After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Wanxin, Jiang Rong'er and Lin Haijiang strolled in the back garden of the former enemy headquarters in Ganzhou, before Lin Haijiang could not imagine what kind of people, the garden occupied three-fifths of the entire house or even a little more? In Lin Haijiang's opinion, the effect of housing has been completely lost, so that most of the staff officers and former enemy staff live in tents, Lin Haijiang thinks that it is better not to build any residences, but to build a garden.

But walking in the garden at this moment, Lin Haijiang realized that this family was simply too powerful, the only fly in the ointment was that the garden was still a little small, and it was a little inconvenient for the three of them to disclose their own thoughts, but no one was willing to leave, so Jiang Rong'er and Wanxin froze in place.

Jiang Rong'er obviously doesn't want to give herself this very uneasy senior sister opportunity, women's subtle feelings between women and men can be said to be extremely accurate, women are very selfish in this regard, Jiang Rong'er can feel that Lin Haijiang is very interesting to her senior sister, and the senior sister also has a lot of hints and ambiguities for Lin Haijiang, and it seems that she is also affectionate to herself, Jiang Rong'er's consistent principle is that the fruit lady eats first, and only after eating leftovers can she consider sharing it with others, This is also the main reason why she has always been jealous of Lin Haijiang's two little girls, that is, because of this, she is upset, and today she is determined to consume Wanxin to the end.

In this regard, Lin Haijiang could only pretend to be confused, and the three of them dragged on until dawn, and the confidential staff officer Li Li came to inform Lin Haijiang that he had received the latest movements of the various legions, and Lin Haijiang suddenly realized at this time that it was too early to talk about love? In a war situation, I don't seem to have the right to talk about love.

Lin Haijiang, who looked very tired, made Wanxin feel very distressed, and Jiang Rong'er was also very worried, but she didn't know how to express it, she held it for a while, and turned out a black thing like a Pu'er tea cake from her small sachet, and told Lin Haijiang in Wanxin's extremely shocked eyes that this was the secret Da Huan Dan of Shaolin Temple, which had a remarkable effect on blood and qi!

Lin Haijiang naturally couldn't refuse Jiang Rong'er's kindness, but if he wanted him to eat this unknown object in his stomach, Lin Haijiang definitely didn't dare, saying that Lin Haijiang himself had a strong resistance to those legendary objects, after all, he was a pragmatist.

Before leaving, Lin Haijiang instructed the chief of the guard to arrange for Wanxin and Jiang Rong'er to live in Ganzhou, and at the same time, it was also convenient to communicate with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so that everything was under his control, this is Lin Haijiang's own principle, while going to the combat command room, Lin Haijiang casually knocked the glass strip in the pavilion with Da Huandan, and with a snap, Lin Haijiang stopped and looked, and a cold sweat was suddenly left on the top of his head, and the glass strip was broken!

Lin Haijiang could understand from Jiang Rong'er's cautious expression and Wanxin's shock that this thing was indeed not ordinary, but there were too many things that had a false name from ancient times to the present, and medicinal materials were time-sensitive, even if it was a thousand-year-old ginseng, if it was put for more than a hundred years, its medicinal value would only be one-tenth of it, and if it was preserved for two or three hundred years, it would be no different from a grassroots root.

Da Huan Dan has only been deified in the era of backward medical conditions, it may be that Master Jiang Rong'er's master has been passed down as a treasure, completely ignoring its double real (timely) effect as a medicine, let's just take it as a good souvenir or love token!

Before he officially got married, Lin Haijiang knew very well that it was absolutely impossible to include Wanxin and Jiang Rong'er in the door, and the change in his identity and status can be said to have added a lot of entanglements to his relationship with Wanxin, Jiang Rong'er and even Fu Shanxiang.

Lin Haijiang came to the war room and saw the situation of the enemy and us who were directing the staff officers to update the sand table, Li Anmin pointed to the map and said helplessly: "My second army also launched a general attack on Nanchang before the reinforcements of the third army arrived, and the total attack lasted for two days and nights, and the Qing army in the city has surrendered, killing more than 17,000 Qing troops and capturing more than 26,000 enemy troops. ”

Lin Haijiang nodded and said, "Then what about the casualties of our army?" ”

Li Anmin looked at the file and smiled slightly: "Liu Quansi fought very beautifully in this battle!" Our army suffered less than 100 casualties, and more than 120 were lightly and seriously wounded. ”

Lin Haijiang frowned slightly, stretched out his hand, and took the battle report transcription file handed over by Li Anmin, he knew that if the Qing army held Nanchang, then there would definitely be a large-scale street battle, Lin Haijiang was most worried about two points before, the first was that Liu Quansi used a new type of incendiary bomb because he was afraid of the heavy casualties of the troops in the street battle, and the second point was that the second army suffered serious losses in the street battle in Nanchang City.

