However, the Qing army was late in collecting the troops, and there were already one hundred and ten Qing soldiers crossing the shore to surrender to Lin Yuan's troops, Lin Yuan heard that he had captured the prisoner, and immediately asked people to bring the officer with the largest position in the prisoner to his camp tent, Lin Yuan did not wait long in the camp tent to see Liu Yufeng come in with a soldier.

Liu Yufeng said to Lin Yuan: "Qi Lin Shuai, this guy is a battalion commander. ”

Lin Yuan looked at the soldier, only to see that he was wearing the clothes of an ordinary soldier, he was only in his twenties, Lin Yuan had seen many battalion commanders, such as Ning Maniac, etc., they were all middle-aged people around forty years old, Lin Yuan couldn't help but think: "This soldier is so young, it turned out to be a battalion commander!" It's really strange, why doesn't he wear the clothes of the battalion commander? ”

Lin Yuan couldn't help but ask Liu Yufeng: "Is this person really a camp commander?" ”

Liu Yufeng replied: "I asked in the crowd who was the biggest official, and everyone pointed to him, saying that he was the commander of the battalion!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked the battalion commander, "What's your name?" ”

The battalion commander replied with a wincing face: "The villain's surname is He, and his name is Zhonghua." ”

Lin Yuan saw his timid appearance and became even more suspicious of his identity, so he slapped the table fiercely and said angrily: "Are you an officer or not?" ”

When He Zhonghua heard this, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Yes, the villain is the commander of the Zhongzi Battalion, and he will never dare to deceive Lin Shuai." ”

Lin Yuan smiled helplessly: "You said that you are the commander of the battalion, do you believe it yourself?" I've seen quite a few battalion commanders, and none of them are like you. ”

He Zhonghua hurriedly said: "I was not the commander of the battalion, I was a captain, I was originally from the Green Camp of Hejian Mansion, didn't this set up the Hejian Battalion?" In accordance with the establishment of Lord Yuan's new army, the Hejian battalion was organized into three levels: battalion, sentinel, and team, each battalion had 1,000 people, and the entire Hejian battalion had more than 100 battalions. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Who are your adults?" Isn't it Dochy? ”

He Zhonghua nodded again and again, and Lin Yuan asked, "I listen to the meaning of your words, your 100,000 people should be ordinary people, right?" Otherwise, there would not be such a shortage of officers. ”

He Zhonghua said: "Yes, most of the 100,000 people are ordinary people. Moreover, not all of these 100,000 men can fight, there are also women and children, and there are a little more than 50,000 men. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then the remaining 50,000 are women and children?" ”

He Zhonghua said: "Lin Shuai is right, in order to make more people, Duoqi dragged the people from the nearby villages and counties into the barracks, and they all regarded them as soldiers!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled helplessly: "Isn't this self-deception? Not to mention that those women and children can't fight at all, just like him, the combat effectiveness of the troops can't go up if they arrange officers like this! ”

He Zhonghua said: "Lord Duoqi doesn't care about that, he just made up enough numbers, and then gave a fold to the top, saying that the Hejian camp has trained 100,000 elite soldiers, which is enough to resist Lin Wei, oh no, it's Lin Shuai!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Do you believe such nonsense?" ”

He Zhonghua said: "The above would rather believe that there is something than believe that it is not, and they will not send someone to investigate, so Duoqi can say whatever he wants." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "How do you know that the upper part of the road will not send someone to investigate?" ”

He Zhonghua said: "Don't look at me as just a small battalion commander, but because of the good cricket fighting, I can often get close to Duoqi, by the way, our Lord Duoqi likes to fight crickets, cockfights and dogs the most, and I have to fight for two hours every day." ”

Lin Yuan saw that He Zhonghua was going to go off-topic, so he coughed, and He Zhonghua hurriedly said: "I heard Lord Duoqi say, and I also know that the Hejian camp, the Dezhou camp and the Yellow River camp will not be able to hold it sooner or later, and if you want to block Lin Shuai, you have to rely on the Yellow River, so he can say whatever he wants, and as soon as the Hejian camp is breached, he will run south, and run to the south to be another official." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then what does this Duoqi do?" ”

He Zhonghua said: "He is a Beijing official who has worked in the military department, and the emperor asked him to stay in Hejian Mansion to form the Hejian battalion." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "You need weapons to form a large camp in Hejian, where do your weapons come from?" ”

He Zhonghua said: "It was given to us by Lord Yuan's subordinates, and there are less than 3,000 guns in total, so many of us don't have weapons, and Duoqi doesn't arrange training, and the following co-ordinators also drink and have fun all day long, so although there are 3,000 guns, less than half of the people can shoot, and even fewer people can shoot accurately." ”

Lin Yuan thought secretly in his heart: "I knew that the Qing army in Lu Dao had no combat effectiveness, but I didn't expect that it was already so bad, a force of 100,000 people, there were not even 3,000 guns!" Lin Yuan thought of this and suddenly thought: Three thousand guns, this number seems to be a bit too big, Yuan Shikai's new army is only more than 10,000 people, and he took out more than 3,000 guns at once, so what do they use for their own people?

Lin Yuan then asked: "You said that your gun was given by Yuan Shikai, and they gave you the gun, so what kind of gun did they use themselves?" ”

He Zhonghua said: "I heard that a new gun is going to be issued!" ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, he was immediately shocked into a cold sweat, and thought: "I know very well the Qing court's military research and development capabilities, they absolutely do not have the ability to make new guns by themselves, if they want to use new guns, the only way is to buy them from foreign countries, it seems that foreigners have not bargained from me, so they went to help the Qing court." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Is what you said true?" ”

He Zhonghua nodded again and again, and said, "The villain doesn't dare to have half a sentence!" ”

Lin Yuan waved his hand to let He Zhonghua go down, and asked a few people one after another, although there were some discrepancies in the content of what they said, but one thing was common: the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was extremely weak!

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Since the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is extremely weak, I will order the troops to attack quickly, taking advantage of the fact that the Qing army has just failed and the army's spirit is unstable, and take down the Hejian camp in one go!" Thinking of this, Lin Yuan immediately ordered Xiao Yingwu to build a bridge to cross the river!

As soon as Lin Yuan's order came out, the bridge-building troops quickly dispatched, according to Lin Yuan's plan, the mortar detachment also cooperated with the action, suppressed the enemy army by the river, ten minutes after the bridge was built, the Qing army really swarmed in, and the mortars immediately fired shells at the opposite bank, and for a time the explosion of the shells became one, and the Qing army retracted to the camp when they heard the explosion, and never dared to come out again.

Twenty minutes later, a pontoon bridge was erected over the river, and tanks and infantry vehicles roared across the pontoon! The prestige of the tanks under Lin Yuan's subordinates is amazing, and when he was in Gansu, he could even scare the tens of thousands of troops who soared into the dragon, and the troops of the dragon soared were still trained soldiers, and the current Qing army was just a group of people who put together temporarily.

When the tank broke through the wall, the Qing army completely collapsed, everywhere there were people who knelt down and surrendered, the camp was full of women and children's cries, the battle lasted less than twenty minutes, the Qing army's so-called 100,000 elite soldiers all surrendered, Lin Yuan was not happy at all in the camp, he thought in his heart: "This battle is a little too smooth, if things are added with the word 'too', it seems abnormal, is there something abnormal in this battle?" ”