When Huang Peifang, a literati from Xiangshan, visited the Dading Temple in the ninth year of Daoguang (1829), he once inscribed a poem:

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Ten thousand trees are embedded in the Fanyu, and the mountains are wide to let the river flow.

The boundless spring color is stopped, and the west wind is leaning against the building.

The Dragon Temple of the Qin Dynasty watched the newspaper competition, and for a while the drums were biased in Cangzhou.

Jiang Yili saw this poem, and mentioned it on the side wall of a side hall facing the river, Jiang Yili felt that this poem was very well written, especially the good one is "Ten thousand trees are embedded in the Fanyu, and the mountains are wide to let the river flow", two mountains between the river, as long as he sets up a cannon on the mountain, he can seal the river.

He knows that there are ships in the Guangdong Navy, he is not a fool, he is a fierce general, he has fought for more than ten years, from a restless ranger in the past, to a hundred generals, how can he be a wasted name, Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi do not want to see him, it does not mean that he has no knowledge, Zuo Zongtang takes a fancy to him, and it is not because Zeng Hu dislikes him, he has real ability.

Since he had long known that he had stayed in Guangxi to deal with the changes in Guangdong, and he had not made a move for such a long time, it was because he had already figured out the strength of the Guangdong army, especially the naval army, after he found that the other party had many ships and artillery, he knew that it was impossible for him to formally fight the other party on the river no matter what, but the Hunan army has always attached importance to the right to control the river, and it was the sailors of the Hunan army who could force the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the lonely city of Nanjing, relying on the sailors of the Hunan army, and they knew the key to mastering the right to control water, so Jiang Yili would never dare to give up the waterway. Let your army be besieged.

Therefore, he had long formulated a strategy of seizing two mountains and controlling the rivers and gorges.

It's just that the loss of the sailor in the first battle still makes him angina, and they are all children of his hometown.

He admitted that he still underestimated the other party's sailor, and the foreigner's steamer was really powerful.

But now that Jiang Yili has taken control of the important land, he thinks that he has won this battle for the time being, and then he knows that as long as he stays here, the other party will endlessly send people to die, unless they don't want Zhaoqing anymore.

The Hunan army has always been like this, good at reversing the attack and defense, occupying a position that makes the opponent uncomfortable, and then switching defense, switching from defense to attack, destroying the enemy, and when they are tired of fighting, the Hunan army is taking a step forward, occupying a place that makes the other party even more unacceptable.

Now in Jiangxi, the cities are basically controlled by the Hunan army, and the Taiping army still controls many places, but mainly in the countryside, they are no longer interested in attacking the cities garrisoned by the Hunan army, so they can hide in the countryside to collect grain, as if they have forgotten the existence of the Hunan army.

Zhu Jinglun has already felt this kind of attrition, and the first big battle in which the whole army was dispatched has brought tremendous pressure to logistics.

The waterway to Zhaoqing is unimpeded, including the supply in Zhaoqing City, the Kowloon Exchange can provide enough supplies, as long as there is money, there is nothing that cannot be bought, and the pressure mainly comes from transportation.

In the past, the army traveled by itself, but the scale of the previous battle rarely exceeded 10,000, this time the main two armies have entered the Zhaoqing area, and there are more troops are gathering where, the transportation pressure is extremely great, and there are still tens of thousands of people in Zhaoqing City who need living supplies.

Zhu Jinglun vetoed the request of the quartermaster department to collect civilian ships, but instructed them to hire civilian ships and entrust them to civilian merchant fleets for transportation, so that a lot of management forces could be saved, and only some logistics personnel needed to be discharged to ship and accept.

For a time, the army threw money around, and a large number of civilian ships in Guangdong got a lucrative order, and they were already at a disadvantage in the competition with Western steamers, but they once again encountered a good year.

During the Daoguang and Jiaqing periods, there were still more than 1,200 sea ships in Guangdong, and as many as two or three hundred merchant ships sailed to Singapore for trade every year, but now they are almost squeezed out of this route, and the only thing that has maintained its scale is more than 300 salt ships, relying on the protection of the salt monopoly.

Their ships are small, slow, and consume a lot of manpower, and these unfavorable factors are completely no match for Western steamers, and they are squeezed step by step into the field of inland waterway shipping, but the British steamship company has opened up the transportation business between provinces and ports, and this last way of life is about to be wiped out.

The army's order was perhaps the last time they enjoyed a rich and delicious time, and in a short time more than 500 merchant ships were hired, and the capacity was fully guaranteed.

However, the material consumption is somewhat inadequate, Zhu Jinglun is now equipped with 40,000 rifles, and the supply of bullets needed is very large, and the intelligence he received is realistic, and the first day his army began to launch a land offensive, the ammunition consumed reached 50,000 rounds, which is not much, and in the Japanese Meiji Restoration, the maximum daily ammunition consumption exceeded 200,000 rounds, and the development of modern warfare will only increase the consumption.

The transportation problem is guaranteed, what can be done?

The rifles now equipped in the army are either bought from the British, or they are imitations of the British Lee Enfield Type 1853 rifled rifles, and the Type 1853 rifled rifles are imitated by the British and the French Mini rifles, and the bullets are Mini bullets, which are hollow lead bullets in the back.

Bullets are not difficult to produce, and it can even be said that casting this kind of bullet is already the most unskilled work in the arsenal, but the huge consumption of the problem, it is impossible to let the arsenal bear it all, and the solution is still to take the method of contracting out, and the most developed place in the foundry industry in Guangdong is Foshan.

Foshan is one of the four famous towns in ancient China, the most famous here is the foundry industry, but also because of the impact of Western products, in recent years, the business has become increasingly difficult, many craftsmen in Foshan have to change careers and begin to slowly grope in the context of the invasion of Western technology, to reposition themselves, many Foshan craftsmen have entered the Western machine repair industry, from the earliest to help people repair ships to now even steam engines can be repaired.

But the general trend of decline has not changed, Zhu Jinglun sent a large number of military orders, and asked a large number of foundries and workshops to help cast bullets, which is also a chance for them to make a fortune, and it may also be the last chance to make a fortune.

Zhu Jinglun has always believed in the conservative strategy of killing chickens with knives and knives, and once the war begins, he will use the greatest strength to win, so he mobilized almost all the forces that could be mobilized, including the garrisons stationed in various counties and the newly recruited troops in the Heshan area. (To be continued.) )