More gunpowder bags were thrown over, and the Chuang army did not prepare similar large bags of gunpowder before attacking the mountain, and the battle situation quickly evolved towards the situation that they could not fight back, and when another gunpowder bag flew over Li Laiheng's head with a loud sound, he heard a sad and angry shout from his side: "Fight with these bitches!" ”

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

Many of the soldiers who had been blown up to the ground were so brave that they were all around to dodge or lie on the ground shouted to their feet, and rushed to the enemy on the opposite side without waiting for the officer's order. When he heard this shout, Li Laiheng was wiping the dirt off his face, this explosion was not very powerful, he shook his head, he felt that his ears were still buzzing, Li Laiheng reached out and touched his left ear, his hand was full of blood, but he didn't feel pain.

The spontaneous onslaught of the soldiers also infected these officers, Li Laiheng sat up staggeringly, threw down his handcuff and drew his sword, then turned around and jumped out of the trench, like the soldiers under him, since the continuous roar just now did not destroy the fighting spirit of the officers who broke into the camp, it only made them feel doubly angry.

But before Li Laiheng could rush over the ridge, he heard thunderous cheers from ahead. Running towards the cheers, right in front of Li Laiheng's eyes, the Ming soldiers were shining their backs to the breaking army, quickly running across the ridge and disappearing on the other side of the pheasant hill.

After standing up straight, Li Laiheng looked around, and he saw that all the intruders had jumped to the edge of the ridge in the same way. Only then did Li Laiheng realize that the battle around him seemed to have been going on for a long time, but in fact it was very short, and the soldiers in the rear had just arrived at the ridge at this time. At such a close distance, the numerical superiority of the invading army was nearly twice as powerful, and the Ming army on the entire front was beaten to the point that it could not raise its head. The soldiers who fought the New Army on the hill were veterans of the armored battalion, and Li Laiheng had followed his father-in-law to several provinces before, and since the winter campaign, he had stayed in the battalion to familiarize himself with Xu Ping's new troops, and had also interned in the Guards Battalion.

A large number of officers and non-commissioned officers in the 5th Infantry Wing of the Armored Battalion were transferred from the Guards Battalion to the Armored Battalion to participate in the counteroffensive during the winter operation, and a large number of soldiers were transferred back to the Guards Battalion after the war. When Xu Ping crossed the river to counterattack Yang Wenyue, he temporarily transferred many officers and soldiers from the guards battalion to serve in the armored battalion, and waited until they returned to the army for the second time after defeating Yang Wenyue. So the Guards Battalion and the Panzer Battalion were very familiar with each other, and a large number of officers and men had served in these two battalions, especially the Fifth Infantry Wing of the Panzer Battalion - this wing was called the "Little Guards Battalion", and the vast majority of officers and non-commissioned officers had served in the Guards Battalion.

Without waiting for Li Laiheng to speak, an officer around him suggested to him to immediately reinforce the two wings to expand the results of the battle, Li Laiheng agreed to this order without hesitation, and cooperated with the friendly troops on the left and right flanks to flank the Ming army to capture this hill more quickly. Li Laiheng put his sword back into the sheath and walked quickly towards the ridge, the order issued from the general's staff was clear, and the next step was to induce the Ming army to commit troops. The specific task given to Li Laiheng by the armored battalion was to stick to this hill, constantly block the counterattack of the Ming army, consume the strength of the new army, and hide the actions of the main force behind the camp.

Li Laiheng, who hurriedly caught up with the hill to prepare for defense, had a feeling in his heart: the new army he saw now was no longer the one in Xixian. Although the current equipment of the new army is better than that of Xixian, from the beginning of that battle, Li Laiheng found that the combat effectiveness of the new army was not as good as the previous time, whether it was the will to fight or the tactical skills. This feeling is not only Li Laiheng alone, but many people say that this is because the camp has become stronger, Xu Ping's training has made the camp adapt to the combat mode of the new army, and the victory after victory has made the camp full of confidence.

