Luo Jian didn't want to start fighting at this time, the cavalry division had not yet completed the redress, and the training of the second division after the refitting had just begun.

The matter was provoked by Liu Zhaoji's first division.

After the first division changed guards to Xuzhou, Liu Zhaoji was not as honest as Li Chengdong, Li Chengdong was helpless, if the equipment of the second division was the same as that of the first division, it is estimated that he would be even more dishonest.

The patrols of the 1st Division often went in and out of the Manchu occupied areas, coming and leaving whenever they wanted, and Liu Zhaoji even asked the scouts to go dozens of kilometers deep into the occupied areas to reconnoiter the enemy's situation.

It is common for the scouts of the Qing soldiers to fight with the scouts of the first division on a small scale, and it is impossible to talk about the fight, because the two sides basically do not meet, and the scouts of the first division are now all imitation camouflage uniforms, equipped with telescopes and Yangzhou rifles, and it is difficult for the scouts of the Qing soldiers to find them, let alone fight.

However, the scouts of the first division often attacked, and they were always able to kill a few Qing scouts with one shot, and Geng Jimao's troops, who were guarding the outermost part of Guide, were the most beaten.

The real reason for this battle is still more complicated, and it is still unreasonable to talk about the first division, because Duoduo has strictly ordered the Qing soldiers not to provoke the Yangzhou army for no reason.

The patrol sent by the 1st Division this time was personally led by Zhuang Zigu, the commander of the 2nd Regiment, and the number was not too large, only about 300 people, all of whom were infantry.

Speaking of Zhuang Zigu's second regiment, it is the team that fought bloody battles with Geng Jimao's Tianyu army in Yangzhou City, this time they patrolled and still entered the Manchu occupation area, but this time they entered a little deeper, and actually entered Dangshan County, where more than 30,000 Geng Jimao's Tianyu Army were stationed in Dangshan County.

Coincidentally, on this day, Geng Jimao's Tianyu army went to the countryside to urge grain, making the people of a village cry, and Zhuangzi who was passing by had to rush to take a look, but he saw the Qing soldiers grabbing grain.

Zhuang Zigu, who already had a grudge against the Tianyu Army, saw it, and immediately hit the fire upwards, and ordered the patrol to start fighting.

The number of Tianyou troops who went to the countryside to collect grain was not too many, only six or seven hundred, but they were beaten by Zhuang Zigu's patrol with a row of guns and cried and fled in all directions.

Because they were too close, the two sides were still close to each other, and Zhuang Zigu's patrol also lost a few people, which made Zhuang Zigu even more angry, and asked people to go back to the division headquarters to report the news, and at the same time ordered the second regiment to rush over.

The second regiment was not slow, but the Qing soldiers came faster, the key was that they were too close, Geng Jimao was also angry when he heard that his team was beaten, and this time it was in his own defense area, and he was not afraid of Duoduo's blame, and personally led nearly 10,000 people to the outside of the village.

Zhuang Zigu saw that the matter was getting bigger, and led the patrol to fight and retreat, but fortunately, the patrol team's current Yangzhou Type 1 rifle had a long enough range, and it was divided into three rows to cover the retreat alternately, and before it could retreat to ten miles, the second regiment arrived.

Zhuang Zigu never retreated again, commanding the second regiment to set up a posture, at this time Geng Jimao had become a tiger, while confronting the second regiment, while ordering people to go back and call for reinforcements.

A large part of Geng Jimao's troops have been replaced with firearms, and although their range is not as far as Yangzhou, they are also much stronger than the firearms used by the Ming army in the past.

The second regiment is strong in the rifle range, powerful, and the loading and firing is much faster than the Qing soldiers, but the Qing soldiers are better than the number of people, and its reinforcements are still coming, and even the general's cannon has been moved.

The arrival of the general's artillery caused the casualties of the second regiment to be large, and although the casualties of the Qing soldiers were greater, Zhuangzi did not want to fight it.

