Cutting 1719

Chapter 399 Clean Up
"Hmph, Guo Ding'an really has a big appetite. First, he ate 8000 hyena soldiers, but now he's targeting [-] Guizhou admirals. He doesn't even think about whether his third division can eat it or not."

In Ensi Mansion, in the camp of the Fuhan Army, a stout man with the rank of a colonel was frowning and looking at the battle report in front of him, complaining angrily, and there were several people standing beside him Among the men wearing high-ranking military ranks, the leader of them was wearing the rank of major general. It was Cheng Ming, the deputy commander of the Southwest Army who went south to fight this time.

Cheng Ming snorted softly, "Mr. Xu, don't say these complaints anymore. It is a good thing that Mr. Guo can win the flag. At least the road to Guizhou Province will be opened later, and you will have a lot of credit in the future. "

That stout man was Xu Mingyuan, who joined the Fuhan Army earlier. He is now the commander of the Fifth Division, and the other person next to him is Yue Lingfeng, the commander of the No. 12 Division in this battle. together.

After experiencing so many things, Yue Lingfeng became calmer, and said softly: "Deputy Marshal Cheng, I'm not waiting for merit, I'm just worried that the Cen's family is not that simple. The third division might suffer a disadvantage if they fail to do so, that would be bad."

"This matter does need to pay attention to one or two things."

Cheng Ming pondered for a while, and said in a low voice: "There are only 8000 Qing troops coming from the direction of Luodian, but we have to beware of the Fubiao camp in the hands of the governor of Guizhou and the green camps in several other towns. Starting from the state capital seems to be a bit disadvantageous for the attack on Guiyang.”

After hearing Cheng Ming's words, Xu Mingyuan and Yue Lingfeng immediately understood Cheng Ming's meaning, because on the map, if you start from Sizhou Prefecture, you can attack Guizhou from Sizhou and Qingyuan, but only from Sizhou To pass through Anshun Mansion, and from Qingyuan to pass through Duyun, Cheng Ming still wanted to divide the troops.

At the moment, Xu Mingyuan and Yue Lingfeng's eyes flashed with enthusiasm. Of course, they are willing to divide their troops. If they only start from Sizhou all the way, their fifth division and No.12 division can only fight and cooperate, and they may even eat their meat No, this is naturally not reconciled to the two of them.

After all, no one is inferior to anyone else. From the perspective of seniority, Xu Mingyuan and Yue Lingfeng's qualifications are much earlier than Guo Dingan's. They were the first to join, so why let him be the protagonist?

In fact, in the current Fuhan army, although the big guy has no grievances in private, when it comes to fighting, he will not give in at all. After all, as long as there is a war, then there will be money and land. If the teacher can't win battles, he will have no merits, and the whole teacher will be dissatisfied.

So for the two of them, it's good to divide the troops. If they divide the troops, they will be the main force, and they will have the opportunity to eat meat. If they can stop the governor of Guizhou, it will be a great thing.

Xu Mingyuan hurried forward, pointed at the map and said in a concentrated voice: "Deputy Marshal, perhaps we only need to send one division to assist the third division along the way to Sizhou, and the other division can pass through Qingyuan, attack Duyun, and then arrive Under the city of Guiyang, we can completely take Guizhou Province by advancing from two directions.”

"Two ways to go. That's a good idea."

Cheng Ming glanced at the two, with a meaningful smile on his face, "Then which one of you is willing to take the road of Qingyuan?"

"The final general is willing to go, please give the deputy commander permission!"

"The last general is also willing to go, please order from the deputy commander."

Xu Mingyuan and Yue Lingfeng asked for orders at the same time. After speaking, they stared at each other, and then looked at Cheng Ming.

Cheng Ming pondered for a while, and then said softly: "After all, the Twelfth Division is newly established. This time, we will still take Sizhou Road, and the Fifth Division will go to Qingyuan. But Xu Mingyuan, I want to remind you that if you If something goes wrong along the way, I won’t let you off easily, understand?”

After all, Cheng Ming is a veteran in the army, not only has high prestige, but also has a strict style of work, so neither of them dare to refute, but Xu Mingyuan's face is full of joy. After all, this time he can show his skills .

After receiving the order, the second general did not stay any longer, and after saying goodbye to Cheng Ming, they each went to organize the army to prepare for departure.As for Cheng Ming himself, he sent someone to inform Xu Tieshan, the commander of the First Division in Hunan, about his arrangement. After all, Xu Tieshan's attack was also to attack Guizhou, and he might be able to cope with it at that time.

Luodian, the camp of the Qing army.

