The animal world of the head of the village

Chapter 497 Capture of Two Lakes and Sichuan

In order to be more sure, Huang Xiaohu's training for Shenlong Sailor was extremely strict, and he personally supervised many times.

Therefore, those soldiers who did not train seriously were all subject to extremely severe punishment.

Of course, for those soldiers who train hard, there will naturally be many rewards.

After three months of Shenlong Navy training, Huang Xiaohu decided to conduct an ocean-going training, and the entire Shenlong Navy moved together from Yangshan Port to Dagukou, Tianjin, and then conducted training exchanges with the fleet there.

Huang Xiaohu handed over the training plan to Zheng Dacheng to follow up, and he led the troops back to Tianjing.

After returning to Tianjing, Huang Xiaohu did not stop. After spending a few days with Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan, he went directly to the Daliang Town Barracks.

Tens of thousands of soldiers have just been recruited, so the barracks in Daliang Town are also hurrying to practice.

Huang Xiaohu personally supervised the training of recruits, and also personally watched the live-fire drill of the musketeers.

After staying in the barracks for a month, Huang Xiaohu returned to Tianjing with satisfaction, and continued to accompany Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan.

A few days later, Ji Wu led the musketeer team back to Tianjing, and Huang Xiaohu personally received Ji Wu.

This time, Huang Xiaohu accompanied Ji Wu alone for three days, which naturally allowed Ji Wu to enjoy the joys of human beings.

Huang Xiaohu said: "Take a break for a while, and you will continue to be responsible for the training of the forbidden army. In addition, we need you to be in charge of training the Shenlong Battalion that guards the city for a few months."

Ji Wu said: "Brother Huzi, it seems that many places belong to the Shenlong Society now, isn't it enough?"

Huang Xiaohu said with a smile: "If the world is not unified, the war will not stop. If you want real peace, you can only unify the world through war."

Ji Wu said: "What is the world, is it very big?"

Huang Xiaohu explained: "The territory of our country is the so-called Tianxia in our mouth, it must not be small. But now almost half of it belongs to our Dragon Society, what we need to do next is just to be more thorough."

After receiving the order, Ji Wu will be responsible for training the Imperial Army and the Shenlong Battalion guarding Tianjing in the next few months. In her spare time, she will take care of the little Yellow Emperor, and then accompany Huang Xiaohu to relieve boredom.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, and finally it's time for the new imperial examination to select talents in the second year.

Because of the advance notification and the great publicity, and the talent selection system last year, many scholars have seen a way out, so the number of participants this time is more than double that of last year.

In order to facilitate the selection of talents, this time many places can directly participate in the preliminary examination, and the number of cities for the re-examination has changed from nine last year to fifteen this year.

There are about 2000 candidates who pass the re-examination and enter the final assessment.

After finally passing the character test and the trial test in court, the four-month selection of talents for the new imperial examination finally came to an end.

More than 100 people were finally admitted, and more than [-] of them had excellent grades, and they were considered to be strong candidates for many county magistrates.

To cooperate with the selection of talents in the new imperial examination, Huang Xiaohu ordered the Musketeers led by Ji Wu to directly attack Ningxia and Gansu.

In less than two months, these places had all been captured by the Dragon Society, and those new imperial examination talents quickly added to the captured cities.

After winning the north and west, the goal of the Dragon Club is Lianghu and Jiangxi.

Ji Wu's [-] Musketeers and Wei Zhijun's [-] troops marched into Hunan together.

Although encountering the tenacious resistance of the Hunan Army, Ji Wu's Musketeers are still invincible.

In order to ease the pressure of the battle ahead, Huang Xiaohu asked Gu Quan from Hangzhou to lead an army of [-] to the Hunan battlefield as backup.

Moreover, he personally dispatched [-] musketeers and [-] elite troops to reinforce Ji Wu and Wei Zhijun from Tianjing.

