"It must be a minority. Not to mention anything else, this flintlock machine is extremely cumbersome and the steel used is rare." A young soldier said in a strong Guangdong accent.

This is the soldiers who joined the army during the fierce battle of Batt's Hussar Battalion. It is a rare horsemanship in the south. Its archery skills are not satisfactory, but one thing is not enough for everyone. It is a skill that can repair and maintain the cavalry. He can handle many minor problems, and the level of raising and protecting horses is also extremely high. Otherwise, he would not be able to work in the Hussar Battalion.

This soldier is from Hong Kong. Although Bart has never been there, he also knows that Hong Kong is one of the few industrial centers in the United States. This soldier is also a child of the workshop and is knowledgeable.

"But it is not entirely true. There are too many skilled craftsmen in the Central Plains and Jiangnan. Even if they are just piecemeals, they can make a lot of powerful things." The Mongolian officers had different opinions.

Bati nodded, feeling that what the two of them were right, but they also felt that this was not what they had to consider. They asked someone to gather the cavalry team and send people to send all the prisoners and equipment back. At this time, a sharp bone whistle sounded, and then in the surrounding villages, the hills were rising one after another, like toads roaring after the rain, as if they could communicate.

"Hurry up, gather people and let's retreat!" Bart gave the order.

The southern soldier asked, "Sir, what's the noise? It's noisy."

"This is the whistle of bones. We Mongolians hunting on the grasslands, so we use this whistle to connect and integrate!" Bart got on the war horse and explained. Seeing the soldier nodding, he seemed very curious, and he said disdainfully: "It's been so many years, and he still has this ability, and he has a lot of hope!"

Bart was originally a resolute and reckless man. At that time, in the face of such a situation, he would definitely not retreat. A few had to go up and fight. In recent years, Bart fought in the southeast and was trained in his spare time. He knew that the overall situation was important and could not bear to have many deaths and injuries from his brothers. He even led his men to retreat a little. His cavalry team had only taken an hour to attack and did not charge wildly. The horsepower was still enough. The sent back quickly contacted the two cavalry teams in the base camp and a brigade of the task force, and soon gathered more than 400 cavalrymen.

Hearing that there was a backup, Bart personally led people to provoke the pursuit of the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, fighting and retreating, and leading the enemy into the encirclement. There were more than 300 Mongolian cavalry. They thought Bart dared not fight and chased him relentlessly. When they chased him to a river, they were attacked by ambushers. Yishui'er's flintlock rifle was fired for a round, without loading ammunition, and even took off his step bow and shot. He practiced similar tactics several times, and the terrain was chosen. When the Mongolian Eight Banners fought desperately, there were no more than half of them left. After half an hour of battle, only seven or eight people escaped.

Bart knew that the task force was directly affiliated with the Beiyang War Zone and was very arrogant and thought that he would suffer losses in the distribution of military merits, but he never thought that the major in the task force was divided directly by the proportion of his efforts. As a result, the Hussar Battalion divided two-thirds of the military merits, but Bart also agreed to do the major a favor, that is, to escort several staff members of the Beiyang War Zone to front-line surveying and mapping.

After asking, Bart knew that this task force set out directly from Jiaozhou, and escorted more than 20 young staff members, drawings and intelligence. Half of them were ordered to explore the traffic conditions between Jiaozhou and Qingzhou, and the rest were in the hands of this task force. They were just careless. They stayed in a town last night and were sneak attacked by local regiments at night. There were not many people. However, when they broke up in the morning, the people ran away because of the fog in the early morning.

After hearing the reason, Bart was so angry that he came out of his way and cursed: "This group of evil gentry deserves to be damned. Brother Cao, let me leave it for now when I look at the investigation of the frontier. Anyway, the general's vanguard team will not arrive for seven or eight days, but those dogs must not be let go. Let's kill one and go back to the horse and kill them first!"

Major Cao Yu of the task force was a standard professional and did not want to make trouble. However, the staff in the team had never been so angry. Seeing that Bart's Hussars were brave and good at fighting, they were willing to stand up, and they all wanted to avenge them. One of the leading staff members said directly that several important drawing officers were not there, and they could not record after investigation. It would be better to clear out the local traitors first.

Cao Yu couldn't stop his eyes and said, "Okay, let's follow the Bart brothers. If something happens, let's fight together!"

