When Long Qian returned to Zhengjiazhuang, he was entangled in all things, especially the burial of the fallen officers and soldiers, and he wanted to personally participate in and preside over the ceremony. Kuangtouji left more than 100 brothers behind, and they all had to be dug up and brought back for reburial. Zhengjiazhuang has set up a cemetery as a cemetery for the fallen officers and soldiers, and the soldiers who have been buried in the cemetery have coffins, all carved stone tombstones, and the tombstones are neatly arranged, like the queue of the Mengshan army during the exercise.

The soldiers were very appreciative of the troops' approach. In particular, they were willing to listen to the speeches of their commanders at the burial ceremony of fallen officers and soldiers.

The cemetery occupies the land under Long Qian's name, and now it has a scale, but it still can't accommodate the more than 200 officers and soldiers who died this time. Lu Shan, Wang Mingyuan, Feng Guozhu and Ye Yanbing all said that they could take out their land as a cemetery. When Long Qian went to the cemetery, hundreds of people, mostly villagers, were digging graves. The task of the coffin has been assigned to all the villages in the base area, and it will take several days for all of them to be completed.

Long Qian has always attached great importance to these ceremonies, and regarded them as a church to cultivate a sense of honor and team spirit among soldiers. I was busy until noon on the second day, and I heard Xu Gongzhi say that the biggest captive Wang Shizhen was still on hunger strike, and after thinking about it, he didn't call anyone else, but only took Situ Jun to visit, and for the first time he really saw Wang Shizhen, who was known as the "head of the three heroes of the new army".

Wang Shizhen fell from his horse and injured his left strand, which was carried back on a stretcher. When Long Qian saw him, he had been on hunger strike for the fourth day.

According to Long Qian's order, Wang Shizhen was directly arranged in a secluded wing room of the Zheng family's mansion after being carried back, and in order to make him feel at ease, Wang Shizhen's previous orderly soldiers were specially recruited from the prisoner pile to take care of him.

"Why is Mr. Guanru (Wang Shizhen) doing this?" Long Qian brought Situ Jun to the door and ordered the orderly prisoner who served him to leave for the time being, "If you fall into the hands of a foreign enemy and go on a hunger strike to repay the country, it is the integrity of a soldier." Long Qian only has the word admiration. But what the gentleman did today puzzled me. I don't know if Mr. is now martyred by the country? Is it a nation? Or Yuan Shikai personally? ”

"Hmph," Wang Shizhen, who was weak and had a clear face, turned his face away and disdained it.

Long Qian's words shook Situ Jun. Originally, what Mengshan Jun saw and did was very fresh, but now Long Qian's words raised the integrity of the military to the height of the nation and the country, which immediately lifted Situ Jun's spirits. He traveled thousands of miles to return to his homeland, and soon pursued this? In the few months of the New Army, no one has ever mentioned the concept of nation and country, and those generals of the New Army, who think highly of themselves, are all the imperial court, the queen mother, and the upper peak.

"Mr. Wang's name, Long Qian has heard of it for a long time. I didn't expect it to be such a foolish worm, the ancients said that under the fame, it is actually difficult to deserve. Honestly! Long Qian was unceremonious.

Wang Shizhen was excited by these words, turned around, and opened his eyes that had been closed, "A bandit dares to talk about the country and the nation!" ”

"I don't know what the standard is for the bandits that Mr. Wang is talking about? On what basis does Mr. Wang assert that my Mengshan army is a bandit? ”

Wang Shizhen closed his eyes again and ignored Long Qian.

"My Mengshan army does not disturb the people, does not loot, does not ** women, does not torture and kills prisoners, and exterminates harm, which point can be linked to bandits? In Mr. Wang's knowledge, have you ever seen a bandit who treats captives so favorably? He pointed to the chicken soup on the table, "Our wounded have not yet been treated like this." I respect you as an ancestor soldier who fought for the country, but I am not looking for your master to ask for a ransom for a meat ticket. ”

Situ Jun almost laughed out loud, coughed a few times, and finally covered up the past.

"Mr. Wang must be unconvinced, with the talent of the three heroes of the new army, he was defeated by a nobody." Long Qian smiled slightly and sat down on the chair opposite Wang Shizhen, "However, if you think it's a big one who lost Jingzhou, you're wrong!" At the level of your so-called elite soldiers in small stations, you will lose once and lose twice twice. If you don't believe me, we'll see. After Long Qian finished speaking, he turned around and left, but deliberately left Situ Jun in the room.

"Keep an eye on this person carefully, don't be careless." Long Qian instructed the two guards standing at the door.

