Regarding the huge disparity in the proportion of casualties between the enemy and us, Lin Zhe was no longer surprised at this time, not only him, but even the other officers in the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County mostly maintained a normal reaction to this.

I have to say that after Changxing and Guangde, a very strange atmosphere has been formed up and down the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, that is, the Yongying camp in Yuyao County is invincible in the world, and it is normal for the casualty ratio of the enemy to remain above 20 to 1, and it is not strange to have more than 50 to 1.

The current Yuyao County Yong Battalion has high morale, and is even so confident that it can be called a light enemy.

At the beginning, Lin Zhe led the Yuyao County Yong Battalion to fight from Guangde, even though he knew that the number of enemy troops was several times that of his own, but the Yuyao County Yong Battalion was still not afraid.

This morning's battle fully embodied this situation, in the face of the enemy's 6,000-strong attack, the Yuyao County Yongying was able to turn a blind eye to the enemy troops several kilometers away before the battle, eat breakfast by itself, and then slowly discharge the array to start the battle.

This was unthinkable when I was in Changxing a month ago, you must know that when I learned that there were five hundred Taiping troops attacking, the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, including Lin Zhe himself, didn't sleep well that night.

And now, the officers and men in the camp tent laughed and talked lightly, as if the 6,000 enemy troops in Lin Chengting a few kilometers away did not exist!

"The fight just now is still good, although the fighting will of those thieves on the opposite side is not bad, but the actual combat effectiveness is too different from ours, as long as the tactics are right, let alone defeat them, even if it is not impossible to annihilate them!" When Shi Qingxuan, the assistant of the self-confident supervision department, said this, he was unanimously agreed by the others.

"Yes, now that the thief army has been repelled by us, they must be hesitant and their morale has plummeted, and now it's time for us to take the initiative and completely establish the victory!" It was Lin Anfei, the commander of the Second Infantry Regiment, who spoke.

This person is Lin Zhe's distant relative, although he is a generation lower than Lin Zhe, but he is several years older, and he is twenty-nine years old this year, but he talks like a teenager, full of contempt for the thief army.

In the morning battle, his 2nd Infantry Regiment faced the onslaught of 4,000 enemy infantry, and although the situation seemed dangerous at first, the 2nd Infantry Regiment, with the flank support of the Baggage Regiment and the two companies of the 1st Infantry Corps, successfully repelled several times the enemy's attack with dense firepower, which greatly increased his self-confidence.

"Brother Lin is right, as the so-called courtesy is exchanged, now is the time for them to taste our awesomeness!" Shi Langyi of the First Step Corps on the side said the same.

Lin Zhe listened to these people's words, and immediately turned his head to look at Hunter William!

To be honest, although in terms of troop control, he relied on officers such as Lin Anfei and Shi Langyi, but in terms of tactics, Lin Zhe felt that they were still slightly lacking, compared with Hunter William, a professional officer who has been in the army for more than ten years, the difference is huge.

Hunter William saw Lin Zhe looking at him, and he first looked around at everyone while speaking in slightly stiff Chinese: "General, Major Shi, Major Lin said!" ”

Hunter William's Chinese is still very poor, so it is just a name, and then he said directly in English: "In the morning battle, we can already determine that the rebels on the opposite side are no different from the two rebels we encountered before, their combat awareness may be very strong, but their equipment and combat methods are still stuck in the era of barbarians, so even if our troops are small, as long as we maintain enough caution, it is enough to defeat them in a frontal offensive battle!" ”

At this point, Hunter Wilhelm exudes a pride peculiar to a professional soldier: "We are a modern army with complete training!" ”

In order to solve the language problem of Hunter William, Lin Zhe specially found a translator from the family firm to act as a full-time translator for Hunter William.

Hearing Lin Zhe say this, a large group of people also showed a satisfied look in unison, to be honest, they were still a little disdainful of this foreigner before, these traditional scholar-born officers have a strong Confucian thinking, thinking that foreigners are barbarians.

However, after several months of contact, especially after Hunter William trained the troops for several months, the troops easily defeated the Taiping army several times in a row, which made everyone's perception of him change.

After hearing everyone's discussion, Lin Zhe also nodded: "Then pass the order and attack after noon!" ”

However, not long after Lin Zhe ordered the troops to take the initiative to attack, the scouts who had been monitoring the Taiping Army in front came back with a news that surprised Lin Zhe: "The Taiping Army has withdrawn!" ”

When Lin Zhe and several officers rode to a small hill in front of them, and then took out their binoculars and looked north, they could see that the countless Taiping army camps in the camp were extremely chaotic, and countless Taiping soldiers left the camp in a neat formation, and their direction seemed to be going northwest.

"Is this leaving, I haven't agreed yet!" Lin Zhe put down the binoculars, and then said to the herald beside him: "Immediately order the troops to start pursuing!" ”

Although the battle in the morning won a small victory, killing and wounding more than 300 enemy troops, but the enemy's main force was a loss, if they were allowed to escape, I am afraid that the Guangde front line would have to face their threat for a long time in the future.

The Taiping army was going to flee north, while the Yongying of Yuyao County pursued it.

As a result, a very strange thing happened in the history of war, an army of only 1,000 people actually pursued an army of up to 6,000, and the army of more than 6,000 people in front of it was extremely afraid of the pursuing army behind it, and even did not send out the troops after the break, and fled directly, and even abandoned a lot of baggage on the way to escape.

For the enemy's wolf bèi to flee and abandon many heavy practices along the way, Lin Zhe had a very bad premonition in his heart, how can this kind of thing look so like luring the enemy deep in a romance novel.

