Before that, he was self-aware, knowing that he was the general of the Jingnan Domain, and there were many troops in the Jingnan Domain, so it was impossible for Zhou Shixiang to reuse himself, in case he, the cousin of the King of Jingnan, formed a climate in the army, and he bit Zhou Shixiang again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, this is also the case, after Geng Zhongde surrendered, he did not lead any more troops, but was appointed as the deputy commander of the military training center, this position is set as the general military rank, and the commander of the training center is Zhou Shixiang himself, so nominally Geng Zhongde is also a high-ranking person. However, a high position does not mean weight, although he is the deputy commander of the training center, Geng Zhongde cannot transfer a single soldier, and even the training officers in the training center have no right to transfer without authorization.

To put it bluntly, this admiral deputy is a glamorous-looking position, but in fact he has no power. But this position has long-term significance, the military training institute is equal to the Whampoa Military Academy of the Taiping Army, as the vice principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, Geng Zhongde really has no future at all? It's a pity that Geng Zhongde didn't see this, he only thought that this was an arrangement given by Zhou Shixiang because he was wary of himself. After Geng Jimao's death, Geng Zhongde was also dead-hearted, he just thought that this life was like this, and he didn't want to be hit by the position of a town general so lightly.

Geng Zhongde was very excited, excited from the bottom of his heart, he was a person who had led the army for a long time, and he was willing to do something similar to the Admiral Xuezheng in the military training center, so there was almost no modesty and prevarication, and Geng Zhongde gladly accepted the appointment of the general of the 14th town.

The appointment of Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde can also be said to be the appeasement of Zhou Shi relative to the Pingnan Domain and the Jingnan Domain, after all, the surrender of the two feudal domains and the surrender of generals accounted for a large proportion of the Taiping army, and many middle-level officers in the old four towns were born in the two feudal domains, and their performance proved their loyalty. At least so far, there has been no finding that the officers from the two feudatories have rebelled, that is, when the line Guoan besieged Xiaobeishan and the war in Guangxi fell into a downturn, no one in the fourth town of the two feudatories wavered.

On the one hand, this was because their families were in Guangzhou, but on the other hand, because they had not yet seen the possibility of the Taiping army's defeat. It is more because their achievements in the Taiping Army are higher than when they were in the Qing Army, and many of the officers of the two feudal domains who were only low-level officers in the Qing Army are now many of them have become battalion captains and brigade schools. Niu Gensheng, who was born in the Han Army Banner, has now become a general of the Twelve Towns, which makes them, who have worked hard in the Qing army, naturally see the ladder of climbing.

Compared with the Taiping Army, which has only appeared in front of the world for two or three years, the Qing Army, which has a history of several decades, is undoubtedly much more rigid, and this rigidity is mainly due to the obstruction of the passage from the bottom to the top. The current Qing army looks at its background and qualifications in many aspects, rather than its military exploits. Often half a future can make people fight for their heads, but in the end, it is the dignitaries above who decide where the future belongs in one sentence.

Basically, the internal ascent of the Qing army first faced the Manchurians, followed by the Mongol banner, then the Han banner, and finally the Green Battalion. Therefore, this is obviously extremely unfair to the officers of the Han Army Banner and the Green Battalion who have no background. It can be said that from the moment they surrendered to join the Qing army, their future in life was doomed. Unless they are extremely lucky, or if they really make immortal achievements, they will not be able to compete with those Manmeng children. In the Taiping Army, there is no barrier of origin and race, as long as you have merit, as long as you work hard, no matter who you are, you can get a position that matches your merits. This alone, coupled with the "myth" of almost invincibility since the establishment of the Taiping Army, naturally made those low-level officers under the two feudatories fall in love with it, work hard for it, and close to integration with the Taiping Army, and completely cohesion.

The newly built thirteen towns and fourteen towns are the soldiers of the two towns dominated by the Zhuang people of Guangxi, and they have nothing to do with the Pingnan Domain and the Jingnan Domain. In order to enrich the wolf soldiers of these two towns and strengthen their combat effectiveness, the first batch of officers who graduated from the military training institute were all transferred to the two towns by Zhou Shixiang, and these cadet officers were all from the old four towns, so their loyalty was naturally undoubted. Even if Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde have two hearts, they don't have ten years to win over them, and secretly replace the original officers who don't buy them, and it is obviously difficult to let these old four town officers be used by them. And the policy of the Han Zhuang family implemented by the Guangxi Governor Yamen in Guangxi made the wolf soldiers have a natural affinity for the Taiping Army, so Shang Geng and the others had no chance to pull the soldiers of the two towns to rebel.

After Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde received the order, they rushed to Liuzhou to set up their respective town command posts, and at the same time got to know their subordinate officers. The establishment of the new town can be described as a lot of affairs, from the familiarity of the generals, to the placement of the barracks, the training of the playground, the food and logistics, the military orders and military regulations.... Before May, Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde were able to completely form the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the two towns, and the difficulty was not ordinarily low.

For why Zhou Shixiang reused them as generals, Shang Keyuan and Geng Zhongde also knew it, plus the defeat of the line of national security, the Hunan side completely sealed the Hunan and Guizhou borders, and the Kui Dongbing was released to stir up the sky and the earth in Hubei, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing court have been tied hand and foot in the southwest, although I don't know whether the Yongli court is still there, but the situation of the Taiping army is obviously very good. Geng Zhongde didn't have any worries, Shang Keyuan personally slaughtered Shang Zhixin, the prince of Pingnan, just rushed to this matter, and he dared to turn back?

