Russell had a bad time during this time, since he was stopped by the Northern army in Jiezhen with a left hook, the marines he led suffered heavy losses, of which 60% of the musketeers and 70% of the axe gunners were lost, if it weren't for the desperate protection of his 'elite' dragoons, I am afraid he would have lost himself in Jiezhen. шщш.(vii) (ix) x.S.сом The update is so fast.

Even those who escaped were largely dispossessed of light weapons, with ten men unable to spread a single musket, and all heavy equipment lost to the enemy. When he led the remnants of the defeated army back to Wenshan Port, they were all tired and hungry, all of them were in rags, and they had no spirit when they set off, just like a group of people called 'flowers'.

As the commander-in-chief of the Marine Army, Russell was naturally responsible for this total defeat, but he was not to blame for this incident, after all, Russell was ordered to defend Jiezhen with the assistance of the local defenders. Zhao Ximin 'privately' took almost all of the South Coast Army with hundreds of thousands of troops with Ruan Wei without informing them, so that there was not enough strength to fight back when the Northern Army attacked Shijie Town. Although the northern army outflanking Jiezhen marched all the way through the state and county after smuggling, the information reported to Hue by officials along the way could not reach Jiezhen, and General Carlos Russell of Jiezhen was completely 'blinded' to the news of the westward advance of this main force, and when the battle situation was stalemate and could not be separated, this strange army stood out and was caught off guard, and then lost the normal battle. Had Russell not taken the opportunity to order the troops that were not involved in the battle to retreat immediately, and for the rearguard troops to take a defensive retreat, I am afraid that the losses would have been even greater.

How to deal with Russell's matter suddenly became a hot potato for the entire high-level, and everyone is responsible for this failure, but now only Russell can be dealt with. If he is pulled out as a scapegoat, the officers and soldiers who flee with him will inevitably be in danger, but if they are not dealt with, the other forces within Medeno will inevitably use this matter to roast them on the fire. After more than half a month of discussion, the final order came to demote Russell by one level, but continue to take charge of the remnant Marine Corps.

If it was a normal time, Russell would naturally have a temper, but now that he has lost the battle, his group of dragoon brothers have suffered heavy losses in order to protect them, and he must rebuild the Marine Corps on the skeleton of this remnant army. Otherwise, when the other legions and mercenaries arrived, where would he, the first Medeno commander to land, stand? Do you want to save face?

But how easy is it to rebuild the Marine Corps now? Not to mention that he is in an unfamiliar place in Annan, the way of thinking of the Maidno people is incompatible with the Annam people who have been eroded by the culture of the Wu Dynasty. Russell very much hoped that he would have the opportunity to raise an army of his own, so that he could not only wash away the shame of his defeat in the previous battle, but also have an army in his hands that supported and supported him, so as to ensure that he would be invincible in the entire war to capture Annam in the future.

To tell the truth, he has also heard a lot of legends about Chinese, Chinese came to the border of the Wu Dynasty in just over a year, he has already established a very large city near the little-known Beihaiwei beacon tower, and the products produced are all good things that have never been seen or heard of, and the price is not expensive, and the output is large. But what interests him more than Russell's ideas is the army formed by the Chinese.

He not only learned from Medeno's internal intelligence, but also from many merchants who came and went to the port of the East for 'trade' that the Chinese came from the sea with a huge iron ship, a total of only more than 500 people, but not long ago defeated the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops on the south coast, and heard that there were several thousand. These thousands of people must have been recruited by the Chinese in Dongfang Port for more than a year, and how to build such a combat-effective army in such a short period of time is the information he never forgot to know.

This morning he was 'drilling' his troops in the camp, and suddenly he heard the miscellaneous soldiers delivering food talking about a small group of troops who had defected from Dongfang Harbor and had come to join the Medeno people, and this information made him unable to sit still at once. Since this group of people escaped from the Oriental Port, it must have been trained by the Chinese, although I don't know why they came to join the Maidno people, but since they have betrayed China, only the Maidno people can accommodate them. He has always been very interested in how the Chinese train the army, not to mention that he urgently needs an army now, and at this moment, this "righteous army that abandons the darkness and turns to the light" has become his lifeline.

