The master gave orders repeatedly, and the voice was out of shape. The master held the handle of the knife tightly in one hand, as if he was about to pull it out immediately. All this made Zhang Wei, who was accompanying Zhu Pingjin, raise his heart to his throat.

The little eunuch was worried that his master's throat would be torn, and he was even more worried that the situation on the battlefield would be unfavorable, because until now he did not know what had happened. He only knew that the situation was good just now, and in the blink of an eye, he suddenly became nervous.

Zhang Wei trembled and led the war horse, caught in the moving flow of people, and entered the hollow phalanx of the fifth battalion. He wanted to ask his master to dismount, but he did not dare to be presumptuous, so he silently took out the two handcuffs on the side of the saddle, checked the ammunition and the fire cap, and handed them to the master.

These two handcuffs are the latest products of the Firearms Bureau, and they were personally given to the son by Miss Luo when she came to Boryeong. They do not require a burning fire rope and can be fired by striking the fire cap on the fire door with a faucet. He didn't know why the fire cap would get angry when it was struck. But the number of fire caps is not large, and you can't use it again after using it once, so every shot is very precious.

Seeing that the master loosened the handle of the knife and took the firearm, his brows were relaxed, Zhang Wei finally had the courage to ask the master: Why did you suddenly change the formation?

"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Show the form of the enemy, set up an ambush to gather and annihilate!" Zhu Pingjin replied softly, his tone was as cold as ice slag, "The fight in front is lively, it's all lying to me!" This is their goal! Wang Wenbiao, this damn traitor! ”

The little eunuch does not understand the art of war, but he understands the traitor. He wanted to ask again, but at this moment, a firework exploded in the middle of the air in the east, transmitting the rumbling sound to the noisy crowd.

"That's the direction of Yang Weidong!"

Cheng Xiangfeng, who was trembling with nervousness, pointed to the air and shouted at Zhu Pingjin, as if this would force away the fear in his body.

"General Yang's soldiers have discovered the thief brigade and are warning the prince!" Li Changxiang, who was behind Cheng Xiangfeng, laughed.

"The son of the world is the first to anticipate the enemy, and he is really a man of God! The students admired, admired so much! ”

I don't know when, Li Changxiang had an extra knife nearly five feet long in his hand. The surface of the knife is silver and white, and the back of the knife is elegant and smooth, which is obviously a valuable treasure.

But Li Changxiang showed his treasure knife and did not bring good luck to Zhu Pingjian.

As he laughed, many shaking human heads suddenly appeared in the barren grass and trees under the mountain beams. Gongs and drums rang out in unison, and the mountains and fields were filled with earth-shattering shouts of killing.

The world outside the phalanx was like a pot of cold water, boiling in an instant.

"The Son of the world is behind you, living and dying with you! Regardless of the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, they must not retreat in half a step! ”

Li Changxiang ran out with his variegated Sichuan horse between his legs, and quickly paraded behind the soldiers like a battalion commander. With one hand, he held his sword high and encouraged the soldiers with a loud and firm voice:

"My glorious protector of the country, save the troubled world, save the people! Invincible, invincible! God bless the son! God bless the Ming! ”

……

Originally, the logistics formation had two companies, a baggage company and a medical company.

The artillery at the front sounded, and the baggage company was quickly ordered to go forward and send the ammunition transported with the army to supply. As soon as the baggage company left, only a lone medical company remained.

This medical company was formed by temporarily drawing doctors and nurses from the Boryeong branch of the National Protector Army General Hospital, which was a hodgepodge. There were twenty healers, fifty stretchers, and the remaining hundred were nurses.

The healers and stretcher bearers were all men, while the nurses were all women.

Most of these women are from northern Sichuan, and the largest number of family members of the Protector Army who retreated from Yilong County to the west of Xinzheng Dam are also followed by young women newly recruited in Langzhong and southern China. They have received simple bandaging and nursing training, but due to their short time in the army and the heavy task of caring for wounded soldiers, they have not received formal military training.

