Liu Chang's speech was applauded by the audience, although the Battle of Fengjing Town was, in a sense, the last battlefield between the French army and the Russian army, becoming the final victor, but it did indeed break the dream of "invincible" in the hearts of the officers of the Hongjun Army.

Therefore, Zhu Jinlei, the newly promoted staff officer, quickly introduced the latest combat deployment on the map: "As far as the present situation is concerned, our army has deployed 32,000 combat troops in Jiaxing Prefecture, which is the fist unit of our Hong Army, and in the Suzhou Division, there are 12,000 people, which are slightly inferior in quality to Jiaxing Prefecture, but they are also our army's division of a hundred battles, well-equipped and well-trained......

For the Rainbow Army, these 44,000 troops can be said to be the essence of most of the entire Rainbow Army, and Zhu Jinlei continued to introduce the enemy army in front of him: "And the Fayi and the Russians have the audacity to start a war with me, although they try their best to increase their troops in Shanghai, but their homeland is thousands of miles away from China, so the assistance they can receive is quite limited, according to the first-hand statistics obtained by our foreign friends......"

"Now near Shanghai, there are fourteen French infantry battalions with a total strength of about 9,400 troops, and four Russian infantry battalions with a total strength of 1,800 troops, and in the near future, they will be reinforced by 4,000 French troops and about 2,500 Russian troops, but this is their most powerful wave of support."

It should be said that the information obtained by these British friends of the Rainbow Army can be described almost accurately, and the only mistake is that due to Murajoviv's decision, this wave of Russian troops supporting Shanghai was changed from about 2,500 to 3,500, and Zhu Jinlei continued to introduce further information: "In addition, the French army also organized a small foreign legion in Shanghai, and in the past battles, we must admit that this army has quite strong combat effectiveness, especially in garrison battles. If the force includes the little Luzon, the Japanese, and the Annamite, the strength is about 3,000 ......"

These nearly 20,000 French, Russian and Foreign Legion can be said to be the most combat-ready troops in the entire vicinity of Shanghai. In addition to the troops, the combat effectiveness is not worth talking about, Zhu Jinlei continued: "The Qing army in Shanghai is about 30,000, but its combat effectiveness will not exceed our two infantry brigades, but it is worth mentioning that Li Hongzhang's Huai army ......"

"According to the special order of His Royal Highness King Yan." Zhu Jinlei emphatically introduced this Huai army: "The division originally had about 3,000 men, but one of them suffered heavy losses from our army in Fengjing Town and other battles, although it has been replenished. The strength is about 2,700, and its combat effectiveness is comparable to that of our second-line troops. ”

This is all the enemy forces near Shanghai, Liu Chang asked, "Who has a different opinion?" ”

Li Guanglei, the new infantry commander, quickly raised a different opinion: "Staff Officer Zhu had a good discussion, but I think that we must pay attention to the Qing army near Shanghai, especially Li Hongzhang's Huai army." It is not just described as "not worth mentioning" and "equivalent to our second-line troops", but has an objective understanding of them. ”

This made many old army commanders object, Qu Jie said as soon as possible: "Commander Li, you look at these demons too much, what level they are, everyone has a number, my first division entered Jiangxi for less than three months, and destroyed no less than 30,000 demons in Jiangxi Province, and 10,000 enemies in a month......"

What he meant was that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was not worth mentioning. But Li Guanglei, as a veteran who personally experienced the Battle of Fengjing Town, also has his own opinions: "Old battalion commander, that is the Qing Demon on the battlefield in Jiangxi, and the Qing Demon in Shanghai is different......

Qu Jie has no other strengths, modesty and prudence are a big strength, Liu Chang even used a sentence "I don't frown in my life, how can there be a tooth-cutting person in the world" to describe him, so he called Li Guanglei in a loud voice: "Head Li, you can tell everyone." How much has the Qing Demon grown near Shanghai? ”…,

Li Guanglei immediately said: "Say the Qing demon elsewhere." We can sweep away the leaves in the autumn wind, and we can clean up as much as we want. But the Qing demons in Shanghai are all equipped with foreign guns, although the foreign guns may not be as sharp as ours, but at least they are flintlock pistols, which are at least thirty percent stronger than the Qing demons elsewhere, and more importantly, they can not only defend, but also have the support of foreigners when they collapse, and they will soon be able to contain them!"

Shi Huiji personally experienced the battle, and he can be said to be clear about the changes in the Qing army, and he immediately interjected: "This is the truth, the Qing demons in Shanghai are indeed different from other places, Guan Jian is supported by foreigners, if we leave these Qing demons, we would have taken down all the Yi soldiers in Fengjing Town!"

Saying this, although everyone is skeptical, they already have a new understanding of the Qing army in Shanghai, and Fu Wendao over there also jumped out: "And the Qing army in Shanghai has changed, the key lies in the recently emerged Li Hongzhang Huaijun, although it is not as good as the Yi soldiers, but it is extremely worrying!"

