"Two lakes! It can only be two lakes! Nan Bohang said without hesitation: "I suggest that Wu Ruxiao's troops be transferred to Lianghu to fight as soon as possible, where troops are needed!" ”

Now the battlefield of the two lakes can be said to be full of war clouds, the second army of the rainbow army first entered Hunan and successively captured twenty or thirty counties in Hunan, but due to the lack of troops, the offensive has now slowed down, and after the defeat of Zeng Guofan in Jiangxi, he took advantage of Hunan's home advantage to launch a war against the rainbow army in many ways, on the one hand, it was to continuously organize and train new battalion heads, and on the other hand, it mobilized regiments from all over the country to train their arms, so that they could carry out guerrilla warfare in the occupied areas of the rainbow army, and some regimental training even reached the scale of several thousand people.

Moreover, the Hubei side also continued to provide all the support to the Hunan side, from military salaries, ammunition, weapons, food to soldiers, in this case, the offensive of the Second Army has become slow, at this time Nan Bohang and Zhu Jinlei had to admire Liu Chang's foresight, not on other battlefields, but on the Hunan battlefield, and strive to completely defeat the main force of the Hunan Army, and now the Second Army has obtained the support of an infantry brigade from Zhejiang, in addition, this infantry brigade in southern Anhui is also about to return to its formation.

This is the strength of an infantry division, and if it is put into the Hunan battlefield, there will definitely be earth-shaking changes, but Huo Qiu's mind is not limited to the Hunan battlefield, he has obtained the support of a group of steam warships of the first detachment of the navy, although the stock of coal in his hands is very small, these steam warships can only be put into the battlefield occasionally, but they have basically controlled the water control rights of the entire two lakes.

In view of the fact that Hunan can continue to launch counteroffensives against the Hong Army, it is entirely the result of the continuous reinforcements of Hu Linyi in Hubei. Huo Qiu has already made up his mind to solve not only the Hunan problem, but also the Hubei problem by the way. They were ready for a medium-sized landing operation, first disembarking an infantry operation and then sending another infantry regiment over. Penetrating deep into the rear of Hu Linyi, forcing him to cut off support for Hunan, for which a separate battalion of the Marine Brigade had been ordered to board ships to support.

In this case, Wu Ruxiao's entry into the Lianghu battlefield will play a more favorable role, this army revolted the earliest and most intact, and the veterans of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not need to mobilize the Hunan army at all. Liu Chang agrees with this point of view: "Don't go to Hubei, let Wu Ruxiao go to Hunan, as long as Huo Qiu and them are willing to work hard, Wu Ruxiao, a traveler, can be worth a teacher!" ”

"What about opening up the battlefield in Hubei?"

"To increase the scale!" Liu Chang took a look at the situation on the Yangtze River on the map: "How can a marine battalion and an infantry regiment scare Hu Linyi!" ”

In fact, Liu Chang felt that the four infantry battalions could already scare Hu Linyi, although Hu Linyi was shrewd and capable, but this person's courage was a little insufficient. In the early days of the siege of Anqing, Chen Yucheng marched into Wuchang, which frightened Hu Linyi and immediately demanded to withdraw the siege of Anqing, while Zeng Guofan was much older. Although he agreed to be ready to withdraw his troops, he had to observe carefully before deciding to withdraw his troops, and as a result, although Chen Yucheng had the intention to conquer Wuhan again, as soon as he was intimidated by the British, he gave up his heart to enter Wuhan and made the most important strategic mistake in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

But Liu Chang didn't think about it as simple as containing Hu Linyi, since the Hunan Army Group was the most terrifying group in the Hong Army at present, then while he was still weak, he should completely cross him: "Let Huo Qiu prepare one or two more regiments, and we will beat people with two fists, so that Hubei and Hubei will not take care of one or the other at all!" Anyway, Wu Ruxiao's brigade was put into the battlefield of the Two Lakes, and his troops were enough! ”

"The independent infantry brigade in southern Anhui still has to be rebuilt?" Zhu Jinlei immediately asked: "If this is the case, the troops in Commander Huo's hands are not only enough, but he is simply rich!" ”…,

Considering the support that Liu Chang sent to the Second Army, two infantry brigades, a marine battalion, a naval detachment, and a Wu Ruxiao brigade really made Huo Qiu's Second Army strong and strong, and it was completely possible to rampage on the battlefield of the two lakes, Liu Chang replied: "That's right! However, it is possible to temporarily leave a regimental headquarters with a reinforced battalion to fight in southern Anhui, and return to the construction a little later! ”

This is much lower than Feng Sixian's requirements: "What about southern Anhui and Jiangbei?" Twists are a great enemy! ”

Although the locust-like army of the Twist Army has such and such weaknesses, they have a group of very good generals, such as Zhang Lexing, Zhang Zongyu, Ren Zhu, and Gong Deshu, all of whom can be said to be masterpieces of the moment, Li Hongzhang even lamented that Ren Zhu was the first cavalry general in the world, and he was unlucky to meet such an opponent.

