It started to snow in the evening, and it hasn't stopped. The snowflakes float silently, you can't see it, you can't touch it, you can only feel the slightest coolness when it falls on your face.

Snow has a tendency to seem to get bigger and bigger.

The Taishan Blocking Battle of the Fourth Brigade of the Beihai Volunteer Army has been going on for two days.

The enemy troops on the opposite side came from Songshan Fort and Ningyuan.

At the beginning, the subordinate armies of the previous dynasty were poorly equipped and had poor combat effectiveness.

For Jia Qiang, the pressure is not too great.

However, the subsequent changes made him a little unexpected.

The first is that the number of people has increased significantly. The second is that the opponent's offensive intensity has suddenly increased.

Although they are still those people, they have some fierce strength that is not afraid of death, a group of people died in front, and those in the back rushed up immediately.

Jia Qiang knew that this must be the other party's pressure in advance, so he attacked so recklessly.

The opponent's tactic is a war of attrition. Take advantage of your own numbers and fight crowd tactics. Consume your own ammo and energy.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jia Qiang began to ask Jia Lian for help.

Jia Lian saw that what Jia Qiang said was serious, so he had to temporarily give up the plan to feint and attack Shengjing City, and led the rest of the troops to Taishan.

This decision turned out to be very correct.

Not long after Jia Lian led the 2nd and 3rd regiments to arrive, another large-scale attack by the enemy began.

This time the offensive was not only unprecedented in scale, but also changed people.

It turned out that the troops of the three feudal clans stationed at Shanhaiguan had arrived.

This group of people, both in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, is much stronger than the previous enemy army.

After capturing a prisoner, I learned that this time it was the hussar battalion under the command of King Dongping, with a total of more than 15,000 people.

The hussar battalion is the descendant of the king of Dongping, and it is one of the best in the entire sequence of the army of the three feudatories.

The vast majority of the hussar battalion were cavalry, and they set out from Yunnan and were unstoppable along the way, never meeting a decent opponent.

In almost every engagement, as long as a collective charge, in the face of a powerful impact, those former armies almost collapsed, and then the knights played freely, slashing and slashing to their heart's content.

Of course, they knew that the firearms of the North Sea people were powerful. Their son, Song Kuan, also repeatedly admonished them.

However, the power of the North Navy's firearms still exceeded their imagination. Cannons and machine guns, in particular, are their nightmares.

Throughout the day, the hussar battalion charged four times on a massive scale, and did not advance a single step except to drop more than 4,000 corpses.

It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and the two sides were in a state of truce for the time being.

In a house at the west end of Taishan Village, Jia Lian is convening a meeting.

Although the room was lit with oil lamps and the lights were not on, the windows and doors were still tightly covered with quilts to prevent the lights from leaking out.

The room was full, and almost all the officers above the company level were gathered here.

Everyone is eating, one meal at a time. Steamed buns, pork, cabbage vermicelli. There is a lot of meat in the dish, so the smell of meat in the house is overflowing.

It was the first and only meal of the day.

Jia Lian finished eating first and put down the bowl.

"This hussar battalion really has some skills, even we are not afraid."

"Second Master Lian, what can you do if you are not afraid, it's not that you want us to fight like dogs."

Ni Er said while eating, because he was chewing a piece of meat, his speech was a little slurred.

"He wants to pass us, it's just wishful thinking. If we let them pass, where will we have the face to go back to the North Sea? ”

Jia Zhi also followed.

"Yes, if we are defeated and go back in the future, the second aunt of Lian asked, wouldn't it be a shame for the second brother Lian."

This time it was Jia Yun who spoke.

"Hehe, Brother Yun, you don't have to be sloppy with me. Your second aunt didn't have the time to ask you these things. What disgraces me? Are you afraid of losing face with Xiaohong? ”

Jia Lian didn't save face for Jia Yun.

"Hehe, Second Uncle Lian, can't you save me some face?"

"If you want to save face, you earn it yourself. Now that Shengjing is on the side, it is estimated that it will not be calm, and Chief Min has been sitting there, which proves that it is more important than us. Therefore, we must fight this battle well. ”

Jia Lian said, paused for a moment, and looked at everyone.

"Now that people from all walks of life are here, our Fourth Brigade is the people of the Jia family, and the face of Chief Min. If everyone else fights well, but we don't fight well, we won't have the face to see Chief Min in the future, and when we return to Beihai, we won't have the face to see our ancestors. ”

"Second Uncle Lian, you don't need to say this, we all understand. I have an idea, though. ”

Jia Qiang, who had not spoken, spoke at this time.

"Brother Qiang can say what he has an idea, and everyone will discuss it together."

"I think the situation here is quite similar to the last time we fought the Tatars in South Windura. It was also night, and it was snowing ....... ”

"Brother Qiang, do you mean, let's burn his war horse and let his war horse flee in all directions?"

Jia Lian immediately understood Jia Qiang's train of thought.

