"Notify Dieyi and let all the shops under the name of the Liren Group and the Shen family do their best to assist in the disaster relief by responding to the new Liangjiang call for disaster relief." Yang Yi turned around and spit out the above words word by word.

"Yes." Zhang Jian turned around and left.

"Wait, there is another thing. I have thought about it these days. You can also arrest the party affairs work in the future. Our party must speed up its expansion, but the premise is to secretly develop party members." Yang Yi explained again and looked at Zhang Jian with a earnest gaze.

"I understand." He was not polite, and after he said that, he turned around and left.

In June 1855, Yang Yi, the new governor of Liangjiang, started a new round of military expansion with the support of northern Jiangsu, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Consortium and the gentry. At the end of June, 50,000 troops were recruited in Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and the new army in Jiangsu was organized into the reorganized First Division, the newly formed Fourth Division, the newly formed Fifth Division, and the total of three divisions. The army had increased, but the problem of officers had not been resolved. Yang Yi decided that the first batch of cadets in the Shanghai Martial Arts Hall had graduated early and were incorporated into the newly formed troops. With the addition of these fresh blood, the problem of few officers was alleviated to a great extent. The next priority was the training of the army. Yang Yi gave Liu Ming a death order, and the troops were not allowed to go home to accompany his wife if they were not trained well. In response to this order, Erya expressed strong protests on behalf of her sister, but the protest was invalid.

The equipment problem is a problem. Fortunately, the gentry donated one million taels of silver by the northern Jiangsu gentry. In order to protect its own interests, the Zhejiang Consortium also donated two million taels under the advice of the Shen family. Yang Yi was not so tight. Prussia presided over the course of the Sir Hoffmann, and the second phase expansion project of the Shanghai Arsenal was soon put into construction and is expected to be put into production by the end of the year. The existing factory worked overtime every day, and the monthly production of new rifles reached 3,000, 82mm mortars and 60mm mortars were 30, but this was still far from Yang Yi's requirement. Many of the newly recruited soldiers were trained with three or four people. Most of the rifles produced this year were transported to the Dabie Mountains, and Nie Shicheng's pace of expanding the army was also very good. At the end of June, Nie Shicheng wrote a letter saying that because of the big

The influx of refugees in Henan was not good, and Yang Yi's reply was very simple: seize the opportunity, expand his strength, and try to resettle refugees. Yang Yi originally thought that Nie Shicheng would be very good to build one regiment at most, but who knew that Nie Shicheng had more than doubled his troops. Now the Dabie Mountains area is not a spontaneous militia group formed locally. Nie Shicheng's troops alone have as many as 40,000 troops, and they are organized into two reinforced reorganization divisions. Yang Yi was of course happy to add the troops, but this problem of officers and equipment made Yang Yi not sleep well for several days. The graduates of the military academy were stolen by Liu Mingchuan. When Nie Shicheng knew about it, he was anxious and wrote letters to Yang Yi to ask for officers. In the end, Yang Yi was like squeezing toothpaste. He transferred more than 50 military academy graduates from the three divisions in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and transferred more than 400 veterans to Nie Shicheng, which was then to appease Nie Shicheng.

Nie Shicheng was satisfied. Liu Mingchuan refused to agree. He asked for someone from him. Isn’t this digging his flesh? Should this unit be trained? How can we train without an officer? Fortunately, in early July, Hoffman’s Prussian classmate, the European General Agent of Beauty Cosmetics, Mr. Ryan Krupp helped recruit hundreds of retired officers from Prussia. Yang Yiyi gave it to Liu Mingchuan all of them, and then both sides were settled.

In August, the second phase of the arsenal was officially put into production, and the equipment problem was greatly alleviated. In addition, the 10,000 rifles ordered by Yang Yi from his Prussian partner and Krupp Group were also transported to Shanghai. However, Yang Yi only spent half the price. After Krupp returned to China through feedback from Prussian personnel in China, Krupp Group expressed great interest. He strongly asked Yang Yi to transfer these technologies, the reason was that everyone was a partner and wanted to share resources and technology. After some bargaining, Krupp Company agreed to sell the batch of rifles at half the price, and at the same time gave away 20 new 155mm cannons to exchange Yang Yi's technology. This transaction was considered a deal.

