Although Li Yongji got some new weapons from Zhang Xinda, it would take a while to get used to it if he wanted to form combat effectiveness, so that the soldiers could practice and familiarize themselves with it first, and it would be impossible to use them when they were about to fight.

As he was about to face war, Li Yongji stopped basic training and concentrated on tactical drills.

To put it simply, it is to arrange troops in formation and practice formations; at the same time, in the process, it is necessary to organize new arms, adjust new formations, and practice new tactics according to the characteristics of the weapons in hand, and at the same time continuously conduct large-scale military exercises to verify the operational coordination capability of the entire unit.

Military exercises are like mock exams before the exams, and it is certainly better to have mock exams than to go directly to the field without mock exams, especially for troops with advanced equipment and complex techniques and tactics such as the elite armed forces, and it is especially necessary to conduct constant actual combat exercises to temper the troops.

Since we want to conduct actual combat military exercises, it is impossible to stay in the barracks all the time, nor can we tell people about our whereabouts casually, but we need to conduct random drills in the field, and in this way, we can avoid all kinds of door-to-door troubles in disguise.

These door-to-door troubles are mainly for help, some are civil and official, some are coercive, some are inducement, some are inducement, some are directly ordered, and some are begging. Among them, the order to transfer troops from the officialdom, especially from the Songjiang Prefecture, was the most binding and troublesome.

To put it simply, it was Songjiang Mansion that asked Li Yongji to immediately lead the elite army to Songjiang Mansion to assist in the defense of Songjiang Mansion and wait for the dispatch of the official Mansion.

Although Li Yongji's elite army is a regimental training army of a private nature, he himself also has the identity of the general general of the Zhengjiupin Foreign Committee, and this identity belongs to the establishment of the local garrison of Songjiang Prefecture, so from this point of view, Songjiang Prefecture's troop transfer order is reasonable and legal.

Obviously, this is going to use the Jingwu Army, but it has been ignored before, and the Songjiang Prefect Gao has always tended to be conservative, disgusted and afraid of things related to foreigners, and has never been in contact with the Jingwu Army of the Western faction, so why is there a big change now?

This is, of course, forced by the form.

Although the news of the Qing government spread a little slower than that of Li Yongji, the Jiangnan camp was broken and the Qing army was wiped out in such a big way, and it still quickly radiated to the surroundings in a unique way. In just three days, the whole Jiangnan area will know about it, and within a week, even the city of Beijing will know about it.

In this way, the world is shaken, especially in the Jiangnan area, which is even more worried, after all, the Jiangnan camp is a line of defense for the people in the entire Jiangnan area, which is not only physical, but also psychological.

Everyone understands very well that once the Jiangnan camp is broken, the entire Jiangnan region will no longer have the strength to resist the Taiping army's soldiers, and if the Taiping army advances eastward, the consequences will be unimaginable, at least they gentry will have no good fruit to eat.

As a result, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come.

After breaking the Jiangnan camp, the Taiping army dispersed, for example, Chen Yucheng immediately led his troops to the west to stabilize the situation in Anqing, and other troops also started their own strategies, like Li Shixian, began to attack Zhejiang, and as a result, the task of attacking southern Jiangsu was handed over to Li Xiucheng.

Although only Li Xiucheng attacked southern Jiangsu, his soldiers and horses were the most prosperous, because nearly half of those soldiers were distributed to Li Xiucheng, plus a large amount of grain, grass, baggage, and munitions and equipment were captured, which means that after the First World War, not only did there be no loss, but the strength was greatly enhanced.

Li Xiucheng broke up these surrendered troops and directly mixed them into his own troops, and looked at them in the way of increasing rewards and heavy punishments, and then he wrapped these surrendered troops, with a main force of 40,000, known as 100,000, and attacked Zhenjiang with the situation, and ended up in a battle.

There was not much loss in fighting Zhenjiang, after all, Zhenjiang had no resistance, and when I entered the city, I found out that Zhang Guoliang's soldiers and horses had retreated to Danyang three days ago, so Zhenjiang became an empty city, which was so easy to fight.

After that, Li Xiucheng felt that the morale of the Qing soldiers had been lost, so he left 3,000 people to defend the city, and led the main force to continue to advance into Danyang, not giving the Qing army a chance to rest and recuperate.

In this way, the entire Jiangnan region was frightened, especially the bigwigs sitting in Changzhou. For example, He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, was so frightened that his face was colorless, and he made one after another stupid moves.

At this time, Zhang Yuliang of Hangzhou had already led 10,000 troops to help, it stands to reason that his army should go to Danyang and join forces with Zhang Guoliang to defend Danyang, but He Guiqing was greedy for life and afraid of death, and felt that the troops around him were too small and unsafe, so he strictly ordered Zhang Yuliang to bring troops to Changzhou and not to Danyang, and on the other hand, he strictly ordered Zhang Guoliang to defend Danyang and not to retreat, which was a taboo of dividing troops.

