Chen Yucheng was not persuaded by Lin Haijiang, because he didn't understand what Lin Haijiang said, let alone convince him if he didn't understand, but Chen Yucheng still had a deep impression of the overall vigorous Chinese Empire, especially the officers and non-commissioned officers on the other side were very young people, probably because of their young age, Chen Yucheng also liked to fight with energetic young people.

Thinking back to the twilight of the Heavenly Kingdom, since the Second Tianjing Rebellion, after being looted by the Chinese Emperor's [***] team, the Heavenly King seems to have changed as a person? Wang Niang seems to be more diligent? Every day, singing and dancing Shengping doesn't care about the fate of the heavenly kingdom, the old people of the heavenly kingdom have basically withered away after the second Tianjing Rebellion, and even the winged king Shi Dakai, who is always wise to protect his life, will finally be unable to escape death, is it possible that the catastrophe of the heavenly kingdom in the underworld has passed?

Chen Yucheng didn't dare to think about it anymore, but this time Ningxiang, which was bound to win, was really like his previous nightmare, looking at the gate of Tianjing covered in blood, a bad omen!

Among the four generals who followed him, Gong Deshu, Huang Wenjin, and Li Shixian donated their lives one after another, leaving only Liu Guanfang alone, and it seemed that his failure was already expected? Chen Yucheng's conversation with Lin Haijiang about laying down his weapon was completely unexpected by Lin Haijiang's slight smile: "Tell him that someone will instruct him how to do it." ”

Suddenly, Chen Yucheng realized that he was just a general, and the prince of the Kingdom of Heaven was nothing in Lin Haijiang's eyes, and the other party was the head of the Chinese Empire, equivalent to the existence of the king of heaven or the emperor, he was too anxious, and there was nothing to talk about between him and Lin Haijiang.

On September 12, 1861, Li Anmin led Lu Wei's armed gendarmerie special forces corps to Ningxiang, and after Li Anmin and Chen Yucheng made formal contact, Li Anmin directly announced the process and regulations of the Taiping Army to lay down their arms, and Chen Yucheng was slightly grateful to the other party for avoiding the word surrender and not deliberately insulting himself.

In fact, he knew very well that his subordinates had stopped resisting on the 9th, and the weapons were all concentrated together, and the medical soldiers of the Chinese Empire began to treat the wounded of the Taiping Army, providing one steamed bun and two meals of gruel every day, and now laying down the arms is just a so-called process.

But Chen Yucheng was extremely surprised to find that after being disarmed, he could return to the camp from Ningxiang without anyone stopping or following him on the way? Looking at the enemies who had been killed and killed before to save themselves, although the Taiping soldiers on the side hated it at all, but they couldn't be ruthless against these medical soldiers who were all composed of girls, and a female medical squad leader with a slight little buckteeth did not forget to preach to the surrounding Taiping soldiers that he was not a combat soldier while reprimanding a medical soldier who was wrongly bandaged, and was only responsible for ambulance, giving priority to rescuing his own wounded in the battle, and was also responsible for treating the wounded of the enemy after the war.

When the Taiping soldiers learned that the salary of such a female baby could allow a family of five to live without farming, they were already surprised to the point of disbelief.

Chen Yucheng quietly left after listening for a while, he really didn't know if he didn't listen, he was shocked when he heard it, where is the gap? Why did you lose the battle? His own team suffered more than 30% casualties and still continued to fight, which was already a huge miracle in Chen Yucheng's opinion, such a strong will to fight, but after paying unimaginable casualties, but finally failed?

From him, the commander-in-chief, to ordinary soldiers, they have lost the will to fight, which is what makes him the most difficult to accept.

On September 15, 1861, Li Anmin officially informed Chen Yucheng's department to disarm all soldiers, under the age of 16 and over 40, and who did not meet the Military Service Law of the Chinese Empire, and would be temporarily sheltered and assigned to serve in the Production and Construction Corps.

