Chapter 387: Pursuit
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"It's strange, why are the Yankees running so fast today?" The two soldiers of the Southern Army looked curiously at the camp that had been cleaned up, it was messy everywhere, many places were overturned on the ground because of the hasty cleaning up, some food could not be swept up and was directly discarded, and the ground was full of abandoned domestic garbage. They walked to an abandoned tent in the middle of the camp, in which lay several corpses, some with different heads and some with distorted faces, all of them looking horrible.
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"What's going on?" The soldiers of the Southern Army who walked into the tent looked at the corpses on the ground with some curiosity, kicked the corpses that were relatively close, and looked around the entire tent, where there was splashed blood everywhere, and the broken weapons were casually abandoned in the tent. "These should be the officials of the Yankees, right? You see that they are pampered and delicate, and they don't even have calluses on their hands. ”
"Well, it seems so, but what's going on?" Another soldier muttered to himself curiously, "Could it be infighting?" ”
"Perhaps," the soldier who walked in front rummaged through the pockets of several corpses, "now that the Yankees have been defeated by us, even a reconnaissance team like ours can directly attack their main force, they don't even have the determination to resist, as long as they see us and run, these officers probably want to surrender and be killed." ”
"It should be," the soldier in the back hurriedly walked to the corner of the tent, turned over the other corpses, and began to search their belongings. "If someone wants to surrender and they don't want to, they want to run back, right? If they drag their feet and block their escape, they will all be killed, or you can see how they run so fast. ”
The enemy is far away, and the ship is lonely
The enemy is far away, and the ball is lonely, and the lonely sail is not "what is the report!" There are more than a dozen corpses inside, it should be the Yankees infighting! The soldier hurriedly reported, and at the same time took out a few coins of silver from his pocket and handed them over, "This is scattered on the ground inside." ”
"What's going on inside? Come out! There is a situation of the Yankees ahead! There was a shout from outside the tent, and the two soldiers hurriedly searched the bodies on the ground, divided the few coins that had been missed, and ran out of the tent. An officer in light armor was standing by the tent with a cargo bicycle in his hand, looking at them with squinted eyes, "What's going on inside?" How is there blood everywhere? ”
"What a long report! There are more than a dozen corpses inside, it should be the Yankees infighting! The soldier hurriedly reported, and at the same time took out a few coins of silver from his pocket and handed them over, "This is scattered on the ground inside." ”
"There must have been a dispute," the chief nodded, "It's all lost like this, and you haven't forgotten the infighting, and such a bunch of waste still wants to defeat us?" As he spoke, he took the silver from the soldier's hand and pointed into the distance, "Hurry up, you go and tell the herald, tell him about the situation here, and let him go back and report to the battalion, and we will rest for a while, and we will leave immediately." As he spoke, he looked around him and sneered, "This bunch of waste is running so fast!" We can't catch up. "Hahaha......" Several soldiers laughed in unison, some ran to report to the herald, some sat on the spot to check their weapons and ammunition, and more supported their all-wooden bicycles to check their vehicles. The pursuit in the past few days has made their pursuers a little tired, and the bicycle has begun to wear out a lot of structural components under such high-intensity continuous operation, and many pedal mechanisms cannot even form mechanical force to drive. Many cars can only slip to maintain speed when going downhill, and can only push and run all the way uphill or flat roads, but even so, their speed is far faster than the main force that follows behind.
"Shu Da," with a shout, Shu Da hurriedly stood up straight and looked at the place where the sound came from, it turned out that it was the Medeno commander of the pursuing corps calling him, he hurriedly ran over and saluted, "Report to the commander-in-chief, Shu Da has arrived, what are the instructions?" Although this set of movements was copied from the Senate Infantry Drill Code, it was very popular with the Medenor because of its solemnity, so it was not only allowed to be retained, but also promoted in the newly formed infantry battalions.