Just as the second regiment was preparing to retreat, Liu Zhaoji personally led the first regiment to arrive.

"Ready to run away? Suffered a big loss? Liu Zhaoji saw that Zhuang Zigu was preparing to retreat, and he was suddenly a little angry.

"Division commander, we didn't suffer a loss, it's just that the Qing soldiers moved all the general's artillery, and our artillery didn't come, and the troops suffered casualties.

Zhuang Zigu saw that Liu Zhaoji was angry, and hurriedly stepped forward to defend himself.

"Don't say so many reasons, our first division has no order to retreat, give me all the order, and send them back." Liu Zhaoji roared.

"Commander, where are you going to beat them? This is the territory of the Qing soldiers. Ma Yingkui, the head of the regiment, said with a smile next to him.

"Then I don't care, it's not okay to be chased by the Qing soldiers, even if you want to retreat, you have to beat them up and then retreat." Liu Zhaoji said unreasonably.

"Zhuang Zigu, your second regiment should pay attention to guarding against the Qing cavalry, Ma Yingkui, your regiment will go up first and beat them back." Liu Zhaoji gave the order.

The 1st Regiment had participated in the last "Fighting Cattle Across the Mountains" operation, and its combat experience was even richer than that of the 2nd Regiment.

After the first regiment went up, the losses of the Qing soldiers suddenly increased, and Geng Jimao's troops had already come with more than 20,000 people, and only the cavalry remained unmoved.

Liu Zhaoji carefully observed the equipment of the Qing soldiers, in fact, Liu Zhaoji was a careful general, not unreasonable to fight the Qing soldiers, since the last time the Qing soldiers were fighting, the first division has not fought with Duoduo's troops for a long time, and today Liu Zhaoji wants to weigh the weight of the Qing soldiers.

Liu Zhaoji found that the power of long-range strikes in the Qing army was greatly strengthened, there were more bows and arrows and firearms, and the quality of its firearms seemed to have improved a lot.

Moreover, Liu Zhaoji found that the discipline of the Qing soldiers was also strengthening, of course, referring to the Han army in the Qing army, these Han troops used to suffer a little heavy casualties and would soon collapse, but today it seems that the Tianyu army is much more tenacious than before.

The Qing Army's General Cannons were also issued quite a few, which looked lighter and could fire both solid and shotguns.

These are all new situations, and they must be reported to Xinghua in the past, the Yangzhou army has made progress, and it seems that the Qing soldiers are not idle.

This kind of pure firepower confrontation is relatively new to both sides, Geng Jimao stood outside the range of the Yangzhou rifle and looked at the entire battlefield, and saw that his men and horses actually blocked the attack of the Yangzhou army, and his heart was ecstatic.

You must know that in Xinyi, the cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Yellow Banner suffered a big loss when they encountered a division, and they were able to stop them? Geng Jimao didn't quite believe his eyes.

Geng Jimao ignored an important issue, when he was in Xinyi, the cavalry of Zhenghuang Cavalry hit the muzzle of the gun by himself.

After all, the casualties of the Qing soldiers were still too large, Geng Jimao estimated that the casualties had exceeded 3,000, and there were not many who really died, about four or five hundred, but in this era, it may be difficult to cure the wounds of lead bullets.

Geng Jimao felt that his goal had been achieved, and ordered his troops to retreat alternately under the cover of the general's artillery.

The first division sacrificed more than a dozen people, and many were wounded, more than 200 people, but the health team of the first division soon arrived and carried the wounded back to Xuzhou for treatment.

Liu Zhaoji, who returned to Xuzhou, wrote a detailed report on the experience of this battle and asked Pegasus to report to Yangzhou.

Luo Jian was discussing this battle report with everyone in the staff headquarters, and Shi Kefa and Li Chengdong, who was training troops outside the city, also came.

"Everyone listened, and let me tell you what you think, right?" Luo Jian pointed to the battle report and said.