On the Liuzhou side, Zhao Ziqiang, the governor of the expeditionary force, led a group of generals who were waiting for news from Wu Yuan, the commander of the Hou Water Division. This time, the rebuilt Eleventh Town and the newly built Twelfth Town were the main force of the infantry army, and the sea was in charge of Wu Yuan's Naval Division.

Since the western expedition to Guangxi, the main thing the sailors have done is transportation, and the Qing army in Guangxi has no sailors, so the sailors can't fight even if they want to. Seeing that the army has repeatedly made war exploits, but the naval division has not achieved an inch, the generals of the naval division are inevitably a little anxious. After asking Annan for the order to form the Taiping Expeditionary Army, the generals of the Navy Division saw a good opportunity for them to show their strength.

Wu Yuan, the commander of the naval division, took over the important task of fighting for Annan, and then began to mobilize the warships of various battalions to form an expeditionary fleet. The expedition to Annan must not be able to use inland river boats, so Wu Yuan pulled out all the warships that could be used for naval warfare in the various battalions of the naval division, a total of 123 ships, and also recruited a small group of naval divisions belonging to the Ming army along the coast of Guangdong, including the naval division to which Zhou Tengfeng and other generals belonged to Haibei Province, and obtained more than 40 sea ships, and finally formed a huge fleet of 135 sea ships, 219 large and small artillery, and more than 8,500 officers and men of the naval division.

Such a huge sea force is already a giant in the sea off the coast of Guangdong, but compared with the Jinxia Zheng fleet, it is still far behind, but it is used to deal with the Annan naval division, which only has dozens of sea ships, but it is a knife to kill chickens.

Before the Qing army entered Guangdong, Wu Yuan had led the naval division to the sea to kill the bandits, and was stationed in Qiongzhou for two years, so he knew a little about Annam, which was not far from Qiongzhou. According to his report to the military marshal's office, Annam is not monolithic in the country, its territory is divided and restrained by each other, and the king of Annam cannot control the situation in the whole country, so it is difficult to say that the seizure of Ming officers and soldiers by the army of Annam was agreed by the king of Annam. Therefore, the expeditionary force is making a big effort to attack Annan, and it seems that it can also use the forces of all parties in Annan to achieve the goal of sending troops.

After Wu Yuan's recital was sent to Yuanzhou, Zhou Shixiang ordered the military intelligence Sima to find businessmen who understood the Annan dialect and knew the situation of Annan, and ordered them to find out the details of Annan for the Taiping army with a large amount of money, and tried to send some detailed works to Annan. Zhang Anhui, the ambassador of the Military Intelligence Department, was busy contacting the Jiangnan gentry, and after receiving the military order from the marshal, he immediately asked Song Ying to start the Annan side, and for this reason, some resources for Jiangnan were allocated to the Annan side.

It is true that Annan is a small country, but it is also a country.

Fighting for Annan is the first time that the Taiping Army has used troops overseas since its establishment, and it is of great significance, and Zhou Shixiang cannot afford to lose anything, so it is necessary to invest manpower and material resources in the preparation for war and military intelligence, and we must not underestimate the enemy because of the small size of Annan, and we must do everything that should be done in place, so as not to abandon the overall situation because of trivial matters in the future.

Zhang An's report may have to spend a lot of money in Annan, and Zhou Shixiang's reply is that it doesn't matter how much money it spends, what matters is whether it can get things done. Because after the matter is done, the money spent will return to the Taiping army again. I can't bear the child can't trap the wolf, silver is just a metal thing, and if you can't buy something, it's waste, and it's worth only spending it.

Zhou Shixiang asked Song Xianggong to provide Zhang An's Military Intelligence Department with a batch of newly minted silver dollars, and then the Military Intelligence Department used all these silver dollars in Annam.

Zhou Shixiang has already seen the samples of the new silver dollar and is very satisfied, and he hopes that these quantitative and standardized silver dollars can be widely loved by the officials and people of Annan, and also hopes that the people of Annan can selflessly assist the Ming military and people in resisting the Qing Dynasty.

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At the Dadongmen Wharf in Liuzhou, Zhao Ziqiang was the captain of the Green Battalion Qian's personal soldiers, the former Fifth Town Town Guard Cavalry Team of 100 households, and now Wei Zhong, who was promoted to the commander of the Governor's Mansion of the Expeditionary Force, brought the news that the sailor could set off.

The waiting officers in the room all got up and looked at Zhao Ziqiang, including Lu Guangzu, deputy governor of the expeditionary force, Shi Qing, former assistant leader of the Wuzhenchao Ha Battalion of the Han Army, Li Yuan, chief of staff, Guo Huai, former ambassador of the Fifth Town Security Army, Lin Feng, deputy colonel of the B Brigade, Jiang Tianci, the battalion school of the first battalion of the A Brigade, and others. Many of these people are descendants of Zhao Ziqiang, who were originally placed in the fifth town, but now they are all brought to the expeditionary force by Zhao Ziqiang. And those Qing generals who surrendered to the Fifth Town on the northern front were all left in the Fifth Town, and now many people are doing one thing, that is, writing letters to recruit the subordinates of the national security of the surrender line and the generals they are familiar with.

When the fleet arrived, the Eleventh and Twelfth towns boarded the ships. After Zhao Ziqiang got on the boat, he looked back at Liuzhou City, and Shao Jiugong in Liuzhou City was also looking at him at the head of the city.

Shao Jiugong had just received an order from the military marshal's office that all the Taiping armies in Guangxi must be reintegrated immediately due to the need for unified command of the war. The fourth town, the fifth town, and the newly formed wolf soldiers will be integrated into the Guangxi Field Corps, while the tenth town will be transferred to the Guangxi garrison. (To be continued.) )