Zhu Jinglun sighed and said that he had to go. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, last night and night, his skin grew almost the same, Zhu Jinglun gave priority to letting the mechanical body repair the skin, this is a matter of appearance, he is the main general, it is not good not to see people for a long time, this concern is really not unreasonable, he must show up today.

He couldn't walk, his muscles and even bones were badly injured and he had to be helped.

It's easy to do, just let the black dog hold it.

Greet people when they see them, including the soldiers who defend the city.

"This official drank too much yesterday, and he still can't walk steadily today. How much did you drink, you ask Wen Kite, this little bastard! ”

walked around the city, talked and laughed with the soldiers, except for the black dog to hold him, he couldn't see any haggard on his face.

Wen Kite is a battalion officer of the soldiers guarding the city, a son of the Wen family in Kowloon, surnamed Wen, but he is brave and ruthless, he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he has also read books, and often boasts that he is both civil and military, and he is a rare good seedling in the army, but his temperament is a little jumpy, and he has a ghost idea, this kind of person can be an excellent grassroots officer, but if he is put in the position of a general, he has to hone it for a few years, and the general who leads the army is actually very taboo to show off his intelligence, Zhu Jinglun doesn't want his generals to have all the tricks like the thirty-six tricks in their heads, The general should consider that he is facing the enemy in a dignified manner, and once he is lucky, he always wants to win by surprise, but he is prone to make mistakes.

After walking on the city wall, Zhu Jinglun already felt very tired, and asked the black dog to help him go back to rest.

The person in charge of the city defense command was Hou Jin, and for safety reasons, Zhu Jinglun was not allowed to attend yesterday's wedding banquet, so as not to make any moves by the Eight Banners and the native soldiers outside the city.

Hou Jin was quite unhappy about this.

"Zhang Qianshan still has a set of battles, at least better than Qi Ling's subordinates."

After turning around the city wall, Zhu Jinglun turned around and said to the black dog.

Zhang Qianshan's troops were divided into three, in the east, west and north of the city, but he did not make mistakes, but there was a priority, the east and west sides were just feints, the front maintained the vast majority of troops, in the west and east of the city, it is estimated that staring at Guangzhou City to prevent the city people from outflanking him from these two directions is the main purpose.

However, Zhang Qianshan's army on the east and west sides occupied some high ground, including Huanggang and other places where there were forts in the past, and also placed a few cannons on them. When the British and French forces attacked Guangzhou, they first occupied these forts, and finally detoured to the north and captured the Guanyinshan Fort, thus breaking through the city of Guangzhou.

Obviously, Zhang Qianshan also knew the importance of occupying important places, and occupying those high ground in the east of the city could at least block Zhu Jinglun's intention to send troops from the east of the city, so that he could attack Guanyin Mountain from the north with peace of mind, similar to the situation of the British and French forces attacking the city.

But it's a pity that it was not the Qing army of the Anglo-French alliance at that time who defended Guangzhou, but the Xin'an County Yong in the hands of Zhu Jinglun, armed with foreign guns and cannons, and elite soldiers who had been trained under Swedish officers for several years.

"Let Hou enter and exit the east gate of the army and sweep the high ground occupied by Zhang Qianshan."

Zhu Jinglun is not satisfied with the blind defense, since those highlands are used by Zhang Qianshan to keep an eye on himself, he must be pulled out immediately, this is not a military problem, but a matter of momentum, since Zhang Qianshan feels that by occupying those highlands, he can nail himself to the city, then Zhu Jinglun must let him understand that no matter how dangerous those highlands are, Guangzhou City can easily deal with them.

Hou Jin sent troops out of the city to fight a small battle, and then the other party immediately retreated.

Soon the soldiers reported that Zhang Qianshan's army had all retreated, it seems that this guy just wanted to try his luck in a dozen Guangzhou, in case he came in, he would make a fortune, in case he couldn't get in, he would retreat immediately and maintain his strength, this guy has lived in this way until now, and he also killed Vice General Nanxiong and Shi Dakai's people.

