The sky is twilight, the camp of the army is a car of people teng horses neighing, the cooking car is surging bursts of steam, these soldiers from the south have drunk porridge, eating steamed buns, pickles, on the way to the march, to be able to eat such a breakfast is already extremely rare, in the middle of the night, the cooking soldiers began to burn porridge, steamed steamed buns. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

More than an hour later, the troops embarked on another journey. The first to set out was the search company, which was responsible for the guard along the line, and then the large force began to move, and when the troops of several thousand men marched, they looked a little unkempt, but in fact they were very organized, with the infantry marching on both sides of the road, and the baggage wagons in the middle of the marching column.

The soldiers, who had rested all night, had now fully recovered their spirits, and the fatigue of yesterday evening was gone, and the troops continued to march towards their destination.

Although he has been a soldier for half a year, for Hu Yuanshan, he is still accustomed to and adapting to the cowhide boots on his feet, the cowhide boots inlaid with copper nails look majestic, and they are also majestic when they are worn, but in fact, it is not a comfortable thing to wear these three-pound boots to march 70 miles a day.

Boots with cowhide and two layers of cowhide soles are too stiff to wear on the feet, and they are not as comfortable as cloth shoes. In the three months of recruit training, he wore out two pairs of cloth shoes, but these boots were worn for so long, that is, the boots were a little wrinkled. And the boots on the squad leader's feet have been worn for a year and a half, and a pair of boots will be worn for several years, and there will be no problems.

If you wear cloth shoes, although they are comfortable to wear, you may walk more than 100 miles, and the shoes will wear out.

Anyway, each has its own benefits.

"I don't know when I'll be able to get there......

Hu Yuanshan muttered secretly in his heart,

"I'm sure I'm going to dry up with those long hairs then......"

Thinking of the upcoming war, Hu Yuanshan, as a recruit, was a little nervous. Even the palm of his right hand, which was holding the butt of the gun, was sweating involuntarily.

"Far mountains? What's wrong with you? ”

Noticing that something was wrong with Hu Yuanshan, he hurriedly asked.

"Nothing, nothing?"

"Boy, you must be scared!"

Wang Quan next to him said with a smile, although he said that he was a veteran, but in fact, he had only been a soldier for one year, and he didn't necessarily get old.

"My grandson is scared!"

As soon as someone said this, Hu Yuanshan immediately retorted.

"Okay, you're a grandson!"

Wang Quan got cheap and obediently followed his words.

"You kid......"

Because Wang Quan is a veteran, and he is a first-class soldier. Hu Yuanshan could only choose to bear it silently, the existence of class in the army is based on military rank, as a first-class soldier at the most basic level, he naturally needs to endure all this.

Seeing that he didn't refute, Wang Quan just smiled and said.

"Actually, it's not a big deal to go to the battlefield, when the time comes, we just need to shoot, and after a few hundred meters, we can beat them so that they can't raise their heads......"

When the soldiers on the march in the east of the river were advancing towards the goal, in the sorghum fields west of the river, riders were riding on war horses.

"Hereby ......"

The stubborn pony made an untamed breathing sound, and in order to save horsepower, everyone led the horse, even Zhang Chengliang. At this time, they were even more particular than ordinary cavalrymen, in fact, a few years ago, many of them did not know how to cavalry, but after grabbing horses and learning to ride horses, they quickly learned how to fight on horseback, and when they tore apart in the province, even those Huizi horse teams were not their opponents.

"Yu ......"

Pulling the reins of the horse, Zhang Chengliang softly comforted the inferior war horse, in fact, what he was riding was not a war horse, just an ordinary horse, but it was not so particular to them.

"Why hasn't the signal been sent yet?"

Again, Zhang Chengliang looked towards the river embankment in the distance, looked at the big willow tree, and saw that there was no signal from above. Although he was anxious, he did not rush out with his men and horses.

After waiting for about two more bags of cigarettes, a red cloth was suddenly picked out from the big willow tree and shook in the air.

As soon as he received the signal, Zhang Chengliang immediately jumped on the horse and shouted in his mouth.

"Brethren, get on the horse!"

As soon as his words fell, he whipped his right hand and whipped his horse and rushed towards the sorghum field.

At the beginning, the speed of the horse was not fast, but it was equivalent to a person trotting there, and Zhang Chengliang, who was pouring out of the sorghum field, led hundreds of cavalry to rush across the simple wooden bridge on the river, although the bridge deck was only three feet wide, but these cavalry seemed to be walking on the ground, and quickly passed the small bridge more than five zhang wide and rushed to the opposite bank.

Hundreds of war horses rushed to the east of the river like a gust of wind like a gust of wind towards the righteous army that had just passed, Zhang Chengliang, who took the lead, shouted while speeding up, he knew very well that he did not have much time to run, these horses could not run for a long time, but he had to rush into the enemy in the most enemy time, and cut those righteous troops with a big knife.

