Lin Haijiang's words were like throwing a stone into a boiling oil pot, and the people sitting below had become impatient.

It is important to know that the two military and political systems of the Chinese Empire are carried out in completely different indicators and evaluation methods, and the administrative system is based on the production rate of the construction of basic industries and the actual efficiency of administration as the standard, while the only promotion in the military system may be through large-scale wars, the combination of active duty and reserve forces, and the active duty is looking forward to war, while the reserve troops of the second line are more looking forward to combat missions and the issuance of orders than the active duty troops.

Soldiers in peacetime are the most difficult, and Lin Haijiang absolutely understands this, because the profession of soldiers itself is born for war, and absolute force is a deterrent in a controllable situation, but in the case of losing control, it is a disaster that can bring destruction to mankind.

Soldiers in the era of peace is a kind of fate to bring its sorrow, only war is the embodiment of the real value of soldiers, so the real hot-blooded soldiers hate peace, look forward to war, whether the purpose of war is to defend or invade, for soldiers this is the place where they have no regrets to sway their youth and blood, for soldiers there is no right or wrong in war, only to carry out orders, the ultimate goal is to make their country more profitable, so that the people at home live a happier life.

But sorrow is indeed the war that brings only beautiful longings and endless death and sorrow!

Lin Haijiang understands his subordinates very well, and he knows what they need to recover China, overthrow the decaying and declining Manchu Qing, eliminate the reckless Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and establish a new China that stands tall in the East! This is Lin Haijiang's ideal, and this is Lin Haijiang's ultimate wish, so that every Chinese can face the world with their heads held high, and China says no to the world!

Looking at his excited subordinates, Lin Haijiang thought about all the vivid feelings he had when his blood was boiling, so Lin Haijiang said loudly: "Next, Li Anmin, deputy chief of staff of the General Staff, will announce the appointment of each unit and the sequence of combat formation!" ”

As soon as Lin Haijiang's words came out, the audience became silent for a while, almost everyone's eyes were focused on Li Anmin's body, Li Anmin, who had a solemn expression, walked slowly to the front desk, held up the document with the lead seal of the Ministry of Intelligence's Secret Bureau, and said: "I remind everyone to pay attention to the fact that all of you present at the meeting are members of the Iron Blood Youth Officer Corps and the Iron Blood Youth League, and the purpose of the Iron Blood Youth Officer Corps and the Iron Blood Youth League is to be loyal to Lin Haijiang, the head of the empire, I hope you will keep in mind the purpose of the organization, as well as the strict discipline of the organization!" ”

When everyone in the audience heard this, they all immediately stood up, clenched their right hands into fists and fists on their left chests, and said in unison: "Loyalty to the Führer, loyalty to the Empire!" Long live the Führer! Long live the Empire! Long live the Empire! Long live the Empire! ”

After shouting three long live, Li Anmin said solemnly: "Everyone, please note that what I am about to announce below is the top secret of the Empire!" ”

After Li Anmin opened the document, he said with a serious expression: "Now I announce the establishment of the combat units of the Imperial Army, Major General Gao Qi is the commander of the First Mountain Infantry Corps of the Imperial Chinese Army, Major General Zhang Zheng is the commander of the First Army Corps of the Imperial Chinese Army, Colonel Liu Quansi is the commander of the Second Army Corps of the Imperial Chinese Army, Colonel Xu Dawei is the commander of the Third Army Corps of the Imperial Chinese Army, and Colonel Zheng Zhipeng is the commander of the Fourth Army Corps of the Imperial Chinese Army. All of them are directly under the High Command. ”

Li Anmin paused for a moment and continued: "The Eighth Brigade of the Marine Corps was established and placed directly under the Admiralty, and its newly formed Marine Corps Field Artillery Brigade and Heavy Artillery Brigade were temporarily placed under the Admiralty, and the former First Deputy Minister of the Admiralty Li Haibo was promoted to the rank of colonel and the acting minister of the Imperial Admiralty!" ”

Li Haibo, who was sitting in the audience, was stunned for three seconds before he stood up and saluted excitedly under the reminder of his colleagues! Li Haibo never imagined that he, who had no experience in studying abroad, would be able to one day squeeze into the first person in the top echelons of the Imperial Navy from a crash course before the first batch of formal classes at the Old Port Military Academy?

