The organizational structure of the Twist Army is inferior to that of the Taiping Army, the Twist Army is a pure peasant armed force with clan blood as a link and a pure peasant armed force that governs the army with the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, and has strong traces of gang organization, and Zhang Zongyu is an important figure in the Twist Army, judging from his style of action, it does have a trace of gangsterism in the rivers and lakes.

Just like Li Yunlong, who stresses righteousness and often dares to argue with his superiors and slap the table, he is a person with a lot of personality and is deeply loved by the audience, but in the modern army, the most basic requirement is that everyone must have the consciousness of being a chess piece, and everyone must be in their own position and perform their own duties, and people with too prominent personalities will destroy the integrity of the whole army.

Wang Feng said lightly: "Zhang Zongyu, as early as a few years ago, I said in front of nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Democratic Alliance Army and your army, we are not on the road, we are government army, we are regular army, we never care about the morality of the rivers and lakes, and the important criterion for judging right and wrong is to see if you have bullied the people.

Do you dare to say that the Twist Army doesn't? From this point of view, it is not too much for Zhang Lexing, Su Jinfu and others to die 10,000 times, their deaths are not worthy of sympathy, they are just losers in the political struggle, and they are the defeated generals of Li Hongzhang's men.

Of course, I do not agree with Li Hongzhang's methods, but I want to point out that no one is more noble than the other in the power struggle between Zhang Lexing and Li Hongzhang.

I don't have much of a good impression of the high-level of the Twist Army, but I don't think you are in charge of the Twist Army, and many things are involuntary, so I don't embarrass you, you think about it. ”

"Thank you Commander Wang for your advice, farewell!" Zhang Zongyu was embarrassed and looked at Wang Feng coldly. Turn around and go.

"What? Going? Vulnerable? Wronged? Self-esteem hit? Wang Feng shouted: "Zhang Zongyu, do you still want to avenge the Zhang family?" I can't even accept the slightest criticism. People like you, for the rest of your life. It's just a reckless person, you can't even see your own problems, how can you beat Li Hongzhang in the future?

I know that the purpose of your coming to me is nothing more than to persuade me to immediately attack the Huai army by serving me, and maybe you can also use your influence to find some of Zhang Lexing's old subordinates to respond, but I'm sorry, in a year or two, I have no plans to develop to the north. ”

Zhang Zongyu said coldly: "Don't bother Commander Wang, I'll pull another team myself." I don't believe in it, and I can't take revenge. ”

"Hehe~~" Wang Feng chuckled: "Your uncle and nephew poisoned Li Hongzhang but it was exposed, and your reputation has already stinked, who would dare to vote for you?" Even if someone votes, do you dare to accept it? Are you not afraid of being captured alive and tied to Li Hongzhang in exchange for 5,000 taels of silver? ”

Zhang Zongyu was silent, indeed, except for the territory of the Democratic Alliance, he was not safe in any place, although not everyone would covet a bounty of five thousand taels of silver. But using the wedding banquet to poison Li Hongzhang is too despicable, I'm afraid that as long as his identity is exposed, someone will come to him for trouble if he doesn't want a bounty.

And in the territory of the Democratic Alliance. He had never had this idea before, this was equivalent to the anti-Ah ah of the Democratic Alliance, Wang Feng would pull him out and shoot him at the first time!

Zhang Zongyu had no way to prove his innocence. I only feel that various emotions such as grievance and resentment are like a poisonous snake biting my soul, and I feel that I don't want to live. Let him have the urge to roar wildly!

Wang Feng looked at him and said, "I can give you a chance to take revenge." But your temperament needs to be sharpened, I don't like the habit of the army with rivers and lakes, I also hope that you can really understand our Democratic Alliance Army, you start from the grassroots level, you don't know how to ask more, are you willing? ”

"I do!" Zhang Zongyu responded, although he was very unconvinced by starting from the grassroots level, but there was an evil energy surging up in his heart, he didn't believe that he couldn't even do a small soldier with his own ability, he wanted to prove himself.

"Good!" Wang Feng nodded and said to the side: "Zhou Yanqi, find a platoon commander to take Zhang Zongyu down, and I will follow you to train in the future." ”

"Yes!" Zhou Yanqi saluted and beckoned: "Zhang Zongyu, come with me!" ”

Zhang Zongyu saw that he was a hairy young man in his teens, and he was not very happy at the moment, but he had no choice but to be taken off the boat by Zhou Yanqi with a calm face

The strength of the four divisions was more than 30,000 people, as well as artillery horses, and it was not easy to cross the river, together with the civilian ships collected, from morning to evening, it was not possible to complete the transportation, Wang Feng ordered to rest for one night, and by the next morning, it was divided into land and water to kill Jiujiang.

Among them, in addition to the three frigates and armed merchant ships brought by Wang Feng, there are also gunboats and minesweepers belonging to the Anqing section of the river defense force, and there are nearly 100 large and small ships.

Jiujiang is a place with vertical and horizontal waterways, close to Poyang Lake, without fleet support, it is very difficult to attack only by infantry, and Jiujiang is located in the west of Poyang Lake, and the infantry also needs to be transported by the fleet when crossing the lake, which is also an important reason why Wang Feng must wait for Shi Dakai to wait for him to arrive before attacking, otherwise it will be difficult to hit Jiujiang City with only the old gunboats of the Anqing River Defense Army.

It's just that now the mines are not a secret, the Hunan army has also begun to study the mines, according to the report sent by the Democratic Alliance, the Hunan army secretly built mines by Poyang Lake, it seems to be the kind of wooden box mines used by the Democratic Alliance at the beginning, although it is relatively primitive, but the lethality should not be underestimated, and the principle of anchor mines is not complicated, and the Hunan army can also arrange a very headache anchor mines!

