Speaking of this, Zhang Zongyu couldn't help but nodded, taking the twist army as an example, although Zhang Lexing is the nominal commander, he can only directly command his direct troops, if you want to command the rest of the twist shop's troops, you must negotiate with the leaders of each twist shop.

Wang Feng took over Zhou Yanqi's words and continued: "Another question is about the training of senior commanders, the commanders of the Hunan army are different, and the general eight to nine battalions are calculated, which is about equivalent to the establishment of our division, but the president's armies like Hu Linyi and Li Xubin can command twenty to thirty battalions, or even more, which is equivalent to the establishment of our army.

There is not a single level of cohesion between battalions and divisions and corps, and this leads to the fact that the commanders of various armies can only be selected from among the battalion officers, and the battalions as detachments and the divisions as corps have very different requirements for commanders.

Battalion officers only need to consider problems within a narrow tactical scope, and military activities entrusted with authority can be completed in a very short time, but the commander needs to coordinate the overall situation, and must have the ability to control the entire battle situation and command a large corps of troops.

As a bridge between the two, regiment-level units are an indispensable link in the training of senior commanders in the modern army, but the Hunan army does not have the concept of a regiment, and I can assert that once a considerable number of battalion officers are promoted to commanders, they will be very incompetent, and when they encounter a great enemy, the possibility of complete defeat is extremely great. ”

As he spoke, Wang Feng turned his head around, looked at Zhang Zongyu and said: "You know that you are very unconvinced, Shi Dakai, Lin Fengxiang and other Taiping Army veterans may not have any ideas if I am appointed as the head of the first army, but Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, who are about the same age and experience as you, have also been entrusted with important tasks by me, and you are only a small soldier." Do you think I'm deliberately targeting you, or where you come from? ”

Zhang Zongyu gritted his teeth. Then he said: "Twisting the army to say one thing and do another, it is indeed against the people of Huaibei." I, Zhang Zongyu, came to vote alone, and I am no better than Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, so there is nothing wrong with starting from the bottom, and the commander-in-chief is too worried. ”

Zhou Yanqi, Yang Shuijiao, Zhou Xiuying, and Chen Laosi and others all looked at each other, and then shook their heads.

"Hehehehe~~" Wang Feng laughed: "Zhang Zongyu, you still don't understand, I have always been right about things and not people, since I will definitely accept you." will not deliberately target you, this has nothing to do with Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng joining the Democratic Alliance with some of their subordinates.

You are a person I know, there are one or two arrogant bones, your father pointed out that you studied and became a scholar, and although you are good at reading, you disdain to be a slave to the Qing court. Secretly, it is to contact the poor and accumulate potential, and when Zhang Lexing raises troops, you lead hundreds of people to defect to Zhang Lexing, which is very good. People can't be proud of themselves, but having arrogance doesn't mean that you can be proud of yourself.

I think you seem to be quite dissatisfied with Deputy Captain Zhou's analysis of the Hunan army, that's good. I want you to see how we fought this battle. ”

"Yes!" Zhang Zongyu responded expressionlessly.

Wang Feng didn't care about him anymore. Look at the 2nd Army on the shore.

The Hunan army is also observing the Democratic Alliance Army, although the number of the Democratic Alliance Army is inferior to the Hunan Army. The number of ships is not as good as that of the Hunan army, but everyone looks like they are facing a great enemy.

At the top of Shizhong Mountain, Hu Linyi looked at the three huge warships directly, his expression was quite complicated, and it took a long time before he sighed: "These three boats were built by the Democratic Alliance themselves, excluding hostile positions, I still admire them, how many years has he been in the army?" And how many years have I been in the Qing Dynasty? It can indeed be what ordinary people can't, Wang Feng, can he grow the Democratic Alliance army to this point in just a few years, but such a mighty warship is about to be destroyed under the mine array of the big handsome, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River are not wider than the water surface of the downstream, when hundreds of mines pour over, I want to see how he breaks it, come here, give the big marshal a number! ”

"Yes!" One of the soldiers turned away.

After a while, the top of the mountain was lit with billowing wolf smoke and rushed straight to the clouds, which was to tell Zeng Guofan that the mountain was ready for battle at any time.

When Zeng Guofan saw it, he immediately waved his hand: "Bray!" ”

Brush Brush Brush! One after another, nearly a hundred awning boats rushed out of the formation, and when they were about to break away from the fleet, they suddenly burst into flames, and then there was a plop and a plop, and one by one the figures jumped into the water and struggled to swim back.

In the upper reaches of the lake, there is a huge sandbar, an area of nearly ten square kilometers, named Jiangzhou, the ancient name of Jiangzhou of Jiujiang is derived from this, Jiangzhou divides the rolling river water into two streams, and meets in the area of the lake, making the river more turbulent, and the flow speed is faster than the Baoshan River where Wang Feng had fought with the East India Company, and I don't know how many times faster.

In a short time, nearly a hundred fireships turned into smoke-emitting points of light, and Zeng Guofan waved his hand again!

The second time the flag is played!

This time, a hundred more awning boats sailed out, followed the current, and floated tightly.

