The bitter lesson of the failure of the on-the-march assault on a fortified mountain fortress was learned by the new offensive deployment.

The fire company of the 5th battalion attached to the guard battalion was horizontally deployed as the first line to protect the whole army.

They were followed by two infantry battalions, the 53rd and 55th of the 14th Regiment of the Jaden United, one on the left and one on the right. In the middle of the two battalions, there were engineers, artillery, and Zhu Pingjian's Chinese army. The three companies of the 5th Battalion and the 14th Battalion were reduced to reserves, and the 53rd and 55th infantry battalions formed an inverted triangle formation.

After the main force, there was the logistics echelon and the fifteenth battalion of the rearguard.

The total strength of these forces is five infantry battalions, one artillery battalion and more than 5,000 support troops. The axis selected for the main direction of attack is still the gravel path of Beishanliang.

The 54th and 56th battalions each sent small units to assist on both flanks, and continued to hold the encirclement of the forest and air to prevent the bandits from abandoning the village and breaking through.

The tactical core of offensive deployment is to use positional offense to deal with positional defense. Specifically, the offense is divided into two phases.

In the first stage, under the cover of strong firepower, the key points of the road bifurcation in the north of the Bolt Mountain were occupied. After occupying this point, temporarily switch to the defensive, counter the enemy's possible counter-onslaught, and kill and wound the enemy's living forces in large numbers;

In the second stage, the road fork of the North Mountain Beam was used as the fulcrum to besiege the main village on the top of the mountain on three sides. The slope of the North Mountain Beam is relatively flat and is the main direction of attack. On the eastern and western terraces, small forces were scattered to prevent the enemy from covering the rocks with seven cannons on the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, the two battalions of the Jaden Union continued to defend the forest air defense ring to prevent the enemy from escaping.

The new offensive arrangements have been repeatedly deduced by the commanders and staff officers at all levels, and they have unanimously determined that they are very safe. However, war is the highest form of confrontation of human ingenuity and strength, and the course of war will never be diverted by unilateral will. The hidden things in the layers of trees and grass on the Bolt Mountain made Zhu Pingjian, who was sitting in the front, faintly beat a drum in his heart.

Judging by the course of the failure of the first two offsets, the opposing side had a commander with real combat experience. He knew how to abandon the town of Wenchang in order to lure the enemy deeper, he knew how to wait for work in the middle of the mountain to meet the attack, he knew how to carry out mountain ambushes and surprise attacks with a large number of firearms, and he knew how to avoid real attacks and harass the supply lines of the Protector Army.

The captives confessed that the commander's surname was Guan Mingsheng, and he claimed to be the descendant of Guan Erye, and the people in the village called Guan Jiaotou. The specific details are not clear, but they must be from Qin, and they have been generals in the official army before. The old man of Quanjiazhai obeyed the words of the head of the Guan sect, and he almost didn't offer it to the shrine. Guan Jiaotou does have some ability, and the power of the village has been able to get bigger and bigger in the chaos in northern Sichuan over the years, and Guan Jiaotou is undoubtedly the number one hero.

In addition to the unpredictable command of the other party, Zhu Pingjin was more worried that the other party not only occupied a favorable location, but also was equipped with a large number of firearms.

The captives confessed that there were more than 2,000 Zhaiding who could go into battle in Quanjiazhai, including more than 3 or 400 guns of various types, more than 60 high-powered guns captured, a Furlong machine bought from nowhere, more than 10 pine cannons, and seven or eight semi-fixed seven-pin guns. Gunpowder reserves, very large, but the exact amount is not known.

After two battles, the cottage began to make pine cannons and seven-tip cannons on a large scale, and I don't know how much it has increased. After Wang Wenbiao surrendered, the cottage concentrated the captured high-power firecrackers and some of the better quality firearms, and formed a firearms team according to the establishment of the National Protector Army, commanded by Wang Wenbiao. I heard that the pine cannon will also be organized into an artillery team.

They are learning their lessons, and the enemy is not sitting still.

The Seven Pins Cannon is an ancient man-powered stone thrower, which is extremely simple to make. Seven tips or N tips, just look at the number of people.

Zhu Pingjin was more worried about the pine cannon.

The production of pine cannons is also very simple. A section of pine wood is sawn in half, the heart of the tree is removed, an iron hoop is wrapped, and then a rope, cloth or animal skin is firmly wrapped. Pine wood is soft and has few scars, which is easy to find in Sichuan, and is easier to make cannons than hardwoods such as elm and miscellaneous wood.

Pine cannons are powerful at close range, but not at long distances. Due to the uneven chamber of the bullet, Guy could not withstand the high pressure, and could only fire small cannons, and the range was roughly the same as that of the Protector Army's firearms.

The placement of the pine cannon is also very simple. It can be used in complex terrain such as mountains, and can even be used without a gun carriage, just press it with a dirt bag and stone basket to become a fixed oversized shotgun.

