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Lin Xiao dared to make a military order, of course, he was not talking big, it was not his style to talk about it, he was very confident.

On the way here, Lin Xiao had already carefully studied the map of this area, and just now at the head of the city, with the light of the torches planted on the mountain road by the soldiers and civilians who rushed to repair the city wall, Lin Xiao took a rough look at the terrain in front of the pass.

From Loushan Pass all the way north to Yelang Town, there are narrow mountain roads, almost all sides are high mountains and ravines, although there is an open land not far from the pass, in fact, most of them are wooded hills, and the real uncovered road in the middle is only tens of meters wide and hundreds of meters long.

On the contrary, in Lin Xiao's view, it is conducive to setting up an ambush, and if the thousands of troops and horses of the main force of the Qing army are all crowded in such a small and narrow place, once there is any disturbance, it is very easy to cause chaos.

And although there are only more than 100 people under Lin Xiao, what kind of people are those more than 100 special combat soldiers?

That is more than 100 modern soldiers armed to the teeth, whether it is powerful firepower or strong individual combat ability, they are all equipped and trained according to the special forces model of future generations.

These people, in this era, can be called a top superman, although the purpose of forming an army is not to face the enemy army, but against the army of this era, I dare not say that one is ten thousand, but it is not too much to say that they can use one as a hundred.

Not to mention that the Qing army only had more than 20,000 people, even if more people came, as long as the terrain was favorable, coupled with suitable tactics and enough ammunition, Lin Xiao would have enough confidence to defeat them.

In addition, He Shouxin's guard company is all one person and two horses, and they can arrive at dawn with a large amount of ammunition, Lin Xiao is not only full of confidence, but also even how to fight this battle, in fact, he has already made a decision.

Lin Xiao's true thoughts in his heart were not as simple as just defeating this Qing army, but how to try to annihilate them completely.

The reason why he thought this was mainly because if this battle was fought well, it would be possible to use most of Ding Shuai's first regiment for other battlefields.

Xiao Kaifeng's second regiment has not yet returned to China, and Duan Zhenghong's machine gun battalion has been dismantled and used again, and he always feels that the troops directly under the headquarters in his hands are too thin.

At that moment, Lin Xiao put out the battle plan and the inventory, although Li Dingguo still had doubts after hearing it, but seeing that Lin Xiao looked confident, and then thought carefully about this tactic No matter what the effect is, it is better than defending the city, so he agreed to it.

After obtaining Li Dingguo's approval and support, Lin Xiao ordered Duan Zhenghong to personally lead four teams and set off for the designated place to set up an ambush overnight.

Unexpectedly, Duan Cannon was reluctant with a sad face, "Commander-in-chief, I'm leaving...... Who will protect you? ”

There were only six squads in total, and I took four of them, and there were only more than forty people left around the captain.

"! Who protected you with you? ”

Lin Xiao couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, "You just take Situ Zheng and leave Yu Cheng to me, what, do you think these Qinggou can still break through my machine gun position?" ”

"That'...... I'll take half of the people and leave half for you......"

"No, what are you worried about? Didn't He Shouxin's guard company arrive soon? I'm worried that there are too few people on your side, so do your bidding! Lin Xiao said with a straight face.

"Yes!"

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Early the next morning, the Qing army brigade set out from the Chumi Town camp ten miles before the pass, and came to the front of the pass again.

Due to the narrow terrain in front of the pass and nowhere to camp, Xia Guoxiang chose Chumi Town as the temporary advance base of the forward battalion.

After the fierce battle in the first three days, seeing that the damage to the city wall of Loushanguan was getting worse and worse, and it was already dark when he was about to succeed, he had to give a stupid order to withdraw his troops.

The soldiers of this era, because of the lack of meat, were generally malnourished, often suffered from night blindness, the efficiency of marching and fighting in the dark was extremely low, and the light of the torches could only shine a dozen paces away, so there were few battles such as night raids, and the great battles were generally fought during the day.

Today, the overseer team came, indicating that the prince was about to lose patience with him, and he decided to set off early to try to conquer this level before dark.

Before leaving, he specially brought Wu Zhimao, the commander of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, who came to supervise the battle, to the big tent of the Manchurian Cavalry Commander Hackland, and asked to send all the field heavy artillery, and he wanted to smash the Loushan Pass wall early, and then organize the green battalion soldiers under his command to charge to the death.

Unexpectedly, that Hakran is also a person with an anxious personality, first as usual, scolded and despised Xia Guoxiang, and then announced his decision that today he will use his full cavalry to lead the team to rush to the city and press the formation with bows and arrows, and he wants Xia Guoxiang to see how they fought siege warfare in Manchuria.

When Xia Guoxiang heard this, he was naturally overjoyed, and respectfully flattered Haklan.

This time, more than 10,000 Manchurian cavalry led by Li Guohan accompanied Wu Sangui's army to the expedition, which, according to the meaning of the Qing court, was of the nature of supervising the war.

Wu Sangui, the former Ming Pingxibo, originally took the capture of Pingkou as an excuse, recognized the thief as his father and led the Manchurian army into the customs, and after exterminating the rest of Li Zicheng's army, he was good at seeing the wind and making the rudder, but he never mentioned anything "revenge on the monarch's father's hatred" in order to protect the glory and wealth, not only brutally suppressed the resistance of the Han people, and slaughtered the city at every turn, but also in order to show his loyalty to the master of the Qing Dynasty, he spared no effort to kill some of the descendants of Zhu Ming who rose up to resist the Qing Dynasty...... However, Wu Sangui, who was willing to be a lackey, never won the full trust of the Qing court, and strictly guarded against him everywhere.

After going south this time, Li Guohan divided the full cavalry into three, and sent 3,000 men and horses to supervise the battle on the left and right forwards, and the rest of the Chinese army that followed him and Wu Sangui stayed in Luzhou.

Therefore, a few days ago, the three thousand horsemen of the escort commander Haklan were far behind and did not participate in the battle, and the dead and wounded were all the green battalion soldiers of the Xia State Minister.

Ten miles of mountain road, less than an hour to arrive in front of the Loushan Pass, about the hour, the brigade of Qing troops in front of the pass quickly arrayed.

According to Hacklan's military order, this time the Manchurian Iron Cavalry with heavy artillery all lined up in front of the Green Battalion soldiers, and only Wu Zhimao's 500 Guanning Iron Cavalry remained at the end of the formation.

In the midst of the chaos, Xia Guoxiang looked forward, but he was very surprised in his heart.

Before, the Ming army was stuck to the city pass, and endured their own artillery bombardment, and then used tiger squat cannons and bows and arrows and spears to fight with their siege team, and the first three days were the same tactics.

Today's situation is very different, I saw a group of Ming troops of about 1,000 people, already lined up in front of the pass, about a mile away, waiting for a long time.

At the beginning, under the big flag embroidered with the word "Li" on one side, a general with a silver helmet and white armor holding a long knife, his face was sinking like water, and he sat on the war horse, which seemed to be Li Dingguo.

When I looked at the city again, I saw that there were few soldiers guarding the city.

(A year before Chongzhen's martyrdom, a great physicist was born in England, who was this person?) ）

(End of chapter)