I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Never allow this place to fall into the hands of foreigners.

Of course, due to safety considerations, Zuo Zongtang has not been notified of Zhu Fugui's worship of the Yellow Emperor, and the details of his itinerary need a lot of deliberation and research.

But in any case, Lao Zuo was able to destroy the foundation for the great cause of the nation, and Zhu Fugui had no intention of taking the opportunity to make trouble.

Moreover, Zuo Zongtang also bet on Zhu Fugui's sincere resistance to Russia.

After all, Zhu Fugui didn't take advantage of the Anti-Japanese War to engage his own people. Chang Kaishen, who has all kinds of bad deeds, has always had good credit over the years.

This time, in the edict to Zuo Zongtang, Zhu Fugui clearly pointed out:

The military advisors of the Ming Dynasty do not participate in the strategic decision-making of the Southern Chu Army, but only provide technical advice. responsibility.

At the same time, the Southern Chu army should earnestly protect the personal safety of Daming's consultants and experts. Every time a person is sacrificed, the Chu State government must issue a detailed investigation report, and the corresponding pension funds will be deducted from the railway stock dividends.

Pension funds are handled in accordance with the "Daming Law Martyr Pension Measures".

Zuo Zongtang was very satisfied with Zhu Fugui's decentralization.

After getting those rich supplies that he didn't even dare to imagine in his dreams, Zuo Zongtang felt as if he was being taken care of as an outhouse.

He was mentally prepared to be a marionette.

But I didn't expect that Da Ming's father was so benevolent, not ruthless.

The Ming court actually did not interfere with its own military power at all.

Long live Lord is really the wise king through the ages!

As staunch as Zuo Zongtang, holding the imperial decree, looking at the mountains of supplies on the pier, he couldn't help crying and farting indiscriminately.

However, after seeing the specific amount in the "Da Ming Law Martyrs' Compensation Measures", Zuo Zongtang took a deep breath on the spot and quickly decided to confess these Ming experts as living ancestors.

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In fact, the materials of Daming are only worth 5 million yuan to put it bluntly.

According to the exchange rate of 250 to 1, it is equivalent to 200 million yuan of Ming silver coins, or 135 million taels of silver, or 50 pounds.

This amount of money is not as much as the principal that Da Ming used to save the market and harvest high-quality assets while taking advantage of the southern government's debt crisis and leading to credit bankruptcy.

It was just because the industrial products of later generations and the agricultural products of Ming Dynasty were so cheap that Zuo Zongtang thought that Zhu Fugui had at least spent 5000 to [-] million taels of silver to help him.

That's why he shouted "Long live the Holy Spirit, thank the Lord Long En" very willingly.

Money can buy sincerity.

If you can't buy it, it means that you have used the wrong direction, or the other party is not human at all.

Hui Chuban spent a small amount of money to buy Lao Zuo's sincerity, and the rich emperor was very pleased.

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The 100 Southern Chu Army, the [-] Hunan Army, the trembling Huai Army of the [-] Mingzi Battalion, and more than [-] Guanning Iron Camel Jewish Motorcycle Soldiers stayed in Wuchang for a total of ten days for reorganization.

During this time, they flicked their tongues to learn Russian passwords while learning how to use the new equipment.

Finally, Zhao Xizhu used the two towns of Hanyang and Hankou as test subjects to test the Southern Chu Army's mastery of Minglijian's equipment.

The instructors of the two battles against Daming gave failing grades.

This is also normal. If you can become a strong army with new equipment, the Huai army will not be beaten so badly by the Japanese in North Korea and Liaodong in the future.

Of course, the failure does not mean that the loss ratio of the Southern Chu Army is ugly. On the contrary, in these two wars, the Manchu and Qing armies almost collapsed at the touch of a button, without any surprises.

It's not that the Southern Chu Army is not good, they are good enough in the old army, but the instructors are the elite of the Royal Army of the Ming Dynasty...

"It's too weak, and the discipline is too poor. If you fight like this, don't you want to play a 2-for-1, or even 3-for-1 battle loss ratio with the French army?"

"One Han is five Hu, you can't fight ten, at least you have to fight five?"

"You can't even beat a foreigner 1v1!"

"Tired, destroy it, what a shame!"

Facing the complaints from the instructors, the generals of the Southern Chu Army looked at each other in blank dismay.

If two people can replace a foreign soldier and put it in the Qing Dynasty, both Seng Gelinqin and Lin Zexu will wake up laughing from the coffin, right?