More than 17,000 Qing troops were killed? Our army lost less than 100 people? Although Lin Haijiang has never fought in street fighting, he knows very well the cruelty of street fighting, that is, the fully equipped aftermath of the US military special forces to fight this battle, and the casualties may not be so small? Lin Haijiang was eager to know the true combat effectiveness of his troops.

After flipping through the war report file, Lin Haijiang put his heart back in his stomach, what he was most afraid of was that the war report he read had undergone the so-called artistic processing, and the generals below reported good news to themselves and not bad news, he himself had worked at the grassroots level of the army, so he naturally knew the trick of coping with the first level.

Lin Haijiang didn't expect that the governor of the Qing court would shoot his own governor when our soldiers were approaching the city, so that the army's morale was in turmoil? It seems that although this nerd is very powerful strategically and theoretically, he has become an idiot in the actual implementation of tactics, perhaps because there were many disagreements before, and the result was self-defeating, and the main casualties of the Qing army were caused by the cross-fire of the machine gun position of our army at a 45-degree angle when they broke through from the west gate.

Liu Quansi's Second Corps after conquering Nanchang and the three divisions of the Third Army Corps had already divided their troops into two routes on June 27, 1861, all the way under the command of Liu Quansi, the four divisions of the Second Army Corps under the command of Liu Quansi, along the Yangtze River straight to Jiujiang to capture Huangshi, and then threaten Wuhan, all the way under the command of Xu Dawei The three divisions of the Third Army Corps attacked Jingdezhen along Yingtan, marched into Huangshan, the place where ancient soldiers must fight, and Zheng Zhipeng's Fourth Corps, which attacked and advanced along Fuzhou, Ningde, and Taizhou, attacked Hangzhou.

Lin Haijiang looked at the period, today is July 5, 1861, that is to say, the former enemy headquarters he set up in Ganzhou has lost the statute of limitations for strategic control and coordination command, how many worrying changes can eight days produce for the unpredictable battlefield?

The 1st Brigade of the Marine Corps was all on board, and under the escort of the main fleet, it was ready to prepare for a forced landing in Shanghai at any time.

However, after Gao Qi's First Mountain Infantry Corps arrived in Changsha, he sent a request to join the battle sequence of the troops attacking Changsha, which really made Lin Haijiang feel inappropriate, that is, it meant that a whole division of the Third Army Corps under Zhang Zheng's First Army Corps was in trouble with the attack on Changsha.

Lin Haijiang looked at Li Anmin, the situation of the two lakes is far more complicated than the two rivers, the previous operations were all against the Qing army's mobile forces and the city defense army to carry out a war of annihilation, it can be said that the two rivers and two lakes except for a few Changsha, Wuhan, Nanchang cities in the hands of the Qing army, the rest of the places are under the control of the Taiping army, which is equivalent to the attacking troops to fight with the Qing army and the Taiping army at the same time.

Moreover, if Lin Haijiang's campaign stopped at the capture of Shanghai and Wuhan, it would be equivalent to swallowing three-fifths of the existing so-called territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and this would inevitably be counterattacked by Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who claimed to have one million mercenaries, and his subordinate generals.

At the same time, many of the big cities controlled by the Qing army are the last place of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Qing army defending the city has many experienced combat experience, and the Taiping army has many entanglements, so that the strength of the imperial army in the front line and the total strength of the enemy Qing army and the Taiping army have become a precarious 1:9, although there is no intention of cooperation between the Taiping army and the Qing army, but it is difficult to ensure that there will be some tacit understanding between them, Lin Haijiang decided to personally lead seven supplementary brigades and the corps directly under the headquarters and the heavy artillery brigade to reinforce Changsha, Li Anmin led the Second Marine Brigade and six supplementary brigades to the direction of Hangzhou to reinforce Zheng Zhipeng's Fourth Army.

