Chapter 19 Section 19 Fighting Retaliators

When Zeng Guofan said goodbye to Peng Yulin, he gave Peng Yulin twenty taels of silver as a gift.Twenty taels is enough for Peng Yulin to return home.Peng Yulin thanked him again and again, and proposed to leave "Gongjinshui Warfare" to Zeng Guofan, but Zeng Guofan was determined not to accept it: "Xueqin, you have already understood this book of war, so it's better if brother Yu left it with you." The two cherished each other for a long time before parting ways.Zeng Guofan, Changshun and others stayed in Kaifeng for another two days before setting off.After leaving the city gate of Kaifeng, within a mile, there is a hill. Under the hill, there is a large open space surrounded by rows of big houses, which sparsely surround the open space. It looks like a playground for practicing.Looking at the flags flying in the air outside the gate and the green battalion soldiers standing there, I am even more convinced that this is the barracks of the Kaifeng garrison.The barracks is next to the official road, and it must pass through here when entering and exiting Kaifeng, and it plays the role of guarding the gate.

As soon as Zeng Guofan's sedan chair showed his face on the official road next to the barracks, four green camp sentries patrolling outside the gate stopped in front. "What's the matter?" Chang Shun asked in a daze while riding on the horse. A sentry said with a stern face: "It's nothing, just asking, is it a commercial sedan chair or an official sedan chair, and who is the name of the person in the sedan chair?" Zeng Guofan heard that the voice was quite familiar, so he raised the car curtain and looked out. This look made him angry. He yelled in the sedan chair: "Bold soldier Zhang Bao, you dare to set up a card to intercept this student, what is your intention? Are you dying?" Zhang Bao looked up and saw that it was Zeng Guofan. He couldn't help being overjoyed, and turned his head Then he said to another person: "Go and call the brothers, this person is the one who pretends to be an imperial envoy and took the brother's job!"

The sentry turned around like an order and ran towards the barracks. Not a moment after entering the barracks, he led out more than 30 green camp soldiers wielding knives and guns and rushed towards him.Zeng Guofan and others were immediately surrounded. Changshun and Taizhuang didn't know where to go, so they quickly dismounted from their horses, drew their sabers, and tightly guarded the sedan chair from left to right, lest the Green Battalion soldiers hurt Zeng Guofan.Chang Shun shouted loudly: "Bold madman, my bodyguard is here, let's see who dares to touch Mr. Zeng!"

Although Tai Zhuang's martial arts skills are poor, he also shouted at this time: "If you don't want to die, just come up!" Zhang Bao separated from the crowd, rushed over fiercely, and yelled arrogantly: "Killing you bird people is like Zhang Ye trampling to death a few rotten ants on the ground in Kaifeng. Brothers, hit me! Hit me if you kill them!" Master Zhang will bear it!" Hearing this, Changshun jumped up in anger.He swung his waist knife towards the sunlight, and while everyone was looking at the light of the knife, he flew up and kicked Zhang Bao's leg firmly, and then cursed: "Let you taste the fist of this guard!" !" Zhang Baolan was caught by this kick, and he didn't expect Changshun to strike so fast, he yelled in pain, shook three times, and fell on his back.Changshun's move opened the eyes of all the soldiers; the commotional crowd immediately quieted down.

At this time, two people came to help Zhang Bao, who knew that instead of helping him up, Zhang Bao started screaming like a pig being stabbed.Obviously, Zhang Bao's leg was kicked and broken.Seeing that the situation was not good, some sentries rushed to the barracks to move rescuers in a panic. After a while, a man who looked like an officer rushed out of the barracks aggressively with more than thirty guards.Zeng Guofan took a closer look and saw that the person who came was wearing a third-rank top wear and a peacock mending suit. He was obviously a guerrilla, and the guerrilla was a third-rank military officer.

