After receiving Li Yongji's exact order, Peng Yulin, who was a steady person, couldn't help but feel excited, and regarded this incident as a major opportunity for him to soar.

The reason is very simple, this order means that Peng Yulin can finally lead the troops independently here, not to mention that this is a battle with foreign devils, this independent leader alone is enough to write a special book, because this is different from the previous battle under Shi Dakai's orders, it is really a one-man leader!

As one of the very few generals who knew Li Yuanzheng's true identity, Peng Yulin knew very well that as long as this battle was fought, he would definitely enter the eyes of the current saints, and he would not have to worry about his promotion after he returned.

Speaking of which, Peng Yulin's experience can be regarded as bumpy, in his early years, he was a poor scholar, he failed the imperial examination for several years, and he was still a poor talent until he was thirty-seven years old, and he made a living as a settler.

Later, Zeng Guofan came to Hengzhou to set up a group training, Peng Yulin was invited to join the Hunan army because of his talent and fame, and he was proficient in arithmetic.

In fact, at the beginning, Peng Yulin was also quite jerky about the unified army, and he was not the kind of genius general, like Zeng Guofan, he made progress in learning and stumbled forward.

However, Peng Yulin has an advantage over others, that is, he has a stable personality, and because he was a bookkeeper, he is proficient in arithmetic, so when he was training the army, he was very disciplined and belonged to the type of peace and stability.

In addition, Peng Yulin has no bad hobbies, he usually loves to read, and his learning ability is very strong, so after joining the same jerky Hunan army, the progress is quite fast, and the improvement of all aspects of his ability is very significant, which finally aroused Zeng Guofan's attention, but it is only a little attention.

The days that followed. The main thing is the time of the bloody battle with the Taiping army.

During that period of time against the Taiping Army, Peng Yulin finally stood out, and the characteristic of his combat was that he was able to lead by example and use his own personality charm to drive the whole army, so that the troops under his leadership could be effective from top to bottom.

In other words, Peng Yulin rarely uses danger in combat, his attack power is not the strongest, and his defensive ability is not the best. But all aspects of the ability is very balanced, whether it is a water battle or a land battle, you can take a shot, and once you shoot, no matter who the opponent is, you will not be left behind!

It is precisely because Peng Yulin is proficient in land and water and is very good at landing warfare that his role is quite prominent in the battle between the Hunan Army and the Taiping Army. The Taiping army was dealt a major blow many times.

Originally, Peng Yulin's career should have been destined to use the Hunan Army as a pedal, and then the Taiping Army as a stepping stone to take advantage of the situation to rise, who knew that the elite army led by Li Yongji was born. It only took more than a year to develop and grow at a jaw-dropping speed, and to attack the Qing court in the north and sweep the peace in the west. He took over the world and established a new dynasty.

For a person like Li Yongji, Peng Yulin said that he didn't admire it was fake. But at the same time, because of Li Yongji's rapid development, Peng Yulin's dream of using the Hunan army to rise was broken.

You must know that Peng Yulin had some difficulty fighting the Taiping Army before, and in the early days, he was still half a catty, but when Li Xiucheng secretly colluded with Li Yongji, obtained a lot of weapons and equipment from Li Yongji, and was secretly transferred to the western front for deployment, the hard days of the Hunan army came.

Faced with the Taiping Army, which was armed with new weapons and new tactics, the Hunan Army was once defeated and lost ground one after another.

In the days that followed, because the front was re-stabilized, Peng Yulin had been working hard to restore the Hunan army system, hoping that one day he would be able to get rid of it.

At the same time, it was at that time that Peng Yulin was enthusiastic about new weapons, especially the firearms of the Jingwu Army, and became interested in new Western-style tactics and began to dabble in this area.

After that, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed, the Chinese Empire was established, and Li Yongji ascended the throne as emperor.

At that time, although Zeng Guofan's Hunan army had regained its vitality, it was even stronger than when it fought against the Taiping army before, and the strength of the Hunan army could be said to be the strongest in history.

But anyone with a discerning eye knew that under the circumstances at that time, if the Hunan army was to oppose the nascent Chinese Empire, it would be tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and peace was the only way out, and the difference was only how much benefit it could gain.

In fact, as a close person to Zeng Guofan, Peng Yulin knew more things, that is, Zeng Guofan actually had the intention to give up everything and completely depend on the new dynasty, but he learned that Li Yongji's Chinese Empire had many policies that Zeng Guofan did not like, so he was unwilling to be captured.

Fortunately, Li Yongji later pursued an autonomous region policy, opening up the net to local warlords like Zeng Guofan, who had heavy troops, giving them a certain degree of autonomy, allowing them to be incorporated into the Chinese Empire as the governor of the autonomous region, and not forcing them to go to the capital to meet them.

