"My lord, it's already noon, let's eat something to cushion my stomach first..."Wang Tianjie's adjutant walked over with two steamed buns in his hand and persuaded.

Wang Tianjie shook his head. "You eat first, I don't have an appetite right now."

Indeed, the current Wang Tianjie has no appetite at all. According to the original plan, Wang Tianjie and the 30,000 Shu army were supposed to hold out in Tongnan County for at least three days, and then slowly retreat to the defensive line at Tongliang. In Tongliang County, Zhang Peijue and 30,000 Shu troops will be on standby, and it is also the first line of defense in the true sense.

As for Tongnan County? It's just to show the determination of the Shu army's political axe to resolutely resist.

It's just that now that half a day has passed, and the sun has just risen overhead, the Sichuan army has already taken the first line of defense, and formed a tug-of-war with the soldiers of the 6 regiments who went to recapture the defense line. You must know that it is only two regiments, except for the soldiers on other positions, now Wang Tianjie can only deploy more than 10,000 people, if the Sichuan army really launches a full-scale onslaught, I am afraid that the defense in Tongnan will not be able to hold out for even a day.

"If that's the case, I really don't know how to explain to Lie Five..."

Although Wang Tianjie himself has no appetite, this does not mean that others are the same. Not to mention that Yan Guang on the other side was gnawing on a chicken leg, just to mention that among the soldiers of the Shu Army under Wang Tianjie, there were also many soldiers who were eating steamed buns.

"Give me food quickly, give me food quickly, and continue to rush up after eating!" A young man with a fast gun on his back and dressed as an officer said while nibbling on steamed buns. "In any case, we must recapture the lost positions today."

The soldiers near the officer ignored him, just squatting in the distance and nibbling on the coarse steamed buns that had just been handed out.

The Shu army implemented a two-meal system, not the three-meal system of the new army or the Sichuan army, so it could only eat once a day near noon and evening, although this could not allow the soldiers to maintain sufficient physical fitness all the time, but at least save food. Originally, the soldiers here should have eaten a long time ago, but the position was captured more than half an hour ago, which made the whole battle white-hot, and they soldiers naturally couldn't eat. Now that I finally retreated, I naturally had to seize the opportunity to fill my stomach.

After 5 or 6 minutes, the soldiers who had finished eating leaned against the trenches, holding the guns in their hands to rest, and those who had not finished eating hurried to finish eating, so as not to have a chance to eat for a while.

Just then, a herald suddenly ran over.

"So fast?" The officer who had just finished eating the steamed bun looked at the herald who ran over and frowned.

Hearing the officer's words, the herald wiped his sweat breathlessly. "Platoon commander, I can't help it, the above means that we must take the position back as soon as possible." As he spoke, the herald looked at a few soldiers who were hurrying to stuff steamed buns into their mouths when they saw him coming. "There are still 10 minutes left, and in ten minutes all 6 regiments of troops will attack."

"Got it, you can go back to the team first."

"Yes!" After saluting, the herald ran back to the ranks.

In fact, this herald is the most unlucky one, because he hasn't eaten until just now, and now he can only hurry up and stuff two steamed buns into his stomach.

Squinting his eyes at the position that already belonged to the opponent a hundred meters away, the officer smiled bitterly after looking at the earthen muskets used by his brothers and Lin Dengming. "Take it back sooner? It would be nice to be able to keep this position under our feet. As he spoke, the officer took off the quick gun on his back and wiped the dust on it with his hands. "But it's really strange, why didn't those guys in the Sichuan army attack after they captured the first line of positions? Could it be some conspiracy? ”

In fact, Wang Tianjie had already thought of the things that this officer suspected, after all, this kind of thing was too strange. But what if you doubt it? Can you still give up Tongnan and retreat to Tongliang? I can only squat here to see the move.

However, Wang Tianjie still made some conjectures about Yan Guang's conspiracy, but Wang Tianjie didn't even think about the "dumplings" thing. After all, Wang Tianjie has more than 30,000 people in his hands, while Yan Guang has only 20,000 people in his hands. If it's just a defeat, it may be easy for the latter, but making dumplings?

Don't forget, there are more than 10,000 more people in the former than in the latter!

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"You're almost ready, right?" Standing in the command post, Yan Guang said to Zhu Qinglan.

Although there were still many opinions, Zhu Qinglan still nodded. "It's all ready."

"The ammunition has also been distributed?"

"All of them have been distributed, but the number of grenades is not very large, so after distributing ten to each of the cavalry regiments, the four infantry regiments on both flanks can only have two per person..."

Yan Guang sighed. "If an encirclement is formed, then the most pressure will be the cavalry regiment that robbed the bottom, and there is no way to distribute most of the grenades to them..." The most important thing is that the arsenal has not had enough time to start, although it can now produce more than 2,000 pieces, but it is only the level of one regiment per person. According to the standard of combat in the morning, the two regiments need at least 20,000 or 30,000 pieces a day, and if it weren't for the fact that there was still some pressure on the bottom of the box, I'm afraid that now there would be no guarantee for even one person...

"Anyway, as long as you can eat the Shu army on the opposite side in one bite, then the battle between Tongliang and Yucheng will be much easier."

Although Yan Guang looked full of confidence, whether it was Zhu Qinglan or the officer in charge of logistics, even Yang Shan was wondering, could this battle really go as smoothly as Yan Guang thought?

But anyway, now that everything is ready, Yan Guang, the governor, has also decided to do this, and their subordinates can only obey their orders and try their best to do their jobs.

"Fortunately, the strength of the Shu army on the other side is very poor, even if this "encirclement" plan cannot be successful, it will not weaken the strength of its own side too much..."Looking at Yan Guang and Sunil and others, who were very confident, Zhu Qinglan and Yang Shan said secretly.

Half an hour later, the soldiers of the two regiments, who were resting on the forward defense line, received a signal and took the initiative to attack the second line of defense of the Shu army for the first time.

"It seems that it's going to be real..."Putting the telescope down, Wang Tianjie muttered.

Although they paid a certain price when occupying the first line of defense, with the advantage of equipment and training, the two regiments still had more than 3,000 soldiers who could fight, and because of the comparison with each other, the morale of the soldiers was still quite strong...

Just when Wang Tianjie put down the binoculars, Yan Guang also put down his binoculars. "When more than 10,000 people on the opposite side are pinned down in the second line of defense, the plan will be implemented, understand?"

"Understood!"

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