Chongzhen Undergraduates

The minefields of the Ming army could not stop the Zhou army's attack.First of all, the landmines of the Ming army are not very lethal. If it is not a large-scale minefield, it will not be effective in this kind of place, and if it is a minefield, the traces of the buried mines are obvious.

As long as Zhou Jun finds out, he will definitely bypass the mines. Ming Jun has been busy for a long time, and he can only waste his time.

The technical level limits the product quality, so naturally we can't ask for much improvement in actual combat.

After dark, half of the Hangu Road had fallen into the hands of the Zhou army, and the Ming army had withdrawn more than 1000 people from the front line, crowded into a relatively large defense line.

Hu Yiqing sat on a big rock with his buttocks, smoking a cigarette vigorously.The flickering light from the cigarette end showed the anxiety in Hu Yiqing's heart.

If the Ming army lost this Hangu Road, then Hangu Pass would be completely exposed to the enemy.

Hu Yiqing knew that with the current gunpowder, not to mention Hangu Pass, even the city walls of the capital could be blown down as long as enough time was given.Once Hangu Pass is exposed to the enemy's artillery fire, it will be a matter of time to lose the pass.

And if you don't want to lose the pass, the Ming army needs to compete with the enemy on this mountain.But this is a tactic that is risking life and death, and it is not worthwhile to fight.

After a while, Hu Yiqing threw the cigarette butt on the ground viciously, and stepped on it again.

"Notify the battalion commanders to return to Hanguguan for a meeting." Hu Yiqing unfastened the belt around his waist and strode back.

It was a peaceful night, but it was a difficult night for the defenders of Hangu Pass.If you can't come up with a battle plan, you will meet and fight Zhou Jun in front of Hangu Pass tomorrow.

As soon as the meeting started, someone asked for orders to fight the enemy.

"Let's fight! It's a big deal. We are the famous [-]th Army. Are we still afraid of the enemy?"

"Yes, one life for one life, I promise I won't suffer."

Hu Yiqing slapped the table and cursed angrily: "xxx, you guys are so promising, you sold yourself at a low price? The emperor's daily white rice and monthly silver dollars are really white." I've taken care of you."

The teacher's words made a large group of men scold with shame.As long as the conditions are met, the treatment of their [-]th Army is quite generous.The Ming army has never expanded its army on a large scale, but it has implemented a policy of intensive cultivation. It can be said that serving as a soldier in the current Ming Dynasty, the salary and social status are quite good.

If it weren't for the recovery of the capital, the [-]th Army wouldn't even have to defend Hangu Pass, and at most would be carrying out some anti-smuggling blockade missions in the mountains of Shangluo.

"We are the [-]th Army and a special warfare force. Why are we being led by the nose by the enemy now, and we don't know how to fight at all?"

Chief of Staff Zhao Yinxuan's words were like a ladle of ice water waking up everyone who was already in a coma, instantly making everyone's eyes brighten.

"That's right! We are a special warfare force. We are born to be on special battlefields, behind enemy lines. Frontal combat should not be our army's strength."

"They hit theirs, we hit ours."

"Move the battlefield to the enemy's territory."

The meeting room suddenly exploded, and it was very noisy.

The Hangu Road is very narrow, no matter which side's troops attack from the Hangu Road, they will be attacked by the enemies on the valleys on both sides, so this is naturally a place where no one wants to use troops in this battle.

But at dawn that day, at the west exit of Hangu Road, there was a sudden roar of killing.Dozens of chariots of the Ming army seemed to emerge from the ground, and suddenly rushed towards the Zhou army.

Before Zhou Jun could react, a full three thousand Ming troops rushed into Zhou Jun's camp like a tide.There were shouts of killing and explosions one after another, and the whole camp suddenly fell into a climax of fighting.

At this time, most of the Zhou army hadn't gotten up, and no one would have thought that the Ming army would be so bold as to launch an attack from the valley of Hangu Road, which caught Zhou army by surprise.

Xia Guoxiang was very angry. He personally directed the panicked Zhou army to organize a counterattack and prepared to fight the Ming army.

However, when the Zhou army stabilized its position and planned to counterattack, the Ming army suddenly withdrew.Those gunshots and explosions flew away like a gust of wind.

"Where did they go?" Xia Guoxiang grabbed Ye Bushou's neck and shook him vigorously.

"Several valleys, as if they had been negotiated, were divided into several groups and then withdrawn." Zhou Jun's night did not accept the truthful report.

