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Jiangbei Gaoyou.

When everyone's eyes are on Suzhou, will there really be no fighting in other battlefields? That's impossible.

On the Gaoyou battlefield, small-scale conflicts between the Qing army and the Fu Han army have always occurred. Neither side dared to send a large force to attack each other along the canal, but they still had the courage to send a small force to harass the other side.

The Qing army took Baoying County as its starting point, and the Fu Han army's forward base was in Ziyinggou. The distance of dozens of miles in between was the battlefield where small forces of both sides rushed and fought.

Not to mention fighting every day, it was necessary to see blood every three days.

As the bridgehead for the Fu Han army to defend Jiangbei, Gaoyou can be said to be a military stronghold. It needs a lot of food, fodder, ammunition, and even cannons. All logistical supplies were transported by boats from Yangzhou through the canal to Gaoyou Prefecture. The frequent fighting between the Qing army and the Fu Han army between Baoying and Ziyinggou was not just for fighting, but to attack Gaoyou Prefecture and infiltrate the rear of the prefecture city to harass the logistics fleet of the canal.

The person stationed in Gaoyou Prefecture was Lu Hu. After coming out of the tank battalion, he took the position of battalion officer. Now the Fu Han army has deployed four battalions in Gaoyou Prefecture. After Chen Ming captured Nanjing City, the Fu Han army organized two batches of new recruits. Of course, they would not let them stay in Nanjing City for free. Gaoyou Prefecture has two old battalions and two new recruits, plus artillery and logistics troops, as well as reconnaissance teams and medical battalions, with a total strength of nearly 3,000 people.

The Fu Han army, which had about 10,000 people when it set out from Xiangyang, now has a regular strength of nearly 40,000 people, and the brigade-level organizational units have also developed from the initial one teaching brigade to the current four brigades. Chen Yongsheng's unit in Jiujiang is the first brigade, Gao Pingshan's unit in Anqing is the second brigade, and Huang Jie's unit in Yangzhou is the third brigade. The position of the brigade commander of the teaching brigade is held by Chen Qi, the battalion officer before the expansion of the original musket battalion. In general, this army is still a traditional feudal army like a family business, and the people who hold important positions are all relatives of the Chen family.

The reorganized brigades of Chen Yongsheng, Gao Pingshan and Huang Jie have much more troops than the original brigade-level organization. The three brigades now have more than 5,000 soldiers, except that Huang Jie's third brigade is under Chen Ming's eyes and it is impossible to expand the army on the spot - all are allocated to the third brigade by Chen Ming. Jiujiang and Anqing have considerable autonomy in this regard.

Just like the righteous army in history, or the red army in the original time and space, sending out 100 people and pulling back 1,000 people, the strength of the army has indeed grown, but the small hills in the army have also increased. This is something that cannot be helped. Chen Ming never expected to solve the problem that the Red Army could not solve. As long as the team's combat effectiveness and fighting will are still there, the small hill is a small hill. Chen Ming will not rashly split up a combat-capable unit.

The number of people in the teaching brigade is more than that of the first, second and third brigades. The original teaching brigade was under the jurisdiction of two musket battalions, one artillery battalion, two armored battalions, a tank battalion, and a military police, a reconnaissance team, and a medical team. Now that the tank battalion has been singled out, the training brigade has more than 6,000 troops under its jurisdiction.

The structure of one artillery battalion remains unchanged, but the number of cannons is doubled compared to the original; the two armored battalions remain unchanged, and the number of people remains unchanged, but in addition to the two armored battalions in the teaching brigade, there are four unarmored armored battalions, and there are six battalions in the infantry alone;

The structure of the two musket battalions remains unchanged. There was no way. The Fu Han Army was short of muskets. Even if they had captured Qing soldiers' bird guns as a base, the speed would not be that fast after changing the matchlock to flintlock.

The training brigade no longer had a tank battalion, but it had a cavalry battalion, but the number of people was small, and it had not exceeded 300 so far; this had already made Chen Kaishan, the head of the cavalry battalion, very distressed;

Then the gendarmerie, reconnaissance team and medical team were all changed into battalions, plus a logistics battalion and an engineering battalion, the training brigade was a huge organization.

