At the same time that Du Ruixun was planning Bailiyan, the Xian army had already landed in Hukou Bay, and the original plan was to land on the opposite bank of Feixiaqi, twenty miles north of Hukou Bay. However, as early as before boarding the ship, I got the news that the guards along the river had collapsed and fled westward, and the ship sailed to the north of Hukou Bay, and indeed no defenders were found, so Bailiyan sent a pistol team to search ashore to confirm that there were no guards within a radius of five miles, and then began to land ashore.

The nature of the pistol team is roughly equivalent to that of "special forces", due to the large reload of revolvers, which can achieve burst fire, and are almost unaffected by rain, so the pistol team is suitable for melee combat and search, and each person is issued with a standard horizontal knife in addition to a revolver for self-defense.

The topography of Hukou Bay is dominated by rocky shoals, with little silt and short shoals, which is very convenient for landing. Previously, he chose to go ashore twenty miles north of Hukou Bay, but Bailiyan did not expect that the guards would escape so simply and completely, so there would be resistance to landing in Hukou Bay. Now it seems that the artillery of the Xian army did cause a major psychological panic in the guards.

Originally, it was planned to go ashore in two days, but in fact it took only one day, and by the night of the 10th day of the first month, all 50,000 people had gone ashore, and then they unloaded their baggage overnight, and by the early morning of the next day, the landing was over.

"Deputy marshal, the men and horses of each battalion have been busy all night, and they are already exhausted and unable to continue to hurry, so I suggest that we camp on the spot, and we will have time to hurry tomorrow."

Xue Sheng proposed, Bai Liyan frowned and thought. He wanted to refuse, for the simple reason that twenty miles was close at hand, and he could walk there in two hours. At the same time, his opponent is Du Ruixun, not any other waste and wine bag rice bag, Du Ruixun may react at any time.

But when the words came to his lips, Bailiyan swallowed back again, yesterday was indeed a busy day, it took more than 30 hours to pinch the head and end of the count, and 50,000 people did not close their eyes for 30 hours, even the iron army could not bear it.

I was rushing to transport heavy equipment all night, and continued on the road in case of a strong attack by the guards, and fell into raids and wheel battles, no matter how advanced the weapons were, they could not defeat the physical exhaustion.

After repeated calculations, he nodded in agreement:

"Then set up camp on the spot and distribute canned food, and the camp tents and houses left by the guards can be used, and those that cannot be used will be built separately."

"No!"

After instructing Xue Sheng, Baili Yan drove to the ruins and broken walls to inspect the guard facilities that had been destroyed by the Xian artillery.

Due to the hasty repair, the Tusai fortress of the guards was not strong, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was shoddy, and it was built of adobe, which was seriously damaged under the artillery bombardment of the Xian army.

However, to Bai Liyan's surprise, the Wei army did not dig the bunker fortifications taught by the Xian army in Qianyue Mountain, nor did they have cat ear holes, if these defensive bunkers were dug up, the artillery power of the Xian army would be weakened by at least eighty percent, or even one hundred percent.

In order to deal with the air raids and trebuchets of the Jinxuedi people during the southern expedition, the Xian army extensively excavated underground bunkers, communication trenches and cat's ear holes, which were used by the coalition forces to learn from each other. But more than ten years have passed, and these techniques and tactics have not been seen in the guards, which is shocking.

There are only two possibilities for Baili Yan to think about it. First, military skills are not passed on and are lost. Second, there is a lot of rain in the Central Plains, and the heat in the north is unbearable, even if the bunker fortifications are dug with drainage ditches, a large amount of rainwater will be silted in the tunnel, and for a long time, it is easy to cause general skin diseases and even malignant infectious diseases. In times of poor medical care, diseases caused by a squalid environment are often more likely to undermine morale and lead to rout.

The tunnel and cat ear hole are used for large-scale artillery bombardment and stray bullets with high rate of fire hot weapon combat, cold weapons and sporadic ordinary solid bullets are almost not used, coupled with the hot and rainy Central Plains in the north, the dirtiness of the tunnel can easily cause mass diseases, the country should be found this drawback, so it will no longer be widely promoted, at least not in rainy areas, rather than losing this military skill.

Continuing the in-depth search, new discoveries were made, the guns destroyed by the guards were either destroyed, or the gun carriage was damaged and the cannon body was left on the ground, it is not difficult to see from the scope of the explosion and the degree of destruction, the rules and regulations of the guard artillery are still very chaotic, black powder and projectiles are like walls around the left and right sides of the artillery, in order to improve the density of projectile coverage, the interval between the gun emplacements and the gun emplacements is not more than two steps, although it is convenient, but as long as a small explosion, it is enough to overturn all the cannons into the sky.

The situation of artillery is also varied, without exception have the characteristics of huge size, extremely thick pipe wall, extremely heavy weight, it is difficult to do effective mobile transfer, and the road is muddy in heavy rain, this kind of gun carriage must pad the plank to transfer, otherwise it will be because of its own weight, resulting in excessive pressure per unit area of the wheel, and fall into a mud pit.

It took a whole morning to camp, and at noon I barely ate a hot mouthful, before leaving Yangdu, Bailiyan transferred all the alcohol stoves and oil stoves to supply heating after landing, relying solely on the traditional collection of firewood and burying pots to make rice, 50,000 people had already frozen to death and starved to death on the beach, and Du Ruixun was probably taking advantage of the unfavorable situation after the landing of the Xian army, and carried out a surprise attack.

