Since the second war, the offensive speed of the Zhengnan Army has accelerated a lot, but there are two main reasons for this, the first is because the performance of the Hainan Army, the predecessor of the Zhengnan Army, is more shocking in the battle, and there are endless new weapons and equipment, and the second is that most of the soldiers of the Qing Army are basically Han Chinese, only a few foolish and loyal elements still continue to resist, but they are somewhat weak in front of the armored forces and the army with various heavy firepower equipment.

For the menacing Zhengnan army, even millions of troops are difficult to resist, let alone only this army of thousands or tens of thousands? Not to mention anything else, most of these foolish loyalists are only in the middle and high-level levels, and the grassroots soldiers have long been unwilling to fight.

The march of the Zhengnan Army was also singing all the way, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and everywhere it went was the laughter of the people and the expressions of welcome. Most of the Qing army was either annihilated or surrendered. In less than half a month after the start of the war, the army units of all sides have completely occupied the province they are responsible for, and in addition to continuing to fortify and respond to emergencies, they are ready to continue to attack the next province.

At the junction of Hubei and Henan, after the various units of the 45th Army completed the handover with the 39th Army from Guangdong, they assembled here with the remaining divisions and waited for the final order to attack.

Because the war is imminent, the communication between the people on the border of the two provinces has also decreased a lot, after all, no one wants to be accidentally injured by the army and lose their surname, so for the army stationed on the front line, it is quite a lot easier, at least there is no need to check the passers-by every day, and there is no need to go all out to prevent being attacked by others.

A man was expressionless, seeing this battle as if he was playing at home, walking on the official road without worry, although he didn't know where he should go to find their superiors, but as long as he found the troops, he could find their superiors, and the best way was to go directly to the official road, and then let them take him with him.

"Stop, what are you doing?" A soldier of the South Army called the man down and asked, while another soldier went forward to search him so that he would not enter the territory with a weapon.

"In Xia Liu Jing, I am the personal entourage of Liu Kuilong, the governor of Henan, and I have come here to discuss with you on the instructions of my lord, so I ask this soldier to go and report it, so that someone who can speak can come out and meet with me." Liu Jing nodded secretly, and then handed his identity card to the soldier.

The Zhengnan Army not only guarded closely everywhere, but looking at the two strange guys behind them, they must be the machine guns rumored by the outside world, right? It's just that they seem to be much lighter, and they are different from what they've ever seen. Looking at the equipment on the soldiers of the Zhengnan Army, although they don't know what it is, it seems that it should also be new equipment.

Finally, I looked at the bodies of these soldiers, although the various equipment on the clothes more or less covered their figures, Liu Jing could still see at a glance that these soldiers were definitely people with good physical fitness, and all of them looked much better mentally, and there seemed to be no soldiers infected with opium, until this time Liu Jing believed that the rumors outside were very likely to be true.

The soldier looked at Liu Jing, and then carefully looked at the identity card, although they didn't know much about this kind of thing before, and they had never seen it, because they were sent here to be responsible for guarding the traffic arteries, the superiors also made a temporary assault, and found all kinds of official identity cards and other items from all over the country, so that they could at least look at it, and it didn't matter if they didn't understand whether it was true or false, the most important thing was to know what it was, and if they didn't know whether it was true or false, they could also take it to the officers on duty behind to seeThey have learned this method of discernment.

"Look at him." The soldier holding the badge said to the soldier next to him, then turned to the officer on duty and handed it to him.

The officer picked up the badge, examined it carefully, and tested it again with the methods he had learned before, and finally confirmed that the badge was genuine. Xuan even asked the soldiers to bring Liu Jing over, while he himself went to inform his superiors.

The news that the governor of Henan sent people to negotiate was uploaded to the battalion level by level, and the battalion also knew that he had no right to deal with this matter, so it was transmitted to the brigade headquarters, and the brigade headquarters seemed to feel a little tricky, so he continued to upload, and after arriving at the division headquarters, the division commander felt that he had the right to deal with this matter, but the other party was likely to bring some important news from Liu Kuilong, the governor of Henan, and finally handed this somewhat tricky potato to the military department after thinking about it left and right.

At this time, Liu Wei, commander of the 45th Army, was wandering between the map and the sand table, carefully deducing the attack plan handed over by the staff officers over and over again, and then telling the staff officers the shortcomings, and finally perfecting the battle plan step by step.