After deducting these four brigade-level organizations, the remaining 10,000 or 20,000 people were the huge logistics troops and naval battalions, the greatly increased number of artillery troops, plus the few old battalions and the large number of new recruits. The latter was composed of prisoners and new recruits. It was hard to say whether their fighting will had improved compared to the Qing soldiers, and their weapons were still at the same level, so their combat effectiveness was not much stronger than the same number of Qing soldiers.

For the Fu Han army in these new recruit camps, flintlock rifles and armor were not theirs. All they could count on were small cannons [camp firepower] and grenades. In order to train these new recruits, Lu Hu frequently sent them out to fight with the Qing soldiers in the vast fields north of Ziyinggou. Lu Hu was a very brave man, otherwise he would not have been the deputy battalion commander of the tank battalion. That position was not something that could be held by just being big and strong, but also required the courage to fight. Lu Hu firmly believed that no matter how cowardly a soldier was, he could become three times stronger after fighting one battle after another.

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In the Fu Han army camp in Ziyinggou.

A man in his thirties with a lot of wrinkles on his face grabbed the sleeve of the head of the logistics department and refused to let go. The man had been arguing with the head of the logistics department for nearly two quarters of an hour, with sweat dripping down his forehead. He wanted more boxes of grenades for no other reason than to get more.

Grenades are good. Even the matchlock grenade, which was the least favored by the soldiers, was a treasure. Throw it out in a circle, and anyone who saw it within a distance of 20 to 30 meters would hide.

Even though the grenades of the Fuhan Army were made in the red base area of ​​the original time and space, the explosive power was not comparable to the mature "Little Melon" during World War II. The killing effect of the shrapnel was extremely bad, and fires were extinguished from time to time. But having said that, for the Fuhan Army in Gaoyou Prefecture, even this kind of grenades cannot be opened to supply troops now.

The Fuhan Army needed more iron to make cannons and cannons. The cast iron body of a grenade did not weigh much, but what about 10,000 grenades? What about a hundred thousand grenades? The entire Fuhan Army consisted of 30,000 to 40,000 troops, and each battle consumed more than 100,000 grenades.

Therefore, after leaving the base area, things like grenades in the expeditionary force are always limited.

This middle-aged man in his thirties, surnamed Zeng, was originally a government servant in Lushan. He was first arrested when he raided the Chen family's hometown in Tumenji, and then he joined the Chen family first to survive. At the age of thirty-five or six, this person's character has already been determined early. He is very slippery. He was born as a government servant. How could he not be slippery? So until now, I am only a team officer, and I am still a team officer in the recruit camp.

Duan Guorui, the head of the Logistics Department, was an old acquaintance of Zeng Ming. He was also from Lushan and was one of the white servants who worked under Chen Hui's family. Duan Guorui's ability is not as good as Zheng Hongyu and Wei Xiuzhi, who were Chen Hui's capable officers back then. Even now, he is only one of the three battalion deputies of the 3rd Brigade Logistics Battalion.

As Ziyinggou was the front line for the confrontation between the Fuhan Army and the Qing Army, it was necessary to set up a logistics station here. Duan Guorui was sent to take charge of everything at this station.

"Old Zeng, are you still a soldier? You've changed your profession to become a bandit, right? I've already given your team five more boxes of grenades, what else do you want? Don't be too greedy, I'll tell you."

"Old Duan, if this man can make more money, he should make more money. What is my relationship with you? How many people from Lushan County are lucky enough to meet here? Of course, we must work hard to make more money. If someone else were in your position and could give me five more boxes of grenades, I, Zeng Ming, would be happy to thank God and leave because it doesn't matter." Zeng Ming looked like a rogue and patted Duan Guorui. His shoulders look like two brothers. "Isn't this your old position in this position? With your relationship, I can get five more boxes of grenades, just like the fox who stole the old hen, and run away happily? I will definitely get more ah."

"Brother, it's a life-threatening business outside Ziyinggou. With a few more boxes of grenades, your brother's life may be saved. You have to give me a few more boxes, or I won't leave today. You still have to take care of my food and sleep."

