Section 749 The Forces of the New Generation

Lu Yunqi is different, he was born in 1862, it is a generation that grew up with the Ming country, his brother Congwen, he was sent by his father to practice martial arts since he was a child, but found that he was smart by nature, so his father taught him to read, and within a few years his father became a public official of the Ming government, and entered the Ming government primary school to teach, and he also followed into the Ming school, all the way to the county school to graduate, and was admitted to the military school. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He entered the military academy at the age of 14, graduated and entered the army at the age of 18, and entered the Vietnam battlefield as a battalion officer at the age of 24.

After the war, the army was further reorganized, and the structure was still a five-level structure of army, brigade, battalion, outpost and team, but the commanders were all called "chiefs", and they were standardized and unified.

Based on their performance in the war, the military department also promoted a large number of officers, especially a local officer like him, who was favored by the civilian government and had the flavor of exceptional promotion.

Obviously, the work of the military department to purge the foreign young Zhuang faction has never stopped, the era of those people is over, the last time on the battlefield in Vietnam, there were still a large number of foreign faction commanders, but this time when they came to the United States, they were basically replaced by the local faction.

But it is the strength of the new faction, Lu Yunqi's age is too young, you must know that the Ming Military Academy was opened after 1868, Lu Yunqi only entered the military academy in 1878, and he is already the tenth batch of cadets, which is not an old qualification, but in the new faction, he is still the group of people who climb the highest position.

Because he did fight some beautiful battles on the battlefield in Vietnam, the first battle was very brilliant, the military operation to attack the coastal defense fortress, he personally commanded on the front line, that battle became the focus of Ming propaganda, and he naturally became a military star.

But celebrities like him often have some disadvantageous situations, that is, it is difficult to convince the public, and it is easy to become the target of the public, and the brighter the halo on their heads, the greater the resistance, because they are in the spotlight all the time.

The civilian officials not only promoted Lu Yunqi to army commander, but also appointed him as the chief officer of the California military officers, and asked him to control the three armies to fight in California.

Most of the officers like him, who were young and ambitious, had a mentality of being eager to prove themselves, so as soon as he arrived in California and found that the United States was really empty, he applied to change his military plan and enter the central part of the United States to fight as soon as possible.

Lu Yunqi quickly formulated a military plan, and according to Deng Shicai's request, he would attack and advance along the South Pacific Railway, giving priority to seizing important military points along the way, so as to prepare for the future invasion. This was not a difficult military plan, for there was a lot of information, and the local archives had found some drawings of the distribution of railways and minerals, and on the basis of these geological data, he could easily make a plan of attack.

He believed that this kind of civilian work did not reflect his level at all, and after handing over the battle plan to Deng Shicai, he immediately applied to go to the front line to command the operation.

However, Deng Shicai did not agree, but told him that he had a heavy task and must stay in San Francisco to assist Deng Shicai in commanding the work, and the battle would be in charge of Ma Youwei of the cavalry army.

Ma Youwei's qualifications are much higher than Lu Yunqi, he is the first batch of cavalry officers trained by the Ming Military Academy, before the establishment of the Ming Military Academy, there was almost no cavalry in the Ming Army, because the south was too short of horses, and there was no grassland for raising horses.

The military academy is just to buy war horses from the West at a high price for training, but it is very difficult to equip cavalry troops at a high price, so after Ma Youwei graduated, he could only use the cavalry team with three melons and two dates as scouts for a long time, and he was ridiculed by his classmates for a while.

After 1875, he came to work, because the Ming Dynasty used diplomatic means to get Yunnan from the Manchus.

Yunnan has a large area of alpine pastures, and it is impossible to have no pastures where Yunnan horses were bred in history.

The local people also have a tradition of raising horses, but the Dian horse is obviously not suitable as a war horse, so Ma Youwei is still unable to equip a large number of war horses for a long time, he does not plan to be idle, but applied to rush to Yunnan, starting from scratch, he personally led people to establish a regular horse farm, introduced a large number of stallions from France, where he was silently bred for ten years, until the outbreak of the Ming and French War, he was still nicknamed Ma Guan by his classmates.

As a result, the first cavalry unit of the Ming Dynasty that he cultivated, although it did not have a particularly bright performance on the battlefield in Vietnam, it disturbed the peace of the French behind enemy lines, so that the military department recognized the role of the cavalry unit very much, and after the war, his cavalry brigade was expanded into a cavalry army.

Deng Shicai asked Ma Youwei to carry forward the style of cavalry and rush to the eastern part of the United States, and he had two combat missions, one was to occupy important military points, and the other was to contact the local Indians.

