Li Yunzhong shook his head lightly, and sighed secretly, I don't know when, the people below no longer dare to oppose what he decided, I don't know if it's good or bad, people can't be wise for a lifetime, it's good that Wang Qinglu is here, and the two Huai salt affairs are almost sorted out, it seems that he will be transferred back to Nanjing.

Lin Daji hesitated for a while, and stepped forward to report: "Your Highness, Weichen found that the foreign gun team in the city was negligent in training, and the minister asked the foreign gun team to be transferred to Xiaolingwei for training, where there are battlefield ruins for breaking through the Jiangnan camp, which can increase the field experience of the foreign gun team, please allow Your Highness." ”

Li Yunzhong replied: "It just so happens that I want to expand the foreign gun team to 8,000 people, so let them train in Xiaolingwei." ”

Zhang Suimou breathed a sigh of relief and suggested: "There are several defense forces in Nanjing City, they are not subordinate to each other, and the system is incomplete, so I ask Your Highness to reorganize them together and set up a commander to manage them. ”

Li Yunzhong said with satisfaction: "I have also thought about this, the Fourth Army is the Imperial Forest Army, which is under the control of Su Wangniang, and the patrol troops in the city are the Praetorian Guards. The foreign rifle corps became a self-contained unit and was renamed the New Army, and all units in the future were to be changed into the New Army one after another. ”

Zhang Suimou said: "Your Royal Highness, the day before yesterday, Jiangbei Luo Outline came to report, the Qing soldiers in the direction of Xuzhou have changed again, it seems that tens of thousands of cavalry have been transferred from Hebei, Shanxi, and Mongolia, and they have come and gone like the wind, causing great trouble to the Second Army, and he suggested that the cavalry units of the Eighth Army be transferred back. ”

"Is it the cavalry commanded by Division Commander Ye Lian? Accurately, the cavalry is of little use in the Fujian region, and it can still exert its strength in the Jiangbei Plain region, so this matter will be handed over to the military department, and horses will be collected in the territory of the Han Dynasty. All Ye Lian's troops were built into cavalry and fought alone. I'm equipping them with 500 foreign guns. In this way, the cavalry of the Qing army could be pinned. Li Yunzhong added: "Ye Lian went to Nanjing, let her come to see me immediately, I have something to tell her to do." ”

Zhang Suimou continued: "The fortifications built by the Qing army in Xuzhou are very strong, and Luo Xuan intends to bypass Xuzhou, attack the provinces of Shandong, and cut off the grain route in Xuzhou. ”

Li Yunzhong thought for a moment, shook his head and refused: "The Seventh Army is attacking northern Anhui. It is better to wait until northern Anhui is pacified, and the Seventh Army and the Second Army will jointly go on a northern expedition, so that they will not be afraid of the Qing army cutting off the back road. The General Staff transferred 5,000 militiamen to reinforce the Second Army, and Luo Xuan repeatedly attacked Xuzhou, so there must have been losses. ”

Li Yunzhong cheered up and exhorted: "Recently, all theaters have launched offensives, and the military headquarters and the general staff must coordinate with each other and not increase the burden on the front-line generals. ”

Lin Daji, Zhang Suimou, and Zhao Liewen looked at each other when they saw that King Han was tired. He said in unison: "The ministers receive orders." ”

"All right, you go down."

"The ministers are leaving."

Fujian

After a bloody battle, the streets of Fuzhou were covered with the corpses of Qing soldiers, and the doors of every house were closed. In addition to the Han army cleaning up the corpses and bloodstains, there were no idle people on the streets.

Li Xuan reported to Zuo Zongtang: "General, all the Qing troops in Fuzhou City have been annihilated. Only a little more than 1,000 people surrendered, and after interrogating the prisoners, it was learned. He Chun had fled to Quanzhou the day before. ”

Zuo Zongtang looked at the devastated answer, the traces left by the two armies fighting each other. sighed: "I didn't expect the Qing army to resist so strongly, how many casualties did our army have?" ”

Thinking of the 'Xuan' character camp that had just been formed, he encountered such a tough battle, and Zuo Zongtang felt uncomfortable.

Li Xuan smiled bitterly: "More than half of the 3,000 casualties, the Qing army in the city is not only equipped with a large number of foreign guns, but also ambushed cannons in the city, thanks to the Fifth Army from the north gate, otherwise, whether the Xuan and Zi battalions can capture Fuzhou is still two words." ”

Zuo Zongtang encouraged: "I have reported the situation to His Royal Highness, this period of time, the Qing army has used more and more foreign guns, it is obvious that the foreigners are hindering it, our army fought from Zhejiang to Fujian, there are more than 1,000 pieces of capture alone, and there are countless damages, I will immediately expand the 'Xuan' word battalion, expand the army to 5,000 people, you immediately lead the army to attack Putian and Quanzhou, don't give Hechun a chance to breathe, and attack Guangzhou in one go." ”

Zuo Zongtang was unwilling to let He Chun continue to recruit troops and horses in Quanzhou and expand his strength.

Li Xuan was happy and worried, and said worriedly: "Since the establishment of the 'Xuan' character battalion in Jinhua Mansion, in just three months, it has rapidly expanded from 300 people to 5,000 people, will this make the first army and the fifth army gossip, if this makes His Royal Highness suspicious, the general will not gain more than he loses, and Chun is now a lost dog, and I am sure that I will capture Quanzhou with 3,000 people." ”

Zuo Zongtang shook his head and denied it, he didn't believe that the King of Han would doubt his loyalty because of this, and retorted: "The First Army is attacking the northern provinces of Fujian, most of the Fifth Army is garrisoned in Hangzhou, and the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army add up to less than 20,000 people. Qi's word battalion, all have to be expanded, I will report to His Royal Highness to form an army with these three battalions, the generals and officers in the army are all held by our scholars, I have thought of the title, it is called the 'Chu Army', sooner or later one day with the Hunan army. ”

Since he heard that Zeng Guofan kidnapped his son-in-law Tao Trance and extorted money to raise soldiers, Zuo Zongtang never forgot to find Zeng Guofan for revenge, he Zuo is also a famous physicist in Hunan, but he didn't expect Zeng Guofan to be so afraid of face, which didn't take him seriously at all.

Li Shiqi, who was listening on the side, was secretly excited when he heard that his army could also be expanded, and last month he wrote to his classmates and friends, asking them to join Zuo Zongtang's southern expeditionary army, which seemed to be of immediate use.

"Report, Marshal Qiyu, the envoy of the Xiamen Righteous Army has arrived and is waiting to see him at the palace." Wang Kailin found Zuo Zongtang to report.

Zuo Zongtang smiled and said solemnly: "Let's go, let's go and see what conditions this gang of parties proposes?" ”

Hearing that it was the messenger of heaven and earth again, Li Shiqi sneered: "When we captured Wenzhou, they took down the surrounding counties of Xiamen, at that time they also wanted to divide Fujian and forbid our Han army to enter, but they did not expect to be defeated by the Qing army in Quanzhou, the leaders Jiang Yuan and Jiang Fa were killed in battle, and only one woman fled back to Xiamen, and now it seems that they are asking for help!" ”

"Wu Hong, the deputy military division of the Ming Dynasty, met with the general of the Han Dynasty to conquer the south!" Wu Hong had seen Zuo Zongtang, the marshal of the Han Army's Southern Expedition, in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, so he recognized him at a glance and hurriedly got up to meet him. (To be continued......)

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