Fan Ming can be regarded as knowing what moral kidnapping is, and he finally knows that since he has already boarded the thief ship, he will inevitably be involuntarily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info so the company commander of the 1st Armored Division could only sigh, and then followed behind this unit and killed in the direction of Mukden, which was full of dangers.

It's a pity that God seems to be fighting against this already weak Ming army, and as soon as they set off, a tank was paralyzed on the side of the road due to a malfunction. The only 13 tanks remained, and the tanks and assault guns, accompanied by less than a company of mechanized infantry, quickly moved south along the road, reaching speeds of up to 20 kilometers per hour.

This was not a safe advance on their own territory, but a surprise attack in enemy-occupied territory - 20 kilometers per hour, and if they did not encounter any enemy resistance, they could reach the gates of the Mukden Governor's Palace in an hour.

The Ming army set out from Qingshuitai and only ran a little more than 8 kilometers, and there was a scene in front of them that frightened them, with undulating barracks and camps, as well as countless artillery positions like a giant dragon, across their path.

At this time of the season, the sky was still very bright, and the cavalry of the reconnaissance went out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and the attacking troops of the Ming army could only stop and simply arrange the attack task of encountering the enemy. The commanders of the Praetorian Guard were not as experienced as Fan Ming in this regard, so in the end, these students still remembered their teacher and pushed the problem to Fan Ming, who was already a little numb.

The place where they stopped was an abandoned barracks outside the wall, which was originally part of the fortress set up by the Jin rebels near Mukden, and the barracks within the courtyard wall were semi-underground hidden houses, with vegetation on the roof to camouflage, and there were bunk beds for soldiers to stay in, and a table for the head of the room.

Because a few months ago, the troops here participated in a sneak attack on Mukden and finally captured Mukden, the largest city of the Ming Dynasty in the northeast, so there is no need to garrison troops here. The troops who were originally responsible for guarding this place have been transferred to the Liaohe defense line, so what is left here is a sad mess.

The messy wooden beds were empty, some of the soldiers' worthless bits and pieces were discarded on them, there were some bullet casings and other gadgets in the corners, and some incendiary slogans were written on the walls. Unfortunately, the normally bustling barracks were now empty, leaving only a ghostly gloom, which made everyone who saw these facilities feel a little uncomfortable.

Farther away, there are some preset artillery positions, the surface has been tamped and reinforced, and in many places there are anti-slope bunkers to hide artillery and ammunition. Originally, it was the largest and most fortified fortress between the two hostile forces, including the hospital barracks, ammunition depots, airfield artillery positions, and fortress bunkers...... Everything here was designed to slaughter more Ming soldiers, and the irony was that there was now a group of Ming troops standing behind such a wide position.

In the distance, you can see behind some of the reinforced concrete permanent fortifications facing the Pu River. It is connected to various trenches and communication trenches, forming a complex and huge defense system like a spider's web. In the past, these systems intersected, forming a dense network of fire that was difficult to break through, and the Ming army could not move forward even at a huge cost, devouring thousands of lives here, which was like a nightmare for the Ming army.

"If our tanks had been made earlier...... Perhaps the Battle of Mukden is our direct attack on them. Fan Ming looked at the walls that were already overgrown with weeds and creepers because of the long construction time and the deliberate lack of tidying up on weekdays, and sighed with some regret: "If that's the case, there is no need to go to such great lengths, the Liaohe defense line is just a paper defense line." ”

The non-commissioned officer of the Praetorian Guard nodded, then shook his head again, and said with a smile: "If the border army had such courage as the new army at that time, and the border general had the commander of the country, Your Majesty would not have thought of building the Praetorian Guard with brocade clothes...... I may still be serving in Gyeonggi, but I'm still just a small soldier. ”

While the two of them were lamenting the completely different life trajectories due to the formation of the new army and events such as the Battle of Mukden, the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard, who had dispersed to investigate, returned to the temporary location of the entire army along the same road. The message they bring back is very important and the content can also be called all-encompassing.

First of all, the original Puhe defense line, where thousands of garrison troops were originally stationed, had already been taken away by Ye Hehao Lian, who had returned south to Mukden, in the afternoon. Now that these places have been abandoned, not even a watchman can be found—at least a few kilometers away from the border, and the scattered Ming cavalry could not find any trace of the enemy's ambush or garrison.

Another piece of news was that after half an hour's rapid march, they had indeed caught up with the rearguard of the Jin rebels who had just arrived near the Puhe defense line. There were about 3,000 men on the other side, most of whom were slow-moving infantry, and because of this, they were left last by Ye Hehao Lian to block the vanguard of the Ming army that might pursue and kill here.

Because of the lack of restraint, the Jin rebel army did not cross the river quickly. This unit was originally not very organized and disciplined, otherwise it would not have done such a thing as slaughtering villages and looting. They were making a mess on the east bank of a bridge over the Pu River, apparently unaware that the Ming army was only less than a kilometer away from them.

"It's not easy...... If the other side is prepared, it may blow up the bridge directly because of the battle at any time...... We now have to discuss how to launch an offensive and take out this rebel rearguard. Fan Ming looked at the sketch of the map drawn by the reconnaissance unit with pencil and white paper, and said to the non-commissioned officer of the Praetorian Guard with some depression.

Because they were attacking so fast that they had already exceeded the long-distance prediction of the day's advance. Therefore, the logistics troops of the Ming army did not prepare a map around Fengtian City for these front-line combat troops, so Fan Ming only had a sketch in his hand now.

It is difficult enough to rely on this kind of sketch, which has no landmarks, no heights, and no distance annotations, to be able to command a detailed local battle. Fan Ming thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that it was inappropriate to use a precise battle plan in this situation, so he folded the map in his hand and asked the Praetorian Guard officer in front of him: "Do you have the guts?" Let's fight once? (To be continued.) )