Only four days after the exercise, the enemy situation really came. This isn't a drill, it's real.

"No intelligence is the most important information! You're right. Long Qian immediately affirmed Jiang Yun's judgment.

The intelligence from Fei County has been delayed for two days, which is not normal. This has never happened before. In order to be on the safe side, Jiang Yun sent a liaison officer to Fei County the day after the stipulated information receiving day, but the news was still not returned. Maybe the liaison is on his way back, or maybe something else unpredictable has happened.

Because he remembered the principle of intelligence work explained by Long Qian: "never believe in chance", Jiang Yun reported the abnormality in Fei County to Long Qian as soon as possible.

"You've done it again. It should still be in this direction. Long Qian was studying the map with a few assistants, "Jiang Yun, you do your best to operate the information in the direction of Teng County, and all the troubles over there must be reported to me as soon as possible." ”

Jiang Yun agreed. Long Qian pointed to the map and said, "It must be Li Chun seeking revenge, maybe he got Yuan Shikai's support, maybe he cobbled together the troops, I tend to the former." After all, it has been almost two months since the Battle of Qiucun, and with such a big loss, Li Chun will not be able to hide it from Yuan Shikai. In this case, the enemy's strength will be stronger than the last time. ”

"It seems that they should not have marched along the route of the last time, and the cordon of the first battalion and the cavalry company has been stretched forward, and there has been no news so far. It should be considered that the enemy will choose a different path. Ning Shijun pointed to the map and said.

"Except for this big road, other roads are not easy to walk, thousands of people are crowded together, and they can't hide their whereabouts, I don't think it's possible." Zhou Yi shook his head and said.

"They suffered the loss of the ambush, and the one surnamed Cai was also put back, and it would be difficult to fight an ambush again." Lu Shan said, "They can be completely camped step by step, squeezing towards us, the first step is to occupy Qiu Village first, build fortifications, as their nest, if the troops are enough, this is the best policy." ”

"We can't let them occupy Qiucun," although Wang Mingyuan was not completely healed, he still participated in this military meeting, "Qiucun is not small, if you put a nail there, Zhengjiazhuang will not have a peaceful day, no." A blocking line must be set up outside Akimura to block the enemy. Since it is certain that the official army has arrived in Fei County, I don't think it will be too late to send troops to build fortifications immediately. Outside of Autumn Village to the east, there are at least three places where you can block the attack. This task can be completed by the 2nd Battalion. I promise the enemy will not get through. ”

"Brother Wang, it's time for a battalion this time, and besides, my troops are in Qiu Village, and I am familiar with the terrain in that area." Ye Yanbing said hurriedly.

"Stop yelling, let's listen to the commander. The commander must have made up his mind. Whatever task is given to the fourth battalion, the fourth battalion guarantees to complete. "The fourth battalion commander sealed the national pillar road.

"Guozhu, we must learn to consider problems from the standpoint of the whole army, and it is not enough to passively carry out orders. Lu Shan's speculation is the most dangerous, we can't fight stupid battles, we can't fight hard with the official army__In fact, it is not a big deal to give them the autumn village. Long Qian had a rough plan in his heart, and slowly explained it to his generals.

"Okay, it's still the commander. Just hit it like that! Lu Shan became excited.

The military discussion lasted until late at night, thinking about all the changes that could be imagined, and then each received the task and went back to prepare.

Li Chun has indeed arrived in Fei County. In view of Cai Chengxun's repeated emphasis on the problem of leakage of news, Li Chun's greatest precaution, Yizhou martial law was not lifted until the troops set off, which caused the merchants and the people to complain, and after the troops arrived in Fei County, martial law was also implemented, and more than half of the soldiers did not enter the city at all, but were set up outside the city, and several merchants who violated the ban and went out of the city without permission were also captured, and the officers and soldiers did not listen to their explanations at all, and all of them were detained, and they will be talked about after the end of this small war.

Li Chun led three infantry battalions to conquer the cunning bandits entrenched in the southwest of Fei County, two of which were temporarily allocated to him by Yuan Shikai, and the other battalion was a battalion led by Cai Chengxun.

In fact, Li Chun could also bring another battalion, but for two considerations, Li Chun did not adopt Cai Chengxun's suggestion. First, on the issue of Yizhou's defense, if one more battalion is taken away, there will only be one battalion left in the Yizhou garrison and several hundred patrol battalions reorganized by the green battalion, and they are a little worried about insecurity. According to a less reliable source, the bandits who hugged the calf were very happy when they heard the news of the defeat of the Yizhou official army. Li Chun was worried that the entrenched calf-hugging bandits in Lunan had a wide range of eyelines in Yizhou, and it would be very troublesome if they took advantage of the idea of attacking Yizhou when the main force of the Yizhou official army went out to fight. The second is that the quality of the two battalions left behind is not good, there are too many new soldiers, and the defense of the city may be counted on, but the field battle is very poor, and it can be seen in the marching drills in peacetime. This gap will not be caught up in a short period of time. Therefore, he vetoed Cai Chengxun's opinion. Faintly, he felt that Cai Chengxun was a little afraid of the enemy after the battle of Qiucun, and always nagged about the strength of the Mengshan army, which made Li Chun a little funny.

