Yesterday, the Qing army was a saboteur, and today it has become a builder, in Lijiabao, the Qing army and the people cleaned up the streets, carried materials, attacked the fort, there is no shortcut, is to destroy the forts one by one, and now Lijiabao has become the front line of the war, and the strategic center of the Qing army has shifted to Lijiabao

Lijiabao belongs to a large fortress, and it is not a problem to garrison 20,000 or 30,000 people, Xu Zhanbiao, and the Sichuan army moved from outside the city to the fort in batches

The dilapidated city wall is crowded with people, carrying people's husbands and digging soldiers, and the Qing army is preparing for the long-term garrison of Lijiabao and the return army to start a protracted offensive and defensive battle

Li Guolou originally lived in a big house, quite comfortable, the south master room lived alone, and thought about making trouble with Wan Niang a few times at night, early in the morning, a large group of officers came uninvited, and Li Guolou was a neighbor, almost even his own big kang was not guaranteed, he threw a quilt out, it was too unusual, he still has a little wife, how can a big man sleep on a kang

The war was very hard, most of the soldiers slept in tents, there were officers and soldiers who shared the same weal and woe, and also ate the same meal, Li Guolou did not achieve the extreme, people still have different ideas, and the Westerners are the same, and the status of officers should be higher than that of soldiers, besides, he soldiers are not short of food and wages, and they do not have to ask for hardships

Wan Niang and a gang of Goshha stepped into the courtyard, the fur robe was like a noble lady driving into the courtyard, the officers were like flies, smelling the smell of carrion, and they all ran out to see the excitement, salivating Haraz had already flowed to the corners of his mouth

Li Guolou was extremely dissatisfied, glared around angrily, and the officers around him shouted: "What do you see, didn't you make a fuss last night?"

"If the commander doesn't say anything, I'm going to marry into the door once I make a fuss," an officer lamented and howled, and there were sighs next to him, they were officers, and they had wives and children in their families, how could they marry a woman who didn't want to go back

I didn't expect Li Guolou to ask in surprise: "What about those girls?"

"Hey, there are always people who are willing to pay, the chief said to go to bed first, and tonight he will be a witness, and no one will want to rely on him," the other officer jokingly laughed, although they can't round the room, but they can always eat a few bites of tofu in the cave room tonight

"Oh······" Li Guolou understood, it turned out that the Qing army regarded women as trophies and first distributed them to officers as wives, which was much better than letting women be prostitutes in the military camp in ancient times, and the Qing army also kept pace with the times and became a civilized army

Li Guolou asked the bottom of the matter: "Is there still a camp prostitute?"

"Hey, how can there be a camp prostitute on the front line, it's not allowed," the officers were reluctant to watch Wan Niang's big ass disappear from front of their eyes, and only when they went to the rear on vacation could they go to the prostitute to have fun

"Then bear with me," Li Guolou turned around and went back to the house to talk to Wan Niang

He didn't care about the welfare of the army, he blamed himself for the fake Qing Gao Li Ziying twice, he didn't get a share of the girls, so it's not right, it's hard for his subordinates, next time he has to make it clear to the deputy marshal Xu Zhanbiao, the number of women, and the Li Ziying has no reason to be cheap for other troops

"Xiaolou didn't sleep last night," Wan Niang began to tidy up the room as soon as she entered the door, Li Guolou actually loves to be clean, so she can't be sloppy in cleaning, Wan Niang wiped the table, folded the quilt, and swept the floor, and was very busy

"Well, I can't sleep, I study the map all night, Wan Niang took the quilt to the yard to bask in the sun, there is sun today," Li Guolou sat on the edge of the table, picked up a pen and wrote a letter to the family, what to think, what to write, and greet the family

After the thrilling war, it is still dull, life nerves to be relaxed, Li Guolou has become accustomed to this kind of life, adjusted his mentality, does not think much about the war, Dong Zhiyuan fights, he mainly observes, and learns more experience in fighting wars and changes

Wan Niang looked at Li Guolou a little strangely and asked, "Xiaolou, aren't you going to inspect the barracks?"

Li Guolou shook his head while writing a letter and said: "Today's holiday is as they want, and I will go to see the wounded and sick in the afternoon."

Wan Niang asked, "Then do you want to eat here at noon?"

