Chapter 92 Guerrilla
Liu Shaoqing was a little hesitant. The matter of actual military drills had always troubled him, and he didn't know whether he should mention this matter to the emperor again.
Seeing Liu Shaoqing's hesitant expression, Zai Tian probably knew what she was thinking. "Are you thinking about the memorandum you gave to Jianning before?"
Liu Shaoqing kept his waist and replied: "Yes!"
"Hmph!" Zai Tian sneered: "You have really read your memorial. You are so thoughtful. You don't come to me personally, but you use my sister to come. Do you think you are too old and want to die?"
The emperor's tone was a little cold. Liu Shaoqing didn't know what he did wrong. Shouldn't he pass it through Jianning? He felt a little sweaty on his back and his waist was not so straight.
"Stand up!"
The emperor shouted loudly, and Liu Shaoqing raised his chest with a conditioned reflex: "Please give me advice!"
"Do you know, because of the new army system, how much do I have to do? You have offended all the civil servants in the court. All the ministers said that you wanted to rebel, and I was bewitched by you. It was really hard to suppress this tide and save your life. You are not at ease, and you are still uneasy, so what kind of practical military exercises are there? My country, my army, I know in my heart what their quality is, and let everyone pull out to compete with your scholars to set off your ability? You are so confused. Do you know that in this way, you offend all the military generals who lead the troops. I was originally scolded by civil servants in the court because of cutting their braids, but now I jumped out to challenge the military generals in the court. Are you going to die?"
After saying this, Liu Shaoqing was sweating coldly, and then he realized what he was wrong. In fact, to sum up, it was just one sentence, "I didn't see the situation clearly, so I was too hasty."
Although the live-fire confrontation exercise can discover the shortcomings of the existing troops and enhance the confidence and sense of honor of the new soldiers through confrontation, it will also allow the failed generals to move towards their opposites. Now I am just a student, and although I am the name of "supervisor", I am actually just a small grass floating on the water. Any big wave can take me into pieces.
"What you should do now is to hide behind the scenes quietly, do a good job in the military academy, and do what I have given you. Don't think about anything else, wait for the limelight to be cold for a year or two, and then I will naturally give you a chance."
"Yes, I understand, thank you for your kindness!"
"Okay, go down and train your troops."
"yes!"
After a military salute, Liu Shaoqing retreated. The settlement that he had been unable to resolve during this period was clear. Liu Shaoqing also knew what to do next. Although he was scolded, he knew that the emperor was still protecting himself. This made Liu Shaoqing feel better and he had a smile on his face.
Cen Yuying, who was thousands of miles away, also showed a rare smile.
At the end of last year, the British completely broke up and occupied Myanmar. With the greed of the imperialists, their covetousness towards YNXC was obvious. The court issued several orders to Cen Yuying to be strict with the precautions. However, these foreigners spyed everywhere on the name of traveling, causing trouble. But you just beat him but dare not fight, and you can't. Cen Yuying was so anxious that he was frowning. And a letter from Cen Chunxuan that he just received suddenly unbuttoned his tight brows.
Outside the study room, the master who had been following him for many years knocked in the door and saw his master smiling.
"Master, why are you so happy?"
"Oh, it's Mu Xuan (the master's name) that came. It's just right. Look, this is Chun Xuan's letter."
Usually when a young master comes to letters, the master is full of trouble, because he either needs to go to the court for trouble or ask for money. Why is he so happy this time? The confused master took the letter and read it.
"Oh, congratulations, Master, this plan to be a counter-attack is really wonderful. In this way, the British can't take care of themselves. Don't say that they can't covet my YN, even if they eat Myanmar in their mouths, they have to let him spit it out. Master, Master, you should rest assured this time."
In fact, whether this strategy is really so good and can really work, the master has no idea at all, but this is a solution that cannot be done now. We always have to try it. The most important thing is that this is the idea of the young master. Just look at the master's face and you will know. No matter whether the plan is effective in the future, the effect of these few flatteries I have must be.
Although Cen Yuying has always looked down on his son, he is still his own son after all. How could this father not want to see his son's success? The master said a few words, Cen Yuying squeezed into a bun, and he was humble: "Where is it, this little bastard is ignorant all day long, thinking about some evil ways. Today I finally used it in the right place, and they still have these shameful ideas. Humph, I guess, this may not be what he thought of himself, maybe he had heard from others." Suddenly, I remembered that the master knocked in the door and might have something to do with him, so I asked: "Muxuan, why are you here to find me?"
