So the two of them quickly drafted a telegram, insisting that Wang Ziqi was repelled after attacking, and said that they asked Commander Ding to take charge of everything. To put it bluntly, it was just a conflict that was handed over, and they were happy to be relaxed!

Anyway, Ding Ning is the commander of the front enemy now, so he is responsible for the problem! Now Hu Bo and Meng Dingguo are both "one red heart, two preparations". They are both ready to escape and continue to dominate Mengyin City. Everything depends on how Ding Ning is concerned.

The front line between the two sides was also very calm. After a burst of gunfire, neither side wanted to continue attacking. Moreover, both sides had the same opinion and were unwilling to take responsibility. The method was to file a conflict. However, Wang Ziqi's troops could only use fast horses to ask for instructions from the top, and they could not go to Mengyin County to send telegrams.

Both sides counted the casualties. Hu Bo injured four people, some of the Lu army, and seven people were injured. However, both sides won the victory in the rear. Hu Bo and Meng Dingguo said in a telegram: "... Our army tolerated it in every way. Finally, after Meng and Hu agreed to transfer Mengyin County to the Wang army. Unexpectedly, during the transfer, Wang Ziqi's troops took the opportunity to sneak attack our army. Many of our army were killed and injured. Fortunately, the soldiers used their lives... Our side injured twenty-four people and killed more than thirty enemy soldiers..." (Hu Bo counted all the skin-brushed ones into the casualties!)

The Lu army's telegram was even more exaggerated: "Liu Jingxiao's troops were extremely shameless. Taking advantage of the opportunity of handover, they concentrated their forces to attack our army when our vanguard entered the city. Suddenly, although the soldiers and soldiers resisted together, they were forced to withdraw from the city because they were outnumbered... In this battle, three or four hundred enemies were killed and wounded, and six of our army suffered casualties..."

However, although Ding Ning was a real person, his deputy Fang Chuming was very slippery. As soon as he saw the telegram, he immediately said: "Captain, these two guys are uneasy and are trapped by the Captain!"

Ding Ning smiled and said, "It's okay, I have my own way!"

Now Hu Bo and Meng Dingguo are putting all the responsibility on Ding Ning, but if they have meat to eat, they can't escape to drink the soup. However, Ding Ning is also very clever. She quickly reported it to Liu Jingxiao, and specifically ordered the sentence "In the end, Menghu and the two agreed to hand over Mengyin County to the royal army."

If you accidentally speak, you will be caught. Ding Ning specifically picked up the problem of this sentence. She said in the telegram: "Whether these two people were instructed by the commander of the division, otherwise it would be a serious crime to give up Mengyin County without asking for instructions! Please punish Ding Ning for the ineffective supervision!" However, Ding Ning also proposed his own solution, "He has led a battalion of infantry and cavalry to assist Mengyin County, but the troops are not strong enough. It is a war or harmony. Please ask the chief of the division to make a decision early!"

After receiving the telegram, Liu Jingxiao immediately scolded Meng Dingguo and Hu Bo to the point of bleeding. Although there was no oil in Mengyin County, the crime of giving up without asking for instructions was a big deal. The thing that Liu Jingxiao was most afraid of was that his subordinates did not obey him. Ding Ning's words touched his key points. Liu Jingxiao was also undecided about the war.

He was unwilling to fight with Wang Ziqi's troops, but although Mengyin County was not rich, it occupied Mengyin and controlled most of the Yimeng Mountains, established a defense line north of Linyi, and finally kicked the ball back: "... Let the regiment commander Ding Ning break at the right time!"

However, the troops on the front line were too thin, so he immediately added another batch of troops and was still in charge of Ding Ning's command. However, Liu Jingxiao was also preparing to go to the front line to observe.

At this time, Hu Bo and Meng Dingguo were like ants on a hot pan. After receiving Liu Jingxiao's telegram, they became much more at ease. Shortly after the telegram was sent, Wang Ziqi's army sent negotiators and demanded that Hu Bo's troops immediately withdraw from Mengyin and compensate for the damage caused by the Lu army.

As for compensation? Is this mountain open, this tree planted, and I will pass by, and I will put the gun first! Hu Bo's camp's equipment is excellent, and the Lu army has long been jealous. We have all bought all these goods. As for the Mengding Artillery Regiment, the entire division is only four, and now there are two in Mengyin City. The Lu army proposed that the 17th Division be used to put all the guns, and the officers are no exception!

You can discuss the city, but after the gun is taken off, how can we explain to the top! Especially when the top agrees, the bottom disagrees! Meng Dingguo has been scolded by Liu Jingxiao recently, and shook his head and said, "No! No!"

When they received the telegram, Meng Dingguo's attitude became tougher. In addition to cursing them, they took the initiative without asking for instructions, saying that major issues were criminal acts, and they were temporarily allowed to commit crimes and made meritorious service. The telegram also had the intention of not giving up in a small amount of land. Meng Dingguo wanted to keep the position of the regiment commander, so he simply proposed counterconditions: 1. Wang Ziqi's army immediately withdrew from Mengyin County, 2. Compensation for the losses of the 17th Division, 3. Ensure that the Mengyin Earthland would not be violated again.

