took the big granary of Hangzhou, and President Meng's food problem in Huaguo was easily solved, and it took three months for the Taiping Army to fight Hangzhou, and President Meng only took less than five hours.This punch is considered a KO.Iron cannons, old-fashioned breech guns, these are countless, and the cute president doesn't look at them, if they are left in modern times, they can be sold in tatters, and they are all sold as tatters.A warehouse full of firewood is useful, although it is a black fire, it can also be used as a raw material for the Chinese army's smokeless fire.President Meng was so unhappy that he ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate in Hangzhou, and notified the Fujian and Guangdong sides to squeeze out manpower as soon as possible and restore the administration of Zhejiang.The development of the Chinese army and Huaguo is too fast, and now even if there is a candidate force like Master Shaoxing, it will take a while to go through the indoctrination of the Huacui Party, and the politics are not qualified and cannot be posted.It can only be that a group of mud-legged cadres of the Construction Corps can be put on first, and a group of scholars with slightly advanced ideas in Zhejiang can help govern, and there will definitely be many problems in this process, but the cadres who come out of the Construction Corps have no political problems, and President Meng has no heart to manage it too carefully, and the pain of changing the government is inevitable.This time, President Meng did not let the army rest for too long, it only took one day, and the troops finished resting, because there was no hard battle, and the army had almost zero casualties.The 1st Field Division of the Chinese Army was divided into two routes, Lu Kangtian led the 2nd Brigade Luo Guozhong and the 3rd Brigade Wang Dashan to attack Wuhu and Nanjing 1st Road.Xuan Jianzhang took the First Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army, followed President Meng to attack the Shanghai Army, Princess Katrina Kaf, and the people who followed President Meng were very busy, and the president was alone, doing nothing all day, the president was only responsible for telling everyone what to do next, formulating a schedule, and implementing it specifically, it was all the business of the people below, President Meng's current life, don't be too happy.To put it bluntly, President Meng doesn't do anything now, he is only responsible for being in a daze every day, thinking about things, thinking about something, he himself doesn't know, even eating and bathing, there are people to help move, and he is about to become a piglet.President Meng said in the early stage that he would negotiate peace with the Qing court, as long as Liu Kun and his people took the initiative to withdraw from Zhejiang, he would not leave Zhejiang, it was all smoke bombs, and you didn't do what I said, so I had to fight.Shanghai and Nanjing, this is the last two important towns in the last stage of the recent stage of the attack on President Meng in the south of the Yangtze River, the capture of Shanghai and Nanjing, will represent President Meng to completely get the economic lifeline of southeast China, he has no plans to cross the Yangtze River for the time being, President Meng and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are different, President Meng is now in control of the sea The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wants to travel long distances by land to attack the Beijing Division, with the traffic conditions of this era, it is simply difficult to do, President Meng can easily strike any part of China's coast, including Tianjin, and even attack Beijing from Tianjin.Without a bunch of ironclad ships, it is already difficult to stop President Meng, and now unless the great powers directly intervene, the Qing court is no longer able to resist the rise of President Meng.The Chinese army easily captured Jiaxing and Huzhou, which also means that the whole territory of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces was included in President Meng's pocket.Nanjing and Wuhu were surrounded by heavy troops from the Qing court, so President Meng asked Lu Kangtian to take the second brigade and the third brigade of the first field division of the Chinese army, plus an artillery company, and President Meng attacked the army in Shanghai all the way, only Xuan Jianzhang's first brigade of the first field division of the Chinese army, the strength of a brigade is small, and he only brought a few artillery, the road is long, and he brought more artillery, which affected the speed of the march too much.The Qing court urgently mobilized the surrounding areas of Shanghai and Nanjing, and began to worry about private group training, and began to transfer troops and silver from Anhui, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu to support Shanghai and Nanjing.Shanghai's troop strength reached more than 20,000 troops, and this was only an early arrival, and with Li Hongzhang's troops drawn from Zhili and Shandong, Shanghai could reach more than 100,000 troops in a short period of time.President Meng's brigade is 6,000 people, and Xuan Jianzhang's First Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army is a reinforced brigade, which is originally a large establishment, and it is more than 2,000 more than the establishment of the Second Brigade and the Third Brigade, and there are actually more than 8,000 people, and the number is not at a loss, which requires President Meng to be fast and take Shanghai before the Qing army assembles.Shanghai is an open city, there is no city wall defense at all, the inner city wall repair has not been completed, and the troops of other state capitals have not yet arrived, and the more than 20,000 Qing army green battalions in the city appear to be weak and weak, and they are in danger.The Empress Dowager Cixi nervously gave a message to Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, in the name of Emperor Tongzhi, but the tone was completely her own tone, in a word, Shanghai can not lose when necessary, it can be done at all costs.Li Hongzhang read the edict of the Empress Dowager Cixi and knew that the Empress Dowager was really in a hurry, what this meant Li Hongzhang knew better than anyone else, which meant that Cixi made it clear that when necessary, she would betray the country and not lose Shanghai.Once Shanghai is lost, the whole of Jiangnan will be in danger.Originally, President Meng broke each other, that is, this intention, Shanghai and Nanjing, in fact, can be viewed together, two places, no matter which one is lost, it is a psychological blow to the other, so the Chinese army launched an attack on both sides at the same time, which also made it more difficult for the Qing court to defend.If the first line of attack on Nanjing and Wuhu is not carried out, and all the reserve forces of the Qing court are concentrated in Shanghai, the speed of the Qing army's assembly will be greatly accelerated.President Meng is actually making an excuse for the Qing army from all walks of life, of course he knows very well the corruption of the Qing court, with such an excuse as attacking Nanjing, who will run to Shanghai, where there is no danger to defend, and fight to the death with the Chinese army, this death battle is to send to death.The army was beautiful because of the weather, this month was a sunny day, the speed of the march was OK, on the fifth day from Hangzhou to the north of Jiaxing, and then on foot to Shanghai.When the Chinese army first arrived in Shanghai, the Qing army in Shanghai was more than 20,000 people, but during the day when the Chinese army rested, the number of Qing troops suddenly became 40,000.The ability of this explosive soldier stunned President Moe.It's not that the Qing court will change magic, it's the Qing court's order to start a regimental exercise, plus the great powers to help transport the army, these two are simply magic, the Taiping army was played to death by the Qing court and foreigners, this is not counted, and when Li Hongzhang's Huaijun brigade arrives, guns and ammunition are fired, the situation in Shanghai is even more unoptimistic, although Shanghai is not dangerous to defend, but this is a place that extends in all directions, and it is the best place to fight for strength.When it comes to fighting strength, President Meng has no strength at all at this time, he is far away from the rear of Guangdong, and the arsenal is still in Hong Kong, not to mention that the production capacity of the arsenal is still very small, that is, the production and supply are not available, and transportation and supplies cannot be supplied.t1706231537: