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A full 20,000 soldiers stood straight in the playground outside the city of Tung Chung, watching the huge sun and moon on the castle tower flutter with the glorious flag. These officers and soldiers all changed into new gray uniforms and military caps, not fluffy cotton, but crisp tweed uniforms! Wearing these hard-core officers and soldiers who have undergone strict training, there is a shocking slaughter.

These officers and men were arranged in a phalanx according to different branches of the army. Artillery lined up at the front of the line, and 96 9-pounder or 12-pounder cannons reflected dazzling light in the sun. And the light infantry and the line infantry all formed exactly the same phalanx, whether it was the brown bass smoothbore gun or the Besse wheat rifle, they were all inserted with spears, and from a distance, the bayonets were like a forest, and the army was like a mountain!

Han Si, Luo Junqi, Su Yuniang, and Liu Jiong, all of whom were in straight military uniforms, stood at the front of the team with a command knife, full of solemn feelings. The four of them are now all at the rank of major general of the Jishi Army, and they are still the commanders of the first brigade, and they will have more than 4,500 tiger soldiers under their hands!

And the four infantry brigades they commanded, plus a regiment of artillery, a regiment of engineers, a regiment of baggage, a three-company cavalry battalion and a military headquarters, were the entire lineup of the Northern Expedition to Guangzhou - and the main force of the newly renamed Ming Army, which was called the First Army of the Ming Army.

The sign of Ji Shijun was hung up in Nanyang, and strictly speaking, it was the name of the army of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang. Now Zhu Jishi is going to officially start a counterattack on the mainland, and he is also holding a signboard against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and the army under his command is naturally the Ming Army, and the standard name is the Ming Dynasty's Army.

In order to concentrate this force. Zhu Jishi not only transferred troops from Lanfang. He also called on the Hong brothers in the coastal areas of Guangdong to come to Hong Kong to join the army. The cadets of the first phase of the Aplei Chau Military Academy were also allowed to graduate ahead of schedule. A total of more than 21,000 troops, except for a fraction of those who stayed on Lantau Island, the rest would follow Zhu Jishi to Guangzhou.

Zhu Jishi, who changed into a straight uniform, strode up to the city tower accompanied by Qiu Fatzi, Haiming, Lao Pier, Zuo Zongtang, Lu Peifang, Zhong Ziliang and other Chinese and foreign civil and military personnel. The eyes of 10,000 people all turned to him, watching him stand still on the tower.

"Today, I have bad news for you! The acting foreign minister of the Qing Dynasty, Bai Siwen, has just signed a traitorous medicine with the British minister Davis! In order to protect the Qing Dynasty of their bannermen. Sell us Han China! ”

Zhu Jishi's eyes were solemn and he roared loudly.

"In order to drive us out of Hong Kong by the hand of the British, the Qing Tartars agreed to ban opium! In the future, all the land under the rule of the Qing Tartars will be allowed to run rampant with tobacco and poison! All the Han people ruled by the Qing Tartars will suffer from tobacco poison! What a vicious court this is! What a shameless king! Their two or three million Eight Banners have been riding on the head of our billions of millions of Hanmin for 200 years, and they are not engaged in production, but they are not satisfied! It is also necessary to introduce opium from abroad to plague our compatriots and ruin their families. His wife was separated, and Zuihou died of poverty! This is their Qing Tartar to destroy my billions of Han people! I'm waiting for the Han family to be a tiger. Can you say yes? ”

"Can't say yes!"

The word of all people! This is incitement! It's brainwashing! Whether it is the Yaleizhou Military Academy or the Daming Army, there are members of Daming Mountain doing political and ideological work, which is naturally far from the Red Army in later generations, but it is a great innovation in China in this era.

The focus of political and ideological work is, of course, to scandalize the Manchus and deify Zhu Jishi......

After some time, there was already a superstition and personality cult of Zhu Jishi in the Ming army! Even if Zhu Jishi is now full of lies and slandering the Manchu Qing Dynasty, these Ming officers and soldiers are convinced.

"Is it just not agree?" Zhu Jishi asked loudly.

"Perdition to the Manchus! Kill them all! Restore my Daming! ”

Someone below has already shouted slogans - naturally they are all members of Haode Daming Mountain who have been arranged a long time ago.

