Chapter 21: Going to Jiangxi (3)

The blow of the Tianjing Incident to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not the killing of nearly 20,000 people, although these people were killed and the central administrative organs were destroyed, but this is nothing compared to the losses suffered by the Party in history.

After Wei Ze led his troops to break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, even though Tianjing City was massacred, there were still more than 20,000 troops in the city. Huainan's Northern Expeditionary Army, plus the newly recruited troops, totaled nearly 70,000. Yangzhou has tens of thousands of elite troops who have experienced more than a year of defending the city. The Western Expeditionary Army had more than 100,000 troops. Several armies combined were more than 200,000. This does not include the two or three hundred thousand people who are included in the militarized management system. On the territory controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there are tens of millions of people.

What the Tianjing Incident really destroyed was the theocratic system that had been established in the worship of God. The "Tianwang family" is the group of people who were crowned kings when Yong'an was established, and the soldiers and civilians of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom thought that they might be killed by the Qing Demon, but they were a family, and they were the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who united as a rope. China's small-scale peasant system has made the people trust this family relationship extraordinarily, and those who are in high positions are the core of leadership, the big men who lead everyone to victory.

After Brother Wei Changhui killed Heavenly Father Yang Xiuqing, this theocratic system collapsed. If a family starts to kill each other first, it will only make the soldiers and civilians at the bottom feel that they are unreliable. Since the "Heavenly King Family" is an immortal descending to earth, then they will go to heaven after death, and they will definitely kill each other for mortal things. Counting on the blessing of these gods in the sky who are falling apart and killing each other? No person in their right mind would think this would be reliable.

As for the upper system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they didn't believe in this thing very much. What they see is a brutal political struggle, and for the sake of power, no one is safe anymore. This sense of uneasiness directly leads to centrifugation and detachment. Therefore, Wei Ze did not come to Xuancheng immediately before convening this meeting, and he also needed time to decide the path of the future exhibition.

There are more than 300 officers at the brigade commander and above level, as well as officers with the rank of major and above in the General Staff. This group of people was the real core of Weezer's army, and giving them a meeting meant deciding the direction of the future, and this group also had various worries on different paths. If they can't be appeased, the combat effectiveness of Wei Ze's troops will naturally be greatly reduced.

Wei Ze first told the senior officers in detail about the affairs of Tianjing City, and after speaking, Wei Ze shouted: "If you have any questions, just ask them quickly." You are the backbone of our troops, and you can't spread rumors and believe rumors yourself! ”

"I heard that the Heavenly King was killed?" Immediately someone asked questions.

Wei Ze immediately replied: "The Heavenly King is still alive and well in Tianjing City, and now he has just sent someone out to chase the Wing King Shi Dakai who escaped from outside Tianjing City!" ”

"But that's what everyone says!" The brigade commander who asked the question continued hesitantly.

Wei Ze frowned, and said sharply: "Do you believe in me or others?" If the King of Heaven is killed, will I not sue the people? When did one of our troops deliberately lie to our brothers? Our intelligence agencies have been working hard to gather intelligence, and they have all kinds of eyes and ears in Tianjing City, and the latest news can be obtained and given to us in a timely manner. Do you trust the intelligence services, or do you trust the people who tell the news with a pat on the head? Think about it, is that kind of guy who dances big gods credible? ”

Wei Ze's attitude was very stern, and what he said was the real truth, although the brigade commander was still a little hesitant, but he did not continue to ask.

With such a beginning, the following questions seem much more rational. Questions about xx being killed rarely arise, but more and more questions about the realities of the various situations faced. Wei Ze divided these questions into two categories, and he answered the questions about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As for the current question of the troops, Wei Ze asked the questioner to sit down first and wait until the time for the special talk.

Watching Wei Ze calmly answer the question, although he will also refute everyone's opinions, but this kind of information circulation has reduced the impetuousness in the upper echelons a lot. Especially after Wei Ze tried his best to refute the statement that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would collapse immediately, although everyone knew that they had broken away from the Heavenly Kingdom system, they unexpectedly felt settled in their hearts.

After answering the question for the time being, Wei Ze took a sip of water to moisten his throat. Answering meaningless questions so non-stop really made Weser feel tired. He had decided to establish a system of regular briefings, and the weekly routine of reporting when he was in school had made Weeser feel that it was too redundant, and now that such a measure is not only redundant, but a very useful system.

Taking a breath, Wei Ze continued: "The reason why the Heavenly King and the Eastern King ended up like this this time is because of the two-headed government. Now that we are out of Heaven, we must solve this hidden danger! ”

Hong Xiuquan seized the power of the church and became the nominal supreme leader, and Yang Xiuqing took power as the de facto supreme leader. With the change of the system and the change of the strength of the two sides, this kind of system will eventually enter a situation of breaking the situation. After this Tianjing incident, Wei Ze completely saw this matter clearly. He took great pains to explain to his brothers that he wanted to gather all the power on himself.

