The Guang'an rebels want to run, this is not good!

Lin Ziran immediately said loudly: "Let the brothers get up!" ”

Luo Mazi next to him was also just woken up by the voice, and when he heard this in a daze, he was immediately shocked: "The enemy has hit?" ”

Then he turned his head to look at Lin Ziran: "My lord, let's run!" ”

Lin Ziran said angrily: "Run a fart, let's intercept the Guang'an rebels!" ”

Looking at the pocket watch, it is already four o'clock in the morning, and according to the news sent by Jian Langzhi yesterday, the main force led by Jian Liangzhi should have also rushed over overnight.

As long as he dragged the other party for about two hours, it was enough to wait for Jian Liangzhi's main force to arrive.

Two hours!

In the night, the camp of the Qingshan Patrol Camp was brightly lit, and many soldiers were called up and lined up one by one.

Although it happened suddenly, it was not an enemy attack, but an emergency dispatch, so there was no panic.

This is also due to the platoon system of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion, no matter what the soldiers do, even the barracks are concentrated on the basis of a squad, so when the order is issued, the soldiers follow the squad leaders, and then gather in three squads led by the platoon commander, and finally summarize into a company.

Although the process is still a bit chaotic, it is much better than the soldiers running around one by one.

Due to the tight time, as soon as Lin Ziran and the other troops gathered, he immediately personally led the cavalry platoon and three infantry companies to set off first, while the artillery platoon and the baggage platoon slowly packed up the tents and other baggage in the rear to keep up.

When the troops set off, it was already more than four o'clock, although there was a curved crescent moon and stars in the sky, but it was obviously impossible to illuminate the earth.

When the troops climbed a small hill, Lin Ziran finally saw the Guang'an rebels.

In fact, the distance between the two sides that night was not too far, and it was only two small hills, and the straight-line distance was only two or three kilometers at most, and if there were no obstacles such as mountains and woods, both sides could even see each other directly.

It's just that this place is a hilly area with constant undulations, so even if the distance is relatively close in a straight line, it is not easy to see each other.

But now, following the height of the mountain, Lin Ziran saw that about two kilometers in front of him, there was a zigzag fire dragon moving.

You don't have to guess to know that it must be the Guang'an rebels who are fleeing overnight.

"We will intervene sideways, and even if we can't stop them, we will force them to turn northeast!"

At this time, the position of the two sides, Lin Ziran's Qingshan patrol battalion is in the southeast direction of the Guang'an rebels, and the Guang'an rebels are fleeing to the east.

If the other party doesn't want to be stopped by himself, then he can only turn in the northeast direction.

However, Jian Liangzhi's main force is in the north!

If the Guang'an rebels turned to the northeast, it would be equivalent to taking the initiative to rush headlong towards Jian Liangzhi's main force.

"Pick up the speed and move forward!" Lin Ziran had to hurry up, anyway, when they attacked urgently, they didn't bring any baggage, not even artillery and baggage, and the soldiers marched lightly, the speed was still relatively fast.

At this time, the Guang'an rebels obviously also found the Qingshan Patrol Battalion, which was also holding torches, which made several scholars in the Guang'an rebels frown.

After yesterday's confrontation, they already knew what kind of goods the other party was, but it was just a few hundred patrol camps.

If it was a normal battle, in the face of this kind of patrol battalion, they would have enough confidence to rush forward and destroy them, but the other party would not engage them head-on at all, and would just run away after firing a few shots from a distance.

What's more, there are more than 1,000 regular troops of Luo'an chasing them behind them, and there is a full cavalry regiment among them.

If it weren't for that cavalry regiment, they wouldn't have run towards the hills to the south at all, but straight back to the north.

However, the north side is open, and if they run to the north, it is equivalent to sending the opponent's cavalry troops a battle victory, and they have no choice but to run towards the south, that is, they want to use the hilly and jungle terrain in the south to block the pursuit of the Luo'an cavalry, and then turn to the east and withdraw to the hinterland of Guang'an.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he entered the hilly jungle area to the south, he was ambushed by this patrol battalion many times.

There were not many casualties, and only a dozen were killed and wounded when the battle was full, but this harassment slowed down the pace of their march considerably.

Yesterday they didn't even walk half of the expected road, and by the time they were late yesterday evening, they already knew that the main cavalry of Guang'an behind them was already very close, so they set off early in the early hours of this morning.

But I didn't expect that the other party's patrol battalion also caught up in time.

If it were normal times, they would definitely lead their troops to turn to kill them, but not now!

One of the leading middle doctors took a deep breath and said, "Abandon the baggage and speed up the march!" ”

There are pursuers behind them, and there are enemy blocking troops on the flanks, and if you don't rush out in time, you will be overtaken.

Although it will be more troublesome to abandon the baggage, there is no artillery, no ammunition, no food replenishment, but now they have little choice.

The Guang'an rebels were resolute and decisive, and directly abandoned all their baggage, and the speed of the march was significantly accelerated.

Although it was night, they were all carrying torches, but no one would be stupid enough to rush in the dark.

Although this place is also a hilly area, it is not a mountainous area, and this place is not a really uninhabited wilderness, in fact, there are still many surrounding villages, and there are roads between the wilderness, but the roads are a little zigzag and smaller.

Now that nothing is light, the soldiers walk very fast.

The Guang'an rebels did not turn, because they also knew that the north was the pursuer, how could they turn and run to the northeast, they were burying their heads all the way to the east, trying to rush out of Lin Ziran's outflanking in advance.

If you look down from the sky at this time, you will see two zigzag fire dragons moving rapidly, they are not far apart from each other, at first it was still two kilometers, but it will not take long to shorten to more than a thousand meters.

This kind of distance, in a large-scale battle, is already within the range of large-caliber smoothbore guns.

It is a pity that neither side carried artillery, and even if it did, there was no time for the artillerymen to put the artillery down, reload, and aim.

The time continued to pass until about six o'clock, and although the sun had not yet risen, the sky was already white, and the darkest stage before dawn had passed, and neither side had marched with torches.

And at this time, the distance between the two sides is already only four or five hundred meters!

The Great War is imminent!