Li Ziying rested for a day, the next day, all the troops and horses marched to Lijiabao, the loess high slope, all kinds of military flags were unfurled, and the victory of Xiaokongtong made the morale of all units of the Qing army high, the military drum was vigorously beaten, the military horn sounded, the loess high slope echoed, the huge artillery on the carriage showed that the Qing army was strong, there was no opponent in the field battle, those turtles shrunk in the fort, the Hui army was stubborn and resisted to death, no Hui army rushed to the ground, the Qing army battle formation, now the Qing army has been baptized with blood and fire, fearless and unstoppable, looking at the whole east, there is no opponent

Participated in the death squad, 200 soldiers of the Li Zi Battalion crossed the battle, immediately brandished bloodstained swords, and cheered with thousands of soldiers, a tall fortress in front of them has been seen, Lijiabao will be destroyed by the Qing army, and no one can stop the pace of national reunification

The tall stone fortress is fluttering on the city wall, and the flying eagle banner spreads its wings, can the eagle really lead the Hui people to oppose the Qing Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, and establish a single nation-state?

Saying that the Hui uprising was a righteous one, don't you know what kind of country the Hui people are, if a country gives the Hui people local autonomy, the next thing is to make an independent effort, eliminate the Han population, establish an Islamic kingdom, and the Hui uprising is not only anti-Qing, but also hateful to the Han people, and the core idea of the Hui uprising is to oppose the Manchus and the Han people

Looking at the flying eagle banner symbolizing independence, the Qing soldiers showed angry looks, they wanted to destroy this flag and replant the Yellow Dragon banner on this piece of the motherland, the northwest belongs to the Qing Dynasty, and the motherland will never allow splitting

"In the year of Siwannian, the Great Empire of Yadong in March crisscrossed the independent banner of the river, spread the civilization wave, 400 trillion people, the gods and gods, the great property, and unveiled the flag of the Yellow Dragon Empire, and sang the song of our empire"

More than 1,000 soldiers of the Li Zi battalion stood under the banner of the Yellow Dragon and sang military songs, they were righteous soldiers, and for the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, they came to the northwest to start a civil war, and this war was by no means what they wanted to see, but no matter which nation dared to split, the motherland would be ruthlessly destroyed, and this war had nothing to do with the nation, nor did it matter to faith, and only for the reunification of the motherland, those who betrayed the motherland and colluded with the Russians will forever be nailed to the pillar of historical shame

Lijiabao is all covered with blue bricks, there are 14 city towers on the whole city wall, there are urns at the east gate and the west gate, and there is a jack gate and the city wall to form a complete defense system, you can see a door on the city wall, a black hole cannon, as long as the Qing army enters the firing range, it will open fire, Lijiabao is the eastern gateway of Dong Zhiyuan, after occupying Lijiabao, the Qing army can have an offensive bridgehead and tear apart the entire Dong Zhiyuan defense system

Although the loess slope was still cold in February, the ice and snow had not yet melted, but in the cold wind, countless Qing soldiers dug ditches to build fortifications to surround Lijiabao, and a fortress built on a loess slope could not stop the heroic Qing soldiers, and every Qing soldier believed that as long as the fort was built, the entire fortress of Lijiabao would collapse

Thousands of kilometers away from the east and west gates of Lijiabao, the Qing soldiers and people built tall forts, they didn't care about the cowardice of the enemy inside Lijiabao, the enemy had already blocked the city gate, just waiting for the officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire to attack Lijiabao, and the returning troops and rebels had no future

Deputy Marshal Xu Zhanbiao didn't even bother to send messengers to return to the army, there was no need to negotiate, either surrender or die, the Qing Dynasty would never allow the emergence of another regime in the country, the so-called righteous national awakening, only the Han people could use slogans

Xu Zhanbiao looked at the city of Lijiabao, and a flag was written on it: a "Cao" word made an angry and cold snort in his nose, clenched his fists tightly, and secretly vowed to slaughter Lijiabao as a chicken and dog

Cao Kezhong was originally the commander of the Guyuan Governor Lei Zhengjuan's battalion, led a battalion of soldiers and horses to the front line to "bomb the camp", and then joined the four marshals Cui Wei returned to the army and fled into Dong Zhiyuan, burning and looting on the way, the monstrous crime of the Qing Dynasty rebels was more hateful than the Hui army, the Hui army was captured, and there was still a glimmer of life, and the rebels had no way to live, so they had to be disemboweled