"Strange, why did they suddenly attack and then disappear?" Xia Guoxiang frowned.

But things are not complicated here, the terrain speaks for itself.The Ming army dispersed its troops around, waiting for the Zhou army to attack.If the Zhou army attacks, they will definitely attack the Zhou army from the flanks or attack the Zhou army's rear.

There can only be so many soldiers deployed on both sides of Hangu Road. The Ming army did not want to set up positions on both sides of Hangu Road to fight with Zhou Jun, so they simply expanded the entire battlefield to cover the entire 170-mile wide area of ​​Tongguan and Hangu Pass. among.

"This is a letter of challenge. I want me to fight them here." Xia Guoxiang chopped off a mulberry tree with a thick arm next to him, and his teeth rattled.

In fact, the strength of the two sides is almost the same, and the large troops of the Zhou army have not reached the main battlefield. The troops here are still the Tongguan defenders of the Zhou army.

"General, do you want to chase him or not?" one of his subordinates asked.

"Chasing, they want to play, so I will accompany them to the end." Xia Guoxiang calculated, since the Ming army didn't take advantage of it in the forest before, then he has nothing to be afraid of.

Zhou Jun also divided into several groups, and chased after Ming Jun's ass.

This time, Zhao Yinxuan, the chief of staff of the division who personally led the team, was actually standing on the top of the mountain to observe the situation of Zhou Jun.When he saw the enemy chasing after him in multiple strands, a smile appeared on his face.

"Send a green signal flare and tell each unit to form a company and then disperse. Be sure to keep your footprints well, so that the enemy will not chase them away." Zhao Yinxuan ordered the communication soldier to say.

The Fifteenth Army is a special force, and the compass is distributed to almost every squad.In addition, after several years of mission training in the Qinling Mountains, fighting special warfare in the mountains is actually their specialty.On the contrary, defending positions is their shortcoming.

No matter how powerful Zhou Jun was, he was taken into the deep mountains and old forests by the [-]th Army in small groups against small groups.

However, Xia Guoxiang is not a vegetarian either.He dared to split up to pursue the Ming army must also have some honor.

Just as Zhou Jun chased into various valleys separately, a round of sunlight in the east shot from the narrow valley in Hangu Road.There was a rumbling sound of horseshoes from the west, and a cavalry of the Zhou army arrived.

"General, is our army still attacking Hangu Road today?" A general asked while kneeling.

"Continue to attack, and we must attack before dark." Xia Guoxiang's order was decisive and straightforward. He expected that a cavalry that the Ming army did not count him would come to reinforce overnight.

One day and one night of cavalry is enough to rush from Guanzhong to the front line of Hangu Pass, which Hu Yiqing really can't count.Even Deng Zhirong, who had been calculated, had nothing to do.Because the horses that Zhu Youjian planned to equip the [-]th Army were still in the racecourse in Xinyang, and the [-]th Army had no time to train at all.

Chapter 545: Hu Yiqing's commanding art

Hu Yiqing's heart was trembling. As the saying goes, when people are always worried about something, they will encounter something.

The deployment he made in one day and night was hit by the reality of enemy cavalry slowly advancing in the Hangu Road at Sishi the next day.

Hu Yiqing knew in his heart that the main force of the enemy army had arrived.It's not that his deployment is wrong, but that the enemy is too strong.

what to do?Hu Yiqing only has [-] soldiers in his hands, but he has to face the defenses on both sides of Hangu Road and Hangu Pass itself.The defense line has been stretched to a width of more than ten miles, and there are not enough troops no matter what.

At this moment, what Hu Yiqing thought of was still that sentence - you hit yours, I hit mine.

In order to achieve this tactical means, the first thing is to abandon the traditional concept of territory competition and work hard for the gains and losses of one city and one place.Hu Yiqing thought: If he just gave up Hangu Pass, does it mean that his future is gone?

After struggling for a while, Hu Yiqing felt that he needed to choose between the army and Hangu Pass.He thought that if he killed most of the soldiers of the division at Hangu Pass, he might not be able to hold it.

"Withdraw!" Hu Yiqing decided to save the lives of the six thousand soldiers.

As a commander, learning to fight is a basic skill.How to command operations?That is to change the way of fighting to do what your own army does best, rather than letting the enemy play to their advantage.

However, where did the Ming army go after they withdrew from Hangu Pass?Are you going to Luoyang?

Obviously not.If he retreated to Luoyang without a fight, Hu Yiqing might be directly arrested by the military police, and he would also be ridiculed by the entire Ming army.