"Report!" Seeing that Liu Wei was busy deducing the battle plan, the communications soldier did not notice the movement around him for a while, so he shouted loudly.

"Say!" Liu Wei didn't look back, at this moment it is at a critical point, if this problem is not solved, the entire battle plan is likely to be burned, of course, this is not a dereliction of duty on the part of the staff officers, and this matter is not easy for anyone to solve, the staff officers seem to have seen this problem, but there is no solution, and now reported to Liu Wei, he still has not come up with a solution.

"There was news from the official road checkpoint on the front line of the 127th Division, saying that there was a person who claimed to be the personal entourage of Henan Governor Liu Kuilong, and there was an important matter to discuss, and the other party had the identity tag of Liu Kuilong's personal entourage, and it was not certain whether it was impersonated." The correspondent read the telegram in his hand, and then put it on the side of the sand table, waiting for Liu Wei's reply.

"Liu Kuilong's personal entourage?" Liu Wei muttered softly.

What is this Liu Kuilong sending people here to do at this time? The previous stubborn resistance without exception are all these governor-level figures, to be able to sit in this position if there is no loyalty is impossible, now although the imperial court is [***], but not [***] as long as a person can buy a governor-level official position as long as he has money. What's more, what is a governor? The lord of a province, whose main task is to manage the army, etc., can anyone put a person with no ability to sit in the post of governor for that little money?

And this place in Henan is a little different from other provinces, Liu Kuilong since 1901 in Henan as a political envoy but never took office both promoted to the governor of Caoyun, at the beginning of the year (spring of 1903) promoted to the governor of Henan, this person has just sat in the position of governor of Henan less than three months, it stands to reason that he should swear to resist the invasion of the Zhengnan army, in order to show his loyalty, but what did he send people here for? What is there to discuss?

And the problem that has always plagued the staff officers and Liu Wei is that Henan is too poor, coupled with the vigorous looting of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, Henan, which is not very rich, is even poorer. Moreover, there is the danger of the Yellow River here, and the embankment project cuts corners, and when the water flow of the Yellow River increases every year, it is naturally unable to resist the fierce water potential. Countless farmlands have been flooded, there is no food and no money, and the imperial court has always been very fond of such things as disaster relief, basically the local government is responsible for disaster relief and so on, even if it encounters a major disaster, when the relief materials allocated by the imperial court arrive in Henan, it will be almost a few months later, and I don't know how many people have to cut it in the middle, and there are even fewer in the hands of the victims.

Therefore, many people in Henan have started the business of robbing houses, in short, everything is forced by the situation. Wang Lin himself is a Henan person, and Henan people have always been burdened with the infamy of the outside world, he no longer hates those who scold her all the time, a reason caused by the environment and the outside world, but let future generations bear hundreds of years of infamy, which is a little unfair to Henan people.

Of course, this problem has been lingering in Wang Lin's heart, how to solve this problem? Although Wang Lin has already had a preliminary plan, but the whole country is so big, Wang Lin will never use all the only funds in Henan, at the moment Wang Lin gave him only one answer, as much as possible to distribute relief food, and spare no effort to maintain local law and order, waiting for the political cadres sent by the political axe management department and the two divisions of the armed police force to arrive before leaving.

The situation in the Central Plains is better, but the problem is in the western mountains, but the blind attack does not mean that they are victorious, and killing the enemy does not mean that they can usher in the enthusiasm of the people, although they are greedy for money and lust, but the foundation they have been operating here for so many years still exists, the plains are easy to manage, and anything can be dealt with in a timely manner, but it is different in the mountainous areas, and the current Zhengnan Army is most concerned about time, and they have no extra energy to clear out those bandits.

And the battle with the bandits must be small-scale, and even the regular army does not dare to fight head-on with the Zhengnan army, let alone these hundreds of bandits? Guerrilla warfare must be their best first choice, so the Zhengnan army will trap most of its troops in Henan, and when you go to encircle and suppress, people will hide in the mountains, and then come out when you are gone, and you will not be able to prevent it.

In order to completely solve this problem, in addition to the large-scale distribution of food, we also need the strong support of the local political axe, only if they no longer secretly oppose themselves, the troops can exterminate them as quickly as possible, or persuade them to go down the mountain and go home.

It's just that at this time, Liu Kuilong came to send someone here to do what he was going to do? Is it another Yu Qing?

"Bring Liu Jing here."

(To be continued)