When Zhang Yuliang led his troops to Changzhou, he still felt unsafe, and he always thought about how to escape from Changzhou, and he didn't care about defending the city at all, nor did he think about defending the city. It's just that as the supreme official, his responsibilities are in, and he can't just leave casually, there must always be a step down, at least someone has to speak before he can speak.

It's a pity that everyone is not stupid, just say anything, then you have to bear it yourself if something happens in the end, so whether it is Xue Huan, the political envoy, or Cha Wenjing, the prime minister's grain station, they are not strict with their mouths, but they are also prepared in advance.

This He Guiqing came awkwardly, awkwardly, and missed the opportunity in vain, allowing Li Xiucheng to advance into Danyang smoothly, and broke Danyang in a battle.

In order to reduce the punishment, those routs also coerced Zhang Guoliang to flee together, but in the rout, Zhang Guoliang, who was also a good man, unfortunately drowned in the river.

Hearing that Danyang was broken and the threat was imminent, He Guiqing's soul was in danger, and others such as Xue Huan, Cha Wenjing and others couldn't care about being reserved, and persuaded him to leave the city one by one.

After all, if He Guiqing, the boss, doesn't leave, Xue Huan and the others can't go, and it is clear that they are taking He Guiqing to the top of the tank.

In order to let He Guiqing escape, they also took themselves out by the way, and they also found an excuse for He Guiqing, that is, to go to Suzhou to raise salaries and preserve their strength, in order to fight again.

With this excuse, He Guiqing was overjoyed, announced that he would go to Suzhou to raise money, and immediately took his family to retreat to Suzhou, but the local gentry who had been staring at them knew about it, and immediately led the crowd to kneel on He Guiqing's road to stay, hoping that He Guiqing would stay in Changzhou and fight the enemy together.

In fact, at that time, Changzhou still had the strength to fight, after all, there were more than 3,000 people in He Guiqing's headquarters alone, and there were 10,000 people from Zhang Yuliang who came to help from Hangzhou, plus more than 20,000 local garrison green battalion soldiers.

In addition, Changzhou City has always been an important place for the Jiangnan camp, and it has a large amount of grain and ordnance stored, and the population of Changzhou City is also quite large, and everyone is also afraid of the Taiping Army. In this case, if the gentry are mobilized and recruit troops on a large scale, they will soon be able to recruit 20,000 or 30,000 temporary people.

With nearly 20,000 regular soldiers, plus a similar number of temporary conscripts, everyone is united and dedicated to defense, with the city defense of Changzhou City, there is no shortage of food and weapons, and it is still very possible to hold Changzhou.

Not to mention anything else, the pile of grain in the Guangfu Treasury, plus those brand-new guns and artillery, it will not be a problem to keep them for a year or two.

But He Guiqing was really afraid of the Taiping Army and Li Xiucheng, and felt that even the 200,000 troops in the Jiangnan camp could not hold it, and the 20,000 troops in Changzhou could not hold it.

He was also in a daze, and when he saw that these gentry were blocking the road, and after they couldn't get out, he actually ordered the guards to shoot, and killed 19 people before he escaped.

This shot chilled the hearts of the upper and lower levels, and seeing that He Guiqing and other high-ranking officials had fled, Zhang Yuliang, who rushed from Hangzhou to assist in the defense, didn't say a word, patted his ass and led the troops away, and as a result, Changzhou also became an empty city.

Helpless, the people of Changzhou had to prepare their own regiments to practice defending the city, but after all, they were all in a hurry, not as good as the regular army, and Li Xiucheng came too quickly, and there was not much time to prepare, as a result, although the people of Changzhou resisted fiercely, they still suffered defeat in the end.

The Taiping army was also successful at this time, and had begun to get carried away, especially Chen Kunshu, who was the main attacker, because his subordinates had many dead and wounded, and some were angry, so they began to slaughter the city on the grounds of Changzhou City's resistance. Li Xiucheng, at this time, he coincidentally had a fever and a cold last night, and when he woke up the next day to know the news and wanted to send someone to stop it, it was too late.

After all, once the blade of this slaughter city has begun, it will be difficult to take it back.

This massacre of the city wasted precious time, allowing He Guiqing, Xue Huan and others to escape back to Suzhou safely, but at this time, the news of the slaughter of Changzhou also came, and Suzhou was terrified, and he hated He Guiqing even more.

As a result, Xu Youren, the governor of Jiangsu, refused to open the door and wrote a letter to impeach He He Guiqing for "abandoning the city and mourning his division", but He Guiqing and others saw that it was not a problem, so they had to use the excuse of borrowing foreign troops to help suppress it, and fled to the concession in Shanghai.

