Almost immediately after Shi Dakai left Nanjing, the Second Detective Division, which was nominally similar to the Detective Division of the Military Police Headquarters, was in fact the intelligence agency on which the Governor's Office depended. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info immediately mobilized all personnel to strengthen the work of the Taiping army in Nanjing and other areas -- as early as a few months earlier, Zhang Sen, as the head of the investigation department, had received an order -- to intensify the infiltration of Nanjing and other areas controlled by the Taiping army, and to grasp their movements.

In order to facilitate communication, Zhang Sen even cooperated with the navy to build a telegraph line under the river, and set up secret telegraph stations in Dangtu, Wuhu, Anqing, and other places so that information could be quickly sent back to Wuchang.

"After Shi Dakai left, he immediately guarded Anqing, sneaked in Jinzhu Pass and other places to paste notices, disbanded the old party in Jinling, said that those who were willing to join the army would go to Anqing, and those who did not want to shave back to their hometowns in Sichuan, showing the words of the first year of Tai'an Guo Ding Si, which is another and has no doubt."

As an ordinary staff officer, Zhang Yu turned his attention to the large sand table from time to time, and there were more than a dozen people standing by the sand table at this time, and the core of everyone was the lord, and the closest to him was Colonel Linus, Colonel Adol and Major Frank, the two of them came from Prussia like Colonel Linus, and were staff officers of the staff of the Rebel Army. They, like Linus, have all been naturalized in China.

"When he left, although he only took away 5,000 elites of the main hall, in the past two months, there were no less than tens of thousands of elites who went to Anqing to defect to him, and then the area in central Anhui was Shi Dakai's department, and it is expected that once Shi Dakai decided to go to Henan, he will inevitably take away no less than 300,000 bandits......"

Although he was not a soldier, Zhang Sen appeared in the operational map room of the General Staff because he had most of the information.

“…… Although Hong Xiuquan called Shi Dakai back many times, after Shi Dakai refused, he declared to the city that it was not he who forced Shi Dakai to leave, and the responsibility for the split was in Shi Dakai and not in Hong Xiuquan...... The hundred officials of the puppet dynasty have put on the concert, asking Hong Xiuquan to dismiss the two puppet kings of An and Fu, and welcome Shi Dakai to return to the dynasty to govern. Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to admit defeat, issued an order to depose the two, remove the prince, change the title of pseudo Tian'an and Tianfu, and followed Meng Deen's suggestion to cast a "righteous king" gold medal, together with Hong Xiuquan's edict to summon Shi Dakai to return to the dynasty and the edict of the hundred officials to implore Shi Dakai to return to the dynasty, and sent the edict official to Anqing to see Shi Dakai. Who knew that a few days later, he still brought back the gold medal of the "righteous king", saying that Shi Dakai declared that the Qing army in northern Anhui was about to move, and it must be in Anqing and could not return to the dynasty. ”

Staring at northern Anhui on the sand table, Zhu Yifeng really didn't believe that the Qing army in northern Anhui would be ready to move.

"Central Anhui was originally Shi Dakai's territory, where there were no less than 200,000 troops, and it has repeatedly claimed to the outside world that the reason why he left Nanjing was only to serve the country on an expedition, and to return to the forest on a different day, in order to show his loyalty to the ......."

Expedition to serve the country!

Staring at the sand table, Zhu Yifeng's eyes narrowed into a slit, this was just a joke. In fact, just a few days ago, he had sent his henchman Huang Yukun to Wuchang to negotiate an agreement with him.

"Of course, as we all know, Shi Dakai is about to leave Anhui and make a northern expedition to Henan, according to the agreement we reached with him, after his northern expedition, our army will enter Anhui from the east, thinking that it is the screen of the heavenly kingdom ......."

When they heard "For the Screen of Heaven", everyone was full of sneers on their faces, and in their eyes it was a joke at all. Shi Dakai ceded northern Anhui, which meant that the rebels could capture most of Anhui without wasting a single shot, and more importantly, it paved the way for the rebels to attack Nanjing, although there were still more than 200,000 Taiping troops in southern Anhui, but those troops were not worth mentioning at all. It is considered important that Shi Dakai's Northern Generations will be conducive to the recovery of the Jiangnan provinces by the righteous army.

No one knows what kind of "price" Zhu Yifeng paid in order to promote Shi Dakai's Northern Expedition -- 50,000 "Shijing-style" front-loading rifled guns, 164 steel 12-pounder Napoleon guns, 80 80-mm front-line rifled guns, and as many as 30,000 barrels of gunpowder.

Of course, the return is also rich -- in addition to more than 1,360,000 taels of silver and 47,500 taels of gold, it will hand over the areas controlled by the Taiping Army in the north of the Inner River, including the provincial city of Anqing, to the rebels, of course, this needs to be "taken" by the rebels themselves. At least on the surface, Shi Dakai did not hand over the territory of Anhui to the Righteous Army, and it was the "territory" that the Righteous Army "took the opportunity" to seize after its Northern Expedition.

In a word, Shi Dakai is still a loyal minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As for the rebels, they are just "rebellious ministers and thieves". But Zhu Yifeng didn't care, because he never regarded himself as a "minister" of the kingdom of heaven, and more importantly, history was written by the victors.

