Seeing the people from the county guard mansion on the opposite side coming, Tang Xilin's expression was relaxed, and he waved his hand: "Keep going!" ”

There are only about 100 enemy troops who have come over temporarily, not to mention whether this can pose a threat to themselves, but also to say that their mission also needs to attract more enemy troops.

The battalion headquarters had a clear order, and its fourth company attacked, saying that it was a detour to open up a passage for the main force, but if it was really just to open up a passage for the main force, it would not be only one company, but two or even three companies should act together.

Only send one company of oneself to attack, the purpose is very clear, that is, to show the enemy weakness, so that the enemy can see the opportunity, and then send troops to intercept it.

As long as they dare to kill them, then the regimental headquarters will make corresponding transfers, and then concentrate their forces to annihilate them.

And what you have to do is to attract the attention of the enemy army, let them send more troops over, of course, at the same time, you must also block their attack head-on, if you can't block their early attack at the beginning, then the follow-up will naturally not talk about encirclement and annihilation.

If the enemy does not take the initiative to attack, then there is nothing, and it is a big deal to continue to go forward, and after opening the passage, wait for several other companies in the battalion headquarters to come up.

When the fourth company began to move, on the hillside in the rear, Xu Zhongshu and several other officers of the First Infantry Corps were also observing the front line with a telescope.

Through the binoculars, you can see that the opponent's previous attack of about 2,000 troops has retreated, even the hunters at the front of them are about five or six hundred meters away from their own side.

However, it is worth noting that not all of them were able to escape back, in fact, there were at least three or four hundred people lying in front of the defensive line of the First Infantry Corps.

Most of them were killed and wounded by the heavy fire of the breech-loading rifles, and many of their wounded soldiers were still wailing.

The battle just now gave Xu Zhongshu greater confidence.

Xu Zhongshu is also an old professional officer, he has won many battles in the army for many years, but he has never won as neatly as the last few battles.

Outside the city of Pindan, the first corps he led in the first exploratory offensive, it intensively killed and wounded hundreds of enemy soldiers, and later when the whole army of the sixth division went south to counterattack, his first corps undertook the heavy task of attacking in a roundabout way, in the attack, the stragglers used to use the terrain to effectively evade the enemy's artillery counterattack, and at the same time directly defeated the opponent through intensive rifle fire within hundreds of meters of the entry.

In the follow-up Shiyan Town, his first regiment was also the main attacking force, and it also achieved a lot of results, and directly forced the collapse of the enemy army.

The same was true of the interception battle that had just taken place, where the enemy attacked in a dense formation of nearly 2,000 men, but the enemy easily routed them, and the results were great.

These battles, in Xu Zhongshu's view, are extremely easy every time.

This can be seen from the casualties of the First Rank Corps, which began to enter Pyongdan County, and the First Tier Corps has gone through several battles, including the casualties just now, and the total number of casualties is only more than 100 people.

This is the total number of casualties from all the battles combined, many of whom were wounded and able to return to the unit after treatment.

But as for the results they obtained, there were 1,500 people at least, and these more than 1,000 enemy troops were not militia groups or second- or third-rate troops, but they were the main forces of the old feudal towns.

However, to fight the main force of such a feudal town, the ratio of return was more than fifteen to one!

This kind of terrifying proportion, Rao is Xu Zhongshu himself also felt very weird, if it weren't for the light experience, he couldn't imagine that the step army he led could achieve such a huge result.

Even if he took the first step of the regiment to accept the rear-loading rifle very early and trained according to the light infantry tactics proposed by the staff office, but before he actually fought the enemy, in fact, he Xu Zhongshu did not expect that the combination of the two would give him such a big advantage on the battlefield.

These several battles have already given Xu Zhongshu great confidence!

In his opinion, if the first regiment led by himself simply fought against the enemy infantry, then it could easily even fight twice as many enemies.

In fact, almost all of the 100 casualties of the 1st st Corps were caused by the enemy's artillery, and as for the enemy's infantry firepower, I'm sorry, in the past few battles, including the one just now, the 1st Infantry Corps has never been exposed to the effective range of the enemy's infantry fire.

However, your own formation is a skirmisher formation, which can also effectively reduce the damage of enemy artillery, and at the same time, your own combat is also supported by artillery.

The artillery strength of the Sixth Division is not much worse than that of any feudal town, or even stronger!

With confidence, this command is even more liberal!

Through the interception operation just now, it has already dealt a huge morale blow to the enemy, and what he has to do in the future is to take advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle and completely inflict heavy damage on the enemy army on the opposite side.

