Chapter 208 Going North (Asking for another monthly pass)

Ask Zhang Yuzao if you don't decide on internal affairs, and ask Shi Tinglan if you don't decide about foreign affairs, such a system operation only lasted for two days in Linhai City, and Liu Chang had already rushed back from Panshi Village.

During this period of time, both Zhang Yuzao, who was in charge of civil affairs, and Shi Tinglan, who was temporarily in charge of the Linhai military, only played the role of acting seal protection, and did not make any major decisions at all, and Liu Chang also gave posthumous recognition to the Linhai operation mechanism during this period of time.

He immediately regained the supreme power of the entire Rainbow Army, and ordered the highest authority of the entire Rainbow Army to be set up in Linhai Fucheng, and prepared to launch further military operations.

It was only before that that the entire Hong Army had a wave of rest, and each infantry battalion not only had to make up for the losses in the Linhuang Campaign, but also the veteran infantry battalion such as the Dragon Gun Battalion had also expanded to four infantry companies like a training battalion.

It's just that this time De Mons brought too few guns, and many of the newly expanded non-main infantry companies could only be re-equipped with bird guns, and only the first-class main battalions such as the Dragon Lance Battalion and the Nanxi Battalion have always achieved complete foreign guns.

As for the addition of the French twelve-pounder mountain grenade company and the British nine-pounder field gun, the artillery firepower of the entire Rainbow Army has a revolutionary change.

While the infantry battalions were educating new recruits and carrying out low-intensity garrison operations, Liu Chang planned to spend a month to get the infantry battalions fully equipped while waiting for the next wave of ammunition from Ruthya or Demons.

After the arrival of this batch of munitions, the whole army continued to attack north, preparing to carry out the Ningbo campaign that he had planned for a long time.

As long as Ningbo is taken and this treaty port is obtained, then the import of Western arms will be endless.

It's a pity that as soon as he announced this order, Qu Jie and Zhu Dun, the two cadres of the dragon lance battalion, came to ask for a meeting, and Liu Chang met them at the yamen of the former Taizhou prefect: "You are here, you have done a good job in attacking the Linhai camp this time, I know it." ”

Qu Jie is an honest man and only knows how to laugh, but Zhu Dun talked about the details of this attack on Linhai: "The order was given to us by Miss Shi Tinglan, and there was no inspection order, and we originally did not carry it out, but considering the rarity of fighters, the officers decided to actively capture the fighters and resolutely implement the Linhai Campaign, but it was limited to capturing Linhai City." ”

After they captured Linhai City, they immediately waited for the arrival of the Panshi Battalion and Shi Tinglan, and after the main force of the Panshi Battalion entered Linhai, the Dragon Lance Battalion immediately took the initiative to withdraw from Linhai City and wait for further orders outside the city. &*．． Fastest Update**

Therefore, he patted Qu Jie on the shoulder and affirmed their decision: "You are right, the fighter is rare, you can't miss it if you want to capture it in time, although there is no order from me, but you give full play to your subjective initiative, very good!" ”

Qu Jie and Zhu Dun didn't know what the so-called "subjective initiative" was, but when they heard Liu Chang say this, they were all relieved, and Liu Chang continued: "As for Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei's orders, it is correct that you will not carry them out, the ancients still knew that the harem could not interfere in politics, not to mention my Hongjun!" ”

"I repeat here again, you have not made any mistakes on this issue!" Liu Chang told Qu Jie and Zhu Dun: "If there is a mistake, then the root of the problem is on me!" ”

He added again: "If there is a similar order in the future, it will be carried out according to this method!" I can trust the Dragon Lance Battalion! ”

It was enough to have such a sentence, but Qu Jie asked again: "This time Xiao Fu is a bit excessive, but he is also kind, and I hope that he will be dealt with appropriately." ..., although there was a big difference between him and Fu Wendao in carrying out Shi Tinglan's orders, but both of them came out of the small group of the Dragon Lance Battalion, and he didn't want Fu Wendao to be degraded by Liu Chang's order and couldn't turn over.

Liu Chang immediately replied to them: "For Fu Wendao, I now have a suitable position for him!" ”

This sentence is enough, but as soon as Qu Jie and Zhu Dun left, Shi Tinglan came over to take the blame: "Check, you are not in Huangyan this time, the incident happened suddenly, my eldest sister and I had to discuss with Feng Zhixian, Gaozhi Mansion and others, and decided to enter Huangyan, if there is a mistake, it is all on me!" ”

Liu Chang smiled: "What's wrong, if there is a mistake, then you only have one mistake!" ”

"What's wrong?" Shi Tinglan was a little overly nervous: "You say, let us know what's wrong!" ”

"If you don't decide on internal affairs, ask Lord Zhang, and if you don't decide on foreign affairs, ask Shi Niangniang."

As soon as this sentence came out, Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei were extremely nervous, waiting for Liu Chang's thunderous rainstorm, but they didn't expect Liu Chang to be full of spring breeze: "This is wrong, Zhang Yuzao How can he be virtuous, but he is just a demote, why ask him if he is undecided!" ”

He continued: "If you don't decide about foreign affairs, you have to ask my Tinglan, and if you don't decide about internal affairs, you have to ask my Tinglan! ”

As soon as she said this, Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei were both relieved, but Shi Tinglan's face was already a little shy, she said that it was Shi Niangniang in the front, and then she said it was "my Tinglan", and she couldn't help but stare at Liu Chang secretly.

