"Deputy Marshal, don't say it, this first batch of people who followed the emperor to learn to dig trenches are basically the top masters in our army. You see, the trenches they dug are much more standardized than those dug by Zhang Sheng and them in Khotan, and as far as I know, they are much better than the previous Third Corps, and it seems that these Royal Forest Corps have grown a lot in recent years. Qin Kong accompanied Gauss to check the trenches they had dug and couldn't help but smile.

Gauss Ji also nodded, with the musket as the standard weapon of the Tiance Army, the trench is already the most basic tactical action and skill to accompany the Tiance Army, so an army's emphasis on the trench is basically equal to the level they usually train. At present, Tie Liang and the Anxi Corps dug up this trench position, Gauss Ji has no way to comment, the jagged trenches of Yishui look like a sieve from a high place on this hillside, and each section of the trench is connected by a communication channel, and the layers of each other are dense like spider webs extending in all directions. The three artillery positions were guarded by infantry trenches, and the guns were still scorching despite their armor. In the middle of the trenches, there are also reserved battlefields and shallow trenches to deal with the cavalry reserves that rush into the formation of the opponent. In this way, basically this trench position is equivalent to a complete combat system, and it is precisely because of this that starting from the central garrison battalion, the Tang knife of the front-line soldiers has been changed to the engineer shovel designed by Li Xuanqing. This all-round weapon, which was pirated from later generations, has now become the most important weapon carried by all soldiers after the official rifle, and its complex and diverse functions make all soldiers full of praise.

"I said, is this Tieliang trying to find a place here? Why are there so many traps dug up ahead? If you go headlong into it-" Qin Kong took the latest information handed over by the Xuanying Guard's entourage to find him, looked at it, showed a smile on his face, and handed it to Gos, pointing to the countless soldiers in front of the trench, who were digging horse traps and funnel-shaped traps one after another, and suddenly became happy, and his brain made up for it, and thousands of troops and horses suddenly fell headlong into this area, and he was immediately overjoyed.

"Let's go, hold a pre-war meeting immediately, and you, the intelligence chief, will also participate in our staff officers?" Gauss asked the guards behind him to find Tie Liang and Zhang Sheng, and smiled at Qin Kong. This guy is typically the same as Hu Xiaosi, he is a violent element who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, if it weren't for the fact that he is not very good at leading troops to fight, it is estimated that he would have applied for transfer to the combat unit a long time ago, and he must be a restless master with this character.

"According to Xuan Yingwei's intelligence, the main force of the Safar army in the Fengdu Governor's Mansion has already set off for Xiliuzhou, and the forward troops are about two days away from here, so today's meeting can be regarded as a pre-war deployment." Soon after Gauss took Qin Kong back to the big tent, Zhang Sheng and Tie Liang also followed. Tie Liang himself was covered in dust, but he didn't care about it.

"It seems that this Saffar is really stupid, this is a stunned collision with our guns, I really think we can't stop the impact of their cavalry." Zhang Sheng has been a student for two days with Tie Liang in the past two days, and he admires the other party's miraculous and well-established trench excavation, so he couldn't help but smile after listening to Gao Siji's introduction.

"On the frontal battlefield, by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, all soldiers need to enter the trenches and be on standby, and they must not leave the trenches for a moment after eating and lodging." Gauss continued: "The front-line command is all handed over to Tieliang, the Anxi Corps and the Heavy Cavalry Battalion concentrate 50,000 people as field troops, and the remaining 30,000 people are led by Zhang Sheng as a reserve. Gauss Ji's staff officer here had already hung up the topographical map of the entire battlefield and said: "When the time comes, Qin Kong and I will lead the personal guards of the command headquarters to supervise the battle here. Gao Siji's words made Zhang Sheng's face collapse, but he also understood that his ability in such a large-scale battle was indeed not comparable to Tie Liang's rich experience, and besides, the reserve team also needed someone to be able to keep an eye on it at any time, so he nodded.

