Hedong, inside Ma Heng's headquarters, Ma Heng's headquarters is in a small courtyard. It's what they rent from the locals. Martial law at the command was relatively strict. There is a guard company around it, and a communications platoon is stationed here, but as a corps headquarters. There are still some small ones, and Ma Heng doesn't care about this. They are only here temporarily directing operations at the front.

"How's the situation at the front?" Ma Heng listened to the footsteps and knew that it was the intelligence staff officer who had come in. He asked directly. Because only intelligence staff officers will come here in a hurry, they must update the combat situation in a timely manner.

"Yes, sir, sir, according to the information that came out of the front, the Huns did not immediately attack, they began to dismount and dig trenches, and three trenches have already been dug." The operational staff officer took the report and said.

"Huh." Hearing this, Ma Heng just sneered, obviously this was not his expectation.

"After the Huns dug trenches, some of them began to gradually move closer to our positions, and our firearms could not stop the other side, and the other side was trying to use the trench method to get close to us. The next battle may have some disadvantages for us. The operational staff officer continued.

"It seems that the Huns have also learned how to hide from our fire." Ma Heng threw the charcoal pen in his hand on the map and said this.

"Sir, are we going to adjust the attack all at once?" The operational staff officer said worriedly.

"Tell the front line to build more defensive lines, you can take a local counterattack on the front line to deal with the Huns, to avoid letting the Huns give full play to the advantages of their bows and arrows, and kill and wound them as much as possible within the range of our firepower." Ma Heng said. The current battle is basically fought within the tactics. Strategy, as well as the role of command in terms of campaigns, is no longer very obvious. This requires the creativity of the low-level commanders, and if they can create more combat attacks in time, their situation will become much more favorable. But if they can't maintain such a situation, they will be in a greatly disadvantageous position, which is a very obvious thing. War is one such situation. As long as we can change such a situation, we can deal with such a situation.

Tactics come from the creative inventions of officers and men at the grassroots level. Because only such an invention can they give play to a greater operational advantage in specific tactics.

The Wild Wolf Regiment, the position of the Seventh Company, the Huns on the opposite side dug trenches, they also dug trenches, there were three trenches they dug, the brothers of the engineer battalion were very capable, they fought continuously, and built a lot of useful trenches, for example, there were communication trenches between the three lines of defense, and on the trenches, there was also an intersection formed by two artillery positions, for the defending side, the intersection was their point of attack and also the point of concentration of their fire, which could be used as a temporary fire point after the loss of the first and second lines of defense, Then, after the enemy occupies it, it becomes a death trap.

Not only that, but the sappers actively played their characteristics, for example, some buried places were set up in advance on the defense line. As long as the Huns rushed over, after they entered the trench, they would ignite ***, causing a larger explosion, so that they could kill and injure the enemy on a large scale.

And the infantry also has its own tricks. For example, hand **, they also chose the flank attack position, the front position can be withdrawn, and the flank position can never be withdrawn, there is the place where they launch a counterattack, attack from the flank, which is equivalent to hitting directly on the waist of the Hun attack, where is the dead end of the attack. It will break up the enemy's attack in one fell swoop. It's quite a powerful tactic.

And these are all things that they came up with on their own.

"Just wait. After the enemy comes up, let them come and go, attack us, and still want to go back, no way. One of the recruits said as he ate dumplings. He's already eaten half a bowl. He killed seven or eight dumplings in one go.

"Eat it, boy, when you're done. Not anymore. The veteran said with a smile.

"Boom, boom." The recruit hurriedly put the dumplings into his mouth, and even if he couldn't eat them, he had to put them in his mouth.

"Slow, slow, and, yes, these are lamb fillings. That's a lot. "The cook is a veteran, in his fifties. It is a pity that there are no children and grandchildren, and most of them were separated during the war. Or to be killed. The old man joined the Republican Army with the flow of people and became an old soldier, specializing in cooking and eating.

"The dumplings are much better now. There is also plenty of mutton, a lot of mutton, and there is beef. The old soldier said.

