Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Geng Zhongde is undoubtedly a pie from the sky. Before that, he knew that he was a general under the Jingnan clan, and there were many troops in the Jingnan clan, so it was impossible for Zhou Shixiang to reuse himself to prevent him. This uncle of the King of Jingnan has formed a climate in the army, and he will bite Zhou Shixiang again in the future.

In fact, this is also the case. After the surrender, Geng Zhongde did not lead any more troops, but was appointed as the deputy admiral of the military training workshop. Geng Zhongde is also a high-ranking person. However, high rank does not mean weight. Although he is the deputy admiral of the workshop, Geng Zhongde cannot transfer a soldier, and even the training officer in the workshop has no right to transfer without authorization.

To put it bluntly, this deputy admiral is a position that looks glamorous, but in fact has no power. But this position has long-term significance. The Military Training Institute is equivalent to the Whampoa Military Academy of the Taiping Army. As the vice-principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, does Geng Zhongde really have no future at all? Unfortunately, Geng Zhongde didn't see this, he only thought it was an arrangement made by Zhou Shixiang to guard against him. After Geng Jimao's death, Geng Zhongde was considered dead. He only thought that this life was over, but he didn't want to be hit by a town general's seat so lightly.

Geng Zhongde was very excited, excited from the bottom of his heart. He was a man who has led troops for a long time, and he was really willing to do something similar to the admiral's education in the military training seminar, so there was almost no modesty or refusal, and Geng Zhongde readily accepted the first step. The appointment of the fourteen town generals.

The appointment of Keyuan and Geng Zhongde can also be said to be Zhou Shi's appeasement relative to Pingnan and Jingnan. After all, the surrender of the two vassals and surrendered generals accounted for a large proportion of the Taiping army, and many middle-level people in the old four towns. The backbone of the officers was born in the two domains, and their performance proved their loyalty. At least so far, no officers from the two feudal feudal feudal feudal feudal lords have been found to be against the water. Even when Xian Guoan besieged Xiaobei Mountain and the war in Guangxi fell into a slump, no one from the two feudal feudal lords in the fourth town was shaken.

This is of course because their families are all in Guangzhou, but on the other hand, they have not seen the possibility of Taiping's defeat. More because their achievements in the Taiping Army were even higher than when they were in the Qing army. Many officers from the two feudal feudal lords who were only low-level officers in the Qing army are now battalion officers and brigade schools. Niu Gensheng, who was born in the Han army flag, has now become a general of the Twelve Towns, which makes them, who have worked hard in the Qing army, naturally see the ladder to climb up.

Compared with the Taiping Army, which has only appeared in front of the world for two or three years, the Qing army with a history of several decades is undoubtedly much more rigid. This rigidity is mainly because the passage from the bottom to the top is blocked. The current Qing army, in many respects, is to look at one's identity and seniority, rather than military merit. Often half of the future can make people fight for blood and blood, but in the end, it is the words of the dignitaries above who decide the future.

In general, the internal ascending passage of the Qing army faced the Manchus first, followed by the Mongolian army flag, then the Han army flag, and finally the green camp. Therefore, this is obviously extremely unfair to the Han army flag and the green battalion officers who have no background. It can be said that from the moment they surrendered to join the Qing army, their life and future were doomed. Unless they are very lucky, or if they really make an extraordinary achievement, they will not be able to compete with those who are full of Mongolian children. In the Taiping Army, however, there is no such obstacle as ethnic origin. As long as you have merit, as long as you work hard, no matter who you are, you can get a job that matches your merit. This alone, coupled with the almost invincible "myth" of the Taiping Army since its establishment, naturally made the lower-level officers of the two feudal lords fall in love with it, work hard for it, and integrate with the Taiping Army.

The newly built thirteen towns and fourteen towns are the two towns of Guangxi Zhuang people, and they have nothing to do with Pingnan and Jingnan. The two of them have no interest relationship, so it is impossible for the two of them to lead the two towns to fight against Zhou Shixiang. In order to enrich the wolf soldiers in these two towns and strengthen their combat effectiveness, the first batch of officers who graduated from the military training workshop were transferred to the two towns by Zhou Shi, and these trainee officers were all from the old four towns, and their loyalty was undoubtedly. Even if Keyuan and Geng Zhongde have two hearts, they won't have ten years to win the favor, and secretly replace them without bribing the original officers. It is obviously difficult to use these old four town officers for their use. And the policy of the Han Zhuang family implemented by the Guangxi Governor Yamen in Guangxi made the wolf soldiers have a natural affinity for the Taiping Army, so the two Geng did not have any chance to pull the two town soldiers to rebel.

After receiving the transfer order, Keyuan and Geng Zhongde rushed to Liuzhou to set up their own town command posts and got to know their subordinate officers at the same time. The establishment of a new town can be described as a lot of business, so big that the generals are familiar with it, going down to the barracks for placement, playground training, food logistics, military orders and military regulations... Before May, Keyuan and Geng Zhongde can completely form the combat effectiveness of the two towns, and the difficulty is not ordinary. Low.

Keyuan and Geng Zhongde are well aware of why Zhou Shixiang reused them as town generals. Coupled with the defeat of Guoan, Hunan has completely sealed the border between Hunan and Guizhou, and the Kuidong soldiers have been released to stir up the world in Hubei. The Qing court's army of hundreds of thousands has been **** in the southwest. Although I don't know whether the Yongli court is still there, the situation of the Taiping army is obviously very good. Geng Zhongde didn't have any concerns, but Ke Yuan killed the letter of the Prince of Pingnan himself, so he dared to turn back on this matter?

