"Shi Dakai himself will not come back, but his brothers may not come back. Many brothers still have the intention of fighting the world, and they feel that following Shi Dakai will have a result. Shi Dakai opened the small belly chicken intestines, turning his face and ruthlessly. The brothers will see the day when they will surely return to Heaven. Lin Fengxiang said very seriously.

Lin Fengxiang said what he said from his heart, but if it was usual, he would definitely not say that. Since the brothers followed Shi Dakai in order to get a better result, the reason why the brothers left Shi Dakai must be because after a series of failures, Shi Dakai made the brothers feel cold. Just like after the change in Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan made too many brothers chill. With Lin Fengxiang's personality and Lin Fengxiang's experience as a fortune teller, he didn't want to comment on his brother publicly.

Other participants agreed with Lin Fengxiang's idea, for example, Zeng Lichang nodded and praised: "Shi Dakai is indeed a small-bellied chicken intestine, and he is ruthless. I think the Wing King is too much worse than the King of Qi. I heard that King Qi finally sold a batch of good cannons to Brother Lin. ”

After listening to Zeng Lichang's words, whether true or false, the other generals also had surprised looks on their faces. Of course, Lin Fengxiang knew that Zeng Lichang was asking for artillery, and he also knew that the expressions on the faces of these brothers were some pretended, so without waiting for everyone to ask, Lin Fengxiang took the initiative to answer: "When I bought this batch of artillery, I was going to rescue Jiujiang, and the people who stayed behind offended King Qi." ”

Looking at everyone's slightly surprised expressions, Lin Fengxiang told everyone what his subordinates had done. At that time, those people felt that the Guangfu Army had traveled thousands of miles from Guangdong to Jiangxi to deliver artillery, and they must have asked Lin Fengxiang for help. If not, how could they have traveled so far? Lin Fengxiang's subordinates knew better that Lin Fengxiang was anxious to relieve the siege of Jiujiang, so they thought about not giving money to buy artillery and hanging the Guangfu Army at that time. During this period, can an agreement be reached to ask the Liberation Army to help relieve the siege of Jiujiang?

The chief generals and deputy generals of the five armies attending the meeting are all elites, and after listening to what Lin Fengxiang said, they can naturally guess the following things. People had to bow their heads under the eaves, and the Guangfu Army did not reach the point where they had to live with tens of thousands of taels of silver. Lin Fengxiang's subordinates did this, and the Guangfu Army would never be obedient.

Sure enough, Lin Fengxiang replied: "After listening to the nonsense I accepted, King Qi's subordinates immediately set up camp and went back to Guangdong the next day. ”

"Didn't the prime minister's men chase after him?" Li Xiucheng couldn't help but ask.

"I went after it. But I didn't catch up. King Qi's men marched extremely fast, and they were lightly armed. After walking for a long time, my subordinates sent cavalry to chase them dozens of miles before catching up. But those cavalrymen were lightly armed, and they didn't carry silver taels at all. When my subordinates took Yinliang to chase in person, from Jingdezhen to Fuzhou, at that time, King Qi's subordinates had already conquered Fuzhou, stayed in Fuzhou for one night, and then left Fuzhou. My subordinates saw that Fuzhou was an empty city, so they simply occupied Fuzhou. In the end, he didn't give Qi Wang any money. After talking about life, Lin Fengxiang's face was a little angry and a little helpless.

People are indeed tempted by immediate interests, but in fact, Lin Fengxiang himself does not think that his subordinates have done anything wrong. Asking Wei Ze's troops to send troops to Jiujiang and occupy the empty city of Fuzhou, even if Lin Fengxiang himself was there at the time, he was afraid that what he would do was almost the same.

"Breaking Fuzhou in one day? Brother Lin, you're not kidding, are you? Zeng Lichang has never had any good artillery in his hand, so when he heard that Lin Fengxiang bought a good cannon from Wei Ze, he naturally cared very much and tried to get a piece of the pie. Hearing Lin Fengxiang say that his subordinates wanted to blackmail Wei Ze by not giving money for the cannon, Zeng Lichang felt that Lin Fengxiang was warning his brothers that if he wanted to buy a cannon from Lin Fengxiang, he had to give money. Of course, Zeng Lichang has no plans in vain. He thinks that not only does he need to give Lin Fengxiang money, but he even has to let Lin Fengxiang earn something.

can hear what Lin Fengxiang said, and with a simple calculation, it took only one day for the Guangfu Army to attack Fuzhou. With the siege ability of the Taiping army, a big city like Fuzhou would have to fight for ten days and half a month to take it. After conquering Fuzhou in one day, did the men of the Guangfu Army fly to the city?

Zeng Lichang reminded that other generals also quickly figured out this matter. Li Xiucheng said in surprise: "Prime Minister Lin, you're not joking, are you?" These words did represent the thoughts of many brothers, and everyone nodded one after another, hoping that Lin Fengxiang could explain in more detail.

