After Xu Zhongshu saw that the other party took the initiative to retract back, and even he saw that when the other party's soldiers began to dig trenches behind, he stretched out his hand slightly and pressed forward, and then said: "Let the first battalion go up and suppress them with firepower, remember to keep the first battalion at a distance!" ”

Although the other party didn't come out, and even took the initiative to retract it, Xu Zhongshu had no intention of changing the established strategy!

Even if the opponent does not come out, but the side has a huge infantry firepower advantage, regardless of whether it is a defensive operation or an offensive operation, it can take advantage.

Even if it is an attack, the attack of the first corps will not attack in a dense formation in a stupid formation, but will attack in the form of a skirmish line assault, killing and wounding the opponent with fire during the movement.

This offensive method, to a certain extent, is somewhat similar to defensive operations, and can also be covered by terrain.

When Xu Zhongshu gave the order to attack, Tang Xilin saw the battalion commander, and he personally led the remaining three companies of the first battalion to kill.

This made Tang Xilin's heart relax a lot, when the battalion commander asked him to continue the attack just now, in fact, he was a little hairy in his heart, after all, there were thousands of enemy troops in front of him, and he only had one company......

However, not a few tens of meters after continuing to advance with the troops, his battalion commander personally took the remaining troops of the first battalion and began to attack.

With hundreds of friendly troops behind him, Tang Xilin simply let go!

"Keep the formation at a distance, not too close, not too loose, and use the terrain to jump!"

Even though the enemy's artillery is not a big five-pound cavalry gun, and there are not many, but the shells can also cause damage to their own soldiers, so they must quickly pass through this open area, and then break through to a distance of about three or four hundred meters away from the enemy, and at the same time protect themselves with the help of the terrain, and then hunt the opponent with accurate shots.

Under the command of Tang Xilin, the soldiers of the fourth company advanced rapidly, and in a very short period of time, they continued to advance for more than 200 meters, and at this time, they were only less than 400 meters away from the enemy's front line.

Their rapid advance seemed to the county garrison army, which was accustomed to fighting in a line of battle, to be extremely fast.

The commander of a cavalry cannon on the side of the county guard looked at the infantry on the other side's approaching infantry and couldn't help muttering: "It's too fast, it's only been a long time, and it's already advanced more than two hundred meters!" ”

A middle-aged old artillery commander next to him was a little worried: "My lord, do you want to retreat a distance first, they are only more than three hundred meters away from us, once they rush over, we don't have friendly infantry to help stop us, I'm afraid it's a big risk!" ”

These cavalry guns of theirs did not hide behind and fire, because the firing range was limited, in fact, they had always been deployed in front, even further than the infantry deployment, otherwise, they would not have been able to fire and intercept in advance just now.

The artillery officer hesitated for a moment, and was about to speak, when the man on the horse suddenly fell down, and the old artillery commander on the side looked closely and saw that his artillery company commander's chest was already covered with a large amount of blood.

Can you hit it so far?

Damn breech-loading rifles, damn the 6th Division, damn bosses!

When he cursed in a low voice, he directly dodged and hid behind the artillery, but this small five-pound cavalry cannon could not give him a sense of security, so he glanced back slightly, and then ran a few steps back, lying directly in a small depression, and then raised his head to look ahead.

However, at this time, he could not actually see any large enemy troops, at most, he occasionally saw a few figures flashing on the opposite side.

As a veteran artilleryman, he knew the rear-loading rifle, and even knew that the soldiers equipped with the rear-loading rifle could lie on the ground to load and shoot, and now he knew with his toes that the other party must be lying behind various bunkers to aim and shoot.

The enemy's infantry had reached a distance of 400 meters, and the enemy troops were still armed with damn breech-loading rifled guns, and they should have retreated a long time ago.

However, the higher authorities ordered them to carry out artillery interception to buy time for their own infantry to deploy defenses!

But can it be stopped?

With this bit of artillery at hand, and it is also a five-pound light cavalry artillery, it is used to fight the line infantry in dense formations and slow movements, which is naturally reliable.

But dealing with the skirmishers in front of him who were armed with rear-loading rifles seemed to him to be more nonsense.

Your light cavalry guns can kill some enemy troops, but when you can kill or injure enemy skirmishers, enemy infantry fire can also be aimed directly at you.

The artillery was directly exposed to enemy infantry fire, and it was a fart.

So he ran without hesitation!

If he didn't run, then he wouldn't be a veteran artilleryman, and he would have died a long time ago.

Every veteran who has been on the battlefield for many years and can still live a very nourishing life has his own set of life-saving methods, such as this old artilleryman, who immediately ran away when he saw that the opportunity was not good.

When he ran, in order to avoid being regarded as a deserter or something in the future, he also shouted: "Your Excellency has an order, retreat immediately!" ”

You said that he faked orders, what kind of joke, his company commander had already given the order to retreat before he was hit.

Unless you bring the company commander over and confront him, how can you say that he is a false order?