As everyone knows, Shu Lihua's straw saw Russell jumping off the horse at this moment, and his eyes were almost like seeing a life-saving straw, and he almost didn't pounce on him and cried, this is a Maidno person! Didn't you come here with so much equipment and men through the jungle just to take refuge with them? I heard that I was still a general, and I even climbed the golden branch, and in the future, it wasn't the glory and wealth beckoning to me?

When the two met, they were like Wang Ba glaring at mung beans, and they immediately looked at each other. Russell stepped forward and lifted his hat towards Shu Lihua, and Shu Lihua saluted upright, although neither side knew what the other party's actions were, they could guess from the solemn look on the other party's face that they were definitely not playing tricks.

"Hello! General Russell, I am Shu Da, the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and I greet you! Shu Lihua has decided to give up his unreliable "mathematics, physics and chemistry" name that was changed by the unreliable patriarch, and directly restore his real name.

Shu Da spoke Annan dialect at this time, since he came here, the other party told him Annan language, but Russell didn't understand, fortunately, there was a special 'door' translator next to him, after passing the translation, Russell awkwardly said in the official dialect of the Wu Dynasty, "Hello! Mr. Shu, welcome to us, would you like to join my army? ”

This is very direct, so direct that it makes 'Bo' Tano Hideyoshi's face turn white, isn't this a clear robbery? Obviously, you came first, but you came later and grabbed people directly, how can you be so shameless? But he really didn't dare to speak now, if General Maidno came to fire and beat himself, the soldiers of this battalion would not dare to face him.

"We're here to join the Medeno army! I hope the general will allow us to join! Shu Da nodded again and again at the moment, for fear that Russell would regret it, but at the moment he spoke directly "Mandarin", although the pronunciation of this language is quite different from the official dialect of the Wu Dynasty, but the pronunciation of most words is about the same, and Russell's 'crossing' flow is also 'very' direct.

"Of course welcome! If you want to come, I'll give you the size of a battalion to command, and if you can command it properly, you can command a larger army! Russell hurriedly threw away a big hat first, for fear that Shu Da would regret it, and the expressions of the two of them at the moment were like prostitutes 'girl' seeing a prostitute, without the slightest hint of 'desire' refusing to welcome back, and they couldn't wait to hug each other.

"Thank you, General!" Shu Da hurriedly said, "We came this time, and we also specially captured two guns dedicated to the patriarch from the patriarch, and specially presented them to express our heartfelt feelings!" As he spoke, he waved back repeatedly. The soldier next to him had been listening, knowing that it was five or six halves and machine guns, so he hurriedly handed it over.

Russell reached out and took it, almost falling to the ground, these two guns did not look good, but the weight was a little beyond his imagination, especially the machine guns, the weight was far greater than the Medeno people's own muskets, and even their own hand cannons were not as heavy as this.

He had seen the pattern of this machine gun in intelligence, and heard that it was secretly depicted by an intelligence officer after seeing it from the Chinese' elite training base, and the bipod that marked "sex" made him recognize it at a glance. And he had also heard of this kind of fast gun with the small magazine under this musket, when the villagers of An Yun organized the villagers to attack the beachhead of Dongfang Port, they were met with hundreds of such rifles, and I heard that the bullets were raining down at that time, and the villagers were killed and wounded. Russell always thought that these guns were "imaginary weapons" that intelligence officers came up with in the clouds, but when he took over today, he realized that the intelligence officers were not adulterated at all. He only hesitated slightly, then 'handed the two guns' to the man behind him, and commanded, "Quick! Send it to the clipper and be sure to send it to the nearest sea city right away! Hurriedly! ”

The ship is not a ghost knot

The soldier stretched out his hand to take it, carefully held it and mounted his horse, immediately turned the horse's head, and galloped in the direction of Wenshan Port, leaving only a trail of smoke and dust.

