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Kim was still busy with the issue of troops and armament replenishment.

After conducting experiments, the team strongly recommended that the armor be abandoned in the future against the invading army Xu Pingbu, and they also recommended that the production of armor be stopped, on the grounds that flintlock pistols would definitely appear in large numbers in battle. But this decision was impossible to make, after all, those rebels who did not use muskets were more numerous, and armor would definitely have to be used as permanent equipment.

The two battalions of Xuanfeng and Chizhuo have a total of 6,000 people, and they lost 2,000 soldiers in the first battle of Lanyang, and the losses of any battalion have far exceeded the 20% cordon, according to the regulations, these two battalions need to be withdrawn to the Beijing division for repair. At present, however, political reasons prevailed over the military, and it was impossible for the imperial court to accept that the new army would return 4,000 men after losing 2,000 men. Therefore, Jin Qiude asked Jia Minghe to first fill the infantry of the Chizhuo Battalion into the Xuanfeng Battalion, so as to restore combat effectiveness. However, the remnants of the Chizhuo Battalion could not be transferred back for reorganization in a big way, otherwise the battalion officers would definitely be impeached by the imperial history, so Jin Qiude decided to send the five infantry teams of the 3,000 battalions remaining in the Beijing Division to the Chizhuo Battalion, and let the officers of the Chizhuo Battalion return to the Beijing Division and be transferred to the 3,000 Battalion as team officers.

After this toss, the problem of replenishing troops was finally solved, and the transfer of hundreds of people back would not attract the attention of the imperial history. However, after seeing this plan for the first time, Zhendonghou bluntly said: "This is a serious violation of the supplementary regulations. ”

"Wouldn't I know?"

Jin Qiude didn't say this complaint, because he knew very well that Zhendonghou was not accusing him with this sentence, and it was also a helpless complaint.

The complicated transfer of subordinates has led to a decline in the tacit understanding between officers and men, and the combat effectiveness of the Xuanfeng Battalion will drop by at least 20 percent in the short term, and although the five infantry units supplemented to the Chizhuo Battalion are formed units, the officers have to face new superiors and staff officers, and they have no tacit understanding with the engineers, artillery, and cavalry of the Chizhuo Battalion.

These problems are troublesome but can be solved, as long as it takes some time.

The problem is that there is no time, and Kim thinks he has it - and that's the biggest problem.

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After learning that the new army's offensive was frustrated, Huang Shouque of the Chu army also became a little negative, and no longer urged Yu Dong to send troops every day as before. On the contrary to Huang Shouque, Yu Dong has now become very active, exercising soldiers every day, repairing weapons, and distributing a large amount of grain and grass that he has worked hard to raise, so that the soldiers can have two full meals a day, and ordering his subordinates to be ready to go to battle at any time; "Jia Shuai may relieve Kaifeng at any time, our Bianjun can't be left behind, if Jia Shuai wins, we have to immediately attack to chase and annihilate the thieves."

Many of his subordinates were not as optimistic as Yu Dong, and they were greatly shocked by the initial defeat of the new army.

"Xu thief, it seems that at least he is at the level of Dao Tong, and there is still a time when the heavenly soldiers and generals are not careful." In Yu Dong's mind, Xu Ping has been promoted from the lice on the mount to three levels in a row, and has become a figure who enters the house: "But no matter how powerful the nephew is, can he still be ruthless than the uncle?" Unless he is Huang Hou's proud disciple and has learned Huang Hou's secret of not being passed on, but if this is the case, how could Xu Thief betray his master? So, rest assured. ”

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"The three battalions of the new army of the Beijing division can't go south," Chen Zhe flipped through the imperial court's newspaper and discussed the current situation with everyone: "What we have to deal with for the time being is only two battalions of the new army, it's not a big deal." ”

"What does it mean that the Chizhuo Battalion did not return to Jingshi?" Xu Ping felt very strange about this, the imperial court newspaper said that there were still three battalions in Henan to suppress the thieves, and Xu Ping had long since discovered that there was no shadow of the Chizhuo battalion in the new army opposite.

