Baiwadi Village. Pei Yuanshao's troops had just made a good ambush here, and they completely annihilated more than 300 Hun cavalry, and the battle was only initiated by two infantry companies of the Republican Army. There was also a reserve infantry company that was not put into operation, and the battle was over.

The traffic location here is relatively good, and there are more Huns coming and going, which is a very good ambush place.

"The ambush position here is very good, and you guys are doing a good job." Zhang Liao said to a lieutenant on the side.

"That's what we learned. In fact, this war is not difficult. The truth is very simple. The lieutenant said this, and the lieutenant's name was Zhang Dan. This is a kind of school organization that mainly attracts grass-roots officers to undergo training in military training classes, mainly for some officers who have been promoted from the bottom, and the talents trained by military academies cannot meet the needs of grass-roots units, so there are still many officers who need to be appointed through such low-level selection. Zhang Dan is such a person.

His name was changed before, and before him, others had always called him Black Egg. Because the face is black. The names of the countryside are very arbitrary, daimyō, they have never heard of the daimyo.

But such a person who was promoted from the countryside could even fight. This was a big surprise.

"No, this war is not simple, what you learn is the simplest and most effective method." Zhang Liao said. Indeed, this is not easy.

First of all, the location of the ambush they chose was on the other party's main transportation route, although they would do the same when they robbed houses, but this was still more difficult for these peasants who had not seen the world, they had evolved and had their own consciousness. This is the result of what they call a regular training class, or a literacy class to learn to read and write. Zhang Liao has heard of it, because their instructors are all veterans in the army, or their commanders teach, they not only teach each other to know words, but also some combat stories, classic battle examples, and some other stories, all concentrated here, this is not simple, this is definitely not something that ordinary troops can do.

Second, the enthusiasm of their troops in fighting is very high; through such a basic education, the fighting enthusiasm of officers and men is very high. Under normal circumstances, the officers and soldiers will not take the initiative to look for the enemy to attack, but when the soldiers of the Republican Army are ambushed, they can quickly take the initiative to attack, boldly divide and encircle, and break up the enemy's resistance one by one. Only the pro-guards of the senior officers would do so, but the likelihood of doing so was greatly reduced. Because they don't do it very often.

But the IRA is different, for example, when they are fighting this time. A sergeant named Dog Baby. He was just an ordinary squad leader, a squad, that is, seventeen or eighteen soldiers, he actually took the initiative to attack with the whole squad, and was the first to rush into the Hun cavalry, dividing the Hun cavalry into two, which greatly accelerated the speed of the Republican army's annihilation of the other party. Without such a war of annihilation, the Republican Army would not have been able to achieve such a situation at all, and naturally it would have been difficult to form such an effective strike, and it can be said that such a situation was formed under the most favorable conditions.

And such an extremely grass-roots squad platoon tactic is very difficult to carry out among the officers and soldiers, because many soldiers are very afraid of death. Veterans are all veterans of combat, and it is okay to fight a tailwind battle, but this kind of combat tactics of taking the initiative to launch an attack and dividing and encircling the enemy is simply impossible, after all, this requires a lot of courage and amazing combat ability of soldiers to achieve such a point, and officers and soldiers simply cannot do such a point, even if they are pro-soldier guards, they cannot achieve such a situation at all. This kind of thing, all people should clearly understand such a point.

The situation of the war is the state that they should pay the most attention to.

In the face of such a situation, it is absolutely not a simple thing for them to accomplish such a thing.

The last point is that the tactics of the republican army are very mature, and they are united in their hearts, and all this is not simply how high the level of command of individuals is, nor is it affected by the high enthusiasm of their soldiers, this should be a whole, Zhang Liao can't explain why such a whole can exert such powerful combat effectiveness, such as they have a staff department, scouts, artillery, infantry combat skills are also very proficient, even the low-level sergeants, can also actively make some bold tactics, in short, All of this is very different from some of the special situations they encountered, and in some of these situations, such a way of fighting is accomplished. A whole system is needed, and how do they do it? Zhang Liao became more and more curious about the improved situation behind him. After all, a lot of things are greatly unexpected by them.

