After a round of rapid marching, the 2nd Yang Regiment of the 2nd Division of the Xuan Army, the Jianzi Regiment and the 1st Division of the 20th Army of the Kunbulan Army finally intercepted the Southern Army before it passed through the valley.

The Lucourt Valley was wooded, and the battle was fought in a relatively open area. In a hurry, the artillery of both sides basically did not come in handy. The two armies fired at each other through the dense grass and low bushes, and clumps of broken grass and trees flew in the air, forming a strange "fog barrier" of grass and trees.

Under the superior firepower of the Northern Army, the Southern Army retreated step by step, and the Northern Army advanced step by step, and in the end, the Southern Army all retreated into a dense forest, and the Northern Army bit tightly and pursued it.

When most of the northern army entered the woods, the southern army ambushed in all directions.

In the dense forest, the front, left, and right directions of the northern army were attacked at the same time, and although they panicked, they did not break out, and immediately opened fire to counterattack. But soon, the formation could not be maintained, and later, even the formation was thrown into disarray.

Longstreet, in the latter stages of the march, deliberately slowed down; At the beginning of the engagement, the deliberate show of weakness, including the non-use of artillery, was to introduce the northern army into this dense forest that he had selected in advance.

During the Battle of Chickmoga, although Longstreet did not directly engage with the reinforcements of the Northern Army, he did not deviate from the judgment that the Northern Army had strong firepower and even most of them were equipped with breech guns, and knew that it would inevitably suffer losses in the open field to shoot at the Northern Army, so he decided to set the main battlefield in a dense forest in the south of the Lucourt Valley.

The protection of the obstacle to the shooter, if the obstacle is shorter, the breech gun has an absolute advantage over the breech gun, but if the height of the obstacle exceeds the height of the person, it is a common danger between the enemy and the enemy, and the difference between the breech and the breech is almost not big. Tall trees are obstacles of this nature.

And. In the middle of the jungle. It was very difficult for both sides to maintain their formation. After the breakup, the superiority of the Northern Army's firepower density was relatively weakened.

The Southern Army led by Longstreet was rolled out in the sea of blood on the Eastern Front, and most of them were veterans from a hundred battles, and they were very fierce; And even the new recruits have a relative advantage over most Xuan soldiers in their mastery and "feeling" of weapons and shooting.

Many Americans, especially Southerners, grew up dealing with firearms. Before enlisting in the army, although they did not receive any professional military training, many of them were already good marksmen and were able to become qualified soldiers in a very short time.

Before the soldiers of the Xuan Army joined the army, most of them were ordinary farmers, not only did they never know what modern rifles were, but they also had a natural fear of firearms. During the training of the recruits, the foreign instructors found that it took a lot of energy to help the recruits overcome this inexplicable sense of fear.

Most of the soldiers in the Xuan Army had only been exposed to foreign guns for the first time two years ago. Most of the breech guns were only equipped in the United States, and it took less than a few days to learn to be proficient. It is not difficult to master the basic use of weapons. But the improvement and mastery of shooting jishu is a long-term process, and there is no way to open the golden finger at all.

After the formation was dispersed, not only the density of firepower was weakened, but the help and restraint of the queue to the soldiers also disappeared, to be honest, at this time, it was difficult to give full play to the power of the breech gun and even the Spencer serial gun in the hands of the current Xuan soldiers.

In fact, this is the skirmisher tactic, which has higher requirements for the overall quality of the soldiers.

Even so, the casualties of the Southern Army were actually greater than those of the Northern Army, especially the troops that were in direct contact with the Xuan Army. However, the trees were tall and dense, the formation had been dispersed, and the soldiers could not effectively transmit the sense of fear brought about by this increase in casualties, so the Southern Army as a whole did not have much "feeling" about it.

The battle continues in chaos. The dense forest was filled with gunsmoke, and the figures could no longer be seen clearly from five or six feet away, and countless bullets were whizzing from every direction in front of the front, back, left and right, and there was no way to tell whether these bullets were fired by the enemy or one's own people, and it was not clear whether the bullets fired were hitting the enemy or one's own people.

Some large trees with a diameter of more than one and a half feet were hit by bullets continuously, and finally they could not bear it, and they broke off with a bang, and lay across the woods, adding to the chaos.

