Chapter 425: Preparing to Go North

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Watching the brothers of the army attack the city, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and then be promoted to make a fortune, the navy is red with jealousy, if it were not for Geng Jingzhong's order, Wang Zhenbang and Huang Dazhong and other admirals were shocked, and the soldiers below really wanted to rebel, but in the past year or so, there have been admirals who have come to petition for the navy to participate in the war, but they have all been refuted by Geng Jingzhong. In fact, especially in the past six months or so, there has been no war on the front line, and the navy has been much more stable, but they still want their navy to pounce directly on the Yangtze River and attack the city along the capital, but it has not succeeded.

Since the battle could not be fought and the instructor selection was not selected, the admiral officer Benjiang vented his anger on the big fish at sea. In the past six months, those sharks and whales in the nearby waters have been killed, and of course, there are some other big fish in the sea, and the Mawei Navy has only used the battleship as a fishing boat in training, and has set up a lot of hard crossbows on the deck to make them into spearguns, and at the end of each training, they have brought back a lot of sea fish, and they are all big guys. Of course, the largest third-class battleship in the navy is not moving, and the third-class battleship is big enough, but the speed is not fast enough. The most suitable of them is a fifth-tier battleship, which is more than a step faster than a third-tier battleship.

It is also beneficial for the navy to bring back a large number of big fish, and the horsetail army is training a new army that is lacking a large number of meat shortages that cannot be replenished, and these large sea fish have of course become the first choice. Originally, fish is the most nutritious. Geng Jingzhong remembered that when he was in college, he listened to an elective course on nutrition and health, and what impressed him the most was that the teacher said that it was better to eat two legs than to eat four legs, it was better to eat one leg than to eat two legs, and of course it was better to eat one leg than to eat no legs. This has legs and no legs belong to the category of animals, four legs and two legs are easy to understand, even those without legs can think of it at once, respectively, livestock and poultry and fish, but what is this leg, every student in the whole lecture hall said.

In the end, the answer given by the teacher was that mushrooms, although mushrooms belong to the category of plants, they don't seem to be very counted, they should be fungi, but their nutritional value is very high, so they are classified with meat. But this is still the most nutritious fish, and a large number of marine fish does solve a lot of trouble for the logistics department. This can be simply answered, can it be calculated, only one whale was caught, that is, ten tons and eight tons, that is, about 20,000 catties, and after removing the bones, there are still 10,000 catties, plus other fish, at least 20 tons of meat are caught at one time, that is, more than 40,000 catties, and the logistics department also has to buy sea fish from the fishermen along the coast, and the meat problem of the whole army has been perfectly solved.

At present, the hard days of the navy are coming to an end, and at this moment, the Mawei Army is already strong and strong, and the territory is stable, and it is time to wave the army north. However, the army, especially the troops stationed in several prefectures in Jiangxi, could not act rashly, and Geng Jingzhong did not want to continue to fight with Wu Sangui, and if he wanted to fight, he would definitely fight the Qing court. Geng Jingzhong had already sent a letter to Wu Sangui, replying to Wu Sangui that he was willing to really join hands with the two parties to eliminate the Qing court together. The Mawei Army will enter the mouth of the Yangtze River and attack the Jiangnan region, so you Wu Sangui in the Jiangnan region will not worry. At the same time, the Mawei Army can also take advantage of the situation to attack Anhui and contain a large number of Qing troops.

This time, the preliminary plan for the battle reached 53,000 soldiers, the Navy Jiang dispatched three sub-fleets, 25,000 people, plus the new army of the new army of 25,000, and the other is the second division of three battalions, ready to take most of the southern part of Jiangsu and Anhui in one fell swoop, in this way, it is bound to cause the Qing court to shake, no matter what the Qing court will do, it will also send 100,000 troops to counterattack, at this time it depends on what Wu Sangui can do or what Cheng dù can do. The Qing court transferred 100,000 soldiers and horses, so there would be no superiority in troops against Wu Sangui, and the two sides would definitely fight in the dark. Two tigers fighting, that's both injuries!

However, before preparing to set out for the expedition, Geng Jingzhong also had one more thing to do, that is, to personally meet with the soldiers who have repeatedly fought and made meritorious contributions in the past year. This is also one of the best ways to boost morale, and it can also make the soldiers love the Mawei Army more collectively, and increase the worship of him as the supreme commander, yes, everyone worships.

The sun is brilliant in spring, and even in the afternoon, the sun shines on the body warm, not hot. The place where Geng Jingzhong met with these meritorious soldiers was on the colonel field of the Mawei military camp. One of the main reasons why it took half a year to summon them was to give them enough time to recuperate from their seriously wounded soldiers, although Geng Jingzhong had also visited these soldiers in the ward many times.

On the colonel's field, when these meritorious soldiers saw Geng Jingzhong, they immediately saluted Geng Jingzhong under the leadership of senior officers. Then, Geng Jingzhong approached the queue of the soldiers and shook hands with them one by one. This is modern etiquette, and the soldiers have long been used to it, but at the moment they are flattered. Geng Jingzhong smiled and shook his hands, and joked with the uncomfortable soldiers from time to time. Many of those soldiers were veterans of the First Division, and Geng Jingzhong was still very familiar with some of them. (To be continued......)