The Xuan's army moved very quickly, with 1,500 members of the German Regiment moving to Qibao, and Ding Ruchang's Xianzi Regiment moving to Fengxian to join Gordon's Second Regiment of Foreign Guns.

Regarding the matter of ceding part of the defense area, the generals of the Xuan army have some complaints, in addition to thinking that this is the place where the Xuan army won the bloody battle, and there is also the meaning of looking down on the Huai army.

"It's just a bunch of goose," Daniel Zhang muttered, "how can you fight?" ”

"You have only won a battle, and your tail has gone to the sky," Guan Zhuofan looked around at the generals and sneered, "Even Governor Zeng's subordinates dare not take it seriously." I tell you, Commander Zeng has never won a war, but first sought defeat, this Huai army, obtained his essence, it seems that its appearance is not good, in fact, it is hard-working, persevering, and is in a large-scale training-"

Li Hongzhang is indeed training troops, which is also what Zeng Guofan has repeatedly instructed, the so-called "feathers are not abundant, do not fly high".

Zeng Guofan had a shortcoming in the war, that is, he was not good at commanding the former enemy. All the battles he commanded before he went to the battle were never won, and without exception they were all defeated. But what is admirable is that he has built a very solid foundation for the Hunan army, so he can be defeated and defeated repeatedly, and he will win in the end.

Li Hongzhang is different from his teacher, he has a keen eye and is quick to adapt, but he also has a problem of liking "wave warfare", which is easy to take lightly and fight uncertain battles. Therefore, this time, he kept in mind his teacher's words, whether it was in Anqing or Shanghai, he first trained in a down-to-earth manner.

The Huai Army adhered to the battalion system of the Hunan army marching and fighting, and the training of troops was first practiced and camped. These fortifications built by the Huai army were eight feet high and one foot thick. Although it is made of adobe. But the sturdiness is unusual. The camp is divided into two floors, inside and outside. Even if the Taiping army broke through the outer hao, it would not be easy to penetrate deep into the inner hao. The outer hole is eight feet wide. It is one foot and five feet deep, and the inner wall is halved, all of which are wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and the enemy doesn't even want to climb up when he falls into it.

When Zeng Guofan set up the Hunan military camp system, he was cautious everywhere, seeking self-protection first and then attacking the enemy. Li Hongzhang also learned this, and every day at five or three o'clock, the whole team got up. Send three teams to "stand on the wall" and wake up the cannons, so that the soldiers can completely wake up from their sleepiness; At night, when the lights are lit, they also stand again, but the cannon is called the Dingchang cannon. Send a team to stand on the wall at night. The camp gate shall not be opened at night in any case. Therefore, the Huai army was on high alert at all times.

The requirements of the Huai army's personal skills are to be able to walk vertically to a house as high as one zhang, jump over a ditch one zhang wide, and throw fireballs to reach twenty zhang away. During training, each person strapped sandbags to his feet in order to reach a speed of 100 miles a day when marching. The most important thing is to practice the coordination of the battle formation, practice the Mandarin Duck Formation and the Sancai Formation of Qi Jiguang, and practice the accuracy of shooting with foreign guns, lifting guns, and small guns.

Although there is some training content in it. It may not be of much use, but it is the strength of this kind of training. For Guan Zhuofan to see it, it also made the generals of the Xuan Army deeply vigilant. As a result, all units of the Xuan Army also regarded military training as a top priority in their own stations.

Xuanjun's training is essentially a Western-style one, with Wall as the chief instructor and hundreds of Western instructors and Western soldiers in the army as the core. In addition to drills, tactical movements, and tactical coordination, officers at all levels have been instilled with the ideas and ideas of modern warfare. Of course, the firing training of foreign guns and foreign guns could not be left behind, especially when the 6,000 breech guns finally arrived, and according to Wall's suggestion, the gram regiment was first equipped as an experiment.

In addition to the official duties of the Yamen, Guan Zhuofan was busy shuttling and inspecting the training of various battalions every day. The situation he saw was in full swing, and it made him deeply satisfied. Xuanjun's strength in training comes not only from itself, but also from the pressure of the Huai Army, in Jiang De's words: "If you lose to the Huai Army, where will you put your face?" ”

"That's a good thing you said!" Guan Zhuofan likes this young general from Li Hengsong's department very much, "Jiang De, when you were asked to move Qibao from Jiading, it seems that you still have a little complaint, are you still used to it?" ”

"Report to Xuan Shuai, get used to it!" Jiang De smiled a little embarrassedly, "It's Nanxiang big steamed buns, you can't eat them every day, I kind of think about it." ”

What Nanxiang big steamed buns? Guan Zhuofan asked with great interest, so Jiang De used to go to Rihuaxuan in Nanxiang Town every day to eat the "signature big steamed bun" made by Huang Mingxian, and told Guan Zhuofan how delicious this big steamed bun was.

