Ancient wars due to the backwardness of communication technology often have a lot of accidents, the farther the geographical distance, the higher the probability of accidents, although pigeon technology has been with human beings for thousands of years, but this technology is not perfect, pigeon occasionally has an accident is also very normal.

For example, the information that the imperial court sent Zhou Daoying and Ermao to negotiate with Xiao Letian urgently did not reach Xiao Letian's hands, God knows whether the pigeon was convulsed, lost or shot down by the hunter, anyway, after Xiao Letian learned the news of Zeng Guofan's northward journey, he decided to break the kettle and make a big move.

Outside the city of Tianjin, the Eight Banners Battalion, all the soldiers are ready to go to the battle, and the 10,000 tigers selected early tomorrow morning will be killed to the east, surrounding Tanggu Port and bloodbathing Lotte Foreign Travel.

Since ancient times, fighting a war is to burn money, which is especially obvious in the late Qing Dynasty, when the soldiers eat food, it is natural for the soldiers to eat food, and you can fool the past as long as you have three meals of coarse tea and light rice a day when raising soldiers on weekdays, but it is not so simple in wartime, and it is not possible to let the soldiers work hard without silver incentives.

Chickens, ducks, fish, tofu and eggs, a whole car of white rice and white noodles, and all kinds of silver for various rewards, must be prepared in advance. Soldiers should be rewarded for their charges, they should be rewarded when they hang up lotteries, and they should be rewarded for the tens of miles or hundreds of miles of running back and forth.

The reward is not over, sometimes when the battle is fierce, the reward is not good, you have to personally carry the silver to the front of the soldier, and personally distribute it to the soldier's hand, then you can boost morale. If you don't have any money, you want others to sell their lives, or at least they will scatter in a hurry, or at worst, they will defect and take advantage of the chaos to kill a few officers.

Tianjin Eight Banners Commander Mailer has been busy with silver matters during this time, and the official treasury of Tianjin Wei has almost been emptied for him, if he doesn't seize such a good opportunity to make a fortune, he will be this official in vain.

"Grandma, if you want the brothers to work hard, you can't do it without money, no one can mention the number of bandits, anyway, the Tanggu Green Camp has been completely beaten down, this is not weaker than the foreigners, can you bring more soldiers?

"What my lord said is that there is no reason in the world to use troops and not give money, these years have seen that they have shaved their heads and made a fortune, but we are serious and full of people but stand aside, this time we have to make up for what we say......"

"That's right...... Let those civilian officials go to the Ministry of War, and those account farmers will make money with their pens, we are a head deal...... It's dry, it's full of ......"

In their minds, no matter how high Xiao Letian's combat effectiveness is, no matter how powerful the foreign guns are, they are only 200 people, and more than 10,000 Eight Banners athletes put out the military formation and push it over like Mount Tai pressing the top, there is no reason to lose at all.

Mailer was sweating profusely, and he opened his arms to dissipate heat and shouted, "Who's who...... Send someone to the camp to take a look, although today the master will improve the food for the brothers, but tomorrow there will be an expedition, no one is allowed to drink too much......"

Speaking of this, Mellor's eyes slipped to the wooden tray on the table next to him, which was full of Yingyang, all of which were foreign money withdrawn from the official treasury. Mailer reached out and grabbed one and blew it lightly, and the characteristic hum of silver coins rang in his ears.

"It's a good thing, the things of foreigners are good, the coins have been minted into flowers, and then look at the heavy and bulky silver ingots of our Qing Dynasty, why don't you learn from other foreigners?"

"Hi...... You still don't understand the thoughts of those Han people who are dirty officials? If they are all changed to this kind of foreign money, where will they go to earn fire? This is thanks to Yongzhengye, if it weren't for his old man's fire consumption and return to the public, these civil officials would have died even more......

"That's it, I heard my grandfather say that when Kowloon seized the heir, the eighth elder brother secretly engaged in a small court, and all the officials of all ages were loyal to the eighth master, and at that time, the eighth master party consumed no less than one million taels ......of money a year."

While chatting, Mailer suddenly had a thought in his mind: "Hey, I said how many brothers...... Why are there so many foreigners' silver coins transferred from the official treasury in Tianjin this time? I estimate that it is at least fifty percent, is it possible that all of Tianjin now uses foreign money to pay taxes?"

When the brothers were seconded to the military salaries, they did see that more than half of the official treasury was full of this kind of foreign money, and there were so many in the official warehouse, so you can imagine how many people had to have.

"What do you care about, sir? This is a matter for civil officials to worry about, let's drink, and then drink......"

As the night deepened, the barracks gradually became calm, and all the officers and men, except for Mellor and the other high-ranking officers, had fallen asleep. Just as the hour hand pointed to one o'clock in the morning, the withered grass outside the camp suddenly moved, and a figure dressed in straw camouflage stealthily approached the barracks.

