In order to avoid discord between the town generals in the future, or the discord between the town generals and the governors, resulting in the defeat of the war, Zhou Shixiang decided to establish a field army in Guangxi to integrate the soldiers and horses of the towns in Guangxi, clarify the command orders, unify the authority and belonging, and avoid the phenomenon of the town generals fighting separately and disobeying the orders. At the same time www.biquge.info it also prevents generals from supporting their own troops.

The Guangxi Legion is composed of the fourth town, the fifth town, and the new wolf soldiers, with a total of more than 31,000 soldiers, 5,200 firearms, 83 artillery, knives, spears, bows and arrows, wolf whirls and other weapons, 725 iron armor, 12,300 cotton armor, 652 war horses, and 1,360 horses. The newly integrated Guangxi Army Corps is currently focusing on annihilating the Qing army of the National Security Station of the line and blocking the Guizhou-Guizhou border.

In view of Yu Shizhong's outstanding performance in the Battle of Xiaobeishan, Zhou Shixiang ordered him to serve as the commander of the Guangxi Field Corps, and the officers and soldiers of the following towns remained unchanged. The fifth town is still under the command of Shizhong, as the commander of the capital.

Yu Shizhong is loyal to his people, to the Ming Dynasty, to the Yongli court quite loyal, since the westward expedition to Guangxi, he three times to the Zhou Shi Xiang to invite the early entry into Yunnan, so appointed Yu Shizhong as the commander of the Guangxi Field Corps, there are many disputes within the military marshal's office. Zhao Sihai, who suppressed bandits in Xiangxi, even made a special trip back to Yuanzhou, bluntly saying that using the general Zhao Ziqiang as the governor of the expeditionary force was already too much for the old brothers to see, but because the expeditionary force was using troops in Annan, this move was somewhat similar to exile, so the brothers reluctantly admitted it. But this Yu Shizhong was just a brigade school before, and he was from Zhejiang, how could he overpower Shao Jiugong and become the commander of the Guangxi Legion?

In this regard, Zhou Shixiang's reply is that there are talented people, regardless of their background, as long as they have great merit, they should be reused. If those who have made meritorious contributions are not rewarded, and those who have done wrongs are not punished, how can we build an army, and how can we let the whole army return to their hearts?

and privately said to Zhao Sihai, it is true that Yu Shizhong is loyal to the Ming family, but our Taiping Army is also a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and we are also people of the Ming Dynasty, so why can't we allow people loyal to the Ming family to occupy a high position in the army?

Compared with Shizhong, who was promoted to the commander of the corps as a brigade school, the old brother Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, no longer served as the general of the fourth town, but was succeeded by his deputy general Wang Youxi. At the same time, the Guangxi Governor Yamen moved to Nanning, and Liuzhou was changed to the Guangxi Army Commander Station. The former general Huben and the tenth town general Wang Xingsuo are still under the command of the governor of Guangxi. The task of the 10th Town in the future is to exterminate the native forces in the southern and western mountainous areas of Guangxi under the command of the Guangxi Governor Yamen, in other words, the 10th Town will be mainly engaged in the suppression of bandits for a considerable period of time, so that the territory of Guangxi will be essentially returned to the Ming Dynasty. Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, will also become a civil official in the future, and his main energies will be on restoring production, resettling the disaster victims, recruiting displaced people, and establishing local political power in Guangxi.

In terms of power alone, Shao Jiugong's power as governor has declined greatly, before he commanded the Taiping Army in Guangxi towns as governor, and grasped the military and political affairs of Guangxi, but now, he can only manage the localities, and only has the right to command and promote the tenth town that has been transferred to the Guangxi garrison, which cannot but be said to have been cut in power.

However, Shao Jiugong did not feel much loss about not being able to serve as the commander of the Guangxi Army, but was relieved, and his heart fell like a big stone.

Shao Jiugong knows that his talents are limited, he has more than enough weight, and he is not enterprising enough, which is a rare quality in peacetime, but at present, the Ming and Qing dynasties are competing, and the Taiping army is resisting hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in the southwest. If he can be a little more bold in the battle of Xiaobeishan, I am afraid that Wu Mazi will not die in battle, and if he pushes forward, Gao Jinku may not be defeated in Dushan Prefecture. In short, Shao Jiugong thought that he could not lead the army, and if he really wanted him to continue to preside over the war in Guangxi, maybe something would go wrong. Handing over the Guangxi Field Army to Yu Shizhong was actually Shao Jiugong's advance, because he also felt that Yu Shizhong was stronger than himself.

Shao Jiugong happily handed over the fourth town to the deputy general Wang Youxi, and then took a group of subordinates of the yamen to congratulate Yu Shizhong, who was promoted to the commander of the capital, and all the materials in Liuzhou City were sealed for Yu Shizhong to send personnel to receive, and he did not take anything with him. After the handover, he left Liuzhou by boat and went to Nanning to take up his post.

After Yu Shizhong became the commander of the Guangxi Army, he spent seven days integrating various departments, and after a batch of newly transported medicines from Guangdong arrived in Liuzhou, he commanded the fourth and fifth towns to launch an attack on Qingyuan's line and state security department.

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The establishment of the Taiping Expeditionary Force and the Guangxi Field Army caused Zhou Shixiang to consume a lot of energy, and even postponed the strategic deployment of marching to Guizhou in early April to annihilate Luo Keduo, the king of Qingping County.

Zhao Ziqiang led his troops to Qinzhou by naval warship, and when Yu Shizhong led his troops to storm the city of Qingyuanfu, a man suddenly came to Yuanzhou, and this man brought a book to Zhou Shixiang, titled "Illustrated Weapons of Weapons".

Zhou Shixiang was not the one who met first, but the first to read the book "Illustrated Weapons of Weapons", and after reading it, he took the case, and let people bring the person who offered the book in immediately.

This person is Cheng Hanbin, the son of Huguang Shizi who just returned from Beijing at the beginning of the year. Cheng Hanbin originally wanted to go back to his hometown in Hubei to visit his parents first, but Hubei was in chaos due to the invasion of Kuidong's soldiers, and water and land transportation were inconvenient, so Cheng Hanbin turned to Baoqing Mansion in Hunan, and after hearing about the situation of the Taiping army in Hunan, he went straight to Yuanzhou.

On the way, Cheng Hanbin was arrested several times as a spy of the Qing army and called the Taiping army, but I heard that he was going to go to Yuanzhou to join the Taiping army, and the Taiping army everywhere opened the door for him. After Guo Dengdi of the Ninth Town heard that a man who went to Beijing to participate in the Qing court examination was going to join the Taiping Army, he sent someone to escort Cheng Hanbin all the way to Yuanzhou, which greatly increased Cheng Hanbin's good impression of the Taiping Army. Cheng Hanbin also saw the suffering of the people of Hunan suffering from military disasters along the way, and remembered it in his heart, thinking that he would make a statement to the "thief Xiucai" after arriving in Yuanzhou.

After arriving in Yuanzhou, the soldiers escorted by the Ninth Town returned to the garrison after sending Cheng Hanbin to the Marshal's Mansion, and it was the blind Li who was responsible for guarding the Yuanzhou Marshal's Mansion. As soon as I heard that there was a person to vote, the blind man Li was also curious, for a long time, the Taiping army had never been allowed to vote by any scholars from the Qing occupation area (the surrender of soldiers in the city was not counted), so it was a rare thing to suddenly raise a son to take the initiative to vote.

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