Chapter 3o Northern Expedition (II)

The news of Wei Ze's enthronement made Wei Ze's subordinates excited, but Wei Ze, as a party concerned, was too cold about this, and the excitement of the generals quickly passed.

Yang Xiuqing gave Wei Ze the number of the 11th Army to the 10th Army of the 20th Army, and Wei Ze's troops expanded rapidly. In order to give his family the treatment of a military family, and Anhui is relatively poor, joining the army is also a livelihood, so a large number of Anhui locals came to join the army. Weese's army swelled to 50,000 men like balloons blown.

The 50,000 men were organized into ten corps, each with 5,000 men. The 11th Army served as the teaching army, and the 12th, 13th, and 14th armies were the three armies that were focused on preparation.

Wei Ze never underestimated Yang Xiuqing's ability, especially when such a person made an unusual move, Wei Ze would be even more careful. With Wei Ze's exploits from Wuchang all the way to Nanjing, coupled with the merits of this campaign, and the time that Wei Ze was suppressed for so long, Wei Ze would not be crowned king.

Even if the reason for Qin Rigang dividing part of Wei Ze's authority in Anhui is added, there is no reason to give Wei Ze the title of king now. If you have to delve into the truth behind it, Wei Ze feels that Yang Xiuqing is afraid that he already thinks that things in the Northern Expedition are not good.

But after all, it was Yang Xiuqing who formulated the Northern Expedition strategy, and he could not order the Northern Expeditionary Army to come back when it was not threatened by Yan. Wei Ze could judge that the Northern Expeditionary Army had suffered a tragic defeat, but Yang Xiuqing did not know what the Northern Expeditionary Army was facing, thousands of miles away. In addition, the Taiping army has been fighting mobile operations without logistics, so I can't guarantee that the situation was a mess a few days ago, but the Qing army showed a flaw, and it could turn the tables after being caught by the Taiping army.

Wei Ze regretted that even a big hero like Yang Xiuqing had fallen into such a misunderstanding in the current situation. At the meeting of the General Staff, Weeser and the generals of the General Staff discussed strategic issues several times. The results obtained were very different from what Yang Xiuqing had hoped for.

"Even if the Northern Expeditionary Army conquers Beijing, the Manchu court will not perish, they can retreat to many places. On the contrary, the Northern Expeditionary Army will not abandon Beijing, and will definitely choose to hold on, so even the last mobile advantage is lost. Of course, the premise of this prediction is that the Northern Expeditionary Army can capture Beijing. Judging from the present, the Northern Expeditionary Army could not do this. ”

"In order to rescue the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was encircled, reinforcements had to be sent. Reinforcements could only be ours. Weese didn't want to hide it, and it didn't work. The northernmost of the armies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were Wei Ze's troops.

Wei Ze believed that the purpose of sending reinforcements this time was to bring back the Northern Expeditionary Army. In this case, if the position of the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements was lower than that of Lin Fengxiang, the deputy prime minister of the Heavenly Official, there would be no way to command the whole army. One of the main reasons for the title of king this time is that Yang Xiuqing hopes to solve this problem as soon as possible.

"In that case, we might as well prepare the field army, three armies and fifteen thousand brothers, and Yan Chapter 3o Northern Expedition (2)

Plus training. With such an elite force, it is necessary to go all the way north in order to rescue the troops and go south safely. If the people sent are all weak brigades, let alone saving people, I'm afraid that I will have to get in too. Weeser explained why he wanted to strengthen the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Armies.

"Is that why the first rotation was done in the General Staff?" Wei Changrong said with a smile.

Theoretically, it didn't take long for the General Staff to have a personnel transfer. Staff officers at all levels were transferred to military command posts at all levels. A number of people from military command posts at all levels will be transferred to the General Staff Headquarters. It's just that the scale of this transfer is too large, the commander of the 11th Army is Wei Changrong, the commander of the 12th Army Ke Gongyu, the commander of the 13th Army Ruan Xihao, the commander of the 14th Army Lei Hu, and the commander of the 15th Army Hu Chenghe.

The 12th Army was stationed in Luzhou and the 15th Army was stationed in Shouzhou, and although it was unlikely that these two forces would participate in the Northern Expedition, they supported the strategic points of the Anhui front. As for Zhang Yingchen, who had been released, he was already the commander of the 16th Army at this time, and he was stationed in Chuzhou, directly facing the Manchu Jiangbei camp. Although the loss of Chuzhou had limited impact on the entire Anhui Taiping Army, Wei Ze did not have the heart to deal with it. Once Zhang Yingchen was able to lead the 16th Army to resist the pressure from the Qing army's Jiangbei battalion, he held on in Chuzhou. When Wei Ze returns from the Northern Expedition, he will be able to solve the Jiangbei camp of the Qing army with elite troops and Zhang Yingchen's 16th Army.