Zeng Guofan's boat is similar to a fast crab boat, he stood on the watchtower, held up the binoculars, and looked straight ahead with his blazing eyes, next to Lai Hanyingbu by the river, and many eyes also followed the boat, of course, Hu Linyi, who stood high and looked far, was the one who saw most clearly.

"Look how you break!" Hu Linyi muttered to himself.

"Humph!" On the General Li Guang on the river, Zhou Xiuying couldn't help but snort coldly: "Set fire to the boat to cover the small boat behind the mine, isn't this the trick we used in Baoshan, listening to you blow Zeng Guofan's god, I thought he had a lot of ability, and he wasn't picking up our teeth?" ”

Yang Shuijiao said seriously: "Xiuying, don't be careless, the river here is narrow, the water is turbulent, and the threat of releasing mines is much greater than in Baoshan." As he spoke, he turned his head and asked, "Can you fire now?" ”

"Wait!" Wang Feng held the binoculars and carefully observed the surface of the river, and after about ten minutes, he waved his hand violently: "Open the cannon!" ”

The bow of the three frigates has a total of six guns, and between the left and right and the space, five more gunboats are level, and with the wave of the herald's flag, "Bang Bang Bang~~" Eleven 122mm cannons fire in unison!

About four kilometers away on the water, a monstrous column of water was set off, and the waves hit and immediately overturned the fireboats, and several fireboats were directly hit by cannonballs, bursting with sparks in the sky.

Although Hu Linyi was secretly frightened, he still kept sneering, according to the calculation of the first round of artillery bombardment by the Democratic Alliance Army, together with the nine fireships destroyed on the overturned belt, it would take about 15 minutes to destroy all the fireboats, and this still took into account the factor of the accuracy of the artillery of the Democratic Alliance Army.

The purpose of the fireboat is not to hope to bring much threat to the Democratic Alliance Army, but only to cover the minelaying ship behind to cast mines, you know, the closer you get to cast, the greater the effect of the mines, especially to drop anchor mines into the river!

But soon, he couldn't laugh anymore, after the first round, on the three largest warships of the Democratic Alliance, the smaller guns mounted on both sides of the ship also turned their heads and bombarded forward with the main guns, and he saw the black smoke rising from the river in the distance, and the rate of fire was far faster than he imagined, and the river under his feet was reduced one by one by the fireboats, either overturned or blown to pieces!

Zhang Zongyu's heart is also set off a storm, he often hears how fierce the firepower of the Democratic Alliance is, but in his imagination, it is nothing more than a longer range, and what he sees today completely subverts his world view, this is not only the ferocious firepower, but also extremely dense, especially when the naval soldiers open the rear gun bolt, it is actually Huang Chengcheng's bullet casing!

It's copper, that's right, it's copper, and the Democratic Alliance actually uses copper as a cannonball, how much does it cost to shoot a shot! After seeing it clearly, Zhang Zongyu showed an expression of seeing a ghost, and shouted wildly in his heart!

On the river bank in front of the side, Lai Hanying's scalp was numb for a while, and he looked straight at the water column rising on the surface of the river, his eyes flickering.

General Lin Qirong was not indignant and said: "The marshal said that he would treat the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army equally, but when it came time to arrange the troops, didn't he put us on the most dangerous riverside?" If the NLD warships open fire on our positions, how long will we be able to hold out? ”

Lai Hanying looked back at the Hunan army with advanced weapons and a neat lineup, and then stood on tiptoe and crossed the Hunan army to look at the farther pole army, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, but he didn't say anything.

Lin Qirong didn't persuade much, he could understand Lai Hanying's feelings, because Lai Hanying was Hong Xiuquan's brother-in-law.

Lai Hanying's sister is called Lai Lianying, in fact, Lai Lianying's situation is not much better than Hong Xiuquan's many royal ladies, she has been locked up in a small black house, beaten on the board, and forced to kneel to her son Hong Tianguifu, and she has a very bad life.

But because of this unreliable relationship, Lai Hanying was angry and descended to Zeng Guofan, and Wang Feng didn't know who Lai Lianying was at all, and treated her as an ordinary woman for the soldiers to choose.

Lai Lianying was in her forties, half a step into the ranks of old age and decay, and because she had not been nourished for a long time, her visual age was about ten years older than her actual age, such a woman, the soldiers naturally did not care, so Lai Lianying was finally sent to northern Jiangsu, and was given an old bachelor in his fifties, and he was also a one-eyed dragon.

After Lai Hanying learned about it, he felt deeply humiliated, and it was impossible to surrender to the Democratic Alliance, and Wang Feng's ruthless attitude towards Lai Lianying was also interpreted as not wanting to surrender Lai Hanying.

It's just that Lin Qirong is different.

He has no grievances with Wang Feng, and he has no relationship with Hong Xiuquan, if this battle is defeated, the Hunan army is basically over, and he doesn't need to bury Lai Hanying, not to mention Luo Xuan's general, Wu Ruxiao was deeply stimulated by Wang Feng's reuse, and he wanted to find a way out for himself.

Lin Qirong couldn't help but sneak a look left and right, he wanted to judge who else had the same thoughts as him. (To be continued......)