In the ability to escape, Ma Bao is the most successful, definitely the first in the Qing army, in flattering his boss, saving his life, Ma Bao is also the first, otherwise he was defeated in the hands of the Huaxia Army in several battles, why can he escape safe and sound every time, he can continue to survive after going back, and successfully keep his official position, after killing the main general Man Dahai, deputy general and others, he is still alive and easy.

This aspect has the same thing as him There are two people Kong Youde's younger brother Kong Youxing, this person should have died after Kong Youde's defeat, but in the end he fled with Aobai, Ma Degong and his younger brother Ma Deli are equally powerful, and they also escaped with their lives, this time Ma Bao is the main general, Kong Youxing is the deputy general, Ma Degong's younger brother Ma Deli is the general, Ma Degong is followed by Hong Chengchou Qing Army, the three generals who have gone through hardships have matured, and the upper position is the general, with the ability to lead the army independently, Led Hong Chengchou Qing army to attack Taean Province occupied by the 1st Brigade of the Guards Brigade.

These people know the Huaxia Army better than Hong Chengchou, Feng Quan, Duolong, Soertu, and Aobai, because they were all beaten by the Huaxia Army from south to north, and more than a dozen large-scale battles were defeated by tens of thousands of people, but they knew the strength of the Huaxia Army, and they knew that they could not resist the attack of the Huaxia Army, so after arriving in Jining Mansion, they reorganized their armies for battle, but ignored Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan's several urgings.

Even if Hong Chengchou sent Ma Degong, a veteran, to oversee the army, they didn't pay attention, Ma Degong's escape was even more first-class, he knew that Kong Youde they couldn't beat the Huaxia army and led the army to escape from Guangxi Prefecture, and was later defeated in Huguangzhou, all the way with the Qing army, after escaping to Hubei Prefecture, Ma Degong led the troops to flee into Sishan Prefecture, in Sishan Prefecture, that vast and sparsely populated, thousands of miles of uninhabited place and Tusi fought for several years, and finally couldn't bear the loneliness and took refuge in Wu Sangui, after Wu Sangui withdrew from Shaanxi and Gansu, he fought with the Thirteen Families of Kuidong, repeatedly made military exploits, was promoted by Wu Sangui, and later took refuge in Haoge, Haoge named him the chief soldier, so that he led the troops to guard against Wu Sangui, and the angry Wu Sangui almost vomited blood.

After Aobai defeated the Dajin Kingdom, he defected on the battlefield and surrendered to Aobai, and was later sent by the Qing court to monitor Hong Chengchou, and led 30,000 Han army flag soldiers to be stationed in Linyi Mansion alone, when the Manchu officials rebelled against Hong Chengchou, he also wanted to participate in it, but Hong Chengchou was older than him, and controlled the middle and lower-level generals in advance, and those middle- and lower-level generals were all Han, of course, towards Hong Chengchou, the original Ming official.

So Ma Degong was placed under house arrest and the military power was seized, and later Ma Degong went through Feng Quan's door, was enabled by Hong Chengchou, and gave him an idle post as a guerrilla general, and threw him into the village bravery, and the regimental training to master the five thousand township warriors, the rabble of the regimental training.

This time, Ma Bao and others did not listen to Hong Chengchou's orders and launched an attack on the Huaxia Army as soon as possible, Hong Chengchou brought him up and named him General Wuwei, which is a low-level title, and his official position is still a guerrilla general, but the title is a high master for Ma Bao and others who do not have a title, and they cannot but be offered.

Obviously, Ma Degong does not need them to provide for him, but takes the initiative to move closer to them, because they are very familiar with each other, everyone has been in Guangxi Prefecture under Kong Youde's account as a general, and a few of them have not shown their talents except for Ma Bao, but they are all very familiar, especially Ma Deli is still Ma Degong's younger brother, this is to give credit to Ma Degong, Ma Degong is happy to come here, which is also the reason why Hong Chengchou sent him here, because he is the predecessor of these people, the veteran, can suppress them.

Ma Degong sat in the lobby of the Fucheng Mansion in Jining Mansion, slowly sipping tea with tea, and Ma Bao, Kong Youxing, Ma Deli, and the Mongolian cavalry commander Mangergul four people sat below.

Ma Bao said: "Boss, the reason why you are not fighting with the Huaxia Army this time is because, you have fought with the Huaxia Army, and you also know how powerful they are, although this time the opposite side is just a brigade of troops, but if we want to attack, we will definitely not be able to take it, the Huaxia Army is too powerful, the reason why we are sitting here is to wait for the Huaxia Army to attack."

After all, even if the opponent is powerful, but the strength is small, once the opponent leaves the lair, we can divide the force into two parts, one part to defend the Huaxia army, part to attack the lair of the Huaxia army, cut off their back road, behind is the Yellow River crossing, we only need to send a part of the cavalry to block the ferry, so that they can not escape on the north side of the Yellow River, we can slowly grind them to death little by little on the territory we are familiar with. This battle can only be fought like this, and there is no other way. ”

Ma Degong will not just listen to his old friends, subordinates, and younger brothers, he also wants to make meritorious contributions, but also wants to climb up, although he has a title that is not of much use, but this title is not sealed by the emperor, it is sealed by Hong Chengchou, he doesn't care about the title at all, what he cares about is that he can grasp the military power in his hands, these years, whoever has the military power in his hands, who is the boss, the master, everyone else has to stutter him.