"Perdition to the Manchus! Kill them all! Restore my Daming! ”

The crowd roared, and the atmosphere at the scene was completely stirred. At this time, the majestic military music sounded, and someone took the lead in singing the passionate military song of "Helping the World and Recovering China"!

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The headquarters of the First Army of the Ming Dynasty was also established at the first time, and it is now located in the city of Tung Chung. The commander of the First Army was Zhu Jishi, and the chief of staff was Wei Wei, who had just resigned as the Hong Kong police commissioner. Hemming, deputy chief of staff is Jérôme. Peel and Zhong Ziliang also set up a position of general counsel, which was held by Qiu Fatzi.

The First Army is a completely Western-style army, and its uniforms, equipment, training, establishment, and command are all Western-style. The military headquarters is hung with completely Western-style military maps, which cannot be read by people who have not received Western-style military education. Therefore, the operational staff officers and intelligence staff officers who came in and out were either graduates of the first phase of Apleizhou or students of the Military Academy of Jishi University. All kinds of passwords and reports were shouted crisply and deafeningly, and from time to time a few foreign words ran outside. In this central command position of the Ming Army, everyone's energy was thrown into the upcoming big battle.

"Report, the headquarters of the 1st Brigade and the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 101st Regiment have boarded the ship and are waiting for departure!"

"Report, the 2nd Brigade Headquarters and the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 102nd Regiment have arrived at the dock and are ready to board the ship!"

"Report that the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade and the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 103rd Regiment have left the barracks ......"

The number of the Ming Army is to consider the need for expansion and downsizing at any time, so there is a regimental number corresponding to the brigade number under a brigade, such as the 1st Regiment under the jurisdiction of the 1st Brigade, this regiment is the main regiment of the brigade, and the number of another regiment of the brigade is the number of the main regiment plus 100, so the 1st Brigade of the Army is composed of the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 101st Regiment. The 101st Regiment was not theoretically a permanent unit, but was expanded from part of the backbone of the 1st Regiment during the war. In addition, the Ming army also prepared the number of the division and the militia group, but it has not been released for the time being.

Will. As the chief of staff of the First Army and the chief of the general staff of the future Ming Army, Haiming has already fully entered the role. He began to organize troop training, formulate combat jihua, and put forward various feasible suggestions to Zhu Jishi, a semi-amateur commander.

Military information from all over the world was also coming to him like a tidal wave. He stared at the map that was constantly marked with various numbers and symbols, frowning and thinking for a long time, and a rough battle jihua was generated in his mind.

"Bixia," he said in Chinese as he looked back at Zhu Jishi, who was sitting in the headquarters and was listening to the staff officer's report on the assembly and boarding of the troops, "I suggest that the army land in Kowloon, and then, with the cooperation of the navy, advance north along the Pearl River, occupy Bao'an, Humen, Dongguan and other places, and start a battle with the main force of the Qing army on the plain north of the Dongjiang River, and after victory, divide the troops into five routes, occupy Guangzhou, Huizhou, Shaozhou, Chaozhou, and Meizhou, and cut off the road for the Qing army to enter Guangdong from Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian." At the same time, the army was expanded on the spot to suppress the resistance of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and after the five brigades (including the troops on Baiyun Mountain) were expanded into five divisions, the troops were transferred to attack Qiongzhou and Leizhou......"

Jihua is very simple, that is, first fight a decisive battle, then grab territory, and then expand the army Zuihou to pacify the whole province of Guangdong. It's all a dignified array, there are no tricks, in fact, the tactics that should be used have been used a lot before, and now they only need to crush the Qing army with their strength!

"Strategist, what do you think of Will's Jihua?" After listening to Will. Haiming's Jihua and Zhu Jishi asked Zuo Zongtang's opinion again. The latter is actually very insightful about military affairs, but he has not received a professional military education, otherwise he could have been made a general.

"There has to be a Jihua who has been incorporated and resettled in the rebels." Zuo Zongtang said with a smile, "Guangdong has always been the base camp of the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, those Hongmen disciples have been looking forward to it for 200 years, and finally look forward to the Ming Gong coming back, how can they miss this opportunity to make meritorious contributions from the dragon?" We must use this liliang well, and we must arrange it in the future, otherwise it will be difficult for Guangdong to be calm. ”

Zhu Jishi pondered and said: "Select its elite to join the army, place its leaders with land titles, and turn them into gentry, but there are those who can do things, and they can also arrange official positions." (To be continued......)