"I don't know if the commander told me to leave, let me prepare, and then say," Li Guolou knew that there were some things that Deputy Marshal Xu Zhanbiao wanted to hide from him, especially the collection of the property of the returning army. The situation of female prisoners will not let him figure out that the Hui army lives on looting, a large fortress is maintained for at least one year, food, clothing, and materials, it can be said that the Qing army captured a fortress in one day, and made a lot of money, and it is by no means empty talk to maintain the supply of the troops in the past

Whoever wants the Qing army to change the looting behavior must solve the problem of arrears of wages, and the bad result is to bomb the camp, and the Qing soldiers solve it by looting income, but the evil result is that the local economy has collapsed, the local common people have no means of production, the land is barren, and even normal farming is difficult, the economic development is seriously regressed, and after the military disaster, there is poverty, and the wild wolves in the wilderness become disasters

Li Guolou pondered for a long time, although he continued to create wealth for the Qing Dynasty, but he could not solve the hundreds of thousands of Qing army salaries, fighting a war was too costly, could not solve the old difficulties, even Shaanxi and Gansu Governor Zuo Zongtang could not solve so many army salaries and silver gaps, the Qing army bombed the camp danger is still like flies, the Qing army did not get the opportunity to loot, the army is dissatisfied, the danger is serious, the next Qing army crisis does not know who will be unlucky

The system is different, the faction is different, Li Guolou will not lend these troops even if he has money, lend to the army, that is meat buns, fight dogs, there is no recall, thinking of the heavy boss and difficult questions, Li Guolou can't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly, a big victory will also cause dissatisfaction from all parties, when can the Qing Dynasty spend energy on the people's livelihood, or should learn the line of the Ming military household system, to fight the war, while fighting the war, while raising too many soldiers and horses in the northwest, it is really impossible to raise too many soldiers and horses, and it is necessary to end the war as soon as possible

A hearty laugh interrupted Li Guolou's thoughts, and the five Li Guolou civil and military teams, including Fan Dahui, Cheng Kun, Liu Yu, Battle, and Zhang Haojie, stepped into the room

"Oh, you guys come and sit," Li Guolou moved slightly, facing the big kang and letting his subordinates sit on the kang

"How about the troops" Li Guolou poured countless efforts into Li Ziying, this is a team piled up with silver, and he did not hesitate to go to the soup for him, and Li Ziying is a death squad

"It's suffocated, how can you have fun throwing a few sandbags" Cheng Kun was furious, and Li Ziying participated in the battle twice, and Batel was the commander, which made him very unhappy, and he glanced at Batel, Li Guolou still likes the image of a tall Mongolian

A bowl of water is flat, it is impossible to do, just like the Anhui army, Guo Baochang takes advantage everywhere with a big mouth, and the Anhui army will not be in danger of bombing the camp, which is also a way of survival, others want to learn and can't learn, but it will cause the commander to be disgusted, and it is difficult to behave vulgarly and prominently, without making others jealous, but Guo Baochang is very good, looks vulgar, and has a good ability

Li Guolou smiled, put down the brush and said: "It's okay to make a lot of noise in the camp, don't let outsiders see the jokes, you are not here to make meritorious contributions, cultivate talents, and discover talents is the way to be a teacher, and when you pull out the nail of Yongyang Mansion City, most people will return to Beijing and return to Wutang, so you can brag about it."

Fan Dahui hurriedly asked, "Lord Li, you haven't returned to Beijing yet?"

Li Guolou said: "I still have to study more, I hope to see Dong Zhiyuan's rebel army civil strife" After speaking, Li Guolou's smart eyes blinked, and his inner thoughts were completely exposed, the iron will of the Hui army was strong, and the Qing army would collapse in front of the offensive, so he didn't believe that Dong Zhiyuan's return army was ironclad, as long as he took the Yongyang Mansion City with mountains and ravines, Dong Zhiyuan's return army would definitely be chaotic

Dong Zhiyuan's return army built the fortress on the loess slope, which seems to be tall and dangerous to defend, but a natural drawback can not be overcome, that is, the bottom of the fortress is loess, as long as the Qing army wants to dig tunnels, no matter how strong the fortress is, it will destroy the Qing army, there are powerful artillery, and there are more than 300 powerful loess explosives, and the fortress bombing will also blow them up

Religious belief unites the Hui people, people with lofty ideals raise their arms and shout, a nation rebels, but for the survival of the Hui people, the imam will use rhetoric to make the Hui people lay down their arms, religious belief has a huge impact, and the Hui people listen to the imam in every word and deed, the Hui people have lived for hundreds of years under the oppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is time to rebel during the civil strife of the Qing Dynasty

Seeing Li Guolou's confident look, Battle preemptively said: "If I don't go back, I'll still be a daredevil."