Lin Fengxiang said: "King Qi has always been very good at fighting, and he can conquer cities and conquer everything. It is not uncommon for him to be more able to fight after occupying Guangdong. The current thing is not how capable King Qi is, but that he has to send the money to King Qi quickly. This time, I offended King Qi ruthlessly. ”

After hearing this, the generals nodded one after another, and Ji Wenyuan said, "Brother Lin, how much silver is still missing King Qi?" Why don't you let me get a copy for Brother Lin too? ”

After hearing this, Lin Fengxiang's heart was clear, Ji Wenyuan didn't want to make up a share, but figured out how to make up a piece of the pie. And the other generals also expressed their attitudes, and everyone didn't want to be left behind and let go of such a good opportunity.

"When King Qi left, he left me some documents on how to use artillery. Zhang Yingchen and Brother Zhang have worked under King Qi, so we might as well send some people to ask him to help train. What do you think? Lin Fengxiang asked.

The other four armies each bought 2o 12-pounder mountain howitzers from Lin Fengxiang, liked it in their hearts, and agreed to send people to receive Zhang Yingchen's unified training. This matter can be regarded as the past.

"Prime Minister, if you want to continue to buy cannons from King Qi, the money you should give to King Qi is indispensable." Li Xiucheng couldn't help but remind him again.

"Don't worry, I've already sent someone to see King Qi." Lin Fengxiang replied, "After I finish talking this time, I will go to see the Heavenly King and ask him to give Yang Fuqing an order." If it were only us, Yang Fuqing would not be at ease. ”

Everyone knows that Yang Fuqing's heart disease is Hong Xiuquan, who killed Yang Xiuqing, if Hong Xiuquan can't communicate with Yang Xiuqing in person, he will be blind in vain.

Next is the question of the future strategic direction, Shi Dakai ran away and took away the Western Expeditionary Army, and more importantly, left such a huge strategic gap in Jiangxi. Filling this strategic gap will require a huge investment of manpower. But that's the hardest thing. Those who dared to rise up and rebel followed Shi Da away, and now even if they send troops into Jiangxi, it will be difficult to pull up new troops lightly. This is the reason why Jiangxi's strategic gap is difficult to fill.

The Hunan army did not have so much trouble, their soldiers came from Hunan, and their equipment was purchased by Zeng Guofan, or they made their own imitation of foreigners' weapons. In Jiangxi, you only need to get food and salary. For these generals who chose the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they were completely disappointed in Shi Dakai, but they had a strong desire for the troops under Shi Dakai.

Li Kaifang is in his fifties, and he is more urban than these young people. Seeing that he had finally finished talking about a few other things, he couldn't help but say: "Right now, Jiang Zhongyuan of the Huai Army is sending troops to attack very fiercely, if I can't hold the Huai River, I will have a hard time waiting." ”

"Is it really that difficult?" Lin Fengxiang's lieutenant Wei Jun couldn't help but ask.

"If you can't guard the Huai River, how can you keep the Yangtze River?" Li Kaifang said loudly. Lin Fengxiang didn't know what to say about Li Kaifang in his heart, the three prime ministers of the Northern Expedition were rescued by Wei Ze, and the one who didn't receive Wei Ze's favor at all was Li Kaifang. Unexpectedly, now, Li Kaifang has completely taken out Wei Ze's strategic concept to talk about things.

Three of the commanders of the five armies were all prime ministers of the Northern Expedition, and they were naturally clear about this Huaihe strategic issue. But the other main generals and deputy generals are not very clear. More importantly, since the defeat of Wei Ze began to establish the Huai River defense line, Huainan has become the largest grain producer and source of troops for the Taiping Army. It is precisely because everyone is accustomed to a stable Huainan region that they don't care so much about the pressure faced by the Huainan region.

If you talk about pressure, Huainan has always been under a lot of pressure. At the time of Wei Ze's visit, there was only one stronghold in Anhui north of the Yangtze River. It didn't take more than a year to capture the entire Huainan. In this process, Wei Ze also sent troops to the Northern Expedition and rescued the three prime ministers. Because the battle situation in other directions is unpredictable, everyone is struggling to deal with it, so everyone subconsciously thinks that even if Li Kaifang can't do Wei Ze's level, it should be possible to hold Huainan, right?

Seeing that everyone did not pay enough attention to the situation in Huainan, Li Kaifang said with some anger: "Huainan is different from other places, everyone in other places and the Manchus have repeatedly seized the city, and they will go today and return tomorrow. Huainan is a situation where every inch of land is contested. If Huainan opens its mouth, we can only retreat to Luzhou. ”

The generals who did not fight in Huainan all looked at Li Kaifang with "then" expressions. Li Xiucheng, who fought in Jiangxi, couldn't fully understand Li Kaifang's feelings. How much did you retreat to Luzhou? Shi Dakai ran away, and one guy almost lost the entire Jiangxi. Compared with this, the Huainan battlefield is already very uneventful.

Lin Fengxiang is currently in charge of the battlefield in Jiangxi, although he knows Li Kaifang's embarrassment, but he also has a feeling of helplessness. Even so, he still asked, "What is Brother Li going to do for us?" ”

"Guns and firearms!" Li Kaifang said simply, "Wei Ze had excellent weapons in his hands back then, and no one in Anhui could match. Now the number of troops under my command is not under Wei Ze, if there are enough guns and firearms, I can block the Huai army north of the Huai River. ”

After talking about this for a while, everyone realized that Li Kaifang meant to buy more firearms from Wei Ze. Everyone's eyes fell on Lin Fengxiang's face.

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