In the sixth year of Xianfeng, March 1856 in the Western calendar, Tianjing.

Lin Chengting led his generals out of the city in high spirits, and then went straight to Zhenjiang with his 20,000 new troops!

Before coming to Tianjing, he was just a checkpoint, but after breaking through the Jiangnan camp, he was strongly recommended by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, and he was named the Marquis of Zhenhu in one fell swoop, becoming one of the only more than ten princes in the contemporary Taiping Heavenly Territory, which is not easy for a general from a side line in the Taiping Heavenly Empire.

Although Lin Chengting was born in old Guangxi, he was just an ordinary middle-level general in the early days, and it was not until after the defeat of Si'an two years ago that he was lying on his back and hiding his courage, and at the same time, he vigorously advocated and used firearms with the support of Yang Xiuqing.

In 1854, after another defeat in northern Zhejiang, Lin Chengting was seriously wounded and fled back to southern Anhui, but this man was more tenacious than Zeng Guofan, and he once again calmed down and thought bitterly: if you want to defeat Yu Sheng's army, you must take the enemy as your teacher.

So he almost completely imitated Yu Shengjun to train the new army, and Yang Xiuqing, who had supported him before, did not abandon him because of his defeat in northern Zhejiang, but once again vigorously supported him to run the new army, and even provided Lin Chengting with a large amount of gold and silver to buy foreign guns from foreigners.

While organizing and training the new army, while pacifying all parts of southern Anhui, and with the support of Yang Xiuqing, the second person in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his new army quickly took shape, and soon swelled to the size of 15,000 people, plus the messy auxiliary soldiers and cannon fodder, the total number exceeded 20,000.

This new army, which took him more than a year to train, is almost a copy of Yu Shengjun, and the uniforms of the soldiers and officers are the same as Yu Shengjun's, but the color has changed from Yu Shengjun's dark blue to blue-gray.

In terms of weapons, he naturally could not obtain a large number of Mini rifles, but he also purchased nearly 6,000 foreign guns from foreigners, and other troops continued to be equipped with arquebuses, which were captured by the Qing army and made by himself, which also allowed him to make up forty artillery pieces of different sizes.

The detailed military system of the army is exactly the same as that of Yu Shengjun, completely abandoning the military system of the Taiping Army. Even the titles were directly applied to platoons, companies, battalions, and regiments without changing them.

Of course, Lin Chengting is not Lin Zhe after all, and the Taiping Army is not Yu Shengjun, just like the Qing Army running a new army. They can imitate Yu Shengjun's formation and appearance, but there are some internal things that they can't learn.

For example, on the issue of soldiers, Yu Shengjun's soldiers are all fixed from several prefectures and counties in the central and southern parts of Zhejiang, especially Yu Shengjun's hometown of Shaoxing, as the conscription place, and the requirements for the source of soldiers are quite high. And in order to ensure that soldiers can fight with peace of mind. Yu Shengjun not only paid the soldiers on time, but also sent some of the salaries directly to the soldiers' families by Yu Shengjun's Food and Salary Bureau.

The Qing army and the Taiping army are naturally not like this, the Qing court runs the new army at present, one is the Eight Banners New Army, the other is the Green Battalion New Army, these two new armies are selected from the original Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers, it is said that the best are recorded, but in fact the soldiers are still the original soldiers, and the weapons used are still mainly arquebuses, only a small number of foreign guns, these two new armies are basically just changed the name of the new army. In fact, there is no difference from the original old army.

And the third is Li Hongzhang's new army trained in the Jianghuai region, this new army called the Jianghuai Army by the imperial court is much better, not to mention the appearance of things such as establishment and military uniforms, basically directly copied Yu Shengjun, but the title is not as shameless as Lin Chengting of the Taiping Army, and directly uses the names of platoon, company, battalion, and regiment, but uses the names of sheds, sentinels, and battalions in the Hunan army.

The soldiers are all recruits recruited on the spot, and it is said that the recruitment regulations are also modeled on Yu Shengjun, as long as they have a good family.

The weapons are all foreign guns, and even foreigners are hired to help train.

However, the number of people is too small, and more than a year has passed. Now there are only more than 4,000 people, and they have not fought a large-scale actual battle, and they have been making small fights in Su Wan.

