"Dudu, did you send "Song of Righteousness" to Jiang Zhongyuan to try to persuade him?" Army Commander Hu Chenghe asked Wei Ze.

Wei Zexin said, no culture, it's terrible! Am I like that kind of good pedantic? The grandfather of one of Wei Ze's friend's great-grandmothers was Jiang Zhongyuan, so Wei Ze paid attention to this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom figure who was actually very important but not well-known.

When the friend mentioned his great-grandmother, he lamented that the girl of the Jiang family was a concubine for others, and because she was sick and disabled, she was still kicked out of the house by her in-laws with her son and daughter. Of course, this family, who had also read books and felt the backwardness of the productive forces, joined the revolution and successfully became a member of the backbone of society again in New China. When it comes to the evil old society, Wei Ze's friend in the 21st century not only spits on it, but also spits on it, and what he spits on is also justified, which fully proves that social progress has improved the level of personal understanding.

Therefore, Wei Ze knew that Jiang Zhongyuan was upright and had the spirit of a hero. Unless Jiang Zhongyuan really recognizes the situation and is determined to change his past wrongs, after reading the "Song of Righteousness" written by Wen Tianxiang after the death of the country, Jiang Zhongyuan has only one way to die.

Thinking about it, Wei Ze's words were something else, "Don't worry, there is still room for consideration that the old revolution is not as good as the new revolution, but I will never make up the thing that revolutionaries are inferior to counter-revolutionaries." Surrendering and rebelling has never been our means. ”

Listening to Wei Ze's careful thoughts, Hu Chenghe's face was also a little sneering. Successive dynasties have inevitably had people who surrendered when the dynasty fell, and there are many examples of these people turning into new dynasties and upstarts. When discussing the arrangements for the Twist Army, many people within the Liberation Army talked about this matter. The Twist Army does have rich experience in cavalry combat, how should these people be used.

As the saying goes, no four fingers are close, and of course the Liberation Army does not want to appoint people outside the system, let alone let those people gain status in the system quickly. Everyone is still like this for the Twist Army, and it is impossible for the Huai Army to have additional kindness. It's just that Wei Ze once favored Zuo Zongtang, although in the end he arranged for Zuo Zongtang to start from the grassroots level, but Zuo Zongtang participated in the work as a probationary party member, or Wei Zedang's introducer to join the party, this is different. Hearing Wei Ze's clear statement that he would not open up to Jiang Zhongyuan, not only Hu Chenghe, but also other comrades were also relieved.

Hu Cheng and Na's momentum lasted less than a minute, as the commander of the army, if he was small-minded, he would not have to live that day. At the party committee meeting, everyone had the experience of opposing Wei Ze's opinions, and there was no psychological pressure to oppose Hu Chenghe.

"After solving the Huai Army, who will be the next to solve it?" Hu Chenghe asked.

"I think Miao Peilin has been solved." Wei Ze pointed to Texas on the map and said, "If you occupy Texas, you will have a direct passage to Beijing City." When Beijing is shaken, the pressure on our troops to go north will be much less. ”

This construction has fully considered efficiency, and it must be efficient when grabbing land. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gathered a considerable number of troops in Hanzhong, and it was clear that it was to deal with the Guangfu army that occupied Sichuan. According to the intelligence system of the Guangfu Army, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom eliminated the main armed forces of the Hui people, and the Shaanxi swordsmen systematically purged all parts of the northwest, and the great chaos except Xinjiang was eliminated. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has in a sense fulfilled its mission, and the option of "let it be finished" has officially appeared in the options.

Wei Ze explained his opinion, "At present, the three military regions of Hubei, Anhui, and Xuzhou have hoarded sufficient materials, and the financial budget is far from exceeding the standard. It doesn't seem to be a problem until November. ”

Speaking of the budget, Hu Chenghe suddenly remembered something, and he smiled and said: "Governor, the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan recently came to beg us to send troops, and I heard that they failed in the second Choshu expedition." Do you want to get a subsidy from them for military spending. Moreover, the matter of purging the local natives in Luzon has not yet been settled. I read the information, it turns out that the Spaniards also rely on the Japanese ronin to clean the island. ”

Even if he knew that Hu Chenghe was ridiculing, Wei Ze waved his hand with a straight face, "Don't worry about it first, there is an opportunity to intervene in Japan." The immediate priority is to quickly liberate the four northern provinces, and the navy should have good birch for shipbuilding. Needless to say, outside the Guan, there is this kind of good wood on the Liaodong Peninsula! ”

As soon as the Navy was mentioned, the Military Commission immediately came to the spirit. It is now 1867, and there are still three years to go before 1870. It will take two or three years for the timber to dry naturally, and it will take time to build a large number of warships. The territory of the Dutch East Indies is not ordinarily large, and the provinces of Luzon and Lanfang together are not that large. How many problems can be solved by eating such a large territory in the stomach.

"What about Zeng Guofan?" Navy Commander Lin Jiajun immediately asked. He is the one who cares most about naval construction, so he pays special attention to collecting the latest battle situation.

"Xiang Army, I don't think the Xiang Army will be the same as the Huai Army, they will run away at this time." Weeser made his own judgment.

While Wei Ze was discussing Zeng Guofan with the comrades of the Military Commission, Zeng Guofan was also discussing his way out with the Hunan army. In the eyes of the Hunan army, it seems that the Guangfu army has completely lost its enterprising spirit in recent years, and is only satisfied with the southern territory it occupies.