But Liu Chang has his own thoughts: "To deal with twists, sometimes, the invisible battlefield is a better means!" ”

Nan Bohang immediately said: "What does His Royal Highness King Yan mean?" With silver? ”

The Rainbow Army has been using a dignified offensive in the past, whether it is the Qing Army, the Taiping Army, the French Army, or the Russian Army, what kind of means do they have, but as long as they lose to the Rainbow Army in a head-on confrontation, they are in an absolute disadvantage, but now Liu Chang decided to use other means.

He quickly pointed out on the map the location of Pheasant River, a large market town located in the northern Anhui province of Maozhou, a long way from the Hongjun's base in Jiangbei and the state, and the towns and villages in it were divided into different colors, indicating that these areas belonged to either the Taiping army or the Qing army, but in fact they were more complicated.

You must know that now the Taiping army in eastern and northern Anhui has been in a state of division, although Hong Xiuquan has arrived in western Anhui, but the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in view of the defeat of Tianjing, have been ready to find a way back, only obey the king in the situation, and the situation of the Qing army is more complicated, now Anhui Province has Fuji and Yuan Jiasan, the two major forces are driving side by side, not under each other, but in fact it is more complicated, many areas controlled by the Qing army are completely controlled by local regimental training.

These regimental training in the Huai River basin later evolved into two major military groups, one is the famous Huai Army, the pillar of China's armed forces for almost half a century, and the other is the Miao Peilin group, which was in flux between the Qing army and the Taiping Army and the Twist Army.

But even if these two military groups, the internal situation is still extremely complicated, the regimental training near Hefei is the predecessor of the Huai Army, but according to the account of the people of the time, it is "the thief will attack the thief, and the thief will attack each other", forming a situation of mutual confrontation and killing, and the confrontation of the Miao Peilin group is more serious, once he rebels against the Qing Dynasty, there will be a large number of local tyrants to practice and go away.

These regimental exercises are in fact small warlords in Lianghuai, with their own independent kingdoms, so Liu Chang analyzed: "Zhang Lexing wants to cross the mountains and mountains to attack our troops in Jiangbei, and first of all, he must eliminate these dozens or hundreds of armed forces along the way. ”

"I understand, Guan Jian is not large, and the most is only one or two thousand people!" Zhu Jinlei replied: "I'll go back to the Intelligence Department and look through it to see if they have any relevant information!" ”

"No need, let Li Hongzhang come, he knows the situation in Anhui best!" Liu Chang remembered the newly attached Qing army general: "It's enough to have him!" ”

"Is His Highness preparing to put Li Shaoquan in charge of Anhui?" Nan Bohang asked: "What about his relationship with Feng Sixian?" ”

"Li Hongzhang is here to play a consulting role!" Liu Chang said directly: "Shaoquan is a great talent, it's not time to use it yet!" ”…,

He can't forget that Zeng Guofan asked Li Hongzhang to aid Shanghai, and gave Li Hongzhang 13 battalions of 6,500 soldiers in the form of a daughter, trying to let Li Hongzhang get a large amount of military salary for himself in Shanghai.

Therefore, before the world is decided, he will not use Li Hongzhang no matter what, at most let him play a consulting role, and he continued to talk about his strategic planning: "Even if the Twist Army is coming towards our Hezhou, but there are dozens and hundreds of independent kingdoms along the border, what should he do?" Even if these powerful warlords are willing to give way, can they rest assured that they still have knives hanging behind their backs, not to mention the military discipline of the army, how can they not commit any crimes in the autumn! ”

In fact, these small army leaders usually attack each other, as the so-called "thieves come to attack thieves, thieves go to attack each other", Huaijun descendants feel that this is too ugly to say, whitewash that the thieves go to each other after the autumn is not guilty, but it is inconsistent with the situation at the time, so Zhu Jinlei has already thought of countermeasures: "Then we only need to climb high and shout, and unite all forces in Anhui Province to fight back!" ”

"But also give them some support!" Liu Chang said: "We took 80,000 taels from the tax revenue of Jiang Province to support Feng Sixian, and this batch of silver is designated for Jiangbei, and the Marine Brigade now has an independent marine battalion on standby, right?" ”

Nanbo Hang recited all this, and he immediately said: "The first independent battalion has gone to Hubei, the second independent battalion has gone to Yangzhou, and the third independent battalion is on standby at any time!" ”

"That's good! Just go to Hezhou, the Marine Battalion will be responsible for garrisoning Hezhou, and other units will be responsible for mobile operations! Liu Chang has made a comprehensive plan: "Also, the most important problem for us now is to manage the territory that has been won well!" ”

During this time, the Hongjun made great progress in Jiangsu, Fujian, Anhui, and Hunan, and took almost a hundred county seats, which is equivalent to adding more territory than one province, but these areas are all newly occupied areas, and there are a large number of adapted old Taiping Army and the old Qing Army, and the grassroots organizations have not been established, and many places even continue to use the political organization of the former Qing Dynasty, so Liu Chang said: "It is necessary to reorganize the army and build the government, manage the team well, and manage the territory well, especially Jiangsu, which is the most important!" ”。 ）

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