readx; The first round of frontal attacks launched by the thieves was easily repulsed by the officers and soldiers, who suffered sixty or seventy casualties on the part of the thieves, and the officers and soldiers were unscathed except for one bombardier who was wounded by a bow and arrow. Xie Yong, the general who directly commanded the battle www.biquge.info the pen "Fun", only nodded slightly, because such a result was completely unexpected by him.

From the very beginning of the founding of the Qin Army, Zhu Youzhen was determined to build this army into a modern army. This modernization includes the modernization of ideological quality, weaponry, establishment, training, logistics, and actual combat. Except for the aspect of ideological quality, which could not carry out in-depth work due to various limitations, several other aspects have always been the goal for which Zhu Youzhen and all the officers and men have been working hard since the day the Qin soldiers formed the army.

Zhu Youzhen's thinking is also very simple. As a person who traveled from modern times to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he naturally knew that there was only one result for the modern army against the ancient army, and that was to crush. And what he wants is to crush, because the Ming Empire is now full of holes, like a terminally ill patient, and the two most prominent problems are financial difficulties and lack of food.

These two difficulties determined that Zhu Youzhen could not raise millions of troops to fight against the Manchus and thieves, and could only take the route of elite soldiers. In other words, it is necessary to create an army with relatively few troops, but a large increase in combat effectiveness to the enemy. Such an army is destined to use advanced and sophisticated weapons and superb strategies and tactics to restrain the enemy, and cannot adopt the tactics of crowd warfare, which was most commonly used in ancient China.

Therefore, the tactical thinking of the Qin soldiers has always been to emphasize the preservation of oneself and the destruction of the enemy's living forces, and on the premise of ensuring the completion of tactical intentions, the pursuit of low casualties or even zero casualties as much as possible. Even if there is a complete victory, if there are unnecessary casualties, all the soldiers must make a summary and review. Therefore, despite the fact that the casualty ratio was nearly 100 to 1, Xie Yong and his soldiers were still very calm and did not feel that there was anything to be excited about.

It's not the same with the thieves. For Gao Yingxiang, the loss of dozens of people in a battle is really a trivial matter. Not to mention dozens of people, he has experienced a vicious battle and a reduction of tens of thousands of troops.

However, from last night to today, these battles have been extremely poor, although the thieves have not suffered many casualties, but there are almost no casualties among the officers and soldiers, and Gao Yingxiang has never fought such a battle. Even if Hong Chengchou is cunning with his soldiers, Gao Jie is not afraid of death, and Zu Kuan's iron cavalry is rampant, every time he fights, Gao Yingxiang is defeated very badly, but it is impossible for no one on the other side not to die! What's more, after having tens of thousands of iron horses, Gao Yingxiang no longer even cares about Hong Chengchou, and feels that he can gallop the Central Plains, and he can't stop it.

But today, his army of iron cavalry was blocked by Sun Chuanting, and it was blocked with very few troops. Due to the terrain restrictions, although the thieves have strong troops, they cannot be deployed, so they can only attack Caolian Ridge along the path, which is more difficult than attacking a city, which has four walls.

And what annoyed Gao Yingxiang even more was that the officers and soldiers obviously had spare strength, but they just didn't fight with the thieves. When the thieves attack the ridge, they shoot and shoot, relying on the advantage of range to suppress the opponent, and at most throw a grenade. After the thieves suffered heavy casualties, they retreated, and the officers and troops did not counterattack, it seemed that there was no pursuit, and shouting slogans such as "capture Gao Yingxiang alive" was purely to anger people. Even the cannon that repeatedly fired last night stopped firing today, and Sun Chuanting put on a posture of "those who wish to take the bait", waiting for the thieves to come and die.

The frontal attack made no progress, and the attacks on the hills on both sides were also thwarted by the officers and troops. It was Gu Junen who commanded the battle on the thief's side, and he ordered two teams of about 1,000 people each to climb the embrace-shaped East and West Ridge first, and then approach the Caolian Ridge from the ridge.

Unfortunately, these two ridges and Caolian Ridge are not connected, but belong to different peaks. That is to say, it is impossible to walk directly to the Caolian Ridge from these two mountains, and you have to come down to attack the Caolian Ridge when you go up.

The thieves gasped and quickly climbed to the top of the mountain. The Ming army occupied this place yesterday, but the thieves didn't know how many people came up. When I finally climbed up, I realized that the tops of these two mountains were very small and could not accommodate many troops at all.

Since he came up, Gu Junen could only let the thieves approach from the ridge to Caolian Ridge, trying to rely on the top of the mountain to be higher than the position of the official army in the middle of the mountain, and condescendingly release arrows at the official army. But the top of the mountain is not as flat as the bottom of the valley, and there is a mountain road; The march on the top of the hill was difficult, the first wave of frontal attacks had already begun for half a day, but the thieves on the ridges on both sides were still far away from the positions of the officers and troops, and they could not shoot arrows at all.

And the officers and soldiers naturally would not let them come over easily, and the officers of the artillery battalion shouted: "Aim at the thieves piled up on the ridge, prepare, release!" ”

I only heard the roar of rapid-fire cannons, and the fourteen rapid-fire cannons fired a fierce salvo, hitting all the shells on the east and west ridges. Rapid-fire guns were not needed for a frontal assault, but they came in handy at this time, because the distance between the two sides was at least one or two hundred paces, which was exactly the range of rapid-fire guns. Cannonballs are not like bows and arrows, even if they are fired from the back, it doesn't matter, the power is still the same.

In an instant, the area around the point of impact was bombarded by cannonballs, and of course mixed with the scraps of minced meat of the thieves who were hit. In addition to being directly hit by shells, there were also many thieves who fell down the ridge because they did not stand still or were frightened, and the dead and wounded were no less than those killed by direct bombardment. Those who were lucky enough not to be injured did not dare to go any further, because it was still far away from the officers and soldiers after walking for half a day, and there was still a deep valley in the middle.

Moreover, as in the frontal battlefield, the gunners of the officers and soldiers were only satisfied with bombing the thieves on the ridge and could not threaten themselves. There were still many thieves at the bottom of the valley within range, because the formation was denser, and even more successful than bombarding the thieves on the hills, but the gunners ignored them.

The assault in three directions failed, and Gao Yingxiang was very angry, and roared at his generals. was so frightened that Liu Zhe and the others didn't dare to speak, only Gu Junen dared to talk: "King Chuang, I don't think the enemy's fighting style is very reasonable!" Obviously, they have cannons and birds, and they are farther than us, so why don't they take them? ”

"And why do you say?" Gao Yingxiang said angrily.

"I think it's the lack of ammunition in the officers and soldiers!" Gu Junen said firmly, "On the one hand, King Chuang can continue to send troops to attack, and on the other hand, he will send strange soldiers to bypass Caolian Ridge far away, and go over the mountains to outflank the enemy's rear road, and Sun Chuanting can be captured in one battle!" ”

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