Zuo Zongtang's Chang Jiejun has been trapped in the mountains for a month, and the special forces have been in the mountains for a month, and it is not a joke to let a group of mixed Chinese and foreign troops stay in the barren mountains and mountains. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And it's in the mountains, they can't stay in peace, isn't there hunters who haunt the mountains and hunt their heads, these hunters are familiar with this mountain forest, they used to hunt wild boars here, but now they are more motivated to beat people, because a wild boar is only ten taels of silver if it dies, and they have to meet buyers who like this thing, but now, the reward given by the government is 100 taels for the head of a Changjie soldier, which is worth the price of ten wild boars, and it can be regarded as respecting the army that Zuo Zongtang painstakingly established.

Zhu Jinglun wanted to destroy Chang Jie's army, but Zuo Zongtang wanted to rescue this army, so he withdrew all the Chu troops attacking Zhenping and Dapo, and moved into the Fujian-Guangdong border area, trying to meet Chang Jie's army.

To be honest, the strength of the Chang Jie army is not much, only 3000 people, in history, after the Taiping army in Fujian and Zhejiang was destroyed, it was directly disbanded, just like the Chang Sheng army was disbanded after Li Hongzhang pacified Jiangsu, the Manchu Qing officials did not believe in the loyalty of these foreigner-led troops at all, but unlike history, now Zuo Zongtang still has enemies, so the Chang Jie army is retained.

Compared with the Changjie army, Zuo Zongtang's Chu army is as high as 50,000 people, the first is Zuo Zongtang recruited in Hunan 5000 Hunan Yong, and later the Hunan army general Jiang Zhongyuan died in battle, the rest joined Zuo Zongtang's department, and then Liu Songshan's old Hunan army joined, so the main force is the core of more than 20,000 Hunan people, but it also includes the Zhejiang Songwu army led by Zhang Yao recruited by Zuo Zongtang in Zhejiang, the Sichuan army led by Xu Zhanbiao, and even part of the Huai army.

Compared with the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan, who always insisted on recruiting only Hunan people, Zuo Zongtang seemed to have a lot of courage to fight and was open-minded, but in fact he did not understand the essentials of Zeng Guofan's army, Zeng Guofan deliberately embedded his army in the patriarchal system, with the help of thousands of years to form a strict organization of the patriarchal system to restrain the army, this is a system, so the Hunan army can continue to expand the qualified soldiers, even if the training is not sufficient, the Hunan army has the minimum combat effectiveness, Zeng Guofan dares to guarantee that the Hunan soldiers will basically not escape, Because every soldier is a clan soldier from the countryside, where do they flee? Fleeing home, it was a patriarchal society, and fleeing alone was tantamount to betraying this society and culture, and they were excluded for the rest of their lives, so the soldiers of the Hunan army never dared to flee.

But it is impossible for these Zuo Zongtang's Chu troops to do it, the army is extremely chaotic, there is no strict file management system, and there is no place to find it.

Therefore, although Zuo Zongtang's Chu army can fight the more uninstitutional army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but when it comes to really fighting a tough battle, Chang Jie's army can often play an important role and has always been used as a sharp knife, so he refused to give up this army, so he did not hesitate to use the main force of the Chu army to attack, and also rescued this army.

However, a group of Hunanese, Zhejiang, Sichuanese, and even Anhui people could not be familiar with the terrain of northern Guangdong, and no one dared to drill into the mountains at the foot of the mountains, even if they drilled into the mountains, they did not know where to drill, because Chang Jiejun had long since departed from the originally booked escape route.

Zuo Zongtang set up a phalanx for them, if they did not achieve the predetermined goal, let them retreat according to the retreat, when they were in the mountains before, they hired a lot of guides, but when Zhu Jinglun's reward was posted, even their guides became unreliable, and after being ambushed by the Chaozhou army in the mountains several times, their guides fled, and the whole army lost its way.

In the end, such a situation was formed, Chang Jiejun was spinning in the mountains like a headless fly, and the morale was getting lower and lower, and the Chaozhou army and the hunters followed like hunting dogs, which made them feel the wind and the spirit was extremely nervous, and there had been more than one incident of soldiers mistakenly killing their companions. The Chu army on the other side was wandering in the foothills, neither advancing nor retreating, and was in a dilemma.

In Zhu Jinglun's view, Chang Jiejun is dead, and what he has to consider now is the overall situation of the entire Fujian.

After deciding on the strategy of first Fujian, all the forces began to shrink and converge to Guangzhou, the regimental courage in the Wuyi area was still not easy to use, and now they have completely restored the past establishment, and the main force is in Nanshao Liandao, as a reward for the first attack on Shaozhou, Yang Zizhao became the Nanshao Liandao Daotai, and Li Weiping can only succumb to the prefect.

The rest of the place, from the prefect to the county magistrate, was also controlled by the gentry of these Wuyi areas, and the basic government framework was established, and then reforms began to be carried out according to the rest of Guangdong, such as letting Hurd go in to reform the structure of county officials, and the status of old county officials was greatly improved, becoming official status, handling the affairs of the past minor officials as alternate officials, and at the same time promulgating the examination system and establishing the county school.

To carry out these affairs, it is necessary to have a stable order, the folk customs of Nanshao Liandao are originally strong, there are many cottages, the people maintain a strong military color, whenever the dynasty changes, fierce resistance will break out here, in history, even if the Japanese came, the cottages here carried out stubborn resistance.

