The establishment of the Chinese Renaissance Army had already been planned by Dong Shuheng.
The name "Huai Haijun" is too strongly associated with local warlords.
Don't underestimate this simple name. Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also a centralized country.
But people still have certain regional concepts.
The provincial system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be traced back to the Song and Yuan Dynasties. After the Ming Dynasty, most of today's provinces have been basically established.
In people's minds, the Huaihai region generally refers to the middle and lower reaches of the Huaihe River and the coastal areas of the Yellow Sea.
This is a term with regional flavor. Now Huaihai Navy must change this name if it wants to go nationwide.
The name "Chinese Renaissance Army" was chosen not only because of the existence of the Renaissance Society, but also because this word has rich meanings.
Revival of China was originally the slogan Dong Shuheng shouted when he founded the Huaihai Navy. It is also the fundamental purpose of the Renaissance.
The formation of various armies and the preparation of logistics materials will also be a huge project.
Huai Haijun, who had just finished his annual vacation, immediately plunged into intense work.
The Ninth Division in Fujian is just a framework, and there are really many things going on.
The choice of commander-in-chief of each army is also a problem.
The military department held several military meetings for this purpose.
In the end, it was decided that Dong Shuheng would personally serve as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, naturally because the Northern Route Army was directly responsible for the destruction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The symbolic significance of the Northern Route Army is very strong. Not only Dong Shuheng himself, but everyone thinks that he should be the commander-in-chief, even if he is only a remote control command.
No one dares to take this credit.
The commander-in-chief of the Central Route Army is Peng Yulin. The first target of the Central Route Army is Hunan, which is Peng Yulin's hometown. There are also his old friends in Hunan.
Well, it would be perfect to let Peng Yulin be the general commander of the middle lane. This satisfies Dong Shuheng's bad taste in historical knowledge.
Dong Shuheng of the Southern Route Army was handed over to Yang Bingchun. At the same time, Yang Bingchun was transferred to the Sixth Division as the division commander. The Sixth Division will stay in Fujian. The new Ninth Division will be formed in Jiangsu, which is different from the original plan.
Because the Eighth Division itself is newly formed, if the Ninth Division, which is still a framework, is added, the South Route Army will be too weak.
News has come that Guangdong is actively expanding its new army, and the military finally re-evaluated Guangdong's strength.
Gu Keli was transferred by Dong Shuheng to the Second Division as the division commander and commanded the entire army. His qualifications were not qualified yet.
Lin Wei serves as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army, and Wang Xiao serves as the deputy commander-in-chief. In fact, they are each responsible for one route.
It was not easy to determine the command system and personnel structure of each branch.
In the next few days, Dong Shuheng visited the military factory in Huaihai Navy and inspected the arsenal.
Too many troops were mobilized this time.
The production of Huai Haijun's new rifles is insufficient and there is no way to fully equip them.
The method adopted by Dong Shuheng here is that each division is equipped with a regiment of Type 54 rifles, and the others still use Type 53 rifles.
The garrison continued to use rifled rifles. The militiamen had to make do with flintlock muskets.
This war against the Qing Dynasty required the occupation of a large number of new territories. These places must be guarded by people. At least until the Renaissance Army established a new local order, they must rely on military guarding.
The number of troops required for this is huge, and the garrison troops accompanying the army alone are far from enough.
Dong Shuheng has been taking Ma Zongwu to inspect the construction of militias in various places these days.
I just want to see how many militiamen can be recruited to ensure the most basic production activities.
The scale of the militia recruited this time will reach hundreds of thousands. Not only will it be necessary to fill the mobilized garrison troops, but a large part of them will also go with the army to guard the new occupied areas.
Throughout January, the land of China was peaceful, and the war seemed to be far away from this land.
In Henan, Huang Hao took refuge with the Manchus and received the title of Admiral of Henan.
However, the army under his command returned to its original subordinates.
After Luo Gang escaped, all the remaining troops except those who were killed defected to Huang Hao.
Including the young men he recruited in Ruzhou, Huang Hao's men also reached 20,000.
The 20,000 people who follow Huang Hao always need to eat, but Ruzhou is already in dilapidated condition and cannot eat.