On the Liuzhou side, Zhao Ziqiang, the governor of the expeditionary army, led a group of generals waiting for news from Wu Yuan, the commander of the naval division. This time, the rebuilt 11th town and the newly built 12th town were the main force of the infantry, and the naval division commanded by Wu Yuan was in charge of the sea.

Since the expedition to Guangxi, the main thing the navy has done is transportation. The Qing army in Guangxi has no navy, so the navy can't fight even if they want to. Seeing that the army has repeatedly made military exploits, but the navy has not made any achievements, it is inevitable that the navy generals will be a little anxious. Following Annan's order to form the Taiping Expeditionary Force, the navy generals saw a good opportunity for them to flex their muscles.

Wu Yuan, the naval commander, took over the important task of discussing Annan, and then began to mobilize warships from various battalions to form an expedition fleet. The expedition to Annan must not use inland ships, so Wu Yuan took out all the warships that could be used in naval battles from each battalion of the navy, a total of 123 ships, and also recruited a small group of navy soldiers and horses belonging to the Ming army along the coast of Guangdong. Among them were the navy members of Haibei Dao Zhou Tengfeng and other generals, and more than 40 seagoing ships. Finally, a huge fleet of 135 seagoing ships, 219 large and small artillery pieces, and more than 8,500 navy officers and soldiers was formed.

Such a huge sea power is already a giant in the open sea of ​​Guangdong, but compared with the Jinxia Zheng fleet, it is still far behind, but it is used to deal with only dozens of sea ships. The Annan navy used a bull's knife to kill chickens.

Before the Qing army entered Guangdong, Wu Yuan had led a navy to go out to sea to kill pirates, and had been stationed in Qiongzhou for two years, so he had some understanding of Annan, not far from Qiongzhou. According to his report to the military commander's mansion, Annan's domestic territory is not monolithic, and its territory is divided and restrained from each other. King Annan cannot control the situation in the country. Therefore, it is difficult to say that Annan's army detained the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty with the consent of King Annan. Therefore, the expeditionary army is begging for Annan on a large scale. It seems that while using troops, it can also use the forces of all parties in Annan to achieve the purpose of sending troops.

After Wu Yuan's report was sent to Yuanzhou, Zhou Shixiang ordered the Ministry of Information to immediately look for businessmen who understood the Annan dialect and the national conditions of Annan. Zhang An, the ambassador of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, was busy contacting the Jiangnan gentry. After receiving the command from the commander, Song Ying immediately asked Song Ying to start the Annan side. For this reason, some resources for Jiangnan were allocated to the Annan side.

The small country of Annan is not fake, but it is also a country.

Fighting Annan is the first time the Taiping Army has used troops overseas since its establishment. It is of great significance. Zhou Shi cannot afford to lose each other. Therefore, manpower and material resources must be invested in war preparations and military conditions. In place, so as not to dismiss the big picture because of small things in the future.

Zhang An reported that he might have to spend a lot of money in Annan. In response, Zhou Shixiang replied that it didn’t matter how much he spent, what mattered was whether he could get things done. Because after the matter is done, the money spent will be returned to the Taiping Army again. I can't bear to let the child catch the wolf. Silver is just a metal thing. If you can't buy something, it is waste. Only when you spend it will it be of great value.

Zhou Shixiang asked Song Xianggong to provide Zhang An's military intelligence department with a batch of newly minted silver dollars, and then the military intelligence department used all the silver dollars in Annan.

Zhou Shixiang had seen samples of the new silver dollar and was very satisfied. He hoped that these quantitatively standardized silver dollars would be widely loved by Annan officials and people, and he also hoped that the people of Annan could selflessly assist the Ming army and the people in their anti-Qing dynasty. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

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Liuzhou Dadongmen Wharf, Zhao Ziqiang, the captain of the personal soldiers when Zhao Ziqiang was the general manager of the Green Camp, the former 100 households of the town guard cavalry team in the fifth town, and now Wei Zhong, who has been promoted to the guard commander of the expeditionary army governor's mansion, brought the sailors who can set off. information.

The officers waiting in the house all got up and looked at Zhao Ziqiang. Among them were Lu Guangzu, the deputy governor of the expeditionary army, Shi Qing, the former Han army leader of Wuzhenchao Harbin battalion, Li Yuan, the chief of staff, and Guo Huai, the former ambassador of the Fifth Zhen'an Army. , Lin Feng, deputy school of Brigade B, Jiang Tianci, school of Brigade A, battalion, and others. Many of these people are Zhao Ziqiang's direct descendants. They were originally placed in the fifth town, but now they are all brought to the expeditionary army by Zhao Ziqiang. However, the generals of the Qing army who surrendered to the fifth town on the northern front were all left in the fifth town. Now many people are doing one thing, which is to write letters to recruit Guoan's subordinates on the surrender line and generals they are familiar with.

After the naval fleet arrived, the eleventh town and the twelfth town boarded the ship one after another. After Zhao Ziqiang got on the boat, he looked back at Liuzhou City, and Shao Jiugong in Liuzhou City was also looking at him at the top of the city.

Shao Jiugong just received an order from the military commander's office. Due to the need for unified command of the war, all Taiping troops in Guangxi must be reintegrated immediately. The fourth town, the fifth town and the new two towns of Langbian will be integrated into the Guangxi Field Army, while the tenth town will be converted into the Guangxi Garrison. To be continued. ..