The Seventh Division was fighting in Beijing City, and Liu Zhaoji, who was far away in Henan, did not know that Beijing City was already within reach, and he was now worried that there was no war to fight.

After a month of training, the morale of the First Army has been significantly improved, and Liu Zhaoji has led officers above the battalion level to do some in-depth research on tactics and tactics, but Liu Zhaoji feels that the biggest gain is still in the cavalry brigade.

After the cavalry rifles were distributed to the cavalry brigade of the First Army, the time was indeed too hasty, and the cavalry brigade marched all the way from Nanjing to Guide with new equipment, but it was not systematically trained, and even Wang Zecheng, the commander of the cavalry brigade, was not confident in defeating the Manchu cavalry.

Liu Zhaoji also did not care about the blood cost in this training, so that the cavalry brigade had some live ammunition, and now the cavalry brigade can basically shoot on horses, and it is no longer just a fast-moving infantry like before.

After the end of the training, Liu Zhaoji did not delay and directly led the first army to advance from Guide to Kaifeng and Zhengzhou.

Wang Zecheng led the cavalry brigade to rush to the front, and last time he didn't dare to fight with the Qing cavalry, Wang Zecheng has always been deeply ashamed, this time he wants to fight a beautiful battle to save face.

Hauge also gave Wang Zecheng face, and when the scouts reported that only one cavalry brigade of the Wehrmacht rushed up, Hauge decided to fight a battle.

Originally, Haoge was ready to retreat to Shanxi, but the news of the loss of the two lakes had been spread for more than ten days, and Haoge knew that the "granary" was gone, and the transportation line had no value in existence, and his task had actually been completed.

The reason why Haug wanted to fight was that he didn't want to be closely pursued by the Wehrmacht during the retreat, and if he could destroy the cavalry brigade of the First Army, Hauge would have much easier to leave.

Against the cavalry brigade Hauge used 20,000 cavalry. This is more than twice as many as the cavalry brigades. Hauge didn't think there was a problem.

But Hauge was too optimistic this time. Today's cavalry brigade is no longer the cavalry brigade outside the city of Guide, and the cavalry brigade that has basically mastered the use of cavalry rifles is far from being able to fight against the Manchu cavalry who use cold weapons.

The cavalry battle was fought in the wheat field outside Shuangta Town, which was more than 100 miles away from Kaifeng, and the cavalry of the Qing army came to the cavalry brigade, and Wang Zecheng had a little hard time finding Haoge's cavalry, and the two sides hit it off, and the largest cavalry battle since the formation of the Wehrmacht was opened.

The cavalrymen of many cavalry brigades subconsciously restrained their horses when they looked at the spring wheat and sorghum that had just revealed new sprouts in front of them, and everyone looked at Wang Zecheng. Everyone loves the people's crops and almost forms an instinct, and everyone can not only sing the lyrics of the three major disciplines to pay attention to. It's even more in mind.

Hauge did not feel sorry for the crops, for in his opinion, these places would soon be occupied by the Wehrmacht, and according to his wishes, the crops would not be left to the Nanking government at all.

More than 20,000 cavalry of the Qing army urged the war horses to trot, and two huge arrows in the north and south directions slowly surrounded the cavalry brigade.

Wang Zecheng didn't want to spoil these crops, but the Qing cavalry had already rushed over, and the crops had been basically destroyed by them, Wang Zecheng gritted his teeth, raised the cavalry rifle in his hand and pointed at the Qing cavalry, "Cavalry brigade." Sortie! ”

The cavalry brigade of the First Army was not equipped with grenades for cavalry, but Wang Zecheng also had good skills.

The horses of the cavalry brigade did not trot. Just slowly towards the Qing cavalry, a rough look at the formation of the cavalry brigade is very sparse, but if you look carefully from the back, you can find that the cavalry behind can just shoot in the gap left by the cavalry in front, and once this formation begins to charge, the impact of the cavalry in front on the line of sight of the cavalry behind will be minimized.

Wang Zecheng's purpose in doing this was to ensure the intensity of firepower, which was also summed up by many officers of the cavalry brigade in their training.

