"Your Excellency."

The guard stretched out his hand to support Xu Ping, he stood up straight and asked blankly, "Where are we now?" ”

The faces of the two guards in the tent were dark, and one of them said gloomily: "My lord, this is the camp of my army in the Cutting Horse Mountain. ”

Xu Ping frowned when he heard this, and asked, "Why are you still cutting Horse Mountain?" ”

The two guards reported to Xu Ping that after he fainted, the Ming army continued to attack, and successively defeated the rebels at the foot of the eastern and western mountains. When the road was cleared and the baggage troops and wounded of the Chinese army began to pass, Ji Weisi and tens of thousands of rebels arrived. The Ming army, which had been fighting for a day, was really unable to defeat the rebels' new force, and the Ming army was relatively scattered at that time, and the stragglers who were driving out the rebels around were driving out the rebels, and the two armies were fighting again. In the end, Zhang Chengye saw that the wounded could not pass safely, so he ordered to set up camp in Qima Mountain.

Xu Ping struggled to put on his military uniform and armor, opened the tent door and walked out to the camp to check. The sun had just set, and there was still some afterglow of the setting sun on the horizon. When Xu Ping walked to the camp wall, he saw the Ming soldiers on the wall pointing to the north one after another, and there were bursts of whispered discussions. After climbing the lookout, Xu Ping saw a fire dragon winding along the mountain road in the distance, flowing endlessly towards the rebel camp in the distance, and it seemed that there were at least 3,000 people.

Ignoring the whispers of the surrounding soldiers, Xu Ping went straight to Zhang Chengye's camp. When he entered, a herald was reporting to the people in the house what Xu Pinggang had seen. When Wei Landu saw Xu Ping come in, he nodded slightly to him. After reporting the military situation, the soldier left the tent, and only four people were left in the house: Zhang Chengye, Xu Ping, Wu Zhong and Wei Landu.

Ignoring the greetings to each other, Xu Pingzhi said to Zhang Chengye in a daze: "My lord, our army should break through tonight." ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the other three people didn't care about greeting Xu Ping's injury, and Wei Landu and Wu Zhong were silent. Zhang Chengye looked at Xu Ping and told him that the number of killed and missing in the two battalions of Changqing and Shanlan had reached 920, and there were hundreds of wounded who could not move, and countless people were slightly injured. After two days of fierce fighting, the officers and men were very tired, and the combat force of the two battalions had been reduced to a very dangerous level, and I am afraid that it would be very difficult to fight during the day, let alone break through the siege at night.

Wu Zhong suggested to Zhang Chengye to hold on to the spot and wait for reinforcements from other new armies. Although Wei Landu has the intention to fight again tomorrow, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is indeed very worrying, and the remaining combat soldiers are less than 3,000, and when attacking, they have to divide their troops to cover the more than 1,000 heavy soldiers and wounded of the Chinese army, and I am afraid that there are only 2,000 people who can participate in the battle. The rebels on the opposite side numbered more than 10,000 people, and now another 3,000 had arrived, and the superiority in strength over the Ming army had exceeded five to one.

"It was going to give the troops a break." Zhang Chengye's tone was also very hesitant: "The reinforcements may arrive in three days, if the reinforcements are not there by then, some of our wounded soldiers have also recovered." ”

After listening to Zhang Chengye's words, Xu Ping immediately asked, "Can we eat our grain for three days?" ”

Wu Zhong and Wei Landu nodded to Xu Ping at the same time, and said, "Our army's gunpowder is almost exhausted, and it needs to be used sparingly. ”

There is no need for them to say this, Xu Ping also knows it in his heart. The Forces nouvelles have been fighting at high intensity for the past two days, especially yesterday, when they attacked the rebels one camp after another, and the shells were poured out like water, so when the decision was made to destroy the artillery last night, there was no objection. Today, in addition to further consuming the little gunpowder left, there was also a serious shortage of medicine to heal the wounds, and neither the Changqing Battalion nor the Shanlan Battalion expected that there would be thousands of lightly and seriously wounded, and there were not enough medicines and bandages. Under normal circumstances, such serious wear and tear would certainly be vigorously replenished by the rear.

Xu Ping turned his head to look at Zhang Chengye: "My lord, now many lightly injured people can still fight if they are bandaged, but tomorrow their wounds will begin to inflame, and the day after tomorrow they will have pus, and then they will be the same as the seriously injured." ”

Zhang Chengye sighed softly, and he knew what Xu Ping said in his heart. However, if it is not repaired slightly, the Ming army really has no spare strength. Xu Ping took a step forward and said loudly: "My lord, yesterday we defeated the two thieves Zhen and Chen, and today we defeated the Wen thief's department, and they will not be able to gather troops to fight again within two days." But it's hard to say if we wait a few more days, we can only wait for more and more thieves to come, we must break through immediately, and we have to leave tonight. ”

