When Lin Zhe made a decision on today's imperial strategic meeting, the detailed plan and arrangement were naturally formulated through consultation among the various departments of the Command.

Therefore, after the strategic meeting of the imperial front, Chen Yuntao, Li Bingtong, Wei Duoli and other high-level leaders of the command held meetings for several hours, and finally came up with a preliminary plan.

However, this is not a battle plan, but a plan for the distribution of military supplies and logistics supply.

This plan strictly followed Lin Zhe's holy edict, that is, the Northern Expedition was still the core, but it also appropriately increased the material input to Jiangxi.

Specifically, the high command gathered a part of the supplies, which was enough for about 20,000 troops in the northern Jiangxi direction to support the materials for a month's continuous operations, and in the Guangdong direction, it was to replenish the third army's combat crop materials for at least one month.

In order to scrape together these war materials, the high command can be said to have mobilized everywhere to reduce the war materials for suppressing bandits in northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, and Fujian, and at the same time decided to postpone the Second Army's campaign to continue its westward advance into Guangxi and free up materials to supply the Third Army.

At the same time, because the supply lines are too long, in addition to ammunition that must be transported from Shanghai and Nanjing, other combat materials, especially daily weapons, such as food, clothing, and other materials, are procured locally as much as possible to alleviate the pressure on logistical transportation.

Shi Langyi didn't care how to gather the materials from the headquarters, and he didn't know how the civilian officers who would only sit in the office gathered these materials, Shi Langyi only cared about one thing, that is, the Jiang strategy he had been planning for a long time had already been formalized, and it would not take long to be able to completely launch it.

Just when the logistics department, quartermaster department, ordnance department, and other departments of the headquarters were trying to gather supplies for the troops that were about to participate in the Jiangxi campaign, many staff officers of the joint staff department also went through intense discussions. The final strategic plan was selected from many options and submitted to Lin Zhesheng.

After Lin Zhe approved it. The Jiangxi strategy of the Chinese military was also officially launched.

The core goal of this strategy is twofold, one is to seize Jiujiang. In order to obtain a bridgehead for the subsequent westward advance into Hubei, and at the same time to avoid the Zhenhu army or the Hunan army from using Jiujiang as a forward base, and then threatening the western security of the Chinese army.

The second goal is to seize Nanchang, Ganzhou and other important cities in Jiangxi, and occupy the whole province of Jiangxi.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned strategic objectives, the High Command decided to increase the military strength of the Fourth Army and mobilize the Fifth Division, the Second Mixed Brigade, and the First Independent Field Artillery Regiment to join the Fourth Army's operational sequence.

The main force of the Fourth Army was strengthened to include the Fourth Division, the Fifth Division, the Second Mixed Brigade, and the First Independent Field Artillery Regiment.

In addition, the 1st Guards Mixed Brigade of the Guards will also join the fighting in Jiangxi, but this mixed brigade is different from the ordinary Royal Army or the Auxiliary Defense Force and the local garrison forces, and the Guards have a special and independent status in the Chinese Army, although the Guards do not have a separate command structure. However, its command did not belong to the command, but directly to the emperor himself, so the commander of the 1st Guards Mixed Brigade did not belong to the Fourth Army, but directly to the emperor Lin Zhe himself.

To put it simply, the 1st Guards Mixed Brigade was basically independent in subsequent operations, and the Command or the Fourth Army had no authority to command them.

On the Guangdong side, the Second Army's main forces were transferred from Shaoguan and other directions to Ganzhou in the north, considering that the Guangdong area also needed a lot of troops to suppress it. At present, the other main force in the south, the Third Army, has to suppress most of Guangdong, including Guangzhou, and at the same time garrison the Qing troops in Wuzhou and Guangxi.

