Regarding this suggestion, Huo Qiu was as kind as flowing: "That's right, it's time to make up your mind!" ”

What is the time to make a decision, and that is now. No matter how much sacrifice and price they paid under Nanchang City, it was worth it for the Second Division, which meant that the entire Jiangxi Province belonged to them, and it was even more significant to Huo Qiu.

His tone was resolute: "Even if you kill or wound an infantry regiment, let the Qing Demon remember not to compete with our second division in the field." ”

Now the deployment of the Hunan army, generally speaking, although it is a field battle according to the city, but most of the Qing army are deployed outside the city of Nanchang, this is a very normal thing, in this time and space of the city offensive and defensive warfare, the stronghold outside the city is often critical, not to mention that once you want to directly carry out the urban offensive and defensive battle, you will have to burn thousands or even tens of thousands of households of the city pass, for any city, this is unbearable.

And the Hunan army is indeed a good hand at building fortifications, countless camps outside the city are built by them with their hearts, if the ability to strengthen and resist artillery strikes, it is not much worse than the city wall of Nanchang City, and once the periphery is abandoned, it means that the entire city has been completely sealed and locked, and it is impossible to get foreign aid, so the main force of the Hunan army is still deployed outside the city.

But for the second division, this is an opportunity, striving to annihilate the Qing army outside the city, as long as one or two important Hunan armies are annihilated, the Hunan army's defense line outside the city will collapse without a fight, and Lu Ziyun has already thought of his opponent: "We can solve Liu Changqi, this time we can't let go of this old opponent." ”

The battle between Liu Changyu and the Second Division has lasted for several months, and although it has taken advantage of the Second Division in these months, most of the time it has been frustrated or even severely damaged by the Second Division, if it were not for the fact that the Second Division did not keep an eye on Liu Changyu's Division in the Battle of Fuzhou, perhaps Liu Changyu's army had been completely annihilated by the Second Division at that time.

Even so, the current Liu Changyu troops can only be regarded as troops that have been annihilated by the Second Division, and they have lost most of their troops in the few months in Fuzhou, and although they have undergone several reformations, the 6,000 troops at the time of entering Jiangxi are now less than 3,000 people, and their morale is also quite low.

For the fight against Liu Changqi, an old opponent, the Second Division did not need to be mobilized, but it was directly engaged in the battle, Huo Qiu agreed with this judgment: "Liu Changyu only has less than 3,000 people left, and all the artillery baggage was captured by us in Fuzhou, which can be said to be the weakest branch of the Nanchang Xiang Army, we have no problem fighting him, I will talk to Commander Zhai about this problem!" ”

It's just that Lu Ziyun is a little optimistic about the results of his negotiations with Zhai Jie: "Commander Zhai's current layout may not be willing to change the pattern for our division." ”

In fact, it is not as simple as changing the pattern, although the second division has three infantry regiments and a newly formed independent regiment, but the five states in the rear account for a lot of troops, so now there are only two infantry regiments of the second division and the division directly under the city of Nanchang, although compared to Liu Changyu has an absolute advantage in the force, but if you want to annihilate Liu Changqi's army at one time, you must have the support of the first division and other troops.

However, Yun Tianzong's opinion is different: "I think Commander Zhai has always been good at talking, and he should agree that we will destroy Liu Changyu first." ”

In fact, Huo Qiu, who came back two hours later, had a hint of flushing on his face, and he said loudly: "Let the brothers prepare to do it, you have to be prepared to pay quite a sacrifice, but no matter how big the sacrifice, this is the price that our second division should pay."

Lu Ziyun was taken aback, and he asked, "Commander Zhai agreed that we would fight Liu Changyu?" ”

Huo Qiu's answer was a little unexpected: "Commander Zhai agreed to mobilize the whole army, and our second division would be responsible for the main attack, but not to fight Liu Changyu..."...,

"Don't beat Liu Changqi?" Yun Tianzong interjected and said: "If you count the Qing demons who confronted our army outside the city, Liu Changqi is the weakest!" ”

"It is precisely because Liu Changyu is the weakest that he doesn't beat Liu Changyu, and crushes the hardest bones first! We beat Li Xubin. Huo Qiu replied: "Commander Zhai said that if our second division is unwilling to attack, the first division will attack!" ”

Yun Tianzong smiled: "The standard boat dragon spear battalion style, Commander Zhai has been in the dragon spear battalion for so long, and he has such arrogance!" ”

That's right, this is the standard style of the Dragon Lance Battalion, the standard temperament of the cadres of the Dragon Lance Battalion, and unconsciously, Zhai Jie was also assimilated by the collective of the Dragon Lance Battalion, and the judgment he made was completely consistent with the temperament of the Dragon Lance Battalion.

Lu Ziyun also said: "Yes...... The pride of the Dragon Lance Battalion, the gap between us and the First Division, is also at this point. ”

No matter what criticism the Second Division has against the cadres from the First Division, the cadres of the First Division do have more confidence and pride than the Second Division.

In their eyes, the two or thirty thousand Qing troops under Nanchang City are just a number, and the second division is thinking about how to knock out the weakest first, and the strongest enemy army will naturally appear weak without the support of friendly troops.

