"It is absolutely impossible to withdraw, not to mention that there is no way to explain to the governor, if the Sichuan army pursues during the withdrawal, the entire army may collapse..."Of course, you can also leave some people to block, but now the second line of defense has 6 regiments of troops and the Sichuan army is engaged in a tug-of-war, and the two wings need at least more than 10,000 people to effectively block, in this case, at most a few thousand people can be withdrawn, and more than 20,000 people are left behind for the sake of a few thousand people, what is the difference between withdrawing and not withdrawing?

"Then we'll have to wait for help," the officer said with a wry smile.

Fortunately, the people asking for help have been dispatched, Tongnan is only more than 40 kilometers away from Tongliang, and it can be reached in an hour at the earliest. After deducting the time required to gather troops and march, they only had to hold out until midnight.

"In the middle of the night? I don't know if I'll be able to make it to that point..."

At this moment, an officer of the Shu army suddenly ran over from the rear. "Your Excellency!"

Although he was a little upset about the current matter, after recognizing that this officer was from the alliance group, Wang Tianjie still asked with a pleasant face. "What's the matter?"

After looking around and finding that there were a lot of people around, the officer walked up to Wang Tianjie and said softly in a voice that only a few people around him could hear. "My lord, we have found a cavalry unit in the rear, which is likely to be the cavalry regiment of the Sichuan army."

Although he was shocked, Wang Tianjie still waved his hand. "Got it, you go down first."

“… Then he retired first. ”

After the officers retreated, the officers who had just persuaded Wang Tianjie to withdraw took two steps forward. "Your Excellency..."

"Alas..."Wang Tianjie sighed. Even the back road has been outflanked, and it seems that it is impossible to withdraw this time. ”

"Indeed, now we can only hold on and wait for help."

There are not a lot of cavalry in a regiment, but in the case that there are 6 regiments in the front, and at least 5 regiments are needed on both wings, the strength of 4 regiments does not say whether they can break through the interception of the cavalry regiment, even if they break through, the road of more than 40 kilometers is just disturbed, and the cavalry regiment can also be disturbed...

In this case, apart from sticking to and waiting for help, Wang Tianjie has no other good way.

After sending the troops of the six regiments to the two flanks to be responsible for the flank security, Wang Tianjie arranged the strength of the three regiments in the rear, so as not to take advantage of the situation when the cavalry regiments in the rear were attacked on the two flanks or frontally. At this point, except for the reserve of a regiment, Wang Tianjie has no strength in his hands that can be deployed.

At the same time, although Wang Tianjie and other officers who knew about it were deliberately concealing it, the news that the back road was intercepted quickly spread throughout the army. Looking at the Sichuan army whose wings had slowly opened the iron net, and imagining the cavalry troops in the rear, the entire Shu army quickly became popular.

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"Governor, the troops have arrived at their intended positions." Half an hour later, an officer in a black uniform ran over and said.

"So let's get started..."

Five minutes later, the first to strike was the artillery unit, which had been out of service.

Although the amount of ammunition reserves is a worrying problem, as long as the Shu army in front of you can be taken, then the next battle will be nothing even without the participation of artillery.

Because in the second line of defense, the 2 regiments belonging to their own side are engaged in a tug-of-war with the 6 regiments of the Shu army, so all 72 field guns are aimed at the third line of defense. Although the effect of field artillery on trenches and other fortifications is not as good as that of mountain artillery (light howitzers), and considering the problem of ammunition reserves, it is necessary to use them sparingly, but the shelling of 72 field guns still effectively intercepted the reinforcement of the Shu army to the second line of defense by the third line of defense.

"Can't you rush up?" Backed by a trench in the third line of defense, a well-dressed officer is humane to his subordinates.

The pipe band patted the dirt off the hat, then shook his head at his boss. "No, my lord, the shelling of the Sichuan army outside is too strong, if you rush out at this time, there will be a lot of casualties."

"There's no other way?" As he spoke, the commander wanted to poke his head out to see what was going on in the second line of defense, but before he could pop his head out, he felt a black in front of him, and then he didn't feel anything.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!" The Shu troops in other positions were all shocked when they saw that a shell hit the position where the command belt and the pipe belt were located. However, when they dug up the blasted earth, they found only two mutilated corpses.

Field artillery is not inferior to mountain artillery, and the trajectory is straight, so it is often difficult to hit such a fortification directly as a trench. And if it is not a heavy cannon of sufficient caliber, as long as it is not directly hit, it is difficult to inflict effective casualties on soldiers hiding in trenches.

These two officers of the Shu army must not have made incense when they went out in the morning, or they did some obscene actions when they were incense, otherwise the probability of encountering this kind of thing is really very small...

The meteor shower smashed on the third line of defense, although few of them were able to directly hit the trenches, but looking at the dust and shrapnel that would be raised from time to time outside, those soldiers who were supposed to go up to support at this time really couldn't go up to death...

Looking at the soldiers who looked "even if you shoot me, I won't go up", the officers were helpless but helpless.

In the final analysis, the Shu army is just a temporary patchwork army with no organization and discipline. Fortunately, at this time, Wang Tianjie came up in person with a team of overseers braving artillery fire, otherwise the soldiers in the third line of defense might really sit back and watch the second line of defense fall and ignore it.

Looking at Wang Tianjie's cold expression, as well as the gun in the hands of the supervising team, greeting Wang Tianjie's whole family in their mouths, the soldiers could only rush forward with artillery fire.

A Shu soldier breathed a sigh of relief when he saw reinforcements coming up. "You dogs are finally coming up." As he spoke, he used the body of his gun to open up a Sichuan soldier who came up to fight for stabbing.

"If it weren't for the guy surnamed Wang who came up with the Overseer team, do you think we'd really want to go?" Taking advantage of the gap between the Sichuan army and the erection of the Sichuan army, the reinforced soldiers took advantage of the situation and stabbed the bayonet into his chest.

After stabbing the Sichuan soldier to death, the reinforcement soldier pulled the bayonet out of his chest, but just as he wanted to greet Wang Tianjie's family, the crisp gunfire caused both of them to fall to the ground.

Throwing the empty magazine to the ground, Xu Hu reloaded a magazine. "Damn, I didn't expect this group of dogs to really dare to brave the cannonballs."

At this time, Sun Desheng suddenly appeared from another direction.

After seeing Sun Desheng's appearance clearly, Xu Hu, who had already pointed over, lowered the muzzle of his gun. "You should thank me, if I had gone off the rails just now you would have been lying on the ground." Xu Hu asked provocatively. "I've killed seven, what about you?"

"Smack!" Killing a Shu soldier who emerged from behind Xu Hu, Sun Desheng walked past Xu Hu. "Now it's eight."

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