Guo Baochang knows a little about Li Guolou's old bottom, there are too many rumors, some of them are taboo in the court, although he is famous for daring to say and do, but Li Guolou's private life, Guo Baochang has never taken it out, ridiculed, and now "widow", "old woman" and many other words have drawn a clear line with Li Guolou, an escort to make the front line for merit, deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao will follow Li Guolou in everything, the first meritorious minister should push Li Guolou, first mention Li Ziying's merits, this kind of thing understands, people will do it

Guo Baochang was quite polite to Li Guolou, and patiently accompanied him to review the troops

Under the leadership of the 200 daredevils of the Li Zi Battalion, Battle, they were inspected, and their faces were standing under the banner of the Li Zi Army

"Li Ziying soldiers, after this battle, you have experienced the test of blood and fire, you are already a qualified soldier, a real warrior, and there are still arduous tasks waiting for you, do you have the confidence to complete" Li Guolou looked at every familiar and unfamiliar face, it was he who turned these people into fierce beasts, and also used the so-called military discipline to bind them, in fact, he was very satisfied with these two hundred daredevils, but he did not show it, and issued a righteous and righteous admonition

"There is a guarantee to complete the task," the soldiers of the Li Ziying Battalion shouted and looked at Li Guolou with reverence

"I once again reiterate here that the military discipline and the people are sailors, the soldiers are exhausted, and the fishing is doomed, you must love the people, treat the prisoners well, and when you return to the Li Zi camp, don't spread strange and strange theories for me, at least a whip will understand" Li Guolou looked at the soldiers with angry eyes, who dared to talk nonsense, he would not be soft

"Understood", the soldiers tasted Li Guolou's leather whip, how could they offend Li Guolou's tiger power

Li Guolou walked in front of a group of soldiers with his hands behind his back, admonishing them to obey the command in all actions, who dared to violate military discipline and kill without forgiveness, and made a decision to follow the path and be good at inducing, restraining the soldiers of Li Ziying with lofty ideals, and then obeying the will of the people and leaving the small Kongtong fortress

The commander does not need to appear, the front-line war has already undergone qualitative changes, and hot weapons have appeared, so that the commander can stand in the front line and become a target, he came here to study and observe, and cultivate a group of military commanders who understand that he will become a commander in the future

Li Guolou had just left Battle Station, and Li Guolou stood at the place, his majestic body was terrifying, his face was terrifying, and his subordinates shouted: "You guys listen to me, you are not allowed to put a fart when you return to the barracks, who dares to boast of martial arts, Lao Tzu didn't use a whip to hit Lao Tzu directly, did he understand?"

"Understood" The two hundred daredevils nodded with a fixed expression, and there were all of them long-term husbands, student soldiers, Goshha artillery officers, and even Xishan Ruijian, as well as teenagers Li Yun and Liu Guangcai, all of whom made a small fortune, and the Li Ziying set a system to collect the property and distribute it on an egalitarian basis, and as for the captured women, it was not about the Li Zi camp, and all the affairs of the Li Zi camp were covered by Guo Ziying

The cold wind was cold, Li Guolou stood in the middle of the mountain in Xiaokongtong, watched the barracks of the Qing army, the deep trenches one by one, the secret military tents, the secret linen and the artillery, like a monster, stood on the Loess Plain, nearly 5,000 troops pressed Xiaokongtong, and there were two troops around Gao Liansheng and Huang Ding to protect the Qing army, and pressed the Hui army to the Dong Zhiyuan area in a careful formation

The Hui army built more than 300 forts as cocoons, thinking that they could resist the officers and soldiers by virtue of natural dangers, he just wanted to liberate Dong Zhiyuan, let those stubborn Hui troops recognize the situation, surrender as soon as possible, and the Lijiapu rebels were thrown into the ravines like Xiao Kongtong

Li Guolou walked like a fly, returned to the barracks, last night drunk did not start the pen, went back immediately to write a fold, personally experienced a battle, to boast to the Tongzhi Emperor, so that the empress dowager of the two palaces rest assured, he does not regret what he does, career success is to have a backstage, become the queen of the two palaces, and it is not shameful, there is this kind of treatment, people are capable, enough to undertake the great responsibility of the society, in order to get the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Empress Dowager Ci'an

