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Don't look at Zhao Siwen and Zhao Ximin's defection faction has now actually controlled the command of the Northern Army, but until now they only have the right to dispose of the existing resources of the Northern Army, and a large number of materials and funds sent from Bei'an and Nan are gathered in Jiezhen at this moment, and they can't touch it.

Zhao Siwen, like Zhou Rui, who is now active in the Southern Army, has the dual task of collecting intelligence and promoting products, and he looked at Zhou Rui's "crazy sales" achievements on the other side, which made him quite red, but there was no way at all. Those resources are under the control of the warlords of the Northern Army, and they have long been occupied by those warlords, and even the control of the commander who was cut down by Zhao Ximin is extremely limited.

After seizing the command of the Northern Army, they counted the existing resources, and the private property of the generals who were cut down by the soldiers was about more than 2,000 taels of silver and about 50 taels of gold, which looked very good, but they could not be used casually, because the severance pay for the disbandment of the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers before came from this, and after such a toss, only about 50 taels of gold remained. This money is not enough even to run the current army, let alone use it to buy war materials from the port of the East.

With the defeat of the previous battles, the meritorious cavalry rushed to the front, and suffered heavy casualties under the double blow of artillery and musketeers, so the demand for forage for horses was also greatly reduced, and a large amount of forage was directly set on fire and burned during the continuous retreat, which would not cause a burden when the army was transferred and would not fall into the hands of the southerners to become their supplies. The need for food was also greatly reduced by the streamlined manpower, and in line with the concept of not panicking when they had food in their hands, the northern army basically did not waste food when retreating, and all of them were transported by carts, and in order to ensure speed, the remaining horses and cattle were used to transport them as animal power.

In the same way, due to the streamlining of personnel, the weapons of the Northern Army have also been reorganized accordingly, and the previous chaotic equipment situation has been changed, those sharpened wooden sticks and bamboo guns have all been abandoned and destroyed, and the sharp elite weapons have all been concentrated and prioritized for the use of elite troops, and the slightly worse troops are also equipped with iron weapons, which is completely different from the previous situation of charging with wooden sticks. Don't look at the fact that they are now on the way to retreat, but these northern armies still carry out training again and again - what Zhao Siwen learned in the training class is not only cultural knowledge and intelligence gathering, but also command ability training, but not to the level of large-scale battles of tens of thousands of people.

This small-scale ambush battle was set up and commanded by Zhao Siwen, who was familiar with the large use of firearms by the Southern Army, and deliberately set up an encirclement at the top of the uphill slope, so that the speed of the Southern Army in the pursuit must not be fast, and there must be some stagnation or even rest at the top, so it is the most suitable to carry out an ambush here. His soldiers hid through the nearby bushes and woods, and only attacked when the enemy was close enough to kill with their bows and arrows, and the enemy's long-range firearms were not only inaccurate, but also difficult to reload. If it weren't for the fact that several of his soldiers chased too close on a whim to block the archers' firing, causing the pursued enemy to draw short muskets and wound several soldiers at close range, this ambush could have been a perfect textbook battle.

"We intercepted a squad of Southerners scouts from an hour's distance and seized some of their weapons and transports." Zhao Siwen took a cup of tea and drank it while saying to Zhao Ximin, who was sitting on the side, "We have at least thrown off the distance between them for an hour or so now." ”

"How did they chase so closely?" Zhao Ximin asked a little anxiously, "It's been too close to chase in the past few days, and the guards are often shot by them, and they can't catch up." ”

"It's simple, bike." Zhao Siwen smiled slightly, "A small means of transportation made in Dongfang Port, which can carry goods or personnel on the road. It seems that they bought a lot of good things from the Chinese. ”

"Chinese?" Zhao Ximin's voice couldn't help but tremble as he spoke, and he still deeply remembered the terrible battle outside Shabak Castle. His own soldiers walked forward like ants in a dense manner, but the shots on the city wall were densely ranging, and his soldiers collapsed to the ground layer by layer like rice washed away by the rainstorm, and the main force of the South Bank Army, which he had worked hard to build up for more than ten years, was completely defeated in that short battle of half an hour. Later, he learned that the port of Champa had been captured by the Chinese, and that the terrible army fighting against them was the Chinese's army. Now that he heard the name of the Chinese, Zhao Ximin even lost his determination to continue fighting with the Southern Army in an instant. "What a? Let's quickly pull this army west into the mountains and forests, even if it is better to be a mountain thief than to fight with the Chinese! ”

"No, no," Zhao Siwen hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't worry, Dashuai, we have all come over in the most difficult time, are you afraid of this little thing?" ”

"A trifle?" Zhao Ximin's eyes widened, "The Chinese's weapons are elite, and the army training is very elite, with our current military strength falling into their hands, it is simply sending them to death!" ”

"No, it won't!" Zhao Siwen hurriedly interrupted Zhao Ximin's words, his task was to collect intelligence on the Northern Army, if he followed Zhao Ximin to become a bandit, then all the previous efforts would be thrown into the water. "The Southern Army that is fighting with us now is not the army of the Chinese, do you remember?"