Cao Kezhong's subordinates let the Qing Dynasty suffer humiliation, which made Xu Zhanbiao angry, thinking that Yang Dawazi led more than 400 people to surrender, just let the two people kill each other, and also let Yang Dawazi prove that he was sincerely surrendering to the Qing Dynasty

This is a test of the Qing Dynasty for the Guishun people, Dong Fuxiang, Dong Zi three battalions expansion is to establish Hui people, to aim the butcher's knife at their own national consciousness, Yang Dawazi wants to expand into two battalions, is to rely on bloody battles to prove loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, Xu Zhan Biao said: "Order Yang Dawazi and Mu three horses to attack the west of the city for the first echelon, tell them to work hard, as long as the military flag is planted in Lijiabao, the first merit on the head of the city is them"

The herald took the order and left, and the other generals beside him were awkward, dared to be angry, and did not dare to say that the "first merit" made everyone salivate, and even let a general have to put them somewhere, but on the battlefield, the military orders were like a mountain, and the deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao's disposal plan made sense

Tusi Peng Dingyue and Tusi Mo Baoguo glanced at each other, and Peng Dingyue took a step forward and saluted: "Deputy Marshal Xu, we should also be regarded as the first merit in attacking the east gate of the city, with the powerful artillery support of the Xunzi battalion, the lion flag of the snow mountain must be fluttering, and the sky above Lijiabao can be seen from the loess, as evidence, we are the loyal servants of the Qing Dynasty, and we are willing to die for the emperor."

Xu Zhanbiao was pleased to pick up the two ethnic minority Tusi, and greatly praised them, which made Li Guolou, who accompanied him next to him, quite curious, and kept looking at the two Tusi Tusi Tu soldiers and soldiers, who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty in history, and were the main force fighting against the Manchus, two hundred years have passed, these two minority armies have become Manchu minions, attacked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Shi Dakai spared no effort to wipe out the 300,000 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Western Expeditionary Force, on the bank of the Dadu River

Now the native soldiers and soldiers have come all the way to the northwest, and they want to drive out the Hui army and kill them, and they will fall into these two ethnic minorities, and they will be slaves for a lifetime, and they will be no different from pigs and dogs in the future, and the barbarians of the ethnic minorities like to peel their skins and dig out their hearts, this kind of barbaric behavior Li Guolou is not good at talking, and even the emperor does not care about the internal policies of these ethnic minorities, and he is not a great savior for liberating the toiling masses, and he can't reason with the barbarians

Li Guolou looked up at the east gate of Lijiabao City, the establishment of the loess high slope, Lijiabao is so majestic and towering, and he wants to destroy this historic fortress and turn a page in history, with artillery, siege warfare is not only attacking a city gate, any city wall can become a breakthrough, it does not matter how many defenders there are in Lijiabao, all enemies in front of the powerful artillery will be reduced to ashes

In the past, there was a castle that could be defended in the war, and it was able to resist stubbornly for a long time, but now there is no strong artillery support, and it has become difficult to defend a castle, and besieging a castle does not require several times the advantage of troops, and only needs to block the enemy's gates, and the enemy's forces will not be able to spread, and it is not advisable to defend the city, especially to defend a castle without retreat

Li Guolou couldn't help but think that the Tianjin Wei fortifications were also an invincible city, no matter how they did not start a war with the Eight-Nation Alliance, Tianjin should directly start an offensive war on the outskirts, as long as there were strong financial resources to establish a strong artillery group, no country dared to attack the Qing Dynasty on land, artillery and infantry coordinated combat is the future combat mode of the Qing army, plus the Qing Dynasty is blessed with cavalry, it will be perfect

The soldiers are fought, and the beacon fire has cast batch after batch of generals, Zuo Zongtang and the Chu army are countless times better than Li Hongzhang and the Huai army, and understand the importance of army construction, although these armies are also smuggled and corrupt, but they can use the money they earn to build the army, and the above army is the future of national rejuvenation, and the hope depends on the insatiable generals of the Huai army, and the Qing Dynasty will not be saved

Li Guolou wants to mess up things alone, he has no right to be light, he is not at all interested in the deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao standing in front of the front fortifications to guide the combat plan, the commander is not omnipotent, the front-line commanders and fighters know how to make specific arrangements for operations, and the commander only needs to give full play to the strategic advantages in the layout

