Chapter 31: The Commander of the Army (2)

The young army of 13,000 people, of which three divisions and 8,000 people were drawn from the entire Chung Wang army under the age of 14, and the remaining 5,000 people were temporarily organized into two divisions.

Completed the hasty enthronement, Hong Tiangui personally brought the young army into the prepared camp, this camp is on the back of the new army, and the new army's martial arts field is only one street apart, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a civilian area, the early days of the heavenly commoners were relocated, Hong Xiuquan originally wanted to use this as the residential area of the king of the heavenly kingdom, but unfortunately because of the continuous war, the heavenly kingdom has no money to build a new palace.

Now that Hong Tiangui is in power, he has turned this place into a huge barracks, and according to Guo Yuanbao's estimates, this area with a radius of more than three kilometers is enough to accommodate 100,000 people to train and live at the same time. The Imperial Guards were still stationed outside the city, and could only pass from guarding the Heavenly King to guarding the Heavenly City.

For the Royal Forest Army, Hong Tiangui doesn't have too many ideas to transform, mediocre soldiers, mediocre generals, and all backgrounds are very deep, and he really has to make up his mind to clean up more than worth the loss. And with the arrival of the young army, Hong Tiangui's eyes also shifted from the Imperial Forest Army, and the Royal Forest Army also had its own new functions. Hong Tiangui, who was ruthless internally and incompetent externally, gave them a new job tailor-made for them - chengguan.

As the Imperial Guards put into work, the streets of Tianjing City were full of the Imperial Guards, wielding big sticks one by one, beating some people who littered, built houses, and set up stalls to their heads. Of course, with the experience of the previous life in the Western District, Hong Tiangui set up ten markets with stalls in Tianjing City, and anyone who wants to set up stalls and do business can go there for free, and other places are not allowed to set up stalls at will.

According to incomplete statistics, in just half a month after the Imperial Forest Army took over the work of urban management, there were hundreds of bloody street incidents, and the appearance of the Kingdom of Heaven has undergone earth-shaking changes. This team that frightened the people of Tianjing City finally had a place to use, and everyone was amazed by Hong Tiangui's actions, it turned out that the uncle-like Imperial Forest Army could still be used like this.

The only person who was dissatisfied with this situation was Li Rongfa, deputy marshal of the Imperial Forest Army and commander of the First Army. As the righteous son of the loyal king Li Xiucheng, his identity is definitely the best among the nobles, and he has been in the army for several years with Li Xiucheng, and he naturally has his own set of training for soldiers, but this invincible military regulations and regulations have greatly reduced the effect on the strange group of the Royal Forest Army. And the casualties will definitely not exceed twenty people.

He wanted to punish the Imperial Forest Army severely, but before it was carried out, one by one the Imperial Forest Army masters took out the gold medal from the Heavenly King to avoid death, and he Li Rongfa did not dare to find trouble with the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan no matter how arrogant he was, and the final result was compromise, compromise, half a month has passed, what should the Imperial Forest Army look like or what it should be.

The angry Li Rongfa returned to the Young Army from the Royal Forest Army, and Chen Yifan, the deputy commander of the Young Army, saw Li Rongfa's appearance and naturally understood what was going on.

"Commander, you don't have to be angry, the problem of the Royal Forest Army is not a day or two, and now even the Heavenly King has no choice, let alone us. I went to see Lord Li Mingcheng before, and Lord Li asked us to firmly grasp the military power of the young army, and everything else can be left to His Majesty the Heavenly King. Chen Yifan sighed and said.

"No, I'm going to see His Majesty the Heavenly King now!" Li Rongfa didn't want to go on like this, since the Imperial Forest Army was hopeless, why did he waste his energy for them.

Half a month has passed since Wu Ruxiao's rebellion, except for the Xin Wangfu, the other remnants of the generals have not even been punished for waiting for Wu Ruxiao, and the entire heavenly kingdom is in an extremely strange calm, even the princes who have not participated in it are also nervous one by one, and now the princes and nobles are very powerful in private, for fear that the king of heaven will make them follow in the footsteps of King Xin and King Fu.

But Hong Tiangui never acted, as if he had forgotten about this matter, and went to the morning as usual every day, but he was extremely serious about the approval of the six parts.

Of course, the young king did not do nothing, each of the six departments had a squire was dismissed, and the people who took over the squire were all little-known figures in the various ministries, everyone thought that Hong Tiangui was going to take gentle measures to replace him with his henchmen, so the head of the six ministries of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu had resigned, but was warmly retained by Hong Tiangui, and the entire court fell into a strange calm.

At the same time, the front-line battle reports came one after another, and the British king did not have the trouble of logistics and baggage, organized a big battle, defeated the former army of the Taiping Army, Zeng Guoquanbu, entered Chizhou, and advanced the front to Anqing again.

Although Anqing was not recaptured, this can be said to have turned the tide of the battlefield for the British royal forces that lost on the Western Front.

After that, the detailed report of this battle was reported to Hong Tiangui's hands, and Hong Tiangui's face was not only not happy after reading it, but became extremely dignified.

King Gan came in a hurry, and his second batch of grain and grass had already been shipped, which was enough for half a year's food for the entire front-line army. This also put an end to his work as an agent for logistics.

"Your Highness, the King of England has won victory on the front line, why is your face a little ugly?" The god king was puzzled.

Hong Tiangui handed him Chen Yucheng's battle report, and looked at the huge frontline map behind him with his hands behind his back, his hand kept drawing on the entire map, and the more he thought about it, the more solemn his expression became.

Ganwang took it and looked at it carefully, but he didn't find any problems? This made the look of suspicion on his face even more.

"Your Highness, the minister is stupid and doesn't see anything wrong with it."

Hong Tiangui turned to look at him and said, "Although the British king won this battle, there were 3,000 dead on the front line and 10,000 wounded, how many troops are in the hands of the British king?" How long can he hold on to such war attrition? ”

Ganwang was stunned for a moment, and opened the battle report of the British king, it was indeed written that this battle killed 3,000 Qing troops, the Qing army's fierce general Zeng Guoquan retreated in embarrassment, and the Taiping army itself died 3,000 casualties, and the light and serious wounded amounted to 10,000 people

"Your Highness, how can there be immortals in war!"

Hong Tiangui shook his head and said, "Ganwang, don't you understand, on the battlefield of the British King, the strength of the enemy and us is that the enemy is strong and I am weak, even if this king uses the power of heaven to act as the logistics of the British Royal Department, how long can he last?" Behind the Hunan army was the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty, as well as a steady stream of loans, arms donations, and even personal participation from the Western powers. In this case, the kingdom of heaven is against the whole world in a corner of the world, the life of any Taiping army is incomparably precious, and the British king has lost one-fifth of this battle, how can he fight next? ”

King Gan's face gradually became solemn, indeed, we only saw the victory of the British king, but did not see the hidden crisis behind the victory.