"General! The Beiyang army is coming! "The scout sent the latest reconnaissance information to Cai Ye's hands.

"How many are there?"

"About 50,000 people, the rest of the troops are heading towards the Yangtze River!"

"Yangtze River, so cautious Wu Peifu!" Cai Yi said faintly.

"Dashuai, what should we do, if the Beiyang army finds out that we have done something on the Yangtze River embankment, won't our plan be in vain?" Luo Peijin said worriedly.

"Don't worry, I've already made a decision, and the people of Beiyang can't find out!" Cai Ye said confidently.

"How's the bamboo raft ready? This is our only way to survive! ”

"A lot has been prepared, and now it's all used to camouflage the defensive position. It is believed that this should not have attracted the attention of the enemy. Luo Peijin said.

Under the leadership of Cai Yi, the Southwest New Army played tricks like a cat catching a mouse, which made the Beiyang Army hold its breath. Although they didn't suffer any big losses during this period, it also made them take a lot of wrongful paths, and they were frightened all the way, and the jīng god was tense to the extreme. Now the enemy has finally appeared. Beiyang breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time there was a fire from the heart. The morale of the soldiers instantly became high.

"The military heart is available!" Wu Peifu looked at the imposing army and thought excitedly. It has been almost a month since entering Sichuan, and except for a few skirmishes at the beginning, the soldiers of the New Army rarely appear in the form of large troops, and small units block the attack, although the losses are not large, but Wu Peifu suffers deeply. However, Wu Peifu is not a vegetarian, and through several ambushes and bait, he has killed a few arrogant small troops of the new army, although he can't let the new army completely stop, but it also allows them to settle down a lot.

Through the enemy's elusive movements, Wu Peifu saw the flexibility of Cai Yi's command of the army, which he himself was far inferior. So, his mind is always in a state of tension, be careful, be careful, be careful. The army did not disperse, did not advance, and marched step by step, although the progress was slow, but it also safely occupied the territory of hundreds of miles to the southwest. Although their results were not as brilliant as Xu Shuzheng of the South Road, his opponent was the world's famous general Cai Yi, not a second-rate commander like Tang Jiyao, although Tang Jiyao led the Jīng Rui troops of the new army, but the combat effectiveness was not necessarily as strong as the recruit troops led by Cai Yi. Therefore, no matter who is in a hurry at the top of Beiyang, Wu Peifu will do it completely according to his own ideas.

In the current situation, although they have strong combat effectiveness and sufficient weapons and ammunition, they do not have an advantage in terms of troops, and the new army is elusive, so that they always have a sense of powerlessness to hit the cotton with their fists. But now, the new army jumped out on its own, and chose to fight a decisive battle in the plains. All forms are developing in the direction of Beiyang's power.

Although the plain terrain is not suitable for ambushes, Wu Peifu believes that with his own cautiousness, the possibility of being ambushed in unfavorable terrain is very small, so in addition to being stunned at the beginning, he also figured it out later. has been entangled in feelings for more than a month, Cai Ye is just for training, and now the training is almost complete. It's time to put your hands on the fight. And the best way to test the combat effectiveness of the new army is positional warfare. Although this may cause heavy losses to the troops, positional warfare is also the best way for a soldier to quickly shake off the ideological shackles of a recruit and grow into a qualified veteran. Moreover, the new army participated in the ambush of advantageous terrain, and the victory was fine, but once it failed, it was easy to cause yīn shadows to the psychology of the recruits. On the contrary, it is counterproductive and not conducive to the cultivation of soldiers' combat effectiveness.

Bang Bang Bang ...... Fierce gunfire rang out. The armies of the two sides confronted each other, and Wu Peifu sent a battalion of troops to test it. At the same time, it also bought time for the arming of artillery positions. After all, the terrain of the plains, the artillery is also vulnerable to enemy attacks.

"Whether our plan can succeed depends on whether the soldiers of the new army can block the first wave of the enemy's attack." Cai Ye was a little nervous. Although after a lot of tempering, the soldiers of the new army have a trace of the fierce temperament of soldiers, but after all, this is the first large-scale major war, and it is also a positional battle second only to white-knuckle warfare. There is no guarantee of the performance of the soldiers of the new army.

The soldiers of the Forces nouvelles returned fire sharply. So far, the performance of the new army is still satisfactory to Cai Yi, after all, the soldiers can shoot calmly and sophisticatedly, and this kind of performance is no longer considered a recruit.

Boom Boom!

The sound of huge artillery shook the entire battlefield. The front line of the new army was shrouded in a roar, and the soldiers nestled in the trenches were panicked for a moment, but when the smoke and dust cleared, the mood of the new soldiers slowly calmed down. It's not that they haven't seen the Beiyang artillery mighty. Last time, one of their companies in charge of sāo disturbance was besieged by Beiyang on a small hill, and then these dozen howitzers shaved off the entire hill.

