Xiao Yungui is not too familiar with Li Tingyu, but he knows how much pressure more than 10,000 Qing troops will have on Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to join the battlefield in Hangzhou, after Hong Yuner briefly introduced Li Tingyu's life and deeds, Xiao Yungui knew that this veteran of the Qing army would not be better to deal with than Jiang Zhongyuan, plus Xiang Rong and Duxing'a in Hangzhou City and 20,000 Qing troops, the Taiping army in the direction of Hangzhou was about to be at a disadvantage in terms of strength.

Xiao Yungui no longer hesitated, he immediately sent a messenger to Li Xiucheng's department in Wuxi to send a general order, ordering him to lead more than 15,000 Taiping troops from Tianjing to Wuxi Xidian Taiping army to rush to Hangzhou, in the letter Xiao Yungui explained to Li Xiucheng, and Li Kaifang after joining forces, should quickly find an opportunity to deal a heavy blow to Jiang Zhongyuan, weaken the existing Qing army, and relieve some pressure for the Fujian Qing army reinforcements. As for how to arrange the troops, Xiao Yungui didn't say much, he believed that Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and Li Xiucheng, the three masters of tactics, would have a way, if the three of them together couldn't win the battle, he Xiao Yungui couldn't do anything.

Then Xiao Yungui gave a second order to Wuxi guard general Ji Wenyuan and Changzhou guard general Chen Yucheng, ordered Ji Wenyuan to hand over the defense of Wuxi to Zhu Xikun, ordered Chen Yucheng to hand over the defense of Changzhou to Tan Shaoguang, Ji Wenyuan and Chen Yucheng from Wuxi, Changzhou, Danyang, Jintan and other places to transfer a total of 10,000 troops and horses, and the second general commander rushed to Suzhou. Xiao Yungui wanted to end the Battle of Suzhou in the shortest possible time, so that he could free up his hands to deal with Jiang Zhongyuan, Li Tingyu, and He Chun, the three Qing court reinforcements.

Hong Yun'er quietly watched Xiao Yungui arrange military affairs resolutely, and for a moment she had a feeling that this bastard was still quite attractive when he was concentrating on things. At this time, Xiao Yungui was even more charming than Shi Dakai, a young handsome guy, compared with Shi Dakai's resourceful and indecisive character, Xiao Yungui had more decisive domineering. He didn't even discuss with Zuo Zongtang, because he knew that if he returned to Suzhou to discuss with Zuo Zongtang before giving the order to transfer troops, it would be too late.

After arranging to deal with the troops, Xiao Yungui sent people to Lin Qirong, Li Tianxi, Chen Zhiming, Zhou Lichun and other generals to give orders, asking them to rush back from Gaoqiao and Wusong as soon as possible, and ordered people to recall Li Zuoche, Tang Erniu and other generals on the periphery of Shanghai. Hong Yun'er knew that he was going to give orders to the generals, and after he finished arranging Shanghai, he would go back to Suzhou with him first.

Sure enough, Xiao Yungui turned around and said, "Yun'er, bring Liszt and Wilbur immediately, I want to get those cannons as soon as possible, and then we will return to Suzhou immediately with the artillery and firearms." The war situation in southern Jiangsu is tight, and the only way out is for Hangzhou to resist Jiang Zhongyuan and Li Tingyu, and then our side quickly takes Suzhou, sends Suzhou's troops to Shanghai, and encircles and annihilates Hechun and Guangdong sailors. After capturing Shanghai, he and Li Kaifang joined them in Hangzhou. Decisive battle with Jiang Zhongyuan and Li Tingyu! Since there are three guests. Then we're going to have to say hello! ”

Hong Yun'er was fascinated by Xiao Yungui's momentum, and smiled slightly: "I listen to you for everything." Then unconsciously blushed slightly, and secretly scolded himself for saying such ambiguous words, but fortunately, Xiao Yungui only cared about looking at the map and didn't seem to care about this sentence.

Hong Yun'er settled down and asked, "Then after we arrive in Suzhou, do we still want to go back to Tianjing?" ”

Xiao Yungui shook his head and said, "I've thought about it. At this moment, it is not appropriate for us to go back to Tianjing to ask for help, not because I am rash, but because the war is tight now, it is impossible for me to withdraw and return to Tianjing. Again. In this world, if you don't have the strength to put it there, it's useless for you to plead with anyone, Tianjing and I will go back, but after the war situation in southern Jiangsu is clear, the two bigwigs in Tianjing are not fools, they will definitely not do anything to send charcoal in the snow, but the icing on the cake is the matter of beating the water dogs, they will definitely be interested. And as long as our army in southern Jiangsu is still there, even if the two of us go back to Tianjing, they won't dare to do anything to us, so I think it's the best way to do it. ”

Hong Yun'er nodded, blushed and said, "It's still thoughtful." Unconsciously, Xiao Yungui's mind became more mature, coupled with some of the war memories that Xiao Chaogui left in his body, so that this former playboy began to transform, although he didn't notice it, but Hong Yun'er was keenly aware of it, especially when he focused on the map, that appearance was indeed very charming, no wonder some people said that no matter how ugly a man is, when he focuses on something, his appearance can charm women.

