Regarding this suggestion, Huo Qiu followed suit and said: "That's right, it's time to make up his mind!"

What is the moment when you should make up your mind? It is now. No matter how much sacrifice and price you pay under Nanchang City, it is worth it for the Second Division, which means that the entire Jiangxi Province belongs to them and is of great significance to Huo Qiu.

His tone was very resolute: "Even if an infantry regiment is killed or injured, please remember the Qing Yao and don't compete with our Second Division in the wild."

The Hunan Army's current defense is generally a battle in the city, but most of the Qing army is deployed outside the city - this is a very normal thing. In this time and space, the offense and defense of the strongholds outside the city are often critical. Moreover, once the city attack and defense are directly carried out, thousands or even tens of thousands of households will have to be burned down. For any city, this is an unbearable burden.

Moreover, the Hunan Army is indeed a good player in building up the building. They have built countless camps outside the city with their hearts. In terms of strength and ability to resist artillery fire, it is no less than that of the city walls of Nanchang City. And once the periphery is abandoned, it means that the entire city has been completely blocked and cannot obtain foreign aid. Therefore, the main force of the Hunan Army is still deployed outside the city.

But for the Second Division, this is an opportunity to try to annihilate a part of the Qing army outside the city. As long as one or two Hunan troops with a large proportion, the Hunan army's defense line will collapse without fighting. Lu Ziyun already thought of his opponent: "We can solve Liu Changyou, and this time we can't let this old opponent go."

The battle between Liu Changyou's troops and the Second Division had lasted for several months. Although they had taken advantage of the Second Division in these months, they were mostly frustrated or even severely damaged by the Second Division. If the Second Division had not kept a close eye on Liu Changyou's troops in the Fuzhou Battle, perhaps Liu Changyou's troops would have been completely wiped out by the Second Division at that time.

Even so, Liu Changyou's troops can only be regarded as troops that have been annihilated by the Second Division. They lost most of their troops in Fuzhou in a few months. Although they had been replenished several times, the 6,000 troops left when they entered Jiangxi now have less than 3,000 people, and their morale is quite low. (-< Shuhai Pavilion >-net.)

Regarding the second division, he did not need to mobilize his old opponent, but directly entered the battle, Huo Qiu agreed to this judgment: "Liu Changyou has less than 3,000 people left, and all the artillery and supplies were captured by us in Fuzhou. It can be said that it is the weakest branch of the Hunan Army in Nanchang. We will have no problem in attacking him, so I will talk to Chief Qu to discuss this issue!"

However, Lu Ziyun was a little unoptimistic about the results of his negotiations with Qu Jie: "Mr. Qu's current stable layout may not be willing to change the pattern for our division."

In fact, it is not as simple as changing the pattern. Although the Second Division has three infantry regiments and a newly formed ** regiment, the five states in the rear occupy a lot of troops. Therefore, now there are only two infantry regiments of the Second Division and the division's direct team under Nanchang City. Although it has an absolute advantage in military strength compared to Liu Changyou, if you want to annihilate Liu Changyou's army at one time, you must have the support of the First Division and other troops.

However, Yun Tianzong's view was different: "I think Commander Qu has always been easy to talk to, and he should agree to us to destroy Liu Changyou first."

In fact, Huo Qiu, who came back two hours later, had a flush on his face. He shouted: "Let the brothers prepare to take action, and be prepared to make considerable sacrifices, but no matter how much sacrifice is, this is the price our second division should pay."

Lu Ziyun was shocked and asked, "Captain Qu agrees to us to beat Liu Changyou?"

Huo Qiu's answer was somewhat unexpected: "Captain Qu agreed to mobilize the entire army, and our Second Division was responsible for the main attack, but it was not to attack Liu Changyou..."

"Don't you hit Liu Changyou?" Yun Tianzong interrupted, "If you count the Qing demons confront our army outside the city, Liu Changyou will be the weakest!"

"Precisely because Liu Changyou is the weakest, if you don't hit Liu Changyou, you will crush the hardest bone first! Let's hit Li Xubin." Huo Qiu replied: "Captain Qu said that if our second division is unwilling to attack, the first division will take the lead!"

Yun Tianzong smiled: "The standard style of the Dragon Gun Camp, Commander Qu has been in the Dragon Gun Camp for so long, and he has such arrogance!"

That's right, this is the standard style of the Dragon Gun Camp and the standard temperament of the Dragon Gun Camp. Before he knew it, Qu Jie was also assimilated by the Dragon Gun Camp, and his judgment was completely consistent with the temperament of the Dragon Gun Camp.

Lu Ziyun also said: "Yes... the pride of the Dragon Spear Camp, the gap between us and the First Division is just that."

No matter what criticism the Second Division has for cadres from the First Division, the cadres of the First Division do have more confidence and pride than the Second Division.

In their eyes, the 20,000 to 30,000 Qing troops under Nanchang City were just a number. The Second Division was thinking about how to knock out the weakest first. The strongest enemy army naturally became weak if it lost the support of friendly forces.

