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For Duan Qirui, Ma Longbiao and others, who have been stationed at the front line, it has been relatively boring since they were stationed in the southern region of Henan, and for half a year, the division commander, as the military commander, has to be nailed to the front line all the time to prevent any emergencies from occurring on the front line.

As for the soldiers, they were a little better, they had time to take turns to defend, and they constantly took turns to defend, although in the past half a year, the two sides never fought on the surface.

But in private, the skirmishes never stopped, and the South wanted to know what was going on with the troops in the North, and the North was not the same.

Privately, the reconnaissance forces of the two sides had already engaged in many exchanges of fire, of course, most of them were won by Wang Bin's side, and the Manchu scouts were often wiped out.

Of course, in the beginning, it was mainly the victory of the scouts on Wang Bin's side, but later, the scouts of the Manchu Qing in the south gradually began to mature.

Often in the ten encounters of the scouts, the Manchu scouts were always able to save face once or twice, and from these aspects, the army commander on Wang Bin's side obviously found that the Manchu army had improved to a certain extent.

And after Wang Bin learned the news, even though he knew that it must be the Manchu government that was secretly helping the foreign powers behind him to train the soldiers.

You must know that a qualified scout cannot be cultivated after a few months of confrontation, but at most these months of confrontation allow the Manchu scouts to have a certain amount of experience and understanding of modern reconnaissance methods, and begin to master the work of scouts to a certain extent.

However, it is impossible to fully grasp it, and it is obvious that the Manchu scouts are being taught the experience and knowledge of modern reconnaissance of the Scouts.

Combined with the fact that the Manchus had more contact with the Japanese and the British after they arrived in the south, it is not difficult to judge that there must have been a certain number of Japanese and British instructors in the Manchu army.

Otherwise, how could the backward military thinking of the Manchu Qing Dynasty keep up with the pace of the modern army?

The constant exchange of fire among the scouts made Duan Qirui and others have a little understanding of the army in the south, and on the opposite side of Shandong, where Wang Yingkai was stationed, were the two newly formed army seventh towns and the fifth town in the end.

The situation of the Army's Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth Divisions in Xinyang, Nanyang, and Runing is not very good.

The southernmost part of Henan is a protruding piece, surrounded by the enemy on all sides, and even Wang Bin had to put three divisions of military strength in Henan to rest assured.

The northernmost region of Henan directly faced enemies from Hubei, Anhui, and Shaanxi, especially Duan Qirui, who received information from the scouts' probes, that at the very front of Xinyang, the Manchu army had three towns.

Anhui and Shaanxi each have a town, and they directly pinned all the military strength of Wang Bin's three divisions to the south of Henan, and could not be separated from the task of defense.

Among them, Xinyang is more important, and at this moment it is Duan Qirui's fourth division stationed in Xinyang, and only by letting Duan Qirui, a veteran who has experienced a hundred battles, personally sit in charge, will Wang Bin feel at ease.

Since Duan Qirui sat in Xinyang, he naturally increased his vigilance, and constantly sent scouts every day, although the losses of the scouts were relatively high, but they were still within the range of Duan Qirui's acceptance.

In order to better understand the enemy's situation, Duan Qirui also specially applied to Wang Bin for the establishment of a reconnaissance brigade, and the reconnaissance experts in the army were under the direct jurisdiction of Duan Qirui.

Wang Bin naturally did not object to Duan Qirui's request, so there was an additional reconnaissance brigade directly under Duan Qirui.

This reconnaissance brigade sent the collected enemy movements to the rear every day, and after sorting out these movements, they were personally sent to Duan Qirui's office by Duan Qirui's adjutant Li Datong.

At this moment, Duan Qirui was in his office looking at the map on the table, and fell into a long silence, thinker, if he was the commander of the Southern Manchu Dynasty, once he decided to attack, he would attack from there, forming a favorable start for his side.

