The forward of the Shun army, which crossed the position of the Ming army, began to rotate, Xu Ping led them all the way to the south, and soon the 16th infantry wing was stretched into a long line, and the infantry behind could not keep up with the footsteps of the forward, and fell behind one team after another.

"General, we're about to lose our organization." Ji Huaiyu and some of the First Cavalry Wing always followed behind Xu Ping, but they did not run on the avenue, and the First Cavalry Wing gradually began to leave the team.

"Those few things," Xu Ping pointed to the three balloons floating in the sky, and his experience in Chunhua was that as long as the Shun army began to assemble on the scale of the wings, the Ming army would definitely be able to make adjustments quickly: "I have always wanted to know how much news they can deliver at the same time." ”

The line continued to lengthen, and Xu Ping's flag kept following him closely, and after glancing back at his own flag and the dwindling infantry, Xu Ping added, "I'm still curious to know if I'm separated from a wing, whether they're paying attention to my wing." ”

"I'm afraid the column is too thin." A staff officer said with some concern that the Ming army controlled the official road, and it was possible for them to assemble and rush out to attack the weak point of the Shun army.

"Then they'll have to kill it, right, it's better than them staying at home and letting us fight it. In addition, then those in heaven will have more things to do. Xu Ping continued to stretch his battle line, the weak links of the Shun army have now become very many, and very weak, soon the Ming army can launch a counterattack on the scale of the team, and the Shun army will also face the battle in the team, as time goes by, the units on both sides may become smaller, Xu Ping feels that for those balloons, they concentrate on observing the movements of a battalion and a wing and report in time It may not be an impossible task to complete, However, it was much more difficult to convey to dozens of teams at the same time the movements of the Shun army, which was also divided into dozens of teams in all directions, and it was even more difficult to do so in a timely manner.

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The 41st Regiment that was ordered to turn to the west to guard against the Shun army from behind was also running wildly on the avenue at this time, and the order given by the division headquarters to this regiment was to keep an eye on the Shun army that was bypassing it, at first the regiment commander thought that there was no problem, no matter how the Shun army attacked, he was confident that he would first grab the enemy's head to resist, but the news from the balloon was that the Shun army had been moving in parallel, so the 31st Regiment also moved in parallel, and now this regiment has also been stretched several miles long.

"Keep an eye on that guy with the flag of General Xu Ping." At the beginning, the regiment commander was convinced that this was Xu Ping's personal command, and when he thought that he would have to confront such an opponent head-on for the first time on the battlefield, the regiment commander was nervous but also enthusiastic, but this way down, the regiment commander had become more and more suspicious of this, and the balloon said that there were only more than 1,000 cavalry left around the opponent, and he was very suspicious that such a famous enemy general would personally command such a little soldier and horse.

It seems that the deputy division commander Ji Xinghui insisted that Xu Ping did not come here but another fake is impersonating his banner is still somewhat credible, but the regiment commander still did not dare to be careless despite such suspicions, and he asked the staff officer to keep asking about the other party's formation changes, but the news came was very chaotic, and the air force said that the enemy's entire army was moving, and he did not see any strong defense, nor did he find any signs of the other party holding a certain place.

Basically, without waiting for the staff officers to draw a map of the place through the balloons, the balloons would correct the news they had just sent, and this had already made the staff officers of the 41 st Regiment angry and scolded the Air Force for "not seeing it more clearly?" In particular, they were also running with the regimental commander, and it was a troublesome thing to discuss the enemy formation while hurrying on horseback.

The regimental commander really wanted all the balloons to report to him, but this was impossible, and the division headquarters was constantly asking about the battle situation, the enemy's vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and the 42nd Regiment was planning to counterattack and also needed balloons to reconnoitre, and the military headquarters was also constantly asking what was going on.

So the regiment commander finally ordered to stare at Xu Ping's general flag, and he followed the flag there when it went, and at the same time asked the balloon to pay attention to whether a certain Shun army had signs of holding - the regiment commander felt that the enemy's point was my point, and he was a little confused about the situation in front of him, and he thought of knowing the position that the other party was concerned about through reconnaissance, which would be helpful for guessing the enemy's intentions.

Behind the 41st Regiment, Ji Xinghui commanded thousands of soldiers and horses to hurry to the breakthrough, he never believed that Xu Ping would personally command the first-line army, this army seemed to be only used to distract the attention of the Ming army, Ji Xinghui felt that if the breakthrough could be closed and the connection with the military headquarters of the Seventh Army could be restored, then the situation would be clearer.

