The problem of Nan Wenbo is also the main problem that Gao Cheng needs to solve after this war, and it is shameful to blame all the reasons on the recruits, and the main reason is that his own command is unfavorable.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Gao Cheng took the battlefield statistics, his hands kept shaking, and he finally understood the teaching of the veterans when he was in the academy, fighting is not a child's house, people will die, especially when it is his comrades who die, and the responsibility lies with himself, that kind of torment is really uncomfortable.

The Battle of Nancheng annihilated 612 comprador regiments, and none of them surrendered! Such a will to fight makes people feel terrible, there is such an army in China! This also shows the strength of the comprador group from the side, and the accumulation of half a century is not only reflected in financial resources. Sixty-two people were wounded three times and 35 were killed in battle, more than half of the losses were lost, and such losses will definitely be investigated by the superiors. But this is not what Gao Cheng needs to worry about now, the morale of the soldiers is low, weapons and ammunition need to be restocked, the wounded need to be treated, and the seriously wounded need to be sent back to Fujian for treatment. The post-war report needs to be written, the experience needs to be summarized, the responsibilities need to be clarified, and how to avoid the future battle will not repeat today's situation is the thing that Gao Cheng is most concerned about.

In the whole battle, he made too many mistakes, too much panic, too much incompetence, and all the military knowledge he had learned in the past few years was forgotten by himself, and he was slow to react, which eventually led to more than half of the casualties in the third company. In his guilt, Takajo reported the battle report to the counterattack team, and finally gave it back to the General Staff.

The Third Company is not the only unit that has encountered battles, in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Yunnan-Guizhou, more than 200 recruit companies have fought to varying degrees, and the results and processes are different, there are such and such problems, and the losses are not small, but they all have the same problems, that is, the commander's command error, which has led to varying degrees of damage.

Those company commanders were all graduates of the first phase of the Military Academy, and the thick stack of reports made the staff officers of the General Staff take a lot of time to sum up, and the final report was submitted to Lu Liang, of course, in the end, there would not be much punishment for those officers, and the General Staff and Lu Liang both understood in their hearts that this was the price that the army must pay for its growth. To a certain extent, the upper echelons of the Zhenguo Army are also responsible, and no one would have thought that those comprador regiments would have such a strong will to fight, and the problem is obvious, there is a general mood of love and enemy in the army, which is the biggest reason for this loss.

Once the problem is identified, it needs to be solved, the teams need to change their attitudes, they need to replenish new recruits, and they need to transport the wounded and supplies. Before all the things were settled, the companies of the Zhenguo Army temporarily stopped attacking the comprador regiment, and the logistics department also needed to concentrate on using this time to repair the logistics plan and increase the supply efforts. The division of troops in the four provinces and the amount of materials required to be accurate to each company are a very big project, and it is also the biggest test for the logistics department so far.

The compradors were in even greater trouble, and the first attack of the Zhenguo Army inflicted heavy losses on the comprador regiments, even to an unbearable level. More than 40 teams were wiped out, more than half of them were attacked by the Zhenguo Army, and more than a quarter of the people were lost.

Seeing the strong combat effectiveness of the Zhenguo Army, whether it needs to continue has become a question for the compradors to consider. In this regard, Sheng Xuanhuai specially looked for Wei Guangtao once, and he couldn't let the situation continue to deteriorate.

"Lord Wei, in this operation, the comprador regiment withstood the powerful offensive of the Zhenguo Army, but suffered heavy casualties. Appeals for help from the local imperial green battalion and the new army were refused. My lord, you personally organized this matter, and you can't die without help! The Zhenguo army is repairing, a larger offensive will begin soon, and if the imperial court continues to let it go, the sound of gunfire near Hangzhou and Nanchang will reach Nanjing! Sheng Xuanhuai's words were sincere, in fact, he was not in a hurry, he represented the core interests of the Beiyang Group in the south in the steamship China Merchants, this period of tossing made the Guangdong shipping company temporarily out of business, the steamship China Merchants took the opportunity to merge some small shipping companies and a British foreign company after the bankruptcy of the sale of the shipping company, China Merchants business expanded instantly, this time it became an excellent opportunity for China Merchants to expand its territory! If the compradors hadn't come to him to intercede, he wouldn't have bothered to take care of this bad debt! These waste comprador governors in the south have absolutely no strength to confront the Zhenguo Party and save the imperial court, none other than Lord Gongbao!

Wei Guangtao pondered for a long time, this matter is indeed not as he hoped at the beginning, the Zhenguo Party's abundant troops are enviable, according to the return of the eyeliner, they now have more than 200,000 people in five armies, and they are well-equipped and well-trained, and when they newly occupied Fujian and Guangxi, and were still carrying out a large-scale anti-bandit campaign, they still had the spare strength to send a large number of troops to the four provinces! Does this require a lot of money? How much ammunition? Where did the Zhenguo Party come from such a strong foundation? How do you make money and fight wars?