As for the 5,000 rabble who stayed in Yangzhou Mansion, he couldn't look down on it, he looked at the 30,000 green battalion soldiers and 8,000 Han army banner soldiers here, not that he didn't want the firearms troops of the two new military towns, he also had hot eyes, but he knew that Ma Bao would not give up his military power, and he appointed Kong Youxing as a deputy general, just to balance his younger brother and control these two troops.

Two new army town troops, each with 13,000 troops, was originally 11,000 troops, Hong Chengchou learned some Chinese troops, but later Hong Chengchou knew that his troops were not as powerful as the enemy's troops, and they were not enough to resist the enemy's brigade in terms of weapons and equipment, morale, and combat effectiveness, so he increased his strength by 2,000 troops, which were originally those Manchu soldiers who were brave and good at fighting, but later he rebelled against the Manchus of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and regarded himself as a Han Chinese, so he exchanged the more than 2,000 troops for relatively high combat effectiveness and was more loyal to him. The Han army banner troops he already mastered, and the Manchu soldiers who remained to swear allegiance to him were only a few hundred, serving as baggage soldiers for these two thousand Han army flag troops.

In fact, this army had 3,800 troops, 2,000 Han army banner troops, 1,000 Green Battalion Han troops, and 800 Manchu cavalry troops.

Among them, the Han army flag unit is a musket unit, the 1,000 green battalion unit is an artillery unit, and the 800 Manchu Qing soldiers are cavalry troops, which can be regarded as a field regiment with strong combat effectiveness.

The total strength of the two armies reached 27,600 troops, and with the cavalry troops of the general's guards, there were more than 29,000 troops, nearly 30,000 troops, which can be said to be the elite troops among the elite troops in Hong Chengchou's troops.

Now Hong Chengchou Qing army troops in the main and secondary has fallen, because Hong Chengchou to the Han people, rebel against the Qing army, therefore, the Han people are the first, the green battalion soldiers after adjustment, encouragement, after the first rank, the combat effectiveness ranks third, the first is the Han army flag troops, but the Han army flag troops because of the small number of troops, the threat is not big.

The third is the Mongols, and the troops are not much, most of them are the second generation of Mongols who have been stationed in the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, or the Mongolian veterans who have lost their courage and morale, their strength is a little more than the Han military banner, but the status is a little worse, because the Han military banner is also Han, so it can only be condescended to the third class of people, Manchus, because even if they change and take refuge in Hong Chengchou, as Hong Chengchou, an old thief, they don't want to do things too desperately like the Huaxia army, so they are treated politely, as long as they take refuge in him and don't rebel, still let them lead the army, although the troops are not many, the combat effectiveness is good, but the status can only be the fourth class.

As the most elite troops, Ma Bao of course led an army, and the other one led by Kong Youxing, who was close to him, since Kong Youxing was defeated from Huguang, he came to Hong Chengchou here and was depressed, so he took refuge in Ma Bao, who also because of the defeat, the imperial court pursued and took refuge in Hong Chengchou's Ma Bao, the two of them smelled like each other, and became brothers, and Ma Bao led the second army to him.

Although Ma Deli used to be a buddy and had a good relationship with Kong You, he could only lead those Han army banner troops, the green battalion soldiers were controlled by Ma Bao, more than a dozen generals were his henchmen, and a few generals were Hong Chengchou's henchmen, Ma Bao didn't dare to make a big move, so he could only let them.

Ma Degong had already figured out the situation here in more than ten days, he felt that he could get the Han army flag, more than 8,000 troops, plus if he could command the troops of those Manchu generals, there would be more than 10,000 troops, so he slowly swallowed up and Ma Bao and others to fight sloppily, constantly urging them to send troops, sometimes telling them that he supported them, understood their difficulties, and would report their difficulties to Hong Chengchou, ask for understanding, and implement their battle plan.

Ma Bao is a good person, after dealing with him for more than ten days, he immediately understood the meaning of Ma Degong, and after discussing with Kong Youhe and more than a dozen of his own henchmen, he happily agreed to Ma Degong's request, and assigned the few henchmen of Hong Chengchou in the green camp to Ma Degong, Ma Degong obtained the command of 6,000 troops, and then the two of them continued to play Tai Chi, Ma Degong obtained the command of 4,000 Han army banners, and the command of 2,000 Manchu soldiers. Those people and young men brought in 5,000 soldiers and horses, and at the same time obtained a large amount of material supplies, and controlled half of the logistics rights of Ma Bao and others, so they happily wrote a letter to Hong Chengchou to intercede for Ma Bao and others.

Hong Chengchou understood Ma Degong's meaning very well, and quickly replied to him, he looked at it, he wanted to win the battle, it was easy to say anything if he won the war, he and Ma Bao took responsibility together.

So Ma Degong found that he was trapped by Ma Bao, and together he and Ma Bao took responsibility, and the two of them became grasshoppers on a rope.

Several people looked at each other and were silent, lamenting Hong Chengchou's treachery and the ignorance of themselves and others, so they could only put down their intrigue and discuss together how to deal with the attack of the Huaxia army.

The delay of more than ten days caused the Huaxia Army to replace the 27th Field Brigade with the 1st Guards Brigade, and the 1st Guards Brigade, under the leadership of Zhang Qiang, was slowly moving towards them.

(End of chapter)