After learning that the Shun army's battle line was very long and the troops were quite scattered, Ji Xinghui couldn't help but want to send some troops to launch a counterattack and disrupt the Shun army's movements, but he was worried that this would hit the enemy's hands and disperse the counterattack force on the breakthrough.

Just when Ji Xinghui was thinking about it and making a decision, the headquarters of the 41st Regiment, which had just run past his guards, suddenly began to run towards the meeting again.

After the soldiers who had run all the way received the order to turn around and march back, some of them could not help but complain, shouting, "I don't know what to do." Ji Xinghui also angrily stopped the commander of the 41st Regiment and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"The man under the banner of Xu Ping turned around again." The regimental commander reported with an anxious face.

"What about his troops?"

"I don't seem to be following along." The message on the balloon was that the Shun Army Vanguard was continuing to move south, but the flag that the Air Force was watching closely returned the same way.

"This is obviously not Xu Thief himself, they are mobilizing you." Ji Xinghui shouted impatiently: "Don't rush with me here, your regiment!" Immediately counterattack to the west in an all-out way, and give me the avenue. ”

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Xu Ping has changed horses, just now when he was commanding two teams to cooperate to defeat a Ming army, his mount was unfortunately hit by a stray bullet, and the Ming army was not very well organized, as Li Laiheng said, these Ming troops still looked very clumsy when they fought for the first time. The performance of the Seventh Army made Xu Ping feel more about the wealth of the Southern Ming, although the officers and soldiers who went into battle for the first time had all kinds of shortcomings, they still had rules, and after seeing the performance of these soldiers, compared with the Ming army he had encountered before, Xu Ping felt that the combat strength of the Ming army had indeed improved rapidly.

Most of the battles do not need Xu Ping to personally command, although the recruits of the Shun army can not compare with the Ming army, but the officers and squad officers of each team must be veterans who have participated in the war many times, they take the initiative to retreat in the face of the Ming army group, and the Shun army, which also lost its centralized command after the battle line is extended, is much stronger than the Ming army, and the tacit understanding and skilled cooperation between the teams are not comparable to the other party. It's just that Xu Ping can understand the battle situation more clearly by personally commanding, and at the same time boost the morale of the Shun army.

There was a force of more than 1,000 Ming troops rushed into the Shun army's battle line, and pursued for several miles, only to find that they had broken away from the friendly forces on both flanks, Xu Ping coordinated the many squads of the Shun army around the Ming army, blocked the 41st regiment's main force to return to the division, and after they were repulsed, Xu Ping delegated command to the commander of the 16th infantry wing who came in a hurry, and he asked that the Ming army continue to push back westward until they were expelled from the battlefield.

"Where is the fifteenth infantry wing?" Xu Ping asked a little strangely, he remembered that he had ordered Liu Yixuan, the commander of this wing, to follow him closely, but now he was nowhere to be seen, and only some sporadic detachments belonging to the fifteenth infantry wing followed. If the 15th Infantry Wing had followed up as a whole, Xu Ping's forces at hand would not have been so tight, and the Ming army just now would not just politely expel it from the battlefield but would have tried to annihilate it.

Liu Yixuan, who was missed by Xu Ping, was still at the initial breakthrough at this time - he had just returned here.

As his troops began to follow Xu Ping's footsteps through the breach, Liu Yixuan suddenly noticed that the Ming forces on both flanks were showing signs of a counteroffensive, and they were trying to reunite and restore contact.

So Liu Yixuan immediately shouted at the 15th Infantry Wing and ordered them to immediately turn around and return to reoccupy the position of the breakthrough.

"The general ordered us to go full speed." A staff officer sent by Xu Ping protested that he had already explained Xu Ping's orders and ideas to Liu Yi, and that he wanted to go back to the rear of the Ming army to fight a melee with the Ming army, and avoid large-scale group battles as much as possible.

"But if the Ming army is allowed to restore contact, then the general will lose contact with the sharpshooter battalion." The Marksman Battalion had not yet arrived at the breakthrough and Xu Ping did not know this, Liu Yixuan thought that if this breakthrough was closed, it would be very difficult for the Marksman Battalion to open it again, and the attention of the Ming army had already been attracted. Liu Yixuan didn't have a balloon, but he felt that the strength of the Ming army was pouring here, and the Ming army's movements were found on both sides of the breakthrough, and it was likely that the sharpshooter battalion would not be able to arrive before the Ming army recaptured the position, and Xu Ping also didn't know this.