"Actually, I think that their forward troops are probably about 20,000 or 30,000 people who are dead, after all, if there are more than 200,000 troops, they still need to be explored by the forward troops to prevent us from ambushing them, so I think Tie Liang, you can seize the opportunity to eat these 30,000 forward troops before their main force arrives, and then you can further narrow the comparison between the numbers of the enemy and us. And the most important thing is that if the forward forces are scattered by us, then it means that their main forces will have to go into battle before they have time to adjust their deployment, and then it will definitely cause chaos, which will further increase our chances of victory. Qin Kong got up and laughed after Gauss finished speaking: "And in the past two days, I have arranged for the original shadow son to do things during their march, further widening the distance between their main force and the forward force, and try to buy you enough time." ”

"Okay, you guys hurry up and prepare, the troops of the Anxi Corps transferred to the front-line field troops must make arrangements in advance and cooperate well with the heavy cavalry battalion." After sending Zhang Sheng and Tie Liang away, Gauss saw that Qin Kong was still in the big tent and immediately smiled: "Do you have any problems in your heart?" ”

"Deputy Marshal, you will transfer all your troops to the front line, what if Xiliuzhou behind us sends troops out of the city?" Qin Kong frowned and said: "Although I have arrangements in the city, but after all, there are 30,000 royal court guards in the city, and I have no good way to do it in front of such elite troops, and judging from the current distance of less than twenty miles from Xiliuzhou to here, the other party can even watch our battle process from standing in the city tower, as long as they are not pig brains, they will definitely go out of the city and give a fatal blow in the back when the war is in a stalemate." ”

"You don't have to arrange for the secret guards to fight hard, you are not the ones who go to the battlefield with guns." Gauss Ji smiled and said, "We still have a force, I have already made arrangements, and when the time comes, I will ensure that we can block them so that they can't get out of the city." Sometimes the biggest advantage is the biggest disadvantage, and the person who invented the city wall and the city gate probably didn't think about one thing, that is, if someone blocked the city gate, it would be difficult to block the people in the city. Gao Siji's words made Qin Kong suddenly put his mind down, and instead concentrated on assisting Gao Siji to make pre-war planning, helping Tie Liang and Zhang Sheng to check the loopholes on the battlefield.

However, when the Southern Advance Corps was making full preparations for war, the distance between the main force and the forward was gradually widening, as Qin Kong expected. The forward troops are actually the most elite troops drawn from the Safar army, so that they can respond as quickly as possible when they are ambushed by the opponent and buy time for the main force. This is also the usual practice of ordinary troops when marching. It's just that at this time, under the calculation of Xuan Yingwei, this elite army of 30,000 people is stepping into the trap carefully arranged for him by the Tiance Army step by step.

However, after this situation could not be compared with Xuanyingwei in intelligence work, the Safar army did not feel that such an arrangement would be counterattacked by the Tiance army. Even in the opponent's prediction, once the forward troops were ambushed by the opponent, after drawing out the opponent's rear hand, their main force could rush up in the fastest time, relying on the superior speed of the cavalry troops to break the opponent's arrangement in one fell swoop, so as to win the battle outside the city of Xiliuzhou. This attitude even took Zar Khan to agree with, after all, after the whole army of more than 200,000 cavalry was dispatched, no one could afford to resist the vast march of dozens of miles. And for a huge army, it doesn't matter how the opponent is arranged, the important thing is to find out where the opponent is, and the task of the 30,000 men in the forward is to play the intention and position of the opponent, so as to play the role of a sentinel for the main force.

This change in the minds of the two armies before the Great War also reflected everyone's thoughts, but there was no way to stop the distance between the two armies from getting closer and closer. On the morning of the fifth day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the officers and men of all units of the Tiance Army gathered in the trenches to eat, and the reconnaissance detachment galloped in from a distance.

"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, the Safar front army is less than twenty miles away from our army, and the other party has discovered our army's position and is speeding towards this side." The reconnaissance detachment hurriedly came from the front, and one of them rushed to the position of Tieliang, the front-line position, and the others arrived at the high platform where Gauss Ji was located to report the latest enemy situation.

"Inform the divisions to immediately enter the combat situation, and the artillery units immediately adjust the firing range and prepare to fire at any time." After Gauss waved the order flag from his guards, the latest news came from various departments to report the completion of the preparation of their troops. The soldiers who were originally eating in the trenches all over the front line picked up the hot meals that were not easy to be delivered, picked up the guns in their hands, found their positions, and began to aim ahead, standing still. More often than not, take out bullets or grenades from the ammunition boxes you have in stock and put them in the most convenient place. There was an extremely suppressed murderous aura from the entire battlefield in an instant.