But Li Laiheng always felt that not only was he getting stronger, but also the new army was getting weaker, and it was getting weaker and weaker and more obviously, more and more rapidly: when he was in Xixian, the new army was an army that reacted quickly from top to bottom, and although the soldiers were not as good as the guards battalion, the non-commissioned officers had obvious advantages. Li Laiheng felt that the new army would probably not make such a defensive mistake at that time, and in the same way, the morale of the new army was high at that time, and it was full of confidence in victory from top to bottom, and if it wanted to defeat the new army, it was necessary to completely crush its organization and polish its morale. But in the battle just now, although the number was small, the new army would be repulsed with a single charge, and this morale and fighting spirit could not be compared with the previous new army.

These thoughts quickly turned in his heart, Li Laiheng suddenly found that at some point, the intrusive army that was cheering and rushing up the ridge suddenly quieted down, and when he walked up the ridge, no one greeted him, the commander, and they all looked at the south in a daze, and Li Laiheng also heard his subordinates shout softly: "Oh my God." ”

"What's wrong?" Li Laiheng blurted out when he heard this, and none of the people in front of him who were questioned by him answered, and they all looked south, standing there like statues.

Walking to the ridge line of Pheasant Gang, Li Laiheng's eyes suddenly opened up, and the vast plain appeared impressively, with villages, houses, and streams above at a glance, Li Laiheng looked at this full land in a daze, and involuntarily exclaimed: "Oh my God! ”

After understanding the staff officers' deductions, Li Laiheng was very sure that he would see scattered Ming army rear guard baggage camps after ascending Pheasant Hill, and perhaps some Ming soldiers were rushing out to set up formations, preparing to use hundreds or thousands of people to meet or defend.

But at this moment, in the south of Pheasant Gang, countless Ming soldiers formed one phalanx after another, and countless military formations were like huge ancient beasts, slowly moving their huge bodies, those powerful and infinite, as if filling the entire heaven and earth huge bodies.

This group of behemoths was boundless, the morning light of dawn covered countless cannons with a golden coat, and among the behemoths shone an unsettling metallic brilliance, beside the phalanx composed of tens of thousands of Ming infantry, surrounded by dense cavalry, heralds rushed back and forth busily, bringing news and orders to every Ming army commander. Large groups of cavalry gathered and scattered around the infantry, like a veil of mist hanging over the valley, hiding the valley for what it really was, but from time to time it was raised to allow people to see the grandeur below.

……

"How?"

He Feibao jumped up, and yesterday Yang Zhiyuan judged that Xu Ping would come to attack the new army, so he asked Huang Xiwen to come forward to convene the battalion officers to issue orders and prepare for the attack and counterattack. At that time, Yang Zhiyuan considered that the Chizhuo Battalion had been rebuilt many times in a row, so he planned to let them take on the task of defending in situ, and the more elite Evergreen Battalion would act as a reserve to cover them on the second line, so in addition to military considerations, Yang Zhiyuan had some non-military reasons, but he did not speak to Huang Xiwen.

After receiving Huang Xiwen's order, the Chizhuo Battalion and the Changqing Battalion set up camp on the edge of the hill where Yang Zhiyuan judged that they could attract the main attack firepower of the camp. Wei Wu, the battalion officer of the Chizhuo Battalion, designed a defensive line and prepared to use Pheasant Gang as the core to block the reconnaissance of the camp. The defensive zone is not limited to this one mound, in Wei Wu's plan, if the camp tries to approach, detour, and flank this hill from other places, it will be stopped, and it will not be possible to see the deployment of the main force of the new army.

When the sentry on the hill reported that about four or five hundred soldiers were marching towards the hill, Wei Wu ordered the other places to take cover, and at the same time kept his eyes open to see if there was a camp in front of them. He Feibao, who was in charge of defending the core position of Pheasant Gang, thought that if a thousand people were dispatched to defend the hill at a time, it would make the camp suspicious—if the camp was really a surprise attack as Huang Xiwen said, and thought that the new army was unguarded, it would be strange to deploy a few hundred men on this mound in advance. Therefore, He Feibao only sent 300 people to the mountain to fortify.