Wu Zhong was silent, and Wei Landu argued: "We don't know where the fire camp is, I think they should be rushing here." ”

"We're not sure if the fire battalion will be there in five days, at least I don't think they will." Xu Ping retorted that the rebels had only defended but not attacked for two days, obviously with the intention of trapping the Ming army here. Both the rebels and the Ming army knew very well that as long as the Ming army began to hold on, the rebels would be at a loss, and Xu Ping judged that the rebels obviously believed that they could trap the Ming army to death. The fact that the rebels had been hastily gathering on this battlefield for two days was also a bad omen for the limited pressure they had received in other directions. Xu Ping resolutely advocated an immediate breakthrough: "My lord, the last general thinks twice, the fire battalion must not be near the Qi River, otherwise the superintendent standard camp will never be defeated." They must not have been near the main rebel force before, otherwise the rebels would never have the strength to attack the Inspector Battalion, let alone calmly turn to attack us - the fire battalion was no longer hopeful. ”

"Then we have to wait until dawn," Wei Landu muttered, "It is easy for the troops to be confused at night, and the enemy is outnumbered, so we cannot take this risk." ”

"I'm afraid tomorrow will be too late." Xu Ping shook his head and said, "The rebels are coming in the starry night. This is the lair of thieves, except for the thief Xiao who we don't know where he is still there, the staff department estimates that the thief chief Ji Huisi has at least 20,000 henchmen under his command in Shandong, he has arrived now, and tomorrow we are afraid that we will have to face 20,000 thieves. ”

At present, all combat units of the New Army are seriously lacking, Xu Ping thought for a while and said: "Discard all baggage, carts, and tools, dismantle the baggage team and engineer team, and organize all of them into the infantry team." ”

Wu Zhong's face changed slightly, and Wei Landu stared at Xu Ping and asked, "What about the wounded?" ”

"We can't control them anymore," Xu Ping's face showed a sad look, but in an instant, his tone became firm again: "My lord, the lives of thousands of soldiers in the two battalions are in our hands, and my lord will make a decision." ”

Xu Ping's suggestion was opposed by Wei Landu, who said that since the founding of the new army, it had never abandoned the wounded, and he said that he could not understand why Xu Ping could ruthlessly abandon hundreds of troops who could not move, and the army had not yet reached the point of exhaustion. However, Xu Ping was unmoved, he thought that the situation was already very dangerous, although it was not yet desperate, but it was not far away.

When Wei Landu and Xu Ping were arguing, Zhang Chengye and Wu Zhong had been listening patiently. After they gradually couldn't fight for anything new, Zhang Chengye coughed and quieted the two of them. Without saying anything, Zhang Chengye sat down and wrote a letter with pen and paper, and then called the guards and instructed him to send the letter to the rebel camp. After the guards left, Zhang Chengye told Xu Ping that in this letter to Ji Huisi, he declared that he was willing to order his subordinates to surrender, but asked Ji to ensure that the Ming soldiers who laid down their arms would not die.

"Thirty years ago, Ji Huisi and I also had a one-sided relationship, ah, not just a one-sided relationship." Zhang Chengye recalled the scene when he went all the way from Ningyuan to Lushun, when Ji Huisi was just a sixteen-year-old child. Zhang Chengye has not only seen Ji Huisi, but Zhen Zhangyu, Xiao Baiwolf and Wen Desi are also very familiar with Zhang Chengye, and he has also instructed them to practice martial arts. Zhang Chengye said: "Ji Huisi and I have eaten in the same pot, and he still owes me some favors, I don't think he will not agree." ”

"But the Admiral thinks they don't believe we will surrender at all." After quietly waiting for Zhang Chengye to finish speaking, Wu Zhong was the first to speak: "Our army still has 4,000 officers and soldiers, if we abandon the wounded and break through with all our might, they may not be able to stop us. ”

So Ji Huisi will agree even more. He must have been very surprised to see my letter. Next, Zhang Chengye began to discuss with the three of them the possibility of breaking through at night. Wei Landu's original proposition was out of the sense of honor of the new army and the pride in his heart, but now that Zhang Chengye also has the intention of breaking through, he no longer opposes it. Xu Ping believed that the rebels arrived overnight and must have been in a hurry to strengthen the camp. It was dark tonight, and the rebels did not have time to dig trenches and traps. At the moment, the Ming army is certainly tired, but the rebels are even more tired when they come from a long distance, so there is a great chance of breaking through.

While the specifics were being discussed, the guards sent to the rebel camp rushed back to their lives. He said that after Ji Huisi read the letter, he rewarded him with two taels of silver, and also took out good wine and food to entertain him. However, he was in a hurry to come back to report the news, and he did not stay long, and did not see any reaction from the other rebel generals. Zhang Chengye nodded and asked the guards to rest. He immediately opened the reply and looked. In his letter, Ji Huisi agreed not to kill the surrendered troops, but asked Zhang Chengye not to destroy weapons and materials in return. Zhang Chengye picked up the pen and wrote a second letter, asking Ji Huisi to meet tomorrow between the two military camps.