"Lieutenant Marshal, you see they're coming. It seems that this cavalry has good combat effectiveness, and the queue is very neat and fast. As soon as Qin Kong finished speaking, he saw that the thirty artillery pieces deployed in the center of the position began to fire in an instant, and the whistling cannons were discharged and smashed into the distance with clusters of flames. At the same time, the voice of the captain of the artillery brigade was heard, "three rounds of school fire", and after spraying flames and shells again, the explosion that came into view overturned countless cavalrymen.

"The Great War has begun." Gauss Ji glanced at Qin Kong and said: "The emperor said a sentence before, artillery is the prelude to war, and what I want to say is now." After a slight pause after the three rounds of calibration, the central artillery position was filled with artillery again, this time it was no longer because of the slow speed of the previous calibration shooting, but began to fire with all its might, and countless cannons were ejected and exploded in the crowd of the Saffar forward troops who had rushed up, and this wave after wave of shells directly disrupted the opponent's formation, and countless cavalry were killed, and the fragments of the corpses were scattered and scattered, and there were more war horses that were frightened and neighed, The originally neat and uniform charge formation was smashed abruptly. The range of the Tiance Army's artillery is now two thousand meters away, and with thirty guns firing together, it can directly bombard from a distance of two thousand meters to a distance of as close as eight hundred meters. At the edge of the artillery's closest range, it overlaps with the range of the rifle, thus forming a complete fire suppression and connection, so that the opponent is always within the range of Tiance Army's firepower from far to near.

Therefore, Tie Liang immediately ordered a battalion in the front-line position to shoot after estimating the distance, and the dense bullets were much "quieter" than the deafening heroic scene of the shell explosion, but its lethality was much greater, because the Safar cavalry, which had been baptized by artillery fire and lost its formation impact, actually had no formation when it rushed into the rifle range, and then hit the dense bullet array and then the head was broken and bleeding, and countless cavalry fell to the ground after being hit, becoming an obstacle to the subsequent cavalry charge. The trap and funnel-shaped trap dug by Tie Liang before also played a huge role at this time, countless cavalry finally broke through the death line of the cannonball explosion, but without warning, they stepped directly into these traps filled with sharp wooden guns at the bottom and were pierced, and those horses who stepped on the trap broke the horse's hooves in the rapid gallop, and then the cavalry was thrown out and did not know whether they were alive or dead. Seeing the chaos on the battlefield and watching the battle from the rear is a happy laugh. The 30,000 people did not play a greater role in front of the Tiance army's firepower array, and what was even worse was that the other party pressed all their troops at one time, so at this time, on the battlefield where shrapnel was flying everywhere, there was no way to let the army that had already messed up the formation withdraw. Tie Liang even used only two battalions of infantry to block the opponent's onslaught. And as time went on, more and more of these 30,000 people fell, and they could no longer play the role of a charge. Moreover, these cavalry even have little chance of retreating at this time, and the consequences of handing over their backs to the Tiance Army are even more terrifying, and some of the front-line troops of the Tiance Army who are easy to fight have even begun to pursue the accuracy of shooting, and regard those Safar cavalry scurrying around as a target for practicing shooting.

"This wave of Safar cavalry is completely useless." Qin Kong saw that there were fewer and fewer Safaric cavalry alive on the battlefield ahead, and he couldn't help but sigh: "In an hour, we defeated the opponent's 30,000 cavalry, and this is still the result of not going all out." I'm afraid that if their main force comes up and another division comes forward to attack, won't that give us a greater chance? ”

"You think too much, can you really think that others are stupid?" Gauss shook his head, put down the clairtelescope in his hand and said, "We have fought with the Safarians so many times, and they also know how much advantage the cavalry has in restraining us, so don't think that this other party is wrong." ”

"They're coming, my God, it's too powerful." Qin Kong had already noticed something strange in the distance before Gauss Ji finished speaking, and immediately exclaimed.

"Indeed, here they are." Gauss Ji was calm at this time, just waved his hand to let the guards behind him immediately give the latest orders, and the loud horn instantly spread throughout the audience, telling all the soldiers to get ready.