Two months later, with the assistance of Huang Xiaohu and Gu Quan's army, Shenlonghui completely defeated the Hunan Army, and even killed the top leader of the Hunan Army, Zeng Guofan, in a scuffle.

Once Zeng Guofan died, the Hunan Army completely lost its backbone, so the next thing was to collapse thousands of miles.

Shenlonghui conquered the entire territory of Hunan and approached Jiangxi and Hubei.

The Taiping Army in Jiangxi now felt the pressure from the Dragon Society and had to send envoys to make peace with Huang Xiaohu.

This time Huang Xiaohu agreed to make peace with them, just because he didn't want to divide his troops to fight, and now that Hunan was captured, the target was Hubei, so it was necessary for Jiangxi to avoid chaos for the time being.

Huang Xiaohu's army was stationed in Hunan, and received news that the commander-in-chief of the Qing army in Hubei turned out to be Li Hongzhang.

Moreover, Li Hongzhang purchased a large number of firearms and artillery through foreigners.

According to intelligence, the total number of Qing troops in Hubei exceeds 20, of which [-] are equipped with advanced firearms and artillery, so it is not as easy to attack as imagined.

In order to replenish the source of troops, Huang Xiaohu directly implemented a new recruitment policy in Hunan, so tens of thousands of new recruits have been recruited within a month.

In order to completely eliminate the danger of the Qing army, this time Huang Xiaohu decided to station all the troops in Hunan, and ordered a two-month emergency drill.

Three months later, Huang Xiaohu ordered the newly recruited 6 troops to return to the Daliang Town barracks under the leadership of Ji Wu himself, and then exchanged the 7 troops in Daliang Town.

In addition, Huang Xiaohu also reorganized the Musketeers, forming five brigades of 1 people and a special emergency team of 2 people.

Counting the soldiers and horses, Wei Zhijun still has more than [-] men under his command, and Gu Quan's men have about [-] men left.

With the addition of the [-] musketeers, Huang Xiaohu himself still had [-] elite troops, and when Ji Wu's [-] troops were reinforced, it was almost enough to attack Hubei.

A month later, Ji Wu led an army of [-] to the camp of the Hunan Dragon Society, and joined Huang Xiaohu.

Another half month later, Huang Xiaohu ordered the whole army to attack Hubei.

Huang Xiaohu attacked Hubei in three ways. Ji Wu led [-] musketeers and [-] elites, Wei Zhijun led [-] muskets and [-] elites, and he personally led [-] muskets and [-] elites. Three directions rushed to Hubei.

Gu Quan was left with the [-] Musketeers and the [-] Elite to stay in Hunan to deal with emergencies.

The three-way army attacked Hubei, and the Chinese army was led by Huang Xiaohu himself.

The army in the middle is making rapid progress, and it has approached Wuchang in less than half a month.

The army on the left, led by Ji Wu, approached Hanyang 20 days later.

The army on the right, led by Wei Zhijun, arrived in Xiangyang a month later.

After two months of hard work, the three-way army finally drove Li Hongzhang's remaining [-] soldiers out of Hubei, and at the same time announced that Shenlong would completely capture the two lakes.

After Huang Xiaohu's army captured the two lakes, good news came from Shanghai. The latest batch of German-made ironclad ships and warships, as well as a large number of advanced firearms and artillery, arrived at Yangshan Port again.

Huang Xiaohu arranged for Luo Hongfan to be responsible for the deployment of urban defense and government personnel in Hubei and Hunan, and then ordered Wei Zhijun to lead [-] elites and [-] firearms to directly attack Jiangxi.

Not long after Wei Zhijun's army left, Huang Xiaohu ordered Ji Wu to lead a team of [-] musketeers and [-] elite troops to attack Nanchang.

Later, after Huang Xiaohu arranged for Gu Quan's army to garrison the two lakes, he personally led [-] Musketeers and [-] troops to Jiangxi for reinforcements.