Everything was normal before dark, and after dark, there was a fire in the west of Hukou Bay, and the news was quickly reported to the Baili Yan tent:

"Deputy marshal, the fire of the Guards camp forty miles west of our army is moving towards our army."

Wei Qi said quickly, Bai Liyan looked at the map and found Huwei River, thought for a moment and said:

"It should have been the third day since our army arrived in Hukou Bay."

"There are still four and a half hours left in three days, what does the deputy marshal mean?"

Bailiyan pointed to the Huwei River and said:

"Our army arrived in Hukou Bay three days ago, and it took a day and two nights to go ashore, and it has been repaired for a day and a half after going ashore, and our army has walked by waterway for a day after crossing Swordfish Beach, Du Ruixun should have gotten the news before our army arrived in Hukou Bay, and he should have judged that our army would go ashore near Hukou Bay, and Iwaki and Dayandang were not suitable for 50,000 people to land ashore.

In this way, the Huwei River from Jiangquan is at most one day, and it should be more reasonable if the guards pounced on our army from the Huwei River that day, but the guards waited for a day and a half, and there was no movement during the period, so don't you think it's strange if they have to wait until tonight to move towards our army? ”

"This ...... Strange indeed. It is said that after our army landed, the men were sleepy and tired and extremely tired, and if the guards were to arrive first, our troops were not allowed to rush back to the ship, because the guards were worried about our ship artillery! ”

Wei Qi guessed, and Bai Liyan nodded:

"Yes, our army landed in Hukou Bay in the early morning, at that time the Huwei River Guards had not yet received Du Ruixun's military order, and they resolutely did not dare to act rashly, and when our army continued to land during the day, it still did not get Du Ruixun's military order. When the guards received Du Ruixun's urgent military order that night, the guards were not ready to attack, so when our army landed, the Huwei River guards could not attack.

Today, if our army launches an offensive while it is repairing, it will be wounded by our warship guns, and they will wait until it gets dark, with the intention that when it gets dark at night, our ship's guns will not be able to watch and attack our army's camp.

Hurry up, immediately release the reconnaissance cavalry to the southwest and northwest, closely monitor the movement of Iwaki in Swordfish Beach, if as expected, the guards seventy miles west of Swordfish Beach should have been on the road last night, and the guards have horses, if they are riding horses, they should have arrived nearby this afternoon, and now they are not in sight, the guards west of the Huwei River are very likely to be suspicious soldiers, and the guards of Swordfish Beach are sneak attacks, go quickly. ”

"No!"

After Wei Qi left, Bailiyan called the guards outside the tent:

"What does the lieutenant marshal command?"

"Command the trumpeters, blow the emergency assembly number, and order General Xue Sheng and the governors of all armies to come to my tent immediately."

"No!"

A string of orders was given, and after a few moments, a crisp and bright trumpet sounded inside and outside the camp.

At the same time, on the plain seven or eight miles northwest of Hukou Bay, Du Ruixun led an army of 70,000 people to arrive at the Tiger Forest 30 miles northwest of Hukou Bay in the afternoon, repaired until the afternoon when it was dark, and continued to hurry.

The reason why it was not discovered by the Xian army was that the view was obstructed in the rainstorm weather, and the second was that the tiger forest was covered with trees, and the guards marched into the forest 60 miles away, and they could not see it at all.

At this time, the Xianjun camp fire guard was unobstructed, but Du Ruixun's headquarters was difficult to find.

"General Qiyu Du, the spies have come to report, the Xian army is not prepared, and after discovering the fire of our army in the Huwei River, they are on alert to the west."

Escort Wang Xie said quickly, Du Ruixun put down the binoculars but said:

"Not necessarily, this is the treacherous place of Baili Yan. The method of night battle is a sneak attack, and if you fight with real soldiers, you will be counterattacked. Bailiyan should know this, and he should have discovered that our Huwei River garrison is a suspicious soldier, and our army is the main force of the night attack. ”

"Since the Xian army has been prepared, how can our army still sneak attack."

Wang Xie was puzzled and asked, and Du Ruixun said in a deep voice:

"This battle is not a sneak attack, but a real attack, our army is far above it, and we will be able to win if we attack it twice. As long as the Xian army is avoided before dawn, the Xian army in Hukou Bay will be severely damaged. When the reinforcements from Iwaki arrive tomorrow and fight again overnight, the Xian army here will be defeated. Passing on our military order, the whole army marched, formed a formation four miles ahead to respond to the battle, and waited until the Xianjun camp was 300 paces, and each army raised fire. ”

"No!"

Du Ruixun knew very well that it was impossible for him to completely annihilate the 50,000 Xian troops in Hukou Bay in half a night, and he still needed to spend half a night to evacuate his men and horses before dawn to avoid being exposed to the threat of Xian army's artillery fire, so he could only use two nights to launch a night battle from the north and south flanks.

At this time, the atmosphere in the Xian barracks was highly tense, and the soldiers braved the pouring rain to be organized into a horizontal and four-vertical infantry line, and organized a tight defensive line from north to south. Behind them stood the military attachés in their respective ranks, who kept shouting the password:

"Hold the position and do not retreat, the short gun crouches in front, the spear stands in the back, the grenadier grenade launcher stands at the end, and no fire is allowed without an order......"

This command was repeated continuously, and the atmosphere became more and more tense, Baili Yan stood in the rain and looked at the northwest wearing a steel helmet and a robe, only to see the thick night in the dark night, there was no trace at all, but he could really feel a snatching murderous aura looming in his heart.

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