Five miles outside the county town of Ningyang County, where the Third Regiment of the Guards Brigade is stationed, the headquarters of the Guards Brigade, and the location of Zhang Qiang's Dadu Governor, nearly 4,000 militiamen, 2,000 people, and 2,000 cavalry of the 28th Field Brigade have gathered at this moment.

The main force led by Wang Dong is still resting in Zhengzhou Mansion, Henan Prefecture, and at the same time is responsible for part of the front-line defense tasks of the Xuanyuan Longfei Legion, because Xuanyuan Longfei's Fifth Field Brigade was transferred, and at the same time the 23rd Field Brigade was transferred, which made the strength of Henan Prefecture vacant, so that the main force of the 28th Field Brigade, which had just been reorganized and whose strength was higher than the Guards Brigade, was stationed here, and other legions were stationed in other places, and some wounded soldiers and militiamen were stationed in various places, while providing transportation and materials for other units of the legion, and the supply of troops.

However, there were too many soldiers in the 28th Field Brigade, and after the 21,000 troops were transported back to Henan Prefecture, more than 1,000 people died because of medical treatment, and 1,500 people were disabled and discharged.

In fact, unless these local militias are in a war of annihilation, they are generally not needed, and even the militia units will not draw them, they will only carry out some military knowledge training, and then act as militia units when they are relocated to new settlements in the future.

These 1,500 disabled people are just filling some of the population space vacant because of immigration, in fact, the population space is also limited, because of the development of the Huaxia Army, the rapid development, the people in the core area have become very rich and stable, and the birth rate has increased greatly, so the population in the core area has exploded, which is not conducive to the stability of the core area.

Chinese is the nation that pays the most attention to the concept of family, but it is the most disunited nation, even if there are billions of Huaxia yuan, they will not be satisfied, they always want to take away all the wealth from their brothers and sisters, they don't want to seize the wealth of others, they always want to seize the wealth of their own people, so there are many contradictions in society, so the local government of the Huaxia Army had to respond to the call of Zhang Qiangqiang, and sent those who were lazy and lazy to the most difficult places outside, along with their families, most of these people were sent to the treasure island area, and those who are also lazy and lazy, and the Han people of Han descent who were born to the descendants of the Han people in Southeast Asia went to be companions.

Among these people, there are some Tujia and Hakka Han people in difficult areas, let them make trouble with each other, anyway, as long as they are not united, they will die in the harsh treasure island wasteland, mountains and forests.

There are not a few such lists, many of the first batch of immigrants to Baodao, including the docile Han people, most of them were killed, eaten, or defeated by the harsh environment and the aborigines of Baodao, the Gaoshan people, the first batch of 100,000 people, only 20,000 survived, and these 20,000 people became more brave and sophisticated after being tempered by the harsh environment, became docile and knew how to obey the deployment of local officials, and became supporters of the Huaxia Army.

The population that went one after another continued to go deeper, and the number of people who died in the wasteland was about one million, but for the tens of millions of immigrants, this death seemed painful, but it was also worth it, because the Han court completely gained a firm foothold on the treasure island, except for some places that were too remote, eight million immigrants and the people of the island successfully survived and occupied the whole island.

Treasure Island entered a period of steady development, and Zhu Dayou seized the opportunity to expand the number of garrison regiments and three militia brigades, totaling 50,000 troops, and the two first-class field brigades under their control, which amounted to nearly 80,000 troops.

The garrison battalion, garrison company, and two militia brigades were originally sent because of various things, various accidents, and did not adapt to the environment, and the 50,000 troops were finally left with less than 8,000 people, these people were reorganized into a field brigade, but they did not occupy the establishment, Zhang Qiang transferred them to Annan to fill where the vacancies of the troops, and increased the strength for Ma Sanli's conquest, and now Annan has not been pacified, these 8,000 mountains and forests have been tempered by the mountains and forests, and after the elite troops of the mountains and forests have gone, Ma Sanli's corps quickly opened up the situation and smoothly took the servant army, garrison battalion, militia brigade marched to the south of Annam, and at the same time joined forces with Liu Liangzuo's Lao army, completely annihilated the resistance forces of Laos, Laos was taken into the pocket of the Huaxia Army as a whole, and became the land of Huaxia.

Then again, the 1,500 disabled soldiers who have been discharged from the army are almost a drop in the bucket for millions of immigrants, but they can enhance the cohesion of the people wherever they are, and their war stories have made the people who have been peaceful for a long time become interested in the soldiers, so the number of people who signed up for the army increased, and of course some people were scared away when they saw their physical disabilities.

Most of these people are a group of people who are relatively wealthy, so the richer and richer people are, the more afraid they are of war, and the less courageous they are, which is also a very strange question for later generations, why the more civilized and developed the place, but the more cowardly, the richer the place, in the face of the enemy who is weaker and poorer than themselves, they have been slapped in the face again and again, and they have been defeated, but they dare not fight back, and they dare not fight back, but when you look at those people, one is more shrewd than the other, and the calculation of people is more powerful than the other, they are all a generation of elites, but they have been cleaned up by a peasant with three fists and two feet.

However, these are not the problems that the current Huaxia army and civilians can think of, these are the problems that Zhang Qiang thinks, sometimes Zhang Qiang doesn't want to, it's too philosophical, it's too unsociable, Zhang Qiang just learned about the situation of the 28th Field Brigade, and asked them to transfer some troops from them, after all, the rear is really empty, and the Guards Brigade can't be out of touch with other troops.

