C222 fire camp

Due to the backwardness of communication technology, many accidents often occurred in ancient wars. The further the geographical distance, the higher the probability of accidents happening. Although the carrier pigeon technology has been with humans for thousands of years, this technology is not perfect, so it is normal for pigeons to have accidents occasionally.

For example, the information on Zhou Daoying that the Imperial Court had sent him, Er Mao and Xiao Letian to negotiate, had not reached Xiao Letian. Who knew if the pigeon had gotten hit by wind, lost its way or been shot down by the hunter, after all, Xiao Letian knew that Ceng Guofan was heading north, so he decided to go for broke.

Outside Tianjin city, the Eight Banners Camp. All the soldiers had already made their preparations to set off. Tomorrow morning, the selected 10,000 Hins would head east to surround Tanggu's Port, Blood Washing Letian Firm.

It was obvious that since ancient times, war was about burning money. This was something that was especially evident during the late Qing era, when soldiers ate food, it was only natural. Normally, when a soldier was raised, you only needed to eat three meals of coarse tea and light food to pass this time of day, but during wartime it wasn't that simple.

Chicken, duck, fish, tofu, eggs, the whole cart of white rice noodles, as well as various kinds of silver rewards, all needed to be prepared in advance. Soldiers had to be rewarded when they charged. Even if they died, they had to be rewarded when they received orders to run several hundred miles back and forth.

Reward was not the end. Sometimes, when a battle was intense, not even rewards could be won. You had to personally carry the silver to the soldiers and personally distribute it to the soldiers. Only then could you motivate the soldiers. If they wanted to make others work for their lives without money, they could just scatter and turn the tables on the battlefield, or even kill a few officers while they were busy fighting.

, the Eight Banner of Tian Jin, had been busy with the silver affairs recently. The official treasury of the TIANJIN Wei had already been emptied by him, if he did not seize such a good opportunity to earn money, he would have become an official for nothing.

"Damn it, we can't get our brothers to work so hard without money, no one can talk about how many bandits there are, in any case, Tanggu is completely beaten up, and this is a Bandit that isn't weaker than the foreigners, how can you not bring a few soldiers?" How can I not prepare more silver? " Maylor's eyes were clouded from drinking so much now that those around him were her trusted aides.

"Master is right, there is no reason why the world should not send troops to pay. All these years, we have only seen Ceng Titou and the others getting rich, but we proper Manchu are already standing aside, this time, no matter what, we must find a way to make up for it."

"That's right …" "Done, it's full …"

In their hearts, no matter how strong Xiao Letian was, no matter how strong he was, he was only able to fight two hundred Gun. With more than ten thousand of them, like a mountain pressing down on their heads, they couldn't think of any reason for them to lose at all.

Maylor drank until his head was covered in sweat, he opened his arms wide and shouted with his mouth full of steam, "Um … "Send someone to take a look inside the camp. Although this grandpa will improve the food for the brothers today, we still need to set off tomorrow. No one is allowed to drink too much …"

Speaking till here, Maylor's eyes slipped to the wooden tray on the table beside him. It was filled with Ying Yang, all of them being foreign currency. Maylor reached out to grab one of them and blew it lightly, causing the unique buzzing sound of silver coins to ring beside his ears.

"What a great thing! The foreign people's stuff is really good. The coins have already been forged into flowers, and looking at the heavy and cumbersome silver ingots in our Qing Dynasty, why didn't you learn from the foreign people?"

"Hey …" You still don't understand the dirty Chinese officials? If they changed it to this kind of foreign currency, where would they go to earn more money? And this is all thanks to the Yongzheng Lord, if it weren't for him burning the fires to get back to justice, this bunch of civil officials would have died even more … "

"That's right, that's right. I've heard my master say that when the Nine Dragons Seizing the Crown Prince, eighth brother secretly set up the little imperial government and all the officials, both young and old, were all loyal to him. At that time, the Eighth Lord's party would spend more than a million taels of silver a year just to make ends meet …"

As they chatted, a thought suddenly flashed through Maylor's mind, "Eh? I say, brothers … Why are there so many foreign silver coins in the transfer of silver from the Tianjin official warehouse? I estimate that it should be at least 50%. Could it be that all of Tianjin is paying taxes with foreign currency? "

The brothers thought about it for a moment. When they borrowed the salary, they saw that more than half of the foreign currency was in the official treasury. Since there was so much in the official warehouse, they could imagine how much was in the public treasury.

"Master, why do you care? "This is what the civil officials are worried about. Let's drink, then drink …"

The night had grown darker, and the military camp had gradually regained its calm. Other than Maylor and the other high ranking officers, the rest of the officers had all fallen asleep. When the hour hand was about to reach one o'clock in the morning, the dry grass outside the camp suddenly moved. A figure wearing straw camouflage clothes sneakily approached the camp.

