The river affects the mobility of the army, and the forest on the bank can allow the defenders to hide their forces well, Zhan Tianhao has no good way to face this complex terrain, even if the new army has a military advantage here, it is still difficult for them to break the defense of the opposing army: "There are forests and rivers here, and there is no place for soldiers." ”

"It's really not suitable for an attack here," Ji Xinghui agreed, the battle just now proved that whoever attacked here was unlucky, and now Li Guo was hiding on the opposite side and had no intention of continuing to attack, and the new army also had no such desire: "What are the plans of Brother Zhan?" ”

"Maybe I should go back to the Dashuai to listen to the order, but the Dashuai explicitly ordered me to come to the left wing to support, saying that Xu Ping is somewhere on the left flank, I think I'd better stay here for a while." Zhan Tianhao ordered the Panshi battalion to rest in place, and the new army had already made a notification to the two battalions on the left flank, and now the Panshi battalion had done it again, saying that if the brigade that broke into the camp was found, he could be notified at any time to go for reinforcements.

Looking at the banner of the two battalions of the new army opposite, Li Guo completely gave up the idea of winning, his loss just now was not smaller than that of the Taishan battalion, considering the shortage of materials, this kind of consumption would be extremely unfavorable to Li Guo. As the camp continued to expand its own firearms unit, Xu Ping repeatedly ordered the local troops to use gunpowder sparingly, and Li Guo's unit was a field battalion and did not belong to the list of local troops that needed to use gunpowder sparingly. But despite this, Li Guo also had to consider how to arrange live-fire training, not to mention that due to the extreme lack of training of local troops, it became more and more difficult for Li Guo to find additional troops for his attrition, and the needless killing of hundreds of soldiers in the river just now made Li Guo feel distressed.

"General, do you want to ask the general for help?" A subordinate general of Li Guo asked.

Looking at the banner of the Panshi Battalion, Li Guo pondered for a moment, but still shook his head: "There is a river here, Hugh said that there are two battalions, even the three battalions of the new army can't beat it." ”

Even if they hit, the river will slow down their advance, Li Guo thinks that he has enough warning time: "Just spend it, I don't believe they won't return to the camp after dark, the cannon in this river, I'm going to decide!" ”

……

For nearly an hour, the Selector Battalion had repelled every attack from the flank by the Selector Battalion, and the frontal front had pushed past the position where Xu Ping was just now, and the small three-way crossing that the Xirui Battalion was responsible for defending was now under the control of the Selector Battalion. The communication between Gu Maitreya and Yang Zhiyuan has become smoother, and now Yang Zhiyuan has become very concerned about this battlefield again.

As the Ming army continued to advance, the Selective Battalion reported that they were encountering more frequent counterattacks from the flanks, and in the last quarter of an hour, the Chuang army launched three counterattacks on the scale of 100 men.

In other directions of the battlefield, after the left flank reported that the crisis had been resolved, the Hosoliu battalion also reported that the camp in front of it had stopped the useless attack, and although the camp had an advantage in strength, the Hosoliu battalion optimistically reported to Yang Zhiyuan: At least the casualties were comparable. When the Red Burning Battalion appeared on the flank, the two western battalions immediately turned to the defensive, and the other sections also reported that the intruding battalion was on the defensive.

"The Xuanfeng battalion captured a lot of prisoners, and many people confessed that Xu Ping was personally commanding the other side," the staff officers brought the latest information to Yang Zhiyuan: "Half of the troops captured by the Xuanfeng battalion were baggage soldiers and men, they were not soldiers, and there was also a prisoner who confessed that when he passed in front of Xu Ping's camp, he noticed that there was a lot of chaos inside, and it seemed that he was preparing to transfer, but this confession has not been confirmed more." ”

Yang Zhiyuan lightly tapped his forehead and blamed himself: "I let the other four battalions attack, the purpose is to prevent Xu Ping from being able to transfer troops to plug the gap, but after I opened the gap, I transferred the main attack force to support and contain the attack force, the most ridiculous thing is that the crisis was lifted before the support force arrived, how could I make such a stupid mistake?" ”

"Immediately transfer the Panshi Battalion back," after realizing that he had made a big mistake, Yang Zhiyuan shook his spirits and ordered one after another: "Let Xuan Feng speed up the attack, don't let Xu Ping calmly transfer the general flag, after capturing Xu Ping's camp, he will pursue closely, search for his new command place, and can't let him recover his command ability." ”

Now that Xu Ping has returned to his general flag to command the battle, he didn't even bother to take a look at the battle report from the west, Xu Ping suspended the order to transfer the general flag, and the transfer of the general flag in the fierce battle will make the intruding army completely chaotic: "The counterattack of our soldiers is very heroic, but we need more soldiers, victory or defeat in one fell swoop." ”

Zhou Dongtian spread his hands and said, "We don't have enough cooks. For Xu Ping's counterattack plan, the staff officers pulled everyone who could walk onto the battlefield to form a force, which Xu Ping had encountered in Shandong back then, but this time it was his turn to do so.