Zhang Chengliang, who had fought with the Qing army and regimental training for several years, although he had never attended a military school, let alone studied cavalry, but now he gave full play to the advantages of cavalry, and even the position and timing of the attack were extremely clever; in order to avoid the search for the top soldiers of the rebel army, he deployed his troops in Hexi, but there was a small bridge in front, but even so, it would be ignored by the top soldiers -- it would take time for the troops to pass through the small bridge.

It took time to pass through the small bridge, but hundreds of cavalry could pass there in just a few minutes. And the timing of his attack was after the passage of the large army of the rebels, and now this cavalry of more than 400 people is equivalent to a wedge that suddenly breaks into between the large army and the rearguard force.

Zhang Chengliang, who seized the position and opportunity, did not doubt that he could inflict heavy losses on this rebel army and thus win the battle, in his opinion, as long as he successfully crossed the river, he would have won half of the victory.

The roar of the hooves of hundreds of horses at their gallop far outweighed the sensation caused by thousands of infantry, like hundreds of drums beating at the same time, roaring between heaven and earth, galloping towards their goal.

The sound of horses' hooves was like a drum and a wave, and the righteous officers and soldiers who were marching in the midst of the surging tide heard the roar behind them, and when the soldiers heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them, the battalion and company commanders on horseback also heard the sound of horses' hooves.

Cavalry!

There was no need to pick up a telescope to look at it, they could be sure that it could never be a friendly force.

The man on the horse immediately shouted loudly.

"Stop!"

"The column becomes a horizontal team, and the rear guard is the benchmark......"

The strict queue training made the soldiers who were marching in a marching column react immediately, they quickly stopped advancing, turned back, and rushed in the left and right directions respectively, quickly forming a double row horizontal formation up to 300 meters wide!

When the infantry began to move, the artillery also immediately went into action, they stopped their horses, dragged the field guns off the artillery carriages, and then pushed the field guns towards the infantry flanks, although the movement was somewhat inconvenient, but their movements were not slow, and they could even be described as rapid.

"Ten companies cooperate with artillery to protect field artillery!"

From the time of Napoleon, the loss of field artillery was seen as a disgrace. Perhaps, this is because Napoleon's creative use of artillery left a mark on the European military community after successive great victories in Europe. The rebels who were students also inherited this, and even from a basic military point of view, it was something that should be avoided by the enemy's firepower to suppress weapons anyway.

Because of this, when the troops faced the cavalry, Liang Yuqiu, as the commander of the regiment, still ordered an infantry company to protect the artillery, after all, this was an encounter.

"The second battalion strengthens the horizontal team, and the left flank of the first battalion is ......"

One after another, orders came out of Liang Yuqiu's mouth one after another, and he didn't even forget to order to use the baggage carriage to form a hollow phalanx in the middle of the team to avoid the collapse of the troops after the horizontal team was broken through, and the baggage carriage could provide a defense!

From the beginning of the encounter with the enemy cavalry, the actions of the 36th Regiment commanded by Liang Yuqiu were almost impeccable, and the middle and lower-level officers took the initiative to direct the troops to change the marching column to prepare for the enemy, and there was no panic at all, and this was completely due to the training in the past two years, and the strict and harsh training made the soldiers' actions more like an instinct.

"Rifle loaded!"

As soon as the double platoon was formed, the officers immediately gave the order, and the soldiers opened the bolts one after another, then took the bullets from the cowhide cartridges on their waists, and stuffed the paper shell bullets into the chambers.

Now the Han-style rifle has replaced the front-loading rifled gun and become the main rifle of the rebel army, and only a very small number of newly formed troops and gendarmes still use the front-loading gun.

"Get on the bayonet!"

The officers standing in the column with sabers in hand kept giving orders, and the two-foot-long bayonets were inserted into the heads of the guns by the soldiers. Although their movements seemed a little stiff, under the orders of the officers, these soldiers, who seemed a little nervous, still carried out their movements according to the orders of the officers.

The sound of the horses' hooves became louder and louder, and the deafening sound of the horses' hooves was like thunder in the sky, constantly knocking on the hearts of the soldiers, making their foreheads sweat, making their breathing short, and even making their palms sweat, and the hands holding the guns even trembled slightly.

The enemy's cavalry was getting closer and closer, and the impact of hundreds of cavalry on the people was far greater than people could have imagined, and even the officers in the horizontal formation, listening to the deafening sound of horses' hooves, and looking at the enemy who were surging like a wave, their faces changed, their faces became pale, and their voices began to be astringent.

Despite being as nervous as the fighters, they gave the order.

"Gun...... Upper shoulder! ”

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(To be continued.) )