However, Chen Yuntao personally has no good impression of Huang Peizhi, but he also knows that he can't openly show this attitude.

As a high-ranking general of Yu Shengjun, he could not slack off and snub many former Manchu officials who immediately declared their allegiance to the Generalissimo of China's office.

Although Huang Peizhi was extremely speculative about the Generalissimo's Mansion and his allegiance to Lin Zhe, Chen Yuntao knew that he still couldn't extinguish their enthusiasm.

Chen Yuntao knew that since Huang Peizhi and Lin Zhe created a Yuyao County Yong Battalion, relying on the exploits of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, he has also been promoted from a seven-grade county order to the prefect of Shaoxing Mansion from the fourth grade, and he can rise so fast, naturally he is inseparable from Yu Shengjun.

But when the relationship between Lin Zhe and the Qing court became worse and worse in 1854, Huang Peizhi, who took advantage of Yu Shengjun's promotion, also began to be unlucky, and was pressed by He Guiqing almost everywhere.

After the news of Lin Zhe's incident in Shanghai two days ago reached northern Zhejiang, He Guiqing on the one hand strengthened the defense of Hangzhou, and on the other hand, he also quickly removed the officials of Zhejiang Province who were close to Yu Shengjun, and arrested those who were arrested, and the unlucky Huang Peizhi was also on the list of those who were dismissed and arrested.

Fortunately, he, a corrupt official, was quite vigilant, and when he learned that he was also on the list of dismissals and arrests, he didn't wait for the Hangzhou government to send someone to arrest him, so he gritted his teeth and directly took some of his henchmen to announce the change of banner and allegiance to the Generalissimo of China.

Even the signboard of the Shaoxing Mansion was replaced with "Shaoxing Mansion of the Generalissimo of China".

But I didn't expect several other officials and generals in Shaoxing City to be reluctant to follow him to rebel, just changed the signboard in front, and the green battalion in the back foot city was a mutiny and attacked Shaoxing Mansion, and in desperation, he could only escape from Shaoxing Mansion with a small number of henchmen and soldiers, and rushed all the way to Yuyao County to find rescuers.

Since Lin Zhe announced the incident a few days ago, many Manchu officials close to Lin Zhe and Yu Shengjun have been dismissed and questioned by the Qing court, but this move has forced more officials to completely turn to Yu Shengjun in order to protect themselves, otherwise, it is still unknown how many Manchu officials in the Susongtai region and northern Zhejiang can fall to Yu Shengjun.

After thinking about this, Chen Yuntao immediately pondered for a moment before revealing a cautious expression and asked, "I don't know how many soldiers there are in Fucheng now?" ”

Huang Peizhi immediately replied: "Now there are more than 600 puppet Qing green battalions in Shaoxing City, but as far as I know, Huang Linhan, the puppet Qing commander, has recruited more than 1,000 people from nearby local regiments to train Ding Zhuang to garrison Shaoxing!" ”

After hearing this, Chen Yuntao secretly pondered in his heart, this Shaoxing is afraid that it is not easy to fight, he only has less than 2,000 people, and half of them are recruits who have just been transferred from the recruit camp and have not even completed three months of recruit training, and the artillery is only a company of four-pounder infantry guns, which may not be easy to attack Jiancheng.

Chen Yuntao is not an outstanding talent among the many middle and senior generals in Yu Shengjun, on the contrary, he still belongs to the kind of relatively low ability.

The reason why he was able to sit in the position of the head of the 10th Mixed Regiment has a great relationship with his background, this person is not a scholar like most of the officers of Yu Shengjun, he is a slave of the Lin Mansion, to be precise, he is a son of the family, and he was one of Lin Zhe's companions in his early years.

After Lin Zhe founded Yu Shengjun, he joined it as a personal entourage, and later transferred to Yu Shengjun's barracks department to serve as a copywriter, and at the same time, like other officers, he entered the camp academy to study.

If he was just a slave of an ordinary family, it is estimated that Chen Yuntao's social status would be very low, and being a copywriter in this life would be the end, but he was the son of the Lin Mansion, and Lin Zhe's companion was the most intimate retainer.

In this way, although his ability was mediocre, he still rose step by step, and by the autumn of 1856, he had become the commander of the infantry battalion.

At that time, Lin Zhe was already determined to start an incident, so he carried out a large-scale transfer of Yu Shengjun's middle and senior officers, and promoted and reused a large number of officers, all of whom had a common characteristic, that is, they either put Yu Shengjun's interests above the interests of the imperial court on weekdays, or they had personal loyalty to Lin Zhe or had a relationship with Lin Zhe.

In other words, when Lin Zhe was considering appointment, the loyalty of his subordinates was the first priority, and the ability was secondary.

Under such a big back, Chen Yuntao surpassed others in one fell swoop and became the head of the 10th mixed regiment of Yu Shengjun.

After Chen Yuntao received the Kuaima letter from Shanghai two days ago, the first thing he did was naturally to clean up and rectify the interior of the 10th Mixed Regiment, capture Yuyao County, and completely control Yuyao County.

But at this time, his limited ability or lack of strategic vision was shown, and he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and control other prefectures and counties in Shaoxing Prefecture, but instead spent two days to rectify Yuyao County, and put a considerable part of his energy on internal affairs.

So much so that two days have passed, and his tenth mixed group is still circling in Yuyao County!