The town called Fushan had already grown up. Last night, the gentry pretended to flatter, and the staff members could not bear the hardship and insisted on going to the town to rest. This was the only way to get to know that there was a gentry surnamed Zhuang in the town. He arrested several people in the town to know that there was a gentry in the village, but a genuine Manchu robe. There were two wineries in the town in Fushan, which were the property of a Jueluo in the capital.

Seeing that Bart was puzzled, Cao Yu knew clearly because he had worked in Qingdao fortress for many years, so he explained: "The Bart brothers don't know that the poor and militant soldiers in the Qing Dynasty have caused the people to be poor and exhausted. In order to fight with us, the Tatar emperor dared not stop exploiting the people, but wanted to gain a reputation for virtuousness. He was in Zhili, which was short of food, and the Shanxi area was forbidden to brew wine, but people in the capital and on the grassland could not do without these things. The Manchu nobles in the capital drove the pot to Shandong and scraped the ground to make wine."

Bart snorted coldly: "Since that's the case, it's definitely impossible to keep."

But Bart did not attack hard. Cao Yu was trapped in Fushan last night. Knowing the situation inside, there was no special place in the village. There were only trenches and wooden buildings on the left. Not to mention siege cannons, they could open the hole with two light cannons. However, the township inside did not lack firearms, flintlock guns and cannons, but there were no franchises and three-eyed guns. Bart was all cavalry and had no heavy weapons at all. There must be losses in the strong attack. Fortunately, Bart had a plan.

Bat sent people to disguise themselves as uninformed scouts and forcibly occupied a farm outside the town with the Zhuang family. They had enough food and drink, and deliberately let the people there hear the news that the army was about to wipe out Fushan. That night, the news that the three thousand United States troops had already rushed to Fushan was discovered by Fushan. The next morning, the servant asked someone to pack up and retreat southward. After walking less than twenty miles, he was chased by Bat and Cao Yu personally led cavalry.

The township tyrants in Fushan did not have cavalry, and they never dealt with cavalry. Once they were attacked, they were defeated. More than 400 cavalry chased and killed thousands of township tyrants, chopped down more than 200, and the rest were arrested. Fortunately, Bart and others knew the rules of the army and repaired the dog slave, sent a team to escort the wounded soldiers, and escorted the slave and his lackeys to Jiaozhou for trial. Many local people in Fushan were bullied by him on weekdays. Cao Yu organized more than 30 victims to go to Jiaozhou to testify, which was also a beautiful task.

Bart watched Cao Yu explain the matter with his own eyes, and couldn't help but sigh that the Beiyang War Zone has been changing with each passing year. When he first joined the army, he always felt that his ability was not allowed to be used because of his Mongolian status. He even hated the young officers from the school. He thought that those who couldn't pull the two stone bows were all cowards. Later, he went to the Southeast War Zone to serve and deal with these officers less. Now that he saw Cao Yu's behavior, he deeply realized the word "quality". Thinking of Shangguan's teachings, as an officer, he was not just about fighting.

The Hussar Battalion and the Task Force were stationed in Fushan for two days, gathering more people, and successfully finding their lost colleagues. When Bart was bored, he also participated in local affairs with Cao Yu. According to military law, the army was not allowed to interfere in local administration and personnel affairs, but in the war zone, he had the right to participate in local justice with cheap power. To put it bluntly, it was to punish traitors and local poisoning, win the trust of the people, and to better complete the task.

The way Bart arrests traitors and punishes local bullies is very simple. It is to report it. As long as there are fifty people to testify, Bart will come to the door to arrest and ask for the background. If there are immediate relatives who are officials and generals in the Qing court, or marry into the powerful and powerful people in the Qing Dynasty, they will hang the chief evil and send the rest to Jiaozhou. If there is no such background, misdemeanors will whip and beat boards, and serious crimes will also hang them. Of course, all criminal laws are endorsed by military police, which is reasonable.

No matter whether it is misdemeanor or serious crime, those who are punished will be punished for parading in the streets, which has won cheers from the local people.

In two days, not only was this cavalry welcomed, but the supply and rest were also supported by the people, and there was also an unexpected surprise. It turned out that in order to please the people from Qingzhou Daying, the slave surnamed Zhuang sent a strong man to Qingzhou Daying to repair fortifications. Because it was a wheel worker, some of them had already returned. This was ready-made intelligence. The intelligence staff in the war zone immediately started to work. After Bart discussed with Cao Yu, he definitely left one hundred cavalry to help the intelligence staff continue this model. The two brought the other staff together and went to Qingzhou Daying.

