"Grandpa Guo, our new army often wins more with less, and it is not simply relying on muskets to win, but it is actually winning with strict military discipline and strict drills."

Liu Xulei said playfully, "Dare to ask Grandpa Guo, how are you going to deal with these floating wealth after they are seized?" ”

"The governor must strictly enforce military discipline and clean it up, and no longer allow soldiers to hide their belongings."

Jiao Lian's face turned slightly red, and he replied with a sneer.

Compared with other teams, Jiao Lian's army is still relatively strict, his troops never rob the people, but according to the convention, the spoils of war are not handed over, so the army of this era is often warlord, and the stubborn disease of soldiers eating food and making a fortune in the army is deep-rooted, and generals at all levels lack the determination to fight to the death, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Now seeing that Liu Xulei's troops have such a strong combat effectiveness, Jiao Lian's heart is both shocked and ashamed, it is time to ask shamelessly and ask for the method of coaching.

"Grandpa Guo is wise! Only when an army is the patron saint of the people and sincerely thinks about the people, will the people really support it with all their might, and there will be no opportunity to take advantage of it. Liu Xulei sighed with emotion.

"General Liu, after this battle, the main force of the Tartars has been broken, and there is no threat in the direction of Guangdong, Lian thinks that he can send troops to Wuzhou and threaten Zhaoqing, does the general think so?"

Jiao Lian knew that his future use of troops would be inseparable from the help of this team, so he was very modest and even changed his self-profess.

"What Grandpa Guo said is very true, according to our President Lin's operational concept, the next step is to recover Guangdong." Liu Xulei replied with a smile.

"That's very good...... However, will General Liu be able to help Lian before the war? It would be good to help Lian rectify military discipline, improve training, and create a unit like your righteous army. Jiao Lian asked respectfully.

"Grandpa Guo has an order, dare not obey it? I will do my best to live up to the expectations of the grandfather. Liu Xulei smiled and bowed.

"That being the case, general, please bow down!" Jiao Lian was overjoyed and said happily.

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After the war, more than 10,000 Qing troops were captured, more than 3,000 war horses, more than 300 war ships, countless food and ordnance, all the seized property was handed over, and there were millions of silver alone.

At that moment, Jiao Lian sent the Tang newspaper of Xunzhou's great victory to Nanning, as well as Geng Jimao's head, and sent 10,000 stone of grain to the imperial court by the way, and then began to reorganize the army with the help of Liu Xulei in preparation for a counterattack on Wuzhou.

Zhang Chenfeng upgraded Liu Xulei's machine gun platoon to a machine gun platoon according to Lin Xiao's instructions, and then led the headquarters back to Yulin to chase the large army, Liu Xulei entrusted Ni Zhisheng with more than 1,000 war horses captured by Ni Chenfeng to send them to Lin Xiao, and he used the 1,000 war horses captured in Jintian to reorganize the whole battalion into cavalry infantry - dragoons, and since then his second battalion has become the first rapid reaction force under Lin Xiao.

Jiao Lian was also not ambiguous, selected one hundred horses from the captured three thousand war horses to send to the rebels, and specially selected a fiery red horse to entrust Zhang Chenfeng to give it to Lin Xiao, and specially instructed that this was a very rare Ili horse, named "Chiji", which is said to be a thousand-mile horse, and I don't know which Qing general's mount.

Of Jiao Lian's more than 10,000 Ming troops, 3,000 were also reorganized into real cavalry by Jiao Lian, each with a bright saber, and the earlier formation of the 3,000 firearms battalion continued to practice gun tactics and coordinated offensive and defensive tactics with cavalry, and the remaining thousands of infantry also strengthened physical fitness and tactical training, selected more than 3,000 people to form an elite attacking infantry, and eliminated the remaining more than 2,000 old and weak soldiers and reorganized them into the Xunzhou garrison and logistics troops.

Liu Xulei taught the "Seven Killings Order" and military songs of the righteous army to this Ming army, and took the opportunity to strengthen discipline education.

Since then, this elite army of Jiao Lian has been deeply branded by Lin Xiao's righteous army.