Therefore, the High Command planned to draw a total of three infantry battalions from the two divisions of the Second Army. Then, together with the 1,500 men of the newly recruited and trained Guangzhou Garrison Regiment from the Guangzhou Garrison Command, the Royal Army's Third Mixed Brigade was formed, and joined the Third Army's operational sequence, which would be stationed in Guangzhou and other important cities in Guangdong. Together with the other four garrison battalions under the Guangzhou Garrison Command, they are responsible for the main defense of the Guangdong region.

The formation of the Third Mixed Brigade was the first manifestation of the role of the local garrison as the reserve force of the main force. Although the overall quality of the Guangzhou Garrison Regiment, which was formed by newly recruited soldiers of the Guangzhou Garrison Command, may be slightly inferior to that of the main field army. However, at critical moments, it can be directly supplemented or reorganized into the Royal Army, and then participate in front-line battles, which is impossible for the previous auxiliary defense divisions.

In the direction of Fujian, after the 1st Mixed Brigade left an infantry regiment to garrison Fuzhou, its brigade headquarters and another infantry regiment marched west from Shaowufu in Fujian to Jiangxi, with a relatively small number of troops, about 2,500 men.

In other words, in the above plan, the Chinese army intends to march into Jiangxi from Guangdong, Fujian, and northern Jiangxi at the same time!

Of course, due to the complex terrain of northern Guangdong, southern Jiangxi, and western Fujian, in fact, the attack in the two directions in the south can only be regarded as a companion attack, and even if the Second Army, which launched the attack from northern Guangdong, has the strength of two Royal Army infantry divisions, it cannot change its secondary position.

The real main force attacking Jiangxi was the Fourth Army under the command of Shi Langyi.

In order to cooperate with the army's Jiangxi campaign, well, mainly to cooperate with the operations of the Fourth Army, the navy took the second gunboat detachment as the core, and temporarily transferred some additional ships, so that the second gunboat detachment had as many as 16 steam river gunboats, and more than 100 ships, such as semi-armed steam transport ships and semi-armed Chinese-style hard sailing ships.

In addition, although the water depth of the Yangtze River channel had decreased in winter, the Admiralty took the risk of transferring three medium-sized warships with a relatively shallow draft from the First Cruiser Fleet to the Jiujiang section of northern Jiangxi in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to support the army's operations.

In addition to the above-mentioned main forces of the navy and army, there are also many auxiliary defense divisions in northern Jiangxi and Anhui that are involved, and the reason why the auxiliary defense forces in Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang are not involved in this is because the auxiliary defense divisions in the above-mentioned areas are already in the process of being dismantled, and the existing four garrison battalions in Guangdong have been reorganized from the auxiliary defense divisions, Fujian has also been reorganized into three garrison battalions, and there are also three garrison battalions in Zhejiang.

However, the auxiliary defense divisions in northern Jiangxi and Anhui have not yet entered the reorganization plan, so a considerable number of the auxiliary defense divisions deployed in this area will also participate in the Jiangxi campaign.

Among them, there are five auxiliary defense divisions under the direct command of the Fourth Army, and there are also eight auxiliary defense divisions under the command of the Anqing Garrison Command, which will be stationed in nearby Hubei and northern Jiangxi. It is mainly responsible for logistics maintenance and vigilance of changes in Hubei.

Judging from the number of troops participating in the Jiangxi Campaign, there were actually more than the Sixth Army attacking Beiping!

But sometimes quantity does not mean combat capability. There is also a distinction between the strength and weakness of combat effectiveness, and even more so the adequacy of combat materials.

In terms of combat effectiveness. Shi Qingxuan dared to say that his Sixth Army could defeat twice or even three times as many other Chinese army units that used Mini rifles, but Shi Langyi never dared to say that his Fourth Army could defeat Shi Qingxuan's Sixth Army.

After all, the three battles of Shanghai, Liaocheng, and Jinan have fully demonstrated the strength of the Sixth Army, which adopted rear-loading rifles and new infantry tactics.

Unless they are equipped with new rifles and trained in new tactics, it will be difficult for other units in the Chinese Army to compete with the Sixth Army.

