Huo Qiu is so happy that he can't find the north at all, he only knows how to laugh non-stop, which reminds everyone that this person was just a small smuggler on the Nanxi River two years ago, and he has to fight with people for three or five dollars.

And Qu Jie even smiled and watched Huo Qiu happily stuck, such a person can also be a military commander? If it weren't for the fact that the inspection point was big enough and capable enough, this Huo madman might still be fighting for three or five dollars and others.

Liu Chang, on the other hand, put the final order on Zhang Sigui, the number one figure in the navy: "During the implementation of the various operations, the navy will serve as support, and the navy must do its utmost to ensure the absolute superiority of all units on the water, and wait for the operation of the two lakes to come to an end......

Zhang Sigui was happy, could it be the expected landing operation in Shandong?

You must know that he took the miraculous Battle of Shidao in the Southern Song Dynasty as a model for this landing, but Liu Chang set him a much smaller goal: "If Taiwan cannot be solved at that time, the navy will independently undertake the landing operation, and this period of time will be enough for your navy to train a marine battalion, right?" ”

"Enough is enough!"

Zhang Sigui hurriedly said: "Don't say it's a marine battalion, even the marine brigade is enough!"

"The Marine Brigade can't give it to you!" Liu Chang immediately replied: "Even the establishment of the Marine Corps can't be given to you, only the establishment of a Marine Battalion, and all the personnel, materials, and equipment will be figured out by yourself, but I believe that your navy will handle it, and there will be no problem at all!"

Zhang Sigui was very confident, and he immediately gave Liu Chang a guarantee: "No problem, no problem, our navy will solve it by itself!"

That's right, the Navy is now deep-pocketed. Hundreds of boats, large and small, can raise this marine battalion at any time, not to mention that they have investigated the arms smuggling organized by the Qing army, and there are quite a lot of stocks of rifles, light artillery, ammunition, and even clothing, so it is easier for cadres to handle it. At present, there are several hundred cadres in the navy who have come from the old army, and it is enough to transfer twenty or thirty people to serve as the chief officers of this marine battalion, and then borrow a group of middle- and lower-ranking officers from the land war with high salaries.

Next, although it is said that the navy will make every effort to support the operations of the three offensives, the specific distribution of warships is still up to the navy. There is no problem in borrowing dozens or even nearly 100 cadres, and the only worry is that Sun Huzi will do it too quickly and directly solve the Taiwan government.

However, Zhang Sigui does feel that Liu Chang's vision is unique, for the navy, although there is now a naval base in Dinghai, but Taiwan is a more important operational base, where you can go all the way south to Hainan. It is also possible to march north to Huangbo and to the east to the Ryukyus, a place that should be solved by the navy.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Sigui turned his eyes to Sun Huzi, even if the Taiwan problem is the responsibility of the navy alone. I'm afraid I'll have to discuss it with this grandson.

The general tone of the operation was thus set, and everyone was shocked by the scale and orderly rhythm of this operation.

If all goes well in this operation, then the territory of the Rainbow Army will be nearly doubled, not to mention anything else. At least one provincial capital and one complete province can be captured, and it is even possible to capture two or three provincial cities and two or three complete provinces in one go.

Some people even thought that Liu Chang was not dizzy by the change in the situation and engaged in an all-out attack. As a result, it has blossomed in an all-round way and has been blocked in an all-round way, and now this round of offensive methods has been round after round, and the success is very large, and even if it is frustrated, it will not affect the overall situation.

They did not know that Liu Chang had learned a lesson from the experience of the Japanese army in fighting in China. The situation on the battlefield in China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was laid down by the battles from 1937 to 1939. In the past two years, the Japanese army seemed invincible, but it was mired in the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield, why? In 1937, a decisive battle was launched in the two battlefields of North China and Shanghai at the same time, and as a result, the troops and weapons of the two battlefields were insufficient, and in the face of the superiority of the Chinese army's strength and intensive positions, they could only push up one by one, and finally won reluctantly, but it was a loss of vitality, but by the beginning of 1938, the Japanese army did not absorb the lessons at all, and a situation of all-out attack was completely formed, the Japanese army in Jiangnan engaged in border operations in three provinces, the 13th Division engaged in Huainan operations, and the Second Army attacked Taierzhuang. The First Army engaged in the Hebei Pingding Operation and the Jinnan Operation, and the Mongolian Army engaged in the Qingshuihe Operation, but the result was that it could not form a key offensive and was inferior everywhere.

After 1939, the Japanese army learned from the war and no longer adopted this kind of all-out offensive with great momentum and little effect, but concentrated one fist to attack hard, and the other directions assisted on a small scale. The Guiliu battle was launched one after another, one heavy blow after another, and swept all the way to Dushan.

And Liu Chang's tactics of unfolding one by one also learned from the experience of the No. 1 operation, and he was ready to completely defeat the Qing Dynasty with wave after wave of combination punches, and the officers were full of absolute confidence in this round of strategic offensive.

Time flies. The summer of 1857 had passed, and the autumn wind was about to rise again.