The time when the Songjiang Prefecture ordered the transfer of elite troops to Songjiang to defend the city was when it was learned that the Taiping army had broken through Changzhou and slaughtered the city. At this time, anyone with a discerning eye knew that Wuxi and Suzhou were bound to be Li Xiucheng's targets, and nine times out of ten these places could not stop the Taiping Army, once Suzhou fell, Songjiang Mansion was the next target.

Therefore, at this time, I don't care if I like it or not, the forces that can help defend the city must be mobilized, not to mention that the Kochi Mansion is also very aware of the strength of the elite army, at least he knows that all the troops with foreign guns and cannons are not easy to mess with.

It's a pity that Songjiang Mansion has issued several orders for the transfer of troops, but no one can be found to answer the order, and the troops left behind in the base camp of the Jingwu Army are mainly Wall's foreign spear team, and this foreign mercenary force does not know the orders of Songjiang Mansion at all, no matter how the heralds urge, they are not clear or don't know, or they simply shrug their shoulders and don't bother to tell you.

In this case, the Kochi Mansion had no other choice but to send a wide range of detectives to look for the whereabouts of Li Yongji and the Jingwu Army, but they did not dare to turn their faces.

According to the idea of the Kochi Mansion, it doesn't matter if you avoid it, I don't believe that such a large army of yours can't be found in Songjiang Mansion, unless you are not in Songjiang Mansion!

However, the Kochi Mansion still thinks too highly of its ability to explore horses, and underestimates the concealment ability of the elite army.

It is true that the Jingwu Army did not leave the boundary of Songjiang Prefecture, or even Qingpu County, but exercised in the vicinity of Dianshan Lake.

However, because most of the people in this area are related to the soldiers of the Jingwu Army, and the Jingwu Army has strict military discipline, the military exercise basically walks in the uninhabited wilderness, even if it passes by a village with people, it is to strictly abide by the three disciplines and eight points of attention, and camp outside the village.

If there is spare time, the soldiers will take turns to go into the village to help with some work such as fetching water and repairing houses, and even pay money to buy some miscellaneous grains, vegetables or meat, giving money fairly, and having a kind attitude. After all, in this era, the army that does not harm the common people is already a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and those who help in turn and buy things and pay back money are simply the teachers of benevolence and righteousness.

And those Tanma in Kochifu, the level is really not very good, in fact, most of them are some bastards or soldiers from oil, once they leave Songjiang Mansion, they are all arrogant, they all go directly to the big towns, and then directly ask the local governor, in this case, how can everyone be willing to tell the truth to these people?

Therefore, Songjiang Mansion has sent a lot of Tanma, but there is still no news about the Jingwu Army, even if there is some clue, when the Tanma rushes over to take a look, the Jingwu Army has long been gone.

You must know that the Jingwu army has realized the whole army of mules and horses, and in terms of the quality of the horses, it is much stronger than those Mongolian horses that explore horses. In addition, the Jingwu Army also attaches great importance to anti-tracking, how could those second-rate detectives from Songjiang Mansion catch the whereabouts of the Jingwu Army and send the transfer order to Li Yongji.

Other troubles can't find Li Yongji for the time being, but Li Yongji now has a headache for some private matters.

It was his own sister Li Xiu'er who went to the camp of Yangxinju not long ago to find her own errands, and after she couldn't find herself, she went to Qingpu County to ask her father, and in desperation, Li Zhengxiang used the radio station given by Li Yongji to talk to Li Yongji, and asked Li Yongji to help his second sister.

As for Li Xiu'er's begging for herself, it is not complicated, simply put, the brother-in-law Lin Guangyao's family in Suzhou didn't know which tendon was wrong, and they refused to come to Qingpu County for refuge in anything, but they were moved by the righteousness of the governor Xu, and wanted to scatter all their family wealth to organize a group practice and help defend Suzhou!

Although Lin Guangyao usually looks polite and polite, he looks like a strict wife who loves his wife and is easy to talk to, but in this kind of thing, he is also a man, or a dead eye, and he actually said that he would not leave anything, and even hoped to buy arms with Li Yongji in turn!

This frightened Li Xiu'er, who probably knew Li Yongji's intentions, and decisively ran back to her parents' house to ask for help, but when she couldn't find Li Yongji, she found her father Li Zhengxiang, and Li Zhengxiang decisively used the radio station to kick the ball to Li Yongji.

"What a nuisance!" Li Yongji, who hung up the phone, pouted, "So, family or something, it's the most annoying." ”

said so, but Li Yongji still decisively ordered the whole army to gather and immediately send troops to Suzhou!