Li Haibo was so excited that he almost forgot what his surname was at the moment, and he didn't seem to think too much about the code before him, in his opinion, as long as he didn't make a big mistake and was loyal to the Führer, that code was not a trivial matter!

Subsequently, Li Anmin announced the battle sequence from the First Mountain Infantry Corps stationed in Guilin, the First Army Corps of the Imperial Army stationed in Binzhou, the Second Army Corps stationed in Ganzhou, the Third Army Corps stationed in Shaoguan, and the Fourth Army Corps stationed in Longyan. The original land of fish and rice has become a difficult place for the people!

The strategic surname of the Second Army Corps in the area where it was stationed has already indicated the basic policy and trend of the empire in terms of general military strategy, and on the whole it has formed a solid triangle with the First Army Corps and the Third Army Corps, while the Taiping Army Peng Dake Department operating in the Lianghu and Liangjiang areas claimed to be 100,000, in fact, it was engulfed in a large number of people, and the actual combat effectiveness was not lower than the two divisions of the Empire, while the Qing Army was divided into two divisions, one was the Hunan Army's Zhou Fuming's Division, and the other was the 4,000 cavalry of the Monk Greenqin Division, and these two Qing armies had a certain combat effectiveness, and is familiar with the local terrain, and there are local tyrants who collude with each other.

It can be said that Lin Haijiang has realized that while accumulating strength, the enemy is also accumulating strength, and when he thinks that he has accumulated enough strength, then the enemy will also accumulate some strength correspondingly, and this result will directly lead to the expansion of the scale of the war, and the consequence will be to shed more blood and kill more people!

Lin Haijiang has already realized his misunderstanding in the priority of strategic deployment, so he must use all time and means to correct this mistake.

After the meeting, the General Staff Headquarters convened a meeting of senior officers above the brigade level of the main force corps, and Lin Haijiang and Li Anmin attended the meeting together, and these division commanders and brigade commanders who were so young that Lin Haijiang was a little uneasy appeared to be very excited; each corps has four divisions under its jurisdiction, and each division has two brigades; because Lin Haijiang lacks senior commanders with rich experience, he has not set up a command structure at the army level for the time being, but has temporarily merged the division into the corps level, simplifying the command structure to achieve the goal of simple, fast, direct, and effective command.

The General Staff and the General Headquarters directly exist as command organs at the corps level, directly commanding combat units at the division level, and Lin Haijiang is very helpless about this, the first phase of the operation time Lin Haijiang plans to be three months to six months, with the capture of the two lakes and two rivers as the ultimate goal, and then carry out the digestion and construction of strategic defense and occupation areas, although the strength of the Chinese Empire is quite a lot at present, but it is close to the maximum ceiling of its national strength and finance, and these troops are for the vast area of the country. Once dispersed, it was also insignificant, so Lin Haijiang decided to build roads, railways and telegraph lines every time he captured a place, and took advantage of the convenient transportation conditions to allow his troops to be highly mobile.

Using highly mobile troops to make up for the lack of troops, and solving tactical problems from a strategic point of view, Lin Haijiang himself felt a little helpless, and used the time or so to complete the occupation and digestion of provinces other than Sichuan, Tibet, and Xinjiang Province, and completely wiped out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom forces and Manchu forces in one fell swoop. Rather, it is for the purpose of national integration to completely and fundamentally eliminate one's old enemies.

At the same time, Lin Haijiang can only hope that after several successive battles, his troops can be tempered, and the commanders can also mature, and the rest is real gold!

