[4] Wind Blowing Red Flag Earth Flip (4)

Tanma complained bitterly, "It's dark and you still want to explore?" ”

But where did he dare to say this, and he couldn't say it, so the whole two outposts and 5 cavalrymen rushed to Renzhao with torches.

The place where Yao Fan camped is located in the northwest of Renzhao Town, the terrain is high, it is a sloping field, the crops have already been harvested, and the barren loess is sparsely exposed with scorched black grass stubble after burning.

Yao Fan had also seen the whereabouts of the horses sent by Pingdu, and after the whole army forcibly bought grain and made food in Renzhao Town, they began to camp at this camping place carefully selected by Li Hainiu.

Yao Fan was a little nervous, for fear that his opponent would rob the camp late at night.

Li Hainiu's experience at the officers' meeting dispelled most of his concerns.

"The Qing army was numerically superior and tended to fight during the day. Their soldiers were poor, they could not maintain the order of the march in the middle of the night, and it was difficult to carry out the orders between the various levels of the troops. Therefore, it is unlikely to choose a night battle that is easy to lead to the collapse of the whole front. The cavalry is noble, and it is not suitable for night battles, even if they fight at night, they must choose the early morning when it is almost dawn. ”

Yao Fan thought about it, once the feudal army heard the news of a surprise attack during the night march, or heard the news that the lord was about to die, they might bomb the camp and flee in all directions.

He nodded and said, "Whether they come or not, be prepared." They beat theirs, and we beat ours. Therefore, the geotechnical defense operations of our camp should be normalized, and the reconnaissance posts and warning posts in all directions should be foolproof. ”

Li Jun also nodded: "I don't think the Qing army will come to attack at night, this night's effort, I estimate that the Qing army must be busy going out of the city and camping after hearing the news to prepare for a decisive battle with me tomorrow." The worst possibility is that the Qing army will encircle me at night, but the Qing army will not do this if it does not have ten times the strength of our troops. ”

It seems that Li Jun's military courses during this period of time were not in vain, and he remembered what Yao Fan said very well.

Yao Fan raised a very realistic question: "Maokeng! Be sure to dig a good pit! I don't want to wake up early tomorrow morning and see feces strewn all over the positions around the camp. ”

After simply arranging the camping and guarding tasks, Yao Fan chose a kilometer away and two kilometers away from the nine directions around him, and sent a group of three to guard eighteen secret posts.

"You must light an open fire in all directions, you must spread it far away, you must learn to use bushes and bushes for concealment, do not gather three people together, divide into secret sentinels and mobile sentinels, and two groups in each direction take turns to go forward to change guard duty at night, and be careful not to sleep too much at night, and not to snore! Don't tie your sleeping bag too tightly. ”

"Understood!" Wang Guangxing, commander of the second company of the third battalion, who was on guard duty for long-distance sentinels, gave a military salute, and Yao Fan solemnly returned the salute.

Considering that the time schedule of the battle plan is relatively short and the combat area is not large, Yao Fan did not bring tents from Jimo this time, but completely relied on sleeping bags and raincoats.

Soon the whole army formed an irregular inverted trapezoidal position around this slope, with the shorter lower bottom of the inverted trapezoidal at the top of the slope and the lower bottom at the bottom of the slope. In addition to the inverted trapezoidal position, a larger ring of positions was set up. In this way, the first echelon of the positional defense is placed on the annular position, and the second echelon and the reserve are arranged in the trapezoidal position.

This is basically based on the tactics of the PLA infantry in the 60s on the front line of field camping, but it is simpler and the scale of the earthwork is smaller. Although Yao Fan did not underestimate the enemy, he did not want the soldiers to consume too much body.

The machine gun emplacements, the firing ramparts for the infantry, and the shallow trenches behind the ramparts were soon constructed under the wielding of 300 folding sapper shovels carried by the whole army, including even sixteen improvised pit squatting roads.

Yao Fan was still not at ease, and ordered Liu Jinbao, the commander of the third battalion, and Zhou Niansheng, the deputy battalion commander, to lead people to form a night patrol post to inspect the duty situation of each post at night.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Yao Fan just wanted to turn into his sleeping bag, when he heard gunshots from the west, so the whole army became nervous, Yao Fan sent a battalion of the second company Luo Qiren with the whole company to rush over, and he and other officers waited in the camp, and after a while, he saw Luo Qiren bring back three horses and escort back two prisoners.

"Wang Zhengqi knows I'm coming?" Yao Fan asked directly.

The two captives had no backbone, and they honestly explained Yao Fan's problems without waiting for torture.

And Wang Zhengqi finally got the news in the early hours of the morning, confirming the previous report of Tanma.

"It's really this gang of glue thieves!" Wang Zhengqi was shocked and angry.

What is surprising is that Yao Fan's march is so fast, after two consecutive "large-scale" battles, there is no need to rest! You must know that if it is a Qing army, even if more than a thousand people only go through such a "large-scale" battle, even the best elite troops of Su Zhanì will have to rest for at least three or five days, and Yao Fan actually rushed over without stopping!

What made Wang Zhengqi angry was that Yao Fan actually came at him!

"Doesn't this glue thief know how the word 'death' is written? Before, he was lucky enough to win two games in a row, but he didn't know that he would accept it when he saw it, and he still wanted to eat the cat with rats! Wang Zhengqi thought angrily.

"General! The glue thief is cunning! They set up an ambush along the way, and lit an open fire to lead me to the horses, but seven or eight of our brothers fell into a trap and were killed by the glue thieves. Wang Zhengqi's scout did not dare to conceal it, and reported truthfully.

"Go down and rest, and don't go any more to the grass and the snake. Tonight, the whole city of Pingdu is on guard against rubber thieves! Tomorrow I will go out of the city early in the morning and kill the glue thief! Wang Zhengqi ordered.

"Wow!"

Yao Fan slept very unsteadily this night, and got up early the next morning, but considering that he had to supplement the sleep time for the soldiers who marched for a long time, Yao Fan did not disturb the sleep of the large army except for the soldiers who were in charge of cooking.

And at this time, the Qing army has been fully dispatched!

The entire 12 battalions of the Zhenzi Battalion, with more than 4,000 men and horses, all went out of the city, and after lining up outside the city, they marched in turn towards Zhang Gezhuang in the southeast direction.

The march of 4,000 troops was extraordinary, and the Qilu Plain in late autumn was noisy and neighing, and the banners were numerous. I saw that the Chinese army was fierce, the colorful flags of the infantry army were fluttering, and the small flags of the cavalry were crackling in the wind.

Wang Zhengqi's subordinate general Hu Yuanda rode on a horse, and said to Wang Zhengqi, the main general on the soft sedan chair on the side: "General Bing! It is only thirty miles from Pingdu to Zhang Gezhuang, and the horses and troops are all together, and the baggage is followed, and they can arrive before noon. ”

"Is there a shortcut for Zhang Gezhuang to go to Renzhao?"

"General Bing, there is no big road, just along the village road all the way to the east, across two small river forks."

"Hmm." Wang Zhengqi nodded.

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