There are almost no troops to defend Tai'an Mansion, and if Hong Chengchou reacts that his troops must be rich, mobilizing one or two hundred thousand people can cut off the return route of the Huaxia army.

So the 28th Field Brigade, which had 21,000 troops, was attrition every day, 1,000 seriously wounded died, 20,000 troops remained, 1,500 troops were disabled, transferred to the people, and only 18,500 troops remained, and then the old and weak were eliminated, about 2,100 old and weak were eliminated, and they were turned into the people of Henan Province on the spot, and there were still 16,400 troops left, and some people did not want to be soldiers, and there were more than 900 of these troops. Guangxi Prefecture and Guangdong Prefecture, with 15,500 troops left.

At this time, some unsuitable soldiers will be eliminated, they may only have militia materials, but in the elite field brigade, there are still people who have been transferred to the garrison battalion, some people have been promoted, transferred to the garrison battalion, and in the garrison regiment, some people are military intelligence officers, so after a transfer, the 28th Field Brigade has less than 10,000 troops left, and there are 5,000 troops left.

At this time, Zhang Qiang transferred part of his troops to defend Jinan Mansion, leaving Liaocheng with 2,000 troops, and only 7,500 troops left in Zhengzhou Mansion in Henan Prefecture.

This time, Zhang Qiang transferred another 4,000 troops, of which 2,000 were cavalry, 2,000 troops reinforced the troops left behind by the Guards Brigade in Tai'an Province, and part of the cavalry rushed to the front line to reinforce the brigade headquarters.

In this way, with the addition of the militia from Jiangxi Prefecture that had been reinforced, the headquarters of the Guards Brigade had 6,000 militiamen, 4,000 people, 2,000 cavalrymen of the 28th Brigade, 1,500 cavalrymen of the Guards Brigade, 200 cavalrymen of the Guards Brigade, 1,500 soldiers of the brigade headquarters, 200 civilians, 1,000 artillery and baggage troops, and 300 engineering troops.

Faced with this situation, the commander of the 3rd Guards Regiment proposed to send 1,500 cavalry and brigade troops, and 300 artillery men, to attack the town where Ma Deli had withdrawn from the city in the rear, and completely encircle and annihilate the Lu army of Ma Deli's army.

"Governor Dadu, Kong Youxing has given up the county seat of Wenshang and started to retreat, should we send troops to chase after you?"

The commander of the 1st Regiment of the Guards asked.

Zhang Qiang thought for a while, "Don't chase it, the first regiment sent a company of infantry, the second regiment sent a company of infantry, the brigade headquarters sent a senior staff officer to lead the team, plus two hundred cavalry from the brigade headquarters, and then sent a thousand militiamen, a thousand people, plus an artillery company, to occupy Wenshang County, and the brigade headquarters sent civilian officials to manage where." ”

The commander of the Guards Brigade asked: "Governor, even so, our troops are still a little insufficient, do you see if we can transfer some more, such as transferring troops from Anhui Prefecture to the north to attack the capital city of Jining Prefecture, where Ma Degong is entrenched." ”

"Yes, let the Ninth Field Brigade set off from Anhui Prefecture, and let the local garrison regiment send a garrison battalion to assist in the defense, at present, most of the soldiers and horses of the Lu State are in Shandong Prefecture, on the Yangtze River defense line, where is no longer the defense area of the Yangtze River defense line, it is time to draw the army out to participate in the attack."

The next day, the commander of the Guards Brigade saw that there was nothing to do at the brigade headquarters, and there were three regiment commanders in charge of the siege of the county seat, and the commander-in-chief was Zhang Qiang, the governor of the Huaxia Army, so he took the brigade headquarters to chase after the troops who set out to copy the enemy's rear route.

This time, he brought 2,000 militiamen and 1,000 people, and brought the artillery and engineering troops of the brigade headquarters, and walked nearly 4,000 troops at once, Zhang Qiang only had 1,000 troops left, plus 2,000 cavalry, Zhang Qiang was a little helpless after he knew, and he said that he would not interfere, but he still intervened, which made the commander of the Guards Brigade a little annoyed, and personally led the troops to fight.

With a helpless wry smile, Zhang Qiang let go of his hands and feet and personally commanded the commanders of the three regiments to continue to besiege the county town that Ma Deli was defending.

This time, Zhang Qiang moved out all the artillery that had been transported by logistics, and the personal guards personally acted as artillerymen, plus the artillery of three regiments, and had nearly 120 cannons at a time, and launched a fierce fire attack on Ningyang County.

Nearly 100 shells were thrown into the city in waves, and Ma Deli's soldiers were in chaos and rushed to flee outside the city, and the three regiments of the Huaxia Army took the opportunity to begin to clear the enemy troops in the city.

Late the next night, the battle came to an end, Ma Deli fled with the guards, Ningyang County was destroyed by artillery fire, more than 20,000 Lu soldiers were killed and wounded, the rest fled 3,000 people, 5,000 troops went out of the city in advance, and were broken by the commander of the Guards Brigade, most of them fled, less than half were killed, and the remaining 37,000 people became prisoners of the Huaxia Army.

(End of chapter)