Directly subordinate to Julu County, Shunde Prefecture, more than 2,000 years ago, there was a classic example of winning more with less, the Qin army boasted by countless later generations ended their invincible history here, and was defeated by the uprising Zhao army with fewer victories, the main general Wang Li was captured, and Zhang Han took the initiative to surrender.

It's just that today, more than 2,000 years later, Zhao Dongyun can no longer see any traces related to the battle of the ancient Julu, standing on the wall of Julu County, he is holding a telescope, looking at the endless Hebei Plain can extend his vision far, far away.

"That's Dongzhao Village over there, isn't it, and there really aren't a single bandits there?" Zhao Dongyun put down the binoculars, but still looked northeast.

Li Zejun beside him said: "It's true that I haven't found too many bandits, they have already fled to Guangzong when our army went south, and now there are no Lianzhuang Hui and boxers around Julu County!" ”

Zhao Dongyun frowned: "These people are not stupid, they know how to escape!" ”

Zhao Dongyun led the army from Ningjin all the way south, after the soldiers were divided into three roads, they almost formed a dense net from being down, and the stronghold of the Lianzhuang Society and the altar of the boxers encountered on the road were almost destroyed, the new army under Zhao Dongyun's hands was not those training troops, this boxing bandits were handy, all the way south to kill hundreds of thugs, and at the same time captured hundreds of thugs, his own casualties were less than ten people, the only one who died was accidentally walking and fell to his death, and the remaining seven or eight wounded were only slightly injured and there was no major problem.

Although the casualties are not large, but the consumption is a bit large, the consumption during the march and the battle is much more than usual, the food supply is open, and although the fight is a homeless boxer, but it will not deliberately save bullets, so after a long time, the consumption of bullets is also more.

Along the way, Zhao Dongyun was a little depressed, so far his troops have not fought with large-scale Lianzhuang Hui and boxing bandits, they are all small fights, often the scale of dozens of people, and what is even more odious is that these boxers still dare to fight his idea of logistics supply line, and sent people to sneak attack his supply line several times, although it did not cause any casualties and losses, but also forced Zhao Dongyun to send more troops to maintain the normal operation of the supply line.

He has always had a feeling that he can't use his strength!

"Today's plan is to find the gathering point of these thugs, and then calm them down in one fell swoop, since they are not in Dongzhao Village, then expand the search area, I don't believe that so many of them can hide!" Zhao Dongyun was very dissatisfied with the reconnaissance work of the troops, and he had been going south for so long, but he had not found Jing Tingbin's hiding place.

At this time, a herald came to the city wall, this is a letter sent by Duan Qirui, the military order said that yesterday the boxers broke the Shunde training army, Nanhe faced a great crisis, asked Zhao Dongyun to go south as soon as possible to create greater pressure on the bandits, from the side to relieve the pressure of Nanhe County, Shunde Mansion, and said that he had personally led the troops from Zhengding south to Shunde.

During this period of time, the Qing army's encirclement and suppression strategy for Lianzhuang Hui was very clear, that is, to deploy troops from multiple directions at the same time to attack, gradually drive away and compress the living space of the chaotic army, and finally drive them to a certain place and annihilate them in one fell swoop, because if this is not the case, it is difficult to completely encircle and suppress these chaotic troops.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that the training army would be so useless, this Jiawu year can't beat the day, Gengzi year can't beat the Eight-Nation Alliance, and now even the homeless people can't be defeated.

Now that the fiasco of the training army on the Shunde side has made a big loophole in the strategy arranged by Duan Qirui in the early stage, this time he can't take care of anything else, let's beat those boxers first, and then slowly clean up the other bandits in the local area, can't let those mobs really capture Nanhe County!

You must know that although the current activities of the Lianzhuang Association and the Boxer Rebellion are extensive, they are still limited to rural areas, even in the four counties of Guangzong, Julu, Nanhe, and Weixian, where the bandits are the most severe, and the rioters have not yet captured the local county seat.

When these factors were in place, Duan Qirui gave up the tactics of letting Zhao Dongyun's troops fight steadily and steadily, and ordered him to quickly go south to clear the mobs in Guangzong and Julu, and reinforce Nanhe County.

Zhao Dongyun, who received the order, also frowned slightly!

Although he can be regarded as a strong army now, and he is not afraid of the so-called Boxer Rebellion and Lianzhuang Society, if he ventures deep into the southern part of Julu, Guangzong and other places where the mob is dense, I am afraid that he will suffer some unnecessary losses! In Zhao Dongyun's heart, it is very irrational to put himself in danger in order to exterminate the rioters.

It's just that the situation in Nanhe is so critical now, according to Duan Qirui's military intelligence report, although Shunde Mansion and Nanhe County had more than 2,000 training troops at the beginning, they have been completely lost since yesterday's defeat, of course, this does not mean that they were all killed and wounded by the rebels, but most of them ran away, and Shunde Mansion only collected about 500 training troops.

And these 500 training troops are also panicked, if it weren't for the forcible bombing pressure from above, it is estimated that they would not wait for the rebels to attack the city, they would have to flee first.

Now Shunde Mansion and Nanhe County are only available to more than 100 horse teams in Shunde Prefecture and more than 50 county teams under Zhu Jiabao in Nanhe County.

In the huge prefecture and county, there are only more than 100 cavalry and dozens of foreign spear teams available.

The army that resisted the rebels' westward advance was not the regular army training of the imperial court, but the county team composed of local prefectures and counties, such as catchers, government officials, large households, nursing homes, and city residents, and the commander who sat on the front line in Nanhe to resist the rebels' westward advance was not the general army of Daimyo Town and the general army of Zhengding Town, but Zhu Jiabao, the magistrate of Nanhe County.

This has to be said to be a funny and sad thing!