“…… There is no doubt that with Shi Dakai's Northern Expedition, our army will achieve parity with the Taiping Army in terms of strength for the first time, and the Taiping Army's superiority over our army will no longer exist......"

For a long time, limited by economic and other reasons, the strength of the Righteous Army has been far inferior to the Taiping Army, although it has an absolute advantage in firepower and training, but at least on paper, the Taiping Army maintains an absolute superiority in strength, and more importantly, the battlefield of the Righteous Army is not only Nanjing.

At the same time as attacking Nanjing, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Fujian will all be within the scope of the objectives of this righteous army's eastward crusade, and if it is not for the fact that the front is too long, even Shaanxi and Sichuan will become the targets of the attack, and as for Guizhou, Yunnan, and the southwest region of Guangxi, according to the plan, after the end of the Northern Expedition, the solution will be supplemented by political offensive supplemented by military addition.

Even according to the assumptions of Luo Bingzhang, Zhang Liangji and others, there is no need to wait for reunification, once the rebel army captures Nanjing, the southwestern provinces may rise to righteousness, because the governors and governors of the southwestern provinces know very well that at that time, no one in the world will be able to stop the rebel army, and it is also their last chance.

Either as a minister of the new dynasty, or as an enemy of the new dynasty.

If it was the Taiping Army, they would naturally consider one or two, but the identities of Zhang Liangji, Luo Bingzhang and other important ministers of the governor's palace told them that the new dynasty did not exclude the old officials of the previous dynasty.

"Our army will advance along the river, first transport a regiment by merchant ship to take over Anqing, and after controlling Anqing, use Anqing as the rear base camp, and attack Nanjing ...... with both land and navy"

After making a complete introduction to the strategic deployment, Linus noticed that the expression of Lin Yuqing, the commander of the First Brigade, was very calm, he just looked at Nanjing on the Nanjing sand table, and he was more concerned about the battle than others.

Perhaps, this is the reason why Han Du appointed him as the commander of the 1st Brigade. The kitten knew that he saw the other three brigade commanders again, Yu Xiaobao's face was piled up because of excessive obesity, his eyes narrowed into a slit, no one knew what he was thinking, but he was well known in the army, nicknamed "Yu Gouzi" He was a "dog" of Han Du, and even regarded himself as a "dog" in most of them.

And standing next to him is emaciated, in stark contrast to Song Jie, compared with Yu Xiaobao, he was born as a sailor, he has excellent marksmanship, and is the earliest sniper in the rebel army - in the battle of Huangzhou, it was he and his sniper who laid the first big victory of the rebel army.

And the brigade commander of the Fourth Brigade seemed a little taciturn, he was tall and stood there, no one could ignore Zhu Fucai, a middle-aged man with a height of no less than 1.9 meters, although he was born as a domestic servant of Han Du, but he was also decent to fight.

What is the best feature of the four of them?

It's loyal to Handu!

Especially Zhu Fucai, perhaps because of this, the Fourth Brigade will become the "Chinese army" of this Eastern Crusade.

"Well, Advisor Linus has finished introducing the overall deployment of the strategy, and everyone knows very well that this crusade is directly related to the future of the rebel army and the future of China. Because the governor will personally lead the army to recover Nanjing! ”

Nanjing, as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, naturally cannot be recovered by others, and more importantly, Zhu Yifeng knows very well that this honor cannot be obtained by others, not because there is no mechanism to restrain these commanders in the army, but with the development of the rebel army in the future, many of them will be promoted to generals, and when they become generals, recovering the post of commander of Nanjing will make it difficult for others to surpass, which will indirectly cause a kind of "injustice".

Of course, there is another reason in addition to this, that is, to create a balance in the army, knowing that the way is balanced, he made two left and right members of the army in the military palace, and checked each other, in the army, the regiment is used as the largest unit to restrain them, and as for the future, before the power is really solidified, he does not want a general to be too "outstanding".

Power needs to be checked!

In ancient times, the so-called "high merit covers the master" is actually because there is no corresponding restraint mechanism. Just like this Eastern Crusade, the three directions with the three brigades as the core will achieve corresponding military merits. This means that the three of them will not be particularly "outstanding" in the future. Even if Lin Yuqing captured Nanjing, it was under the direct command of Zhu Yifeng. It will not form an overwhelming advantage over the other two, so that when the merit is rewarded in the future, there will naturally be no aspect of surpassing others.

If Zhu Yifeng has learned anything in the past four years, especially under the teaching of Zhang Liangji, Luo Bingzhang, Hu Linyi and others, I am afraid that it is the way to be a king, and the way to be a king lies in balance.

"This crusade can only succeed, not fail!"

After saying this, Zhu Yifeng said with his hands at everyone.

"This governor has entrusted you with the tens of millions of people who have fallen into the hands of thieves!"

After the abolition of the kneeling salute, although they can bow each other and military salute as a courtesy, at this time, they can only return the bow with a deep bow of 90 degrees, even Linus and other Western officers also practice the same etiquette, after all, they have become naturalized Chinese. While returning the salute, they said in a deep voice at the same time.

"Please rest assured, we will live up to the expectations of the people in the world and the trust of the lord!"

Nodding, Zhu Yifeng, who looked solemn, said.

"Give the mobilization order!"

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