Those who came to support the 2nd Battalion of Qiu Yuanshan's Regiment were officers and men of the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Regiment of the 5th Division. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the third battalion arrived at the battlefield, they found that the two armies had been mixed together, and the commander of the third battalion immediately made a decision and led the officers and men of the whole battalion to rush into the center of the battlefield with bayonets.

The addition of more than 500 new troops quickly turned the situation on the battlefield, and the more than 700 people who rushed up from Guanning Iron Cavalry, at this time there were less than 400 people left, and they were divided into several pieces and could not be gathered together.

At this time, the artillery support of the Ming army had stopped, and many of the Guanning iron cavalry behind even began to flee.

"The Ming army really has backup, this is a trap!" The fleeing soldier gave himself a high-sounding excuse.

"Poor Kou Mo chase, quickly clear the battlefield and consolidate the defense line!" The commander of the third battalion commanded loudly.

No one knows how many enemies there are in front of them, and if they are in a stalemate at this time, it will really be irreparable.

After all, the advantage of the Ming army is not a white-knuckle battle.

"Where's your second battalion commander?" The commander of the third battalion stopped a soldier of the first regiment and the second battalion and asked.

He didn't know that the commander of the second battalion had been killed in battle, and he planned to discuss the defense with the other party.

"Our battalion commander has died in battle, and now it is Regiment Commander Qiu who is directing the battle. That's right....... Commander, our regimental commander is gone! The soldier said with a look of alarm.

The earlier white-knuckle battle was too fierce, and the ranks of the second battalion were basically separated, except for half a platoon that had been following Qiu Yuanshan (one platoon was crippled to only half of it), the rest of the soldiers, no one knew where the regiment commander had gone and whether he was still alive.

As for the regimental commander's escape.......... No one would think like this, after all, the regiment commander could sit at the regimental headquarters and would not need to be on the front line at all, and even if he retreated, he would converge with the reinforcements that came to him.

Therefore, Qiu Yuanshan has either been killed in battle, or he is entangled with the few remaining enemy forces in the forward position.

"All of them, quickly clean up the remnants of the enemy army, live to see people, dead to see corpses!" The commander of the third battalion gave the order again.

has already killed a battalion commander, he doesn't want to die another regiment commander, and this regiment commander Qiu is the division commander's confidant, if he rushed to support, Qiu Yuanshan has been martyred, if he died later, then he will inevitably be scolded, so this rescue can not be delayed at all.

In the night battle, the soldiers basically couldn't see the situation twenty meters away, and it was normal for the assembled team to rely entirely on roaring, and there were shouts of killing everywhere, so it was normal to not be able to gather the team for a while.

And Qiu Yuanshan, the head of the regiment that everyone was desperately looking for, was indeed alive at this time, but the situation was not optimistic.

When Qiu Yuanshan gave the order to launch a counter-charge, he took the lead, leading less than 50 people to rush straight to the center of the enemy, cutting through the enemy's formation, and at the same time, dividing the enemy army of more than 700 people into two.

Qiu Yuanshan led 50 people and resisted the enemy army of nearly 300 people, buying time for the second battalion to annihilate the enemy.

The area where the second battalion had a white-knuckle battle with the enemy, within fifty meters of the trench, was brought in by Qiu Yuanshan and rushed directly into the trench built by the Guanning Iron Cavalry with the corpses of war horses.

The 3rd Battalion, which came to support, only paid attention to the battle area at the front of the position, and did not pay attention to the battle in the enemy's trenches, so much so that when someone mentioned it, they found out that the regimental commander was missing...........

Zhao Erdan's experience in just one hour is more colorful than his seventeen years.

At the age of 17, he fled from Shandong to Jiangnan with his parents two years ago, and both died of illness not long after arriving in Changzhou due to overwork along the way.

At that time, Zhao Erdan, who was only fifteen years old, could only rely on two free gruel meals distributed outside the city every day to make a living, saying that gruel is better than rice soup, which is not because the yamen officials are making ghosts from it, but because of the perennial war, there are too many refugees, and the granary of the government at that time is not rich, so it is good to have a mouthful of hot rice soup to ensure that no one dies of hunger.

After that, Master Li (Li Hongfei) ordered the recruitment of troops from among the refugees, which made most of the refugees ecstatic, these people had heard of the new army in Suzhou, well-equipped, well-paid, the key was that the rice was full, and those refugees who could only live on rice soup flocked to the conscription office.

Zhao Erdan is no exception, in order to become a soldier, he even falsely declared his age (he must be at least seventeen years old to enlist in the army), fortunately, although his body is thin, but the northerners are born with a good skeleton, and finally stood out from the local nearly 100,000 refugees, and was very fortunate to become a recruit of the First Army.

