Retreating in front of the enemy is always the most difficult tactical move when you are at a disadvantage.

This is true even for a team like the Jin Army, which has a strong level in the feudal army.

Everyone knew that during the retreat, it was necessary to leave a strong team to act as a rearguard to block the enemy's pursuing forces, so that the main force could smoothly enter a safe area or a superior battlefield.

But everyone also knew that there were no reinforcements in the rearguard, because the main force was moving away from them, and the probability of those left behind being completely wiped out by the enemy was too high.

Therefore, the soldiers did not want to be left behind, and the officers did not want their own armor to act as a rearguard—soldiers were the common problem of the system, and it was instinctive to preserve strength.

But without leaving a strong rearguard, I am afraid that the whole army will not be able to go.

Several Bo Ji Lie got together to discuss, and finally made a compromise plan: for the sake of fairness, each Bo Ji Lie sent out a hundred armor soldiers and a hundred birth Jurchens, plus the five hundred people who were forced to stay behind by Wanyan Zongbi, a total of 1,000 armor soldiers, to act as a rearguard.

This seems to be a fair plan, but it is actually a very compromising and risky plan.

Everyone had selfish intentions, and of course they would not put their most elite troops into such a dangerous but doomed mission, so the teams that they put together were actually second-rate armor soldiers, and even had temporary slave soldiers to make up the numbers.

The weakness of the semi-slave army was laid bare in this headwind war.

On the contrary, although the pursuit force in Qingzhou was also pieced together, each of the forward troops was a carefully selected volunteer, and they were sure that if they encountered difficulties, the main force in the rear would soon arrive.

Everyone in the pursuing force thought that this was a battle to win honor and practical benefits, and even if they had just surrendered, Saliana and the others, who were forced to stand up to the front by the Qingzhou soldiers, were also holding back their strength and preparing to perform well in front of the new master.

The morale of the military made the performance of the two sides completely different in the tunnel melee.

When the Qingzhou Army launched the attack, more than three hours had passed since the two sides disengaged, and it was estimated that there would be about an hour before the sky should dawn.

At this time, it was the moment when the blocking troops left by Wanyan Zongbi were the most exhausted and the least vigilant.

The Qingzhou army, which suddenly poured out of the chest wall, broke through their thin defense line almost instantly.

The problem of the defenders' difficulty in judging the location of the enemy's main attack now shifted to the Tartars.

The attacking Qingzhou soldiers entered the communication trench about half a mile north of the main breakthrough point of the previous Tartars, and formed a flank attack on the Tartar blocking troops who were stupidly gathered together and faced Xu Shiyang.

The Qingzhou soldiers were very familiar with the trench system they dug out, and each unit had its own attack route before the attack, so unlike the Tartar attack when the troops poured out one by one to fill the oil tactics, five or six teams of Qingzhou soldiers emerged in front of the Tartars from several passages almost at the same time!

Even, given that the Tartars did not have abundant long-range firepower and their ground suppression capabilities were weak, the Tartars, who were not familiar with trenches, were arranged to attack directly from the ground.

The surrendering army and the Qingzhou soldiers cooperated with each other to inadvertently form the most primitive three-dimensional attack on the Tartar blocking troops in the trenches.

Saliana led a pair of armor soldiers, standing above the trench, and shot down on his companions at his feet, it was impossible to miss within two paces, and the armor-piercing cone easily pierced through the helmet, killing all the people in the trench.

When the attacking Qingzhou soldiers are faced with the crooked place of the trench, they will first throw out a pottery light 10,000 enemies, and then use the smoke formed by the explosion to cover the rapid killing, and the Tartars who use the crooked as the entrance and exit defense need to pay a few casualties each time, and the person standing in front is often the most brave and resolute armor soldier in the team.

When the battle became a game in which the bravest were the first to die, the resistance collapsed.

In about an hour, when the sky was bright, the Qingzhou Army had already swept away the Tartar blocking troops with great efficiency.

A whole thousand armor soldiers, more than 400 killed, more than 400 captured, and the rest were scattered in a labyrinth of trenches, and it was estimated that they would soon die in some corner, or be caught like rats.

This time Xu Shiyang threw in all his teams that could be used to attack, including all the female soldiers with guns in the medical team, leaving only some of the militia to guard over the growing number of prisoners and continue to defend the breastwork.

……

Li Kui and Dalke were still in the same attacking team, counting the time, as the spearhead of the whole army's attack, they were not far from catching the tail of the Tartar.

However, Li Kui has a big heart, and when he is getting closer and closer to the enemy, he can still be in the mood to chat with Darke.

"Brother, who are you?" Li Kui asked with a smile.

Darch glanced at his bloody axe, and replied angrily, "Pars, it's almost between you and the West. ”

"Where is the West? The territory of the party members? Li Kui had no concept of world geography, he knew about the party, and he only heard it by chance from some former Western officers and soldiers after joining the army.

In Li Kui's impression, the party members should be the most western in the world.

"The party is in the east of our country, and the West I am talking about is more western than my country."

Explaining geographical problems to this illiterate person really listens to rap, not to mention that Dalke's Chinese proficiency is not high.

"On the west side of the party? So far, huh? ”

Li Kui was surprised:

"Then why did you come to us? Committed an accident in your hometown? ”

"What nonsense? My family is a generational nobleman, and my uncle is the commander of ten thousand horses, uh, equivalent to the vigor of the Jin army. ”

Dalk explains:

"I came to the East just to hone my martial arts, and I always thought that if you go further and see more, you can learn more."

"When I return to China next time, I will go to serve in the cavalry, and it will be good for me to hone myself in advance."

In fact, there is one thing that Dalck did not say directly - Pars is also an ambitious country, after they marched into the Western Regions, wars often broke out with the party, as a military aristocrat of Pars, Dalck's visit to the East can also be regarded as a staff trip.

It's good to know ahead of time about future enemies.

This point, a reckless man like Li Kui can't understand, he just has a good impression of this young foreigner who once fought side by side.

For him, the ones who can fight side by side are brothers.

So, Li Kui untied the gourd on his waist and handed it to Darke: "Try it." ”

"What is it?"

"Good wine!" Li Kui said proudly: "It is said that it is used as medicine for the medical team in the factory, and I finally got a little, you are a good brother, give you a taste." ”

"Drinking in battle?" Darke frowned, he always felt that this was not good.

However, Pars also has a general who likes to drink on the battlefield, which seems to be more bold.

He reached out and took the wine gourd and took a sip:

What a great wine!