Besides, did you use the elite guards of the foreign emperor as the basis for the calculation?

We can only see the ever-victorious army and the foreign gun team formed by the hooligans, if it weren't for a bunch of English foreign soldiers pretending to be Asan...

If we could all exchange with the foreign emperor's imperial guards, we wouldn't have given away all the foreigners rented from Shanghai and Ningbo!

Regarding the Versailles behavior of the Ming instructors, the generals of Nanchu dared not speak out.

Don't you see that Zuo Shuai is already old, and he still asks the instructors for advice on artillery calculations?

How else can I complain?

Besides...

Cannibals have soft mouths, but short hands...

With the deep resentment of the scumbags towards the tyrants, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and study while fighting in the subsequent war.

Zuo Shuai has already said that when the Russian chaos is put down, a group of activists will be sent to Fengdu for further study...

Many people have realized that this may be an opportunity to reach the sky in one step.

Even the generals dare not complain, let alone the soldiers.

Every day I eat a big bowl of instant noodles, a big bottle of chili oil mixed with it, and enough cigarettes and betel nuts. These days, I just let these Hunanese go to Nantianmen. What are they doing!

On August 8, the three towns of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou officially declared their recovery.

The three towns were formally merged into Daming Wuhan Mansion, which served as the base camp of the Southern Chu Army's westward expedition.

Out of humanitarian considerations and the actual situation of labor shortage, Hanyang and Hankou implemented a policy of keeping braids but not whips.

The bannermen and the diehards who refused to pay their braids were all purged and served as slaves. Under the bayonet and leather whip, tons and tons of supplies were transported along the Han River to the Qinling Mountains.

On August 8, the Southern Chu Army swore an oath at the place where the Han River converged on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Zuo Zongtang slashed his sword and immediately threw the turbid wine into the river against the wind.

He took a deep breath and shouted with all his strength: "I will take you to Qinchuan, Yumen, and Tianshan to seek thieves under the orders of Emperor Ming, Tianfu, and the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses, Zhu Fugui. Wait and see!"

Fifty thousand Southern Chu troops shouted in unison: "Follow Shuai Zuo, and swear to repay the emperor (spicy) favor (sauce)!"

As the head of the instructor corps and the de facto emperor's trainer, Zhao Xizhu silently took out a tweeter.

Then, in Zuo Zongtang's eyes, "Are you cheating?", he shouted with a loudspeaker: "2000 years ago, the people of Chu entered Qin to avenge a place, but today, the people of Chu entered Qin to protect the land." My Chinese ancestral land, the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor! This battle is a national war, a national war, gentlemen, you and I encourage each other—kill the captives!”

"Kill the prisoner!"

"Kill the prisoner!"

The sound of the Southern Chu army shook the blue waves, blending with the sound of the rolling Yangtze River waves.

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Regardless of where Shaanxi and Henan are the provinces with the largest history and culture.

But the significance of Shaanxi to the Chinese nation is self-evident.

Gu Weijun said at the Paris Peace Conference that China cannot lose Shandong, just as the West cannot lose Jerusalem.

Then China cannot lose Shaanxi, just like the West cannot lose Rome.

Perhaps in later generations, no Chinese has considered that we were once on the verge of losing Shaanxi, Xi'an, and the ancient capitals of the Han and Tang Dynasties of the Chinese nation.

He was an extremely handsome old man who did all the dirty work neatly, so that the descendants of us would lie on the sofa, blow on the air conditioner, watch TV, and joke about a few funny things about the tower.

But now, this handsome old man burst out with more intense passion than in history, leaving Wang Wenshao and [-] troops to stay in Wuhan, while the Southern Chu army went out.

Maybe it was the shock of the three towns in Wuhan being destroyed, maybe it was the unpopularity of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or maybe it was inspired by the righteousness of the Chinese revival. Along the way, the defenders in Jingmen, Xiangfan and other places all expressed their willingness to change their flags. , I want to hang the sun and moon flag.

These defenders are not fools, they have already found out who the big boss is.

Since you want to vote, of course it is more cost-effective to vote directly for the big boss.

But they miscalculated.

Zhu Fugui did not want to be Chang Kaishen, nor did he want to be Nehru.

Zhu Fugui has always been respectful and insensitive to the recruitment of miscellaneous troops, old bureaucrats, and local tyrants.

