No matter what era the soldier is, the combat effectiveness of a single soldier may not be as good as that of a good man with high martial arts, and it may not even be much more powerful than a pranky bastard (except for special forces, who belong to the category of martial arts masters, which is extremely expensive to cultivate), but the soldier's methods against the enemy mainly rely on the cooperation between battle formations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

For example, in this white-knuckle battle, the Ming army formed a bayonet formation in groups of three, with two defenses and one attack, often dealing with five or six enemies, and it was not a problem at all.

The Guanning Iron Cavalry uses cold weapons all year round, and in the case of several times the opponent, in the case of white-knuckle combat, it was not able to defeat in a short period of time, and a group of troops using firearms can be seen, which shows the importance of the formation.

Qiu Yuanshan lost the upper hand with one enemy, Zhao Erdan not far away was anxious, when a spear stabbed at Qiu Yuanshan from behind, Zhao Erdan didn't have time to think about it, and rushed out of the battle formation directly, blocking this fatal blow for Qiu Yuanshan with his body.

The spear pierced Zhao Erdan's chest from behind, Zhao Erdan didn't seem to feel the slightest pain, and the bayonet in his hand was not idle, and his backhand pierced the neck of the sneak attacker.

"Second egg!"

"Little brother!"

“...........”

The rest of the cooks who were still alive rushed over with shouts.

Although they have known this young man for less than an hour, these guys in the cooking class have already recognized this little soldier in their hearts.

With Zhao Erdan's sacrifice to save him, as well as the timely support of a group of men, Qiu Yuanshan was finally out of danger.

Not only that, the soldiers who came to support the third battalion also hit this battlefield, and the remaining Guanning iron cavalry, seeing that the defeat was decided, and the artillery blockade in the rear had stopped, did not want to do any more useless work, and began to retreat to the rear.

"Medic! Come on! Qiu Yuanshan shouted loudly.

It was the first time he had been so uncool in the fight.

After all, Zhao Erdan blocked this blow for him, which was equivalent to exchanging one life for another.

"Old ........ Battalion commander, no....... No need, I ........ Heart.......... There are a few. Zhao Erdan said intermittently.

In his mind, Qiu Yuanshan has always been his recruit battalion commander.

"Don't talk, save your strength, the medical officer is coming soon!" Qiu Yuanshan comforted.

"People..... There is always a death......... This....... This expedition to the west........ It's for ...... People of the world....... Yes..... Able to eat well....... It's worth it! ”

Zhao Erdan's language is very short and difficult, but he expresses it clearly enough, especially Qiu Yuanshan, he finally knows why the other party calls him the old battalion commander, and he is a soldier in order for the people of the world to have enough to eat, this is the truth that the First Group Army, as the commander of all recruit battalions, must tell the recruits.

"It's worthy of my Qiu Yuanshan's soldiers, and he didn't disgrace me!" Qiu Yuanshan said solemnly.

"Erdan, you must hold on, I'm still waiting to give you more food! The common people of the world must have enough to eat, and we soldiers are also bitter, so we must eat more, and only when we are full can we have the strength to kill the enemy! The cook who had "bribed" Zhao Erdan before said.

"Huh....... Yes...... Fatty meat? I...... Favorite ...... Fattened. Zhao Erdan barely squeezed out a smile.

Li Hongfei's food for his soldiers is still relatively generous, in today's era, there are really not many people who can eat meat, even the ordinary people in Suzhou, they can buy some pork to improve their food during the New Year's holidays.

It is impossible for the officers and soldiers of the barracks to eat meat at once, but in order to ensure the nutrition of the soldiers, they can basically eat pork once a week.

Because the breeding industry in Suzhou has just emerged for less than two years, the scale is not very large, and there is still a big gap in the supply of pork, a group only has a supply of one pig a week, and more than 1,700 people share a pig, not so much a meal of meat a week, but rather a drink of broth.

Even so, those soldiers felt very happy, because they could eat a piece of fat every week, and those soldiers who were injured and meritorious could even drink broth at a time, which made many soldiers envious.

"Yes, when today's battle is over, we will kill the pig when we go back, and I will give you one bowl, no, two bowls of big fat meat!" The man hurriedly comforted.

At the end of the battle today, if they are still alive, it will prove that they have won, and if they have won the battle, they will naturally kill pigs to celebrate.

