Unified thinking is a magic weapon, but the core of unified thinking is that there can be no opposing strata within the organization. That is, there can be no upward channel within the organization.

Just stayed in Anqing for more than a month, and even before Wei Ze began to try to establish a grassroots organization, four or five thousand local heroes from Anhui came to join the army. Weeser began to formally implement the rank system within the army. From private to general, Weeser copied this set of things from the modern military system. And Weeser has also set clear criteria for promotion.

The people who just came in were all privates. Soldiers who can complete the basic military queue, run, and understand the basic password, as long as they can read to ten, and can count from one to a hundred, will be promoted to private. Those who further complete military training, can read to fifty, and learn addition and subtraction and basic multiplication and division, are promoted to private of the first class. At the rank of lieutenant and below, each rank has its own standards of military skills, physical training, and cultural knowledge.

Wei Ze not only learned the Qin army in terms of type, but also in terms of system, different military ranks have different treatments. Although the difference is not too big, it is not without difference. Studying hard, training well, obeying orders and listening to commands are the only criteria for low-level promotion.

Officers above the rank of lieutenant need to have military merits and have special assessments. Weeser originally thought that this standard was a bit harsh. What I didn't expect was that the more high-ranking the officer, the more ruthless he was. The higher the level of the general, the higher the level of education. For example, Wei Changrong originally read some books and knew one or two hundred words. After receiving education with Wei Ze, he also learned some military orders, and by the time of the assessment, he had mastered more than 500 words. During the assessment, he passed all the way and finally obtained the rank of colonel.

Even Ruan Xihao, who has no cultural foundation, has obtained the rank of major after intensive training in the army for half a year, plus intensive study before the assessment. Anyway, what Wei Ze needs is not that these people can write any prose and be able to recite poems, but that they can read and write. The language is poorly organized, and it is enough to be able to read standardized official documents.

From March to mid-April, after some tossing and turning, the army became more regulated. The soldiers at the bottom knew that if they could complete a certain amount of knowledge and accumulate enough military merits. It's not impossible to be a general. After the troops had a very clear upward path, the morale of the army became more stable.

Originally, the soldiers regarded the training courses held in the army and the night school as extremely difficult places, but now the enthusiasm of the soldiers for learning has increased unprecedentedly. Originally, China had a deep-rooted tradition of studying culture, but now learning culture is directly linked to treatment, and what is learned is knowledge that is very useful in the army, and everyone is naturally willing to learn it.

Even newly recruited fighters were able to accept the system established by Weese. Anqing is a place where the literary style is very prosperous, and the proportion of illiterate people who are completely illiterate is far less than that in other places. Nearly half of the new soldiers passed the cultural examination, but for them, the military examination was more difficult.

The combat training department, which also served as the function of the organization department, circled about 2,500 Wu Chang Miao from the original 5,000 old brothers. Of the new recruits, four or five hundred are also regarded as talents that can be cultivated. The core backbone of the whole army must be gradually cultivated by this group of people.

The Qing army did not leave much time for Wei Ze, and on April 2o, it was said that a Qing army of more than 4,000 people had sent from Luzhou to Anqing.

After the troops got the news, the officers and men were all gearing up. Cultural knowledge and basic military training are only part of the assessment, and if you really want to be promoted quickly, you still have to rely on military merits. After the Qing army came over, the enterprising officers and soldiers in the army saw the opportunity for faster promotion. Under their leadership, the troops' will to fight was very strong.

Without waiting for Wei Ze to send troops, on April 25, Yang Xiuqing's order arrived. Yang Xiuqing very happily gave Wei Ze the number of the former Eleventh Army to the former Twentieth Army. and ordered Wei Ze's overseer army to attack Luzhou. Yang Xiuqing wrote a secret order to Wei Ze, which detailed the reasons why Wei Ze was allowed to attack Luzhou. The Taiping army was ready for the Northern Expedition, and let the 20,000 troops of Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, who were in Zhenjiang and other places in Yangzhou, carry out the Northern Expedition and attack Beijing. Yang Xiuqing asked Wei Ze, who was in Anqing, to send troops north to attack the important Anhui town of Luzhou to attract the attention of the Manchus.

