One of the three ancient ferries in the middle reaches of the Yellow River - near the Dayang Bridge at the westernmost Maojindu,

The Bozhou thief envoy who was covered with sweat and the smell of blood, and Fang La, who was the prisoner of the right wing of the Huaidong Guarding Army, looked at it from afar with a long mirror, and the vague outline of the bridge crossing at the mouth of the river and on the water in the distance showed no signs of being occupied and fortified, and a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground completely;

But he didn't dare to stop urging, those soldiers who also looked covered in dust and tiredness; Check your weapons on the spot and straighten out your formation, and be prepared to meet the incoming enemy immediately.

This time, no matter what his reasons and hardships were, it was always a felony that could not escape the blame for missing the time in the wartime, but he was finally in a hurry, giving him a chance to redeem and remedy.

This is the first time he has taken on such a big task independently on the battlefield, and he is a little unlucky to have this kind of accident and situation. Who knew that such a lightly armed hundred-mile rapid march would actually run head-on into a sneak attack division infiltrated by the enemy.

The people on both sides of the hurried road, and even the outposts on the periphery had just issued a sentry, and they were caught off guard in the narrow and winding corner of the valley road, with a distance less than dozens of paces wide.

Suddenly, in the unknown valley road formed by this mountain and Sancai Mountain, it broke out into a fierce bloody battle in the style of a narrow road meeting the brave and winning.

In the case of unfavorable terrain, after they had slightly repelled the enemy's first hand and ambushed hundreds of corpses, Fang La, with many years of experience in the old army, made a quick decision, using the mules and horses on their feet and the camel belts on their backs as cover and mobile fortifications.

By this time, the first bombardiers who remained in the rear had hastily assembled, and under the cover of the white soldiers equipped with spurs and jerk spears on both sides of the gorge, an inverted figure-of-eight counterattack array was not very regular.

Then, as soon as the enemy vanguard who was also chasing after appeared, they were thrown head-on by the uneven explosive bombs that swept over the heads of the friendly troops, and the bombers were scattered on their backs and scattered into a chaotic formation.

Then more gunners have also completed the horizontal formation in the rear formation, and when the regrouped enemy is once again vigorously raising cards and shields to kill the generals, they will be greeted by an increasingly dense and neat rain of projectiles.

Suddenly, within this gorge dozens of paces wide and rocky concave and convex, the sound of guns was loud and the blood flowed like a river and the corpses were like a mountain, and because the twists and turns of the mountain gorge blocked the vision of the rear and affected the judgment of the rear team, so that they continued to invest and rush over with incomparable blood and bravery, and then they were knocked down and killed by the enemy soldiers, and soon the ground was raised too high to form a temporary blood-colored low slope.

And when the mountain cannon loaded on horseback with a light short barrel was also unloaded and assembled and put into use on the spot, the roar of the burst of artillery that pierced through the earth-shattering battle also shredded and shattered the last trace of luck and the fighting spirit of the opposing enemy.

Then, with a volley of short spears and spurs, he easily crossed the low slope formed by the corpses, and overwhelmed the enemy warriors who tried to crouch on the edge of the winding gorge, drowning them in the smoke and rubble of the projectiles;

Then, the enemy showed a certain decline and fatigue, and the disadvantages and disadvantages that had fallen into after the gap was broken and spread were further expanded and could no longer be recovered.

At this moment, they were like a flock of sheep that had been scattered, although there were still soldiers with blood and courage, who were hidden in groups of rocks and grass on the Huai army's advance route, waiting for the Huai army to approach slowly in formation, and roaring and roaring loudly to rush out;

Then they were poked and slain on the spot by the erect spikes, or they were made into blood gourds and meat sieves by the oncoming rain of bullets; And like the mantis arm as a car, it did not have much effect of blocking and delaying, breaking the formation and harassing the enemy.

And most of the enemy, who had gradually fled and tried to gather together again and again to regroup, were also pushed along the wide and narrow gorge and pushed out in a series of spears in turn, weakening and re-defeating them again and again.

Even in the end, it was as if the scattered remnants of the enemy had been struck by a continuous series of blows, which had worn out the morale and sanity of the last insistence; Some of them, led by a few generals, turned back and threw suicide into the rain of bullets and thorns; The rest of the mountain range, along the gorge, fled everywhere until they were captured with all their might, or they were frightened and searched out of their hiding places and killed on the spot.

Fang La also knew from this that the war with firearms could be fought in such an easy way.