Zhu Fugui often learns from the experience of India, a major country in the world, but he really dares not to learn the only thing about recruiting surrender and accepting rebellion, compromising and giving benefits.

Otherwise, it wasn't Zhu Fugui's bragging, given Daming three months, he could be incorporated all the way from Heilongjiang to Kunming, creating an Indian Federation Plus.

However, this is meaningless, and even has endless troubles.

Many of the things that the founding emperor could do will never be solved in the hands of future generations.

Zhu Fugui didn't really believe in the wisdom of later generations, so Daming refused their surrender.

On the other hand, Zuo Zongtang said that they are welcome to join Southern Chu, but he still said: "I'm going to kill Russia, please send troops here!"

Don't even worry about the military rations. If you have Nanchu noodles with spicy sauce, you will be able to eat corn on the cob.

Backing Da Ming's father is so arrogant.

However, as soon as they heard that they were going to lead troops north to fight the Russians and Ma's army, these soldiers shrank their eggs one by one, either because of the occasional cold, or because their mothers were newly mourned and could not travel far.

Zuo Zongtang didn't bother to pay attention to them, as long as he didn't come to make trouble, and didn't disturb the supply line of Hanshui in Nanchu, he just turned a blind eye and didn't care about it.

In this way, under the tacit understanding of many parties, the Southern Chu Army's northward march became an armed marching performance without encountering any resistance at all.

For Zuo Zongtang, the only concern is logistics.

The 13 civilian husbands brought out by the Southern Chu Army from Zhejiang have fled several times, and now there are less than [-] left.

However, he sprinkled a lot of Ming Yuan, and he easily recruited tens of thousands of civilian husbands in Hubei.

Of course, the treatment of civilian husbands cannot be compared with that of regular soldiers.

The Southern Chu army cannot be treated badly when it is fighting a war that concerns the nation.

Both Lao Zuo and His Majesty Zhu Fugui are people who treat soldiers well,

The salaries of the ordinary Southern Chu Army returned to the level when the Hunan Army was first established.

That is, 6 taels of silver per month, which is equivalent to 9 yuan of Ming silver dollars, and 100 yuan a year!

Even if an ordinary green battalion soldier is not deducted from his salary, he only has 2 taels of silver per month.

The Southern Chu Army and the Old Hunan Army are three times their size.

The author said that today is the era of the gold and silver standard, and the exchange rate of the Ming silver dollar = Mexican eagle ocean = US dollar.

The annual income of a soldier of the Southern Chu Army is one hundred dollars, which is equivalent to that of a senior cowboy or small farmer in the west, and also equivalent to 1/2 of that of the Royal Army of Ming Dynasty, 1/3 of that of the Royal Navy, and 1/5 of that of the Royal Air Force. .

Such a high salary is the source of motivation for the Hunan Army to be brave and fearless.

It's just that, relying on Zeng Guofan's ability to make money, the Hunan Army has long since gone bankrupt, and the so-called three salaries exist in name only.

But Zuo Zongtang relied on Hu Xueyan's trade with Daming, and the wages of 1 soldiers totaling [-] taels of silver a day were still affordable.

As for the wages of those civilian husbands, it is far behind. Whether there is 10 taels of silver a year is a problem.

But it's also an incredible salary.

And two meals of corn mush a day, and one serving of instant noodles with marinated eggs in three days, don't be too carefree!

What surprised the Nine-headed Birds even more was that this job, which they thought they would risk their lives to earn money, was actually far easier than imagined.

Praise the great diesel engine, the labor of the peasants is greatly reduced.

Except for acting as a tracker in some river sections, most of the time, I just need to help the military men carry their bags.

And this so-called luggage is naturally stuffed with "Tang Monk Meat", "Dabaifang", "Wuchao", "Soil Mechanism", "Kang Shuaifu", and a schoolbag with a picture of a revolver pig full of Wude .

To put it simply, it looks a little bit like a primary school student's style of spring outing.

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Such a relaxed armed parade did not end until Hanzhong Prefecture, Shaanxi.

Although the main part of the Han River is in Hubei Province, the Han River also has a long distance in Shaanxi, and the water surface is wide and the river channel is very deep.

Today's Shaanxi is very exhausted and water-scarce.

The Yellow River, Wei River, Jing River, and Luo River, which were once famous and famous, are now unnavigable.

Only the Han River south of the Qinling Mountains is navigable, but don't think about a transport ship of one or two thousand tons.