After listening to this, Zhao Erdan did not speak again, but closed his eyes, and a smile leaked from the corner of his mouth, as if he was tasting the delicious pork.

"Two eggs, two eggs?" The man whispered.

"He's asleep, so let's stop bothering him." The combat staff officer on the side understood what was going on and said very tactfully.

At this time, the commander of the third battalion of the fifth regiment, who had defeated the enemy, also came to Qiu Yuanshan: "Song Hong, commander of the third battalion of the fifth regiment of the fifth division of the National Defense Army, is ordered to come to support!" ”

"Battalion Commander Song, pass on my order, the whole army will attack, and kill all the hundreds of enemy troops who fled, and not one will be left!" Qiu Yuanshan said coldly.

He wanted to avenge Zhao Erdan, if the group of enemy troops could retreat earlier, Zhao Erdan would not die, since he didn't want to retreat, then he simply stayed here.

"This .........." Song Hong hesitated.

The order he received was to hold his position, and this time he took the initiative to attack, which was already considered a "mistake", but this can be regarded as a flexible control of the battlefield, and any commander has the right to make decisions on the spot.

But now that the enemy has been defeated, and he does not return to the trenches to rest, it is a serious command error, or even disobedience to military orders.

"Lao Qiu, calm down, the enemy's follow-up troops have come over, continue to entangle, the position will be dangerous, the overall situation is important!" The operational staff officer reminded.

Their position has been nearly 100 meters forward to the trench, at this time to continue the pursuit, it is easy to be entangled by the enemy, the top priority at the moment, or to focus on defense, the fifth division has limited strength, it is impossible to fight a counterattack at present.

The torches that kept gathering in the distance, it was obvious that the enemy had completed the formation and was ready to attack again, and if they continued to rush forward at this time, it was very likely that these more than 700 people would not be able to come back.

Qiu Yuanshan was woken up by his chief of staff, and quickly regained his previous wisdom, only to see him holding Zhao Erdan's corpse, and said coldly: "Retreat to the trenches and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

The arrival of reinforcements brought a large amount of ammunition, and the soldiers of the second battalion, after replenishing the ammunition, finally did not have to engage in white-knuckle combat.

Although this battle only lasted for two hours, its tragedy was the fiercest among the land battles of this western expedition.

Wu Sangui sent 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry under his command to launch a fierce attack on Ji Dongming's fifth division in turn.

In less than an hour after the two sides engaged, they had already invested all their forces, and even the 4th Regiment of the 5th Division, which was responsible for covering the flanks, had transferred a battalion to supplement the frontal battlefield, and for the remaining hour, both sides wanted to hold out to the end with a breath, in short, whoever was discouraged first would lose.

The competition of wills, the Guanning iron cavalry is far inferior to the Ming army, so when the sky is getting brighter, Wu Sangui understands that they lost this battle, and they lost very thoroughly, once the dawn, the accuracy of the Ming army's firearms will be enhanced again, and the concealment of the archers no longer exists.

If all the Ming troops on the western expedition were as difficult to bite as this, then the entire south of the Yangtze River might not be able to hold it.

"Retreat!" Wu Sangui ordered with mixed feelings.

Now that his mind is no longer on the battle, he began to think about how to get out of the whirlpool of this war safely.

In the two-hour battle, nearly 10,000 people were killed in the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and more than 6,000 were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and there were less than 35,000 people left in the descendants of Wu Sangui.

Once his subordinates are exhausted, he, the king of Pingxi, who has no soldiers and no power, is estimated to be not far from death.

Not to mention Wu Sangui's thoughts, the Fifth Division of the Ming Army, which won the battle, did not have a trace of joy after the victory.

Nearly 4,000 men were seriously wounded or killed, almost everyone in the division was wounded, the first regiment was reduced by more than 70 percent, the fifth regiment also suffered more than half of the casualties, and the other regiments, except for the artillery regiment, were reduced by almost 30 percent.

Even the artillery regiment that was hiding in the rear and was responsible for firing the artillery caused three artillery pieces to explode because of the continuous high-intensity fire, killing and injuring more than 20 people.

Compared with the proud record, how can such a high casualty ratio make people happy?

The 5th Division did win, but it was only a pyrrhic victory.

