Andrei and the regimental headquarters were stationed in Guancun. Ｘ

The flames caused by the grenades have been extinguished, and black smoke is still rising in some parts of the village.

The 9th Regiment escorted the prisoners to clean up the battlefield and collect guns, armor, and weapons discarded by the Green Battalion.

The bird guns are propped up against the wall, and all kinds of miscellaneous cannons are placed on the ground, and after a simple wipe, the appearance is not bad.

The two captives carried a corpse and walked out of the village, but Andrei stopped them, and the captives put down the corpse and hurriedly knelt down.

Andrei turned the body over, mortally wounded in the back, and stabbed extremely deep with a bayonet.

Andrei waved his hand, motioned for the captives to continue working, turned his head and asked, "Have you counted the results of the battle?" ”

The adjutant opened the notebook, "Yes sir, we defeated the 3 battalions of the Tatar army on this front, the total number of enemy troops exceeded 1,000, 243 corpses were found, 317 prisoners were captured in the village and during the pursuit stage, and the rest of the enemy troops fled into the hills, and it was difficult to pursue them." ”

There was a green battalion that saw the opportunity relatively quickly and slipped away before the 9th regiment charged, but the general who led the team in Guancun and the battalion head he personally managed in the village only ran away when they were charged with bayonets.

The Green Battalion did not run directly to Haikang City, 10 miles to the east, and the fleeing Green Battalion discarded the military flags and armor and other things that got in the way and went directly into the mountains.

The complicated terrain helped the green battalion escape more people, and also made them completely scattered, and it was impossible to recover their combat effectiveness in a short time.

Andrei signs at the end of the battle report.

"Send it to the headquarters immediately, you go in person, and ask the logistics department for some reinforcements, we just knocked out too much ammunition."

"Yes, sir."

On the south bank of the Nandu River, on a high ground near Anlandu, Li Jianjie, the second eldest of the Chengdong family, and Li Yuantai, the third eldest of the Chengdong family, watched the whole battle in silence.

After the battle was over for a while, Li Jianjie put down the binoculars, "Third brother, it's too shocking, they almost killed more than a thousand green battalion soldiers without injury, and we will lose at least a few hundred people." ”

Li Yuantai was still staring at the battlefield, "Second brother, they have good guns and artillery, and the neatness of the team is not comparable to us." ”

"I have heard about the Nanyang New Army, the cost of training is 10 times that of ours, originally I thought it was exaggerated, no matter how powerful, 1 person on the battlefield can still use 10 people? Looking at it today, it's me who is wrong. ”

"Second brother, you fought side by side with Chen Shouxu in Guangzhou, and the relationship is not bad, right? Can you ask him for some guns? ”

"I'll definitely try it, but I don't know if people will give it or not, and people with good guns will definitely give priority to the battalion leaders who can fight."

Li Yuantai gritted his teeth, "He sent horses and armor to Li Laiheng." ”

"Third brother, this can't be blamed, who let Li Laiheng fight better than us?"

"Our brothers can't be bad, they are all from Shaanxi, can't compare to those new troops, can't they compare to Li Sanyuan?"

"That's right, third brother, fighting a war is the foundation of our brothers' lives, and leading the brothers to fight this battle can't let others look down on it."

"Second brother, you are watching the brothers here, I'll go and see when the bridge will be built."

"Go ahead, be polite to people, that bridge engineer is not even easy for me to look at."

"Yes."

Li Yuantai left the highlands.

At the foot of the mountain, there are 2,500 Ming army hand pillar weapons, sitting on the ground.

The Ming army rarely had helmets or hats, and most of them wrapped their heads with cloth towels, and the colors were not uniform.

This Ming army included Li Jianjie's 1,500 Qinzhou infantry, 500 Tusi soldiers from Zuojiang Dao, and 700 soldiers from various places on the land. Li Yuanyin recruited many stragglers from other towns in Qinzhou, and even many of them were soldiers from the Western Battalion, as long as they were properly organized, the combat effectiveness of these veterans who had fought against the Tatars for more than ten years was not bad.

As the second echelon, Li Jianjie's Ming army did not take a boat, waiting for the pontoon bridge to be built before crossing the river.

The small river more than 100 meters wide during the dry season is not difficult for the bridge engineers who are responsible for building the bridge, and the Ming army belongs to the main battle, and it is also very convenient to collect bridge building equipment. With the help of the people, the pontoon bridge stretched to the opposite bank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At 1 p.m., the pontoon bridge was built.

Li Yuantai led 2,000 Ming troops across the river, overtook the 9th regiment suspended in Guancun, and entered the mountains.

Most of the troops from Qinzhou and Zuojiangdao were Tusi soldiers who were accustomed to fighting in complex terrain. The equipment of these Tusi soldiers was originally very poor, and Andre gave them all the green battalion weapons captured in the first battle of Guancun, which can also be called complete armor, no less than the green battalion soldiers, and the morale of the Tusi soldiers jumped two steps.

Li Jianjie commanded the remaining Ming army to move artillery and build three civil artillery forts on both sides of Anlandu and Guancun to control this battlefield.

The 9th Regiment remained in Guancun with the 1st Battalion, and the 2nd Battalion and the 1st Battalion of the Chaser Company carried howitzers into the hills to support the Ming army.

