"The navy made an urgent report, and the navy successfully defeated Qian's naval fleet, and the marines set off for Beigang again after landing at the mouth of the Tamsui River to carry out a multi-point landing plan." As soon as Yang Tiancheng arrived in Hangzhou, he was caught up by the good news from the rear.

Yang Tiancheng took the good news of the Red Feather Messenger and nodded after reading it, there is no big problem on the navy's side, originally Qian was cut off from the mainland after crossing the sea to Liuqiu, relying on local strength is not at all comparable to the continent that has experienced thousands of years of civilization development, so as long as the navy can defeat the opponent's naval warships in naval battles, there will basically be no problem. And in the naval battle, in front of the ironclad ship brought by Li Xuanqing, the thousand-year gap made the wooden sailing ship almost no chance of winning. Therefore, Yang Tiancheng focuses on the drill of new tactics on the battlefield, after all, today's Tiance Army is no longer the kind of army that will stop after reaching the peak of the previous dynasties, and today's Tiance Army has begun to focus on training in the face of various advantages, relying on the transformation of the campaign mode brought about by new equipment and the test and popularization of new tactics. This is also the real reason why Yang Tiancheng took time out of his busy schedule to go to the front line to observe the army and navy exercises. Because after defeating the surrounding opponents, according to the current economic development of the Tang Empire, foreign expansion is almost a logical path. And at the end of the Tang Dynasty in the parallel world at this time, the Central Plains Dynasty with the Han nationality as the main body was in a period of positive and enterprising ascent, and in the feudal era of cold weapons, it was still able to expedition to the absolute domain and establish the supreme majesty of the thousand-year-old empire.

However, at this time, Xu Tianxiang, the base camp of Chang'an, also received a battle report, but not from the southeast, but from the northwest. After Cao Rengui was captured, the Uighurs lost the largest force to contain the western expeditionary army on the southern front, and with the passage between Khotan and Shazhou being quickly opened, the Anxi Corps began to formally contact the main force, announcing that the power of the Tang Empire officially extended to the distant vicinity of the Green Ridge Plateau, and included the entire southwestern part of Anxi into its own rule. As Zhang Sheng's army gradually entered the core towns of Khotan, the high-level leaders of the local forces in Khotan led by Wuxin completely let go of their resistance and handed over all the domestic troops to Zhang Sheng, and then embarked on the road to Chang'an with a group of high-level leaders.

Therefore, when the southern front stabilized and Yang Yi and Tuoba Sijian joined forces to start taking over the Anxi area around Boxian Town step by step, Wan Yi began to plan an attack on Yizhou after repairing his troops and replenishing his baggage and equipment.

For this kind of specific front-line warfare, as long as it does not deviate too much from the strategic plan of the General Staff Headquarters, the General Staff cannot interfere in the deployment of the front-line commanders, so Xu Tianxiang reported the battle report he received to Xuanyingwei and prepared to go to Li Xuanqing. However, at this time, Chen Yu and Guo Chongtao actually encountered the second enemy since landing on the island, and even this enemy was not even detected by Xuan Yingwei in advance, so Chen Mingzheng, who was on the head of the victory by surprise, was obviously blinded by this enemy.

"Where the hell did this goddamn wild man come from?" Chen Mingzheng's marines were attacked and immediately put into a counterattack, but the other party obviously did not expect the equipment advantage on the side of the Tiance Army to be so great, after the attack was frustrated, they originally wanted to rely on the advantage of close combat to continue to disrupt the formation of the Tiance Army, but this also made Chen Mingzheng see the true face of the other party, almost all of them were wild people who came out of the primeval forest, short in stature, black and thin, but the voice made during the battle made the soldiers of the Tiance Army look dazed, this is a completely different language from Tang Yan on his side.

Chen Mingzheng immediately adjusted his deployment when he saw a large area of the opponent's black and turbulent attacking him, and used the advantage of the mortar detachment to concentrate fire and bombard in a short period of time to prevent the other side from attacking his own position, and at the same time immediately ordered the forward troops to shrink immediately, and the Chinese army and the rear army to counterattack on the spot, on the one hand, to respond to the smooth retreat of the front army, and on the other hand, to wait for the retreat of the front army, the Chinese army immediately went forward, and reversed the unfavorable situation after being attacked by the sneak attack.

