Gao Quan finished eating here, and the people at the same table also put down their bowls. Hearing Gao Quan's question, Shi Lei hurriedly swallowed the last bite of rice in his mouth, picked up the tea bowl and drank saliva before replying: "I know Wang Chuan's current position and the situation of the troops!" ”

Just this sentence, the faces of all the people present were solemn. Gao Quan took these people down the mountain to deal with Wang Chuan, but they knew very little about the situation of Wang Chuan's rebel army, neither knew the specific number and firepower configuration of the enemy, nor did they know the specific location of the enemy army now. The information brought by Shi Lei is exactly what Gao Quan needs most right now!

"Let's go, let's go look at the map!" When marching and fighting, the sand table cannot be brought, but the battle map is indispensable. Gao Quan led a few people out of the dining table to look at the map, and behind him, Kaizi took two orderlies and began to clean up the table.

"Here, here, Wang Chuan's peasant self-defense army is near here. His troops, numbering about 10,000 to 13,000 men, were basically armed with sticks, hoes, rakes and other agricultural tools, and a handful of rifles and pistols, and it was estimated that the number of people with guns would not exceed 10% of the total number. There should also be two adults with knives such as daggers or machetes in their hands. Since they had robbed Townenburg's four provincial administrations, there were probably no more than ten machine guns and two or five mortars. However, they should not be able to use such heavy weapons with little power, because there is a lack of soldiers in the peasant self-defense forces who are skilled in handling firearms. ”

Shi Lei's words probably, probably, and should, this kind of uncertain words were used several times in a row, which would not have appeared at all before! This shows how difficult it is to find out how difficult it is to get to the bottom of the information of the Peasant Self-Defense Army. With a loosely organized unit like theirs, I'm afraid that Wang Chuan, as the commander of the unit, doesn't know how many people he has, right?

"How's Zheng Guotai doing there? If you take someone away, there won't be a problem with his complement, right? "Shi Lei is from Zheng Guotai's side, after introducing the situation of Wang Chuan's troops, Gao Quan will of course ask Zheng Guotai about the situation next, Zheng Guotai led a supplementary division of the 500 Army!

"It won't go wrong." Shi Lei knew the importance of this question, and this time he answered in the affirmative, "Division Commander Zheng has established prestige in the army, and the basic troop structure has been set up, and now the supplementary division is gradually stabilizing, and the troop organization will only get stronger and stronger, and it will never go backwards!" Thinking of Zheng Guotai's expression when he received the telegram from the military seat, Shi Lei still wants to laugh now.

"What's wrong? What are you laughing at? Is there anything funny? Seeing Shi Lei laughing inexplicably, not only Gao Quan, but also Jin Hu and Kong Xuan next to him were puzzled. The Reconnaissance Commander isn't the kind of person who has nothing to do and has fun on his own, right?

"Hehe, I just remembered Director Zheng, oh, it's Master Zheng, I think of Master Zheng and I want to laugh when I see the telegram from the military seat. Who of you doesn't want to be a teacher? Do you want to do both? I also want! But Zheng Guotai didn't want to! Since the two of us were talking together half a month ago, when I occasionally talked about the Peasant Self-Defense Army being like an infantry division, Zheng Guotai said that he didn't want to be the commander of this division, he just wanted to go back to his general affairs office, to be the idle general affairs director. Who knows, the more you don't want to, the more you can't hide! As soon as I received the appointment call from the military seat, didn't you see the face of Senior Commander Zheng, whether it was crying or laughing, it was the first time I really saw what crying and laughing looked like! ”

"Hahaha!" Several people laughed at the same time, Gao Quan led the way and laughed, but after laughing, Commander Gao frowned, "This Zheng Guotai, he still doesn't want to do it if he gives him a division commander?" If you don't do it, you have to do it! Director of General Affairs, I'll change someone else! Those peasant troops are familiar with him now, who can do it if he doesn't do this division commander? ”

"Why don't you let me try?" The cavalry commander couldn't help but interject.

"You? Do you know how to farm? Do you fertilize crops? You won't be honestly your cavalry commander! If the cavalry commander is bored, I will transfer you to be the commander of the cavalry company! ”

"Don't! I'm not bored yet! I'm doing my best! Hey. "Good guy, in one sentence, I almost went from the regiment commander to the company commander! Kong Xuan didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore. But he muttered in his heart, could it be that Zheng Guotai will farm and fertilize? Why haven't I heard of it?

"Then, do you want me to take the reconnaissance group to sneak attack at night?" Shi Lei's eyes lit up a little. He took the scouts to the headquarters of the 28th Division overnight, and directly paved all the way for the victory of the peasant self-defense army! Shi Lei is addicted to doing this, and this time he wants to take the scout to do it again! If the reconnaissance regiment could play a decisive role in both battles, then his Shi Lei's status in the 500 Army would definitely be higher than it is now!

"No way!" Gao Quan vetoed it without even thinking about it. "The Peasant Self-Defense Army is not the 28th Division, and it is useless for you to catch Wang Chuan. To deal with them, you must defeat them head-on on the battlefield! Only in this way can Wang Chuanjun, who has not been in the army for a long time, become a group of peasants again! With a flick of his hand on the map, Gao Quan set the tone for this battle, "Stone sent your scouts out, you must keep an eye on Wang Chuan's peasant self-defense army, and you must not let them slip away silently!" Alright, let's all go back, rest for the night, and march tomorrow morning! ”

This time it was not an urgent task, and Gao Quan did not want to make it a day and night march and make the troops too hard. It's time to rest, it's time to fight, it's time to fight, it's time to deal with the rebels, there's no need to deal with devils.

After breakfast the next morning, the troops set up camp and continued to move forward. Now that they have a goal, the troops are even more confident when they move forward. Although the soldiers did not know where the enemy was, they could tell from the relaxed expression on the commander's face that there seemed to be some good news last night. So, on the way of the troops, all kinds of gossip spread.

Some people say that Wang Chuan has already contracted malaria and died, and the military seat led everyone to see Wang Chuan's body, find the body, and send it to the war zone to count the meritorious service of the 500 army. Some people say that there is a rebellion in Wang Chuan's army, and the rebel army is fighting with Wang Chuan's army, and the military seat ordered a night of rest last night, in fact, it is to wait for the results of the battle between the two troops over there.

There were all kinds of theories, and the commanders in the army did not come out to avoid the rumors, so they allowed all kinds of gossip among the soldiers to go viral. Every time they rested, the soldiers gathered together to talk about the latest news, and all the news showed one thing, that is, Wang Chuan's troops were vulnerable, and the military seat led everyone to win this battle easily!

The morale of the troops was greatly boosted by the spread of this gossip.