In April 186o, Emperor Xianfeng finally returned to Beijing from his summer resort in Chengde. Coincidentally, at about the same time, the Governor's Mansion was also moved from Foshan back to Guangzhou.

Of course, there is no sign of mutual reciprocity, and there is no tacit understanding. The military strength of the Liberation Army was enough to resist the attack of the British, and the Manchu court really understood that as long as the British did not disobey the will of the British and allowed the British to sell cigarettes freely in China, the British would not fight the Manchu court.

When Xianfeng ascended the throne, he was ashamed of his father and abolished various treaties with foreign devils. didn't expect him to be worse than his father's defeat. The ferocity of the British, the defeat of the Manchus, and the humiliation of being driven out of the city of Beijing, after returning to the city of Beijing, all kinds of belongings in his favorite Old Summer Palace were robbed. This mouth made Xianfeng, who was already in poor health, sick.

Xianfeng, who was ill, still wanted to deal with state affairs, so he could only ask Yi Guiren to help sort the chapters. This move was naturally opposed by the ministers of the DPRK and China, and Xianfeng completely ignored the opposition of this gang of wimps. These people are useless when they are against foreign devils, but when they oppose the emperor, they can say that they are the way. Xianfeng was completely desperate for them.

On April 29th, Yi Guiren, who was in Xianfeng's house to help review the folds, happily took two copies of the folds and handed them to Xianfeng on the sickbed.

The one placed on it is the recital of Cao Shuzhong, the governor of Guangxi. In addition to writing that he had exterminated most of the rebellious armies in Guangxi, he was ready to join forces with Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan, to encircle and annihilate Shi Dakai's department. In the past month or two, he has captured dozens of "Cantonese bandits" who broke away from Wei Ze's recovery army. After careful interrogation, it was learned that there was civil strife in Wei Ze's army, and a large number of Cantonese bandits were either driven out of the army by Wei Ze or left on their own. The arrested were all Cantonese bandits whose homes were in western Guangxi, and who chose to return home after leaving Wei Ze's army. Cao Shuzhong optimistically believed that following the fratricidal internecine fighting among the Cantonese bandits in Jiangning, splitting within the Cantonese bandits in Guangdong was just around the corner.

This compromise is all good news, in addition to Shi Dakai is coming to the end of his rope, Wei Ze, who once dominated the world and even defeated foreigners, has also begun to divide internally, and Emperor Xianfeng's pale face due to illness is also a little bloody.

The other is a memo written by Cologin, the chief soldier of Guangxi and the rank of admiral. Colondo is also Wei Ze's old acquaintance, among the Manchu generals, there are not many people who can continue to serve the Manchus alive after fighting Wei Ze head-on, Jiangnan Governor Zhang Guoliang was defeated by Wei Ze, because Wei Ze was recruited to Tianjing City by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, and the troops did not pursue him with his life, so Zhang Guoliang survived. Hechun's entire army was annihilated in Lu'an, and he finally escaped with his life. Compared with the fiasco of these two men, Cologdo acted with the grain transport team in 1852, Wei Ze led his troops to ambush the Qing army's grain road, and Colondo, who was the imperial guard at the time, commanded calm, although the grain and grass were taken and more than half of the troops were lost, they were still able to leave the battlefield with the troops in an orderly manner. As for the other generals, when they fought against Wei Ze, they were basically defeated and killed, or defeated and captured.

After Cologon arrived in Guangxi, he received an order from Xianfeng to stay in Guangxi to fight, and in a few years, he was promoted to the general army. As a Manchurian, Colondo was also responsible for the emperor's important role in Guangxi. Corondo was very concerned about the defeat of Wei Ze, so he did not write much about the fall of other rebel forces in Guangxi in Corondo's recital. On the contrary, for those who escaped from Weeser's army, Colondo interrogated them one by one and wrote a very detailed report.

The breakaway made it clearer that Weezer was able to make his own weapons and defeat the foreigners. As for the reasons for the separation, they differed. Some say that Wei Ze favors the Cantonese people, some say that Wei Ze favors the Anhui people, and some say that Wei Ze favors the northerners. Of course, those who think that Wei Ze is biased in favor of the Tujia in Guangxi, or who think that Wei Ze is biased in favor of the Hakka in Guangxi, also exist at the same time.

In general, to sum up the opinions of these people, that is, Wei Ze did not favor these Guangxi people, which made these people very disappointed. Again, Weeser was disappointed in these people, giving them the passage money and letting them go.

Cologdo certainly did not believe that Weeser would favor so many people at the same time, and after careful questioning, these people had the same description of the policies that Weeser had pursued in recent months. "Mandarin", which was originally forcibly promoted among the officer class, is now beginning to be forcibly promoted among the soldier class. In the military, the propaganda of "equality between officers and soldiers," "opposition to localism," and "opposition to mountaineering" was carried out, as well as discipline and rectification.

