"Yes, yes, with Lord Belle personally in charge, your subordinates will spare no effort to kill Najingzhou as soon as possible."

Su Mucha nodded and said yes again and again, paused after speaking, raised his eyes to look at Tunqi's face, and then rolled his eyes and said:

"But Lord Belle, his subordinates are also difficult to argue! Our Manchurian Iron Cavalry is invincible in the world, but there are too few subordinates, and the green battalion soldiers of Zhang Tianshou are really ...... Hey, once he was ambushed by the grass bandits, he ran faster than a rabbit, and he couldn't catch up! ”

Although it was explained that Su Mucha was deliberately shirking responsibility, Tun Qi still kicked the stool in front of him to the side after hearing this, picked up the horsewhip on the table and said: "Mom, let's go, follow me to Zhang Tianshou's camp, those cowards, it's time to reprimand them!" ”

"Hey, huh!"

Su Mucha hurriedly rushed out of the house, and shouted to his own soldiers to carry the horse for Tunqi.

The Qing army in Suining City, less than 2,000 full cavalry barracks are stationed near the county government, and Zhang Tianshou's green battalion is stationed near the east gate of the city, and the surrounding city gates are jointly guarded by the full cavalry and green battalion soldiers.

Although Zhang Tianshou's official position as a staff general is higher than that of Su Mucha, the actual command is in Su Mucha's hands, so the officers at all levels below will naturally handle it accordingly.

Puppet armies are generally puppets and cannon fodder, this is an eternal truth, and it will be until future generations.

Su Mucha accompanied Tunqi out of the yamen all the way to the east, there was no scene except for the dilapidated streets, and the pedestrians on the street were even more pitiful.

The city is full of dilapidated houses, and the deserted streets are full of dead air, which makes Tunqi more and more depressed.

The Ming and Qing dynasties fought in this area for four or five years, and there was not a single prefecture or county in eastern Sichuan, Huguang, and northern Guizhou that had not been affected by military disasters, and the population of many prefectures and cities had dropped by six or seven tenths compared with before, and the rest of the small places could naturally be imagined.

In comparison, Suining is not bad, because it is located in a closed mountainous area, it is not an important place, it is easier for the Qing army to capture this place, so there is no large-scale massacre, so that Suining has a large population in all the counties in Xiangxi, which is probably related to the need for the Qing army to enslave the people, otherwise what do they eat and drink, and who do they drive to be their people?

Tun Qi said that he was going to the green camp for a walk, but in fact, he was too stuffy in the yamen, and he was blocked in his heart, so he wanted to come out for a walk, so he went to the Zhang Tianshou camp in the east of the city for a turn, and after losing his temper by the way, he disappeared a lot in one breath.

Zhang Tianshou also swore that he would enter the mountains to suppress the bandits as soon as the latest batch of grain and grass arrived, although he was extremely contemptuous of these puppet army teams in his heart, Tun Qi finally said a few words of encouragement dryly.

In fact, he knows very well in his heart that almost all the people in this kind of two-dog team are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and the Qing court out of some tacit Han policy, in addition to the Han Eight Banners equivalent to the full cavalry treatment, even the troops of the King of Sanshun are ordered to raise their own armaments, and this kind of green battalion team that was incorporated after entering the customs is even less welcome, not only not allowed to be equipped with firearms, but also full of foot soldiers, and the combat effectiveness is originally scum, at best it is just a strong momentum to fight a downwind battle.

After coming out of Zhang Tianshou's camp, Tun Qi and his entourage turned to the vicinity of the city gate, Tun Qi immediately looked at it for a while, and found that except for some villagers who scattered into the city to sell vegetables and firewood, there was no one in and out, and immediately felt interested, and secretly scolded this Suining is really a place where birds don't, and they are so poor that even the mercenary businessmen refuse to come, so that he can't get any oil and water.

The Qing soldiers guarding the city were wondering why there were many more people entering the city today than usual, and when they saw the adults coming, they hurriedly ran over to salute, and Tun Qi waved his hand impatiently, signaling them to go about their own business, and he really couldn't raise the interest in whipping them a few times when they saw them appear in the distance and avoided them in panic.

Boredom, Tun Qi decided to go back to the yamen to continue drinking, last night Su Mucha robbed him of a bright little lady tasted good, or go back and call her to drink for a while to relieve boredom.

After shouting at Su Mucha, Tunqi turned his horse's head and wanted to go back, but saw several young Taoist priests walking in from the city gate.

"Phew! It's really damn unlucky, this young woman doesn't see a single one, but the miscellaneous old way is walking everywhere, what the hell is the world! ”

Tun Qi scolded angrily and beat the horse and left, as soon as he thought of the little lady's belly, a lust sprung up, and he patted the horse's back and galloped away, startling the pedestrians in the distance to scream and dodge.

……

Tun Qi never even dreamed that these villagers who fell into the city sporadically, as well as those who pretended to be Taoist priests, were all members of the Chitose Army of Shenpo Mountain, and their main task in entering the city was to step on points, and bring flammable things such as fire oil, firewood and grass into the city, and smuggle them to the vicinity of the Qing army camp.

Others sought out acquaintances outside the city to try to gather some boats for backup.

When discussing the battle plan, Lin Xiao unexpectedly found that although the Chitose Army had very primitive weapons and basically did not even have firearms, when robbing the logistics team of the Qing army, they had seized some canned fire oil, and he was immediately overjoyed.

It turns out that there is already fire oil in this era!

With this thing, wouldn't it be possible to save a lot of grenades and explosives? Also, wouldn't the Mobil lamps produced by Zhou Gong make the best use of them?

Later, he learned that his idea was a little too optimistic, these fire oils, which were very different from the kerosene of later generations, were actually just crude oil that had been simply refined, and could not be used as lamp oil because of their fierce burning, and were generally only used in the army and with firearms.

There is very little shallow oil in China, and most of these oil are paid tribute from Champa or trafficked, so the quantity is very small and quite precious. (Champa: The south-central region of present-day Vietnam, when it was not annexed, it was named Champa State, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, with large shallow oil fields, rich in spices, and tribute paid every year, and private commercial exchanges were also extremely frequent, author's note.) ）

As soon as the day dawned, several groups of people came down from Shenpo Mountain one after another.

The first group of people was the signal corps sent by Zhu Yujia to Quanzhou to give orders, and ordered the first battalion of the main force under his command, as well as the reconnaissance company and machine guns, to immediately move to the designated ambush site after connecting to the order.

The second group of people were dozens of snipers and fireteam members of the special combat team who set off first, who were responsible for surveying the terrain outside the city and laying ambushes at various commanding heights in advance.

The third group is these Chitose soldiers who entered the city in disguise.

Because the soldiers were reluctant to shave their hair, for fear of infiltrating the city and arousing the suspicion of the Qing soldiers, they had no choice but to either dress up as unkempt villagers or Taoist priests who did not have to shave their hair.

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I wish the book friends a happy birthday!

(End of chapter)