"We let you go to Shaanxi, not just a dream. Now the grain is ripening everywhere, and you have to eat it all the way north. If February and March force you to set off, you will starve to death on the road when the green and yellow are not available! Lei Hu frowned, and his choice of words was very polite.

Lin Shaozhang, who was opposite Lei Hu, was full of embarrassment, if he just listened to what Lei Hu said, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would have to thank the Guangfu Army for thinking about the Taiping Army with all its might. But in fact, wasn't it the Guangfu Army that tried to drive the Taiping Army away from Tianjing? Lin Shaozhang is in charge of the military industry of Lin Fengxiang of the Taiping Army, and he is also a well-known figure, and he is unhappy in his heart.

But Lei Hu didn't care what Lin Shaozhang thought at this time. Lei Hu's mood is so bad that it may not be much better than Lin Shaozhang. Ten years ago, Lei Hu had set a precedent for the ranks of the Guangfu Army to be crushed by the cavalry of the Qing army, and this time the Lianghu Corps under the command of Lei Hu created a new history of the defeat of the Guangfu Army. The troops attacking Lu'an eventually captured the city, but the losses were close to six hundred.

This incident alarmed the headquarters of the Two Lakes Corps, and Lei Hu even went to the field to investigate. At this time, Lei Hu was full of anger, if he didn't know very clearly that he was angry, Lei Hu would bluntly shout that "destroying the Taiping Army is more expensive than sending the Taiping Army".

It was the Huai army that guarded Lu'an, and the Guangfu army did not expect that the Huai army would be able to have any good performance. When the offensive plan was formulated, it was only a copy of the previous offensive plan, and the troops began to attack according to this plan. The advancing troops were subjected to fierce and fairly accurate fire from the Huai artillery units with flowering shells. Fortunately, the Guangfu Army has not adopted the method of entering the battlefield in dense queues, otherwise the losses under this round of shelling will not only be more than 200, but will be calculated in thousands.

The Guangfu Army adopted the tactic of encircling three and missing one, and the Huai Army also made full use of the arrangement of the Guangfu Army. After the artillery in the city disrupted the attack plan of the Liberation Army with a heavy fire, they mounted the artillery carriage and withdrew from the direction of the net to the dock without hesitation.

After suffering such a big loss, where was the Guangfu Army willing to let go of the enemy and rushed to fight it. As a result, it was bombarded by the artillery in ambush of the Huai army. Due to the dense formation, this time the losses were even greater than the last time. The Huai army fought shrewdly and decisively, they threw down the cannon and left. Evacuated to the ship before the encirclement of the Liberation Army was completed, and ran away.

For the Liberation Army, it is almost the first time that it has been calculated by the enemy, and it is even more unprecedented to calculate twice in a row. More than 600 casualties were a problem that could only arise in a war with a strong army like the British Lobster Army. Not to mention that with the current training and equipment of the Liberation Army, everyone is very confident in overwhelming the lobster soldiers.

Lei Hu forcibly suppressed his anger, and continued to Lin Shaozhang with normal feelings: "The two choices we can accept now, the first is that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be destroyed, and the second is that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will leave like this. And according to the weather, according to the grain harvest and processing time in each region, we have set a timetable, according to which we will launch an attack on each city and each region. You bring this back to the person in charge of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Be sure to make them understand that this is not a joke. ”

Lin Shaozhang took this table and looked at it, because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom now controlled very limited cities in the area, so the form was long. It is now April 10, and the Liberation Army will launch an attack on the Zhenjiang area within ten days at the earliest, that is, on April 19. The latest to attack is Tianjing City, and on May 15, the Guangfu Army will march into Tianjing City.

"Can't you wait any longer?" Lin Shaozhang tried to give the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom some time to delay.

Lei Hu sneered: "If you wait any longer, it will be the rainy season, and you will march with so many people and baggage in the rainy day?" You have to be in moderation when you're joking, right? If you don't leave at that time, you will have to leave in July, and you can go to Jiangnan on such a hot day? I'll explain to you again that the reason why we let you go to the northwest is out of friendship. Doesn't that mean that without your Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we won't be able to do anything? I hope you can explain this question clearly to Hong Xiuquan after you go back, and don't let him have any unrealistic fantasies! ”

Sending Lin Shaozhang away, Lei Hu began to write and check. For the issue of the latest battle, Lei Hu first made a review, although the troops repeatedly reaffirmed their orders, but under the great victory, the troops still had a light enemy and paralysis. As for the solution, Lei Hu believed that the whole army should be informed of this battle, so that the whole army could be vigilant, the enemy was not a weak brigade that was useless, they also had modern weapons, rifles, and artillery, and any mistake by the Liberation Army would lead to failure.

After the inspection is completed, it will be sent to Guangzhou. Departing from Anqing, this letter was taken along the Yangtze River by steamer with other Wen jiàn to Nanchang. A day and a half later, Wen Jiàn arrived at the Nanchang transit station and was escorted by a messenger straight to Fuzhou. After another day and a half, Wen Jiàn arrived in Fuzhou. The Guangfu Army had already set up a point newspaper station in Fuzhou, and the relevant telegram content was directly sent to Guangdong through the Guò point newspaper station. More specific letters were transported to their destination through the guò messenger.

