Chapter 098 Towards Chunchuan

Zhou Charter is an upright: "Zhangzi Camp Officer, Qianzong Zhou Charter, I have met Lord Han!"

Hannagan waved his hand: "Mr. Zhou Qian, you are my savior. Don't be polite. Let's be casual. However, what needs to be corrected is that you should not call me Lord Han, but Lord Hannagan. Well, my surname is Hannagan, not Han. In your Chinese words, I have a compound surname.

Hannagen stayed in the Qing Dynasty for 15 years and had a great understanding of the culture of the Qing Dynasty.

"Yes, Lord Hannagan."

"What's wrong with your Zhang Ziying?" Hannagan asked, "In my impression, the Qing army does not have this number."

Zhou Charter laughed and said, "Lord Hannagan, this is a newly established camp..." Zhou Charter told the ins and outs of Zhangzi Camp.

Hannagan was very surprised: "Mr. Zhou Qian, do you mean that your subordinates are all foot men?"

"Not bad."

Hannagan looked at Zhao Xiaoman behind Zhou Charter and shook his head slightly: "However, in my opinion, they are the best soldiers I have ever seen in the Qing Dynasty."

"I think so too." Zhou Charter said, "They used to be foots, but they have experienced several battles, with wins and losses, but no matter what the result is, they have not lost the face of soldiers."

Hannagan thought for a moment and asked, "How many people are left in your camp?" In his opinion, there should be few days left in this battalion after a fierce battle with the Japanese army.

"There are still 5040 people."

"Full!"

"Yes, it's full!"

"Where are they?"

"I think they should be on their way to the capital now. Soon, we should meet them in Chunchuan."

"Very good!" Hannagan patted his thigh and stood up: "Mr. Zhou Qian, I still have 170 people here. I suggest that this 170 people be incorporated into your Zhangzi camp under your command."

Zhou Charter looked at the group of beggards and felt a little reluctant. He did not believe that the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty could fight. Now, he has finally had a force that can fight. He doesn't want this group of begglers to destroy the morale of the army.

Hannagan saw Zhou's doubts and said seriously, "Mr. Zhou Qian, please rest assured that these survivors are full of hatred for the Japanese. They hope to have the opportunity to fight with the Japanese. Moreover, there happens to be a competent sentry here. He is your brother Wu Peifu! In addition, I will also join your army."

Zhou Charter Lizheng said, "Please ask Mr. Hannagan to be the commander of this unit. I would like to be a soldier."

"No, no, Mr. Zhou misunderstood." Hannagan said, "The fact that you can successfully attack Incheon is enough to show that you have excellent command skills. I will stay in your army, not as a commander, but as an instructor. I believe that after my **, all your soldiers from the footman will become elite soldiers!"

Zhou Charter was overjoyed: "Zhou Charter, on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of the Zhangzi Battalion, warmly welcomes Mr. Hannagan!" The morale and spirit of the soldiers of Zhangzi Battalion are all gone. What they lack is tactical literacy. Whether they are footers or soldiers who are training in the army, they have not received any decent modern combat training. Zhou Charter is having a headache about this matter, and God sent a Hannagan.

Hannagan represents the military philosophy of the German army, which is recognized as the most combative and organized army in the world today.

Zhou Charter even thought that once the army stabilized, he would find Ed. This German brother was very righteous and younger than Hannagan. When he arrived at Zhangzi Camp, he would definitely make great achievements.

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It's getting late, and Incheon Port is still chaotic. Zhou Charter took the 170 survivors by the moonlight and left the bay and rushed towards the capital.

Instead of taking the road, they walked along the mountains along the road and through the dense forest.

On the road at the foot of the mountain, there was a lot of traffic and bright lights. The Japanese Fifth Division was ordered to move closer to Incheon to find the expected main force of the 5,000 Qing army for a decisive battle.

Soon, Zhou Charter's unit passed the 5th Division of the Japanese Army.

Along the way, their team continued to grow.

They received more than 300 footmen in the dense forest near Tian'an. These footmen originally retreated to Pyongyang with Ye Zhichao's regular training army, but after arriving at Tian'an, the panicked Ye Zhichao left these footmen and fled alone.

These foots are also lucky. After finding that they were left behind, they knew that a disaster was coming. They were afraid of meeting Japanese soldiers and dared not walk the road, like a group of headless flies in the mountains near Tian'an. After wandering for several days, I got lost and wandered around around Tian'an, and I was about to fall into a desperate situation.

Zhou Charter was also afraid of meeting Japanese soldiers. Except for Zhao Xiaoman and his 24 soldiers with weapons, the others he led were all bare-handed. Therefore, they dare not walk on the road and pick up grass and trees. As a result, I met these footers who were spinning in place.

Zhao Xiaoman was originally a foot man, and there are many acquaintances among these footers.

