Chapter 428: Movement Warfare

Under the city of Shaoguan, Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses rushed forward like moths and tigers fighting fire, and they were not afraid of artillery fire on the city wall.

Even as he watched his comrades-in-arms and companions in front of him blow up to pieces, Zhang's soldiers and horses had to rush forward, because Zhang Xianzhong had already ordered that whoever dared to take a step back would be killed.

Looking back is Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters, supervising the battle behind him, and the front is the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army, maybe many refugees will regret following Zhang Xianzhong at this moment.

"Kill, kill."

The shouts under the city wall are getting more and more intensive, which also means that Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses are rushing to the city wall more and more, and under this situation, they will attack the city in less than an hour.

Jiang Zhixin wrinkled and held a curved bow in his hand, and fired arrows at the Zhang people who rushed over, according to the time agreed with Australia, they should also arrive, if they don't get to the city, they will be broken, I'm afraid it will be too late, the more Jiang Zhixin thinks about it, the more he regrets letting the Australians out of the city, if there is the support of the Australians at this time, it is conceivable that this will be the case, at least they can't attack.

It is useless to regret it, everything has become a fact, and we can only pray that the Australians will come soon to solve the current crisis.

"Look, General, there seems to be movement in the north."

In the north, as the little soldier pointed out, there was movement, and there seemed to be cannonballs from the north, although the intensity was not as much as that on the city wall, but it did cause a lot of casualties to Zhang Xianzhong's rear supervision team.

The Australians are coming, the Australians are coming.

Jiang Zhixin and Zhang Xianzhong spoke almost at the same time.

However, the reactions of the two sides were different, Jiang Zhixin was obviously very happy about the arrival of his ally, while Zhang Xianzhong was lost in thought.

The Aussie suddenly turned back, and in this respect, it was indeed a ploy, and they wanted to defeat themselves in a back-and-forth attack.

Zhang Xianzhong knew that he had been tricked and the Australians' strategy, but after careful thinking and judgment, he felt that it was wrong, the Australians' artillery intensity was much stronger than that of the Ming army. Now it seems that there is no density of the Ming army at all, can it be said that only a small number of Australians remained.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong immediately dispatched his men and horses to divide his troops and rushed towards the Australians attacking from the north.

The troops in charge of the attack to the north were two squads of the 3rd Company, and their firepower was mainly 26-pounder guns, and they were given the order to retreat while fighting, and to retreat in a planned way.

It is a tactic of movement warfare, where the enemy is attrition in motion. Fully mobilize the enemy's main forces into the ambush circle, and then use our superior forces to break through each one.

Therefore, this army is definitely not the main force of Australia, and it is equipped with only 10 artillery pieces. It is to facilitate the retreat flexibly.

Zhang Xianzhong's main force is these supervision teams in the rear, which is his strongest combat unit, and if this force suffers too many casualties, it will have a great impact on him.

At this time, he couldn't care so much, only by eliminating the Australians could he successfully capture Shaoguan, and the refugee troops who lacked the overseers also slowed down their pace without surveillance.

After all, no one wants to die, just to eat.

The main force was mobilized, and the small force responsible for attracting it could not retreat too quickly, otherwise once Zhang Xianzhong found out, he would definitely withdraw his troops.

The battle was fought and retreated, and the Australians' troops fought fiercely. Even a small group of people were able to build fortifications while retreating, effectively blocking them.

This made Zhang Xianzhong very envious, the tactics of the Australians are very novel and unique, which is different from the one they use and the difference from the Ming army.

When Zhang Xianzhong calmed down, he thought about whether he could learn this tactic of the Australians, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was impossible, the Australians were equipped with strong firepower support, so with this set of tactics, they could quickly fight to the extreme.

But it can't be on your own. Its main weapons are mainly cold weapons, and it is impossible to use all firearms.

The most important reason is that Zhang Xianzhong does not have such a large source of firearms, and even if he makes his own performance, it cannot be compared with the Australians.

So Zhang Xianzhong gave up very self-consciously.

The pursuing troops were getting farther and farther away from the city of Shaoguan, as they got closer and closer to the Australians. The pursuing Zhang Bu was also even more excited, thinking that they would soon be able to catch up with the Australians and kill them back to receive the reward.

But how did they know that they had fallen into the full set of Australian settings?

The 3rd Company used the effective terrain as cover fifteen miles from Shaoguan City, and immediately tightened its pockets as soon as the enemy entered the encirclement. Blocked all their way back.

As the soldiers of the two squads in charge of luring suddenly dropped their baggage and fled quickly, the shells in front of them also flew in.

Before many of the Zhangbu men realized this, they had no time to dodge being hit by the shells, because there were at least a few thousand people in pursuit, and almost none of the people who rushed to the front could not dodge at this time.

By the time the people in the rear realized that something was wrong and were about to retreat back, many of the people in front of them had already been injured and killed.

Knowing that Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses were ambushed, they quickly retreated towards Shaoguan City at a fast speed, and at this time, as long as a person with a little common sense knew that only the convergence of large troops was the safest.

But when they retreated to the back road, they realized that the situation was wrong, and there was an ambush set by the Australians here.

The Australians set up an ambush circle and waited for themselves to load it in, and at this time everyone remembered why they didn't see the main force of the Australians, it turned out that they were ambushed and waited for themselves to load it in.

With a bang, bang, the sound of artillery and the sound of coffee mill guns, there was a convex sound, and a crowd of people with broadswords and spears in their hands fell.

The outcome of this war is basically decided, this is a massacre of Zhang Xianzhong's people, and it is not a confrontation that is proportional at all.

Zhang Xianzhong, who had an advantage in numbers, lost to the Australian Third Company, which had a very small number.

As more and more people fell, some people were already frightened by this bloody scene, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to move in a daze.

Resistance meant that they had to die, not knowing who would lead first, dropped their weapons, and then crouched on the ground, and then the rest of the people dropped their weapons in pieces and squatted on the ground waiting for the Australians to arrive.

Wei Yan saw that the results of the battle were basically in hand, leaving two squads of soldiers to guard these prisoners, and he himself took the rest of the troops to Shaoguan City.

At this time, Shaoguan City lost the supervision of the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's troops to attack the city with a speed and strength, and the most important thing is that the pursuing troops have not returned, which makes Zhang Xianzhong fall into thinking. (To be continued......)