Liu Chang's words were very skillful, whether this was Qu Jie's personal opinion or not, he was pleased with the progress of this dragon lance brigade commander in Shanye Military Academy, even if he was relaying other people's opinions, he was also Bole's insight and talent. [].

It's just that Qu Jie immediately said: "The inspection is wrong, this is the result of our deduction on the map." ”

He immediately explained the reason for this, it turned out that after he entered the Shanye Military Academy, everyone respected him as the brigade commander from the Dragon Lance Battalion, no matter how many setbacks the Dragon Lance Brigade suffered, it was inevitable that he would be a founding hero in the future, so they all rallied around Qu Jie.

If Qu Jie is decisive in killing and rushing before the battle, it is weaker, but he has a gentle temperament, but he is not weak in dealing with interpersonal relationships, and a small group was immediately formed within the Shanye Military Academy, and even booked a group of graduates.

Whether it is an intermediate cadre class or an ordinary military cadet, they all want to show their skills in front of Qu Jie, and only then will they have the opportunity to be promoted to the dragon lance brigade by Qu Jie, but it is not enough to fight with horses, so they quickly decided to show themselves in actual combat exercises.

At first, it was a company-platoon-level confrontation with dozens to more than 100 people, and in this confrontation, Qu Jie not only appreciated many students, but also learned some skills himself, but soon everyone was unwilling to be limited to the company-platoon level confrontation.

Although Qu Jie had a relationship, it was not a simple matter to dispatch hundreds or even thousands of people to fight at the battalion level, so everyone quickly turned to paper assignments and the actual combat deduction of maps and wargames that Liu Chang once said.

The scale of the war games is getting bigger and bigger, and it is also more and more linked to reality, so Qu Jie said: "We have recently deduced the situation of the Battle of Hangjiahu and the Battle of Southern Jiangsu several times, and the final conclusion is very pessimistic!" ”

"What's the situation?"

Liu Chang didn't expect Qu Jie and this group of military cadets to unknowingly come up with a war game deduction, this is the blueprint of the staff system, amazing!

He just briefly mentioned a few words at the military academy, but he didn't expect Qu Jie to be able to bring this group of students out, and he was very relieved about Qu Jie's next appointment in the Dragon Lance Brigade.

Qu Jie is not just lucky, he has a lot of shining points, and as long as there is a group of qualified staff officers to assist him in commanding, he will definitely become an excellent senior commander.

And Qu Jie also told Liu Chang the conclusion: "In the end, we will start a decisive battle with the Jiangnan camp and the monk Wang Shengbao in southern Jiangsu, and after the fierce battle, we barely won, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took the opportunity to advance eastward, swept southern Jiangsu, and came to Shanghai!" ”

Liu Chang responded, but lowered his voice: "Have you considered the factors of Jiangxi?" ”

"The Wing King has taken the seven counties of Jiangxi, and the Qing Demon only has five mansions in his hands!" Qu Jie also said: "Next, I'm afraid that the territory of the Wing King in Jiangxi will get bigger and bigger!" ”

Saying this, Liu Chang had already nodded: "How many times have you deduced?" ”

"I deduced it three times, but it was inevitable that there would be some mistakes in the grass stage team, but the results of the final deduction were almost the same!"

He added: "This batch of cadres is good, I want to bring a batch back to the Dragon Lance Brigade!" ”

This is the purpose of his request, Liu Chang asked: "It's not on paper, right?" ”

"It's not! There are also a few of them who are the current company platoon commanders of our Rainbow Army, and they came to Shanye Military Academy to make up classes. **”

Liu Chang agreed: "Okay! However, I left the best two to my headquarters, which is not formal enough and is in need of talents in this area. ”

Qu Jie's face turned into a bitter melon: "Check, this is not good, I promised them that I would definitely take them to the Dragon Lance Brigade, and they are also willing to go to the Dragon Lance Brigade!" ”

"I have the final say on personnel allocation!" Liu Chang has already made up his mind: "Find Hu Xueyan, I have something to inform him!" ”…,

Qing Xianfeng five years, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Yirong five years, will pass like this.

The Hongjun finally stopped its large-scale military operations in December and put forward a six-character policy of "consolidating, adjusting, and improving," preparing to turn Zhejiang into its most solid base and build the Hongjun into the strongest force in the whole of China.

The entire Zhejiang battlefield has been quiet for the time being, but the unit's training is in full swing, from live ammunition shooting to cross-country running, and platoon confrontation is going on day and night.

In this regard, the dragon lance brigade performed particularly prominently, their entire unit had a new look, and the training was very good, and the cadres brought back by Qu Jie to the dragon lance brigade were also booked out by all regiments and battalions at the first time.

And Liu Chang's headquarters also came to a few young graduates of Shanye Military Academy, they are all old backbones who joined the army at the beginning of Xianfeng's fifth year, and after studying at Shanye Military Academy for a few months, they have gained more, and now they have replaced Zhou Xiuying and become Liu Chang's right-hand man in the military.

