Although the Bingzhou Army on the Eastern Front finally broke through the enemy's strangulation with the input of civilian troops, forcing the Puppeteer Corps to retreat in great strides, such an offensive did not last long, and the Puppeteer Corps relied on reinforcements and a temporary second line of defense to block the Bingzhou Army again.

In addition to the change in distance, the offensive and defensive momentum between the two sides has changed again.

For the state army, this was what they expected.

"The enemy's table xiàn...... It's a little weird. ”

After looking at the two sides that were back in a tug-of-war, Li Shushi's brows couldn't help frowning.

"The enemy army is very tenacious, why does the lord feel strange?"

It was not the strategist next to Li Shushi who asked this sentence, but Chen Dao, who looked a little dazed behind him because of Li Shushi's words, although there was no dumb hair on the top of her head to express her feelings through various body languages, but the face that was not difficult for people to guess was still easy for people to understand what she was thinking at the moment.

As for the strategists beside Li Shushi, they seem to be thinking about something at this moment, or Li Shushi's question is also an unsolved doubt for them, or they are not thinking in the same direction as Li Shushi.

After all, they are one of the smartest people in this era, and it is normal for the thinking circuit to be not in the same dimension as Li Shushi.

"In my opinion, there are at least two places that are very problematic," Li Shushi stretched out two fingers, "The first is that since the beginning of the war, no, it should be said that since the first appearance of these clay puppets, there have been no civilian troops. For us, the civilian army may be a relatively luxurious service, but for our enemies. Even though they are known for their strong armies, they don't seem to be very good at using their brains when they are fierce and considered barbarians. But after all, it is more than a hundred years of accumulation, and it was once a thriving and huge country, how can it really not have excellent civilian officials and corresponding troops? Or are those commanders really just a bunch of outright martial artists? This is suspicious. ”

"Second," Li Shushi retracted one finger, keeping only one index finger. "If the absence of civilian troops is incredible, then until now this murderous army has not had a senior commander to suppress the front line, or at least send a fierce general who can charge the battle, which can be called a cover-up."

Yes, the latter point is what really makes Li Shushi suspicious.

If a country known as a barbarian does not have a strong enough civilian army to be a problem for some unknown people, it may not be too surprising for some unknown people, but if this country does not even have a fierce general who can fight, it is really too incredible, as if one day the country of hope will not be boiled, Ah San will not be opened, and the chicken will not die, and the people of the mythical country will suddenly become as industrious as Hans cats, making people feel that there is a kind of rush for the end of the world.

But so far. The Bingzhou army has also been fighting with the puppet army for so long, and there are nearly 100 battles large and small, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that no matter which battle, not to mention those commanders who have been hiding behind the scenes, even decent generals have not appeared on the battlefield.

Why do Li Shushi and the Bingzhou Army think so?

In other words, with the body of the clay puppets, not to mention a martial artist of Xiaoqiang's level, even if it is replaced by Cao Xing, although the martial arts such as pulling moves cannot be said to be outstanding. But even if he is a general with a skill, he can compete with generals like Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Guan Yu, who are known for their strength. Not to mention the mid-level officers of the state army.

Li Shushi can even assert that as long as the puppet corps is willing, three or five fierce generals can be brought to the ground, and any attack of the Bingzhou army can be collapsed, even if there are characters like Xiaoqiang and Zilongjiang to suppress the formation, as long as there is not too much difference in martial arts. There was a situation where Chu Zilongjiang beat Dian Wei with his skills, and Zhang Xiu used his skills to make Dian Wei dizzy, and the state army still couldn't stop the attack of the puppet corps.

It must be known that even if these clay puppets are only commanded by mid-level officers, their ability to execute orders is still terrifying, and they are almost the most perfect warriors. It is also almost the most perfect war machine, so as long as it can limit the strong point of the state army, the victory of the battle can be called a bag for this combat corps.