Regardless of their military exploits, those who co-opted and formed local factions to fight with people from other places were dismissed from their posts and educated. Those who do not accept discipline in the army are deprived of their military duties. Those who are willing to stay in Guangdong to farm, or go to work in factories, are transferred to the agricultural and industrial sectors. Those who are unwilling to stay in Guangdong will be paid for the journey.

The confession, which has always been very uniform, has now arisen new disagreements. According to the numbers of these detached people, Colondo believed that between 3,000 and 10,000 people in the entire army of the Liberation Army had been purged because of "localism." The leading figures of the army were swept away.

In the Manchu army, localism and mountaineering prevailed. It was not uncommon for armies in different places to clash with each other, and it was even more common for troops to be killed when they camped next to each other because of the distance from the water source, or because of the distance from the road, or because of the robbery of traders who did business with the army.

Colondo, who has full experience in internal fighting, is not optimistic about Wei Ze's purge in the Liberation Army at all, and he believes that after such a purge of the Liberation Army, the internal people will only panic and lose their fighting spirit, and the next consequence will inevitably be internal fragmentation and a great reduction in combat effectiveness.

The armies from different places broke out into a strict conflict with each other, and finally asked the emperor to severely punish the other party's twists and turns, Xianfeng had not seen a thousand, at least eight hundred. So he fully agreed with Colondo. With such a detailed report and such a clear description of the contradictions within the Guangfu Army, Emperor Xianfeng was like drinking the deer blood taken out of a bowl of deer antlers, and he actually had some strength.

Yi Guiren was in a very good mood after seeing Xianfeng's reading of the recital, and she said happily, having a lot of experience in government affairs: "Long live the lord, if the recital from Guangxi is not wrong, Wei Ze is also a good merit, eager for quick success." Zeng Guofan commanded the Hunan army to storm Anqing, and Hu Linyi had already won the favor at this time. It is only necessary to eliminate the Cantonese bandits in Jiangning, and the destruction of the Cantonese bandits in Guangdong is just a matter of a snap of a finger. ”

These words were very much in line with Xianfeng's thoughts, and a smile appeared on his slightly bloody face. But the smile only appeared for a moment. "If it is true as Guangxi said, it is ordered that civil and military officials in other provinces seriously investigate this matter."

Emperor Xianfeng has rich experience in being fooled by his ministers, if he really believes in the words of these civil and military forces, especially their good news, it is really sold and he has to check the money in the sack. He would like to have more information to compare it with.

By early June, more information about Shi Dakai and the Liberation Army had reached Beijing. There was a great division in Shi Dakai's department, and a large number of troops broke away from Shi Dakai and re-entered Hunan and Jiangxi. At this time, Li Xiucheng, the "Li Dog" of the Taiping Army, was leading troops to fight in Jiangxi, and this group of Taiping troops immediately joined Li Xiucheng's battle sequence. After Liu Xiucheng got this large number of subordinates, he left Jiangbei and went north, and the destination turned out to be the area of Zhenjiang.

Shi Dakai originally led his troops south, as if he wanted to enter the hinterland of Guangxi, but after being met with stubborn resistance from the landlords' regiments, he immediately turned to the direction of Sichuan. It's just that his people have been divided repeatedly, and the remaining troops are very insufficient.

As for Weze, the information from the other provinces became vague. What is certain is that Weese's forces did not mutiny, let alone show any obvious signs of division.

On June 11, Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan, marched to the imperial court, and Wei Ze's Guangfu army marched from Shaoguan to Chenzhou. The Guangfu Army attacked very quickly, and at this time it was no longer possible to contact Chenzhou. And news also came from Guiyang Prefecture that there was a trace of the Guangfu Army near the state capital, and it seems that the Guangfu Army did not go north from Chenzhou, but began to move westward.

On the same day, the urgent recital of Cao Shuzhong, the governor of Guangxi, was also sent to Xianfeng. The Guangfu army came out of Wuzhou, and the water 6 marched together, and their ships went upstream, and actually arrived at Yong'an Prefecture, which fell in one day.

Seeing this news, Emperor Xianfeng's face turned pale, and he didn't know whether to recognize his unreliable judgment of the imperial court's civil and military affairs, or whether he should be more worried about the actions of the Guangfu Army. After all, in the past five years, the Liberation Army has not made any moves. If it is all the way to the army, it may be a small-scale military operation. Now that the troops are marching on two fronts and entering Guangxi and Hunan at the same time, such an action is by no means a petty fight.