On the first day of enlistment, the battalion commander in charge of recruit training told them: "Even if you don't say it, I know the purpose of your coming to join the army, many of you are here to eat!" ”

That's right, Zhao Erdan agrees with this very much, it's not to have food, who will be a soldier in this era of war, he will have to face death at any time.

"I also hereby promise you that from now on you will have enough to eat, a monthly salary, and a generous pension for the disabled and killed!" After the battalion commander gave his promise, he said again: "But don't forget, you can eat enough, but there are many more people, and they can't even drink porridge!" ”

Zhao Erdan agreed again in his heart, he didn't know how many refugees there were in the entire Jiangnan, but there were nearly 100,000 in his area, and the conscription target was only 10,000, that is, at least 90,000 people, and now they are still living by drinking rice soup.

"Not only the refugees in Jiangnan, but also the entire area occupied by the Tatars, the common people are struggling to make a living, including your parents, relatives, neighbors, fellow villagers, and thousands of Ming people!"

Zhao Erdan didn't agree with this sentence very much, his parents died, and his hometown was also plagued by Tartars, and now he is alone, which basically has nothing to do with him.

"Some people may think that I have no relatives and no reason, these have nothing to do with me, life in troubled times is like a mustard, as long as I can live well, everything else doesn't matter." The commander of the recruit battalion seems to be able to "read minds".

Many recruits like Zhao Erdan became in awe of this recruit battalion commander at this time.

"But don't forget, the Tartars won't let you live! On the 10th in Yangzhou, 600,000 innocent people were slaughtered, why don't they want to live well? ”

"In addition, many of you have fled from the north, if you can live well in the north, why should you flee south?"

"Now the south of the Yangtze River is still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, so you can live a well-fed life, but once Jiangnan is also occupied by the Tartars, where else can you escape?"

"The ambitions of the Tartars are obvious, and now the only one who can defend Jiangnan is the army of the Ming Dynasty. As a member of the army, you are not only fighting against the Tartars to defend your family and country, but also to avenge your relatives who were killed by the Tartars, as well as to avenge your fellow countrymen, and to work hard for the Han people in the world to live a happy life! ”

"There is a good saying, if you don't kill Boren, but Boren dies because of you, you serve as soldiers, you live a life without food and clothing, if you don't want to forge ahead, don't dare to fight the Tartars to the end, then there will be thousands of people, because of your weakness, indifference, and slaughtered by the Tartars! To put it bluntly, they were killed by you! As soldiers who defend your home and country, won't you feel ashamed in your hearts? Can you really eat the steamed buns with white flowers with peace of mind? ”

The training of the recruits was planned by Li Hongfei, and with these illiterate old and coarse people, Li Hongfei would not tell them anything about national morality, and used the most simple words to hit the heart, but it could have an unexpected effect.

As a recruit, Zhao Erdan's heart was broken by the recruit battalion commander at this time.

Being a soldier is not only to have enough to eat, but also to let the people of the whole world not have what happened to them before, but also to avoid that if the army is defeated, you have to go back to that kind of hungry days!

This is Zhao Erdan's understanding of a soldier on the first day of enlistment.

For this reason, Zhao Erdan worked hard to learn various military skills, just to one day, kill a few more enemies on the battlefield, so as to rescue those who were suffering from the same disease as himself before.

An army of faith will be tenacious, and a soldier of faith will also make the enemy fearful.

In Nanming's new army, not only Zhao Erdan has faith, but even a group of cooking squad men also have faith.

The reason why Zhao Erdan's experience in this hour is richer than the previous seventeen years is not only because he can fight with the enemy on the battlefield for his beliefs, but also because he is fortunate to fight side by side with Qiu Yuanshan, the most respected recruit battalion commander and now the commander of the first regiment of the Fifth Division when he first joined the army.

That's right, among the more than 50 people who charged with Qiu Yuanshan, more than half of them were cooking squad members led by Zhao Erdan.

These guys may have terrible marksmanship because of the different division of labor, but people stir-fry vegetables all year round, cut vegetables and chop meat, whether it is arm strength or knife skills, they are not comparable to other arms.

A few guys with kitchen knives made a fast, accurate, and ruthless shot, saying that cutting your thumb would not hurt your index finger.

If Li Hongfei were here, he would definitely be unable to help but say a classic Internet saying: No matter how high your kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives.

