Chapter 352: Big

At this moment, Cai Yunnan had already figured out that Liu Chang's disposal of the Dragon Lance Brigade was certainly a punitive measure, taking away the entire regiment of the teaching regiment and replacing it with a new regiment, but in a sense, this was another reward.

That's right! That's a bonus!

Everyone summed up the gains and losses of the dragon lance brigade in the Yanqu battle before, and finally drew the experience, except for Zhu Dun's own bad luck and some deficiencies of the dragon lance regiment itself, many times it was related to the old unit of the teaching regiment.

Among the Rainbow Army, the Teaching Regiment is regarded as an old unit, and it is also an old unit that has a foundation at the end of last year, and it has participated in a lot of battles, but the Teaching Regiment has been dealing with public order battles for a long time, and it is very good at cleaning up the militia regiments, township yong, and rout troops, but it has never participated in such a big battle as the Battle of Yanqu, and it lacks experience with the regular army of the Qing army.

For example, the defeat of the 2nd Battalion of the Teaching Regiment can be said to be a typical example of a typical example, which used the experience of public order warfare to engage the enemy's regular army, and suffered a heavy loss as a result.

Sending the teaching regiment to various prefectures now is of course a punishment, but it is also a way to return the teaching regiment to a familiar battlefield, in which the teaching regiment will certainly be able to succeed like a fish in water, and there will still be enough time to complete the transformation from public order warfare to regular warfare.

And if you change in a new regiment, it will definitely be a reward among the rewards, and if you add an infantry regiment to the formation of the dragon lance brigade - the teaching regiment is the formed unit of the dragon lance brigade, then sooner or later, it will have to be returned to the formation sooner or later, just like the cattle knife regiment.

For other units, this regiment of Lanxi recruits has no combat effectiveness at all, and they will shake their heads, but for the dragon lance brigade, this is nothing, the dragon lance brigade has enough surplus equipment, redundant personnel and redundant officers, as long as hundreds of veterans and hundreds of foreign guns are transferred to this new regiment, this regiment will soon be able to form combat effectiveness.

This is simply tailor-made for the Dragon Lance Brigade, Cai Yunnan better understands what Liu Chang said: "My Dragon Lance Brigade" means, and the Dragon Lance Brigade is the real lineage.

Even if it fails this time, the Dragon Lance Brigade will still be able to regain the crown of the first place in battle in the next battle, and Huo Qiu is also very satisfied with this disposition, and Zhou Xiuying over there also said: "Since Ziyun is back, the Nanxi Brigade will be considered a complete unit, and there will be many recruits on the side of the Dragon Lance Brigade in the next battle, so I can't help but cooperate with the Dragon Lance Brigade!" ”

Huo Qiu was reluctant: "Commander Zhou, you are going to see the outside, when will our Nanxi Brigade and your cavalry regiment cooperate very well!" ”

Liu Chang asked another question: "How many casualties did your entire Nanxi Brigade suffer in this battle?" ”

"Including the fight against Li Yuandu, the capture of Jiande and the sniper monk king, and the Shengbao Department, a total of more than 700 casualties!" Huo Qiu replied: "The loss is great! ”

"Give you a week to rest, I have a big operation that needs your cooperation in the future!"

Now that the two mansions of Yanqu have been defeated, and the troops of the monk king and Shengbao have been defeated, Liu Chang must have a big move next.

At this time, Monk Lingqin still sighed for a long time, he was a person who loved soldiers, and said in a loud voice: "Hey...... Since the rise of the army, there has been no such setback, and there have been too many losses! ”

Shengbao said bluntly: "What's there to sigh about, the winner wins when we meet on a narrow road, if we hurry up, maybe we can bulldoze the red thief's defense line!" ”

"Kezhai, you are in a hurry, you can't rush to fight this matter!" The monk persuaded him with good words: "This is Guan Jian is Hu Xingren and Zhang Yuliang are trapped in Jiande City, we must rush to the rescue, the result is too urgent, next time I encounter a red thief, I have already thought of how to open the situation!" "...," How do I open it? Shengbao said: "Monk King, I am serious, the brave wins when you meet on a narrow road, you are more desperate than him, he is afraid of you!" ”

"No!" The monk said, "I should lure them out with a small vanguard, and then kill them with a team of horses, which will surely break their morale, and then bombard them with artillery to blast their lines open, and finally march on foot and annihilate them in one fell swoop!" ”

Shengbao said bluntly: "It's too slow, it's too slow, this time I think we are defeated by foreign guns and foreign guns, why don't we send people to Shanghai to buy more foreign guns and foreign guns, especially the copper fire cap guns of red thieves, it is really a sharp weapon, if it weren't for the power of their hundreds of foreign guns in a volley, I really didn't know that such a copper fire cap gun is used intensively, it is so powerful!" ”

Sheng Bao said that the bronze fire cap gun, that is, the firing gun of the Hong Army, he said this, and the monk agreed: "It's okay, foreign guns and foreign cannons are battlefield weapons, and you have to buy a batch more, but the horse team is the root of victory or defeat!" ”

He smiled: "The next time the red thief is a crowd, as long as he is lured into the open space by me, and then my horse team kills it, no matter how many foreign guns and cannons he has, he will inevitably be defeated by me!" ”

As he was talking, someone behind him shouted: "It's the political envoy of Hu Bu, it's the political envoy of Hu Bu, it's the Hu Fan Division!" ”

Shengbao was angry: "We are desperately trying to save this Hu Xingren, but this Hu Xingren ran out by himself, it's really not interesting!" ”

As he spoke, he looked up at Hu Xingren who broke out of Jiande City with a few personal soldiers, but the monk king jumped off his horse cautiously and bowed to Hu Xingren: "Hu Fansi, this king is polite!" ”

After seeing the monk king dismount, Sheng Bao reluctantly got off the horse, but he said: "Hu Xingren, you abandoned the city and left, but I don't know where General Zhang Yuliang is now?" ”

Hu Xingren was very embarrassed when he broke out, and now even his clothes are in tatters: "Zhang Shenrong fell into the hands of thieves before the battle, and he has been martyred, and I have only a few dozen soldiers in the whole city of Jiande!" Hey, the red thief is terrible......"

The monk king said: "It is indeed a thief in the world, don't be careless, Hu Fansi, we have suffered a big setback when we go south this time, the red thief has sharp guns and cannons, and he is full of poisonous schemes, and it is really a willow family!" I don't know how many thieves are attacking Jiande this time? ”

Of course, Hu Xingren was reluctant to say that the Hong army besieging the city was only three or four thousand, and he immediately exaggerated the number and said: "The red thieves who went to the city were all the two brigades of Dragon Lance and Nanxi, and they were attached to several independent regiments and independent battalions, with a total of no more than 12,300 people. ”

For Zhang Yuliang's death, he also felt a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and the monk over there said very directly: "When this king first came to Zhejiang, his butt was not hot, and he was hit by a blow in the head, and he lost a lot of steps, but for this red thief, it is still unknown, I don't know what the feudal division has to defend Zhejiang?" ”

Up to now, he didn't talk about the strategy of attack, but just tried to stabilize the situation, but Hu Xingren this time he saw the strength of the red thief with his own eyes, how can there be any offensive and defensive strategy, and immediately said: "Today's strategy, Hangjia can't defend it, only to defend Huzhou." ”

"Why?"

"Hangjia has no soldiers, how many soldiers and horses are there for the monk king?"

Monk Greenqin also reported a real number: "This time to the south, the horse step is 20,000 strange, but today's battle with the red thief has been broken by almost half of it." ”

"Who are the belligerent thieves?"

"It is rumored that it is the Red Thief Nanxi Brigade Zhen Changyu Battalion!"

In the final analysis, Hu Xingren's understanding of the red thief is not much better than that of the monk king, but after all, he has stayed in Hangzhou for a few more months, so he said a reason: "Monk King, in this situation, even if 20,000 soldiers are filled in Hangjia and Jiafu, I am afraid it is not enough to defend Hangjia, the elite of red thieves has three brigades, two regiments and six battalions per brigade, each battalion has a thousand people, the strength is already equivalent to the monk king's soldiers, and there are independent regiments, independent battalions, independent companies, township soldiers, and militia tens of thousands of people. ”…,

In fact, Hu Xingren exaggerated the Hongjun, but there was no way, not to say much, how could it bring out how great and glorious his defeat was, but the monk king believed: "But I don't attack enough, and I have more than enough to defend, not to mention that the red thief always divides the troops to guard, so that the troops of the whole province will not be transferred to Hangjia, right?" ”

"How could it be?" Hu Xingren sighed: "The monk king came a month late, if a month ago, Deng Shaoliang and Li Yuandu's two armies still existed, and Zhejiang affairs still had something to do, and now Deng Shaoliang, Li Yuandu, and Zhang Yuliang's armies are all dead, and my five battalions of Renzi have all been martyred, and Zhejiang affairs have been eroded and irretrievable!" ”

He gave the monk king an analysis, Zhejiang's neighboring provinces, not only Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, but now these four provinces are all powerless to protect themselves, how to talk about containing the red thieves, not to mention that the red thieves attack Yan Qu this time, is to join forces with the Guangdong bandits and the puppet wing king, if the soldiers enter Zhejiang, then the red thieves and the Guangdong bandits join forces, then Zhejiang affairs are even more undesirable!

He continued: "Now that we want to clean up the Zhejiang Bureau, one is Baohu Prefecture, Huzhou Zhao Jingxian has been in business for many years, and with the help of Su Chang, it is enough to defend himself, and the other is that I have to ask He Guiqing to come forward!" ”

"He Genyun dares to be a thief!" Monk Greenqin was furious: "I have to kill this villain!" ”

Hu Xingren said: "He Genyun has long been secretly with the red thief, and Wang Xuexuan under his command has a favored businessman Hu Xueyan, and he often comes and goes with the red thief, it is said that He Genyun has negotiated an agreement with the red thief, if the red thief does not take Hang Jia, then he allows Ningbo Jin to keep neutral." ”

"Ningbo is neutral, doing more harm than good, but He Genyun has never been able to break with Yingyi, but it turns out that this is the reason!" Monk Lingqin is an extremely smart person: "Now that Zhejiang has reached such a level of erosion, will the red thief still keep the contract?" ”

"The red thief is the head of the family, Liu is out of the house, born among the Cantonese bandits, although he is young and old, but the twilight is a little deeper." Hu Xingren immediately analyzed: "I like to be stable, everything falls into place, and I lack a bit of sharpness, so it is still possible to let He Genyun come forward and deal with the red thief for another month or two." ”

The monk understood that in the long run, the Hong army would inevitably try to take the whole of Zhejiang, but now after the Battle of Yanqu, the Hong army has also suffered a lot, and it has to rest for a while.

But he continued to ask: "In the opinion of Hu Fansi, then our army abandoned Hangjia and used Huzhou as a stronghold, so where should our army defend except Huzhou?" ”

Hu Xingren said an unexpected postal explanation: "Monks and kings, attack Jinling." ”

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