Just now, Young Master Meng has already seen the officers and soldiers chasing the bandits, and has a basic understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, the infantry and the green battalion don't know how, anyway, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is really capable of it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At least it is used to fight bandits.

If the bandits want to talk about white-knuckle combat, it is similar to the iron cavalry, but the breath that was chased just now has not even evened out, and they have suffered a loss in physical strength.

Two to one, the number of people also suffered a big loss, cold weapons, especially small shares against small shares, the difference in the number of people is very big!

Two officers and soldiers fight a bandit, and it is basically effortless.

The second boss saw that the situation was not right, and after killing an officer and soldier, he rolled a few times, pretended to be dead on the ground, and then took advantage of the fierce fighting to climb the mountain and run away.

More than 20 people died in the Eight Banners Iron Horse, and the remaining more than 80 people surrounded a bandit boss, who was completely desperate and held a big knife.

The general sneered, picked up the bow and arrow, and hit the boss in the chest with an arrow!

After a loud sigh, the bandit boss clutched the arrow in his chest and fell with his eyes open.

Annihilated!

Neither the officers nor soldiers nor Lu Kangtian found that he had escaped from a second-in-command.

When the officers and soldiers came back, Young Master Meng said calmly: "Congratulations, my lord, when I get to Shengjing, let my grandfather exchange the broken silver for the brothers, I will not break my word." ”

Mr. Jiang smiled: "Don't worry, can you still not believe in Tianjin Meng Young Master?" I've heard of it for a long time! Sure enough, it lives up to its name. ”

Young Master Meng nodded, there is no need to talk nonsense with such a small character, he is now the son of the governor's family, and in modern times, he is the son of the governor's family.

However, this time he encountered bandits on the way, which made Young Master Meng very injured, and the combat effectiveness of his troops was not much different from that of bandits, which made it difficult for him to accept, it seems that compared to the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, even if his battalion is all pulled out, in the wild, it is not necessarily the opponent of a hundred-person Eight Banners Iron Cavalry team.

Although it is already the era of hot weapons, the dominance of cavalry in the army is still amazing.

Young Master Meng can't understand such a Qing army anyway, why was he humiliated again and again in the back?

At this time, the Qing Dynasty also had a lot of soldiers and weapons, so how could it be easily defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance?

It can only be said that the combat effectiveness is extremely low and extremely poor!

Let's not talk about the Boxers, it is a group of superstitious rabble who are invulnerable and advocate big swords, spears and cold weapons.

Speaking of the official army alone, this is a "new army" equipped with foreign guns and cannons and trained according to Western-style methods since the Beiyang Naval Division was completely wiped out in the Sino-Japanese War, called the "Armed Guard Army", which is divided into five armies, left, center, and right, with more than 10,000 people in each army, totaling more than 50,000 people.

Although in addition to Yuan Shikai's "Wuwei Right Army" went to Shandong and Song Qing's "Wuwei Left Army" was stationed inside and outside Shanhaiguan, the "front, middle, and rear" armies were deployed on the Jinjing line, and there were also palace guards and Eight Banners soldiers in Beijing.

The more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in the capital attacked the foreign embassy area guarded by less than 1,000 people, and the artillery bombarded the infantry to dig tunnels and set fire to them, and they were busy for more than a month without even conquering them, and even the foreign flags on the roofs of the houses were still fluttering in the wind.

The root cause of low combat effectiveness is corruption in the first place, and corruption in politics and metallurgy, officialdom, and military discipline in the late Qing Dynasty is well known to everyone.

It's still a problem at the top, with the national strength of the Qing Dynasty, raising 100,000 elite iron cavalry is not a problem at all, 100,000 elite iron cavalry, plus about 100,000 Huai troops, it's okay if the first day is defeated, and you can still defend the country on land!

It can only be said that the upper level decides the lower level, and it can't all be blamed on the soldiers, this hundred-person cavalry team is by no means a decoration, and General Sheng Jing's army has aroused the vigilance of Young Master Meng!

Young Master Meng secretly made up his mind that he needed to get equipment as soon as possible and develop a cavalry battalion, otherwise, it would be difficult to keep the base area! It's obviously an independent colony, so you can't just ask the Qing court to help you at every turn, right? So much without face?

It is not difficult to get horses with money, the key is that the cavalry battalion needs to be trained!

