Chapter 1 Governor of Guangxi (17)
"It's better to come early than to come at a good time! Sir, the disciple is willing to take a hundred elite horsemen and go to ......" Liu Tie became happy when he heard this, ignoring the fat man who was glaring at him, and rushed towards Ding Yi and said. But he shut up immediately, although he was not good at military strategy, he also knew that at this time, he should not make such an idiotic request.
Ding Yi smiled and asked the fat man, "Fatty, if you come to arrange, what should you do?" ”
"The bridge is poured with oil, if the enemy army is strong, the nephew and young master will immediately lead the guards to cross the river and set fire to the bridge, and he should be able to retreat calmly." Wen Fat Man has goods in his belly, he is not panicked at all, listening to Ding Yi's question, he opened his mouth and had a slight order, "Send one person into the city first, and then talk to Huaiji's father, there are nearly 10,000 male soldiers outside the city, just wait for the thieves to attack the city, and then kill them together, and decide to teach Hou Dagou not to dare to get involved in Huaiji in the future, and tell the people in Huaiji County that as soon as the thief army arrives, they will set fire to the bridge to show weakness to the enemy." Speak to the front, so as not to float people's hearts at that time. ”
"Who do you think should be sent to the city?" Ding nodded and asked again.
Wen Fat Man laughed: "Young Master Nephew, it's just right for the fat man to go to the city, after all, he has been stationed for a month, and the elders of the Dao Hall are also familiar with it, and the fat man going to the city can most reassure their hearts." Anyway, as long as Huaiji holds on, Zhanzhi's side will kill, and the enemy will be hit in the abdomen and back, and he will definitely not be able to support it. ”
When Ding heard this, he couldn't help but look up to Fat Man Wen a little bit, this guy is really brave.
What's in danger? What if Du Ziteng rushed to Huaiji and fell into the hands of the enemy? Or when Du Ziteng's attack was ineffective, the fat man in the city. It's a dead end. Ding Yi shook his head and said to Fat Wen: "It doesn't have to be like this, a Huaiji, we can afford to lose." There is no need to make every battle a battle of life and death. ”
Not only Huaiji County, but even if it was the 500 new army of Fat Ball, and the 3,000 new army of Du Ziteng, Ding Yi was also ready to lose. When he assigned troops and horses, he specifically mentioned to Du Ziteng and Fat Ball that the key was that those students of Nanjing Academy could not do anything. They must be withdrawn, the officer corps and the staff corps, as long as the losses of those students are not too great. Thousands of troops and horses came to test Hou Dagou's combat strength, not only to afford to lose, but also to be necessary.
He didn't plan to let Fat Man take such a risk.
"Just do it according to the fat man's regulations, and find a willing brother in the guards to go into the city. No need for kerosene. It is enough to tie a piece of explosives. Leave the fuse behind. Ding Yi commanded, and seeing him make a decision, Wen Fatzi and Liu Tie led the guards to do it one by one.
"Fat brother, what are you going to do next?" Behind the small dirt slope that crossed the bridge, Liu Tie didn't dare to disturb Ding Yi, who was looking with a telescope, and asked in a low voice to the fat man beside him, he was quite anxious, even if the Miyun avant-garde outside the gate experienced that battle. It didn't let him be reborn.
Fat Man Wen smiled and said to him, "Wait." ”
What they're going to do now. Just wait. If Du Ziteng can bite the other party and kill under this Huaiji County, then the four hundred elite heavy cavalry equipped with grenades will be directly crushed down from the dirt slope, which is definitely a sharp blade to solve the stalemate battle; If Du Ziteng can't kill as scheduled, or easily let the other party be defeated after killing, then Ding Yi's side will naturally cross the bridge immediately, and then light the explosives, and then whether to release the gun across the river or withdraw to Zhaoqing, and then make plans.
As for the fat ball, no one mentioned his problem, that is, Liu Tie, who has no talent at all in terms of military strategy, although he doesn't know how to divide Zheng Ang's troops, but he also knows very well that the fat ball can't stop nearly 10,000 troops and horses alone, I just hope that he can hold on and hold on until the overall situation is decided, and then wave the army to help.
If it can't be supported? From ancient times to the present, on the battlefield, An Shao has the word life and death?
And the fat ball in Guantang, when he watched Zheng Ang get on the horse, he knew that the road was finished, and he immediately said to Zhu Yong beside him: "Quick! Lead the students of Nanjing Academy, withdraw immediately! Zhu Yong's face was also blue for a while, and he didn't expect the battle situation to take such a sharp turn, and the fat ball was still shouting, "Let's break it for you here, damn it, next year today, burn some paper money for Lao Tzu!" ”
A voice sounded abruptly: "Thunder Academy, assemble!" Then there was a rush of charge.
The fat ball looked up, He Ma didn't know when he had untied the snare drum, he was standing at the front of the team, Zhuang Fei was by his side, a suona was in his mouth, and a rapid and bright voice was blowing: "Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock!" With He Ma's roar, "Thunder Academy!" Gather! ”
One after another, compared to the short figures of the new army, they stumbled out of the queue and stood on He Ma's side, there were only about a dozen people, and at this time, Zheng Ang's cavalry was only about forty steps away from He Ma and He, and it was only about eighty meters away.