Just when Duan Qirui was simulating the offensive situation, suddenly there was a knock on the door of his office, and listening to this rhythmic knock, some of the tactical steps that Duan Qirui had been thinking about in his mind were suddenly disrupted.

Couldn't help but furrow, Duan Qirui's brows furrowed, and he felt a little unhappy, but since someone knocked on the door, there must be something important that needs to be decided.

Immediately, even though Duan Qirui's tactical thinking was interrupted, he still said in his neutral voice: "Come in." ”

As soon as the words fell, the door was pushed open by Li Datong, and Duan Qirui's adjutant Li Datong slowly walked in front of Duan Qirui with an official document in his hand and spoke.

"Division commander, this is a document just sent by the forward reconnaissance team."

While saying this, Li Datong looked at the table and found that a map was placed on the table.

On the map, there are still many traces of circle drawing, and it looks like it was just drawn.

As soon as he saw such a scene, Li Datong knew that it seemed that the time when he came in seemed to be a little wrong.

But at this moment, he still stood in front of the table and handed over the documents sent by the reconnaissance team.

As soon as the document was handed in mid-air, Duan Qirui took it directly, and as soon as he saw the content on the document, Duan Qirui's originally frowning brows became even tighter.

Even Li Datong, who was standing in front of Duan Qirui, felt a trace of seriousness, and suddenly thought in his heart: It seems that what is said in the document sent by the reconnaissance team this time must be something difficult.

Li Datong's thinking was indeed right, and there were only a few sentences in the document sent by the reconnaissance brigade, and generally speaking, the three passes of Yiyang, which were in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had been uneasy recently, and it seemed that the Qing army was constantly increasing its troops.

This place of Xinyang, known as Yiyang in ancient times, is located at the confluence of the two mountain ranges of Dabie Mountain and Tongbai Mountain, and naturally forms three dangerous passes. The east is Jiuli Pass, the west is Pingjing Pass, the middle is Wusheng Pass, and by the three passes for the boundary of Yu and Chu, and Xinyang is the beginning and end of each other, the east and west echo, so it is named "Yiyang Three Passes".

The three passes are the main traffic routes and military important places between the north and the south, and they are the military passes where the north and the south compete in ancient times, and they have always been the places where soldiers must fight.

These three passes are horns of each other, the land should be rushed in the north and south, the south of the Yangtze River in the south, the Central Plains in the north, and the county city is like the beginning and the end, since ancient times, it is the first pass of the north and south to fight.

Among them, Wushengguan is particularly important.

Wushengguan is located at the junction of Henan and Hubei provinces, 45 kilometers away from Xinyang, Henan Province in the north, and is the traffic throat between Henan Province and Hubei Province.

This pass is located in the middle of the canyon, and it is located in a dangerous position, which controls the entire passage. The city is blocked by mountains, and the mountains are dug into passes, and the city walls are strong.

In the simplest words, that is, the Central Plains in the north, Ezhou in the south, and the throat of north-south traffic.

The Jinghan Railway, the traffic artery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, is to pass through Wusheng Pass, and if you want to conquer the land of Huguang, you must first go down to Wusheng Pass.

The importance of Wusheng Pass meant that it had to be taken in the early days of the break between Wang Bin and the Qing court, but Chen Kuilong, as the governor of Huguang, was not a fool.

When even he sent his own army, he stationed in Yiyang Sanguan in time, and blocked Wang Bin in Henan and couldn't go south.

And not winning the three passes of Yiyang means that Wang Bin must always be vigilant against the movements of the Qing court in the three passes of Yiyang.

Otherwise, Wang Bin would not let his subordinates, Duan Qirui, who has the most experience in combat, personally sit in Xinyang to guard against the moves of the Qing army in Yiyang Sanguan.

The information sent by this reconnaissance team mentioned that the Qing army had made some changes in the three passes of Yiyang, and believed that the Qing army was very likely to increase its troops, so how could it not make Duan Qirui worry about whether the Qing army wanted to launch an attack on Xinyang. (To be continued.) )