When the explosion at the mouth of the fish market on the other side of the river sounded, Shang Zhixin, the prince of Pingnan, who was sitting outside Xinhui City, was awakened just after falling asleep, and rushed out of the tent to look up at Xinhui City without caring about putting on his clothes and boots, but he thought that the explosion came from Xinhui City.
In the line of sight, Xinhui City was still shrouded in darkness, and no movement could be heard quietly, if it weren't for the occasional lights that suddenly flashed on the city's head, it only made people feel that this Xinhui City was already a dead city, empty.
In the relatively quiet Xinhui City, the Qing army camp outside the city was blown up, and there was an uproar, and everyone looked nervous and asked each other what happened.
Some of the Qing soldiers who were awakened by the sound of the explosion thought that it was the Taiping army in Xinhui City attacking the camp, and they fled in panic in all directions, and a few of them were so timid that they even shouted in fright, and the officers in the camp were so frightened that their hearts were raised to their throats, lest a camp roar accidentally occur.
Seeing this, Shang Zhixin couldn't help frowning, as the prince of Pingnan, although he was born in a military town family, he looked like a reckless man in the eyes of outsiders, and the Xinhui siege battle commanded by the commander for the first time was defeated again, which made him lose his prestige, but in his bones he was much stronger than those gentlemen, and his ability to kill the enemy and command the battle was much higher, otherwise Shang Kexi would not have assured that he would continue to sit in the army.
Without hesitation, Shang Zhixin ordered to go down and suppress those panicked soldiers, and asked Goshha left and right: "Where is the sound?"
Goshha was also confused, and he didn't know where the loud noise came from.
Seeing that they didn't know, Shang Zhixin couldn't help but be annoyed, and sent someone to summon the generals on duty tonight.
Qin Guocheng, the commander of Shang's own soldiers, was the first to arrive, and at the same time brought Shang Zhixin a shocking thunderbolt fish market mouth division camp on fire "Blown up, blown up" "It's on fire, it's on fire, it's on fire."
The Taiping army and the Qing army on the city wall heard a loud noise at the same time, but they saw the fire in the camp of the Guangdong Navy more than ten miles away before the Qing army under the city.
It is said that this is because their commander Zhou Shixiang was unwilling to call those Han green battalion soldiers Tartars, but he did not know how to call these green battalion soldiers who turned their backs on their ancestors and aided the Qing soldiers, so they simply called them demons on a whim.
The term "Qing Demon" was first popular in the trapping camp, because most of the members of the trapping camp came from the Laofengzhuang copper mine, and Tie Yi and others in the camp were Luo followers before following Zhou Shixiang, so under the secret promotion of these Luo Christian officers, the soldiers in the trapping camp quickly agreed that the Qing soldiers who killed people and set fires and did all kinds of evil were demons and monsters, and they were sent by God to punish demons and eliminate demons.
Under the impetus of the trapped camp, it didn't take long for the low-level sergeants of the entire five battalions of the Taiping Army to agree with the title of "Qing Demon", although there was no sign that Luo Christianity had begun to spread throughout the army, but there was evidence that the Luo Sect officers led by Tie Yi were very willing to promote their belief in Luo Religion throughout the army, and the term "Qing Demon" largely met their missionary needs.
At the top of the Taiping Army, traditionally educated officials and officers, such as Song Xianggong, were dissatisfied with the term "Qing Demon", believing that this reference could easily lead outsiders to misunderstand that the Taiping Army was a team that worshiped gods and worshiped ghosts, or even a religious army, like the Yellow Turban Army or the Red Turban Army in those days.
Song Xianggong believed that once he gave outsiders the association that the Taiping Army was a religious team, then the Taiping Army would become the common enemy of the world, and both the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty would regard it as an enemy, after all, the orthodoxy in the world was Confucianism, and Confucianism was the most hostile to gods and ghosts.
Now both the Manchu Qing and the Southern Ming Dynasty regard Confucianism as orthodoxy, and the gentry and scholars everywhere also respect the way of Confucius and Mencius, if the Taiping Army evolves into a religious team, these people, whether they support the Ming or the Qing, will be hostile to the Taiping Army, which will make the future of the Taiping Army fall into a situation where the enemy is on all sides, and they cannot get any support and help at all, which will definitely be fatal to the survival of the Taiping Army.
However, the opposition and worries of Song Xianggong and others were not adopted by Zhou Shixiang, or Zhou Shixiang did not take their worries to heart at all, when he found that the title of "Qing Demon" was very popular with those who did not know how to write in the army, he simply formalized this title, and on various occasions the Qing army adopted the title of "Qing Demon", which made Song Xianggong and them very helpless, so they had to emphasize to some camp elders that this demon is not another demon, so as to dilute the anti-damage brought by the title "Qing Demon" to the Taiping Army.
The problem of Luojiao, Song Xianggong also mentioned Zhou Shixiang, and even implicitly proposed that the composition of the soldiers trapped in the camp was not conducive to the future development of the Taiping army, and the religious background of Baihu Tieyi and others was also easy to bring hidden dangers to the Taiping army.
I thought that Zhou Shixiang, a thousand households from a talented family, would resonate with his reminder, but he never thought that when Zhou Shixiang learned in detail that this so-called Luo Sect was a branch of Maitreya Sect that evolved from the Red Turban Rebellion at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, or the White Lotus Sect that changed its name, he actually became interested in Luo Sect and sent someone to call Tie Yi and other Luo Christian-born officers to talk all night.
Afterwards, no one knew what Zhou Shi said to Tie Yi and other Luo disciples, even Song Xianggong didn't know, because Zhou Shi didn't say much to him, just vaguely, and finally laughed, Song Xianggong asked again, and he avoided talking about it.
With the attitude of the boss, Song Xianggong naturally couldn't say anything more about this matter, and the matter of Luojiao was put on hold.
It's just that no matter what the people around him say, Song Xianggong always gritted his teeth and didn't mention the term "Qing Demon", only called Tartar or Qing Army.
When the explosion came, Song Xiangcheng and Zhou Shixiang stood silently behind the battlement and waited, when the loud noise came to his ears, his heart trembled violently, although he was very dissatisfied with the "Qing Demon" statement of the soldiers behind him, but he was still instantly excited, the whole person was as excited as if he had beaten chicken blood, his eyes were staring at the direction of the fish market, and when the fire rose to the sky, the fist he had been clenching was released, and he muttered in a low voice with great happiness: "Success, success" It worked, and the fire finally started At this moment, Zhou Shixiang's heart was more excited than Song Xianggong beside him, the fire at the mouth of the fish market determined the survival of the Taiping Army, in the torment of waiting, he looked forward to the fire rising to the sky countless times, but again and again he looked forward to dying with the passage of time, until the loud noise came.
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