Sure enough, under the fierce attack of the Suzaku Army, the defenders of Xingquan Mansion retreated from the north gate. Immediately after that, there was a rumbling cannon sound outside the north gate, and soon Li Yun received a report of the total annihilation of the enemy army.

"Big Brother Xingquan Mansion has been taken, should we repair it and continue to move east!" After the battle, Xu Tianhua asked.

However, Li Yun looked at the military newspaper in his hand and pondered, and only said after a long time: "According to the latest intelligence, the counterinsurgency army in Jiangning Mansion is about to arrive in Ruzhou, if we don't kill this enemy, then we will go all the way east, won't we become a bear breaking stick!" ”

"What does big brother mean?"

"Order Zhao Xin and Hu Lingyun's second regiment to immediately continue to advance eastward, give me a fierce attack along the way, attract the army of Jiangning Mansion to me, and then we will annihilate it under Xingquan City!"

"No! I'll go down and get ready! ”

Looking at the military newspaper in his hand, Li Yun couldn't help but sneer, he didn't believe that he had attacked the city and plundered the land all the way, and the army of Jiangning Mansion would turn a blind eye!

In fact, after the destruction of Xingquan City, the reinforcements sent by Pang Tianzheng stopped, and this army, which had suffered from guerrilla attacks, knew very well the difficulty of the Suzaku Army. So when he saw that Xingquan City was broken, he stopped, and asked Pang Tianzheng for the next order.

At the same time, Zhao Xin and Hu Lingyun's eastward march also caused great pressure on the eastern provinces, and they wrote to ask for reinforcements.

And Pang Tianzheng was also a big head after receiving the report, although he had already estimated the strength of the Vermilion Bird Army, but he didn't expect that Xingquan would not even last a day before the city was broken.

The reinforcements he sent might be able to break the Suzaku Army if they were in harmony with the Xingquan garrison, but they would be unable to cope with the fortified city garrisoned by the Suzaku Army.

But at this time, Pang Tianzheng had no reinforcements to send, because the guerrillas of the Vermilion Bird Army became more and more happy, which restrained Pang Tianzheng's great energy. Moreover, the provinces are also surging undercurrents, and there seem to be signs of instability, so he can't draw enough troops at all.

Therefore, Pang Tianzheng could only kick the ball to the feet of the Governor's Palace. After receiving Pang Tianzheng's request for help, Kang Dingtai's forehead couldn't help but burst out with a green tendon.

Because he never thought that the battle situation would erode so quickly, the counterinsurgency army in Jiangning Mansion was still on the way, but the Suzaku rebels had already taken the initiative to attack. And within one day, he broke through Xingquan Mansion, and also broke several cities all the way east.

If the Suzaku rebels are allowed to be so corrupted, the consequences will be unimaginable!

So Kang Dingtai immediately ordered Ningnan Province in the east to gather troops to stop the Suzaku army from advancing eastward. At the same time, Fang Xiong was ordered to attack quickly and completely annihilate the Suzaku rebels together with the patrol battalion of Ningnan Province.

However, Kang Dingtai didn't know that Fang Xiong's life at this time was not easy. Under the attack of Wolf Tao's special mountain combat battalion, Fang Xiong's army marched extremely slowly, and more importantly, the morale of the army was severely defeated!

In accordance with Li Yun's order, Wolf Tao used guerrilla warfare to attack and harass Fang Xiong's army.

They did not engage in a head-on confrontation with Fang Xiong's army, but used tactics such as sparrow warfare, mine warfare, long-range sniping, and night raids to delay the enemy's march. Keep the enemy in a state where they are being attacked and don't know where the attack is coming from.

First of all, Wolf Tao ordered his subordinates to plant a large number of mines along the way, and because Fang Xiong did not have enough knowledge of mines and lacked the necessary means of mine clearance, he was killed and injured by the mines.

In desperation, Fang Xiong had to requisition a large number of cattle and horses to explore the road in front.

However, Li Yun, who has watched the movie mine warfare, attaches great importance to the design of mines, so the types of mines equipped by the Suzaku Army are very comprehensive. Among them is a kind of scorpion mine, which does not explode after a person steps on a mine, and will only detonate when he steps on the pedal in front.

So no matter how careful Fang Xiong is, he can't escape the fate of being bombed.

At the same time, the special mountain combat battalion was like a hornet, and the squad was the basic combat unit to carry out uninterrupted sneak attacks on the enemy. Each time, the squads quickly retreated after a fierce fight, giving the enemy no chance to entangle them.

There are also snipers looking for opportunities to shoot officers in the enemy army with precision. So on the first day alone, Fang Xiong lost a large number of grassroots officers.

So much so that all the officers in Fang Xiong's army changed into the attire of ordinary soldiers.

And Fang Xiong had also sent scouts and elite troops to carry out counterattacks and harassment operations against those mountain camps that attacked them.

However, Wolf Tao's subordinates are all experienced hunters who are good at tracking, concealment, trapping, and poisoning. Coupled with the guidance of Li Yun's modern special operations thinking and the sophisticated firearms he was equipped with, he suppressed the patrol battalion under Fang Xiong in all aspects.

Therefore, Fang Xiong's counterattack did not achieve much success, but suffered heavy losses.

