"There is a situation! Chief of Staff, look, less than a kilometer north of the town, below the white hill! Xiao Ying, the deputy head of the Fourth Regiment, interrupted Wang Huchen's words with a hurried report. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Huchen immediately extinguished his cigarette butts, raised his binoculars and turned to the north of the town, and saw at a glance a huge convoy of more than a dozen carriages slowly passing through the bend under the white stone wall towards the town to the south.

The carriage was covered with black tarpaulins, and the convoy was guarded by dozens of cavalrymen in front and rear, about two companies of soldiers walked on either side of the convoy and at the rear of the convoy, with yellow canvas ammunition bags on their shoulders and rifles on their backs.

All the officers and men were wearing gray-blue uniforms, and at a glance it was clear that this group of men and horses was not a local or nearby militia group, but a regular army escorting goods.

"Good boy! Sixteen wagons in all, all pulled by two horses, were still moving so slowly, it seemed that the goods on the carriages were very heavy, and I could not think of anything else that was so heavy except weapons and ammunition. ”

Chen Min muttered excitedly.

Xiao Ying was also unwilling to be lonely: "The front and rear forty or fifty cavalrymen are all equipped with two guns, several of them seem to have carbines, the back two horses are carrying light machine guns, and the soldiers are carrying Mosin Nagant rifles, and there are four grenades hanging from their waists......"

"The first few horsemen on horseback seem to be officers, gray-blue army coats, and the horses under their crotches are also rare war horses, probably the Dian army!"

Wang Huchen was equally excited: "That's right! It's the Dian army, and it's probably the transport team under Yang Chisheng......"

"The carriages of the six carriages in the back are stacked very high, which should be clothing or light supplies, and the goods of the middle carriages are just above the carriage, and it is very difficult to use two horses, and the carriages should be loaded with weapons and ammunition......"

"As for the three carriages in front of them, they are all neat wooden boxes, I don't know what they are inside, but it is certain that it will not be a bargain, otherwise two companies and more than fifty cavalry will not be dispatched to escort it."

"Chief of Staff, **** vote!"

Chen Minxian looked eagerly at Wang Huchen.

Wang Huchen grinned: "It's all delivered to his mouth, how can he let him run away?" God takes care of us! Haha......"

"I speculate that this convoy won't stay in the town for long, and after lunch, it will cross the river and rush to Ningdu City in the south!"

"When you arrive at this place, it is equivalent to going under the noses of the Dian army in Ningdu City, and the officers and soldiers who escort them will definitely relax their vigilance, and they will never dream that someone would dare to rob them, let alone that we, the bandits who fell from the sky, have twelve Browning light machine guns and more than a dozen flower machine guns!"

"Xiao Ying, you stay and continue to monitor, Min first go with me to the south to see the terrain, and then figure out how to fight!"

"Yes!"

Chen Minxian immediately put away the binoculars and followed Wang Huchen into the grass-covered mountain road.

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At 12:10 p.m., 12 kilometers west of Ningdu County, at the west foot of Lotus Mountain.

On both sides of the winding stream at the foot of the mountain, the officers and men of the two main regiments of the instructor sat and lay down, very quietly, some spread out their limbs to bask in the sun and sleep, and some had lunch in front of the sparkling water.

In order to avoid exposing the target, more than 2,500 officers and men did not have a single hot meal during the march for two days and one night, but so far not a single person has fallen ill or laid down, and the morale of the whole army is still so high.

Zheng Yi grabbed a piece of cold pancake, and while eating, he checked the latest hand-drawn map on the slate, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Ningdu City, located on the west bank of the Meijiang River, was not easy to fight.

If Wang Huchen's odd army of more than 100 people could not transfer nearly half of the defenders in the city away, Zheng Yi had to grit his teeth and give the order to attack, first let several detachments of the spy company climb the city wall under the cover of night, and then the two main forces launched a strong attack from the west and south with the least garrison troops.

In Zheng Yi's opinion, this battle was very aggrieved, even if he finally defeated the unprepared 2,000 defenders as he wished and successfully occupied Ningdu City, he would pay a great price.

This kind of battle of killing 1,000 enemies and self-inflicting 800 losses has always been something Zheng Yi has always tried his best to avoid, but now, he has to fight to the death.

Li Lianshan, who was covered with sweat, came to Zheng Yi again, sat on the stone slab opposite, and whispered: "Five hundred brothers spent a morning, and fifty six-meter-long bamboo ladders are finally ready, alas! If only there were explosives, it would have blown a big hole in the city wall with a 'boom', and a charge would have crashed into it. ”

Zheng Yi stuffed the last small half of the pancake into his mouth, picked up the towel on the side and wiped his hands: "If there is enough explosives, I don't need to blow up the city wall, just cut down trees to make a dozen conscienceless cannons, just a few rounds of projectiles, there will not be a single enemy on the head of the city who can stand up." ”

"Is the conscienceless cannon you said really so powerful?" Li Lianshan was very curious, in the past two days, he had heard Zheng Yi mention the conscience cannon for the third time.

Zheng Yi didn't know how to explain: "I can't understand it for a while, but you will understand it when you see it...... Wait, after this battle, I will take some time, find a few brothers with good skills to make two unconscionable cannons, and then test fire them for everyone to see, and then you will know how powerful it is, and why it is called a conscienceless cannon. ”

Zhang Yao, the commander of the communications company, hurriedly arrived: "The chief of staff sent an urgent telegram and encountered an unexpected situation. ”

Zheng Yi took the telegram and read it carefully, and after reading it, he handed it to Li Lianshan, who was leaning over, and turned to Zhang Yao and whispered: "Harrier, immediately reply to the chief of staff, and ask him to beat hard, the harder the better, even if you don't want those materials, you must destroy all the more than 300 enemy troops escorted!" ”

"Understood!"

Zhang Yao quickly wrote out Zheng Yi's meaning and handed it to Zheng Yi to sign along with the folder.

Zheng Yi hurriedly glanced at the content of the standardized message, quickly signed his name, thought about it and added a sentence at the end of the message:

"If you have spare strength, you can attack Shishang Town after the ambush, and those who are very angry will be severely punished, and if there is resistance, they will be resolutely eliminated!"

Zhang Yao took the folder, turned around and walked up to the grass hut on the hillside, where his radio team was set up on the higher hillside.

Li Lianshan looked at Zheng Yi in surprise: "Huchen is just one hundred and ten people, and it is estimated that it is enough to destroy three times the enemy army of himself!" ”

Zheng Yi nodded: "It depends on Huchen's ability, with their equipment analysis, if the terrain is chosen properly, fought resolutely, and fought hard enough, it is completely possible to destroy three times the enemy of their own, I have confidence in him and Chen Minxian, these old brothers, they are likely to transfer more than half of the defenders in Ningdu City in this battle." ”

"What time does the fight start?" Li Lianshan asked.

"It should be between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, and I don't know the exact time."

After Zheng Yi finished speaking, he couldn't help but look at the rolling mountains in the north. (To be continued.) )