In September, Yang Yizhan's new army was officially divided into two major military regions in Shanghai and Dabie Mountains, with five divisions under its jurisdiction, totaling nearly 100,000. The Shanghai Military Region was under its jurisdiction, the fourth and fifth third divisions, and the commander of the military region was Liu Mingchuan. The Dabie Mountain Military Region was under its jurisdiction, the Second and Third Divisions, and the commander of the military region Nie Shicheng.

In September, with the support of local officials and gentry in various provinces in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, Zeng Guofan purchased a large amount of arms from the British, and batches of new recruits from Hunan and Hubei also added to the troops. Under the leadership of Zeng Guofan, the strengthened Hunan Army began to launch a new round of counterattack against Wuchang, controlled by the Taiping Army. Since Chen Yucheng wanted to manage northern Jiangsu, he had to be wary of Nie Shicheng who was entrenched in the Dabie Mountains at any time. Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng, Lai Hanying and others also devoted their energy to dealing with Zeng Guofan's counterattack. Yang Yi was also busy with development and had no intention of launching an attack on the Taiping Army for the time being. The Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas became relatively calm.

In early September, Zeng Guofan led 100,000 Hunan troops to attack the martial arts field. The Taiping Army, led by Qin Rigang and Li Xiucheng, fought with the city. The Hunan Army attacked fiercely for ten days, and countless casualties on both sides. The Hunan Army gradually occupied the initiative on the battlefield with advanced weapons. The situation in Wuchang was in crisis. In the middle of the month, Shi Dakai led a large army to attack Nanchang and implemented the strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao. Zeng Guofan ordered Peng Yulin's troops to reinforce Nanchang. The two armies fought fiercely in Nanchang for five days. Later, Shi Dakai led his troops to retreat. Shi Dakai's offensive in Nanchang greatly alleviated the pressure on the Wuchang battlefield. Both sides had their own offensive and defensive, and the battle situation entered a stalemate.

Although Xianfeng gave Yang Yidi the right to take over the finances, the huge military expenditure still made Yang Yi very worried. The military pay costs money, equipment costs money, and even party building costs money. However, for many years of war in Jiangnan, what is needed is a relatively stable time to recuperate. Yang Yi is unwilling to do something to kill chickens and get eggs. It seems stupid to use his brain on his own territory in China. Yang Yi decided to go abroad. First, he jointly established a beauty branch abroad with Prussia, and China used technology as a investment.

The capital accounted for 49% of the shares, after all, it was on the other person's territory. Second, Smith's American branch was officially opened and Smith started preparing to open a branch in the United States. With the above two points, the overseas operation of Liren Cosmetics will receive more returns. It is expected that Liren Cosmetics' profit abroad will double next year. Yang Yi has a little donation, so it should be fine by the end of the year. In addition, the sales profit of Liren Cosmetics jointly established a factory and domestic Liren products with Shen's family, the money is barely enough.

Of course, the country cannot relax. With Yang Yi's policy of encouraging industrial and commercial, and the appeal of the Shen family's role model, a large number of rich men who originally only stared at the land began to turn their attention to establishing enterprises. Match factories and textile factories are increasing. Enterprises will attract merchants. Wouldn't merchants be rich when they come? So Yang Yi is most concerned about these factories every day.

In November, Zeng Guofan and the Taiping Army were still fighting each other, but they could not do anything to each other. Zeng Guofan was well equipped. The Taiping Army had many people. However, Hong Xiuquan also successively passed Hoffman and bought 20,000 single-shot rifles and hundreds of cannons, most of which were handed over to Shi Dakai. Shi Dakai launched a large-scale counterattack on the Hunan Army at the end of the year with his new weapons. Zeng Guofan was forced to give up the siege of Wuchang, but Shi Dakai did not take any advantage. The Hunan Army was brave. Although he retreated a hundred miles, the Taiping Army also paid the price of more than 30,000 people, and the Hunan Army also lost more than 10,000 people. After two calculations, it basically tied again.

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What satisfied Yang Yi the most in 1855 was the rapid development of the People's Party members. From less than ten people at the beginning of its establishment to the end of the year, when Zhang Jian reported the number of people, the number of party members had reached more than one thousand. Basically, the number of trainees who graduated from the military academy was party members, and a large number of insightful intellectuals joined. Because it was a secret organization, Zhang Jian asked the party members to write loyalty books when accepting party members. After all, it was still the feudal era, and democracy was still the same thing.

