The so-called revolutionary locust mobile warfare is, to put it bluntly, a mobile war of the peasant army, which is carried out to take down a place and seize all the places, and the so-called revolutionary style is nothing more than putting on a better coat and not robbing the common people, but only robbing the government and officials.

Because Li Zhigao's entire army was equipped with off-road trucks and had strong firepower, Li Zhigao led his troops to set out from Nanjing, breaking through Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou and other places, and attacking Shanghai all the way.

The reason why Li Zhigao personally led the troops was because this road was far away from the nest of Taiping Mansion, and it was not easy to supply, except for Li Zhigao, an open-minded freak, with the road conditions in China at this time, others could not play his large-depth attack at all.

Li Zhigao's attack all the way can be said to be a unified general, where to fight, where to break, where to break, where to grab, and play quite comfortably.

To put it simply, after the city is conquered, it rests on the spot for two to five days, during which the silver, copper, coins and the like from the official treasury are first transported into the warehouse, and then transferred through the space, and at the same time, the Manchu officials must be liquidated, and the private wealth of the Manchu officials, such as jewelry, jade, gold and silver, will be robbed and stored in the warehouse, and then transferred through the space.

While doing this, it is also necessary to open the grain depot, open a warehouse on the spot to release grain, and distribute grain to the people.

When the money was almost transferred, he handed over power to the local revolutionaries, and he himself led his troops away, continuing to attack the next city and scourge the next.

In a word. Due to the strong firepower, Li Zhigao will not spend more than a day on every city he fights, and he will not stay for more than five days.

During his stay in the city, his troops did not commit any offense against the common people, and robbed the government and Manchu officials, among which gold, silver, treasures, jewelry, and jade were all transferred through space, and a large number of materials such as grain, which Li Zhigao did not lack, were opened and released to buy people's hearts. When this was done, power was handed over to the local revolutionary party. He himself led his troops to continue to plague other cities.

Obviously, Li Zhigao does not intend to occupy it for a long time, but only intends to play looting, but the object of his looting is not the common people. It's the government and the officials. After stealing things, they were distributed to the local people. As a result, the common people welcomed Li Zhigao's looting.

That is to say, every time Li Zhigao fights a city, he plays the peasant rebel army's set of opening warehouses and releasing grain and exempting taxes. The people of the whole city will immediately turn into a sea of carnival because of these policies.

There are many advantages to this, not only can Li Zhigao's prestige rise rapidly, but after Li Zhigao pats his ass and leaves, other groups can only accept a mess when they take over, and they can only say that they have bitterness.

In this way, Li Zhigao entered Shanghai all the way to the cheers of the people, and after entering Shanghai, he first occupied Shanghai's official treasury, machinery manufacturing bureau, customs customs, mint, copper yuan factory and other places in Shanghai as usual, and frantically grabbed gold and silver and other wealth, which was still the same old way as before. After almost all the official money and grain in Shanghai were robbed and the food was almost distributed, he continued to support an army, threw power to the local revolutionary party dominated by Chen Qimei, and continued to walk away, never greedy for the prosperity of Shanghai.

Leaving Shanghai, Li Zhigao led the army south, broke Jiaxing and Hangzhou, and completely annihilated the 21st town of the new army, and then waved his troops westward again, broke Huzhou, went to Xuancheng, and finally came to Tongling.

Since Anqing is a place where Li Zhigao intends to personally manage it, he did not adopt a locust-style plundering method, nor did he play the set of opening a warehouse and releasing grain, but left part of the wealth, and left the first division of the reserve to defend Anqing, appointed Zhou Daqiang as the envoy of Anqing Town, and he himself led the main force to continue northward and break through Luzhou, which was Hefei in later generations.

In Hefei, Li Zhigao came to the second reserve division to defend, and appointed Jin Tai, the commander of the second reserve division who was born in a private school, as the town guard, and then Li Zhigao led the main force back to Taiping Mansion to rest.

At this point, Li Zhigao's entire revolutionary locust campaign came to an end, and after such a period of "locust sweeping" in which Li Zhigao did not follow the normal situation, the territory under Li Zhigao's actual control expanded to a pattern with Taiping Mansion as the core, starting from Nanjing in the east, Anqing in the west, Luzhou (Hefei) in the north, and Xuancheng in the south.

Among them, Nanjing, Anqing, Luzhou, and Xuancheng are the areas actually controlled by Li Zhigao, and the core is the Taiping Mansion, and outside of this area, the north and west are still under the control of the Qing court, and the south and east are buffer zones controlled by other revolutionary parties.

It can be seen that just because of Li Zhigao's messing around, the entire Jiangnan region has fallen and has become the world of the local revolutionary party, and the "brilliant results" of the Qing army's successive defeats have also caused an uproar in the world, and the world does not think that Li Zhigao's "regimental training" can fight, but thinks that it is because the Qing army is too unable to fight!

In short, being stirred up by Li Zhigao like this, the whole situation is so bad that the whole situation has become more and more bad, and an unstable trend has begun to appear in various places, and the reason why there has not yet been a tide of uprisings in other regions is that everyone has not reacted, and they are still watching and watching the actions of the Qing court.

After all, the strength of the Qing court at this time was not bad, and the main force of the new army had not been lost, so everyone wanted to see the reaction of the Qing court.

