Chapter 339: New Commander
Agreeing with Zheng Sen's decision, Chen Jun can still call the shots, after all, he is the nominal supreme commander of the expeditionary force, and he has a high decision-making power over everything here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, the General Staff had already discussed the problem of Zheng Sen before, and the question of how to arrange them had been fully studied, and finally there were two plans, one plan was for them to follow as follow-up troops, and the other was to attack with the flank troops.
What Chen Jun agreed to was the second plan, and this plan was also discussed by everyone, even if he did not get the consent of the staff again, he himself could make this decision.
Since it has been agreed that they will go together as flank troops, they must be prepared, after all, this war is the first time that Australia has fought with the Manchus, and both sides actually have no bottom, and they don't know if they can defeat each other.
After all, the other party is a strong opponent for them, and it is certain that the record of the Australians in Southeast Asia is not covered, but the local aborigines and Western colonizers are looking for teeth all over the place, and the Zheng family is not their opponent.
Azig naturally didn't dare to shoot at the Australians easily, and before he figured out the other party's situation, he was looking for death, which was like letting them send them to the door to give their heads to the family, and they would naturally not do this kind of thing.
The elite of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always been very heavy, their population is too small, once the loss is too heavy, if they want to rule a huge area like the Ming Dynasty, you can imagine how dark it is.
In addition to using troops against Jiangxi, the commander of the expeditionary force also planned to use troops against Hunan at the same time, where the Manchu Qing deployed not many elite forces, only more than 20,000 people, and the rest were newly surrendered Ming troops.
One of the characteristics of the Ming army is that they will not work hard when they fight, they will take refuge back and forth, and whoever is powerful will follow whom, so Australia dares to send troops here to fight against them.
The leading commander of the Hunan operation, in fact, there is a controversy within Australia, who will be the commander, some say Fu and Lin, some say that it should be Sun Chuanting, this important minister of the Ming Dynasty, it should be time to go back, otherwise the purpose of saving him in the first place will not be achieved.
After all, the main reason for saving him in the first place was to let him play his role in the future, if he didn't go back now, he would go back in the future, and the influence would definitely not work.
So let him be the commander, fight a victory, and let the people of the Ming Dynasty see Inspector Sun, or that Inspector Sun, he is back.
He himself had a very complicated mood about returning to Daming, everyone thought he was dead, how to explain it if he came back, it was not easy to explain, and the most important reason was that he felt sorry for Chongzhen, if he hadn't been defeated, then he wouldn't have to commit suicide, and Li Zicheng would not have entered Beijing.
All this had a chain reaction, in short, he felt that he was sorry for Chongzhen, and he didn't have much face when he came back.
However, Chen Jun still tried his best to persuade him to come back and serve the Ming Dynasty, and now that he is the employment of the Liangguang Imperial Court, a person with an Australian background like him will definitely be reused, plus military talent, Shen Youlong will definitely entrust him with a heavy responsibility.
As soon as he heard that Sun Chuanting was still alive, Shen Youlong was very surprised, and then he showed joy, this is a real expert in leading troops to fight, if he can be allowed to serve in Liangguang, then the legitimacy of King Gui can be more confirmed, and it is difficult for others to say anything.
Chen Jun told Shen Youlong that this time Lao Sun also came back, came back as a staff officer with the army, was rescued by the Australians because of his injury, sent back to China, and finally was appointed by the Australian Army as a teacher at the Army Non-commissioned Officer School to join the army.
This time he came back as a staff officer, but he also wanted to directly participate in the war.
Shen Youlong asked the Australian side to let him see Lao Sun, and he wanted to persuade him to stay and serve King Gui, after all, it was of great significance to King Gui's court that an old minister like him could stay.
King Gui also said that he was willing to go to the Australian military camp to persuade the other party to stay, although he had no real power, but he knew what his ability was, and it was much better to hand over everything to Shen Youlong than to deal with it himself, and he also thought that if Sun Chuanting could be there, then Shen Youlong must have scruples about what he wanted to do, after all, the other party was also a figure whose influence was no less than him.
King Gui thought like this is completely redundant, in fact, if Shen Youlong wanted to do something, he would have done it a long time ago, and he would not wait until now, after all, the people of Liangguang are very supportive of Shen Youlong, and the officials are also promoted by him, and the influence is incomparable.
What's more, he took the initiative to let Lao Sun enter the imperial court, hold important positions, and increase military power, which means that he does not regard Lao Sun as his enemy at all, or that he is very jealous of him.
In this case, King Gui's careful thoughts, it is impossible for Lao Shen not to see it, if he can't see it at all, then what else is he going to do, of course, he is doing this now in the hope that King Gui's regime can be stable.
Since King Gui wants to see the other party, let him see him, after all, no matter what, he can't help but let him see it, and in this case, he still has to let him see him.
Sun Chuanting didn't expect that his return would be taken so seriously, and the new emperor even came to the military camp to visit him in person, hoping that he could return to Daming to serve Daming, even Shen Youlong also hoped that he would come back, everything shows his importance.
Just like the Australians said, they are indeed the talents they need very much, and the newly established court of King Gui is still lacking in talents, especially because there are too few capable people like him who can lead troops to fight wars and govern places, and there is his influence.
If he can join, then King Gui's legitimacy can be confirmed, so he still has to join them anyway, after all, he is deeply favored by the emperor and should contribute to the Ming Dynasty.
Now that many people know that they are back, if they continue to serve in the Australian barracks, they will definitely have a bad reputation.
In the end, he still agreed to Shen Youlong's invitation, and King Gui also welcomed his arrival, first appointing him as the secretary of the military department, and then letting him lead the army to recover Hunan, so at this time, Sun Chuanting was not only a command staff officer of the Australian Expeditionary Force, but also a leading general of the Guiwang court.
In addition to leading the Australian troops, some ordinary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were also handed over to him, and it can be said that there are at least tens of thousands of people under his hands, more than the commander of Chen Jun.
Of course, he didn't think that he could be better than Chen Jun because of this, and he was still very humble to obey the command of the expeditionary force command.
(To be continued.) )