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"Yes, my subordinates seconded the proposal. Governor Dadu, tens of thousands of soldiers of our Mawei Army have long been looking forward to making meritorious contributions, and the barracks are almost overwhelmed, and officers at all levels come to petition every day. Although the new army is still training, the new army in Guangdong has not yet taken shape. However, Guangdong no longer needs the elite garrison of Mawei, and there are still nearly 10,000 troops in Fujian who go out to stay behind. In addition to the return of 6,000 cavalry divisions, there are 30,000 mobile troops in the hands of the smashing hands. With a force of 30,000 people, it is completely possible to go to a head-on decisive battle with all the imperial court's troops in Jiangxi. Yao Qisheng crossed his fingers and analyzed carefully.

"It is true that our purpose is not to compete with the imperial court now, but we can only take Guangxin Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Jianchang Mansion, Zhenzhou Mansion and Ningdu Prefecture, which surround our Fujian with four large and small prefectures, and it is the easiest to take it if there are not many troops, so why not immediately send troops to take these places." As the original Metropolitan Governor and Chief of General Staff Li studied, if these state capitals are taken and garrisoned at key checkpoints, then our Fujian and the newly acquired Guangdong will be impregnable! Presumably, with our military strength, it should be no problem to hold on to a few dangerous passes or important cities! ”

Geng Jingzhong was also a little hesitant at this time, his approach has always been a little conservative, although he has confidence in his horsetail army, but the 600,000 troops of the imperial court still gave him great pressure. Geng Jingzhong always wanted to let the Qing army and Wu Sangui lose both, but he often ignored that there was a gap between Wu Sangui and the imperial court. It seems that Wu Sangui has the upper hand now, but the further he goes, the more unfavorable it is to Wu Sangui, after all, the Qing court is the enemy of the whole country. There was an endless stream of soldiers, horses, money, and food officials. These Wu Sangui don't have it.

"The Grand Duke. Although Wu Sangui is in a state of strength at the moment, his subordinates in the decisive battle with the imperial court are still not optimistic about him, not to mention his lack of troops, even in terms of money and food, he is far from being as good as the Qing court. Wu Sangui's logistical supply is only afraid that it has reached its limit at this moment, but the imperial court is still transporting money, food, and ordnance to the front line. Therefore, our Mawei Army must assist Wu Sangui at this time, and we can't let him cross like this, otherwise there will be no benefit to us! Li Guangdi continued to explain and persuade.

Geng Jingzhong listened. Still frowning and said: "I think that the war between Wu Sangui and the imperial court cannot end in a short time, and the imperial court can't defeat Wu Sangui in a year or two, so I haven't been in a hurry, and I've been accumulating strength." But now that I think about it, I still want to deviate. Although it is impossible for the imperial court to defeat Wu Sangui quickly, but it can continue to recapture Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou, and at that time we are indeed very passive, and we are really going to be broken by the imperial court one by one! Okay, then let's strike first. Show your strength in advance, and stand with the imperial court and Wu Sangui. Divide the river and rule. ”

Hearing Geng Jingzhong say this, smiles also appeared on the faces of Li Guangdi and Yao Qisheng. In fact, I should have done this a month ago, when I was busy organizing and training the new army, and I didn't care about this. Now that the new army has been training for nearly two months, it already has some appearance, and the new army in Guangdong, which has been reorganized from the reduced soldiers, has also changed greatly after two months of training, and under the leadership of the former horsetail veterans, it has basically changed its original habit of being a ruffian. If it is another three or two months, these new Guangdong troops can be sent to the battlefield!

"That's good, just gather all the remaining officers and soldiers of the first division and the second division, plus the artillery division and cavalry division with a total of 30,000 people, and you will be under the command of Brother Li, and take these prefecture capitals in Jiangxi. Geng Jingzhong said with a resolute face, it is indeed no longer suitable to hide strength at this time, and the three-legged situation seems to be more prolonged. And what they lack in Fujian is time, as long as they are given another two years to fully prepare, then no one will be afraid at that time.

Jiang Dejun, commander of the Second Division, is still training the New Army in Guangdong, and the 3,000 men of his Second Division will be scattered, and the 15,000 soldiers of the New Army will be formed into a new Third Division. But at this time, there were 5,000 people left behind in Mawei of the Second Division, and the other armies also returned to Fujian, and they could immediately prepare and go out. As for the First Division, more than half of the army had been sent out to guard the various dangerous passes, and only 4,000 men could be gathered.

This time, there will be nothing to do with the navy, and the inland is the home of the army, and the officers and men of the navy can only stare dryly. After setting the tone for the offensive, Geng Jingzhong immediately summoned the generals of the Marine Corps to the barracks meeting hall to discuss military affairs. The specific thing is to see how to allocate troops, how to quickly take these several state capitals in Jiangxi, which one to capture first, which one to capture later, or whether the four prefectures and one government will send troops to attack at the same time, all of which must be planned in detail.

"Needless to say, of course, it is a multi-pronged approach, and it will be captured together, and the intelligence given by Chief of General Staff Li just now has also been read, there are not many defenders in these places at all, most of the Qing troops are concentrated in Ji'an Prefecture, Fuzhou Mansion and Nanchang Mansion, among them, only Fuzhou Mansion is within our target this time, and the other provinces only have one or two thousand defenders, so it is not easy to capture?" Yang Jian said with a grin.

