Chapter 686 The Battle of the Yangtze River: Where is the boss?

When a large army lands, it needs to be assembled in a wide enough place, and the cannons it carries also need to be loaded and unloaded in a suitable place.

It was impossible for Yue Zhongqi to find a place to go ashore casually, so Yue Chaolong was anxious to transfer troops straight to Wuling, preparing to stop Yue Zhongqi in Wuling.

Although the Lei Gong has lost the paddle shield for a while, it can no longer wear stubbornness and rush into battle, but it can also be parked at Wuling Wharf as a floating battery. In order to shrink the defensive line, Yue Chaolong also gave up Shimen and Anfu in the north, and the newly formed 28th Division, which was reorganized by the Wei Army, was transferred back to Changde to block Yue Zhongqi.

Left and right, the second day, the defense line was rough and formed, Yue Zhongqi's army did not arrive, and on the third day, it still did not arrive. Yue Chaolong was very strange, could it be that Yue Shenglin had misseen the direction of Yue Zhongqi's march, and the confession of the prisoner of war was confusing him?

Recalling the divine power of the Lei Gong, Yue Shenglin said uncertainly: "It is estimated that Yue Zhongqi was frightened by the Lei Gong and did not dare to enter the army directly......"

Yue Chaolong said: "Yue Zhongqi dares to play a trick to hide from the sky and cross the sea, and dares to raise troops to raid Changde, how can he be frightened by a boat?" ”

On the fifth day, the sentry reported that Yue Zhongqi's army appeared in Thanh Hoa Town, near Anfu in the north, and Yue Chaolong's doubts were solved.

Why did Yue Zhongqi go north?

I was really scared by Lei Gonghao......

The vanguard fleet was defeated, and Yue Zhongqi was only the main general Delin who died first, but the elite fleet led by his son Yue Jingzhong was also defeated, and Yue Jingzhong's boat was sunk at the end of the battle.

Twenty times the enemy's elite fleet, Yue Zhongqi was worried about his son's life and death, but compared to the future of the entire army, this worry was not worth mentioning.

The combat power of that strange ship was too terrifying like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and most of his remaining 1780 warships were ships that transported troops, food, and guns, and less than half of them could really be used for water fighting. If the tail of the strange ship pursues him, how many tails he will have to drop to ensure the safety of the entire army

Yue Zhongqi couldn't count that the oars of the Lei Gong were no longer unshielded, and they could not afford to fight, nor could they count the approaching cannonballs of the Lei Gong, so he made a painful decision that the waterway of Dongting Lake was no longer controllable, and in this case, it was a fool to continue to raid Changde.

In this way, when the Lei Gong burned his own planks and hurried back to Wuling to report the news, Yue Zhongqi's army turned the bow of the ship and rushed towards Anxiang, which was still under his control in the north. After going ashore near Huikou Town, Anxiang, Yue Zhongqi felt that this trip could not be in vain, at least to earn back face, so he led a large army to attack Anfu in the north of Changde.

What was originally a fatal blockade to the waist and kidneys turned into a frontal slap in the face for a breath, from Yue Chaolong to Fang Youxin and Meng Kui, they all let out a long breath.

Anfu is just a feint, and now Hunan is on the defensive, and if it is lost, it will be lost. And Yue Zhongqi recovered Anfu, even if he recovered another feint to recover the county town Shimen, it was only a small advantage. In the past month, he has been bullying the enemy and gathering troops to raid, and he has been very busy, but in the end he can only fight honestly from the front, and he has earned face, but he has lost most of it.

At the beginning of March, Fang Youxin and Meng Kui were relieved that the handsome man they had been waiting for for a long time finally came.

A large group of red-clothed soldiers in the north of Changsha gathered in the Iron Furnace Temple, looking at the battlefield where the emperor and Kangxi faced off ten years ago. Everyone looked at the dark complexion of a general in his early thirties, with a calm face and a hint of bookishness, and knew at a glance that it was not a mainlander, but should have been exposed to the sea in the south.

..., "Governor, I heard that His Majesty injured the Tartar chief Kangxi with a shot that day?" ”

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old young lieutenant asked curiously, and the other two older lieutenants also looked at the young general with a wistful expression. Behind them, a young man wearing the brigadier coat of arms was on guard, but his ears were held high.

"On that day, Kangxi's Luan drove on that mountain, and His Majesty waved his army to attack directly, only two or three miles away from Kangxi. His Majesty fired, and Kangxi's Minghuang Luo Gai also fell......"