"Oh," the master slapped his forehead and said, "This is really a noble man who doesn't need to panic when he encounters something. He sent him a pillow when he is sleepy. It was a letter from the general of Tengyue, Zhu Hongzhang, who said that a Burmese chieftain had found him by slinging him as a seat, saying that he had recruited tens of thousands of local soldiers, and wanted to gain our support, help him fight with the British, and re-establish the Burmese King."
When Cen Yuying was amused, she was really sleepy and gave her a pillow. Just as she was thinking of playing with the British, she was delivered to her door to Myanmar as a gunman.
"Okay, tell Zhu Hongzhang immediately and let him contact the chieftain to stabilize him. You draft a secret copy to the emperor. You also need to ask the court's opinions on this matter. In addition," Cen Yuying thought about it again, "I also wrote a letter to the second son, asking him to talk to Liu Heiqi and borrow some veterans from him. There are many soldiers in the border jungle between Tonkin and Nanzhang all year round, which is very suitable for Myanmar's guerrilla tactical needs. Moreover, they have experience in fighting with the French, so they will definitely use it."
The master took notes one by one and went out to handle it immediately.
Soon, the court replied that the "guerrilla warfare" strategy reported by YN was highly praised by Emperor Guangxu, and he allowed him to "do things cheaply". So through his relationship with Guangnan, Cen Yuying borrowed a battalion of troops from Zhennan Army, and then transferred veterans of the Yunnan Army who had participated in the Sino-French War, handed over to the general of Tengyue Town, Zhu Hongzhang, to secretly enter Myanmar, and gathered the Burmese chieftains of the Burmese army to sit in Baba, recruited 100 Burmese troops in Myanmar, divided them into hundreds of "guerrillas" and began to carry out guerrilla warfare against Britain.
Chen Ergou is the captain of one of the guerrillas.
Chen Ergou was a GD person. He was originally a Black Flag Army who joined the uncle of his family. He was only ten years old at that time. Later, Liu Shaoqing organized a foreign gun team, and Chen Ergou was the first group. With his hard work, Ergou became a sharpshooter and made many military achievements in the subsequent war against France. Rewarding in terms of merit, the young Chen Ergou became the captain, and he was also a not-so-small official. So Ergou changed his name to Chen Fugui. This time, the Governor of YN borrowed troops, and Fugui was selected to enter Myanmar because of his rich experience.
There were more than a dozen Guangnan veterans in his team, and more than a dozen were the Yunnan Army. They all went to the battlefield, had rich combat experience, and were equipped with foreign guns. There were also a hundred Burmese local soldiers, equipped with bows, arrows, shuttle marks, weak combat power, but familiar terrain, and brave combat. This time, Chen Fugui seized the opportunity and prepared to ambush a British transport team in the northwest of Lashio.
There is an jade mine here, and the British regularly transported ore from the mine. Chen Fugui has observed several times. A small team of British people had twenty foreign guns and dozens of local soldiers. This amount of troops can be eaten by himself. The captured ore can be sent back to the country, and the guns and ammunition will be directly equipped with Myanmar local soldiers.
The British master, who had been smooth sailing, did not realize that he was standing at the gate of hell. His long-term pampering and the vulnerable attacks of the native Burmese people have made them lose the alertness that the soldiers should have.
The Black Flag Army fired the Frenchman's "black gun" in Tonkin for three years. The jungle ambush can be said to be the best of these people and their skills. Under Chen Fugui's first row of firepower attacks, most of the British soldiers were killed and injured. Then the Burmese local soldiers waved their shuttle swords and drilled out of the jungle. The Burmese rebels, who had no fighting spirit, immediately threw off their armor and fled in panic. The remaining dozen British soldiers were still injured, and they couldn't run away even quickly and were chased by the guerrillas and killed one by one.
This ambush only lasted just one hour from the exchange of fire to the end. Seventeen British soldiers were killed, and the three captured people were finally cut off their heads by Burmese local soldiers. Then, the guerrillas burned the British corpses and quickly disappeared into the jungle.
Chapter completed!