"My subordinates think so too!" Bai Xianzhong quickly seconded: "These places are next to our Fujian, and over the years, the businessmen of Jiangxi have also sporadically repaired a few main roads leading to our Fujian under the influence of our Fujian, although they are not as strong as our cement roads, but it is not a problem for our big cars to run on them." Therefore, my subordinates asked for orders to let my first division go north out of Nanping, take Jianchang Mansion and Fuzhou Mansion, and then turn to Guangxin Mansion. ”

"I said Lao Bai, do you still want to be shameless, just think that your first division has a lot of life here now, and you have to eat alone? Your appearance is too ugly, the target is based on a total of five places in four prefectures and one state, you want three at once, and you are not afraid of choking to death. You're done robbing, so what are our brothers doing? As soon as Bai Xianzhong's voice fell, he was attacked by everyone, and the most angry was the cavalry division commander Jiang Yuanxun, he traveled thousands of miles to return to Fujian just to make a contribution, Bai Xianzhong, this guy actually wanted to rob it all, of course he didn't do it!

"All 6,000 men of our cavalry division have all been rested and ready to go to the battlefield at any time. And we are cavalry, and it is our strength to run thousands of miles, so my subordinates asked for orders to lead our cavalry division to raid Fuzhou Mansion as quickly as possible, and take Fuzhou in one fell swoop without the Qing army reacting! Jiang Yuanxun asked loudly.

"Don't make any noise! None of you should be able to run away, and no one should go if you quarrel again! This battle is still the same as the attack on Guangdong, the speed must be fast, and it is necessary to take these state capitals before the large Qing army can react, so it is not suitable for a single army or cavalry to fight. The artillery division still has to intersperse and cooperate, and the cavalry division responds in a mobile way. The specific deployment will be made by Chief of General Staff Li and instructed by you. As far as the current situation is concerned, the imperial army has a total of 30,000, plus the original garrison of Jiangxi totaling 46,000.

Although Zhenzhou is the largest, it does not have the largest number of troops, and the Qing army has some feelings of wanting to give up Zhenzhou. All the cities in Zhenzhou Mansion were the original green camp garrisons, with a total number of only 2,000 people, and only a little more than 1,000 people stationed in Zhenzhou Prefecture, which was a very good city. The situation in Ningdu Prefecture, Jianchang Prefecture and Zhenzhou is similar, and the imperial court knows that these places have close communication with our Fujian and are not easy to defend, so not only did they not deploy heavy troops, but also transferred part of the original defenders. It seems that the idea is to withdraw the fist first.

The most difficult is Fuzhou, Fuzhou has a total of 10,000 elite Qing troops, plus the troops drawn from nearby states, the total strength has reached 12,000 people, this is a hard bone, but also the most difficult to gnaw. Therefore, I think that we should first take down several other state capitals with weak troops, and then concentrate our forces to gnaw Fuzhou. ”

Li Guangdi said immediately after Geng Jingzhong finished speaking: "I also agree with this article, in fact, in addition to Fuzhou, the other three prefectures and one state have already added a protective cover to our Fujian and isolated the imperial army from Fujian itself. In the end, even if you can't take Fuzhou, it's no big deal! ”

"Metropolitan Governor, it shouldn't be difficult to take Zhenzhou Mansion and other three prefectures and one prefecture, but if Fuzhou is finally captured, the other Ji'an Mansion and Nanchang Mansion will already react by then, and they will definitely not sit idly by and watch us attack Fuzhou, and when their army comes to help, won't it add trouble and difficulty to us?" A deep voice sounded, and when everyone looked at it, it turned out to be Fang Dahong, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Second Division, who was speaking. Jiang Dejun, the commander of the Second Division, is no longer there, only the two brigade commanders of the Second Division are here, and Fang Dahong's voice is still so rough.

"You're thinking about it well, but you can think a little deeper. Zhenzhou Mansion and other three prefectures and one state are easy to take, and we finally hit the troops and gather outside the city of Fuzhou, not necessarily to attack the city, but to prepare a large number of Qing soldiers. At that time, we needed to mobilize 20,000 soldiers to attack Fuzhou, and it was not a problem to deal with the more than 10,000 Qing troops in the city. More importantly, the final attack on Fuzhou can also bring a large number of Qing troops to fight outside the city, and when the artillery division fires a salvo of hundreds of cannons, it will ensure that the Qing army will be defeated. At that time, not only Fuzhou will be taken lightly, but it is likely that even Ji'an Mansion will also go down without a fight! Li Guangdi explained out loud.

"Even if the Qing army doesn't fight in the field outside our city, then we will use artillery to smash his city and force them out. In a word, the Qing army can kill as many as it can kill, so that it can not only solve the threat surrounding our Fujian, but also support Wu Sangui from the side, so that Wu Sangui can concentrate on fighting Yue Le to the death. Hehehe! It suddenly occurred to me that maybe we don't have to attack desperately, maybe someone will come to join us if we release the news, so we won't have to bother with it! Geng Jingzhong said and suddenly laughed.

Yao Qisheng interjected at this time: "What the Metropolitan Governor said is reasonable, we don't need to break the city by force at all, there are many examples of surrendering to the wind, we can send people to various cities to persuade us to surrender, if it really doesn't work, let's attack with a large army, in this way, not only does it not take time, but it may be possible to achieve the expected goal faster!" ”

"That's right, just do it!" (To be continued......)

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