Now Zhou Xiuying is really annoyed. It can be said that it is an exceptional preferential treatment for Demons to invest in the Steel Consortium. You are also counting on the chemical consortium, so her face is a little frosty: "Dmons, you are not HSBC!"

"What you mean, as long as I join forces with HSBC, I can invest in a chemical joint enterprise. Thank you for your kindness!"

The negotiations between the two lasted for more than an hour, far exceeding the original fifteen minutes. In fact, some problems were not something that could be decided in more than an hour.

Zhou Xiuying has her own view on the direction of the Hangzhou-Hulu Railway, which is not consistent with Demons's idea, but her personal thoughts cannot represent the views of various groups in Huzhou. Some groups can't wait to invite railways to pass through, while some townships are already organizing the preparations for rejecting railways, and even preparing to fight the transit railways with force.

For such a situation, Zhou Xiuying could not reply to Dmuns in such a short time. At this time, a female orderly officer knocked on the door. Zhou Xiuying said, "Let them wait a little longer and express my apology. I will definitely meet them today."

"No!" The female orderly soldier told Zhou Xiuying a good news: "It was Brigade Commander Feng Sixian who reported that he had captured Wuhu, drank the Yangtze River, and cut off the Taiping Army's reinforcements to Nanjing."

"Okay!" Zhou Xiuying's face was filled with joy that could not be suppressed: "That's really a double happiness. I didn't expect that in addition to your happiness, there was such good news on the battlefield."

She couldn't help but say something more: "I just said, don't take too seriously the Qing Yao and Taiping Army of Anhui Province!"

"Congratulations!" Demons immediately said: "If you conquer Wuhu, it means that the entire Guangdezhou and Taiping Prefecture have fallen into the control of the Hongjun!"

For the Hong Army, the change of hands between the two prefectures is still a gratifying thing. After all, including Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, the Hong Army only has more than twenty prefectures. The acquisition of two prefectures has increased by one-tenth of territory.

What's more, as a businessman, Demons clearly knew that Wuhu was the most important commercial port and commodity distribution center in China. Although its status before the war was not as good as Huzhou and Wuhan, it was the most substantial inland port in Anhui.

However, under the impact of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, Wuhu faced wars many times and had a sharp decline. However, Demons now knows that as long as this city falls into the hands of the Rainbow Army, it will surely revitalize new vitality.

Zhou Xiuying agreed with Demons's view: "Wuhu is defeated, which means that our army's pace of collecting southern Anhui must continue to accelerate. Sorry, Demons, I must send an urgent letter to Governor Huo of Jiangxi, asking him to follow the orders of His Highness Yan as soon as possible and send an army to Anhui to cooperate with our offensive."

As for its current strength, the Hong Army has spared its strength to conquer the entire southern Anhui with more than 10,000 people, but considering the need to continue to expand, Zhou Xiuying had already requested Liu Chang to ask Jiangxi to send a force to cooperate with the offensive in southern Anhui before returning to Huzhou.

She had found the entire Anhui map on the map. She knew that the entire territory south of the Yangtze River, including Ningguo Mansion, Chizhou Mansion, and Huizhou Mansion, were soon fallen under the offensive of the Hongjun.

Therefore, she reiterated her point of view: "Brig Commander Feng Sixian is too careful. Qing Yao in Anhui is our defeated general. As for the Taiping Army, it is not worth mentioning, it is not our opponent. In fact, two brigades can sweep the entire Anhui!"

Demons watched her open an urgent letter and asked complimentally: "How is the battle ahead!"

"It went very smoothly, even smoother than we thought!" Zhou Xiuying said with a smile: "So far, our captive enemy troops have exceeded 10,000, and more than 2,000 Taiping troops surrendered to us without a single shot. The Wing King's expedition made their morale extremely low."

Demons temporarily acted as Zhou Xiuying's combat staff: "Although I don't understand military affairs, I know one thing that your army's steam warships should appear on the battlefield in Anhui as soon as possible, as that would make our army more wings."

"You're right, that's right!"

Zhou Xiuying agreed very much: "If our army's steam warships cannot break through the Qing army's Jinling water defense line, then I will prepare myself to make warships in Anhui, and Anhui Province is already the treasure of our army."

...

At this moment, Feng Sixian was already looking up at the river at the top of Wuhu City, and suddenly felt proud: "The next step is to sweep Ningguo Mansion. I didn't expect the war to go so smoothly!"

One of his officers praised: "It's all the brigade commanders who command properly, and our army will be able to stop all the Nan'an army immediately."

"More importantly, after our army defeated Wuhu, the upstream support of Tianjing was cut off. From then on, King Hong Tian could only trap Tianjing."

Strictly speaking, although the Hong Army captured Wu Prefecture, the Taiping Army still has part of the territory in the Taiping Army, but in the near future, these Taiping Army will be the result of the Hong Prefecture.

In fact, as long as you listen to the tone of the officer, you will know that this officer is not from the standard Hongjun of Zhejiang. Words such as "Tianjin" and "Tianjing" are obviously the remnants of the Taiping Army. In fact, he is the remnant of Yang Xiuqing.