But that's all for later. Among the other troops, the 17th Army and the 18th Army were stationed in the Luzhou area, and the 19th Army was stationed in Shouzhou. The Twentieth Army is now stationed in Tongcheng, and the troops are ready to wait for Qin Rigang's strength to be displayed, and then gradually retreat to Luzhou. Until all the areas south of Luzhou were handed over to Qin Rigang.

After determining the strategy, Wei Ze handed over the administrative work to Bi Qingshan, who was excellent in the payment of grain taxes, and held the position of commissioner of the provincial administration. Since late September, the unit has carried out a comprehensive large-scale military training activity.

Luzhou is a good place, and Wei Ze finally got pyrite in this area. Although with the current mining capacity, the overall production is not large. But Weeser did not want to use pyrite to smelt iron to make steel. Try to crush the pyrite and heat it at high temperature to obtain sulfur dioxide. Military factories already have experience in making zuò sulfuric acid with sulfur, and even so, looking at the black "industrial sulfuric acid", the military factories are dumbfounded.

Fortunately, although the color of sulfuric acid is almost good, the quality is not as bad as imagined. The amount of mercury thunderate needed for the fire cap is relatively small, as long as you follow the steps when making a large amount of mercury thunderate, the rest of the things are much easier.

In addition, four mercury thunderate accidents killed more than a dozen experienced skilled workers in the lethal unit, and the factory learned from the pain and began to work safely under the quality control regulations based on ISO9ooo proposed by Wei Ze. Everyone has seen the real room where the flesh and blood flew after the explosion of mercury thunderate, and in order to better protect their lives, the implementation of safe production has basically not encountered pressure. On the contrary, everyone's enthusiasm for chemistry is far greater than Weeser imagined. Weeser simply handed over the work of firing glass to the arsenal to produce mercury thunderate Chapter 3o Northern Expedition (II)

of the department.

After all, there are good observation conditions for the production of products in transparent glassware. Even if there is an explosion, everyone can see the clues in advance and try to avoid casualties.

As for the military industry, which processes musket guns, it has been more happy recently. The smelting of high-carbon crucible steel proposed by Wei Ze has finally succeeded several times after hundreds of failures. There are knives of high-carbon steel, and the efficiency of drilling holes in the barrel is noticeably increased. Crucible steel is much stronger than quenched iron, and at least five crucible steels can be machined from the time it takes to process one barrel with the quenched knife iron. With the hydraulic drilling machine for special drilling, the efficiency can be increased to more than ten times of the original. The barrel of the fifteen-thousand-cap gun was completed, but the butt and bayonet accessories were made more slowly.

Seeing that the smooth training entered the beginning of November, the Qing army finally had a movement. The first news Wei Ze got was that the Qing army had strengthened its forces in Fengyang, and on Hongze Lake, traces of Qing sailors gradually appeared.

The Twist Army in Fengyang reported to Wei Ze that the Qing army had recently sent a large amount of supplies to Fengyang. According to the Twist Army, the total amount of gunpowder reached tens of thousands of catties. As soon as he heard that there were tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder, Wei Ze immediately succumbed.

After careful selection and rigorous training, the 15,000 troops under Wei Ze were probably formed. But if you want to train this army to a stronger state, you must first have enough logistical supplies. For other Taiping soldiers, they also train on weekdays, and they also have purposeful training. Compared with the training of other Taiping troops, the training of Weize troops is not just a clear purpose, but a training that can be continuously improved. The improved content includes the entire system of equipment, training, command.

This kind of training has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the troops, and similarly, such training has consumed a large amount of Wei Ze's logistical materials. Weeser is not only well aware of how mercury thunderate is made, but also how several smokeless gunpowder are made. The nitrocellulose is dissolved in ether and ethanol, and an appropriate amount of stabilizing agent is added to it to become a gelatinous substance, which is pressed into flakes, cut into strips, dried and hardened, and a very practical smokeless gunpowder is obtained. The problem is that the current production capacity is not able to provide a large amount of ether to Weizer.

Similarly, there is no large-scale saltpeter production area in the Kongzhì area of Weize for the time being. Fengyang's tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder are an income that Wei Ze cares about very much.

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