There is no need for repeated command and on-the-spot deployment, as long as there are enough daily training methods to go back and forth to the point of mechanical numbness, and the most basic battle array changes can be coordinated, with a sufficient number of firearms to build up the lethality and power, to dominate the evolution and development trend of a battle; and even fight a sudden encounter and outbreak in a relatively simple and hassle-free way.

As the commander-in-chief, he only needs to show enough courage and boldness, stand in the forefront with his subordinates to press the formation, and supplement and respond to various unexpected situations.

Thus, after a short period of reorganization and division of his army, he was able to travel day and night to his final destination at the cost of one-third of his pack horses and animals, giving up even the most basic booty and capture.

This place is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, adjacent to Luodu Xiguan - the Dayang Bridge in the territory of Mianchi, in fact, it originated from the Tang Zhenguan 11th year, in the Maojinkou Ancient Pass built a large floating beam crossing; On the big river with a joint boat, it is 76 zhang long and 2 zhang wide, and it is also the thoroughfare of the second largest part of Heyang Bridge in scale.

The remnants of the Northern Dynasty that fled west at the beginning were caused by crossing the river from here and fleeing into the land of Shaanzhou on the other side of the river, and then set fire to the bridge deck that had been cut off and the pursuing soldiers. Later, after the Northern Expeditionary Army garrisoned Duqian Road in Henan, it only divided its troops into Mianchi Guancheng, but did not have enough resources and manpower to rebuild the bridge deck.

In addition, there are three passes of Heyang Bridge dozens of miles downstream as a cross-river thoroughfare, so this section of the ferry has been abandoned and abandoned for a long time, and only a small group of soldiers is left to build a sentry tower and beacon here as a long-term monitoring and sentry.

It's just that it is obvious that the turmoil in the capital has also spread here, and has given the Western army from the other side an opportunity to take advantage of; In the past few days, a barely passable bridge deck was repaired, and a partial division of at least three or four thousand people was secretly crossed.

Therefore, among the low wooden sentry towers on the south bank of the bridge, there are still a number of enemy soldiers left behind;

It's just that when they saw the reaction of Fang La's soldiers and horses, they were really a little unbearable; Unexpectedly, the gate was opened with a bang and poured out, and without looking back, he ran onto the Dayang Bridge and fled towards the north without his life, leaving only a wide-eyed and stunned expression.

Then, it was not until the Fang La's department reoccupied the small sentry tower, dug the earth as a moat around it, and set up a temporary camp to start feeding on the spot, that they saw the smoke and dust of the army's movement on the opposite bank and the flying and rolling banners.

Then one of the men and horses in bright armor trotted along the broken and potholed bridge;

Then, the Huai army gunners who were lying in ambush behind the half-ring fan position were killed by the fierce gunshots, and they were trapped in a small area outside the bridgehead.

And this time, Fang La even quite cautiously and insidiously in the first round of ambushes, only four hundred muskets and two hundred white soldiers were thrown in, so as to prevent these western troops crossing the bridge from protruding; Then, as expected, in the sound of the other party's urgent call for help, more support personnel on the other side were attracted;

Then, Fang La also added batches of firepower in his hands to continuously weaken and eliminate these enemy positions that could only be added through a limited bridge deck; But it left them enough room and interlude to survive but not be able to fight back'

even intermittently weakened local firepower and let go of the sporadic fish that slipped through the net to come forward for hand-to-hand combat, so that they could stand out with one blow and with more strength, and constantly increase their forces to do that refueling move;

In the end, when the fifth and sixth waves of the western army crossing the river were also drowned in the smoke and blood of the cannons, most of the enemy troops on the opposite bank finally woke up and alerted, and completely gave up in the rapid and continuous sound of the Ming Jin retreat, and the remnants of the soldiers who were trapped in front of the bridgehead crossing,

At this time, the south bank where the Dayang Bridgehead was located was already covered with piles of corpses and the blood color of the entire river beach.

Although the sound of the roaring and roaring of the western army on the other side was still faintly heard by the wind; However, since entering the customs, the various departments of the Western Army, in order to compete for merit and capture more convictions, have gone their own way and lack the consequences of cohesion, which is finally reflected at this moment.

And the Huai Army's strategy of blocking doors and locks in this round of borrowing the road is urgent, and it has once again announced that it has achieved initial success with the addition of this westernmost link; At least in the short term, those soldiers and civilians who have been abandoned in the capital can also usher in a respite from heresy.