Before the war, faced with a serious shortage of troops, Huang Zhongting naturally wanted to use the nearly 600 people in the newly established new barracks, but because these people were bandits in the past, and the training time was not long, it was just through the means of grace and power that this group of people were submissive.

Huang Zhongting had some worries in his heart, once all of them were on the battlefield, the impact on combat effectiveness would be secondary, and the rout would be over, after all, this large number of recruits was much larger than the number of his original troops, and once a large-scale rout occurred on the battlefield, it would be completely impossible to stop it.

Simply only draw out a small number of recruits and disrupt them into the veterans, so that the veterans will watch them on the battlefield, which can not only run in the recruits as soon as possible, improve the combat quality of the recruits, but also prevent the fatal situation of rout and escape.

It's just that in this way, as far as the battle that is about to be prepared to attack the estuary is concerned, there are naturally not many troops that can be invested, but Huang Zhongting can't manage so much, no matter what, it is better than a fatal situation.

Huang Zhongting simply adjusted the troop establishment and staffing, some people were happy and some were disappointed, Xu Guichuan saw that his second company had expanded from one platoon to two platoons, he was already very arrogant and not good at disguise, and he opened his mouth with a smile, as for Xu Guichuan and Liao Zhongyi, one is old, mature and stable, and the other has received advanced military education and can control his mentality.

However, for example, Li Desheng and Li Kan were put on the position of staff officers by Huang Zhongting from the beginning, and they had no soldiers and no power, and seeing that the troops had been replenished with nearly 600 people, when they first heard that Huang Zhongting was going to adjust the establishment, they thought that they had hope to get rid of the false post of staff officer and take up a leading post with soldiers under them.

As a result, until the end, he didn't mention the two of them leading the troops, he was a little disappointed, but he had no choice but to continue to wait silently, the current boss was the young army commander in front of him, and some of the previous means had already made him win people's hearts, and the two naturally didn't dare to refute anything.

After issuing the order for the reorganization of the company, Huang Zhongting then said in a deep voice: "The attack on Hekou County is scheduled for three o'clock in the morning on June 1, Huang Zhongyuan led the first company to be responsible for the main attack, Liao Zhongyi led the third company to be responsible for assisting, Xu Guichuan led the second company to be responsible for sneaking into the city to rescue the arrested brothers, and the most important thing is Xu Guichuan, we must attack the Hekou garrison camp after the siege starts, and rescue the captured brothers. ”

Xu Guichuan put away the smile on his face, nodded seriously, and said, "Understood." ”

After the battle of the city gate began, the Qing army in the camp in the city will definitely reinforce the city gate, and there will not be many defenders left behind in the garrison, Xu Guichuan will attack the Qing army garrison to rescue the detained people It is naturally simpler, and after the rescue, he will turn to attack the city gate where the Qing army reinforces the past, and the front and back will be flanked, and no matter how many the Qing army is, it will inevitably be chaotic. This is Huang Zhongting's main idea.

Everyone understands this, to win this battle and whether they can rescue the captured soldiers, the main thing is whether Xu Guichuan's second company can sneak into the city, as long as they sneak into the city to save the captured people, it is a matter of convenience.

If you attack hard, you may be able to capture it by relying on the superiority of weapons and the effect of surprise, but you will also pay a certain amount of casualties.

"The siege troops distributed ammunition and set off on the evening of the 28th, that is, the day after tomorrow, and all the remaining people set off on the morning of the 29th, and it took two days to rush to the vicinity of Hekou County, and the action must be concealed, and if anyone is found along the way, they will be temporarily seized, and the new barracks will be responsible for bringing all the materials that can be moved, and when they leave, they will burn all the things that cannot be taken away along with the camp." Huang Zhongting gave the last order ruthlessly.

Burning down the camp is considered to be a broken back road, and failure means that there is no back road, Huang Zhongting slightly used the strategy of breaking the kettle and sinking the boat.

Except for Huang Zhongting, no one thinks too much about the future, to the point where they can't go back to their ordinary life, and they need to be crazy in troubled times, so they will accompany them to carry out the madness to the end.

Subsequently, Huang Zhongting found his father and told Huang Mingtang about his orders and plans, one seriously, and the other listened carefully.

After finishing speaking, Huang Mingtang simply replied, "Okay, you can arrange it yourself", and closed his eyes to rest.

Huang Zhongting wanted to test his cheap dad to see if he would really hand over the troops to himself, but the result of the temptation was that the cheap dad would really not care about these things anymore.

Subsequently, Huang Zhongting found Wu Ruolan again, briefly told her about the situation, and asked her to pack up her things and set off with the team, and then send someone to send her back to Vietnam after the capture of Hekou County was stabilized.

Now send her back Huang Zhongting is not at ease, he can't pull out manpower, and he is not completely unwary of her, in case she runs back and suddenly leaks the secret, it will be troublesome, and now the Qing army has received more than 200 remnants of the revolutionary army sent back by the French Vietnamese authorities, thinking that the revolutionary army is completely finished, and the vigilance is estimated to be not so heavy, and attacking the estuary is a good time, he doesn't want to be ruined by a little woman.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and at noon on May 28, the people sent to Lao Cai in Vietnam found the team that had been dispersed from the mouth of the river and brought back 57 people who were still hiding in Tibet in Lao Cai.

Huang Zhongting, who had just heard the news, was very happy, these more than 50 people were all people who had experienced the baptism of the battlefield, and now that the attack on the county seat was imminent, it was the time when manpower was needed.

But when he saw the more than 50 men in front of him, who were in tatters, yellow-skinned, and thin like beggars, he lost that joy, and after thinking about it, he could understand that fleeing to Vietnam was smuggled in the past, and it was not bad if he was not caught and sent back to the Qing army, after all, there were already more than 200 people who were now locked up in Hekou County.

extinguished the idea of letting these more than 50 people also participate in the war, and explained that Li Shaoyang led them to temporarily enter the new barracks and rest well.

On the night of May 28th, the Eagle's Beak Cottage was silent, the three companies participating in the attack on Hekou County had been assembled, and more than 240 people stood neatly in front of the gate, Huang Zhongting looked at the motionless figure shrouded in the night like an old tree, looked up at the moonless starry sky, it was still pitch black, and nodded to Huang Zhongyuan in front of him.

Huang Zhongyuan nodded in response, turned to look at the group in front of him and whispered, "Let's go!" ”

A line of marches headed deeper into the night.

Attacking a county town defended by more than 1,000 people with 240 men can be said to be almost impossible to succeed in the situation where the weapons and personnel of both sides are equal in military quality, and the city wall is the biggest reliance on defense.

However, Huang Zhongting had a time when the Qing army thought that the revolutionary army was wiped out and was careless, and it might be negligent in defense; There are people who are only equipped with a small number of guns than the Qing army, most of them are well-equipped with spears and broadswords, and there are people with higher individual quality than the local miscellaneous armies of the Qing army.

Now there is only one time left to create a geographical advantage, which can only rely on Huang Zhongyuan and themselves.

After all, Huang Zhongting can't command troops to fight, he has never gone to a military school, he has never read a military book, and he has no experience in really commanding a real battle.