On the battlefield, it depends not only on ability, but also on luck. After all, the shell has no eyes, and it is difficult to say on whose head it falls. Even if you are superhuman and are blown up by a cannonball, you will still return to dust and dust.

Boom - a loud roar came from a distance, and a smile appeared on Cai Yi's face.

"General, got it?" Luo Peijin said.

"It should be, there is no absolute in anything, it is up to people to make things happen, and it is up to heaven to make things happen!" However, judging from the direction of the voice, Cai Ye has at least eighty percent of this matter.

Unlike Cai Yi's calm and calm, Wu Peifu heard a huge roar and changed his spirit.

"Damn it. Send someone to find out what's going on over there? How could there be such a roar. ”

Wu Peifu's heart sprouted a layer of yīn shadow. If things are really as he expected, then Cai Ye is too ruthless, so ruthless that he even puts himself in the Jedi in order to take the bait for **.

"Will ...... Army, general, something is wrong, there is a big water pouring in! There's a lot of water pouring in! ”

"What?" Wu Peifu's face was like ashes. To know. The place where Lin Village is located is the most zhōng yāng of this dry lake, and even if the army retreats now, it will be impossible to withdraw without two hours. And at the speed of the flood that has now spread to the camp, I am afraid that it will not reach the waist in half an hour. An hour will drown them all.

"Has the new army retreated!" Wu Peifu is kind.

"Nope! It was quiet on the positions of the Forces nouvelles! The herald said in alarm. The attacking troops had already withdrawn in disarray by the time the flood came.

"Damn it, blow the trumpet! Order the troops to attack in an all-out way, there must be bamboo rafts and other manned vehicles on the enemy's positions! If we grab it, we'll be alive! Wu Peifu suddenly thought that the enemy must have secretly prepared a large number of bamboo rafts when he built his position, otherwise they would not be so calm.

Didi Dot Dot Di ...... The bugle of the North Ocean sounded in the large camp that was about to collapse. Let the soldier Jīng God who was in turmoil with his mind shocked.

"The general has an order, there are bamboo rafts and other life-saving items in the enemy's camp on the opposite side, and we can only hope to escape if we rush up, destroy the enemy, and grab it. Everyone, rush! ”

There is great fear and great courage between life and death. In the face of a mortal situation, the soldiers will lose all strength in despair, but when there is still a glimmer of life, everyone will radiate unimaginable strength. The performance will also be unstoppable.

"Not good!" Standing in the rear and watching the battle, Cai Yi's face was general.

"General, what's wrong?"

"Wu Peifu's reaction was very fast, he knew that there must be a bamboo raft on our position, and now he has mustered up the morale of the whole army to seize the bamboo raft. If they succeed, our new army will die in this flood. Send signals to the front line and stop at nothing to fend off enemy attacks. Cai Ye also knew that his order was not easy to achieve. However, if they can't stop the Beiyang Army, not only will it be difficult to realize the flooding plan, but the New Army will also suffer huge losses. Then this battle lost its original meaning, and the soldiers on both sides launched the most primitive charge in order to keep their hope of survival and the hope of seizing the enemy's life. The water had spread to the feet, and the artillery positions that had been roaring at this time were quiet. The artillery positions were muddy due to the floods, and the howitzers became unstable. The artillerymen had no choice but to abandon these beloved treasures, dismantle the vehicles that transported the artillery, and build a raft. After all, they are artillerymen, they are technical arms, and going up to fight like infantry is almost looking for death. Fortunately, artillery is expensive, artillery basically needs to be transported by horse-drawn carts, plus those wooden ammunition boxes, so that artillery has more hope of survival than infantry.

"General, the first line of defense has collapsed!" Luo Peijin said with a calm face.

"Got it. White-knuckle combat is really a heavy pressure on the psychology of the fighters. The collapse of the Forces nouvelles is understandable. Our hopes now lie in the second line of defense. It's a pity that the bamboo raft left on the first line of defense. Cheapened the Beiyang Army in vain. ”

"What if the second line of defense can't stop it?" Luo Peijin asked worriedly.

"It's not unstoppable, if the second line of defense also fails, then we have to die!" Cai Ye said with a calm face. Wars are full of accidents, and no one can predict them perfectly. Just like Cai Yi's planned time, Beiyang Wu Peifu introduced soldiers to be trapped in this depression. His plan succeeded. However, he ignored the powerful combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army that broke out between life and death, and at the same time somewhat overestimated the combat effectiveness honed by the New Army. As a result, they are very likely to be buried in Beiyang.

"No, general, you are now on a bamboo raft in the district, and I will go to the front line to supervise the war!" A determined look appeared on Luo Peikin's face.

"No, I'll go!" Cai Ye said.

"No, general, your health is not good, and anyone can be missing in the southwest, and you must not be without you, general!" Saying that, Luo Peijin still walked out of the big tent and walked to the front line with ankle-deep water.

In the vast flood, the two teams fought for the few bamboo rafts in a life-and-death struggle.

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