Those who became agents of the IRA, they were actually making war money, and although they themselves knew that it was very risky, the profits were so satisfying. Otherwise, they wouldn't accept such a thing.

Handan, Firefox is not very satisfied with being a thief now.

"This thing is good." Firefox touched a pair of white jade walls with his hand, and said contentedly lying on the sofa.

In the past, she used to steal to get those cultural relics. There are a lot of things to worry about, and not all the time you can get your hands on them. The more valuable something is, the harder it is to steal. The equipment that needs to be invested, the intelligence that you get. These are all headaches, but of course, the situation is very good now. Firefox sometimes has itchy hands, and will steal good things when they see them, you know, this is ancient times, and the technical means of crime are still relatively sophisticated. And the anti-theft technology is much lower-level, there is no surveillance, there are not many infrared anti-theft devices, plus a variety of safes. The cost of crime has risen even further, and now, none of this is happening. This is a big step forward for her. Because he could do this without caring about these things, it was too simple for him.

The white jade wall in the hands of the fire fox was purchased through a middleman, and she was not short of money at all for inventing some gadgets at will, and she could buy it at a "more suitable" price. Coupled with his own ability to appreciate, it is difficult to look away.

The cost of the acquisition was low, low, and for her, it was a good deal. Strange to say, a lot of things are very rare. Even, in the treasure atlas, good things that she has never seen before can appear. Those things, many, many things that can only appear in the palace.

Firefox has a bad conjecture. In fact, her conjecture was correct. Someone has already taken out the treasures in the palace and sold them, at first, the price may be higher, but after a while. The price has fallen a lot all of a sudden, after all, many treasures are concentrated in a period of time, which will inevitably make many cultural relics dealers take the approach of reducing costs, they deliberately lower the price, and the price is lowered to the place where they think they are very satisfied. Firefox is also involved, after all, the middleman will make a high difference.

As for Dong Zhuo, he doesn't care at all, as long as he raises more military funds, he doesn't care about everything. But because there are too many centralized shipments, the price has to be lowered, and he doesn't care about this.

Looking at the past, it seems that the only place that can be bold and safe to ship goods is the Handan area controlled by the Republican Army. Because it is something in the palace, many places can only accept a small part, too much, they can't eat too much, and they don't have too much courage to take down so many things, on the contrary, the Republican Army here has been extremely bold and relieved for a long time. Because of many things, they themselves understand what kind of state they are in.

There are a lot of people here in Handan, the flow of people is very large, and the economic development of the Republican Army is very good, there are many, many rich people, who are generous, and they very much hope to have some palace things to decorate their façade. Naturally, the market will become very large. Moreover, a large-scale shot can avoid more moral troubles.

If the Kwantung Coalition knew about it, this would be another moral crusade. It's a hassle.

It is also for various reasons that the cultural relics business has become popular. This is also the time when Firefox will be able to receive a lot of good goods. Firefox is also actively acquiring. If you have a lot of things to collect, can you change your career and open a museum? Collecting admission money is also a fortune.

Jingshi, Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo was discussing with his generals some of the ways to deal with the Kwantung Coalition Army.

"Our army can send the Flying Bear Army to attack them, if they can attack the supply lines of the Kwantung coalition army, this is the best, and the most important thing is to dampen their morale." Guo Yan suggested. For his part, he did not want infantry to go into battle. Because there are many, too many problems with the infantry. For example, military salaries, although a lot of paper money is issued, but the denomination of paper money is getting bigger and bigger, and the probability of spending it is getting lower and lower, Luoyang's economy has withered a lot, and it is unlikely that they can buy things they can use, but paper money is still being issued. Therefore, the enthusiasm of the infantry was not too high.

Coupled with the uneven distribution of weapons and equipment, for the sake of some equipment, you can fight yourself. Even the rags produced by the West Park Arsenal had to be fought on both sides. The situation is very bad and chaotic, Guo Yan's idea is very simple, it is to defend, there is no need to take the initiative to attack, they can just hold their position. Because of the use of firearms, firearms are not conducive to offense, good at defensive operations, offense, they need to line up formation, control soldiers, and boost morale, once there is a problem in a certain link, it is easy to have a very bad situation, which is very troublesome for them, and even leads to the failure of the overall situation, Guo Yan is a foot army, he hopes to avoid such a situation.