"Commander, we can't wait any longer now, in case we wait for Huang Linhan and they to recruit more strong men, it will be even more difficult to fight. Now that the 9th Mixed Regiment in Huzhou has begun to move south, and the 8th Mixed Regiment led by General Xu has also entered Jiaxing, it will not take long to arrive in Hangzhou, and then we must go north to join them, and then work together to take Hangzhou! A young major next to him said:

"Although our 10th Mixed Regiment is a newly formed unit, the soldiers of the first and second battalions have also been trained for several months. Now we are a little weaker, but we are much stronger than where we were founded. ”

At this time, another slightly older major battalion commander also spoke: "Brother An Yun is right, even if we only rely on the first battalion and the second battalion, we are enough to take Shaoxing Fucheng, although my third battalion has just become an army, but it has gone through several days of intensive hard training, and if necessary, it can also be used to kill the enemy for the commander!" ”

Fang Anyun chimed in again: "More than half of the soldiers of my tenth mixed regiment are Yuyao's disciples, and they will definitely not fall into the prestige of their predecessors!" ”

The 10th Mixed Regiment was organized and trained in Shaoxing, and the children of Yuyao County were the mainstay, which was another unit with the children of Yuyao as the main soldiers after the first corps of Yu Shengjun.

And Yuyao is the hometown of Lin Zhe and Yu Shengjun, Yu Shengjun has a deep foundation in Yuyao County, and many children are proud to join Yu Shengjun's campaign.

The generals of Yu Shengjun, especially the middle and senior generals, are all Yuyao people in six or seven out of ten, and there are even more middle and lower-level officers, these people are rich and prosperous, and they are the most dazzling examples in the eyes of later generations.

Therefore, among all the Yu Shengjun troops, the First Rank Corps and the Tenth Mixed Regiment, with Yu Yao's children as the main soldiers, are completely assured in terms of soldiers' loyalty and morale.

The only thing that worries Chen Yuntao now is that the soldiers of the 10th Mixed Regiment are not well trained, and they may not be able to go to the battlefield in real time.

After all, no matter how high the loyalty and morale are, they can't change the fact that the training is insufficient and the combat effectiveness is not high.

However, seeing that several subordinates asked for battle one after another, Chen Yuntao hesitated for a long time and said: "Okay, let the brothers get ready, we will start in the afternoon and strive to arrive in Shaoxing Mansion tomorrow!" ”

Hearing Chen Yuntao's words, several other Yu Shengjun officers also immediately said in unison: "The department is ordered!" ”

And Huang Peizhi, who was on the side, also said at this time: "Head Chen, there are still a few henchmen and family members left by the lower officials in Fucheng, and when my Great China soldiers drive into Shaoxing, they will steal the city gate and help Head Chen break the city in one fell swoop!" ”

Chen Yuntao also smiled and said: "This is better, if you can successfully break the city, I will definitely ask for credit from the marshal for Lord Huang, not to mention a prefect at that time, even if it is a military preparation or even a provincial governor!" ”

Hearing this, Huang Peizhi's face was full of red light: "There, there and there, it is right to serve the marshal, for the sake of my great cause of China, I, Huang Peizhi, will not hesitate to do anything even if I am liver and brain!" ”

When he said this, he seemed to have seen himself become the governor of a province, and even the appearance of the founding hero, Lao Tzu has been an official for so many years and has not made hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and in the first two years, in order to keep his official position, he vomited out again to fill the appetite of those above, and some of the rest were not brought out in Shaoxing Fucheng, and it is estimated that they will be confiscated by Huang Linhan.

has been an official for many years, and in the end he didn't get a single tael of silver, which is simply hateful and shameful!

This time, taking advantage of Yu Shengjun's army, he must firmly seize the opportunity, he is afraid that he will be crowned the king and worship the prime minister in the future, and when the time comes, how much silver can he make?

Hundreds of thousands of taels? Hmph, don't even look at it, at least a few million taels, don't be too much, if you don't make eight million taels of silver at that time, you can't help yourself!

Decades of hard study, more than ten years of abandoning the family and children of the eunuch career, am I easy?

Huang Peizhi secretly made up his mind that he would make as much silver as he wanted in the future, and on the other hand, he also followed Chen Yuntao's army and went to Shaoxing, this time he wanted the hateful Huang Linhan to know that he Huang Peizhi was not so easy to bully, he was a big China, oh, no, it was a great China general like a cloud, and a strong soldier like a forest, and he would definitely beat you Huang Linhan to the head!

In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Yuntao led 2,000 people from the headquarters of the 10th Mixed Regiment to gather about 1,000 people from Ding Qiang, who had been temporarily recruited, to go north to Shaoxing, and at the same time, he asked Fei Fuxu, commander of the third battalion, to lead 800 recruits from the third battalion and the Yuyao new battalion of the supervision and training office to Ningbo.

In the evening of the next day, Chen Yuntao led his troops to arrive outside the city of Shaoxing, at which time the city gate was closed, and there were many patrolling soldiers on the head of the city.

Judging from the binoculars, they knew that they had already expected Yu Shengjun to come.

Immediately, Chen Yuntao ordered the troops to set up camp, and at the same time, Huang Peizhi, who went with the army, patted his chest and promised that his henchmen would definitely secretly open the city gate at midnight tonight, and the city would be broken at the snap of a finger.

After setting up camp, Chen Yuntao received a letter from Xu Yanqing, which said that Xu Yanqing had led the Sixth Mixed Regiment to conquer Jiashan, Jiaxing and other places, and was attacking the city all the way to Hangzhou, and he ordered Chen Yuntao to arrive outside Hangzhou to join him in the name of the 'Fourth Infantry Division'. (To be continued.) )