Since Xu Yanqing boldly used the auxiliary defense regiment in Danyang, Zhenjiang and other wars, the auxiliary defense regiment, which could only be regarded as an auxiliary force in the Yu Shengjun system in the past, suddenly became the focus of attention of many senior generals of the Yu Shengjun, including Lin Zhe.

In this case, Lin Zhe also urged the Supervision and Training Department to formulate a clear and effective plan for the reorganization and use of the auxiliary defense regiment, hoping to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary defense regiment, which has exceeded 10,000 people.

So far, there have been seven auxiliary defense regiments in Yu Shengjun's system, including the original three auxiliary defense regiments, the three auxiliary defense regiments incorporated by Xu Yanqing, and the one auxiliary defense regiment incorporated from prisoners and the Qing army's rout after Yu Shengjun took Changzhou.

The total number of the seven auxiliary defense regiments has exceeded 10,000 based on the strength of about 1,500 men in each regiment.

How to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary defense regiment more efficiently is a problem that Lin Zhe is concerned about.

Xu Pengan said: "Back to the marshal, we have formulated a plan for the adaptation and application of some of the opinions and applications of the auxiliary defense group, but it is not yet complete!" ”

Lin Zhe said: "You talk about the part that is done first!" ”

Xu Pengan said yes first, and then continued to speak: "At present, our reorganization of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment is mainly based on a series of plans implemented by Commander Xu before, including increasing the food supply for all the troops of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment to ensure that the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Auxiliary Defense Regiment is strengthened. In addition, it is planned to set up a separate 'reinforced battalion' in each auxiliary defense regiment, and select soldiers of the auxiliary defense regiment who have made meritorious contributions and fought bravely into it.

Soldiers who enter the reinforced battalion can enjoy the same treatment as the regular army of Yu Shengjun, including a monthly salary, unlimited food supply, and the opportunity to study in the crash course of the camp academy! ”

In the past, Yu Shengjun's officers were basically all born in the camp school, and ordinary soldiers were promoted to non-commissioned officers at most, and they could not continue to be promoted and served as officers.

In order not to bury the talents, give the soldiers more opportunities, and also to strengthen the experience level of grassroots officers, Lin Zhecai decided to select some potential seedlings from the soldier class, and then let them enter the camp academy to study, and serve as grassroots officers after completing their studies.

The direct product of this policy is the crash course of the Suiying Academy, which is specially opened for the potential soldiers of Yu Shengjun, and the duration of the school is only three months, and after completing the study, you can be promoted to an officer, and serve as a deputy company commander, company commander and other grass-roots officers.

Now the opportunity to enter the crash course for some soldiers of the auxiliary defense regiment can be regarded as preferential treatment.

"In terms of establishment and equipment, therefore, we have formulated the establishment of three battalions under each regiment, two of which are ordinary battalions and one is a reinforced battalion. The general and reinforced battalions, like the rest of our regular army, have six infantry companies.

Three of them were companies of muskets and three of them were hand-to-hand companies. Considering that in the future, our Yu Shengjun will be successively replaced with 1856 rifles, and the original Linde rifles will be gradually withdrawn, so we consider equipping the withdrawn Linde rifles with some auxiliary defense regiments and completely withdrawing arquebuses! ”

"The hand-to-hand infantry is uniformly equipped with our standard swords and spears."

Hearing this, Lin Zhe said: "Will this increase the cost of our army building?" ”

Xu Pengan said: "Although it is said that the unified standard equipment will increase the cost of building the army of the auxiliary defense regiment, we have calculated that this part of the cost is still acceptable. We currently have a lot of Linde rifles in stock, and in the future, we have decided to replace them with new rifles, and if these rifles are kept in stock, it is better to use them for the auxiliary defense group. As for cold weapons such as swords and spears, because we have captured a large number of cold weapons in the past few years of warfare, it is not a big problem to choose a few swords with uniform specifications from them! ”

Lin Zhe also knows that his own Mini rifles are actually in surplus, in the past few years, Linde Machinery Qì Factory has purchased tens of thousands of brown bass smoothbore guns for modification, and the total production has exceeded 20,000 units, of which more than 10,000 are now used by Yu Shengjun, and the rest are used as stock reserves.

The reason why there is so much stock to spare is that the barrel life of these modified Linde rifles is a bit short, and the wear and tear in the case of frequent and high-intensity combat is very strict, and many spare guns need to be replaced.

