Li Qingyuan saw that no one cared about him, and shook his head helplessly: "Okay, I have my own plans for this matter, and I originally planned to talk about it later, but since everyone is so concerned, I will announce to you recently, everyone can rest assured, there will be land, there will be money, as long as we can keep winning the battle, then everything will be there!" ”

Li Qingyuan felt that he was saying these words at this time very much like the great man who said that bread would have milk and milk, and everyone heard this, their eyes were also wide, with an expectant expression, just as Li Qingyuan was about to say something, suddenly a rider with a red flag on his back dared to come over, and when he saw Li Qingyuan, he immediately shouted: "Report... Puxian was besieged, and the 3rd Division requested support. ”

Li Qingyuan was stunned at that time, what is the situation, where is the enemy in Puxian? When the herald dismounted and handed over the letter asking for help, Li Qingyuan hurriedly opened it to see, only to see Wu Yueqing, the commander of the third division, write that yesterday a group of Qingming suddenly appeared in the south of Puxian, the number was about 8,000, Wu Yueqing hurriedly ordered all departments to close, but the Qing army made rapid progress, and before the third division completed the assembly, it was killed under Puxian County, and then a Qing army of about 10,000 people came to the east, and the two Qing armies converged and surrounded Puxian.

Li Qingyuan rolled up the report and said: "Good! Just waiting for them to come and die! Summon, gather all division commanders, and prepare to annihilate the incoming enemy! ”

Li Qingyuan walked back to his office with his hands behind his back, and after he went back, his face was immediately clouded, and this group of enemies suddenly appeared Li Qingyuan did not get any news, not to mention that Zhongtiao Mountain and Funiu Mountain in the south had its own forces, even the intelligence department knew nothing about it.

If only this group of enemies is not terrible, Li Qingyuan is worried that the Qing army has a powerful commander this time, and several ways will attack together, and Li Qingyuan will have to take care of one and lose the other.

The Third Division had only one battalion in the city, and more than 300 hastily assembled men, plus 1,000 soldiers who were not issued firearms, and the rest were scattered around the county town to monitor land reform.

As a result, the Qing army suddenly attacked the city, and there were less than 1,000 people in the city, and it was really tricky to face nearly 20,000 Qing troops.

Li Qingyuan immediately ordered the newly formed Fourth Division to take it, first gather the troops outside the city of the Third Division, and wait for further orders. ”

Li Qingyuan waved his hand and asked, "Let's not talk about this, is there any new move of the Qing army in the west?" ”

Hou Zheng nodded: "I came to tell you that the Qing army in the west is gathering by the Yellow River again, planning to cross the river, in addition, the Qing army in Taiyuan and Datong also has a tendency to gather south..."

Li Qingyuan took a breath, this time it was a three-way encirclement and suppression, the matter was a little troublesome, Li Qingyuan frowned and walked around twice and said: "Leave a division on the side of the Yellow River to block the Qing army's attempt to cross the river, and leave a division on the north side to prepare to snipe the enemy in the direction of Taiyuan, and order the remaining troops of the third division to complete the assembly and delay the pace of the Qing army's attack, and if the situation in the city is critical, kill people in the city to support and defend." ”

Li Qingyuan thought about it again, now that he only has a fourth division in his hand, he can't use it blindly, and the other newly formed troops are not yet useful, so they must be trained for at least a month.

However, Li Qingyuan was not sure whether the Qing army would leave him a month, and whether his third division would be able to hold out for a month.

Li Qingyuan had ten newly formed battalions in his hands, and these ten battalions were scattered in the surrounding villages because of the land reform.

The pitiful 1,000 people in Li Qingyuan's hands were a little powerless in the face of the Qing army's 12,000 people.

Originally, Li Qingyuan thought that after defeating the Qing army that crossed the river, it would take at least a month for the Qing army to launch a new attack, but at that time, the results of the land reform were stabilized and the recruits were trained, and Li Qingyuan could form another ten battalions, and even if he had a battle against the 350,000 Qing army, he would have the strength to fight a battle.

But now Li Qingyuan is indeed facing a dilemma, whether to protect the achievements of land reform, or to defeat the Qing army first.

Just as Li Qingyuan was going around the house again, the commander of the Fourth Division outside the door arrived, saw Li Qingyuan frowning and asked, "The general heard that Puxian is surrounded?" The general gave me three battalions, and I went to level this gang of Qing troops! ”

Li Qingyuan asked, "One thousand people against twenty thousand?" How are you going to fight? ”

Division Commander Cai Mingren said with confidence: "Of course, the phalanx has been pushed flat, and we have never been afraid of anyone!" ”

Li Qingyuan shook his head: "It's useless to defeat..., today they are defeated, tomorrow they will assemble again, there may be more the day after tomorrow, we are enemies on all sides, we must inflict heavy losses on the enemy and then we can get respite." ”

Cai Mingren nodded: "Then let's concentrate our troops to annihilate them at one time, not more, I think it's enough to have three thousand people surrounded on three sides." ”

Li Qingyuan sighed: "I know it too!" But where are we going to get 3,000 mobile troops? Don't you see that our troops are all guarding against those landlords below? ”

Cai Mingren shook his head incomprehensibly: "It's not right for the general to say this, you see that if the Qing army fights, no matter how good the defense is, it will be useless, if we defeat the Qing army, we don't have to look at these landlords to ensure that they honestly dare not speak up, the general is not me, I think we should sometimes be like that..."

Li Qingyuan looked at him and asked, "Which one is what?" If you have something to say, let it go! ”

Cai Mingren scratched his head, looked at Li Qingyuan cautiously, and said, "General, don't be angry when I speak!" We sometimes think, is the general a little too cherished us, you see that there is no fire gun not to let us go to the front, there is no sure of the battle is not fought, everyone is safe, but this kind of battle is too aggrieved, general, you see that even the Qing army does not all have fire guns, I think we should just 2,000 musketeers with 8,000 sword and shield soldiers, properly defeat this Qing army, although there will be a little loss, but isn't it worth it? ”

Li Qingyuan fell into deep thought helplessly, in his eyes, soldiers without muskets were not considered soldiers at all, so even if there were more than 10,000 recruits on Lu Liang's side, Li Qingyuan had never regarded them as combat effectiveness.

Li Qingyuan doesn't like the kind of victory that takes people's lives, although there are thousands of reasons to convince him, but he is sometimes so stubborn, what is right is right, what is wrong is wrong, even if it is wrong, it is still wrong in a high-sounding manner.

It's like a fork in a train, there is one person lying on one side, and five people lying on the other, if Li Qingyuan holds the barrier, his choice is to do nothing, he can do whatever he wants, and he can't sacrifice that person because of five people, which is unfair to that person, unless it is yourself who is lying on a person's railway, you can choose to pull the gate to your side...

So Li Qingyuan will not choose to use those recruits who don't have guns to pile up victory, that kind of victory is not what he wants.