Now that he is an army of the Qing court, he can no longer occupy territory at will.
So Huang Hao asked Yinggui to arrange a place for him and his men.
The cunning Yinggui had actually made arrangements in his mind, and the place had been prepared for Huang Hao and others.
This place is Guide Mansion.
Huang Hao naturally knew that Guide Mansion was in trouble with bandits.
He understood what Yinggui meant. He was asking him to go to Guide Mansion to fight the Nian bandits.
Even if he knew it, it would be useless. He had just surrendered. If he surrendered and rebelled again, he would not have the confidence to restrain his men.
Moreover, the 20,000 Qing troops had been monitoring him.
Huang Hao knew that he had been tricked by Lao Yinbi, but he had to swallow this bitter pill.
For now, it is better to wait until spring. If the soldiers have no food, they must not eat him. In this case, they might as well fight with the Nian bandits!
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In the capital, Emperor Xianfeng finally survived another year. Judging from the memorials, things in various places seemed to be more stable.
Yinggui of Henan destroyed the Taiping Army, and Xianfeng issued an order to greatly praise him.
Seng Gelinqin had returned from the grassland. He had walked on the grassland for a while and was so lonely that he didn't even catch the horse bandit's tail.
It was freezing cold, so Seng Gelinqin returned to Zhangjiakou with his men, accompanied by 20,000 more cavalry, which he had recruited in Chahar.
As for whether Chahar's herdsmen will face the dilemma of lack of manpower due to the lack of 20,000 people, this is beyond Senggelinqin's consideration.
Xianfeng was not disappointed with Seng Gelinqin. He promoted Seng Gegelinqin to the Prince of Sakbodo Legatai and allowed him to train troops in Zhangjiakou.
A batch of money and food was even allocated.
After Sushun took charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he was able to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and actually saved a lot of money and food.
Xianfeng gained confidence and seemed to want to work hard. He asked the Ministry of War to inventory the nine admiral offices and re-count the Eight Banners Infantry Battalion and the Fifth Patrol Battalion.
You wouldn't know if you didn't check, but when you checked, you were shocked to find that the original number of more than 30,000 people was now less than 20,000.
Xianfeng immediately dismissed the nine admirals and ordered Prince Gong to retrain his troops and the Ministry of Industry to build weapons.
He also ordered Sushun's brother, Prince Zheng Duanhua, to rebuild the Fengtai Camp. Previously, the Taiping Army had ravaged Zhili, and all the soldiers and horses in the Fengtai Camp had been exhausted by Shengbao.
Especially the battle between Shengbao and Huai Haijun completely exhausted the soldiers of the Fengtai camp.
The Qing government had no money before and never rebuilt the Fengtai camp.
Now Sushun managed finances in the Ministry of Household Affairs and ordered the Ministry of Industry to build weapons, and finally saved enough money and food to rebuild Fengtai Camp.
Most of the direct descendants of the Eight Banners in the capital were playboys and had no fighting power at all.
Therefore, Sushun suggested that Xianfeng choose children from the Eight Banners branch who lived in poverty to supplement the Fengtai camp.
This suggestion was very bold. Sushun really saw the shortcomings of the Manchus.
Of course, this also attracted opposition from interest groups.
However, Xianfeng was responsible this time and did not give in. He blocked him directly.
He knew that these people wanted to find a job for their direct descendants. Now that the Qing Dynasty was in danger, these people still wanted to gain benefits from the court.
How can this not make Xianfeng feel chilled?
Duanhua rebuilt the Fengtai camp and selected those children of the Eight Banners who lived in poverty as soldiers. They were issued with guns produced by the Ministry of Industry and trained every day.
Most of these people got the errands thanks to the emperor's grace. They trained hard and worked hard, for fear of losing their jobs.
Shen Ke's previous demeanor has been completely wiped out.
The deserted Fengtai camp became lively again in the fifth year of Xianfeng's reign.
At this point, there are 39 admiral troops and horses in the entire capital, and there are nearly 20,000 Fengtai camp and 20,000 new troops. To the north, there are 40,000 Mongolian cavalry from Senggelinqin guarding them.