After Xiao Yungui finished arranging things, he leaned back on the sofa, and at this time he also noticed Hong Yun'er's appearance, and asked strangely, "Yun'er, why are you always staring at me today?" Still blushing when you look at it? ”

Hong Yun'er's face turned red again, and then she pouted: "How can there be?" It was a lively day. ”

Taking advantage of some free time, seeing Hong Yun'er's shy appearance again, Xiao Yungui began to relapse again, he touched his chin and asked with a wicked smile: "Sister Four-eyed, what did you secretly buy a white wedding dress from a foreigner?" ”

Hong Yun'er stomped her feet and said coquettishly: "Don't worry about it!" I'm looking for Liszt and Wilbur! ”

Seeing Hong Yun'er flying away, Xiao Yungui touched his chin and said to himself: "Well, I think this little girl is heart is moved, it seems that my brother is about to get what he wants, if there are no damn Qing army reinforcements, maybe he has already succeeded, damn the war, ruining Lao Tzu's good deeds." This guy complained indignantly, as if he had forgotten that the Battle of Southern Jiangsu was initiated by him.

After a while, Liszt followed Hong Yun'er back to the house, and only when he entered the house did Hong Yun'er say: "I told Sergeant Liszt that we urgently need those cannons, and Corporal Barrett has personally gone to the British Concession to find Wilbur, and it is estimated that it will be delivered tonight." ”

Xiao Yungui said with a smile: "Sergeant Liszt, you are really a good friend of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and I will give you a generous bonus." ”

After listening to Hong Yun'er's translation, Li Szt actually said with a bitter face: "Your Excellency the King of the West, I don't have any extravagant hopes for bonuses or anything, I only hope to resign from the title of military advisor to the West Hall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." ”

Xiao Yungui asked strangely: "Weishenme wants to resign?" You've only promised me a few days. ”

Liszt began his complaints, it turned out that Liszt was hired by Xiao Yungui to serve as a military adviser to train the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army, at first this guy was still a little motivated, after all, the salary of five hundred taels of silver per month was very high, but what happened next was unexpected by Liszt.

The first is the problem of communication, although there is Wang Libin, Li Shanlan's companion in the church, as the interpreter. But Liszt's very majestic and unquestionable order became bland and tasteless when translated from Wang Libin's mouth, Wang Libin was a man of reading, and his speech was not authoritative, so the same order was spoken from different mouths, and the taste changed. The soldiers of the Taiping army regarded Liszt as if he were a Western scene, and not only acted slowly on the orders given to Wang Libin, but also often looked at Liszt and laughed, which made Liszt very uncomfortable.

The second is the issue of culture, Liszt intends to teach the Taiping army from the most basic queue, but many people can't even tell the difference between left and right. Walking in unison is not at all, in short, the Taiping Army's queue training is a mess.

Unable to complete even the most basic queues, it was difficult for Liszt to teach the more complex arrays that followed, including skirmishers, hollow squares, and how marching queues could quickly transform into various arrays. If the array cannot be very formed, the arrangement of firepower cannot be completed. It was even more difficult to form a cooperative battle of all sides, and the redshirt coach finally couldn't help but resign.

After listening to Liszt's complaints. Xiao Yungui laughed. Indeed, with the Taiping Army, which now uses a mixture of hot and cold weapons, it is indeed difficult to achieve the meticulous marching tactics of the Red Shirt Army. The elite of the Red Shirts lies in the fact that they can line up neatly and take turns to shoot without collapsing, they want to approach the enemy on the battlefield with unhurried steps, and then line up to raise their guns and open fire, killing their comrades next to them. The shells flew indiscriminately, and the Red Shirts were often able to maintain a rigorous formation, which shows how strict the Red Shirts were in terms of overall platoon training in peacetime. As for Xiao Yungui's subordinates, perhaps their bravery and courage will not be weaker than that of the Red Shirts. But when it comes to discipline, the soldiers of the Taiping Army are still lacking.

In the imminent Crimean War, the Red Shirts' 93rd Highland Infantry Regiment had formed two rows in an array to block and defeat several times the number of Russian heavy cavalry. The correspondent of Time was on the hill on one side and clearly saw that he described the scene as nothing in the line of Russian cavalry and British infantry, "red thin stripes and straight lines of steel". When people ask Weishenme not to deal with cavalry in a traditional quadrangular formation, but in a line? Campbell, the commander of this Red Shirt, said, "I know the 93rd Regiment, and I don't think there is any need to bother forming a quadripartite formation."

This is enough to prove that the British have a unique way of training the overall array and the courage of the soldiers, Xiao Yungui wanted to learn this special training method, but it seemed that it was not smooth at the beginning.

In this era of mixed use of hot and cold weapons, if one of the two sides of the battle can quickly adjust the array and give full play to the firepower in the formation first, then it will be able to gain a huge advantage in the following hand-to-hand combat. This is a pattern that Xiao Yungui discovered after several wars, and he also found that the shortcomings of the Taiping Army lie in the lack of integrity, so he hired Liszt as a military adviser.

After laughing for a while, Xiao Yungui found a solution to the problem, he invited the excited Liszt to sit down on the sofa, gave him a cup of coffee, and said: "Sergeant, this way, you don't have to resign, the military adviser is still up to you, but you don't have to train soldiers anymore." I need you to write down military theories and some tactics into military training subjects and outlines, and I can assign you a few translators as secretaries, and you just need to do this well. ”

Xiao Yungui also figured it out at this time, he couldn't train soldiers through a foreigner who didn't understand China's national conditions, and soldiers wouldn't obey a foreigner's orders, so he only needed the training syllabus of the Red Shirt Army, and through these things, Xiao Yungui was confident that he could take the essence from the dross and find what he wanted. At this point, Xiao Yungui completely gave up the method of hiring foreign instructors to train soldiers, and once again despised the online novels he had read before, how to invite a few Prussian officers to train an elite army, that is completely fantasy, you must know that the most difficult thing to do on this shijie is to train people. The reason is very simple, people are higher animals with their own thoughts and personalities, and they are not monkeys who can be obedient with a few bananas. Therefore, Xiao Yungui still plans to let his own people complete the training in the future, but before that, he needs to train a large number of qualified officers. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )