"Sure enough, it's the tactics of the Hunan army!" ——～～～

Only after taking a look at this dense camp, Liu Chang had already determined that the camp technique in front of him was the Hunan army of the Shanzhai from the Zeng State Domain, and saw that there were large and small camps within a radius of several miles, and countless fortifications were laid out, and a large number of village regiments were lurking in it to support each other.

With the strength of less than 1,000 people in the Nanxi regiment, attacking such a chain of camps, and there were three times the number of fanatics stationed in it, it was inevitable that Huo Qiu would fight a little hard, so Liu Chang asked: "How many casualties did you have in one day yesterday?" ”

"The casualties are not big!" Huo Qiu replied: "Their shotguns, carrying guns, and mountain-splitting cannons are all of limited power, and they have suffered more than 70 casualties in total, and we have killed and wounded at least 200 people, and captured more than 80 prisoners!" ”

"A big cost is good!" Liu Chang's words made Huo Qiu feel relaxed: "When we were in Yueqing County, if there were seventy casualties in one battle, it would be an earth-shattering battle, and now there are seventy casualties, it's just a trivial matter, you don't have any pressure!" ”

This is the truth, now the total strength of the Hong Army is close to 20,000 people, and it only takes a day for seventy casualties to be replenished, and Huo Qiu over there immediately said: "Checkpoint, don't worry, today I will concentrate the main force and strive to solve the battle in one day!" ”

"Don't rush!" Liu Chang said: "I came up today, not to urge you to take down Bao Village with a shock, I will give you enough time, seven days, as long as you take Bao Village down within seven days, study it well, sooner or later we will run into Zeng Guofan's Hunan army!" ”

This is a truth, with the current development trend of Liu Chang and the Hong Army, sooner or later they will have to expand to Jiangxi, in that case, they will inevitably encounter the Hunan army occupying Jiangxi, and if they can adapt to the tactics of the Hunan army now, they will certainly be of great use in the future.

Huo Qiu still insisted on his opinion: "Yesterday was just careless, today I sent three infantry battalions, all the artillery is ready, and I can definitely take it!" ”

Liu Chang waved his hand: "I'll give you seven days, isn't it enough for you?" The strength of our Rainbow Army is very valuable and cannot be wasted in such a place! ”

As for how to deal with the Hunan army's camp and defense line, Liu Chang still can't think of a good way for the time being.

This is the same thing as the pillbox defense line of later generations, the Hunan army faced the offensive of the Taiping army, mainly adopted the tactics of "hardening the village and fighting a dumb battle", but this is not a simple tactical defense, but a typical offensive defense, like the Hunan army stationed in Yuhuatai, it forced Li Xiucheng to attack with all his strength.

Of course, the offensive defense of the Hunan army can not solve all problems, so it is necessary to have generals who can fight field battles to support the overall situation, in the Hunan army, such generals are an outlier, in the early stage is the Manchu of Taqibu, and in the later stage it is a combination of Bao Chao and Duolonga, who repeatedly broke the elite troops of the Taiping army in field battles, plus the offensive defense composed of barracks, and finally defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Liu Chang has already considered a lot of methods for such a combination of field warfare and positional warfare, but whether these methods will work or not, the key health still depends on the test of actual combat, this time there is no need to rush to pack up the village, but let the troops fight on an experimental basis against such a chain of barracks and fortifications.

Huo Qiu had already understood that Liu Chang was indeed not adding pressure to him, but he was still a little unable to put it down.

Now the Nanxi battalion has sung all the way, successfully broke through Shaoxing Mansion, almost annihilated Xie Jing's Huang Touyong, and also divided his troops to capture the counties to which Shaoxing belongs, but he led 2,000 troops with the respect of the regiment commander, and he couldn't take a small bag village in one day, and even Liu Chang personally came up to suppress the formation.

Even if Liu Chang doesn't put pressure on him, he himself will take Bao Village beautifully. …,

It's just that he just thought that at this time, someone over there had already reported the news: "Lu Ziyun reported in Chuzhou, and the Fujian Qing Demon has been dispatched in a big way, intending to spy on the ...... of Chuzhou."

Lu Ziyun glanced at the huge military map in front of him and said loudly: "Okay! With you coming, I have the bottom in my heart! ”

Before the Battle of Ningshao, Liu Chang deliberately disbanded the mixed battalion of Taizhou and returned the fourth company of the Niudao Battalion originally formed by the Niudao Battalion to the Niudao Battalion.

In this way, Lu Ziyun really has the bottom in his heart, counting it, if the number of infantry companies in the Niudao Battalion is now, it may be the number of the entire Hong Army.

After entering the state capital, the Oxault Battalion was a formation of three infantry companies plus an artillery company, and there was a shortage of an infantry company, so after obtaining Liu Chang's consent, he quickly organized the missing infantry company in the name of the Lishui Independent Company, and in view of the lack of troops, he applied for the formation of a supplementary company, plus the fourth company that has now been returned, the Oxault Battalion has a super-large structure of six infantry companies and an artillery company.

