"King Zhang! The kings have arrived. Li Xiucheng, the loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, bowed his hand to Lin Fengxiang, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. This young general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been crowned king, but there is no shortage of etiquette for Lin Fengxiang, an old-timer.

Lin Fengxiang was originally looking at the map and was silent, but after listening to what Li Xiucheng said, he turned his head and ordered: "Please let them in!" ”

Soon, "Please Wang" Li Kaifang, "Zhu Wang" Ji Wenyuan, "King Ying" Li Xiucheng, "King Ning" Wei Jun, "King Gang" Zeng Lichang, "King Shixian" and others rushed in.

Now this group of people is at the same level as Lin Fengxiang, and no one really thinks that they can part with Lin Fengxiang, according to the level of position and age in the army, a group of people sit down on both sides of the tent. Lin Fengxiang, as the convener of the meeting, sat down behind the central marshal case and started the "Wuhu meeting".

Lin Fengxiang has always adhered to a straightforward attitude, he said: "I received a letter from the King of Qi, it is said that Shi Dakai has been defeated repeatedly, and the brothers who followed Shi Dakai want to return to Tianjing. The king of Qi asked us to send a group of men and horses into Jiangxi to pick up the brothers and return home. ”

At the mention of Weze, the kings were silent. Recently, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan issued an order to scold Wei Ze, and Hong Tianwang believed that it was precisely because Wei Ze beat the "foreign brothers" in Guangdong that the foreign brothers cut off trade with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The weapons sold by the Yang brothers were very important to the Taiping army, and the trade with the foreign brothers was cut off, and Hong Tianwang felt a sense of abandonment.

The generals did not react so violently to Wei Ze's beating of the "foreign brothers", and Wei Ze, the king of Qi, was invincible when he was in the Taiping army, so he really wanted to fight whoever he wanted. Now that Wei Ze, the king of Qi, has established himself, the Taiping army is even less capable of stopping Wei Ze's military operations.

To everyone's surprise, Wei Ze had always been concerned about Shi Dakai's situation, especially trying to mobilize the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to receive troops that might break away from Shi Dakai. Geographically, the two Guangs occupied by Wei Ze are closer to the Shida Kai Department. With Wei Ze's prestige, he really raised his arms, and those who broke away were afraid that they would immediately take refuge in Wei Ze's men. Wei Ze, as before, did not take advantage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at all. Such a "selfless" action made these bigwigs of the Taiping Army feel a little inexplicable.

In the silence, Li Xiucheng, the king of loyalty, spoke first: "King Qi is a person who understands the general situation, and it is also the right thing to help us. It's just that I don't know what King Qi is talking about, so I ask King Zhang to say it more clearly. ”

Lee so-sung's opinion is very representative. A considerable number of old brothers loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believed that Wei Ze's actions were consistent. The core idea is that "no matter what, the Manchus should not be allowed to take advantage".

It's easy to understand. In terms of geographical location and strategic situation, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is now facing the attack of all the main forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Wei Ze is "better" for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which can enhance the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and make the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom better fight the Manchu Dynasty. This is also very beneficial to Wei Ze's Restoration Governor's Mansion.

It's just that the "benefits" given by Wei Ze are out of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the people will imagine too much. Moreover, Wei Ze's attitude was so condescending, as if he was still the supreme military commander of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Although logically speaking, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which still recognizes the status of King Wei Zeqi, Wei Ze is a big man in status second only to Shi Dakai.

Hong Xiuquan recently crowned thirteen princes. Before Shi Dakai broke away from the Heavenly Kingdom, he worked hard with his ministers to remove Hong Xiuquan's two elder brothers, Wang Jue, and Shi Dakai had also recovered after he broke away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. All in all, there are currently fifteen princes in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. They are all kings of the third wave, and the gap between their status and prestige is very big and that of Weez.

Even if everyone admits this fact, they feel a little unacceptable to Wei Ze for being so "unangry".

