What he was worried about still happened, Li Guo, the nephew of Li Zicheng of the Great Shun Army, a tiger still cunningly used their own rogue characteristics to ambush the Huaxia Army troops who had been advancing vigorously.

The first time the Huaxia Army faced the Dashun Army, they did not have a good understanding of this unit that was good at fighting guerrillas, and they did not remind them that they had always been subjected to the same way that the regular army had been fighting, and they had really never been in contact with this kind of guerrilla warfare, and now this defect was seized by the enemy, and the Huaxia Army was damaged as a result.

Although the news sent by Xiao Fei is small, judging from the fact that he sent a messenger to report this matter, it must be more than this small matter, and the Huaxia Army must have suffered heavy losses.

Zhang Qiang didn't dare to delay, after the 1st Guards Brigade was assembled, Zhang Qiang set off with them, and arrived at Xiao Fei's headquarters at night, Xiaogan County.

Xiao Fei brought the generals of the Huaxia Army to greet him.

After entering the county office, Zhang Qiang discussed with them how to deal with it.

Xiao Fei introduced the situation first.

"So far, our army's baggage troops, that is, the militia team responsible for escorting grain and grass supplies, has suffered heavy losses, Merlinyu's 21st Field Brigade has not received complete supplies for three days, and he is attacking Jingmen County, and at the same time is responsible for guarding Yichang Mansion and Yichang Mansion City, although there are scattered cavalry brigades that have been drawn out to be responsible for patrolling and garrisoning the surrounding area, but the enemy is too cunning, their whereabouts are uncertain, today in Yichang Mansion, tomorrow they will run around Jingmen County."

"Are you saying that the enemy hit Merlinfish's 21st Field Brigade first?" Zhang Qiang asked with a frown.

"Yes, the enemy previously harassed the 21st Field Brigade of Merlinyu, Merlinyu was very annoyed, on the one hand, he had to organize troops to defend Yichang Mansion, and on the other hand, he wanted to attack Chen Youzheng's troops in Jingmen County, the troops were overstretched, and he lost two thousand militia troops, only killed and wounded one of the enemy's partial divisions, routed the enemy's two thousand troops, captured two or three hundred fish that slipped through the net, and the enemy completely cut off our food, grass and ammunition to Yichang Province, and lost one eighteen-pounder gun, three twelve-pounder guns, twenty nine-pounder guns, and six six-pounder guns, As well as about 4,000 gold-1 arquebuses, 1,500 gold-2 arquebuses, and 500 short muskets, all of which we have equipped your guards with in advance. ”

He glanced at Zhang Qiang worriedly, "As for the grain and grass, there are countless war horses, militia troops, and 5,000 captives who transported these. ”

Zhang Qiang glanced up at him, his fingers tapping on the table, "Brother Zhu's Seventh Field Brigade secretly withdrew from Xiangyang Mansion, quietly moved behind Chen Youzheng, blocked all the intersections in that direction, and waited for orders, Merlin Yu left a cavalry force to maintain pressure on Chen Youzheng, and the rest of the troops withdrew to Yichang Mansion to hold on, while looking for fighters and waiting for orders." ”

"Let Qin Mo's 24th Field Brigade quietly enter Hubei Prefecture, and move to fight the mountains and forests of the county near Yichang Mansion to block that direction. At the same time, contact with Merlin's 21st Field Brigade was maintained, and his flanks were protected at all times.

The enemy has 300,000 troops, although it is not an elite army, but if 300,000 people rush over, it is 300,000 pigs, and our more than 10,000 troops will not be able to stop it.

Therefore, our solution is to besiege them in the area of Jingzhou Mansion, besiege them, and then gradually oppress them, but don't rush to eliminate them, the more troops they have, the more they need food and grass, I think they don't go to our regular soldiers to fight, one is worried that they can't do us, and the other is to relieve their pressure on food and grass, after all, 300,000 people need to eat. ”

Xiao Fei slapped the table, "Yes, why didn't I think of it, we don't need to fight them at all, we just need to hold all the key passes, they can't run, they can only starve to death, or find us desperately, our Huaxia army has never failed on the frontal battlefield." Why play hide and seek with them? Isn't it just that the enemy is tricking and letting the enemy lead the nose to play with us? ”

He stood up suddenly, "I have to go and set up, kill those grandsons, don't let me catch that grandson, catch him has to be Ling Chi kid." ”

Wang Yuqun stood up and grabbed him, "The Metropolitan Governor hasn't finished speaking, why are you in a hurry?" ”

Xiao Fei looked at Zhang Qiang looking at him majestically, immediately lowered his head, and whispered: "I'm sorry for the Grand Governor, the last general is reckless, please forgive the Grand Governor." ”

Zhang Qiang said in a deep voice: "I still can't change your impatient temper, I think that Jin Qi was about to catch Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian of the Qing army, you rushed out to rob him of his credit, he was indignant when he mentioned it many times, can't you wait?" People let you, or you rush out and if you can't catch someone, you will be stabbed to death.

If you are just a small general below, commanding a thousand households, I don't even care about it, but you are now the chief soldier, the general who leads an army, and every decision you make will make thousands, tens of thousands, and even the Huaxia army suffer heavy losses, have you thought about it? ”

"It's the Grand Duke, I will definitely correct it in the future." Xiao Fei was also painful to admit his mistakes.

"Well, you mobilized your troops to pursue the enemy, but did you not think that the enemy was likely to abandon 300,000 soldiers and horses and flee with only the enemy's elite? When the time comes, there will be a surprise attack on the Xiaogan Command, what will be the consequences of that? ”

Zhang Qiang continued to him in a deep voice.

Xiao Fei thought for a moment, "Ah, yes, I have mobilized the 19th and 21st Field Brigades, if it is really like what the Metropolitan Governor said, won't my headquarters be empty?" The cavalry went to the periphery to intercept it, and there were only the personal guard regiments around him, and some militia and prisoner soldiers, if the enemy's elite had forty or fifty thousand troops, wasn't he captured alive by the enemy? ”

Thinking of this, he stopped talking.

"Immediately let Tong Dawei's 20th Field Brigade move closer here, but don't come over, the 223rd Field Brigade is still guarding the border and monitoring Lu Guoming's army, now that my 1st Guards Brigade has arrived, it is impossible for the enemy to come here, as I just arranged, immediately go and issue an order and tighten your pockets," Zhang Qiang said to him.

Xiao Fei responded: "Yes." Governor, I'll go at once. ”

Xiao Fei turned around to issue an order, Zhang Qiang waved his hand, and everyone followed Xiao Fei to arrange, Zhang Qiang thought about it, and said to the herald beside him: "Immediately give Tang Dianfeng an order, let him escort grain and grass from Huguang through the border area defended by the 24th Field Brigade to deliver supplies to Merlinyu's 21st Field Brigade from the southwest." ”

After speaking, Zhang Qiang said to another herald: "Let the garrison regiment of Xiaogan County attack, go to the county seat on the grain road to reinforce the garrison camp where, lead the militia to ensure the safety of that direction, resist the enemy's possible attack, or prevent the enemy from breaking through into Shaanxi, Gansu or Yungui from which direction." ”

(End of chapter)