Although Russell is not from Annam, he still understands some sophistication, and now he sees Yingji with a pale face standing aside, so he naturally guessed what people were thinking, and said to him at the moment, "This county commander, this trip is mainly to recruit the rebels, and I didn't bring any gifts to you, and we will let the transport ship send you a batch of muskets as gifts, and we will also send a few captains from these rebels, Let them train you new armies to ensure that they can play a greater role in the future. ”

Yingji County Ling is about to turn his back at this moment, he originally planned to let these rebels join the box army in Wenshan Port, and these weapons are also directly equipped to the box army, so that when the Chinese come to attack, they can also have some equal attack methods with the other party, he has already seen the 'elite' sharpness of these weapons - this is a militaristic weapon that has thrown off the fire of the infantry battalion ten streets! Forget about these two "Yuanlao" special guns, after these rebels joined the Maidno army, these muskets must have nothing to do with themselves. In the end, I have exhausted my own organs, and the bamboo basket is still empty.

Although Russell is not from Annan, he still understands some sophistication, and now he saw Yingji with a pale face standing aside, so he naturally guessed what people were thinking, and said to him at the moment, "This county magistrate, this trip is mainly to recruit the rebels, and I didn't bring any gifts to you, and we will ask the transport ship to send you a batch of muskets as gifts, and we will also send a few captains from these rebels to train you a new army. It is guaranteed that the next combat effectiveness can play a greater role. ”

Yingji arched his hand at him, "Then Yingji thanked the general first." "He finally feels better at this time, you must know that at this time, more than ten infantry battalions have been 'pumped' away, and only two infantry battalions and local van troops are left. Speaking of which, the interests of this group of rebels to join the Maidno people are actually a little higher, and he can't give them the promises of high-ranking officials in Wenshan Port, nor can he provide better weapons, and the soldiers provided are far less good than the Maidno people. At this time, they followed the Medeno people, and the Medeno people had to give a huge amount of support to make up for it, not to mention that at the moment, the Medeno general also promised to send people from the rebel army to train himself a Chinese army, which was definitely much better than the training he had here. At the moment, he went down the slope and got off the donkey, no longer making trouble.

As for Ruan Mingfang, he is even more happy, you must know that if this group of rebels enters Wenshan Port, then they will definitely be treated the same as himself, and even because the Annan Imperial Court wants to buy horse bones to lure more scum in the squadron to vote, so as to give better treatment. At that time, he would have to be subservient to others if he couldn't protect his steps, which made him quite dissatisfied. At this time, they followed the Maidno people, he was happy to see it, anyway, out of sight and out of mind, just now he gave people a very unhappy face, if they entered Wenshan Port, they might have to condescend to others, and let people live? This Russell recruited Shu Da and his party, and all three parties were quite satisfied, which can be called a win-win situation.

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"What?" Xiao Mingwei jumped up from the stool, and the sound of his knees hitting the heavy table made Ma Xiang tremble. But he didn't dare to take a breath, and he secretly glanced at Xiao Mingwei, who didn't look in pain at all, just pointed at himself with his right hand with a flushed face. "You're only reporting me now? The loss of two modern weapons is a major event that has never been seen since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and you have been concealing it? If I hadn't asked people to check the weapons, how long would you have hidden it from me? ”

"I ......" Ma Xiang hung his head, he had actually found out when he counted the losses that day, the special reconnaissance team that participated in the battle for the first time in this Shabak 'chaos' suffered heavy losses, a total of eight people were killed before and after, and another six or seven were injured, but compared to these losses, what made him panic was that the machine gunners and semi-automatic rifle 'shooters' who were defending the operation area were also among the dead, and the weapons were also lost in the battle. The loss of this kind of Senate-specific weapons is something he has never considered, but now it has happened, panicked and he chose to conceal the report, you must know that at the beginning, the special investigation team is not allowed to be equipped with modern weapons The regulations are to prevent this situation, and this is only a small batch of equipment that is allowed under the repeated application of the north latitude, who knows that the first time he participated in the battle, it was lost, and he still lost two, he felt that all the senators of the entire Senate would go to collect firewood and tie him to the cross and burn it.