Those who meet the standards will be reorganized and trained on the spot, and then they will go to 11 recruit training bases in Liangguang Province as a brigade unit, and after being mixed with the recruits, they will undergo special political and tactical training for 10 months, so as to thoroughly digest these potential threats.

In the strict sense of the word, such behavior is extremely shameful in the thinking consciousness of the Chinese, and the six conditions of the US Army in combat in later generations have become classic jokes, but few people know that the US Marine Corps Expeditionary Force strong detection special forces and delta, rangers, CSKA special forces, these troops teach officers and soldiers to fight to the last bullet, they also regard capture as a shame, but in the capture of Americans is very fine, do they take the initiative to lay down their arms? whether resistance is not insisted on, and so on.

At the beginning of the founding of the Chinese Empire, Lin Haijiang instilled in the troops that they would fight to the last soldier and make the last attack! Although this requirement is a bit similar to the slogan, whether the troops below can do it, Lin Haijiang is not completely convinced, Lin Haijiang's original purpose is to inspire and boost the morale of the army, and the profession of a soldier should be full of enthusiasm! For the soldiers who danced with death, no one knows better than them the preciousness of peace.

For the Taiping prisoners who stayed to serve the Chinese Empire, Lin Haijiang's approach was to dismiss the officers and commanders of the Taiping Army at all levels, especially the equivalent of the political commissar's inspection, leaving only the soldiers.

In fact, all the people know very well that the orders issued by Lin Haijiang through Li Anmin are all very targeted, and almost none of the good soldiers have been spared, Lu Wei's gendarmes are doing the work of cooperating with the conscription, whether it is a thorny gendarme is clear at a glance, and in the end, you can't keep what people don't want, and you can't leave what you want!

But on the surface, Lin Haijiang did a very beautiful job, and urgently transferred a batch of clothing and military boots and other materials for about 50,000 people from the rear, so that the more than 50,000 people who were selected first had a sense of belonging, and military uniforms were the best way to communicate, and secondly, they were given three months' allowance in advance.

Man! You can't really rely on the spiritual victory method to live, the spirit must be there, but the material foundation is the fundamental, but the consumption and transfer of a large amount of materials in this campaign also made Lin Haijiang realize that some local officials and some quartermasters of the logistics department have too much power in these links, and it seems that there is a lack of necessary supervision?

In Lin Haijiang's view, the root cause of corruption among officials in later generations lies in the fact that their income is not proportional to the resources and power at their disposal.

There is no good way to deal with corruption Lin Haijiang, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's peeling has not been able to govern the greedy **, Lin Haijiang can only increase the income of administrative and military officers under relative conditions, and then improve the supervision mechanism, with a perfect supervision mechanism is the real root of constraints.

After riding a horse for almost a day, Lin Haijiang rushed back to Changsha City from Ningxiang, which made Lin Haijiang a little depressed, because he remembered that the distance between Ningxiang and Changsha City seemed to be only more than 40 kilometers in the future? Why does it seem so far away now?

Referring to obvious references such as rivers and mountains, Lin Haijiang suddenly realized that the Ningxiang that he had guarded for many days was not the Ningxiang of later generations, and the ruins of the old city were far away, because of the two major floods in 1890 and 1913, Ningxiang City was relocated to the location of later generations.

At present, the overall large-scale military operations of the Chinese Empire have basically stopped, and the main forces of the Western Front have begun to shrink their forces from strategic offensive to strategic defense, and on the Eastern Front, Lin Haijiang is determined to use the Changsha encirclement point to send reinforcements, and Lin Haijiang attaches great importance to the strategic deployment of fighting with Zeng Guofan's Beiyang New Army, and decides to transfer a corps from the Western Front to maneuver from the flank.

The main reason why Lin Haijiang rushed back to Changsha was that he wanted to organize an enlarged meeting under Changsha to study and enlarge the military strategic plan for officers at and above the brigade level, with a view to summing up the gains and losses of previous operations on the eastern and western fronts and in battles at and above the battalion level.