If there is an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the enemy forces on the opposite side before the arrival of the main forces of both sides, then when the main forces of the two sides arrive, the enemy army will be equivalent to a few thousand less main forces.

At that time, the 6th Division will be able to occupy a greater superiority in forces and, in turn, gain a greater strategic advantage.

Now the 6th Division has an advantage in the forces of this direction.

When Lin Ziran led the army out of Shiyan Town, he only left a battalion of troops in Shiyan Town to garrison, and the task of this battalion was not to hold Shiyan Town, but actually to cooperate with the local river defense batteries to block the Nanzi River.

Except for the more than 1,000 people who stayed in Shiyan Town, the other troops of the Sixth Division were all brought by Lin Ziran.

It includes six infantry regiments directly under the headquarters of the Sixth Division, two of which are the 5th Infantry Regiment and the 6th Infantry Regiment integrated from prisoners of war.

The 1st Cavalry Regiment and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment directly under the headquarters of the 6th Division.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade accepted a large number of Li Kun's original cavalry, so it was named the Cavalry Regiment, but in fact there were more than 1,000 cavalry, and this 2nd Cavalry Regiment was originally the cavalry regiment of the 8th Division.

The First Artillery Regiment, the Second Artillery Regiment, the Heavy Artillery Regiment directly under the headquarters of the Sixth Division, and the Heavy Artillery Battalion directly under the Sixth Division, as well as the Second Artillery Regiment and the Heavy Artillery Battalion directly under the Sixth Division, were also formed with captured artillery and surrendered artillery.

Two baggage regiments, one engineering battalion, and other units directly under the headquarters of the Sixth Division.

In addition to the headquarters of the Sixth Division, there are also two mixed brigades, that is, the fifth mixed brigade of Li Kun's original department, that is, Xiao Xiangyu's department. The Eighth Division was dominated by Cheng soldiers, and Lu Sanzhen served as the brigade commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade.

Among the above-mentioned troops, except for the men and horses brought by Li Xuan from the old nest of Lianguan County, the rest are all Li Kun's old troops or the Eighth Division's surrendered soldiers!

And so many troops, in addition to leaving more than 1,000 people in Shiyan Town, leaving more than 2,000 people to suppress Pingdan City, and two other baggage regiments on the road to control and transport baggage.

The rest of the combat troops were all on the way westward.

The First Infantry Corps and the First Cavalry Regiment have a total of three or four thousand men, which are nothing more than forward troops!

Lin Ziran personally led the main force with a total strength of more than 28,000 people to come later.

In terms of troops, the units of the Sixth Division led by Lin Ziran at this time were actually more than the two divisions of the Fifth Division and the Seventh Division of the County Shoufu on the opposite side combined.

After all, the Fifth and Seventh Divisions had been fighting continuously in the past month, and although they were constantly replenished, their strength continued to decline, and the total strength was estimated to be less than 30,000.

However, there were too many troops surrendered in the Sixth Division, and I am afraid that it would not be used at the critical moment, and the battle plan drawn up by the General Staff Office was actually still dominated by the old units of the Sixth Division

Therefore, before the strategic decisive battle, we must further expand our own military superiority!

This is also the reason why Xu Zhongshu couldn't wait to take the initiative to launch a counteroffensive as soon as the interception battle ended, trying to expand the results of the battle.

He wanted to try to kill and injure as much as possible the forward force of the enemy army in front of him, and it was best to kill two or three thousand of them, so that he could see after the arrival of the main force personally led by the commander of the follow-up division, further expand his superiority in troops, and strive for a greater chance for the final victory in the strategic Armageddon.

Under Xu Zhongshu's watchful eye, the 4th Company continued to move forward, and with the help of the terrain, they continued to advance along the left front, and their marching columns were different from the troops of other contemporary feudal towns, and even from other units within the 6th Division.

They did not advance in formation, but spread out, and the soldiers were not dense with each other, with a distance of five or six meters from each other, and at the same time advanced with the help of the terrain, so that the formation seemed to be scattered, but in fact the standard combat assault posture of the new light infantry tactics made by Wu Guanlin.

When attacking, the pursuit of this tactic is to destroy the opponent with firepower in motion, and to protect yourself with the help of terrain, and to evade enemy shelling in a scattered formation.

When it comes to defensive operations, it is to quickly concentrate forces, dig trenches or directly use the terrain as cover, and intercept operations with dense firepower, and directly launch a countercharge when necessary!

Wu Guanlin himself said that his new type of light infantry tactics is a combination of 'movement, firepower, and assault,' and is able to concentrate or deploy troops in a short period of time, quickly change between the marching formation and the battle formation, and integrate attack and defense.