The combat skills of these non-combatants were quite poor, the men or baggage personnel had only basic combat training, and many of them were on the battlefield for the first time, and they were engaged with officers and men for the first time, and they had a very difficult task to compete with units such as the Election Battalion.

But it is these people who have saved the crisis on the battlefield again and again, most of them are from Henan, and they know very well what they are fighting for - in order for their families not to starve to death, they must repel the officers and soldiers. Thousands of such Henan peasants have already sprinkled their blood on the battlefield, and the Xuanfeng battalion is still advancing.

Gu Mengliu, who abandoned the artillery and withdrew with the armored battalion, stepped forward when he heard this: "My lord, our artillery crew is still intact. ”

"Today we are not attacking Beijing, we can't do anything to kill chickens and take eggs." Xu Ping waved his hand and rejected Gu Mengliu's Mao Sui's self-recommendation, although the battalion could not move, but Xu Ping saw that the officers and soldiers had been killed in front of him, and he ordered the artillery to retreat immediately: "Can't the second infantry wing retreat from the front line?" ”

"It will take some time, the Evergreen Battalion is launching a diversion offensive, just now I thought that the general flag would be transferred, so I arranged for the remnants of the armored battalion and the avant-garde battalion to retreat first, and after the adults changed their attention, I just let them go up, and it will take a while for them to take over the position of the second infantry wing."

"What about the First Infantry Wing?"

"General Yu is handing over positions, and he will be able to rush back at full speed soon."

"Got it."

……

Gu Maitreya always thought that it was not a problem to retreat from Xu Ping's camp, and after the Chuang army launched a continuous counterattack, he still thought that there was no problem, because the number of attacking troops in the Chuang camp was scarce, and a considerable number of enemy troops seemed to lack discipline. However, when the battle lasted for an hour, Gu Maitreya found that he still had some problems.

For an hour, the losses of the Xuanfeng battalion were not large, but the troops stopped and stopped, constantly changing formations, which made the officers and men begin to fatigue. The efficiency of the artillery of the Selective Battalion is not high today, the enemy in front always hides far away, and they are sparsely formed, the artillery fails to cause them any damage, and generally long before the artillery approaches, the enemy troops in the front will take the initiative to retreat because of the approach of the infantry; As for the enemy on the flanks, they always fought in hundreds, tens, and the artillery often turned in the direction of the enemy, and they were already suppressed or repulsed by infantry fire.

"If there was a battalion on my flank, I would have taken Xu Ping's battalion half an hour ago." Gu Maitreya felt the inconvenience of attacking alone, but he refused to divide the whole battalion in two. Just now, a staff officer suggested that the adjutant should command one or two teams to defend the flanks and let the main force of the battalion attack westward, but Gu Maitreya vetoed this suggestion: Now that it is fighting in Henan, the Xuanfeng battalion is very unfamiliar with the surrounding geography, who knows if there are any easy trails around? Who knows if there is a large army of breakers hiding nearby? The two previous defeats of the new army to Xu Ping were due to the dispersion of troops, and Gu Maitreya did not plan to make such a mistake.

The Xu Ping battalion is already in sight, and the advance speed of the Xuanfeng battalion is still not fast.

"Where's the Evergreen Camp?" Gu Maitreya knew that the Evergreen Battalion was confronting him in front of Xu Ping: "Why doesn't the Evergreen Battalion flank us?" ”

Gu Maitreya asked the herald to send a request to Yang Zhiyuan to let the new army in front cooperate with the attack.

……

For an hour, the Evergreen Battalion had been in a situation where there was nothing to do, and now they could hear the rumbling of artillery coming from a distance, indicating that the Election Battalion was approaching. Just now, Yang Zhiyuan had an order that as long as Xu Ping's battalion retreated, the Changqing battalion would participate in the pursuit, but Xu Ping's battalion on the opposite side still didn't seem to have any intention of moving, so the Changqing battalion continued to hold still.