Hauge looked at the formation of the cavalry brigade in the rear and felt a little strange, this formation was not used for cavalry charges, and he did not know what the cavalry brigade wanted to do.

The Nikan cavalry on the left had begun to speed up, and was less than a mile away from the cavalry brigade, but the cavalry brigade still did not show signs of acceleration, and the cavalrymen's rifles were still resting on their right shoulders.

The speed of the Qing cavalry had been raised, but not very fast, the soft ground affected the speed of the horses, and the horse's hooves kicked out not only clods of soil, but also countless crop seedlings.

A gunshot rang out, a cavalryman of the Qing army cut off his horse, this shot was fired by Wang Zecheng, his gun was an order, on the wide front, at least 500 cavalry rifles fired at the same time, more soldiers in the cavalry brigade were fighting the war horses of the Qing soldiers, not everyone had Wang Zecheng's marksmanship, and the war horse as a target was always much larger than the cavalry on the horse.

Wang Zecheng didn't have time to count, but he knew that this round of shooting had caused at least hundreds of casualties among the Qing cavalry, and the war horse fell to the ground and threw the cavalry on the horse out, but the soft ground made many Qing soldiers not fatally injured, and many people fell to the ground, rolled a few laps and then dodged the war horse that rushed behind and stood up again.

Hauge was taken aback by the scene in front of him, the cavalry could shoot on their horses, which he had never seen before, but what surprised him even more was that the first round of gunfire was only a breath away, and the second round of gunfire rang out again, this time because it was closer, and more horses fell.

Thirty meters was the death line, and the cavalry without the Qing army rushed to within thirty meters of the cavalry brigade, and the cavalry brigade gradually became confident after a few rounds of shooting, and the shooting began to become rhythmic.

The situation in the north and south directions was basically the same, in less than five minutes, the Qing cavalry lost nearly a thousand horses, Hauge was a little unbearable, although the dust raised by the cavalry made him not see very clearly, but he still saw from the monoclot, not a single cavalry brigade cavalry fell off the horse.

"Mingjin withdraws his troops, retreat quickly!" Hauge, who felt that the situation was not right, quickly gave the order to retreat.

But this time it was a cavalry battle, and it was not so easy to retreat, just when the gong sounded in the rear of the Qing army, Wang Zecheng gave the order to pursue at the same time.

The cavalry brigade pursued twenty miles away, leaving five or six hundred Qing cavalry along the way.

Of course, Liu Zhaoji was very happy about the cavalry brigade's victory this time, but Liu Zhaoji was not happy for a long time, and the things that gave him a headache soon came.

The cavalry brigade's battle with the Qing soldiers ruined thousands of acres of crops. I saw the people of the village sitting in the fields of crops and weeping bitterly. Liu Zhaoji felt that his head was as big as an ox.

If only a few days' worth of food is given to the people. Of course, the first army can do it, but these crops are the rations of the people for a year, and some have to pay rent, and when the crops are destroyed, those landlords will not collect a rent or two.

There was no better way, Liu Zhaoji could only leave the killed and wounded Qing soldiers and horses to these people, and allocated some grain for them from the grain and grass of the first army, and the urgent need was solved. But how to solve the problems of the whole year, Liu Zhaoji has no choice.

Liu Zhaoji didn't have a headache for long, because Lu Zhenfei arrived with a group of officials.

Lu Zhenfei set off all the way from Nanjing to Henan, and set off in a hurry under the continuous urging of Shi Kefa.

Lu Zhenfei has a lot to do, and it is his job to screen the officials in the newly recovered areas.

On the way from Guide to Zhengzhou, Liu Zhaoji encountered the same scene when Duoduo's army went south, and Liu Zhaoji could no longer tell whether these armies surrendered immediately as soon as they arrived in Kaicheng and surrendered to the previous Ming army or the Dashun army, and some of them may have served as both Ming and Dashun troops.

The same is true of the officials in Henan, who surrendered to Kaecheng wherever the army came.