For those of them who experienced the battle, everyone couldn't raise any questions, and Sun Huzi also added: "The Huai army does have some skills, this time we besieged the three battalions with 10,000 people, and the reason why the French army didn't take it down in the end is that these Huai troops are also in trouble!"

He used the word "trouble" to describe the Huai Army, and everyone already counted it, but Liu Chang said something that made everyone tremble: "Therefore, when you encounter the Huai Army, you must start first, and don't wait until the spark of the stars is burning the prairie to start, don't look at Li Hongzhang's team of only two or three thousand people, but the Huaishang people are strong, and the twist group is brave in the meantime, how many people can be replenished, once they are allowed to grow, it will be our henchmen!"

In this way, everyone has counted: "It seems that the Qing Demon near Shanghai has indeed undergone fundamental changes, everyone has to be careful!"

And Yang Fuqing, who came to Suzhou from Jiangxi with Qu Jie, was a newcomer in the Hong Army, but he represented the experience of the old Taiping Army, and immediately said: "Huai Army, Huai Army, as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was not a good thing, we just didn't take advantage of the Hunan Army to annihilate it before it rose, and it turned out to be a tiger riding trend, this is a lesson that hundreds of thousands of Heavenly Kingdom soldiers exchanged for blood, and we must not let this Huai Army grow." ”

But at this time, when Fu Wendao said: "Your Highness, I think our tactics should change now, not only to crush Li Hongzhang's Huai army to death as soon as possible, but also to drag the Yi soldiers across!"

"Drag?" Liu Chang was originally preparing for a decisive battle with the Anglo-Russian coalition forces near Shanghai, but he keenly discovered that the key character in Fu Wendao's words was this drag: "How to delay?" ”

Fu Wendao, the oldest officer in the Rainbow Army, although he has experienced a lot of ups and downs in his military career, but in the battle of Fengjing Town, which ended not long ago, he showed that he was one of the best commanders of the Rainbow Army, and he immediately said: "Check, it's not that I said anything discouraged......

He put forward the old saying that he had talked to Shi Weisi several times: "Now if we confront the Yi soldiers, it is certain that a company will fight a platoon, but a battalion against a company, if it is not in our hands at the right time and place, then our army will not be very sure, as for using an infantry regiment to attack an infantry battalion, then we have no precedent for success, as for using an infantry brigade to fight an infantry regiment, I believe that including the old dragon gun battalion, there is no confidence in it!"

Everyone has not fully understood Fu Wendao's theory, but Liu Chang has already understood it first: "You are right, I think this point is a little bad, the so-called Jurchen is invincible, and the same is true ......of the Yi soldiers."

In this time and space, the Eastern countries have never had the ability to confront tens of thousands of European troops head-on, even in Afghanistan, which has the most brilliant achievements, although the British army they annihilated and suffered heavy losses is very large, but the real Europeans are only the size of a brigade, as the so-called "invincible Manchurian", which is based on the fact that Western military science and technology are two hundred years ahead of the Eastern world. …,

The larger the scale of the confrontation, the more inferior the rainbow army is, and the gap between the two sides is narrowed in the simple confrontation of the platoon scale, so Fu Wendao has already talked eloquently: "Why fight with the Yi soldiers in the first time, time is in our hands!"

That's right, for the French and the Russians, they fought against China on a journey of tens of millions of miles, which is almost the limit of technology under the technological level of this time and space, and every soldier transported to China must be fed with great resources.

In a short period of time, the French and Russians may still be able to bear such a price, but after a long time, they are simply unable to maintain such a logistics line thousands of miles away, Liu Chang replied very happily: "That's right, time is in our hands......

For the Hongjun, it is no problem to drag on for a few months, now is the season of autumn grain harvest, Su Jia is often a granary, and the harvested autumn grain is enough for a whole year of military rations because it does not need to pay grain, not to mention that the Hongjun can continue to receive manpower and material resources in this area, so Zhu Jinlei added: "That's right, Suzhou Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion alone can replenish at least 3,000 recruits every month......

For such a big government, replenishing 3,000 recruits a month is simply a matter of not being easy, but the French and Russians want to replenish their troops, but it is not so easy, even if they come from the nearest ports under the control of the French in India, it will take more than half a month, and a lot of time even from the French mainland.

Therefore, when I thought of this, everyone already had a number, how Guan Jian dragged the French team across, after all, this is the Yi soldiers they have only heard of in legends, and Fu Wendao continued: "Not only to drag the Yi soldiers, but also to give heavy damage, I think, all of you here are confident that you can use an infantry regiment to solve a company of Yi soldiers, use an infantry battalion to solve a platoon of Yi soldiers, and use an infantry company to eat a squad!"

"Absolutely!"