As for Lin Chengting's new army, they are even more straightforward. The soldiers' salaries are not paid, only food, and the source of the soldiers is actually similar to other Taiping troops, some of them are coerced, and some of them are coming to join the army, so the cost of Lin Chengting's new army is the lowest. You just need to spend money to buy foreign guns.

The officers of Yu Shengjun spent several years slowly training themselves, while the Qing court and the Taiping army simply did not have enough time and instructors to train these officers of the new army, basically their officers were still the original officers of the old army.

The plain habits of soldiers and officers, coupled with some differences in tactical concepts, in fact, whether it is Lin Chengting or Li Hongzhang, they have not been able to learn the essence of Yu Shengjun, at most it is just a façade.

However, Lin Chengting is not one of those lazy and incompetent generals of the Qing army, although the recruits he recruited are worse, but he is very concerned about the training of the new army.

Without good training, he would not have been able to break through the Jiangnan camp in just three days.

Now he stepped through the camp of the Jiangnan camp and went straight to Zhenjiang, he wanted to cooperate with Wu Ruxiao to destroy the remnants of the Qing army in southern Jiangsu.

It's just that since leaving Tianjing Jingjing, Lin Chengting's face has not seen a high-spirited expression, but often shows a worried look, and after arriving at Jurong, the whole person is more cautious and conservative.

A few careful subordinates also saw that he was worried, and the marching arrangements were quite cautious and conservative, for fear of being ambushed, Li Cong'an, who had followed him for many years, went up and asked softly: "Master Hou, now that our army is going all the way east, those Qing demons must be frightened, and why are they still worried about the siege of Zhenjiang?" ”

Lin Chengting snorted coldly when he heard this: "Are the enemies who are waiting for me to go east just those tens of thousands of Qing Demons?" ”

When Li Cong'an heard this, he suddenly remembered something, and immediately said in a panic: "Could it be that Lin Zhe led the army west into Zhenjiang?" Didn't he say that he had a falling out with the Qing court, how could he still send troops to help those Qing demons? ”

"I don't know if he fell out with the Qing court, but I know that we are going eastward, so we will definitely meet him!"

Lin Chengting has always regarded Lin Zhe as the biggest opponent in his life in recent years, and only Lin Zhe can stop his eastward advance, which is even more certain after he defeated the Jiangnan camp.

When he first attacked the Jiangnan camp, he only had less than 20,000 troops, but it only took three days to break through the Jiangnan camp of the Qing army.

The world is big. The only one who can fight with him Lin Chengting is Lin Zhe and his Yu Shengjun!

Facing Yu Shengjun, Lin Chengting knew that no matter how cautious he was, he would not be overdone, and he went south to northern Zhejiang twice before. Every time, he seemed to have a great advantage, but then, every time, he failed miserably, and he definitely couldn't tolerate his third failure!

Lin Chengting led 20,000 new troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the east, first arriving outside Zhenjiang and crushing nearly 10,000 Qing troops on the periphery of Zhenjiang. Subsequently, together with the nearly 10,000 Taiping troops belonging to Wu Ruxiao's department in Zhenjiang, they continued to march east to Danyang.

Xiang Rong gathered more than 20,000 remnants of the Jiangnan battalion here to try to defend it, and Huang Zonghan, who was originally besieging Changzhou, also personally led more than 15,000 troops from his headquarters to rush to the aid of Danyang, trying to stop the Taiping army from moving south.

On the other hand, the other main force of the Taiping Army, that is, nearly 30,000 people under Qin Rigang, also marched eastward at the same time, but they did not go with Lin Chengting, but directly crossed the river and went straight to the Jiangbei camp in Yangzhou.

In this way, from the map, it can be found that the Taiping army is advancing along both sides of the Yangtze River, one south and one north!

At the same time in Shanghai, Lin Zhe also listened carefully to Yu Shengjun's report on Xu Pengan, the general office of the Supervision and Training Office.

"At present, there are more than 20,000 thieves in the Lin Chengting Division. Wu Ruxiao's more than 10,000 troops are galloping to Danyang, and the official army stationed in Danyang is more than 20,000 remnants of the Jiangnan battalion, and the 15,000 Fubiao battalion of Huang Futai has rushed to the aid of Danyang, but according to a series of news we got before, it is speculated that the officers and troops in Danyang are afraid that they will not be able to stop it.

