Regarding this question, Shi Weisi could only shake his head and said: "Even you don't know, let alone us little pawns!" ”

Huo Qiu's biggest concern is this problem, if the strategic center of gravity shifts from the two lakes to the two Huai, then his current transcendent position will be gone, after all, the weight of the two Huai is more in the north-south war, and it is more likely to use the two Huai as a springboard to take Shandong and the Central Plains.

It's just that although he and Shi Weisi are both very important figures in the Hong Army, they still can't figure out what this military meeting is for? However, they know that the stage of the so-called reorganization of the army and the government has passed, and the next step will be the big operation of the Rainbow Army -- at this time, it is self-defeating not to expand outward.

They went to Nanjing this time, according to Liu Chang's order, they took the Ziwei Star and another "Kongyun" steam paddle gunboat, these two temporarily left the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which made the First Detachment of the Navy quite dissatisfied, after all, the First Squadron now has a total of six steam warships in use, this order is equivalent to reducing the combat strength of the First Squadron by one-third, but there is a steam warship under repair that will soon be able to return to Jiujiang from Shanghai, which can be regarded as maintaining the absolute superiority of the First Squadron in the upper reaches.

Both steamships underwent intensive maintenance before setting sail, and the coal used was really high-quality thermal coal, which was imported from Shanghai, and was of absolute quality, and there was a platoon of guards on board, ready to engage at any time, and in addition, all the guns were fully equipped with ammunition.

After all, the ship was loaded with Huo Qiu, the commander of the Second Army, in addition to Shi Huiji, the commander of the Marine Brigade, and a group of senior cadres of the Second Army, if they had any accidents, it would even be the largest loss of senior officers in the history of the Hong Army. And even more than the losses on the battlefield.

They all drove along the south bank along the way, and sometimes the Qing troops on the north bank would fire a few bullets from time to time, and then immediately trigger a thunderous counterattack from the two gunboats, but Huo Qiu was not willing to entangle them too much now. After just one round of shelling, it immediately descended, and even abandoned the normal cruising mission.

You must know that many of the ships in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were used by the Qing army, bringing guns and other military supplies from Shanghai, so inspecting smuggled materials was the most important task of the Rainbow Navy, and sometimes the Rainbow Navy coordinated with the British and French fleets to carry out such operations.

In peacetime, the Hongjun Navy may turn a blind eye to ordinary forms of smuggling, but it cannot tolerate the smuggling of military materials, not to mention that the intercepted military materials will also be handed over to the Marine Corps and the Army for use. Therefore, they were active in this regard, and this month they intercepted seven ships of arms.

And these two whistling steamships also represent the absolute authority of the Rainbow Army along the Yangtze River, and no one dares to stand up to such a powerful navy, so before they sail to Wuhu. At all, no one dared to fire at these two steam-gunboats. At most, a few bullets were fired.

But after arriving in Wuhu, the garrison here fired a salute into the sky, and the rumbling chorus made Huo Qiu personally stand on the bow of the ship and wave towards the garrison in Wuhu.

He was greeted by a whole company of infantry soldiers. The grass-green military uniform, the white armed belt, the Minnie rifle, and the bright bayonet all mean that this is an elite unit of the Hong Army, and Feng Sixian, who was standing at the front, had already stretched out his enthusiastic hands towards Huo Qiu: "Old Huo, you came the best." Rest in Wuhu for the night, and then I'll take your boat to Jiangning! ”

Speaking of which, the two people do not have a deep relationship in history, but in the southern Anhui strategy, the two people who have not met cooperate well, and Huo Qiu sent an entire infantry brigade into southern Anhui to assist Feng Sixian in the battle. Until now, the regimental headquarters of an infantry regiment with a reinforced battalion remained in southern Anhui to continue fighting.

And Feng Sixian quickly brought the topic to this army: "Lao Huo, I have to borrow this regiment of yours for a few more months." But I'm also worthy of you, originally a regimental headquarters with a reinforced battalion, and now I will expand you into a regimental headquarters with a direct subordinate team and two infantry battalions. ”

When Huo Qiu heard this, he felt a lot more relieved, he was worried that the troops of the Second Army would not be replenished on Feng Sixian's side, and they would be overused, and their combat effectiveness would be greatly inferior when they were returned to the establishment, so he said: "Okay! Don't talk about this, you are in the southern Anhui building, this time His Royal Highness summoned us over, what is the matter? ”

Southern Anhui is not far from Jiangning, in fact, Feng Sixian even considered going directly to Jiangning by land, but he now needs Huo Qiu's support in all aspects, so he has to deliberately walk in Wuhu for two more days: "I don't know much about this matter, but now that southern Anhui has roughly calmed down, how can I take down all of Anhui, I still have to support Lao Huo in this regard!" You have already established a foothold in Lianghu, and there is no war in Jiangxi, so it is best to lend me another infantry regiment. ”

"Let's talk about it in Jiangning!" Huo Qiu didn't make a decision now: "What else?" ”

