"Brother Lin, who sent this Li Shouyi?" Li Xiucheng's expression and tone were full of suspicion.

At this time, the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gathered together and often held small private meetings. No one had any illusions about King Hong, and at the moment of life and death, these generals finally united to decide the future fate of the kingdom of heaven.

Lin Fengxiang is undoubtedly the leader, so in the matter of persuading the Heavenly King to leave Tianjing City, everyone supports Lin Fengxiang to do it, and everyone beats the side drum. However, asking the king to send Li Shouyi, everyone thinks that Lin Fengxiang is a little too outrageous. After Li Xiucheng asked, everyone's eyes fell on Lin Fengxiang's face.

"Li Shouyi was not sent by me." Lin Fengxiang replied immediately.

Several princes and Lin Fengxiang at the meeting were accomplices, and when Lin Fengxiang said this, they could only believe it. After all, there is no need for Lin Fengxiang to talk nonsense about such things, let alone that this nonsense is too outrageous.

"Could it be someone sent by the Qing Demon?" Chen Yucheng and Lin Fengxiang went the closest, and he was the first to put forward his own opinions.

Yang Fuqing disagreed with Chen Yucheng's opinion, he said: "What the Qing Demon wants most now is that we and the King of Qi will fight to the death, what is the benefit of letting us go to the northwest?" ”

As soon as they said this, everyone immediately ruled out the possibility of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. As the biggest beneficiary of this proposal, the suspicion of Qi Wang Wei Ze has become much greater. However, Wei Ze's opinion that he was the mastermind behind the scenes was questioned by Chen Yucheng, "Will King Qi come up with such a bad solution?" ”

Everyone also felt that it made sense when they heard it, and with Wei Ze's ability, of course they could come up with a more effective way. made such a clumsy drama, wouldn't it be a big laugh to let people know?

In fact, if this Li Shouyi can really convince the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, it will naturally be a very good thing. However, this matter is far from being so simple, if Hong Xiuquan leaves Tianjing City like this, it means that there will be a big article behind it. But Li Shouyi was now called into the palace by Hong Xiuquan. Everyone wanted to ask Li Shouyi for questioning, but they couldn't do it.

Lin Fengxiang frowned and said slowly: "It may also be that other people in Tianjing City made this matter." ”

The generals were stunned when they heard this, and then everyone nodded again and again. Indeed, everyone can see clearly in the current situation, and if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not immediately Tianjing City, it will be a dead end. It's just that the generals think that they are the only force that can promote the changes in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so everyone didn't expect that there were other people in the Heavenly Kingdom who were also working hard to promote this matter.

"Who could it be?" Chen Yucheng immediately asked.

"I don't know about this," Lin Fengxiang replied: "Heaven really depends on us, but we can't underestimate others." ”

The names of a group of civil officials are hovering in everyone's minds, but there is no evidence, everyone looks suspicious, and everyone is not suspicious. And Lin Fengxiang said: "Brothers, don't think about these things now, our top priority is to build the General Staff Headquarters first and straighten out the army." If the troops are not straightened out, how many people will die in our expedition to the northwest? Now King Qi won't do anything to us, if we do, we will die. So guys, really don't put it off any longer! ”

mentioned this topic, everyone's eyes fell on Li Xiucheng. The reorganization of the Taiping Army has actually begun, in addition to Zhang Yingchen's Imperial Forest Army, Lin Fengxiang, Chen Yucheng, Yang Fuqing, Wei Jun, these four troops have begun to integrate faster or slower. And the troops of the two brothers, Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian, have been fighting alone outside, and there has never been any sign of integration with everyone. So all the generals are waiting for Li Xiucheng to give a clear answer.

Li Xiucheng returned to Tianjing City a few months ago and began to shout for the unification of the military order, at this time, in the face of the generals' questioning, Li Xiucheng no longer had the urgency not long ago, he said in a prevaricating tone: "Brother Lin, don't you need to be so urgent in this matter." I'll do this in my soldiers first, but I'll reorganize with the rest of my brothers' subordinates without such a hurry. ”

After listening to Li Xiucheng's prevarication, Lin Fengxiang did not force Li Xiucheng to make a decision immediately. However, Chen Yucheng's beautiful face was full of mocking expressions. Seeing Chen Yucheng's mocking expression, Li Xiucheng's face was also full of helplessness, because the reorganization proposed by Lin Fengxiang was really beyond Li Xiucheng's imagination.

At the beginning, Li Xiucheng thought that the system of the General Staff was to find an extra group of staff members, so that these staff members could perform their duties and provide professional advice.

This kind of system is actually not new to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which had similar departments very early on. Li Xiucheng easily set up a staff system in his own army, and the effect seems to be very bad, but Li Xiucheng feels that it is just that the level of his staff is limited. In time, they will surely be able to have a good watch.

In the past month, Li Xiucheng has personally seen the reorganization of the three units of Lin Fengxiang, Chen Yucheng, and Wei Jun. That process frightened Li Xiucheng.