"Have they followed our example in setting up a battalion training team?" Chen Zhe looked a little nervous: "This is not good news. ”

"I haven't heard that the teaching team of the Beijing Division has been canceled," Yu Shenhe interjected: "Maybe the new army is playing with the transfer of flowers and trees, and the infantry teams of other battalions are allocated to the Chizhuo battalion." ”

Zhou Dongtian was relatively conservative: "This doesn't seem to be in line with the supplementary regulations of the New Army." ”

"Yes, but it is obviously not in line with the remnants of the Red Scorching Battalion to the Drafting-Forward Battalion." The Chuang Battalion has already detected the internal transfer of the new army, and now they all know that the current Xuanfeng Battalion has absorbed the main force of the Chizhuo Battalion, Yu Shenhe said: "The matter is urgent, I think General Jia will not be able to comply with the regulations." ”

"Well, what Brother Yu said is quite reasonable," Xu Ping felt that Yu Shenhe had probably guessed the truth of the matter, and the voice of the new army diehards was so strong before because there was no pressure: "So there will still be three battalions of new troops in Henan." ”

"When the new battalion arrives in Henan, our western battalion will be almost trained." In addition to the 100 men, Li Dingguo also borrowed a large number of skilled non-commissioned officers of the Guards Battalion to help him train his troops, and Li Dingguo made up his mind to make his direct subordinates also new army as soon as possible—or the Guards Battalion. Li Dingguo knew that firearms alone were not enough, and he also needed a military system to cooperate with them. The camp was recruited on the spot, the battalion was trained by the teaching team, and when the two battalions of the new army were sitting in silence, the guards battalion and the west battalion were not idle. So as long as there is no new battalion to Henan, Xu Ping is not too afraid: "I have always wondered why Master Hou must adopt the model of the general teaching team. ”

"I remember that your lordship once said that when you were on Eternal Life Island, there was nothing wrong with Master Hou dealing with it like this."

"yes, the problem is that it's not on Immortal Island anymore." Xu Ping's face was a little puzzled, Zhendong Hou's regulations, many of them made Xu Ping have endless aftertastes, whenever he wanted to understand the thinking behind an ordinance, the shock in his heart was indescribable: "The benefits of this general teaching team, I have thought about it for a long, long time, it is really not as good as the battalion teaching team, since I can think of it, how can Hou Ye not think of it?" ”

Zhou Dongtian immediately replied: "It can only show that there is more profound meaning behind the Hou Ye, and the adults have not yet comprehended it." ”

"Master Hou established the training team at the beginning, which was definitely far-sighted, but the general training team has only two advantages compared with the battalion training team, first, it can train a group of officers and soldiers who abide by the same regulations, and the officers and soldiers under the jurisdiction of each battalion can be freely transferred; Second, the training burden of the battalion should be greatly reduced. But, the first point, the world is so big, how can it be possible to change people back and forth between different battalions? Moreover, this can also be solved by formulating a uniform norm for the teaching corps of the various battalions; The second point is that although the training burden of the battalion has been greatly reduced, the time for the training team to replenish the battalion has been greatly increased, and it is impossible to predict in advance how many troops each battalion will need to replenish the troops. Xu Ping paused and looked around: "Do you think I'm right?" ”

Chen Zhe echoed: "It's not just this problem, it will take more than a month to travel from Beijing to Shandong, and it will take a long time to go from Shandong to Henan, not to mention the world, such a long march, the battalion has quite enough time to train the troops." And as you said, it's much better for the battalion to master the training, the battalion knows very well how much replenishment it needs, and after the loss of the new army, it has to be reported to the training team, and then recruit and train, which is really a waste of time. ”

"And from a common sense point of view, Hou Ye must have been a teaching team prepared for the fire battalion, naturally, this team should be allocated to the fire battalion, why did Hou Ye think of making this team independent?" The more Xu Ping thought about it, the more confused he became, this puzzle bothered him for a long time, because of these puzzles, he chose to assign the teaching team to the battalion, since there is now an atmosphere of discussion, he poured out all the doubts: "It's like that war chess, I said that if you want to be useful, you must be able to fly the sword and pass the book, and it is best to even explore the horse, everyone is a swordsman, as soon as you see the enemy, you immediately fly the sword and report it to the staff department, and then the staff department immediately deduces the war chess, and then the flying sword is passed to the front...... This general teaching team, if there is really a flying sword, the benefits will be magnified, well, strange, it seems that when Hou Ye set the regulations, he always thought that there was such a thing as a flying sword in this world, and it could be popularized to the whole army. ”

