After the occupation of Suining, Qin Mintang, the governor of Pengzhou, was transferred to the state affairs of Tongchuan Prefecture, and Yang Ri was promoted to the magistrate of Pengxi County.

After leaving Jing Keqin's 6th Regiment and Wang Zhiyao's 8th Battalion to garrison Suining County to ensure the safety of the rear, Yang Lin led the army to Shehong County, which was hundreds of miles away.

Zhang Dingguo confirmed the news of the loss of Shehong County at noon the next day, and after receiving the news, the whole person sat in the hall for a long time and couldn't say anything.

Although the rebels had no experience in defending the city, the walls of Suining City were strong, and with heavy defense, they could defend it for ten days and half a month anyway.

As long as they hold for ten days and half a month, by then they will be able to defeat the other side and win the battle by attacking from the north and south.

Who would have thought that Suining City would be lost so easily.

Shehong County is close to the Fujiang River, and it is also a hundred miles away from Yu County, which is deliberately said to be in a dilemma.

March, the Volunteer Army has occupied Suining City, last year's Great Western Army was strong and did not break through Shunqing City, not to mention today's Volunteer Army?

Retirement? The troops and horses marched for more than ten days, and now everyone is exhausted, and the morale of the whole army is low.

In the evening, the scouts reported that the volunteers had left Suining City, and the army had entered the territory of Shehong.

Everyone talked about it, Zhang Dingguo originally had the intention to defend it, but the generals under him talked about it, and everyone had different opinions.

Looking at Zhang Xianzhong and his four righteous sons, they are all rare fierce warriors, but their defeat is, in the final analysis, defeat in one word, that is, the word "flow".

Before the climate became a climate, everyone wandered around the land of Qin and Jin, maneuvering with the officials and troops, and comprehensively implementing guerrilla tactics.

After becoming famous, although he occupied the famous capital of the country many times (Wuhan, Changsha, Qingqing, Guiyang, Kunming, Guilin), but seeing the formation of an official encirclement situation, or the unfavorable battle on the front line, he did not defuse the battlefield disadvantage by consuming the opponent's strength by defending the city, but by wandering to other regions, so as to make a comeback when the time comes.

Therefore, later generations commented on the two major leaders of the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and the failure was mainly in a stream, mainly in the absence of a base area, and to protect its base area.

In the previous life, the People's Liberation Army was different, whether it was the Soviets, the anti-Japanese base areas, or the liberated areas, they all built an unbreakable base area through rent and interest reduction, through the reconstruction of local political power, and through land reform.

If the situation is unfavorable, the base area will be defended (Lao Mao is not but the Yellow River, and the troops will be transferred to Yan'an to defend the war), and the reversal of the situation will focus on attacking, coupled with the fact that the Kuomintang did not straighten out the domestic contradictions after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, as well as the betrayal of the United States, so Lao Chiang fled to Taiwan.

Zhang Dingguo's heroic life, the main glory of his life was obtained by sports warfare, and now when he sees the volunteers approaching, the first thing to consider is not how to defend the city, but how to defeat the volunteers in front of him through field battles.

But now that the morale of the various units of the Great Western Army is low, the only way to defeat the other side at this time is probably by setting up an ambush or attacking halfway.

Zhang Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan personally led the army to attack, but since entering Shehong County, the volunteers suddenly slowed down their march, and set up fortifications and secret posts every night.

Although Zhang Dingguo sent soldiers and horses to attack, the volunteers had already taken precautions, not only dug a number of horse rejection pits outside the camp, but also surrounded the camp with wheelbarrows, rickshaws, and horse-drawn carriages to form a barrier.

In the past few days, there were casualties on both sides, but they could not stop the advance of the volunteers.

It took four days of hard work for the volunteers to approach Shehong County and set up camp five miles south of the city.

Yang Lin led more than ten people to stand on a hill to watch the military formation of the Great Western Army.

There are few cities in the city, and most of the 20,000 Western troops are stationed outside the city, and there are only a few soldiers and horses stationed in the city.

Although the military discipline of various departments is strict, and some places also set up wooden fence shields, they do not dig deep ditches and build solid villages like the volunteers.

More importantly, the Great Western Army had clear barriers, and the Huguang people, as well as the soldiers and horses of the guards, were mostly at the front to prevent the attack of the volunteers.

And Zhang Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's old battalion soldiers and horses were stationed in the city to turn the tide at the critical moment.

After seeing what was going on through the telescope, Yang Lin paid attention.

Early the next morning, the units got up for the third watch, ate on the fourth watch, and finished the formation on the fifth watch, and under the cover of artillery fire, the units launched an attack on the opposite side.

More than 20 large Franc cannons were lined up, and at the sound of an order, the arquebus was ignited, and the lead burst out of the barrel and scattered in the enemy camp in the distance.

With bursts of artillery fire, the Volunteers spread out on all fronts and began to attack on all fronts.

The first to invest was not the infantry regiments, but the Chen Huaixi naval army, which went against the current, and fought when the two armies faced each other.