"My lord, the commander wants us to cooperate with the selection of the forward battalion to attack as appropriate."

"Oh?" Wu Zhong took Yang Zhiyuan's warrant and read it again, and called the messenger over for interrogation.

Yang Zhiyuan didn't know the situation on the front line very well, and he wasn't sure whether Xu Ping had concentrated a powerful reserve in his hands, so he put the decision in the hands of Wu Zhong: if Xu Ping's camp was empty, then the Changqing battalion should attack; If Wu Zhong felt that Xu Ping's camp still had some strength left, then he should also exert pressure as appropriate to make Xu Ping have some scruples.

Wu Zhong's eyebrows furrowed, and at the same time, there was also a notice from the selection of the front battalion, Gu Maitreya thought that Xu Ping did not have many troops, at most there were more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers available.

Among the messengers who came to report, there were the heralds of the Xuanfeng battalion, Wu Zhong asked Yang Zhiyuan's men to go back first, and asked the heralds of the Xuanfeng battalion to come over to inquire about some battle conditions.

After hastily listening to the envoy of the Xuanfeng Battalion to introduce the battle situation, Wu Zhong put his hands together in front of the mountain, held his right hand on the wrist of the injured hand, and said in a long voice: "If the thieves are really weak, with the strong strength of a battalion of the Xuanfeng Battalion, I believe that General Gu will be able to play the victory." ”

These words are basically Gu Maitreya's original words when Wu Zhong reported to the Xuanfeng camp in the morning to ask for help, and the next one is the same.

"If your battalion's investigation is wrong, and the thieves have ambushed soldiers, this battalion should be your battalion's stamina."

After saying that, Wu Zhong asked the guards to bring the envoy of the Xuanfeng battalion down.

"Probably Xu Ping is exhausted, but even if I contribute to the camp and finally reward my meritorious deeds, Gu Maitreya and they will never say a good word about me, in this case, I would rather bring the brothers home alive. The commander didn't order us to attack, I, Wu Zhong, don't want to be in the limelight, I don't want to fight for merit, I will give all the credit to the Xuanfeng battalion. ”

After Wu Zhong finished saying this to his henchmen, he thought for a while and added: "Since the commander wants us to attack as appropriate, then okay, pull our artillery up and bombard Xu Ping's battalion." After all, it is a friendly army, and as long as the brothers in our battalion are not killed, I am willing to do my best to cooperate with the friendly army. ”

……

At this time, Xu Ping was still watching the battle at the front line, and the frontal resistance of the intruding army continued to retreat, and the counterattack on the flank was once again declared a failure, and his guards stopped the defeated soldiers, formed them into random formations, and handed them over to the officers who could be found to lead them.

The dusty officer standing in front of Xu Ping at the moment is named Wang Wushuang, this morning he was only a second lieutenant in the Xirui battalion, after the whole battalion was dispersed, he relied on his rank to gather a group of strange soldiers, and then he was thrown into counterattacks again and again, and now he is a major appointed by Xu Ping himself. In this latest counterattack, Wang Wushuang's army was once again scattered, but they managed to rush into the formation of the Xuanfeng battalion from the flank before being repulsed, repelling a small squad of the Ming army, forcing the infantry on the right flank of the Xuanfeng battalion to stop again and turn around to attack them.

Wang Wushuang and Xu Ping had not met before, and he was not the old department that Sun Kewang brought from Xiying, as a native of Henan, he now not only had enough to eat, but also could raise his wife and children; As an officer under Sun Kewang, there is only one way to escape from the battle.

Wang Wushuang threw the military flag seized from the Ming army squad in front of Xu Ping, and hundreds of soldiers were brought behind him, Xu Ping handed over all these freshly organized infantry to Wang Wushuang's command in one go, and pointed to the Ming army that was still advancing step by step and ordered him: "Major Wang, you lead your subordinates around this hill and attack the enemy's left flank. ”

"Yes, General."

Wang Wushuang silently turned around, turned right with his new class, and soon disappeared behind the hills.