But the clay puppets have always maintained such a way of fighting, even if there are many brave people among the ordinary clay puppet soldiers, but those ordinary soldiers are obviously unable to resist the targeted combined attack strangulation of the tiger talisman.

"Sue Sù Zijing, let him not rush too far forward, and be careful if the enemy army has other plans."

Neither the civilian troops nor the local puppet generals appeared, but it did not mean that the merging state army gave up on relaxing its vigilance against these two unstable factors that could threaten the merging state army, and even because these methods did not appear for a long time, it made the commanders of the merging state army more and more cautious.

Isn't there a good saying: a dog that bites doesn't bark.

Once again, the tide of the battle had become stalemate, and the news from the north and west was no less encouraging—they had indeed taken advantage of the fact that the enemy had concentrated their energies on the eastern flank and had suddenly intensified their offensive and pushed the front forward considerably, but not unlike the situation on the eastern front, in that the enemy seemed to have been prepared, so that they stopped in front of a somewhat hasty but solid second line of defense, and had to engage in a new tug-of-war with the enemy.

Obviously, the commander of the puppet regiment has a calm and accurate judgment on the development of the battle situation, and on the surface, it seems that he is using the tactic of adding fuel to keep his soldiers to death, but in fact, he uses this precious time to build a second line of defense in the rear, so that although the army has achieved certain results, it cannot continue to expand the results of the battle, so that the two sides still maintain a delicate balance.

If the whole battle ends here, then the puppeteers who contain the large-scale surprise attack that the Bingzhou army has been preparing for a long time will undoubtedly be the victors of the war, not only because they have not lost too much, but more importantly, they not only did not play their hole cards, but also successfully kept the secret they wanted to hide, and at the same time laid the groundwork for the next possible counterattack.

After all, it is not easy for the state army that came out of its own turtle shell to put on a turtle shell for itself again. The Puppeteers, who have already learned at least once and have experience in dealing with turtle shells, will certainly not make their enemies much comfortable.

"Lord, how about letting Zijing first strengthen the firepower output of the civilian troops, and at the same time make the second echelon ready for the shift change?"

"Hmm...... This time seems to be a little early for the change of troops, or do you have any ideas Zhongde. ”

"Such a storming of the enemy's prepared fortress is not a very good option for our army, so a proper show of weakness and a little flaw may lure the enemy out of their fortifications. But even if it didn't work out. There is nothing wrong with giving the soldiers a break and recovering their state and body. ”

"Then the action is approved, but don't play with it."

Li Shushi said so, and also expressed his worries with his actions -- in order to ensure that if the enemy really launched a counterattack, the troops would not be unable to react at the first time, Li Shushi transferred half of the personal guard troops and Xu Chu around him to the civilian troops, which were not only more valuable but also more vulnerable than the troops commanded by the generals.

In addition, the people who were sent to the civilian army were also Nero Sauce, who was eager to try, but unfortunately Chen Dao had a very strong desire to fight. But Li Shushi still didn't dare to put her in such a dangerous place after all, at least unlike Nero sauce, even if he really encountered any danger, Li Shushi could recall her through the MP crystals on his arm.

Maybe you can catch the enemy by surprise.

Although the change in the state army was not obvious, it only slightly reduced the offensive intensity of the front-line soldiers, and at the same time caused the civilian troops who were originally standing at some distance from the front line to move forward some distance, but the response of the puppeteer regiment was still very fast.

It seems that all the front-line commanders of the Puppeteer Corps had synchronized ideas at the same time, under the orders of these mid-level officers. The Puppet Soldiers changed their previous defensive style and began to become more aggressive. In particular, they actually took the initiative to jump out of the defensive position they were in before, closely followed the soldiers who were preparing to retreat, and firmly entangled the soldiers of the Bingzhou army.

If the generals of the state army were excited by such a change in the battle situation a moment ago, now they are a little hesitant to continue with the orders given before, or ignore the previous orders.

