The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

Zhao Chuanxin promised to give each person an extra candy ball, but asked these children to help plant vegetation.

He arranged the area, and a group of children were busy working with their butts raised, their bodies were weak and tired, and they were all sweating profusely.

When Zhao Chuanxin saw that they were all carrying water bags, he said, "Bring the water bags and let me draw water for you."

In fact, there is water in it, but after running all the way, it has become warm, and drinking it does not quench my thirst.

Zhao Chuanxin poured out the water and went to the underground well to fill it with water for them.

"Wow, Ryo!"

"happy!"

A group of children exclaimed.

Zhao Chuanxin greeted Guo Tuwa: "Go to the kitchen and get the sesame cakes according to the number of people."

Guo Tuwa hesitated: "There are a lot of people in the shop?"

"Just take it."

Zhao Chuanxin rushed them to eat the sesame seed cakes before they picked up the excrement.

The sesame cakes made people choke, but the eyes of these children were bright, as if they had discovered a new "Silk Road".

However, Zhao Chuanxin rubbed his chin and thought that he should buy more snacks such as candied sugar balls.

It's just that I don't have a lot of money left in my pocket...

…

In Qinzhou Prefecture, the battle has begun.

Huang Xing led the Southern Chinese Army of the Overseas Chinese Alliance in Annan, composed of about 200 people.

Cixi still called them rebels, but they were already building an army.

The local people called them rebels.

Huang Xing called Shuangxi: "Zhang Shuangxi, give you one day to capture the 36th Battalion of the Qing Army."

Shuangxi stuffed a rice ball into his mouth: "Why don't you need a day? Give me an hour. We will continue to advance to the next battalion and strive to capture Ma Dushan in the future."

Shuangxi naturally didn't brag.

The rebels were small in number, poorly supplied with ammunition, and didn't even have cannon.

Shuangxi once contacted Li Guangzong secretly and asked if the rebel army could succeed at this time. Li Guangzong's answer was that it was not yet ready.

Shuangxi now understands the key points of this battle.

He couldn't guarantee everyone's combat effectiveness, but he did a surprise training for more than a dozen people.

These dozen people are his core combatants.

He formulated eight tactical points for this battle:

One: Concentrate troops, capture important areas, abandon secondary areas, and let Huang Xing mobilize and instigate local soldiers and civilians to rebel.

Two: Be confident, not blind, do a good job in investigation, and try to kill as many effective forces as possible.

Three: The invasion is like fire, do not delay, take risks when necessary, and do not give the Qing army a chance to breathe.

Four: Fight decisively and not be afraid of death.

Five: The flanks and rear were exposed when they should be, but the core combatants were flexible and bold in making detours to attack the enemy's flanks and rear. The Qing army was unmotivated, so it was easy to collapse their defenses.

Six: The remote end automatically changes the defense line. The forward composed of core personnel breaks through, and the rear automatically closes the pocket to eliminate the enemy.

Seven: A Hotchkiss heavy machine gun is used in the rear to attract the firepower of the Qing army, and the others cross to cover the attack.

Eight: Pincer attack from the rear. After the forward breaks through, the rear divides and surrounds the enemy and defeats them one by one.

Shuangxi only knew how to fight, and the only strategy was: if Guo Renzhang failed to fulfill his contract to help with supplies, Shuangxi would make an immediate decision to change the front formation to the rear, cover the retreat with cross fire, and never give the Qing army time to surround them.

This is a tactical and strategic guide based on Li Guangzong's general premise that the cauldron cannot be determined in this battle.

Shuangxi took the core combatants to attack them unprepared. Shuangxi rushed to the front, crawling and rolling, harvesting lives with guns. When the core combatants at the back saw that he had divine help, they beat the Qing army to the point where they cried for their fathers and mothers. As a result, the morale of the troops was greatly boosted and their performance was very stable.

Sure enough, it worked in one fell swoop. The Qing army had no time to react and was broken through by the vanguard.

The Qing army had no will to fight at all, and was in chaos as soon as it encountered an enemy attack.

The rear team took the opportunity to launch a pincer attack, but the heavy machine guns did not attract firepower, and instead directly caused the Qing army to collapse. They did not even try to counterattack with artillery fire and heavy weapons.