In the third wave of princes, there is no one who can accept this kind of situation more than Lin Fengxiang, after listening to Li Xiucheng's words, Lin Fengxiang immediately took out Wei Ze's letter and a map presented by Wei Ze. The map shows the routes of various places that Shi Dakai's division experienced, and whether there were any small troops left in the Taiping army in the locality. The number is informative and the time is clear. The kings were attracted by the route that Shi Dakai had taken.

"The Winged King has spared so far!"

"It turns out that the Wing King fought like this!"

The generals had heard a little bit about Shi Dakai before, and at this time they could understand in detail how Shi Dakai fought after he broke away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Everyone talked about it, and they completely left behind who would go to Jiangxi.

Lin Fengxiang quietly watched the kings discuss this, he didn't participate at all, but he was thinking about something else. Wei Ze wrote two letters this time, one letter was addressed to the "King Zhang of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom". The letter is all about business. just wrote about Shi Dakai's situation and predictions for the future battle.

The other letter is for Lin Fengxiang, which has a more personal part. Wei Ze told Lin Fengxiang that Shi Dakai's department had begun to lose morale and its combat effectiveness was declining at this time. If Lin Fengxiang wants to make full use of this force, it is best to conduct strict military training for this group, and even be able to break up and regroup. If you want to save trouble and pull them into the team, although these people are very numerous, they are probably not very useful in fact.

Lin Fengxiang was able to understand half of what Wei Ze said, Shi Dakai had a great impact on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the situation in the entire Heavenly Kingdom was almost shaky. However, after a series of battles such as the victory of Sanhe in Anhui and the bloody battle of Erlang River, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom blocked the onslaught of the Hunan army. The great plague in northern Jiangxi blocked the main direction of the Qing army's offensive. In the provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, after hundreds of battles, the new military system of the Heavenly Kingdom gradually unleashed its combat strength normally, and the battle line gradually stabilized. The armies fought hard and stabilized the precarious situation.

As a veteran who is now recognized as the number one army in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lin Fengxiang certainly hopes to unify the entire Taiping Army and organize all units into an army with unified military orders. But Lin Fengxiang knew that this was obviously unrealistic. The biggest opponent of the unification order was the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. Hong Xiuquan did not want to unify the military orders, but wanted to unify the military orders into his own hands.

After the Tianjing Change, although everyone was still loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they were not loyal to his Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. Among the fifteen princes, Hong Xiuquan's two elder brothers of course want to do things for their "Hong family", but in addition, among the fifteen princes, Yang Fuqing, Wei Jun, Li Xiucheng, Li Shixian, and Chen Yucheng, none of them have a personal enmity with Hong Xiuquan. Others also don't have a high opinion of King Hong. These people naturally refused to obey Hong Xiuquan's orders.

Seeing that he could not unify the military orders, Hong Xiuquan began to adopt divisive measures instead. After Lin Fengxiang began to establish the consultation mechanism of the commander-in-chief of the six armies, Hong Xiuquan began to crown the chief general and deputy general of the six armies as king. Doing so can indeed dispel the evil feelings of the chief general and the deputy general towards the center of the heavenly kingdom. However, this model has also effectively enabled the troops to gradually have a command system that is divided into upper and lower levels, and in an instant it has become a situation of equal ranks.

Lin Fengxiang held a military conference in Wuhu this time, but Yang Fuqing, Meng Deen, and Zhang Yingchen did not attend. These three units have considerable strength and combat effectiveness. They don't come to meetings. Lin Fengxiang originally planned to go up the Yangtze River, but the plan to attack Hubei on two ways encountered a big problem.

was thinking about it, but heard Li Xiucheng say: "King Zhang, I want to lead troops to Jiangxi!" ”

"Oh?" Lin Fengxiang subconsciously responded.

"I want to go to Jiangxi and bring back my brother from heaven." Li Xiucheng saw that Lin Fengxiang was a little absent-minded, and he continued to emphasize.

