The efficiency of the Investigation and Statistics Section of the Hanlin Academy is quite efficient. After receiving Li Xuan's order, although Li Daobing, the leader of Hanlin Academy, could not rush back to Jinling in person because he had to accompany him, he sent his right-hand man, Hanlin Academy Investigation
Xia Fuzhong, one of the deputy chiefs of the Statistics Section and the director of the third room, immediately rushed back to Jinling City to preside over the Chen Lifu case.
The Hantong organization is different from other departments of the Hanlin Academy. The scale of Hantong is much larger than other departments. Hantong has nine offices and three offices, which are responsible for intelligence matters in different directions. The first office is responsible for the clan, relatives and relatives.
, the second room is in charge of the military, the third room is in charge of Gyeonggi civil servants, the fourth room is in charge of local civil servants, the fifth room is in charge of foreign vassals, the sixth room is in charge of civil unrest, the seventh room is in charge of counterintelligence, the eighth room is in charge of public opinion, and the ninth room is in charge of public opinion.
The office is responsible for the internal supervision of Hantong; the three offices are the General Affairs Office, the Logistics Office, and the Organization Office.
Under Li Daobing, the chief of the Hantong section, there are three deputy section chiefs. These three deputy section chiefs assist Li Daobing in handling the huge Hantong section. At the same time, each deputy section chief will basically also serve as the head of one of the agencies.
Xia Fenzhong is the deputy section chief and the head of the third room. His daily job is to monitor the Gyeonggi officials and basically all the supervision work of the central government departments, including the cabinet ministries, the Hanlin Academy departments, the Central Supervisory Office, and the Central Court.
All monitoring is under his management.
However, such a person with real power actually had little reputation in the Tang Dynasty. Many people, even officials within the Tang Dynasty, had never heard of his name.
Because Hantong never announced the list of Hantong's senior officials to the outside world, and internal transfers were never announced to the outside world. Even outsiders could not understand Hantong's organizational structure.
They don't know, and they don't have the guts to ask, why? Because almost everything in Hantong is top secret, and their organizational structure, except for the three major departments, is all represented by numbers, the first room, the third room
A certain subject, a certain group.
As for the list and resume of Hantong personnel, except for Li Daobing, who needs to stand on the stage, the rest are all confidential, and people without relevant authority have no way of knowing.
For example, Xia Fuzhong's personal files are classified as second-class top secret. Only a handful of people in the world can see Xia Fuzhong's personal files.
Therefore, most outsiders know that Hantong is very powerful, but they rarely have an intuitive understanding of its powerful methods. Even their direct competitor, the Military Intelligence Department, actually does not know much about the internal structure of Hantong.
Hantong is like a large transparent network. Everyone can feel their existence, but no one can see their existence.
Now, Xia Fenzhong feels that Chen Lifu's case may be an opportunity for the outside world to truly understand the power of their Hantong, because this time their Hantong is going to do something big!
The Holy Emperor has personally issued an order to conduct a strict investigation into the Chen Lifu case!
Check what?
Of course, it is not to check whether Chen Lifu is guilty or not. This kind of thing is none of their business. Even if Chen Lifu is really wronged, their Hantong will not take a second look at it. There are many people who have been wronged in the world.
Go, they can't control it.
What their administration wants to investigate strictly is the clique and selfish behavior in Chen Lifu’s case this time!
Regardless of whether they were linked together to frame Chen Lifu or they were linked together to rescue Chen Lifu, they are all targets of their investigation!
When Xia Fenzhong returned to Jinling with Li Xuan's orders, Li Xuan also put the Chen Lifu case behind him. Maybe this incident aroused widespread public opinion in Jinling and Jiangnan. Maybe this incident has an impact on some people.
It's big, but for Li Xuan, it's just a small thing.
Even if there were signs of forming cliques for personal gain in this matter, Li Xuanduo frowned and ordered a strict investigation.
Right now, his focus is still on the Southwest Campaign.
As time passed, the Tang Dynasty King's Division had successfully launched the second phase of the Southwest Campaign!
In order to cooperate with the actions of the First Army, the Second Army continued to act as a vanguard and took the lead in launching relevant actions!
After replenishing a large amount of ammunition and new soldiers, the Second Army was fully manned and fully supplied. The Second Army divided into two groups, besieging Huangmei along the way, and bypassed Huangmei and went straight to Guangji.
In fact, these two places had been abandoned by the Ming Army Superintendent Biao a long time ago. Their main force had already withdrawn, leaving only one or two thousand people in the city defending.
And these 2,000 troops are not supervisors, they are just local young men!
What's even more funny is that the leaders of these young and strong men were not Ming army generals or officials, but local gentry, because when the main force of Supervisor Biao withdrew, the local officials also ran away with them.