The Xuanfeng battalion continued to move forward, and two more intrusive troops came out of their right flank, killing them while putting their guns, Xu Ping closed one eye and watched them, and whispered in his mouth: "It's a little early." ”

After several Ming troops were knocked down, the attacking army encountered fierce return fire, and the attacked Ming army squad stood firmly and confronted the breaking army in a hurry, while the friendly troops located on the two flanks of the Ming army advanced out of the box. The accumulation of fire from three sides quickly depleted the morale of the invading army, and they turned around and ran back, and those who fell behind were hit by the bullets pursued by the Ming army, and they fell to the ground one after another.

The infantry on the left flank of the Xuanfeng battalion alternately covered and re-faced the west, trotting to catch up with the pace of the friendly forces in the center, and the battalion flag raised high swayed in the wind, firmly pressing towards Xu Ping. At this time, the left flank of the Xuanfeng battalion suddenly sounded a sound of killing, and a group of scattered soldiers rushed down from the hill with shouts, and Xu Ping followed their footsteps closely with his eyes.

The left flank of the Xuanfeng battalion, which had not been attacked, seemed a little sluggish, and their horizontal formation facing the west slowly turned south, and when they were about to complete the U-turn, the breaking army had already rushed close to the formation of the Ming army, Xu Ping saw Wang Wushuang, the front of the whole team, waved his arm vigorously, opened his mouth and shouted something, and never opened fire, and the intruding army shot at the Ming army. Then he accelerated and ran through the smoke that had just risen and crashed into the Ming army's horizontal line.

"Not bad."

Xu Ping was satisfied to see that the Ming army was hit by the invasion army and retreated again and again, and another military flag of the Ming army squad was taken down by the invasion army, and Wang Wushuang held it high and shook it a few times. Then he shouted something, and the army retreated like a tide, and behind the rushing army, several squads of the Ming army had already lined up horizontally and began to raise their guns to aim.

"Very good."

The Ming army fired volleys at those who did not look back, and the intruders who were hit fell to the ground, and more intruders followed Wang Wushuang back to the cover of the hills.

"Very good."

Xu Ping put down the binoculars and praised softly.

At this time, a herald hurriedly arrived and reported loudly behind Xu Ping that the 1st Infantry Wing had returned from the battle line, but Zhou Dongtian also reported that the Changqing Battalion was shelling Xu Ping's battalion, and he asked if all the troops should be sent to the Eastern Front as originally planned.

"Has the Evergreen Battalion sent infantry?" Xu Ping had already heard the sound of cannonballs, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

"Not yet, but there are signs of it."

"The infantry of the Xuanfeng Battalion is already about to attack under my nose," Xu Ping called out impatiently, "Let the first infantry wing come over immediately." I'll think about the matter of the Evergreen Battalion when their infantry gets under Staff Officer Zhou's nose. ”

The formation of the Xuanfeng battalion changed again, and now they also left a defensive infantry team on the left flank, Xu Ping observed the frontal deployment of the Ming army, until Wang Wushuang came to him again and threw the captured Ming army battle flag at his feet, Xu Ping withdrew his gaze from the front.

"Major Wang, you have been promoted again, and now I want Lieutenant Colonel Wang to counterattack the officers and soldiers from the front." Xu Ping stretched out his arm and pointed to the formation of the Ming army, and said to Wang Wushuang: "Lieutenant Colonel Wang has seen it, the two teams of officers and soldiers lack cooperation, and the formation of the officers and soldiers on the left is not conducive to defending the frontal assault. ”

"Yes, General." Wang Wushuang clasped his hands into fists and turned to leave.

Before Wang Wushuang walked away, he suddenly turned around and asked, "General, the promotion you gave to the humble position is not temporary, is it?" ”

"Of course not."

"That means that the family members of the lowly position can get the pension of the lieutenant colonel level?" Today's battle was not long, but Wang Wushuang found that with his rocket-like promotion, his bereavement pension had more than doubled.

Xu Ping nodded: "Yes." "The bereavement pension system is another set of military regulations that Xu Ping moved from the New Army, and the current principle is that the higher the rank, the higher the bereavement pension.

"Thank you, General." Wang Wushuang replied in a low voice, this time he did not stop, and led his subordinates straight to the front line. Xu Ping, on the other hand, picked up the telescope again, observing the progress of the battle situation while constantly issuing various orders.

When the rhythm of the Ming army's offensive was once again disturbed by the counterattack of the invading army, Yu Shenhe's familiar voice sounded behind Xu Ping: "The Guards Battalion and the First Infantry Wing report to you, my lord." ”

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