More than ten kilometers away from most of the Beiyang Army, looking at the Beiyang Cavalry in the distance, Zhang Ying frowned, and did not rush to fight them.

"This distance is a bit dangerous..."Turning his head to the side, Zhang Ying said to his adjutant.

"Yes...", Zhang Ying's adjutant obviously agreed.

The distance between here and the Beiyang Infantry Army is too close, if they really do it, if Feng Guozhang sends someone over, then I'm afraid they will all die. This is not only a relationship of numbers, but also because the mutual restraint of the arms is different from the past, to be precise, it is completely different.

Now and different from ancient times, in ancient times, there is no doubt that cavalry is stronger than infantry, a qualified cavalry can even deal with many infantry at the same time, but now, the situation has changed somewhat, the cost of a cavalry can raise seven or eight infantry, but if you fight face to face, a cavalry may not be able to beat an infantry—————— after all, the target is too big, and it is extremely difficult for people to aim on horseback.

If both sides are 10 men and the infantry has machine guns, then the cavalry will only be slaughtered.

Now the only advantage of the cavalry is mobility, or when dealing with infantry troops without trenches and fortifications, if the number of cavalry is large enough, it can also exert a certain impact force, and the others are really...

"Give them some looks, and then we'll go..."

With a pull on the reins, Zhang Ying said to his subordinates.

This time the task was very heavy, and the cavalry regiment also announced a role that could suppress people, so Zhang Ying ran out to command. With the post of Deputy Minister of Military Affairs. Don't worry about losing the situation.

"Yes." Hearing Zhang Ying's order, the subordinate saluted on horseback.

Soon, there was a burst of gunfire in the wilderness. There are both those of the National Social Army and the Beiyang Army. The gunfire on the side of the National Socialist Army is particularly intensive, after all, the National Cavalry is equipped with many light machine guns, which is also the most powerful weapon of the cavalry at the moment.

It's just that because of the extreme distance, there are no casualties on both sides.

On the other hand, after learning about this, Feng Guozhang also sent a mixed brigade to rush over. It's just that by the time they arrived, Zhang Ying and the others had already left the battlefield.

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"What do you think of Vice Chief Zhang? Nothing could go wrong, right? ”

It is about 50 kilometers in front of Feng Guozhang's department. Ye Xin asked hesitantly.

After all, Zhang Ying had to face thousands of Beiyang cavalry, and more than ten times the Beiyang infantry army, although Zhang Ying had the advantage of mobility. The thoroughbred horses from Europe also have a great advantage over the Mongolian horses of the Beiyang Army in short sprints, and there is no need to worry about being caught up at all, but Ye Xin is still a little worried in his heart.

"Don't worry." Seeing that Ye Xin was worried there, Guo Qianfan shook his head after smiling. "Vice Chief Zhang is so powerful. There won't be any problems. Let's get our business done first..."

After speaking, Guo Qianfan looked at the surrounding situation on horseback, and said to Ye Xin after seeing that the surrounding environment was quite safe. "Let the brothers work here, and arrange for a company of brothers to keep watch around, and report back in time if there is any situation..."

"Yes!" Hearing Qianfan's words, Ye Xin nodded.

Soon, a company of men from this regiment of cavalry was divided to guard around the cavalry, while the men of the regiment of Guo Qianfan dismounted. Then he took out a lot of spherical objects from the canvas bag on the horse's back...

"Dig, don't forget what the infantry brothers taught us before leaving. Don't make anything wrong...", holding a sapper shovel in his hand, after inserting the shovel into the dirt, Guo Qianfan raised his voice to the people around him.

He was responded to by the sound of digging.

At this time, almost all of the more than 1,000 cavalry soldiers had a sapper shovel in their hands, and in a short time they had already dug up the already potholed dirt road, which was full of holes, and then they buried the spherical iron lumps they had taken out of the canvas bags in the soil...

Mine...

This is the true face of these iron bumps, and it is also the purpose of Fu Xiuming for them to rush over.

Fu Xiuming never thought that those thousands of cavalry could delay Feng Guozhang, after all, Feng Guozhang had thousands of cavalry around him, and if he didn't solve them first, it would be almost impossible to harass Feng Guozhang's troops.

Therefore, Fu Xiuming's plan was to send a group of cavalry out of Lu to attract the attention of Feng Guozhang and his cavalry, and at the same time to plant mines on the places where they must pass.

The demining skills of this era are not very good, as long as the mines are planted, even if Feng Guozhang cannot be stopped, at least he can slow down his speed.

If they weren't worried about running too fast and bumping along the way, they would have been blown up to the sky with people and horses, so they had to wrap them in a lot of cotton, otherwise they would have been able to bring more mines over Qianfan.

But even so, more than 10,000 sails and their group still carried more than 10,000 mines.