It's just that Liu Chang continued: "Even if my good Tinglan can't make a decision, I have to ask my good eldest sister when it will be his turn Zhang Yuzao!" ”

He said hatefully: "If it weren't for his bad deeds, my Hong Army would have already invaded Linhai!" ”

Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei both moved stools and sat with Liu Chang, the fragrance was gusting, and the exhalation was like an orchid, which made Liu Chang feel relaxed and happy.

Shi Tinglan defended Zhang Yuzao and said: "No matter what, this is the first prefect to surrender to us, how can you reuse it!" ”

Liu Chang already had an idea: "Zhang Yuzao, this person I have already asked the Gao Governor's Mansion, this person is still useful, but he is both good at power, and greedy for money, he uses the Taizhou Governor to surrender to our Hongjun, but I have no good position to place him for the time being." ”

Shi Tinglan responded, she knew that Liu Chang's words were like a mountain, and what he said was also the truth, but Yang Changmei asked: "Is it possible to set up a Ning Shaotai?" ”

The prefect of Taizhou has already given the sorghum material, of course, it is impossible to return it to Zhang Yuzao, not to mention that this time Liu Chang brought the sorghum material left in Huangyan to Linhai together, which is the determination to let the sorghum material take over as the prefect of Taizhou.

"Okay!" Liu Chang replied to Yang Changmei: "Now we have the territory of three counties in our hands, that is, to take the whole of Taizhou, that is, the territory of six counties, it is not enough to set up the prefect of Taizhou, and then set up a governor of Zhejiang." ”

In terms of administration, this is a big taboo, the more administrative levels, the lower the administrative efficiency, in fact, although Liu Chang let Gao Liang Cai serve as the prefect of Taizhou, but the fact that the county magistrate is to directly skip Gao Liang and Liu Chang to contact directly, Gao Liang Cai This prefect is just a fictitious in a short period of time.

It would be even more inappropriate to set up another layer of useless institutions on top of the Taizhou prefect, so Yang Changmei also understood: "Then the inspector has thought about how to place the Zhang prefect?" ”

"You've figured it out!" Liu Chang was not taboo, but quickly changed the topic: "Let's go anywhere for the next whole month, replenish the team well, control the place well, don't make big moves, take two or three more county towns at most, and then wait for a round of arms to arrive, and then we can launch the Ningbo Campaign." ”

Now for the Hong Army, it is the best time for development, the southern line has Qu Zhenhan to contain the Fujian Qing army, the western front has Ni Tingmo to contain Chuzhou Town, and the western Zhejiang has the Taiping Army into Zhejiang, in this case, he can calm down and master the place, and at the same time train the Hong Army well. …,

He continued: "A rare opportunity, we have at least a month, and then the counties in Taizhou will wait for the water to come to fruition, and the melons will be ripe!" ”

In the case that he has captured the three county towns of Linhai, Huangyan and Taiping, Liu Chang has the capital to say such a thing, and he can continue to fight steadily and steadily, gradually control the entire Taizhou Mansion as a base, and then make further development: "When the Ningbo Campaign was launched, at that time, I defended Taizhou with the Nanxi Regiment, and the Dragon Lance Regiment entered Ningbo Mansion, and the six battalions of the Ningbo Mansion City Guarding Green Battalion were unusable, and the number of soldiers was only more than 1,000. …”

Liu Chang thought of the wealth of Ningbo Mansion, and he couldn't help but get excited: "When the time comes, we can use the financial resources of Ningbo Mansion to expand the Dragon Lance Regiment into a brigade of soldiers, and we have a port, and the arms will come in an endless stream. ”

This is a fairly complete campaign concept, Liu Chang feels that he has a great grasp, and now the Qing army in Zhejiang is no longer able to take care of Ning Shao in the situation of facing many enemies, so he sent troops to Ning Shao and captured the entire Ningshao Taidao, it is completely possible to expand the Dragon Lance Regiment and the Nanxi Regiment into two brigades, or even the third brigade.

In this time and space, as long as there are three infantry brigades equipped with Western rifles, it is enough to walk sideways in the southeast, Liu Chang is in a happy mood: "The Qing army can help the troops of Zhejiang, which is probably the soldiers of the Jiangnan battalion, and when the Jiangnan battalion sends troops to help Zhejiang, the pressure of Tianjing will naturally be relaxed." ”

Dealing with the Qing army in the Jiangnan battalion, Liu Chang felt that he was still quite sure, at least the dragon lance brigade at that time would never be weaker than the Jiangnan battalion that was broken by the Taiping army twice, at least it would be able to fight equally.

What he said was exactly what Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei wanted to hear, as long as Liu Chang sent troops to Ningshao, the Jiangnan battalion would definitely send troops to aid Zhejiang, in that case, it would naturally greatly reduce the pressure on the Tianjing battlefield and free up the Taiping army to deal with the newly rising Hunan army.

But Shi Tinglan felt that Liu Chang's plan felt a big flaw, and she hesitated.

Liu Chang continued: "When the time comes, Tianjing can not only break the siege, but Shi Niangniang and Yang Niangniang can also live up to their names, so there will be no embarrassment this time, but when the time comes, I will call you a lady." ”

Shi Tinglan's face was flushed, and she was embarrassed, but she made up her mind: "Brother Chang, you shouldn't attack Ningbo next, and taking Ningbo in the north is the next step." ”

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