Originally, there was no problem with such a deployment, in fact, after Chen Mingzheng's front army withdrew, the marines who let go of their hands and feet used their strong firepower advantage to successfully press the opponent back, and the Fuxing-class warships cruising nearby at this time had also adjusted their guns to counterattack, and these enemies did not know where to get out. However, after stabilizing the situation, Chen Mingzheng also saw that eighty percent of these people were the legendary Ryukyu natives, that is, a small number of local tribes, because the weapons these people were obviously holding were very primitive, and even there were very few iron weapons, and most of them were still holding bone or wooden weapons. However, it was this counter-charge that caused the Marines to suffer the greatest loss since the beginning of the war, and the 3,000 soldiers who came out of the Chinese army began to attack the opponent's defense line against the trend under the cover of artillery fire, and then relied on rifles and bullets to drive the opponent away.

When Chen Mingzheng launched the charge, the mortar detachment also followed the infantry brigade and accompanied the attack. Therefore, the 3,000 people plus the mortar detachment tracked down these dizzy and overwhelmed few tribesmen and horses into the mountainous jungle behind Beigang, and the first commander of the Marine Corps who was in charge of the forward command made Song Hui directly stunned, after these people entered the jungle, they were like beasts entering the forest, both their pace and flexibility became very high, and after entering the jungle, they dispersed and used trees and shrubs to cover and began to gradually engage in counterattacks. Although these people attacked without any rules and regulations, let alone any restraints in the art of war, but they gave the first capital great damage in a short period of time, many of these tribal warriors even directly took out a strange pipe and put it to their mouths and then aimed at the nearby Tiance Army warriors and blew it, and then saw a short arrow as thin as a cow's hair quickly pierced the body of the Tiance Army soldiers, and then the warrior quickly fell to the ground and convulsed, which was obviously poisoned.

The same situation happened in other places, after these people entered the jungle, they were agile, and quickly reduced the firepower advantage of the Tiance Army to a minimum, while the counterattack became more and more sharp. If it weren't for Song Hui's immediate retreat when he saw that the situation was not good, and arranged for the mortar detachment to follow up, he would have fired directly regardless of whether there were trees in front of him, I was afraid that the first would really be defeated by the other party in a piecemeal way.

The encounter of the first capital was reported to Chen Mingzheng for the first time, and this strange way of jungle warfare made the first encounter of the marines suffer a big loss, so Chen Mingzheng immediately led the army to meet the first capital, and at the edge of the jungle, the defense line began to block the opponent from killing out, giving the first capital more damage.

However, at this time, Chen Mingzheng ushered in his real enemy, and the main force of the Qian Army from Phoenix City had also hurried to Beigang at this time, and immediately entered the battle after discovering Chen Mingzheng. Obviously, the other party had already expected what happened to Chen Mingzheng, so this time Chen Mingzheng could no longer maintain a defensive line at the edge of the jungle, so he could only fight and retreat to the sea before a few tribes and the Qian army could be encircled, relying on the fire cover of the Fuxing-class warships to wait for reinforcements, and wait until Chen Yu's troops arrived.

In fact, after the war, Chen Mingzheng knew that before Qian knew about it, he had contacted these few tribes named Gaoshan Clan after Li Xuanqing learned about it, but the leader of the Gaoshan Clan did not choose to agree to the other party's request at that time, but what he didn't expect was that the other party took the initiative to participate in the attack on the Beigang side, which also made Bao Junfu, who led the army to attack the Tiance Army this time, deeply surprised and immediately led the army into the attack, hoping to rely on the advantages of the combined forces of the two armies to encircle and annihilate this Tiance Army in a short time.

Chen Mingzheng immediately began to organize troops to defend after retreating to the beach, although the first capital lost more than 500 people in just half an hour, and because the retreat was more anxious, even the corpses of these soldiers were not brought back, but relying on the remaining 13,000 troops to form an oval defensive formation, relying on the advantage of rifles to gradually stabilize the situation, although Bao Junfu led the army to continue to break in, relying on the shield humidification quilt to resist the dense bullets of the Tiance army at the same time, Shoot arrows at the defensive position of the Tiance Army, so as to cover the other troops to quickly attack the defense line of the Tiance Army, so that they can break through and break the opponent's firepower advantage in close combat.

