"Can the militia elite brigade withstand it?" Xiao Fei asked his chief of staff.

"It is said that it is almost the same, this is not the first time that these militia elite brigades have fought with the Manchurians, they have followed the field army but fought from the south to the north, not to mention how high the quality is, but the combat experience is still there, and it is still very high, compared with the ordinary militia brigades, they are almost the same as the combat effectiveness of the garrison brigade, but the level of education and training is too different, but now there are some officers from the military academy to supplement the support of the past, and they should be able to defeat them."

"This will not work, send a battalion of cavalry like this, send a cavalry battalion directly under our division headquarters, stabilize the situation for me, and at the same time send an artillery company and infantry battalion of a field brigade to where. A temporary field regiment was formed, which was fully responsible for the fighting there. ”

Merlin Fish Passage.

"Yes, but Lord Admiral, who will you send to lead the troops?" The staff officer asked.

Merlin Yu thought for a moment, turned back to him and said, "Isn't there a candidate for your staff?" The chief of staff said: "There are candidates, one is called Wan Douni, and the other is called Tianying." ”

Merlin Yu looked at him, he had no impression of these two people, he had only been in charge of the Corps for a short time, and he didn't know much about Xuanyuan Longfei's Corps Staff.

The chief of staff guessed his thoughts, "Wan Douni is the son of Wan Siyuan, the former secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who went to a military academy, and was only assigned to our staff some time ago, one is the old Xiucai of the General Staff, Tianying, Lao Xiucai because he has a worried face, but he is only in his twenties, but he looks like a middle-aged man, he is a good soldier, he used to be in the militia army, his father is a showman, but it seems that he is older than his father, so he is called Lao Xiucai, his culture is good, and he has been trained at the bottom, Experienced in combat. ”

"Pea Bird?" Merlinyu didn't hear clearly, as a southerner, he sounded a little awkward to the words of the northerner's chief of staff, he heard it as "pea bird,".

The chief of staff held his forehead, with an expression that I knew was like this, although the Kingdom of China had implemented simplified Chinese characters and vigorously promoted Mandarin, but the regional Mandarin in various places still could not be changed, so he was still a little apprehensive about himself, and every time he spoke with these leaders from the south, it was more laborious, but because he was from a good background, he was the third batch of soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang, and he had been fighting from the bottom, when Zhang Qiang established the military academy, they were the first batch of personnel to go back to receive military academy training, so he could serve as the chief of staff of the corps.

"Lord Admiral, it's Wan Dou Ni, not a pea bird," corrected the chief of staff.

Merlin Yu nodded a little embarrassedly, "Okay, it's Wan Shangshu's son, then so be it, let him lead the troops, let Tianying assist him, and the two of them will be the chief and deputy commanders of the temporary combat group, but their original official positions will remain unchanged, so be it." ”

After that, Merlin Yu reported the situation to Xiao Fei of the General Staff, and after Zhang Qiang got Xiao Fei's report, he said to Xiao Fei: "Fight, fight hard, since they dare to fight, let's fight out and destroy the enemy fiercely." ”

Zhang Qiang means that a lot of troops and horses have been mobilized anyway, if you can take advantage of the enemy's weakness to eat them, then you can drag Shang Kexi's troops, so that the Qing army of Shang Kexi's troops cannot cross the river to support Yao Qisheng's army, and respond to the Qing army's attack on Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, then the pressure on the Bagyalu army can be reduced a lot.

Now that Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture has not stabilized, it is necessary to change the people's minds, build roads, and truly incorporate Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture into the rule of the Chinese Kingdom, and defeat the attack of the Qing State on Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture, and on the other hand, it is necessary to guard against the sneak attack of the Yarkand Khanate, the best thing for the Yarkand Khanate to do is to sneak attack, they have attacked the Mongolian tribes of the Qing Dynasty several times, and the Mongolian tribes have fallen into the water, and the Mongols are full of tears in their eyes, thinking about how their khans conquered the Western Regions and conquered the Kingdom of Persia. Now they are beaten by the half-blood Persians and have nowhere to hide.

When Wan Douni and Tianying arrived at the newly formed temporary field division field regiment, the soldiers and horses sent by each department were already in place, and the two of them discussed it, so they took the soldiers and horses to the bank of the Yellow River in three days, crossed the Yellow River in one day, and arrived at the county seat of Ruicheng County.

At this time, Ruicheng County was already in chaos, and the militia elite brigade continued to send scouts and scouts to explore the mountains opposite, and at the same time sent reinforcements to Dawang Town, a militia squad, about a thousand people, dragging the previous six-pounder and three-pounder guns equipped by the militia troops, with a cavalry company to open the way, quickly reinforce Dawang Town.

However, the situation was not good, they were attacked by a thousand Miao troops in the mountains, and they stood on a hillside waiting for reinforcements.

Fifty or sixty cavalry were lost.

The enemy was completely prepared for the attack, and there were many troops, not only those eight hundred.

Wan Douni sat down and said to Tianying: "You can run, take a cavalry company, an infantry company, and those militia units have artillery, try to rescue those troops, don't let them suffer heavy losses." ”

"Yes, Admiral." Celestial Shadow solemnly bowed and went down to transfer troops.