It was already gloomy, the light was even darker in the dense forest, and the smoke was accumulating more and more, and by the end of the day, it was almost impossible to discern the direction, and the officers had to use a compass to determine the direction.

There were skirmishes everywhere, gunfire and screams everywhere, and the fighting became increasingly bloody.

The commanders of the Northern Army felt that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, the soldiers were getting more and more panicked, the ranks were getting more and more chaotic, the battle line on the side was being compressed from several directions and narrower, and if the battle continued like this, the troops had the possibility of collapse, and the total annihilation of this army was not the worst result, if Longstreet could not be stopped, the main force of the missionary heights was stabbed by him from the side and back, then everything was over.

After discussing with the brigadier general led by the 20th Army, Bai Qiwen decided to withdraw from this forest and re-establish the defensive line in an open area not far away.

Wu Jianying glared at her blood-red eyes: "If you want to withdraw, you will withdraw, Lao Tzu will not withdraw!" ”

Bai Qiwen was anxious: "Wu Jianying! If you dare to disobey the order, we will punish you! Lao Wu, it's not a matter to fight like this, we have to build a defensive line -- so that we can stop the enemy, don't be confused! ”

The Northern Army finally withdrew, and it was considered to be fighting and retreating, and there was no rout. It's really dangerous, if it's a little later, I won't dare to withdraw if I want to, because if I withdraw at that time, it is likely to be out of control and turn into a large-scale rout.

The Northern army had barely built a simple fortification out of tree trunks and dirt, and before they could settle down, a strange whistling sound came from the woods, as if the hunters were calling for hounds, mixed with the terrible and rough barks of the night owls—not one man, but dozens, hundreds, and soon thousands, all of which merged into a wave of eardrum-stirring sounds, and with countless gray figures, poured out of the dense forest.

The soldiers of the Xuan Army and the recruits of the Twentieth Army had never heard this kind of terrifying whistling, it was not at all like the sound that a living person could make, it was like countless ghosts, crawling out of the ground from the depths of hell, waving their teeth and claws, and coming from the sky and the ground.

The soldiers were visibly agitated, looking at each other in panic, and if someone could not hold on at this time and turned around and fled, it was very likely to trigger a chain reaction, and the consequences would be unimaginable!

Wu Jianying saw that something was wrong, drew his command knife, jumped on the low fortifications, stood proudly, slashed at the southern army, and shouted: "Fire!" ”

This action of the colonel greatly encouraged the soldiers of the Northern Army, and the first soldier immediately pulled the trigger, and soon the gunfire became a dense rain, and swept towards the charging Southern army.

One by one, the gray figures fell, but the terrifying howls were endless, getting closer and closer.

The sound of gunfire shook the eardrums, and the soldiers of the Northern Army could no longer care about the strange screams of the Southern Army, loaded their ammunition, closed the trigger guard, shot, and shot again.

From beginning to end, Wu Jianying stood on the fortifications, roaring loudly, countless bullets flew past him, and any one of them was a little off, and he could be knocked down.

The firepower superiority of the Northern Army finally exerted its might, and more and more Southern soldiers fell, and the Southern soldiers who rushed to the front fell more than ten meters away from the Northern Army fortifications, but the feet of the Southern Army could no longer step on the remaining few steps.

The Southern Army finally retreated, and countless corpses were left in this small open field.

Bai Qiwen ran to Wu Jianying and said loudly: "Old Wu, the enemy has been repulsed, come down quickly!" ”

Wu Jianying smiled miserably and fell down.

Bai Qiwen was shocked, stepped forward to support him, and put Wu Jianying flat on the ground, seeing that his lower body was already blood-red, he was so anxious that he turned his head and shouted: "Call the military doctor!" ”

The military doctor rushed and took off Wu Jianying's boots first-he poured a whole half of the boot's blood out!

Cut open pants and clothes, covered in blood, and wounds everywhere!

Wu Jianying was already in a coma, and for a while he couldn't tell which fatal wound it was, and after the military doctor did a simple treatment, Bai Qiwen ordered him to be rushed to the field hospital.

When Guan Zhuofan rushed to the field hospital, the doctor had already completed the operation on Wu Jianying. The doctor reported that Colonel Wu had suffered a total of 17 wounds all over his body, but fortunately important organs and major arteries were not hit, but he had lost too much blood and had fallen into a deep coma.

*(To be continued......)