It cannot be fully accepted by everyone. Anyway, Yang Yi is the chairman of the party. Everyone is loyal to the party, that is, Yang Yi. Basically, the party members understand this way. This is very different from Yang Yi’s idea, and they can only be gradually changed. Yang Yi, who came from the future, deeply knew the importance of the party commanding guns. At the end of the year, another military reform was introduced. Operation units at all levels established soldier committees to protect the rights and interests of soldiers. At the same time, political departments were set up in units above the company to strengthen the party’s control over the army.

In terms of intelligence work, since Shen Qingshuang took over the intelligence work, she strengthened the training of personnel on the one hand, and fully utilized the original intelligence resources of the Shen family, plus Yang Yi's guidance. Shen Qingshuang established a brand new intelligence agency - the New Army Logistics Second Department. The Logistics Second Department has three components - wind, sound, and water. The wind department is omnipresent in taking wind, and is mainly responsible for spying on intelligence. The voice department is responsible for the transmission and cover of intelligence. The water department is mainly tasked with protecting the safety of the main personnel of the Party and the army, and also secretly supervising some people who hold heavy power.

At the beginning of 1856, the expanded new army basically came to an end in both training and equipment. At the same time, Hong Xiuquan transferred Li Xiucheng back from the Wuchang front and sent him to Luzhou to cooperate with Li Kaifang to deal with Nie Shicheng who occupied Lu'an and threatened Luzhou.

After Li Xiucheng arrived in Luzhou, he began to actively prepare for war, stockpiled grain and grass in Sanhe Town, built city walls, and contacted Chen Yucheng many times to prepare to launch an attack on Lu'an and lift the nail that threatened Luzhou from the west.

In early 1856, facing the aggressive momentum of the Taiping Army, Yang Yi knew that the war was inevitable, so he notified Hoffman to find an excuse to suspend the supply of arms to the Taiping Army, hoping to postpone the date of conflict with the Taiping Army. After all, the troops' preparations are not very sufficient now. However, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng still bought a large number of arms through the British, and their preparations for the attack on Lu'an were coming to an end.

Through the intelligence collected by the two departments, the movements of the Taiping Army in Luzhou were basically controlled by Yang Yi. Faced with the upcoming war, Yang Yi decided to let Nie Shicheng take the initiative and launch a sudden attack on Sanhe Town, the food and grass base of the Taiping Army. What Yang Yi did not expect was that from this point on, the battle evolved into an eight-month battle in northern Jiangsu and Anhui.

In the early morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in 1856, Li Xiucheng went to Yangzhou to discuss military affairs with Chen Yucheng. Taking advantage of Li Xiucheng's absence in Luzhou, Nie Shicheng led an infantry division and a mortar regiment to launch a sudden attack on Sanhe Town. Sanhe Town is an important town that the Taiping Army has been operating for a long time. The city wall is tall and there are 15,000 defenders. It is equipped with new rear-mounted single-shot foreign guns bought by Li Xiucheng from the British. Twenty strong forts were built on the city wall, equipped with 120 mm rear-mounted artillery bought from the UK.

Despite the sudden attack, the Sanhe Town defenders quickly recovered from the chaos. Most of the guards of Sanhe Town were veterans brought back by Li Xiucheng from the Western Front battlefield, plus some of the former Northern Expedition troops. These soldiers were soldiers who had been through the battlefield for a long time and had rich practical experience. Under the leadership of Li Kaifang, they sent people to Luzhou for help, while blocking Nie Shicheng's troops with the fort and the solid city wall. In terms of number and equipment alone, Nie Shicheng's troops had obvious advantages, but most of Nie Shicheng's troops were recruits. Although the troops also emphasized practicality in their daily training, the soldiers were still nervous and inexperienced.