From the time of restoration of Yongning to the present, the Qing Dynasty and the United States had fought 21 years of battles, and countless battles of all sizes were fought. The Qing Dynasty lost more and won less, but it finally found many tricks, and the most important method was to build tough villages to fight stupid wars.

In recent years, the Qing Dynasty, from the court to the local government, realized that its troops, whether they are local regiment training or elite Eight Banners, as long as they are large-scale decisive battles, the quality of soldiers, tactical cooperation and military quality are far inferior to the United States. The only one who can gain the upper hand is the military strength and resources. The one who can play this advantage is the fierce battle of positions and consume human lives and money. Such a method cannot achieve absolute victory, but it is not easy to collapse and fail.

The Daying was originally the site of the Qing army stationed and had living facilities. However, the Daying, which was on the front line, had long become a three-dimensional and comprehensive fortification group, especially the Qingzhou Daying. Zhang Cunren started operating the second year after taking office. Over the past decade, it has already reached a large scale.

Qingzhou Daying spreads along the southeast and northeast of Qingzhou City. There are trenches, fences, runs, chest walls, transportation trenches, and garrisons. Fortifications are covered with fortifications, firepower is stacked with firepower, and backed by Qingzhou City, which is known as solid.

The Qing Dynasty used the large camp to deal with the United States' superior firepower and the strict array of Li's family, but the large-scale use was still in the process of the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi. The Shenzhen camp established by the elite Eight Banners commanded by Boluo and the troops under the vassals of the Three Hans. Although the camp was inevitably broken through and became the first failure of the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, it is undeniable that it was a rare battle in the Qing Dynasty that could fight head-on with the United States. Compared with the Guangzhou city-defense battle organized by the Three Hans, it was even more useful.

The Shenzhen camp in those days was operated by the Li Chengdong era and the designs of the Han vassals hiring foreigners from Nanyang. However, as time went by, if it was used in the Qingzhou camp, it would be outdated. With Zhang Cunren's efforts, the Qingzhou camp made many improvements, and three major improvements were made. The first was to strictly implement fire prevention. At this moment, the Qing Dynasty had already experienced the power of rockets in the United States. If it were a daily camp, just exposed tents, food and grass could burn the camp to the sky. Didn't Dorgon die on such a weapon?

The second is to increase defense. This not only requires strengthening fortifications, but also increasing the dimension of defense, especially from the head. After all, the lead bullet fell from the head in a brigade or regiment as a unit, from a volley of 500 meters away. Although it is not very lethal, it is impossible for the army to harvest life in pieces when it cannot fight back. This is not something that the Qing army can bear. Of course, new types of bullets such as shrapnel appeared on the southeast battlefield, which is simply a death harvester for dense arrays of soldiers.

The third is to increase firepower. Match-ropes are not enough, but the Qing Dynasty did not have the ability to popularize flintlock rifles. Fortunately, there are weapons in this world that are easier to mass-produce than flintlock rifles, that is, artillery, especially light artillery such as Franc and mountain-splitting cannons. They can still make a difference by relying on fortifications. The Qing Dynasty entered the pass and confiscated many kinds of artillery, and all of them were taken out from the treasury. Even if each cannon could only be fired, it was extremely useful.

In trench warfare and position warfare, the famous grenades also appeared in the Qing army, but the Qing army did not have such complete processing technology, so they mostly used porcelain bottles and cans of gunpowder and stones to be filled with, and they still followed suit. Mortars were not new, but due to technical limitations, the Qing Dynasty was still at a point where it was neither high nor low, so there were still some.

The Qingzhou camp has entered a state of alert, and the strong men and others have been driven away. Qingzhou City, which is backed by Qingzhou City, is the main grain storage point of the Daying army. The task force has drawn some maps and caught some tongues through the viewing. However, the key information is provided by Bart. There are many Mongolian soldiers under his command, many of them are newly joined. They look similar to the Eight Mongolian Banners. When they put on their clothes, they are like fish in water. Qingzhou camp is very big, and this group of Mongolian soldiers cannot cover everything. Fortunately, they found a more labor-saving way and tied up the people in charge of supervising the camp, but most of them looked like foreigners.
Chapter completed!