Someone hurriedly shouted to the approaching Guerrilla: "My lord, it's terrible! Master Zhang's leg was kicked off!" Guerrilla looked to be in his fifties or sixteen years old, with a big belly and a fat head and brain. He was a man who was used to drinking and drinking.I saw him walking over swaggeringly, glanced at Zhang Bao who was calling out, and suddenly waved his hand and said, "Dare to act wildly on the ground in Kaifeng, how courageous you are! Send an order, no matter whether it is merchants or civilians, get rid of them all!" When they were tied up in the barracks, the sedan chair was smashed to pieces! When Grandpa drank enough wine, he would first cut off their hamstrings, and then slowly entertain them. You must give Lord Ying an explanation!"

Although Changshun's position is not high, he is a person in the palace after all. The scene is big, and the officials he contacts are also big. He doesn't care about guerrillas or not. At this moment, only Zeng Guofan is in his eyes, because it was given to him by Sushun. Task, dare not make the slightest mistake. Chang Shun greeted Tai Zhuang first, "Protect Mr. Zeng", then raised his breath, flipped over the crowd with a somersault, and landed lightly beside the guerrilla.What a Changshun, he pulled the guerrilla into his arms with his right hand, followed by his left heel, and shouted: "Da Nei fourth-rank guard Changshun with a knife is here, you boy, kneel down for me!" , Guerrilla was kicked with a plop and knelt down on the ground.

That guerrilla first felt his eyes go dark, his left hand hurt, and the words "Da Nei with a knife guard" suddenly sounded in his ears, his body softened half at first, and he fell to his knees on the ground after being kicked heavily, his heart was completely broken. Understand: "I got into trouble!" Just imagine, if someone who is not from Da Nei comes, who would dare to treat a third-rank military officer like this?Even the local magistrate Taizun and the governor of the province would still call him my lord when they saw him!Chang Shun knocked Guerrilla to the ground, took off the palace guard's badge with his backhand, glanced at Guerrilla, and said, "Does it look real?"

When Guer Zhan saw the badge in Changshun's hand, he was already trembling with fright. He kowtowed and said, "I'm blind and offended adults, please forgive me." "Don't take that bao back yet!" Without waiting for Chang Shun to help him, he got up with great effort. At this time, Taizhuang yelled: "Slow down!" What he was thinking in his heart was: "I can't be frightened in vain!" Leaving Zeng Guofan behind, he stepped in front of Zhang Bao, bent down, and stretched out his hand. Grabbing the right hand of the fellow, he said: "My lord broke your dog's leg, and I will break your arm again. See if you can still be domineering!" With a sound, an arm was twisted off.Zhang Bao yelled, rolled his eyes and passed out.

The guerrilla atmosphere did not dare to say a word, Chang Shun turned his head and glared at him: "I will amuse you when I come back after finishing my work!" Then he helped Zeng Guofan into the sedan chair, and under the watchful eyes of many battalion sentries, he got up and continued to move forward . After the sedan chair walked out of the ground, Zeng Guofan told the Chang and Tai Er guards exactly what happened in Kaifeng Mansion.Taizhuang bitterly said: "If I knew this earlier, I wouldn't have killed him with one knife. It would be too cheap to break one of his arms." Changshun also regretted kicking and breaking his leg.

A few people chatted and laughed without stopping all the way, and entered the Tongxu Land that night.Stayed in Tongxu for one night, then rushed to Luoyang. Every time he takes a break, the first thing Zeng Guofan does after washing his feet is to take out his books and read them over and over again, thinking about them carefully.Zeng Guofan already had a high level of comprehension, and he had already kept both "The God of Maid" in his heart for a long time, so this book naturally didn't look like it would take too much effort.Emphasis is placed on the comprehensive art of identifying and knowing people. It not only discusses the face, hair, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, ears and other organs in detail, but also discusses people's words, deeds, behaviors, and deeds in detail. A detailed analysis; although it is the words of a family, it is also incisive.It wasn't until this time that Zeng Guofan believed that the old man who gave him the book was indeed an expert from other places; it would be difficult for someone without a great understanding to publish this book.When he finally entered Luoyang City, Zeng Guofan was already familiar with it.