The battle was started by a skirmish line in front of the guard battalion.

The skirmish line consisted of two platoons of the 5th Battalion Musket Company, under the command of the Guards Battalion. They were placed seventy paces in front of the battle line of the guard battalion, just to trigger the battle and prevent their main forces from being ambushed by the enemy.

The skirmish tactic is not something mysterious, nor was it invented by Napoleon. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period in China, an army had light and heavy soldiers; Regular soldiers, strange soldiers; soldiers, guards; Forwards, mid-linemen, guards, hatchbacks and other tactical grouping. On the periphery of the main formation, it is common sense for generals to set up detached soldiers to disturb the enemy, and loose troops to prevent the enemy from firing crossbows.

In the battle summary submitted by Tan Sigui, he confessed that he despised the enemy, and as a result, he was bombarded by the enemy's wooden artillery. If skirmishers had been sent out at that time and the enemy's firepower had been tested in advance, perhaps the losses of the second attack would have been much smaller.

Therefore, in this offensive deployment, Tan Sigui and Jia Denglian unanimously suggested that a firearm force should be sent to open the way in front. When the enemy does not come out, shoot at them; If the enemy comes out, it will be just right: the guard battalion is waiting for them in a neat battle column, and there are two battalions of the Jaden Wing in the rear, and they are not afraid of shooting or hand-to-hand combat.

As soon as the battle began, Jia Denglian hurriedly asked Zhu Pingjin to dismount.

The enemy on the opposite side is condescending and looks down on the attacker. Wearing dazzling golden helmets and armor, sitting on high horseback and directing the battle is indeed not a wise move. Zhu Pingjin was also afraid that he would hang up meaninglessly, so he dismounted and found a higher position to observe the enemy.

Zhang Wei's shoulders serve as a bracket for the large telescope. In the footage, the situation of both the enemy and the enemy can be seen clearly.

The enemy hid in the low bushes and opened fire with firearms, while their own skirmishers returned fire in an evacuated formation. From time to time, a cloud of white smoke came out of the bushes and grass. There was no change in the pace of fire on both sides, indicating that the casualties on both sides were not large, and it also showed that the two sides were fighting at a relatively long distance.

Not long after, the commander of the company of the 5th Battalion of Fire Guns came to report that the enemy had more than 100 guns, which was roughly the same number as mine. He asked for the remaining two platoons to be transferred up and the enemy expelled.

Zhu Pingjin glanced at Jia Denglian beside him pursing his lips, and hurriedly reprimanded:

"Panic what! Two platoons against more than 100 enemies, even if you can't win, you won't lose! You hurry back and continue to command the troops, knock out half of the base and then replace them. How can the rotten fire guns that the village bandits bought from the hands of the local tyrants be able to defeat our national protection army! ”

Half a base is twenty-five rounds. A projectile weighing 126 cents, together with gunpowder and carrying equipment, is already heavy enough to carry fifty rounds per person.

The Protector stopped moving, straightened out the formation, and waited for the outpost to come to an end. The battle of thousands of people on both sides became a separate performance of 200 people.

The sound of fire in front of him continued, and Zhu Pingjin stared intently at the battlefield. The white smoke rising from the front was getting thicker and thicker, but the battle lines between the two sides could still be roughly seen.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the enemy could not resist and fled without a trace under the cover of the bushes and grass. The stragglers went out to search the battlefield, and the only thing they got was a screaming captive - the man's fire gun exploded, blinding him.

It seems that there will be no major resistance until we approach the fork in the road on the mountainside of Beishanliang.

Overestimate one's strength or oneself! Zhu Pingjin snorted coldly and climbed back onto his war horse.

The sound of drums resounded, and the troops advanced slowly, less than half a mile from the fork in the road. At this time, there was a sudden commotion in the front, the sound of the drums quickly stopped, and the battalion flag of the guard battalion waved, telling the rear: stop advancing.

Zhu Pingjin waited for a long time on the horse, and finally saw Jiang Lu, who came to play the report in person.

"What's going on?" Zhu Pingjin asked scoldedly.

"Qi Yu Shizi, there was a dense bamboo stick formation in front of him, and he couldn't move forward at all. There are also traps with wooden tips stuck in them. The skirmisher dropped one of them and went in, and it didn't work at that time......"

It seems that the enemy is not only prepared, but very well prepared. At this time, Zhu Pingjin had already calmed down. He jumped off the horse and asked Jiang Lu to play the report slowly.

“…… The bamboo skewer array is very dense, and there are one or two places on the ground one foot square. The head of the bamboo skewer is less than an inch above the ground, and it is difficult to find it hidden in the grass. At the end, I will pull out a bamboo stick and smell it...... The head of the sign is smeared with feces, and when you step on it, you will get poison......

