Zeng Guofan had high expectations was ruined by these beasts who feared war!

But three days later, Li Wenmao covered his head helplessly and murmured: "Is the foreign gun useless? If I continue to hit like this, I can just use a cannon!"

The Hunan Army's foreign gun team and the Sun and Moon Army's earth gun team were in a stalemate. "The wisdom of understanding people is to understand their own ways, and the foolishness of fools is to be deceitful. Proverbs 14:8"

Chen Baoqiang, the instructor of Haisong Training Camp, muttered the words in the Bible, while copying them in his notebook with a hard pen. When he encountered words he didn't recognize, he would carefully imitate the strokes and then ask the military priest next to him.

Pastors often have to look at the original text of the Bible in order to give a guide because his words are ugly. Writing on the bumpy table is even more sloppy, and they are on the bumpy steamer of the Ganjiang River.

Chen Baoqiang is very serious and diligent, because only literacy and religious beliefs can lead to a better future. The smart people in the army have long summarized it - foreign education, literacy, and farmers are good at becoming officials.

But he linked this future with God's guidance: because God guided me, I tried hard to get close to him, and when I got close to him, I could make a fortune.

Religion is a basket that can hold anything. This sentence is very appropriate to an illiterate farmer who was once an illiterate farmer.

However, what is the difference between blind faith and righteous faith?

It will also bring amazing motivation. Chen Baoqiang is now very knowledgeable about literature through the Bible. With his gratitude to the emperor and hard work, he has been promoted step by step in the army. He has become a famous crusade training instructor. At this moment, he was transferred out of his post and led a battalion of crusaders and two field artillery toward the Yangtze River. Everything is to explore the reality of the Hunan Army's foreign gun team, as an experienced Chinese local instructor.
To be continued...