On November 3, Songbo reorganized the Shaanxi and Gansu army, and even under various temptations and generous treatments, in the end, only more than 60,000 people were willing to follow Songbo to the south, and the rest were unwilling to leave their relatives and leave their hometowns, and became enemies with their families from then on.

Songbo couldn't force it at all, after all, everyone had their own ambitions, and the soldiers who were unwilling to go south with him were not two or three hundred, but twenty or thirty thousand, if they were forced, it would likely lead to a mutiny.

Following Songfan to the south, in addition to the 40,000 Shaanxi army, there were only 20,000 Gan troops, of which 10,000 were Ma Jiajun led by Ma Qianling, and the remaining 10,000 were those who had no worries or could not withstand the temptation of Songbo's high-ranking officials.

At noon, Songfan led an army of 60,000 and left Baoji in a hurry, due to the lack of supplies, before leaving, Songfan's army almost looted all the grain shops, clothing shops, salt shops, and iron shops in Baoji County, not to spend money to buy, but to loot!

In particular, the Ma family army led by Ma Qianling lost all their conscience, not only looting, but also killing people and setting fires, destroying the entire Baoji County.

The military discipline of the Gan army has always been extremely poor, last year's Boxer Rebellion, after the Gan army entered Yanjing, it had been with countless Boxer people, burning and looting Yanjing City, if it were not for the strong entry of Wang Jundao later, I am afraid that Yanjing City was not destroyed by foreigners, it was first destroyed by the Gan Army.

Songfan led the army all the way south, and the places he passed along the way were almost restless, if it weren't for the soldiers from Shaanxi, there were many people who were kind to their hometowns, but they were afraid that the damage would be more serious.

When the Dragon and Tiger Army arrived in Baoji, they saw the tragedy in Baoji County, and both the officers and soldiers were so angry that they were red-eyed, and they wanted to break Songfan and the army he led into pieces.

Since the day they became the Dragon and Tiger Army, all the officers and men of the Dragon and Tiger Army have been instilled with the idea of protecting the family and defending the country, being loyal to the monarch and loving the people.

For them, the common people of the whole of China are their brothers and sisters, their parents and relatives, they will never oppress the people, never harm the people, any soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army who disturb the people and bully the people will be severely punished, and even expelled from the army, and their superiors will be punished even more severely.

Therefore, wherever the Dragon and Tiger Army goes, it has always helped the people without asking for anything in return, and it is precisely because of this that no matter how cruel the Dragon and Tiger Army is to the enemy, even if it massacres prisoners on a large scale, it can still get the strong support of the people.

But now, such a tragedy happened in front of their eyes, and all the soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army were eager to catch up with Songfan immediately and completely destroy Songfan and the army he led.

When these situations were transmitted to Wang Jundao by telegram, Wang Jundao only gave one order: chase and destroy!

Under Wang Jundao's order, all the cavalry of the six major army corps were combined into a cavalry division, and a part of the special combat brigade was temporarily combined with it, and the sixth army corps's most combat-friendly mountain reading brigade and reading force regiment were selected, plus the sixth division and five mortar companies of the second army corps, all of which were combined together, as the vanguard, led by Tang Jian himself, to pursue and annihilate the Shaanxi-Gansu coalition army moving south at all costs.

A southern front chase was about to enter winter, kicking off from Baoji, Shaanxi Province.

Because the 60,000 people of the Shaanxi-Gansu coalition army were burning, killing and looting all the way south, the speed was extremely slow, and after going south from Dasanguan, the roads were winding and rugged, and the mountains and jungles were all over the place, and they could not walk 80 miles in a day.

In contrast, the 40,000 vanguard army of the Dragon and Tiger Army, with the whole army carrying dry rations, struggled to pursue south, marching nearly 150 miles a day, while the vanguard of the vanguard was composed of six cavalry regiments, two all-round special operations assault groups, and two mortar companies, with Cao Futian, deputy commander of the Second Army Corps, personally serving as the commander, and marching at least 200 miles a day.

In two days, the vanguard caught up with the Shaanxi-Gansu coalition army in the north of Hanshui north of Nanzheng, of course, it was not really caught up, but only more than ten miles away from the Shaanxi-Gansu coalition army.

Cao Futian did not immediately attack, but let the troops rest on the spot, he knew that in the near future, the Shaanxi-Gansu coalition army would definitely discover the existence of the Dragon and Tiger Army, and once it was discovered that the Dragon and Tiger Army was not large in number, it would definitely take the initiative to lead troops to attack in order to cover its southward movement.

Sure enough, in order to gain more time and find more ships to cross the Han River as soon as possible, Songfan asked Ma Qianling, who took the initiative to ask for battle, to lead the Ma Jiajun to attack the vanguard led by Cao Futian!