"Lamb is fragrant. Only when there is a war, we can eat mutton, and we are all looking forward to the war. The recruits said. The Republican Army has an unwritten rule that if you eat well, you have to go to war. And it is only when there is a war that the front line can improve the food, for example, they have been eating biscuit mush. That thing, they ate too much and got angry, and now, they can eat dumplings.

The infantry was able to eat dumplings, which meant that they were going to fight. The cavalry can eat meat every day, but they can't, they only have it when they are fighting, and even if they come here, when there are a lot of cattle and sheep, the most they can do is drink some mutton soup. Just eat this dry biscuit, there are mutton bones in the mutton soup, and there is not a lot of mutton on it, but now, they are full of mutton dumplings.

The old soldier is happy, the army can eat dumplings, this is a good thing, think about it, they can also eat dumplings, but dumplings are made of corn flour, there is some fat in it, you can see oily, but you can't eat meat, because the dumplings are wild vegetable dumplings, or radishes. It's been a good day again and again.

"Brothers, fight well. Don't let the Huns rush over, in order to ensure our logistical supplies, the commander also sent milk powder from behind, but this milk powder can only be eaten by meritorious people and the wounded. Everyone's fighting. At this moment, the platoon leader shouted loudly to inform everyone.

"Milk powder, what is milk powder? Can this milk still be made into powder? The recruit asked, puzzled. A lot of people don't know what milk powder is.

"How old. I also drank milk powder. That's all just given birth to the little dolls to drink, are you still young? Some of the recruits said. Obviously, the soldiers' understanding of milk powder is still at the level of children's milk.

"If you don't know, don't talk nonsense. The chief gave us milk powder so that we could recover as soon as possible. This milk powder is high in calories. You drink a bag of milk powder, you don't have to eat all day, and you can't finish your body. The veteran said.

"This milk powder, I think, is not as delicious as dumplings." The recruit then stuffed the dumplings into his mouth.

The improvement of food treatment is a good thing for soldiers, but how to fight the next battle, officers and veterans think a lot, and recruits don't know how to think about such a thing at all.

Li Jiazhuang, War Department.

"Wang Ming explained some situations in the telegram, and many banks are worried that the imperial court will default on the debts and only pay us interest, but not the principal, which is a big trouble for us, and the worst thing is that such a thing is very unfavorable for us." Jia Xu said.

"I thought about it carefully, we can get the money back through trade, and at the same time, the money lent out can stimulate our economic development, which is a great benefit to us." Shang Wu said.

"Because of the money we lend, they have to purchase on a large scale, which can promote the development of our trade, factories, which is a great benefit." Shang Wu said.

"But the question is, what if you don't pay back the borrowed money?" Jia Xu asked.

"Mortgage, we have to lend the money first, it's not difficult at all, but we have a condition, the account is opened with us, we provide funds, a large amount of metal currency is not directly provided to the other party, only ****, this is our condition, and the other party must agree to it. In this way, our banknotes can also enter it. Shang Wu said with a smile.

"Your bait is poisonous." Jia Xu said.

"Of course." Shang Wu said.

"Otherwise, we wouldn't have lent them money for nothing, I thought. Lend them money, we need some collateral, the court will definitely delay, this is their usual trick, in this way, we can find a way to push some things on them, if one day the court changes, we also have an excuse to send troops, very simply, they borrow money and do not pay it back, this is a reason. Shang Wu said.

"Huh." Hearing this, Jia Xu laughed, his smile was very sinister, but Shang Wu liked it very much. Because they do it for perfect reason.

"Looks like we'll have to borrow some money from the court. In this case, we hope that the other party will not lend us money back, and we can directly capture more benefits. Jia Xu said.

"Yes, not only that, but we also have other objects, for example, the prototype of warlords that are emerging, for example, those military generals, if they want to expand their strength, they must borrow money, which is also a benefit of our trading, what I know is that in the future, the people who borrow money will be exclusive, and there are many people who buy weapons and buy them aggressively, but most of them have no money, if we don't lend them money and provide financial services, their funds will soon be exhausted, which is for them, This is a negative situation. Shang Wu said.