The commander of the fourth company, who had just returned from Taizhou Mansion, immediately asked: "What is the movement of the Qing Demon in Fujian?" ”

"I can smell the blood in their mouths now!" Lu Ziyun said, "Wang Xinde's old bastard has transferred at least 20,000 people, I was originally a little worried about the lack of troops, and the troops in the entire state capital, even if you include the township soldiers, are only 32,000 people, but with more than 300 of you coming over, I am sure!" ”

Lu Ziyun has almost increased his strength by 10 percent, and it is no wonder that his confidence has increased greatly, not to mention that he still has nearly 1,000 reliable basic militia in his hands to fight, so he told the cadres who had just rushed back: "The problem now is not the state capital, but the ......Wenzhou government."

The steam engine of the Baoshun Ship had already ignited, and the long black smoke made the entire Linhai City fear this steam warship.

Ye Niangzi looked at this Baoshun ship with great satisfaction, this is the best warship in her fleet, according to Liu Chang's words, this ship is worth 280,000 taels of silver.

That's right! Two hundred and eighty thousand taels, worth the money!

A Baoshun ship has hit the entire Buxing some Guangyong, and now the Buxing fleet does not dare to go south at all, for fear of encountering the Baoshun wheel, and the entire Wentai ocean, and even the entire Zhejiang-Fujian ocean, is completely Ye Yudie's world.

Ever since the Baoshun ship took refuge, many Western merchants who sold military weapons and supplies to the Rainbow Army poured out in one breath, completely breaking the monopoly of Rusya and Demusse, and they brought in all kinds of goods.

Originally, the price at which the Hongjun purchased munitions was two or even three times the retail price in the Shanghai Concession, but now, under normal circumstances, the retail price in the Shanghai Concession has increased by 50 to 70 percent.

Some Western businessmen were even willing to lower it, but Liu Chang refused their initiative to reduce the price in Jinhua Mansion, and if the price continued like this, then the price would be unreasonable.

In the past, it took a month, or even two months, to bring in a shipload of military fire, but now there are at least three ships a month, sometimes reaching the size of five or six military fireboats, and this is still typhoon season, and the silver and cash reserves of the Hongjun army in Taizhou and Wenzhou are in danger of bottoming out, so Xina has to consider using products such as tea and raw silk to pay for the goods, which is what the Taiping army has done in history. …,

However, this also made the modern weapons and equipment of the Rainbow Army more than double at once, the only drawback is that in terms of quality, they are not much improved compared to De Mmons and Rusya, and the number of mini rifles and field artillery they can provide is not much, most of them are still firing guns and flintlock guns.

But this is enough, Ye Niangzi already has a smile in the corner of her eyes, and now the Baoshun wheel and her fleet are about to set sail, this is from the sea to cooperate with the main force of the Hong Army to sweep the ocean of Ningbo Mansion, and prepare to carry out a landing operation in due course.

In particular, the landing operation of the Dinghai Hall has been clearly responsible for Ye Niangzi, this Dinghai Hall is a rare directly under the central government, that is, today's Zhoushan, the Taiping Army swept the entire Zhejiang in history, but only the two prefectures of Wenzhou and Wenzhou, plus the five county towns and the Dinghai Hall did not take, Guan Jian is the lack of a strong sailor, several attempts to land in Zhoushan were attacked by Bu Xingyou and the local militia group, and returned with defeat.

But now there is the Baoshun wheel, the red single boat and the rice boat of Ye Niangzi, and the landing operation of a Dinghai Hall, which is naturally not a problem.

You must know that after the Baoshun ship entered the battle sequence of the Hong Army, it became the new flagship of Ye Niangzi, and a considerable number of foreign crew members who happened to be on the ship, especially the Luzon people, were ready to walk after a vote, and directly took the bounty of the Hong Army and left.

In this way, Ye Niangzi successfully sent her own people to the Baoshun ship, but this time, in addition to her own family, she only sent a group of reliable cadres sent by Liu Chang, whether it was the old man of the Ge fleet or the people who came over from Huang Wei, none of them were sent.

She knew that she had a big hidden worry, these people seemed to be a little unreliable, but the few groups of cadres sent by Liu Chang were absolutely fine.

However, the corners of Ye Niangzi's eyes quickly returned to smile, and she asked Ah Ning beside her: "Ah Ning!" The boost is almost good, right? You help me ask! ”

Ah Ning nodded, and just wanted to ask, there was a sudden commotion on the dock over there, and then someone shouted: "Xi Liushou is here, Ye Niangniang, it's Xi Liushou, he asked you not to sail!" ”

As he was talking, Wash Na had already appeared on the dock on a healthy horse, and he shouted loudly: "Ye Niangniang, wait a minute, wait a minute!" ”

"What's going on?" Ye Niangzi knew that something big must have happened, and she immediately ordered: "Continue to raise the fire and be ready to sail at any time!" ”

She had already rushed towards Wash Na with a pair of revolvers and guns: "Wash and stay, what's the matter?" ”

Cina told her that something was wrong: "Ye Niangniang, something happened in Yueqing County!" Please take your fleet to Yueqing right away! ”。 ）

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