The distance of more than ten miles is not much time for the cavalry, but at this time, the knights of the vanguard of the Dragon and Tiger Army have been resting for nearly an hour, and the fifty light mortars carried with the cavalry have already been erected.

This kind of mortar is light in weight, high muzzle velocity, long range, easy to use, can be carried by a single soldier, is most suitable for mountain and jungle operations, is a mortar equipped with a large number of the Sixth Army, but because it is the vanguard of the army, lightly armed, even if there are hundreds of horses specially used to carry weapons and ammunition, can not carry a large number of shells, so only 50 guns.

In addition, there are twenty-four small-caliber heavy machine guns and forty-eight light machine guns, all of which have been set up, just waiting for Ma Jiajun to come and die!

More than ten minutes later, the 10,000 cavalry of the Ma Jiajun really appeared, and soon, the Ma Jiajun was only three thousand meters away from the mortar position and had already entered the range of the mortar, but Cao Futian did not give the order to open fire.

It wasn't until Ma Jiajun entered the range of one thousand meters that Cao Futian gave an order.

In a few moments, fifty mortars were fired in order, and the shells rushed straight to the charging position of the Ma Jiajun.

This kind of light mortar, the caliber is 66mm, the weight is only 36 catties, the firing range is 100 meters to 3500 meters, the rate of fire is 30 rounds a minute, the shell is TNT high-explosive shells, weighing 3 catties, the killing radius is nearly 15 meters, and the power is extremely terrifying.

The mortar shells brought a near-devastating blow to the Ma family's army, and on a front nearly a thousand meters deep, hundreds of shells fell, turning countless horses and cavalry into stumps and flesh and blood.

But even so, Ma Jiajun still rushed forward without fear of death, but then they were greeted by dozens of light and heavy machine guns, and the dense rain of bullets almost turned the area of nearly 500 meters on the battlefield into a death zone in an instant.

However, the soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army will not have any sympathy because of Ma Jiajun's wailing and screaming and ashes, because these Ma Jiajun in front of them are not people, they are beasts, they are beasts that deserve to die, and there will be no compassion for killing birds and beasts.

Behind the Ma family's army formation, Ma Qianling, who was looking at the tragedy in front of him from afar, had an earthy face, and couldn't help but tremble violently, this is not a war, it is a massacre!

In just over ten minutes, not a single cavalry of the Ma Jiajun was able to rush within 100 meters in front of the Dragon and Tiger Army's formation.

It was not until the Ma Jiajun lost more than a third of its cavalry due to the dense mortars and machine guns of the Dragon and Tiger Army that Cao Futian suddenly pulled out his command knife and issued the order to charge.

The knights of the Dragon and Tiger Army suddenly crashed towards the trembling Ma Jiajun in front of them like a torrent descending the mountain.

Many of the knights who rushed to the front were holding submachine guns in one hand and knights' knives in the other, firing while firing and swinging knives, and the rest were also holding twenty-shot shell guns in one hand and knights' knives in the other.

Before the hand-to-hand encounter with the Ma Jiajun, less than half of the Ma Jiajun were still on horseback, and soon, the knights of the Dragon and Tiger Army collided with the cavalry of the Ma Jiajun......

The two armies clashed, and flesh and blood flew!

The interpretation of hot and cold weapons, the duel of cavalry!

The knights of the Dragon and Tiger Army each had at least one twenty-round shell gun, and they often shot Ma Jiajun while swinging a knife and slashing at it.

The knights of the Dragon and Tiger Army have gone through nearly a year of hard training, and in the past two months, they have fought from Shanxi to Shaanxi, and everyone's horse marksmanship and knife skills have been tempered by blood.

In terms of weapons, Ma Jiajun has almost no guns, most of them use cold weapons, and the quality of their sabers is not as good as the knight knives of the Dragon and Tiger Army!

In terms of cooperation, the knights of the Ma Jiajun have always had few opponents, advocating being alone, and do not like to cooperate with others, but the momentum of the Dragon and Tiger Army is different, often three people or five people form a combat group, and several combat groups will faintly form a combat group, and several combat groups will faintly form a combat group. If one of the combat teams loses cooperation due to the sacrifice of someone, they will quickly move closer to the next team and regroup.

The number of Ma Jiajun's cannonballs and bullets was only half of that of the Dragon and Tiger Army, and the final result can be imagined.

After fighting on the battlefield for more than an hour, Ma Jiajun was finally defeated, Ma Qianling and his son Ma Fushou led the remnants of more than 1,000 horsemen to flee south, and another son, Ma Fucai, in order to break the queen, gave Ma Qianling and Ma Fushou time to flee south, and was killed by Cao Futian.

However, the Dragon and Tiger Army would not let go of Ma Qianling and Ma Fushou because of this, so Cao Futian personally led more than 9,000 Dragon and Tiger Knights to chase after him! (To be continued.) )