In the afternoon of the same day, the newly formed Third Army received an order to assemble and reorganize, and all units began to gather their men and horses, and those on leave and visiting relatives also rushed back after receiving the order. The military and political departments and government offices in Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and other places were busy, and all kinds of grain, ammunition, and materials began to be transported to Wenzhou through various channels.

After several months of governance, order had been restored to Wenzhou, and the military occupation of the West Temple here was embraced by the common people, and even many wealthy gentry began to support the occupiers. Compared with the Qing army, which only drank the flesh and blood of the rich gentry, the Taiping army's practice in Wenzhou was much better, at least they did not force them to pay money and food, and their property was very well protected.

However, the local tyrants and inferior gentry who had too close contacts with the Qing army, and even held regimental exercises against the Taiping army, were not treated like this, and these people were completely eliminated mentally and physically by the Taiping army, and their property and land were confiscated.

More than 10 public trial meetings were held in Wenzhou one after another, and the Qing military officials, regimental training leaders, and local tyrants and shoddy gentry who committed the most heinous crimes were guillotined in batches. The people applauded, and the enlightened gentry celebrated, but fortunately they were not hot-headed at that time and followed the Qing army against the Taiping army. It was in this way that the West Hall told the local tyrants and inferior gentry in other places what would happen if they fought against the Taiping Army.

After clearing several local regimental training shili, Wenzhou, Taizhou and other places became the same stable rear as Ningbo County, and Wenzhou County was established in time. As the frontier counties of the Taiping Army's war against Fujian, Wenzhou and Taizhou gathered most of the materials in Sufu Province, which were prepared for the front, and the new Third Army went south this time, and Wenzhou still became the material reserve city of the Third Army.

Before the Third Army in Shanghai set off, Wenzhou had already begun to receive supplies belonging to the Third Army. From the newly purchased Western artillery in Ningbo County to the individual cotton bullet bags produced in Huzhou, the war allowed the gentry and common people who did business everywhere to get a lot of money.

Wenzhou is no exception, the local handicraft workshops, pharmacists have been visited by the Taiping Army's quartermasters, Wenzhou several larger blacksmith workshops have become the designated merchants specializing in the Taiping Army's cold weapons, and Wenzhou's pharmacists have been collected by the Taiping Army. Even with many people who had no way to live in Wenzhou City, they found jobs, working as porters and military and civilian husbands in the Taiping Army, and the treatment was also very haode, and the monthly salary was enough to feed a family of five.

I have to say that since the Taiping Army had a staff department and a logistics department, it has indeed cleared the burden on the generals a lot. The large-scale hot weapon combat method of the West Hall was also something that the Qing army could not resist. But now there is a problem, the hot weapon combat is indeed very sharp, but it is also very dependent on the requirements of logistics supply, and the Quanzhou campaign is because the supply of materials and ammunition cannot keep up and stop.

Although Li Kaifang once said angry words because the supply of materials could not keep up with the typhoon and rainy weather, "The people of the First Army can take Quanzhou with only bows, arrows, knives and guns!" ”。 This is true, but after King Xi found out, he scolded Li Kaifang in the correspondence. Said he wasn't mature enough. The new members of the Taiping army are all elite soldiers fed with silver, and these elite soldiers are used to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, even if they win, the Taiping army will inevitably have no major casualties, which is obviously extremely uneconomical.

The current Qing army is no longer the rotten and cowardly green battalion soldiers in the early days of the Taiping Army, and the war has made both sides change and mature. The Qing army's hand-to-hand combat ability began to improve, although the Taiping soldiers of the newly formed First Army were also good at hand-to-hand combat, and the small unit bayonet formation of the three-three system was definitely a nightmare for the Qing army, but this time they were going to attack the city wall of Quanzhou. The condescending Qing army could inflict casualties on the Taiping army in many ways. The soldiers that Li Kaifang is leading now are no longer the clay-legged soldiers who were casually recruited back then, they are all systematically trained soldiers, and naturally they can't do unnecessary consumption, they are the biggest bargaining chips for the Taiping Army to call the powers after the war, and this war has not yet reached the time of desperateness, so reducing attrition is also a task.

After Li Kaifang figured it out, he ignored the scolding of "Li Kaifang is a turtle with a shrunken head" provoked by the head of Quanzhou City, and resolutely stayed outside the city, waiting for support. The personnel of the General Staff Department and the Logistics Department of the Taiping Army were all very injured for the supply, Fujian was mountainous, and the roads in this era were very bad, coupled with the rain and typhoons, a large number of materials were backlogged in Wenzhou, Taizhou and other places, and even Fuzhou had a backlog of materials.

With the emergence of problems, the personnel of the General Staff began to pay attention to the impact of climate and road conditions on logistics supply, and a new meteorological discipline was also opened in the Lecture Martial Arts School, and the meteorological conditions and battlefield transportation conditions enabled the General Staff to formulate more accurate and detailed logistics supply jihua, instead of being helpless in the event of unexpected problems. War makes the army grow, and at the same time, it will also lead to the progress of other technologies, and the army of the West Temple is beginning to really grow in the constant setbacks.

