In just one shot, the enemy raised and fell with his sword, and every time he swung his sword, a brother fell off his horse.

Not to mention organizing an effective counterattack, under the first round of impact, there were not many cavalry battalion phalanxes still on horseback.

And this will no longer need to be said by the soldiers, Zhang Li has roughly guessed the general situation.

He couldn't help but close his eyes in pain.

In these years, the cavalry is indeed about to gradually withdraw from the stage of history, but it is still very strong, especially in the field, the cavalry can play the infantry alive.

This time, the only cavalry battalion was hit, and the next five infantry regiments were already more than lucky.

If the trenches had been dug earlier, it would have been better to say, but now there is nothing, and it is another encounter, and the other side has already prepared, and the situation can be imagined.

——

And just three hours ago—

The cavalry of the brigade rushed from the area of Zhangbei, and at this time the nostrils of the horses could be seen constantly spewing hot air, obviously these horses had been running and had already been exhausted.

"Go straight into the woods, don't go any further, don't leave horseshoe prints!"

Wang Er shouted loudly, his voice seemed to have a frosted texture, and his mouth was also extremely dry.

This way has been a long run, and it can be said that it has been a long run to the extreme.

The situation is far from what Zhang Li's department now knows.

Selling sources?

By the time they attacked Guyuan, they had already conquered many counties south of Chazhong one after another.

Why is the offensive so fast?

Naturally, it is fast, the county seat of the Central Plains has been built quite well in recent years, and the county seat on the grassland still retains the original flavor of the previous dynasty.

Many are even weathered and rotten, and unguarded.

Some counties have only one security team, some don't even have a security team, and only some patrol police.

The number of people who can be organized in some counties is only a few hundred at most, and a few dozen people at a less.

This is also normal, Chahar is different from the Central Plains, it is already vast and sparsely populated, and it is impossible to send large troops to garrison in many places.

In contrast, the further south you go, the larger the garrison becomes.

For example, there are indeed a lot of garrisons in Guyuan, or the garrisons in Chongli and Zhangbei are also quite stubborn.

At present, after entering Guyuan, the offensive of the army has indeed slowed down a little, but it does not mean that the offensive momentum has slowed down.

Zhao Ye's main focus is the speed of soldiers.

"Rest in place first, and the brothers in the reconnaissance company will work harder."

Seeing that the soldiers began to dismount and rest, Wang Er was also distressed for a while, from Chabei to here, a few days of hard work, several days of almost changing horses without changing people.

During this period, there was only a few days of rest, which was the only way to accomplish such a feat, so that Zhang Li's command headquarters had obtained the latest battle report, but the previous earlier battle report had not been obtained.

You must know that not every county can have a telegraph in these years, and most of the counties in the southern part of the Central Plains can still have telegraphs, but in Chahar.

Close to the county seat of Chazhong, not to mention the telegraph, there are not tens of thousands of people in the entire county.

"It's sir!"

When the brothers of the reconnaissance company heard this, without saying a word, they turned on their horses again, and without the slightest complaint, changed horses and began to reconnoiter in all directions.

The cavalry regiment led by Wang Er now has a total of about 3,000 people, including a firepower reinforcement company and a small artillery platoon equipped with small-caliber mortars.

A total of eight light machine guns, two heavy machine guns, and eight small-caliber mortars were all portable equipment that could quickly follow the cavalry.

In addition, the entire cavalry regiment was also equipped with more than 8,000 grenades, almost bringing over nearly one-third of the inventory that Zhao Ming had accumulated over the past few years.

It is to enable this cavalry regiment to become a sharp knife to speed up the process of advancing and delay the speed of Zhang Li's defense.

After a full ten minutes of rest, the brothers mainly fed the horses with horse feed.

At this moment, a small team of brothers from the reconnaissance company rushed back.

"Sir, there are a large number of enemy troops on the main road to the south, and it is suspected that the enemy army is reinforcing them!"

"How many people? Is there heavy fire? How long will it take? ”

Wang Er's inquiry was very concise.

Hearing this, the soldiers of the reconnaissance company also responded quickly, "There are about nearly 10,000 people, there is a lot of heavy firepower, and it is estimated that there are no less than thirty or forty light and heavy machine guns, and no artillery units have been found, but many cavalry units are found that cannot be estimated to be a battalion." ”

Seeing this, Wang Er hurriedly walked to the edge of the jungle, first picked up the telescope and looked at it, but when he saw that he couldn't see anything, he climbed up the trunk of the tree.

When I looked again, on the main road, which was a little dim in the evening, a few miles away, I could already see a large black snake rushing towards me.

Not only cavalry, but also mechanized units, that is, trucks carrying supplies, were seen in small numbers, only four.

But with a team of tens of thousands of people, this is definitely an extremely large flow of people.

From a distance, it stretched for several miles, and the speed of the march should be a rapid march, and the speed was so fast that it was estimated that the troops in front would be able to arrive here in ten minutes, and the enemy's reconnaissance company would be able to enter the vicinity within three minutes for effective reconnaissance.

"Everyone's hidden!"

Almost as soon as the order was given, the heralds were the first to be instructed to begin arraignments to battalion-level units and company-level units at all levels.

Although the senior officers under Zhao Ming's command still claim to be the battalion commander, everyone knows what's going on.

With a few peculiar whistles, the camp rang out, and everyone moved.

No matter how tired he was, he would quickly get up and pull his horse deep into the woods.

At the same time, the brethren of the reinforced company quickly shifted their positions, and drilled into the bushes that were on higher ground and formed horns with the woods.

This way, firing from this side will not accidentally damage your own cavalry units.

At the same time, another artillery platoon also followed, and this fire reinforcement company had a heavy task, not only to suppress fire, but also to protect the role of this artillery platoon.

In just a few minutes, everyone had completed their initial deployment, and some ammunition had not yet been deployed.

But none of them continued to move, because the enemy's reconnaissance company had already arrived.

"Anyway, do we need to do our best? Didn't you hear that the enemy is still selling the source? Guyuan is 108,000 miles away from us.

When the enemy arrived, our large troops had already dug trenches in Zhangbei and Chongli and waited for them to die. ”

"There's nothing wrong with being careful, but that's what you're saying, the chief is too serious.

Unless the other party has wings and can fly over, how can he suddenly kill here? ”

A group of cavalry, scattered in groups of three or five, the cavalry of the reconnaissance company chatted with each other.

Originally, it was upsetting to march in a hurry, but now that they are doing this again, their cavalry is fine, and the infantry are only afraid of being more annoying.

"Anyway, do you have any cigarettes? Engage in a solution to your cravings. ”

"You kid, you've already pulled it out, let the chief see that you want to die?"

"Afraid of what? Isn't the chief himself smoking, let's drill into the woods, hide in and smoke you, I won't say it, who knows? ”