"This is the order of the Great General, and the Great General needs the Fifteenth Infantry Wing to catch up." The staff officers were still protesting, trying to reverse Liu's resolve.

"The Great General said that if a commander is convinced that an order is incorrect, then he should decisively disobey it." According to Xu Ping's experience, generally speaking, even if a junior commander thinks that an order is wrong, he will tend to carry out the orders of his superiors - that is, they are encouraged to make a judgment on the spot according to the actual situation, and the officers will only summon up the courage to disobey orders when the mistakes are very obvious, and even at this time there are not many people who dare to disobey orders. Xu Ping's rule is what the ancients called "the general is outside, and the military order is not subject to it." In the past, Huang Shi emphasized the resolute implementation of the staff plan according to the experience of later generations, and did not give much consideration to the technical support of the radio, Xu Ping was not affected by this fixed because of his ignorance of the technical conditions of later generations, and he did not worship Huang Shi like the old department of the new army, so in his army he resumed the encouragement of disobedience: "I am now convinced that the general's order is wrong. ”

Liu Yixuan sent people to chase Xu Ping, and on the other hand, he brought all the subordinates he had time to control back to the breakthrough, and urgently began to build field fortifications.

To the south of Liu Yixuan was the 42nd Regiment, which was regrouping for a counterattack, while to the north was the troops directly under the Seventh Army.

After receiving the news of a fierce battle in the direction of the Chengcheng Division, Commander Li was worried at first, but when the news of the approximate strength of the Shun army came, Commander Li became angry: "Attacking our 35,000 army with 10,000 cavalry, is the thief crazy?" ”

Standing next to Commander Li is Wang Qinian, when he was in the Northern Alliance, he felt Xu Ping's deep hatred for himself, several times the other party chased after him and almost killed him, after yesterday's military meeting Wang Qinian also thought that the main force of the Shun army came from the Taiping Mansion is very likely. And in the previous few battles, Wang Qinian knew that Xu Ping was very powerful, and he asked himself that he was definitely not his opponent, and as for Yi Meng, Wang Qinian was not very optimistic, so he stayed in Commander Li's military headquarters and planned to act.

"This is definitely not Xu Ping!" Wang Qinian, like Ji Xinghui, was convinced that Xu Ping would stay in the army and not risk it himself, and after seeing the strength of the Shun army, he deepened this view, and pointed out to Commander Li that this should be a feint army, and Xu Ping's killer weapon would be in the north rather than the east. Wang Qinian, like Ji Xinghui, immediately realized the threat of the Shun army's breakthrough, and as the battle reports continued to come, the Shun army obviously wanted to lead the battle to the melee After Wang Qinian pointed out to Commander Li again: "The thieves are just to disrupt the situation and make our rear as chaotic as possible. ”

"How do you brake statically?"

"The thirteenth town remains immovable, don't fall for Xu thief's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain...... Wang Qinian also advocated an all-out assault to recapture the breakthrough, so that the Shun army that has invaded the Ming army's battle line will become a lone army, they have no camp and a large amount of baggage, and the combat effectiveness will decrease rapidly over time, and they will also lose Xu Ping's unified command, unable to closely cooperate with the main force of the Shun army.

As long as the 13th Division can withstand the strong attack of Xu Ping's main force from the Taiping Axe, Wang Qinian feels that with the strength directly under the 14th Division and the Seventh Army, he can still defeat this Wanshun army, after all, the Ming army has the advantage of two to one in terms of numbers.

"It is impossible for the Shun army from Gaochun to exceed 20,000, let's divide them first, and then defeat the western half, just drive them away, there is no need to annihilate them so as not to be hit, and then turn around and meet the remaining half - if they really have 10,000." Wang Qinian optimistically estimated: "In this way, our rear is still impregnable, if the north fights well, we can consider reinforcing the public servant division, if Xu Ping in the north is attacking endlessly, the public servant division can also fight and retreat along the avenue under the cover of the honest division." ”

Wang Qinian asked Commander Li to send all the baggage troops, supplementary troops and independent units of the military headquarters, and cooperate with the honest division to storm the breakthrough: "The thieves in other places can swim, and they can deliberately muddy the water instead of resisting our counterattack (this is what Wang Qinian analyzed, Xu Ping is doing this. But not here, as long as we restore contact we can split the thieves in two, and they will be alone no matter how much they swim. ”

The military department can immediately send 3,000 soldiers into the counterattack, Wang Qinian asked him to command the counterattack, although he has no confidence in Xu Ping, but he is still somewhat confident in other Shunjun generals, there is no better candidate Commander Li immediately agreed to Wang Qinian's request, before setting off Wang Qinian patted his chest to ensure that the other party can wait for good news: "If it is Xu Ping, the general will still think that he is an opponent, and the other old men have not yet taken it into their eyes." ”

When Xu Ping received Liu Yixuan's urgent report, Ji Xinghui had already arrived at the front line, and the balloon reported that the Shun army was reinforcing the fortifications, so he did not hesitate to order an immediate attack.

