Several generals of the Shun Army nodded slightly after hearing this, and then Li Guo said: "We all know what General Li said, let's talk about the establishment. Can the imperial court really only provide establishment for two towns? We have 30,000

There are many soldiers, even if some are selected and eliminated, the remaining troops will not be more than two towns, right?"

Li Rendao: "Don't be impatient, please listen to what I have to say. The imperial court only established the establishment of your two towns, but it did not say that it would only recruit 24,000 people into the new army.

After this selection, your truly elite troops will be selected and transferred to the border armies until the remaining qualified ones reach the number of soldiers in the two towns.

Of course, the premise is that your troops are really, as you said before, mostly elite warriors who dare to fight.

If the soldiers selected according to the standards of the new army are not enough for the two towns, we will have no choice but to recruit troops from elsewhere to fill them."

"No, absolutely not." Gao Yigong said carelessly, "Well, we follow the army... well, our officers and men have all been fighting for several years. Except for a few who are too old or too young,

The rest should meet the requirements of the new army."

Li Ren smiled and said: "If the talisman does not meet the requirements, it doesn't matter what General Gao said, and it doesn't matter what I said. The people from the Recruitment Department will have to look at it to find out."

"Then let them see."

At this point, someone suddenly came outside the tent and said loudly: "General, there is movement among the Qing captives on the other side of the river. They seem to be trying to cross the river."

Just as the man finished speaking, several booms of cannons were heard from the edge of the Yellow River.

Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Xin Sizhong and other former Shunjun generals frowned upon hearing this.

"Commander Li, since the Qing captives have used cannons, I'm afraid they really want to cross the river to attack our army. We need to take command and dispatch as soon as possible."

Li Ren nodded, "You just go ahead - don't be afraid of Qinglu artillery, I will ask the outpost assigned to you by the Military Academy to support you."

Li Guo and others had seen the power of the artillery of the New Army of the Ming Dynasty. They all looked happy when they heard this and said, "This is great."

Immediately, the generals hurried out of the tent and returned to their respective armies.

The Yellow River flows from north to south between Shanxi and Shaanxi, separating the two provinces. In the northeastern corner of Shaanxi, Fugu County and Baodou City face each other across the river, and are only a few miles away from the Yellow River.

In the upper reaches of these two cities, there are both Hequ County in Shanxi and many forts in Yulin Town.

Therefore, this area has always been a battleground for military strategists.

Previously, when the Qing army withdrew from Shaanxi into Shanxi, they abandoned Fugu, but for some unknown reason they came to attack again.

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On the other side of the river, Bayan, who was in his thirties, frowned and looked at the movements of the Shun army on the other side. Next to him was Dong Xueli, the green battalion commander who also wore a money rat-tail whip.

"Sir Bayan, the Shun army on the opposite side seems to be in a bit of chaos. Do you need the general to send troops to cross the river?" Dong Xueli asked with a smile.

In Dong Xueli's eyes, Lord Bayan is truly Manchurian, so of course he must be careful to please him.

However, Bayan glanced at him and did not answer.

Bayan is actually Han Chinese.

But he still felt that Gao Dongxueli was more than a first-class scholar because his father was Li Yongfang.

There were many Han generals in the Qing Dynasty, but Li Yongfang was the first to surrender to Nurhaci, and he had a very high status in the Qing Dynasty.

As the fifth son of Li Yongfang, Bayan changed his name to a name that sounded very much like a real Manchu in order to be reused by the Qing court as soon as possible.

Later, he was promoted continuously, and now he is Angbang Zhangjing of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army, nominally commanding the entire Zhenglan Banner army.

The reason why I say this is because the Qing Dynasty was actually very wary of the Han people, the Mongols, and even the Manchus.

For example, the position of Angbang Zhangjing only appeared in recent years. In the past, it was directly called Gushan Ezhen, which means flag master.

But if he were replaced by Aung Bang Zhangjing, he would be in charge of a certain banner's troops and horses.

In addition, the Qing court often liked to distribute the troops and horses of a banner to various parties according to their armor, and rarely let the entire banner of troops and horses gather together.

For example, he is currently responsible for guarding Baodian, a strategic military base, and his subordinates only have three soldiers and more than 4,000 people.

Therefore, if you want to defend Baoding State, you must mainly rely on the green battalion commander next to you.