This made the negotiator of the Lu army furious and rushed out of the city angrily. Hu Bo wanted to object, but Meng Dingguo's position was higher than him, so he could not withstand Meng Dingguo's bullish nature.

As soon as the Lu army heard the negotiation conditions of Mengding, they immediately lie down with more people and more artillery and directly launched an attack. After all, the regular army was extraordinary and completely different from the bandits. First, the artillery assault, then the infantry surrounded it, but came from afar and did not bring much siege equipment. As a result, after half an hour of fighting, Mengding suffered a great loss, with more than 80 casualties, and Wang Ziqi's Qi army also suffered a hundred casualties.

The Lu Army originally thought that it could easily take down the county town, but unexpectedly, Hu Bo Camp was really powerful, so he rushed to the top, and on the other hand, the two sides started negotiations again.

The focus is still on the issue of gunfire. Now they have proposed that the officers' guns can't be cut, but the soldiers' guns and the mountain howitzers of Mengdingguo must be handed over. This really takes Mengdingguo's life and will never do it!

The more than 100 casualties were just a living thing for the Lu army, but for the Hu Bo camp, which had a total force of only 600, it was really a bit of a headache. Meng Dingguo and Hu Bo tried their best to telegraph Ding Ning and Liu Jingxiao, asking for reinforcements.

Since the negotiations broke down and everyone started fighting again, the Lu army still suffered a loss because they did not bring siege equipment. They finally rushed to the city gate and were repelled by the counterattack carefully arranged by Hu Bo.

The telegram that Meng Dingguo boasted said that "the enemy army was full of corpses", and the Lu army also boasted: "The Liu army suffered heavy casualties, and Mengyin could be sent down immediately..." However, half of Hu Bo's life had been lost. Although he took advantage of the power of mountain granites, after two firefights, one hundred and eighty casualties were killed in one go, and almost half of the combat soldiers were killed. He has now sent all the messengers to the front line.

The Lu army was also uncomfortable. More than 400 casualties were injured and killed in one day. Moreover, these thousands of people were out of the city without food or grass, and even less than a cup of water. If they fought again, the soldiers stopped doing it and unanimously demanded that the war start again tomorrow!

Getting food and grass was Wang Ziqi Jun's profession. After scrambling several nearby villages, he barely got food that could fill his hunger. The city was full of food. Meng Dingguo ate it in big mouthfuls with onion pancakes.

The conditions were not good, and Meng Dingguo had to settle down. After entering Shandong, everything else was good, but he was used to eating rice and instead used to eating rice and scallion cakes. He was very uncomfortable and even made a lot of jokes at first.

The artillery regiment was full of Hubei people, and they could not even pave the sand in millet. The rice was full of sand. As a result, Meng Dingguo smashed the bowl and cursed: "This sand is used to pave the road, but I didn't let you pave the road in my stomach..."

But it’s good to get used to it. Mengdingguo is not eating very well now! Since some people eat deliciously, there must be some people who can’t eat. Hu Bo is one of them. Now he is overwhelmed. Today, two artillery soldiers in Mengdingguo were killed and killed, and nearly two hundred people were killed and killed in his troops at once, so naturally they couldn’t eat.

Besides, there are only a few soldiers in the city, how can we make trouble? The military discipline of these Lu soldiers is not very good, but their combat effectiveness is not weak. I thought I could use the skill of dealing with bandits - the fight between hand and blades, but I didn't know that the opponent would support it for a while before it could break down. The battle tomorrow is really not optimistic!

That night, he couldn't sleep well, and Liu Jingxiao was the same. After only two or three hours of sleep, the headache was that Wang Ziqi scolded him by name: "This department is stationed in southern Shandong, not only invaded Mengyin, but also prevented the provincial army from taking over Mengyin today, which caused conflicts... All consequences will be fully responsible for this department!"

Let’s give up Mengyin like this. I don’t know if the troops in this city can withdraw safely. Besides, people are not satisfied. What if Wang Ziqi is not satisfied after getting Yimeng, and continues to lead his troops south? Wang Ziqi is very, very dissatisfied with his acceptance of Shandong Nan!

Only Li Dingyuan, who was stationed in Haizhou, sent a telegram to comfort him. Haizhou is also an independent force within the jurisdiction of the Jiangsu Governor. Since they were both sick, Liu Jingxiao immediately reached an agreement to support and understand each other, and to the old man who called the Governor.

As for the calls from all over Shandong, since Governor Wang has opened the Jinkou, there is only one tune. No matter what the four major families in Jiaodong or the four major scholars in northern Shandong, they all criticized Liu Jingxiao for invading Yimeng and using weapons, which caused the people to be distracted and violent in disguise... and even if the couple did not run away from the children...

Let’s put it this way, even if someone else’s little wife hooks up with a new lover, it’s all Liu Jingxiao’s responsibility!

The only thing that made him feel at ease was that local people in southern Shandong were quite supportive of him and did not take the opportunity to put down the wrong things. Although Liu Jingxiao occupied southern Shandong, his rule was not consolidated. However, local people in southern Shandong felt that he was much stronger than Wang Ziqi, so they didn't need Liu Jingxiao to speak, and they all offered to fully support Liu Jingxiao.
Chapter completed!