After watching the guards leave with the letter again, Xu Ping asked, "My lord, will the thief keep his word?" ”

Now they all know that Zhang Chengye is playing with words. Xu Ping was worried that when Ji Huisi saw tomorrow that the so-called surrendered Ming troops were all wounded soldiers who could not move, he would definitely be furious. Xu Ping was very skeptical that Ji Huisi could keep the contract, and was worried that this method would not only not save people, but would harm the wounded soldiers. Zhang Chengye was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "If he is still the same Ji Huisi I have seen before, he will keep his word." But what has become of him now, I don't know. ”

After speaking, Zhang Chengye ordered the whole army to rest immediately. His plan was to break out at midnight, and in order to prevent confusion, this plan was not notified to the junior officers for the time being, only the commander, the commander, and the staff officers were aware.

As soon as the time came, Xu Ping ordered the sentries to issue an alarm, and more than 4,000 officers and soldiers rushed out of the camp tents one after another, and the staff officers who had already prepared immediately lined them up. Although the food of the New Army was much better than that of other Ming troops, half of the soldiers suffered from night blindness due to chronic malnutrition. In this operation, no fire was allowed, and the staff officers connected the nightblind soldiers with long ropes that had been prepared long ago, and ordered them to accompany them by the shoulders of the soldiers in front of them. Not only were the sappers and baggage soldiers all organized into the infantry team, but even the medical personnel of the ambulance team put on armor and took up arms. Fortunately, all the soldiers in the new army had received basic training, and they were not much worse than ordinary infantry.

Although the officers and soldiers felt that something was wrong, it had become their instinct to obey orders, so there was no confusion. The sighted soldiers were the first to set off, while the night blind crowd who had been strung together strapped their weapons to their backs and slowly walked out with their hands on their hands. Zhang Chengye estimated that there were only more soldiers suffering from night blindness in the rebel army than in the new army, and the rebel sentry would basically be arranged around their unstable camp to prevent the Ming army from robbing the camp, so as long as the Ming army did not raise fire, it could quietly hide from the enemy for a long time.

Watching the soldiers rush out of the barracks, Xu Ping said to Zhang Chengye: "My lord, it's time for us to go." ”

The cavalry of the Ming army wrapped their horses' hooves in cloth and quietly guarded around the four commanders. Zhang Chengye smiled at the three subordinates: "A few of you go first, and the general will personally break the rear and lead the wounded soldiers to break through." ”

Xu Ping, Wu Zhong and Wei Landu made inhaling sounds at the same time. The dancing flames of the torches flickered on and off, reflecting Zhang Chengye's firm gaze and upright body, and the years have not reduced his majestic posture a little. He chuckled again and ordered, "Go ahead." "The tone is unmistakable.

Xu Ping stood in front of Zhang Chengye, and after being silent for a while, he suddenly raised his hand and saluted solemnly to the latter without saying a word. Wu Zhong and Wei Landu also stood side by side beside Xu Ping and saluted Zhang Chengye.

"Go ahead, take care all the way."

……

After leaving the barracks, the Ming army walked on the road in the dark. Xu Ping walked in front with half of the soldiers who did not have night blindness, Wei Landu took the other half at the end, and Wu Zhong led most of the cavalry to maintain order in the Chinese army.

After seeing the rebel camp with a bonfire, Xu Ping ordered his subordinates to quietly go around. The rebels were indeed ill-prepared, the battalions had not yet been connected, and there was not a single outpost in the wilderness outside the camp. After passing several rebel camps in succession, suddenly a whistle sounded in the dark night, and this sharp whistle tore through the silence of the night. A rebel camp in front of Xu Ping immediately erupted in a chaotic shout, followed by a chorus of gongs and drums. It turned out to alarm a dark outpost, and the busy figures of countless rebels were reflected in the fire in the camp.

Xu Ping immediately whispered to several officers around him to attack with firearms. Several teams of musketeers, who had been on standby, immediately began to shoot at the rebel camp. Immediately, whistles sounded everywhere, and countless rebel secret sentinels were alarmed. When the rebels heard the sound of fire, they immediately extinguished the bonfire in the camp, and in the blink of an eye, it was endless darkness again. Then the rebels kept throwing torches from the camp, illuminating the trench in front of their camp.

Today I saw a question about the steam engine, well, let's talk about two examples that I refer to, the engine is 500 kilograms, and the power is kilowatts. Counting the boiler, it is less than a ton, and I set up the machine itself to weigh thirty tons. Secondly, a more advanced example, from which you can see how backward the machine I set up, the steam turbine used by P, which weighed less than 15 tons and had a power of 38,000 kilowatts. Here are two examples of references to my premise, but I certainly didn't think it was thoughtful, so let's go ahead and find faults.

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