Perhaps, because of his own appearance, he occupied the entire south, causing the Manchu Qing forces to be driven to the south of the Yangtze River. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info plus that the treaty ports of Guangzhou and Xiamen are occupied by themselves, especially the loss of customs duties in Guangzhou, which will definitely make the Manchus feel painful. Therefore, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely attach great importance to Shanghi, an important tariff area, and will not transfer all the troops as in history, leaving only a small number of local city guards and green battalions and servants, so that the knife will have a chance to do something.

Of course, this is just Feng Yunshan's speculation.

Feng Yunshan still couldn't think of the specific reason, he simply didn't think about it anymore. But now that this information has come and the Knife Society has been established, it should be about to revolt. The Holy Kingdom must be prepared.

This knife club, although it is only a gang force, is also a force in its favor.

I just want to enter Jiangnan, and now I am sleepy and I have a pillow, which is really good. Now, there is no need to find a reason, and there is a breakthrough to capture Jiangnan.

Feng Yunshan smiled and said to Fan Ruzeng: "Very good! This information is very important! Continue to strengthen the exchange of information with the details in Shanghi City. According to this king, the first intelligence station of your secret service department can be set up in Shanghi. At that time, you will go to the intelligence station and do a good job of intelligence collection for the captive army! ”

"Holy King, do you want to send troops?" Fan Ruzeng asked in surprise, and then, he realized that he shouldn't talk too much, what he should know, the Holy King would naturally tell him, and if the Holy King didn't say it, he shouldn't ask.

"Well, this time the knife will rebel against the Manchus. It just happened to be a perfect opportunity for my holy kingdom to attack Jiangnan. This king has decided to march into Jiangnan! Feng Yunshan seemed to be in a good mood.

asked Fan Ruzeng to arrange the reorganization of the detailed brigade and the formation of the Special Service Department, and Feng Yunshan then gathered a group of people from the General Staff and issued the task of sending troops to the army.

The General Staff, now with a change of staff:

Zuo Zongtang, the only deputy chief of the General Staff;

After Lu Shunde, the former chief of the Operations Department, was transferred from the General Staff Department and became the commander of the newly established 10th Division of the Marine Division, the deputy director has been changed to Carragher? Irish officers of the Shire;

Cui Datong, deputy director of the training department, has been promoted to director of the training department at this moment;

The director of the intelligence department is still concurrently served by Zuo Zongtang;

Zhou Shengfu, Director of Logistics Department;

Xu Shou, deputy director of the Military Science Department.

After everyone arrived to meet the ceremony, Feng Yunshan directly revealed the news that there were tens of thousands of members of the Little Knife Society in Shanghi City, who had formed a gang and were ready to rebel.

Sure enough, Zuo Zongtang, deputy chief of general staff, immediately guessed Feng Yunshan's intentions: "Holy King, are you ready to swing Jiangnan?" Want to make a fuss about this knife meeting? ”

The eyes of the crowd widened. As a member of the General Staff, I am eager to fight every day, especially in major battles, and I have a great sense of accomplishment to let them make suggestions and then capture localities.

"Not bad!" Feng Yunshan smiled and said, "This time, your General Staff will take the occupation of the Jiangnan area as the ultimate goal and formulate a reliable combat plan. Of course, the first step is to occupy Shanghi, to take advantage of the opportunity of the Little Knife Society uprising, and to pay attention to negotiations with foreigners. ”

Feng Yunshan has become more and more inclined to shake off his hands, he directly put forward a request, and let Zuo Zongtang lead the people of the General Staff to discuss and come up with a combat plan.

The newly appointed Deputy Chief of the Operations Division, Carragher? Charles, with her long fiery red hair, was a little weird among the crowd. He walked straight to the wall, hung up a "Military Map of China's Territory" recently drawn by the General Staff Headquarters based on the Manchu Kanyu map, pointed to the location of Shanghai City on the map, and said: "His Royal Highness the Holy King, Mr. Zuo, and gentlemen, please look here!" ”

"Shanghi is close to the sea, and the warship can directly follow the Huangpu River that passes through Shanghi City and reach the outside of Shanghi City. Therefore, I think that in order to capture Shanghi, we should directly use warships to carry army officers and soldiers, insert them outside the city, and use the artillery on the warships to bombard the city walls on the river, and we can also use warships and warships to transport a large number of soldiers and besiege Shanghi. "Carragher? Shire's Chinese is already very smooth: "Therefore, I suggest that we attack by sea, send troops from Fuzhou, and land directly on Shanghi." ”