In addition, it is possible that he just inspected the city and was seen by Zhang Qianshan's people, since Zhu Jinglun is not dead, Zhang Qianshan has no chance, and he still understands this very well.

Sure enough, I soon received a letter, which was sent by Zhang Qianshan, which said that he had a father-daughter relationship with his daughter, and hoped that Zhu Jinglun would treat his daughter well, which was to show his relationship with Zhu Jinglun's son-in-law, as for his daughter, I am afraid that people like Zhang Qianshan will really not take women seriously.

In short, Zhang Qianshan's retreat still gave Zhu Jinglun a sigh of relief, he needed a period of rest and recuperation, and after this period of recuperation, his army adapted to the psychological change, and it will be reborn. And he also has time to transfer tens of thousands of Hakka from Heshan to practice Yong and completely stabilize the important town of Guangzhou.

As soon as Zhang Qianshan retreated, Zhu Jinglun immediately asked Fang Shan to organize people to post a notice in the city, telling everyone that it was too peaceful, what should the people do.

In Zhu Jinglun's army, there was a serious shortage of officers, and the biggest obstacle was that there were too few scholars, and before using various methods and pressure from foreigners, more than 1,300 literate children were recruited in Xin'an, and these people were mainly placed in the artillery.

Knowing that the Hakka people in the Wukeng area also enlisted in the army under menopause, the number of scholars under Zhu Jinglun began to become abundant. These Hakka scholars, in fact, have fought with the Tuan Yong many times, and many of them have experience in commanding Hakka Yong, if Hakka Lianyong can be regarded as an army, many of them are equivalent to officers. After this battle, these scholars can be regarded as having experienced the battlefield and know how the firearms army is commanded.

However, these only provided Zhu Jinglun with a condition for promoting officers, and what made Zhu Jinglun make a decision on rewarding meritorious deeds was the recent morale problem of the army.

He has never openly pulled the flag to rebel, leaving the soldiers and officers at the bottom of their hearts, what are they now? Let's say that there is a rebellion, Zhu Jinglun neither ascended the throne nor established a banner. Let's say that there was no rebellion, even the governor of Liangguang was beaten, and this kind of confusion about the target made the morale of the army low, because they simply did not know what they should do in the future.

The so-called reward for meritorious deeds is more definitely the reorganization of the system, and many officers have been added to the army.

The previous army, whether it was Xin'an County Yong or Wukeng Keyong, had always been relatively rude. As long as the establishment is imitated by the Hunan army, the largest grass-roots unit is the battalion, a battalion is divided into four posts, a total of 500 people, above the battalion is the commander, the commander of Xin'an County is Hou Jin, the commander of Wukeng Keyong is the black dog, and the two commanders each have 20 battalions, and there is no grading between them.

The establishment of the Hunan army comes from Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty, that is to say, Zhu Jinglun's current army is still the same as the Qi family army more than 300 years ago, which is somewhat behind the times, and the current army cannot be the same as more than 300 years ago, it has reached the age of firearms, and it is obviously inconvenient to command such a hierarchical division. Hunan

The battle of firearms troops often does not need to be so numerous, and it is more important to pay attention to dexterity, and the dispatch of a thousand people is already quite large, so there is basically no need to fight in person at the commander level, and at the level of a thousand people, there is one less level. The practice of the military is to add sub-commanders under the command to facilitate command. Zhu Jinglun also intends to add another level.

The current battalion officers have become accustomed to commanding a battalion of 500 troops, and they have figured out what kind of combat effectiveness the 500-man musket unit is, so Zhu Jinglun will not change this structure, and directly add a formation to the battalion, called "brigade", a brigade has four battalions under its jurisdiction, a total of 2,000 people, and the commander is called the brigade commander, which is a bit of a Taiping Army, but in fact, this word comes from Zhou Li, which is the official name of "Zhou Li". It means to unify the brigade.