"Chemical and biological weapons, crimes against humanity!" Zhu Pingjin muttered.

"In addition to bamboo sticks, there are also traps! There are two kinds of traps, one is harmful: two or three feet square, and more than five feet deep. The surface is covered with thin branches and weeds, and the inside is filled with wooden tips more than a foot long, which will not die or be crippled if they fall into it; Another kind of pest on horses: a round hole the size of a tea cup, similar to a rat hole, when the horse runs, the horse's hooves sink in, and immediately people turn over on their backs......"

"Disgusting!" Zhu Pingjin could no longer find the right charges to describe the viciousness of his opponent.

"Mr. Shu has dispatched a company of sappers to go forward, and they are searching and removing obstacles one by one. It's just that the sappers are small and can't get up quickly...... The last general was worried that the bandits would take advantage of our trap to counterattack, so he strictly ordered that the formation should not be disbanded, and the defense was organized on the spot. ”

"Battalion Commander Jiang, you did the right thing!" The prince finally affirmed Jiang Lu's deployment, which made the big man secretly breathe a sigh of relief. However, Zhu Pingjin, like all the leaders in the world, has an elusive change of mind.

"Stuck? We're trapped, aren't the bandits trapped? Could it be that they have steel plates on the soles of their shoes that can step on the bamboo stick formation to fight back? ”

"Is this ......" Jiang Lu was asked.

"An obstacle cannot be called an obstacle without fire cover!"

Zhu Pingjin came to a conclusion and put aside Jiang Lu, and instead called Jia Denglian and Tan Sigui: "Two generals, what do you think?" ”

"Shizi, no matter what, let's transfer the artillery battalion first!" Tan Sigui suggested.

"Shizi, the last general is a rough man." Jia Denglian took off his sweat-soaked phoenix wing helmet and scratched his scalp, "The last general feels that something is wrong, but I can't say it." ”

Those who dare to call themselves coarse in front of the leader must not be coarse, but use the coarse man, who seems to be lawless, to cover up something.

Zhu Pingjin stared at Jia Denglian, wanting to find out the clues in his expression.

Jia Denglian noticed Zhu Pingjin's expression, and had to cough lightly to hide his embarrassment.

Tan Sigui is a clever ghost, and immediately understood that the two of them were playing dumb riddles. He pulled the sleeves of his robe and let him say when he had something to say, the prince is not a faint king who can't listen to his advice.

The words are straightforward to this point, and Jia Denglian has to express something. But he didn't face Zhu Pingjin directly, but asked Jiang Lu, how is the bamboo stick array arranged? Is there more roads in the middle or more fields on both sides of the road?

Jia Denglian's question made Jiang Lu pick his scalp too. He thought for a moment and replied, there were almost no bamboo sticks on the mountain beam road, but there were weeds everywhere on both sides of the road. As for the traps, they are hidden on both sides of the road.

After getting the answer, Jia Denglian asked Tan Sigui again: "The general once remembered that General Yu said that the road on the mountain beam in front of him was relatively straight......

"Exactly! All the way to the fork in the road ahead, it is mostly straight. The mountains here all look like this, and the top of the mountain has a mountain beam......"

Tan Sigui did not continue. He had realized that there was something in Jaden's question.

"The bandits are trying to drive us to the middle, and then bombard us with wooden cannons!" Zhu Pingjin replied for Tan Sigui, "It's a ruse!" ”

"Maybe there are mines on the road!" Gan Liangchen, who was in his sixties, had just arrived, sitting on horseback panting.

Hearing about the mines, Tan Sigui hurriedly reminded that using bayonets and iron pickaxes to open the way was the experience summed up in the Battle of Changping Mountain.

Jaden-Lian burst out laughing: "We have sappers, and their tricks have come to naught!" ”

But Gan Liangchen shook his head slowly: "Not necessarily, since the village bandits can set up obstacles, then there will definitely be firearms to cooperate, and use firearms and obstacles to join forces to drive us into the trap!" ”

Before his words fell, several roars burst out in succession, startling the yellow horse that Zhu Pingjin was sitting on raised his neck and neighed.

"Damn, sure enough, there was an ambush of artillery!" Jiang Lu was in a hurry, most of the soldiers in front of him were from his guard battalion, "Lord Shizi, we can't take advantage of it by shooting cannons with firearms!" Pull the artillery battalion up! ”

"Just a few earthen cannons!" Zhu Pingjin shook his head at Jiang Lu, "You go back immediately, organize a salvo, and dumb them!" ”

There are two kinds of campaign reserves, one is the reserve of troops; One is fire readiness. The artillery battalion is the main firepower of the Protector Army, and now the enemy situation is unknown, and it is too early, once the enemy situation changes, it is very

It is difficult to quickly transfer fire.

