The so-called strategy is to never follow the other party's pace, but to ask the other party to follow their own pace. This is one of the basic tactics of the struggle, if you can't crush the enemy at the pace you are good at, then the only option left is to follow the pace that the opponent is not good at.

Pang Zi had not read this passage, but when he found that after repelling the first wave of attacks of the official army, the official army did not retreat at all, and after less than a quarter of an hour, the horse team of the official army was divided into three. Two cavalry teams of twenty people galloped to the left and right, looking at the trajectory of the movement, to make a detour behind Pang Zi. Pang Zi immediately felt a chill run down his spine. Pang Zi could not come up with an effective way to deal with this kind of response of the officers and soldiers.

The best way to do this is to split up your forces and attack these two scattered cavalry forces, and eat them up with superior forces. Then join forces and attack the enemy's main force. However, Pang Zi knows very well the strength of his brothers, just more than 200 people, fighting one-on-one, his brother is not the opponent of the official army opposite. You have to be two-on-one, or even three-on-one. But in this case, there are only more than 100 men left in his main force. And the officers and soldiers on the opposite side must have more than 300 people, to say the least. After the division of troops, there were more than 200 people left. If the troops are divided, if the officers and soldiers in front rush over, they will be one-on-two, and there will be absolutely no chance of winning.

It's easy to think, Pang Zi is not a stupid person, and it took a few minutes to figure out the key. But in the face of the brothers who were in high spirits and were still immersed in Fang Cai's small victory, Pang Zi couldn't even restore order to them. Moreover, at this time, the brigade in front of the official army had already urged the horses together under the command of the officers and officers, and slowly approached Pang Zi's side.

From the point of view of military command, from the point of view of human nature, the responsibility of the commander is to let his subordinates die in the most effective way. The so-called "one will achieve ten thousand bones" simply and clearly points out the essence of war. How the dividends of war are distributed is one thing, but whether the subordinates can die worthwhile is another. From the current point of view, Pang Zi is not at the same level at all compared with the commander of the official army.

Faced with an approaching enemy, Pang Zi made a choice that he regretted for the rest of his life.

"Push the machine gun forward!" Pang Zi shouted. He believed that pushing the machine gun to the front would be an effective way to deter the main forces of the enemy on the opposite side from approaching with each other. First scare the main force of the enemy on the opposite side, and then come up with a better way, this is Pang Zi's idea. And this method, which might be useful if facing the officers and troops before 1900, was already a backward tactic when facing the officers and troops opposite Pang Zi on September 27, 1906.

Pang Zi may know the suppressive and intimidating effect of machine guns, but Pang Zi actually knows nothing about the role of machine guns in war. He was even less likely to know how the cavalry and machine-gun positions should cooperate. Because of the huge power of the machine gun, Pang Zi subconsciously saw the cavalry as infantry. Carrying machine guns required adjusting formations, and at this time, the cavalry was much more confused than the infantry.

However, the commander of the official army did not let go of this opportunity and saw the chaos of Pang Zi's troops. A flag began to wave in the ranks of the officers and soldiers. Then the squad of officers and soldiers who were close to Pang Zi's machine gun changed direction in an instant, and they drew an arc and flanked the diagonal rear of Pang Zi's machine gun position.

"Songling! Block them! Pang Zi roared. Gao Songling hurriedly rushed towards the official army with his brother. And the brothers who transferred the machine guns also began to be overwhelmed when they saw the enemy rushing over. Some people wanted to continue Fu Cong Pang Zi's order to transport the machine guns to the front, and some people couldn't help but want to turn the machine guns around and head towards the small army of officers and soldiers who were rapidly approaching. Pang Zi's orders, as well as the enemy's instantaneous, led to the chaos of his own troops. What's worse is that the officers and soldiers on the opposite side did not let go of this opportunity at all, and they led the leading officers to urge their horses to start charging towards Pang Zi's side.

At this time, Pang Zi showed his hard side, since he saw that he could no longer use the machine gun, Pang Zi could afford to put it down, "Brothers, follow me to the north!" Fight! With this shout, Pang Zi urged the horses and took the lead in charging towards the main force of the official army.

Such a choice requires a lot of backbone, and there are almost 300 officers and soldiers on the front, to say the least. What Pang Zi didn't know was that the officer and army on the opposite side was a cavalry battalion of the Beiyang Army stationed in Texas, with a total strength of 500 people. After the defeat of the canal defense battalion, he immediately reported the news of Pang Zi's rebellion to the Beiyang Army. Before the canal defense camp, the news of Pang Zi's rebellion reported by the landlords led by Jing Tinglie that it reached the Beiyang Army earlier.

Except for the difference in military uniforms from the Beiyang Army, this cavalry battalion has no difference in other training equipment from the Beiyang Army. The difference in military uniforms led to Pang Zi's illusion, and he thought that the group of people opposite was not the Beiyang Army. This gap in intelligence made Pang Zi make a huge mistake.

After the cavalry battalion stationed in Texas received the "counterinsurgency" order issued by Wang Shizhen of the Beiyang Army Military Department, it immediately dispatched lightly in accordance with Wang Shizhen's specific command. They walked a total of one day on a dry road, took a boat for two days, and rushed to Nangong County as quickly as possible, and then after learning about the situation from the county order, they rested for one night, and set off in the early morning to go straight to Gaojiazhai. If the intelligence network of the peasant association was still there, the actions of this unit would definitely arrive and reach Chen Tianhua in advance. Chen Tianhua will not ignore Pang Zi, and will also tell Pang Zi the news. However, the dissolution of the peasant associations made the intelligence network useless. Pang Zi had to directly face the attack of the Beiyang cavalry.