The commander nodded and saluted him back, "Did the scouts from the front come back?" ”
"Not long ago, I came back, saying that the other party's campsite seemed to be empty, and I ran away again." Shu Da said lightly, "They're scared of us now. ”
"Well, good!" The commander smiled and said, "But the problem is that they fled too fast for us to catch up!" ”
"Yes, sir!" Shu Da said, "If we can't catch up with their main force for a decisive battle, they still have a main force south of the Boundary River, and we can't go north to the Boundary Town, only by annihilating them all, can we recapture the Boundary Town with peace of mind." ”
"That's right!" The Commander smiled, "I just love telling you this!" Only you can understand! Only you can understand it! What kind of characters are the others! ”
Shu Da smiled on his face, but he didn't think so in his heart, what is this? He had learned this kind of strategic stuff in the crash course for officers in the Senate, and now he was just putting what he had learned into practice, and what were the commanders of the other infantry battalions now? A bunch of uneducated mud legs, how can they understand and understand these things at the strategic level?
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"Maybe," the soldiers who walked in front rummaged through the pockets of several corpses, "Now that the Yankees have been defeated by us, even a reconnaissance team like ours can directly attack their main force, they don't even have the determination to resist, as long as they see us and run, these officers probably want to surrender and be killed." ”
"We're only two days away from their main force now," the commander laughed for a moment and paused, then said to Shu Da, "It's not very difficult to catch up with them, but now we can't catch up!" As he spoke, he snorted back.
Shu Da didn't have to look back to know that he was referring to the infantry battalions in the back, those infantry battalions were originally formed, in which the ratio of infantry to musketeers was basically two to one, the infantry in the front was not only wearing heavy armor, but the musketeers in the back were also relatively backward, the firing speed was slow, and the weight of the muskets was also very heavy, so their marching speed was very slow, and they naturally fell to the back of the queue every time. In the last few field battles, these infantry battalions have been arranged in the rear during the battle, anyway, when they fight, the probability of firing is low, the hit rate is low, and they can't run fast when pursuing, but now they are really understaffed, otherwise the commander would have sent them back for retraining. In addition to the infantry battalions formed in the early days, there was also an artillery battalion, which had sixteen twelve-pounder naval guns, which were previously carried by small wheel gun wagons used on ships, and when they maneuvered in the first few battles, they really suffered enough losses, and it was very easy to fall into the mud, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion complained even more in the process of going up and down the mountain. Later, according to Shu Da's suggestion, the wheels of these artillery carts were replaced with wide wheels used on the carts, so that the speed increased a lot, but after all, these were dragged by oxen and horses, and the marching speed was very slow, which also made the commander feel very dissatisfied.
"Or," Shu Da hesitated for a moment, "or we let those few infantry battalions protect the artillery battalion, and the other infantry battalions advance lightly, the pursuit is about the speed of the soldiers, and there are only a few scouts in the front, if our main force can't be lightly armed, we will definitely not be able to catch up." ”
"I think so too......" As he was talking, he suddenly heard a click, and everyone couldn't help but look over, it turned out that the axle of a gun carriage was broken, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion next to him were full of bitterness, and they stepped forward to push the gun truck to the side of the road and wait for the carpenter to repair it.
"Then that's all there is to it," the commander frowned and wandered around the gun carriage twice, and finally patted it on the wheel, and ordered loudly, "Your artillery battalion is marching too slowly, now I will leave the six infantry battalions behind to accompany you, you catch up as soon as possible, the infantry battalion in front will speed up the march, and we will go after the Yankees!" ”
The soldiers of the new infantry battalion cheered, but some people were worried, "There is no artillery in the battle, and if you encounter a large number of enemies, won't it be difficult to destroy them?" "We are a unit, now divide the troops, leave a large number of main forces behind, what if we pursue with all our strength and are divided and surrounded?"
"Afraid of what? Which of these games did we lose? Someone said disapprovingly, "In these battles, it was our new infantry battalion that contributed to the battle, and those old troops won inexplicably without even firing their muskets, and the artillery battalion didn't even have time to prepare the cannons, so instead of asking them to slow down in the ranks, it was better to let them follow behind." ”
Soon the pursuing Southern Army split in two, and the lightly armed infantry battalion in front pursued straight ahead with their weapons and ammunition, leaving behind a large group of unfortunate people who were busy on the dirt road with sad faces.