When the order to quickly enter the 5th Battalion phalanx came, many of the female soldiers of the medical company did not realize the extreme danger of the situation and continued to trot at the same pace as before. However, the sudden sound of military trumpets was repeated in front of them

The first blow finally woke them up and made them raise their heads.

Because chest-high grass obscures the view, the near view is not as clear as the far away.

Several units of the front army, stragglers and artillery, were still firing;

The guard battalion, which spreads horizontally in several parallel lines, its wings being folded back into an obtuse arch shape;

The officers and soldiers of the two battalions of the Jaden Coalition changed formations at the same time and spread out to both sides, and from the position below the mountain, they looked like two thick red and black vertical lines.

Most of the troops in the middle of the two battalions were still in place, but Shizi's banner was slowly moving down the mountain, coming in his direction.

At this point, most of the people in the medical company finally reacted: the situation on the battlefield had changed significantly. Let them enter the fifth battalion phalanx, not a task, but an escape! At this time, they finally picked up their pace and stumbled forward, even if they were sweating a little.

The image of the county lord of Taiping is very embarrassing.

The eight-petal helmet disappeared again disobediently, and the phoenix-winged golden hairpin that could be exchanged for a lot of copper coins on his head was also gone.

Without the restraint of the golden hairpin, her soft green silk had to hang down helplessly, covering her shoulders and cheeks.

She tried to brush her fingers away from her hair, but the heavy, stiff armor and beating heart couldn't lift her arms. She called out to two maids to help, but the hoarse voice sounded like a hypnotic song on the battlefield where the cannon roared.

In this way, she finally approached the front of the fifth battalion. But before she could breathe a sigh of relief, some of the blind fellows pushed her from behind the side, causing her to stagger a few steps and fall into the grass.

The sky was still blue, but it was very gray, as if it had accumulated too much moisture.

The county lord of Taiping lay on his back in the grass, thinking of the bits and pieces of escaping from the palace, and tears finally flowed down in large streams. At this moment, the sky in front of her was suddenly obscured by a dark figure. The man, covered in sweat, stretched out a large, dusty hand to her.

"County lord Niangniang, you really scared Xiaomin to death!" The man grabbed the shoulder of the county lord of Taiping roughly, and dragged her up without saying anything, "Quick, run in, run in and it will be peaceful!" The banner of the prince has entered! ”

It's that damn Zhu Pingjin again! An evil fire surged from the heart of the Taiping County Lord, causing her to fall hard and drag her arm.

"The county lord said that you are not allowed to call me the county lord's mother!"

didn't wait for the good-tempered squad leader Shi to apologize to her, the explosion of fireworks and the shouting of the bandits had already reached the ears of the two of them. At this time, the instinct to save their lives activates their limbs, and everything is not taken care of. The county lord of Taiping also didn't care about the ancient precept that men and women should not be intimate, so he hurriedly grabbed the hand of the squad leader Shi and rushed into the gap left for them in the phalanx almost hand and foot.

The county lord of Taiping, who was still breathless, almost looked up, and saw the golden dragon flag woven on a red background, and the figure standing under the banner.

……

A wise man has a thousand thoughts, and there must be a mistake.

The reason why thinking produces blind spots, simply put, is because thinking drills into the tip of the horn according to the inertia of movement.

In the midst of being surrounded on all sides, the enemy boldly took advantage of the limited battlefield space to carry out a desperate battle ambush, which Zhu Pingjin and his generals never expected when they were deployed before the war.

The confession of the prisoners before the war enabled Zhu Pingjin and his generals to obtain accurate information on the enemy's equipment. The enemy's mass production of pine cannons made them more and more worried about the enemy's firearms ambushes, so they implemented the practice of emphasizing the front and the rear in terms of manpower and firepower, so as to fully develop their own firepower.

Compared with Zhu Pingjin and his generals, the enemy's senior commanders knew his opponents better. Wang Wenbiao's defection undoubtedly exposed all the characteristics of the National Protector Army. Therefore, the enemy did not defend the cottage in terms of defensive deployment. On the contrary, he took the attack as a defense, and used the firearms unit as a bait to lure the national protector army to the most

Strong units protrude from the front of the formation, thus weakening the center and rear of the formation, creating excellent fighters for carrying out operational ambushes.