Compared with the untimely supply of materials, the fatigue of the soldiers made Li Kaifang more worried. Since the beginning of the year, the First Army has been fighting continuously for more than five months, from Ningbo to Quanzhou. After several major battles of annihilation, the main task of the First Army's more than 20,000 soldiers and horses and more than 50,000 township soldiers was to clear the local regiments and train shili and ensure the safety of the logistical supply lines. In this way, most of the officers and men of the First Army spent their mental strength in the constant transfer of battles and pursuits, and the local regimental training that was familiar with the local terrain was still very cunning, and the liquidation operation of the First Army took a lot of energy, and after the very intense Fuzhou Campaign, after reaching the periphery of Quanzhou, Li Kaifang found that the soldiers were gritting their teeth and persevering.

Li Kaifang had seen cavalrymen who tied themselves to their horses in order to hurry, sentries who kept cutting their arms in order to prevent themselves from falling asleep, and artillery who were so tired that they were exhausted. Fortunately, the latest order of the king of the west arrived in time, the third army was ready to enter Fujian, and the officers and men of the first army could go to Fuzhou to rest for a month.

More than ten days later, Li Kaifang's first army was replenished with supplies, but without waiting for the third army, even the general order changed, and the king of the West ordered the first army to return to Fuzhou to rest and recuperate immediately after receiving material replenishment, and gave up attacking Jihua in Quanzhou.

At first, Li Kaifang was very puzzled, and then he opened the secret letter given to him by the king of the west, and only a few sentences were written on it: "Tianjing won the second battle in Nanchang, and the king of the east coerced the victory to order the mother of the west to enter Beijing with her young son as a hostage, and ordered the king to enter Beijing to report on his work. At this time, the soldiers and horses of the East Hall were assembled outside Huzhou County, and there were also soldiers and horses mobilized in Zhenjiang and other places, and the Third Army did not enter Fujian for the time being, but instead aided Huzhou County, and confronted the soldiers and horses of the East Temple, so Quanzhou was temporarily abandoned. ”

After reading the letter, Li Kaifang has understood that the king of the West Weishenme will suddenly give up Quanzhou, most of Fujian has now belonged to the West Palace, and Fujian under the control of the Qing army is only the area south of Quanzhou, after conquering Fujian, the king of the West originally Jihua then entered Guangdong, and the Tiandihui Righteous Army attacked Guangdong together, and then connected Zhu Hongying, He Goubei and other departments to plot Guangxi, and then the base of the Hunan Xiang army, and then the troops entered Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan. Li Kaifang believed that as long as there were no major accidents, it was entirely possible for the Taiping Army in Xidian to completely take over the whole of South China within two years, but now it was pulled back by his own people.

Li Kaifang is now firmly tied to the warship of the West Palace, he will not pay attention to the orders of the East Hall and Tianjing at all, he is the same as all the generals with troops in the West Palace, he only recognizes the orders of the West King. At the same time, he is also one of the henchmen of the King of the West, Li Kaifang knows that when the big tree of the King of the West arrives, he will definitely be killed by his own people, so the West Hall must not fall.

As the shili of the west hall is getting bigger and bigger, the contradiction between the west hall and Tianjing and the east hall is also getting bigger and bigger, and the biological father and adoptive father of the king of the west and the eldest son's family are all hostages in tianjing is not enough, such as today the king and the east hall are even the west princess and the second son who was born not long ago to take back to Tianjing, which is obviously not worried about the king of the west, and what is even more deceptive is that the king of the west has to return to Beijing to report on his work.

This debriefing is not like the last time, now Tianjing is sending troops everywhere, the north hall is in Anhui, the wing hall is in Hubei, the east hall is in northern Hunan and Jiangxi all occupy a large territory, several princes now want grain and food, and soldiers and soldiers, maybe the king of the east found that he could clean up the king of the west after he conquered Nanchang, so he decided to attack the west hall in advance, after all, the Sufu province of the west hall is too close to Tianjing.

When the first time the king of the west returned to Beijing, the king of heaven and the king of the east did not move the king of the west, a big reason was that the king of the east did not have the certainty of victory at that time, and now with the expansion of the territory, the strength of the king of heaven has increased, and Yang Xiuqing began to have the certainty of victory, so the second time the king of the west was summoned back to Beijing, it was definitely to deal with the king of the west.

Li Kaifang frowned and thought for a while, since the East Hall wants to make a move, it is inevitable to unite with the North King, the Wing King and others, the North King is also a character who is a wall-to-wall grass, in order to keep his power, even his brother can kill the person, he will definitely be happy to see the West King lose power. But the Wing King is a benevolent and righteous man, could he also agree with getting rid of the King of the West? There is also the attitude of the King of Heaven, although the King of Heaven is not very much of a council, but he is definitely a symbol of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his words are still very weighty, why is the East Hall so arranged, and the King of Heaven does not come out to oppose it? Could it be that the King of Heaven has reached a tacit understanding with the King of the East?

Thinking about it, Li Kaifang always felt that there was something foggy in front of him covering his eyes, so that he could not see the true face of things, but Li Kaifang always faintly felt that things were not so simple.

Li Kaifang walked around the tent like this, Zuihou laughed dumbly, and secretly scolded himself for being stupid, the east hall and the west hall fought, and the biggest beneficiary was actually not the king of the east or the king of the west, but the king of heaven! (To be continued......)