During the Chongzhen period, when Li Zicheng's team first arrived in Henan, they were killed when they saw the officials. Few surrendered, and later the Dashun regime was established and changed its tactics. If there is power, there must be important officials, and the peasant rebel army really can't pick it out, so they can only use the officials of the Ming Dynasty to make do with it.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty also faced the same problem when it entered the Central Plains later, which caused many officials to be officials of the Ming Dynasty first, and then surrendered to Dashun, and the Ming army fought back and returned to the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchu army surrendered to the Manchu Qing after coming, and surrender almost became an instinct.

The speed of the national defense army's march is too fast, the Nanjing government simply does not have time to train enough officials, and officials in some places can only be used first, but not just an official can continue to be an official, Lu Zhenfei came this time to screen them, the first condition is that there is no evil behavior towards the people, and the second is to check whether there is corruption, and corrupt officials cannot be used at all.

Another important task for Lu Zhenfei was given to him by Shi Kefa, that is, to promote high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes in the newly recovered areas.

Although the Nanjing government did not blockade the Manchu Qing government on these crops, the private spread of the crops was very slow, and not enough seeds reached Henan for several years.

This time, Lu Zhenfei brought a large number of seeds, and he promoted crops all the way from the beginning of Guide, and when he arrived in Shuangta Town, he just solved Liu Zhaoji's headache.

Not to mention, Lu Zhenfei's promotion of new crops in Henan is really not smooth, in this era, food production is a family's top priority, all year round counting on the harvest in the field to live, which requires each family to take out half or even all of the land to sow new crops, almost no different from a modern person who invests all his property in a project that he does not understand at all.

Although Lu Zhenfei's official position is not small, the people of Shuangta Town have never heard of the "Organization Minister", "I am the 'official secretary' of the Nanjing government, you always understand, right?" Lu Zhenfei said helplessly to the people of Shuangta Town.

"The Book of the Ministry of Officials"? This is a big official, the people of Shuangta Town didn't believe him very much when they saw that Lu Zhenfei was not wearing the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, but now that they heard that he was such a big official, they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground one after another, making Lu Zhenfei busy again.

The first army has a very good relationship with the people here in Twin Towers Town, and everyone says that they have never seen such a team, how can there be an army to help the people work? Unbelief? Look at the one in the field who is working energetically with a hoe, that is the commander of the First Army, and I heard that the commander of the army is the general of the Nanjing government.

Now the Nanjing government has sent such a big official, obediently! "The Book of the Ministry of Officials"! The farmer may not even see the county officials in his life, but today he actually saw the "Ministry of Officials", which made the people of Shuangta Town a little excited and a little afraid.

Fortunately, this "Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials" is also a big official without a shelf, and there is not much nonsense, everyone does not dare to plant new crops, and "Lord Shangshu" does not blame everyone, only let people set up a big pot in the village, and boil a big pot of those sweet potatoes and potatoes for everyone to taste.

The sweet potato tastes good, fragrant and sweet, the potato flour is pouty, and it tastes full, and everyone has a lot less doubts, but how to serve this new crop, everyone doesn't know, and they want to ask but they don't dare.

Originally, the general personally went to work in the fields to make the people sincerely frightened, but what everyone did not expect was that this "official secretary" actually pulled up his sleeves and trouser legs, and led a few people to the outside of the village to teach everyone how to grow these new crops.

Lu Zhenfei's personal actions relieved the doubts of the people of Shuangta Town, and it coincided with the destruction of crops in the field, and it was already past the season for replanting, and the new crops were finally successfully promoted in Shuangta Town.

Lu Zhenfei and the First Army couldn't stay in Shuangta Town for too long, and the First Army had to continue to march to Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, Lu Zhenfei solved the problem of Shuangta Town, and he had to continue to work elsewhere.

However, everything that the officials of the Nanjing government and the army did in Shuangta Town was remembered by the people of Shuangta Town, and it was also spread in the land of the Central Plains at a rapid speed, and the reporter of the "China Daily" recorded all this in detail, and soon after, an article entitled "The Army Advances, Production Grows an Inch" was published, and Shuangta Town, a small town in the Central Plains, became known to the world. (To be continued.) )