The most painful thing in the world is being invincible.
What a wonderful thing it is to meet an opponent in chess.
Looking at the women's belongings hanging on Linqing City in the distance, all kinds of bows, all kinds of filth, and even the messy Taoist symbols drawn on long yellow papers, the prime minister shook his head.
The peasant uprisings in the Ming Dynasty were never so ignorant. It can be seen that in order to prevent the Han, the Qing Dynasty lowered the overall quality of the Han people to the lowest level in history. The peasant uprisings carried out were full of absurdity, full of weirdness, and full of drama.
The irony is that even the Manchus themselves were convinced that after the great powers came, it was not the senior Manchu officials who took their ignorance to the extreme.
Hurt self and others.
If you don’t believe in science and believe in God, you will have no future.
The name Ever Victorious Army was wasted.
If there were any three of Guo Yaoshi, Hua Er and Gordon, Jia Liu would not feel lonely.
From Waterloo to Stalingrad to the 38th Parallel, from Sun Tzu's Art of War to the classics of a hundred battles, the prime ministers and ministers were able to defeat them and bowed to the ground, shouting "Jia Jia is invincible!"
But now, despite all my abilities, I can only look at each other across the river, and I can't even release the water. It's really depressing.
Moreover, the current performance of this ever-victorious army is really weird. At the beginning of the uprising, they were so quick to cut through the mess, and they were so popular for a while. How could they fall to such a low level just after occupying the city of Linqing Prefecture?
The more Jia Liu thought about it, the more curious he became.
He summoned Lin Sanmao and asked about the internal situation of the Chang Sheng Army, from which he could judge who was commanding the Chang Sheng Army so that he could prescribe the right medicine.
Lin Sanmao confessed that the Ever-Victorious Army was composed of three types of people. The first type was the Qingshui congregation headed by Wang Lun. The backbone included Wang Lun's younger brother Wang Zhu, Wang Weiquan who opened a money shop, the monk Ma Tianxi, and the adopted daughter Wu.
Sanniang, Wang Jinglong and others.
In addition to practicing martial arts, these people also practice qigong.
The Qigong practiced is that not eating for ten days is considered a small skill, and not eating for eighty-one days is considered a great skill.
"The king's thief has dozens of disciples who practice qigong and martial arts, and hundreds of disciples who practice boxing and stick martial arts. After the uprising, they were all highly used."
Lin Sanmao said that the backbone members of the Ever Victorious Army can be called Wang Lun's direct lineage, with about 800 to 900 people. Most of the civil and military disciples he recruited from his previous missionary missions were awarded the title of Qian Zong, guerrilla, and deputy general, accounting for half of the military positions in the Ever Victorious Army.
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After capturing Linqing, Wang Lun proclaimed himself the lord, made Wang Weiquan the Duke of the country, and his younger brother Wang Zhu the king. He also made four marshals and ten generals.
However, those who actually helped the Ever Victorious Army repeatedly defeat the Qing Army and successfully occupy Linqing were not Wang Lun's direct descendants, but Fan Wei, camp soldiers Yan Fengyuan, Jiang Jie, Wang Yin, Yan Jixiang and others.
Except for Fan Wei, who was a scholar, these people were either camp soldiers or government servants. They not only had certain military qualities, but also knew the inside information about the Qing garrison in various places. Therefore, they joined the Evervictorious Army and made suggestions and led the team to fight, making the Evervictorious Army quickly sweep across Shandong.
The north also quickly established a foothold in the Ever-Victorious Army and became an extremely important force in the army.
The third type is the prisoners released by the Qingshui Cult. Representative figures include Li Shijie, Wang Liang, etc., as well as green forest heroes who have defected from various places.
Most of these people are speculators, and Lin Sanmao is one of them.
"If there is anyone who has made the greatest contribution to Wang Ni, it must be Fan Wei, the military advisor. Anyway, the one I hear the most is Fan Wei's military advisor's orders."
"So, the Heavenly King killed the East King, or put the East King aside?"
Fan Wei was a scholar, and the students were most disgusted with things like religion. It was certainly impossible for the Chang Sheng Army to mess around like this at the top of the city.
Therefore, Jia Liu guessed that Wang Lun might have made Fan Wei special, otherwise he would not be able to explain the absurd scene before him.
Lin Sanmao was very suspicious there. He really didn't know what Lord Jia Jia meant by the King of Heaven and the King of the East.
Due to the practice of magic by evil cults in Linqing City, the ritual ceremony that was supposed to offer salvation to the soldiers and civilians who died was quickly upgraded to a battle between monks and sects at the suggestion of Monk Wang.