In the next two days, the coalition infantry artillery cooperated to repel three green battalion attacks and firmly hold the Guancun bridgehead.

With the cover of the position, the 9th regiment fired flintlock guns too freely. Andrei canceled the salvo and opened the battle line to cover the 1-kilometer long front from Guancun to the ferry, and carried out aimed free fire with stragglers.

1 battalion is the firepower that in the eyes of the green battalion, it takes a large town to fight.

The solid bullets fired from the 12 cannons made Geng Fandu, who led the team, very helpless to win the city, so he had to set up a camp east of Guancun to confront the coalition army.

……

For 3 consecutive days, Shou Xian received a battle report from Guancun at the headquarters.

Orderly, with some distress, handed the battle report to Langemann.

"So far, Andrei has done a pretty good job, it's just that the ammunition consumption is more than we thought."

"Compared to the results, ammunition is not an issue."

"Carl, let's see, whether it's our drill code that is wrong, or the 9th regiment has hit the big luck."

Carl Langemann had just arrived at the front with a 70-member field observation group, all of whom were officers, to experience the actual battle.

Langemann hurriedly finished browsing and said with a smile, "I have also encountered several times in the war of conquest of the peninsula that troops spontaneously used combat methods that were beyond the scope of the discipline. In my previous experience, the army cannot do without such troops as the 9th Regiment, but it cannot be too many. ”

"You mean we stick to the codex?"

"Yes, unless there's a lot of data to feed back the mistakes in the code, we're most trustworthy about the experience we have gained in high-intensity training."

Shou Xuan sighed, "It's really too late to change now." ”

"Your Excellency, I think you're too perfectionist."

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"No army code covers all tactics, at least so far. For most troops, the important thing is not innovation, but not to make mistakes. The 9th regiment has its own ideas, and the results are also very good in combination with actual combat, and we should not oppose this, but it is not appropriate to advocate it for the time being. ”

"My concern is that maybe we can do better."

"You're starting to have a lot of gains, your Excellency, you're not like that in naval battles."

Shou Orderly looked up, "You're saying I'm not confident enough?" ”

"To be precise, military convictions, our army has not yet formed military convictions. Successful military experience will accumulate into military beliefs, which will become the basic presuppositions of future wars, and then rise to the philosophy of war. Our army is still too little experience, and your Excellency, this is not your problem alone, so I must let the officers come to the front to experience the actual battle. ”

"Please continue."

"Your Excellency, it seems to me that teaching a soldier to run, lie down, shoot, the details of how to find bunker is secondary, because in different terrains, experienced troops will have their own choices. It is more important to teach soldiers not to lose their composure and composure on the battlefield, and to fight spontaneously, even without the command of an officer, rather than letting unnecessary fear take hold of them. Soldiers should be taught to always stay close to their comrades, to cover each other from both sides, to tighten their formation rather than turn and run away when faced with a cavalry onslaught, and to face the enemy's sword with their chest rather than their back. These principles should be upheld, regardless of the weapon used. ”

"Makes sense!"

"Sir, we all have experience in Tatar warfare, you should be more relaxed, your mental state will be contagious to the officers."

Shou Xuan smiled bitterly, "It seems that I often say this to others. ”

Carl Langemann opened a bottle of golden spirits, "Yes, sir. I think we should have a drink now, and today the fighting in the hilly areas shows that the resistance of the Tatars has become fiercer. This means that we have succeeded in mobilizing Geng Jimao, and he will definitely send more troops to the Western Front. ”

"We gave Geng Jimao three days to mobilize our troops. With the cover of the hills, we put in two companies of hunters with good marksmanship, and the Tatars not only could not figure out how many troops we had, but also had to send several times the number of troops to hold back the Ming army. ”

"Your Excellency, I must say that those tribal soldiers and Han Chinese mountain people are very good mountain infantry, they are not tall in stature, but they are agile, and they walk like a fly in the rugged mountain roads. If we can, we should also recruit some people to supplement the Chasseur troops. ”

Rifled guns gave the mountain people more fighting power than ever before, and Langemann's suggestion made sense, and there were actually plenty of troops in this area.

Shou Xuan raised his glass, "Yes, after this battle, we will recruit 6 chasseur companies and put them in Jonesy for training. ”

"Your Excellency, have you ever thought that we would throw the main forces directly into the Western Front, drive along the gap, and detour to Geng Jimao's line of communication from the left flank? Those hills are not very difficult to cross. ”

"I thought about it, but I think that would add a lot of variables to the battle. The pace of the march in the hilly areas was slow, and Geng Jimao could even force his way across the Nandu River, which in turn threatened our lines of communication. The crux of the battlefield should always be the seaside, a plain that is convenient for the mobility of troops. If we divide our forces, we may find it difficult to achieve a breakthrough in both directions. ”

"Alas, if there are a whole 2 brigades, we can try. All the way to the hammer, all the way to the anvil, crush them. ”

"You can try it in the future, but it is better to be cautious in the first battle, concentrate your forces as much as possible, and make the battle easier rather than more complicated."

"Yes, then we should be transferred back to the 9th Regiment tonight."

"That's right."

Orderly return to position and issue orders.

Andrei's 9th Regiment left behind 4 howitzers and a company of chasseurs, and the rest of the troops disengaged after sunset, completed their assembly before 10 o'clock tonight, and retreated to Nandu Henan,