And this was only during the day, and at night, under the cover of night, the attacks of the special mountain combat battalions became more frequent. The most favorite weapon used by the soldiers of the mountain battalion who sneaked up at night was the rocket, and the rockets of the Suzaku Army borrowed the design of the 107 rocket artillery, which could be fired on a special gun mount, and could also be carried by a single soldier on a simple launcher.

Therefore, the soldiers of the mountain battalion who sneaked up always carried a large number of rockets, quietly sneaked to the periphery of Fang Xiong's military camp, and then used rockets to carry out a surprise attack on the enemy camp. Retreat immediately after each sneak attack, and lead them to a preset ambush zone if the enemy pursues them.

Although the range of the Suzaku Army's rockets is not far, its power is not weak. Every time dozens of rockets were fired into the enemy's camp, they would cause great damage to Fang Xiong's patrol.

In fact, there were not many direct killings and injuries caused by rockets, and the casualties of patrol battalions were more caused by the chaos caused by rockets.

And taking advantage of the chaos in the enemy camp, Wolf Tao will also concentrate his forces and make a short surprise attack to further increase this chaos. But it does not entangle with the enemy too much, and the time for each assault is very short. Because after all, the enemy is outnumbered, and Wolf Tao will never let himself be entangled, which is also what Li Yun repeatedly warned him before leaving.

The patrol battalion was an important force in the Qianyuan Empire to maintain local rule, and although its combat power was not as good as that of the eight main battle regiments, it was also a well-trained elite soldier.

But they are better at frontal operations with large corps, and they are not proficient in small-scale special operations like this. Therefore, Fang Xiong was very uncomfortable in the face of the attack of the wolf peach, and although the damage caused by this attack was not large, it greatly damaged the morale of the army.

"Click......!"

After being attacked by rockets again, the rockets caused a fire and even spread to Fang Xiong's camp, so Fang Xiong angrily cut off the bookcase in the tent.

"These damn bastards! I'll have to skin them when I catch them! Fang Xiong shouted angrily, as Kang Dingtai's confidant and favorite general, he had never been so aggrieved.

"My lord, we must find a way to speed up the march! If we continue like this, when will we get to Ruzhou? Fang Xiong's lieutenant Qian Hui said with some concern.

"I know! But do you have any way to get rid of those pesky flies! Fang Xiong couldn't help but feel irritated when he heard this.

After thinking for a while, Qian Hui said: "My lord, in my opinion, I can only strengthen the patrol around the camp now, and send more people to patrol along the camp to ensure that no one approaches within a mile around the camp!" ”

Fang Xiong thought for a moment and found that there seemed to be only this method now, so he ordered: "Okay, you go and arrange it immediately, and send more crossbowmen to repel arrows as soon as there is a stir!" ”

"No!"

After the patrol battalion strengthened its patrol, Wolf Tao's sneak attack really became more difficult, but he was not tired, anyway, there was a lot of time for the enemy to always show flaws.

Although after strengthening the patrol of the camp, it effectively prevented the sneak attack of the Vermilion Bird Army, but Fang Xiong's mood did not become much better because of this. Because they were still two days away from Ruzhou, but under the harassment of the flies, the march of the army was extremely slow.

The most important thing is that this kind of sneak attack is extremely damaging to the morale of the army. If you don't get rid of those annoying flies, even if you rush to Ruzhou, the army will have some morale to fight.

After thinking about it for a long time, Fang Xiong still couldn't come up with any solution, so he ordered: "Immediately send the two generals Luo Dakai and Ji Yinghan to my tent to discuss matters and see what they can do." ”

"No!"

At this time, Luo Dakai and Ji Yinghan were also worried about this matter, because their subordinates suffered the greatest losses during the day.

Although Fang Xiong was the same as Luo Da Kaiji's official title, Fang Xiong commanded the Jiangning patrol battalion, the most elite patrol battalion in Cangnan Province, and at the same time had the support of the governor. So the three camps are together, and the dirty work, tiring work, and hard work are all done by Luo Dakai and Ji Yinghan.

"I've seen Lord Fang!"

"I don't know what is the important matter for Lord Fang to send me and the two of us?"

Seeing Luo Dakai and Ji Yinghan coming, Fang Xiong's face looked a little better, "Two adults, please sit down, I don't know if there is a good plan for the attack of the Vermilion Bird Army!" ”

Luo Dakai couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, "Lord Fang, if I had a good plan, I wouldn't have waited until now." ”

"Are we going to let those thieves do whatever they want!" Fang Xiong was irritated again when he heard this.

Ji Yinghan thought for a moment and said, "Lord Fang, what is the best way to deal with this kind of small-scale attack!" It's nothing more than a squad strength against a squad force, and if you want to win, it depends on who is more ruthless! ”

Fang Xiong also sighed after hearing this, "I know this, but the thieves have sharp weapons, and they don't fight with us openly at all, they always hide in the dark and release cold arrows, isn't it because of this that we have suffered heavy losses during the day!" ”

Ji Yinghan thought for a while, and then his eyes lit up, "Lord Fang, although we didn't have any results during the day, this doesn't mean that our strategy was a failure, it's just that the soldiers are not as good as the other party." If you want me to think that we might as well organize the whole army and the soldiers with the strongest martial arts cultivation into a team to hunt those pesky flies! ”

"Oh......!"

Fang Xiong couldn't help but feel moved when he heard this, and seemed to approve of this method, so he said approvingly: "What Master Ji said is good, let's do it!" ”

Then, Fang Xiong gathered the soldiers of the whole army with high martial arts skills overnight.