However, Bao Junfu's preparations did not have a very good effect compared to the Marine Corps, and the Fuxing-class battleships were almost lined up on the sea at this time, using the range of the ship's guns to build a solid artillery blockade line in front of the Marine Corps, and the mortar detachment continued to use its advantage of rapid fire to defeat the troops of the Qian Army who broke through, so the two sides reached a stalemate in a short time. However, this stalemate made Chen Mingzheng continue to frown, the number of his own marines is not as large as the opponent's joint efforts, and the number of artillery shells in the mortar detachment has been close to the limit so far, once the close artillery support is lost, then it is impossible to block the opponent's attack with naval artillery alone. Even if it was commanded by a more ruthless general, maybe the Qian army would have broken through into the position of the Tiance army at this moment, and once the two sides were short-handed, then the artillery of the Tiance army would be completely ineffective.

However, Chen Mingzheng's fears soon became a reality, and the mortar detachment began to retreat to the center where Chen Mingzheng was located with artillery, which meant that the mortar detachment was left with only the last three shells of each artillery at this time. After losing the support of the mortar detachment, the gap between the combat strength of the Marine Corps and the army field units began to gradually appear, and the cooperation between the various units began to be not smooth enough, especially in the face of the continuous attack of the other side, the psychological burden of many soldiers began to increase, and they were afraid that the other side would break into their positions, and the most important thing was that these soldiers were not as calm as before when firing, the hit rate of bullets began to decrease, and the interval between firing began to increase. As a result, the intensity of firepower of the Marines began to decrease significantly. Chen Mingzheng naturally reacted to this phenomenon at the first time, so he directly left his command post and went to the front line, boosting morale as the chief general, and constantly shouting and even grabbing a rifle to personally participate in the attack to boost the morale of the Marine Corps.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the problem of the Marine Corps is that the expansion speed of the Marine Corps has been too rapid in recent years, and its own requirements for soldiers are too high, resulting in the inability to draw from the Army units on a large scale, resulting in too few veterans in the Marine Corps, and this situation will inevitably occur when the new recruits are against the trend. You must know that when crossing the Yangtze River, almost all the marines were killed in battle, and the only remaining veterans and a small number of manpower drawn from other units could not lead the entire marine corps to a huge force of almost 20,000 people.

Just when Chen Mingzheng tried his best to motivate his soldiers to calm down and fight, in fact, the first battalion led by Chen Yu had already arrived near the battlefield, but Chen Yu's entry point was a little different, he did not directly join Chen Mingzheng, but ordered the first battalion to immediately launch a roundabout outflank from the jungle, preparing to encircle and annihilate the Gaoshan tribe's troops with the marines in advance. Obviously, Chen Yu also did not expect that the Marine Corps was in a disadvantageous situation at this time, and it was out of the problem of soldiers. After all, there is almost no such problem in the Tiance Army, almost all the troops have experienced more than one fierce battle, and although they will replenish new soldiers, but because the Tang Empire has been fighting almost every year since Fengzhou, all the troops are almost in a state of combat readiness all year round, and no army unit has had this kind of problem.

However, although Chen Yu's move made the marines temporarily in a state of hard fighting, the layout on the battlefield was very reasonable, and the most important thing was that the combat power of the first battalion in the jungle almost caught up with these warriors of the Gaoshan clan, so when more than 30,000 people of the first battalion detoured from the jungle and got behind the troops of the Gaoshan clan, a massacre happened without accident. The soldiers of the first battalion armed with formal rifles took advantage of the cover that could be seen everywhere in the jungle to shoot continuously, and the dense bullets could take away a life with almost every shot, which made the troops of the Gaoshan tribe who had not experienced a large-scale battle collapse instantly, and those Gaoshan warriors who had been copied back began to scurry around like headless flies after being blinded, and even some of them ran straight towards the gun array of the marines. However, the first battalion was unmoved, and still unhurriedly formed countless stormtroopers according to the inverted triangle formation that was usually drilled, and surrounded and annihilated these Gaoshan soldiers in groups.

Chen Yu was not the slightest surprise at the results of the first battalion, after all, the first battalion had almost no shortcomings compared to other troops, and its combat power was also very stable, and it could execute any tactics in an orderly manner no matter what the environment. However, when he came out of the jungle and saw the Marine Corps and the Qian Army fighting together, and even when the two sides were already staggered, he was surprised, and the Fuxing-class battleship in the distance even kept signaling, which was to remind himself of the predicament that the Marine Corps was facing at this time.

"Order the first battalion forward to immediately insert into the area where the marines and the Qian army are engaged, assist the marines to suppress the offensive of the Qian army, and the rest of the people will surround the rear of the Qian army for me and eat the other party for me." Chen Fan didn't even think about it, and directly let the first battalion leave the scattered Gaoshan clan soldiers and join the battlefield in two ways.