Two days later, in Jiujiang City, "Report to the big handsome!" A pro-soldier hurriedly rushed over and called a thousand: "The Democratic League is coming from Anqing!" ”

Since the end of April, the Democratic Alliance army first went north by two routes out of Shaoguan, and then gathered troops in Anqing, putting on a posture of attacking Jiangxi. How many boats are there? How far is it going? ”

The soldiers arched their hands: "There are about 30,000 people, along the south bank of the Yangtze River to the west, only one hundred and fifty miles away from the mouth of Poyang Lake, and nearly 100 ships of all sizes accompany them, three of which are huge, nearly 20 zhang long, and seem to be Western warships." ”

Zeng Guofan was also accompanied by Hu Linyi, Tian Xingshu, Hu Yihuang and Lai Hanying, and the five of them hurriedly looked at the map spread out on the table.

Although Hu Yihuang and Lai Hanying are in the status of one party general, and they are defensive against Zeng Guofan, they are the enemy, and they both understand the truth that they can only break the enemy by working together.

And they are different from Zhang Lexing, Zhang Lexing has been running for Hong Xiuquan's status from the beginning of the army, Hu Lai and the others know their own affairs, and they do not have the ability to dominate one side, and Zeng Guofan can be regarded as having clear rewards and punishments, dealing with things more fairly, and there is no too obvious discrimination or suspicion of the Taiping soldiers who surrendered, plus Tian Xingshu led the army to come, the balance of forces between the two sides has changed significantly, and gradually, there are no longer too many ideas.

Of course, Zhang Lexing's death also fiercely deterred them, the so-called bystanders are clear, outsiders can easily see that there is something wrong with Zhang Lexing's death, and they make small moves underneath, and it is difficult to guarantee that Zeng Guofan will not use the same means to deal with them.

Hu Linyi stretched out his hand and pointed: "Dashuai and General Tian, please see, the Yangtze River is divided into upper and lower strands from Hukou County to the west, the upper strands are mostly silted, the waterways have not been dredged for a long time, the large warships of the Democratic Alliance Army have not been able to cross, and his sailors need foot soldiers to respond to each other, so he must attack from the lower strands." ”

"Master Hu is right." Tian Xingshu nodded and said: "The main point of this battle is to keep the Democratic Alliance army out of the lake, once he crosses the lake, the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake will let him come and go, and it is a dead end to trap Jiujiang, and our army should do its best."

The subordinates are not talented, and they are willing to lead the headquarters to guard at the foot of Shizhong Mountain, cooperate with the commander's elite soldiers, and resist the infantry of the Democratic Alliance! ”

The sea of Shizhong Mountain is only 62 meters, and the area is only 0.2 square kilometers, but it stands majestically on the south bank of the Yangtze River, on the shore of Poyang Lake, like an iron lock hanging in front of the gate of Hukou County, known as the key to the rivers and lakes, and has been a military fortress since ancient times.

"Good! General Tian is loyal and brave, if he wins this battle, this marshal will ask the emperor for your credit! Zeng Guofan shouted loudly, and said: "The Democratic Alliance army is attacking from the downstream to the upstream, just like Yingyi attacked him four years ago, he will make mines, could it be that our Hunan army will not?"

At that time, the short hair did not have artillery to help, and the British Yi suffered a big loss only by relying on mines, and today, we have the Shizhongshan Fort condescending, equipped with nearly 20 Western artillery, so why be afraid of him!

Lai Hanying listened to the order, this Shuai ordered you to lead your subordinates to cooperate with Tian Xingshu to garrison the foot of Shizhong Mountain, be sure to protect Shi Zhongshan thoroughly, Hu Linyi, this Shuai ordered you to sit in Shizhong Mountain, control the infantry army, and this Shuai personally led the water division, and Hu Yihuang laid a mine array at the mouth of the lake, if you and I cooperate properly, it may not be possible to break the short hair! ”

"Yes!" Hu Linyi, Tian Xingshu, Hu Yihuang and Lai Hanying are all heavy!

"Okay, let's split up and prepare, hurry up!" Zeng Guofan waved his hand and walked out quickly.

With the westward advance of the Democratic Alliance Army, the Jiujiang area is full of tension, and the current Hunan army is mainly stationed in Nanchang, Jiujiang, Changsha, and Wuchang.

Nanchang was besieged by the Fourth Group Army of the Democratic Alliance Army but not attacked, but the Changsha Hunan Army did not dare to easily relieve the siege of Nanchang, first, it was worried that it would be surrounded by reinforcements, after all, the artillery of the Democratic League Army was fierce, and it may not be able to break through the defense line of the Democratic Alliance Army, and secondly, Changsha also knew that the fate of Nanchang was determined by the Battle of Jiujiang.

Jiujiang concentrated nearly half of the elite of the Hunan army, there are more than 500 large and small warships, of course, his 500 boats and the Democratic Alliance army is incomparable, the size is smaller, there is no steam power, the most advanced is only a clipper similar to the red single boat, but he is numerous, and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River waterway is narrow, the width of the lake mouth section is only about 3,000 meters, too big a ship can not be rotated, in such a hydrological environment, the small boat is better in flexibility, not without any advantages.

In addition, after urgent contact with the British side, finally around the Chinese New Year this year, 20 cannons and 5,000 mini guns were transported through Burma, which was no way, the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar were rugged and difficult to travel, and it took a lot of effort to transport such a few weapons, among which the artillery was mounted on the Shizhongshan Fort, and the Mini guns were allocated to Hu Linyi and Zeng Guofan's headquarters for use. (To be continued......)