As for the deployment plan of each artillery on the battlefield, how can it be managed? one person cannot command an army, and it is necessary to rely on the collective efforts of all the people to bring an army to victory, and cultivating talent is by no means to discover a few people, but to have a large number of talented people to use, so that the army can forge ahead to meet victory

Xun Xi kept nagging, boasting about the configuration of the artillery battalion to the sky, boasting about the construction of the artillery battalion, which made him work hard and exhausted what he had learned in his life, Xu Zhanbiao heard for the first time in his life that the construction of the artillery battalion was so exquisite, and he was very interested in asking all kinds of naïve questions

The corners of Li Guolou's mouth moved slightly, secretly annoyed, without his financial support, where would the artillery salvo fire not talk about the extension of artillery to establish a safe area, war is to burn money, and without money to fight, he can only rely on one person to climb the city wall and pave a bloody road with corpses, it is he who let Xu Zhanbiao's army die thousands less, and he is the first hero of this siege war

But what kind of person is Li Guolou, how can he compete with the young people, the silence is Jin Yiyi, standing straight without saying a word, Li Guolou raised his eyes and telescopes to look at the head of Lijiabao City, thousands of kilometers away, he could see that there were people on the head of the city looking at the fort they were holding a monocular, Li Guolou sneered and sneered three times, Cao Kezhong, Tao Maolin, Zhang Hua, the three traitors of the Qing Dynasty, waiting to die, he also wanted to taste what it was like to cut his belly and dig out his heart

The same elders, Yang Dawazi, He Mingtang, and Mu San are smart, and they abandon their beliefs for many years at the moment of life and death, and return to the motherland, embracing those who know the times, and holding a purpose, and it is destined to be a tragedy in life until death

In the telescope, you can vaguely see the face of the enemy's leader, Cao Kezhong really has a hideous face, and the beard on that broad face has not shaved for a long time, Li Guolou muttered to himself: "Cao Kezhong, don't you want to die, I also want to be a hero of Liangshan."

Next to him, Fan Dahui learned from Li Guolou's appearance, pretentiously and pretentiously, and did not say a word, Fan Dahui blurted out as if Li Guolou had a roundworm in his stomach: "Lord Li, you are a civil official, you have a bad influence on this kind of thing, or don't do it, be strict with yourself, be lenient with others, and witness history does not mean that you will participate."

"Hey, hey, hey" Li Guolou laughed dryly, turned around three times, and couldn't help but say: "Mr. Xun Qian, don't brag, I helped you save up all this bit of belongings, and I sent someone to transport it, you are a loser, so waste shells, how to fight the next three hundred forts."

Xun Xi was interrupted by Li Guolou, very dissatisfied, squinted, and retorted without hesitation: "Master Li, don't worry about it, as long as I completely destroy the three fortresses and turn them into ashes, I will also destroy the enemy's stubborn resistance to the end, and when the land recovers in the spring, the surrender faction will continue to appear, and Huizi will not be monolithic, then the eighteenth marshal will pout his ass and surrender, wow, ······."

Xun Xi stood in front of a Krupp cannon with his hands on his hips, looked up to the sky and laughed, who is unforgettable, this is the demeanor of a general, worthy of Xu Zhanbiao's appointment of the commander of the Guoyong Battalion and the artillery battalion

Li Guolou touched his nose and said nothing, he couldn't make a fuss with Xun Xi, since the first day he met Xun Xi, this person was so rude, Manchu has his own superiority

In other things, the Han people have long been higher than the Manchurian number, and these Han generals do not take the Manchus in their eyes, but the construction of the artillery battalion is inseparable from the support of the Manchus, and they turn a blind eye to the arrogance of the Manchus in the artillery barracks, and they dare to be disrespectful to the commander like Xun Xi, and they also laugh at the behavior of the commander

Xu Zhanbiao stroked his bearded face and said with a smile: "Chief Xun Qian, this marshal is optimistic about your performance, tomorrow this marshal will see the Yellow Dragon banner planted on the city of Lijiabao, do you have confidence?"

On the artillery position, all the officers and men stood with their chests protruding and expressed their determination to move forward to Deputy Marshal Xu Zhanbiao

The Qing army gathered all its strength to capture Lijiabao, which was Dong Zhiyuan's bridgehead and would open the door to victory for the Qing army