"Second Uncle Lian, I'll see it. His horses fled, and the cavalry became infantry, and then we took his cavalry against his infantry and collected him as much as we could. ”

Jia Yun was the first to agree.

Although this plan was feasible, the Tatars were not on guard at that time, so the sneak attack was successful. Now that the hussar camp is on guard, we have to think about it. ”

"Second Uncle Lian, don't be afraid of him being vigilant. We can take advantage of the fire. ”

"Brother Qiang, your plan is ......."

"We can first disrupt their positions with artillery and machine guns, and then take advantage of the chaos to burn their horses with flamethrowers. As soon as the horses were in disarray, our cavalry attacked. ”

"It's okay to do this, it's just that it's dark at night, and you can't see the target clearly, and if you want to shoot the target, I'm afraid it's not easy."

"We can wait until tomorrow morning when it's just dawn to attack, and then we can see the target."

"Okay, let's talk about it together and come up with a battle plan."

While talking, I finished eating. So a plan was made.

The company commanders dispersed, leaving the regiment commander and the battalion commander to discuss together, and then repeatedly deliberated and revised, and after an hour, the plan came out. Everyone went to bed and prepared to move tomorrow morning.

The officers and soldiers of the hussar battalion of the king of Dongping were basically southerners.

This time, they rushed here from Shanhaiguan to reinforce them, and except for a few officers with tents, the vast majority of the soldiers could only camp in the open air.

Southerners are not used to the harsh winter in the north, the cold nights, plus the snow, even if they have changed into winter clothes, they are still shivering from the cold.

This is a plain area, there are no mountains, and there is no firewood.

The local people usually burn fires to keep warm, and basically burn crop straw.

The original subordinate army, plus the hussar battalion, came tens of thousands of people at once, and the straw of the local people was almost exhausted.

Even the trees planted in front of and behind the houses were cut down to make fires for cooking for the army, and to make bonfires for the soldiers who were camping in the open air.

In addition, the doors and windows of many people's homes were torn down and burned.

As for the life and death of the local people, they had no time to take care of it, and drove them out and left them to fend for themselves.

Actually, they don't need to drive them away. Many ran away early on their own.

However, when they returned, they would find that their houses had been torn down and set on fire.

In winter, the nights are long and the days are short, and it is not until six o'clock in the morning that the sky is just light.

Ni Er, with his own battalion, had been lurking for more than two hours two miles away from the Tianshun Army Hussar Battalion.

At this time, they were marching rapidly, approaching the camp of the hussar camp at a rapid pace.

In the distance, you can see piles of bonfires in the camp.

The brighter it gets, the colder it gets. Therefore, the bonfire at this time not only did not decrease, but became more vigorous than at night.

Only in this way can the soldiers camped by the campfire feel some warmth.

After lurking in the field for so long, although their winter clothes were brought from the North Sea, they were thicker than ordinary winter clothes, but they were cold enough after being outside for a long time.

After a rapid march, the joints on the body seemed to move, and the body gradually became warm.

The sentinels of the hussar battalion were still very vigilant, and at a distance of about five hundred meters, they spotted Ni Er and them, and immediately sounded the gong.

Ni Eryi waved his hand, and a soldier next to him lit the fireworks in his hand. Colorful fireworks shot into the air.

This is the pre-agreed shelling signal.

Before the fireworks disappeared, the air remembered the overwhelming whistling of cannonballs, and then there were rumbling sounds, and the campfires in the camp were blown up and flew around, and soon, the piles of bonfires were connected into one piece, and the camp became a sea of fire.

"The target, the racecourse, rush in at all costs."

Ni Eryi took the lead and rushed out.

The guards on the edge of the horse farm saw a team rushing towards them, and before they understood what was going on, they remembered the sound of gunfire and went to see Hades in a daze.

"The flamethrower strikes, and the others take cover."

More than twenty soldiers, carrying spray cans, approached the horse farm from all directions.

This is all the flamethrowers of the 4th Brigade, all of them attacking this time. Soon, the horse farm began to catch fire, and the horses inside began to string around, and as the horses ran, the fire snake also spread throughout the horse farm. There was a roar of horses in the stable.

"Retreat."

Ni Er rode his horse around the horse farm, shouting as he ran.

The Northern Navy hurriedly began to retreat, and ran out of the range of the horse farm in one go.

When I looked back, I saw a string of tongues of fire, like meteors, spreading out from the horse farm to all sides, and the castration was very ferocious.

If he hadn't withdrawn quickly just now, his own people would have been swept into this sea of fire now.

Nearly 10,000 out-of-control war horses, the wild power of frantically fleeing outward, it is terrifying to think about.

"Battalion Commander Ni, this kind of play, such a big scene, it's the first time I've seen it in my life."

The guy who lit the fireworks just now couldn't help but sigh.

"You, how rare and weird. This is nothing, it is just a repetition of the story of our government corps yesterday. ”

After Ni Er finished speaking, he looked at this guy who was still surprised.

Alas, the recruits just can't do it, and they still have to go through more experience.