Chen Hu, who was in the center of the queue, was very depressed. If it had been the custom before, he would have been at the forefront, but now it doesn't work. Because the Thunderbolts have introduced a system that prohibits military commanders from rushing to the front in battle except in exceptional circumstances. This is why such a regulation was introduced, because Ouyang Xuan found that the officers of the Thunderbolt Army liked to rush to the front line to fight, but they often forgot their role as commanders. Leading by example can boost the morale of the army, but if you neglect command because of this, the tactical ability will be reduced, and the gains outweigh the losses. This problem is not obvious in a small number of battles, but as the Thunderbolts continue to grow, it is a fatal problem if the officers are not able to find their own position.

Ouyang Xuan asked the officers to only be in the middle of the queue or the front of the middle in the battle, which was also to avoid excessive casualties among the grassroots officers in future battles. Most of the soldiers in the agrarian era were illiterate, their sense of family and country was very indifferent, and their political ideology, technical and tactical qualities were very poor. The requirements for officers in the firearms age are higher than those in the cold weapons age, and a qualified officer is more difficult to train and the cycle is longer. Now that the Thunderbolt Army is expanding rapidly, the shortage of qualified officers is giving Ouyang Xuan a headache, and he can't withstand the high casualty rate of officers. The introduction of such regulations is just a way to do it. Ouyang Xuan knew that personnel training required a long-term process, and there was no way to rush it. He had asked Yu Zhu to set up a teaching company in the garrison battalion and began to train squad and platoon commanders and other grassroots officers.

When it was only more than 100 meters away from the new annexed army of Dayi, Chen Hu ordered the whole company to stop and turn into a defensive position. Due to the narrowness of the mountain paths, the Perak soldiers could only stand with three to five men per platoon, even if they were in close formation. The soldiers in the first three rows held their shields in a half-crouch, the next three rows held their spears diagonally forward, and the soldiers in the back drew their grenades and prepared to throw them. The reasons why artillery was not used to bombard first this time was that the accuracy of the Thunderbolt army's artillery was not high, and it was not easy to hit the narrow mountain roads, and most of the shells would fall under the cliffs, which was not as convenient as grenades. The second is that Chen Hu feels that he only needs to charge down condescendingly, and he can defeat the two hundred people of the new annexed army, and there is no need to waste ammunition at all, this thing is not cheap.

Zhao Shicai saw the Thunderbolt army coming in line on the mountain road, and he felt contempt in his heart. In his opinion, the commander of this Thunderbolt army is a complete fool. Why go out of the village to fight on narrow mountain roads, instead of waiting for work under the protection of the wall? I heard that the so-called Thunderbolt Army was only developed from a squad of army requisitioning food, and those officers were just military attachés without rank, and judging from their performance today, they were worthy of their name, and they were not at all comparable to military attachés like themselves who had been in the army for many years.

Just as Zhao Shicai was about to give the order to charge, there was a rumbling cannon sound from the direction of Wanjiabao under the mountain. The sudden sound of cannon fire startled his heart. It is said that he has been a county lieutenant for many years, and he has also seen the earth-shattering thunder and assault rifle in the Southern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army. He saw several bulky cylindrical iron tools on the walls and watchtowers of the fortress, and guessed that these were the legendary cannons. Although he did not know how to use these iron lumps, he knew that gunpowder was definitely needed, but his soldiers did not find any gunpowder in the fort. The guards he stayed in Wanjiabao had neither gunpowder nor artillery, and the artillery under the mountain could sound continuously, could it be that the Thunderbolt army was attacking Wanjiabao?

As Zhao Shicai expected, the cannon sound under the mountain was indeed the work of the Thunderbolt army, but it was not an artillery attack on Wanjiabao, but a bombardment of the four hundred new annexed troops of Qingcheng County who had arrived belatedly on the city wall and watchtower. What Zhao Shicai never expected was that not long after he had Wanjiabao just now, the Thunderbolt army reoccupied Wanjiabao, and most of his 100 men, except for a few who were killed or escaped, were taken prisoner.

To say that this 10,000 fort is small but extremely strong, this fortress that has just been taken by the new military and then recaptured by the Thunderbolt army, and has changed hands repeatedly within a day, how can it be such a child's play? In fact, all this was indeed not a coincidence, but something that Ouyang Xuan had already planned.

It turned out that when Xiong Ben wantonly abducted the elderly, women and children in Yongkang County, coerced and coerced the merchants, and asked them to go to Wanjiaping together, the Thunderbolt army learned of their plan to deceive Wanjiabao. As early as the beginning of the formation of the Perak Army, Dong Hu set up spy bases in many prefectures and counties under the mountain, and also settled and developed many informants. Among the coerced Yongkang merchants was the Thunderbolt spies, who immediately sent the news back to the mountains through the Flying Pigeon Messenger. Combined with the warning that the Mongols were about to attack on a large scale from Dong Hu's other subordinates, Ouyang Xuan, Cao Ergou, Li Shuang, Yu Zhu and other high-level leaders of the Thunderbolt Army decided to make a plan to make a plan to beat the enemy in the future, so as not to covet the Mongols in the mountains again. After the construction of Wanjiabao, although the Mongols had been deflated twice, each time it was a crushing battle, and the actual results were not much. This time, Ouyang Xuan decided to give the Mongols a three-in-one plan to invite the king into the urn, close the door and beat the dogs, and surprise attack on Yokohara.

The first is the plan to invite you into the urn. The difficulty of this plan is how to make the enemy have no doubt about the easy capture of Wanjiabao. Of course, the battle plan was highly secretive, and only a few high-ranking Thunderbolt Army members knew about it, and they could not even let the Thunderbolt Army garrison in Wanjiabao know. Therefore, Yu Zhu carefully selected the loyal Shi Zhongzhu in the garrison camp to temporarily guard Wanjiabao, and the nine soldiers who accompanied him were mostly kind-hearted. Even if Shi Zhongzhu, who has a mediocre ability, does not have a plan to hit the enemy, he will not be able to hold the fortress with the strength of a squad of his second-line troops. Of course, in order to reduce casualties as much as possible, Ouyang Xuan still let people hint at Shi Zhongzhu, and if he can't keep it, it's the best policy.

After inviting the king into the urn, the most important thing is how to recapture Wanjiabao in order to form a situation of closing the door and beating the dog. Carrying out the task of closing the door was the second company of the field battalion that was originally stationed in Wanjiabao. Before Shi Zhongzhu took over the defense of Wanjia Fort with his poor squad, Shi Zhongshu quietly hid in the basement of the fort with the personnel of the second company. As the core of the defense in the mountains, Wanjiabao attaches great importance to the supply of war materials, so a huge underground warehouse is built in the fortress to store military supplies such as grain, water and ammunition. The underground warehouse is huge, and if it were all full, it would last a company of defenders for a year. Because most of the materials in the mountains are now used for the development of industry and mining, only a few materials are loaded in the warehouse, and the remaining space is more than enough to accommodate 100 people in the second company.