More and more figures approached the camp from all directions like ghosts in the night, and the wooden fence could not stop them at all, and they fluttered into the camp like harriers.

The soldier guarding the camp gate shrank his hand and looked boredly at the night, and suddenly a black hand from behind him covered his mouth, and the sharp dagger pierced from under the ribs and stirred violently, and the unlucky soldier's legs twitched and immediately returned to the underworld.

The four soldiers guarding the camp gate were stabbed to death almost simultaneously, and the four camp gates in the south, east, and west had fallen without even a single alarm, and a team of ten people quickly entered the camp on tiptoe, quiet as a team of tanuki.

This is Xiao Letian's new army, this is an iron army trained in full accordance with the requirements of special forces, infiltration and lurking are skills they must master, let alone night battles.

Tents, cabins, stables, warehouses...... An important target in the camp had already been marked on the map, and all the squad leaders had a detailed topographic map in their hands, and even before the operation, Xiao Lotian asked the craftsmen to make a large sand table and reconstruct the terrain in three dimensions.

The plan for this night attack on Xiao Lotian was very clear, that is, to burn all the enemy's supplies and carry out a decapitation operation, and Melle and his hardcore men would not want to run, and if they could not be captured alive, they would be killed immediately.

Wang Huaiyuan's torture hall had already figured out the route and frequency of night patrols, and within half an hour of the new army entering the camp, all the ten night patrol squads of the Eight Banners were annihilated.

"What's that?...... There are ghosts..."A soldier who had risen at night finally noticed the ghost swaying in the night wind, but what awaited him was an icy crossbow arrow that pierced his throat.

"Do it, act immediately......" An orange-red firework exploded in the night sky, followed by countless fires in the camp, warehouses, horse sheds, armories, tents and wooden houses where soldiers lived, dozens of fire points spread rapidly, and the entire night sky was illuminated after a while.

"A company, two platoons, and five squads, interspersed in the northeast direction, captured Melle alive...... The second company was platoon and one shift, and the powder magazine due south had to be blown up...... The rest of the squads scattered and fought, mainly to drive away, not to fall in love with the ......"

One after another, military orders sounded, and in the firelight, Xiao Letian raised the butcher's knife again, and the more than 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers were unlucky.

"Enemy attack...... If there is an enemy attack, rush out and fight them...... Oops my cāo, where's my pants? Who the fuck put my pants through......"

"Where's my knife? Lao Tzu obviously hung on the wall, who took it off?"

"Emperor Heavenly Ancestor bless, where is the enemy? Where is the enemy......

The soldiers in the hut were in a mess on the Chase bunk, and while they were struggling to find their trouser waist knives, the wooden door was kicked open, and three Spencers reached in and fired a burst of fire.

"My mother, what a yin soldier...... It's really a ghost soldier......" The whole person has been beaten into a sieve by bullets, and the soldier covers the gun hole on his body to try to plug the blood, but his strength is disappearing little by little. The pain didn't last long, and the last bullet entered his brow, ending his life.

The same killings were repeated throughout the camp, the crunch of Molotov cocktails was endless, and the homemade Molotov cocktails were so good that many soldiers were locked in flames in their houses before they even got out of the door.

At this time, on the mound not far from the camp, Xiao Letian was looking intently at a sea of fire...... Damn, you guys go faster, 200 to 20,000 rely on surprise, rely on speed......"

"Advance to the core of the camp, advance quickly, Lao Tzu wants to capture Melle alive, don't care about those little miscellaneous fish......"

Xiao Lotian jumped and scolded, his love was extremely excited, this was a big gamble, and the plan of breaking 20,000 yuan made everyone stunned as soon as it appeared. Those veterans who had participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Rao was experienced in a hundred battles, and he never expected Xiao Letian to be so crazy.

Before Mailer made a move, he took the lead in attacking, using the protection of the night to carry out a fire attack, using the super penetration ability of the new army to penetrate the enemy's heart, and wipe out those officers, such a crazy and bold plan is really useless except for Xiao Letian.

"I have confidence in my new army, and I have more confidence in the decay of the Eight Banners, don't look at our small numbers, but our advantages are also obvious, and the gap between the times is enough to make up for the lack of numbers. If you are afraid, I, Xiao Letian, will lead the troops myself......"

With that said, let's start doing it, it only took three days for the intelligence officers of the torture hall to spy on a qiē, when will the money be paid, when will the banquet be held, and when will they go to the war...... All the details are clear.

At this time, you can see the benefits of the elite army policy, there is no need for any combat preparation at all, not even a pre-war mobilization, as long as the order of the 200 new troops can be fought at any time.

High efficiency vs. low efficiency, high speed vs. low technology, plus being prepared to fight unprepared, such a big generation gap is really not something that can be made up by the number of people.

"Look... Long Ye, take a look...... There was a fire in the inner camp, and there was a fire in Mailer's station, and I said we could win, we would win..."

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