"And our infantry army can establish three lines of defense outside the Bishui Pass, constantly use the three lines of defense to consume the enemy, drag down the enemy, and wait for a favorable opportunity to launch a counterattack and defeat the opponent in one fell swoop." Guo Yan then suggested. Speaking of this, many generals nodded in agreement.

Everyone understands the current situation, and it is a joke to let the infantry take the initiative to fight. Let the infantry attack, the team is uncontrollable in the first place, the first-class infantry regiment is okay, the second-class and third-class troops have all kinds of problems, and letting the troops that are further behind attack, may directly lead to the possibility of mutiny. It's okay for them to rob, and it's better to fight, or stay in the trenches for defense.

Dong Zhuo was born at the bottom, and he knew very well what the virtues of those soldiers were. Without enough interests, they simply won't fight, and, relatively speaking, to conduct defensive operations, it's much safer. Dong Zhuo was really unwilling to take too many risks.

"As for the Flying Bear Army, in my opinion, this is a certain level of outpost warfare, attacking the opponent's grain and grass, it is inevitable to go deeper, once defeated. Risks are uncontrollable. Dong Zhuo said cautiously.

Because Dong Zhuo got relatively little information, he only knew that the Kwantung Coalition Army was equipped with a certain number of firearms, but he didn't know how much it was equipped and how many troops could use firearms. The other party's army was very flustered, and this was the situation he didn't know.

Therefore, in order to reduce more casualties among their ace troops and preserve their strength. After all, if Luoyang is not guarded by the army, it will be a big trouble for him. It is also a very normal move for the cautious Dong Zhuo to make such a choice.

"My lord, we still need to strengthen our defense against the Republican Army." Li Wei said worriedly. There were too many troops in the Republican Army. Their military strength is greater than their own, and they have to be on guard against such an opponent, although it seems that the two sides are very harmonious now, but Li Wei is very clear that the republican army may occupy more territory at any time, such as Guanzhong, if it is attacked from Hexi, it will be very bad. In the entire Guanzhong, Longxi will come under the control of the Republican Army.

"Although the Republican Army has not increased its strength in the border areas, General Niu's troops are still much less. There are only 15,000 people, whether to increase the strength of the defense. Li Wei said worriedly.

"Well, that makes sense, how many more troops do you think is useful?" Dong Zhuo asked such a question,

"My lord, at least 20,000." Li Wei said. Hearing this, Dong Zhuo had some pain. Because the increase in troops is too much. This means that the entire Luoyang front line is unfavorable.

"Let's talk about adding 5,000 troops first." Dong Zhuo said. He believes that the Republican Army will not take the initiative to send troops, they need to wait for the most suitable time, and not only that, but there are many more things that he himself has planned. He didn't want to provoke the IRA at the most critical moment. At the same time, he can't do such a thing by deploying more troops, so in such a situation, he has more choices to make some compromises.

It's not that this compromise is bad, but there are too many things that make it difficult for them to deal with. If they can do something like that, they still want to be able to understand something.

In this way, some of Dong Zhuo's basic strategies have been determined, and many times, he doesn't want to make too many excessive adjustments, after all, many things are difficult to change.

Lijiazhuang. War Department.

Shang Wu kept recording some precautions, and then handed them over to the staff to make more detailed battle plans. Because they are closely following the development of the war situation.

"According to our recent intelligence reconnaissance, the troop movement ratio of Dong Zhuo's army is not very frequent." Jia Xu said so.

"So, we think that the biggest possibility is that Dong Zhuo's army is engaged in a defensive operation, although on the surface, Dong Zhuo's army has a great advantage, but their advantage lies in firearms, and their firearms are very mobile, and the soldiers' combat enthusiasm is not high. Defensive warfare is the best option. If you carry out an offensive operation, it will be very disadvantageous. Jia Xu said.

The IRA is to review all possible scenarios on the battlefield. Make more preparations. In this way, we can move on to a higher stage of preparation.

"It seems that the two sides may have a stalemate." Shang Wu said this, and Jia Xu also felt the same way. After all, Dong Zhuo has a great advantage and will not take the initiative to attack, and the Kwantung Coalition Army does not have an advantage, but it takes the initiative to attack, which is difficult, and both sides have great difficulties. In this way, the forces are balanced.