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Chapter 111

The reason why He Jin was willing to retreat temporarily was because he always felt that he still had a chance.

Every time a battle is defeated, there are quite a few factors that are due to bad luck, failure to do a good job in intelligence work, and ignorance that the officers and soldiers still have sharp weapons hidden so well.

That being the case, the defeated party must not be willing to accept it.

There are only three things to do, so we have to play the last game!This time, we must be extremely careful and fight steadily!In the dark, completely smash the outer defenses!

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That night, in the camp of the officers and soldiers, there was naturally laughter and celebrations again.

Four days ago, Shen Bingbei personally sat in the town, and he could play so beautifully.

Lord Bingbei is not here for the time being, but he has deployed a strategy. The leftist guerrilla is strict in running the army, employing troops wisely, and wins again. What is there to fear from the bandits!

"Brothers! Everyone has fish tonight! But no drinking is allowed! There is no wine either! Zuo Guerrilla said that he finally captured 6000 bandit soldiers, and the rewards offered by Mr. Bingbei before were [-] in total. Two merchants of silver!

This credit is divided equally among the whole army!Send money immediately after returning to the city!Other achievements will be counted separately! "

At the celebration banquet, the officers separately promoted the reward policy, which made the soldiers all cheer. Many people have already started counting. Each person can get at least three or two taels of silver in this battle, and this is not counting the gains of the various ministries.

After being tempered one by one, although the officers and soldiers suffered hundreds of casualties in each battle, the remaining soldiers have become more and more tenacious in their nerves and wills. Given time, they can definitely use this as the backbone to expand a whole army. A strong steel army of several times the size.

After an hour or two of tossing about the celebration banquet, it was finally over, and everything that should be cleaned up was also cleaned up.

Zuo Zixiong and other generals did not dare to rest immediately, and had to discuss the follow-up arrangements overnight, and take stock of the profits and losses in order to adjust the deployment.

In the middle of the night, when these daily tasks were finally finished, Zuo Zixiong and the others suddenly heard the sound of cannons in the large tent of the Chinese army.

"Fire back immediately!" Zuo Zixiong was also unambiguous, and immediately asked Zhang Mingzhen to arrange the musketeers to go up the wall, and at the same time asked the instructor Pizarro from Spain to command the fort.

Instructor Pizarro was recruited by the Zheng family last year to join Shen Shuren, and he has been supported by a high salary of 300 taels of silver so far, allowing him to help train musketeers and artillery.

Pizarro would not be loyal to Daming, so he only took money to do things, and never fought on the dangerous frontline battlefield.But this time, Shen Shuren gave him an additional allowance of 200 taels, asking him to temporarily command the artillery team, saying that he promised to stay away from the enemy's strike range.

Pizarro felt that there was no danger, so he worked overtime in exchange for a raise in wages. Today, the artillery of the army can shine so brilliantly during the day, and it is inseparable from the foreign instructors who are familiar with the original cannons.

At this moment, after the official firearms team fought back, another hundred or ten scouts from the rogue side were wounded and killed, and fled in embarrassment.

However, the lighting set up by the rogues outside the camp was difficult to rule out for a while, and the firelight provided was enough to guide the rogue Francophone to touch the dark wall from a distance.

At night, it is impossible to see clearly from a brightly lit place to a darkly lit place, and the occasional muzzle flashes are not enough for distance measurement.

The cannon on Pizarro's side bombarded blindly for a while to build up his courage, and he didn't know if he hit it or not.Considering the preciousness of ammunition, it cannot be bombarded casually for a long time.

After a stalemate like this for a while, Yang Jinjue, the commander of the right battalion, found Zuo Zixiong and asked for a fight:

"Guerrilla, let me take some people out of the camp, or I will send Lu Datou to extinguish all the rocket torches left by the rogue sentinels, and then search for the enemy scouts, so that the rogues cannot observe the effect of the shelling and do not know where to go. The wall has come crashing down!"

Zuo Zixiong refused very cautiously: "No! In the dark night, who knows if there are any thieves ambush nearby waiting to take advantage of the chaos. If they are mixed together and cast a rat's finger, then the general situation is over!"

Yang Jinjue was right when he thought about it, he was indeed reckless, so he accepted the idea.

So far, there is still a six or seven times difference in strength between the enemy and us.The side with a large number of people can be bitten several times, and the weak side loses once and it is all over.

As the bombardment continued, some of the gunners of the army who stood on their posts on the wall and did not retreat began to be wounded because the stakes on the wall were blown up by Franco shells and splintered wood.

Zhang Mingzhen had been patrolling the wall, and when he saw this, he asked all the musketeers to lie down again and hide on the reverse slope of the rammed earth pile, so as not to show their faces until they heard the enemy's charge.At the same time, he also reported the latest situation to Zuo Zixiong in real time.

Zuo Zixiong pondered for a long time, finally made up his mind, and said to the generals: "When the military master went to ask for help, he originally asked us to resist steadily, in order to preserve our strength and consume the enemy.

Now that the night has come down, the camp will definitely not be able to keep.Tonight we will abandon this camp and take advantage of our ferry boat to cross to the south bank of Shishui River.With the stagnation of the water, at least two or three days can be delayed.

When Master Bingbei returns, we will return to Xiaogan County as appropriate.I believe that with the reinforcements brought by Mr. Bingbei, we may have the strength to fight back at any time!
In addition, you should prepare to pack your luggage first, send a fast-horse scout to the county seat, notify Yanzhi County to prepare to respond, and first transfer the prisoners away.We held on until midnight before retreating. "

It is not easy for large troops to retreat. Prisoners, artillery, and food supplies must be withdrawn in the first half of the night, and the remaining soldiers can only be withdrawn in the second half of the night.Fortunately, Xiaogan County is less than [-] miles away from the camp, so it is possible to divide them into two batches overnight.

