Regardless of how Ao Bai views the infantry of the Huaxia Army, to be precise, it should be the musketeers, artillery, and artillery of the Huaxia Army. These two things made the Huaxia army almost invincible in the southeast, and even the entire south, and won many battles, Xiao Fei and his troops finally arrived in time, and completely blocked Aobai at the door of the Qing army.

The two field brigades, although they look very tired, but their kind of open and closed mouth about our Huaxia army, how, how is it, a proud look, so that everyone can see that their energy is still very strong, and their combat effectiveness is still at fault, even if the war starts immediately, it is impossible to defeat the Huaxia army with only cavalry, no infantry, and no more troops than the Huaxia army.

Brother Zhu reorganized the cavalry he led, returned the dragoons and the chassars to the two field brigades, holding the scout cavalry and lancers in his hands, and the total strength was about 5,500 troops, almost the establishment of a cavalry brigade of the Huaxia Army.

After the dragoons and the chasseurs each returned two field brigades, the two field brigades changed from super field brigades to large field brigades that were almost a little larger than the guards brigades, and the strength was still very large.

The troops of the Huaxia Army are like this, they seem to be regular, but in fact they are changing all the time, because of the occurrence of defense, attack, adjustment, etc., the establishment and strength of the various armies of the Huaxia Army are not always that little.

Wang Yuqun's 19th Field Brigade and the crippled Fifth Cavalry Brigade led by Tong Dawei actually belong to a kind of super field brigade formation, but they do not have the militia and garrison troops trained by the Huaxia Army to join and cooperate.

These people can be used as baggage infantry and cold-weapon infantry to cover the hand-to-hand combat of field brigades, and they can also be regarded as the establishment of super field brigades.

After Xiao Fei arrived, Wang Yuqun and Tong Dawei came to meet Xiao Fei together, after all, Xiao Fei held the official position of a general soldier, and he was still the commander-in-chief appointed by Zhang Qiang this time.

The 19th Field Brigade had lost some troops after previous battles, and the 19th Field Brigade of the second class should have 8,500 troops, but in fact it had 7,000 troops, and lost 1,500 troops.

Tong Dawei's Fifth Cavalry Brigade actually had 6,000 troops, but in the battle with Kong Youde and other Qing troops, he lost lancers and chasseurs, dragoons totaling 1,800 troops, and more than 500 wounded, and finally gathered 4,000 troops, and when attacking the front army of Aobai, he lost 300 troops, 200 wounded, plus illness, and fought with the enemy along the way, losing a total of more than 1,000 troops, and currently only 2,100 troops.

In other words, the losses of their troops were quite large, and the total strength was only equal to that of the reinforced second-class field brigade of Zhu Ge or Merlinyu.

However, they still have 4,000 musketeers of the Guards Brigade in their hands, which allows them to reach the establishment of the Super Field Brigade, which currently has a total strength of more than 13,000 troops, which is not as good as the 16,000 troops of the Super Field Brigade of Merlin and Zhu Ge, and it is almost the same.

And the strength of the two people is not full, after all, Suo Etu pit them, and they fought with tens of thousands of cold weapon troops in Aobai and the new army of the Qing army in a town, and the field brigade of two people is actually not satisfied, and even suffered heavy losses.

The two field brigades had more than 8,000 musketeers, but now there are only more than 5,000 musketeers, which were drawn from the cavalry, militia, and garrison units that followed, and the artillery brigades also lost quite a lot of losses, with dozens of three-pounder guns, 20 six-pounder guns, nine nine-pounder guns, and three 12-pounder guns.

The artillery brigade has a total of 4,000 men, and now it is supplemented by militia units with only 3,500 troops.

Or divided equally in two field brigades.

The field brigade is mostly cold weapon troops, and the standard configuration of pikemen as a cover for musketeers should be 1,000 troops per brigade, but now there are only 500 troops per brigade, sword and shield soldiers, and archers, which should be in the ranks of baggage soldiers, and the standard configuration is two battalions, and now there is only one battalion in each brigade, with 500 troops.

The cavalry of the two super field brigades should be 4,000 troops, and the two battalions are 8,000 troops, plus the strength of the split cavalry brigades, and now each brigade has only 1,500 troops.

Even if Brother Zhu returned the strength of the cavalry brigade and these cavalry to the field brigade, plus the cavalry of the militia and the garrison, the combined cavalry of the two brigades would be less than 6,000 troops.

How can I say that, in fact, each super field brigade plus the strength of the militia and garrison regiments, plus the strength of a split cavalry brigade, is actually 16,000 troops, and after several battles now, the two super field brigades are probably only 11,000 troops.

It adds up to almost 22,000 troops.

With the addition of Wang Yuqun and Tong Dawei's troops, the total strength is a little more than 35,000 troops.

However, Zhang Qiang will not let them attack Hubei Prefecture with such embarrassing troops, the 23rd Field Brigade and the 7th Field Brigade are coming, the 23rd Field Brigade is a C-class field brigade, and other field brigades of the Huaxia Army are mostly cold weapons, muskets, artillery are not the same, as most of the troops are captured Taixi people, their strength is mostly muskets and artillery, but the 23rd Field Brigade of 7,500 troops, 4,000 musketeers, 2,000 artillery, 500 baggage soldiers, 1,000 cavalry, The cavalry is a unit of lancers.

In addition, the Seventh Field Brigade, as the first field brigade to be formed, was a first-class field brigade, with 9,500 troops, plus the direct personal guards of the generals leading the troops, almost more than 10,000 people.

