Hedong, Baili. In Ma Heng's headquarters, today's telegraph has also been quickly erected here. Here you can send a telegram directly to Lijiazhuang. As for the cable, the locals don't know what this thing is, but they do know that this thing has a lot to do with the Republican Army, and with this, the Republican Army can call for wind and rain.

"Sir, one more day, the airship will be able to get inside." A staff officer reported.

"Hmm. Let them be careful and stay safe. It's not the simplest thing. Ma Heng said.

"Yes, sir." The staff officer said. The main purpose of the airship coming here is to conduct tactical reconnaissance. Ma Heng knows. This is a new weapon, and there must be no surprises or let the enemy know, in which case the situation will be very unfavorable to them.

"Sir. This is the most recent battle damage report. An operations staff officer said after handing over a new report. Ma Heng looked over quickly.

The front-line combat units are undergoing a full-scale transformation. They will replace all their arquebuses with better flintlock muskets, even though they will have a certain number of pikemen in their ranks. But the number had been greatly reduced, and only twenty men in one company were armed with pikes, and the rest were all flintlock muskets and bayonets were issued. The company, which was armed with flintlock pistols, played a very good role in guerrilla warfare.

For example, this report mentions some new information about them, as they have been fighting for the past fifteen days. In total, more than 2,000 enemies were annihilated, all of them killed. More than 150,000 people were rescued. Establish large and small base areas for hundreds of miles. However, the losses paid by themselves were very limited, the cost of casualties was less than 800, and only 300 people were killed in battle, and the wounded could recover their combat effectiveness as long as they entered a field hospital and received certain treatment.

And the army is also expanding rapidly. The first part of the refugees will join them, and their desire to join the army is simple. It's just a full meal. Secondly, the same is true of those who have suffered a great catastrophe, in their opinion, they need something like this to restore their previous condition, and combat is their only option. Finally, after the establishment of the militia organization, a large number of militia actively participated in the fighting. This provides a great possibility for the Republican Army to expand its troops. Their troops were rapidly expanding, and a company had grown from 200 men to more than 500 men, or even a staggering 800 men.

"The results are good, but the size of the army is expanding a little too fast. The most important thing at the moment is to resume production. Agricultural production cannot be delayed. If too much time is lost, it can be a big problem. Ma Heng said.

"Sir, this issue needs the support of local officials, we can't do it for the time being, and more people will be involved in the future, we have some worries about this." The operational staff officer said worriedly.

"What's wrong?" Ma Heng asked puzzled.

"Sir. Our forces are expanding too fast. If there are experienced veterans, it may be better, but most of them are inexperienced soldiers, in this way, it is easy to affect the situation of our future series of combat operations, at present we are indeed conducting guerrilla warfare, but what we should see is that this situation will not last too long, we should see that the situation of the Huns is changing, they are mainly robbing the local wealth. We still need to reorganize the local economic order. The population needs to become ours again, and although we will cross the Yellow River to fight in the future, we should all see such a situation in the current series of situations. Our combat effectiveness is actually declining. The staff officer said worriedly.

"Hmm. What you think is right, our combat effectiveness is indeed declining, but we still have a chance to rectify, but your idea is right, we should find a way to organize some troops so that they can live the addiction of fighting. Ma Heng said.

"You go and make a plan, and then we're going to be in a better place." Ma Heng said. Ma Heng also felt that there are certain considerable reasons for the troops to fight guerrillas, mainly because the logistical pressure on the troops is relatively large, and the troops have just encountered an important period of changing their equipment, but the troops must not give up the important opportunity to fight a big war in the continuous development of the troops, otherwise, it will be easy to degenerate all at once. Such a thing cannot be done yet.

Linfen County, Xiaowen Village. The command of the Separate Brigade was located here.

Pei Yuanshao came out of the command in a rage, his temper has always been short-tempered. But people are good people. In this regard, Zhou Cang also knows this.

