Zhou Shuyuan's answer made his subordinates who were still anxious just now find their backbone, and his solemn face slowly restored some confidence.:.in.

Among all the subordinates, the commander of the cavalry division with the highest position, in addition to becoming more and more confident, he even showed a look of eagerness to try. As soon as Zhou Shuyuan finished speaking, he asked impatiently...

"Governor, both infantry divisions have their own tasks, but the cavalry division is still idle... The Tiger and Leopard Army that marched into Qingchuan County are all cavalry. Even if they are fighting in the city, they may take the initiative to attack... Therefore, in order to ensure that thousands of soldiers in the secret camp had an accident in the battle to recapture Qingchuan, the last general asked to lead the cavalry division to reinforce Qingchuan County..."

With several eyes at the same time, Zhou Shuyuan said affirmatively after only a brief contemplation: "Yes...but you can only take away the forces of two cavalry regiments, and the remaining one cavalry regiment must stay in the Governor's Mansion for mobile combat..."

"In addition, I have a secret letter here. When I arrived at Qingchuan County, I immediately sent someone to bypass Qingchuan County, enter Sichuan, find the new army base of the imperial court, and handed the secret letter to the commander of the new army..."

"At that time, the new commander of the imperial court will definitely send troops to attack, and join you in attacking Qingchuan County..."

Because of the inner guard's thrust, Zhou Shuyuan, who should have left the Tiger and Leopard Army for several months or even half a year, and was independent in Gansu and Ningbo provinces. At this moment, it is not allowed to start a few months in advance.

The most direct result of this is that many of Zhou Shuyuan's preparations have not been completed yet.

Over the past few months, although Zhou Shuyuan replaced all the high-level civil and military officials in Gansu and Ningbo and the Fifth Army with his confidants, he could obey his own orders instead of the general staff of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

However, this is a senior civil and military official after all...

The cavalry division sent by Sun Chengzong rushed to Qingchuan County. What he encountered along the way were either garrison battalions or garrison companies. Zhou Shuyuan had no time to replace these battalion company commanders.

Therefore, when the cavalry division passed through, they did not know that Zhou Shuyuan had already left the Tiger and Leopard Army and decided to become independent.

And the result is that they also regard themselves as members of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

Faced with the military orders written by Wei Zheng, these garrison battalions and garrison companies had a very firm choice to implement them without any hesitation...

In addition, each soldier of the Cavalry Division had at least one war horse that could be used for transfer, so these decisions were followed. The soldiers of the garrison battalion who defended Qingchuan County together directly equipped the war horses used for transfer by the Cavalry Division, and followed the Cavalry Division to attack Qingchuan County all the way...

Of course, this also means that Sun Chengzong was very lucky. This happened to be in Gansu and Ningxia provinces, bordering many ethnic groups that are good at riding and shooting, and most young and middle-aged people can ride horses.

Otherwise, even if these soldiers of the garrison battalion were willing to obey orders, he would not be able to rely on his legs to enter Qingchuan County before the reinforcement attack troops sent by Zhou Shuyuan arrived at Qingchuan County and assist the cavalry division in defending the city...

Therefore, when the cavalry division rushed to the outside of Qingchuan County with great speed, the cavalry division of 6,000 had already become 9,000. The force was 50% higher...

As his only retreat to retreat into Sichuan after failure, Zhou Shuyuan did not expect that Wei Zheng would directly order the cavalry division to rush here desperately, he regarded this as a strategic location that he had to defend.

Therefore, Zhou Shuyuan directly dispatched two thousand soldiers from the secret camp to equip the firearms he had just obtained from the General Staff, and appointed his most confidant subordinates as the regiment commander to station in Qingchuan County.

Compared with other troops in Gan and Ning provinces, the thousands of soldiers trained by Zhou Shuyuan in the secret camp can definitely be called his hardcore confidant.

Starting from the company commander, every level of officer was promoted by himself.

In addition, their original identity as the border army of the imperial court did not have much recognition of the Tiger and Leopard Army and Wei Zheng. Zhou Shuyuan could say with certainty that even if Wei Zheng personally issued military orders to them without his own orders, they would not obey.

However, Zhou Shuyuan ignored one point, and it was a very important point... that is, it was inadequate preparation...

Because the incident suddenly happened, Zhou Shuyuan himself did not expect that Wei Zheng would send cavalry troops to attack Qingchuan County alone, let alone in the rear. In everyone's eyes, it was impossible for the garrison of Qingchuan County, which was in the enemy situation or the battle.

Therefore, when the roar of cavalry whipping all the way to Qingchuan County.

No one expected that this huge cavalry unit came from the Tiger and Leopard Army...

The two thousand defenders stationed in Qingchuan County did not even make the minimum strengthening of vigilance.

Except for a company that continued patrolling the city wall, the remaining more than a thousand people gathered in the military camps in the city for intensified training. After all, they were just a newly formed unit that Zhou Shuyuan had just formed...

Even if more than half of the soldiers are veterans, if they have not been trained for a period of time, no matter how many veterans are, they will not be able to make the entire army develop combat effectiveness in a short period of time...

Until the cavalry of a regiment of the vanguard completely entered the patrol team's vision, less than one mile away from the county town.

The patrol troops finally discovered something strange...

Although the other party was wearing the same clothes as the Fifth Army Cavalry Division, the momentum of the entire army was completely different.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Army's Cavalry Division is also very strong, it has not experienced too many battles after all. Although the troops are very powerful, they do not have much murderous aura.

But the cavalry division outside the city is different...

Because, the first commander of this cavalry was Zhao Yun, a cavalry unit formed when Wei Zheng started his family.

During the time inside, there were no less than five battles that had been fought with Wei Zheng alone...

Moreover, these battles that have been experienced are all battles with the Later Jin Taks.

It can be said that this cavalry division can be called the First Cavalry Division of the Tiger and Leopard Army, and the soldiers fought all the way with their sabers.

In the eyes of these patrol soldiers, although this cavalry regiment is far away from him, at such a long distance, he can feel the strong murderous aura emitted by the cavalry.

In addition, the cavalry unit was almost rushing to the foot of the city wall, and there was no sign of slowing down.

At this moment, as long as you are not a fool, you know that the cavalry in front of you is definitely not the cavalry division of the Fifth Army he knows...
Chapter completed!