It was winter in front of us, which was not suitable for combat, so Lin Haijiang set the first phase of the combat mission to be carried out in the spring of 1861, and a large amount of military supplies began to be delivered to the stations of the five main army corps, especially the second army corps that penetrated deep into the enemy's theater of operations, and the task of cooperating with the reserve forces of the main army corps and the local garrison force was quite heavy.

Yixin, who is in Yanjing, has been concerned about every move of the two Guangxi sides recently, because since Lin Haijiang pulled up the artillery rebellion, he has maintained a frightening silence? This silence made almost everyone up and down the entire court shudder, Lin Haijiang is not Hong Xiuquan, it can be said that the entire court has long regarded Lin Haijiang as a first-class confidant, and the most terrible thing is that the court has no countermeasures for this big disaster?

didn't even dare to put forward any countermeasures, everyone was afraid that they would not be able to end after stabbing the hornet's nest, Lin Haijiang was already a cannon temper when he was still the Nanyang Admiral of the Qing Dynasty, and who is going to light the fire now is not equivalent to killing himself? Yixin knew very well that if this continued, Lin Haijiang's Chinese Empire would continue to accumulate strength, and once one day they had accumulated enough strength to destroy the withering and decaying, then the Qing Dynasty would be completely in danger.

Especially the colonel of the South China Sea who turned the Chinese Empire before, his military appearance actually made Duke Gomocherov, who kept saying that he wanted to help the Qing Dynasty denounce the Chinese Empire, shut his mouth?

Afterwards, Yixin spent a lot of money to learn from Vice Admiral Duravyev that even if Russia now mobilizes all its naval forces, it is difficult to have a chance of winning the war against the Chinese Empire.

In desperation, Yixin had no choice but to visit Prince Yi Zaiyuan, who had recovered the prince, in the small garden of Prince Yi's mansion, Zaiyuan was personally taking care of his new Western tulips, the previous orchids were not as attentive to the tulips as they are now, and they were basically handed over to the flower room.

Looking at Zaiyuan, who was also soaked with dirt boots and looked very embarrassed, Yixin was slightly stunned at first, and then whispered: "Are you still in good health recently?" ”

Zaiyuan knew that Yixin was unwilling to treat him with the courtesy of an elder, and he felt a burst of amusement in his heart, thinking that you Yixin is so arrogant that he can't even ask for a gesture now?

So Zaiyuan pulled Yixin and began to turn away in his small greenhouse garden, Zaiyuan seemed to have expected Yixin's arrival, and kept pulling Yixin to see the fish he raised, either to talk about the origin of the rockery, or to talk about the memories of the time when the emperor went to Chengde to hunt.

Yixin finally couldn't hold it back, so he had to say depressedly: "You can raise your hand when you are old!" Now our Qing Dynasty is already in danger, the minds of the dirty things outside may not be what is going on, the court is down, they all think they have the same official position, I Daqing Iron rode into the customs, and finally died Chongzhen of the previous dynasty, and the scholars all over the world have only been fighting with us for a few years? The bones of these people are the softest, and at the critical moment, we are still a family! ”

Zaiyuan saw that Yixin was really anxious, so he smiled slightly and said: "You prince is getting more and more confused, since you know that the situation is serious, why do you still come to me as a half-wasted person, you think that Lin Haijiang is Hong Xiuquan's rebellion?" Lin Haijiang is plotting the entire world, and his ambition is comparable to that of Emperor Qin and Han Wu! ”

"Huh?" When Yixin heard that Zaiyuan's evaluation of Lin Wei was so high, he was immediately a little dissatisfied: "You always hold him in high esteem, right?" It's just a little bandit, and the tricks of the puppet are not a problem! ”

Zaiyuan looked at Yixin and said with a smile: "It's really just a little bandit, isn't it enough to worry about the puppet's strategy?" If that were the case, how could you, a busy man, gossip with me without a solution? ”

Zai Yuan's words made Yi Xin very embarrassed to listen, and he had to get up and arch his hand, Zai Yuan didn't care at all: "You and I knew it before, everyone understands it, and it's not interesting to pretend to be mushy, but I have to tell you that Lin Haijiang fought against the Netherlands before his foundation was decided, and then expelled Spain and Portugal, and not long ago hit the territory of the French. That Lin Haijiang only used the power of Liangguang and overseas to use hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, why did he use so much force? Just defend the two Cantons he occupies? You can be convinced that you will fight against Western countries without pretending to be a color?"