Isn't three battalions enough? That's more than 1,400 powerful weapons! All armed with German rifles! Even if there is no artillery, looking at Shandong, who can resist? Li Chun didn't believe the strength of the bandits that Cai Chengxun said at all, and thought that there were a thousand people and they would take their heads! Taking a step back, even if the bandits have more troops, they are just coercing some ignorant fools, what kind of training do they have? Even if you have captured official weapons in your hands, they are a rabble! Yes, they did defeat Cai Chengxun, but that was because they took advantage of the shortcomings of the official army, and if they fought in a dignified manner, one infantry battalion would be enough to defeat this gang of bandits! And now, with three battalions on his own!

There were only two three-life and seven-fast cannons left in the cannon, and Lord Yuan did not give him any more artillery reinforcements, nor did he take the advice of the arrogant and conceited Situ Jun, and did not mobilize the Caozhou garrison. Situ Jun's suggestion was to send troops from two directions and attack together: the Yizhou garrison was sent from Fei County with great fanfare to attract the attention of the Mengshan bandits, while the Caozhou garrison secretly assembled in Tengxian County, attacked Zhengjiazhuang lightly, and adopted the tactics of digging out the heart, one body seized its nest, and the bandit army would be in chaos without a fight!

Li Chun admits that this is a good plan, but in that case, most of the credit will go to Cao Kun! Fortunately, Lord Yuan also believed that the defeat of the official army was due to the underestimation of the enemy, and Xu Shichang believed that the situation in Caozhou did not allow Cao Kun to be separated. Therefore, Situ Jun collided with Yuan Shikai for a few words, which made Lord Yuan not so happy, and simply left the madman in Jinan. It's good to save him from pointing fingers, as if we don't know anything about soldiers.

The reason for the delay in action after the plan was drawn up was that the arrival of reinforcements was much slower, and the other was the replenishment of ammunition. Li Chun was not less attacked by Yuan Shikai, and lost hundreds of guns and four artillery pieces at once, and the loss of ammunition was even more amazing, no wonder Lord Yuan was angry. From the direct subordinate to the post of inspector to the governor of Shandong, Lord Yuan was also criticized in the court, if the defeat of Autumn Village was known to those bigwigs in the court who were not successful enough to defeat and more than defeated, they would have obtained the weapon to attack Lord Yuan. Therefore, supplementing the firearms and ammunition of the Yizhou troops probably also made Lord Yuan spend a lot of brains.

The price of all this is to send troops again, and wait for a full fifty days!

Of course, Li Chun has not been idle in the past fifty days. He took turns asking the officers who had participated in the Battle of Akimura about the terrain in that area, drew a relatively complete map, and learned about the bandits, including the weapons and tactics they used. Send someone to secretly reconnoiter to the west of Fei County and learn about the path leading from Fei County to Zhengjiazhuang. On this basis, he formulated an operational plan, personally went to Jinan, and made a report to Lord Yuan, who was preparing to go to Jiaoao, and it was approved.

Li Chun's plan is to repair the plank road in the bright and Chen Cang in the dark. He led the main force along the avenue to Qiucun, attracted the attention of the bandits, and confronted his main force in the area of Qiucun; And sent Cai Chengxun to lead his old battalion team to copy the path from the south and go straight to Zhengjiazhuang, and the black tiger dug out his heart and knocked out the bandits' nest. When the thief army heard that there was a police in the old nest, the army must be in turmoil, and the main force took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and this battle will be won. Even if a few bandit leaders slip through the net, it doesn't matter.

The key to this plan is the interspersed detachment. The reason why Cai Chengxun is used, the first is that although Lao Cai was defeated, Li Chun believed in his ability. The second is a battalion of vengeful and a real mourning army. Li Chun replenished the 1st Battalion with personnel and firearms, and carried out targeted training on mountain marches. After the main force stationed in Fei County began to act, Cai Chengxun led a battalion to operate again, and his whereabouts were absolutely concealed along the way, one was to march at night and conceal during the day, and the other was not to enter any villages along the way.

This partial division is Li Chun's killer weapon. Originally, he wanted to personally lead a battalion, but he couldn't be persuaded by the two battalion officers transferred by Cai Chengxun and Yuan Shikai, and that was not something that the commander of the first army did. What's more, the two battalions of guest troops also need him to be led by a general, and others are not qualified. Li Chun repeatedly told Cai Chengxun that fast, ruthless, and fierce are the essence of the battle of the first battalion, don't be soft, and after entering the village, mercilessly kill the remaining personnel of the bandit old camp, and set fire to the village, so as to shake the fighting spirit of its main force!

In order to completely deceive the Mengshan army, Li Chun did a fake show, and after the troops arrived in Fei County, they did not release news for the bandits to detect, but completely blocked the traffic and did not allow anyone to leave the county seat of Fei County at will. Li Chun judged that if the bandits really had eyes and ears in Fei County, as soon as they learned that the official army was assembled and deployed in Fei County, they would definitely pay attention to the direction of Fei County and no longer pay attention to possible threats from other directions.

At the beginning of the second day of the 25th lunar month of Guangxu, the city gate of Philadelphia, which had been closed for several days, was finally opened, and a group of heavily armed officers and soldiers braved the biting cold wind and lined up in a neat queue out of the city gate hole. An old man who lived by the west gate and got up early was surprised to see this scene, and hurriedly turned home and said to his wife, "Hey, it's going to be a war again, and the soldiers who are stuck in the city are out of the city, and there are a lot of soldiers."

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