After a victory, the whole army was very happy, but Zhu Jinglun was unusually silent, he didn't expect the Hunan army's combat effectiveness to be so strong, if the Hunan army was such a combat effectiveness, and this army was in a head-to-head situation, Zhu Jinglun was not even sure that he would be able to retreat with his whole body. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

He still underestimated the Hunan army before, the other party fought with the Taiping army for more than ten years, from the beginning of the continuous failure, to now be able to occupy an absolute advantage, Li Xiucheng can suppress the foreign gun team in Shanghai to fight violently, but when the Hunan army has no temper at all, the organization of thirteen kings and more than 100,000 troops to rescue Tianjing, Zeng Guoquan only has 20,000 or 30,000 people, so that the Taiping army can not break through his defense.

Zhu Jinglun calculated that the overall combat effectiveness of Li Hongzhang's foreign spear team cooperated with foreigners may be slightly weaker than that of his own army, so if his army encounters the elite of the Taiping Army, I am afraid that it will be half a catty and eight taels, and when it encounters the main force of the Hunan army led by Zeng Guofan and Zeng Guoquan, it may not be able to take advantage of the slightest advantage.

At this time, it was the peak period of the Hunan army, and all kinds of problems in the later period had not yet arisen, and their biggest problem was only the lack of firearms and equipment.

The Hunan army formed by Jiang Yili is, in the final analysis, just a branch of the Hunan army, and the Hunan army in the hands of Zeng Guofan's brothers is the main force, and it is definitely stronger in strength, and the number is huge, as many as more than 100,000 people, as well as the Changjie army of Zuo Zongtang's department with considerable combat effectiveness, and Li Hongzhang's Changsheng army cooperated, and really ran into these armies, Zhu Jinglun really couldn't think of a countermeasure.

He asked the General Staff to use this battle as a specimen of the Hunan army's combat effectiveness to conduct a war game deduction, and asked him to simulate how many chances of victory there would be once Guangdong was attacked by the entire Hunan army, and the result of the deduction was less than 30%. Zhu Jinglun chose to believe in the scientific deduction of these officers, so how can he avoid a decisive battle with the main force of the Hunan army before he is stronger?

Zhu Jinglun didn't know that when he lamented the combat effectiveness of the Hunan army, the Hunan army was also lamenting the combat effectiveness of the Zhu Rebel Army in Guangdong, the strong fortifications held by the 3,000 Hunan army, and the other party only took more than an hour (three hours) to attack it, this kind of combat power, they had never encountered before.

Jiang Yili was in a very heavy mood, he had a considerable understanding of the situation in Guangdong, he knew that Zhu Jinglun's troops were not only 20,000, but as many as 60,000, he was still big before, he counted the Guangdong Army as the elite of the Taiping Army to fight, thinking that it was no longer an underestimation of the other party, and now it seems that he has greatly underestimated this army.

Although Jiang Yili was not treated well by the Zeng brothers, Zuo Zongtang admired him, and he later gave Zuo Zongtang a description of the battle situation as it was, Zuo Zongtang was also frightened by the strength of the Guangdong Army, and Zuo Zongtang's judgment would of course tell the Zeng brothers and Hu Linyi and others, and as a result, they soon unanimously regarded the Guangdong Army as the great enemy they would face.

That's all for later.

Jiang Yili's original plan was to imitate Zeng Guofan's tactics of strangling the Taiping army step by step, advancing towards Guangzhou step by step, and finally surrounding Guangzhou into a lonely city, using the tenacity of the Hunan army to grind out this army, but he didn't expect that he didn't even push Zhaoqing over, not only did he not push over, but now he has to think about how to retreat.

It seems to be just a battle, but Jiang Yili knows that he has been defeated, all 3,000 people in Guding Mountain have been killed, Dading Mountain cannot be defended, and there is no need to hold on to the fortress in the area of Qixing Lake in the north of Zhaoqing City, he is along the waterway, the waterway is his back road, once the back road is broken, his remaining more than 10,000 remnants of the army will have no chance to get out of Guangdong.

Zhu Jinglun's officers were also very aware of this, the waterway was the main way of contention, and the remaining ten movable warships, after the enemy retreated, directly ordered them to use the Dading Gorge to continue the battle, if the Hunan army and naval division blocked, then destroy the other party, and keep moving forward until they rushed to the front of the Hunan infantry and blocked them.

Jiang Yili gave his sailors a death order, telling them to block the Guangdong Naval Division no matter what, covering the retreat of the main force of the Hunan army, and as a result, the originally calm Xijiang waterway became a meat grinder, and the Guangdong Naval Division did not take a step forward, and it was all paved with layers of wreckage of Hunan warships.

Ten sailors quickly became twenty, and the ten gunboats that were damaged joined the battle after emergency repair, and Zhu Jinglun placed more orders, and the slipway of the entire Guangdong shipyard was filled with his order, this time not a big ship, just a small boat.

There are at least five foreigner shipyards in Guangzhou that can produce large ships of more than 500 tons, but small boats of 200 tons and 300 tons can be manufactured by at least ten local shipyards in Guangzhou.

Zhu Jinglun gave them a lucrative order to build a total of 100 warships of 200 and 300 tons, with a total price of 2 million taels. All of them use the technology of iron rib wood shell, and the iron rib can be ordered from all the machinery factories that can be found, including Guangzhou, and even some repair factories in Hong Kong.

The technical level of these small factories is low, and many of them only have repair experience and have not built their own ships, so Zhu Jinglun also sent technicians to provide them with technical support and quality supervision.

The five large shipyards controlled by foreigners are all capable of producing 1,000-ton ships, and now they are producing 500-ton warships, so they don't have to worry about technology, and gave them an order for 30 warships, with a total price of 1.5 million taels.

These shipyards only produce hulls, and the last weapons and equipment and even steam engines are provided by the arsenal, so the largest order is actually left to the arsenal, a total of 50 steam engines and 800 guns of various types will be produced, with a total price of 3 million taels.

A military order of 6.5 million taels was smashed, and all kinds of building materials in Guangdong doubled in a short period of time, and Zhu Jinglun had to issue a second phase of bonds, which was still 5 million taels.

The new order is just a remedy, because the naval division suffered too much loss in the previous battle, and finally failed to block their retreat before the main force of the Hunan army withdrew, although the army also desperately chased after it, and constantly encountered the blocking troops of the Hunan army on the way, but still in the case of Jiang Yili's full speed retreat, most of the Hunan army successfully escaped from Guangdong and fled to Wuzhou.

However, at this time, the remaining Hunan army, which was already less than 10,000, entered Guangdong, lost more than half, and the world shook in an instant.

However, Zhu Jinglun did not intend to stop there, and began to withdraw the Xin'an Second Army from Yingde to reinforce Zhaoqing, and he planned to march into Guangxi in one go. (To be continued.) )