Like other commanders of the New Army, He Feibao had always believed that the Chuang Army was still inferior to the New Army, and when they were equal in number, as the subordinates of the dignified Donghou Zhen, they were able to defeat Xu Ping, who had always relied on more than one to win, in a head-to-head battle. 300 people against 500 people, and there is a defensive location, He Feibao felt that there was no problem, and he felt that this was more in line with Huang Xiwen's thinking: not to let the thieves immediately see that the new army was prepared, but to feel that the new army was hurrying to reinforcements. Didn't Brother Huang once say that it was best to make the thieves feel that they could defeat the new army as long as they increased their strength, so that they would spare no effort to attack, so that when the new army counterattacked, they would be even more unable to resist.

"My lord, there are definitely more than five hundred thieves," the officer who ran down reported to He Feibao: "Thousands of thieves rushed up at once, and each of them killed many thieves, and they were really outnumbered." ”

"Alas," He Feibao scolded angrily, he believed this statement, since this is the case, it means that the reconnaissance just now was wrong, or some intruders took advantage of the night to touch the vicinity, causing them to rush up the mountain at once: "What do the Tanma do to eat?" ”

"Do you want to launch a counterattack immediately?" He Feibao hesitated and couldn't make up his mind, because the whole battalion was scattered to the battle line for the whole day to deploy defenses, so the troops at his hand were limited, relying on more than a thousand people to counterattack the superior enemy forces occupying favorable terrain, which might bring heavy casualties. Although it was very unfortunate that the core position was inexplicably rushed down by the enemy, but now that the enemy already knows the deployment of the whole army, is this position still important?

Wei Wu, who received the urgent report, was also a little hesitant, thousands of troops had already boarded the Pheasant Gang, so should they rely on the undominant forces of the camp to grab back or wait for Yang Zhiyuan's general attack order? Wei Wu also had the same hesitation in his heart: since something had happened, was it worth launching a counterattack that could be a huge sacrifice and recapture a hillock that seemed to have lost its meaning. Wei Wu looked back at the location of Yang Zhiyuan's camp, where no flags were issued, and no heralds from Yang Zhiyuan arrived.

"It seems that the marshal is not in a hurry," Wei Wu thought so, and finally did not give the order for the whole battalion to shrink: "If there are still thieves in other aspects, we still have the responsibility to resist." ”

……

"Lord Wei, He Feibao, what are they doing?" When he heard the report of the Tanma just now that there were hundreds of troops marching towards Pheasant Gang, Huang Xiwen was not worried at all, and when He Feibao sent 300 soldiers for the first defense, Huang Xiwen was also very satisfied: the later the thieves realized the strong strength of the new army, the better, and he was even worried that He Feibao sent too many troops, because Huang Xiwen asked himself that if he was in the position of the commander of the camp, he would never dare to use 500 hastily trained rabble to fight against the 300 elite soldiers of the famous Zhendonghou. If they don't dare to attack the camp, they won't be able to achieve the goal of consuming their energy.

As a result, in a blink of an eye, the other party took the pheasant hill, Huang Xiwen was stunned to see the banner of the camp floating on the hill, and before he could send someone to ask, He Feibao's herald hurriedly came, claiming that thousands of thieves had arrived, and the deployment error was caused by the mistake of reconnaissance, and at the same time, He Feibao also asked for instructions on how to deal with it.

"Thousands of thieves," Huang Xiwen was stunned for a moment, and then took a deep breath to calm himself down, his father often said that he should keep his head calm at any time on the battlefield, Huang Xiwen forced himself to think without emotion: "Things have happened, don't worry, don't complain, if thousands of thieves have arrived now, then how many of them are now?" Is there already tens of thousands? If so, it should be the time to concentrate the whole army on a counterattack. Is there any backing behind these thousands of thieves, and how to investigate? They must have sent a horse to report what they saw to the thief, how would the thief act? ”

After asking himself this long list of questions, Huang Xiwen felt that he was in a dilemma, he couldn't help but look back at the camp gate, and asked himself in his heart: "If it were Uncle Yang, how would he deal with it?" ”

……

"Why is there no movement in the Chizhuo Battalion," Wu Zhong looked at the calm southern slope of Pheasant Gang in surprise, and the Chizhuo Battalion did not immediately launch a counterattack: "What are they waiting for?" ”

"We made a mistake in our reconnaissance, and thousands of thieves were killed," Fu Tianjun quickly reported beside Wu Zhong, "It seems that the Chizhuo camp is not sure. ”

"There's no order from the marshal." A staff officer who joined after the Battle of Shandong to replace the position of Zhou Dongtian and others added, and then suggested: "Do you need to send someone to ask the commander for instructions?" ”

"Then it's not our Evergreen Camp." Fu Tianjun snorted, although Xu Ping was no longer the commander of this battalion a long time ago, as the first adjutant of this battalion when it was created, the imprint left by Xu Ping on the Evergreen Battalion could not be erased.