At the same time, Lin Yi and the others in Changsha City have fallen into a panicked situation, Lin Yi can be said to have almost never been afraid of anything in his life? He has always believed that there was no one before, and there will be no one in the future, but this time Lin Yi was afraid, he had never encountered such a terrifying opponent as Lin Haijiang, and he knew very well the combat effectiveness of Chen Yucheng's department in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, that was almost half of the mountain's hundred battle divisions, and they were all first-class elite soldiers under him!

Lin Yi and Chen Yucheng have fought a few times, he knows that Chen Yucheng's use of soldiers has always been false and real, and he still admires Chen Yucheng's use of soldiers very much, this time the layout went straight to the opponent's key point, Lin Yi was also shocked into a cold sweat, because before this he couldn't judge Chen Yucheng's combat intentions at all, until the end, it suddenly dawned on him, it turned out to be Ningxiang!

Lin Yi was very cooperative with Lin Yi's courage and resourcefulness, if it was him, even if he saw through Chen Yucheng's combat intentions, he would not dare to easily lead the army to hold the Jedi alone, and then transfer troops from Changsha City in a big way to attack Chen Yucheng's troops after a long and fruitless battle in Ningxiang, using much less troops than the other party to carry out an extremely risky encirclement.

Through the posture that Lin rebelled and bandit troops dared to swallow the world with a mere 200,000 or less than 300,000 horses, and the offensive and defensive battles in Changsha, the bloody battles in Ningxiang, and the fierce battles in Hangzhou, Lin Yi realized for the first time the so-called theory of victory with firepower.

In Lin Yi's opinion, unless it was crazy, this plan actually succeeded, according to Tuatu's words, Lin reversed his shit luck, and now the officers and soldiers in the defending army often mention it even when they brag to each other: "Do you think you are Lin Haijiang?" Less nonsense! ”

What worries Lin Yi the most is that it is said that there may be nearly 100,000 bandits who have laid down their arms and surrendered, and almost all of the elite and young men have participated in the Chinese Imperial Army. Lin Yi didn't know, and he didn't want to be clear.

After a series of fierce battles, the strength of the Lin rebel bandit army has suffered great losses, and the overall military strength has even been enhanced, which seems to be the highest level of war.

What made Lin Yi slightly grateful was that Lin Haijiang did not use any kind of extremely vicious weapon in Changsha City, and he didn't know how to describe it as a terrifying weapon, and it seemed that he didn't let all the people in Changsha City evacuate at that time, which was equivalent to saving his own life in disguise.

The reinforcements of the imperial court, Zeng Guofan's Beiyang New Army, and Seng Lingqin's Mongolian Horse Team Eight Banners Army are marching together, but what Lin Yi wants to know is whether these two people are willing to save Changsha sincerely? If you look at it purely from the perspective of preserving strength, these two reinforcements seem to be a little enough, and what is the idea of the Lin rebel bandit army to besiege Changsha without attacking it, a discerning person can understand it at a glance.

In contrast, Li Hongzhang is a really desperate master, but most of his Huaizi battalion has now become a lonely ghost, even with the annihilated Eryang spear team, listening to Zhou Fuming's analysis, the foreigners will definitely not be able to give up, but how can there be no news and action for so long?

However, as soon as he remembered that the machines, foreign guns, and foreign artillery materials purchased by Li Hongzhang in Shanghai had become the trophies of Lin Yi's bandit army, Lin Yi felt a heartache, if those things were given to him, he would be a little more sure of sticking to this Changsha City.

Lin Yi no longer expects any high-ranking officials, the only thing he expects is that the Chinese Empire is not as crazy and bloodthirsty as the legend says, slaughtering the city and torturing prisoners of war at every turn, and he can only defend Changsha City for a day.

After learning that the more than 200,000 troops under the bandit Chen Yucheng attacked the supply line of the Lin rebel bandit army, Zeng Guofan and Seng Lingqin urged the troops to rush to Changsha to relieve the siege at night.