Referring to the plan to reinforce Changsha, Lin Haijiang suddenly remembered the sixteen small gunboats of 490 to 620 tons built before his Mawei shipbuilder and the imperial fortress, these gunboats equipped with one or two 100-mm Krupp guns or four to six 75-mm imperial "shower" gunboats could only be used as near-shore anti-smuggling ships in the sea, but they were great ships on the Yangtze River, and this river fleet happened to be on standby on the Yangtze River.

Lin Haijiang immediately consulted the hydrological data of the Xiangjiang River, but it is a pity that the so-called data is very simple, the Xiangjiang River, the largest river in Hunan, is one of the main tributaries of the Yangtze River.

Originating in the northeast of Guangxi Xing'an, Lingchuan, Guanyang, Quanzhou and other counties in the territory of the ocean, the upstream is called the ocean river, in Yongzhou, Hunan and Xiaoshui convergence, began to be called the Xiangjiang River, eastward flow through Yongzhou, Hengyang, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Changsha, to Xiangyin County into the Dongting Lake after returning to the Yangtze River, the upstream water rapids are many, the middle and lower reaches of the water are abundant, the water flow is stable. Most of the main tributaries are navigable, and they are important transportation routes between the two lakes and the two Guangzhous, and according to the assessment, ships of less than 1,000 tons are feasible except in the dry season.

So Lin Haijiang immediately gave an order to Captain Qi Zhitao of the inland river gunboat team, ordering him to enter Dongting through the Yangtze River and go straight to Changsha to help in the battle!

Just as Lin Haijiang was leading the reinforcements to set off in Ganzhou, Gao Qi, Zhang Zheng, and Zhang Wei all frowned at Changsha City with the sound of guns and cannons.

Changsha is the place of the four battles that the soldiers must fight for since ancient times, the ancient Jingzhou, located in the south of the Yangtze River in the south-central region, the eastern part of Hunan is northern, located in the southern end of the Dongting Lake Plain to the transition zone of the hilly basin in central Hunan Province, bordering Yueyang, Yiyang, Loudi, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan and Pingxiang, Jiangxi, land and water extend in all directions, not only the Hunan army Zhou Fuming's department and the Tuatu department of Monk Lingqin are in Changsha, most of the county towns in Hunan are still in the Hunan army Yong's book, it can be said that the Taiping army swept the two rivers and two lakes, But it didn't hit a big nail in Hunan, which shows the combat effectiveness of the Hunan Army.

Gao Qi's First Mountain Infantry Corps has not yet participated in the siege, and the siege headquarters is the fifth, sixth, and seventh divisions of Zhang Zheng's First Army Corps, and the three divisions are besieging Changsha from the east, south, and north of Changsha respectively, but the process of the attack is very unsmooth, and the two field artillery brigades commanded by Zhang Wei and all the field artillery of the First Army Corps and the First Mountain Infantry Corps are divided into three field artillery groups, and more than 70,000 shells have been fired at Changsha City in the past few days, and everyone knows that this is one-third of the total artillery reserve of the entire Liangjiang and Lianghu Campaign.

The result was only a small gap in the east city of Changsha, but this gap was still controlled by the Hunan army after repeated battles, the Xiangjiang River is the most important river in Changsha, and the Xiangjiang River runs through the Changsha city from south to north, dividing the city into two parts, Hedong and Hexi, which also leads to the main reason why the siege troops cannot be effectively coordinated.

Zhang Zheng's hand holding the telescope was trembling slightly due to fatigue, the breakthrough in the east of the city was already occupied for the seventh time, and it was repulsed for the seventh time, the Green machine guns and Gatling machine guns hidden by the Qing army under the city walls had blocked the impact of the follow-up reinforcements several times, and the thick Changsha city wall made the power of the field artillery unable to play.

On the breach, the corpses of both the enemy and us were scattered all over the ground, and the corpse wall more than ten meters high almost blocked the entire breach, and the Qing army had dozens of breech Armstrong field guns that fired flowering shells in Changsha City, and these field artillery, which were extremely difficult to find in the houses in the city, caused heavy casualties to the Fifth Division concentrated at the breach.

Looking at the retreating troops, the head of our soldiers who had been provoked by the Qing army with spears was provocative, Zhang Zheng's face looked very embarrassed, Zhang Wei on the side immediately ordered to fire three red signal flares, and the artillery group in the east of the city immediately blew up the Qing army at the breakthrough with a cannon fire that made him cry and call his mother, because in the past, Zhang Wei was afraid of the remains of the martyrs and instructed the artillery not to shoot directly at the corpse wall of the breakthrough. Observed tactical staff assessment report that this round of artillery fire reimbursed at least one battalion of the Qing army.

