And the two waves of cavalry in the center and on the other side were already suffering a lot of casualties at this time, and when they saw the friendly troops on the side turn around and run, they also turned around and ran without hesitation.

As for the second and third waves of cavalry behind, although their casualties were not large, the friendly troops in front took the initiative to turn their horses and retreat and escape, and they would still rush forward stupidly?

International jokes!

Directly launching a frontal charge, these cavalrymen were already very resistant.

A frontal charge on such an occasion is almost equivalent to having their cavalry launch a suicidal charge.

And they are not noble enough to this point.

If they had the consciousness of suicidal charge, then they would not have become the cavalry of Jian Minggang!

Because they were all members of Luo Anjun before, they were loyal to Cheng Lingfeng, and later some were loyal to Feng Haozhong and even Li Kun.

If they had the consciousness and determination to charge suicidally, they would not have become Jian Minggang's subordinates today.

Therefore, there were a lot of casualties in the front, and the cavalry behind retreated in unison!

Qian Haiye, the brigade commander of the cavalry brigade who led the retreat, looked at the casualties of the hundreds of cavalry in front of him, and sighed in his heart: "This should be able to explain to Lord Zhen!" ”

This continued to charge, and his cavalry brigade had to be completely destroyed.

Without this cavalry brigade, he Qian Haiye is a fart in the county guard system!

Therefore, Qian Haiye took his cavalry brigade to test it a little, and after suffering hundreds of casualties, he led the army to retreat without hesitation.

As for Zhen Changdong's order to charge to the death and destroy the enemy's artillery positions!

It's not that he doesn't care, but he really can't do it.

This result made Zhen Changdong behind him suddenly thunderous!

"How did he do this Qian Haiye, how did he retreat, he just rushed out, why did he retreat!"

"Immediately let him rush up again with the cavalry!"

Qian Haiye, who was on the other side of the battlefield, listened to the order for him to rush forward with the cavalry brigade again, and directly snorted coldly: "It's so light, why didn't he come and charge with us himself!" ”

Frontal charge?

This is simply a fucking suicide charge, Lao Tzu's cavalry is also homely, and he will not shirk the normal combat mission, but you let him launch a suicide charge with his own cavalry.

He can't do it!

After learning that Qian Haiye said that the cavalry brigade suffered huge casualties, low morale, and needed time to rest, Zhen Changdong directly scolded and sent military police to arrest Qian Haiye and replace the commander of the cavalry brigade on the spot.

But he was persuaded by those calm subordinates.

If Zhen Changdong really wants to do this, Qian Haiye is estimated to be able to directly rush over with the Second Cavalry Brigade and cut him Zhen Changdong with a knife!

In the era of Cheng Lingfeng, he Qian Haiye was a senior cavalry general in Luo'an County, and later took refuge in Jianminggang, which also took more than 1,000 cavalry to surrender together, and later took great pains to set up the Second Cavalry Brigade, which was expanded to more than 3,000 cavalry!

Zhen Changdong wanted to remove him from his post It was a joke, let alone him, even if Jian Minggang came over in person, he had to mobilize thousands of cavalry to surround the Second Cavalry Brigade before he had the courage to withdraw Qian Haiye.

Because the Second Cavalry Brigade is not Jian Minggang's, let alone Zhen Changdong's, but his Qian Haiye's!

Zhen Changdong, who calmed down, finally sighed, and finally did not charge in the Second Cavalry Brigade.

It's just that he's still angry!

After this battle, he had to report to Jian Minggang and find an opportunity to completely kill Qian Haiye and incorporate the Second Cavalry Brigade.

This is only a hundred dead and wounded, for the cavalry brigade of the Northwest Army with more than 3,000 cavalry, this casualty is nothing, but the commander of the cavalry brigade, Qian Haiye, retreated directly.

How could this keep him from thundering, if every army was like this, retreating with a few casualties, how could this battle be fought?

The whole army must not be defeated!

Not to mention, the performance of the Fifth and Seventh Divisions behind did indeed fulfill Zhen Changdong's prediction!

The troops of the 5th and 7th Divisions performed quite well at first, and were even able to withstand the intensive artillery bombardment of the 6th Division.

But this is because they have anti-artillery fortifications such as trenches dug in advance.

But when the shelling became more and more intensive, and even more than 20 150-mm front-loading smoothbore howitzers began to shell, in the face of heavy artillery, these improvised field fortifications were useless, and casualties began to increase intensively.

In addition, at this time, a large number of infantry in the headquarters of the Sixth Division, especially the soldiers of the First Infantry Corps, had already stepped forward to within a few hundred meters and began to directly suppress them with dense firepower.

When it came into range of rifled rifles, the casualties of the 5th and 7th divisions increased dramatically!

When the casualties reach a certain level, then the collapse becomes inevitable!

On April 22, the fifty-first year of Xuanping, in this season at the turn of spring and summer.

Lin Ziran, commander of the Sixth Division of the Luo'an Army, led a total of 30,000 men from the headquarters of the Sixth Division, the Fifth Mixed Brigade, and the Sixth Mixed Brigade to fight fiercely on the west side of Niujiao Mountain, about 20 kilometers west of Shiyan Town in southern Pingdan County, and fought fiercely with the 5th, 7th, and 2nd Cavalry Brigades of the Luo'an Army, which was loyal to Jianminggang and commanded by Zhen Changdong Zhongqing, commander of the Luo'an Northwest Army and commander of the 5th Division.