In fact, if it weren't for the order from above, the shift would be replaced. Perhaps these people will not notice that they have been fighting at a very high intensity for so long, and even if they can still maintain a fairly high fighting spirit and combat effectiveness, the consumption of the body is undoubtedly about to enter the process of requiring vigilance. This means that they may be able to hold out for a while, but with a constant supply of enemy troops, it is obvious that they cannot be more suitable for such a war of attrition than those infinite earth puppets.

Enter. Such a fierce battle can only accelerate the consumption of the body; Retreat, it seems that the clay puppets are not going to give them a chance.

So......

"Haha, miscellaneous, finally willing to get out of the dog hole, since you are in such a hurry to die, then I, Lu Fengxian, will fulfill you!"

There was a sudden burst of arrogant voices on the battlefield, and the laughter after that was as if everyone was not in the eyes of the owner of the voice, although it was always uncomfortable to listen to the feeling of being blinded in the ears, but when the owner of this voice was your comrade-in-arms, there was an inexplicable feeling of peace of mind.

And accompanied by Xiaoqiang's arrogant laughter, he rode a fiery red rabbit horse and instantly tore all the surrounding clay puppets into pieces.

What order, what strategy, at this moment, was thrown aside by this battlefield beast, because his battlefield intuition told him that it was the most appropriate choice to launch a counterattack at this time rather than acting on orders, and he also acted according to his instincts.

As for the ordinary soldiers, they didn't know what orders their commanders had received, and the only thing they had to do was to pay attention to their commander's actions, and then kill the enemies around them, or be killed by the enemy.

Xiao Qiang's counterattack may have been just a partial counterattack on the entire front, but under his leadership, the other generals also ignored the orders from the Chinese army behind them and followed behind the fierce beast, lest they not move quickly enough and fall behind others.

Soon, the entire front was driven by Xiaoqiang. It became a charge formation with arrows, although the angle was a little blunt and not symmetrical, but it was also a triangle.

The clay puppets looked apparently caught off guard.

According to the order, in order not to let the state army retreat easily, they chose the method of hand-to-hand combat, although with the personal strength of the clay puppet soldiers. Even if they are greatly weakened under the attack of the civilian troops of the Merge State Army in such weather, the emaciated camels are bigger than the horses, and most of them can still gain the upper hand in the heads-up with the Merge State Army.

But this also meant that they lost their most important group advantage, so that when the anti-season of the state army came, these puppet soldiers were like isolated islands that had been divided, and no matter how much they obeyed orders, it was difficult to carry them out immediately.

At this time, the relationship between the state army and the puppet army seems to have been reversed in the counterattack led by Xiaoqiang.

And it was precisely this reversal that the front-line commander of the earthen puppet found that his soldiers were rapidly decreasing.

The front-line commanders of the Puppet Corps tried to salvage the situation, but because they had already been targeted by the generals of the Bingzhou Army who launched a counterattack, it was unknown whether they would be able to save themselves. Not to mention regrouping.

Perhaps, even if the weakened clay puppets in terms of individual combat effectiveness can still defeat the soldiers of the Bingzhou Army in a one-on-one battle, and if the battle is carried out in the mode of a large corps, the Tuzhou Army is also like a hedgehog that makes the Bingzhou Army feel nowhere to go, but every time the complete military formation of the Tutu puppets is broken, it is often the Merge State Army that has the upper hand.

This is not the first time this has happened, and the commanders of the Puppeteers have actually noticed this situation for a long time.

After analysis, they came to a conclusion that if the puppet regiment had a greater advantage in the operation of large regiments. Then the state army is small compared to the puppet army. The cooperation between small-scale soldiers, especially small group operations of less than 20 people and more than 5 people, can be said to have the strength to surpass the puppet army.

