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"Wen Yuewei …" After hearing the name, Lei Hu looked at the Party Secretary Xu Kaiwen with some doubts.
"It's that woman." Xu Kaiwen confirmed Lei Hu's thoughts.
"She's still alive!" Lei Hu's tone was not very friendly. More accurately, it was very unfriendly. There were several landmark cases in the history of the Liberation Army. A cavalry officer who was infatuated with Wen Yuewei stole a map and gave it to Wen Yuewei, but was found out later. That cadre was an officer with a bright future whom Lei Hu thought highly of. Because of this, he was beheaded. That incident finally established the establishment of the Liberation Army Military Tribunal.
Lei Hu still remembered that Vézé had repeatedly emphasized that the military laws used by the Liberation Army's military courts had to be approved by the senior generals of the Liberation Army. During the two sessions at the end of 1853, Vézé announced that one of the internal tasks of the Restoration Party in 1854 was to clarify the system. Vézé once again emphasized that the Restoration Party, the new government, and the Min dynasty must abide by the law, because these laws were passed by the National Conference of the Restoration Party. It was not made up by a single person or a small group of people.
Reading these words, Lei Hu could not help but think of Vézé's establishment of the Liberation Army's judicial system. Of course, he couldn't help but think of Lei Hu's own failure. Back then, when Lei Hu thought so highly of this guy did such a thing, it made Lei Hu lose a lot of face. Now that the culprit of this incident, Wen Yuewei, had appeared, it was impossible for Lei Hu to have a good impression of her.
However, Lei Hu was no longer a minor general or a cavalry division commander. He commanded an army of a hundred thousand and bore the heavy burden of security in the north. Lei Hu didn't have any thoughts of revenge. He asked the secretary who came to report the situation, "What's going on with this Wen Yuewei?"
The secretary replied, "The Xiang Army is massacring the Nian Army, therefore, Wen Yuewei led the Nian Army south of the Huai River. After our troops detained them, the woman who called herself Wen Yuewei said that she knew Military Governor Vaize and Lei Seigneur. That's why I asked Commander Lei to send some people to verify if this woman is really that person. "
"It's been twelve years. Who can still remember what she looks like? If I hadn't suddenly recalled an old matter last year and checked the old documents, I wouldn't even remember her name, "Lei Hu replied in a bad mood. Thanks to the fact that the Liberation Army had long paid attention to documents, Lei Hu easily obtained the files from 10 years ago when he retrieved the information. The name of Wen Yuewei was in the military court file from 10 years ago, which was why Lei Hu and the military chiefs knew this name.
Lei Hu couldn't even remember which of his subordinates had contact with Wen Yuewei 12 years ago. More importantly, if the group of revolutionary heroes 12 years ago hadn't made mistakes of principle, they were now the backbone of the army. Army commander, division commander, an ordinary soldier at that time was almost a regiment commander now. This group of people were scattered around the liberated areas. How would Lei Hu know where to find people who knew Wen Yuewei?
Seeing that Lei Hu was very unhappy, the secretary hurriedly said, "Commander Lei, now the comrades in the political department heard that the Xiang Army was fighting with the Nian Army, so they were worried that a large number of Nian Army would escape across the Huai River to our side. Of course, we are worried that there are bad people mixed in. "
Thinking of this, Lei Hu felt unhappy. In order to get rid of this matter as soon as possible, he immediately came up with a solution. "Let them investigate this matter themselves. It's not that I don't want to help, but I really can't. By the way, the only thing I can help is a copy of the file. You can use this to verify this Wen Yuewei. "
A month later, on March 1, 1855, the head of the political department raised this related problem at a regular meeting. "By now, there should have been a large number of Nian Army civilians escaping to our side. But we didn't see it. Is there something wrong with this? Did the Nian Army surrender to the Xiang Army? "
In a sense, the Huai River defense line of the Liberation Army was actually quite passive, because the troops on the north bank of the Huai River were not feared by the Liberation Army. The Huai army, the Xiang Army, and the Chu Army all had rather rational leaders. These rational people had one advantage: they knew that their irrational behavior would be met with a strong counterattack. Therefore, they could give a certain amount of trust in their rationality.
Now, the Huai River defense line troops really had to guard against and suppress the south. Huainan had to suppress the landlords and train the troops. In the past, the Taiping army only controlled Huaiyin for a short period of time. After Vézé left the Taiping Rebellion, the Taiping army's Lin Fengxiang withdrew from Huaiyin. Therefore, most of Jiangsu south of the Huai River had not been controlled by the Liberation Army or the Taiping army. At this time, the landlords, gentry, and literati in this land did not know the power of the Liberation Army. Military suppression was still very important at this time.
"Isn't it a good thing that the Nian Army is not going south?" someone from the military commission asked.
The head of the political department said, "We don't want to judge whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. We don't go north now, but it doesn't mean we won't go north in the future. Now that we know what happened between the Nian Army and the enemy, we can prepare for the future. "
This was a very good reason, so the reconnaissance team was ordered to investigate the situation. After only three days, the reconnaissance team came back. The news they brought back was very shocking. "The Xiang Army has occupied all the villages around Huoyang. The Nian Army is nowhere to be found. The people in other areas don't even know that the Nian Army escaped here. "
"The Xiang Army killed all the Nian Army in Huoyang?" The head of the political department knew that the Xiang Army had massacred several cities, so he could think of this possibility.
"If they killed all of them, then I'm afraid the Xiang Army killed all the people in Huoyang." The head of the reconnaissance team gave his opinion based on the Xiang Army's massacre of the city.
"Our army has cleared the bandits in Huoyang. At this time, all the surrounding areas have started farming," Peng Yulin reported to Ceng Guofan.
The Xiang Army now had less than 100,000 people. After all the land in Huoyang was under the Xiang Army's control, the less than 100,000 Xiang Army soldiers could almost fill their stomachs. Soldiers' pay was actually not very important. The Xiang Army soldiers who followed Ceng Guofan were naturally loyal to him. Later, tens of thousands of people came and brought the "news" that the Liberation Army carried out a massacre in the two lakes. All the families who joined the Xiang Army were killed by the Liberation Army.
Since the Xiang Army carried out bloody massacres themselves, they were very willing to accept the news that their families were killed by the Liberation Army. The Xiang Army, whose land was taken, had to flee, hated the Liberation Army to the bone. Together with the tens of thousands of Xiang Army soldiers who were instigated by these people, Ceng Guofan's troops formed a very unified situation.
After killing all the people in Huoyang, the Xiang Army could finally confirm that as long as Huoyang was not lost, the Xiang Army's food supply would not be a problem. What the Xiang Army needed to do now was to figure out what to do next.
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