"Can Zeng Guofan really hit East and West Liangshan? As far as the training and equipment of the Qing Demon are concerned, we will definitely lose when we fight! ”

"That's the 6th Army, not the Navy. If you want to solve the water army of the Qing Demon, you can only fight with the water army......"

"Even if our army sinks a large number of Qing Demon ships, as long as a small number of ships break through the East and West Liang Mountain, we will not be able to explain to the East King......"

"If you say so, our biggest enemy is the East King, not the Qing Demon!"

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It was the first time that the General Staff had a real water fight, and the discussion was naturally extremely intense. However, the result was very ordinary, and an iron lock was built on the river between the east and west Liangshan. If the Qing army fought 6 battles with Wei Ze's troops in order to break through this iron lock, it would naturally be unwanted. Wei Ze's troops decisively annihilated the Qing army's 6th Army. Without the cooperation of the 6th Army, the Qing Army's naval army could only be blinded.

If the lonely Qing army forced an assault, Wei Ze's troops could naturally use artillery to easily annihilate the Qing army that was blocked in front of the iron lock of the river.

Because they had no experience in water warfare, the focus of the discussion was on whether the Qing army would send the 6th Army to attack the Taiping army's positions along the river. After the discussion, everyone figured out that with the artillery strength of Weeser's troops, and the river surface of less than a kilometer, any wooden boat would be slaughtered when it was saturated with solid shells and grapeshot.

After the discussion in the General Staff, the work out of the battle plan began immediately. The core of the battle was the devastating blow of artillery on the ships on the river, and the battle plan naturally began to be arranged with this core.

Once you have the core, the work starts to break down. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent requires not only knowing the movements of one's army, but also determining the movements of the enemy. How to determine the enemy's information is first the communication system from Anqing to Dongxiliangshan. Now that this area is completely under the control of the Taiping Army, the Beacon Transmission has become a pretty good option.

When fighting, the safety of the artillery positions must be ensured first, how to build the batteries, and how to place the artillery. Someone is in charge of this piece. The troops of the 6th Army could not participate in the water war, so they arranged the configuration of the troops of the 6th Army with the defense of the batteries as the core.

The war plane of the General Staff soon began to operate in full swing, and Wei Ze, as the chief of the General Staff, became relatively relaxed. What he needs to do is to manage the entire staff department, and there is less need to be directly involved in the specific work below.

Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, moved very quickly, and Wei Ze only arrived in Liangshan in the east and west for five days, and brought the river raft from Tianjin City, which was a huge floating object composed of wooden rafts and boats. First use a large iron anchor to stop these rivers in the river, and then use thick iron chains to string these rivers together. An iron lock to block the river was completed.

With such an iron lock on the barrage, it not only built a barrier to prevent the passage of ships on the river above and below the barrage iron lock, but also built a fast passage on the river. If the position on one side of the river encounters a crisis, it can also be very comfortable to mobilize the troops of the 6th Army to quickly reinforce from the other side of the riverbank.

When the Taiping army attacked Changsha two years ago, it used such a method. At that time, Wei Ze's troops could travel between the two sides of the Yangtze River very freely, and the troops were very proficient in this mode. There are engineering troops, and the river platoon is completed very quickly. It only took three days for the barrier separating the Yangtze River to be completed.

On 7 November, Weese's troops began to make further arrangements and training for the defense of the river.

It was at this time that Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, sent another army to "help" Wei Ze. The leader was Chen Delong.

Chen Delong is Yang Xiuqing's nephew, and he is slightly older than Wei Ze. As Guozong and Yang Xiuqing's nephew, Chen Delong was quite flamboyant when he saw Wei Ze. He simply nodded to Wei Ze, and did not kneel down to Wei Ze.

The faces of the generals who came to greet Wei Ze were not good. Although Wei Ze's army was simple in etiquette, he did not bow down, but stood upright and raised his hand. But that doesn't mean people out there can do that. After the people from the other troops saw Wei Ze, in addition to being veteran Tianhou such as Lin Fengxiang, or veteran prime ministers such as Luo Xuan, these people also had old friendships with Wei Ze. They are able not to experience each other, but to speak affectionately. Otherwise, there is no one who does not bow respectfully to Wei Ze.

Everyone doesn't really have to care about Chen Delong, Yang Xiuqing's recent actions made Wei Ze's subordinates, who were originally far away from Tianjing City, feel very unhappy. And Chen Delong, as Yang Xiuqing's nephew, is naturally considered to represent a certain attitude of Yang Xiuqing. Chen Delong is just a national sect, and he is two levels away from Wei Ze. Seeing that Chen Delong did not kneel down to give a salute, everyone had their own thoughts in their hearts.

And Wei Ze smiled slightly, stepped forward and said affectionately: "Brother Chen, I am very happy that you brought troops to help me." ”

Chen Delong obviously did not have such a cheerful appearance as Wei Ze, and he replied with a restrained and pretended proud look: "King Qi, the King of the East has ordered me to come and manage the affairs of the waterway. ”

When the river was pierced into a barrage, the people who came to help Weser told him that he needed to leave a waterway for boats to pass through Guò. If the entire river is completely blocked, there will be no way out if there is a problem that needs to be repaired. Moreover, the vicinity of Wuhu is an area with dense navigation by boats. A large amount of grain from Anhui passes here. Therefore, it is also necessary to leave a waterway for customs clearance.

