The judgment of this little head of the regiment made Yue Pengju look up to him in his heart.

What he said was basically right, Jiang Chuan asked the New First Army to prepare to go south, not only to clean up the British, but also to eradicate the Zheng family by the way.

The Zheng family, a family that started as pirates, has now become a behemoth, although it does not seem to be as harmful as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong on the surface, but it should not be underestimated.

Although the Zheng family doesn't seem to have much ambition, and now they have no intention of becoming emperors and kings, and Zheng Zhilong's head is only holding the title of a southeast town guard, but in terms of real strength, the Zheng family is not much worse than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

And the Zheng family also has an advantage that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong can't reach at all: the water army.

The Zheng family itself controlled all the islands along the southeast coast, and they also owned hundreds of ships of all kinds, most of which were sea-going ships.

Therefore, the Zheng family is essentially more difficult to deal with than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who can only wander on land, after all, people can still run to the sea if they can't beat them on land.

Now, the Zheng family is colluding with the British, and it is even more difficult to deal with.

If you want to deal with the British alone, the Second Army is actually enough. But if the Zheng family is to be cleaned up together, the second army will obviously be overwhelmed.

The most important thing is that Quanzhou Port, the best deep-water port in Zhongzhou, is controlled by the Zheng family.

Deep-water ports can dock larger ships with deeper drafts.

The control of Quanzhou Port in the hands of the Zheng family not only provided convenience for the Zheng family's escape, but also provided good convenience for the British reinforcements.

Therefore, in order to completely put an end to the subsequent large-scale landing reinforcements of the British, Jiang Chuan must defeat the Zheng family and take Quanzhou Port into his own hands.

And to do this, you have to have enough strength.

The Second Army, whether it is the Second Army or the New First Army, can only be regarded as the vanguard of the first stage. After all, if the follow-up battle is fierce, more troops need to be invested.

In addition, the cooperation of the sailor is also indispensable.

To deal with the Zheng family, it is impossible without a water master.

The expansion of the water division has also reached the point where it is imminent.

Moreover, we have to constantly train new troops, and these all require money, a lot of money.

It's a pity that the fortress base is only serious about gold and silver, otherwise it would be enough for Jiang Chuan to directly let the mint keep printing money, so why use all kinds of tough means to promote fiat currency.

"You're good." Yue Peng raised his finger at Zhou Ze and nodded.

After receiving the military commander's affirmation, Zhou Ze was not very excited, but said calmly: "The military commander has a good reputation." If there is not enough intelligence to support it, the last general will not be able to think of this. ”

Yue Pengju nodded, stopped talking, and continued to walk towards the next training ground.

Zhang Dabiao followed behind, glanced at Zhou Ze, and said with a smile in his heart: "Really give Lao Tzu a long face, in the end, he is from my first division." ”

In fact, Zhou Ze is different from others, he is not a simple soldier.

He was a scholar recruited by Jiang Chuan from the Hanlin Academy at the fortress base, and because of the lack of literate and hyphenated military commanders in the army, he was put into the army by Jiang Chuan.

And from the very beginning it was placed in the firearms unit.

Although it is said that many generals from ancient times to the present are coarse, and even many of them are completely illiterate.

Some of these people have become famous generals who have been passed down through the ages, but almost all of the famous generals in history are familiar with various military books and are well-versed in the past and the present.

For example, Wu Qi, Sun Tzu, Bai Qi, Meng Tian, Li Jian in the pre-Qin period, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period, Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng in the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and others, among which there is no illiterate figure at all.

Those who do not read or write, some of them may become famous because of their talents, but they are basically very rare.

Most of them can become fierce generals and fierce generals who can charge into battle, but they can't become famous generals who can strategize and gain insight into the overall situation.

War requires not only muscles, but also wisdom, and it requires the use of brains.

Zhou Ze is like this, relying on his solid military quality and excellent command ability, as well as his flexible and good thinking and summarization brain, he quickly rose from a small army Sima to the top of the army, and was appointed as the commander of the second regiment of the first division after the establishment of the Second Army.

An uneducated army may have been okay in the age of cold weapons, but with a large number of new firearms being put into the battlefield, the form and intensity of warfare will also increase exponentially.

In such a situation, an army composed entirely of illiterates is bound to be a dead end.

No one in this world knows this better than Jiang Chuan.

He had already had the idea of opening a military school, but unfortunately many conditions were not yet mature, and he could only suppress this idea for the time being.

Fortunately, it is still the initial stage of the hot weapon war, the form of the war is not too complicated, the intensity of the war is not too large, and the Qin army can still adapt.

But sooner or later, it will change.

Yue Pengju also led a group of generals to inspect the training of several troops and pointed out many problems.

Just as he was about to take another look at the training of the artillery regiment, a guard quickly ran over and saluted, and said loudly: "Tell the general, the white prince of the Black Ice Platform is here and wants to see you." ”

Bai Gongzi is naturally Bai Jinxiu.

Although she is a daughter, because of Jiang Chuan, as well as her own efforts, she has won the respect of everyone in the Qin army, so she is called Bai Gongzi.

It's the same as when later generations called those very prominent women "sir".

The Black Ice Platform has now been restructured and divided into the White Tiger Division and the Green Dragon Division.

The main mission of the White Tiger Division is internal. The White Tiger Division is now in charge of Chen Zhaojun, who is in the capital.

The main mission of the Qinglong Division is to serve as the exclusive intelligence agency of the Qin army, specializing in providing the Qin army with various intelligence inside and outside the battlefield.

Bai Jinxiu is in charge of the work of the Qinglong Division.

Of course, nominally she is still the head of the Black Ice Terrace.

During this time, Hei Bingtai had been working hard to collect intelligence from the British and the Zheng family, so as soon as he heard that Bai Jinxiu was coming, Yue Pengju realized that she must have brought important information.

"Let's go." Yue Pengju stepped onto the war horse that the guards came and jumped on the horse with agility.

was about to whip away, but he turned back and pointed at Zhang Dabiao and Shen Quan, the two division commanders, and said, "You two come together, and Zhou Ze." ”

Yue Pengju took a few generals and strode into his military office.

Bai Jinxiu, who was still dressed in men's clothes, saw Yue Pengju without greetings, and said straight to the point: "General Yue, there is a battle to be fought." ”