Yin Jiang'a, who was responsible for supervising the transshipment of grain, was very happy to participate in it, and he was almost excited.
As a serious person, Jia Liu started to do serious things after he used the powerful Tianlong method and found that it had no effect.
It is to form a personal army under the direct command of the Prime Minister.
The quota is 300 people, 50 from Shandong, 50 from Zhili, 50 from Tianjin and Hedao. The remaining 100 people are drawn from the battalions of the Eight Banners Forbidden Army.
The 300 people were divided into six teams, and each team was divided into captain and deputy captain, both of which were served by Jia Liu's Sauron bodyguard.
The commander-in-chief of the personal soldiers is Deb.
In addition to the official salary from the court, Prime Minister Jia Jia also received an additional salary. All benefits ranked first in the army, and only elites were not allowed to join.
The selection criteria are very simple: four out of ten guns must be hit, five out of ten arrows must be hit, and the candidate must be able to run two miles along the canal wearing double armor.
Elite soldiers must be the favorites of every family, so why would they be willing to give them to Jia Liu so easily?
After the four elders met again, Jia Liu agreed to share the proceeds from the city's destruction among the four families equally, in exchange for the consent of the three elders: Governor of Shandong Cathay, Governor of Tianjin Xu Ji, and Governor of Zhili Province Yang Jingsu.
In order to enhance the military power and publicity, Jia Liu personally named this personal army "Changwei Army", in order to outshine the "Everlasting Victory Army" in terms of name.
In addition, I also did two serious things.
According to Lin Sanmao's confession, after Wang Lun's uprising, he ordered the backbone Zhang Bailu to go to Henan to gather believers, but to this day, no believers from Henan have come to attack the Qing army.
It can be concluded that Zhang Bailu either absconded with money, or the Henan believers lacked the spirit of sacrifice and did not dare to respond to the leader.
In order to avoid an accident, Jia Liu still wrote to Henan, demanding the arrest of Zhang Bailu and paying attention to the association situation of Qingshui congregation in the province.
In addition, there are secret societies of Qingshui Cult members in Wei County and Wenshang County, Zhili Province.
On July 19, hundreds of believers from two counties brought their own swords and took over Wenshang County. The 65 soldiers in the city dispersed after hearing the news, allowing the believers to capture Wenshang County without any effort.
As soon as this incident came out, Jia Liu immediately sent Deb and Chang Wei's troops to rush to suppress it. He ordered the believers to surrender unless they surrendered, and any remaining resisters would be killed.
Deb led Chang Wei's army to capture Wenshang and climbed the city with rope hooks late at night. The religious bandits on the city did not take any corresponding measures. As a result, they were killed indiscriminately by Chang Wei's army in their sleep.
At dawn, the situation calmed down.
They planned to kill more than 300 believers and capture more than 200.
Jia Liu ordered the more than 200 believers to be sent to the local area and the villagers to keep them under strict supervision. As a result, in order to boast to the court about his achievements, the Zhili Governor secretly ordered his deputy Marqing'a to bury all the prisoners alive and report to the court that he had killed two thousand thieves.
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Qianlong was overjoyed and gave Yang Jingsu the rank of Yunqi Lieutenant.
Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin, was very jealous and wanted to take action. However, before he could take action, he suddenly saw a fire outside the camp. He was so frightened that he thought it was a bandit and rushed out. He "ordered the cannon to be fired" and even personally held a torch to light the cannon.
After a random bombardment, it was discovered that a house in the distance was on fire.
However, even though he gained nothing, he still reported to the court, "I have set up a strong camp. At that time, hundreds of thieves wanted to rob my camp at night. Fortunately, I was well prepared. I first shouted to stabilize the morale of the army, lit the fire myself, and killed the enemy with one shot."
There are dozens of people who are good at boxing and sticks.”
After accepting three thousand taels from Governor Xu, Jia Liumei used his conscience to prove that the victory was true.
Time flies to the end of July.
News came from the capital that Sauron's troops had entered Shanhaiguan, and the imperial court had dispatched a cavalry of 500 people on their way to Shandong at starry night.
Since the outlying religious bandits had been pacified, Qianlong wanted to launch a major offensive after the arrival of Sauron's troops in order to quell the Shandong bandits as soon as possible.
Jia Liu agreed in principle to this.
The weather is still unbearably hot.
Under the scorching sun, someone was shouting in front of Linqing Old City.
"Marshal Yan, I am Lin Sanmao from Xiaozhangzhuang. The Prime Minister asked me to give you a message. As long as you surrender, the Prime Minister will guarantee you glory, wealth, and lots of gold!"