The cooking class not only has kitchen knives, but also black pots, and when the bottom of a pot is shot, the enemy is definitely turned on his back, especially in this dark night, the secrecy of the black pot is greatly improved, and often when the enemy finds out, he basically has to be shot, which is simply impossible to prevent.

Although the men of the cooking squad fought bravely, they were invincible with two fists and four hands, and fifty people fought against three hundred people, and it did not take long for them to lose the upper hand.

If Qiu Yuanshan and others hadn't used revolvers and new breech guns to suppress them, it is estimated that there would be a danger of annihilation at this time.

Qiu Yuanshan and three regimental combat staff officers, a total of four revolvers, under the alternating fire, the enemy did not dare to get too close.

Today's revolvers are no longer the previous "shaker guns", but have been changed to large-caliber needle-fire pistols, with the same effective firing range (about forty meters), but the loading speed has increased several times, and it is no problem to shoot alternately.

However, due to the complexity of the workmanship, this new gun is difficult to mass-produce, and only generals above the regimental level are qualified to equip it.

And the only guard, using the latest rear-loading rifle developed by Suzhou Heavy Industry, the firing frequency is twice as high as the flintlock pistol, and it can shoot 12 rounds in one minute, plus the guard's marksmanship is good, in close shooting, it can almost reach 100 shots.

Of course, the production of this kind of rear-loading rifle is also limited, and it took the entire Suzhou Heavy Industry two years to produce 3,000 rifles, and each division of the first group army was allocated 100 rear-loading rifles.

Qiu Yuanshan's regiment, which belonged to the ace of the Fifth Division, was only divided into twenty units, all of which were equipped with the guard company, and now they were all in the main position of the first battalion, shooting at the archers of the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

Nearly 300 Guanning iron cavalry, there is no way to take these more than 50 people for a while, if it was after the arrival of the other party's reinforcements in the past, these 300 people would also retreat, but this time is different.

They finally rushed over, and if they retreated, wouldn't the thousands of brothers die in vain?

The most important thing is that they found that there is a group of big fish here, and hundreds of thousands of new firearms of the Ming army are equipped with them, and it is impossible to keep them secret, as long as the new weapons are used in battle, the Qing army will soon get the news.

The Western Expedition has been going on for more than two months, and the Qing army has already figured out what weapons the Ming army has and what level it is equipped with.

The revolver in front of you can only be equipped by officers at least at or above the regimental level, and the breech gun can also only be equipped by guard units above the regimental level.

This group of fifty Ming troops, there must be a big official in it, and catching or killing this big official has become the final goal of this group of Guanning iron cavalry.

Thousands of comrades-in-arms were killed, and they had to achieve some results.

So when the others began to flee because of the arrival of reinforcements from the Ming army, this group of Guanning iron cavalry has been attacking Qiu Yuanshan and dozens of people.

The suppression of revolvers and breech guns is indeed effective, but the ammunition will always run out, and the revolver that runs out of bullets is not even as good as the kitchen knife in the cooking class.

Qiu Yuanshan used to be Shi Kefa's subordinate, and he was also a good hand at cold weapon combat, after running out of bullets, he threw down his pistol, casually picked up a war knife from the ground, and rushed towards the enemy.

Turning sideways slightly, Qiu Yuanshan dodged the enemy's top-down attack, and at the same time, with a backhand, he cut off most of the opponent's neck, only a trace of flesh was barely connected, and blood suddenly gushed out.

Qiu Yuanshan's vigorous skills are not only due to long-term training, but also because of his combat uniforms, comfortable combat uniforms, although they have no defensive ability, but they make all the Ming troops completely free of their hands and feet when fighting.

The world's martial arts are unbreakable, and they are unbreakable for fast.

The main points of the army under Li Hongfei can be summed up in one word: fast!

The speed of the march was fast, which could greatly improve the combat efficiency, and the entire territory of Jiangxi was taken in two months, relying on the word "fast", and the defenders of many cities were broken by the First Group Army without even reacting.

Some cities were fully prepared, but because the First Army's offensive was too rapid, sometimes the fall of several cities in a day made these defenders frightened, and they could not raise the will to resist at all, and they either surrendered voluntarily or ran away in advance, which is the benefit of the word "fast".

In white-knuckle combat, the same is true, if you react one step faster than others, then the chance of survival will be higher than others, even if there is no armor protection, but the enemy is difficult to hurt you, and even can't keep up with the rhythm of your attack, even if there is no defense, so what does it matter?

Qiu Yuanshan is nimble, sharp swordsmanship, fighting with the enemy, often killing the enemy with one sword, but two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, he is not a martial arts master after all, one hit the other party four or five is already the limit, if the enemy is more than a dozen and swarm, then he can only parry..........