At present, Zhu Jinglun's troops are greatly abundant, and the first and second armies of Xin'an and the Wukeng army are quite mature and can be regarded as the main force. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The incorporated bandit Dahong Army, the Chaozhou Army composed of the Green Battalion of the Huichao Jiadao Regiment and the Zhaoqing Army composed of the Green Battalion of Zhaoqing Prefecture have all been trained for a year, but the effect is not ideal.

However, the villagers recruited from the 14 counties of Guangzhou, because Zhu Jinglun had begun to train them in the army earlier, had a better foundation, just as he could easily transform the coolies trained by the British into musket troops, these people had received long-term training in pace formations, and they had already been equipped with rifles.

The Baoke Regiment and the Baotu Regiment still retain the characteristics of the fighting regiment and are more difficult to reverse, but they are equipped with cold weapons, and they still have quite strong combat effectiveness, and after receiving formal training, their combat effectiveness has been improved.

These nine armies plus the Eight Banners, with a total of more than 100,000 people, are the total strength of Zhu Jinglun before him.

But after he left Guangzhou for Tianjing, he asked Chen Zhiting to recruit a large number of new troops, all of whom were recruited from the Wuyi area.

For example, Li Weiping, a large landlord in Xinning, and Chen Yuliang set up a Junhe Bureau in Shangze, Chongpu set up a draw game, and Yu Haiyan set up a Jiesheng Bureau to practice a group practice.

Rong Xiuguang and Rong Shiguang, the landlords of Zhaimen, convened 10,000 Yangjiang Township Yong recruited by Wubao Fathers and Elders in Yangjiang, and thousands of people from Zhaimen and Wubao Tuyong to conduct group exercises.

The Hakka people were trained by Wuju Zhong Dayong, Yu Jifu and others in the area of Nafu and Shenjing, which integrated the Hakka youth and Zhuang in Dalongwan, Hezhou, Xiaoqishan and Cao Chong, Dalongdong, Naqin and other places.

Hakka talents Tang Enchang and Wang Dinglong set up a Futong group.

The Wanxing Bureau set up by the Hakka gentry Yang Zizhao, Yang Zinan brothers and others in Cao Chong also received strong support from the Hakka family in Xin'an, such as Li Daochang and others joined the Wanxing Bureau, if it wasn't for Zhu Jinglun to stop him, he would have taken Li Jiayong to help fight the war.

Although Zhu Jinglun ordered the squires to study at the military academy and sent officers to train the small leaders, it was still difficult to achieve results for a while, and they were finally able to improve their combat effectiveness by mixing hot and cold weapons.

Zhu Jinglun is not aiming at their combat effectiveness, to be honest, if they train a pure recruit unit for a year, they don't have to be bad. The most important thing is that Zhu Jinglun was worried that the two Tuke families in the Wuyi area would fall into a war again, so the biggest purpose was to integrate all the regimental training forces at one time, drain the armed forces in that area, and prevent civil strife.

As a result of the unselective regimental training of the armed forces, the result was that Zhu Jinglun's army had increased a large number of unusually chaotic Tuke armed forces with varying numbers and different establishments, among which the number of regimental training of the Rong Xiuguang brothers was as high as 10,000, and the number of troops under Li Weiping and other gentry was more than 20,000, and there were also family-style armed forces, with a total number of 60,000.

Historically, the reason why the Tuke Fighting has been able to spread for more than ten years, with millions of casualties is because of the surplus of local young and strong labor, even if more than 100,000 people are transferred, there are still a lot of idle laborers, but after the main force is withdrawn, these idle laborers have no organization first, and secondly, the local labor force will become scarce, and it will become easy for them to find a job, and there is no condition for making trouble for a while. It should have a huge stabilizing effect.

It's just that in this way, the number of soldiers that Zhu Jinglun needs to support exceeds 150,000, and if you add artillery and navy soldiers, as high as 200,000, the strength has already surpassed that of the Hunan army, and he only needs to be given a year to reorganize and train these messy regimental training, and if he can give full play to his real combat effectiveness, he will not need to worry about the Hunan army.

It's just that it is not so easy to co-opt these people, for Li Weiping and other local gentry who have developed and grown in the armed fight, they regard these weapons as their own wealth, so Zhu Jinglun had to buy them with high-ranking officials and Houlu, and still let them lead these regiments to practice, but to place a large number of middle-level officers among them, and the grass-roots officer Zhu Jinglun can't afford to send them for the time being, if only middle-level officers are sent, these troops are still very uneasy, trust depends on the accumulation of time, and wait for them to be loyal to Zhu Jinglun for a few years and fight for a few years. Slowly a solid system of obedience was formed, and only then could they be regarded as confidants.

The Eight Banners really have no combat effectiveness, they passed by Xinxing County, and they couldn't even beat Xinxing County, but the surrounding countryside was not lightly harmed, and the local landlords and clan forces hated them thoroughly.

As a result, two thousand eight banners, three percent were killed in the first battle, and the others surrendered, and they were escorted back to Guangzhou in less than a month.

He invited the squires of the counties who had been harmed along the way, who had been harmed a lot, to come to Guangzhou to observe the punishment, and told them that no matter who dared to disturb the people, there would be no forgiveness for killing, and that it was the bandit officers and soldiers who would go to clean it up, and that it was the army and that military discipline should be strictly enforced.

At the same time, he also invited an old man with prestige among the bannermen in Guangzhou to watch the execution, and more than 1,000 heads rolled down by the Pearl River, staining the river red with blood, which also severely shocked the rebellion of the bannermen.