"Lend me these two gunboats of yours for a few hours!" Feng Sixian said: "Your second army is much wider than ours, I don't have any steam warships available now, anyway, we will only leave tomorrow, why don't you lend me a day!" ”

"Isn't the Second Squadron responsible for assisting you in your war?" Huo Qiu said very suspiciously: "How to say, they also have four steam warships now, which is about the same as our upstream strength!" ”

"It's the second squadron that we're in charge of!" Feng Sixian told Huo Qiu: "Four steam warships, but two are stationed in Jiangning, responsible for water operations near Jiangning, and one is responsible for operations near Yangzhou, and there is only one steam warship assigned to my side, which must be used for operations with the state base most of the time, if you lend me one day, it is enough to sweep away the water bandits in Jiangbei!" ”

"Good!" Huo Qiu's treatment is still good: "But these two gunboats can't have any accidents, by the way, why is the main force of the second fleet stationed in Jiangning?" ”

"Their commander is stationed in Jiangning, and now Ye Ningbing is sometimes in charge of the women's battalion."

"That's not right!" Huo Qiu immediately said: "The women's camp should not be set up, Your Highness has been blessed on this issue!" ”

It's just that Feng Sixian completely disagrees with Huo Qiu's opinion, he is in southern Anhui, and he knows the situation in Nanjing best: "No, no, you are in Nanchang, I'm afraid you don't know the situation in Jiangning!" ”

"This is ridiculous!" Huo Qiu still has his own opinion: "Now is not the time to play with women, it is the time to fight the world!" ”

Feng Sixian immediately retorted to Huo Qiu: "You really believe the rumors outside, do you really think that the women's camp is to choose a concubine for His Royal Highness?" Tell Lao Huo that now the women's camp has an outer camp and an inner camp, and the only ones who can really be trusted by His Highness are only the dozens of people in the inner camp. ”

He talked about the benefits of the outer camp: "Jiangning has been through military disasters for a long time, and has been trapped in bandits for many years, but the people's hearts can be calmed down so quickly, Guan Jian is that my Hongjun has not committed any crimes against the women in the foreign camp, although it has spent a lot of money to support these thousands of people, I think it is worth it!" ”

He said a lot of things about the women's battalion, some are husband and wife reunion, some are parents who found a weak daughter, generally speaking, this is a virtue of the Rainbow Army, which is very different from the women's battalion during the Taiping Army, and the women's battalion has now also trained a group of female cadres of the Rainbow Army: "In the past, it was said that there were few cadres, but this time I found several commendable female cadres in the women I distributed." ”

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were female officials, although many people later attacked the women's policy of the Heavenly Kingdom, but in any case, although women could not be half of the family during the Heavenly Kingdom, compared with the Manchu women's foot-binding women, it was much more progressive, most of these female cadres were trained by the Taiping Army for many years, and later carried out a few months of short-term training in the women's camp and distributed to Wuhu.

It's just that Shi Weisi next to him immediately gave an example of Yun Tianzong: "Lao Huo, you have to take care of your trouser belt, Yun Tianzong's affairs, but it's a rut ahead!" ”

"Yuntian Zong......" As soon as he talked about such a well-known cadre in the Hongjun Army, Feng Sixian shook his head again and again: "I don't even want a future for a yellow-faced woman, so I won't learn from him!" I'm ready. ”

He said his plan: "I agreed with my wife to buy two tender little girls and give them to her to study in the women's camp for a few months." ”

"Women's battalion?" Shi Huiji almost flashed his tongue: "Neiying? Lao Feng, you are so confused! ”

"You can rest assured!" Feng Sixian was indeed proud: "You are in Jiujiang, Nanchang, too far away from Jiangning, I don't know the truth!" His Highness is a principled person, and it is impossible to eat grass on the edge of the nest. ”

He continued: "What's more, the beauties in the inner camp are like clouds, just like the appearance of my yellow-faced woman, can Your Highness like it? What's more, there are Yang Niangniang and Commander Ye staring, what's more, you haven't seen the results of the internal camp training! ”

"What? Can this also be educated? ”

At this moment, Huo Qiu and Shi Huiji were drooling.

They knew that Liu Chang was able to succeed, and a large reason was that he had done a good job in education and brought out a group of cadres who could fight and rush, whether it was military cadres, political work cadres, local cadres, or technical cadres who had recently been distributed to various places, all of them were remarkable, and they were even completely different from before the training camp.

At least they didn't expect a few years ago that they could have the current vision, the current situation, this His Royal Highness King Yan seems to know everything, is proficient in everything, and is as wise as a demon.

It may even be described as such, before Liu Chang, war is an art, and after Liu Chang is a science, the so-called famous generals are just a template for batch training, such a statement may be exaggerated, but one thing is unmistakable, that is, Liu Chang's education quality has reached the point of turning decay into magic, a cadre who was originally a pure peasant entered the Shanye Military Academy for a few months of training after a few months of actual combat, and his overall quality has been significantly stronger than those old officers of the Qing army who have fought five or six battles.

But they never thought that even this could be trained in batches?

ps: Found 1.5 million words, sprinkled flowers!!