About thirty kilometers north of Luohai City, there is a city called Qiu Song City, which was just a small town before, with a population of more than 1,000 people.

However, a coal mine was discovered on the outskirts of the town more than 20 years ago, and the development of industry in recent decades has caused great demand for coal.

In just 20 years, what started as a small town has grown into a small city with a population of more than 30,000.

Today, this small city welcomes a group of soldiers, numbering more than 4,000 people, but all of them are depressed and listless on the road.

These people were none other than Shao Bing's subordinates who had retreated from the Qiuhe defense line.

There were more than 20,000 troops on the Qiuhe defense line, and when the defense line was broken, a large number of troops were surrounded and annihilated, surrendered or were defeated.

When he first began to retreat, he still had about six or seven thousand troops under his command, but he fled all the way south, and the Luo An army behind him was in hot pursuit, especially the cavalry of the other side caught up and took a bite from time to time.

The continuous rout and retreat are again the existing losses of thousands of people.

But more of them sneaked away on the road.

By the time Shao Bing retreated to Qiu Songcheng with his troops, there were only 3,000 people left.

Moreover, the heavy weapons and other baggage were all lost, and there was not even much food left.

But to put it mildly, I finally rushed back to Qiu Songcheng, which is less than thirty kilometers away from the urban area of Luohai City, and strictly speaking, it is already a peripheral satellite city of Luohai City.

At the same time, what made Shao Bing a little relieved was that there was a coal mine railway from here to Luohai City, and his troops could quickly return to Luohai City by train along the railway, and gather more troops for deployment.

In recent decades, with the advanced steam engine in mines, industry and other fields, in the last two decades, the high-pressure steam engine has been developed, so that the steam engine can be used as power, steam ships, trains, and large-scale popularization in factories.

Although Daheng is said to have fallen into civil strife, the foundation of Daheng is still there, and war has always been the best catalyst to promote the development of science and technology, so Daheng's scientific and technological development has not stagnated, but has been keeping up with the pace of other countries in the world.

This is true for steam ships, and it is also true for railways.

However, the construction of railways requires huge investment, and at the same time, it involves various localities, and it is difficult to coordinate interests, so railway construction has always been limited to the spontaneous behavior of private capital.

As for the capital of the feudal town, people still don't like the lack of money when they fight, and they will pay for the construction of the railway.

Therefore, the railways of contemporary Daheng are mainly mining railways and short-distance passenger railways.

Relatively speaking, the development of steam ships is quite rapid, because this thing does not need to be coordinated with other feudal towns, and the feudal towns can do it themselves, especially some large coastal feudal towns, they can do without railways, but the navy must want it.

Many of the coal mines in Pyongdan County, as well as some other mining areas in Luo'an County, have short-distance mining railways.

Luohai County is no exception.

Through this Qiusong Coal Mine Railway, Shao Bing was able to return quickly with his troops.

However, as soon as they arrived at Qiu Song, the scout cavalry on the periphery reported that the Luo'an people had caught up again, and their cavalry had already begun to circulate.

"Detour?" As soon as Shao Bing heard this, he immediately had a very bad feeling: "What do they want to do when they go around?" ”

"Is it?"

"Not good, they're going to cut the railroad!"

"Quick, order the troops to leave immediately, don't rest, take the train immediately!"

When Shao Bing was in a panic, three kilometers southwest of Qiu Songcheng, the cavalry of the Luo'an First Cavalry Brigade was galloping fast, and in front of them was a railway.

The commander of the leading cavalry regiment said: "Quick, don't delay directly, just blast directly!" ”

Shao Bing guessed that Luo An's cavalry would cut off the railway, but he didn't expect that Luo An's cavalry troops would directly bomb the railway.

When Shao Bing reacted, and wanted to continue south directly with his troops, there were bursts of dull explosions from the south.

These explosions were not loud, not the traditional sound of shells exploding, but more like the sound of blasting earth.

And it is!

The cavalrymen of the 1st Cavalry Regiment under the 1st Cavalry Brigade did not waste any time and superfluous movements, and galloped directly on horseback, and then after arriving at the railway line, they directly blasted the railway with the explosives bags they carried.

When Shao Bing heard these blasting sounds, it was actually a hundred-meter-long railway, including a railway bridge about ten meters long, and it was in ruins.

The railways were directly destroyed, and although Shao Bing and the others had collected the train wagons and were ready to go south, they couldn't run away at this time.

"What should I do?"

"Can the railroad be repaired?"

"Rush repairs? If you repair in the back, they will be able to continue to blast in the front, and they can't repair it, not to mention that they won't watch us build the railway! ”

"If you want to go south quickly by train, it's already impossible, I recommend walking south immediately!"

"Although the other side has cavalry in front, there are not many of them, it is only a cavalry regiment, and we also have some cavalry, which is enough to guard against them!"

"Can you defend Qiu Song City on the spot, and at the same time mobilize reinforcements from Luohai City to reinforce this place?"

"Hold on here?

"How to keep? We don't even have artillery now, and many soldiers don't even have guns, so how can we fight empty-handed? ”

"The pursuers behind us have been in hot pursuit, as long as we stop, I'm afraid they will pounce immediately, and we can't wait for reinforcements!"

Listening to the gossip discussion of his subordinates, Shao Bing was upset for a while!

Shao Bing told the truth, even now, he didn't think clearly how he was defeated.

And it was defeated so quickly.

At this time, how long has it been since Lin Ziran and them went south?

It's only been ten days, and it's not even yet.

The northern defense line, which had high hopes for itself, was finished if it failed to hold out for a day, and the troops transferred from the northwest were completely wiped out in just a few days, and they didn't even have time to give him reinforcements.

He finally led his troops to Qiuhe to set up defenses, and they called.

As a result, the Qiuhe defense line that a group of people swore that there was no problem before failed to hold it for a day.

His defeat was inexplicable, and he was also embarrassed to flee south this way, and now he was caught up by the enemy cavalry and blocked the way.

He could already feel his fiasco.

It's just that until now, he still doesn't understand why he lost so badly, he didn't have the slightest power to fight back, and those bastards in the navy betrayed so simply.

This is not normal!

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