He gave rich rewards to the squires who cooperated with the officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits, and at the same time communicated with the flag men and gentlemen, telling them that if the flag man did not rebel, he would never oppress the flag man and let them restrain the flag man in the city.

What is gratifying is that in addition to the 2,000 Eight Banners soldiers who have been completely suppressed and beheaded, most of the Eight Banners recruited by Zhu Jinglun did not participate in the rebellion, but were honestly stationed in various places, and Zhu Jinglun continued to pay them military salaries, and they had proven their basic loyalty, even out of fear.

So now Zhu Jinglun feels that he can use them, and directly called Fu Zhuli, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners, to Guangzhou and told him to let him take the Eight Banners to the battle.

Now Fu Zhuli is the highest-ranking officer in the Eight Banners, and there was Du Tong Nesuken above him before, but this Nesuken is the officer of the Eight Banners who led the rebellion this time, and finally beheaded directly on the bank of the Pearl River, and Fu Zhuli is probably because when he was still alive, he led the Zhaoqing army to attack Guangzhou City, and was severely taught by Zhu Jinglun's troops. saved his life, and also saved the lives of the remaining 8,000 Eight Banner soldiers.

But when Fu Zhuli was asked to lead the Northern Expedition, he still put forward his opinion.

"Only fight the Hunan army, not the officers and soldiers!"

The loyalty of the banner people to the Qing court has always been the strongest among all ethnic groups, and Zhu Jinglun does not expect them to be loyal to himself from the heart, which is not in line with human nature.

Zhu Jinglun happily satisfied Fu Zhuli's request that they not fight against the regular army of the Qing court, not with the Eight Banners, not even with the Green Battalion, and only with the local armed Hunan army.

It was enough for them to fight the Hunan army.

This is the political significance that Zhu Jinglun has always wanted, just imagine that the soldiers of the Hunan army are fighting bloodily to defend the flag people, and suddenly jump out of an eight-banner army to beat them, what will the soldiers of the Hunan army think?

It doesn't matter what the soldiers think, the important thing is that the officers in the Hunan army, most of them are officers who are scholars, and what the officers who have the idea of serving the country with loyalty to the monarch in their minds think, at that time, even Zeng Guofan may not be able to suppress their anger, if there are some officers who are enthusiastic and desperate for the Qing court, and directly give Zeng Guofan a yellow robe, it will be fun.

Zhu Jinglun acted quickly, immediately transferred all the remaining Eight Banners Army to Xin'an, and immediately took a boat north to Tianjing.

As soon as he sent them away, Xu Rongcun returned from Shanghai, bringing back some of the information he wanted.

Zuo Zongtang had indeed gone south, and the rest of the Zhejiang Taiping Army fled into Fujian under the leadership of Li Shixian, but Zuo Zongtang's Chang Jie army was in hot pursuit.

At this time when the Taiping War was fought, the Qing army had slowly figured out a set of ways to deal with the Taiping army, that is, when they could not be defeated, they could not allow these people to divide their territory, and once they were scattered, they would immediately chase after them, not giving them any respite, and not giving them the opportunity to rest calmly in one place.

The Qing army, mainly the Hunan army, the Huai army and other local troops, insisted on being like a wolf, chasing after them, like maggots on the tarsal bones, even if they couldn't beat them, they followed closely, allowing the Taiping army to move, but they were not allowed to station, which was a reversal of the method used by the Ming army to suppress Li Zicheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, they can't say that the strategy of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting is wrong, they can only say that the situation they faced is different, because of natural disasters in the late Ming Dynasty, the displaced people rose everywhere, and they could not be curbed at all, so Li Zicheng As long as they moved, they could recruit thousands of troops and horses at any time, so they could only annihilate them by restricting their mobility.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, although social contradictions had accumulated to the extent of an outbreak, the overall organizational ability of the society had not been lost, and there was no large-scale displacement, and the countryside was basically controlled by clans and gentry.

However, Zeng Guofan did not care about the movement of the Taiping army, on the contrary, the Qing court formed a huge stability maintenance force in the countryside by encouraging regimental training, and these people became the greatest force to resist the Taiping army's plundering of the countryside and maintain local stability.

And once they can't attack the Qing army to defend the fortified city, the Hunan army and other armies chased by maggots like tarsal bones, will give them a devastating blow, in the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, their army continued to encounter this situation, in the countryside encountered local armed forces, unable to destroy them, in the city encountered regimental training to defend the city, unable to capture the city, the pursuers behind them made them dare not divide the troops at will, even the food could not be raised, in this predicament, even Shi Dakai such a famous general, had to be defeated again and again.

It can be said that when the Qing court mobilized the masses to resist, the Taiping army, a rebel army that had lost the hearts of the people because of excessive killings, was already a doomed end.

Of course, the textbooks do not think that this is to mobilize the masses, but to mobilize the landlords' armed forces.

After Zhu Jinglun learned that Zuo Zongtang was like a maggot on the tarsal bone and followed Li Shixian south, he immediately realized that Zuo Zongtang's drunkard intention was not to drink, and he was 100% sure that Zuo Zongtang was coming to Guangdong.

Sure enough, Zhang Baoming, who was stationed in the area of Dapu County, Chaozhou, soon sent back a message that he encountered the remnants of the Taiping army, claiming to be under Li Shixian, and asked the Ming army to let them enter.

Zhu Jinglun replied, not a single soldier of the Taiping Army can be put in, find out the identity, if it is really the Taiping Army, provide them with some food and grass, let them guard the border of Fujian, block Zuo Zongtang, if it is pretended, annihilate immediately! (To be continued.) )