The other generals couldn't think of a better way, and Shen Shuren had indeed explained this before, so he decided to implement this elastic defense.

I believe that the thieves came from afar, and they would not bring too much gunpowder and shells.Tonight, as long as the officers and soldiers hide and sneak away, and don't let the thieves know the news that "there is no need to continue bombing" in advance, then it is very likely that the thieves' gunpowder will be almost consumed!
On the other hand, Yan Yingyuan, who was firmly guarded in the county seat, heard that Zuo Zixiong was about to retreat, so he came to meet him in person. He also discussed with Zuo Zixiong and worked together to help him come up with some tricks to confuse the enemy, which was the icing on the cake.

At first, Zuo Zixiong didn't want to listen to laymen like Yan Yingyuan talking about military aircraft. After all, he had the impression that Yan Yingyuan was just a civil servant with a background in classical history—this is like a police chief who was born in the field. listen.

However, people who specialize in the field of surgery and have a background in law and order have a better understanding of criminal investigation psychology, and they are indeed unique in their cleverness in committing crimes and solving crimes.

After Zuo Zixiong listened patiently for a while, and led Yan Yingyuan to inspect the camp that was about to be abandoned, Yan Yingyuan really gave him some feasible tricks.

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The officers and soldiers spent the whole night in this way, quietly retreating to the other side of the river.

Early the next morning, when the sky was bright, Erhe went to the front to inspect again. They finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw at least dozens of sections of the wall destroyed by the bombardment of the official army camp.

They did their best to reward and boost morale, and said a lot to the whole army, "The officers and soldiers were able to win all because of the location and tricks, but now the location has been wiped out by us overnight." Willing to take another gamble, he launched the third attack mightily.

It's a pity that the official army surprised them again.

All the soldiers rushed over fearfully, but they didn't receive any attack from muskets and crossbows. After a long while, they realized that the camp had already been empty.

The scouts under He Jin hurriedly reported again: "You two kings! Our army has been tricked again! Officer Shen Gou abandoned this camp last night! He has already crossed the river and ran away!"

"Run away?" He Jin was furious. Having been tricked three times, the veins on his forehead were throbbing. He got on his horse and galloped forward, wanting to enter the camp to witness it with his own eyes.

He Yilong's situation is similar to his, both have a kind of anger that their IQ has been insulted.

The gunpowder and shells of the Francophone are also very precious to the thieves!If I had known that the officers and soldiers had abandoned the camp, I shouldn't have spent more than half of my ammunition reserves last night at all costs!

This was originally for the big goal of annihilating the officers and soldiers, so it cost so much.If you just take an empty camp, it will be a blood loss!

After the anger passed, Erhe had no choice but to take the Chinese army into the camp to inspect immediately.Come and come, always boost morale and announce that your side has won a big victory.

But half a quarter of an hour later, He Jin and the others arrived at the official and central military tent that Zuo Zixiong had abandoned last night.

When the officers and soldiers left, in order not to startle the snakes, some buildings in the camp were not dismantled, and other buildings were only torn off the cloth of the tents, and the heavy wooden frames were not moved. conspicuous.

What's more conspicuous is that the officers and soldiers piled up many corpses of the rogues collected yesterday when they cleaned the battlefield in front of the large tent of the Chinese army, and they also specially selected those elite soldiers and officers from the old battalion of the rogues who had their armor stripped off.

Although there was no such thing as beheading Jingguan, the humiliation was very obvious.He Jin was full of anger for a while, but he heard a soldier next to him report that he had seized several letters scattered by the officers and soldiers in a conspicuous place in front of the pile of corpses. For "Zuo Jin Wang".

He Jin took a look at it, and there were some embarrassing theories on it. It described in detail the casualties of the senior officers of the bandits in yesterday's battle, and said that He Jin's nephew He Tianming was identified by torture from the prisoners. He was trampled to death by himself while leading the team to rush to the gap.

Apparently, these little tricks were done by Yan Yingyuan who came to meet the retreat last night.

Generals like Zuo Zixiong who only focus on military affairs don't know how to play this kind of dirty psychological warfare. It seems that only people with backgrounds in criminal investigation and criminal psychology do it.

In the letter, Yan Yingyuan also tried all kinds of things to humiliate morale, emphasizing that He Jin's people are cowardly and useless. With so many elite soldiers, they did not fight to the death of the enemy heroically in the charge, but were cowardly and wanted to hide from being killed by themselves in the end. People are trampled to death.

In the end, He Jin followed the instructions in the letter, and at a glance saw the wooden stakes at the front of the corpse pile, with several dead bodies tied to them, and cloth strips with many large characters hanging on them.

It's a pity that many soldiers in the ex-rogue army couldn't read a word, so they all entered the camp for a quarter of an hour, and no one thought of dismantling these things and keeping them until the king saw them in person—perhaps, some people were also afraid of moving the king's nephew The dead body will cause the king to be unhappy.

"This trash! It was trampled to death, and it has to be brought out to the public! It's too embarrassing for our old He family! You guys, why don't you chop down the stakes that wear the corpses! Burn all these corpses It's gone! Buried!"

He Jin was so angry that his temples thumped violently, he personally ordered, and brandished his big knife bitterly, hacked a few times on the stake, and the soldiers also stepped forward to help.

However, at this moment, as the wooden stakes were cut down and other parts of the Jingguan were destroyed, there was a sudden "boom" near the large tent of the Chinese army.

"Ah—" He Jin and a group of soldiers howled like killing pigs.

The troops in the distance and He Yilong were also quite shaken, and it took them a while to react: "The goddamn government army actually retreated and planted so many mines!"

(End of this chapter)