The collar was embroidered with three dragon coats of arms, revealing the rank of lieutenant general of the general, and when the lieutenant general said this, the eyes of several teenagers lit up, and they were excited that the rumors had been confirmed.

But Kangxi was not shot, and it was the black cat of the Military Intelligence Department that made Luo Gai dump, and then they all died in battle.

The lieutenant general said lightly, and his face was also a look of retrospective with a leisurely fascination.

"The black cat of the Military Intelligence Department, no wonder......"

"The Military Intelligence Department, which was scolded so bloodied, and the Chinese people regarded it as incompetent, turned out to have such brilliant achievements."

"The Military Intelligence Department is no longer the original Military Intelligence Division, not only has the manpower been assigned to the Naval Intelligence Department, but the cadres are also following Luo Maodemon in the northwest, busy with top secret things that everyone doesn't know the details, and being scolded like this, it's really wronged."

Feeling the changes of the years and the changing times, the teenagers are talking a lot.

"Where was the Governor that day?"

The young lieutenant, who was the first to speak, asked again, causing the lieutenant general's face to turn black suddenly.

"I, I just went around a big circle, feasted on the mountains and rivers of Guizhou and Xiangxi, led the most elite Yulin army, and still rubbed in Yiyang......"

Thinking of the situation of the decisive battle in Hunan ten years ago, the new governor of Huguang, Jiangxi and Jiangnan armies, the army is referred to as the "Yangtze River Governor", and Jia Hao, who has the title of general and the rank of lieutenant general, is still lingering.

Then a beautiful shadow flashed in his heart, he was with Long Zhilan at that time. Long Zhilan also knew something about his intentions, but he was devoted to his wife Eleven Xiu, or to someone projected on Eleven Xiu, and he didn't dare to open his heart to Long Zhilan. But the emperor specially included Long Zhilan in the military circle, and he was also subordinate to him, and his heart of matchmaking was obvious, which made him quite a headache.

"Queen Long followed the governor at that time......

"Jia Yifan, he doesn't concentrate on practicing military science, he always ponders these rumors, how much does he think the military whip is not enough?"

The young man didn't open the pot and mentioned the pot, he was reprimanded by Jia Hao coldly, and quickly stood with his head held high, his eyes did not squint, he was not afraid of the whip, he was afraid of disappointing his adoptive father.

The other two young lieutenants laughed secretly, and Jia Yifan glared at the two of them hatefully, these are his two brothers-in-law, Jia Huaijing and Jia Huaiwei, both of whom are Jia Hao's adopted sons, but they are both Jiaozhi people. Like Jia Yifan, he received the rank of lieutenant and served with the army. Jia Hao has arranged for the three of them to enter the Whampoa Army Academy and the Hong Kong Naval Academy respectively, but the decisive battle of the Yangtze River is imminent, so he just took the three of them to experience.

"Huang Ban, send the convening order to the military command room of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and open a military council after returning to Changsha."

Jia Hao named the name of the young quasi-sergeant, this Huang Ban was an orphan he took in in Batavia, and because he was old, he did not change his surname.

Huang Ban should get off and run away, and his posture still exudes the sharp atmosphere of gangsters on the streets of Batavia Adam earlier, racing with police officers and hiding and seeking all day long.

"Your Majesty entrusted me with the military affairs of the Yangtze River provinces, and my responsibilities are too heavy, and I must go all out to ......"

The little figure that has been dangling in my heart since I was a child is like a treasure in the depths of my heart, and then waving away the beautiful shadow of Long Zhilan Jia Hao looked at the north from afar, cheering up with a sense of war. …,

The affairs of Malacca and Batavia were transferred to the Nanyang Metropolitan Governor, named Hussar General, Xiao Sheng, who was a general, was in charge, and Jia Hao returned to China to take charge of the military affairs of Huguangjiangxi and even the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Jiangnan, and Jia Hao was responsible for it, so it is no wonder that the army called him the Metropolitan Governor of the Yangtze River.

The emperor's arrangement not only made the people in the country feel at ease, but the civil and military officials in Hunan, Jiangxi, and Jiangnan also praised it, and in their opinion, Jia Hao alone was better than ten divisions.

Jia Hao and Wu Ya were both the emperor's right-hand men, who had commanded more than 100,000 troops to recover Luzon, and also had the experience of the governor of Bo Ni and the governor of Luzon. In the earlier battle of the South Seas, not only did the forces of the Pattani Chinese firmly occupy Malacca, but also pressed the Dutch in Batavia not to move. The Aceh Yi people killed Catholic sacrifices and drove the Chinese, and Jia Hao waved his army straight into Aceh, directly spreading the prestige of Aceh to destroy the country all over the South Seas. And his benevolence and compassion for the Chinese also made his Buddha governor even louder.