More and more figures began to appear, approaching the camp from all directions like ghosts in the night. The wooden fence couldn't stop them at all, and they entered the camp as light as a kite.

The soldier guarding the gate of the camp looked at the dark night with his hands folded in boredom. Suddenly, a black hand behind him covered his mouth tightly, and a sharp dagger pierced through his ribs and fiercely stirred.

The four soldiers guarding the camp's entrance were stabbed to death at almost the same time. Without even a warning sound, all four camps fell into enemy territory. Teams of ten men quickly tiptoed into the camp, like squadrons of leopard cats.

This was Xiao Letian's new army, an iron army that was trained in complete accordance to the requirements of the special forces. Penetration and concealment were skills that they needed to master, and it was even easier to fight in the night.

Tents, cabins, stables, warehouses … All of the important targets in the camp had long been marked on the map, and all the class leaders had a detailed map in their hands. Before the operation, Xiao Letian even had the blacksmith create a large sand table and reconstruct the terrain within three dimensions.

The plan this time around to ambush Xiao Letian was very clear, it was to burn all the enemy's resources and carry out a decapitation operation. No one would be able to escape, if they couldn't capture him alive, they would immediately be killed.

Less than half an hour after the new army had entered the camp, all eight flags and ten night patrol squads had been annihilated. At that time, due to nutrition problems, most of the soldiers were a little blind at night, and the new army who wore black camouflage clothes would usually just crawl beside him, and they would not be able to discover it.

"What is it?" Ah … There's a ghost! " One of the soldiers who had risen at night finally noticed the ghostly movement in the night wind, but what awaited him was a cold bolt that pierced his throat.

"Do it, immediately move …" An orange flame exploded in the night sky, and immediately after, countless fire started shooting up into the sky. Warehouses, horse sheds, armoury s, and the tents and cottages of the soldiers all quickly spread out, and in a short period of time, the entire night sky was illuminated.

"Two rows in a row, five classes, move towards the northeast, capture Maylor alive … The arsenal in the south had to be blown up... "As for the other classes, they will fight in separate groups, mainly against each other. Don't keep fighting …"

Orders were issued one by one, Xiao Letian raised his butcher's knife again under the light of the fire, the twenty thousand Eight Flags Soldier were out of luck.

"Enemy attack …" If there's an enemy attack, rush out and fight them … Where are my pants? Who the fuck put my pants on... "

"Where's my knife? I was hanging it on the wall, who took it away? "

"May the Ancestor protect us, where is the enemy coming from? "Just where did these enemies come from …"

Chase's soldiers were in a state of confusion in the cabin. While they were struggling to find their pants and waist knives, the wooden door was kicked open with a bang. Three Spensers came in and started firing at them.

"My mother, she's really a ghost soldier …" "It's really a Ghost Soldier …" The soldier tried to cover his wound with his hand to stop the blood from flowing out, but his strength was disappearing bit by bit. The pain did not last long. The last bullet entered his forehead and ended his life.

The same massacre continued to occur within the camp, and the crisp sounds of Molotov's cocktail s could be heard incessantly. These self-made combustion bottles were too easy to use, and many of the soldiers were sealed within the house by the flames before they could even leave the house.

At this time, on a hill not far from the camp, Xiao Letian was staring at a sea of fire. "Fuck you guys a little faster, two million against twenty thousand is all about surprise, it's all about speed …"

"Move towards the base's core, move quickly. If I want to capture Maylor alive, let's not bother about those small fry anymore …"

Xiao Letian scolded while jumping up, he was extremely excited, this was a huge gamble, the moment the plan to break through two million by twenty thousand appeared, everyone was dumbstruck. Those veterans of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who had participated in the past, even though they had experienced hundreds of battles, never would they have thought that Xiao Letian would be so crazy.

Before Maylor could make his move, he took the chance to fire at them using the night sky as a shield, using the new army's strong defense to break through the enemy's defenses, killing all of the officers in one fell swoop. Such a crazy and bold plan, other than Xiao Letian, no one dared to use it.

"I have confidence in my new army, and I have even more confidence in the decadence of the Eight Flag Lords. Even though we don't have many people, our advantage is obvious as well. If you guys are afraid, then I, Xiao Letian, will lead the troops and … "

Since things had already come to this point, let's begin. In just three days, the s of the Punishment Hall had already exposed everything. Find out all the details.

At this time, the benefits of elite policy could be seen. There was no need for any combat preparation, not even a pre-battle mobilization. As long as an order was given, the two hundred new troops could fight at any time.

High efficiency versus low efficiency, high quality versus low quality, high technology versus low technology, coupled with the fact that they were unprepared, such a huge gap in generation after generation was not something that could be bridged with just numbers.

"Look!" Dragon Lord, quickly look... The inner camp is also on fire, Maylor's base is also on fire, I already said that we can win, we definitely can win! "