Ma Youwei took the order, but Lu Yunqi was depressed and wanted to continue the security war in California.

After the unification of Italy in 1870, because the south did not recognize the royal family of the Kingdom of Sardinia in the north, a ten-year law and order war broke out, and the government army and the local peasant forces each suffered 20,000 casualties before it slowly subsided.

The Americans opposed the will of the Ming Dynasty and were by no means defeated by the peasants of the south of Italy.

But if Lu Yunqi were to fight a ten-year law and order war in California, he would go crazy.

He proved that he could be in a high position, and it was definitely not a fluke, and he quickly developed a strategy.

Fighting is not a problem, the American militia cannot win the Ming army, but the American militia is familiar with the terrain, and the sneak attack war carried out by the cowboys in twos and threes is a headache.

Lu Yunqi quickly made a suggestion to Deng Shicai, he hoped to tell the Americans that the Americans should be allowed to leave California and specially charter a British cruise ship to transport them to Canada.

On the one hand, the Americans are allowed to leave, and the more Americans do not recognize the Ming Dynasty, the more they want to leave.

Then those who remain are either obedient people or desperate guerrillas.

He immediately sent orders to the white men on the various farms, telling them not to go out of the farms at night, to stay on the farms during the day unless necessary, and to make requests to the nearby barracks if there was a need for supplies, and the barracks would organize manpower to help them procure.

He had to fix the Americans first, and it was troublesome to get them moving.

He then mobilized the Indian cavalry, who hated white Americans the most, and took turns patrolling the roads day and night, allowing them to shoot any moving targets on the spot.

White Americans are familiar with the terrain, Indians are more familiar with the terrain, white people hide in the mountains they can search out, played a huge role, the only bad thing is that the Indians with a low level of civilization are too cruel in treating whites, not to mention killing, they often cut off people's heads, cut off their scalps, and take them on horses to show off, which makes Americans dissatisfied and more panicked.

The result was criticism from around the world, and more Americans leaving California, only to his dismay, more rebels.

The only consolation to him was that Oregon and Washington were in a similar situation, except that they had fewer people, were closer to Canada, had more people walking, and had a smaller base of resistance than here in California.

Seeing that the law and order war was getting more and more chaotic, Lu Yunqi became more and more angry, he suggested the implementation of a protection system, ordering the local Americans to cooperate with the police, once they found out that there were rebels in that place, and the local farmers did not report it, they would be severely punished and sent directly to the concentration camp for care.

They also began to search farms and demand that they hand over all their weapons, and that anyone who found them hiding them would be imprisoned in concentration camps.

With the arrival of follow-up troops, Lu Yunqi can use more troops, but the main force is mainly sent to the front line, Ma Youwei has occupied enough strategic points, and the infantry needs to defend, Ma Youwei arrogantly said that the cavalry is a wind, and the wind cannot stay, so the wind must keep moving forward and swimming.

The troops that Lu Yunqi can use are mainly local troops, that is, the militia composed of local Chinese, and the only ones with combat effectiveness are the 30,000 veterans under Li Xiucheng, and the militia of other Chinese has limited combat effectiveness, and it is completely a number.

In order to let these soldiers with limited combat effectiveness give full play to their combat effectiveness, Lu Yunqi organized them to conduct military training, and at the same time asked them to build blockhouses in various high-incidence areas of resistance, and adopted blockade tactics to strangle the living space of the resistance army step by step.

These methods should be said to be effective, basically able to ensure transportation relying on the bunker line, but leaving the bunker line, especially near the mountainous area, there is a risk of attack.

Tens of thousands of people are completely unable to control the whole of California, especially in a complex area with a large area of sparsely populated land and a large number of mountains.

When Lu Yunqi found out that he would be caught in an endless law and order war, he asked Deng Shicai for support, saying that he would either let him go to the front line or give him more troops, otherwise he would not be able to control the law and order in California at all.

It's too big to be controlled by tens of thousands of people.

Deng Shicai asked him how many people he needed.

He said at least 100,000 people.

Deng Shicai said that he would send him 100,000 people.

A month later, he was given 100,000 regular troops.

But she found that 100,000 people were not enough, and after a month of hard work, he could only declare his battle defeated and ask Deng Shicai to send him to the front.

Deng Shicai told him that unless the armed forces behind the enemy line were cleared, the rear of the enemy line would always be more important than the front line, and also told him that the first thing an excellent general should do was always to clear the enemy's back, and also gave him a copy of the ancient war records printed by the military academy to him, especially instructing him to see more about the Battle of Changping.