The Ming army immediately attacked the Shun army, and wave after wave rushed to the mountain pack, while the 15th Infantry Wing hid behind a hastily erected fence and began to return fire.

Because the road was narrow and it was impossible to line up all the troops, the 42nd Regiment put on a textbook formation, with one team attacking and the other on standby in the rear, waiting until the front team was ineffective to attack and immediately top up, and then preparing for the first team.

Just now, because of the urgency of time, Liu Yixuan ordered to dig a shallow trench behind the fence, and the ditch was launched before the Ming army could complete the attack, and now he leaned over and hid in the deepest part of this shallow trench, observing the offensive of the Ming army.

The soldiers in the front row crouched on the ground and lowered their bodies to reduce the rate of command of the Ming army's fire, a posture that prevented them from reloading their ammunition, so as soon as they finished firing, they handed their rifles to their companions behind them; The soldiers in the second row took the rifles of the soldiers in the front row and handed them the newly loaded guns, and then continued to pass the weapons that needed to be loaded; Behind them were three or four rows of Shunjun soldiers, lying on the ground loaded with bullets, and the other party's lead pellets whistled overhead.

At the rear of the infantry array were several cannons dragged up by the 15th Infantry Wing, which were also placed in hastily dug pits, and Liu Yi's order to the artillery was that if the opposing infantry continued to fire at each other, then the first target of the artillery was the Ming artillery, not the shotgun of the attacking infantry.

Ji Xinghui on the opposite side also has artillery to help the battle, as soon as they appeared on the battlefield, they were taken care of by the artillery of the Shun army, the Ming artillery strongly requested to give priority to the opponent's artillery, although the other party hid in the pit but the Ming artillery believed that they could still defeat the other party first, but Ji Xinghui thought about it, or ordered the artillery to endure the opponent's attack and attack the opponent's infantry line with all his might.

The balloons in the air reported that another group of Shun troops coming from the east would soon feel the battlefield, and they were fanned into many ways to approach the flanks of the Ming army, and in terms of numbers, this formidable Shun army probably numbered as many as five or six thousand infantry, and they also had a large number of artillery carriages.

The staff officers suggested dividing troops to resist, but Ji Xinghui rejected this suggestion with dissatisfaction: "Capture this mountain bag first, and then divide your troops to meet the battle!" ”

There are only more than 2,000 Shun troops on the opposite mountain, and Ji Xinghui has 5,000 people under his command, although the troops cannot be fully deployed, but the balloon also reports that there are also thousands of Ming troops in the north, and his artillery is also bearing the opponent's firepower to assist the infantry, Ji Xinghui feels that he still has a chance to capture the position before the Shun army reinforcements arrive - although not necessarily, but there is this possibility.

The balloon was still anxiously reminding him that the reinforcements of the Shun army were getting closer and closer, but Ji Xinghui now felt that the information of the balloon was not helpful, because his Tanma had also observed the approaching reinforcements of the Shun army, and this urging only made him feel upset.

"About five or five." Ji Xinghui assessed in his heart, and at this moment, he suddenly heard thunderous cheers from the position of the Shun army on the opposite side, and its sound was so loud that it even overwhelmed the sound of guns and cannons on the battlefield.

A black-clad general rushed up the mountain from the side and galloped past the rear of the Shun army's position.

Ji Xinghui looked at the figure with a telescope, and he suddenly felt a violent dry mouth: "Xu Ping, it's really Xu Ping." ”

No matter how hard the New Army or the generals of the Northern Alliance tried, they were always defeated by this man again and again. Ji Xinghui immediately realized that he was still at a disadvantage in terms of strength, didn't the Air Force keep saying that tens of thousands of Shun troops were coming?

"Retreat!" After a moment of distraction, Ji Xinghui suddenly shouted loudly: "Retreat!" Prepare to defend and immediately send troops to defend the flanks! ”

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