Like Song You's thoughts, when Jian Liangzhi saw a large number of enemy infantry appearing on his side, he knew that something was wrong.

In fact, since he was spotted by the enemy cavalry yesterday morning, and when he was caught up and entangled by the enemy cavalry this morning, he knew that the situation was very bad.

But in the face of such a corrupt situation, he felt powerless!

Faced with the pursuit and entanglement of the cavalry, his first division did not dare to say that it could not move, but it only marched a mere four kilometers in a whole day!

It's only four kilometers, which is enough for a normal person to walk for an hour!

But it took his first division seven or eight hours to reach this progress!

In this case, it is not surprising that it is overtaken by enemy infantry.

After putting down the binoculars, although Jian Liangzhi was extremely panicked in his heart, he still forced himself to calm down: "Order, build a defensive position on the spot, rest assured, the county has begun to organize troops to reinforce our army, as long as we survive these few days, victory will still be ours!" ”

But when he said this, he already seemed to have no confidence.

County reinforcements?

At most, it is just a few thousand reinforcements.

In fact, there were quite a few troops in the county guard, more than 70,000 people.

However, in Pingdan County before, it had already lost the Eighth Division, the Fifth Division, the Seventh Division, and the Second Cavalry Brigade, three divisions and one brigade, with a total strength of no less than 40,000 troops.

Of the remaining more than 30,000 troops, his first division accounted for at least half.

In addition, nearly 10,000 people were deployed on the southern defense line to guard against Li Dingjun

There were also about 4,000 people on the east bank of Lingchang to guard against the Second Mixed Brigade under Lin Ziran.

In fact, there are only a few thousand people left behind in the county town.

No matter how much Jian Minggang loots, it is estimated that he will not be able to muster 5,000 troops.

What can 5,000 troops do?

Nothing can be done!

In fact, from the moment the Northwest Army was finished, it could already be announced that the county town had changed hands, even if there were nearly 30,000 troops under the command of Jian Minggang, it was impossible to hold it.

Not to mention that now the 1st Division is still entangled!

When the troops began to build defensive positions, in fact, Jian Liangzhi's heart was desperate!

Finished!

The Northwest Army is over, and his first division is about to end, and it is estimated that in a few days, the county will also change hands.

It's all over!

Jian Liangzhi, the commander, was able to see the situation clearly, and the other middle and senior officers of the First Division were also able to see the situation clearly, so they all had sad faces.

They did not surrender as soon as they saw that the situation was not right, like the generals of the Northwest Army.

They are also Jian Minggang's henchmen.

The current first division of the county guard is not the first division of Cheng Lingfeng's era, although the number is the same, but whether it is officers or soldiers, in fact, most of them are the old troops led by Jian Minggang when he started the army.

After Jian Minggang moved into the county seat, he reorganized these descendant troops and gave them the number of the first division, and the soldiers of the first division formed the seventh division together with other soldiers.

Well, that is, the Seventh Division, which was the first to surrender in the Battle of Oxhorn Mountain.

The First Division, which was composed of a large number of descendants, even when the situation was not good, those middle and high-ranking generals did not easily waver and said that they wanted to surrender.

However, what if the main forces of the follow-up enemy army come up later?

Hardly!

Even Jian Liangzhi himself can't guarantee what will happen to the troops then!

In this despair, Jian Liangzhi spent his most difficult day, and when the night approached, Jian Liangzhi also tried to break through.

But the enemy cavalry was always on the periphery.

Coupled with the fact that the sky is dark, this small-scale breakthrough is okay, and a large-scale breakthrough is not to be expected.

Even if you run out, it is estimated that you will collapse and escape.

However, many officers would rather surrender than have their troops collapse and flee.

If you surrender, you will surrender with your troops, as long as you are not brainless, then you can continue to lead the troops to fight.

If the troops under his command collapse and become a bare-bones commander, even if they want to surrender to Chengcheng, they will not bother to look at them.

The combination of various factors led to the unsuccessful attempt of the 1st Division to break out that night.

By the time the next day, it would be even more hopeless.

Because the next morning, they found that there were many more enemy troops on the periphery.

This is the second infantry brigade sent out by Lin Ziran's second wave.

This infantry brigade set off a day late, but it also took advantage of this day to urgently replenish a large number of surrender soldiers, and then pursued lightly, and finally arrived here.

At this time, the troops of the Sixth Division here already had more than 10,000 people from the First Cavalry Brigade, the First Infantry Brigade, and the Second Infantry Brigade.

And even if it was a lightly armed pursuit, they also brought a lot of light artillery, and more importantly, Lin Ziran assigned the experimental artillery company to them.

Although the artillery was not light, it was finally able to keep up with the pursuit of the troops after exhausting many horses at any cost.

At this time, in the face of the enemy's interception of tens of thousands of troops, it was even more difficult for the first division to break through.

In fact, they were suppressed by the First Cavalry Brigade and could not move at all, and with this move, the cavalry brigade led by Song You would move the same.

If the 1st Division dares to march and retreat, the 1st Cavalry Brigade will dare to rush forward!

The dilemma is that it is the current First Division.

Half a day later, another unit of the 6th Division arrived.

By the time another day had passed, the 1st Division would have been completely surrounded!

Because Lin Ziran had already personally led the main force of the Sixth Division to arrive!

With more than 40,000 troops, the 6th Division surrounded the 1st Division!

After arriving at the front line, Lin Ziran first sent people to persuade him to surrender, after all, this first division can be regarded as an elite unit in the Luo'an army, and he doesn't need the officers in it, but he needs those soldiers.

If this can make the other party surrender, it can directly produce more than 10,000 elite soldiers.

It can also avoid casualties on your own side.

But the surrender was directly rejected by Jian Liangzhi.

Since the other party refused, then there was nothing to say, Lin Ziran personally ordered a general attack.

It is impossible for him to ink with Jian Liangzhi, he needs to solve this first division as soon as possible, regardless of whether it is eliminated or surrendered.

In this way, he had enough time to seize the county seat, and at the same time guard against Zhao Song and Li Dingjun, as well as Du Zhikuan and Shao Bing.

Time is precious to Lin Ziran.

When he led the main force to pursue the First Division, the troops left behind in the area of Shiyan Town had already reported, and Zhao Song's troops in the northwest seemed to have moved.

In order to guard against Zhao Song, he left more than 15,000 troops in the rear.

Otherwise, he would have brought down even more of the main force.

The situation is getting worse day by day, and Lin Ziran naturally won't talk nonsense with Jian Liangzhi!

Seeing that the other party did not surrender, he directly ordered a general attack!

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