Even if the individual combat strength of the puppet soldiers is good enough, in such a small-scale battle, the soldiers of the state army can not only always let them occupy the numerical advantage in the local area, but also cooperate with each other tacitly so that they can always play the effect of 1+1>3. And this is also an important reason why the Bingzhou army can occupy the battlefield advantage after disrupting the formation of the puppet army.

In fact, this also has a lot to do with Li Shushi's combat experience with the Bingzhou Army.

Aside from the Yellow Turban Meeting, Li Shushi's enemy was either a local militia or a loosely organized Yellow Turban Army, except for a small number of elite troops under Li Shushi, most of the soldiers who were also born in the Yellow Turban Army were completely if they were systematically trained, but they were just a group of people who had mastered the basic tactical passwords. Then, under the leadership of excellent generals and the use of various strategies, it is just a unit that will not drop the chain when fighting a good battle.

The most typical example is that when they were in Yanzhou, they were able to play a good record in the face of unsuspecting county soldiers, but in the face of desperate resistance to the powerful dock forts, such as Li Dian where Li Dian was located, they couldn't gnaw at all, even if the price to be paid was absolutely unacceptable, but looking back, those dock forts that were originally thought to be "risk fortresses" could no longer pose too much threat to the current elite of the Bingzhou army, even if there was no cheat weapon of Li Shushi's golden fire cannon, Those elite troops don't need to pay much battle damage if they want to take those dock forts.

Even if there is a special operation or something, the price paid will be even lower.

In fact, what really made the Bingzhou Army reborn started from Xihe.

Because the initial Bingzhou army lacked the strength to expand externally, it could only rely on the city fortifications to protect itself, and how to effectively use the force to inflict a greater blow on the enemy on the city wall that was not wide has always been the main topic of research of the Bingzhou army at that time.

On this issue, Gao Shun and Lu Yi, as well as later Wang Yue, can be said to have made great contributions.

Even if the Bingzhou Army gradually had the strength to counterattack later, for those grassland peoples, compared with the time-consuming, laborious and ineffective combat method of large corps, the attack and counter-attack of small-scale troops was the main combat mode of the Bingzhou Army at that time.

It is precisely because of these two stages that the Bingzhou Army has gone through that in addition to the training of individual combat effectiveness, the most important thing for the Bingzhou Army is the cooperation between ten, twenty or thirty people, and even one or two squads (one officer) to ensure that even if the team loses its formation in the battle with the grassland peoples, it can still maintain local advantages and accumulate small victories into big victories.

Not to mention that the Bingzhou Army also has a commander who has been educated by various revolutionary movies since he was a child, even if the tactics of the era of hot and cold weapons have been quite different, but the troops equipped with bayonets and rifles all over the perimeter still affect him.

Of course, Li Shushi still only cares about the ideas here, as for whether these ideas will be practiced in the end, or whether there will be mutations in the middle of practice, Li Shushi will ignore them, after all, leaving professional things to professional people is also a major reason why Li Shushi and the Bingzhou Army have been able to develop and grow to the current scale.

(Cheng Yu: Please allow me to wipe a handful of bitter tears again!) ）

Therefore, the clay puppet corps that chose to fight with the Bingzhou army in close quarters before certainly prevented the rotation plan of the Bingzhou army, but when Xiaoqiang suddenly decided to counterattack and hit the enemy by surprise, those clay puppets who gave up their group advantages and fortification advantages wanted to ask the merge state army to withdraw and reorganize It also became an impossible task to complete.

"It seems that Xiaoqiang's disobedience this time may allow us to advance a little further." Li Shushi, who watched the development and change of the situation throughout the whole process, did not get angry because of Xiaoqiang's disobedience, but showed an appreciative smile.

After all, only he knows best what kind of perversion Xiao Qiang has a command potential of up to 100 full value in terms of battlefield smell.

It's just that just as the smile just climbed on Li Shushi's face, he heard a loud noise coming from afar.

"Thief, die!"

-- It was a familiar but unfamiliar sound of Li Shushi scraping the glass with a razor. (To be continued......)