"Metropolitan Governor, Lao Liu is a little out of bounds this time, right? But I like it, it's a pity that the second division didn't change its outfit at that time, if I had changed my equipment earlier, I would have to kill Geng Jimao, this kid. Li Chengdong pointed to the map and said.

"What crossed the line? It's all our China's territory, I think Zhuang Zigu and Liu Zhaoji are right, besides, this time Division Commander Liu mainly wants to weigh the Qing soldiers, isn't this a new situation? Luo Jian said.

"Governor Dadu, I think the first division has not achieved much success this time, the main reason is that there is no artillery to accompany it, if our artillery first disrupts the formation of the Qing troops, it is estimated that the losses of the Qing soldiers will not be only so little." Yi Bangcai analyzed.

"This is an encounter, who will bring the artillery with them at all times?" Li Chengdong said.

"Take the artillery with you at all times? yes, we'll have to develop a new artillery. When Luo Jian heard this, he immediately remembered that the infantry must also develop accompanying artillery.

Luo Jian had thought about Congreve rockets before, but this kind of rocket caused trouble, and the accuracy was extremely poor, and it only relied on huge numbers to kill and damage the enemy.

Now that Guazhou's technology is progressing so fast, Luo Jian doesn't want to get this extremely backward "weapon of mass destruction" anymore.

Some time ago, when the cavalry division was formed, Luo Jian considered the research and development of mortars, but he was suffering from the limitation of propellants, and now he doesn't know if Xiao Liu can solve this problem, so he has to ask him tomorrow, if he can get mortars or grenadiers, then the problem of infantry accompanying artillery will be solved.

"Xinghua, it seems that the Qing soldiers are progressing very quickly, this has to arouse our vigilance, we can't be arrogant, I think Dingwei's battle is fought well, let us see the real combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers now." Shi Kefa said.

"Yes, our Yangzhou army has won many battles, I think some generals are a little arrogant, if we don't keep a clear head, we will suffer a big loss in the future." Luo Jian also said.

"Governor, you didn't mean me, did you? I'm very honest in Xuzhou, I know that the equipment is not good, so let's guard Xuzhou with peace of mind and don't cause trouble for everyone, right? Li Chengdong said with a smile.

"Even if you are self-aware, what did you use to provoke before your second division changed clothes?" Luo Jian said with a smile.

"In my opinion, the situation encountered by the First Division will be handed down to all units, and everyone is required to look at the progress of the Qing troops with a sober mind, and not to be blind and arrogant anymore, especially the Fourth Division, which is currently confronting the Qing troops. Luo Jian said to Yi Bangcai, and Yi Bangcai hurriedly agreed.

"Our Yangzhou army cannot be compared with the Qing soldiers in terms of quantity, which requires us to surpass them in terms of quality, surpass the Qing army in terms of quality, I am referring to two aspects here, one is in training, we can't relax the training because the weapons are better than the Qing army, this time the results of the first regiment are obviously greater than the second regiment, and the combat experience of the first regiment is inseparable."

The staff officers kept taking notes, and Luo Jian's words were also to be sorted out and distributed to all troops.

"On the other hand, we must also increase the intensity of weapon research and development, we have few people, if the weapons cannot be more advanced than the Qing army, this battle will also be difficult to fight. The accompanying artillery of the infantry just mentioned is a problem, and there may be many such encounters in the future, so we must find a way to solve this problem as soon as possible. ”

This encounter passed quickly, and Liu Zhaoji took a small advantage, and the Qing soldiers were also satisfied that they had resisted the attack of the Yangzhou army without suffering greater losses.

Dordor also convened a military council to analyze the encounter.

Kong Youde calmly pointed out that the main reason for the ability to repel the Yangzhou army this time was that the artillery of the Yangzhou army did not participate in the battle, and if its artillery participated in the battle, I am afraid that the consequences would be unpredictable.

Duoduo also reported the situation of this battle to the Manchu court, which also attracted the attention of Dolgon.