To maintain stability in this kind of place, it is impossible to do without the army, so the regimental warriors can not move, the remaining army, near Guangzhou has the Xin'an Second Army, the Guangzhou Army two main forces, as well as the Dahong Army, Zhaoqing Army two armies, of which the Xin'an Second Army Zhu Jinglun planned to let them rest and recuperate, after a series of hard battles with Jiang Yili and Zhang Qianshan, more than 2,000 casualties, replenish new recruits plus rest, most of the half year can not fight.

The remaining three armies can all be sent out, but the Dahong army and the Zhaoqing army are still mixed with hot and cold weapons, and the weakness of the firepower is the same as that of the Hunan army, and even in terms of firepower, it is not as good as the army of Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, but each army Zhu Jinglun is equipped with artillery.

After careful study, the General Staff submitted such an operational plan to Zhu Jinglun, attacking by sea and capturing a coastal plain city in Fujian.

In terms of topography, Fujian is actually connected with the Chaoshan area of Guangdong, the inland is mountainous, undulating, from the map, although there are many villages, in fact, they are located in the valleys, and the plains only exist in the coastal area of the river estuary.

For example, the reason why the Chaozhou area is a plain is formed by the impact and erosion of the Hanjiang River; The reason why there is a plain in Zhangzhou is that the Jiulong River and its tributaries converge here to enter the sea; Quanzhou is Jinjiang, and Fuzhou is Minjiang.

Because of this topographical limitations, the most important and richest cities in Fujian are also built on the coast, so fundamentally speaking, Fujian is born with a marine culture, and the inland is the mountains that stretch through the province, so they naturally have to find a way to the ocean, but unfortunately this marine culture has not formed an independent cultural system, and has always been restrained by the agricultural culture originating from the Central Plains, and can only become a subculture that succumbs to the agricultural culture, although there are many sailors and merchants who rely on the sea to eat, However, their social status has always been below the scholar class under the agrarian culture, and this gap in the status of the group of people is a concrete embodiment of the strength of the culture.

As long as the coastal cities can be captured, Zuo Zongtang's rule in Fujian will exist in name only, and if he wants to rule, let him rule the mountains.

The first purpose of the attack was Zhangzhou, not only because it was the closest to Guangdong, but also because Zhangzhou was currently the main force of Zuo Zongtang's Chu army stationed in the area, before they attacked Guangdong, the main force of the Chu army was assembled here, and later in order to rescue Chang Jie's army, the main force retreated here and also retreated here.

Then, in order to rescue the Changjie army, most of the troops were transferred to Yunxiao, Zhao'an Heping and the three mountainous county halls, but Zhangzhou was still their logistics base, and if they could take Zhangzhou, they would even have the opportunity to trap Zuo Zongtang's Chu army group in southern Fujian in one fell swoop, and even have the opportunity to annihilate it in one fell swoop.

The staff officers are all excited about this opportunity, this kind of battle that can eat the opponent's seriously ill group and decide the outcome through a general battle is what the real staff officers like, the kind of small-scale battle of local mountain battles, in fact, it has no effect at all with or without staff officers.

Only a large-scale battle is the only criterion for reflecting the operational level of the staff officers, because as long as a large-scale battle involves all the necessary elements of war, such as precise map operations, complex logistical supply plans, and the readiness of reserves.

Zhu Jinglun read the outline, and didn't care at all about the specific plans drawn up by the staff officers, such as the sequence of dispatching troops, the order of transportation, and the order of attack, and directly approved it.

A total of 50 warships will cooperate with this operation, and all the warships ordered by Zhu Jinglun last year have finally been completed, 50 of which will fight on the Yangtze River to ensure the right to control the Yangtze River, while the remaining 50 will remain in Guangdong.

Moreover, because the main purpose of fighting in Guangdong was to seize the right to control the Pearl River, the tonnage of warships in Guangdong was generally relatively small, with small boats of 200 or 300 tons being the majority, and the real big naval warships were all heading north to the Yangtze River, and fighting the Hunan army was only a goal, and it was also an important purpose to deter the foreign navy in Shanghai.

It is impossible for 50 warships to transport too many troops at one time, because it is necessary to transport necessary combat materials, and it is already the limit for one to squeeze 100 people, and 50 warships to transport 5,000 people at a time, which is not enough to fight with Zuo Zongtang's heavy army group, but it is enough to snatch Zhangzhou under the sneak attack.

The only variable is that Zuo Zongtang will be so stupid and not prepared at all.

The plan of the general staff was that once the other side was prepared and could not achieve the effect of a sneak attack, it would land near Zhangzhou and prepare for a strong attack, and if the strong attack could not be achieved, it would contain the enemy's main force in Zhangzhou, and then attack the city in other places in Fujian, such as occupying Fuzhou and Quanzhou, and form a siege of the entire Zhangzhou in the general direction.

At the end of September, everything was ready, a new battle was about to begin, and at this time there was good news, Chang Jie's army, which had been in the mountains for two months, came out, not to fight, but to surrender, and the French were French, and when they saw that the situation was unfavorable, they did not have the courage to persevere to the end.

After interrogation, I learned that in fact, they had been preparing to surrender for a long time, but they had never found a chance, and sent messengers to find the other party to negotiate surrender, and they were often cut off their heads, almost driving them crazy, and finally encountered the main force of the Wukeng Army, and they were able to surrender.

The surrender of the Changjie army made the Ming army suddenly vacate the two most effective troops, the Wukeng army has long been the main force, and the Chaozhou army was also a veteran soldier in the past, although it is still a mix of hot and cold weapons, but the training time is relatively long, but it has adapted to the new army grouping.

With the combat effectiveness of these two units in hand, the staff officers immediately saw great hope for the complete annihilation of the Chu army, so they decided to revise the plan. (To be continued.) )