Zuo Zongtang, born in 1812, was a famous politician in the late Qing Dynasty, and a major supporter and participant in the Western affairs movement. This period was also an era of turmoil in the DPRK. In addition to the Taiping Rebellion, various uprisings occurred one after another. Zuo Zongtang was ordered to lead troops to suppress the rebellion and recruit troops along the way to expand his forces. Under the leadership of Zuo Zongtang, the Qing army basically won more and lost less, and the whole process was quite smooth.
One day, Zuo Zongtang was dealing with military affairs, and one of his soldiers pleaded to enter the account. Generally speaking, as Zuo Zongtang's identity, the small soldiers and pawns could not be relieved of him. However, today, there was a soldier who dared to come alone, but it aroused Zuo Zongtang's interest, so he allowed him to enter the account to see what was going on.
This soldier's surname was Zhu, and after simply indicating his identity, he began to hesitate and hesitate to make vague remarks, first asking Zuo Zongtang how he viewed the allusion of Mulan, and Zuo Zongtang laughed and said that Mulan, who did not let Su Meiye, was a hero among women. Hearing this, he took a deep breath and said what he didn't dare to say casually in his heart: "I made Commander Chen's belly bigger!" ”
Zuo Zongtang was shocked to hear this, only to feel that this soldier Zhu was talking about a female yellow, this Chen commander was a love general under Zuo Zongtang, who had made countless achievements since the conquest, but he was the leader of the people, and he was a good boy like this soldier Zhu, how could a man suddenly become pregnant?
After asking again, Zuo Zongtang slowly understood the origin of the matter. It turned out that this Chen Commandery was originally a daughter of a jie, but he was born with great strength, and when he grew up, he was strong and strong, not inferior to a man at all. Chen Tongling is also different from other women in personality, she does not like needlework, prefers swords and guns, often learns martial arts with jianghu people, and learns a lot of skills.
Later, there were uprisings in various places, and Zuo Zongtang recruited troops everywhere. This Chen woman reused Mulan's strategy, exposing herself to the hot sun, and she had a black face, plus pimple marks, and her body was like a bear and a tiger, and no one recognized her male identity, so she was mixed into the army.
Since then, in several battles, the Qing army has won successive battles, and among them, it is this "Chen Mulan" who has great merit. During the battle, this "Chen Mulan" was like a wolf into the flock, no one could stop it, and he repeatedly built up his miraculous feats, so he was promoted to commander. However, although Commander Chen was brave and good at fighting and killing decisively, in the end he was still his daughter's body, and it was inevitable that he would hide some of his daughter's thoughts in his heart.
The soldier Zhu Ben was a literati who wanted to obtain a meritorious name in order to attain a career path. In 1862, Zhu Fu, a soldier who had repeatedly tried and failed, abandoned his pen in anger, wore armor and joined the army, and then entered the command of Chen Tong. This soldier Zhu not only grew tall and mighty, standing like a bronze bell, but also because he was full of poetry and books, he also had a kind of literary demeanor.
It was this showy spirit that made Chen Tong move his daughter's mind. One night, Commander Chen was drunk and left Zhu to sleep with him. But the soldier Zhu Could rely on him, what it was like for two big men to sleep together, not to mention that the other party was still a commander he respected very much.
Unexpectedly, this Chen Commandery was infinitely powerful and strong in martial arts, and although the soldier Zhu wanted to leave the tent, he was never allowed to escape. It wasn't until Commander Chen untied his clothes that soldier Zhu realized that his beloved commander was actually a daughter. At that time, the war was raging, and everyone did not have time to protect themselves, so it was better to have fun in time, regardless of whether they could see the sun of tomorrow.
As a result, Commander Chen and the soldier Zhu had a husband and wife. After that, the soldier Zhu often stayed in the tent of Chen Commandery, going in and out at night, and his colleagues only wanted the two to be good, and discussed military affairs all night without thinking much. But Commander Chen's stomach could not hide from anyone. Commander Chen disguised himself as a man and entered the barracks in order to deceive the king, and the two of them thought that General Zuo Zongtang was kind by nature and quite fond of Commander Chen, so they thought of informing Zuo Zongtang and advising him.
So there was the opening scene. Zuo Zongtang learned that Commander Chen was behind his daughter, but did not blame them, and asked the soldier Zhu to take over the name and official position of Commander Chen from then on, in order to protect The child in Chen's womb. As a result, the soldier Zhu became the commander of Chen and continued to lead the troops to fight.
But unlike Mulan's ending, in the 1870s, after Chen and Zhu returned to Zhu's hometown in Anhui after fighting, Zhu took two more concubines by virtue of his position as commander and financial resources. This made Chen very angry, and he took Zhu's money and the children of the two of them together, and returned to his hometown of Gansu overnight.
It could have become a good story comparable to "Mulan", and it is really regrettable that it finally fell into this ending. And this story is recorded in the article "Qing Dynasty Wild Records • Female Commander", but as for the authenticity, it is difficult to corroborate because other historical materials are too few.