Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

In fact, Hong Lei's suggestion is only worthy of recognition for the reorganization of the Ministry of Water and Army into the Ministry of War. However, whether it is the re-establishment of the three departments of rites, officials, and punishment, or the proposal to change the names of the Ministry of Posts and Communications and the Ministry of Water Resources, it shows that the old officials in the feudal clan have great respect for Zheng Zheng. Zheng Kezang is obviously very wary of Kezang's trend of forcing the palace.Fortunately, the establishment of Zheng Fan's central organization has been basically completed. Except for a few measures such as the renaming of Yantie and Duzhi, and the re-establishment of the Imperial Academy and Zhan Shifu, there is not much room for actual adjustment. He firmly holds the military power, so there is not much room for veterans to attack.

Of course, in order to completely dispel the idea of ​​quick success and quick gains among the important officials in the feudal clan, they also need to let them see that Zheng Fan has room for improvement after retaining half of the south of the Yangtze River. For this reason, the current Jingxiang battle is very important.

Therefore, Zheng Kezang dispatched two divisions into Hanyang on the third day after he entered Wuchang.

"Follow the order of King Xia." After taking over the Hanyang city defense and key points in the city, Feng Hui, commander of the second division of the Shesheng Army who commanded these two divisions, summoned Cui Ping's troops in the name of inspection. "Now make the following adjustments to the soldiers in Hanyang City." Feng Hui swept the bewildered Cui Bu and announced in a deep voice. "The first brigade of the third division of the original Shenwu army and the first brigade of the second division of the Shesheng army were transferred, the second brigade of the third division of the original Shenwu army was transferred to the second brigade of the third division of the Tiger Guards, and the third brigade of the former Shenwu army The third brigade of the division and the third brigade of the second division of the Jiangnan Dingsheng Army swapped subordinates; Su Boping, the former commander of the third division of the Shenwu Army, and Tu Qing, the commander of the second division of the Huyi Army, switched positions; the former commander of the third division of the Shenwu Army The original post will remain, and the general manager of the brigade will distribute it separately."

As soon as this remark came out, Cui Bu present was in an uproar. However, in the face of the sharpening Shenwu Army and Tiger Guards, Cui Bu, who had less than 6000 people left, did not dare to act at all. Before the army entered Hanyang, Cui Ping, Su Boping, and the other divisions had all been summoned across the river by Zheng Kezang to discuss matters, so that no one in the army presided over them, so they had to watch helplessly as the troops were annexed and transferred after being disarmed by Zheng Jun. transfer.

The same order was repeated in Xingyuan, where the former supervisor Xingyuan is now recruiting the general Xingyuan. Looking at the purple-faced Cui Ping and the others, Zheng Kezang grinned: "You don't have to be suspicious, I don't want to." Settle accounts after autumn, but Qing and others are solitary parts, uniform order is one thing, and another thing is to organize the team's combat strength."

What's more, Cui's predecessor was Liu Ning'an, who participated in the Nanjing Rebellion. Cui Ping, who thought that Zheng Kezang might be duplicity, had no choice but to accept Zheng Kezang's arrangement with a look of ashes. Respectfully, Zheng Kezang reassured him: "Don't worry, as long as you are still loyal, Gu Duan will not deny him a future."

Therefore, next, Cui Ping was conferred logically as the Spyder of Uncle Jingbei, and Su Boping was also conferred as the Grand Duke of Commanding Envoy.It's just that Cui Ping's position as Huguang Deputy Commander was subsequently replaced by Feng Hui. As for him, he was appointed as the Privy Council Officer and Huguangxing Privy Council Co-prefect. Formation and planning.

What happened to Cui Ping frightened Wang Xinhua who was present at the same time. The moment Zheng Kezang looked over, Wang Xinhua froze and could not speak, but his inability to speak did not mean that Zheng Kezang would let him go Passing through the door: "Wang Qing, although your department has been organized into three divisions, but the combat power has not improved. Why don't you mix it with other departments?"

"Minister," Wang Xinhua wanted to argue, but he had nothing to say. Zheng Kezang was right. The royal army's combat power has always been weak, and now that he is under the control of Zheng Kezang, of course he doesn't dare to stand on his own. thought. "I would like to obey the king's order, so I will write down the warrant and tell my subordinates to follow the king's order and compile it."

"Very good." Zheng Kezang nodded at Wang Xinhua. "As expected of the lonely general of Huguang. In this way, during the reorganization, I will temporarily stay in the south of the Yangtze River to inspect the drills of various ministries. After the reorganization is completed, I will cross the river to take charge of military affairs." Looking at Wang Xinhua who was a little scared, Zheng Kezang opened a Cold joke. "I won't give you a beautiful woman like wine, so as not to spoil your fighting spirit."

In this way, according to Zheng Kezang’s intention, a large-scale mobilization and reorganization of the two ministries of Wang and Cui began. Those who could not accept the discipline of the Zheng army were sent on ships to Cam Ranh, Xiboni and Labuan in the name of transfer.Of course, annexation is only a means, and Zheng Kezang's goal is the next large-scale military training. Therefore, when the Qing army thought that Zheng Kezang's arrival meant that a large-scale offensive was about to start, a vigorous training session aimed at improving the combat power of the Zheng army here we go.

During the training, Zheng Kezang discovered many problems, the first of which was the problem of equipment.Although the former Department of Military Affairs, the current Ministry of the Army and the Ministry of War have allocated a lot of guns to Wang and Cui, but the two departments that belong to the stepmother still have a lot of equipment that is self-made or simply uses the equipment of the Qing army. , which is very different from that used by Zheng Jun.