A campaign ambush with thousands of men is categorically different from a tactical ambush by a small detachment.

Without concealment, there is no suddenness. In any ambush, concealment is the key to success.

A large-scale ambush requires a large area of lurk, and a large area of lurk is difficult to avoid enemy detection. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty raised 300,000 elite soldiers to ambush the Xiongnu in Mayi, because the Xiongnu cavalry carried out a wide frontal reconnaissance attack, the outpost was captured and betrayed, and the news leaked, and as a result, the Xiongnu alone marched away with 100,000 horses.

The mountain and valley area, the area is narrow, the terrain is hidden, and the news is relatively difficult to leak, so it is a good place for ambushes. However, the opponent is often very vigilant on this kind of terrain, and will guard the key points with the avant-garde or flanker to ensure the smooth passage of the main force.

However, in this attack, the axis of attack of the Protector Army was neither in the open plains nor in the deep ravines and valleys, but on the ridges of the mountains that protruded from the terrain on both sides.

Therefore, there are two blind spots in the thinking of Zhu Pingjin and his generals here:

They did not expect at all that the enemy would be able to accurately judge the time and route of the attack, take advantage of the dark conditions of the night, descend the mountain in advance, and carry out a long period of lurking without being exposed with the help of the cover of vegetation and ground wrinkles!

They didn't expect that the enemy would violate the common sense of military science and choose the lurking site on both sides of the road under the mountain beam, and ambush the high ground with low ground!

It is conceivable that once the Protector Army was attracted by the battle ahead, and the troops and weapons were gathered in the front, the enemy suddenly struck out from both flanks and swooped down on the weakened Chinese army, crushing it in one fell swoop, capturing the leader, and cutting off the Protector Army.

At that time, the Protector Army lost its command, and the morale of the army was in great confusion, and thousands of people were crammed into the narrow mountain beams. There were barricades and artillery in front, and there was a flanking attack by the enemy brigade in the rear, and it was difficult to take care of the end and the end, and it was a dilemma. How can you go home without defeat?

Fortunately, however, Zhu Pingjin and his generals' battlefield instincts saved the battle and themselves.

Jadenlian is a veteran of a hundred battles, and he was the first to sniff out something wrong with the atmosphere of the battlefield.

Jia Denglian's abnormal feeling reminded Zhu Pingjin. For the sake of prudence, he decided to take one step at a time and use the strength of the Protector Army to kill his opponent.

In the face of Jiang Lu's request for help, Zhu Pingjin not only did not transfer troops to reinforce the avant-garde, but maintained and sorted out the formation in a timely manner, and kept his main fire artillery battalion in a key position. It wasn't until he stumbled upon the Fifth Battalion of the Reserve, the Logistics Formation, and the Fifteenth Battalion of the Guards that they had formed a loose long snake formation on the narrow mountain beam, that he suddenly reacted:

Everything ahead is a trick!

Firecrackers, pine cannons, bamboo sticks, and traps are all designed to attract your own attention, weaken your reserves, and send troops to reinforce the front line.

So why should the enemy try to attract his forces at the front?

At that moment, Zhu Pingjin peeked into the truth with the logical thinking ability he had cultivated in officialdom for many years:

The target of the enemy's attack is not the front army, but his own middle army, and even a decapitation operation for himself. As soon as the Chinese army was defeated, the 3,000 men of the avant-garde would be flanked by the enemy in front and rear.

At that point, the enemy has two options:

Either part of the covering forces is sacrificed, and the main forces break through from the already open encirclement.

Either raise the strength of the whole army, completely defeat the Protector Army, and create a military miracle of winning more with less!

And to defeat their own Chinese army, there can be no second option except for a sudden ambush battle. Because of this method of warfare, there is only one key factor that determines victory or defeat, and that is time!

Zhu Pingjin got a glimpse of the truth, which also determined the trend of the battlefield.

But it was the ordinary soldiers who decided the final outcome of the battle.

Their courage, their training, their equipment, will soon be put to the most brutal test.

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