As soon as Zhao Siwen said it, Zhao Ximin also remembered that it was true, when he had received the news of a coup d'état in Hue before he was ordered to go to Cham Harbor to attack. The overthrown Nguyen Phuc Yuan and his daughter Nguyen Auntie belonged to the pro-China forces, and it was the Medeno people, the enemies of the Chinese, who overthrew them. Everything that followed was that the Maidno people instructed them to oppose the Chinese, which provoked the northern army to go south and took Nan Annan by surprise. If you want to say that the Chinese help, even if they help them, they will not help the Southern Army, right? Zhao Ximin thought for a while and asked with some hesitation, "Is this...... How did the things of the Chinese fall into the hands of the southerners? ”

"It's very simple, this is the door business," Zhao Siwen said with a smile, "I also stayed in Dongfang Port for several months at that time, the Chinese saw a lot, their biggest expectation is to obtain benefits, as long as they are willing to pay, they can buy things from them, you don't look at these bicycles although they are rare, but after all, they are valuable, as long as they are willing to pay, the Chinese will definitely sell!" ”

"It's a pity we don't have any money!" Zhao Ximin sighed a little annoyed and said, "If we have money, we can also buy things with them!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Siwen nodded, "But just because you don't have money doesn't mean you can't do business." Chinese Doing business is not just about money, they ask for a lot of things, such as ......"

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"I'll go! Can it still be like this? Paradigm dropped the report on the table a little speechlessly, stood up and took a deep breath to look out the window, the naturalized citizen intelligence officer next to him carefully handed over the other reports together, he looked back, the intelligence officer shrunk his neck a little nervously, Paradigm sighed, "It's useless to tell you, it's none of your business, so let's go make a call, go to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and say that I will go to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade later." Seeing that the intelligence officer was busy running out to make a call, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "One is like this, and the two are like this, I haven't collected much intelligence, but the business is all done, if it continues like this, my army intelligence bureau will simply merge with the Ministry of Commerce and Trade." ”

"This is a good thing," Gu Qingqian didn't even raise her head after hearing the example's complaint, carefully read the report documents he brought several times, and listed them one by one on the scratch paper with great interest, "You see, we need manpower, so someone will help us take it away." ”

"My eldest sister! We are not human traffickers, and if we take such a human raid now, it will have a great impact on our reputation! As he spoke, he sat down on the wooden sofa opposite Gu Qingqian's desk, and the little girl next to him hurriedly stepped forward and put on a steaming teacup. Besides, we're in Vostochny now, hundreds of miles to where they are, and even if we want to do business with them, how can we proceed? Maybe they've lost before the thing is delivered. ”

"As long as someone is willing to do business with us, we must try to satisfy them, the so-called money to buy horse bones is like this, as long as we refuse once, then it is equivalent to closing the door of foreign trade." Gu Qingqian shook her head, "What's more, we have a way to package and deliver, don't we?" ”

"I took a look," Gu Qingqian said and looked down at the paper carefully, "The things they need are very direct, weapons, ammunition and bicycles, these things are not difficult to get, and in terms of the amount of weapons and equipment we have, there are a lot of surplus materials, and we can directly extract some from Shabak's inventory and give them some." In the case of bicycles, the vehicle factory can produce more than 30 bicycles a day with a full production line, and as long as they place an order, we can even increase the production capacity! ”

"And what about the request for us to reconnoiter for them? Do you really fly into the sky to scout and tell them? Paradigm said a little speechlessly. Gu Qingqian glanced at him, "Of course you can't tell them so easily, if you want information, you have to spend money to buy it, our plane takes off and lands once, it doesn't matter if they don't have money, they can owe it, if you don't need resources to exchange it, if you can't exchange it, just exchange it for population, our trading method is very flexible!" ”

Paradigm shook his head, "You've really fallen into the eyes of money!" As he spoke, he stood up and paced twice around the office of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, "According to what you mean, we are about to choose a side in the war between the North and the South in Annam?" ”

"It's not about choosing a side," Gu Qingqian waved her hand and said lightly, "We want to make them fight harder and harder," she said as she also stood up, walked to a redacted world map by the wall and said, "A peaceful and unified Annan is completely unnecessary for us, and we can't allow a situation where one family is dominant." The situation in the north and south of Annan is now at a time when we cannot allow it to dominate. ”

"You mean we should intervene in the Civil War with arms?" The example was a little confused, and quickly asked. Gu Qingqian shook her head, "Of course we can't interfere with arms, even sending volunteers!" But we can fight a proxy war. This agent of yours did a good job, I really don't know how you were willing to send such a good agent out, and as soon as you arrived in the camp of the Northern Army, you directly took away the commander of the other family, and now that we have such a wonderful agent, we can pay for the guns and let them wear down the vitality of Nan Annan. ”

"South Annan should indeed fight a dozen, and from the latest intelligence, it can be seen that the Medeno people, by obtaining the weapons we lost on the battlefield, not only created the bottom edge expansion bomb, but also made rifled weapons, which is very dangerous in the long run." Paradigm nodded in agreement, "If left unchecked, the Medeno people are likely to gain an excellent continental expansion point by unifying the north and south of Annam, and from here they will poke directly into Asia, and then they won't know where to start." ”

"Yes, it is absolutely necessary for us to sabotage their plan to go north now, not to mention that they are willing to help us arrest people, even if they don't come out with anything, we should help them win this counterattack." Gu Qingqian said, "Only by completely cutting off the northward expansion plan of the southern Annan army can they stagnate them." At the same time, the Northern Army we are supporting is not a real Northern Army in the strict sense, but a rebel army of the Northern Army, and until North Annan recognizes their legitimacy, their position will always be stuck between North and South Annan, which can effectively limit the combat areas of the two sides, and as long as they are not unified, then we can benefit from the transaction between the two sides. ”

"You mean to sell weapons to both sides?" After a moment's pause, Gu Qingqian laughed, "Fighting a war is not only about weapons, fighting a war is actually about logistics supply, such as food, clothing, medical supplies, etc., weapons alone can't completely solve the problem." Besides, it is not uncommon for both sides to sell weapons at the same time, they can use whatever we give them, and it is not easy for this rebel army in North Annan to even get together a knife for everyone now, and they will take everything we send over, and they are absolutely grateful to Dade. ”

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