No matter how the Heavenly City and the Heavenly Kingdom forces outside the city moved, at least they were the same in their treatment of Wei Ze, that is, they ignored it. They didn't stop Wei Ze from doing anything, and no one added trouble to the retreat of the largest legion in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, especially the retreat of personnel.

"It seems that our brothers in the kingdom of heaven look down on civil officials at all." Weeser laughed in the General Staff.

Hu Chenghe also smiled: "It doesn't matter if they look down on them, just let us take people away." But Chief of the General Staff, are you ready to start leading troops south? ”

Wei Ze's large army has begun to assemble in Xuancheng, and those who remain in Zhenjiang are already some of the personnel in charge of receiving them, although there are still troops in Changzhou, but there are only two armies and 10,000 people. A considerable part of the remaining troops were claimed, or between Xuancheng and Changzhou.

With some literati under his command, and being able to make full use of these literati, Wei Ze is still quite interesting. For example, there is a big road from Jiangxi to Guangzhou on the southbound road, but the history of this road is not clear. In the Manchu Dynasty, because of the high-pressure policy adopted in political commentary, the so-called Jinshi Science arose, which is probably a series of research on cultural relics. The gang wanted Weezer to provide a reason for this path. Before the Tang Dynasty, when going to Guangdong, I basically went to Hunan, and entered Hunan through the Guò Ling Canal.

With the opening of the south, it has gradually become an important support of the national finance economically, and the road to Guangzhou has become Jiangxi. With the passage of thousands of years, there is now a road leading to the mountains and mountains, passing through Jiangxi to the city of Guangzhou. It was this path that Weeser chose.

After the General Staff decided on the strategy of going south to Guangzhou, all that remained was to implement it. There are also a number of options in the specific implementation, one of which is the question of how the troops will march. In the case of a large group march, although there can be a guarantee of safety, the large group march minimizes the efficiency of the troops' movements. If they are acting separately, they have to worry about the operational capabilities of the individual units and the dangers that arise.

The radicals who moved separately were Wei Changrong, and he divided his troops into five teams, with the front unit only responsible for attacking the city and capturing the towns along the way with lightning speed, and the troops of the second and third formations were responsible for occupying and holding on. Because of the official road, according to the calculated situation, the most elite troops under Wei Ze were able to rush from Xuancheng to Guangzhou in more than a month. If you follow Wei Changrong's plan, it is estimated that the forwards will all hit the city of Guangzhou, and the tail will not all enter Jiangxi.

However, the General Staff Headquarters as a whole did not support the method of organizing the whole army into large groups to act, and if it were not for this main road, the march of tens of thousands of people would actually be like the Taiping army marching straight from Chenzhou to Changsha, and the operation would be divided into multiple routes. Basically, the current mainstream view is that the troops will first move in separate ways, and then go to Ganzhou to carry out a general assembly to rest and recuperate the troops. After leaving Ganzhou, the troops had the sole purpose of capturing the city of Guangzhou.

The main problem now is grain, and to the great surprise of the General Staff, including Wei Ze, Wei Changrong and others have looted a lot in Suzhou and Wuxi, and millions of taels of money have been looted. According to Weze's habit, all this money was given to the gang with IOUs, and there were also stubs left in the army. Only 50,000 stone of grain was scavenged. Suzhou and Wuxi are extremely wealthy, but they didn't expect food to be so scarce. This grain is tight for half a year at most, and even if the General Staff is full of confidence in the war, it does not dare to hold it too big. It would be too much of a joke if it really caused the collapse of the uneaten guide troops.

"Shall we go to the areas controlled by the Qing army to buy some food?" Hu Chenghe asked, "This can be regarded as a demonstration against the Qing army, if they dare to resist, we will teach them a good lesson." ”

This construction sounds really unreliable, but Wei Ze feels that in this unreliable period, such an unreliable construction is a reliable choice. All that needs to be done at this point is to confuse the enemy, and as long as the enemy does not figure out what exactly happened, it will be a victory for Weze. Thinking of this, Wei Ze said: "That's to be careful, don't steal chickens and don't lose a handful of rice." ”

In any dynasty, most emperors are actually not confused, at least Xianfeng is not a fool. The Tianjing Incident has come to the present, although the Manchu troops outside Tianjing City have been expelled from afar. However, the spies of the Qing army were still able to see a large number of corpses thrown from Tianjing City everywhere on the river.

Of course, it is easy to judge that there is something wrong with Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The news was quickly sent to Emperor Xianfeng's desk, and after reading the analysis, Xianfeng first inquired about the location of the various armies of the Taiping Army, especially the location of the troops of Wei Ze, the king of Qi of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After reading the places where the Taiping Army controlled the army, Xianfeng did not show the slightest hint of joy. Until now, the Taiping army still has the initiative on the battlefield. The northern troops of the Taiping army occupying the Huai River effectively shielded the pressure from the Qing army in the north, and Zeng Guofan in the west had just lost the battle and almost committed suicide. Xianfeng no longer expected any troops to be able to resist Wei Ze's troops, even if he learned that Zhang Guoliang had "recovered" Suzhou, Emperor Xianfeng did not have the slightest joy. Weeser's strange movements were undoubtedly some new conspiracy.

However, soon the new news came back to the capital, and the flag of Wei Ze's troops changed from a yellow flag to a red flag, and the military uniform also changed from the military uniform of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to a blue-gray or blue-gray military uniform. What surprised Xianfeng even more was the layout of Wei Ze's army, they obviously gave up the plan to continue to go straight from Changzhou to Suzhou and Hangzhou, but began to gather troops with Xuancheng as the center. If you don't go east of Taihu Lake and gather troops in the mountainous area of Xuancheng, you will undoubtedly attack Jiangxi.

When the other ministers learned the news, they were all happy. If a bandit like Wei Ze enters Suzhou and Hangzhou, he will be invincible at all. At that time, Jiangnan was erosive, and the situation was out of control. It was a great thing that he turned to Jiangxi. The poor place in Jiangxi is not comparable to Suzhou and Hangzhou at all.

But Xianfeng didn't think so, he immediately wrote three edicts, informed Jiang Zhongyuan, Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Zongtang of the latest situation, and asked the three of them to come up with ideas.

Jiang Zhongyuan was the closest to the capital, and his recital was the fastest to arrive. In the recital, Jiang Zhongyuan talked about one thing in a very frightened manner, and the purpose of Wei Ze's entry into Jiangxi was definitely not to seize Jiangxi, but to march into Guangdong. Jiang Zhongyuan was very worried and said that if Wei Ze seized Guangdong, he could take advantage of the situation to march into Guangxi, which was originally the hometown of the Taiping army, and Wei Ze was familiar with it, and it was very easy to take it. If Wei Ze occupies Liangguang and the Taiping army still holds the current territory, then the whole situation will be completely bad.

Jiang Zhongyuan's prediction happened to be Emperor Xianfeng's concern, and what he was most afraid of was Wei Ze's march into Guangdong. Since one of the three people had already replied to the letter and said that Xianfeng was in his mind, Xianfeng was particularly looking forward to the letter from the other two. r1o58

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