Zuo Zongtang looked at the map, nodded and said, "Holy King, Zuo's thoughts are the same as Mr. Charles's. In the future, our General Staff Headquarters will draw up a detailed battle plan and report it to you for approval at that time. ”

Feng Yunshan kept his forehead, this Irishman is really a foreigner's maritime thinking, and he is accustomed to using warships to conduct landing battles on the water. This is exactly what I imagined, and it seems that it is right to put this foreigner in the position of deputy director of the operations department.

Attacking from the sea is completely unguardable. In the two Opium Wars in history, foreigners frequently used this method, so that the Manchu Qing forces could not be concentrated, exhausted, and weak in defense.

Moreover, the key thing is that the captive army can attack without spending a lot of effort at all, and there will be a knife meeting! However, this is no longer a military aspect.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan asked the rest of the General Staff to go back first, leaving Zuo Zongtang behind.

Zuo Zongtang can already be trusted, and the General Staff is basically handed over to him at present.

What Feng Yunshan wants to explain is to deal with the affairs of the Shanghi Knife Club and the forces of foreigners.

"Zong Tang, although this king has sent a detailed work in Shanghai City, they are only finding out the news. Your staff is still prepared, not only to draw up a battle plan, but also to consider how to occupy Shanghai City without using swords and guns, and recruit the Little Knife Society, but not let it harm the Holy Country. Feng Yunshan said solemnly: "The General Staff Headquarters is more about the layout of the entire strategy than the development of a specific war. In this regard, you are familiar with the books of war, and you should know better than this king. ”

"In the end, Zong Tang, the matter of foreigners, this king knows that you have always been used to it, but you have to learn to calm your mentality, this world is still dominated by foreigners. Shiyi's long skills are used to control raze, which is a good saying. After Feng Yunshan finished speaking, he did not leave Zuo Zongtang.

He wanted to urgently meet with the British Minister Wen Han on Hong Kong Island to find out the attitude and hole cards of the foreigners before the Little Knife Society uprising.

Unexpectedly, Wu Chongyao reported that Wen Han had left Hong Kong Island a few days ago and returned to London, and his affairs in China were temporarily represented by Bao Ling, and Bao Ling happened to rush to Shanghi. Wu Chongyao estimated that Bao Ling was likely to directly take over the position of British minister and governor of Hong Kong from Wen Han.

Hearing that the British were not there, Feng Yunshan thought a little self-deprecatingly, how could he invisibly care about the opinions of foreigners so much like the Manchu court?

On second thought, his goal is to rejuvenate China, but if he wants to strengthen his country, he will inevitably clash with the Western powers who want to bully China and turn China into a commodity dumping and raw material colony. If sooner or later they are going to fall out, why care about their attitude? It is better to take advantage of the great opportunity of Britain and France to get caught up in the Crimean War at this moment, and directly occupy Shanghi.

Feng Yunshan, who had figured it out, was relaxed and set off to prepare for the opening ceremony of the second phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.

……..

In the early hours of the morning, Shanghi was outside the county in the city.

Pan Qiliang was locked to the boulder in front of the county government office, covered in scars, and the night in early spring was still a little cold, which made him shiver for a while in thin clothes.

"Big brother, are you okay?" A hoarse voice came from behind, Pan Qiliang opened his eyes, and he knew that it was the voice of Zhang Hanbin, the third leader of his "Hundred Dragons Party".

"It's worth it! This dog official surnamed Yuan has just been promoted to the official magistrate, and he is so fierce. When Lao Tzu escapes, sooner or later he will be flayed alive! Pan Qiliang roared hatefully.

Although Pan Qiliang is a native of Jiangning, he grew up in Pengpu, Baoshan County. Two years ago, he and his friend Zhang Hanbin established a secret gang "Temple Gang" at Pengwang Temple in Pengpu. Later, it merged with the nearby "Tangqiao Gang" led by Zhu Yuefeng and Cai Yongliang to form the "Hundred Dragons Party", with nearly 300 members in the congregation. Although Pan Qiliang was only eighteen years old, he was elected as the leader of the Hundred Dragons Party because of his martial arts skills and righteousness.

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