Luoyang, Beijing. Nangong.

"Your Majesty. The ministers believed that we should always be on guard against the occupation of Hedong by the Republican Army. Jian Shuo said to His Majesty the Emperor.

Emperor Han Ling waved his arm and motioned for Jian Shuo to continue, if it made sense, he would agree to do it.

"Your Majesty, the Republican Army is wantonly annexing the land east of the river in accordance with their practice in Handan and other places. According to the report of the Tanma. They established more and more small base areas in Hedong and implemented the law of the republic. With the convenience of implementing the republican bank, we fear that it will not be long before Hedong will be the Hedong of the Republican Army, not the Hedong of the imperial court. Jian Shuo said. Zhang Rang heard it on the side, and he was very annoyed. Recently, he has two banks on hand that are seeking the possibility of going public, if it is listed, he will sell all the shares in his hands, not only can make up for the previous losses, he can also make a profit, and the reason why he can go public, to a large extent, thanks to the expansion of the banking business in the Hedong region, because the Republican Army encourages banks to expand there, if the expansion is very good, they will get the opportunity to go public.

Zhang Rang very much agrees with this, what is the land? It's money, who will have an enmity with money, he doesn't care who owns the land, but he knows that through these things on the land, he can make money, as long as he can make money, as for the rest, he doesn't care. Because only one situation can meet many of their needs, which is the most advantageous situation for them, but as a result, many of their situations are not going very well. It's for them. This is the saddest kind of fate.

Zhang Rang was concerned about whether the bank was listed, but Jian Shuo took out such a thing, thinking of this, Zhang Rang couldn't refute the other party, because His Majesty the Emperor did not participate in the bank shares, if the emperor could make money, many of his things would be simple.

With the deterioration of the situation in Hedong and the loss of control of the local government by the imperial court, many places became extremely unsmooth. In such a situation, many things are actually developing towards the most unfavorable situation, and Emperor Han Ling needs to control the development of some situations, and he does not think of fundamentally solving such problems, such as carrying out large-scale political and economic reforms, on the contrary, he strengthens the control of military power. Such a control meant an increase in military spending, and Emperor Ling of Han tried to suppress these military situations through military means. In this way, his great empire can still survive for a long, long time.

"I have made a decree. Let the IRA return is. Emperor Han Ling said.

"Your Majesty, the Republican Army will not return it so easily, if it is returned, Shangdang County should also be returned." Jian Shuo said.

"What we mean by waiting is to continue to use the superiority in military strength to pressure the other side to return to the land east of the river." Jian Shuo said.

Jian Shuo mastered the Xiyuan New Army, don't look at the number of the Xiyuan New Army, they only have 25,000 people, and the establishment has five brigades, which is carried out in accordance with the establishment of the Republican Army. The combat units of each brigade consisted of five thousand people, consisting of musketeers, pikemen, artillerymen, engineers. However, the combat effectiveness has not yet been tested, but after all, this is the first unit equipped with firearms in the imperial court, and the deterrent effect is very large. Because of the control of such an armed force. Jian Shuo's status has been greatly developed. even has a situation of surpassing Zhang Rang, which makes Zhang Rang very anxious, but it is useless for him to be anxious, his mind is all on how to make money, but for the military, the way he controls military power, he is extremely unhappy. He didn't know anything like that, and this kind of situation made him very unfavorable.

"Hmm. That's right. Emperor Han Ling said. In fact, Emperor Ling of Han has always had such worries, and this place in Hedong is too important. Occupying this place, you can threaten the safety of Jingshi Luoyang, and you can enter Guanzhong at any time, which is definitely not good news for the empire, in such a situation, they desperately want a better way to deal with such a situation, if such a way is carried out, this is definitely not something they can carry out. Such a state of affairs is extremely unfavorable for them.

"Your Majesty. The land east of the river is very important. But if the IRA moves south all at once, it won't be good. Zhang Rang kindly reminded Emperor Han Ling at this time, what he wanted to say was that although the Xiyuan New Army was very powerful, he could not fight alone, or rather, he could resist the crazy attack of the Republican Army.

If the new army in Xiyuan can't withstand it, wouldn't it be that Luoyang, the capital division, will be defeated by his own side all at once. This is definitely not a situation that everyone wants.

Emperor Han Ling nodded after hearing this, he also felt that it was very advantageous. The Republican army is very troublesome, and it can't attack, because they can't fight, but they can't defend, all because their military strength is a little weak and difficult to resist.

"In this way, I want to try to see if I can go back to the land east of the river, and if I don't come back, I will do other ways." Emperor Han Ling said. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty has his own bottom line, the first is not to threaten the safety of Luoyang, the capital division, and the second is the land east of the river, which can be given part, but not all of it can be occupied. In that case, they will have no way to account for it.

Hedong, inside the headquarters of Ma Heng.

Reports of the war continue to be sent here, but the situation on the battlefield is still not very clear. With Pingyang County as the center, there were exchanges of fire to varying degrees in various places. In some places, they even boldly attacked the camp of the Huns and the White Polish Army, which provided great help for the main attack and support operations, and such help was very beneficial to Ma Heng.

"Sir, the troops everywhere have been mobilized. Various companies, battalions. Regiment. And the local militia has been mobilized. The people have also moved to safe areas, but we don't have a reserve that can be mobilized at any time, which is very disadvantageous for us. A staff officer said worriedly.

Ma Heng nodded. But it's not that he doesn't have it in his hands, but he can't use it yet. There was also a cavalry regiment in the hands of Ma Heng, and this cavalry regiment had more than two thousand cavalrymen, who prepared stirrups, saddles. The appearance of such a horse riding tool, stirrups, made it possible for the Republican cavalry, who did not have much cavalry experience.