After analyzing Yang Xiuqing's order, the General Staff Department appreciated this arrangement. However, Hu Chenghe, the head of the War Department, raised a question, "If we take Luzhou in one fell swoop, will the King of the East let us go on a northern expedition?" ”

This worry looks quite outrageous, Wei Ze's troops were only 5,000 people when they stayed in Anqing, and even now they are only 10,000 people. Even if Shun Lì conquered Luzhou and let a force of 10,000 people travel thousands of miles to attack Beijing, it is simply unrealistic. The other generals of the General Staff Headquarters did not bother to think about it.

But Wei Ze's mind moved, he didn't remember that the Taiping army really occupied Henan. If it had occupied Henan, it would have occupied the whole of Anhui long ago. The Northern Expeditionary Army was led by Lin Fengxiang, the deputy prime minister of Tianguan, and Li Kaifang, the prime minister of the local government, with a strength of up to 20,000.

Then, judging from the historical results, this Northern Expeditionary Army must have failed. And Wei Ze's current position, as well as the plan of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, to ask Wei Ze to attack Luzhou. Wei Ze was undoubtedly the closest Taiping army unit to the Northern Expeditionary Army. If the Northern Expeditionary Army was eaten by the Qing Army in a clean bite, then forget it. Looking at the current situation, the Qing army has no way to eat the Taiping army of 20,000 people in one bite. In the future, when the Northern Expeditionary Army was frustrated and besieged by the Qing army, Wei Ze was bound to lead his troops to the rescue.

Thinking of this, although Wei Ze only said lightly, "I won't have this happening!" ”

Without waiting for the generals to speak, Wei Ze continued: "It's just that this won't happen now. You see, north of the Yangtze River, in addition to the troops in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and other places, it is our Anqing. It's only a matter of time before we go north, so we'd have prepared earlier. When the time comes, the province will suddenly go north, and there will be no one left in Anqing. ”

Listening to Wei Ze's words, Hu Chenghe frowned and stared at the map, "If it is according to what the prime minister said, I must occupy Luzhou." ”

It can be seen clearly on the map that Luzhou is north of Anqing. The vicinity of Anqing is dominated by mountains and hills, and if you want to occupy a plain with more abundant products, you have to seize Luzhou.

"If we can seize Luzhou and implement the tax on grain, our budget will have to change." Lin Asheng made a joke. At this time, it didn't even need Wei Ze to deliberately point out, and all the generals were aware. The next battle was not simply to defeat the more than 4,000 Qing troops who came out of Luzhou to threaten Anqing, but to eat the entire Luzhou in one bite. The strategy was determined, and all that remained was how many people to bring to Luzhou.

"Our first division has to go to Luzhou." Zhang Yingchen immediately asked for battle. After the expansion of the size of the troops, each division had four brigades, and the first division, which originally had only 1,000 men, now has 2,000 men. The arsenal also supplied the teaching brigade with more than a hundred converted musket guns. The effective range of the cap gun exceeded one hundred and twenty paces. Originally, the number of artillery in Anqing City was large, and the caliber was also large. The First Division will certainly be able to establish no small contribution.

As soon as Zhang Yingchen's words fell, Lei Hu of the Fifth Division rushed to say: "Our Fifth Division is willing to be the vanguard!" ”

Lei Hu's score in the cultural test this time was not very good, and he barely got the rank of major. Although the rank in the army has not yet been fully linked to the position, Lei Hu himself hopes to be promoted through his military exploits. Seeing Zhang Yingchen rushing to come out, Lei Hu was not far behind.

In fact, it was precisely this teacher who Wei Ze was very worried about. Zhang Yingchen and Lei Hu were a little too frivolous in Wei Ze's opinion. It's one thing to try to win, but the two of them take winning so seriously that Wei Ze feels very uneasy.

It is not that if these two men fail, their personal future will be ruined, but if these two men fail, they will lose too many officers and soldiers. Weeser couldn't afford such a loss.

In the end, Wei Ze determined that he would lead the first, third, fifth, and three divisions to attack Luzhou. The 2nd and 4th Divisions remained in Anqing.

On April 26, Wei Ze wrote back to Yang Xiuqing, saying that he would leave immediately. On April 28, Wei Ze's troops arrived in Tongcheng, and the next step was to march into Shucheng.

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