Lin Fengxiang looked at the other princes, although everyone had some surprise on their faces, no one stood up and wanted to fight with Li Xiucheng for this errand. How credible Weeser is to say is a big question. Even if what Wei Ze said is true, although he can get a large number of troops to be replenished by going to Jiangxi to bring people back, there are still several problems before receiving people. First of all, there is the problem of grain and grass, and it is very difficult to supply grain and grass for hundreds of thousands of people. Secondly, when entering Jiangxi to fight, it was necessary to start an all-out battle with the Hunan army, and the Hunan army became more and more courageous at this time. Wei Ze told his brothers that Shi Dakai's troops would split. But no specific timetable was given, when will it split, and who will split? If Shi Dakai's troops had not been divided, the troops that had gone to Jiangxi would have been besieged by the Hunan army, and the troops would have suffered considerable losses.

Based on such considerations, none of the other brothers spoke.

And Li Xiucheng looked at everyone, and then said: "If I go alone, I'm afraid that I will be alone, and I want to take the king with me." ”

There is still no one who wants to compete with Li Xiucheng for this task, but everyone looks at Li Xiucheng's eyes with some flickering. The squire Li Shixian is the cousin of Li Xiucheng and one of the famous brother partners in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The other pair of brothers are Yang Fuqing, the "righteous king" of the late Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, and Yang Yiqing, the younger brother of Yang Xiuqing. Yang Fuqing and Yang Yiqing once led troops to cooperate with Shi Dakai, and later under the situation that Hong Xiuquan was one of the main generals of the six armies and was crowned king, he abandoned Shi Dakai and led troops from Fujian back to the heavenly kingdom. The current Li brothers also seem to want to take the opportunity to rise.

Such a situation was expected by Lin Fengxiang, and he said, "The King of England should go with him!" ”

Although what Lin Fengxiang said seems to be an understatement, even if there is a little other opportunity, Lin Fengxiang will not make such a choice. Li Xiucheng now proposed to go to Jiangxi to give Lin Fengxiang face, if he didn't say anything, just led troops to Jiangxi. Lin Fengxiang also has no way to take Li Xiucheng. Hong Xiuquan's purpose in dividing the kings was to break up the unified military order that Lin Fengxiang was trying to establish.

Since the military orders can no longer be unified, Lin Fengxiang can only work hard to cultivate the talents he fancies. In addition to the Imperial Forest Army led by Zhang Yingchen to defend the Heavenly Capital City, the most brave and good at fighting among the armies was Chen Yucheng's troops. Chen Yucheng is Chen Chengying's nephew. In 1951, he joined the Taiping Army with his uncle Chen Chengying. Shi Dakai forced Hong Xiuquan to kill Chen Chengying, although Chen Yucheng was very dissatisfied with Hong Xiuquan, but he thought that Shi Dakai was the culprit.

King Chen Yucheng of England had a good relationship with King Zhang Yingchen, and learned a lot from Zhang Yingchen in the capital. As far as Lin Fengxiang knows, Chen Yucheng's troops have completely adopted the general staff system. In the army, the general staff is used to govern the army, and the marching and fighting promotions are all managed by the general staff. Moreover, Chen Yuben has a heroic personality, and when he fights, he is a bit of Wei Ze, and he is not afraid of hardships and dangers when he encounters the enemy, and dares to fight tough battles. In addition, most of his troops were Huainan people, and most of the soldiers were poor children. In order to be able to maintain the Anhui system established by Wei Ze, he dared to fight bravely when he went into battle. Therefore, the fierce generals such as Bao of the Hunan Army fought a series of bloody battles with Chen Yucheng, who was based in Anqing, and only fought the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, and they fought head-on with the fierce generals of the Hunan Army.

At this time, it would be a good thing if Chen Yucheng could get more troops.

Chen Yucheng thought for a while, and said very politely: "Brother Lin, I don't want to go to Jiangxi. Anqing really can't leave. ”

Although his tone was polite, Chen Yucheng clearly rejected Lin Fengxiang's proposal. Lin Fengxiang sighed in his heart, it seems that Hong Xiu's action to crown the king has really had an effect!

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