This is a problem of insufficient intelligence, and of course the Hunan army does not know that the Liberation Army at this time is vigorously expanding in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and even intervenes in North America. Of course, even if they heard some news, they couldn't figure out where the territory of the Liberation Army was.

But now that the Liberation Army has begun to act, this will not be a small movement. The idea of the envoys of the Huai army was naturally to ask the Hunan army to immediately go south to aid the Huai army, but the Hunan army did not accept this statement, so the generals all looked at Zeng Guofan, hoping that Zeng Guofan could clearly say what he opposed.

"The twist bandits are going to be destroyed overnight, and we have to hurry up and destroy the twist bandits!" Zeng Guofan said with a cold face. With a loyal person like Jiang Zhongyuan guarding Huaibei, Zeng Guofan could fight in Henan with confidence. Originally, the Xiang army felt that the Vortex Yang was fought down by them with great difficulty, and there was no reason to hand it over to the Huai army to take over. In the past two years, the Huai army would transport military rations to the Hunan army after collecting the grain, and the Hunan army no longer had the intention of criticizing. Because the Hunan army knows that they can't do such a righteous thing themselves.

As for Zeng Guofan's special trust in Jiang Zhongyuan, as early as more than 20 years ago, he commented on Jiang Zhongyuan, "I have never seen such a person in my life. That's what he said, and that's what he believed.

At this time, the Henan war situation has entered the final critical period, the Twist Army was chased by Monk Greenqin and the Hunan Army to the point of almost exhaustion, as long as you work harder, you can annihilate the Twist Army. If you give up the pursuit of the Twist Army at this time and go to save the Huai Army instead, the result will be that the Huai Army cannot be saved, and the Twist Army can also regroup. Zeng Guofan would never allow such a thing to happen.

More importantly, if it was at the cost of the total annihilation of the Huai army, the Hunan army would not be able to pacify Henan. Then there is really no way to fight the war after that. As long as the Guangfu Army recruits the Twist Army, it can use the Twist Army to deal a fatal blow to the Hunan Army.

It must be admitted that Zeng Guofan's mental state was much more stable than Jiang Zhongyuan's, and at this time, he did not think about the possibility of the Manchu Qing Dynasty perishing. Instead, they are doing their best to make the overall strategic situation before the future war more favorable to the Hunan army.

Seeing that Zeng Guofan did not have any intention of rescuing the Huai army, all the generals of the Hunan army breathed a sigh of relief. Bao Chaojian said: "Dashuai, as for the movements of the bandits before, they are afraid that they will have to play the trick of dividing their troops and fleeing again." They felt that they still wanted to go back to Chenzhou eventually. ”

Between May and July, the Twist Army barely escaped under the pursuit of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Hunan Army, at this time Luoyang has been taken away by Li Hongzhang, and the Twist Army can no longer get the grain from Luoyang, where the Hunan Army has chased it, the Twist Army has done its best to loot the local grain, so that the Hunan Army has no food to collect. At this time, there was no food available in western and central Henan. However, the grain in the area of Chenzhou has been harvested at this time, and as long as Chenzhou can be taken, the Twist Army will be able to get rid of the dilemma of lack of food.

Bao Chao was a fierce general of the Hunan army, and his construction was immediately approved by many generals of the Hunan army. has been fighting with the Twist Army for so long, and the Twist Army's routine has also been figured out by the Hunan Army. What they are best at is to ignore the long-distance transfer of a qiē, temporarily get rid of the pursuers, and continue to entangle with the pursuers after resting for a while. As long as you can determine the next target of the Twister Army and block them before the Twister Army, you have a chance of winning.

"Marshal, even if the Twist Army doesn't go to Chenzhou, we can replenish the grain and grass after we take Chenzhou." Zeng Guoquan said.

Zeng Guofan listened to his brother's words and finally nodded in agreement. He said: "As long as Huaibei can hold up for a while longer, we will destroy the bandits and the entire four provinces will be pacified." At that time, you will be able to fight to the death with Wei Dog! ”

When Zeng Guofan said this, it was the seventh day of the siege of Suzhou by the Guangfu army, and Lei Hu had already decided to start the siege on the eighth day. In fact, the siege battle did not have to be so late, but a large number of people fled from Suzhou to avoid the war. Jiang Zhongyuan, who was in Suzhou, did not spoil the people as much as the Huai army in Fuyang, and he did not stop the people if they wanted to go.

When screening the people, it was also found that there were actually a lot of officers and soldiers of the Huai Army mixed in, and of course the troops arrested these people. After their identities were revealed, the gang knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and said: "Master, we don't want to fight anymore, and we don't want to be in the Huai army anymore, we just want to go home and farm and live in peace." Please let us live! ”

After inspection, these Huai soldiers did not carry any weapons, and if it is said that they have bad intentions, it is not very similar. Of course, the goal of this gang may also be to escape from Suzhou and go to Wuyang and other places in the west to rejoin the Huai army. But in this day and age, guys without weapons are of little use. In the end, Lei Hu just locked up these people temporarily, and prepared to take Suzhou and then depending on the situation.

On the morning of the eighth day, the Guangfu army was preparing to attack the city, but saw that the gates of Suzhou City were all wide open. Looking at this, Jiang Zhongyuan actually played an empty city plan!