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Yes, that's it, send it faster

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In the early morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the protection of the moonlight, a new army approached Sanhe Town in advance. It was just dawn and the new army began to prepare for artillery fire. At about 6 o'clock, the lurking troops used the artillery fire to quickly approach the city wall after the artillery fire, and some of them successfully entered the city. Li Kaifang, an experienced master, quickly organized a counterattack and used artillery fire to suppress the subsequent troops of the attack. There were many new recruits in the new army, and when the attack was smooth, it rushed up, but at this time

Exposed lack of experience, under the fierce counterattack of the Taiping Army, the follow-up troops were afraid in the face of casualties. Many new recruits were lying on the ground with their heads in their arms, no matter how the officers shouted, they were unwilling to move forward. Even the officers were afraid and ran back with their troops. The attacking troops were divided into two pieces. When the troops climbed the city walls saw that they had lost their support, they suddenly became panic and were quickly beaten back. The first attack failed and the new army lost nearly two hundred people.

An hour later, Nie Shicheng shot a fleeing officer and ordered a new offensive to launch, and learned from the lessons of the failure last time. Nie Shicheng concentrated all artillery fire and concentrated on attacking the Taiping Army's forts. Due to the lack of heavy artillery, the solid turrets in Sanhe Town were not much loss, with only three or four artillery pieces being destroyed. The remaining turrets still brought great damage to the New Army when the New Army launched a new attack. This time the attacking troops did not retreat, but the Taiping Army had fierce firepower, the New Army suffered heavy casualties, and the attack was quickly repelled.

Nie Shicheng, who was unwilling to fail, continued to launch an attack. After a day of fierce fighting, the new army lost nearly 1,000 people, but the defense line of Sanhe Town was still stable. As the sky became dark, Nie Shicheng stopped attacking. That night, using the night, Nie Shicheng ordered the mortar regiment to launch an uninterrupted shelling on Sanhe Town. A shell happened to hit the haystacks used by the Taiping Army to feed horses, causing a fire. The city was in chaos. Unfortunately, Nie Shicheng did not expect such a result and was not prepared enough. Although he later took the opportunity to organize troops to attack overnight, it was still too late. After the Taiping Army put out the fire, it quickly organized defense. The new army still failed in the attack and even brought dozens of soldiers.

The next day, after receiving a call from Sanhe for help, Lin Fengxiang from Luzhou immediately led 20,000 troops to come to support and rushed to the scene at noon. He hoped that Nie Shi, who had already planned to attack, failed the attack and was worried that the new army would be attacked from the enemy from both sides, so he voluntarily gave up the attack and temporarily retreated to Lu'an to achieve the purpose of luring the Taiping army out of the city to fight decisively.

After Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang met, they decided to take advantage of the victory and pursue the Taiping Army's pursuit troops, which left the strong city walls, and encountered Nie Shicheng's counterattack in Niucun. The overwhelming firepower equipment of machine guns and mortars caused huge casualties to the Taiping Army, with as many as 3,000 casualties. They hurriedly retreated to Sanhe and could not defend themselves. Nie Shizheng saw that there was no hope of siege, so he retreated to Lu'an. The first Luzhou battle ended, and the new army suffered more than 1,500 casualties, and the Taiping Army also suffered nearly 5,000 casualties.

In Shanghai, in order to cooperate with Nie Shicheng's actions, Yang Yishen Liu Mingchuan gathered nearly 40,000 troops from two infantry divisions, a cavalry regiment and a heavy artillery brigade, and set out from Nantong to attack Taizhou.

Taizhou is the gateway to northern Jiangsu. Chen Yucheng sent 30,000 troops to station Taizhou and was equipped with a large number of new rear-mounted single-shot rifles. Also on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the sudden attack of the new army on Taizhou was much smoother than Nie Shicheng's Sanhe Battle.

At dawn, it was exactly the same as the Luzhou Battle. Yang Yi arranged troops to hide and approach Taizhou City in advance. These were all learned by Yang Yi from the battlefields of later generations and were courses that must be taught in the military academy.

In order to ensure victory in the battle, Yang Yi personally led the team to the front line to command the battle.

At five o'clock in the morning, the new army began to prepare artillery fire for half an hour. Yang Yi ordered that the new army gathered more than 400 large and small artillery pieces to pour the shells onto the Taizhou city wall. The fierce artillery fire made the defenders in a mess, and the city gate was also smashed by 155 mm cannons. When the defenders tried to block the door with stones and sandbags, the new army began to charge. The troops hidden under the city rushed up, and the dense machine guns shot the defenders on the city wall could not raise their heads, so they could only hide behind the battlements to shoot. The city gate was still unable to block. The new army quickly occupied the city gate, and the troops continued to pour into Thailand.