"I'm a soldier, and my reputation is not in military science, it's actually a shameful ......"

Jia Hao commented on his achievements, this time the Yangtze River Decisive Battle, he was full of thoughts on military affairs.

Except for Yue Chaolong, who was going to garrison Changde, he did not come, and the generals of Huguang gathered in the Yangtze River Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Changsha. Not only Meng Kui, Zhao Hanxiang, Zhan Wenda, He Mengfeng from Hunan, Chen Tingzhi from Jiangxi, but also Xie Dingbei from the new army, etc., everyone gathered together, chatting and chatting, it was very lively, of course, the beauty of the generals is the object of everyone's attention.

"The first priority of the Governor of Pontus is to organize the various armies into ...... in accordance with the new system of the Privy Council."

Jia Hao dedicated, ignoring Long Zhilan's affectionate gaze, and went straight to the topic.

Including Long Zhilan, the generals above the brigadier general present were suddenly awe-inspiring. Jia Hao is strict and delicate in governing the army, and he doesn't like noisy lots in meetings, and the first thing he mentioned is also related to the position of everyone.

The emperor and the Privy Council set up the Yangtze River Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in response to the southern invasion of the Yongzheng army, but they did not have enough troops in their hands, especially the logistics support, so they could only be managed by Jia Hao, a clever woman.

Before Jia Hao returned to China, he put forward a suggestion that the existing military establishment needed to be adjusted, otherwise it would be difficult to coordinate the forces of all parties. The Emperor and the Privy Council not only endorsed his proposal, but also extended it to the entire army.

The original establishment was put together step by step in response to the needs of reality. Nowadays, the Red Clothes Army not only has regular army numbers such as Yulin Yingyang, but also temporary numbers of new divisions. In order to motivate new divisions, some new divisions were promoted to Janissary Divisions and incorporated into the regular army system.

Burma and Nanyang only have regular armies, and the Governor's Office can coordinate and dispatch them. However, in China, the regular army and the volunteer army are mixed together, and there are big problems in command and logistical support, which need to be reorganized.

The new establishment is to expand the units at the army level, remove the "new formation" prefix of the new division, and incorporate it into the army-level establishment, and the left and right divisions of the original army are also given numerical numbers, for example, the left division of the Yulin Army is reorganized into 100 divisions, and so on. The Volunteer Army, on the other hand, is organized as divisions and temporarily attached to various armies, so that it can have a unified command and logistical support system.

So the inheritance of the division number of the Anglo-Chinese Army was thus laid, and all divisions with more than 100 divisions were "teachers" and were born on the "right path". All divisions with less than 100 numbers, such as the 6th Praetorian Guard Division and the 17th Praetorian Guard Division, are all "new divisions" and come from "miscellaneous paths". The higher the number, the worse the "origin". For example, the "First Division", which was adapted from the Yunnan Guard.

For the Volunteer Army, the province is prefixed and then numbered, such as the First Division of the Hunan Volunteer Army.

The new establishment will be based on divisions, while the corps will determine the number of divisions under its jurisdiction according to the needs of the war. …,

After establishing division-level establishment, the army sorted out 56 divisions, 16 "teachers" and 40 "new divisions." The original army number could not command so many divisions, so it was imperative to increase the army number.

The Anglo-Chinese Army originally had six armies: Yulin, Yingyang, Longxiang, Huben, Shenwu, and Tielin, plus the Red Thunder Army and the Dragoon Army.

Now the six armies of Tianwei, Shengjie, Jianyi, Anguo, Pinglu, and Huaiyuan have been added, all of which are placed on the battlefield of the Yangtze River.

"The Tiger Ben army is in charge, He Mengfeng, and he is the governor of Huguang, in charge of the military affairs of Huguang ",......"

"The Tianwei army is under control, Yue Chaolong ......"

"Shengjie military capital control, Zhan Wenda ......"

"The Jianyi army is under control, and Longzhilan is ......"

"The Anguo army is under control, Xie Dingbei ......"

"Pingyu military capital, Pei Mingji, and appointed as the governor of Jiangxi, in charge of Jiangxi's military affairs" ,......

