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Next, Li Ziying is to expand the Qing army. The rebels like to use crowd tactics to make people in a region rebel. Li Ziying also binds the local people together so that the people along the way will join the Qing army. They must use crowd tactics to offset the arrogance of the rebels. Although the methods used are very bloody, but the effect is very good. There are lessons learned from the past. In other villages along the way, no villagers dared to shoot black guns. Instead, there were patriotic gentry who came forward to negotiate with Li Ziying and were willing to serve the country and provide people and food.

The officers and soldiers of Li Ziying made a big publicity to let the people along the way know that the Qing army had returned. In a day, more than 400 cavalrymen of Li Yingzi wandered around Xinyao Town, burned, killed and looted, slaughtered the stubborn villages and let them return to the Qing villages. More than 1000 villagers have joined the ranks of the Qing army before dinner time.

There are some local gentry armed forces who voluntarily joined the Qing army. Some fortresses are still resisting the siege of the rebels by virtue of their geographical advantages. Guolou held his head and cried like seeing his father and mother, expressing his utter loyalty to the Qing Dynasty and his courage to die

Li Guolou looked at the twelve big landlords kneeling on the ground. Fortunately, he came early and rescued these people. The remnants of the army returned. These people used to be Ma Hualong's supporters, and most of them were not land owners. Their patriarchs, The masters all fled to Jinji Fort, or it can be said that they were captured by Ma Hualong and entered Jinji Fort. "But he has no sense of identity and doesn't want to fall into the arms of the third master. These local squires also know what kind of organization the Gelaohui is. They are unwilling to be arrested without a fight. That's why they resisted the impact of the mob. Now they pretend to be patriots of the Qing Dynasty in front of him.

Li Guolou doesn't tell the lies that these people are full of. Now he wants to use the remnants of the "rebellion" to eradicate the rebels of the Gelaohui and treat them as elite soldiers. Li Guolou pretended to be full of emotions and sighed with both hands: "Mr. Yao is really No. 1 through the ages. He can hold up a piece of sky in the Xinyao area. The official will definitely recommend you. After the Yan'an area, you will take it on your shoulders." Ahhhhh”[

Among these landlords, Yao Bin is the most powerful. He has more than 70 armed men. His situation is a bit special. His elder brother Yao Yue is utterly loyal to Ma Hualong, leading his family to flee to Jinji Fort. He has been following the admiral Lei Zhengwan. Not long after he returned home, he was besieged by mobs. The fort was not killed by the mob, and I am grateful for Li Guolou's arrival

The muscular Yao Bin saluted with his fists clasped in a bandit manner, and said: "Mr. Li thinks highly of Xiaomin. I used to be a soldier. I hate Brother Laohui the most. Xiaomin is willing to die for the Great Qing"

Li Guolou nodded slightly and said: "Well, since Gentleman Yao is so straightforward, everyone will share wealth and fame and fortune in the hands of the kings. If you want to live a good life, you must eliminate the rebellion of elder brothers. Are you willing to attack Xinyao Town together with me?"

"Yes" "Yes" more than a dozen squires have expressed their stance that if they don't wipe out the rebellious Gelaohui rebels, their homes will be destroyed, and look at the crowds around them. The scale of the Qing army is unprecedented their opponents

"Mr. Li, please order my 71 people to obey orders." Yao Bin knelt on one leg and looked like a soldier.

"Okay, I won't treat you badly. Now reorganize your armed forces and send guns and grenades according to the number of each of you. There are [-] sets of military uniforms. First, let you dress up and be smart. Don't lose the face of my mighty Qing army." Li Guo Lou Yang laughed loudly and was satisfied with the performance of these squires. As long as he has someone to serve him, he can make these people die righteously. It is not enough to have elite soldiers in your hands. In war, you need cannon fodder. The most important thing is to scare the enemy. Most of the enemies have never fought before. When both sides fight, morale is overwhelming

Yao Bin and the others were all surprised when they came to the yard. The carts were full of weapons, medicines, and military uniforms. What reassured them most was seeing ten howitzers. Touching the barrel with these equipment is enough to fight the rebels

Fan Dahui registered and counted these gentry armed forces. Dozens of them were formed into a team, five of whom were members of the landlord's armed forces, and the other five were mixed with civilian husbands forcibly recruited from various villages. The Qing army of the battalion is in charge of sending a temporary supervisor in each army to train the team. The members of the landlord's armed forces give priority to weapons and equipment, so that each army has several Mausers and three or four who look like regular Qing troops. After all the soldiers were allocated, the team that was still making a mess just now would soon look like a decent team. The team leader will lead each team to have a reunion dinner first so that everyone can get to know each other.

Li Guolou planned to use these miscellaneous troops as the main infantry to frighten the rebels in Xinyao Town. I didn't dare to come out thinking that I was surrounded by the Qing army

The night is vast, the bonfires are raging outside Xinyao Town, and a terrifying atmosphere spreads. The Qing army bullied the enemy with an overwhelming advantage.

It took only half a day for Li Guolou to patrol and deploy the defense around. His strong organizational skills allowed Li Ziying to suddenly expand into three battalions of infantry. Receive a patriotic education class and prepare to fight against the enemy in Xinyao Town tomorrow

Fan Dahui, Li Yunkai, Li Yunzhu, Xu Lan, Fan Ye and other military officers came to Li Guolou's side. Under the oil lamp, Li Guolou looked around, and there was a smile on the resolute faces of his confidantes.