"I'm not going back either," the others were reluctant to leave Dong Zhiyuan, they were not like other armies, plagued by the shortage of food and salary, and full of battles

Li Guolou said with a smile: "I can't afford to raise so many people, and when the time comes, you all have to think about how to fight and kill the enemy in a war, and the efficiency should be improved, and the Li Zi Battalion will be built into a highly efficient killing team, and how to combine every team and every post to be effective, and this topic will be instilled in every Li Ziying soldier, and then the main topic of martial arts tactics is efficiency, bravery is just a slogan, and it is better to build an efficient killing machine than to put an army on bravery, which is what I ask of you."

"Yes"

"Oh, I almost forgot, I will talk to Vice Marshal Xu at night, the girl asks the question, the female prisoner of war, we also want you to take it back to be a wife, this is not a shame, press the bed and do it for a lifetime, what are your grievances in the future, I am not a saint, I can understand the bitterness of the soldiers," Li Guolou wanted to speak with a straight face, but when he saw the faces of his subordinates, he couldn't help but laugh

Fan Dahui grunted: "Master Li, those girls are very reactionary, and their mouths are all rebellious."

Battle hurriedly said: "Master Rice, whatever you do, no matter how reactionary you are, you don't believe in God, the Taiping Army is reactionary, the full man doesn't know if the hungry man is hungry, you have an orchid, who cares if we live or die."

Fan Dahui's face turned red, and his head immediately drooped down, the hero was sad, and the beauty was closed, he was bought by Hu Yangyue in "Caimaotang", and accepted an orchid as a little wife, and he wanted to bring it back when he returned to Beijing

Li Guolou was furious and reprimanded: "Battle is not allowed to slander God, you shamanism is no better, the Taiping army is a false believer, wearing the cloak of God to deceive the Qing people, don't mention God in the future, just like I never speak Islam, this is a taboo, and the beliefs of all ethnic groups must be respected."

When Battle saw that Li Guolou was annoyed, he immediately said: "It's Lord Li, I won't say taboo things again."

Li Guolou came over and kissed him and said: "That's it, girls, I'm deeply affected, don't use girls to slap me on the back, I don't eat a bite, I only have one sentence, don't want to get rid of the reactionary girls after eating, give me a hard beating, ideological education and leather whip, so that the girls will be tamed, do you understand?"

"Yes, I understood," the four officers stood upright, and the soldiers took the execution of military orders as the criterion to educate female prisoners of war, which had become a topic in the Li Zi Battalion

Li Guolou said softly: "Battle, don't be stupid, today I don't speak on the stage, just pass it on one level at a time, this is the unspoken rule of our Qing army, our Li Ziying is just inheriting the glorious tradition of our ancestors, and not a word is allowed to leave a record of the case."

"Master Li, it's useless to talk more, none of us are good," Battle sat down listlessly, and after being excited, he regretted it, and it would be good to report his thoughts to Li Guolou as soon as possible

"Don't worry, it's not too late, there is a chance, Vice Marshal Xu will give me face, if I leave, no one will send him Jinhua ham," Li Guolou smiled, Xu Zhanbiao hoped that Li Ziying would become a pro-guard army, and a large group of officers outside the gate came to his courtyard to stay, not because he had food and drink here

The smell of vegetables and rice filled the air, and Wan Niang shouted: "Xiaolou has eaten"

"Hehe, sister-in-law is really capable," several officers who knew that Wanniang had already changed their words and called her affectionately, and the sister-in-law stretched out her hand to take a big bowl of salted meat and rice, and stroked Wanniang's big hand

Li Guolou only didn't see these officers taking advantage of the soldiers' hearts, and he could understand that the unspoken rules of the Qing army were reasonable, and the system could improve the combat effectiveness of the army, and it could also solve the lifelong major affairs of the soldiers