The reorganization of the new army, which began half a year ago, has not yet been completed, and the other two newly organized towns have also passed the approval of the imperial court and are in the process of being formed; even if all four towns are completed now, they only have a strength of nearly 60,000 troops, and it is necessary to defend the vast areas of Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, and it is an impossible task no matter how it is calculated.

The new army is the biggest capital for its own confrontation with the Zhenguo army, and if it is used at this time, it is likely to cause considerable losses. But if it is not used, there will be no other troops to assist the comprador regiment, those green battalions and eight banner soldiers? Just think about it, no one will expect them to fight, no different from sending them to death.

"The seventh and ninth towns of the New Army are the foundation of the imperial court in Liangjiang, and if there is any mistake, none of us can escape the responsibility. In this way, the small units of the Zhenguo Army were very active in these provinces, which showed that the Zhenguo Party was not ready to march into Liangjiang and Yunnan-Guizhou, and would not send large-scale troops yet. I asked the seventh town and the ninth town to send a joint force to concentrate the troops, eat up the strength of the Zhenguo army one by one, and the comprador regiment assisted in the battle, what do you think? ”

"Adults are far-sighted, far-sighted, and thoughtful, and they are ashamed of themselves!"

"Brother Xingsun, do you and I still need to be so polite? Who in this court doesn't know that your brother Xingsun is the pillar of our court? Li Zhongtang back then and now Lord Yuan have to rely on Brother Xingsun to do things, and I, Wei Guangtao, am not a person who doesn't know how to lift! ”

"Hahahaha, Lord Wei is lifted up. According to the following opinion, the Zhenguo Army has strong combat effectiveness, and if it wants to completely eliminate the small force, it is necessary to concentrate more than ten times the strength of the troops, and the momentum of Mount Tai will not leave any trouble! ”

Wei Guangtao's analysis is very correct, and now Lu Liang can't devote more energy to recovering other provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. The three provinces suppressed bandits, pacified the local resistance to the revolution, and the conservative feudal local forces were not all willing to come out and contact the new world, they preferred to stay in the earthen enclosure and slowly decay. There were also clan conflicts, ethnic contradictions, weapons confiscation, and so on, which confined a large number of troops to various places and could not move.

Lu Liang did not want to have a chaotic rear before the Northern Expedition to make himself uneasy, so before the three provinces were completely pacified, the provisional government did not have more energy for the Northern Expedition. The more than 200 companies that entered the four northern provinces did not have the intention of pinning down the Manchus and preventing them from developing steadily.

A week later, in the southeast of Nancheng and in the border areas between Fujian and Jiangxi, the repaired three connections were ordered by the higher authorities that the next stage of the operation would be dominated by guerrilla warfare and that a head-to-head confrontation with the enemy army should be avoided as much as possible.

Guerrilla warfare, Gao Cheng is no stranger, and guerrilla warfare as a compulsory subject is a compulsory course for all military cadets when studying at a military academy. Theory is one thing, actual combat is another, and according to the requirements of theory, guerrilla warfare must have a stable base area, a local civilian base, and a good source of logistical supply, and these are not problems for the Third Company. Then, the next battle is the best chance to atone for your sins! The previous combat responsibility superiors only gave a demerit punishment, which is equal to nothing! However, it takes a process to restore the soldiers' morale, and Takashiro believes that this process is the process of continuous victory of the troops.

Compared with the bullish coaxing when he first saw Nan Wenbo, Gao Cheng is much more low-key, and Lao Nan now prefers others to call him Nan Tuan. In the last battle, he completely played the bloody nature buried deep in his heart, and he brought a big knife wherever he went, and he also organized the squires to fund the purchase of 300 rapid-fire rifles of the Zhenguo Party, and the combat effectiveness of the Nancheng Regiment directly rose a notch.

"Commander Nan, intelligence shows that the Third Infantry Association of the Ninth Town of the New Army stationed in Fuzhou has been dispatched, and the specific target has not yet been determined.

"Company Commander Gao, don't you also have a lot of companies? It's all here, let's fight with them, the Nancheng group are all men, and they won't frown! ”

"Hehe, Commander Nan, the above means to avoid its edge, guerrilla warfare, and your Nancheng regiment cooperates with the three companies to fight. We will change places with one shot, take them to the mountains to the east, and drag the large army of the enemy to death and exhaust to death! ”

"Do you need to go through all the trouble?"

"With the above considerations, starting from the overall situation, it is not the time for a decisive battle, how about it? Is Regiment Commander Nan willing to drill the mountain with us three times in a row? ”