It seems that the IRA has too many, too many secrets to speak of. It seems that Zhang Liao must solve such a problem.

On the southern edge of the Loop, the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Republican Army had already fought here, and after they had swept the three nearby tribes, they stopped, after all, they had been fighting continuously for a long time. The consumption of ammunition is also very high.

Inside Ma Liu's headquarters. They are very wealthy here now, they can drink some mare's milk wine, eat beef, and nibble on a leg of mutton, which they did not have when they were training in Hedong. Now, they're much better.

"Order, let all the troops gather, we are ready to retreat." Ma Liu said.

"Sir, we can continue to fight for a while." The staff officer on the side persuaded.

"I know, but we have to retreat. This is the order of the commander who has just been sent. Such an order. We have to do it. Ma Liu said.

"Although our ammunition can still be supported, the amount of ammunition has dropped a lot, and there are still a large number of war captures, especially the number of prisoners of war, which is more than ten times that of our regiment, which is too dangerous. If you continue to fight, everything will be in vain. And that's not all. It's been a long time. The Huns should have reacted too. The situation of our logistics supply is becoming more and more unfavorable, we cannot really run out of troops all at once, we must retreat, and we can take the initiative in retreating. Ma Liu said.

"Hmm. The chief is right, it's a pity to just retreat like this. We still have a lot of tribes that haven't been swept up. The staff officer said with a pity.

"Alright. Such a result is already the best. We can't sweep this time, there will be a chance in the future, I feel, there will be many such opportunities, because the commander definitely needs such an opportunity, our strength is small, this time out, there is only one cavalry regiment, don't look at the others are temporary cavalry infantry, but they, it won't take long for our scale to expand, a cavalry regiment, has fought to such an extent, let's be content. Ma Liu said.

"Yes, sir." The staff officer said.

Ma Liu carefully analyzed all the possibilities of the battle, and the biggest disadvantage of the Republican Army at present was that the number of their cavalry was too small. And the role it can play is too small. But the key problem is that the Republican cavalry units are developing rapidly, and they have the ability to develop rapidly, and this is where they are most advantageous. As long as they come to such a few raids, their forces will quickly increase to a higher level, which is the most advantageous thing for them. Such a state of development is extremely beneficial for the IRA.

The order was quickly passed down, and the troops were rapidly assembled.

They have too much loot though. If they want to complete such a retreat, they still need to make many, many sacrifices, and Ma Liu is also thinking about such a problem, for example, how to maximize their forces to such a situation, which cannot be completed all at once.

Maybe they'll need to make some deceptive feints. In this way, they can better cover their retreating mission, this kind of thing, Ma Liu thinks, it is better to make some feints in more places, in this way, it becomes extremely beneficial to them. But how can you make the other person feel this deceptive feint? This is a difficult problem, and Ma Liu still needs to think about it carefully, so that their situation can become much more favorable.

Guanzhong, inside the camp of Dong Zhuo's army.

"Finally, I have made some progress with the great general He Jin." Dong Zhuo said.

"Lord, I'm afraid this general's line is not easy to deal with." Li Dao said.

"Hmm. It doesn't matter if you can be promoted. Dong Zhuo said indifferently. For the general He Jin this line. Dong Zhuo is not too optimistic, because he thinks that He Jin is the kind of person who can use it, and if he doesn't use it, he will definitely not use it, he feels that the general He Jin is still unreliable, and the key is that he has strength.

"We have to do something, only then can we grow and develop." Dong Zhuo said. Dong Zhuo is a hero. He is very aware of the importance of his strength, without strength, he is nothing, but the question is, how to develop, he needs an opportunity, to get rid of the control of the imperial court over him, to be able to make the situation extremely favorable to him, he must look for such an opportunity. It's just that such an opportunity is too difficult. Dong Zhuo didn't know where the specific situation still needed to happen, maybe waiting was indeed a very good choice, in this way, their situation would be much better.