Chu Jiang, the commander of the Fifth Division, who was covered in gunsmoke, retreated, ignoring his arm that was grazed by shrapnel and said to Zhang Zheng: "Commander, you are giving me a chance, I promise that I will definitely be able to take the eastern city wall this time." ”

Zhang Zheng pulled his face and didn't say a word, this kind of battle Zhang was the first time he had met, the Qing army's counterattack like crazy made him realize why the Taiping army failed to hold the reason even though it occupied Changsha City, whenever the Qing soldiers rushed out with those gunpowder jars full of iron nails and broken glass, Zhang Zheng would feel his heart tighten.

Zhang Zheng looked at Chu Jiang and said expressionlessly, "How many casualties have your division suffered?" ”

As soon as he heard the corps commander ask about his casualties, Chu Jiang, who was the commander and deputy commander of the Fifth Division, was suddenly slightly stunned, and said with some embarrassment: "About two thousand seven!" Almost all of them were sacrificed in the fight for a breakthrough! ”

Zhang Zheng nodded and said, "This is a big mess!" I didn't see artillery coordination in your offensive, I didn't see echelon attacks, I didn't see follow-up fire support, your heavy machine guns, general-purpose machine guns? Now the dozen or so light machine guns that have been picked up by the Qing army at the head of the city are all from your Fifth Division, right? ”

Chu Jiang stood in place with a flushed face and was at a loss, Gao Qi hurriedly said when he saw this scene on the side: "The style of the Chu division commander's attack is still very neat, and we must also admit that the Qing army on the opposite side is completely different from what we imagined, this is one of the few divisions that can fight in the Qing court now, and the city defense attack is different from the field battle, we are a little too impatient, we should immediately stop the attack, reorganize the attacking troops and adjust their firepower, and review the mistakes in the attack process." ”

Zhang Zheng glanced at Gao Qi and nodded, "Just do as you say!" But there are no orders from the General Staff and the Führer, as well as from the front commanders, so will there be a problem? Gao Qi hesitated for a moment and said: "Before the head of state left, there was a statement in advance, due to the change in the battle situation caused by poor communication, the corps and division level can immediately report to the front command and the general staff, and adjust the tactics by themselves, and the overall strategy implementation will be arranged according to the echelon of the main and auxiliary cooperation, the main task of our department is to coerce Wuhan, but if Changsha is not taken, the coercion of Wuhan will not produce the desired effect, and the Taiping Army Peng Dake is known as 100,000, and its main force of more than 40,000 people is entrenched in Yiyang and Changde, More than 70,000 troops of the elite headquarters of the Taiping Army under the command of Chen Yucheng also arrived near Wuhan, and according to the preliminary reconnaissance, there was no siege of the city, so it was obvious that they had strong hostility towards our army. ”

Zhang Zheng nodded when he heard this, put his hand on the map and pondered for a while: "Now the situation in the two lakes is like a mess, Changsha and Wuhan are controlled by the Qing army, since 1858, the Qing army governor Lin Yi commanded two groups of people and horses to go deep and suddenly recapture the two places from the Taiping army, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom before and after the second internal bar is unable to recapture Changsha and Wuhan!" ”

Gao Qi looked at Changsha City, where the smoke had not yet dissipated, and said, "It's the Lin Yi who is guarding the city this time, right?" It is said that it was because of the protégé of Zeng Guofan that he became popular, but he didn't expect that the Qing army would have such a powerful person who shook the feather fan! ”

Zhang Zheng's face was slightly embarrassed, and he said indignantly: "Tuatu, who can block my 100,000 troops under Changsha City, and can coordinate the various departments of the Hunan Army and the department of Monk Greenqin, the governor of Lianghu Guanwen deliberately avoided going to Wuhan, just to let Lin Yi monopolize the defense of Changsha, this Lin Yi is not simple!" ”

Gao Qi smiled and said: "It's not simple, I don't dare to say it, I don't believe that his head has won our cannonballs, I think that the two of us in the Qing court have been working hard all the way with the head of state, and now they are the first to shine the stars, how many pairs of eyes are looking at it below!" The two of us brothers should help each other at a critical moment, but don't block the Führer, fight a beautiful battle, and be worthy of the stars on our brothers' shoulders! ”

(To be continued)