The battle lasted a total of one hour and twenty-three minutes. Shuangxi led the team to kill 68 Qing soldiers in total, and the 36th Qing battalion was defeated.

When Huang Xing led his men to catch up, he excitedly patted Shuangxi on the shoulder and said repeatedly: "Good boy, good boy..."

Found a treasure.

Shuangxi became famous in one battle, and his reputation among the rebels was at its peak.

Even the next day, when the second combat team was more experienced, it took Shuangxi only one hour to break through the first battalion of the Qing army again.

On the fourth day, it was a little more difficult to capture Madu Mountain.

However, the number of rebels has increased from the original 200 to more than 600.

This is also the snowball fighting method that Sun Gongwu and others have always used.

Shuangxi deeply remembered that during the last uprising in Zhennanguan, the shortcomings of the mob were undoubtedly exposed, so he divided the team into three echelons. The first echelon was the forward, the second echelon was the squadron composed of the original troops, and the third echelon was Newcomers with little combat experience.

During the Shuangxi battle, they fought fiercely and aggressively, but when leading troops, they fought steadily. Once newcomers with combat experience were incorporated into the squadron, their combat power increased sharply.

They moved to fight in the Qinzhou, Lianzhou and Shangsi areas. They were far more brave than in the original history, and they had the potential to start a prairie fire.

The Qing court was in an uproar.

The people are excited.

Huang Xing was excited.

Sun Gongwu was ecstatic!

Just when the momentum of the rebel army reached its peak, Guo Renzhang was caught by Shuangxi's predictions and rebelled again. He led more than 3,000 people to follow the rebel army to encircle him. The promised supplies disappeared.

Shuangxi immediately said to Huang Xing, "It's time to break up."

Huang Xing was naturally reluctant: "Why? The situation is great, and we should pursue the victory."

Shuangxi sneered: "Have you forgotten about Zhennanguan? We are about to run out of ammunition and food, and we are going to use sickles and hoes to pursue the victory? Guo Renzhang, you are a villain, and you are not equipped with strategies."

There is no base area, and the equipment and military strength are too disparate compared to the Qing army. Most importantly, the invisible ally Guo Renzhang not only failed to provide supplies, but also stabbed the rebels in the back.

This battle can no longer be fought.

"But……"

"There is no but. Commander Huang, we have agreed in advance." Shuangxi said anxiously: "The strategy has been decided, why are we indecisive at the moment of battle? I beg grandpa to sue grandma and ask for a batch of severance pay from Shushan, Ao Island, so that we can disperse. Just give it, if we don’t break up we will drink from the northwest wind.”

Huang Xing appointed himself as commander this time and was the commander-in-chief of the operation.

Of course, there are just a few people, and the actual commander is Shuangxi.

Huang Xing had no choice but to dismiss the rebels on the spot, and withdrew to Annan with only Shuangxi and more than ten core combatants.

Along the way, Huang Xing hid among the people, and then he realized that he had become famous among the people.

And the most important point is that because Shuangxi stopped in time, the uprising was considered a failure, but the battle was not defeated.

…

Benjamin Goldberg saw many famous rivers, blue sky pastures, and trumpet temples.

He saw fanatical believers who worshiped while walking, and their knees were worn out.

I listened to many songs whose meaning I didn’t understand.

He saw someone holding a human skull as a magic weapon, and he marveled at the herdsman who could tie his wealth to a string of rosary beads.

There is a mountain that is illuminated by the sun and looks like it is made of gold.

A ferocious dog covered in long hair chased him and Gan Fan for two miles, but was bitten by a marmot on the tip of its nose and rolled all over the ground. He didn't know that this kind of fierce dog could even sink an aircraft carrier in the 21st century, but at this time, it couldn't do anything with a small marmot.

Some areas confirmed the poems he read: no ancients were seen before, no newcomers were seen after, thinking about the long journey of heaven and earth, I shed tears alone with sadness.

When he arrived in Tibet, he was eye-opening to the colorful prayer flags, magnificent temples, endless prayer wheels, and devout worshipers.

