It is almost impossible to hide the news of such a big war, but at the beginning, people only knew that this time the Lanzhou City plot failed, and the personal soldiers led by the Son of Heaven captured Wang Zhaolin and others, but how did they win? Some people believe that the more than 1,000 elite soldiers led by the Son of Heaven won a crushing victory after paying the price of two or three hundred casualties. After all, combat effectiveness is still very difficult to talk about in this era. Just like in less than a generation, the U.S. military that showed combat effectiveness in Toping-ri was able to degenerate into a greater firepower advantage in the Battle of Khe San, and in the face of the large-scale defensive operations of the Vietnamese, there was no obvious loss ratio advantage. In this era without the superiority of the 20th century's level of technology, it is likely that an army will be degraded in a matter of years because of corruption on the main transportation routes. There are countless things in ancient and modern China and abroad, and it is not much more difficult to cite examples than the other way around. What's more, the army of the same imperial court, the Son of Heaven has a unique identity, and there are really many ways to win.

Therefore, what Xiao Xuan initially expected was that when he led the team to the south in the direction of Sichuan, many forces were not afraid of this showdown, but felt that if they did not rebel again, it was likely that all the forces would be gradually eliminated step by step in the "patrol investigation" when it was difficult to prepare for this sudden attack.

Just when the news of Xiao Xuan leading the team south spread to some places in Sichuan at the fastest speed, some secret forces were also about to move at this time.

Of course, unlike the special geographical passage in the northwest, although the Sichuan region is also far away from the central ruling center in the southeast, there is no environment that can effectively alienate the Central Plains and have unique transportation interests brought by the northwest migration transportation artery, and there are not many people who can use the interests of the northwest communication route to win over the army on a large scale.

This time, the ambush soldiers on the road that must be passed in the Guangyuan area, although it was a joint effort of seven families, it was only about 10,000 private soldiers. Such a large amount of money is almost the result of accumulation in the past ten years.

It should be said that although these people were not the economic army of the imperial court, they were still very well prepared, perhaps because of the proximity to some important production areas of gunpowder raw materials. This time, the ambush soldiers of about 10,000 people carried a total of 100,000 catties of gunpowder and even 230,000 catties of various ammunition, about one million pieces, which was almost equivalent to the gunpowder and ammunition consumed by a large-scale blasting attack and defense during an expeditionary operation. In addition, among the nearly 10,000 private soldiers, there are also hundreds of guns and archers who have accumulated over a long period of time, which can be said to be a desperate showdown to a large extent.

The ambush people were deployed in advance at a certain distance from the place after all, so Xiao Xuan led the team to pass by during the day, and he was not able to effectively detect the danger in advance by detecting the hot air balloon.

When night came, when the young officers and soldiers were resting on their fortifications, the sound of violent explosions accompanied by a rain of bullets in the dark night made almost everyone feel a great panic. Xiao Xuan, who was hiding in the iron box, could only play at this time that the teenagers could remember the battle rules and be able to effectively improvise.

Soon after the fierce blasting offensive ambush, the team with torches approached all over the mountains, and seemed to control all the positions of the officers and soldiers before, but the sudden and familiar sound of guns seemed to be like a signal to open fire in battle, so that more and more officers and soldiers who had reacted to the previous ambush continued to use the recoilless launchers and even arrow shotguns that had been prepared for a long time to launch a series of fierce counterattacks.

The accuracy and efficiency of the attack of the 400 recoilless shotguns and even the 48 stainless steel light mortars in the first round of fire were very different from those on the shooting range, but even so, the enemy soldiers, who seemed to think that they were going to win, lost more than 1,700 casualties in a very short time, more than about one-sixth of the proportion.

Suddenly struck by this magnitude in the night battle, although these selected ambushes were not an ordinary rabble, they had to retreat temporarily like a tide in order to avoid the danger that would come at any time.

In more than an hour before dawn, the two sides did not launch a large-scale offensive operation, until the sky gradually brightened and the general situation of the entire team was transmitted to Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan still felt fortunate to a large extent: Fortunately, almost all of the young officers and soldiers did not forget the battle regulations, and generally did what they required the battle regulations. During the break, he noticed that he was covered with a steel shield, and he hid in the cliff hole of the makeshift bunker as much as possible, did not poke his head out when he encountered a very likely sign of a blasting attack, and gave the check-in benefit to attack when the enemy showed a large number of figures.

Of course, only 10 people were killed and 31 were killed or wounded in this round of night raids, which was largely related to the fact that these ambushes, who were probably not regularly armed, did not plan their ammunition when carrying out blasting ambushes, and lacked heavy ammunition to break through the defense in order to increase the coverage area.

The whole team held out until after dawn, and although the rest of the enemy troops still seemed to have a clear advantage in strength and even favorable terrain, they could no longer pose a real threat in the face of the strong firepower of the new guard battalion.

The counterattack was quickly unleashed after the sky cleared, and against those opponents who did not have much heavy protection in the summer, 48 60-kilogram light mortar guns fired hundreds of thousands of light shotguns in just a few minutes easily crushed the opponent with heavy firepower. When the infantry risked occupying many of the high ground in the valley, they could only see a few corpses and wounded, and even a trembling and lost enemy.

Xiao Xuan finally did not order the entire army to pursue: "There are some prisoners this time, perhaps, it is more advantageous to let those remnants of the enemy escape than to annihilate them completely, and only in this way can we show our strength to the greatest extent, so that some people can understand that whether it is to fight and kill openly or secretly, the new guard battalion will be difficult to defeat in future operations... ”

After this battle, the confidence of the young officers and soldiers has become stronger, especially knowing that the vast majority of them are still well. The whole team also marched with a more confident momentum, from the avenue in the Guangyuan area to Shuzhong.

(End of chapter)