However, their Yang Xiuqing's remnants did not have much favoritism for Hong Xiuquan who played with conspiracy, let alone the massacre in Tianjing, so he was particularly merciless when dealing with the old Taiping Army.

The battle to conquer Wuhu was led by these old Taiping Army. They captured the most important city in the hands of the Taiping Army in a few hours and carried out efficient post-purchase.

More than a dozen stubborn people in the Kingdom of Heaven holding the heavenly sealed the letters fell directly under the platoon, while more Taiping soldiers entered the prisoner camp after disarming, and some Taiping soldiers who were invading the uprising retained their weapons as local armed forces of the Hong Army.

Although the Taiping Army in this city is known as 50,000 people, the actual number is only more than 4,000, and only a thousand people are truly capable of combat. Even so, capturing this city represents a fatal blow to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Tianjing defense system.

Since Wuhu recovered, the land contact between Nanjing and the upstream has been eliminated. Even if the Taiping Army can transfer more troops from Anhui, it must break through the Hong Army's defense line and enter the Taiping Prefecture.

Feng Sixian looked at Dajiang and said, "The key is to master the navy well. I wonder if Zhang Sigui's navy can break through the defense line of Jinling and go straight to Anhui..."

"Even if he can't rush over, he can use foreign ships!" A battalion commander replied: "Now our relationship with foreigners has improved again. As long as we buy one or two fast ships in Shanghai and hang the foreign ships, King Hong Tian would probably not dare to fire."

"We have to find a way to do everything ourselves." Feng Sixian was no longer satisfied with capturing the entire south of the Yangtze River in Anhui, but was preparing to look at the entire Anhui territory, and even considered the issue of continuing to attack Henan.

He had previously criticized Zhou Xiuying for being too optimistic and causing something to do about the coal-iron battle, but the war entering Anhui proved that his estimate was too pessimistic.

It was almost destroyed and destroyed, and the Qing army had no resistance at all. The local regiment training collectively surrendered, and then disbanded itself in a very tame manner, and handed over weapons and flags. Only the Taiping Army still had some combat power.

However, the Taiping Army became very confused during several chaos in the Kingdom of Heaven. As long as the Hong Army said that they were also from the old Taiping Army and said a few slander words from the country of heaven, groups of Taiping Army were dragging guns over there, and even officers such as inspection, command, and military commander came over.

This time, the capture of Wuhu was to use the surrendered Taiping Army as an internal supporter, sweeping the entire Taiping Prefecture in a few hours. According to information, the Qing army, Taiping army and regiment training south of the Yangtze River were almost all of these products.

What's more, according to the agreement reached by Zhou Xiuying and Huo Qiu in advance, Jiangxi will send at least five infantry battalions into Anhui to fight after conquering Wuhu. With their assistance, the battle to capture the entire Anhui territory will become more smooth.

"We are not able to meet the limits on combating south of the Yangtze River. Although the order of His Highness of the King of Yan is not to exceed that of the Yangtze River, our army has obtained the initiative on the battlefield and can attack north at any time!"

"Requested from Brigade Commander Zhou and His Highness Yan, we will further prepare to strengthen the battle between the camp and fight across the river and strive to win the bridgehead of Jiangbei..."

...

"Wuhu defeated, Guangdezhou recovered, Taiping Prefecture and Ningguo Prefecture recovered, and Huizhou Prefecture has recovered the three counties..."

Liu Chang watched the staff identify locations on the map, and Nanbohang continued to add: "Captain Huo has sent a mixed infantry brigade in Jiangxi to Anhui to assist in the battle. There are two infantry regiments and one artillery battalion. Now everything is going well..."

He added: "Although this battle is affected, the Second Army's entry into Hunan is not affected. Our Second Army is preparing to enter Hunan in the near future, and strive to attack Changsha and defeat the main force of the Hunan Army."

"Very good!"

Liu Chang was very happy to see the attacks of various troops as thunderous as thunder, watching red arrows sweep everything on the map. In fact, the battle was so smooth that it even exceeded his imagination.

"Now Brigade Commander Feng Sixian asked to send a reinforcement battalion to compete for the bridgehead in Jiangbei. If the fighter planes allow it, a infantry regiment will be sent to Jiangbei to reinforce!"

"A infantry reinforcement battalion?" Liu Chang said immediately: "It must be the old infantry battalion of the First Division. Otherwise, if an infantry battalion has no help in Jiangbei, there will be certain danger!"

Nanbohang mentioned another point: "The key is that we must grasp the water control power as soon as possible. Below Jinling, we have absolute initiative in the water and even established bridgeheads in Jiangbei. Above Jinling, we are almost blank, with only a small number of Taiping military and civilian ships that we have accepted, and our combat effectiveness is very weak!"

Liu Chang asked, "Where is the next offensive? Is it Jiangbei or the two lakes?"

ps: Two updates tomorrow (to be continued)
Chapter completed!