Form a three-layer defense circle.
Xianfeng felt a little at ease.
While everyone was gathering strength, a place that was not taken seriously by others took the lead in starting a fight.
Yunnan is known as one hundred thousand mountains with inconvenient roads, but it is also rich in mineral resources.
The tea-horse trade also made Yunnan a hub for trade between southwest China and Myanmar and India.
In such a place, many ethnic groups live together, and there are even toasts everywhere.
What a mess!
The first month of the fifth year of Xianfeng's reign has passed, and Hengchun, the new governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, is listening to music in the government office in Kunming.
Kunming has been known as the City of Spring since ancient times. Although it is still the middle of winter, it is already like spring in Kunming.
Various flowers, plants and trees are planted in the Governor's Mansion, which is like a picture full of birds singing and fragrance of flowers.
Hengchun was born as a bannerman, and had just been promoted from the position of governor of Shanxi to governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.
This was due to Sushun's reforms. The Qing government appointed Manchu officials to serve as governors in various places, giving them real power and allowing them to create new local armies.
It happened that Luo Raodian died in the position of governor, so the Qing government sent Hengchun over.
Hengchun himself also wanted to come to Yunnan, and he was always on tenterhooks when he took office in Shanxi.
Others don't know, but he, the governor of Shanxi, knows very well that the gangsters in the Taihang Mountains are not easy to deal with.
In other words, they only occupied some counties in the mountainous area and did not make a big fuss. Therefore, people in various places did not take it seriously.
Hengchun didn't understand why this group of people would be willing to stay in the Taihang Mountains since they were so powerful.
This is very unreasonable. The governor's office in Taiyuan, Shanxi, was often frightened awake by nightmares, and he was afraid that his governor's office would be captured by these Taihang Mountain bandits when he woke up.
The Taihang Mountain bandits were unable to come out and were so difficult to defeat, so no one in the local government was willing to report this matter.
Anyone who reports it means that he may lead troops to suppress bandits, which is the same as committing suicide.
At the beginning, several anti-bandit troops were sent into the mountain, but all the sparks were gone before even a single spark broke out.
Some prefectures and counties even provoked the Taihang bandits and were directly taken to the county government treasury.
But those Taihang bandits went back after the fight, as if it was pure revenge.
So everyone formed a tacit understanding and just kept their ears to the ground.
Who doesn’t want to spend his or her term as an official in peace and quiet?
Thanks to Your Majesty, the emperor's grace is so great. Hengchun finally escaped from the land of right and wrong in Shanxi.
Although Yunnan is far away from the capital, the mountains here are high and the emperor is far away. Hengchun is like a local emperor here.
Moreover, the environment and climate here in Kunming is pleasant, the scenery is beautiful, and even the girls are fresh and fresh.
As soon as he arrived in Yunnan, Hengchun fell in love with it. He listened to music and chatted with girls in the mansion every day.
Of course, he didn't forget about the business, which was to send people to set up Lika somewhere to collect Lika.
Without taxation, how could he build a new army? Of course, he didn't care about building a new army. The focus was on collecting taxes.
There are only a few roads in Yunnan. If you leave the road, you will encounter mountains. It is impossible to take a detour.
This kind of place is really a good place to collect taxes. It is difficult for merchants to evade taxes.
Recently, banditry has been serious in Guangxi, and the Taiping Army marched westward from Guilin.
The young general Chen Yucheng was enchanted with his troops, and he conquered Liuzhou Prefecture and Qingyuan Prefecture in one fell swoop. He surrendered to the Qing army through recapture, and various chieftains joined in the process.
Chen Yucheng's troops quickly grew to 30,000 men. Although most of them were a mob, they were powerful.
Hengchun was worried that the war would spread to Yunnan, so he agreed to the request of Lao Chongguang, the governor of Guangxi, and dispatched troops from Xingyi Prefecture in Guizhou, Guangxi Prefecture, and Guangnan Prefecture in Yunnan to support Sicheng Prefecture and Sien Prefecture in Guangxi.
This resulted in a lack of military strength in the prefectures and counties in eastern Yunnan.