In this way, Zeng Guofan also stabilized his mind and became a governor of Hunan with peace of mind, but because of the demand to hand over part of the military power, Zeng Guofan had to disband a large number of troops to fill the newly established national defense force in a completely dispersed way.

Among them, Peng Yulin originally wanted to stay and continue to assist Zeng Guofan, but Zeng Guofan persuaded him not to stay, saying that Peng Yulin stayed because of Qu Cai and wasted his ability, but persuaded him to join the group of soldiers and horses who returned to the new dynasty, that is, to enter the national defense army.

In this way, Peng Yulin and a group of generals who were quietly selected by Zeng Guofan were sent to the National Defense Forces in the same way as the above confessions. After that, their troops were really scattered, and then according to their respective reputations and abilities, they were divided into different Wehrmacht sequences.

Peng Yulin was a little dissatisfied because of his reputation, so he was appointed as a regiment commander at the beginning, and Peng Yulin was still a little dissatisfied, after all, a regiment of the National Defense Force did not have an advantage in numbers, and compared with the number of soldiers and horses that Peng Yulin commanded before, it was not an order of magnitude at all.

However, under the eaves, he had to bow his head, and since he had entered the national defense force sequence, Peng Yulin could only obey orders.

However. Soon Peng Yulin found out that he, the head of the regiment, did not seem to be bad.

It turned out that although Peng Yulin's regiment was small in number and his subordinates were not familiar, its weapons and equipment were quite advanced, and its salary was better than that of the Hunan army.

So. During that time, Peng Yulin quickly devoted himself to curiosity and learning about new things, and together with other generals, he led troops and studied at the same time, and quickly adapted to the tactics and tactics of the Wehrmacht.

But soon, this kind of life in the army also made Peng Yulin a little impatient, after all, after such a long time, he also knew what the structure of the national defense force was. I also realized that if you want to be promoted in this army, you can only rely on real combat achievements, and your previous reputation is not good at all.

However, at that time, the Chinese Empire was thriving, and there were no major rebellions in the country. Even if there are some minor disturbances, they are often quickly suppressed by the local police and the National Guard before the Wehrmacht is used.

In other words, more and more peaceful days. It became more and more difficult to make meritorious contributions in the army at home, and it just so happened that a new trend of thought was popular during those days. That's to think globally!

Soon, Peng Yulin was also influenced by this new trend of thought, and gradually like other generals, he hoped to go abroad, promote his prestige overseas, expand the territory for China, and achieve the great cause of the nation!

However, although he had this idea, there were so few opportunities to really make a name for himself abroad, and even if he did, he felt that he could only be the Praetorian Guard, and they were-in-law probably had little hope.

At this time, an opportunity fell from the sky, and the empire actually wanted to form an expeditionary force to go overseas, but this force did not belong to the Wehrmacht sequence, nor did it belong to the Janissary sequence, to put it bluntly, it was not a regular army, but a private army.

Although it is a private army, all the treatment is the same as that of the regular army, and if you make a contribution, you can rejoin the army when you return to China, the only bad thing is that you have to leave your hometown and homeland, and you will be running overseas for a long time, and it is very likely that you will not be able to return to China for several years, and there is even a risk of being buried in a foreign country.

Obviously, although the treatment is good, because they have to go abroad for a long time and are not regular soldiers, there are not many people who sign up, after all, most people are now used to comfort and don't want to toss anymore, especially when there are more and more opportunities in China, they don't want to risk going abroad.

But Peng Yulin is different, he doesn't want to continue to live such an ordinary life, so he simply applied to join this private expeditionary force and go overseas.

Unexpectedly, he was really selected, and he was also given a lot of authority, so that he could recruit people freely, even if it was his original fellow countrymen.

In this way, Peng Yulin recruited a group of unwilling old troops, conducted some assault training with the methods he learned, and it didn't take long for him to be called, and then he joined this expeditionary force as an independent regiment, and officially began the process of going overseas!

This series of wars has made Peng Yulin's subordinates mature a lot, and they have become a veritable mercenary army, with greatly enhanced combat effectiveness, and even Peng Yulin is confident that although the army under his command does not dare to compare with the Praetorian Guard, it is still slightly stronger than the ordinary national defense force in China.

Moreover, because he personally recruited and trained this regiment under his command, many of them were colleagues in the old department, so he had strong personal characteristics, and the whole regiment had strict military discipline, clear ranks, and quite good combat effectiveness.

However, although Peng Yulin was quite confident in this regiment, when he saw the other two regiments, this self-confidence decreased slightly, because the other two regiments were the Taiping Regiment dominated by the former Taiping Army, and the Military Academy Student Regiment dominated by the Qingpu Military Academy Student Army!

Don't mention the Taiping Regiment, he has long understood Chen Yucheng's prestige, presumably this regiment will not be worse than his regiment, and the military cadet regiment, it seems that the members are very immature, but in fact it is still not to be underestimated, not to mention Li Hezhang's ability He has heard a little, just say that those young people who are full of energy are probably not good at stubble.