"Wu Sangui of the dog day! The labor-management troops were completely destroyed, and the order was sent down, the troops were reduced, and the whole army retreated ten miles, retreated into the mountains to hold on, and waited for reinforcements to change the defense. Ji Dongming scolded Wu Sangui while quickly adjusting his strategy.

The Fifth Division has fought until now, and it is impossible to continue to hold the main communication routes, and as for the withdrawal to Chibi, it is even more impossible, and it is even more impossible to evacuate without an order, no matter how much you have won the battle before, you can't hide the fact that the deserters have deserted.

It is impossible for Ji Dongming to be a deserter, in order to prevent Wu Sangui from repeating, he can only give way to this traffic artery, retreat to the nearby mountains, and wait for the troops to come over.

"It's a fucking humiliation to see the enemy evacuate with such a swagger!" Qiu Yuanshan couldn't help but complain.

"Don't worry, the Qing army in the entire Hunan will not be able to jump for long, Chenzhou will be taken by the first army, as long as the first army and the second army converge, I believe it will not be long before Changsha is taken, and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are intercepted by our sailors, and the fall of Wu Sangui is only a matter of time!" Ji Dongming analyzed.

As long as the Daming Water Division maintains its superiority on the Yangtze River, then Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry will not be able to run away at all, even if the Fifth Division cannot personally avenge this revenge, the brother troops of the First Army can also help destroy this group of enemy troops..........

With Ji Dongming's order, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division, who were still alive, began to clean up the battlefield, burn the corpses of the enemy (to avoid the plague), and collect the remains of their own people.

Regarding the disposal of the corpses of the fallen soldiers, Li Hongfei originally wanted to learn from the future generations and establish martyrs' cemeteries in various places, so that these soldiers who died in battle could finally return to their hometowns.

But this idea is good, but it is very difficult to implement, not to mention that most of the people who joined the army are refugees who fled from the north, and they can't return to their hometowns.

The ancients paid attention to entering the earth for safety, cremation is the treatment of the enemy, unless it is a plague, to burn the body, that is a great disrespect to the dead.

In the case that there is no way to preserve the corpse, transporting the corpse back is not only a waste of manpower and material resources, but also the same rotting corpse is exposed to the air for a long time, and it is easy to cause plague, so the final way to deal with the corpse is to choose a local feng shui treasure place for burial, and wait until the conditions permit in the future, and then send people to build a martyr's cemetery in these places where the remains are buried.

Five miles away from the mountain peak where the Fifth Division retreated, a newly built cemetery of nearly ten acres buried 2,376 soldiers of the Fifth Division who died in the battle.

The cemetery of these soldiers is very simple, it is a dirt bag grave, plus a crude tombstone, on which is engraved with the name and the unit to which they belong, and next to each tombstone, a bouquet of wild chrysanthemums is placed, which can be regarded as the only sacrifice.

Among them is a tombstone, but it is different, not only with wild chrysanthemums, but also two porcelain bowls with two large bowls of oily and shiny fatty meat.

The owner of the tombstone is not a famous general who has been on the battlefield for a long time, but an ordinary soldier, an ordinary soldier who became a soldier in order to have enough food for himself, and died in battle for the people of the world to have enough food.

Although Zhao Erdan died in battle, countless soldiers of the Ming army who were like Zhao Erdan and had faith were going forward and fighting with the enemy..........

Hubei, on the south bank of Chibi, Stilwell was studying the military map in the barracks, when suddenly the noisy sound of the guards came from outside the tent.

"Yo! General Shi Lang, what's wrong? Who provoked you? Come on, come on, smoke a cigarette, put out the fire, tell me who is so blind, see how I clean him up! Stilwell waved his hand to signal the guard to step back, and then said with a smile while handing Shi Lang a cigarette.

"Who else could it be? Commander-in-chief, I just want to know, why don't we go to stop the Qing army's sailors covering the Haoge army's crossing of the river? That's an army of 300,000! Once they all cross the river, all the gains made by our army in the past few months may be lost! Shi Lang, who has always been addicted to smoking, didn't even bother to take cigarettes this time, and didn't talk nonsense, and directly stated the purpose of the trip.

If you are generally proficient in the way of officialdom, when Stilwell says the phrase "don't open your eyes", even if you want to express your opinion, you will be more tactful.

But Shi Lang didn't do this, didn't care about the feelings of others at all, and pointed the finger at Steenway as soon as he opened his mouth.