After several hours of pursuit, Lin Zhe, who had a bad premonition in his heart, immediately ordered the troops to stop the pursuit, but to choose a place to camp and no longer risk a night pursuit.

Anyway, now that night is about to fall, the Taiping army in front of it can't escape far even if it continues to run away at night, for an army of more than 6,000 people in the feudal era, let alone running a hundred miles at night, and the generals who can march more than ten kilometers at night are super awesome.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if they are escaped by this Taiping army, it is actually nothing, at most they can find a chance to kill them in the future, in short, they can't risk pursuing at night, if they accidentally fall into the trap of the enemy, then the gains outweigh the losses.

Under Lin Zhe's order, the Yongying camp in Yuyao County set up camp in the evening and let the Taiping army leave several kilometers away.

The night was as peaceful as ever, and the next day before dawn, the soldiers in the camp began to get up and cook their meals, to eat and drink as much as they could, and then continue north to pursue the enemy at dawn.

But when the sun had just risen, the soldiers in the Yong camp in Yuyao County had already made preparations, packed up their tents, and then continued to embark on the pursuit.

"My lord, we have received a tip, the enemy's camp is in a small valley ten miles away, if we are faster, we can hopefully arrive before the enemy leaves!" Wang Luyun glanced at the past and reported the latest military information to Lin Zhe.

Lin Zhe nodded: "Well, pass on my words, the brothers who pursued and monitored the thief army last night worked hard, and they will all be rewarded with five taels of silver!" ”

The Yongying of Yuyao County hurriedly went north again, as Lin Zhe expected, because their troops arrived in just one hour, the Taiping army in the small valley obviously did not expect the Yongying of Yuyao County to come so quickly, and they have not left yet.

Lin Zhe did not hesitate too much, and immediately ordered the First Infantry Corps to quickly step forward and prepare to launch a formal attack on the enemy from the flank.

The arrival of the Yong camp in Yuyao County seemed to surprise those Taiping soldiers, and many Taiping soldiers began to march out of the camp in a chaotic manner to prepare for the battle.

As usual, it was not the infantry units that started the battle first, but the artillery units, and the soldiers of the Second Artillery Company drove their horses to quickly pull the six guns down to an open field more than a thousand meters away from the Taiping Army camp, and then unloaded the gun carriages, and within a few minutes, the twelve pounder guns of the Second Artillery Company opened fire one after another!

The artillery fire, like yesterday's battle, immediately brought a heavy number of casualties to the Taiping army, and more importantly, caused a certain amount of panic to the Taiping army.

As the artillery units continued to fire, the 2nd Infantry Regiment attacking head-on and the 1st Regiment detouring from the flanks were also rapidly approaching the enemy!

As the distance got closer and closer, the infantry units in front opened fire one after another under the orders of the commander, firmly blocking the speed of the Taiping army pouring out of the camp.

At this moment, Lin Chengting's face in the Taiping Army camp turned dark: "How could they come so quickly, and where is Dong Yanghong now?" ”

"They were marching very fast, and when our outpost spotted them and rushed back to report the situation, they were still less than four miles away from us!" A person next to him whispered: "And Dong Shuai's men are still behind, I'm afraid it will take half an hour to rush over!" ”

Lin Chengting took a deep breath: "Half an hour, as long as we hold on to this half an hour, as long as we hold on until the cavalry turns around, we will be able to attack these Qing demons from the front and back, and then I will see if these Qing demons are really three-headed and six-armed!" ”

Lin Chengting was in a very bad mood, although he had expected that Yuyao County Yongying would be difficult to deal with before coming to Guangde, he still had some confidence!

So he made a lot of preparations, ready to have a decisive battle in Si'an, and annihilated the Yongying camp of Yuyao County in one fell swoop, but yesterday's battle gave him a great shock!

He took the initiative to lead a 6,000-strong army to besiege the enemy's camp with more than 1,000 troops, although his side had a certain terrain disadvantage, but it occupied an absolute superiority in troops, but the subsequent battle process made his jaw drop.

More than 4,000 infantry and nearly 1,000 cavalry on their own side launched a flanking charge from the front and the right flank, but they failed to break through the enemy's defensive line, and suffered heavy casualties not long after the first charge, and finally forced Lin Chengting to take the initiative to order to stop the attack and withdraw the army.

After the withdrawal, Lin Chengting considered that for the time being, he did not have a good way to fight with the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, so he simply withdrew the army, and when he retreated, he also played a hand, deliberately abandoning a large amount of baggage and even gold and silver property along the way, hoping to make the Yongying camp in Yuyao County mess up with itself, and then he might be able to kill the horse gun when the time comes.

But he didn't expect that the discipline of the Yuyao County Yongying was better than he imagined, there was no chaos along the way, and in the evening, the Yuyao County Yongying took the initiative to stop the pursuit, which made Lin Chengting's hope of playing a night ambush at night also disappointed.

Since there was no chance to ambush the Yongying in Yuyao County, Lin Chengting was also dead, thinking about taking people back quickly, and then slowly finding a way to deal with the Yongying in Yuyao County in the future.

But I didn't expect that early this morning, when my troops were just packing up and preparing to leave, the men and horses of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County arrived.

was blocked in the camp by others, and now Lin Chengting's only hope is that the cavalry troops camped separately in the north can quickly come back to help, hoping to have a front and rear attack on the Yong Camp in Yuyao County with the cavalry, if they can succeed, not only will they save their infantry from being surrounded, but they are more likely to leave the Yong Battalion of Yuyao County, which makes them extremely depressed.