Ning Shijun hurriedly came over and met Long Qian at the gate of the courtyard.

"How? Did you surrender at will? Ning Shijun was instructed by Long Qian, waiting for Wang Shizhen, he thought that Long Qian was trying to surrender and rebel again.

"Easier said than done! This person is stupid and loyal to the Manchu court, and he will not surrender so easily. Situ grew up abroad and received a Western education, and he ignored the feudal etiquette. Since he returned to China to join the army, in addition to wanting to get ahead, his love for the motherland is real. The Westerners' concept of the country and the nation is very different from that of our country at this stage, and the set of monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons does not exist. You can take him to visit everything, training, housekeeping, including our staff business, and the intelligence part. When he has seen it, he will compare it and choose again. But Wang Shizhen is different, in Wang Shizhen's heart, the country is the court, the court is the emperor, the queen mother, and the national concept is even more confused. The reason why he chose to go on a hunger strike was because he was ashamed, and secondly, he felt that he didn't have the face to see Yuan Shikai, so he might not really want to die. However, this person once followed Ye Zhichao to resist Japan in North Korea, and he did it with Japanese devils, which can be regarded as a meritorious service to the country. I, Long Qian, have always respected the soldiers who fought for the country, and on this basis, we can't treat him slowly. I left Situ Jun with better results than if I talked to him. ”

"Understood. So what if he really doesn't eat? Just starve to death? ”

"If you really want to die, no one can stop you. Rest assured, an adult who only drinks water and does not eat, and insists on four or five days without a problem, he must drink water, otherwise he would have been delirious a long time ago. These people just want to save face. You don't care about him, this time the troops are stationed in several places, and it is much more difficult to manage, so take Minzhong to a few places to check the training and military discipline, especially military discipline. It's easy to relax after a big victory, and you must not condone violations of military discipline, right? With me at home, and Tsinghua Xinzhi to govern them, you can represent me and check the situation of the garrisons in various places. ”

"Yes, I'll leave tomorrow."

Now, the first battalion is stationed in Fei County, the second battalion is left in Yuanzhuang, the first part of the fourth battalion and the cavalry company are sent to Zhaojialou, Kuangtouji still has a company of the third battalion and a transport company, and Zhengjiazhuang, Baiwei, Chenjiaya, Shiyuan and other places only have the logistics section and the main force of the third battalion.

Long Qian was a little uneasy.

Wang Shizhen is thirty or nine years old this Chinese New Year's Eve, has been in the army for twenty-three years, he is a direct subordinate to Zhengding, since the age of sixteen in the Zhengding Cadet Corps, after being admitted to the Tianjin Military Academy, participated in the Sino-Japanese War, followed Yuan Shikai small station training, mixed up to the present, it is really not easy, of course he is not willing to end the first half of his still brilliant life.

How could you be defeated by a gang of bandits? Wang Shizhen really couldn't figure it out. He received the news that Lu Yongxiang was ambushed and did not know his life and death from Zhao County's order, and without Li Chun's persuasion, he gave up Fei County and could not escape Yizhou, which became his most regretful decision. Li Xiushan damn it! Even if Fei County dies in battle, he can leave a clear name, and with the importance of Lord Yuan, it is undoubtedly praised by the imperial court. Now he will suffer the greatest shame of his life__

Hearing Long Qian slamming the door and leaving, Wang Shizhen opened his eyes and saw Situ Jun standing straight, "Situ, have you surrendered to the thief?" "Even though he had been hungry for four days, there was still majesty in his words.

"He's right, they're an army, and they're first-class troops, not bandits."

"Against the court, what is it that is not a thief?"

Situ Jun smiled, "My lord, is it a thief to go against the imperial court?" It's too overbearing. They were disciplined, well-organized, and well-trained, and compared to the new army, they were only above them, not below them. Even if we don't divide our troops, we won't be able to please us. Looking at the world realm, where to find such bandits? Yesterday evening, I saw the bodies of the fallen officers and soldiers gathered from Kuangtou, and I was very moved__"

"Don't talk about it! In vain, Lord Yuan is so important to you, and I am so important to you! He didn't care about Situ Jun's other words, but the article of not dividing troops was in his heart. Although the general strategy was set by Yuan Shikai himself, Wang Shizhen believed that the division of troops was the main reason for the defeat. In particular, he was clever and set up an ambush in Yuanzhuang to wait, which became the biggest defeat in this battle, and even a laughing stock. If Lu Yongxiang's troops were stationed in Fei County, the situation would be very different.