These footers saw Zhou Charter's troops, just like babies saw their parents, crying and shouting to follow Zhou Charter. They saw that Zhao Xiaoman was not what it used to be. A yellow-haired boy had not seen him for a few days and became a sentry chief, with a pistol around his waist and a long gun on his shoulder. The footmen combined and strongly requested to be a soldier to eat food.

These footmen are all people who have died once. They take their lives lightly. They fight as soldiers. If they die again, they can become officials, go home to build a house and marry their aunts.

Of course, building a house to marry his aunt is a grand blueprint drawn by Zhao Xiaoman. Although it smells like painting cakes on the wall, people who are in a desperate situation need such a painting cake very much.

In a word, the footers were greatly refreshed and determined to follow Zhou Charter, and Zhou Charter's team further strengthened.

In addition to these footmen, Zhou Charter also accommodated hundreds of training troops and Wuyi soldiers. Some of these people fell behind, some were scattered by the Japanese army, and some were deserters.

This includes the former battalion officer and sentry commander of Zhangzi Battalion. In Chenghuan, they left their troops to escape and dared not take the road, because they were likely to be caught by the Qing army. Once the deserters are caught, they will die! Therefore, they had to wander around in the mountains. They were not familiar with the place. After wandering around for several days, they couldn't go out and were dying of hunger. Seeing Zhou Charter's team, he didn't have time to behead, crying and begging Zhou Charter to take them with him.

Zhou Charter can't bear to leave these people behind. They are all from the Qing Dynasty. It is also fate to meet in North Korea. Therefore, Zhou Charter did not refuse to come. As long as the Qing army will be taken in, but there is one thing. If you enter the Zhangzi Camp, you have to abide by the rules of the Zhangzi Camp. The rule of the Zhangzi Camp is that all actions obey the command. If anyone does not obey the command, he will immediately be expelled from the Zhangzi Camp and let him live and die in the mountains of North Korea.

Of course, no one dares to violate military rules, and no one wants to be a deserter. Everyone knows that in southern North Korea, being a deserter is to die. They have had enough of the hardships in the mountains!

As for the former battalion officer and sentry commander of Zhangzi Camp, I'm sorry, I can only be a soldier. There are only four officers in this team, Zhou Charter, the battalion officer, Zhao Xiaoman and Wu Peifu, the chief instructor Hannagan. Everyone has to listen to these four people. Whether you used to be a battalion officer or a sentry chief, you must stand upright when you see these four people.

During the march, Hannagan used all the time available to the team, such as camping and dining, to teach tactics to the officers and soldiers, including individual tactics, collaborative tactics and firearms. Hannagan has been in the Qing Dynasty for 15 years. He is very familiar with the national conditions and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. He knows how to make soldiers interested in his teaching. His lectures are very popular with soldiers, and the soldiers are extremely hate the Japanese. They wish they can immediately master military knowledge so that they can be cruel to the Japanese. Do it. Along the way, the soldiers were active and easy to learn, and Hannagan carefully taught that the tactical literacy of this team improved rapidly. The soldiers learned more in five days than they learned in one year in the Qing army camp.

When the team arrived near the capital, the team that attacked Incheon expanded into a team of 800 people, which was quite large. However, only Zhou Charter and his 24 team members had guns, and Wu Peifu and Hannagan had guns. Zhou Charter asked the team members to take out two pistols for They.

eight hundred people are not armed, but as long as there is someone. This group of people have experienced the hardships of life and death, and have lost the original dandering, the steepness of the mountains and the bitterness of the Yellow Sea, which have worn away the arrogance, laziness, cowardice and looseness of the Qing soldiers on them, and replaced them with a strong desire for revenge and perseverance.

As long as there is a gun, they will become a elite soldier.

The team arrived by the Han River. 20 kilometers away from the capital, Zhou Charter commanded the team to attack a logistics supply station of the Japanese army and wiped out more than a dozen Japanese soldiers stationed at the station. Unfortunately, there were no guns and ammunition in this military station, and Zhou Charter only took 20 Murata-style rifles.

Fortely, the food and medicine piled up in the military station, and the team was able to have a full meal. They carried a lot of Japanese cans and rice balls with them, and burned the remaining supplies.

After Zhou Charter's team left the Han River and marched for Chunchuan, the third division that returned to the capital hurried back to the capital. At this time, some friends in Shan County realized that the so-called 5,000 Qing army was originally fictitious, and some of them were just a group of scattered soldiers.

At this time, a bad news came from the wartime base camp. The third division returned to the capital without attacking Pyongyang, which made the navy find an excuse.

The navy believes that the failure of the First Army to launch a rapid attack on Pyongyang in North Korea shows that the situation in the south of North Korea is unstable and there are still a large number of resistance elements. In this case, the Japanese army should stabilize the rear first and wait until winter comes before launching an attack on Manchuria. During this period, Japan should concentrate its efforts to attack the Shandong Peninsula, that is to say, make every effort to eliminate the Beiyang sailors in Shandong.