Naturally, they couldn't have buried all of them here, so they just buried one each, and after the road and the area around the road were all buried, they rode over a thousand sails and continued to rush forward.

After walking for almost 10 kilometers, I stopped, and then I took out some mines again and laid them.

"With so many mines planted, it should have done some thing, at least ...... It should be possible to slow down Feng Guozhang's march, right? ”

After burying the mine that belonged to him underground, Guo Qianfan wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hands.

To be honest, Guo Qianfan didn't have much confidence in the iron lumps in his hands, after all, they had never used such things in the past. And they're cavalry, they basically hadn't touched it before yesterday, and all of a sudden let them do this kind of thing...

"God forbid, these bastards under my command must not bury the wrong mines..."

Put the sapper shovel back on the horse's back, and Guo Qianfan put his hands together and said sincerely.

He knew very well how important this operation was. Naturally, I don't want to mess him up.

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Landmines, counting an extremely ancient weapon, how many years of its history we will not mention for the time being. But his role is undeniable. It is also because of this that so many people will study landmines after entering the modern era, making it more and more diverse.

Naturally, there will not be so many types of mines now, but even so, mines still occupy an extremely important position among many weapons.

Because of this, not long after the establishment of the arsenal, the mine became one of the many weapons produced by the arsenal.

The reason for making this weapon is also simple. Cheap and easy to use...

This time, the Nationalist Army and Beiyang were fighting at the junction of the three provinces, and Yan Shao also asked the arsenal to get some mines.

In reality, however, these mines do not play a big role. The reason is also very simple, first of all, this thing is definitely not needed in the frontal battlefield. After all, after the two sides began to excavate the earth, the distance between each other's trenches was only a few tens of meters, which was definitely not enough to bury mines.

And before. The distance between the two sides is certainly very long. But let's not forget that there was also an artillery battle between the two sides before ...

In that case, even if the mines are buried, I am afraid that they will be detonated by Beiyang artillery fire.

Although the cost of landmines is low and not worth a few dollars, it can't be such a waste of money, right?

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Zhang Ying didn't plan to go toe-to-toe with Feng Guozhang, so she retreated after harassing her.

After confirming this, Beiyang, which had been suspended, also resumed its journey. As for the cavalry, it was the same as before. Wander on both sides of the army, lest the Nationalist Cavalry just harass the marching troops. Reduced the speed of movement of troops.

More than 10 kilometers of road, that is, more than 20 miles, this distance is not close, it is not far away...

"Hell, I didn't expect a good battle to turn out like this...", he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out of his mouth, held it in his mouth, and lit it with a match, a soldier who looked like a veteran muttered and complained.

"De, don't complain," a soldier next to him said impatiently. Listening to you complaining all the way through, can't you stop for a while? Besides, you weren't hurt in this battle, what do you have to complain about?! ”

With that, the soldier raised his right arm, on which many bandages could be seen tightly bandaged. And there was even a lot of blood oozing from the bandage.

Apparently he had also been injured in the war, but only slightly so he was not left behind, but even so, he was still a little impatient to listen to the soldier next to him complaining there.

Hearing his companion say this, the soldier who had not been injured earlier raised his eyebrows, as if he wanted to say something to refute it. But before he could say anything, a loud bang suddenly came from afar.

In addition, after fighting for more than two months, it was inevitable that the spirit was a little nervous, so the officers and men of Beiyang who were on the march immediately tightened their weapons after hearing the loud noise just now.

Naturally, the procession that was already marching also stopped.

And in the middle of the team, Feng Guozhang, who was bowing his head and thinking carefully, also raised his head suddenly.

"What's going on? What happened? ”

Soon someone rushed over with news. "It was at the front of the team, and I don't know why there was a sudden explosion in the road, about a dozen people were injured, and five others died on the spot..."

"Didn't figure out the cause of the explosion?" Feng Guozhang said a little strangely.

Even if you don't know where the explosion came from, the cause of the explosion should always be figured out, right?

"This..." seemed to be really unclear, and the officers who rushed back to report got up.

Seeing him like this, Feng Guozhang also knew that he couldn't ask anything, so he hurriedly threw him off, and then led people to the location where the explosion had just exploded.

There, many officers and officers were gathered around, looking inexplicable.

However, after rushing to the scene of the incident, Feng Guozhang could see that the faces of some officers had become quite ugly.

At this time, seeing Feng Guozhang rushing over, one of the officers hurriedly greeted him. "Commander..."

"What's going on? Where the hell did the explosion come from? ”

Until this time. Feng Guozhang thought that this was an artillery bombardment that came out of nowhere, but the officer's words later made him change his face.

"Commander, it's a mine..."

Seems to understand what he's talking about. The officer's voice was so soft that only he and Feng Guozhang could hear it clearly.