Of course, Weeser could not ask the grain ship for customs clearance, but he could charge a certain amount of money for other ships. When Chen Delong came to manage the waterway, he was referring to the collection of fees.

Chen Delong clearly said that he had come to rob the money, and Wei Ze's subordinates changed their faces one by one. Wei Ze's troops were not short of money, they broke through so many cities, the cities of Shandong and Hebei that they broke when they went north to rescue, and the big cities such as Huai'an that were broken when they destroyed Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps. These benefits are, of course, enormous.

However, no one is too short of money, and when Wei Ze was originally in Anhui, he could still collect taxes by paying taxes after completing grain. Now after leaving Anhui, there is no such income. Originally, the eastward march was ready to attack Suzhou and enter Zhejiang. That's a lot of money. Now that he has been transferred to Dongxi Liangshan, the army's salary can only rely on Wei Ze's original income. Chen Delong came to take charge of the cost of waterway clearance, and Wei Ze's troops naturally lost their income. Wei Ze's subordinates were naturally furious.

Wei Ze was not angry, he asked, "Is there the will of the king of the east?" ”

Chen Delong immediately took out the order of the East King, and it really explained in detail the cost of letting Chen Delong manage the customs clearance of the waterway.

Returning the will to Chen Delong, Wei Ze smiled: "This is very good! I'm not good at this in the first place, but now I finally have someone to help. Brother Chen came at the right time. ”

Chen Delong is a young man, where can he compare with a guy like Wei Ze who was born in a state-owned enterprise in the 21st century. Hearing what Weezer said so kindly, the hostile expression on his face finally dissipated. He asked, "Isn't it when I can take over the clearance waterways here?" ”

"You can go now!" Wei Ze smiled, "But Brother Chen, since you are here, do you want to know why the East King sent me here?" ”

"If the Qing Demon attacks here, the King of Qi will destroy the Qing Demon." Chen Delong replied.

Wei Ze smiled: "Since Brother Chen knows, then what I want to say is that if there is news that the Qing Demon will go straight here, then Brother Chen will have to take your people to a safe place." If you make a mistake, I can't explain it to the East King. ”

"Of course I know that." Chen Delong replied.

Weeser continued: "In addition, this is a war, and my army does not give great salutes in wartime. I saw that Brother Chen was so concise when he came, so I was relieved. ”

"This ......" Chen Delong looked at Wei Ze, not understanding what this meant. As Yang Xiuqing's nephew, he was quite arrogant in Tianjing City, but he didn't expect Wei Ze to suddenly make a strange request, and the reason was quite sufficient.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Delong replied, "Just listen to the orders of King Qi." ”

Hearing this, Wei Ze's subordinates finally looked better. Naturally, they were powerless to stop Chen Delong from collecting money, and if they were allowed to salute Chen Delong again, these people really couldn't accept it in their hearts.

Weeser designated the location of Chen Delong's troops, not far from the waterway. At this time, a large number of ships had passed through the waterway, and Chen Delong immediately began to arrange for troops to start collecting money by boats. Weeser was back to camp with his generals.

As soon as they arrived at the camp, the generals couldn't help but say unpleasant words, "What does Dongwang mean by this?" Do we have to be hungry to drink the northwest wind? ”

Without waiting for this situation to continue, Wei Ze asked coldly, "What happened to the North King?" It's not that you don't know! If you can make the king change his mind, then you can say anything. If you can't do this, you just want to speak and vent. Then I think you might as well keep this breath to warm your stomach! The East King knows more than you do! If the king of the east knows what you have said, he will blame it. How do you think I can make the East King angry? ”

Yang Xiuqing has a lot of secret agents, and everyone knows about this matter. And Yang Xiuqing's ruthlessness in dealing with his subordinates, everyone knows better. As soon as Wei Ze said this, everyone shut up.

Although Wei Ze couldn't see the expression on his face, he was also very annoyed in his heart. Wei Ze was not so excited about Chen Delong's coming to collect money, and Wei Ze didn't look at this money. When he was in charge of zhì in Anhui, he passed guò to "pay taxes on grain", and the annual tax was hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

If he hadn't been transferred to the ghost place of East and West Liangshan, Wei Ze would have controlled Zhejiang, and after seizing Shanghai, he would naturally be able to open up countless financial resources. Being interrupted by Yang Xiuqing is what Wei Ze cares about the most. Everything else is drizzle.

In addition to this most depressing thing, in order to protect himself, in order to protect the generals in his army who have nothing to do with Yang Xiuqing, Wei Ze can only suppress the dissatisfaction with Yang Xiuqing in the upper echelons without discrimination. And this practice has greatly affected Wei Ze's secret operation to dig up Yang Xiuqing's secret agent.

These depressions did not embarrass Wei Ze for too long, and on November 1o, Levi, who was in charge of logistics, brought a middle-aged man to meet Wei Ze secretly.

"King Qi, this is my uncle." Levi said.

Wei Ze looked at the middle-aged man, and saw that he had the feeling of a scholar, but he was not the kind of nerd. Levi's family is a Hui businessman, and since he is Levi's uncle, needless to say, he must be a Hui businessman.

As the years turned, Wei Ze probably guessed that the middle-aged man was only afraid that he was in trouble with the waterway clearance managed by Yang Xiuqing's nephew Chen Delong, and came to Wei Ze for help.

Although he had some thoughts in his heart, Wei Ze got up as if he hadn't thought of anything and said, "Mr. Li, I don't know what you're doing here?" ”

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