In Fuchun County, Guangnan Prefecture, a group of people occupied the village of Longbu Mountain a year ago. The eight people led by them claimed to be Long Yi, Long Er... Long Ba.
They once attacked Fuchun County, but after looting the treasury, they retreated to the mountains.
The government sent troops but nothing came of it.
The local people were surprised that this group of bandits did not rob the people.
Therefore, the name of Long Pu Mountain was immediately known.
In the next year, Long Yi and the others used the weapons left behind by the mercenaries to avoid the county towns controlled by the government.
Specifically attack those mountain strongholds, kill the chieftains, distribute the fields to the mountain people, and then recruit soldiers from the mountain people.
The Huaihai Company's caravan will transport supplies for them from time to time.
It needs to be explained here that the armed caravans under the Huaihai Company have always been able to move sideways in the southwest region, and even the government did not dare to make things difficult.
Taking advantage of the support from the rear and the serious land conflicts in the local area.
Long Yi and the others built a total of nine mountain villages. These nine mountain villages were not isolated. They were composed of the main village and satellite villages that protected the main village.
By continuously absorbing mountain people, the strength of these nine villages is equivalent to that of nine small counties.
There are more than a thousand regular soldiers and horses in each village. In addition, basically all the people are soldiers, so there are even more militiamen in the village.
Long Yi and the others have been waiting for news.
When they were first sent out from Gaoyou, Dong Shuheng told them that the flowers planted by their Huaihai Navy would bloom one day.
Today they finally ushered in the moment of blooming.
In the meeting hall of Longbu Village, the eight brothers finally gathered together.
A middle-aged man with a bad figure, a Chinese character face, and a resolute expression held a military order in his hand.
"According to the president's military order, the Huaihai Navy personnel in Yunnan formed the Yunnan Column of the Chinese Renaissance Army on the spot, with Long Kaiyun as the column commander (Long Yi), Wu Qiquan as the deputy commander (Long Er), and Ma Yongkun as the chief of staff..."
Among them, only Ma Yongkun was sent by the Huai Navy Headquarters, along with a group of officers.
The reason why this side is designated as the Yunnan Column is because there is currently no way to determine the number of people in the Renaissance Army here in Yunnan.
The column plan is the same as the original Taihang column, with more freedom in the management of army formation.
It also means giving local officers greater autonomy.
The order was read out in public by Ma Yongkun, who was sent from the headquarters.
When this team was originally assigned, Long Yi, also known as Long Kaiyun, served as the captain, and Long Er, also known as Wu Qiquan, served as the vice captain.
So no one has any objection to this appointment.
After everyone heard this order, their first reaction was that they finally got through it, and an exciting feeling surged into their hearts.
Another reaction is that the president is really courageous. In just one year, it has grown from one province to seven provinces, and now it is finally time to launch a full-scale anti-Qing campaign.
There is nothing much to say. It took some time to assemble the team.
On February 2, the dragon raises its head.
Long Kaiyun was gathering his troops and swore an oath at Longbu Mountain to start the crusade against the Manchus.
The army calls itself the Yunnan Column of the Chinese Renaissance Army.
On that day, the army divided into two groups and marched eastward to capture Fuzhou, cutting off the retreat route of the troops supporting Guangxi.
Go all the way west to attack Kaihuafu, Guangxi Prefecture, and Lunan Prefecture, and then go straight to Kunming.
Along the way, the Yunnan Column punished evil officials, cleared up unjust, false and wrongful cases, cracked down on local tyrants and evil gentry, and helped poor people.
The Yunnan column gradually grew in strength.
The Yunnan Renaissance Army, which originally had only more than 25,000 people including militiamen, quickly increased to more than 50,000 people.
It usually snowballs and becomes huge.
The goal of the Yunnan Column was to fight the slow with the fast. Although they did so many things on the road, the main force never stopped.
They used the mortars and high explosives in their hands to easily knock on the gates of the cities.
Singing and progressing all the way.
Their goal is Kunming. According to the battle plan formulated by the headquarters, they must quickly occupy Kunming and then pacify the Yunnan state capitals.
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