When Huang Xiaohu's army arrived in Jiangxi, it happened to encounter a bitter battle between Wei Zhijun's army and the Taiping Army.

Huang Xiaohu's tens of thousands of troops directly joined the battle and quickly defeated the Taiping army.

Soon after, Huang Xiaohu received a letter written by Shi Dakai, scolding Huang Xiaohu for not keeping his promise.

Huang Xiaohu ignored it, and just replied a letter, writing: "For your sister's sake, the things I promised your sister before are still valid. I will give you ten days to think it over!"

Huang Xiaohu ordered the army to stay on the spot and wait for ten days.

Shi Dakai's army withdrew from Jiangxi and went to Sichuan.

Huang Xiaohu knew that there were many mountains, rivers, and miasma in Sichuan, so Zhuge Liang was able to stick to it in the Three Kingdoms period because of these special circumstances.

Now that Shi Dakai left Jiangxi, Huang Xiaohu didn't have to be polite to the remaining Taiping Army in Jiangxi.

Ji Wu had captured Nanchang, so Huang Xiaohu and Wei Zhijun continued to march towards other cities in Jiangxi.

Two months later, the army of the Dragon Society completely captured Jiangxi, and Huang Xiaohu ordered the whole army to rest for three months. Through the new recruitment policy, Huang Xiaohu recruited 15 new troops in Lianghu and Jiangxi.

Huang Xiaohu ordered Wei Zhijun to garrison Hubei, Gu Quan's army to garrison Hunan, and Ji Wu led all musketeers to garrison Jiangxi, waiting for the final order.

After making arrangements, Huang Xiaohu led [-] elite troops and [-] new troops, and returned directly to Tianjing.

After returning to Tianjing, [-] new troops were sent to Daliang Town Barracks for drills, and Huang Xiaohu returned directly to Tianwang Mansion.

After several months of fighting, Huang Xiaohu decided to take a good rest with Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan.

For the next month, Huang Xiaohu didn't even go out of the Heavenly King's Mansion, but stayed in the mansion with Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan, two beauties.

Huang Xiaohu was waiting in Tianjing for the third new imperial examination to select talents. After all, after Lianghu and Jiangxi were captured, Shenlong would lack a lot of talents, so Huang Xiaohu could only suspend the attack on Guangdong, Guangxi and Sichuan.

After several months of revision, it finally ushered in the third selection of new imperial examination talents.

This time, more than 1000 people were directly selected, and the outstanding talents reached more than [-] people.

With these newly promoted talents, Huang Xiaohu ordered to continue to attack Sichuan, and the Taiping Army must be completely wiped out.

After the Shenlonghui army captured Jiangxi, no trace of Hong Xiuquan was found.

Huang Xiaohu knew that Shi Dakai had gone to Sichuan, but he didn't know where Hong Xiuquan went, so he could only continue to attack Sichuan while looking for Hong Xiuquan's whereabouts.

The Sichuan battlefield was very tragic. The two armies of Ji Wu and Wei Zhijun totaled more than 20. They fought hard for two months and did not contribute to Sichuan. The losses were very heavy. The 20 army actually suffered more than [-] casualties.

Huang Xiaohu had to dispatch [-] troops from the Daliang Town Barracks to Sichuan for reinforcements, and ordered Ji Wu to send the wounded soldiers to Jiangxi for treatment.

This time Huang Xiaohu did not directly participate in the Sichuan battle for two reasons.

The first was worried about encountering Shi Dakai, Huang Xiaohu couldn't bear to kill him.

The second Shenlong Navy needs to continue to hurry up and practice, and will soon fight against Japan!

In order to annihilate the Japanese naval force in one fell swoop, Huang Xiaohu had to go to Shanghai Yangshan Port in person to supervise the drill of the Shenlong Navy, and even supervise the logistics work.

With Huang Xiaohu personally supervising the formation, the training effect of the Shenlong Navy is also very significant, and even received unanimous praise from the German instructors.

(End of this chapter)