Li Guolou did not write a fold, was called by the deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao to a military meeting to study the military plan for attacking Lijiabao, this is a stone fortress into a fortress, the casualties of the battle of Lijiabao must be much higher than the attack on the battle of Xiaokongtong, the arrangement of troops is related to the life and death of countless soldiers, in front of the huge model, the counselor marked the position of each unit, a red flag represents an army

Li Guolou was not a pre-war commander, he had already delegated the command of artillery to Xun Xi, so he was unofficial and listened silently to the opinions of the commanders of various units

The campaign implementation plan simulates the possible scenario of the battle between the enemy and us, and the various possibilities of the battle are proposed, and the assumption is that the consumption of each unit on the sand table is also proposed

The refusal of any unit to lag behind has a bearing on the reputation of the army and the promotion of every officer

The military meeting was very noisy, and the two small nationalities of the Tubing Tusi Peng Dingyue and the Tusi Mo Baoguo were eligible to enter Lijiabao, but their soldiers were small, and the two armies added up to only 12 people, and the Li Zi Battalion was used as an artillery battalion to fight together, and the latter one entered Lijiabao or 200 places

There is also which army cooperates in the battle, so that the military tent is noisy, and the generals of each army draw their swords and crossbows, and do not shy away from attacking each other

Deputy Marshal Xu Zhanbiao formulated the strategy of slaughtering the city, just a means, so that the stubborn defense of the Hui army realized that there was only a dead end to resist, and then it was mainly to persuade the surrender to surrender, and to give preferential treatment to the surrender Hui people, this is the established national policy, everyone knows very well in their hearts that in the future, all the armies must restrain military discipline, and the Qing soldiers must appear in front of the world with a righteous image, so the war money is just like this, if you miss the opportunity to return to the army to open the city and surrender, it is like a siege of Dong Fuxiang, 100,000 horses, can only collect some old weapons and ammunition

Soldiers like to do this kind of thing, they can do whatever they want, and they will kill the enemy without mercy, and they will destroy everything in the enemy

Li Guolou looked at the soldiers who were still drinking together last night, and they turned their faces and scolded mercilessly, which was related to the income of a team, and no one would take a step back, not to mention that the army returned to the army to make a living from plunder, and there would be no shortage of gold, silver and jewelry in a fortress

Listening to the quarrel between his comrades-in-arms, Li Guolou did not give up the 200 places in the Li Zi Battalion, and the soldiers of the Li Zi Battalion were eager to go to the battlefield, it was a dream, he would not cut off his future, quarrel no matter what else happened, let the deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao have a headache, Li Guolou looked at the combat map silently, and recalled the speeches of each officer just now, and a commander should be good at summing up experience and working together to form a unique combat style under the premise

The Chu army Gao Liansheng's army was taken care of, and the deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao did not leave the opportunity to the Chu army this time, but gave Gao Liansheng's army the share of attacking the third fortress, and Gao Liansheng was very happy to accept the heavy task of defending the flank, and did not let Lijiabao Cao Kezhong's department break through to the west

After Xu Zhanbiao gave the order, he specially admonished: "You must not underestimate Cao Kezhong's department, they are all rebels, many officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are still veterans, there are two battalions of rebels in Lijiabao, they are very familiar with the tactics of our army, be careful of the enemy's artillery, artillery and infantry combined to advance, Peng Tusi, Mo Tusi are not allowed to be strong, bring artillery during street battles, don't come to anything, the society has progressed to the stage of musket salvo, I don't want to hear the news of your heavy casualties."

Xu Zhanbiao sighed slightly, and returned to the people, looking at the Han rebels differently, and did not trust these rebels, and put these rebels on the military front as cannon fodder, so that in the end, the Qing soldiers killed each other

Where can the Qing officers afford to look down on two decimal nationalities, the Tusi is poor, and the people in the ravine are lonely and unheard, and such a small number of people are still practicing in battle, and they all sneered

The Tubing Tusi Peng Dingyue and the Tusi Mo Baoguo maintained a superior attitude and replied: "It's Vice Marshal Xu, we will be cautious."