After carefully looking at the map and contacting the situation on the fold, Xianfeng's pale face gradually turned pale. From Yongan to Chenzhou, Xianfeng still has an impression. The Taiping army once rushed out of Yong'an, and then turned all the way to Chenzhou. Now that the Liberation Army has occupied these two areas, it is likely that they are ready to return to this route. If Xianfeng is not mistaken, the troops of the Guangfu Army occupying Yong'an and the troops attacking Guiyang Prefecture from Chenzhou will eventually converge in one place. That is Guilin, the capital of Guangxi. Things really get to that point, and Guangxi will be taken away by the Liberation Army.

Just when Emperor Xianfeng was secretly trembling at his thoughts, Lei Hu, the commander of the Fourth Army of the Guangfu Army, was already standing at the head of Guiyang Prefecture. The battle was unsurprising, and a division of more than 10,000 men and horses of the Guangfu Army came out of Chenzhou, surrounded the city of Guiyangzhou, and broke through the city in half a day. The Hunan army in the city was no more than 2,000 men, and it was quickly annihilated.

The battle went very smoothly, but Lei Hu's mood was not very good. There were a lot of familiar faces missing from his troops. Most of them were middle and low-level commanders. In the midst of the discipline rectification that was only recently completed, Wei Ze showed no mercy to localism and mountaineering, and all the middle and high-ranking officers with localist tendencies were sent to military academies to study, while the junior officers were intensively reorganized.

It is impossible for the middle and senior officers who were sent to the military academy to study to come out in the short term, and the junior officers were persuaded to retire if they did not repent. Or disarm and return to the field, or let the road fee leave. The Personnel Service of the General Staff soon elected new officers to take over the vacant positions.

These actions were completely public, so that the officers who were given the opportunity to be promoted, while happy, naturally refused to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. Not only did the strict territorial confrontation in the army disappear completely, but even the soldiers' committees were well organized.

After the "black sheep" of the regional leaders among the soldiers were eliminated, the soldiers' feelings were not greatly affected. Lei Hu and the political commissar personally participated in the investigation, and they actually had no real intention of confrontation among the officers and men at the grassroots level, but there were people among the villagers who took the lead, and they had to participate for the sake of face or other reasons. Now that the leading guy has been cleared, everyone is relieved, and finally there is no need to make a dilemma between the villagers and military discipline!

After the investigation was over, Lei Hu had to admit that Wei Ze had indeed grasped the key. Wei Ze obviously believed that the officers and men at the grassroots level understood the reason, and after eliminating the black sheep, the troops not only did not resist in the slightest, but were more united internally.

This should have been a happy thing, but Lei Hu really couldn't be happy. He never expected that Wei Ze would be so "ruthless" to the troops. The reason why those "black sheep" were able to survive was not because Lei Hu tolerated and nurtured traitors, but because most of these people were officers and soldiers who had a very good fighting table. For these people, it is impossible for Lei Hu not to have a heart of love.

If the top boss was not a figure with absolute authority like Wei Ze, Lei Hu would definitely not accept the large-scale dismissal of officers and soldiers, and he would have to keep the next group of people no matter what. Even if he obeyed Wei Ze's orders, Lei Hu had talked to Wei Ze before the war, and Lei Hu hoped to let some people return to the team and make amends in the battle.

Wei Ze mercilessly rejected Lei Hu's request. He said with a straight face: "Comrade Lei Hu, your request is obviously that you have not straightened out the causal relationship. We dismissed those comrades not because they didn't fight well. It is because they cannot abide by the discipline of the Liberation Army. If you ask them to make credit for their crimes, some of them will surely think that the lack of discipline can be compensated for by the merits of war. As long as there are military merits, then you can do anything, and you don't have to be afraid of any discipline. What is the difference between such an army and those leaders of the Taiping army? Can you sue me? ”

The problems pointed out by these words are already very strict, and Lei Hu does not dare to refute them. The Liberation Army was the most disciplined, especially after the establishment of the General Staff, officers moved back and forth between commanders and staff officers, and any officer lost absolute control over his troops. Personnel power, financial power, and logistical supply are all vested in the General Staff. It is already an impossible task to make the troops independent. The military head system that soldiers have is a bad forbidden area that cannot be touched in the Liberation Army, let alone trying to do it, whoever is labeled as a military leader will completely ruin the future of the whole person.

However, many of those who were dismissed were people who were very optimistic about Lei Hu, so he had a glimmer of hope in his heart, if the troops did not fight so well, Lei Hu might be able to use this reason to say something for those comrades after the war. The battles for Chenzhou and Guiyang were enough to prove that the combat effectiveness of the troops did not suffer losses due to the loss of part of the fighting backbone. On the contrary, thanks to increased discipline and obedience to combat orders, the battle was fought even more smoothly and smoothly than before.

Looking at the troops cheering for victory under the city, Lei Hu knew that those comrades who had been dismissed had no possibility of returning to the army.

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