Yixin nodded and said: "This point is indeed a bit bloody, since he is so unscrupulous, is there anything in it that we can quote and help?" I've been puzzled lately, thinking about whether I can use the power of the West to pacify Lin Rebellion, but I'm at a loss! ”

Zaiyuan took a deep breath and said, "This Lin Haijiang is plotting an unprecedented empire!" I'm afraid that the Qing Dynasty has long been regarded as a meal on his plate, for such an opponent, we must pay attention to him, give your opponent respect, in order to give him real attention, this kind of attention is definitely not from words, the most important thing is that you came to the wrong place today, you should go to Tianjin Wei, and Zeng Guofan They to plan and discuss, now we want to reuse Hanchen, but we can't help but strangle them, the specific scale of grasp depends on you, I have no intention of government now, and I don't know much about foreign affairs, After a while, I went up to the two palaces and returned to Shengjing, and went back to see the mountains and rivers of my ancestors. ”

Yixin's nose was a little sour when he heard it, and when he saw Zaiyuan slowly picking up the teacup, he suddenly remembered the allusion of serving tea to the guests, and after smiling helplessly, he gave his hand and said goodbye.

Looking at the back of Yixin leaving, Zaiyuan looked at the dark clouds in the distance, and staggered a few steps, and the subordinates beside him hurriedly supported him, Zaiyuan touched the leather leg guards made by Aiyena for himself, and a warm current flowed into his heart.

And Yixin, who was hurrying in the wind and snow, rushed to Tianjin Wei under the escort of two hundred guards from the palace, although he was sitting in the warm car, Yixin, who was wearing a heavy fur, did not feel the slightest warmth!

After a long time, Yixin shouted tiredly to stop, after the car stopped, Yixin opened a few warm curtains, and a cold wind suddenly made him a cold war, and the pride of wanting to go out against the wind and snow suddenly disappeared, so he had to grit his teeth and hatefully said: "Tianjin Weibeiyang Yamen!" Fast! ”

Knowing that Prince Gong Yixin arrived, he didn't wait for Zeng Guofan to open the middle door and set off the cannon, this lord had already come to the greenhouse in the back hall by himself, and almost entered the house with the scribe who reported the news, which made Zeng Guofan also in a hurry, and Yixin, who took off his heavy fur, breathed a long sigh of relief as if he had removed dozens of catties of armor, and after drinking a bowl of **, Yixin smiled and looked at Zeng Guofan and said: "Don't treat me as an outsider, what the prince is not a prince, it is all a false name, there are too many objects in this world with a false name, Now even people can't be relied on! ”

Zeng Guofan smiled and savored the words of this master, he knew that Yixin definitely belonged to the kind of lord who did not go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, could it be that there was something big in the court when he came here today? Now the queen mother of the two palaces can be said to be obedient to this Prince Gong, who can block him? Let him run against the wind and snow and scratch himself here?

Yixin rested for a while before Zeng Guofan said: "Now some of Lin Rei's 200,000 troops have entered the land of two lakes and two rivers, and now the court is not at peace!" Can you still do it? ”

Zeng Guofan understood Yixin's intention, Hunan is his own hometown, Lin Haijiang's second army entered Ganzhou, Jiangxi, this kind of battlefield is the gateway to Hunan, once a war breaks out, Hunan will become a battlefield, Zeng Guofan is the most anxious, but anxious, Lin Haijiang is not a wandering bandit, nor is he a locust-like bandit with long hair, he must be taken seriously.

(To be continued)