After the troops were ready, they marched along the mountain road to the southwest, and this time Li Qingyuan planned to take ten battalions and a thousand heavy troops to go.

The troops walked for five days on a mountain road to reach a valley fifty miles away from the Qing army camp, and after setting up camp on the spot, Li Qingyuan found Sanniang, but Li Qingyuan did not speak after the people were found. Sanniang asked a few times before he spoke:

"This attack needs Fan Wei's cooperation, I'm afraid that others won't be able to command him, and I don't know how much strength he still has now, and if he can help when the time comes?"

There are only 3,000 musketeers in the ten battalions, and if you want to completely annihilate the opponent's 4,000 people, you must have the cooperation of Fan Wei, and Li Qingyuan is not at ease when such a major task is handed over to others, and he is not at ease when he asks Sanniang to run, so he is very entangled.

Li Qingyuan was entangled with Sanniang and asked, "Why don't I go with the sharpshooter battalion?" ”

Li Qingyuan's eyes lit up, with the sharpshooter battalion, not only can he protect Sanniang, but also help Fan Wei attack the Qing army, which is a good idea.

Li Qingyuan was just about to agree, and was suddenly stunned: "No! Since dozens of people can go up the mountain, why don't you just let Fan Wei go down the mountain directly? Why do you want to encircle and annihilate the Qing army? ”

Sanniang looked at everyone: "We didn't say that we wanted to encircle and annihilate the Qing army?" Didn't you say it yourself? ”

Li Qingyuan's face was black, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then tell me how you got in first?" ”

"We recently detected that there is a defensive loophole in the Qing army's outpost, that is, when the guard is changed, it will be concentrated in the middle, and dozens of people can come out and enter during this time." Sanniang said proudly.

Li Qingyuan asked helplessly, "Why didn't you say it earlier?" Won't the people of Fanwei be able to withdraw in batches? ”

Sanniang said shyly: "We only found out yesterday, and if there are no dozens of people, thousands of people will definitely be discovered." ”

Li Qingyuan nodded, this is indeed the truth: "Okay, then you be careful, we will launch an attack tomorrow afternoon, and then you can echo from the inside to block the retreat of the Qing army~"

Sanniang bit her lip and asked, "Then why don't we attack at night?" Didn't we attack at night before? ”

Li Qingyuan smiled and said: "In the past, we were a sneak attack, a weak side, so naturally we had to attack quietly, but now we are the attacking side, and we are fighting head-on, which is more conducive to the shooting of musketeers during the day." ”

Sanniang asked again: "Then why don't we attack in the morning?" Wouldn't that be longer? ”

Li Qingyuan shook his head: "Attack in the morning, and Fan Wei's team withdraws in the afternoon, and it is easy to be followed and pursued by the Qing army at that time, so it will be evening when the attack is just over in the afternoon, and the Qing army's pursuit troops are easy to get rid of at night~"

Sanniang nodded, didn't say more, and hurriedly left with people, Li Qingyuan called the ten battalion commanders over and began to assign tasks, the place where the Qing army was stationed was a fan-shaped mountain pass, and the army camp was divided into left and right on both sides of the valley mouth, and the valley mouth position was three general garrisons to defend, and the defense was changed every six hours in the morning.

Therefore, when Li Qingyuan deployed the offensive, he needed to divide the troops into three parts, that is, the troops and reserves of the two battalions on the left and right.

Li Qingyuan planned to attack three battalions on each side of the army, while the reserve left four battalions.

The main reason is that the training and actual combat time of the last four battalions is too short, and Li Qingyuan hopes to give them a little more time to adapt to the battlefield, and after the offensive plan is formulated, the battalions will go back to prepare, while Li Qingyuan will continue to see the situation of logistics preparations.

Because the experience of suppressing bandits in the past month or so has not only tempered the troops, but also the logistics units, although the logistics are not in good order, there have been no major mistakes, and of course there are still many minor problems, such as not preparing enough straw sandals, not preparing enough dry food, and so on.

In ancient times, cooking smoke has always been the guiding light of the enemy, so in order to prevent being discovered by the Qing army, this time the troops brought cooked dry food, fried noodles with sweet potato cornmeal mixed with wheat flour, and Shandong flatbread, this kind of flatbread is resistant to top hunger, fried noodles are adjusted into paste, and flatbread rolls and sauce, which is the food arranged by Li Qingyuan for everyone.

The straw sandals were not enough, so the soldiers looked for materials nearby and made them themselves, but the lack of dry food would affect the formulation of Li Qingyuan's battle plan.

There is no way to blame Li Qingyuan, in order to make the musket a while ago, everyone was a little troubled by iron, and in the end, not only did they go down the mountain to buy it, but even the flatbread pot on the mountain was bought back a lot by them, but when they were preparing dry food, they found that the villagers' pots were not enough.

In a hurry, he still did not prepare a month's worth of dry food according to Li Qingyuan's requirements, and only prepared it for twenty-five days.

Li Qingyuan estimated that this battle would be less than one day and half a month, but with the addition of ten days and twenty-five days of the meeting, it should be enough, but whether it is enough or not depends on the offensive situation tomorrow.

Just when Li Qingyuan wanted to go back to sleep, the scout came to report that Sanniang and the others had successfully infiltrated Fanwei's cottage, Li Qingyuan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard it, this first step can be regarded as a boast, and the final outcome depends on the first shot tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, the troops simply ate a little breakfast and began to march to the camp of the Qing army, after all, it was already afternoon when the fifty-mile road was not early.

The troops walked silently, Li Qingyuan looked at the tattered soldiers in their clothes, and the idea of which design military uniform in his heart intensified, and looked at the distance Li Qingyuan didn't know when he would be able to let his troops wear military uniforms openly?

As if the army had calculated that there would be no enemy behind it, the reconnaissance unit had not left the barracks for a meter, and then found a place with the sun to sleep beautifully.

When the sun was a little hot at noon, he hid under the shade of the trees, began to play dice and gamble for money, and staggered back in the evening.

Fortunately, there is no hotel or anything nearby, otherwise everyone will probably drink and go back staggeringly.

Why do they dare to be so lazy as scouts? Isn't it because the above doesn't care? Why don't you care about it? And not because they don't think they will have any more enemies behind them?

Therefore, the contempt of the Qing army created a favorable opportunity for Li Qingyuan's attack, and Li Qingyuan kept taking his troops five miles away from the Qing army, and the Qing army was still unaware of this.

At this time, it was also noon, Li Qingyuan arranged for everyone to pay attention to eating, and the Qing army scouts at this time were also sleeping after eating.

Li Qingyuan originally wanted Sanniang to lead someone to quietly go up to solve this scout, but when he was about to call someone, he found that Sanniang was no longer here.

Li Qingyuan hurriedly asked the first battalion to send people to clean up these scouts, and arranged not to use the fire gun as much as possible, because this distance would definitely be heard in the Qing army camp as soon as the fire gun sounded, and the Qing army would be prepared at that time.