"Immediately send more scouts to reconnoiter the front, left and right; ordered the battalions to narrow the distance between each other and pay attention to preventing sneak attacks; At the same time, an order was issued to let Dong Fuxiang's Gan army and Yuan Shikai's new army speed up, and the army should be stationed in Xinchuan Town tonight! ”

Nie Shicheng looked at the sky in the west, and the original plan to camp in Yanghe Town today was afraid that it would only come to naught. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This is not a matter of time, but the destruction of the forward battalion, so that Nie Shicheng suddenly felt that an enemy army was peeping at him like a poisonous snake, and if he didn't pay attention to it, he might be bitten.

Nie Shicheng's orders were also correct, he did not send a few battalions to find or pursue the ambushers, which showed that he was a rational troop leader.

Many generals, after hearing that they had suddenly lost hundreds of troops, most of them would be furious. Perhaps, this has something to do with Nie Shicheng's age. Nie Shicheng was born in 1836, and by this time he was 63 years old.

However, Nie Shicheng really underestimated the combat power of the Mengyin giant bandits. Less than a quarter of an hour after his order was issued, a new piece of information came: the forward battalion he sent again, when crossing a bridge, the bridge suddenly exploded, killing and wounding dozens of people, and at the same time, the army was also blocked on the north bank of the Yanghe River!

"Damn, this group of giant bandits, where did they get so many bombs?" Nie Shicheng immediately ordered to camp on the spot, and now sent more scouts and scouts to maintain the safety of the army.

Sadly, at this time, the Western powers had already used safe trinitrotoluene (TNT) bombs, but in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, it seemed that the shells used by the Beiyang Navy were still gunpowder-filled shells, and as for the army like Nie Shicheng, it may be more difficult to see more powerful TNT bombs or shells.

Of course, the Mengshan military used not bombs, but mines, a type of weapon known as the cheapest for the poor. Compared with the Manchu army, Xu Lie is certainly not poor, but his mines have undoubtedly become a big killer across time and space when he arrives in this era! This is also the benefit of time and space travel, a hundred years ahead of the decades, just take some magic horses out, they are all powerful.

Nie Shicheng finally felt the danger of the Mengyin giant bandits.

Because he ordered to camp on the spot, it does not mean that it is safe, most of the scouts and scouts he sent out have gone and never returned, and a few people have run back, but they are all frightened, and the information reported is incoherent, saying that the god horse did not see the figure of the other party, only heard the sound of gunfire and several companions planted from the horse one after another, and he did not run, but he could not see the shadow of the enemy staying there There is a god horse, so after thinking about it, it is better to come back and report to the chief.

This kind of report, the first half of the first half has a certain amount of truth, because the Mengshan Army is good at borrowing the terrain to conceal, it is normal for Wu Yijun not to see the figure. But in the second half, these guys were afraid of death and made it up themselves. In fact, most people will turn around and run away in fear when they see someone around them suddenly being killed by a single shot, and if they are scouts on horseback, they may run faster.

Although this kind of report is half-true, Nie Shicheng knows that the Mengshan Army has adopted a very shameless harassment tactic, they do not meet with Wu Yijun, but shoot a shot to change places, which is very despicable and shameless!

When the night fell and all the scouts and scouts returned, its statistics made Nie Shicheng even more angry and vomited blood. Throughout the afternoon, 50 reconnaissance teams were sent out, totaling more than 300 people, but less than 100 soldiers returned to the camp safely.

Don't think that the number of 100,000 troops in the imperial court to encircle and suppress the Mengyin giant bandits seems to be a lot, the Wuyi army led by Nie Shicheng, its total strength including auxiliary soldiers, is only 20,000 people, at noon went to a battalion, and in the afternoon half of the battalion was removed, and it was an elite soldier, which was almost equivalent to one-twentieth of Nie Shicheng's Wuyi army, that is, 5%.

Damn, this battle hasn't started yet, just the battle between the scouts and forwards on both sides, and the loss of 0.5 tenths of the soldiers, a few more times like this, does Wu Yijun still have the strength to fight?

As for Dong Fuxiang's Gan army and Yuan Shikai's new army, it was not Nie Shicheng's men, it was the men and horses of the other two generals, although they had to listen to Nie Shicheng's orders and deployments, but their troops were their own, for example, if they wanted to deprive Yuan Shikai of the command of the newly formed army, they could not rely on Nie Shicheng, they had to issue orders from the Military Aircraft Department, and to put it bluntly, the emperor or the queen mother had the final say.

And Dong Fuxiang and Yuan Shikai are half a day's distance away from Nie Shicheng. Even if Nie Shicheng's Wu Yi army stopped in advance this afternoon because the forward battalion was destroyed, but when it was dark, the nearest Dong Fuxiang Gan army did not reach Nie Shicheng's location, but set up camp twenty miles away from Nie Shicheng.

As for Nie Shicheng's request for the two of them to be stationed in Xinchuan Town, it was just a joke. Because Nie Shicheng's own army was blocked in Hebei because the Yanghe Bridge was bombed.

Boom -

Just when Nie Shicheng thought that the night might be relatively peaceful, a cannon exploded in the main camp!

"Where's the gun?" Nie Shicheng stood up from his seat and held the lantern high at the same time. If you really want to talk about it, the horse lantern in Nie Shicheng's hand was imported by Xu Lie from the original time and space.

"Report to the marshal, it's a sneak attack by the Mengshan army! It is rumored to be something similar to the Tiger Squat Cannon, but more flexible than the Tiger Squat Cannon! "The duty adjutant quickly got the information.

"Are there any casualties?" Nie Shicheng asked again.

Boom -

As soon as Nie Shicheng's words fell, another shell exploded in the camp not far away. This felt like he was laughing at Nie Shicheng.

"Report to the commander, the enemy fired artillery shells, killing 2 of our soldiers and wounding 3 others!" After a while, there were still subordinates who figured out the situation.

Boom -

Another shell exploded, and after this shell exploded, there were suddenly all kinds of shouts in the camp, "Not good, battalion roar!" "What Nie Shicheng was worried about finally happened! Camp roar, that is, bomb the camp! The soldiers are in a state of bombing the camp, running around like headless flies, which can easily give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

"Immediately order the battalion officers to forcefully suppress the people who bombed the battalion!" In the chaos, Nie Shicheng did not forget to give a kill order. If the people involved in the bombing of the camp are not suppressed in time, it is very likely to cause even greater chaos, and the best and most effective way to deal with this kind of thing is to cut through the chaos with a quick knife!

"Yes, Dashuai!" The adjutant had to be ordered to go.

Bang, bang, bang......

Here, the camp has not yet been dealt with, and in the darkness outside the camp, there are pounding gunshots, and there seems to be a faint scream.

"Damn, these Mengshan bandits are so powerful, they can even shoot people at night?" Nie Shicheng heard the gunshots and screams, and he was a little mad with anger, he was an old man in his early sixties, so he didn't bully people like this.