Zheng Qiang is also a good scout, belongs to the first batch of people recruited into the village as a soldier before the Spring Festival in 1898, his martial arts are weaker than Yan Qiubai, but he is particularly clever, as if he was born to be a scout, and also has a very strong special operations talent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xu Lie prepared to formally set up special forces after this battle, in order to be used in the future, but between Yan Qiubai and Zheng Qiang, who to choose as the leader of this special forces, Xu Lie still couldn't make up his mind.

"Okay, I'll leave this to you two! However, you can't treat those friends on the rivers and lakes badly. In this way, every one of the locks helps us watch 1 person, 3 cents of silver a day, 1 tael of silver a month, this battle, I estimate that it will take about a month before and after, then take 1 month as an example, each captive pays 1 tael of silver for care and living expenses, you tell those locks, most of these captives will join the Mengshan army in the future, so that they don't abuse too much. ”

Xu Lie thought about it, and it was better not to owe these bandits favors.

"Oh, commander, if we are willing to give money, why do we need to find bandits, even those big families in Laiwu are willing to help us take care of the prisoners."

"Big family? Okay, too. But only if you don't let the captives escape, otherwise they may not be able to afford to lose! Xu Lie thought about it and didn't object to Yan Qiubai's proposal.

In fact, in this era, the boundaries between officials, soldiers, civilians, and bandits are not as clear as they seem, and as long as there is money to be made, anyone dares to take risks!

Later generations say that if you are given 100,000 to betray your friends, you may shake your head and give you 1 million, you may think about it, but if you are given 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

In this day and age, don't have so much money. For some absolute proletarians, if you give him a tael of silver and tell him to kill someone, he will rush up with a kitchen knife.

As for this kind of thing that costs one or two silver a month for helping people take care of them, they are definitely rushing to do it. Although the nursing has to arrange life for people for a month, his living expenses are only two dollars a month at most, and he can still leave eight dollars of silver. If a family takes care of ten captives, won't they earn eight taels of silver in a month?

Looking at Yan Qiubai and Zheng Qiang's smug looks, Xu Lie suddenly remembered the old saying, problems that can be solved with money are not called problems! I used to be unhappy about this, is this necessary? As long as there is money, you can also give the Qing army a vast sea of people's war!

"Commander, in fact, in addition to giving money, you can also give guns and bullets to bandits or large families. We have seized so many firearms, and we don't use them, and it would be a pity to put them there, and waste them? Seeing that Yan Qiubai had received the reward, Lou Ming, the commander of the guard battalion, followed up with another idea.

"Mao, can't you find a word? However, this shot cannot be given lightly! Xu Lie said Lou Ming, but did not agree with his suggestion.

The firearms seized before were not useless, but they were not used for the time being. Because the time was too short before, there were some things that Xu Lie didn't have time to do at all. And after these battles, Xu Lie will use those old-fashioned guns.

When the plan stopped, Xu Lie sent a reconnaissance battalion to meet the enemy. The size of the reconnaissance battalion is 500 people, and a forward battalion of the Qing army is about this size.

In terms of equipment, Xu Lie's reconnaissance battalion only has semi-automatic rifles, while the Qing army's forward battalion also only has ordinary old-fashioned rifles.

As for how the reconnaissance battalion would fight, Xu Lie didn't say much at all, but just said that if the death toll of the reconnaissance battalion exceeded twenty, Yan Qiubai would automatically leave the class.

To "get out of class" is to step down. This is a term used within the Mengshan Army.

The reconnaissance battalion and the guard battalion were previously established at the company level. The expansion was also carried out in late August. However, the expansion of these two battalions is different from that of the main combat force. The expansion of the main combat force is to find people from among the new recruits; The expansion of the reconnaissance battalion and guard battalion is to select and transfer the best soldiers from the main front-line combat units. Therefore, if we look at the expansion of these two different types of units statically, that is, the reconnaissance battalion and the guard battalion become stronger and stronger the more they are expanded, while the main combat unit needs to raise the technical and tactical training of new recruits after the expansion.

The reconnaissance battalion chose an ordinary terrain for the ambush.

Facing the water on the left, facing the slope in front and the right hand, and there is also a prominent hill pack behind, the terrain is not dangerous, but the biggest advantage is that the sides of the official road appear to be quite clean, and there are no bushes, which belongs to the terrain with a good view and is suitable for destroying the enemy. The most special thing is that the length of this terrain is nearly a thousand meters, and if the Qing army is not particularly prepared to march in a normal formation, this terrain just fits a battalion of the Qing army.

Xu Lie and the officers at and above the company level watched the reconnaissance battalion's operations with binoculars in their hands on the highest hill on the right hand.

Why didn't Mao let ordinary soldiers come to learn it? There were too many people, the hill could not be placed, and it was easy to be discovered by the Qing army's forward battalion. Don't think of the Qing army as too hasty, otherwise, it will be the Mengshan army himself who suffers!

With the arrival of the enemy briefings one by one, the forward battalion of the Qing army, strictly speaking the forward battalion of the Wuyi Army, followed the main road, everyone carried their guns on their shoulders, and slowly walked into the ambush circle of the reconnaissance battalion.

Although the ranks of the Qing army were relatively neat, they were a kind of strolling march, and there was no careful, cautious, and nervous mentality in battle.

If it is a march of the Mengshan army, not to mention that there is a small river on the left hand, on the high ground on the right hand, a small force must be sent to reconnoitre, so as not to be taken advantage by the enemy. Even if you know that there is no enemy, as long as it is a battle march, you cannot let your guard down.

But Wu Yijun did not send even a small squad of troops.

In addition, as a battalion march, march in a combat posture with at least two groups of scouts in front, each of which can be a squad, and the second group of a platoon.

This kind of scout does not just walk, but the front has to pass information to the back. For example, the front squad must leave a safety or danger mark for the platoon immediately behind, and this platoon must leave a safety or danger mark for the large army.

The forward battalion of the Wuyi Army did not send scouts, most likely because of pride and carelessness, believing that it was still far away from the Mengyin combat zone, and the territory of Laiwu was still a safe place.

Of course, pride and arrogance are the most important. Wu Yijun, as a powerful unit of the Qing army, plus Nie Shicheng's army is quite a set, and he won the army of the Snake Country in Motianling, how can he look at other troops in the country, let alone the bandit army.

As for the 10,000 people brought by Governor Zhang Rumei who were made dumplings by the Mengyin bandits, that is not to say how powerful the bandits are, it can only show that the green battalion soldiers in Shandong are full of straw bales, and they have been shown in their original form by the Mengyin bandits with a little trick.