But the two of them had an eager expression, that is, they wanted to prove with their actions that the Tu Qi soldiers were worthy of the title of the first strong soldier in the Qing Dynasty, Tusi Peng Dingyue and Tu Si Mo Baoguo did not fight the trapped beasts back to the army at all, and in their eyes, the Tu Li soldiers were good at fighting in the mountains, and a fortress of thousands of people happened to be their appetizer

Guan Dai Xun Xi saw that Li Guolou had been looking at the topographic map of Lijiabao, and knew that Li Guolou was still not at ease, so he said: "Deputy Marshal Xu thought that the situation inside Lijiabao was not familiar, the artillery observer had limited vision, and the artillery extension effect was not good, and after capturing the city gate, the attack should still be carried out step by step, or should the artillery be dragged to a high place, and then let the infantry break into the rebel Cao Kezhong's department, which is called a stubborn murderer, must have thought that there must be a Fran machine hidden in the dead corner of the alley battle in Lijiabao, and the artillery army is too dangerous to break through."

When the generals heard this, they couldn't help but lean in front of the huge model to look at it, Guo Baochang nodded slightly, and said: "Well, yes, the terrain of Lijiabao is suitable for street fighting, Xun Guandao can't see that you still have a strategic vision and a great future."

Xun Xida's characteristic is that he has a big voice, dares to say and do, and replied without modesty: "Or Guo Shoubei has a vision, I came to Dong Zhiyuan to make meritorious contributions, Li Zi Battalion artillery construction, I am the first meritorious hero, so Deputy Marshal Xu favors me, and I am the first artillery battalion of the Sichuan Army."

The artillery battalion officer belongs to the general level of Qian, Xun Xi was bought by Xu Zhanbiao and ran to the camp of the Sichuan army, he was originally a fort, with a pipe belt in charge of twenty large and small artillery, but now he has been promoted to five levels in a row, and has become the object of competition from all parties, although he is grateful to Li Guolou for his support, but people can only say sorry to Wutang when they go to a high place

Li Guolou has a forward-looking attitude towards his subordinates being favored by other troops and leaving Wutang, the soldiers should be separated as soon as possible, and the martial arts will be a national disaster, Li Guolou glanced at Xu Zhanbiao, and he cried in front of him, and the poor man wanted to fund the formation of an artillery battalion in the blink of an eye, and the soldiers were the generals, and the fact that the soldiers could not be changed, and the soldiers were fighting for the main generals

And the generals are fighting for the commander-in-chief, and now Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang are loyal to the monarch and patriots, the country maintains unity, and the guns are the same against the rebels, these soldiers are all promoted by the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces and Prince Gong, and now these soldiers also know how to be grateful in the future, who can restrain these rich and enemy generals

Xu Zhanbiao also saw that Li Guolou could keep a low profile without saying a word, which was also a kind of ability, for Xun Xi, he gushed endlessly, deduced the war, it was actually a martial arts tactics class, he could talk about the army on paper, and dared to lead a group of student soldiers to fight, combining theory with practice, and fought a big victory, his ambition was not small, Li Guolou's city government was very deep, and the power was very strong, and he must be an important minister of the court in the future

"Do you have any other opinions, Lord Li" Xu Zhanbiao spoke very politely, with a rough appearance, but he was careful in his heart, and he was afraid that he would snub Li Guolou, so he asked

"Deputy Marshal Xu, our army besieged Lijia Fort just to get a fortress, the lower official thought that it was still to use war to promote the Hui army to surrender as soon as possible, so it was necessary to fight quickly, solve the battle with the courage to destroy the withering and decaying, and disintegrate the enemy's army, but it was by no means to kill and let a group of Hui people go back, so that the so-called eighteen marshals knew that our army was a division of benevolence and righteousness, as long as they returned to obedience, they could live, so that the soldiers could not make senseless sacrifices," Li Guolou tactfully proposed that the strategic modification should not be to slaughter the city, or to promote peace with war

Xu Zhanbiao said without hesitation: "Well, this idea is very good, after the commander ordered the invasion of Lijiabao, no one is allowed to slaughter the common people who lay down their arms, and they are not allowed to hurt the two toasts, do you know what to do?"

"We must abide by the military order," the local soldier Tusi Peng Dingyue and the soldier Tusi Mo Baoguo clasped their fists and listened to the order, who would care about rushing and killing the front-line soldiers, this kind of military order was said and not

Li Guolou swept his eyes at the officers in the military tent, these people were not his disciples, he took his words as deaf ears, and it was useless to keep the civilian officials arrogant again, and he was silent again, and the clean air was high, the clothes were cool, and the various disposal plans of the military meeting were taken into account, which was his great gain