Several subordinates were dumbfounded, but for a while they couldn't tell what Xu Ping was wrong, and Xu Ping continued: "Not only must there be a flying sword, but also a magic weapon, the kind of thing that shrinks into inches, and it is very large, and it can transport thousands of troops from the Beijing Division to the front line in the blink of an eye, so that the general teaching team will be much stronger than the battalion teaching team, because the battalion has no time to march and train, but is fighting all the time, well, not necessarily in the blink of an eye, but it must be able to send troops from the Beijing Division to the front line in a few days." , recruits are trained almost at any time, and they can be replenished to the damaged battalions on the front line at any time...... The more fierce the battle, the more suitable it is to establish a general training team, it is best to kill several battalions in a battle, more than a dozen battalions, every month, and even when it is fierce, dozens of battalions are severely damaged every day, and the damaged battalion in front of it immediately flies the sword to report the battle damage to the Beijing division, and within a few days it will use the magic weapon to shrink the ground to transport the supplementary troops, so that the general training team must be formed, and only in this way will the general training team become indispensable. ”

Xu Ping was stunned when he said this, he re-examined his thoughts, so far, he has no use for the regulations on the source of the war. Most of Xu Ping hasn't figured it out yet, and some of the Xu Ping who have figured it out haven't copied it but absorbed the principle, but there are a few that seem to have similar loopholes, and it's a technical problem that Xu Ping feels can't be solved at all, he said in confusion: "If this is the deep meaning of Hou Ye, then I can't figure it out at all...... Xu Ping often sighs that Zhendong Hou Zhi sees thousands of miles away, but he can't understand why sometimes he can't see clearly.

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After getting the urgent letter from Jingshi, Jia Minghe's face became even more gloomy. After the defeat, there was a holy decree to reprimand him, and he was asked to immediately cooperate with the Ming army to relieve the siege of Kaifeng. Today an urgent letter from the General Staff of the Forces Nouvelles arrived, saying that a more severe decree was already in the works, and that the General Staff of the Forces Nouvelles wanted him to fight no matter what, even if it was a little further and an explanation; However, in the same way, the General Staff Headquarters told the Henan New Army to avoid combat operations in which losses were excessively large, and it was best to avoid small-scale firefights as much as possible, because the transfer of troops from Beijing to Henan would take a long time, and the frequent movement of troops would inevitably arouse criticism. In short, the General Staff not only needs the Henan New Army to fight a battle, but also hopes not to waste its troops, so that it can concentrate its forces to solve the problem in a battle after the reinforcements arrive, which requires Jia Minghe to act at the opportunity.

The problem is that the Jamin River cannot move forward. He had just established a strong camp in Lanyang, and at this time only more than 5,000 people from Zhu Yuanhong's division of the Lu army were stationed here with him. He Baodao kicked him out of the Caoyun line because he seriously believed in the combat effectiveness of this army, and when the governor of Henan was urged by the imperial court to provide reinforcements, he sent this idle army to Henan. The army beside Jia Minghe could only assist in the fight other than fighting, and now he had to protect not only this teammate, but also the 200,000 stone grain that had been transported to Lanyang—this was intended to be given to Kaifeng, and there must be no loss.

From here to Kaifeng, there are the eyes of the intrusive army everywhere, it is okay in the camping area, the surrounding villages are afraid of Zhu Yuanhong's prestige and escaped, and now they will not leak too detailed information, but as long as the Ming army moves to the camp, Jia Minghe is estimated to be able to know immediately; But his eyes were black, and he didn't know how many troops there were in the camp, let alone where they were hiding.

Xu Pingbu hid in the shadows and watched the camp, and Jia Minghe felt that it was very dangerous to forcibly relieve Kaifeng at this time. A few days ago, the remnants of the infantry of the Chizhuo Battalion had just returned to the Beijing Division, and now the Chiying was an empty battalion without infantry, and the Xuanfeng Battalion was trying its best to absorb the troops it had just received, and its combat effectiveness had also been damaged.

"At least wait until you get the five infantry of the 3,000 battalion." Jia Minghe muttered. But he knew that it was impossible, and the two thousand soldiers would definitely not arrive this month, not next month. On the opposite side, Xu Ping built a fortress and trench defense system, and it seems that there is more than one, and he has a deep impression of the power of this kind of fortification, Jia Ming River, which is the pride of the new army's teaching team, and the powerful infantry phalanx is called the two magic weapons of the new army.

The existing two battalions, when the Guards Battalion was on the defensive, may not be able to press the opponent, the fortress, greatly weakened the artillery superiority of the new army, and Jia Minghe did not want to prove the strength of such fortifications once again with a crushing defeat.