The performance of weapons and tactical thinking are a whole generation behind, which is difficult to make up for by the bravery of the soldiers or the command talent of the generals.

On January 6th, Shi Langyi, who returned to Anqing, was full of red light, and some people who were familiar with Shi Langyi knew it. It's been a long time since this stone lang wing has been so dazzling.

Since 1856, because of a moment of hesitation, Shi Langyi was suspicious and guarded against by Lin Zhe, and even if Lin Zhe had not pitied his extraordinary talents, it was estimated that when he raised the flag to rebel at the end of 1856, Lin Zhe would not have placed him under house arrest, but would have killed him directly.

You must know that at the end of 1856, when Lin Zhe was supported by his command to raise a banner to rebel, but the Yu Shengjun at that time carried out an extremely bloody large-scale purge, although there was no written record, but at least more than 50 officers were unwilling to obey and were killed. More than 500 soldiers were killed. You must know that at that time, Yu Shengjun had a total of 10,000 people, and there were only a few hundred officers.

To put it mildly, at least one-tenth of the officers were killed at that time.

At that time, Shi Langyi was not killed, but was placed under house arrest by Lin Zhe. This is simply because Lin Zhe admires his talent and is unwilling to kill him like this.

Later, Shi Langyi also wanted to open it, because it didn't matter if he wanted it or not. He has already boarded the ship of the Chinese army, and he can't get off. So at that time, he also shaved his head very simply and declared his allegiance to Lin Zhe.

But even so. He still sat on the cold bench for a long time, first as the chief of staff of the first division, and then as the chief of staff, it is worth noting that when Shi Langyi served as the chief of staff, the staff system of the Chinese army was not perfect, and the scale of the Chinese army was not large at that time, and many strategies were formulated by Lin Zhe himself, and there was nothing to do without the general staff.

In other words, Shi Langyi didn't actually have any real power at that time, at most he played the role of 'strategist', and in terms of real power and importance, he was not even as good as Khan at that time? William, William was not only the chief of the military training department at that time, who was in charge of recruit recruitment, training, officer training and other matters, he was also Lin Zhe's personal military adviser, and he would participate in every strategic meeting.

This situation did not change until the end of last year, and after nearly a year of investigation, Shi Langyi initially restored Lin Zhe's trust in him and transferred him to the Fourth Army as a commander.

But the commander of the Fourth Army was not what Shi Langyi expected, at that time the Chinese army was facing great trouble, and the Anglo-French coalition army would land in southern Jiangsu at any time, so at that time, there were three directions of military commander positions that were the real weight, one was the commander of the Northern Expedition, that is, the commander of the First Army, and then the commander of the Seventh Army, which was responsible for the defense of Shanghai and the decisive battle of the British and French forces, and then the commander of the Third Army in Guangdong, don't look at Guangdong as a secondary front, but it is just as important.

Even the later Second Army, the Fifth Army and other troops all successively reinforced Shanghai, but the Fourth Army has remained in northern Jiangxi and southern Jiangsu to sit on a small bench and watch the play.

After wasting another year in vain, now Shi Langyi has finally waited for spring.

The launch of the Jiangxi Campaign gave him the power to command the Fourth Army to attack the entire Jiangxi, and if Jiangxi's strategy went smoothly, and then moved westward to Huguang, Sichuan and other regions, then he Shi Langyi still had a great possibility of serving as the commander of the entire Western Expedition, and was responsible for the entire Western Expedition as Shi Qingxuan was now in charge of the Northern Expedition.

The Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition have always been the two major strategies of the Chinese Empire, and if Shi Langyi can preside over the Western Expedition, then his return to the first echelon of the Chinese army is just around the corner.

With this hope, Shi Langyi held a departure ceremony in Anqing on January 8, and led the main force of the Fourth Army westward into northern Jiangxi on the same day.

And before that, the Fourth Division stationed on the front line had already taken the lead in a fierce exchange of fire with the Zhenhu army! (To be continued......)