"The establishment of the Shenwu Army belongs to the Governor of Burma, and Chen Tingzhi is under the command of the Deputy Capital of the Shenwu Army, commanding the 112th Division and the two Volunteer Army Divisions in Jiangxi."

"The Huaiyuan Army is stationed in Longmen, Jiangnan, and Han Zaixing is under the control of Han Zaixing, and Han Zaixing is appointed as the governor of Jiangnan to manage the military affairs of Jiangnan."

"The Red Thunder Army is under the command of Zhao Hanxiang, and he is the governor of the Central Military Governor's Mansion ......"

A series of personnel arrangements made the generals shake their hearts and expand eight armies at once! The command of these divisions has also jumped to the ...... of the army",

"Hey...... We are in the north and the country, and we have a heavy responsibility on our shoulders, so I am really afraid that we will live up to Your Majesty's expectations. ”

Xie Dingbei was originally a Hunan recruiter, and then transferred to the Changsha Army Academy as the dean, and he was born for several years. was appointed as the commander of the Anguo Army again, and his heart was so cool, he felt that he alone must be related to the entire battle situation.

"Meng Kui is the chief staff of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Meng Lao?"

Then Jia Hao called Meng Kui's name, Meng Kui said in a loud voice, he, an old thief, will be full of fists and feet, and he is better at reconciling all parties, unifying the army is not a strong point, and there have been many situations in the army back then, and now Jia Hao has arranged him by his side, and he is always in charge of military affairs of all parties, which makes him breathe a sigh of relief.

Of course, the emperor had promoted him to a major general before, with the title of General Zhaode, and the title of founding knighthood, Meng Kui already felt that he could go to the earth with these glories, and he had no complaints about being placed in a false position.

"Although the army is prosperous, the division is new, and there is no power to attack, so you must not be arrogant!"

Then Jia Hao said a word, so that the generals who were full of excitement calmed down, that's right, although there are eight armies on the Yangtze River, it is expected to govern twenty-six divisions, with a total strength of more than 150,000, but there are only three regular army "teachers", and only six "new divisions", and the rest are all volunteers, which is too big compared with the six armies in Myanmar and the northwest.

Everyone looked at Jia Hao with a blank look, and the military system was straightened out, so what is the military strategy?

Jia Hao threw out another sentence, which seemed to have nothing to do with everyone's questions: "Meng Songhai transferred the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and appointed the Yangtze River Naval Division to control ......"

Sailor control?

Everyone understood, and Jia Hao nodded slightly: "This marshal is the governor of the Yangtze River, and controlling the Yangtze River is the first priority. ”

There was silence in the lobby for a moment, and then a burst of cheers erupted, yes, it is the battle of the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River is the lifeblood. Yue Zhongqi's previous actions showed that whoever can seize the Yangtze River waterway will be able to dominate the battle situation in Huguang, Jiangxi, and even Jiangnan.

Jia Hao dug up Meng Songhai, Xiao Sheng's subordinate to build the Yangtze River Naval Division, and he could overcome the shortcomings of the current Huguangjiang and Jiangxi armies lacking transportation capacity and difficulty in maneuvering, and they could attack and retreat, and this strategy was extremely correct.

The battle situation in Huguang and Jiangxi showed the light of day due to Jia Hao's arrival, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the huge offensive that should have been launched at this time was still nowhere to be found.

In Jiujiang Mansion, Jiangxi, Xibao, Ortai, Tian Wenjing, Li Wei and others occupied the prefect's yamen and were relatively silent in the back hall.

"The Xishan camp is only under the order of the emperor......"

After a long time, Xibao broke the silence and said leisurely.

Ortai believed that Yue Zhongqi had turned to attack Changde, the Wuchang battalion was empty, and the Xishan battalion should urgently attack Yuezhou. In the Jiangxi direction, Tian Wenjing can continue to exert pressure to contain the main force of the Southern Barbarian Army that Tian Wenjing said.

But Xibao shirked it for various reasons, and now he has directly sacrificed the big killing weapon.

Ortai looked at Li Wei, hoping to get his support, but unexpectedly, Li Wei nodded and suddenly snorted unhappily.

Li Wei is slandering Ortai, you only care about Huguang's money and food, how can you be a handsome? If you want to talk about the qualifications to control the overall situation, I, Li Wei, are more qualified, right?

It's a pity that Li Wei is only in charge of money and food, and how the army moves is the business of the two generals, Yue Zhongqi and Xibao.

Several people looked at each other, and suddenly felt that the situation was very tricky, everyone was in charge, and there was no one. ）