For more than 10,000 Qing army prisoners, Jiao Lian was unequivocal, through mutual exposure and accusation, all those who had killed the people and raped women were beheaded, until the blood flowed, and the remaining more than 5,000 people were guarded and managed by the eliminated Ming army defending the city, of which more than 1,000 young and strong were incorporated into the people's team, giving them a chance to atone for their crimes.

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Just as Liu Xulei and Jiao Lian were in full swing to prepare for the war, Lin Xiao and the others were still in a hurry.

Since most of the thousands of military horses captured by Zhu Yujia were horses, and there were less than 300 horses that could really charge into battle, Lin Xiao simply divided them all equally and equipped them with Ding Shuai's first battalion and Zhu Yujia's third battalion respectively, and asked them to organize an advance detachment to quickly rush to Gantang Town, which is more than 100 miles away, and Litang Town, which is more than 80 miles away, and the rest of the horses were also equally divided between the baggage companies and machine gun platoons of the first and third battalions, replacing the original Dian horses.

In addition, Li Yuanyin's Ming army needed training and was delayed for two days, when Zhang Chenfeng came back with more than 1,000 war horses sent by Liu Xulei, the first and third battalions had already set off, Lin Xiao and Li Yuanyin They also just wanted to leave, Lin Xiao saw this and asked the reconnaissance company and guard platoon to replace the original Dian horses, and the remaining war horses were all given to Li Yuanyin.

Li Yuanyin's forbidden army was also a cavalry team in its heyday, and then gradually consumed only a few hundred war horses, and almost all of them were smaller Yunnan horses, seeing Lin Xiao's gift of hundreds of northern high-headed horses, overjoyed, immediately formed a thousand cavalry, and Lin Xiao and they quickly chased after the three battalions, and the remaining infantry escorted the field medical team and Qu Shiqi Zhang Tongchang The two adults slowly followed.

As a result, it rained in the middle of the road, although the rain was not loud but very cold, and quietly drifted like smoke and fog in the ruins and broken walls along the way, on the dead branches and leaves, damp the earth, damp the houses, damp the trees, damp the clothes of the pedestrians on the road, and even more damp the mood of the pedestrians.

Although the road was muddy and difficult to walk, Lin Xiao, who was concerned about the front line, did not plan to camp halfway, he had to rush to the battlefield preset for Kong Youde as soon as possible, and seize the time to observe the terrain and deploy troops.

It was already dark when he arrived at Litang all the way, Lin Xiao instructed Zhu Yujia to arrange a camp for the hungry soldiers, and Zhu Yujia carefully prepared ginger soup and firewood in the tent.

After settling Li Yuanyin and his soldiers, Lin Xiao changed his clothes at Zhu Yujia's headquarters, drinking ginger soup while listening to Zhu Yujia's enemy report.

"According to the scout's report, the Qing army's vanguard has just taken down the guests and is currently stationed in the area of Liangjiang Town, which is less than 100 miles away...... The main force just set off from Liuzhou two days ago, Kong Youde personally led the team, still in the Phoenix area north of the guest, the road is slippery in the rain, it is estimated that the guest can only camp tonight. Liu Xulei briefly and concisely introduced the enemy situation that he had detected.

"How many strikers are there?"

"The number is not large, about 3,000 people, but they are all cavalry, the number of the main force is unknown, looking at the posture there are tens of thousands, and the people alone have requisitioned tens of thousands of people."

"Hmm...... In your opinion, which way will they go? Lin Xiao asked, staring at the map.

"Judging from the map, there are three ways to go from the guests to Nanning, among which the main road from Guigang detour and back to the west is the safest, but I think Kong Youde probably won't go to the monk's letter to meet, right?" Zhu Yujia said with a deep groan.

"Hmm...... As the head of the Sanshun king, attacking Guangxi was originally his task, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao have completed the task of conquering Guangdong, this time it is just a response action, Kong Youde will not give the credit of smashing Nanning and capturing the Nanming Emperor to others. ”

Lin Xiao raised his head, frowned and groaned, "So...... Which of the remaining two paths will he take? ”