"Lord Shizi, please think twice!" Jiang Lu was so anxious that he knelt on one knee.

The guard battalion is the elite of the National Defense Army, and every soldier is selected as a leader through military and political evaluation, and he is the material of the officers when he is released. Now that he is being bombarded in front, it is no wonder that Jiang Lu is in a hurry.

"Shizi, first transfer the six guns of the second company of the first battalion of the artillery!" At this time, Tan Sigui reminded.

The 1st Artillery Battalion had only twelve old cannons, organized into two companies. The 1st Artillery Company followed the task force battalion of He Qiukou and Feng Rubao, and the 2nd Artillery Company was assigned to the 3rd Regiment.

"Yes!" Zhu Pingjin agreed with a cold face.

However, he immediately added: "Order the second artillery company to line up on the mountain beam road and block the path that goes straight up and down!" Ordered He Chengjun that the second artillery battalion must not move without permission! ”

Jiang Lu was ordered to go.

The usual strict and even cruel training, when it comes to the battlefield, it is immediately divided into high and low.

Although the bandits also had hundreds of firearms, they were weak and powerless in the face of the overwhelming volley of the guard battalion, like a clown who was incapable of challenging a giant.

It's just those damn pine cannons, which seem to be covered by earthen ramparts. Several salvos passed, and they were still ringing.

The front line seemed to be frozen, a barrier dozens of paces wide, completely separating the two warring sides. No one is willing to rush through the unknown death zone under dense firepower and launch a decisive charge.

……

Zhu Pingjin pressed his right eye to the eyepiece, and watched the progress of the war without blinking.

The camera is filled with smoke and fire, and the crowd is crowded, like a grand performance in the thick fog.

The second artillery company deployed quickly, quickly consolidating the firepower superiority that the Protector Army had achieved. The power of the new flowering shells made the enemy's crude wooden cannons even more vulnerable. In the telescope, one of the enemy's gunpowder storage points was detonated by a flowering projectile, and a stump spun and flew several feet high with the rise of the blazing white smoke. There was also a pine cannon that leaked, which made the surrounding gunners cry and flee.

Two quarters of an hour at most, and the big picture will be decided!

When you knock out the enemy's firearms, you knock down the boulder in your heart.

Zhu Pingjin turned away from the telescope with satisfaction, reached for a moist handkerchief, and rubbed his drowsy eyes.

At the moment when the cool handkerchief left his eyes, he saw Gao Fuxin, the commander of the fifth battalion, saw his battalion helplessly crowded on the narrow and sloping mountain beam, and also saw the logistics formation behind the fifth battalion and the rear guard fifteenth battalion farther away.

At this moment, the delicate silk handkerchief slipped silently from his face and hung on the tip of a thick artemisia grass. A mountain wind struck, and the artemisia grass, like his countless brothers and sisters, shook on the slopes on either side of the mountain beam, forming large and small waves. It's just a pity that there are a lot of miscellaneous trees, mounds of earth and rocks, or something else in the middle of the grass, which spoils the beauty of the neat undulating rhythm.

"Jia Denglian, you and Mr. Shu immediately command all the troops of the front army! The fifty-third battalion turned frontally to the left flank, the fifty-fifth battalion frontally turned to the right flank, and the firing line of the guard battalion turned to the sides at the same time to counter the enemy's onslaught on both flanks of our army! ”

"Gao Fuxin, you immediately command the base camp to spread out into a hollow phalanx on the spot, covering the Chinese army and logistics formations to enter the phalanx!"

"Tan Sigui, you and Mr. Sun immediately command all the troops of the rear army! Let Cui Chengru move closer to the fifth battalion as quickly as possible, and carry out the most resolute attack if the enemy blocks him! Send a herald to let Yang Jie, Yang Weidong, and Qiu Qiming each send a powerful unit to surround the fifth battalion as the center! ”

"Wu Tai, you immediately command the logistics formation to quickly enter the fifth battalion phalanx! Remember, those who do not listen to the command, delay the front, and disrupt the military formation will be immediately killed! ”

"He Chengjun, order the second artillery battalion to be placed between the fifty-third battalion, the fifty-fifth battalion and the fifth battalion, and the position of the second artillery company remains unchanged! The rest of the troops, between the 53rd and 55th battalions, acted as reserves, ready to counterattack! ”

"Come on, lead the war horse of this world! Take the saber of this son! ”

"General Gan, Lian Po is old, can you still eat?"

At this time, Gan Liangchen, who had been silent beside Zhu Pingjian, slowly pulled out his sword.

"Shizi, even if the last general is old, he can still fight!"

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