Each of the three units has its own staff headquarters, and now these three units have first formed preparatory groups. The preparatory group selected the combat training department, and all of them were trained and assessed. Those who pass the examination will join the newly formed troops. From the holy soldiers upwards, there are assessment mechanisms at all levels. Every officer, every staff officer, was selected after passing various examinations.

Since the founding of the Taiping Army, in fact, the division commander is not very valuable, and there are 100 people under his command who dare to become the division commander, or even the army commander. According to the military system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were 2,630 men in one division; The five divisions were set up, with a total of 15,156 troops. Flags, uniforms, waist tags, etc. After Lin Fengxiang, Chen Yucheng, and Wei Jun were reorganized, all the troops were fully manned, and more than 50,000 people were organized into three armies, as well as a unit responsible for logistics and transportation.

In the new unit, Lin Fengxiang served as chief of the general staff, and Chen Yucheng, Wei Jun, and others held various key positions in the general staff of this unit. Such changes could not shock Li Xiucheng, and what really shocked Li Xiucheng was Lin Fengxiang's treatment of some officers who did not accept the general staff system.

These officers are now "in high positions", let them give up the names of inspectors and military commanders, and then go to be two horses, brigade commanders, these people resolutely do not accept. There are also some officers who do not accept to be an officer in the new army, but they cannot accept that they can no longer be the king of grass. For these officers, as well as the soldiers who were attached to these officers, Lin Fengxiang and others unceremoniously expelled them from the army and arranged for them to be stationed in Tianjing City.

Of course, Li Xiucheng visited the new unit. I saw that the spirit of these troops was completely different from that of other Taiping troops, and if I had to describe it, this force looked quite similar to Wei Ze's subordinates in Li Xiucheng's impression.

Even after seeing such changes, Li Xiucheng still refused to agree to establish a general staff system according to the plan proposed by Lin Fengxiang. Li Xiucheng is a smart person, of course he knows the good and the bad, and he also knows that the reorganization model adopted by Lin Fengxiang is correct. Moreover, Lin Fengxiang did not hide his personal interests at all, and the core concept of his General Staff system was clearly explained to Li Xiucheng.

It is the characteristic of the feudal army that soldiers are generals, and this is first of all the means of the upper echelons to balance the power below. Below a large army head are many parallel small army heads, not only are there no subordinate relationship between the small army heads, but the big army leaders cannot even infringe on the interests of the small army heads, and if the big army heads begin to annex the forces of the small army heads, it will trigger the collective opposition of the entire small army leaders.

What the head of the army can really command is his own direct troops, that is, his own soldiers. In order to make the direct pro-soldier units more cohesive and more united, these direct pro-soldier units have to be given higher treatment. Of course, the high remuneration raises another problem, that is, limited financial resources, the scale of the direct pro-soldier troops cannot be very large.

In the General Staff system, military power, financial power, and personnel power are all in the hands of the General Staff Headquarters, and even the staff officers are not even fixed. No one under the General Staff system has private arms, let alone privileges derived from private individuals, and everyone is only a member of the General Staff system.

Lin Fengxiang didn't hide his secrets, he explained these very thoroughly. This alone made Li Xiucheng frightened, Lin Fengxiang said the core points of Li Xiucheng's command of the troops over the years, and more importantly, some points Li Xiucheng just instinctively did, but he didn't expect Lin Fengxiang to not only point out this practice, but even tell the internal reasons for these practices.

Lin Fengxiang began to imitate Wei Ze's General Staff system a long time ago, and according to Lin Fengxiang, it was only in the last year or so that he understood the true meaning of the General Staff. Lin Fengxiang didn't know these real core contents, when Wei Ze changed the General Staff system to the city party committee responsibility system, some people out of ideas or some other factors chose to leave, and some of the people who left ran to Lin Fengxiang. Since then, Lin Fengxiang has learned the true operating philosophy and operation methods of the General Staff of the Liberation Army.

For a few years, the foundation of painting cats and tigers was obtained, and Lin Fengxiang was opposed by nearly half of the officers when they implemented the reorganization. And Lin Fengxiang and Chen Yucheng are extremely tough. The opponents and supporters of the opponents were sent to the city of Heaven to defend the king. The king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, once gave Chen Yucheng two important generals the title of king, these two people immediately did not know how old they were, and tried to "sit on an equal footing" with Chen Yucheng, Chen Yucheng paid the price of expelling nearly a quarter of the people, and sent these two "scourges" and their subordinates to Tianjing City, so that they could be dispatched by the king.

Li Xiucheng knows his own family affairs, if he also starts the General Staff. Can the "200,000" army under his command save 50,000? And will the rest of the people be elite? Li Xiucheng himself has no confidence at all.

"Brother Lin, let's wait a little longer for the reorganization matter. Little brother, I will do my best kuài, I will do my best kuài! Li Xiucheng could only say this to Lin Fengxiang in the end. R1058