In addition, it also takes into account the need to expand the army in a short period of time, for example, in the past two months, Yu Shengjun has recruited more than 5,000 new soldiers, and these people all need guns, and it is impossible for the Linde Machinery Factory to produce 5,000 rifles in two months, so it is necessary to stock up on rifles in advance and then use them to expand the army.

Now that the Linde Machinery Factory has fully switched to the production of 1856 rifles, and the newly expanded Sixth Mixed Regiment is scheduled to fully adopt modified rifles, a large number of old Linde rifles in stock can be freed up to equip the Auxiliary Defense Regiment.

Later, after the other active troops of Yu Shengjun also replaced with 1856 rifles, more old Linde rifles will be vacated, which will be enough to fully meet the gun needs of the auxiliary defense regiment.

After hearing this, Lin Zhe nodded and said: "Yes, it can be seen that you have put your heart into it, go back and hand over the perfect plan, if there is no problem, you will proceed according to this plan!" ”

During the internal strife in Tianjing, Lin Zhe continued to expand the army while watching the play, and formed the Sixth Mixed Regiment in the Shanghai area, and two infantry battalions in the Huzhou area, which were stationed in Guangde and Huzhou respectively.

In addition to these, Lin Zhe, who had already decided to start an incident in advance, continued to expand the scope of recruitment in Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, although the soldiers had not yet been recruited, but the seventh mixed regiment and the eighth mixed regiment had already appeared on paper plans.

When Lin Zhe buried himself in expanding the army, the turmoil on Tianjing's side continued!

Lin Chengting, who was bent on revenge, waved 20,000 troops to storm Tianjing two days later, Shi Dakai, who returned from Jiangxi, led more than 10,000 elite soldiers to rush back to Tianjing in advance, and then stationed troops in the western suburbs of Tianjing.

Subsequently, although Wu Ruxiao, who received Hong Xiuquan's secret order, was reluctant, he also personally led more than 10,000 people west to Tianjing

At this time, Shi Dakaibu and Wu Ruxiao's department sandwiched Lin Chengting in the middle from left to right, and at this time, Lin Chengting still did not stop attacking Tianjing!

Shi Dakai and Wu Ruxiao also sent envoys to Lin Chengting's camp one after another, trying to persuade him to stop fighting Yunyun, but Lin Chengting, whose family had been killed, agreed, and bluntly said that if Tianjing was killed and bloodied, he would never stop the army!

Then Shi Dakai put pressure on Hong Xiuquan in order to make Lin Chengting stop fighting, asking him to kill Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang to appease the anger of Lin Chengting and other old Eastern Kings.

Hong Xiuquan hesitated about this, but after Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang heard that Shi Dakai and Wu Ruxiao outside had asked the Heavenly King to kill him to appease Lin Chengting's anger, they turned out to be anti-guest and directly attacked the Heavenly King's Mansion

Fortunately, there are still many people in the city who are loyal to Hong Xiuquan, plus most of Qin Rigang and Wei Changhui's elite soldiers are resisting Lin Chengting's attack at the head of the city, and they have not been able to draw too many troops to attack the Heavenly King's Mansion.

So after more than a day of fighting, he failed to capture the Tianwang Mansion, and at this time, Shi Dakai also led the elite soldiers into the city urgently, and the Taiping army in the Tianwang Mansion should join forces to defeat Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang's department, and beheaded these two people.

Then he also sent the heads of these two people to Lin Chengting outside the city.

Lin Chengting looked at these two heads but did not stop his anger, he is not a fool, he knows very well that the mastermind who killed Yang Xiuqing and killed 10,000 people in the East Party is Hong Xiuquan, as the so-called unjust debtor has the owner, you Hong Xiuquan wants to lose his pawn and protect the car to get by, then you have to ask me if Lin Chengting agrees.

So, just like last time, he killed the messenger sent by the Heavenly King again and continued to attack the city!

If you don't kill the king, you vow not to pay it back!

Lin Chengting was bent on breaking through Tianjing, and the act of killing the Heavenly King and bloodbathing Tianjing finally made Shi Dakai give up his plan to persuade Lin Chengting to withdraw his troops, and immediately integrated the remnants of the city, as well as the tens of thousands of elite soldiers he brought back from Jiangxi to continue to hold Tianjing.

After waiting for a few days, Shi Dakai's 30,000 elite soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army also arrived outside Tianjing City, at this time, Shi Dakai, who had been entrusted with important tasks by Hong Xiuquan and Prime Minister of Military and Political Affairs, ordered 30,000 people outside the city and 10,000 people under Wu Ruxiao's department, asking them to cooperate with him inside and outside to launch a counterattack on Lin Chengting outside the city.