However, as with any weapon, the quality of the production is crucial. The conditions on the mountain were limited, and the pine cannons that came out of the rush were bound to be of poor quality. Maybe it would be nice to be able to get three or five rounds without exploding. In the second year of Chongzhen's captive change, the right attendant of the military department, known as "Liu Shengren", Sichuan

Liu Zhilun, a man, took a hurried wooden cannon and more than 10,000 temporarily recruited Beijing division homeless people to chase after the Tartar army, but because of the poor quality of the weapons, the homeless people had no training, and they were counterattacked by the Tatar cavalry, and they became the same goods as the homeless people.

Compared to the Bolt Village, the Protectors were equipped with more and better guns and artillery.

The guard battalion is currently the only all-firearm unit of the Protector Army, and there are nearly 800 firearms in the battalion.

The Fifth Battalion Gun Company has been transferred to Feng Rubao's task force, and the Fire Gun Company in the current structure has been rebuilt, fully equipped, and relatively well trained, but like the Fire Company of the 14 th and 15 th Battalions, it has no actual combat experience.

The 14th Battalion's Fire Gun Company suffered heavy losses, only half of which remained, and remained in Wenchang Town with the 4th Battalion.

The 14th Regiment of the Jaden Union was also equipped with a lot of firearms, but like the other battalions of the officers and soldiers, it was thankful that it did not blow up.

In terms of quantity, the Protector Army and the Bolt Village have an absolute advantage of three to one in the number of firearms; There was no superiority in quantity in artillery, but there was no complete comparison in quality.

However, since the reorganization of Songlin Mountain, the Protector Army has always been on the battlefield with absolute superiority in firearms, such as Changping Mountain, Luodu Town, and Guang'an North Gate. This is the first time that an enemy with so many firearms and a dominant terrain has been confronted. The troops were forced to storm along the narrow mountain ridges, and if the quantitative and qualitative superiority in firearms could not be fully utilized, heavy casualties would inevitably result.

Thinking of this, Zhu Pingjian's uneasy heart was as heavy as a thousand pounds of boulder. But he knew that he had to pass this hurdle.

The limited information he had in his hands showed that Li Zicheng's troops had already used dozens of artillery pieces when they stormed Kaifeng. After the Dengzhou Incident, the powerful red-clothed cannon was no longer a rare thing in the Tartars outside the Guan.

The Tartars had suffered a great loss of firearms from the Ming army, so they attached great importance to firearms, and the workshops for making firearms stretched for miles outside the city of Shenyang. Huang Taiji also recruited the Han army to form a force, named "Wuzhen Chaoha", which means "heavy army" in Manchu. The establishment and equipment of Wuzhen Chaoha has taken a big step forward on the basis of the Da Ming Shen Machine Battalion, because it is not only an all-firearms unit, but also the first professional artillery corps in human history.

Therefore, the battle between the Protector Army and the enemy, who is equipped with a large number of firearms, is bound to become the norm on the battlefield in the future. It's better to pay the price now to gain experience than to pay again in the future when you can't afford to lose!

Seeing the front-line commanders Jia Denglian and Tan Sigui coming together, Zhu Pingjin suppressed the thoughts in his heart and gently strangled the horse's head.

At this moment, the earth-shattering cheers broke out again, startling the chickadees in the trees on the side of the mountain to fly around the trees.

"Let's get started, let's finish it!"

Zhu Pingjin prayed softly in his heart:

"Heaven and earth open up, the sun and the moon shine again. Encounters will be encountered, and Bi Li will be able to go away. will sweep away the filth and return to the hometown. Clear thousands of miles, all directions! (Note 1)"

……

The long artemisia grass obscured the view, and the vertical and horizontal thorns trampled the footsteps, for a girl who was pampered and raised in the deep palace, this barren mountain and wilderness was simply hell.

The county lord of Taiping took off the eight-petal helmet that was shaking on his head, pulled out a silver handkerchief from the gap in the breastplate, and wiped off the large beads of sweat oozing from under his bangs.

The rising sun is hidden behind the stratus clouds, making it impossible to see his face, but to feel his presence. The armor on his body was so heavy that it seemed to be hung with countless lead pendants, which made people want to collapse on the ground immediately and take a nap.

The county lord of Taiping struggled to raise his head. In the distance, the mountain is getting steeper and steeper, and the army that climbs halfway up the mountain is like growing on a sloping painting.

To the faint sound of drums, the soldiers lined up in several slow-moving parallel horizontal lines, and the vermilion of the leather armor peeked out from the gaps in the silver-black iron sheets, forming alternating colors.

In front of the parallel horizontal line, there were some sporadic soldiers clearing the way.

Two gray-red dense squares gradually emerged from view, not far from the parallel line. Between the two generous teams, there are also many horses. Among them, a handful of them flickered back and forth, clustered with a golden-red military flag in the Yangtze River Delta that occasionally unfurled, reminded the county lord of Taiping of the person she hated the most now.

"The logistics formation picks up the pace and keeps up with the 5th battalion in front! Do you know that you have blocked the way of the troops behind! ”

A warhorse galloped in front of it, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared from view, leaving only weeds, trees, human heads, and backs.

