The distance of about 200 kilometers from the town of Lag to Tiecheng Mountain, the road is not only mostly a small road in the mountains, but also winding and potholes, and according to the usual marching speed, it takes three or four days to arrive. However, Hu Zhen led his troops to march urgently, and walked more than 100 kilometers in one day.

After a day-and-a-half-long journey, they were confronted by the stragglers of the Jacques.

These Jacques stragglers were sent by Dagaan to serve as guard scouts, and they hurriedly retreated after making contact with the Chinese army's firepower.

The purpose of this company commanded by Hu Zhen was to quickly rush to the vicinity of Tiecheng Mountain, and did not want to entangle with individual Jacques troops on the road, as long as the other party was defeated, they continued to hurry.

But as they got closer to Tiecheng Mountain, they encountered more and more Jacques troops.

The Chinese Army's army armament, in this era, can be said to be the world's first, if it is said to be the second in the world, absolutely no one dares to say first. Not to mention the Yak army on the opposite side, an army in an almost primitive tribal state, even if the armies of the European powers came, they could not take advantage of it.

More than 150 companies led by Hu Zhen have been reinforced with light machine guns, mortars, and recoilless guns, and their combat effectiveness is at least equal to that of thousands of Jacques troops.

Facing the head-on Jacques army, Hu Zhen commanded everyone to rush up unceremoniously and attack.

Under the furious firepower, the Yak army scattered and rushed in small groups just to take a look, and then was beaten by the Huaxia army and fled.

By the time it got dark, the company commanded by Hu Zhen had fought seven encounters in succession, but it had only traveled less than 15 kilometers in the afternoon, and it was still at least 30 kilometers away from Tiecheng Mountain.

After dark, the Jacques retreated.

Zhang Guobing, the deputy commander of the Huaxia Army, was originally the deputy head of the army guarding the town of Lager, a graduate of the German ** school, usually cautious and calm, in order to ensure Hu Zhen's safety, the generals at all levels unanimously asked him to be sent to accompany Hu Zhen on the expedition, at this time he ran to Hu Zhen for instructions: "Sir, it's dark, should we stop and rest?" ”

Hu Zhen said: "No, we can't stop now, we have to continue to move forward, straight into Tiecheng Mountain!" ”

Zhang Guobing was very worried about Hu Zhen's safety, and said worriedly: "This is too risky!" Do you stop and send telegrams to the other troops, concentrate more troops, and then move on? ”

Hu Zhen waved his hand firmly: "Now all the troops are rushing towards Tiecheng Mountain, we can't stop, even if we stop to send a telegram, they are all on the way to the rush, how can we telegraph to contact them?" ”

"But you ......"

"You're worried about my safety, aren't you? Anyone who is familiar with the history of European warfare knows how Napoleon failed to divide his troops, but since we have wireless telegraphy, which is the world's first, this has made the mode of war have changed dramatically. Well, no more, let the warriors eat some dry food and carry out the order to move on! ”

Zhang Guobing saw that he couldn't convince Hu Zhen, so he had to put his legs together and salute Hu Zhen: "Yes, resolutely carry out the order!" ”

After eating the dry rations they had brought, the warriors groped their way through the night.

Hu Zhen was prepared for night operations, in addition to walking with torches, he had already asked the soldiers to bring a white towel and rope, and at this moment he ordered to take out the white towel and tie it around his waist, so that the people who followed behind could see it, and the rope was connected for everyone to grasp and follow the rope.

But in any case, the march at night was not as fast as during the day, and on the way, there were some Jacques lying asleep on the side of the road.

Hu Zhen was not polite to him, and ordered to fight all the way.

No matter how these scattered Jacques troops fought during the day, they were no match for the Huaxia army, and at night, when they saw the Huaxia army dispatched overnight, they retreated with one blow.

In the dark, I walked slowly, and at dawn, I didn't know how far I had gone.

Hu Zhen saw that the soldiers were already very tired after rushing continuously, so he ordered to find a high ground, and after arranging the sentry, everyone rested on the spot.

Everyone found a place at random, so that they could lie down and fall asleep.

Hu Zhen was also very tired, but he could not rest, but ordered two radio stations to be set up and send out a message to contact the troops.

Sure enough, as Hu Zhen expected, at this time, all the troops rushing to the aid of Tiecheng Mountain were on the way to the march, and most of them did not set up a radio station, and the two radio stations called for more than half an hour, and only one radio station was contacted, but it was not rushed to help, but the headquarters radio station left behind in Lag Town, and it was constantly trying to contact the troops marching to Tiecheng Mountain.

Hu Zhen ordered the radio personnel to take turns to rest, leaving people to continue calling, hoping to contact other troops.

But after another period of time, no troops were contacted, and under Zhang Guobing's urging and reminder, Hu Zhen had to find a place to lie down and rest for a while.

But it didn't take long for Hu Zhen to hear a gunshot in the distance, and hurriedly touched the light machine gun next to him and jumped. I saw that the sky was beginning to light at this time, and the place where the guns were fired was far away from here, and after a while, there were continuous shouts and gunshots in that direction.

Zhang Guobing walked over with a telescope and said to Hu Zhen: "Sir, the direction that made the big movement is Tiecheng Mountain, and now the Jacques army is besieging Tiecheng Mountain!" ”

"How far is it from here to Tiecheng Mountain?"

"Our location here is only about 14 or 5 kilometers away from Tiecheng Mountain. Now what do we do? "Zhang Guobing's distance measurement course in the military academy has a very solid foundation, and he has long estimated the approximate distance based on the sound of guns.

"Very good, if we rush out to fight, the pressure on Tiecheng Mountain will be much less! Do it! ”

However, before Hu Zhen's words fell, a sentry outside came to report: "Report, we found that a large number of Jacques troops are approaching our position!" ”

Hu Zhen sneered and said: "This is great, since someone else is going to send us to death, we don't have to move our position!" All of them, immediately build temporary fortifications on the spot and prepare for battle! ”

It turned out that the spies of the Jacques Army had been eyeing this Huaxia army that had broken in overnight at night, but because it was dark and the situation was not clear, they did not dare to attack, and when the sky gradually brightened, they found that this Huaxia army had only more than 100 people, and immediately dispatched five or six hundred people to rush over.

These five or six hundred Jacques troops had never participated in the battle of Lag Town, and they didn't know how powerful the Huaxia army was, so they thought about encircling and annihilating them in one fell swoop.

Because Hu Zhen personally led the team, in order to ensure safety, officers at all levels stationed in Lage Town stuffed veterans who had already enlisted from Qingyan Village into this company. Each veteran has been trained in many actual battles, and he is very calm in the face of the charge of the superior enemy.

The Jacques army came quickly, and everyone didn't have time to dig trenches to build positions, so they found some trees, stones, and ditches on the spot as concealment, and pointed the muzzles of the black hole at the Jacques army, just waiting for Hu Zhen to give the order to shoot.