After learning the news of the bandits' sudden counterattack on Lin Rei, whether it was the scheming Zeng Guofan, or the scheming monk Grinqin, both of them had the urge to smoke their mouths, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them. How simple does it all seem?

So Zeng Guofan's Beiyang New Army was stationed in Xiaozi Mountain, not far from Xianning, and Seng Greenqin's army was also encamped nearby.

Zeng Guofan stood outside the camp, and looked around not far away is the camp of Monk Lingqin, stretching for more than ten miles, Zeng Guofan glanced at Li Hongzhang behind him and said: "It's normal to be defeated, it's already in my expectation, you're just too anxious, this battle is fought by everyone, and the merit is also shared by everyone, can others not blush if you are so anxious?" The generals Tulahe and Meng Ji near Yangzhou and Hangzhou are both monks and gentlemen, and it is good that you are alone and deep into the battle, and it is good to come back alive! It is not a pity for foreigners to burn, kill and loot. ”

Li Hongzhang fell to his knees with a thud, and sobbed silently: "The student has high expectations!" There are very few survivors of the 8,000 Huai Army's children! Students cry blood please in the group Huai word camp! ”

Zeng Guofan nodded, and said expressionlessly: "The Huaizi battalion is naturally going to be reorganized, but the money on the new army's side is also very nervous at the moment, and the previous situation may be difficult!" ”

Li Hongzhang was a delicate person, and he immediately understood the meaning of Zeng Guofan's words, so he hurriedly knelt down and rubbed forward a few times and said, "Teacher! I'll raise the money, students. ”

Zeng Guofan turned around and waved his hand, and the entourage not far away began to retreat, and after a while, Zeng Guofan said, "You have to do it yourself!" If you want to be an official, you must first learn to be a man, first be a good person, and talk about being an official and fighting a war, understand? Don't overeat, I won't be hungry for you! ”

Zeng Guofan turned to leave, Li Hongzhang waited for Zeng Guofan to walk for a long time and didn't get up, still kneeling on the ground, and after Zeng Guofan returned to Xingyuan, he said to a staff member next to him: "What did he do after I left?" ”

The staff bowed his head and said: "I knelt for a while before leaving, he should also reflect and reflect, the purpose of the Huaizi battalion built by the marshal is no less than that of the new army is to be incorporated into our new army in the future, but he was defeated by this loser, I want to see that you are too good to him." ”

Zeng Guofan's eyes glared slightly: "Mouthy, there is a master and apprentice between us, today he calls me a teacher, I don't call him by his words, he is a delicate person, he will understand the meaning, the Huaizi camp is not his Li Hongzhang's, nor my Zeng Guofan's, together with this Beiyang New Army, are all from the imperial court, all of them are from the emperor, you will go down to talk and do things in the future and give me the current Beiyang faction, otherwise if there is a mess, it will be a big mess, and you will go to the head!" ”

The staff was immediately stunned, and then Wei Wei said yes, lowered his hand and retreated to the side to stop making a sound, and Zeng Guofan shouted: "There are too few talents trapped in it!" At this moment, what is lacking is not what will be said below, but what is really understanding foreign affairs and willing to do it, everyone has selfishness, and it is just important! This selfishness is too heavy, and it is going to mislead the country! ”

Monk Greenqin also looked at the side of Zeng Guofan's Beiyang New Army in the camp, and the two generals mentioned by Zeng Guofan before, Tulahe and Meng Ji knelt in Monk Greenqin's big tent, Monk Greenqin smiled slightly and fiddled with a golden Buddha in his hand and said: "Why is this thing so heavy?" I'm afraid it's been a year, right? ”

Tulach immediately flattered: "Knowing that the prince is a Buddha, I specially honor you, this is an object of Liu Qi of the Northern Jin Dynasty, and it is not easy to come by." ”

Monk Lingqin nodded with satisfaction and said, "En! This thing has to be enshrined, but not everyone can afford to worship it, and if the common people have this object, they will bring disaster to themselves! ”

(To be continued)