In addition, the general reserve of the Hong Army was also formed near Ningbo Prefecture, and the newly formed reserve brigade was not under the jurisdiction of an infantry regiment, but directly under the jurisdiction of four infantry battalions, which served as a general reserve on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was responsible for the security operations of Ningbo Prefecture.

The reserve brigade is a new unit, and most of the middle- and lower-level cadres are newly graduated students from the third phase of the Shanye Military Academy; in addition, a group of middle-level cadres and veterans have been transferred from the old units to strengthen the reserve brigade, and the other soldiers are all new recruits who have just joined the army, so they have not fully formed their combat effectiveness now, and the training of the troops is naturally very intense.

However, the wax moon passed quickly, and at the end of the year, the training of the troops finally relaxed a little, and even if they could not take family leave, the officers and men would remit their military salaries back to their hometowns.

As a matter of fact, the telegraph office has become a new type of enterprise integrating telegraph, postal service, and foreign exchange business, and Feng Wenyi, who presided over the telegraph office, has also become a new model for businessmen in Zhejiang.

Although foreigners did not celebrate the Spring Festival, it was difficult to find dock workers even if Western merchant ships docked in Ningbo, so Ningbo, which was originally in a state of war, had a New Year's atmosphere.

Liu Chang's headquarters also has the same New Year's flavor, firecrackers and firecrackers are ringing non-stop, and Spring Festival couplets and inverted blessing words are pasted everywhere, and senior officers who rushed back from all sides attended Liu Chang's New Year's banquet with smiles.

Among them, there are old cadres like Qu Jie and Huo Qiu, as well as newcomers like Shi Jingfen and Gao Liangcai, who have only joined the Hongjun this year, and all the characters in the Hongjun who have heads and faces hope to spend this Chinese New Year's Eve with Liu Chang.

This is both an honor and an invisible pressure, and now after the firecrackers, Liu Chang has brought three royal ladies to appear at the banquet: "Everyone, everyone, this year I am fortunate to be able to spend this Chinese New Year's Eve with you, this inspection is very honored!" ”

Liu Chang's Spring Festival banquet was originally a family banquet, but now it has to become a gathering of senior cadres of the entire Hongjun, except for a few people such as Shi Yunqing and Qu Zhibin in Fujian who did not come because the road was too far, everyone listened to Liu Chang's New Year speech.

Ye Yudie stood beside Liu Chang, holding Liu Chang's hand, looking at this group of senior officers with a smile, seeing their respect, Ye Niangzi felt how wise and powerful her decision to leave the fleet and rush back to Ningbo was.

And although Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei, who were standing behind her, were also smiling, they were secretly unhappy about this black beauty who was holding Liu Chang's hand first, but the New Year was approaching, and they didn't dare to spoil the atmosphere.

Liu Chang raised his glass, and he said to the cadres of the Hongjun: "This year's new rain and new knowledge, how happy it is to gather together, I can't help but think of this time last year!" At this time last year, the Hongjun was still trapped in the rocky village, but an armed force of hundreds of people: "At this time last year, our Hongjun was only four infantry companies, and I told you at that time that on Chinese New Year's Eve this year, we would expand the force to forty infantry companies, and many old people did not believe it at that time, saying that it was good to expand fourteen infantry companies!" ”

For those old people, this is indeed a glorious memory, now the Hong Army does not say that it is forty infantry companies, it is not a problem that there are eighty infantry companies, Liu Chang also said: "Now don't say anything else, that is, our three main infantry brigades, each brigade has two regiments, six battalions, twenty-four infantry companies, three brigades are seventy-two infantry companies, plus the infantry companies to which each independent regiment and independent battalion belongs, we already have more than two hundred infantry companies, and the total number of soldiers of the Hong Army has almost reached 50,000!" ”

Liu Chang's speech was applauded by the audience, whether it is a newcomer or an old, they all know clearly that their fate is closely related to the fate of the Hongjun group, the stronger the strength of the Hongjun, then their future is naturally immeasurable, if the Hongjun fails, then they are destined to be just a group of chaotic ministers and thieves.

And Liu Chang continued: "Last year, there were several hundred people, four infantry companies, and this year's Chinese New Year's Eve already has two hundred infantry companies and 50,000 people, so what will next year's Chinese New Year's Eve be?" ”

Liu Chang said with a smile: "My requirements are not high, I just hope that this year's number can be slightly increased, I only need four hundred infantry companies, just as we put forward the policy of "consolidation, enrichment, and improvement", what I need is more backbone troops like the three main infantry brigades that can fight tough battles, are you confident?" ”

For Liu Chang's request, no matter who it is, they have full confidence, this year, the number of infantry companies in the rainbow army has increased by almost fifty times, and next year, Liu Chang just wants to double, this is too simple.

"Rest assured!"

"Check! It's time for a sword to chill the forty states! ”

"Yes, check, you're too conservative, you should fight for five hundred companies next year

Everyone's opinion is much more optimistic than Liu Chang, and Liu Chang also smiled: "That's good! Brigade Commander Qu, how many Qing demons will you annihilate next year? ”