"Is it true?"

"It won't be fake..."Seeing Feng Guozhang's face change, the officer shook his head and said. When I was at the Baoding Military Academy, I used to be very interested in this thing, so it was easy to recognize it, but this thing is rare in China, so I didn't dare to confirm it for a while..."

Landmines have a long history. But it is said that anti-infantry mines in the true sense of the word were invented by the Russians along with mortars during the Russo-Japanese War.

In other words, the history of this thing will not be more than 10 years old.

And because of that. This thing can barely be regarded as an advanced weapon, and there are a few people in China who are researching it.

It's just that this thing is still too rare in China after all, at least in the past, it was rare to see the shadow of this thing in China, so when the explosion just began. Although the officer was very knowledgeable about mines. But it took a long time to confirm that it was a landmine.

"Do you know how many roads there are?" Pinched his nose, Feng Guozhang said.

Of course, that officer knew what Feng Guozhang meant, which was also the reason why his face was not very good-looking. "It's very difficult, we don't have special demining equipment in our hands now, and we don't know where there are mines, so it's impossible to know where they are..."

This is certainly a problem for him, but another thing that makes him feel troublesome is that mine clearance requires training in solder mask. And obviously. There are no soldiers in Beiyang who have received this kind of training, even if they are trained now. It's too late in time...

Just when Feng Guozhang and the officers around him had ugly faces, there was suddenly another loud bang not far away. This time Feng Guozhang and they saw it very clearly, I don't know how many people in the road were blown to pieces by the explosion that set off this loud explosion, Feng Guozhang could even see a thigh that I don't know who the road was flying in the sky, and it took a while before it fell to the ground with a large splash of blood.

And this also caused a panic in the Beiyang Army.

At this time, another officer rushed over to report that a large number of horseshoe prints and shoe prints had been found in the vicinity. Originally, this kind of thing should have been discovered earlier, but they were all busy hurrying away before, and they didn't have time to care about it, so they naturally ignored it, and no one had time to pay attention to it until the team stopped...

"Hell..."

Feng Guozhang scolded.

Now he didn't know the ins and outs of the matter, but it was clear that the cavalry of the National Socialist Army ran over with mines, and planted mines in front of their way while they were marching, leaving them unable to move...

"Is there no other way?" With an ugly face, Feng Guozhang looked back at the officer and said.

"Yes." The officer nodded. "One way is to use people to wade over, even if there are many mines planted by the other side, there will be a time when the trip will be finished, but if you just do this, the brothers are afraid that ..."

"What about the other way?"

"Shelling!" The officer replied. "The explosion from the shelling may detonate the mines buried in the ground, so there is no big problem, but it will take a lot of time to do so, and we are afraid that we will not have that much time..."

He knew very well that those people after the break couldn't stop the National Socialist Army at all, and now was the time when every second counted, and it was absolutely impossible to do so...

"Those bastards..."

Hearing the officer's narration, Feng Guozhang gritted his teeth.

At this time, he didn't know which one to choose.

Although the former is efficient, it is too cold-blooded, while the latter...

All they're missing now is time...

Just when Feng Guozhang was unable to make a decision, dozens of kilometers away, Guo Qianfan was already happily laying mines, and before that, he had already made four or five minefields.

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Just when Feng Guozhang was in a dilemma, Fu Xiuming was also ready to launch an offensive.

For him, the most important thing now is to quickly clean up these enemies in front of him, and then catch up with Feng Guozhang.

"As long as Zhang Ying's plan is successful, Feng Guozhang and his people won't be able to run far..."

Looking at the fine map on the table, Fu Xiuming said with great confidence.

He wasn't worried at all, what to do if they stepped on a mine when they caught up.

Because when they went, Feng Guozhang should have helped them finish stepping on the mines.

On the other hand, while Fu Xiuming was making preparations, Lu Chuan and Yan Meng on the opposite side were also preparing.

Both of them knew that time was running out.

"But..."Shaking his head, Lu Chuan looked at the adjutant on the side. You go to Brigade Commander Yan and invite him over to me..."

"Yes!" As Lu Chuan's confidant, the adjutant naturally knew what he was going to do, but he didn't hesitate, and nodded quickly after receiving Lu Chuan's order.

Seeing the adjutant walk out of the headquarters, Lu Chuan looked up at the sky shrouded in dark clouds and sighed.

About half an hour later, Yan Meng walked over under the leadership of the adjutant, and said strangely as he walked. "Lao Lu, what did you ask me to do? I'm busy over there..."

"Naturally, something is looking for you..."Trying to make the expression on his face look natural, Lu Chuan motioned for Yan Meng to sit opposite him.

As for him, while facing Yan Meng, he secretly took out a pistol from behind his waist.

"Lao Yan, don't blame me..." (To be continued......)