"Is that good?" Guan Zhuofan smiled, "I want to find a day to try it." ”

"After Nanxiang fought, he moved to Yu Garden in the city." Jiang De saw that Guan Zhuofan also said the same, of course he wanted to make fun, "The boss has time one day, I will accompany the boss." ”

Yu Garden is behind the City God Temple, and when he first arrived in Shanghai, the old master Qin solemnly told him to visit Qin Yubo, the city god. Guan Zhuofan thought, maybe it's really time to go, so that my family's Hu Qingqing can be distracted.

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Recently, Guan Zhuofan has been in a good mood, the foreign guns are in place, the foreign cannons are in place, and the war horses from Gubeikou are also in place. On the other hand, Liu Xunjiao and Jin Yulin have done a very good job in handling the General Administration of Donations, and the silver collected in April was more than 30,000 taels, and now it is not half of May, and there are already more than 20,000 taels. Therefore, Guan Zhuofan had this leisure, and thought that he should take Hu Qingqing to Yu Garden for a walk.

If you want to go to Yu Garden, Jiang De will naturally accompany you. The car drove together from the south of the city to the city god temple in the north of the city. Guan Zhuofan didn't want to disturb the people, so he ordered that there was no need to put a "guide", that is, there was no need to hold the two signs of "quiet" and "avoid", and he did not send a horse to "shout" in front, a sedan chair and a car, just go quietly, Tulin and Jiang De took a few personal soldiers and followed behind.

Yu Garden is actually the back garden of the City God Temple, which is for the City God to relax and rest in addition to his busy official duties, so going to the Yu Garden and going to the City God Temple are almost the same thing.

Shanghai's City God Temple is very prosperous, and it is a downtown area for eating and playing. As soon as you enter the mountain gate, there are all kinds of shops on both sides, in the middle of the second gate is a stage, under the stage is the passageway, and on both sides of the aisle are the food stalls that sell osmanthus sugar porridge, wine-stuffed balls and so on. The west corridor is a lettering shop, and there is a tea shop in the east corridor, Guan Zhuofan heard Ji Lao Fuzi say that this is the "tea party" of the county government secretary office and the government officials - lawsuits, favors, are all connected here.

These people are the most eye-catching, and when they saw the sedan chair, they were immediately taken aback - the original Guan Master and the current Guan Fantai have come to incense! The birds and beasts did not say anything, and spread the news, so the noisy and noisy City God Temple gradually became quiet, and those pilgrims and tourists became cautious in their manners, but they also wanted to see the demeanor of the commander of the Xuan army.

Since you have arrived at the City God Temple, of course, you must first offer incense and then go to Yu Garden. Guan Zhuofan got off the sedan chair in front of the main hall, and took care of Hu Qingqing and got out of the car, raised his head to look around, but saw that there were many people surrounded by people in the distance, all looking at him. Not only look at yourself, but also look at Hu Qingqing behind you - everyone is guessing, what kind of character is this beautiful woman with the lord of the domain?

Hu Qingqing is a person who is accustomed to seeing the scene, without the slightest hesitation, with his eyes down, accompanied by a maid, he calmly followed Guan Zhuofan to the main hall of the City God Temple.

The city god is not appointed by the imperial court, but is elected by the common people, just like the selection of talents and abilities in the yang world, the selection of the city god must choose "the god of wisdom and integrity" - if you are not smart, you cannot avenge the people, and if you are not upright, you are not willing to avenge the people.

The Chenghuang of Shanghai County was chosen by the common people and is one of the three most famous Chenghuang in the southeast. Suzhou Chenghuang is Chunshenjun Huang Xie, Hangzhou Chenghuang is Wen Tianxiang, and Shanghai was originally Chunshenjun's miner, but he was invited by Suzhou people first, so he had to choose another Chenghuang. This duke's name is Qin Yubo, a member of the Daimyo Mansion, because of the chaos in the world, the heroes rose together, abandoned the official and took refuge in Shanghai. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, conquered to the court, awarded the official to study for a bachelor's degree, after saying goodbye, did not return to the Daimyo's mansion, but returned to Shanghai, where he was born, and repeatedly showed miracles after his death to protect the people, so Shanghai chose him to be the city god.

I remember that when I received the seal, the old masters also said that as long as you fast and bathe, spend the night here, and ask sincerely, then Chenghuang can guide him in his dreams. Thinking of this, Guan Zhuofan couldn't help but smile slightly, and said in his heart If this is the case, I will just sleep here, why bother to work hard, intrigue with others, and calculate every day to die and live?

When I entered the temple gate, I looked up, but I saw a huge abacus hanging on the hall, and eight big characters were written in black paint on both sides, as if I was a stick on the head, which was shocking.

"People have a thousand calculations, and the sky has a calculation."

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(There's a lot of things going on these days.,The second chapter hasn't been finished.,Put it around seven o'clock in the evening.,Please forgive me.) ）

*(To be continued......)