Chapter 177: Proud Zheng Sen
Seeing that his two squads were suppressed by the Qin army on the hillside and could not move, Zheng Sen also panicked in his heart.
Speaking of which, although his heart is higher than the sky, he wants to compare with Jiang Chuan. In the process of training this unit, he also learned a lot of command things from British instructors.
However, on paper, it is finally shallow, and experience and courage are accumulated in actual combat. He's just the beginning of becoming a calm commander.
But Zheng Sen is not an ordinary person.
He tried to calm himself down, and after a closer look, he noticed that the mountain on the right was a little higher than the peak on the left.
Moreover, he also found that although the enemy on the top of the mountain now has the upper hand, the firepower is not too dense, so he judged that the number of enemies on the top of the mountain will not be too much, at most it will be on the same level as his side.
"The third team rushed up and helped the second team occupy the high ground on the right." Zheng Sen pulled out his command knife and ordered sharply.
His intentions were obvious, he intended to occupy the high ground on the right first, and then take control of the high ground on the left first.
Soon, the third team, as a mobile team, rushed up the hill on the right with guns in hand.
The Zheng family's army, which was suppressed by the Qin army, also began to wake up when they saw that reinforcements were coming.
Although they were caught off guard by the Qin army at first, after all, they were also elite guards trained by Zheng Sen himself, and after the courage echoed, they also began to fight back towards the Qin army on the top of the mountain.
Although the Qin army had a terrain advantage, when Zheng Sen's third team joined in, this advantage began to be slowly offset by the numerical advantage of the Zheng family's army.
Bullets flew overhead, and the two sides began to come and go.
Although the initiative on the battlefield was still in the hands of the Qin army, the Zheng family army gradually stabilized its position.
The battle began to become fierce, and casualties began to appear on the Qin army's side.
However, after all, the reconnaissance squadron belongs to the elite units of the Second Army, and the soldiers who can be selected into the reconnaissance squadron are all outstanding.
Moreover, in terms of combat experience, all members of the Second Army participated in the battle to exterminate the Japanese pirates on the sea, and they also followed all the way from the north to the south of the Yangtze River.
What's more, they fought against the British.
Although the British suffered greater casualties in that battle, the Qin army regarded it as a great shame and waited for revenge from the British.
Therefore, in terms of combat experience and battlefield mentality, Zheng Jiajun cannot be compared at all.
Although Zheng Jiajun seems to have recovered a little disadvantage, it is also limited.
Relying on the terrain advantage and accurate shooting, the Qin army still effectively controlled the initiative on the battlefield. Although Zheng Jiajun kept shouting, he did not make much progress.
Zheng Sen looked at it with a clairvoyant mirror for a while, and cut off a small tree beside him with a sharp knife.
This is his battlefield debut, and he can't afford to accept defeat so easily.
"Go, let the main force behind speed up, if you can't catch up before noon, military law will be engaged." Zheng Sen gritted his teeth and said coldly.
Although the cronies around him were very tired, the major general did not dare to disobey when he spoke, so he could only turn around and get back on his horse and rush back.
"The enemy looks like they're going to rescue them." The captain of the Qin Army's reconnaissance squadron saw this scene from the telescope and said hesitantly.
"Captain, the weapons in the hands of these people look similar to the muskets in the hands of the pirates, and they seem to have been bought from the British." The second lieutenant captain of the first detachment looked at the Zheng family army who was ping pong and firing his gun towards the top of the mountain.
"It's not just the British who have weapons, these guys look like they've been trained by the British. You can see their tactical moves, just like the British we met last time. ”
That's how the students taught by the British. You look at them, they look at the excitement, but they don't know where the bullets are flying, and a lot of guys just shoot indiscriminately, and they don't aim much. ”
The captain of the second lieutenant squad looked at Zheng Jiajun below and shook his head and said disdainfully.
"Captain, these guys can be solved with just one charge and a few grenades." When the second lieutenant finished speaking, he began to ask for battle.
"It's not difficult to clean them up, but you forgot the commander's order, this time we are going to hurt the Zheng family and make them completely honest. So don't worry, when their main force arrives, let's have a good time with them. Pass the order, let the brothers take it easy, don't shoot too accurately, be careful to scare the fish away. ”
The squadron leader put down the binoculars and said with a relaxed expression.
For the enemy in front of them, the reconnaissance squadron did not take it too seriously at all, after all, the number of casualties now was not even more than one of their exercises.
The lieutenant's trumpeter blew the trumpet and passed the lieutenant's order.
The soldiers of the reconnaissance squadron understood what this meant when they heard the horn, so they began to deliberately release water to Zheng Jiajun.
Zheng Sen outside the canyon naturally heard the horn, but he definitely didn't know what it meant.
However, he was surprised to find that after the trumpet sounded, the situation of the battlefield began to turn in his favor.
The immobile team, which had been suppressed by the Qin army's accurate marksmanship, was able to begin to move slowly, and it sounded like the Qin army's gunfire was a little sparse.
Zheng Sen listened carefully for a while, and found that this was indeed the case, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
It seems that the Qin army is running low on ammunition, and they must be trying to advance lightly to seize the mountain, so they are running out of ammunition. At the beginning, the shooting was too intensive, and a lot of ammunition was wasted, and now this situation is returning.
Even, even the horn just now, Zheng Sen automatically made up his brain that it was a signal from the enemy commander asking for ammunition conservation.
The more Zheng Sen thought about it, the more certain his judgment became, and he stood on a high place and waved his command knife and shouted: "Rush! Rush up! The enemy is running out of bullets, behead one person, and reward twenty taels of silver! ”
Zheng Sen was upwind, and his voice was clearly heard by the Zheng soldiers at the downwind through the wind, and one by one they suddenly screamed as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and began to charge to the top of the mountain with their guns, charging while releasing their guns.
Zheng Sen's words, the reconnaissance squadron naturally heard them clearly.
The lieutenant captain and the second lieutenant squad leader looked at each other and laughed.
"This kid is really good. It's all leisurely, and then play when it's closer. The lieutenant shouted his last words to the soldiers next to him.
The Qin army seemed to be really running out of bullets, and the gunfire was getting thinner and thinner, which made the soldiers of the Zheng family army trust the judgment of their major general even more, and they rushed up with all their strength.
Seeing that the soldiers of the Zheng family army who rushed to the front were less than ten meters away from the nearest Qin army position on the top of the mountain, the Qin army's counterattack was still so weak, and the Zheng family army soldiers were even more excited, and they all rushed forward desperately, wanting to grab the first credit.
Zheng Sen at the foot of the mountain saw this scene from the telescope, and his original heart was also relaxed.
"It almost fell short. Still, the victory is mine. ”