According to Bayan's understanding, Dong Xueli is even more shameless than him, and is already a slave of the third surname.

He was originally the Ming Dynasty's deputy general who guarded Huamachi in Shaanxi, and he was considered important by the Ming Dynasty. However, when Li Zicheng captured Shaanxi, Dong Xueli surrendered without fighting a battle.

Probably Li Zicheng didn't like people who surrendered without a fight, so he transferred Dong Xueli to Henan to serve as the commander-in-chief of Huaiqing Mansion.

As a result, Duduo led the army to Henan, and this guy surrendered without a fight. His operation was very skillful.

The Qing Dynasty was more tolerant to this kind of people than Li Zicheng, or maybe they wanted to make the best use of everything. Later, Meng Qiaofang appointed him as the commander-in-chief of Fengxiang Mansion to plot against Pingliang Mansion.

There is no need to say more about what follows.

This guy first retreated to Qingyang Prefecture, and then to Yan'an Prefecture and Yulin Town. Thanks to the overall strategy of the superiors to shrink the defense, he was not punished.

However, now that he has to guard Baoding with such a person, Bayan really feels insecure, and is very afraid that one day he will wake up and surrender to the Ming Dynasty again.

As for the fact that Dong Xueli had his head taken off as a token of surrender, Bayan had already been wary of it - Dong Xueli had more than 10,000 men, but only more than 3,000 were stationed in the city with his Han army Zhenglan Banner.

The rest camped outside the city.

In this way, even if Dong Xueli wanted to come to the Ming Dynasty, the most he could do would be to seize the city of Baodou, but it would be impossible to take off his head, Bayan.

"Shun Jun has made a move." Dong Xueli suddenly shouted, "What are they going to do?"

Bayan found that the soldiers and horses on the opposite side were no longer in any disorder and put up a defensive posture. He said coldly: "Don't always call them Shunjun, Mr. Dong - they are flying the flag of the Ming Dynasty and wearing the uniforms of the Ming army. Where are they?"

Or the Shun army? What’s more, Dashun has long been destroyed by our Qing Dynasty."

"Yes, yes, I made a mistake. I will correct it next time." Dong Xueli immediately admitted his mistake.

When he turned his eyes to the other side again, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, took a breath and said: "Master Bayan, if the general is not mistaken, is that a new cannon of the Ming army?"

"You have been facing the Ming army for more than half a year, and you can't even recognize their artillery?" Bayan's voice became even colder, and then he said to the soldiers around him: "Let the artillery retreat quickly, we finally managed to get a few red cannons to defend them.

City, don’t let the Ming army take over all at once!”

"嗻!"

The soldiers responded and left.

Speaking of which, there are two reasons why Bayan and Dong Xueli decided to bombard the "Ming Army" on the other side today.

First, they discovered that these "Ming troops" were actually the original Shun troops. They were so frightened that they ran directly to Shanxi and felt unwilling to do so.

Second, Bayan just received eight red barbarian cannons for rear support today - these red barbarian cannons are similar in style to red barbarian cannons, but have a slightly smaller caliber. They can be used not only to attack and defend cities, but also because they are relatively light.

It is more suitable for field battles than the Hongyi cannon.

It is said that the imperial court bought them with a lot of money from the Yi people. There were hundreds of gates in a batch, but only eight gates were allocated to him.

Although the eight gates were a little short, Bayan still wanted to test its power, so he took four gates to the river to bombard the "Ming Army" riverside positions on the opposite side.

Judging from the two rounds of shells fired just now, the quality of these Hongyi cannons is indeed slightly better. They have the same weight, but the muzzles are larger, and they can shoot farther.

Unfortunately, its power and range are still not as good as the Hongyi cannon, let alone the new artillery of the Ming army.

Since we knew that the new artillery pieces of the Ming Army were inferior to them, we naturally wanted to avoid engaging them in field battles. If these four cannons were hit by the Ming Army and destroyed, it would be difficult to defend Baoding State.

Bayan thought that he had given the order in time, and his artillerymen moved very quickly, but after a while, they pulled the artillery cart and ran towards the city.

But the Ming army's gunners moved faster, and within a short time they had already set up a position to fire their artillery fire in this direction.

Boom boom boom...

Only a series of cannon shots were heard. Twenty rounds of artillery shells were fired, and several of them landed directly where the Hongyi artillery cart was!
Chapter completed!