"We are martial artists, and it is better to do something wrong when something happens than to do nothing." Fu Tianjun unconsciously quoted a sentence that Xu Ping said, whether it was training or drills in the past, as long as there was nothing expected to happen, Xu Ping would definitely make a decision on the spot, and at the beginning Xu Ping still said: In the face of emergencies, it is better to do something wrong than to do nothing. But then it became that it is better to do it wrong at any time than not to do it. Although this statement was extreme, and one of Xu Ping's purposes was to justify his constant tampering with existing regulations, it did make the officers of the Evergreen Battalion much more active.

Since the establishment of the Changqing Battalion, Xu Ping has always emphasized the initiative of lower-level officers, when Zhendong Hou was established on Changsheng Island, he intended to properly suppress the initiative of officers because he was afraid that the old habits would infect his new army, and Zhendong Hou's subordinates were all kinds of veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and Zhendong Hou was worried that they would be too proactive, so he placed extreme emphasis on military law regulations. Xu Ping, on the other hand, encountered a new army that was conformist and mostly knew about war from books, so he gave his subordinates similar encouragement, which of course also attracted attacks from conservatives. But in any case, at least in the Evergreen Battalion, if the staff officers asked Xu Ping for instructions, he would still be angry: You don't have this time on the battlefield, I will set a rule for the Evergreen Battalion, you have to make a decision first, and then ask me for instructions.

Wu Zhong did not say any other nonsense, but immediately ordered the whole battalion to assemble, and at the same time ordered the two infantry teams at hand to launch a counterattack immediately.

Seeing that the commander ordered 800 soldiers to counterattack the enemy troops entrenched on the hill, which might be as many as several thousand, the new staff officers who had just completed their training once again proposed: "My lord, shall we reconnoiter first?" ”

It was also suggested to wait a while, so that the Red Burning Battalion must be conducting reconnaissance at this time.

"Offense is the best scouting." Wu Zhong said impatiently, the Changqing Battalion in the First Battle of Shandong was the vanguard at the beginning, and the end was the aftermath, and it almost covered all the hard battles. Therefore, Xu Ping and Wu Zhong have a deep understanding of the phrase "attack is the best reconnaissance". The subsequent battle of Shandong was far less arduous than the first one, and there was not much pressure on the other battalions, while for the Changqing battalion, officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels reviewed the experience and lessons they had gained in the last hard battle.

In the minds of Zhendonghou and Yang Zhiyuan, the Changqing Battalion is the battalion whose combat effectiveness is closest to the old three battalions of firefighting, rock, and xuanfeng, so half of the officers of the Changqing Battalion that were previously reorganized were taken away and assigned to the rebuilt battalions as backbones.

The two infantry teams of the Changqing Battalion immediately marched towards Pheasant Gang, and the staff officers hurriedly dispatched the artillery team and other teams, and after issuing these orders like a stream, Wu Zhong had time to send out a horse scout after watching the subordinates who drove towards Pheasant Hill. Report to Yang Zhiyuan's old battalion, Chizhuo battalion, and other battalions of the new army on their detailed plans and campaign plans.

"Xu Ping's style." After Wu Zhong sent the heralds, he whispered, this evaluation haunted the heads of the Evergreen Battalion and its battalion officers, and every time Wu Zhong made an impromptu judgment and asked for instructions, the other generals would always say that this was Xu Ping's style. This time, Wu Zhong once again did not wait for Yang Zhiyuan's order and unified strategic arrangement, and after making an emergency response first, he estimated that some people would say that the Changqing Battalion was damaged by Xu Ping: he always had no sense of cooperation and always liked to steal the limelight.

"What is Xu Ping's style?" Wu Zhong said angrily: "This is obviously my style. ”

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