At about ten o'clock in the morning of the same day, the units of the Sixth Division used a large number of artillery to suppress Zhen Changdong's headquarters.

At 10:30 a.m., the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of Zhen Changdong Ming Likang attacked the artillery position of the 6th Division, but was intercepted by fire, and 100 cavalry retreated.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the 1st Corps of the 6th Division Headquarters used the intensive fire of rear-loading rifles to tear through part of the right flank defense line under the responsibility of the 7th Division of the County Guard, and continued to detour towards the enemy's depth.

At 11:40 a.m., the enemy's 7th Division was pinned down by the fire of the 1st Corps and the 2nd Infantry Regiment, and was constantly killed and wounded by artillery fire.

At 12:10, the 7th Division, which had already suffered more than 2,000 casualties, announced its surrender under the leadership of the division commander Bo Yingxing Zhongqing in the face of the complete collapse of the defensive line!

Only five minutes later, on the side of the battlefield, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the County Guard, which still retained its strength and could even retreat to the battlefield at any time, unexpectedly surrendered to the front under the leadership of Qian Haiye, and a total of 3,200 cavalry of the entire cavalry brigade declared their allegiance to Lin Ziran on the spot.

Qian Haiye even led the 2nd Cavalry Brigade to join the battle on the spot and attack the flank of the 5th Division.

At twelve :20, Zhen Changdong looked at the routs all over the mountains, and looked at the shells that had fallen dozens of meters in front of him, and he closed his eyes!

One morning, no, to be exact, it was only more than two hours before and after!

His army of 30,000 is finished!

If he had only suffered heavy casualties, suffered huge casualties, and was even annihilated by the entire army, he would not have been so distracted as he is now, that he would not even be like opening his eyes.

Because of his Third Army, the casualties were actually not as great as imagined.

Although the enemy's artillery fire was very dense and rifle fire was also very intensive, the actual casualties caused to his Northwest Army were estimated to be about 3,000 people.

If the battle is full, it will be about 10 percent casualty rate.

This casualty rate is a fart for a regular army!

I think that during the Hengao War, the Daheng Army could often attack with a casualty rate of more than 30 percent!

Some of the elite units of the Royal Guard can even attack even if they suffer more than half of the casualties!

Mind you, this is about launching an attack!

If it is a defensive operation, then the casualty rate that can be borne is greater, and there are not a few examples of fighting to the annihilation of the entire army.

But today, the Northwest Army led by him completely collapsed after 10% of the casualties, and even if it collapsed, a large number of troops surrendered on the spot, and Qian Haiye's bastard actually led the Second Cavalry Brigade to surrender and fight back.

He couldn't figure it out!

However, this is the reality!

When there was no hope of victory, the enemy's firepower was extremely fierce, and his own side continued to suffer casualties, his 30,000-strong army invariably chose to surrender or even surrender on the spot!

And Zhen Changdong can't even understand why!

And this, perhaps, is the reason why his army surrendered so cleanly!

Zhen Changdong fell into a misunderstanding, but others did not, such as his adjutant!

The young statement Hang couldn't help but sigh when he saw the complete collapse of the troops, and his own commander looked panicked and desperate!

Although he was only a young doctor and an adjutant, he also understood why the army in front of him, which had fought bravely in Yonggu County before, had completely collapsed today.

There was even a large number of pre-battle surrenders!

Because, this Northwest Army was not an army loyal to Jian Minggang in the first place!

At the beginning, there were only more than 10,000 people in Jianminggang's descendants, and it can even be said that there were only more than 10,000 people from beginning to end, and the remaining tens of thousands of people were incorporated into other troops.

Such troops do you count on loyalty?

That's too much to hope for!

In normal times, when the enemy is weaker, they can show their loyalty, and they can fight with decentness.

But when you meet a strong enemy, you expect them to fight for you, and that's a joke.

The reason why they surrendered to Jianminggang at the beginning was to save their lives.

Is it possible to fight to the death for Jian Minggang now?

No way!

And a very important point is that when the troops were recruited, they were all incorporated by the entire army, and the Northwest Army, except for Zhen Changdong, the commander who was Jian Minggang's confidant, most of the other people came over with the troops.

Whether it was Qian Haiye, the commander of the Second Cavalry Brigade, or Fu Yingxing, the commander of the Seventh Division, when they surrendered to Jianming Gang, they also brought a large number of subordinates to surrender to Cheng.

Before Fu Yingxing defected to Jianminggang, he was the deputy commander of the first division of the Luo'an Army, and he also led thousands of people to Jianminggang to Chengcheng, which led to Cheng Lingfeng's complete defeat.

Don't talk about others, even if he states that the same is true!

After graduating from Luo'an Military Academy a few years ago, he served in the first division, and he also participated in the battle between the first division and Jianminggang, and finally joined Jianminggang with others, because at that time, Jianminggang became the new county warden of Luo'an.

Now, looking at the defeated army all over the mountains, he knew that he should be like everyone else, and surrender to Lin Ziran.

He is a soldier of Luo'an, and whoever can unify Luo'an will be loyal to whom!

Obviously, judging from the performance of the Sixth Division today, Lin Ziran defeated Jian Minggang to become the defender of Luo'an County, and even unified Luo'an County is very promising!

As a young and promising officer with a great future, and at the same time a young officer who has the world in mind, he needs to make the right choice!

So he pulled out his pistol and put it directly on Zhen Changdong's head: "My lord, it's time to give the order to surrender!" ”

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