Earlier, Xu Zhongshu bragged about Wu Guanlin, but now, Xu Zhongshu really felt that this Wu Guanlin deserved to be the top of the infantry department of Luohai Military Academy, and there was still a little ink in his stomach.

It is unfortunate that the sixth-division command system with three levels of company, platoon, and squad has a mediocre role in the era of line columns, and even many people felt that such a command system was too cumbersome and there were too many officers.

But now, under the tactics of light infantry, it is possible to effectively connect the troops in tandem and allow the superior officers to command the troops smoothly.

So don't look at the current formation of the fourth company, it seems to be very scattered, but in fact, the company commander Tang Xilin is firmly in command of his troops.

What does it mean when the rear-loading rifle, skirmish line tactics, and company platoon command system are combined?

It means a radical change in the mode of war!

Many officers of the First Infantry Corps have already deeply understood this, whether it is Tang Xilin at the grassroots level or Xu Zhongshu at the top level, they have realized that their battle mode is different from that of other armies in the feudal towns.

They all know it, but it doesn't mean that the forward troops of the county guard on the opposite side also know it!

Zhen Changdong looked at the enemy company in front of him, constantly using the terrain to make rapid leaps, and several of his cavalry guns also tried to fire and intercept, but the effect was almost none.

The opponent's formation was too scattered, and the distance between the soldiers and the soldiers reached five or six meters, and with the help of the terrain to break through, the shells of their own five-pound cavalry guns went out and fell between them, and they did not have the effect they should have at all.

He had seen enemy troops with breech-loading rifles, but he had never seen them attack in such a straggler formation.

The rats of the New Army in the South China Sea that he exterminated also used rear-loading rifles, and in the offensive and defensive operations of the two sides, the two sides still fought in dense formations.

Of course, every time at this time, Zhen Changdong would order his artillery troops to beat their queue until it completely collapsed!

But today, the opponent's formation is too scattered!

At this time, he turned his head slightly and said, "Can the cavalry troops be dispatched?" ”

Since artillery is not good, then use cavalry!

But the cavalry officer on the side hesitated slightly: "This sortie can be attacked, but more than 1,000 cavalry of the enemy army are eyeing each other on one side, if we send out, I'm afraid we will be in their arms!" ”

Isn't it, if their cavalry troops dare to attack the infantry of the First Infantry Corps now, the First Cavalry Regiment of the Sixth Division on one side can directly kill and attack the flank of their cavalry troops, or even cut off their waists!

At that time, the crushing defeat of the cavalry troops was inevitable, and once the cavalry troops were finished, only the cavalry artillery and infantry were left and there was no way to fight.

In this kind of field encounter, the role of cavalry is enormous.

And those who can resist and contain the enemy's cavalry will always be their own cavalry!

Once your own cavalry is killed, then it is estimated that the fate of these four or five thousand people will not be too good, and the entire army may be destroyed.

So Zhen Changdong quickly retracted his gaze.

The cavalry could not be moved lightly, and the cavalry artillery was of limited use.

So what's next?

After Zhen Changdong thought for a while, he said directly: "Order the whole army to build fortifications on the spot!" ”

Who said that if you have a large number of troops, you must take the initiative to attack, can't you dig a trench and wait for the enemy to rush up stupidly?

He is just a forward force, and looking at the other party's strength, it is estimated that it is also a forward force, and the battle between the forward troops.

It's best to win, but it's really impossible to contain them, and wait for the arrival of the main force in the rear.

Before he led his headquarters to set off, his superiors had personally explained to him that the first task of this eastward march was to contain the other party.

Therefore, the task of his forward force is to contain the opponent.

The main forces of the two divisions behind them still have a strategic task of containing the opponent.

After pinning down the opponent, wait for the main force of the 1st Division to arrive in the south.

Then the two sides returned to the division to attack back and forth, so a big victory can be expected!

Under such a strategic purpose, Zhen Changdong was not in a hurry at all, and he directly ordered the troops to start building fortifications on the spot.

This scene made Tang Xilin on the other side look at it, and he was a little speechless!

In the face of the attack of an infantry company of his own, the other side did not even have the intention of counterattacking, so he turned around and ran directly, and then went back and began to hide behind the hillside and dig trenches.

Now what?

Tang Xilin was a little uncertain.

His task was to open a passage and attract enemy troops to counterattack.

But now it seems that everyone has taken the initiative to give up interception, the passage does not need to be opened, and the enemy army is even more reluctant to fight back!

This made Tang Xilin involuntarily look at the rear, and he hoped that his battalion commander could give him clearer orders.

Keep rushing up or do you want to go back first!

Soon he received an order from the battalion headquarters: to move on and launch a tentative attack!

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