Because it is difficult for soldiers to maintain their balance on horseback, but the stirrup, and the improvement of the saddle, allow the Republican cavalry to keep their balance, and under such a balance, they can do a lot of things, which is the most advantageous situation for them, and if this situation continues to develop, they may have more advantages, which is where they maintain the most advantage at the moment.

However, there was one more problem with the cavalry. That is how the cavalry should fight, whether they ride and shoot like the Hun cavalry, or are they equipped with spears, sabers and other weapons to charge, chop, if this is really the case, many things will be difficult to carry out.

"Cavalry, how are our cavalry? It's time to use cavalry in some special places. Ma Heng said. The trouble with the Hun cavalry is that the high-speed mobile combat of the Hun cavalry will bring them great trouble. If they can't limit the opponent's mobility, the infantry will still not be able to attack the opponent with an advantage, which is their most difficult point. In such a situation, cavalry needs a completely new way of fighting to deal with it. In this way, they need to deal with such a situation with a completely new situation.

"Sir, our cavalry is developing very well, the main weapon currently equipped is spears, we can call them spear cavalry, they can quickly penetrate the enemy's defensive line, and then launch an attack in the most unlikely place for the enemy, in this way, our situation can be greatly developed." An operations staff officer said.

"Yes, sir, we've eliminated a lot of spears, which can do that, and they have muskets, but only one, and it's hard to do a lot of them." A training staff officer said.

"Haven't the muskets improved? The commander's order has been given very clearly. As long as the combat effectiveness of the cavalry can be improved, they can do many, many things to solve such problems, as long as they can improve the combat effectiveness, everything else can be improved, and we must continue this situation. It's an advance of all that needs to be done. Ma Heng said.

Shang Wu's order was given early. Despite the fact that improvements can damage the guns, it is believed that the condition of the guns is unfavorable, after all, the cost of manufacturing a rifle is there. But even so, Shangwu still needs to encourage the soldiers to give full play to their own enthusiasm and let them creatively create many, many new weapons and equipment to deal with such a situation, after all, such a situation is the main situation that everyone should face.

"Sir, our cavalry has made some improvements, but we are afraid that the commander will punish us. After all, in the midst of improvements, some rifles, barrels were damaged, which looked distressing to ourselves. A training staff officer said worriedly. They were indeed very worried about such a thing, and the soldiers should take care of their weapons, but doing such a thing still made them a little unbearable. Sometimes, it's too hard to do something like this.

"I know, guns are a soldier's second life, and without money, what's the use of asking for soldiers? So, we're constantly improving things like this, but we need to be aware that a lot of things are evolving. This kind of destruction is necessary, and if there is no such destruction, many of our things will not be able to continue, and you should understand that such a situation is the only way to prevent many of our situations from going on. That's the last thing we should be doing right now. Ma Heng said. For a certain amount of gun attrition, he is also distressed, but such distress can be exchanged for the improvement of combat effectiveness, if the simple use of lancers to impact, may be unfavorable to the cavalry of the republican army, the reason is that the advantage of the republican army is that his firepower is carried forward, the use of spears is beneficial to his cavalry impact, but the use of firepower is seriously insufficient, such a kind of madness continues to occur, it means that the loss of the republican army will be very large, in such a situation, Many things are actually extremely unfavorable, Ma Heng does not want such things to happen, and naturally does not want to see such a situation arise, in such a situation, many of their things must actually be vigorously promoted. This is an inevitability, and only in this way can they have faster development.

"Tell me, how are we doing?" Ma Heng asked.

"Sir, we still have a lot of inventions, for example, we put two rifles together, so that a double-barreled musket is formed, and the power is increased a lot. Not only that, but we have a lot of new inventions that are constantly being developed, and in such a situation, many of our things are actually very advantageous. The training staff officer said.

"Double-barreled muskets, is it easy to use?" Ma Heng said worriedly. He knew that the rifle was still too long compared to the musket used by the cavalry. Such a long musket is a big trouble for them, and the second reload is a trouble, even if it continues to be used, it is also a big trouble. In this case, many things will be difficult to carry on, and in such a situation, many things will actually be difficult to carry out, and if they can properly handle such a situation, the situation may be better, but in the current situation, their things are going very unfavorably. Because a lot of things are not going very well.

"Inconvenient, sir, the rifle is still too long for a while. Because we all know that such a situation is very difficult for us to use such a rifle effectively, and in such a situation, if we can deal with it in other ways, I think it is not a big problem. The other party said.

"Well, what kind of improvements?" Ma Heng knew, since he said so. There must be improvements, but the improvements need to be seen in their specific situation. If they really do a lot of improvement, their situation will be much more favorable, but if they can't, a lot of their things are actually going very badly. That's the one that is most difficult for them to do right now.

"Yes. Sir, in such a situation, a lot of our things are actually going on in our favor. You know a lot of the current situation for us. Neither is good, but we sawed the ** of the musket short. The barrel is also sawn shorter, which makes it convenient to use. This situation will be even more beneficial for us. The operational staff officer said. That's where they lose the barrel, of course. Those barrels could also be crafted into some pistols, so they might be in a better place.

"It's okay to have a boost, that's what we need. Without such improvement, many things will work against us. Next, it is up to our cavalry to play a major role, without which it will have a great impact on us. Ma Heng said. Ma Heng has decided to use such a weapon to fight in the next battle, after all, without such a weapon, many things will not go well, which is still very unfavorable for the army's operations, if this situation continues, the situation of the republican army is really unfavorable.