In the end, Luo Xu only managed to destroy the enemy, plus there were only more than 2,000 prisoners, and half of them ran away.

There was no way, he was still too cautious, and he didn't dare to divide his troops at all when he was pursuing, and only when the Qing army ran all over the mountains and fields, Luo Xu let the battalions be divided into companies to pursue as units.

After defeating the enemy, Luo Xu ordered the captured people and craftsmen to be sent back to the base area, and then continued to return to Bear's Ears Mountain with his troops.

It's just that after going back, he found that Liu Baotuan did not come to meet as agreed, and he didn't care at first, Liu Bao was already bold and had ideas, and it was estimated that he went to the wild again.

Luo Xu waited patiently while sending someone to inquire, and in the next few days, the news of Liu Bao's team was never heard, Luo Xu began to worry, and rumors also spread in the team, some said that they were exterminated, and some said that they had defected to Fanwei.

Luo Xu was shaken by the army's heart, so he had to announce that Liu Baotuan had other tasks, but Luo Xu couldn't take on this general matter.

Li Qingyuan has not been wiped out by the formation since the founding of the army, not to mention the regimental level, that is, the company-level troops, so Luo Xu reported it on the one hand and sent people to look for it on the other.

As a result, some people said that they had seen Liu Bao leading people to fight with the Qing army near Xuzhou, and Luo Xu angrily overturned the table, and he couldn't wait to take someone to arrest this bastard back now.

It's just that when the news was reported to Li Qingyuan, the battle of the mine town here was over, and after grabbing this one, Li Qingyuan moved some of the craftsmen in the mine town inside.

This time, the Qing army in Handan Prefecture was so passive that it also exposed the shortcomings of Li Qingyuan's base camp being too close to the mountains and not having strategic depth, so the blacksmiths in Li Qingyuan's mining town were moved to Liao County, and after a certain scale was there, Li Qingyuan planned to gradually move all the people here, and only a part of the initial processing workshops were retained here.

Li Qingyuan was arranging for outstanding craftsmen to go to Liao County to direct production and construction, when he received news from Shandong that Liu Bao and his regiment had defected.

Li Qingyuan chuckled in his heart, Li Qingyuan thought that his people would be tempted to defect to the enemy by Houlu, a high-ranking official of the Qing army, but he never thought that his own people would go to Fanwei?

This unexpected situation has brought great passivity to Li Qingyuan's plan, first of all, the Fanwei forces may get out of control and can produce guns and ammunition by themselves, who will buy you?

And there is no way to control the source of Fanwei's weapons, so the speed of Fanwei's future development is not something that Li Qingyuan wants to limit.

But this is better than taking refuge in the Qing court, even if Fan Wei is not a good thing, they are still on the same front, and now in the face of a powerful enemy, everyone does not dare to tear each other down, in short, Fan Wei is not Li Qingyuan's biggest enemy now, Li Qingyuan is impossible to fight with Fan Wei for a regiment.

But if someone sees that Fan Wei is doing well, then wouldn't Li Qingyuan's hard work in training the troops become a transport brigade?

There are many ways to solve this problem, such as sending a prison army, sending spies, or doing something to mobilize tiger charms or something.

However, these are not what Li Qingyuan wants, although these methods can solve the problem, but they also limit the combat effectiveness of the troops, and this method of controlling the troops by castrating the troops is outdated and outdated in Li Qingyuan's eyes.

Li Qingyuan, however, has a way to solve the problem and enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops, that is, to activate the General Staff.

The General Staff Department is not just a department that makes suggestions and suggestions, it is a department that leads the work of the armed forces, and is responsible for organizing and planning the establishment, equipment, training, mobilization for military service, battlefield preparation, engineering construction, operational command, administrative management, and reserve force building in peacetime. It is also responsible for organizing the coordination of various departments to regulate and resolve various problems related to military work. Directly lead all branches of the armed forces.

From these, we can see the significance of the regularization and modernization of a sound staff force army, this kind of crossing artifact Li Qingyuan has long wanted to take it out, but there is no one, how can I do it if there are few literate people under my hands?

Not to mention anything else, now Li Qingyuan doesn't even have a military map in his hand, and the draftsmen are all taught by Li Qingyuan, and there are not many people who manage Li Qingyuan, but at least he can teach them to draw a contour line. Let them roughly measure the location of the village based on the compass and the number of steps walked.

This work is slowly progressing, not to mention the outside of the mountain, and even the map of the area where the Tianli Council is active has not been drawn.

Li Qingyuan is also very helpless now, this talent can't wait, he can only cultivate himself little by little, so it doesn't matter if he looks like him or not, whether he is competent or not, first build the shelf and let everyone do it first, and slowly find out some experience Li Qingyuan is teaching, it is better than waiting stupidly like this.

This era is the eve of the big bang of Western science and technology, Watt is improving the steam engine, Newton is pondering his theorem, but there will always be darkness before the dawn, so the current Europe is all kinds of theories colliding and rubbing against each other, they themselves do not see the future, how to teach others?

If Li Qingyuan sends someone to invite a few Europeans or sends someone to study in Europe, maybe he will learn something!

Therefore, Li Qingyuan taught his children to read the three-character scripture and learn the thousand-character text, and on the other hand, he learned the mathematics, physics, chemistry and other courses he wrote himself.

Although he doesn't know much or deep, it's enough to point out the right path for the children.

However, it will take at least ten years for these things to play a role, maybe Li Qingyuan has established a stable regime at that time, maybe he was still hiding in the mountains to fight guerrilla warfare at that time, but the child knows right and wrong, learns right and wrong, and then goes to Europe to learn theory and technology, that is his own thinking.

Didn't the General Staff say that it would be formed and that the personnel could be assembled at any time, but the effect? That's it.

In fact, Li Qingyuan's idea of building the army has always been modernization, so many departments already have them, but the accusation rights are not divided, so some departments are newly built, but some departments only need to divide the responsibilities and rights.

Li Qingyuan wrote out all the personnel of the department, deleted, deleted, and reduced them for a long time, and finally determined the subordinate departments of the General Staff Department this time.

At present, it is mainly responsible for the formulation of combat plans, including various combat deduction simulations in peacetime.

The military intelligence department collects, processes and analyzes various battlefields and war-related intelligence, this intelligence department will be separated from Hou Zheng's intelligence step, Hou Zheng is mainly responsible for the collection of other intelligence, intelligence has always been Li Qingyuan's key construction department, Hou Zheng is also very talented, but intelligence has always been a double-edged sword, for their own safety eggs still can't be put in one basket.