Wan Douni turned to look at the captain of the militia elite brigade, a garrison general, he can serve as a staff officer in the corps staff department, and he came out of the military academy and stayed up for a few years, this official position must be very high, at least higher than this garrison general, this is still the general of the militia elite brigade, if the general of the militia ordinary brigade is at most a commander of a thousand households or a thousand households.

"Do you have any information from the Ministry of Military Intelligence, bring it to me, I want the deployment and strength of the Shang Kexi Department in the past month, and I also want the confrontation between your militia brigade and all the Huaxia Army and the Qing Army on the north bank of the Yellow River." He said to the guard.

"Yes, Admiral." The garrison now has the backbone, and they are not so panicked, they used to always cooperate with the battle, usually garrison the place, the enemy fights regularly, they are not afraid, but the enemy has some conspiracy, it is not something they can deal with, they have to find the troops of the field division to solve it, otherwise they always feel that there is something missing.

The main thing is that they are used to fighting with the field army.

The garrison turned and left, for a while, did not bring the information, but hurriedly ran over, "General, Mo Nan Town, Mo Nan Town was attacked by the enemy's 1,000 Tusi soldiers, where an ordinary militia company sent people to ask for help, the enemy slaughtered the people of several nearby villages, hung the heads of those people around their waists, and after coming to the town, they were blocked by the militia company, they threw their heads in front of the town, and were calling for formation, the militia company was too small in number to attack, and sent a few mountain people back to report the news. ”

"Smack, damn it, the enemy is too rampant." Wan Dou Ni shouted.

The garrison hurriedly said: "My lord, my lord, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, the enemy is deliberately trying to disperse our forces." They didn't take it down for three days, what is the situation, can't they take a town with only two and a half rows and one hundred and fifty people? This is what they want to attract our people to rescue, and they want us to divide our troops in all directions so that we can fight our county seat. ”

Wan Douni patted the table and said, "Then why don't you bring me the information quickly?" I watched it to understand the enemy's strength. ”

"Yes, yes, yes," the garrison hurriedly admitted, sweating on his forehead, and slandering in his heart, has this guy ever fought? Why does he look like a gentleman young master, without any deployment, but here to get angry at himself?

But he didn't dare to contradict Wan Douni, and hurriedly ran to the information.

Wan Douni was alone and looked at the sand table on the table with his hands behind his back and was silent.

What is the enemy thinking? What is their purpose?

Obviously, the enemy will not pass the army from here, the first few kilometers are the mountains, although the mountains are not high, but there are hundreds of meters, the span is still very large, more than ten kilometers wide, there are a lot of steep terrain during the period, if the enemy army comes from the mountains, then it will definitely not go fast, or the baggage can not come, this is not like a mistake that a person who has been running a military for decades should make, they ......, Wan Douni's eyes fell on the Phoenix Town Ferry, only the terrain there is more suitable for crossing the army.

Where are they going to attack after crossing the army?

Tongguan, yes, where can they enter Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture from Tongguan, and attack the troops of the Huaxia Army in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture from behind, even if they can't defeat the troops on the Tongguan side, they can also involve a large number of troops in this generation, and they can't go up to reinforce the Baghyalu Corps.

As a staff officer, he quickly analyzed the enemy's intentions.

Shang Kexi's soldiers and horses, he already knew something about the corps staff, and their soldiers and horses wanted to fight the Merlin Fish Field Division of the Huaxia Kingdom, but if they wanted to harass and drag it, then it would definitely work.

Ordinary people would definitely think that they would cross the river directly from Shanxi Prefecture to the opposite Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, so they would not have thought that they would directly attack the Yellow River crossing in Henan Prefecture, and then attack it by surprise, disrupt the deployment of the Huaxia Army, contain the troops of the Huaxia Army, and make the Huaxia Army dare not move.

Anyway, the responsibility of Shang Kexi's department is to hold back the Huaxia Army's troops in Henan Prefecture and not to reinforce Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, and the Corps Staff Department has long analyzed the role of Shang Kexi's troops in the Qing Army's march into Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture.

So this time, does Shang Kexi want to eat this part of the soldiers and horses, or take the ferry with a false shot, and then send troops over to harass the Huaxia army?

This cannot be determined, and it is necessary to prepare for the worst, and the enemy may press on and destroy these forces on the north bank.

Then these troops they bring will not be enough.

The militia elite brigade is composed of 13,000 people, of which there are 5,000 soldiers and horses, all of whom are veterans who were transferred out of Henan Prefecture to merge with the garrison brigade to form a new garrison brigade, and the remaining 5,000 soldiers and horses are not very high combat effectiveness, and the extra 3,000 people are actually the new recruits, who are responsible for supplying the militia elite brigade, and at the same time supplying other troops, and are responsible for taking charge of some personnel who cannot fight.

There are only 8,000 troops in the ordinary militia brigade, which are stationed in the countryside to maintain law and order, and to establish civilian militia self-defense units, and many of them have been delegated to the militia self-defense forces to form contingents, and at present there are only 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the towns, and they are still stationed in remote villages and intersections, and these towns around the county town are garrisoned by the companies of the militia elite brigades.

(End of chapter)