Situ Jun didn't care, but pulled a chair and sat at the head of Wang Shizhen's bed, "In the past two days, we have deduced the battle situation with their staff department, and we are not unjust at all. Their intelligence is accurate, their responses are quick, their command is appropriate, and the training level of their soldiers is higher than that of the new army—even if we don't divide our troops, at most we will occupy this place, and it would be a dream to destroy them! If they fight like that, they will really appear as they speculated, avoiding the main force of the official army, attacking the rear of our army, threatening the supply lines of our army, and finally winning. ”

"Nonsense! A bunch of bandits, it's just a fluke, how can they compare to my new army? ”

"My lord, can your new army march a hundred miles on a mountain road overnight?"

"Nonsense again. How can they march a hundred miles at night? "At this time, due to malnutrition, night blindness was relatively common, and even the Wuwei Right Army, which had the best equipment, could not march a hundred miles at night without chaos.

"How long did it take for them to arrive in Fei County after they withdrew from Kuangtouji? Have you counted? ”

"That's their military superiority, it's just that they are separated from each other."

"Why should adults deceive themselves? They have a total of four battalions, each battalion is not as strong as our army, the total strength is less than two thousand, and this also includes logistics troops, where can they divide their troops to meet the battle? In the course of this battle, the General Staff Section of the Mengshan Army had already informed me of the original situation, and they had planned extremely carefully, and they had thought of a countermeasure to every strategy of the officers and soldiers, and it was very feasible. For them, the officers and troops under your command are like blind men riding blind horses, and in this battle, the officers and soldiers are not unjustly lost. As for General Li Chun's first two defeats, it is even more inevitable, after fighting for so long, he didn't even figure out the strength of others, and he was not defeated, is it possible? Situ Jun smiled again, "It's also good, let me know that there is such a strong army in China!" Everything about them is new to me, do you know the truth? Their commander, who grew up in the United States, had only returned to China the year before last, and was coerced by bandits while traveling in Shandong, and became their leader. No wonder the troops are trained like this__"

These words made Wang Shizhen unbearable, speaking of which, the meaning of looking down on the new army was obvious, which made Wang Shizhen unbearable, "Don't say it, there is no father and no king!" Get out of here! ”

Hearing Wang Shizhen's anger, the guards came in and persuaded Situ Jun to go out.

Wang Shizhen was mad by Situ Jun's anger, and he couldn't help but be physically exhausted, so he could only pant in bed. That night, a captured subordinate Wu Yingguan came, and Wang Shizhen calmed down.

"Your Excellency has suffered__" Wu Yingguan met according to the military salute.

"Sit down, tell me what was going on?" Wang Shizhen has been haunting Lu Yongxiang's defeat in his heart, if there was no news from Zhao Muying, he would not have listened to Li Chun's advice and fled the city in extreme shock.

"Alas, it's really hard to say__" Wu Yingguan then told the scene of how he received the order from Fei County, left Yuanzhuang to rush to the aid of Fei County, how he ambushed in the mountain road, and how the troops were defeated, especially mentioning the plot of Situ Jun's judgment that the thieves must adopt the method of encircling the point to send reinforcements, and Lu Yongxiang was anxious to return to the army to rescue and did not listen to the advice.

Hurriedly sending personnel to Yuanzhuang for help was a major failure for Wang Shizhen in this battle. At that time, he was indeed stunned by the artillery fire of the Mengshan army, and he was confused. By the time the messenger set off, Wang Shizhen had already realized the problem, because the Mengshan army that had arrived near the city pass had not attacked at all. Wang Shizhen also guessed that the thief army might adopt the tactics of encircling the point to send reinforcements. Suffering from the limited number of troops in hand, and the strong firepower of the thieves, and worried about the heavy grain and grass hoarded in Fei County, they did not dare to go out of the city to counterattack, but just ordered the whole team to prepare to go out of the city. But in the second half of the night, he received news from Zhao Muying, saying that Lu Zijia's troops were in ambush and the whole army was exhausted, this news stunned Li Chun and himself, and he did not carefully verify the authenticity of the news, so he hurriedly ordered to flee south of the city to Yizhou. And that's how it turned out.

"Blame me for being incompetent, hurting Zijia__" Two cloudy tears welled up in his eyes, Zijia was worried about his own safety so he hurriedly returned to Fei County, and now it is a yin and yang separation.

"Adults don't have to blame themselves. In this battle, our army was divided into three places, and it was already doomed to failure. The thief is fierce and abnormal, even if the adult sticks to the city, the ending is no different__I heard that the adult is on a hunger strike, and I think the adult is wrong__"

"Have you also surrendered to thieves like Situ Jun? Are they the ones who told you to persuade me to surrender? Wang Shizhen stared at Wu Yingguan.

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