But the cadres of the 1st Division had a different view, no matter what the enemy army was, in front of them it was a bunch of numbers waiting to be solved, so the wisest decision was to solve the strongest enemy army, as long as the strongest enemy army was solved, the rest of the Qing army was naturally frightened and collapsed without a fight.

Whether they like this style or not, Huo Qiu and the cadres of the Second Division must accept this style: "Li Xubin's troops are 6,000 people, with the largest number of troops, and he has been fighting for many years, and he has the longest history and the most courageous in the Ganxiang army, which can be said to be the first-class trump card of Zeng Demon Head, if it is annihilated, it is equivalent to breaking Zeng Demon Head's ribs." ”

Not to mention that it was as simple as breaking Zeng Guofan's ribs, it was simply to knock out the soul of the army in Ganxiang, so Yun Tianzong immediately said: "Annihilate Li Xubin, you can win Nanchang without a fight." ”

He really couldn't think of what kind of courage Zeng Guofan would have to continue to hold on to Nanchang City if Li Xubin's troops were annihilated by the Hong Army, and Lu Ziyun asked more eagerly: "Although the enemy and our forces are opposite, but we have fought this battle, when will we start!" ”

Huo Qiu gave the answer: "Ran waited for two days, and the inspection sent us two heavy artillery battalions for siege of the city, which will be in place soon, but it will be ...... in the past two days." ”

Without his orders, Yun Tianzong and Lu Ziyun both understood that they must not relax in the past two days.

If there is aerial photography in this time and space, then looking at the camp of the Hunan army in the air, it is simply like a beehive, but in fact there is more complicated, you must know that the tradition of the Hunan army "hardening the village and fighting a dumb battle" has carried forward the traditional turtle shrinkage of the Chinese army to a limit.

They marched at a rate of only twenty or thirty miles a day, and they did not march much, but every day they were busy building camps, and in a short time they were able to build a nest of fortifications like worker ants, so that the opponent could not break through such a line at all.

What's more, Li Xubin's camp on the shore of the Ganjiang River has lasted for many days, and the chief man in the Hunan army has been working day and night, building the eight camps in front of him into a thorough three-dimensional defense line, not only with traditional trenches, long walls, watchtowers, horse rejections, and earth buildings, but also many kinds of war and defense equipment close to the West, not to mention that obstacles and culverts are deployed everywhere, and there are shotguns and gunholes everywhere, and artillery positions have also been erected in many places, not only Chinese-style mountain splitting guns, camp guns, and general guns, but also foreign cannons imported by the Hunan army from Guangdong.

Not to mention that there are warships of the Neihu Water Division on the river to help in the battle, and there are Hunan troops nearby, and even artillery can be used to form a cross trend, according to Li Xubin's own words: "Even if the red thief takes tens of thousands of catties of general's artillery, he can't open our camp." …,

This is not empty talk, when Li Xiucheng attacked Yuhuatai in another time and space, he used a large number of Western heavy artillery, but there was no good way to do the fortifications of the Hunan army that were several layers deep, and finally ended in failure, and now Li Xubin is even more confident.

You must know that he has already tried, whether it is the mountain splitting cannon, the camp cannon, or the foreign cannon that has been equipped, the power of the fortifications and other heavy fortifications built in his battalion can be ignored, not to mention that the food in his battalion can be supported for half a month, and the fire and ammunition equipment can be supported for a month, and the military salary is also worry-free.

However, this confidence was dimmed with the infiltration of the Rainbow Army, and although he did not know what the enemy's intentions were, Li Xubin, a veteran, was keenly aware that the number of Rainbow troops in front of his camp group had increased, and they were not only trying to penetrate deep into their own camp, but also trying to cut off their communication with the other Hunan armies.

For this, Li Xubin reacted immediately, he was ready to control the Hunan army with two infantry battalions at any time, and put in a counterattack at any time, but the Hong army invested more and more reconnaissance troops, and it was also accompanied by the appearance of many Mini riflemen.

The Mini rifle is a cross-era weapon that makes the counterattack tactics of the Hunan army a joke, and the Rainbow Army now not only has an advantage in the rate of fire, but even occupies an advantage in the range.

These Minnie riflemen, who lurked near the Hunan military camp, were often the core of the Hongjun reconnaissance detachment, and although they were not the sharpshooters of every shot, they quickly cut off most of the communication between Li Xubin's troops and the other Hunan troops, and even made collecting water and chopping wood a very dangerous job.

And Li Xubin decisively decided to go out of the camp to fight with these red thief boat scouts, but he soon understood a fact, that is, if a unit like the Hunan army broke away from the camp and field fortifications, and fought with an enemy army like the Hong Army with absolute superiority in firepower in the field, it would definitely be a matter of self-defeat, and the Qing army of the two battalions had only left the camp for a mile, and had already fallen into the multiple fire nets of the Rainbow Army's Mini rifle and Western fast artillery.

It's just that Li Xubin has already smelled the intention of the red thief, and they are coming towards him, Li Xubin, and the six thousand people...... If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation and the monthly pass, and your support is my biggest motivation. ）