In the province, a machine gun was placed on commanding heights and implemented firepower suppression. The Taiping Army guarding the city showed unusual tenacity. After the city gate was lost, it retreated to the city and used the cover of houses to engage in street battles with the new army. The two sides started a street and a house. The same problem was also exposed to the new army in Shanghai. A large number of new recruits were afraid of the tenacity and resistance to death. They collapsed in many places in the street battle where the bayonets were red. The law-enforcement military police shot some escaped soldiers and the situation improved. However, in this battle that was mainly close to the army,

The advantages of the new army's advanced equipment are not obvious. The soldiers have insufficient courage to face the fierce counterattack of their opponents, and they lack experience in dealing with this cruel combat. The offensive and defensive sides once fell into a tug-of-war state in some areas. When the war ended, both sides fought not only with equipment, but also with courage and will. In this situation, Yang Yi ordered all officers to charge forward. Anyone who retreated in the face and lost positions will be dealt with by military law, and those who killed the enemy will be rewarded with great rewards. In a word, those who advance were alive, and those who retreated were resigned. Fortunately, the Taiping Army guarding the city's fierce artillery fire against the new army

The fierce preparation was insufficient, and the long-term artillery preparations killed nearly 30% of the defenders. The advantage of the number of people and the advantage of equipment. In addition, the law enforcement team was holding guns behind, the new army soldiers gradually became red in their eyes and gradually controlled the initiative in the battle. Whenever they found the defenders, the new army first used 60mm mortars to bombard them with machine guns and machine guns to cover them. During the battle, the officers kept integrating what they learned in the military academy into actual combat. With the reasonable use of superior firepower, the Taiping Army was often killed in the building by machine guns and grenades, and the casualties of the new army were not as great as those of the beginning.

The cruel battle lasted for a day, and the new army also controlled three-quarters of Taizhou City. At this time, the Taiping Army guarding the city only had weapons such as big swords and spears left, but they still fought tenaciously with their fearless courage. What surprised Yang Yi was that these soldiers were basically not surrendered except those who were seriously injured. As a result, Yang Yi also gave a very high evaluation of Chen Yucheng's ability to lead troops. Seeing that it was dark, Yang Yi ordered the troops to stop attacking and defend on the spot, and emphasized the need to prevent the Taiping Army from counterattacking overnight.

After a fierce battle of one day, the new army suffered more than 1,500 minor injuries, more than 1,000 serious injuries, and nearly 800 deaths.

That night, the Taiping Army trapped in the west of the city did take advantage of the night to launch a counterattack. The new army was well prepared and gave a painful attack. Seeing that the situation was favorable, Yang ordered the troops to attack overnight. At dawn the next day, the Taiping Army, who was unable to fight again, took advantage of the darkness before dawn, took more than 100 remaining troops out of Taizhou. In addition, the entire Taiping Army was wiped out.

The Battle of Taizhou was over. With the help of superior equipment, the new army occupied the city at the cost of 5,000 casualties. The Taiping Army who guarded the city died 23,000 and about 8,000 injured and captured.

The Taizhou Battle put a new problem in front of Yang Yi, which is how to give full play to its own equipment advantages in future urban street fighting. After the war, Yang ordered the troops to summarize the problems that arise in the battle and propose corresponding solutions. This tradition was preserved in later battles.

The rapid end of the Taizhou battle left Chen Yucheng without even time to rescue. When the reinforcements received the news from Yangzhou to Taizhou, the battle had ended. The reinforcements were not lucky. They were also ordered by Yang Yi to comfort the artillery, left hundreds of bodies, and retreated to Yangzhou. When Chen Yucheng learned that Taizhou fell, he ordered the troops to give up Hai'an, Xinghua and other places, ordered the troops to break off contact with the new army, concentrate the troops in Yangzhou and Yancheng to prevent the new army from defeating each.

Chen Yucheng's tactic of shrinking troops forced Yang Yi to stop launching a new offensive, and a brief stalemate appeared in the battlefield in northern Suzhou.

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alright

Broken Blade Tianya 10:05:02

All are here?

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kindness

The draft was dropped and I found it back from Lao T. It was late to update, so everyone forgive me
Chapter completed!