"Grenade! Ready, cast! He Ma roared, threw the last grenade, and then he pulled out his bayonet, "Get on the bayonet!" Although there were only a dozen people, no one hesitated, "Huaxia Immortal!" Come on! "After the grenade went off, they stabbed at a distance of about seven or eight paces, frightened by the explosion, and gave birth to some panicked enemy cavalry.
Zhuang Fei stood in place, he was still blowing the trumpet: "Tick Tick, Tick Tick, Tick!" ”
There were some figures out of the queue again, this time it was too late to line up, because the grenades they threw were not enough to create a no-man's land as before, but they were injured and killed twenty or thirty horsemen, and some war horses were injured and the enemy's offensive was slightly delayed, so this time the twenty or so people tore off the cover of the grenade without saying a word, hooked the pull ring, and then they rushed towards the cavalry a few steps away.
Explosions, explosions after explosions, in the high trumpet, like an oath that will never give in.
This is not for the purpose of defending the homeland, in order to keep the ancestral graves and the people strong, nor are they those new troops who have not yet completed their new training.
They knew very well that they would die in the next moment, and they knew very well why they died, whether they were in the charge or not, whether they shouted that "Huaxia Immortal!" ”
By the time the third group of seventy or so students had been driven out, they had no time to throw grenades, because the enemy had already rushed to them, and all they could do was to put on their bayonets and subconsciously line up into three thin bayonet lines with good discipline and not yet grown up to face the enemy.
There was no miracle, they were not spears in their hands, they were not Hercules, and soon, many people were knocked out, bleeding from their mouths and noses and convulsing on the ground, but they blocked it, and the snowy bayonets that did not flinch pierced into the bodies of the galloping horses, and at the same time they knocked them away, they also neighed and fell to the ground.
The rest of the bayonets, which were still firmly pointed forward when they lost the chaos of the queue, made many of the horses stop in horror.
As the bugle was playing, more students rushed out of the ranks, throwing the last grenade at the enemy, and then snapping their bayonets into the three thin bayonet lines ahead.
Sun Zhiqiang was recruited from the South China Sea, and he has always looked down on these instructors who are four or five years younger than him, and he thinks that these instructors are just good fate, and they are accepted as disciples by big officials like Ding Rongcheng, so that they can live a worry-free life and make a tone in front of adults like him.
But when he vomited the last sip of sour water, he looked up and looked, in the new training of Zhaoqing Mansion, the instructor who often scolded him was in front of him at this moment, the seven-hole blood spilled and the tiger's mouth cracked, I was afraid that he was hit by the war horse and flew out, Sun Zhiqiang crawled over and wanted to pick up the instructor, but found that the other party was obviously no longer good, the instructor was in his arms, spurting out a mouthful of blood, his lips trembled, Sun Zhiqiang leaned over and heard him say: "Damn...... Okay, it hurts......" and then he lost his breath.
But when Sun Zhiqiang put him down, he found that the instructor's hand was still pointing in the direction ahead.
The new army did not have a ration of grenades, and even the students of Thunder Academy only had two grenades per person, but Sun Zhiqiang wiped away the tears that oozed from the corners of his eyes for fear or other reasons, he stood up and walked forward, although he did not have grenades, he still had bayonets.
Behind Sun Zhicheng, there were many new troops who also drew their bayonets.
The students of Thunder Academy rushed up for their beliefs.
And Sun Zhiqiang and them do not have any lofty beliefs.
"His mother! The instructor is dying in order to protect us, so we just watch? I did that trap shovel! Sun Zhiqiang shouted and rushed forward.
Not at all sublime, not great at all.
But he and his comrades-in-arms joined the three bayonet defense lines, and used their own flesh and blood to resist the impact of the war horse and block the enemy's charge.
Zheng Ang, who was overturned by the war horse, got up from the ground, vomited a mouthful of blood, the whole battlefield was chaotic, he didn't know what happened to Lu Dao, yes, Ding Rongcheng's Five Thunder Righteous Law is very good, but obviously that group of teenagers will not be able to stand two thousand iron horsemen to step over, kill three hundred horsemen, and kill two thousand horsemen?
He didn't know what would be blocked, but Zheng Ang knew very well that he lost, because the people with spears on the fat ball side had already rushed up, and began to stab behind the bayonet defense line, stabbing with a long spear, they may still lack courage in the face of war horses, but behind the bayonet defense line, with a spear of about three meters, the ability to stab those war horses and cavalry is still not lacking.
And when they stabbed a few cavalrymen, the courage of the people also came up, and they began to squeeze forward, there is no doubt that the dense spear formation was originally the most standard weapon for foot and horsemanship, especially when the people in this spear formation began to be in high spirits, and the cavalry lost speed because of the corpses of their companions and the sound of grenades frightened the horses.
Zheng Ang, who was defeated, didn't understand, but the fat ball who won the battle understood: it was faith that changed the outcome that should have been defeated. (To be continued......)