He cured obscene illnesses along the way and was often treated as a distinguished guest.

There were also times when he failed. Someone had been bedridden for a long time due to the disease. He took a glass syringe and gave him a shot of penicillin. As a result, he became allergic and had his hair curled up.

If you don't run fast when the situation is bad, you will be taken to the official.

It was also that time that Balworth, the new love of the rice cook, ended up there because of the bitch that wandered around that house.

Then dry rice was produced.

Benjamin Goldberg was forced to stay in Tibet.

Ganfan gave birth to a litter of strange black and white spotted puppies, which looked like cows.

This litter of five little puppies has different personalities. Some have been bad-tempered since childhood, some have been as obedient as fools, some are naughty and restless, some are tearing their necks and howling like wolves, and only one has inherited the job. of cleverness.

After about a month, the puppies were weaned, and Benjamin Goldberg gave away three of them, leaving only one active one and one smart one.

Gan Fan felt relieved knowing that the people in Tibet did not eat dog meat.

Because the dog was given as a gift, and the dog would not get angry and bite after the children left after eating, the Tibetans felt that the man and the dog were full of spirituality, so they gave Benjamin Goldberg a khata.

One person and three dogs continue on the road.

Ganfan: "Woof woof woof..."

Benjamin Goldberg, wearing a cloak and carrying a puppy on his back, said: "I read in the newspaper that there was no news from the master since he left Hankou, as if he had disappeared from the world. The concessions in various countries in Hankou thought that the master had been bombed to death by the Japanese, and they were ready to take action. However, the strong wind in Hankou caused disasters, so they can't take care of small tricks for the time being."

Neither Gan Fan nor Benjamin Goldberg believed that Zhao Chuanxin would be killed.

Ganfan: "Woof woof woof..."

"When you get to Suzhou, ask the children along the way and you will know where the master is."

In fact, not only Hankou, but also the Portuguese on Australia Island, the British on Hong Kong Island, and the Japanese and Russians outside the customs are all starting to make moves.

Russia and the Qing court re-signed the "Heilongjiang Railway Company Logging Contract" to legally plunder Heilongjiang's forest resources.

The Japanese are causing trouble in the Jiandao area again, and the friction with the backwater troops is increasing day by day. At the same time, they sent people to threaten the Qing court, claiming that the rebels in the Jiandao area were seriously hampering the peace between the two countries, demanding the signing of an agreement to turn hostility into friendship, and proposing that China and South Korea use the Tumen River as the boundary.

It seems friendly, but in fact it is expanding Japan's interests in China.

The rebels naturally refused to do it, but Cixi showed signs of agreeing, and the situation became very delicate: whether to sign the agreement depends on whether Zhao Chuanxin is still alive.

The British, unwilling to be left behind, instigated overtly and covertly in the west, instigating local groups headed by Dalai. On the one hand, they wrote to the court, slandering the minister in Tibet, Zhao Erfeng, who hated the Yellow Sect and was unable to bear the heavy responsibility.

Zhao Erfeng is the younger brother of Zhao Erxun, Zhao Chuanxin's enemy. This man has always been called a "hawk" for his ruthless methods and decisive actions. Those people knew Zhao Erfeng's methods very well. When he came, he would definitely deprive the local chieftain of all his power.

It can be said that Zhao Erfeng made a great contribution to guarding the Tibetan territory.

On the other hand, local groups began to mobilize Tibetan troops to Qamdo in the name of suppressing the rebels, in an attempt to resist with force.

This is almost tantamount to outright rebellion.

Finally there is Russia.

Their methods were not that drastic. The Russian Tsar sent Finnish explorer Mahanda as a spy to go deep into the northwest region to spy on military intelligence and find out what was true. If military operations were to be prepared in the future, at least he knew himself and his enemy.

It's just that when Mahanda arrived in Liangzhou, he happened to encounter the farmers' anti-grain struggle in Liangzhou, which was a struggle launched against the Qing government's exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

A group of farmers rushed into Liangzhou County, not far from the sky. Wang Huaiming was also among the group at that time. They were besieged by soldiers from the Qing army fortress in the northeast corner of Liangzhou. They slashed their belly with a knife and fled to the desert...