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"Zhao Shuai!" There was a rapid sound of horses' hooves beside the commander's carriage, and the herald on horseback shouted loudly to come closer, but the chariot did not stop, and continued to march slowly forward under the traction of oxen and horses, while the soldiers marching next to him moved out of the way and let the herald drive his horse closer. Zhao Ximin opened the curtain to reveal half of his face, "What's the situation with them?" ”
"Sure enough, as Zhao Shuai expected, they divided their troops!" The herald said with a fluttering eyebrow, and then he reported to Zhao Ximin in detail about the situation that the scout had reported to him not long ago. Several staff officers around Zhao Ximin hurriedly bowed their hands and said, "Zhao Shuai is really accurate, it is really the reincarnation of Zhuge Kongming!" ”
Zhao Ximin shook his head, "It's not that I calculated it, it's just that the situation forced it." With that, he waved his hand at the herald outside, "You go down first, and let them continue to reconnoitre." ”
"The reason why I asked everyone to immediately leave the camp and set off immediately is to make them feel that we are running away with all our might," Zhao Ximin said with a smile, "If we run fast, they will feel that we have no intention of fighting, so they will inevitably be careless and pursue with all their might." There are not only infantry troops in an army, some of them are fast, some are slow, especially the artillery army, which we have been worried about, it is so slow that it is impossible to move. If they really intended to pursue with all their might, then the artillery and the food corps would inevitably cause delays, and in such a situation, it would be a foregone conclusion that the artillery corps and the grain corps would be abandoned. ”
"Then I'm going to turn around and fight his pursuers now?" A staff officer next to him hurriedly asked, "At this moment, their army has been divided into two, and those who can catch up are bound to be lightly armed. ”
"No, we continue to retreat to the northwest." Zhao Ximin shook his head, spread out a very poorly drawn map and said, "I will wait for the northwest first, then turn to the northeast after sixty miles, and then turn to the direction of Jiezhen after seventy miles, and strive to let them run a few more laps, the longer we drag them to run, the more chaotic they will be, and the more they will be divided, once we fight with them, they will be more and more unable to take care of each other first." We just have to wait for them to make mistakes, and now that they divide their forces, they will make the first mistake, and the time will go on, the more mistakes they will make, and the chances of our victory will become greater and greater. ”
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"Hello Executive Committee Yang!" With the sound of slogans in unison, there were more than a dozen rows of people standing crookedly but densely packed in the purification camp, all of whom were wearing standard "purification suits", many of whom had not yet shaved their hair, and only a few of them had been shaved bald.
Since the last "elf rebellion" incident was replaced, the managers of the purification camp have not had such a good life as before, and the inspection team of the executive committee will now come here at every turn to inspect and ask about the treatment of these quasi-naturalized people in the purification camp. Therefore, they trembled one by one, lest the quasi-naturalized people below speak indiscriminately and make themselves suffer an unjustified disaster, and they hated to treat these quasi-naturalized people as grandparents. However, the specifications of today's executive committee inspection team are completely different, this time it was led by Yang Minghuan personally, and the purification camp was the first time to be personally inspected by the chairman of the executive committee.
He asked all the people in the purification camp to come out and line up to accept his review, and after greeting the purification personnel in unison, Yang Minghuan went to the review stand and delivered a speech, thanking everyone for coming to the new country, and hoping that everyone could devote themselves to the construction of the new country.
The purification personnel below can be said to be flattered one by one, and Yang Minghuan's identity management personnel specially explained to them, and it turned out to be equivalent to the emperor of China. It is inconceivable that the emperor of China can personally deign to come to such a "dirty place" to see himself as a small people, no matter in which country.
But then something even more incredible happened, after Yang Minghuan finished his speech, he bowed to everyone, and then walked straight down the podium and walked over to these purification personnel. The purification personnel trembled one by one, not knowing what was going on, and some of them were weak and unstable, so they directly fell to their knees and stumbled in their mouths, "The emperor...... Long live the Emperor! ”
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