"My lord, maybe we can consider attacking Qi County." It was Wei Landu who spoke.

"Qi County?" Jia Minghe didn't understand the point of this at all. Kaifeng is in the west of Lanyang, and Qixian is due south, and going to Qixian will only get farther and farther away from the goal. Moreover, there is a breaking army in Qixian County, Xu Ping is on the inner line, and the new army is on the outer line, and when Jia Minghe moves to Qixian, Xu Ping will soon follow, and the new army still has to fight hard with the guard battalion to gnaw at the opponent's defense system.

"Anyway, it's just that we need to fight a little bit." Wei Landu explained to the map: "Conquering Qi County can be said to be assisting the Bianjun army in Guide Province, Henan Province. Moreover, after the defeat of Qixian, we said that the next step was to plan to attack Chenliu, so that it could be delayed for some time, and when the imperial court urged again, we were almost ready. ”

"Will the imperial court agree that we will not open the seal and beat Chen Liu?" Jia Minghe was still skeptical about this.

"We can find a reason, let's just say that our attack from Chenliu can not only open up the grain route, but also cut off the retreat of the thieves and wipe them out. This back and forth of letters will take several days, the court will quarrel for a few more days, we will defend a few more times, a month will pass, and the five teams of the 3,000 battalions will almost arrive. ”

Jia Minghe nodded, and had already agreed to this plan in his heart. He planned to write a letter to Huangshi immediately, Jia Minghe was loyal to Huangshi, and no matter what troubles he had over the years, Huangshi would always solve them for him.

It's just that Jia Minghe still has to make this plan more carefully. He brought the staff officers of the third battalion to study together, and everyone thought that the problem was not small, and the most important thing was that he was afraid that Xu Ping would rush to the guards battalion when he heard the news and make trouble for the new army.

"What if we send only one battalion?" Wei Landu said: "My battalion is intact, and it can be dispatched immediately, and the rest of the troops will be used to contain Xu Ping." ”

"If there is only one battalion, the strength is a bit thin, if it is put into street fighting, the losses are not calculating, we just symbolically fight, take Qixian County and give an explanation to the imperial court, let them spend some time arguing, we can't cripple a battalion in such an inconsequential place."

Wei Landu was confident in this: "We can let the troops of Guide Mansion participate in the war." ”

"General Yu of the Bianjun Army is very close to Qixian County at the moment, and he has 5,000 soldiers and horses under his command." A staff officer recounted to Jia Minghe the achievements of Yu Dong, who was unique in the early engagements in Henan and seemed to have performed well; "Later, he was defeated by Xu Pingbu, this shouldn't be a problem with his ability."

"It was a really good fight." Jia Minghe bowed his head, and then praised again: "It's normal for him to be defeated by Xu Ping, I'm not surprised at all." ”

The staff officers who were encouraged then said: "General Huang under Zuo Shuai also brought 8,000 people with General Yu, General Huang is anxious to make meritorious service, and General Yu is holding back revenge, so let's contact them." ”

At present, Li Dingguo and Zhu Yuanhong's troops have engaged in several battles on the edge of the area controlled by the two armies, and the New Army has also participated in the battle to assist friendly forces. Li Dingguo was very active in fighting, and he found that this was a good opportunity to adapt to the new military system, and those officers and soldiers who had been borrowed from the Guards Battalion for training were also thrown into the battlefield by Li Dingguo, and the training teams of the West Battalion and the Guards Battalion were nearby, and this kind of war of attrition did not put any pressure on the invading army.

However, the new army soon felt that it was unsustainable, and every soldier who was consumed needed to wait for reinforcements from the Beijing division, and Jia Minghe, who had already sent people to contact other friendly forces, had to order to shrink the defense area and reduce contact with the intruding army. After losing the support of the new army, the scope of activities of Zhu Yuanhong's troops quickly shrank, but fortunately, the people of Henan did not dare to relocate back, so the two armies had close intelligence capabilities in these no-man's land.

Xu Ping was very supportive of Li Dingguo's action, and sent part of the Guards Battalion to the front line to coordinate with the West Battalion, and many fierce skirmishes broke out between the two armies, and the patrols of both armies paid the price of hundreds of casualties. As a result, Jia Minghe transferred Zhu Yuanhong's troops to the east to protect the rear, while the two battalions of the New Army further reduced the patrol area, and because they were very close to the New Army barracks, Li Dingguo could no longer launch any more provocative actions, and there was a brief lull on the line of control of the two armies.

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