At this time, including the 10,000 elite soldiers brought back by Shi Dakai himself, the remnants of the original Qin Rigang, Wei Changhui and others in the city were 20,000, and there were 30,000 soldiers in Tianjing City. There were 10,000 elite soldiers of Wu Ruxiao in the eastern suburbs of Tianjing, and 30,000 troops of Shi Dakai's department who had just arrived from Jiangxi in the western suburbs, and the Taiping army launched a fierce counterattack on nearly 20,000 troops under Lin Chengting's headquarters in the southern suburbs of Tianjing on 22 May.

Although Lin Chengting's department was strong, it had no choice but to gallop all the way from Changzhou and storm under Tianjing City for many days, and the upper and lower levels were already exhausted, ammunition and military rations were in short supply, and they finally collapsed after holding out for two days.

Lin Chengting had no choice but to lead the remnants of the army to retreat to the south!

Before retreating to Tianjing, Lin Chengting looked at the still tall Tianjing City, and the hatred in his heart was not extinguished, but even stronger: "One day, I will come back, and I will slaughter Tianjing when the time comes!" ”

The end of this battle also means that the Tianjing Incident, which has been in turmoil for a month, has finally come to an end!

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, and Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, were killed, and most of the subordinates of these three people were also killed, and the total number of people killed was more than 30,000.

This incident also caused Lin Chengting to rebel, causing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to lose its only new army unit!

This incident also made Shi Dakai really the controller of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, becoming Yang Xiuqing's second, as for Hong Xiuquan, he was very depressed to find that after killing tens of thousands of people, he was still the puppet king without any actual military power.

The Tianjing Incident has been lively for a month, who is the winner? It's not Hong Xiuquan, it's not Qin Rigang and Wei Changhui who are already dead, it's Shi Dakai!

Not to mention Tianjing, and said that after Lin Chengting led nearly 10,000 remnants of the army to retreat south, Li Cong'an beside him asked him: "Master Hou, where are we going now?" ”

Lin Chengting looked at the vast wilderness of southern Jiangsu and looked at the scorching sun in the sky, and for a while he felt that the world was so big but there was nowhere to go.

Now there are tens of thousands of Taiping troops chasing after his army, and he can't stop, he must continue to walk.

Only now they can still go there?

Continue to the south, there is Lishui, and according to Lin Chengting's knowledge, Yu Shengjun's Xu Yanqing is there, isn't he looking for death when he goes?

And to the east is even more inappropriate, Zhenjiang, Changzhou and other places are the places where the Taiping army and the Qing army are tug-of-war, no matter how you look at it, it is not a good place to go.

To the west, it is Wuhu and other places, where there are also a large number of troops of the Taiping army, and if you are not careful, you will be surrounded by front and rear attacks.

After thinking for a long time, he said, "Let's go to Wuhu!" ”

Li Cong'an said: "There are a lot of stone thieves and other armies in Wuhu, and there are at least 20,000 chasing soldiers behind us, I'm afraid it will be difficult to take Wuhu!" ”

Lin Chengting shook his head and said: "What to do with Wuhu, we don't need to, let's go around Wuhu directly, and then go back to Ningguo!" We started from Ningguo, and we are very familiar with Ningguo, so we can breathe a little sigh of relief when the time comes! ”

"But even if we return to Ningguo, I'm afraid it won't be easy, the south is northern Zhejiang controlled by Yu Shengjun, and there are still chasing soldiers behind!"

Lin Chengting didn't care: "We just go back to Ningguo to slow down, it is natural to stay for a long time, and we will continue to go south at that time!" ”

Li Cong'an said: "Then if we keep going south, where do we want to go?" ”

At this time, Lin Chengting spread out the map of China in his hand that was so simple that it was the same as an abstract painting, and finally pointed to Jiangxi: "Let's go here!" ”

Lin Chengting was attacked by Shi Dakai, Wu Ruxiao and others, and had to flee to Jiangxi with hatred!

After the initial chaos on the Tianjing side, under the strong control of Shi Dakai, it gradually recovered, except for sending 20,000 troops to pursue Lin Chengting, Shi Dakai integrated the armies in Tianjing City, and sent troops back to Zhenjiang and Danyang, and at the same time stationed troops in Tianjing, in case of Yu Sheng's army in the direction of Lishui, once again went north to attack Tianjing.

That didn't change until June!

On June 2nd, Li Hongzhang, who was belated, led his 5,000 new army to Yangzhou, and thus began the debut of the Jianghuai new army! (To be continued.) )