Sure enough, the three regiments held several military performances later, and they were all at the bottom of Peng Yulin's regiment, and the first and second places were either Chen Yucheng's regiment or Li Hezhang's student troupe, anyway, there was nothing to do with Peng Yulin's regiment.

This incident made Peng Yulin very vigilant, so he trained the troops more strictly in the future, and he set an example more, resulting in the combat effectiveness of the troops improving quite quickly.

In the process of conquest of Japan, Peng Yulin's troops were quite brilliant and attacked fiercely. Sometimes even the other two regiments are willing to bow down, especially in terms of discipline, which has surpassed Chen Yucheng's regiment, second only to Li Hezhang's student regiment.

Originally, Peng Yulin's idea was very simple, that is, he wanted to earn more military merits and see more knowledge overseas, so that if he went back, it would be in vain.

Perhaps influenced by some new ideas, Peng Yulin also thinks. This kind of practice of conquest overseas, fighting against foreigners, and expanding territory for the Han Chinese is much better than fighting with compatriots at home, and it can be regarded as having a trace of simple nationalism and nationalism.

In fact, many people in the expeditionary force have similar thoughts to Peng Yulin, such as Chen Yucheng, whose thoughts are quite similar to him, after all, this unit is in the process of selection. The main thing is to pay attention to the spiritual outlook, or spiritual appeal.

That is to say, only those who are not willing to be ordinary and are eager to make achievements. Only those who are eager to see the new world overseas, who want to expand their territory and leave their name in history, and who have the spirit of Hanism, can enter the expeditionary force.

Because the thoughts are all the same. That's why the expeditionary force led by Shi Dakai was so sharp, even in the face of the most brutal battles, it did not waver in the slightest.

Don't say anything else. For example, in the process of Japan's conquest, they experienced many cruel scenes that even exceeded those at home, but they didn't care at all, they did what they had to do, they were ruthless, and they didn't have the slightest mercy at all, so that many Japanese people said that this army was a demon army.

The reason why they are ruthless is because these people in the expeditionary force felt that they were all foreigners, and they were fighting for the country and fighting with outsiders, so they didn't have much psychological burden, and most of them had experienced domestic wars, so they were no stranger to cruelty and the like.

In short, Peng Yulin's original idea was very simple, he didn't think that he would really soar by joining the expeditionary force, he just wanted to take advantage of the energy to go out and take a look, and by the way, he would get a little military merit and wealth, so that when he returned to China to say goodbye to his old age, he would at least have a memory, and he could make a small fortune by the way.

However, when he came to North America and by chance, he realized that the real commander of the expeditionary force was actually the emperor himself, and his mood was immediately not calm.

Let's not say that it is absurd for the emperor to be a general incognito, just talking about this matter, Peng Yulin felt that it was an opportunity for himself.

After all, this is under the direct command of the Son of Heaven, and it can be regarded as entering the eyes of the law, with the Holy Hearing, as long as the performance is excellent, there will be no further opportunities in the future.

However, his status was too low, and he had no direct contact with the commander-in-chief at all, so if he wanted the emperor to value himself, he had to behave.

Fortunately, wait, wait, wait, the opportunity finally came, and his troops were asked to stay in Memphis to protect Joseph. Johnston and his legion!

In this process, he finally met with the incognito emperor in person, which made the other party have a good impression of him, and all in all it was quite good.

However, this alone is not enough, so Peng Yulin also wants to find an opportunity to prove his ability to lead troops, only in this way can he have a glimmer of hope of being promoted exceptionally.

Moreover, Peng Yulin felt that this opportunity was not difficult, because judging from the situation at that time, Pemberton's troops had already rushed over and were eyeing Memphis, and the two sides had signs of imminent eruption, but they both restrained each other, so they didn't really fight.

However, Peng Yulin felt that there would be a fight between them sooner or later, after all, the Pemberton Army on the opposite side was not a disciplined army, as long as there was a little provocation, it was very possible for the two sides to fight.

In this way, Peng Yulin waited patiently, and sure enough, when he waited for the opportunity he wanted, the army led by Pemberton finally couldn't hold his breath and took the initiative to attack Memphis City.

Now, even His Majesty the Emperor agreed that he would take the initiative, although the requirements were more complicated, and it was not allowed to fight too much, but it was just to drive them away, hurt them, not to annihilate them all, to avoid settling mortal enemies, and to let them think of their own good, etc......

For others, Li Yongji's requirements are a bit difficult for a strong man, but in Peng Yulin's view, this requirement is not difficult at all.

"We are only allowed to leave, and we have to let them read our good." The corners of Peng Yulin's mouth curled, "This is simple, non-stop attacking, non-stop attacking, just like chasing ducks, when they are exhausted and about to surrender, I will deliberately let them go, let them know that we are deliberately releasing water, which is enough to show sincerity." (To be continued......)