Even if it can be blocked for the time being, but there are still more than 20,000 people in Wu Ruxiao in Changzhou, in case they also enter Danyang in the west, the official army will be destroyed under the front and rear attacks! ”

"On the Yangzhou side, according to the news we have discovered, the front of the thief army has arrived in Yangzhou, although the Jiangbei battalion in Yangzhou has a large number of troops. But in the face of a fierce general like Qin Rigang, I am afraid that it will also be dangerous! ”

Lin Zhe nodded lightly when he heard this, and then said, "What about the new army of the imperial court, where is the Jianghuai army?" Could it be that Li Hongzhang wants to sit back and watch the Jiangbei camp fall? ”

"For the time being, we have not been able to hear from the Jianghuai Army. However, half a month ago, the army was still in the Qingjiangpu area, and even if it wanted to rush to Yangzhou, it might not be able to catch up! ”

Looking at the situation of all parties represented by Xu Pengan on the map, this made Lin Zhe know that Yu Shengjun was going to fight again after more than a year of recuperation.

In the past year or so, although the Qing army and the Taiping army have continued to break out in war, they actually have little to do with Lin Zhe.

He stationed troops east of Suzhou. Although Huang Zonghan's ability is also good, but after reluctantly recovering most of Changzhou Prefecture, he faced the isolated city of Changzhou defended by Wu Ruxiao with 20,000 troops, and attacked it for half a year without taking it, so he could only confront them outside the city as before.

Although Lin Chengting in the Taiping Army fought in Anhui last year, he didn't have the intention of going south to northern Zhejiang, so Lin Zhe naturally wouldn't take the initiative to find Lin Chengting's bad luck.

This gave Yu Shengjun extremely valuable training and expansion time, and by the end of 1854, Yu Shengjun had expanded his army to five mixed regiments.

They were the 1st Mixed Regiment to the 5th Mixed Regiment, and each mixed regiment had three infantry battalions, two artillery companies, a baggage battalion, a cavalry platoon for reconnaissance, and other military bands, men, horsemen, and others.

In addition, a cavalry regiment was formed, with four cavalry companies under its jurisdiction.

If you don't count the auxiliary personnel such as horsemen and gangsters, there are more than 11,000 people in the simple combat unit.

In addition, there are more than 2,000 sail battalions, four large warships with sail steam paddle wheel hybrid power, eight 80-ton small gunboats with pure steam power and dark wheel propulsion, and more than 10 old sail ships.

The addition of waterways made the regular strength of Yu Sheng's army more than 13,000 people.

In addition, in addition to these regular armies, there is also a very special servant army in Yu Sheng's army, that is, the auxiliary defense regiment.

Although the combat effectiveness is a little scummy, it is still possible to fight the Taiping Army and the Qing Army that are more scum than them, so it was not cut off, but nearly 3,000 people were selected from the prisoners, and three auxiliary defense regiments were formed together with the soldiers of the original Auxiliary Defense Regiment.

These three auxiliary defense regiments have only three pure infantry battalions, and they are not equipped with cavalry, artillery and other arms, so they do not have the ability to fight alone, and their positioning is very clear, that is, to cooperate with Yu Shengjun to fight and act as cannon fodder.

Since the soldiers come from captives, they do not need to be paid military salaries, nor do they need to be paid settling-in allowances, nor do they need to be given pensions, etc., the labor cost is almost equal to zero, and the weapons are also cold weapons such as captured arquebuses and swords, and the only cost is food, so it can be said that the cost of raising the army is quite low.

However, you get what you pay for, and the combat effectiveness of these cannon fodder is at most stronger than that of the green battalion, and it is of little use in actual combat.

Now that the Taiping army is advancing eastward, especially with Lin Chengting's new army inside, Lin Zhe can't help but pay attention to it, they defeated the Jiangnan camp Lin Zhe doesn't care, but they want to continue to go east to Changzhou and even Suzhou until Shanghai, then this is not what Lin Zhe can tolerate.

"Pass the order, let the Shanghai garrison and the garrison on the Songjiang side get ready, and tomorrow I will personally lead the army to reinforce Suzhou!" After Lin Zhe gave Xu Peng'an an an order, he stood up and walked to the window, looking out the window at the busy docks and the many boats on the Huangpu River.

The prosperity outside the window is where his blood is for several years, whether it is the Qing army or the Taiping army, whoever wants to destroy the development of the business area is his Lin Zhe's enemy! (To be continued.) )

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