More than 17,000 reinforcements, plus 35,000 offensive troops, the total strength is more than 52,000.

Although this force is still not comparable with the strength of the Qing army, but the soldiers are fine, not many, Xiao Fei is confident that with these forces to surround Aobai, march into Hubei Prefecture, take Hubei Prefecture with weapons, cut off Hong Chengchou and the northwest and southwest of the enemy's contact, and when the militia troops and garrison troops arrive in the future, fully occupy Hubei Prefecture, move to the back of Henan Mansion or Suzhou Mansion, and comprehensively encircle Hong Chengchou's hundreds of thousands of troops.

In fact, not only these troops, but also a steady stream of militia units and garrison troops will be replenished from the rear, and at the same time, Xiao Fei's command will be replenished.

Xiao Fei's command will directly lead the 7th Field Brigade to advance as the Chinese army, and the 23rd Field Brigade will also bypass the troops of this surrounded Aobai under the leadership of the main general and continue to advance towards Hubei Prefecture, the hinterland of the Qing army.

Of course, the 23rd Field Brigade is not completely a team to advance, after all, they are outsiders, in this Chinese Ming land full of Asian faces, they are afraid that they will not be able to move an inch, and they will be sold and help count the money, but here there are Hui merchants, Huai merchants, shrewd Ming and Qing Dynasty bottom snakes, officials, without the leadership of locals It is impossible to succeed.

This is not the Mughal Dynasty of Ah San, whose IQ is basically crushed by the Han people, this is the Ming Dynasty, the shrewdness of various abacus, the most shrewd is the Jin merchants in Shanxi, people have long been the Jewish devils in the land of China, and the capital plays with the Huai Shang and Hui Shang These soil buns are embarrassed.

Perhaps this situation could not be changed until the Republic of China period, when the coastal areas undoubtedly took advantage of the east wind of opening up, the business acumen of foreigners, and the guns and cannons to successfully surpass the Jin merchants who still adhered to the basic moral norms.

In this land, there are too many smart people to get ahead, but if the IQ is crushed by the Tessy people, it is still very much.

Without the cannons of giant ships, the show off of force, and the natural supply ground of the sea, the Taixi people are strong dragons and soft worms that do not suppress the head snake in the land of China.

Therefore, Xiao Fei sent the shrewd Tong Dawei out, Tong Dawei went deep into various places to do arms business with the rebel army and the rebel army, He Tengjiao, Li Dingguo, and even those generals who went to Sishan Prefecture to do arms business with Wen Anzhi and the remnants of the Dashun army, and sending him to definitely open up the situation.

Tong Dawei set off with the remnants of his 2,100 cavalry troops.

In this way, the strength of this unit has reached more than 9,000, which is equivalent to a first-class field brigade.

Xiao Fei is deploying troops, and Aobai, who has returned from the decadent and lost, is not willing to fail, he is also transferring troops to punish generals.

The best thing to do at the moment is to open the pass ahead, and then move forward lightly and throw off the enemy.

At the same time, he sent multiple messengers to continue to ask for help, from the Qing court, Hong Chengchou, and even Wu Sangui.

However, it was useless, and he didn't know what the Huaxia army was waiting for, so he didn't start a siege on him, but let the Qing army led by Suo Etu storm the pass defended by Wang Yuqun's 19th Field Brigade for a few days, which was a bit wrong.

The messenger is out, this is a real thing, the nearest messenger has already run back from the destination, bringing the news of the recent retreat of the Qing army, Ao Bai really can't figure out what happened to the Qing army, what happened to the Huaxia army?

Anxiously waiting to no avail, he took his guards to the vicinity of the blocked pass a few miles away to see Soltu command the Qing cavalry to surround the pass.

The enemy relied on the terrain to defend, and Soltu's attack was also steady, each time he sent a thousand soldiers, dismounted and rushed over, at a distance of fifty or sixty meters, relying on the terrain, hiding behind stones and corpses, and releasing an arrow at the opposite Huaxia army, and then hiding behind the object covering him, and the gunfire on the opposite Huaxia army's position was also resurrected, and it was not large-scale at all.

Aobai's nose is almost crooked, is this called fighting?

This is even more child's play than the training of the Qing army.

"Tell Suo Etu to come to me," Ao Bai shouted at the Manchu generals who had come to meet him.

Soltu soon came to Aobai, knelt on the ground, and did not speak or explain.

Ao Bai angrily shouted the reason, and Soltu said aggrievedly: "My lord, it's not that the minions don't contribute, it's really impossible to fight this battle, and the 10,000 troops that the lord gave to the humble post lost 2,700 troops on the first day."

This was the consequence of the cavalry charge, the firearms used by the other side were too powerful, the artillery bombardment at a distance, the muskets at a close distance, the 2,000 cavalry troops only touched the front of the enemy's position, and just after fighting with a few enemies, they were killed by the enemy's salvo and fled back.

The lowly duty organized the cavalry to attack again, and still returned defeated, and then the lowly duty let the cavalry dismount, quietly touched the past to attack, this is the only way to fight, but still heavy casualties, the lowly duty does not know how to fight this battle, the adult is still angry, and the humble duty does not dare to annoy the adult, can only slowly consume with the Huaxia army, so it is rubbing with the Huaxia army for a few days. ”

Ao Bai and Suo Etu argued with each other, and at this time, a herald whispered a few words to Ao Bai.

(End of chapter)