If the Qing court can immediately suppress it, especially to retake Nanjing as soon as possible, then everything is okay, if it doesn't work, or if there is a stalemate, then the situation is really difficult to say.

After this fight, Li Zhigao stayed in Taiping Mansion to recuperate while waiting for the reaction of the Qing court and the revolutionary party.

Due to Li Zhigao's previous raids, especially after the annihilation of the 21st Town, the main force of the Qing army, there was a power vacuum in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other areas south of the Yangtze River, so the revolutionary parties of all parties reacted the fastest.

The Qing court's response was a little slower. But it's still very fast.

After discovering that the situation was erosive, the imperial court quickly formed the first army with the Praetorian Guard and the first town of the army, the sixth town of the army and the fourth town of the army formed the second army, and the fifth town of the army was organized into the third army separately.

At the same time, the Eighth Town of the Hubei New Army formed the Fourth Army. The 17th Town was organized into the Fifth Army. The two armies converged and assembled in Hankou, with Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, as the commander-in-chief, and marched directly to the front line in Anqing, but only to contain the Taiping rebels in Anqing. Just wait for Yinchang's troops to destroy Nanjing. and then began to cooperate with Yin Chang's troops. In one fell swoop, the chaotic party in Taiping Province was swept away.

In addition to the army, the Qing court also sent a navy with Isaac Zhenbing as the commander-in-chief and two cruisers as the main warships. First to Haizhou Port (now Lianyungang) to assemble, once the army is completed, from the sea into the Yangtze River, when the time comes, go straight to Nanjing, and cooperate with the army to launch an attack on Nanjing.

Obviously, the Qing army reacted quite quickly, and this arrangement was relatively perfect, and in terms of strength, it was even more powerful than the Xinhai Revolution period that Li Zhigao remembers.

However, this arrangement can also be seen that the Qing army is determined to win Nanjing, but it is jealous of Li Zhigao, otherwise Ruicheng would not have led the army to contain Li Zhigao's Anqing troops.

This is because although the specific number and weapons and equipment of Li Zhigao's troops are not well known to the Qing court, Li Zhigao's previous locust attack can be regarded as showing the prestige of Li Zhigao's "regimental training", so they have a few glances at the combat effectiveness of Li Zhigao's troops, and plan to concentrate their forces on eliminating the rebels of the original Ninth Town, who know the roots, and then concentrate on eliminating Li Zhigao's troops.

Of course, this was also because communications were not developed during this period, and if they knew the actual combat effectiveness of Li Zhigao's troops, or were willing to believe the "exaggerations" of those who escaped, they would not have been so arrogant.

In short, after stirring up some turmoil, Li Zhigao continued to return to Taiping Mansion to rest, and even lowered the alert level, so that students could go to school with peace of mind and workers could work with peace of mind.

After this locust-style sweep, Li Zhigao found that although the combat strength of his main force was good, it still had the shortcoming of insufficient troops, so it was necessary to recruit enough local garrison troops, after all, the reserve forces could only be used for a short time and could not be used for a long time.

At the beginning, it was to save money, concentrate on cultivating grassroots cadres, and first raise a backbone model army, so that we did not recruit troops on a large scale, but engaged in a main force plus reserves.

This time, Li Zhigao did not plan to recruit more, but only planned to recruit 60,000 people to form five local garrison divisions.

The salaries of these five local garrison divisions are slightly lower than those of the main forces, which is on par with the salaries of the new army, and the equipment is comparable to that of reserve divisions.

Soldiers in local garrison divisions are mainly armed with self-produced new Zhongzheng rifles, four Type 10 light machine guns for company-level units, six 92-gun infantry guns for battalion-level units, and a mortar battalion with 18 90-mm mortars for regimental units. In addition, in order to strengthen the firepower, each garrison division will also be reinforced with a field artillery battalion of 75mm guns directly under the division, temporarily using the Krupp 75mm guns purchased from the Germans, and later using home-made imitation M1 75mm howitzers.

These five local garrison units will be recruited in Nanjing, Taipingfu, Anqing, Xuancheng and Luzhou respectively, and the locals recruited will become local garrison divisions, whose main role at present is to garrison their own prefectures.

When the time comes, these garrisons will be used to defend the city, and Li Zhigao's main mobile division will be used as a strategic strike force, plus reserves, it should be no problem to hold the core territory that Li Zhigao has temporarily defeated.

Although it seems a little late to recruit troops now, Li Zhigao has money and guns, and he is not slow at all to pull people's heads, and even because of his good treatment, coupled with the previous Long March-style "great martial arts", the people who admired the army were very enthusiastic, and in less than two weeks, 60,000 people were recruited, and the next step was to train on the spot, in order to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

Of course, Li Zhigao was not idle, he didn't go to lecture as a teacher during this time, he kept running around, while going to various places to give speeches and cheers, while being the captain of his transport brigade, relying on his cheating ring, secretly transporting war materials to front-line cities.

And just when Li Zhigao continued to run around as the captain of the transportation brigade, the 1st, 23rd and 1st armies of the Qing army were finally assembled and began to march under the city of Nanjing! The Fourth and Fifth Armies also came to set up a large camp outside Anqing City, eyeing Anqing!

At this time, it was February 22, 1911, and the war was about to break out! (To be continued......)