The lord of Taiping County recognized the knight on the horse, who was the original left guard of the hundred households, and now

Choi Sung-ru, the battalion commander of the 15th Guards Battalion.

During the Spring Festival of that year, Cui Cheng's ancestral field was robbed by Liu Fatzi's men. Cui Chengru knelt outside the door of the Taiping Palace, hoping that the Taiping King would speak to the King of Shu to uphold justice.

The King of Taiping would not anger the commander of the left guard Zhengyin because of such a trivial matter. Cui Chengru refused to leave, so the King of Taiping ordered people to drive him violently. It was the young who stopped her subordinates, and rewarded him with a large bag of food that he couldn't finish eating for him to take home.

At that time, Cui Chengru knelt in the snow and kowtowed to her, saying that he would always remember the great kindness of the county lord in this life.

"But now anyone can shout at the county lord!" The girl thought indignantly, "In their eyes, the county lord is just a dispensable soldier!" ”

Cui Chengru galloped over, and soon an order to speed up his progress was handed down. The heads and backs of the people in front of them trembled, and the sounds of panting and ooos came and went.

The lord of Taiping County taught the harshness of military law, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly ran away. After a while, large beads of sweat trickled down her bangs, blurring her eyes. She hurriedly grabbed the handkerchief, but the eight-petal helmet slipped from her hand, rolled into the grass and disappeared.

Ah! The girl screamed in panic. If you lose your military resources, will you have to be locked up again?

At this moment, a figure beside her strode forward, stretched out his large, dark and rough hand, and leaned down to pick up her eight-petal helmet.

"County Lord, your helmet!"

The county lord of Taiping squinted at the man who had helped him pick up the helmet.

He was the baggage squad leader sent by the above, surnamed Shi, who was responsible for commanding the soldiers and the three nurses in his class. He was in his early thirties, less than forty, carrying two stretchers on one shoulder, and the sleeveless iron jacket on his body was rusty, obviously an old iron armor replaced by officials and soldiers. The inside of the iron armor is not the light gray military uniform of the Protector Army, but the gray-black shorts often worn by ordinary people. There was no eight-petal helmet on his head, only a red scarf was wrapped, and a coarse cloth wrapped with yellow sweat stains leaked from under the scarf, and under the coarse cloth wrapped his head was an old face of vicissitudes.

The county lord of Taiping quickly withdrew his gaze from the coarse cloth wrapping his head, and felt a wave of nausea for no reason. It was easy to wait until this disgusting feeling disappeared, and she thought of Zhu Pingjin who had imprisoned her again, and her heart became more and more resentful.

On this trip out of the house, as long as she met the Protector Army and her brother, she was particularly unhappy. Either tied up with ropes, or locked up in the firewood room with rats and cockroaches as companions.

Compared with the hateful Zhu Pingjin, the middle-aged uncle next to him is excellent. Although he was called his boss, as soon as he came, he took the initiative to carry the fat powder bag, ambulance bag, small mirror and other miscellaneous pieces on her body, as well as the stretchers of the two maids. But no matter how good the others are, their appearance is really obscene!

"Look, county lord, the guard camp in front is really majestic! My youngest brother is from the guard battalion, the prince of the world's guards! And voila! The prince's Chinese army is following behind the guard battalion! Squad Leader Shi pointed to the parallel lines, making no secret of his elation.

"That's it!" The lord of Taiping County thought, "For the sake of him helping us carry things, reward him with two words!" ”

"First, it's not allowed to call the county lord a mother! The county lord is the county lord, and the mother is the mother, do you understand? You can call me...... County Lord Girl! Well, it's not good...... It's called ...... It's called Miss Zhu! ”

Without waiting for the uncle next to him to reply, the county lord of Taiping had already gritted his teeth and said the second sentence:

"Second, it is absolutely absolutely forbidden to mention Zhu Pingjian in front of the county lord! Otherwise, the county lord will immediately turn his face with you! ”

After the lord of Taiping County finished appreciating two sentences, the middle-aged uncle finally caught up with the conversation: "What do you want Xiaomin to call, Xiaomin obeys orders." It's just that...... So who is Zhu Pingjian? ”

"Zhu Pingjin is the prince in your mouth!"

"Oh, the county lord Niangniang, how dare you talk about the name of the prince!" Squad Leader Shi shook his head. Thinking that the county lord in front of him and the prince were cousins and sisters, he smiled again.

"What are you smiling at?" The county lord of Taiping asked, tilting his head.

"Oh, I'm thinking, my family was so poor that I couldn't open the pot in those years. Daddy came back with a copper and brought sweets to the five of us. Xiaomin was young and ignorant at that time, so he fought with his younger brothers and sisters for food, which annoyed his father......"

"Whipped, wasn't it?"

Hearing that someone was worse than himself, the county lord of Taiping finally showed a little smile. But before the smile faded, there was a sudden crackling sound like popping beans in front of him.

Note 1: The excerpt is from Sima Yi's "Song of the Expedition to Liaodong".

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