If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be solved, the Guangfu Army will undoubtedly be able to build a more complete telegraph communication network in Jiangnan. There is a joke that is not a joke, in the entire Liberation Army, it is undoubtedly the telegraph department that has maintained absolute support for the war from beginning to end, for the simple reason that only after the war has wiped out all the resisters, can the telegraph units really solve the problem of telegraph insecurity. In order to ensure that no one cut down the telephone poles in the mountainous areas of Guangdong and moved home, the Liberation Army began to propagandize, and in recent years, it has begun to arrest people and put them in prison. In the areas under military control, the maintenance of the telegraph system requires very strong means. In enemy-occupied areas, it is natural to make greater efforts to ensure smooth communications.

Even if it is only to reduce operating costs, it is necessary to destroy the enemy by means of war. Many units in the Governor's Mansion of the Liberation Metropolitan Government view the problem in this way.

So on April 18, with the efforts of a telegram and a messenger, a letter was finally delivered to the headquarters of the Fujian Corps. Ruan Xihao, commander of the Fujian Corps, looked at the introduction of Lei Hu's Two Lakes Corps and was very satisfied with this telegram.

It is easy to say that the proud soldiers will be defeated, but the proud soldiers can be proud, and they must undoubtedly have the ability and a lot of experience in victory. Otherwise, they would not dare to be proud. Not only Lei Hu's Lianghu Corps, or Hu Chenghe's Jiangxi Corps, but also the Fujian Corps commanded by Ruan Xihao. Everyone won all the battles easily, and if the enemy was really great, the troops would not believe it.

Ruan Xihao's own repeated warnings, everyone just fell on deaf ears. The central government has a notice, which just gives Nguyen Hee Hao a better reason to hold a meeting. Although Zhenjiang was attacked on April 19, Nguyen Hi Ho insisted on setting back the time of the battle and first called all the front-line commanders back to the corps headquarters for a meeting.

After informing the troops of the problems encountered by the Thunder Tiger Corps, Ruan Xihao said: "I don't want to say whether you can win the war now, but whether you have made plans for various situations and problems that we may encounter in different environments." If the comrades feel that the war can be won if it is fought in the way we imagined, then I now ask the troops to re-examine it in accordance with the tactical manual. ”

"The Taiping army can't even defeat the Hunan army, what are we afraid of?" Naturally, there are different opinions.

In the past, Ruan Xihao had lashed out at this view, but he found that the criticism was useless, and the gang at most admitted that it was still what should be done when it was actually implemented. Therefore, he did not suppress such opinions, but continued to emphasize, "Before this attack, all tactical formulations need to be re-examined in accordance with the basic tactical regulations." ”

After Nguyen Hee Ho gave a strict order, he let the commander of the unit go back. The secretary of the XPCC party committee who worked with Ruan Xihao was Lin Mengchu, a guy who only joined the revolutionary ranks in Guangdong in 1855, and was a typical case of "early revolution is better than late revolution" in the army. Lin Mengchu has been in charge of the political work of Qiongzhou and the Third Army in Qiongzhou, and he can be regarded as an old political worker. Ruan Xihao asked Lin Mengchu, "Secretary, do you think anyone will dare to hide the news?" ”

Lin Mengchu can understand Ruan Xihao's thoughts, and political work often encounters such problems. Many comrades did not agree with the organizational orders, such as Nguyen Hi Ho, who demanded that the troops guard against arrogance and rashness and be able to make serious plans. However, there are a number of comrades who do not accept this method. They always feel that it is those accidental factors that determine the success or failure of things, and they pursue the rewards brought by success and the benefits brought by success. So they "don't accept the fact that there will be failures."

After this kind of person encounters failure, he will naturally find a way to cover up the failure. Ruan Xihao's six Tujia villages have resisted the Tujia in the nearby Wujia Town more than once, and it can be said that they will lose every battle. So he was very understanding of failure, and he admitted that there was a failure in existence. But it is clear that many people in the army do not think so, for them, failure will hinder their promotion, and failure will deal a heavy blow to their future. Since failure is inevitable, many people simply play the trick of covering their ears and stealing the bell.

Lin Mengchu replied very simply, "It's not for them alone to have the final say." Even if it is the responsibility system of the party committee, there may be a problem of several people colluding internally, but our system does not allow them to come nonsense. ”

"It's great to be able to do that." Ruan Xihao replied, "This guy Lei Laohu is very smart, he has made a self-criticism now, and the governor will not hold him accountable too much." If something happens to Lei Laohu's side, our side won't be fine. ”

"It's the king of Han, not the governor." Lin Mengchu replied.

"Cut, the governor said that he would not be crowned king, so let's wait for the governor to become the emperor before changing his words." Nguyen Hee Ho replied.

Lin Mengchu couldn't do anything about Ruan Xihao at all, he could only pick up the topic of Shangcai, "This time we have said everything we should say and do, and we have done everything." Just wait to see everyone's watch. ”R1058