He Dou, Wang Fuchen, and others led two Flying Tiger Battleship Brigades and five Sampan Boat Brigades into battle, and used the Franc machine guns on the ship to bombard the Great Western Army on the shore side from a distance.

Each Flying Tiger Battleship Brigade has a total of 3 Flying Tiger Battleships, each with 4 large Furlong guns and 4 No. 3 Furlong cannons.

Each sampan brigade had 10 sampans, each with 2 No. 3 Furlong guns.

The large Franc cannon has a range of 200 meters, and the solid shell is more than 600 meters, and the No. 3 Franc cannon has a range of more than 100 meters, and the solid shell is also more than 250 meters.

Now that the sampan boats have arrived on the shore to design, the Onishi Army, which is hundreds of meters close to the shore, was caught off guard and suffered a heavy blow.

At the same time as the naval army attacked, the shore infantry also sounded the horn of attack.

Yang Cheng's 1st Regiment was in the middle, as an arrow, the 3rd Regiment of Long Zhijiao and Yang Bingyi were on the left and right sides, and under the cover of artillery fire, they rushed out of the trench and killed the past.

After nearly three years of construction, the proportion of firearms in all field units has already exceeded 50 percent, and the escort regiment has even reached the ratio of all firearms.

Now facing the Great Western Army, which was hiding behind the fence and fence, the various musket brigades lined up in three rows, and everyone stepped on the steps and rushed towards the enemy position under the cover of the artillery fire of the battalion headquarters.

The small number of cold weapon companies is hidden behind them, waiting for a sudden attack at the critical moment, and pounce on the crowd to fight and solve the battle.

Seeing the arrival of the volunteers, the various units of the Great Western Army looked very chaotic, many of them were just ruffians and hooligans in the Huguang area, or local guards, everyone was just to support their families, just for a bite to eat, but they didn't expect the battlefield to be desperate.

Although there are many brave and ruthless people, in recent years, the rebels have mostly restrained everyone from the point of discipline rather than hard tactical training.

In the face of the volunteer soldiers and horses who lined up in a row and rushed with arrogance, some were happy to see the hunt, and some bent their bows and arrows from afar in order to expel the timidity in their hearts.

As Qi Jiguang said in "Records of Military Training", bows and crossbows are divided into hard bows and heavy arrows, soft bows and light arrows, heavy arrows are of great quality and great lethality, but the range is short, while soft bows and light arrows are erratic, and they shoot far but not accurately. (Chinese like to shoot soft bows and light arrows)

In the face of the volunteers, although some brave warriors shot light arrows, their bows and arrows were flowing and did not have a crosshair.

Due to the staggering of hot and cold weapons, and the physical fighting in the army, the soldiers of the volunteer army mostly wear simple armor to protect their heads, chests and abdomen, and even if they are shot by these soft bows on the battlefield, the lethality is quite limited

Starting from 200 meters, everyone braved light arrows and lead to move forward, so that about 100 meters suddenly stopped.

Just when everyone was puzzled, they saw several Franc cannons launched in the army, and a swarm of rockets was fired at the target behind the gate wood from a distance.

As mentioned earlier, although the lethality of the Fran cannon and a swarm of rockets is limited, the killing area is very large, and the deterrent effect on the battlefield is very great.

Everyone didn't expect that such a scene would cause chaos on the entire battlefield.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the grenadiers of the various brigades rushed out of their formations one after another, and everyone rushed to a distance of thirty meters in front of the zhamu, and under the cover of the shield, threw the ignited sky-shaking thunder behind the zhamu.

As a traverser, of course, he knew that the Earthquake Thunder was the predecessor of the grenade, and in order to exert the power of the Earthquake Thunder, each squadron set up three grenadier teams in groups of three.

In order to guard against the cold arrows behind the gatewood, one person is now holding a rattan card to cover, and the other two are throwing the ignited earth-shattering thunder into the enemy formation.

The explosions came one after another, and the Onishi Army in the formation was in chaos, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the various musket teams rushed over and fired at the platoon of guns fifty meters away from the Zha Mu Formation.

The gunfire came and went, and people around them kept falling, and those homeless people and guards who had no intention of fighting, but now seeing that the battlefield was unfavorable, they fled backwards regardless of the coercion of the supervising team behind.

If it is said that the ratio of firearms in the battalion guarded by the volunteers last year was 50 percent, now the firearms of each battalion of the volunteers have reached 50 percent, and the tactics of the campaign have become more mature after this year.

Suddenly, in the face of so many birds shooting in turn, the departments with slightly less willpower collapsed, and some of the ones with a slightly stronger fighting spirit were still holding on, but they were often unsustainable with the passage of time.

At the same time as the firearms were fired, the various killer brigades came out from both sides, and everyone broke under the fence, some even cut the fence, and some even climbed over the wall.

The first to collapse was the Great Western Army that landed on the shore, and the dragon frame led the troops to rush and kill, taking the lead in breaking through the enemy formation, and the other divisions also entered the enemy formation within half an hour.

The two sides fought together, the morale of the Onishi Army was low, and the whole team surrendered.

I didn't expect such a situation, although I was well-informed, but I was also very surprised.