For this reason, the second thing Zheng Kezang has to do is to change the outfits of these four divisions.However, it is easy to replace the small number of divisional and brigade artillery, but it is a troublesome thing to replace them with rifles extensively. The army has expanded from tens of thousands at the beginning to nearly 30 today. The total strength of the army has expanded seven or eight times in four years. The production has been stopped, but now is not the era of mechanized mass production after all, so most of the division-level units of the Zheng Army do not have the full number of rifles, let alone replace all the four "new" divisions--- Zheng Kezang had to finally choose to reverse the ratio of white soldiers and rifles in these four divisions, so that he could barely gather the equipment.

Originally thought that this would be enough, but the experience of the Korean War was presented to Zheng Kezang again.According to the experience summed up by the Longxiang Army, the lack of artillery at the regiment level will lead to insufficient combat capabilities of the army.For this reason, Zheng Kezang specially promoted the whole army, and organized an artillery team equipped with a two-inch gun at the regiment level.Of course, in order to increase the firepower of various ministries in Huguang as soon as possible, we can only dispatch the artillery of each division of the Jiangnan reserve team to Huguang.But even so, the training time was extended.

At this time, the Qing army, who was waiting for Zheng Jun not to come, sent out cavalry to investigate extensively, trying to figure out what Zheng Jun was doing.However, whether it was the continuous flow of the Yangtze River's transport fleet or the sound of gunfire that resounded day and night during Zheng Jun's training, the Qing army had caused great misunderstanding, so the generals who conquered the South continued to sit and watch until Yunnan and Guizhou. news came.

On April [-]th, while Zheng Kezang was still on his way to Wuchang, he ordered Hunan and Guangxi to march towards Guizhou.Since the Qing army had already burned Guizhou to the ground when they suppressed the uprising of the anti-Qing forces in Yunnan and Guizhou, the Qing army, which could only rely on supplies from central Sichuan for food, had no strength to maintain a long supply line.

Therefore, when Hunan General Mao Hongyan led six divisions of Zheng Jun from Pingxiwei (Yuping) in Hunan into Guizhou, conquered Siping Mansion (Cengong) and Zhenyuan Mansion all the way, and went straight to the maze set up by Dujun Mansion, an important town in eastern Guizhou. At the time of Hazhou (Majiang), the Qing army's Guzhou Town and Hunan Fubiao and other ministries retreated steadily, and fled to Guiyang in a swarm.

After Qiandong changed hands, the prefects and county magistrates in Qiannan also confided their sincerity in lawsuits to Zheng Jun. Therefore, in just over [-] days, less than half of Guizhou fell into the hands of Zheng Fan.In view of the state of emergency in Guizhou, Sichuan Governor Wu Fan immediately dispatched nearly [-] people from the Governor Biao Zuoying, Tibiao Youying, Chongqing Town, and Zunyi Town to reinforce Guiyang.However, Yunnan, which was supposed to send reinforcements, was restrained by Zheng Jun's attack in Youjiang, Guangxi and other places, and was forced to stay on the front line of Qujing and dared not act rashly. Failure laid the groundwork.

After receiving the news from Yungui, Neer, who thought he understood Zheng Kezang's plan to show up in Wuchang, couldn't help it anymore. He immediately drove the three armies to approach Huangpi again, trying to force Zheng Kezang to fight a decisive battle with his cavalry brigade in the wild.

"Wang Xinhua obeys orders!" Zheng Kezang, holding a command arrow, ordered. "You should lead the first division of Guangwei Army, the third division of Shenwu Army, and the second division of Dingsheng Army to guard Huangpi, Xishui, and Luotian respectively. Don't let Qing prisoners cross Bahe and disturb our hinterland." Wang Xinhua took the order and left. , Zheng Kezang took another token. "Feng Hui, you should lead the second division of the Shesheng Army to stay in Hanyang and serve as the rear of the army. Don't let the Qing army cut off our army's food road." After Feng Hui received the arrow and retreated, Zheng Kezang held up the third token . "Yin Long!" The Commander of the First Division of the Hussar Army, Yin Mintong's cousin, the Commander of the Second Division of the Shenwu Army, saluted. "You lead the headquarters to defend Wuchang and Ezhou."

When Yin Long stepped aside, Zheng Kezang held up the fourth token: "Huang Chuxu obeys!"

Admiral Huang Chuxu of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Navy quickly stood in front of Zheng Kezang, and he listened to Zheng Kezang's order: "The Yangtze River Fleet has a heavy responsibility on its shoulders this time. It must not only protect the line from Wuchang to Jiujiang, but also ensure the transportation from Dongting Lake to Wuchang. The inspections during the period are uninterrupted, and even if you want to break into the Han River, cut off the connection between the Qing troops on both sides of the strait and make a posture of intimidating Xiangyang, Qing's responsibility is not light."

"Your Majesty, please rest assured." Huang Chuxu assured him. "Now the Yangtze River Fleet has 120 large and small red single ships, more than [-] large and small cannons on board, and [-] water athletes. They will definitely live up to the great trust of the Lord." Speaking of this, Huang Chuxu issued a military order. "Some Tartars sneaked across the Yangtze River and harassed the water transportation. I am willing to accept military punishment. If the Han River cannot be cut off and the Qing captives on both sides of the strait can travel freely, I am willing to accept military punishment."

"There is no joke in the army." Looking at Huang Chuxu's confident face, Zheng Kezang nodded calmly. "Just do it, I will wait and see." After Huang Chuxu saluted, he directly withdrew from the big tent, and at this moment Zheng Kezang stood up. "Qingluyu forced me to fight decisively, but I just didn't act according to their ideas. You gentlemen, go back to the divisions to rectify, and swear to the master tomorrow, let him come a few ways, I will go all the way, let Qinglu taste the old slave It's my own way of fighting!"