Moreover, Young Master Meng admires the cavalry of modern Europe, France, Britain, and Germany. It seems that the Russian cavalry is also coaxing, anyway, the Qing cavalry, which is still at the level of traditional tactics, is not good, but Young Master Meng can't even resist the armed forces.

On the way to Shengjing, Young Master Meng quietly summoned Lu Kangtian and talked about his idea of forming a cavalry battalion!

War horses are one thing, and Young Master Meng thinks that the most important thing is a coach with excellent tactical concepts! Young Master Meng took these things to heart.

Young Master Meng asked Lu Kangtian to arrive in Shengjing, so he contacted the office of Klinsmann Foreign Company in Shengjing to start purchasing materials and war horses, as for war horses, he would ask Xuan Zonglu to help, so that the people below would have a bottom in their hearts first.

This matter is top secret, so let Lu Kangtian handle it personally.

The secret service system controlled by Xuan Yuewen and Dazhi has only been rolled out in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and there is still a process of development outside the Beijing-Tianjin area.

Otherwise, for such an important matter, Master Meng would let the agent do it.

Although the Qing Dynasty was extremely corrupt, and most of the people below were wine bags and rice bags, no one would care about a barren land, but Young Master Meng has always maintained a high degree of vigilance!

In Shengjing, in this era, it was only a small city of 10,000 people, larger than Tianjin, smaller than Beijing, and incomparable with modern county-level cities.

Xuan Zonglu rode a horse, took a group of soldiers from the governor's yamen, and waited outside the city gate in person, and when he saw the sedan chair of the young master Meng, he finally put his mind at ease, "Yue Meng, aren't you scared?" This night, I didn't dare to sleep all of a sudden, if you don't come, I will pick it up myself. ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "It's okay, just a few bandits." My life is big. ”

Xuan Zonglu sighed, "Where are the people with great lives?" Be cautious in everything, this time it was grandpa's negligence, it was grandpa who didn't think of the bandits, these bandits are really lawless, don't be afraid, when you go back, I also ask General Sheng Jing and General Ruilian to send someone to escort you. ”

Young Master Meng nodded, he didn't want to mention last night's incident anymore, this matter, in Young Master Meng's opinion, is really a mess!

Young Master Meng doesn't know about the situation of bandits, and he's quite worried, I don't know how many such bandits there are in the colony!

In fact, the equipment of his army was already the best individual combat equipment of the great powers in China in this era, mainly because the training level of the army was too poor.

Young Master Meng came to Shengjing this time, mainly to discuss with Xuan Zonglu about building a trade zone in Danzhou, as well as building a large railway and highway bridge on the Yalu River.

Young Master Meng attaches great importance to business and trade, and has already set up an office in Shengjing, and Shengjing also has a branch of Huacui Evening News, but the news of this era is lagging behind, and the newspapers in the Beijing-Tianjin area have arrived in Shengjing, and the fastest is the newspaper a month ago, however, the sales of Huacui Evening News in the Northeast are still good.

Distribution offices have been set up in several major cities, where there are also offices of Klinsmann & Co.

"Are they all settled? Take a break first. Young Master Meng smiled slightly, he couldn't tell that he was scared because of what happened last night, in fact, Young Master Meng was still very nervous, after all, it was the first time he had seen a bloody battle of more than 100 people.

Xuan Zonglu agreed, let the young master Meng be sent into the carriage, and when he arrived in Shengjing, he had everything!

Qiu Yun and Princess Katrina Kafu also followed Young Master Meng into the carriage.

Young Master Meng rested for a day, relieved himself, and talked with Xuan Zonglu, who came to see him, about building a trade zone in Danzhou, as well as building a large railway and highway bridge on the Yalu River.

Xuan Zonglu shook his head, "Let this go in advance, don't be in a hurry, you first stabilize your position in your place, isn't it more important to build a dock?" ”

Young Master Meng said: "My place, now called Danzhou, there are too many construction sites in Danzhou, the scale of construction is too large, just relying on the local labor force in Liaoning, it is estimated that it is not enough, only by opening trade with North Korea, can we jointly develop and speed up!" ”

Xuan Zonglu nodded, "This matter, I'm afraid that I can't come forward, you think, you can use Danzhou as a trade zone, and I can also make it convenient for merchants from Liaoning to come and go to Danzhou, but if I come forward to negotiate with North Korea, once this matter is poked out, I, as an official, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it." (To be continued.) )