"Damn, Lao Tzu came here to fight, and he actually came here to fight guerrillas, can this guerrilla fight like this? After an ambush for a long time, I didn't see a single person, what kind of bird war was this fighting. Pei Yuanshao said annoyedly.

Pei Yuanshao has his own considerations. The situation of the Independent Brigade is very peculiar, they are from the old base areas. Morale was high, and they defeated the Montenegrin army. At the same time, they saw that a mountain brigade of bandits could play such a big role. And the amazing results, they also hope to have such a result to explain this, so they hope to have such a situation to change such a situation, so they want to fight a big war more than this kind of guerrilla ambush warfare.

"Damn, the troops are all dressed with flintlock pistols. And cannons. What are you afraid of him? Pei Yuanshao said. The reason why the mountain brigade was transferred to guerrilla warfare was that their ammunition consumption was very large, and because of the occurrence of rearmament, they had to adopt the method of guerrilla warfare for development, but the situation of the independent brigade was different, they had high morale, and when they came, they were reequipped, and the morale of the whole brigade was high. They want to start fighting now, so that their situation can be greatly improved, and they can compete with the mountain brigades. Look at two separate brigades, whose combat power has become a little larger. But this situation obviously did not develop very much, the reason is that the order given to them from above was to let them conduct guerrilla warfare, and Pei Yuanshao heard such news, so he quarreled with Zhou Cang and Lao Li and came out. He was so angry that he felt that guerrilla warfare was a joke. They shouldn't.

Lijiazhuang. Inside the War Department.

"There were many results in guerrilla warfare, and sporadic ambushes blocked back some of the combat forces of the Huns and Baibo." Jia Xu said.

"Well, I also know that this is not enough, and at the moment, our situation cannot be greatly improved." Shang Wu said this after reading the battle report.

"The guerrilla attacks are only temporary, and if we want to completely occupy Hedong and expel them, we must take some necessary measures in our situation." Jia Xu said.

"Hmm. In this way, we need to fight several large-scale battles, expel them, and make the losses of the Huns and the White Polish army greater. However, judging from the current troop strength, we have not been able to do this, first of all, there is only one unit that we can fight there, and there is only one combat force that can be invested on a large scale, and that is the independent brigade. The strength of a brigade is too thin. We are unlikely to develop a large advantage. Shang Wu said worriedly.

"And in terms of logistics, there is still a lot of pressure. In such a situation, the pressure on us to continue fighting is still too great. If we have the strength to do this properly, I think things might get a little bit better. But if we really can't do this, it will be a big trouble for us. Shang Wu said.

"Hmm. But I think we can try to annihilate the enemy by 2,000 men, or 3,000 men, and deal a big blow to the enemy. Jia Xu suggested.

"It's not going to be good, and there's a lot we need to do to change that. That's where we're right now, and there's a lot of stuff that we need to do. Shang Wu said.

"Well, there's one more good thing. That is, the Luoyang side wants to establish a telegraph contact with us, even if it is 300,000 yuan, they are willing. Jia Xu said.

"Huh. There's something strange about that. Last time we proposed to install it for them, we discounted some prices, but they didn't install it, why did it change all of a sudden this time? Shangwu asked strangely.

"I think it's probably the loss you said was too big, and it was caused by it. The emperor figured them out at once, they are unlikely to control such a development of the situation, in this case, a lot of things about them are actually changing, right? Jia Xu said.

"I think it should be about the same, but it's good to set it up, so it's a big opportunity for us, but for money, we don't want it. Let them come and exchange food for it. If we can, we can discount some of the cost to them. Shang Wu said. Shang Wu was worried about the serious shortage of food reserves. Although Luoyang has given them military rations, Shangwu is still not satisfied, and they still have to relieve the refugees, which is a big trouble for them. If this kind of thing is not handled properly, there will be a big problem.

"I think, yes, let them directly transport the team to Luzhou, so that our problem can be greatly solved." Jia Xu said with a smile. If it is transported to Luzhou, they can save some transportation costs.