Even on the foreigners' side, because they were worried about the safety of foreigners near Shunde Province, and even more worried that the rebels would go north on a large scale and repeat the Gengzi Incident, thousands of troops had been assembled in Tianjin, ready to go south at any time to help the Beiyang Army quell the rebellion.

Now the situation is still under control for the Qing court, so Yuan Shikai and others naturally did not hesitate to refuse the foreigners' request to send troops.

However, after the foreigners heard that the Lian army was defeated in Nanhe County, they were worried about the safety of the foreigners near Shunde Prefecture, although they could not send a large-scale force, they still played a sideshow, and used the excuse of protecting the foreign engineers who built the road to send a foreign cavalry force of more than 40 people to the south from Zhengding County in the name of the Luhan Railway Road Escort Team, and it was expected to be stationed in Shunde Mansion to protect the safety of local churches, pastors, and parishioners.

Looking at the content written on these pages of Duan Qirui's letterhead, Zhao Dongyun didn't know what to say!

Zhao Dongyun can't manage these political affairs, and he doesn't want to take care of the upset, those foreign armed interventions, foreigners and the like naturally have Yuan Shikai to deal with, all he has to do is to exterminate the rebellious army earlier, catch Jing Tingbin, and then whip him a hundred times, a hundred times, Ya, you are a landlord and a strong man, and you have a good life, and if you are so idle, you play rebellion, and even if the rebellion is forgotten, it is still mixed with the Boxers, and the whole Zhili is nervous, for fear that if it is not good, it will repeat the disaster of Gengzi Year.

This is the kind of person who harms the country and harms the people!

With the military order in his body, Zhao Dongyun couldn't delay for too long, and he couldn't really let the rebels of Nanhe County and the county town fight down, so he immediately ordered to lead the main force to continue south to Guangzong, and at the same time, he also ordered Lin Pingxiong, who was clearing the rebels near Longyao County, to lead the troops not to deal with those small miscellaneous fish, and to quickly go south to the area of Ren County, if there was no large-scale resistance, they could continue to go south to reinforce Nanhe County.

The order given to Lin Pingxiong was to reinforce Nanhe County, and Zhao Dongyun himself was preparing to lead the main force directly into Guangzong, preparing to make a strong sweep and purge the rebel forces in the south of Julu County and the central part of Guangzong in one fell swoop.

At the same time, he also ordered Bi Xiaoqiang's troops in the Xinhe and Nangong areas to speed up the pace of southward movement and reach the western part of Qinghe County as soon as possible to prevent the rebellious army from reaching Shandong.

As the heralds rode out one by one, Zhao Dongyun's main force also quickly pulled out from Julu County, this time their march speed was very fast, and it took only one day to reach Guangzong County.

Subsequently, Zhao Dongyun immediately sent troops, with a sentry as a unit, and quickly went to Dongzhao Village, Hulu Township, Pingxiang, Fengjiazhai and other directions to clear the strongholds of the Lianzhuang Association in various places.

However, this arrangement has attracted some worries, Li Zejun said: "If it is only one outpost, is the force too weak, if it encounters a small group of rioters, it is fine, but if it encounters a large number of mobs, I am afraid there will be trouble!" ”

Zhao Dongyun didn't care, it wasn't that he despised those Boxers and Lianzhuang Society, but he really didn't pay attention to them, and the combat effectiveness of those people was about the same as that of the peasants. Besides, this is a new army, and it is not a training army, more than 100 people at a sentry can be pulled out to fight, and the mob on the opposite side can be easily defeated.

Zhao Dongyun's troops belong to the Wuwei Right Army, and the establishment is different from the standing army, but it belongs to the large battalion establishment, a battalion has four teams, each team has three posts, but there are no posts but there are six sheds, each shed includes soldiers, long-husbands and 17 people, and there are 114 people under one sentry. Of course, this kind of establishment is not good, at least when the standing army is formed, Yuan Shikai no longer uses it, but uses a purely Western-style small battalion establishment.

However, I don't want to talk about whether the establishment of the Wuwei Right Army is good or not, the key is that there are more than 100 people at this outpost, and it is enough to go out to clear out the chaotic people with the outpost as a unit.

Just when Zhao Dongyun was waiting for the troops released outside to report the results of the battle, there was indeed a commotion outside the temporary station, and Zhao Dongyun, who listened to it, frowned for a while, and before he could open his mouth to ask, soon one of his guards walked up quickly, and then whispered in Zhao Dongyun's ear: "My lord, people from outside said that there was a mob over there in Kaiping and then besieged the church!" ”

After the two words mob and church were connected, Zhao Dongyun was shocked: lesson plan?

Damn, I'm really afraid of something, what are you doing in the Boxers, you have to attack the church, you have to cause trouble to the country, right?

He didn't have time to think about it immediately, and immediately ordered the troops to assemble urgently and prepare to dispatch troops to rescue the church in Pingxiang.

At this time, he didn't know that in a small courtyard in Guangzong County, several men in short robes were talking in a low voice: "That Qing demon surnamed Zhao is already preparing to lead the army to Pingxiang, shouldn't you send a message to Brother Jing over there!" ”

"Well, without further ado, the surnamed Zhao has been pressing so hard these days, and it is not easy to make a plan to let him go to Pingxiang, now is the time to raise the flag, it will be too late!"

When Zhao Dongyun led the army to Pingxiang to rescue, there was also a person who secretly went out of Guangzong County to the north at night.

Early the next morning, that is, on 23 April, Jing Tingbin, the head of the Lianzhuang Society, and Zhao Sanduo, the leader of the Boxer Rebellion, gathered more than 10,000 people in the village of Zhizhi in the northeast of Guangzong, shouting slogans such as "sweeping away and destroying the foreigners" and "officials forcing the people to rebel."

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