"Tomorrow's battle arrangement must have a clear main attack target. With our current strength, it will be very difficult to attack a town. If too many people die in battle, it will cause unnecessary panic. These miscellaneous troops will immediately reveal their true colors. The enemy will find out our weaknesses, so we Still follow today's model to develop and strengthen the team, mobilize more surrounding villages, gather people's hearts, arrest those rebels hiding in the villages, pull out a few strongholds outside Xinyao Town, improve the morale of the team, and make it impossible for the defenders to move. If the enemy dares to move out, we will fight a field battle with the enemy to make use of the advantages of artillery and cavalry and try not to expose the disadvantages of infantry."

Li Guolou's words caused a burst of complaints. Fan Ye was extremely indignant. He got ten howitzers, thinking that it would be enough to wipe out all the enemies. He protested loudly: "We don't want to attack Xinyao Town, so why are we here?"

Li Guolou smiled casually and said, "You don't understand that the tactic I'm using now is to kill the rebels. It's because there is a vast land to cross and the local people support us. It's a battle of popular support. As long as we arm the local area and let the people support us, we don’t want to use our hands to arm the local area. We will attack and build the villain’s various strongholds. Today we enter twenty miles, tomorrow we will extend around forty miles, and the day after tomorrow we will exceed one hundred miles. Now what we have done The thing is to sow the seeds and deprive the enemy of their living space. Lei Heng's rebel army will not be able to move eastward for half a step. The enemy's expansion plan is difficult to move in the east, and time and people's hearts are here. The defenders of Xinyao Town will not last long. Going back to Yan'an to fight in the wild is our forte, fighting attrition is not what we should do."

Fan Ye was still unwilling to ask: "Mr. Li, do you think the enemies of Xinyao Town will be dispatched?"

Li Guolou nodded and said: "Yes, I will not reveal my strength and I will not attack Xinyao Town. The enemy will always test the truth. Lei Heng will send troops to support. Besides, the defenders in Xinyao Town are also recruiting like us. The enemy will not be reconciled. If we fail, we will organize a counterattack. We need to set up pocket formations and set the battlefield in the place we designated. Now we have three battalions of infantry and two battalions of cavalry. The total number of soldiers is more than 1600, which is enough to destroy all the enemies."

Li Guolou's big talk is learning from the rebels. Both the enemy and us are expanding the team. The cowhide first picks up the big ones and sees whose cowhide is pierced.

At this time, the Northwest has been in war for many years, and the common people have collected firearms to defend their hometown. The firearms in the hands of the people are all kinds of birds, flintlock guns, matchlocks, broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, but no matter what they say, they can kill the enemy and serve the country. Li Guolou learned from the practice of the rebels and desperately expanded the team. First, resolve the unstable factors and let people return to the Qing Dynasty. This trick is very powerful. If you gather a peasant, you can gather a family, and even a village will have one heart with the Qing Dynasty. [

The sense of identity is very important. Those civilian officers who were forcibly conscripted by the Qing army slept with them and ate together. They will soon develop a comrade-in-arms relationship. The army will be able to win the battle with a stable morale. If the backbone forcefully sends these people who have never fought a battle to the battlefield, if their command is not effective on the battlefield, it will also cause collective fleeing. This battle cannot be won. Analyzing the current situation, the subordinates still agreed with his approach and no longer proposed to "smash" Xinyao Town in one go

Fan Dahui scratched his head and said, "Mr. Li used to fight like this. I thought we were going to fight desperately."

Li Guolou looked at the flickering and clear eyes of the oil lamp with evil spirit and said: "War is actually the ultimate expression of political struggle. If you want to win the victory on the battlefield, you must also stand on the height of justice in politics. Now we gather people's hearts and let them rebel. Pai becomes a fish in water and can only toss around in the mud. Before long, Lei Heng's tens of thousands of rebels will surely lose their morale. As long as the civilian husband dies in the hands of the rebels, a family will be at loggerheads with the Gelaohui. This is what they learned from the rebels. Why can the rebels catch strong men and we have to send troops from far away to directly use the local people to deal with the rebels? The effect is a hundred times better. You see Come on, those people who actively participated in the rebel army will run back soon."

"It's not bought by money." Fan Dahui couldn't believe that there is such a simple thing

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Master Fan has so many mouths to eat, how can there be no reason for not using money? There is only loess, I want to make a whole mine, and there is a place to dig.”

"Hey, it's so interesting to fight this battle and get poorer." Fan Ye agreed with Li Guolou's statement. It is really difficult to get rich while fighting in the Northwest.

Fan Dahui sighed: "Tianjin Wei is still better. There is gold everywhere, Mr. Li. Don't mess around. After this battle, don't fight again. We don't need to win glory for Zuo Zongtang."

"Don't disturb the morale of the army, I must win this battle." Li Guolou scolded his subordinates angrily. In fact, he was also exhausted. Winning the civil war is not worth showing off. Xining and Suzhou are still in the hands of the Hui army. The liberation campaign in the Northwest does not know when it will end.

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