Chapter 359 (1)

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“…… Therefore, in order to enable the two sides to find more common ground, our side agreed to the Manchu delegation's proposal to temporarily suspend the peace talks for one month, so that after the Manchu delegation returned to its capital, it would have ample time with its decision-making authorities and face up to the importance of the peace talks to both sides with a calm attitude...... It has only been three days since he returned to his Texas headquarters, but Zaiyuan and the others have just left Texas early yesterday morning. Who would have thought that in such a short period of time, that group of shameless guys actually began to betray their promises and trigger a full-scale armed conflict.

Of course, the more important reason why Pryushenko was able to be so angry was that he was not at all ready for a full-scale outbreak of war.

As a professional soldier who has been tested by war for a long time, he has long had a premonition that the so-called peace talks may be a beautiful wreath in his dreams. Peace should and can only be bought with the clamor of cannons and the blood of soldiers, and it has never been heard of that it can be obtained lightly by the touch of two mouths alone.

When he was designated by the headquarters of the coalition forces to lead the regiment to Jinan in person, although he had to obey this "rash arrangement," he still did not forget to tell the aides who stayed behind not to be too optimistic about the prospects for peace talks, and to step up the refurbishment of the army, and only with an army like an eagle in his hands could everyone's safety be guaranteed.

Even during his time in Jinan, Pryushenko did not stop for a day to prepare for a war that could very well occur in the future. Through guò the mole buried inside the Taiping Red Army, through the "excursions" in his spare time, and listening to the words of the few members of the Manchu delegation who were fighting fiercely with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and whether the members of the French, American, Dutch and other observation missions were introducing or showing off, in short, all this information was put together, and he was satisfied that he had a general grasp of the pulse of his opponents.

Therefore, he has returned to Texas several times to adjust his future strategic deployment. He demanded that his subordinates should strengthen the first line of defense with the Yellow River as a barrier in Dongchang and Wuding. On the opposite side of Jinan, while secretly doing a good job in the defense of Jiyang and Qihe with Yucheng as the center, it is necessary to make the appearance of lax defense of the first-line river, and concentrate the main defense and mobile forces on the line from Liaocheng to the Shanghe River, relying on the Tuxiao River to form an impregnable second line of defense.

Priushenko decided that the opponent's large-scale offensive operation would definitely be carried out on the front line in Jinan, because too many elite of the Taiping Red Army were concentrated around Jinan. In addition, only by concentrating his forces to break through here like a knife can he cut his entire defense line in an instant, and when his army is unable to take care of each other, he can once again use the despicable means of a long-distance sneak attack on the Weihai Special Zone, and use light cavalry to go straight to Zhengding. In this way, his opponents not only directly threatened Kyoto of the Qing Dynasty, but also cut off the rear route of a large number of coalition troops stationed south of Zhengding. It's an absolutely scary thing.

It is precisely because of so much thought that Priushenko made his kind of foolproof and excellent arrangement. He imagined that once the Taiping Red Army crossed the Yellow River in spite of its integrity, his left and right flanks would have more than a dozen regiments of troops, and with the help of the Yellow River, it would be enough to resist the containment attack of the Taiping Red Army on both wings. And in person, after a little resistance, they can give way to the Yellow River defense line and call them ashore. Because, it is not okay not to ask people to go ashore, he has heard about and seen the artillery of the Taiping Red Army, and in this case, resisting others to the death is tantamount to using the flesh and blood of the soldiers as cannon fodder. He knew very well that soldiers were the waist poles of generals, and generals without soldiers were nothing.

Show weakness first, drag the opponent ashore with a few points, block the opponent's way with a strong defense line of the Tuxiao River, and consume their manpower and morale. Then, the armies on the left and right flanks came up again, haha......

Pryushenko is really thinking well. But he never thought that the "elite of the Taiping Red Army" he knew was just a scene for everyone to see. Except for the artillery part, it is true, the troops are all camouflaged, but just under a banner. If nothing else, let's just say that the so-called "team of the Teaching Brigade of the Heavenly Army" that Seng Lingqin saw was only the headquarters guard regiment of the northern camp, whether it was the Red First Army or the Teaching Brigade, they had always been guarding their respective defensive positions and had never moved. Of course, they would not be under the banner of themselves, otherwise the poor Colonel Nobanosky would not have always indicated in his correspondence with the south bank that the letter was addressed to Zeng Tianyang, the chief general of Qingzhou in the Taiping Red Army.

Priushenko thought well and implemented a lot, and even his comprehensive deployment was praised by the headquarters of the coalition forces, although while praising him, he was still repeatedly telling him not to provoke the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first, to be rational and restrained, and to be good at dealing with the Chinese with "the Chinese spirit of a gentleman who is not too late for ten years to take revenge." Unfortunately, even the best preparation takes time.

Before he could return to his headquarters, the construction of the defense line of the Tuxiao River had already begun, and a large number of people were driven to the north bank of the Tuxiao River, where countless fortifications were built with stones and giant logs. Unfortunately, he had planned to rest for a few days, and after clearing the bad luck brought back from Jinan, he had to quickly convene a joint military meeting that would include those local pigtail officials, on the one hand, the mobilization of the various teams under his command, the concentration of the concentration, and on the other hand, the fierce reprimand and reprimand of those dead pigs who were not afraid of boiling water and pigtailed officials, most of the fortifications have not yet been capped, and the grain and grass are also today and tomorrow, where is this posture of preparing for war, It's simply a traitor.

However, before I could do it, this war was coming, and General Pryushenko could not be angry.

"Is there any alarm in the direction of Yucheng?" Priushenko finally had enough of venting, propped his hands on the table, and stared at the adjutant with two blood-red eyes.

"I didn't ...... No, there have been no alerts so far. ”

"Bang!" Pryushenko's big hairy fist slammed on the table, and then his hands began to tear his ephedra curls, and spun in a circle on the spot, "Impossible, this is simply impossible?" ”

Yes, if this is really the case, then the trajectory of this war is really the same as he previously imagined. There was no movement on the front, but the wings broke through first, and once the opponent quickly outflanked him......

Pryushenko was full of excitement, so cold!

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