Duan Guorui looked at Zeng Ming, who had a look on his face, and said, "Tsk, tsk", "You are such a scumbag. If you can't change this problem, the army will kick you out sooner or later. I will give you fifteen more boxes of grenades, but We agreed that I won’t admit it once I get out of here, and you have to get me a good knife.”

Even though Duan Guorui is doing logistics work, he likes swords and horses very much, and the swords and horses are fast. He has collected many good knives, and he also has a good horse in Yangzhou. As for the logistics force, the entire Fuhan Army is short of horses for the cavalry battalion soldiers, and the top brass of the logistics force will not be short of horses either. But he still didn't have enough!

Zeng Ming is just a team officer. It would be difficult to ask him for a good horse. But it's no problem to ask him for a good knife.

Sure enough, Zeng Ming patted his chest and promised: "No problem. I will definitely get you a good knife."

Fifteen boxes of grenades equals 750 grenades. Adding the previous five boxes, Zeng Ming's team has only a hundred people in total. Now there are ten more grenades per person. Plus the five boxes originally allocated, it is right for them. At the end of the day, there are fifteen grenades per person, so even if he is facing a battalion of Qing soldiers, he will not be timid at all.

And in the early morning of the next day, when Zeng Ming's team walked out of the camp with great momentum and penetrated towards Baoying, a Jilin cavalry team that the Fuhan Army didn't know also drove out of the south gate of Baoying City and rushed towards Gaoyou Prefecture. Come.

At this moment, the Qing Water Transport Governor who was in charge of Huai'an was no longer Gao Jin. The clan brother of Gao Jia, the first imperial concubine of the Qianlong Dynasty, had been deprived of all his official positions by Qianlong and returned to Beijing to think about his past behind closed doors. The position of Governor of Water Transport was assumed by Li Shiyao.

And who is this Li Shiyao? He is the fourth generation grandson of the great traitor Li Yongfang, and a member of the Han Army Xianghuang Banner.

In the 21st year of Qianlong's reign, he acted as the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi. In the 24th year of Qianlong's reign, he was actually appointed as the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi. In the 26th year of Qianlong's reign, he was recalled to Beijing and granted the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Commander-in-Chief of the Han Army of Zhenghong Banner. In the 28th year of Qianlong's reign, he was appointed governor of Huguang. The following year, Li Shiyao was appointed governor of Guangdong and Guangxi again. Because Li Xingyuan, the commander-in-chief of Youjiang Town, was convicted of corruption. Was Li Xingyuan recommended by Li Shiyao? Li Shiyao, who was implicated, returned to Beijing to act as Minister of the Ministry of Science and Engineering. In the thirty-first year of Qianlong's reign, he was transferred to the Ministry of Punishment. In the 32nd year of Qianlong's reign, he returned to the post of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and attacked the second-class Zhao Xinbo. In the thirty-third year, he was transferred back to Beijing and was awarded the title of Bachelor of Wuyingdian. He was about to join the Military Aircraft Department.

——Arigun was officially deprived of the title of Minister of Military Aircraft, and Fulongan learned to walk in the Military Aircraft Department as Heshuo forehead consort and Minister of War. In April, he was transferred to the Minister of Industry, officially replacing Ali Gong. But then Yin Jishan took up the post of governor of Liangjiang, taking charge of the military in the south of the Yangtze River. Agui was also likely to replace Aligun, and a position became vacant in the military aircraft department. Li Shiyao's qualifications and abilities were not bad. If he stayed in the capital, there would be no possibility of a replacement. . But now it is absolutely impossible.

Suo Lin was walking at the military aircraft as the Minister of Ceremony.

After Li Shiyao arrived in Huai'an, he immediately asked Beijing to dispatch a cavalry to Huai'an. Because Li Shiyao felt that it was not easy to infiltrate the back of Gaoyou Prefecture to cut off the canal with infantry, but the cavalry could do it. With the speed of the cavalry, they could even bypass Sheyang Lake in the east and penetrate Gaoyou Prefecture from the east, without having to go through the empty space between Gaoyou Lake and Sheyang Lake.