Now Zhou Xiuying is really a little annoyed, letting De Mons take a stake in the steel consortium can be said to be exceptionally preferential, and you are still counting on the chemical complex, so her face has a hint of frost: "De Mons, you are not HSBC!" ”

"What do you mean, as long as I join forces with HSBC, I can take a stake in the chemical conglomerate, thank you for your kindness!"

The negotiation between the two men lasted more than an hour, far more than the original 15 minutes, and in fact there were some problems that could not be settled in this more than an hour. 1――

Zhou Xiuying has her own views on the direction of the Hanghu Railway, which is not consistent with De Mengs's ideas, and her personal ideas do not represent the views of various groups in Huzhou as a whole, some groups will be eager to ask for the railway crossing, while some towns and villages are organizing preparations for refusing the railway crossing, and even preparing to use force against the transit railway.

For such a situation, it is impossible for Zhou Xiuying to reply to De Mons in such a short time, and at this time, a female orderly knocked on the door, and Zhou Xiuying said: "Let them wait a little longer, express my apologies, I will definitely meet them today." ”

"It's not!" The female orderly told Zhou Xiuying a good news: "It was Brigade Commander Feng Sixian who reported that he captured Wuhu, drank the Yangtze River, and cut off the Taiping Army's reinforcements to Nanjing. ”

"Good!" Zhou Xiuying's face was filled with irrepressible joy: "That's really a double happiness, in addition to your joy, there is such good news on the battlefield." ”

She couldn't help but say more: "I've just said it, don't take the Qing Demon and Taiping Army in Anhui Province too seriously!" ”

"Congratulations!" De Mengs immediately said: "If you conquer Wuhu, it means that the entire Guangdezhou and Taiping Mansion have fallen into the hands of the Rainbow Army!" ”

For the Hongjun, the change of hands between the two state capitals is still a gratifying thing, after all, including Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, the Hongjun only controls about 20 state capitals, and the capture of two state capitals is to increase one-tenth of the territory.

What's more, as a merchant, De Mons clearly knew that Wuhu was the most important commercial port and commodity distribution center in China, although its status before the war was not as good as that of Huzhou and Wuhan. However, it is the most important inland port in Anhui.

It's just that under the impact of the Taiping War, Wuhu has directly faced the flames of war many times, and there is a momentum of sharp decline, but De Mons is now clear. As long as the city falls into the hands of the Rainbow Army, it will surely regain new vitality.

Zhou Xiuying agreed with De Mengs's opinion: "Wuhu is Ke, that means that our army must continue to speed up the pace of collecting southern Anhui, I'm sorry, De Mengs, I must send an urgent letter to the Huo Du army in Jiangxi, asking him to follow the orders of His Royal Highness King Yan as soon as possible." Send a force to Anhui to coordinate our offensive. ”

In terms of current strength, the Hong army has more than 10,000 people to capture the entire southern Anhui, considering the need to continue to expand, Zhou Xiuying asked Liu Chang to let Jiangxi send a force to cooperate with the offensive in southern Anhui before returning to Huzhou.

She found the entire Anhui map on the map, and she knew that the entire territory south of the Yangtze River in Anhui, including Ningguofu, Chizhoufu, and Huizhoufu, would soon fall under the offensive of the Hongjun army.

Therefore, she reiterated her opinion: "Brigadier Feng Sixian is too careful, the Qing Demon in Anhui is our defeated general." As for the Taiping Army, it is also not worth mentioning, not our opponents. The fact is that two brigades can sweep the whole of Anhui! ”

De Mons watched her open an urgent letter and asked complimentingly, "How is the battle ahead!" ”

"It went very well, even more smoothly than we thought!" Zhou Xiuying said with a smile: "Up to now, we have captured more than 10,000 enemy troops, and more than 2,000 Taiping troops have surrendered to us without firing a shot, and the Wing King expedition has made their morale extremely low. ”…,

De Mons temporarily acted as Zhou Xiuying's operational staff officer: "Although I don't understand military affairs, I know one thing, your army's steam warships should appear on the battlefield in Anhui as soon as possible, which will make our army more powerful." ”

"You're right, you're right!"

Zhou Xiuying very much agrees with this: "If our army's steam warships cannot break through the Qing army's Jinling water defense line. Then I am ready to make my own warships in Anhui, and Anhui Province is in the pocket of our army. ”

……

And at this moment, Feng Sixian looked up at the river at the head of Wuhu City, and suddenly became arrogant: "The next thing is to sweep Ning Guofu, not as smoothly as this battle!" ”

One of his officers praised: "It's all the brigade commander, you command properly, and this southern Anhui will be completely controlled by our army immediately." ”

"More importantly, after our army recovered Wuhu, the upper reaches of Tianjing were cut off. From then on, King Hong could only be trapped in Tianjing. ”

Strictly speaking, although the Rainbow Army captured Wufu, the Taiping Army still had a part of the territory in the Taiping Army, and in the near future, these Taiping Armies will be the results of the Rainbow Army.

In fact, as long as you listen to the tone of this officer, you can know that this officer is not a standard Southern Zhejiang Hongjun, and words such as "Tianwang" and "Tianjing" are obviously the remnants of the Taiping Army, in fact, he is the remnants of Yang Xiuqing.