Regardless of whether he understood the specific process of the Tianjing Incident that Wei Ze said, when Wei Ze stopped for a while, Lei Hu immediately took the lead and shouted: "I support the Chief of the General Staff to take power alone!" ”

Wei Changrong looked at Lei Hu with a slightly unhappy expression, he was about to shout out this first, but he didn't expect to be pulled out by Lei Hu. As a result of this delay, the other brothers have already shouted: "I support the chief of the general staff to take power alone!" ”

Everyone else has finished shouting, and it hasn't been Wei Changrong's turn yet. And after Lei Hu finished shouting, he stood up and knelt down for Wei Ze. This time, Wei Changrong kept up with the rhythm, and he knelt down with the senior officers.

After Nguyen Xi Hao knelt down, he was already shouting: "Long live the Chief of the General Staff, long live, long live!" ”

Someone took the lead, "Hooray, hooray, hooray!" The shouts immediately shook the earth.

If it was usual, someone shouted long live like this, Wei Ze was afraid that he would be happy. However, in this situation, the shout of long live did not make Wei Zezhi complacent, but he felt a little ridiculous. The king of the east wanted to be sealed long live, so he was killed. Hong Xiuquan's long live will not last long, as for the Manchu Long Live Xianfeng in Beijing, as long as he will not die early, Wei Ze will lead troops into Beijing in a few years and cut off his head. It's also quite risky to be a long live this year.

But Wei Ze couldn't say anything else immediately, facing the brothers who knelt on the ground and shouted long live, Wei Ze stood up steadily, waved his hand to signal that he wanted to speak. So more than 300 people immediately fell silent. Wei Ze said loudly: "Everyone follow me to fight the world and sit in the world." As long as my brothers obey orders, I will definitely not let them down. But in my words, if someone disobeys the order and delays our major event in the world, I will definitely not spare it. Will the brothers obey orders? ”

"Resolutely obey orders!" This kind of shouting is one of the most common slogans in the troops, and more than 300 people replied in unison.

Wei Ze glanced around everyone, only to see that everyone was quite excited, staring at Wei Ze with a determined gaze. Relieved with satisfaction, Wei Ze shouted: "I order now, everyone stands!" ”

Boom, boom, more than three hundred high-ranking officers all stood up. Without waiting for them to speak, Wei Ze then shouted: "I now order, from now on in our army there will only be a salute of raising hands, and there will be no more kneeling salutes!" Everyone is a hero who stands up to the sky, and none of us kneel! You don't have to kneel for me, just listen to orders, do things well, and fight! Why kneel! ”

When the officers heard this, most of them felt that Wei Ze was really interesting enough to the brothers, and everyone showed happy expressions. Wei Ze asked people to lift the blackboard and write four big words on it, "like-minded", and two more big words, "Comrade! ”

After finishing writing, Wei Ze shouted loudly: "Brothers, since you are willing to fight the world with me, then we are not only brothers, but like-minded brothers." In the future, we will not be commensurate with brothers, but with comrades! That's my order! ”

Some of the officers hadn't figured out what Wei Ze meant by this, but some of them were even more agitated, whether they understood it or not, they immediately shouted loudly: "Resolutely obey orders!" ”

After temporarily unifying the upper echelons of the troops, Wei Ze then ordered a comprehensive restructuring of the troops, abolishing all the official positions in the original troops, and organizing the army in the modern army model of "armies, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads."

There are ten people in a class, and then it is organized in a four-four system. Only between divisions and brigades, between brigades and regiments is binary, one division has two brigades, and one brigade has two regiments. All military officers have a "chief" after the rank. Army commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, regiment commanders, and so on, and the squad leaders of grass-roots units are squad leaders as grass-roots officers.

Completely implemented the familiar military system, and changed those awkward names, Wei Ze felt very relaxed. The officers of the army have received cultural education, and this new restructuring looks big, but the overall feeling is more concise. Everyone can accept it.

The General Staff is still the same as before, and a military committee has been established above the General Staff, to which the Chief of the General Staff is responsible. The Military Council is actually a military management system, in which not only the army is involved, but the executive branch is also a department under the Military Council. The Military Council was known as the "Liberation of the Governor's Office", and Wei Ze served as the governor of the Governor's Office. He single-handedly grasped the military and political power. The possibility of a double-headed government was completely ruled out. The troops were called the "Liberation Army".

In order to facilitate the reorganization, a squad of the unit will still have five people for the time being, so as to ensure that the tactics of the grassroots level will not be affected. Wei Ze told the General Staff that after the conquest of Liangguang, the troops officially adopted a ten-man squad.

It took a day to reorganize the number of the troops, and now the unit has 53,000 fully trained soldiers, which is exactly two infantry corps with baggage units and one cavalry division. At this time, Hu Chenghe had not yet arrived at Xuancheng, and after discussion, the new chief of the general staff was appointed by Hu Chenghe, the commander of the First Army was Wei Changrong, and the commander of the Second Army was Nguyen Hi Ho. The commander of the cavalry division was Lei Hu.

Four days later, after Hu Chenghe and the rearguard troops and the people who followed Wei Ze arrived, the troops were all assembled. Weeser convened a general mobilization against the middle ranks of the Liberation Army. The content of the mobilization is "why going south and Guangxi is a strategy that we must adopt."

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