The four brigades form a corps, and the name of the commander remains the same, that is, the commander. Such an army has at least 8,000 people, plus artillery, logistics and other auxiliary personnel, and Zhu Jinglun gave a corps a fixed establishment of 10,000 people.

After a simple increase in one level, a reorganization was completed with as little impact as possible on the strength of the army. The Xin'an County Yong was reorganized into the Xin'an Army, and the Wukeng Keyong was reorganized into the Wukeng Army, each with 10,000 people.

Ten battalion officers were promoted to brigade commanders, including the Indian Galava.

These fifty Indians followed Zhu Jinglun and were loyal all the time, which made Zhu Jinglun understand why the British could rule India for hundreds of years. Zhu Jinglun did not treat them differently, according to their abilities, the fifty Indian soldiers are now basically regular officers, and the youngest is also the captain, commanding 10 soldiers. Among them were ten sentinels, as well as four battalion officers. You must know that Zhu Jinglun now has only 40 battalions, and he can hand over one-tenth of his soldiers to the Indians, so it should be said that he is very satisfied with the loyalty he has shown to them.

Galava belonged to the Xin'an Army, and the remaining four battalion officers in addition to him were all from the Xin'an clan, Chen Jishi of the Chen family in Shajing, Wen Yuan of the Jiulong Wen family, Deng Shicai of the Deng family, and Zhang Kaishan from Huangbeiling.

Huangbeiling Zhang's and the nearby Xiangxi, Shuibei, Hubei three villages are established by the surname Zhang, the ancestors are four brothers, worship an ancestor, their clan ancestral hall is built in Hubei Village called Huaiyue Zhang Gong Ancestral Hall, the Zhang clan also maintains a academy very well, built in Shuibei Village's Siyue Academy, this academy was established during the Kangxi period, has been maintained to this day, the reason why the Zhang family has the financial resources to maintain such a family academy, because they control a bazaar in several villages, the name of this bazaar is called Shenzhen, It can be said that the later Shenzhen was named after their family's bazaar.

Zhang's and Wen's are separated by a Shenzhen River, but the two families are feuding, just like the Wenjia village has a city wall outside the village, and the Zhang family's Huangbeiling village also has a wall, more than three meters high and two feet thick.

These five brigade commanders, in addition to Galava, an Indian, and Chen Jishi of Shajing, three are from Kowloon, only the Zhang family is not on the Kowloon Peninsula, but it is only separated by a river, there is a reason for this phenomenon, at that time, in order to protect the family and defend the land, the clans on the Kowloon Peninsula were active, they captured the most scholars, and now of course more officers can emerge.

On the side of the Wukeng Army, the main officers were not Hakka, but the Tan people brought over by the black dog, which is also for a reason, because the people who recruited and trained these Hakka warriors were all Tan people. More than 100 Tan people have basically taken over from the sentry officer to the brigade commander, and at present, among the Hakka officers, they are basically only at the captain level at the grassroots level.

But out of balance, Zhu Jinglun selected many Hakka scholars to serve as military judges, logistics officers, and financial officers. These officers are all directly subordinate to Zhu Jinglun, and are responsible for controlling the army's military discipline, material supply, and military salary.

In addition, there is an artillery unit, currently 1,800 people, except for one artillery battalion in each of the two armies of Xin'an and Wukeng, each with 100 guns and 400 people, and the remaining 1,000 people are organized into an artillery brigade directly under the group.

After the reorganization was completed, Zhu Jinglun announced again that the distribution of military salaries would be resumed after that, and there was a burst of cheers and morale improved a lot.

Now there are infantry, there are artillery, after the last capture of fifty warships of the Eight Banners Naval Division, the sailors also began to build, and the flagship of the sailors is a steamer, it is worth mentioning that this steamer is a gunboat imitated by the Xin'an Nanshan Arsenal, with a tonnage of 500 tons and 10 guns.

The gunboat had just docked at the dock in Guangzhou yesterday, and it also brought the news that Xianfeng had died! (To be continued.) )