It's just that their Yang Xiuqing's remnants don't have much affection for Hong Xiuquan, who is playing conspiracy, not to mention the massacre in Tianjing City, so he is also very ruthless in dealing with the old Taiping Army.

The battle to conquer Wuhu was presided over by these old Taiping soldiers, who captured the most important city in the hands of the Taiping army in a matter of hours and carried out the post-purge with great efficiency.

More than a dozen Heavenly Kingdom diehards with the seal of Heaven fell directly under the platoon of guns, while more Taiping officers and soldiers entered the prisoner camp after disarming, and some of the Taiping troops who rebelled in the battle retained their weapons as the local armed forces of the Hong Army.

Although the Taiping army in this city claimed to be 50,000 people, the actual number was only more than 4,000, and the real combat effectiveness was only 1,000 people, even so, the capture of this city represented a fatal blow to the defense system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Tianjing.

After the recovery of Wuhu, Nanjing's land communication with the upper reaches was cut off, and even if the Taiping army could transfer more troops from Anhui, it would have to break through the defense line of the Hong army and enter the territory of Taipingfu.

And Feng Sixian looked at Dajiang and said: "Guan Jian is a good sailor, I don't know if Zhang Sigui's sailor can break through the defense line of Jinling and reach the ...... Anhui."

"Even if he can't rush over, he can use a foreigner's boat!" A battalion commander replied: "Now that our relationship with foreigners has changed again, as long as we buy one or two clippers in Shanghai and hang the flag of foreigners, Hong Tianwang will most likely not dare to open fire." ”

"We'll have to figure it out ourselves." Feng Sixian was not satisfied with seizing the entire south of the Yangtze River in Anhui, but was ready to set his sights on the entire territory of Anhui, and even considered the issue of continuing to attack Henan.

He had previously criticized Zhou Xiuying for being too optimistic, so that he had come up with something about the coal and iron war, but the war in Anhui proved that his estimate was too pessimistic.

The Qing army had no resistance at all, and the local regimental training was a collective surrender, and afterwards it was very tamely disbanded by itself, and handed over weapons and flags, only the Taiping army still had some combat effectiveness.

It's just that the Taiping Army has become very confused in the chaos of the Heavenly Kingdom several times, as long as the Hongjun here says that they are also from the old Taiping Army and say a few black words inside the Heavenly Kingdom, there will be groups of Taiping troops dragging guns over there, and there are even officers such as inspectors, commanders, and military commanders running over.

For example, this time the capture of Wuhu was to use the Taiping army that had come over as an internal response, and swept the entire Taiping Mansion in a few hours, and according to intelligence, the Qing army, Taiping army, and regimental training south of the Yangtze River were almost all these goods. …,

What's more, according to the agreement reached between Zhou Xiuying and Huo Qiu in advance, after conquering Wuhu, Jiangxi will send at least five infantry battalions to fight in Anhui, and with their assistance, the battle to capture the entire territory of Anhui will become smoother.

"We can't be satisfied with fighting only south of the Yangtze River, although His Royal Highness King Yan's order is not to fight beyond the Yangtze River, our army has gained the initiative on the battlefield and can attack north at any time!"

"I request Brigade Commander Zhou and His Royal Highness King Yan that we further prepare to cross the river with a reinforced battalion and strive to take the bridgehead north of the river......"

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"Wuhu Kefu, the whole territory of Guangdezhou, most of Taiping Mansion and Ningguo Mansion, Huizhou Prefecture Kefu three counties ......"

Liu Chang watched the staff officers mark the locations on the map, and Nan Bohang continued to add: "Commander Huo sent a mixed infantry brigade into Anhui in Jiangxi to assist in the battle, including two infantry regiments and one artillery battalion, and now everything is going well......

He added: "Although affected by this operation, the Second Army's entry into Hunan will not be affected, and our Second Army is preparing to enter Hunan in the near future, trying to attack Changsha and defeat the main force of the Hunan Army." ”

"Very good!"

Liu Chang was very pleased to see the thunderous attacks of the various troops, watching one red arrow after another sweep everything across the map, in fact, the battle was so smooth, even beyond his imagination.

"Now Brigade Commander Feng Sixian has asked to send a reinforced battalion to fight for a bridgehead in Jiangbei, and if the fighters allow, an infantry regiment will be sent to Jiangbei to reinforce it!"

"An infantry reinforced battalion?" Liu Chang said immediately: "It has to be the old infantry battalion of the first division, otherwise if an infantry battalion is independent and helpless in Jiangbei, there is a certain danger!" ”

Nanbo Hang mentioned another point: "The key is that we must grasp the right to control water as soon as possible, below Jinling, we occupy the absolute initiative on the water, and even established a bridgehead in Jiangbei, and above Jinling, we are almost a blank, only a small number of Taiping military and civilian ships are accepted, and the combat effectiveness is very weak!" ”

Liu Chang asked: "Where is the next offensive?" Is it Jiangbei or Two Lakes? ”

PS: Two updates tomorrow (to be continued.)