Although Zhang Luoshi hadn't seen a single fallen leaf, he could already feel the coldness of this autumn, and he looked at the hills to the south, and there was already a chill in his heart.

He never imagined that this summer would be so sad, the Twist Army, which had been singing all the way, could not move in the heat, and the scorching heat forced tens of thousands of living Twisters to leave the battlefield, more than the casualties in the battle.

As long as the slogan of marching into the nest and washing Yangzhou is played, the team of twists will become the object of more hatred in the entire Su and Anhui, whether it is the Qing army, the Taiping army or the Hong army, or the local heroes, they all beat the tiger who crossed the river to the death, and the result was the current predicament.

As he was watching, he looked at his family's nephew, Zhang Zongyu, who was known as the "Living Yama King", and rushed over: "Uncle, Blue Banner Liu Evil Wolf and Zhang Long are unwilling to do it!" It is said that the red thief soldiers crossed the river, we have no hatred and hatred with them, there is no need to fight with them to the death, they said that they would rather have the grass of the Pheasant River Collection, not the gold of the state, or go back to the Pheasant River to have a good life!"

Although the twist is the largest armed group of displaced people in modern history, but they are a group of farmers at their roots, although the days of looting are happy, but they will not forget that they are a group of farmers, so they are still living a farming day in the Pheasant River Collection, and now that the autumn wind is rising, they are worried that the crops in the Pheasant River Collection have not been harvested, and the wives and children at home may not be able to do it.

Of course, this is only the reason on the surface, in fact, now these Blue Flag twisters have fallen in love with their families, and they are in trouble everywhere after going south, and they have not seen the shadow of the red thief until now, and they have suffered a lot, but they have retreated, but Zhang Lexing doesn't think so: "I will persuade the brothers of the Blue Flag when I wait for Gong Blind!" How about the south side? ”

"People who heard the news said that now there are boats crossing the river from southern Anhui and southern Jiangsu every day to reinforce them, and there are more and more red soldiers in Hezhou and Chaohu!"

"How many are there?" Zhang Lexing has two or three hundred thousand twists in his hands and tens of thousands of horses, but he attaches great importance to the Hongjun.

You must know that not long ago it came from the south, the main force of the Rainbow Army is attacking southern Fujian, tens of thousands of troops swept all the way through Fujian, and now Xiamen and Zhangzhou, the two most important cities in the hands of the Qing army, have fallen into the hands of the Rainbow Army, and the fall of Fujian is just a matter of time.

After hearing the news, Zhang Lexing first rejoiced that the Rainbow Army was attacking south, so he didn't have to bear the brunt of it, but then he received the news that the Rainbow Army had a large reinforcement and the bridgehead between Hezhou and Chaohu.

Originally, Zhang Lexing was confident that taking Hezhou and Chaohu would win, and he must know that the soldiers and horses of the Hong Army who crossed the river were no more than 1,000 people, no more than 1,500 at most, although they recruited two or three hundred township soldiers on the spot, but under the attack of their own hundreds of thousands of soldiers, it was simply a situation of powder.

It's just that the army has too many obstacles to the south, and until now it has not been killed to the river, but it has allowed the development of the rainbow army on the front line of Hezhou and Chaohu, and they continue to use the tactics of horse racing to expand outward, and recruit new recruits in a big way, and now according to the intelligence of the sentinels, although the old rainbow soldiers have increased by two or three hundred, but at most there will be no more than two thousand, but the newly enlisted county independent company, the township platoon and the basic militia company have almost one or two thousand people, and at least one thousand five hundred, plus the foreign guns and cannons in their hands, as well as steam steamers, No matter how you say it, you are barely qualified to fight with the Twist Army.

It's just that these days, the rainbow army seems to have some big moves, they first came to transport several ships of soldiers, ammunition, food, medicine and materials to help the rainbow soldiers of Hezhou and Chaohu, there is uncertain news that even Feng Sixian, the number one person in the rainbow soldiers of Anhui Province, has arrived in Jiangbei, and the state defenders have also made a big announcement, and now the rainbow soldiers in Anhui have been reorganized into the eighth division, and Feng Sixian, the new division commander, as long as he has a great merit, can become the overseer of Anhui.

Thinking of these news, Zhang Lexing's face turned blue again, and he asked his nephew again: "Zong Yu, in your opinion, how many old Hongbing soldiers are there in Hezhou now?" ”

The combat effectiveness of the new rainbow soldiers is not strong, and the equipment is only slightly stronger than the twist, it is not worth mentioning, and although Zhang Zongyu is known as the living king of the twist, but he is a very experienced figure, he immediately said: "Uncle, I estimate that the old rainbow soldiers in Hezhou originally had 18,900 people, and in the past few days, they have crossed the river one after another, how can there be 1,500, the total number is about 3,500, plus the newly attached people, there are about 5,000 or 6,000 people!"

Zhang Lexing immediately asked: "Zong Yu, what do you think Liu Evil Wolf thinks?" ”