As for the company commander, I'm sorry, he can see it clearly, he was shot in the chest, and in his many years of military experience, there is no one who can survive being partially shot in the chest!

Once the bullet is in, it is not as simple as a small hole, the bullet will roll after entering, and under the cavity effect, it will cause huge trauma in the body, and if it hits the torso and head, it is basically a 100% mortality rate, even if it is a limb mortality rate.

Therefore, it is impossible for his company commander to confront him.

So no one will know that they are falsely preaching orders!

Besides, I said that even the adults ordered the retreat, all for the good of everyone.

If you don't retreat at this time, will you be stupid and wait for the enemy to hunt you one by one with rifle fire?

This veteran artilleryman smeared oil on the soles of his feet and slipped away, and before escaping, he did not forget to bring a group of artillery brothers to shoot together.

It doesn't matter if he runs, in fact, it doesn't matter if the more than 100 people in this artillery company run, the key is that these artillerymen ran directly towards the infantry defense line behind in order to save their lives.

Seeing more than a hundred friendly artillery officers rushing over, several infantry officers behind them were dumbfounded.

Let them run back?

But looking at their posture, I am afraid that they will break down their own defense......

Immediately shouted: "Quick, let them go around, don't let them rush directly!" ”

Depend on!

Their trenches haven't been dug yet, and they don't even have a bunker, so to put it bluntly, they still have to rely on formation, so formation is very important.

But now that our artillery is retreating, it will break up their defenses.

They were not chasseurs, but line infantry with strong front-loading smoothbore and were very dependent on formation.

But the words of these infantry officers were obviously not taken seriously by the retreating artillerymen!

People don't care what kind of infantry defense line you have, don't you see that the enemy army behind you has come up, this bullet is constantly flying up and down the left and right, at this time you let me take a detour?

How old are you!

So, I saw a large group of artillery men using both hands and feet, and rushed directly into the infantry defense line, leaving behind a lone six five-pound cavalry guns, as well as a large number of shells that had not yet had time to shoot out!

The most important thing is that the infantry defense line of the entire battalion in front of it was directly disrupted by these artillerymen.

The infantry officers of several county guards on the front line finally stabilized their positions and prepared to reline to meet the battle, but they found that their soldiers had begun to fall continuously!

Ma Dan, the enemy has already rushed up, and the distance is only more than 300 meters at most.

More than 300 meters is already a very perfect effective range for a rear-loading rifle, not to mention that the opponent is still in a dense formation.

Seeing their own soldiers falling continuously, those infantry officers were a little overwhelmed.

Continue to line up to maintain the formation and maintain the defensive line?

I guess I will be killed one by one!

Directly launch a counter-charge? Whether this can rush over is a question, I didn't see people's rifle fire so dense!

It's a good idea to get down and dodge bullets!

But then they won't be able to reload!

When your infantry officers on the front line were in a dilemma, Zhen Changdong also watched all this with a gloomy face!

The battle that broke out at this time on the front line seemed to have only one company of the enemy, and there was only one battalion on its own side, and the number of troops participating in the battle was only a few hundred.

But this is just a corner of the battlefield.

In fact, behind them, hundreds of enemy troops were already rushing up, and their advance speed was extremely fast, and according to their advance speed, it was estimated that it would not take long to enter the range of three or four hundred meters.

And the key thing is that your own fortifications have not been deployed yet!

It was an encounter, and they had been on the attacking side before, unprepared, and actually not enough time for them to dig trenches.

And this place is not a complicated mountainous area, at most there are some gentle slopes.

When the attack failed just now, he was already aware of the problem at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, so he ordered the troops to start digging trenches to build a defensive line, but he didn't expect that as soon as his order was passed down, the other party couldn't wait to launch a counterattack.

Moreover, the advance of the counteroffensive was extremely fast, and in less than half an hour, they had already killed their own side.

What's more, he couldn't see that more of the enemy's infantry had moved, just now there were only five or six hundred people, and now, he had seen the remaining more than a thousand people also move.

The enemy is already attacking from three different directions, left and right!

Can you stop them yourself?

Although he had almost twice the advantage in strength, Zhen Changdong had the question of whether he could block the enemy's attack in his mind!

When this kind of problem appears in his mind, it means that he himself realizes that something is wrong!

But there is too little, too little time left for him to react!

Before he could think of a countermeasure, dense gunfire rang out in many places on the battlefield at the same time, mixed with the sound of artillery shelling from both sides.

What's more, one of the infantry battalions deployed at the forefront, has collapsed!

Five minutes!

When Zhen Changdong and other senior generals of the county guard were thinking about how to deal with it, the infantry battalion in front of them, which was in a dilemma and did not get clear instructions, could only passively maintain the queue, and then was beaten by the other party as a huge target!

This kind of passive beating, and the situation of huge casualties, the soldiers simply could not bear it, so after the casualties reached a certain level, they did not hesitate to throw down their muskets and turn away.

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