In order to prevent the city from falling into chaos, the local gentry gathered together to maintain order in the city.
Although many of the gentry wanted to resist, the gap in strength between the two sides was too great, and they did not mount any decent resistance at all.
Under the attack of the Second Army, Huangmeicheng only defended for two hours before being breached!
Guangji was better, they stayed on guard for half a day!
And you must know that the two hours and half a day mentioned here do not mean the time after the troops of the Second Army of the Tang Dynasty launched the general attack, but the time when the forward troops of the Second Army of the Tang Dynasty arrived at the city!
In fact, these two cities failed to hold out until the arrival of the main force of the Second Army. The city was declared broken after the arrival of the Tang Army's vanguard force.
Of course, in fact, they did not put up much resolute resistance. The forward troops launched a tentative attack, which was originally used to detect the defensive firepower in the city, but the young men in the city simply collapsed.
They say they will go down without a fight, but in fact there is no problem at all!
After capturing these two places, Qizhou also failed to block the Second Army's attack. The Second Army sent an infantry division over and took two days to capture the city.
The reason it took two days was because this was a state city after all, and although the local Ming army supervisor Biao had withdrawn the main force, he still left thousands of men with thousands of young men to resist, trying to delay the second attack.
The time of the second army's attack.
Therefore, the troops of the Second Army spent a day building artillery positions, etc., spent half a day preparing artillery fire, spent half an hour fighting for the city walls and city gates, and spent another two or three hours controlling the city and clearing out the remaining soldiers in the city.
So, it took them two days!
The Second Army's attacks in the above three places were very smooth, but when they continued to push northeast, they encountered a small trouble at Qishui. The Ming army stationed here was not a small number of supervisors.
They are young and strong, and they are genuine supervisors. There are about 8,000 people in total.
Moreover, these supervisors actually abandoned the city, and instead chose to build fortresses on several small mountains outside the city backed by the river, relying on the crossfire of artillery, muskets, and bows and arrows for defense.
When the vanguard of the Second Army first launched a probing attack, they did not expect that Ming Army Governor Biao's counterattack would be so sharp, and they actually lost hundreds of people.
After the Third Infantry Division arrived, it also tried to attack the fortress outside the city, but found that it was a tough nut to crack!
The Ming army in these fortresses did not actually have many large-caliber artillery, but their fortresses were constructed very cleverly, and were quite ingenious with the bastions that the Datang Army was studying and the Datang Western Company was building and using.
Although these forts are independent, they are actually not far from each other, and there are trenches connecting each other, and they can provide fire support to each other, which makes the 3rd Infantry Division a very headache.
At the same time, although these forts are not very good, large-caliber field artillery can often destroy a section of their earth walls. However, these earth-built forts have a characteristic, that is, the soil layer is soft and can absorb the kinetic energy of solid artillery shells.
Moreover, these fortresses all have roofs. Unexpectedly, the great weapon of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty: the heavy howitzer, met its nemesis!
The heavy howitzer shell exploded, but the Ming army was hiding in the reserved fortress and trench, and the casualties were very limited!
Whenever the Tang Army thought that under such a fierce bombardment, the Ming army supervisors hiding in simple fortresses would be killed by the shock wave even if they were not killed by shrapnel, so they tried to send commandos to rush up and occupy the position.
At that time, those Ming troops would appear and fight back with small bowl-mouth cannons, bows and arrows, and muskets.
In order to avoid excessive casualties during the attack, the assault battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division had to stop midway!
This situation made the senior generals of the 3rd Infantry Division quite annoyed!
Although in such a fight, the Third Infantry Division's own casualties will not be large. After all, the generals of the Third Infantry Division are not stupid. It is impossible to say that they will attack regardless of casualties just to conquer a fortress, but it is still quite difficult to fight.
To feel uncomfortable.
In the end, there was no choice but to give up the intention of a quick victory and start the soil work that the Tang Dynasty King would do in every tough battle!
Dig trenches directly, get close and throw grenades into the opponent's trenches or fortresses, or direct the nine-pound field artillery from behind to carry out precise strikes!
In this kind of battle, the Suifa pistol, which had not been taken seriously by the Tang cavalry, was also taken seriously by the army generals, because when fighting in trenches, the soldiers' rifles were too long and it was difficult to use them in narrow trenches.
When fighting in a battle, the pistol is different. You can load the bullet directly and bring it with you. When you are ready to fight, turn on the safety and be ready to pull the trigger and shoot at any time!
Although the small Suifa pistol can only be used once, its hit rate at close range is quite impressive. In small-scale battles, a rifle with a bayonet is better to use.
In this way, with few casualties, they continuously conquered the enemy's fortress positions, successfully annihilated half of the eight thousand governors, and forced them to flee across the river!
But after this battle, the commander of the Second Army, Wang Chaohong, frowned! u