He Shiji, the admiral of Guizhou, looked at the letter from Ertai, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and couldn't help but sighed deeply. The Cen family needs to be kept.

But in fact, He Shiji didn't want to forcibly defend the so-called Sizhou City at this critical point. The reason was very simple. First of all, as the admiral of Guizhou, he had heard about the Cen family for a long time, and there had been some disputes between the two parties. Small friction, from this point of view, he didn't want to save the Cen family at all.

Secondly, He Shiji also understands the combat power of the four thousand coyote soldiers of the Cen family, but when the four thousand coyote soldiers of the Cen family were wiped out in such a short period of time, it fully demonstrates one point, that is, the five thousand supervising standard battalion under him Can't beat it either.

This is not because He Shiji is self-effacing, because from the perspective of combat power, his battalion supervisor is not as good as the coyote soldiers, and the coyote soldiers can be beaten so badly, it is useless for him to lead the supervising battalion.Although there is still a Green Camp in Yongshun Town with 3000 people, how could he not know the background of the Green Camp in Yongshun Town?To put it bluntly, to deal with these 3000 people, only 500 coyote soldiers are enough.

"Xu Zongbing, Lord Duxian now hopes that we can lead the army to assist Sizhou, what do you think?"

He Shiji put away the letter, and was going to see Xu Wanhe's thoughts in Yongshun Town first, so he asked about it.

Xu Wanhe is not a general in the traditional sense. He was originally a flower cloth seller. Later, because his younger sister became the concubine of Mao Wenquan, the governor of Guizhou, he got the position of the commander-in-chief of Yongshun Town. Money, with this as the foundation, it has been relatively smooth in Yongshun Town.

Speaking of which, Ertai is the new governor after all—if he hangs out in the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou for another two years, Ertai should have a clearer understanding of the officialdom of the entire Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. People like Xu Wanhe would not be arranged to go to the battlefield, because the attacker made it clear that he was going to give the other party meritorious service.

Xu Wanhe was originally unwilling to come, but when he saw He Shiji's words had other meanings, he deliberately tried to say: "If the Lord Du Xian has an order, the general will naturally obey it, but the current situation is complicated, and the Lord Du Xian has not yet come. Being able to control the situation in a timely manner, the general thinks that it is good for the military sect to call the shots, and the general will listen to the military sect."

When He Shiji heard Xu Wanhe's statement, he felt secretly refreshed, and immediately waved his hands and said: "Brother Xu's words made He feel ashamed, but what you said is indeed reasonable. Although Lord Duxian wants us to help the Cen family guard Sizhou, but Right now, the [-] coyote soldiers in Sizhou have been wiped out, if they go again, they may fall into Chu Ni's tricks."

"Of course, we don't want to disobey Lord Duxian's intentions. How about this? Brother Xu, you lead people to stay in Baile Town, which is not far or close to Sizhou. If Chu is against the trend, you can just retreat. Let’s go to Luodian, if Chu Ni won’t be able to take down Sizhou for a while, then it won’t be too late for us to leave.”

Xu Wanhe was stunned by what He Shiji said, and he quickly reflected on it, and praised repeatedly: "The military sect is really good at strategy, and now when Chu Ni attacks the city, we will more or less take our existence into consideration. Don’t dare to do it so recklessly, the military sect’s plan is very clever!”

"Hahahaha. If it weren't for this, how could this old man be able to stay in the position of admiral in Guizhou for a long time?"

The two laughed heartily, and went to a feast together, but as for Ertai's urgent order, it became something that no one paid attention to.

When He Shiji and Xu Wanhe's army stopped in Luodian and Baile Town, people from both sides were stunned. One was the Cen family who was defending Sizhou, and the other was thinking The third division of the Fuhan Army who was besieging the city and fighting for aid, both sides were very puzzled. What the hell is this Qing army doing?

Especially for Guo Ding'an, his real goal is not to capture this empty Sizhou, but to attract He Shiji from Luodian through the Battle of Sizhou, and wipe out his 8000 people .

But people are not as good as heaven, Guo Dingan has always been used to playing chess with masters, and his siege and reinforcements are to deal with those smart people, but he really did not expect that the Qing army came all the way in a menacing manner, and then stopped at the door—— — not coming in!
It doesn't matter if the Qing army doesn't come in, but this also means that some of Guo Ding'an's previous strategies were all flirtatious to the blind, and he did nothing.

Compared to the depressed Guo Ding'an, the brothers of the Cen family who are being besieged in the city are really crying without tears. The city recruited soldiers to defend, waiting for the Qing army to rescue.