Behind Pang Zi, he quickly followed up with the galloping people, although there were only more than two hundred horses, but they spread out on the unsheltered field, and there was still a lot of momentum, and they splashed up dirt and dust. The old brothers who rushed to the front were the best in equestrian marksmanship, and when they were in trouble with Uncle Jing Tingbin, they practiced the ability to put guns on horseback, and as they fired sporadically in the wind, a bunch of figures began to fall sporadically in the gray ranks of the officers and soldiers, and there was a slight commotion. Then a cloud of smoke began to envelop those gray queues, and after reaching a certain distance, they also began to release their guns, and the bullets that rattled in the air suddenly knocked over more than a dozen people, and Pang Zi's hat was gone, but it was like igniting the explosives hidden in their veins, and more people howled loudly and fired guns from their horses at the same time to counterattack, as if they suddenly ignited the New Year's cannons, and those gray columns were also dusted in front of and behind them.

Pang Zi slowed down the speed of the horse, and the brothers behind rushed to the front in an instant, Pang Zi hoped to be able to gather the brothers under his command according to the training of the previous days. But at this time, the horse team of the Dart Bureau brothers had already dispersed, and the brothers under the command of different leaders had already mixed together, and it was impossible to tell who was whose subordinates. Pang Zi finally saw a few brothers under his command gathered together, and before they could say hello, they had already rushed to the front. When Pang Zi turned his head, he saw that the officers and cavalry who were still in order reined in their horses and actually began to turn around, they actually retreated in front of Pang Zi's team, and they actually fled!

Pang Zi was willing to let go of this opportunity, "Brothers, rush!" The officers and soldiers fled! "The rifles captured from the Canal Defense Battalion were intended for infantry and were not at all suitable for fighting on horseback. Many of the brothers failed to hit an enemy even after firing a few shots. When they saw that Pang Zi no longer fired, but brandished his long knife to direct the charge, they simply gave up their intention to continue shooting, and also drew their broadswords, or simply used their rifles as short spears, waving them and rushing at the back of the fleeing enemy.

In the face of the fleeing enemy, no matter how Pang Zi urged the horse, he couldn't catch up. A few miles of land rushed over in just a moment, but those gray-uniformed officers and soldiers suddenly stopped, as if they were stunned by the desperate charge of Pang Zi and the brothers of the dart game, ready to fight against the water. They lined up in a long horizontal line, so that the line of standing in line looked thin and could be crossed with a single rush. Then the sound of a leaking pot of water, like a shrill whistle, overwhelmed the only sound of horses' hooves running in the earth.

The old brothers, who shouted and galloped loudly, seemed to have suddenly crashed into an invisible barrier, and as if they had been slammed by an invisible whip, they bounced off their horses with blood and bounced to the ground, and in an instant they were planted on the ground, while others, by their horses screaming in pain, suddenly writhed and fell to the ground, and then trampled over, completely lifeless.

"Turn your head, don't stop, keep putting the gun down." Pang Zi roared loudly, just a few breaths, the horse team of two hundred people, lost a large piece, Pang Zi saw clearly, hidden in the bushes at the edge of the jujube forest, spit out two lines of fire, like a poisonous python raging among his companions, it was the heavy machine gun of the Beiyang Army, it was actually ambushed on their flank. Blazing warheads creaked and flew in the air, bursting with blood from humans and horses.

Then some of the other horse brothers, who had managed to escape the platoon of guns, had already rushed to the gray skins who had retreated again. The gray-clothed officer at the head of the formation raised his snowy saber high, and then swung it down heavily. The officers and cavalrymen sat firmly on their horses, aimed at the galloping dart brothers, and began to shoot in a neat row.

Under such a shot, the horses of the dart brothers suddenly fell forward in unison, and even the men and horses were slammed to the ground, or they were splashed with blood in the chest, and then, as if they had been pushed violently, they fell backwards from their horses. Before the brothers who had fallen to the ground could get up in pain, the cavalrymen of the officers and soldiers pulled the bolts, reloaded their bullets, and continued to shoot at the brothers who continued to rush forward. Immediately and the brothers on the ground were fired at the ground by more than 300 people, and they were knocked to the ground one after another, and the splatters of blood soaked a large area of the ground as they struggled.

At this moment, Pang Zi was extremely deeply aware of the difference between the so-called militia armed forces and the regular new army trained by the imperial court.

"Don't come along...... Disperse," he shouted in pain, but the screams and screams of the men and horses on the battlefield easily overwhelmed his efforts, and the frenzy of rushing and killing made most people ignore the prior agreement, so Pang Zi could only watch as more people followed their dust and smoke to catch up. The herd mentality of the crowd made them fall into this line of death constructed by a row of guns and machine guns in a short period of time.

As the most powerful shock horse team was killed and wounded, revealing the chaotic follow-up horse team composed of mules, donkeys, and other large animals at a loss, the horn was also sounded among the officers and men. Then behind the gray array, which had been much sparser, dust also began to surge, and the cavalry of the official army also began to dispatch, and after defeating and dispersing the fiercest horse teams that rushed away, those officers and soldiers wielding standard sabers began to chase these "anti-thieves" who lost their fighting spirit and scattered and fled.

The brothers of the dart game collapsed in an instant, and it was not just a head-on battle. At some point, the two armies had already outflanked the position from which Pang Zi had set out, and the organized resistance on the position had collapsed. More than 40 officers and cavalry were chasing and killing more than 20 dart brothers who were in a mess and constantly retreating. Now Pang Zi has fallen into a state of being attacked from front to back.

"Brothers, come with me! Rush west! Pang Zi gave the final order in this battle. Then he set an example, urged his horses, and fled westward.