The defeat of the Qing army only means that the first wave of attacks has been frustrated. Ma Yuliang, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, immediately sent a herald to Dong Fuxiang for instructions while beating his subordinates with twenty lashes.

"Defeated?" Looking at the emergency document sent by the herald, Nie Shicheng, Dong Fuxiang, and Yuan Shikai were quite unconvinced, because this was a head-on confrontation between the imperial army and the bandits, and there was a world of difference between winning by tricks.

"It is rumored that the Mengyin giant bandit has a very clever cannon, it seems that this legend is true!" Yuan Shikai said to himself.

"Comfort Pavilion, what else have you heard?" Nie Shicheng was worried that he had no idea, how could he not seize the opportunity when he saw Yuan Shikai talking.

"Dashuai, Fifth Brother Xing, I have heard no more than the two of you, but the difference is that although you two or more court officials, although they have heard about the Mengyin bandits, they may not believe it more, thinking that it is confusing; But I think that all the situations we have heard about should be taken as true as possible, and no, the things that have been encountered in this battle, in the legends, are not being shown in front of us one by one? Yuan Shikai thought of something and said anything.

"What do you mean by Comfort Pavilion, we may lose this time?" Nie Shicheng asked.

"Dashuai, I thought it was possible. After all, Ma Yuliang made it very clear in the emergency document that the other side was only two teams of troops, and our side dispatched three teams plus one artillery team, in fact, four teams were attacking; But the result of the battle was that we were almost completely annihilated, and the Mengyin bandits suffered few casualties. Moreover, this is only the first time we have met each other, and who knows how powerful the bandits really are? How many troops were dispatched this time? ”

"Report to the marshal, Liang Jiaao is urgent!" At this moment, another urgent military information was delivered to the command.

"Read!" Nie Shicheng listened to Yuan Shikai's analysis, and his originally annoyed state of mind had gradually calmed down.

Liangjiaao, about ten miles upstream of the river crossing point guarded by Xu Lie before, was also launched by Yuan Shikai's new army to carry out a diversion attack, and at this time there was an "urgent report" instead of "good news", which was obviously an unsuccessful attack.

"Report to the headquarters: The headquarters sent a battalion to attack the bandits on the other side of the river, which was quite effective at first, and most of the pontoons in the river had been erected; However, in the middle of the bandits, their artillery can shoot at our artillery without falling behind, but because of the lack of shells of our army, the enemy was finally defeated, and the enemy bandit department took advantage of the situation to counterattack on a large scale, and the electric guns, hand-thrown bombs, rifles, etc., with the support of the enemy's artillery, posed a great threat to our army, and the battle lasted only one hour, and a battalion of our army was wounded more than 300 people, and has now withdrawn from the battlefield, please support the headquarters! Title: Wang Shizhen. ”

Wang Shizhen, the famous "Three Heroes of Beiyang", was the head of Yuan Shikai's new military camp office and the chief teacher of the martial arts hall at this time. This lecture hall is the Beiyang lecture hall, which belongs to the precedent of modern military education in the Kailong Kingdom. In this sense, people like Wang Shizhen and Yuan Shikai are really opening up the history of the Dragon Kingdom.

Later generations have information that said that the Beiyang Lecture Hall was opened in 1906, but this information is really wrong. Yuan Shikai began to train in the small station in December 1895, Wang Shizhen Geng was appointed as the supervisor of the camp office and the chief instructor of the martial arts, and won the trust of Yuan Shikai, after the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Qing court accelerated the pace of training of the new army, in order to show the strength of the imperial court in front of the great powers, the Qing court held the new army in 1905.

To put it bluntly, the Beiyang Martial Arts Hall is to train new-style military officers, and the initial scale is only 180 people, and if there are no new-style officers, the so-called new army will not be established. In this sense, the history of the Beiyang Army Lecture Hall is much earlier. As for the Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall, which seemed to be more famous later, it was really founded in 1907. Because at that time, the Qing court found that the Beiyang Army had succeeded in military training, so it proposed that each southern province should organize a new army, and to form a new army, it must first have officers.

It's just that Yuan Shikai and Wang Shizhen both encountered a hurdle this time.

"Order everywhere, pause the attack!" Seeing that the two attacks were frustrated, Nie Shicheng had to stop temporarily.

"Marshal, according to the situation on the battlefield, our army's artillery seems to have an advantage, but this shell ......," Dong Fuxiang said.

Dong Fuxiang has become much more active since he became famous with Zuo Zongtang, and to put it bluntly, this guy has become an old oilman in the officialdom, and he doesn't listen to anyone except Cixi, and has become a lackey of the Qing court. As for such an errand as the suppression of bandits in Shandong, if the battle situation is favorable and the bandits are weak, he will naturally dare to rush forward and destroy the enemy and make meritorious contributions; But now the bandits are strong, and they seem to be stronger than their own army, Dong Fuxiang wants to be on the sidelines, which is why every time he speaks, he mentions "difficulty", it's not that I don't fight, it's that there are no shells, there is wood?

At the beginning, Cixi attacked the Eight-Nation Alliance with the Boxers, and Dong Fuxiang let his Gan army transform into the Boxers, killing Bin Shanbin, the secretary of the Snake State embassy in the Dragon Kingdom, and participating in the encirclement and suppression of the eastern suburbs. The Boxers were defeated, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered the city, Dong Fuxiang saw that the situation was not right, and immediately escorted Cixi and Guangxu to escape from Beijing. This is the history of Dong Fuxiang's "meritorious service in eliminating the Eight-Nation Alliance" and "meritorious service in protecting the Lord."

Because of this, the Eight-Nation Alliance negotiated with the Qing court and unanimously demanded the execution of Dong Fuxiang, and Cixi also read that his "meritorious service to protect the lord" saved his life, but he was dismissed from his post and confined to his home.

Xu Lie saw that the Qing army had been attacking for most of the morning, and then stopped attacking. Xu Lie not only knew the thoughts of the Qing army, but also knew the difficulties of the Qing army.

Therefore, Xu Lie immediately ordered the main regiment to be responsible for defending the Yanghe defense line to prevent the Qing army from breaking through the defense line and escaping into Laiwu City; At the same time, the guard battalion was ordered to return to the vicinity of the temporary headquarters, bury their heads in sleep, and clearly inform the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion that there was a major operation at night.

And he himself, through the "teleportation" function of the arms warehouse, quickly returned to Mengyin County.

At this time, the green battalion from the south of Jiangsu River had also arrived at the border of Mengyin and was attacking Mengyin. These two armies have a total strength of 60,000 people, although the combat effectiveness is not very good, but the number is also very large, so Xu Lie is a little worried.

The battle between the inner line and the outer line formulated by Xu Lie before is now clear. The so-called inner line of operations, in fact, is to block the green battalions from Jiangsu and Henan out of Mengyin, if they really can't be blocked, they have to be blocked layer by layer, and finally they must be annihilated under Mengyin City, and the most basic tactical purpose of internal operations is to protect Mengyin City.

At the same time, because of Nie Shicheng's tactics, more than 40,000 people in these two green battalions are already serving as the transport brigade of the Qing army, and they are continuously transporting supplies and ammunition from Beijing, Zhili, and Shandong to the Laiwu front.