However, the cadres of the First Division had different views. No matter what the enemy was, there were a bunch of numbers waiting to be resolved in front of them. The wisest decision was to eliminate the strongest enemy. As long as the strongest enemy was solved, the rest of the Qing army would naturally be frightened and collapse without fighting.

Whether they like this style or not, Huo Qiu and the cadres of the Second Division must accept this style: "Li Xubin's troops reached 6,000, with the largest number of troops, and had been in the war for many years. He was the longest history among the Jiangxi and Hunan Army and was the most brave. He can be said to be Zeng Yaotou's top ace. If he annihilated it, it would be like breaking Zeng Yaotou's ribs."

It was not just as simple as breaking Zeng Guofan's ribs, but it was like destroying the souls of the Jiangxi and Hunan Army. Therefore, Yun Tianzong immediately said: "If you annihilate Li Xubin, you can get Nanchang without fighting."

He really couldn't think of what courage would Zeng Guofan have to continue to defend Nanchang City if Li Xubin's troops were annihilated by the Hong army, and Lu Ziyun asked more anxiously: "Although the enemy and our troops were in opposition, we fought this battle, when will we take action!"

Huo Qiu gave the answer: "Wait for two more days, the inspector sent us two heavy artillery battalions to attack the city, and they will be in place soon, but these two days..."

Without his instructions, Yun Tianzong and Lu Ziyun both understood that they must not relax in the past two days.

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If there are aerial photography in this time and space, then looking at the camps of the Hunan Army in the air would be like a beehive, but in fact it is more complicated. You should know that the Hunan Army's tradition of "building hard villages and fighting stupid wars" has already carried forward the traditional Chinese turtle to a limit.

Their daily advance speed is only twenty or thirty miles, and there are no more marchs, but they are busy building camps every day, and it only takes a short time for them to build ant nest like worker ants, making it impossible for their opponents to break through such defense lines.

What's more, Li Xubin's camp construction on the bank of the Ganjiang River has been going on for many days. The eldest husband of the Hunan Army has been building the eight camps in front of him day and night, building a thorough three-dimensional defense line. Not only are there traditional trenches, long walls, looking at buildings, resisting horses, and earthen buildings, but also many types of war defense equipment that are close to the West, not to mention that obstacles and hidden trenches are deployed everywhere, and there are also bird guns and gun holes that lift guns everywhere. Many places have also set up artillery positions, not only are there Chinese mountain-cutting cannons, camp cannons, general cannons, but also foreign cannons imported from Guangdong by the Hunan Army.

Not to mention that there are warships from Neihu Navy's Navy on the river to assist in the war, and there are Hunan troops nearby, and they can even use artillery to form a crossing force. According to Li Xubin himself, "Even the Red Thief takes tens of thousands of pounds of general cannons, we cannot bomb our camp."

This is not empty talk. When Li Xiucheng attacked Yuhuatai in another time and space, he used a large number of Western heavy artillery, but he had no good idea for the Hunan Army's fortifications that reached several layers, and ended in failure. Now Li Xubin is even more confident.

You should know that he has tried it. Whether it is the mountain-splitting cannons, camp cannons, or foreign cannons equipped, the power of heavy fortifications such as the fortresses and earth buildings built in his camp can be slightly lower. Moreover, the COFCO service of his camp can be paid for half a month, and the gunpowder equipment can be paid for one month, and the military pay is also free.

However, this confidence became dimmed with the infiltration of the Hongjun. Although he did not know what the enemy's intention was, the veteran Li Xubin, a veteran, was keen to find that the number of Hongjun in front of his camp group had increased. Moreover, they not only tried to penetrate their camps, but also tried to break their contact with other Hunan troops.

Li Xubin responded immediately to this point. He was ready to control the Hunan Army of the two infantry battalions and to counterattack at any time. However, the Hong Army invested more and more reconnaissance forces, and it was accompanied by the emergence of many Minni riflemen.

The Minni rifle, a cross-age weapon, made the counterattack tactic of the Hunan Army a joke. The Hong Army now not only has the advantage of the rate of fire, but also has the advantage of the range. Many times, the enemy's Minni riflemen dared to fire half a mile and could achieve results.

These Minni rifles lurking near the Hunan Army's barracks are often the core of the Hong Kong Army's reconnaissance team. Although they are not a sharpshooter who can beat every shot, they quickly cut off most of the contact between Li Xubin's troops and other Hunan Army, and even made water withdrawal and wood chopping a very dangerous job.

Li Xubin decisively decided to go out to fight with the scouts of these red thieves, but he soon understood the fact that if the Hunan Army had separated from the camp and field fortifications and fought with an enemy like the Hong Army with an absolute advantage in firepower in the field, it would definitely be a matter of seeking death. The Qing army of the two battalions had only one mile away from the camp and had been trapped in the multiple fire nets of the Hong Army Minni riflemen and Western fast cannons. If Li Xubin had not seen the opportunity quickly, it would have been as simple as losing sixty or seventy people.

But Li Xubin had already smelled the intention of the Red Thief, and they were coming to him, Li Xubin and the six thousand people.
Chapter completed!