But right now the Qing army came, but they didn't enter Sizhou at all. This not only made Cen Yingchen's wishful thinking completely wrong, but also cut off his last chance.

Cen Yingchen looked at his younger brothers, but he wanted to kill them all.First, it was Cen Yinghan who spoke poorly, which angered the Fu Han army and caused the disaster, then Cen Yingbi, who wiped out all [-] elite hyena soldiers of the Cen family in World War I, and then Cen Yinglin, who invited the Qing army for reinforcements. Watching the battle at the door, but didn't intend to come in at all!

If it weren't for these unworthy descendants of them, how could the Cen family be in this situation?
Cen Yingchen was full of regrets in his heart. It was a good thing to take refuge in Ning Chu, but it turned out to be like this. Even the last escape route was blocked. It was really God who wanted to destroy their Cen family.

After the Qing army made up their mind not to come in, Guo Ding'an was no longer polite. He quickly commanded the third division to conquer Sizhou, and the Cen family was also captured alive by the third division. After a simple trial , was executed in the name of treason. So far, the Cen family, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, has completely disappeared.

After Guo Dingan captured Sizhou, Xu Wanhe, who was stationed in Baile Town, was taken aback. Without hesitation, he took 3000 of his subordinates and headed towards Luodian. After Xu Wanhe left Baile Town, the No.12 Division also arrived in Sizhou under the leadership of Yue Lingfeng, joining forces with Guo Ding'an.

"Mr. Yue came to Sizhou, which made Guo feel relieved!"

In the handsome tent, Guo Ding'an held Yue Lingfeng's arm with a rather enthusiastic attitude, but Yue Lingfeng was a little flattered, is this person so polite to everyone?

"Mr. Guo has won the award. Yue is ashamed. This battle has not caught up. The whole Sizhou City was defeated by the third division. When I was in the Imperial Guard earlier, I heard that Deputy Envoy Ning commented on Mr. Guo. Using troops to act vigorously and resolutely, now it seems that the reputation is indeed well-deserved!"

Yue Lingfeng's temperament is quite stable now, so he was extremely polite when speaking, and he didn't feel jealous of Guo Ding'an's military exploits.

The so-called Deputy Envoy Ning does not refer to Ning Zhongyi, the king of Changshan, but Ning Zuyi, the commander of the Imperial Guard Division. He is now promoted to Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council, so Yue Lingfeng is called Deputy Envoy Ning.

"The teacher's kindness to Guo is as great as a mountain. Now that Guo has come to the third division, he dare not lose his face. Otherwise, when he returns to Nanjing, he will have no face to see him again."

Guo Ding'an's words were also somewhat serious. He knew that what he lacked most at the moment was prestige, that is, military exploits, so he was unwilling to let go of any opportunity.

"Mr. Guo has won the first victory this time, and with the occupation of Sizhou City, even Deputy Envoy Cheng will be satisfied. The third division is the main one, and my twelfth division can beat and drum." Yue Lingfeng had a smile on his face.

Although Guo Dingan had already guessed this arrangement, hearing what Yue Lingfeng himself said, he felt relieved and said with a soft smile: "In this case, then Guo is respectful rather than obedient. Although Guizhou is not the main battlefield of the Southwest War right now, we If we can play well in Guizhou, I am afraid it can also lead to the battle in Sichuan."

"That's right, brother Guo is indeed a great talent, but the main issue involved in this is the chieftain."

Yue Lingfeng is also a person who has studied martial arts at any rate, and he has a clear analysis of the real core of it. This is also the main difficulty of this Southwest War. Fighting the Qing army is nothing at all. What really needs to be fought is Those chieftain villages and native soldiers.

Guo Ding'an sighed softly, "The chieftain's troubles can be deeply discovered from the Cen family rebellion. In fact, after Guo took over Sizhou, many people thought that they would wait until our Fuhan army evacuated Sizhou. The family members will continue to be the chieftains and continue to dominate, after all, it has been hundreds of years, this is the tradition."

"Hmph, as early as in Nanjing, His Majesty told us that these chieftains seem to be weak, but under the entanglement, their survivability is extremely strong. When dealing with chieftains, we must talk about military affairs and military affairs. politics."

Yue Lingfeng said softly: "Cheng Fushi has already told Yue that in the near future, the Chief Secretary of Guangxi will arrange officials to come to Sizhou to carry out all-round land reform, and relevant officials will go to the countryside to implement new policies. Of course, these We all need our cooperation, at least Sizhou must be cleaned up, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the higher authorities."

(End of this chapter)