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Chapter 16: Advance and retreat (four)

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Ma Hongkui and others ran out for more than 20 miles before they stopped. Listening to the roar of heavy artillery from a distance, and looking at the hundreds of remaining cavalry following behind him, Ma Hongkui was pale in his face and cried without tears.

After a while, Ma Hongkui shivered with his cracked lips and asked hoarsely: "Only so many brothers rushed out?"

Ma Quanliang looked at the hundreds of people at the moment, sighed, and comforted: "Commander-in-chief, we rushed out on horseback. There will definitely be many brothers behind you. You can rest here for a while, and I will arrange for someone to pick you up along the way."

"Okay, okay, go." Ma Hongkui responded unconsciously, only to feel that his mind was full of porridge. In the past, he heard Han Fuju and others say how powerful the guards were. He said that it had wiped out more than 20,000 Zhang Zongchang's clearance troops, wiped out more than 20,000 Chen Tiaoyuan's Northern Expedition Army, and ate the troops of a regiment of Yang Hucheng, but he always disagreed with it, thinking that there was something wrong with the command of these troops. It was that after Han Fuju cooperated with Han Fuju to clear out the bandits in Baodugu, he also thought that the guards attacked the sneak attack, but his troops were not prepared. But today's defeat proved that the rumors were true before, and that he underestimated the heroes of the world.

Thinking of the scene he saw before he was pulled out of the command center to flee, Ma Hongkui felt chills: When his troops were covered with the noisy artillery fire around, more than a thousand guard soldiers seemed to kill gods. They held long and short guns that could be shot continuously, and rushed towards their troops one or two hundred meters away after the shells; and after more than a thousand people, there were about ten thousand guard soldiers holding long guns and high morale. They ignored the artillery fire not far ahead and rushed towards their troops all over the mountains and fields...

Ma Hongkui knew that this shocked him, and the trembling scene was engraved in his mind, and he would never forget it in his life.

Looking at the hundreds of people in front of him, and thinking about the fact that he was overestimating his ability to fight with a fierce army like the Guard, Ma Hongkui felt bitter and so annoyed that he wanted to hit the wall with his head. He once thought that his team had good combat power, but today he compared it with the Guards to find out that these people were not much stronger than the tumultuous people in front of others. Not to mention the accuracy of the Guards' grasp of the fighter jets, nor to mention the fierce artillery fire of the Guards, just talking about the fact that the Guards can attack and advance with the landing point of the artillery shells. The close cooperation between the artillery and the extraordinary courage of the soldiers is no longer the right one among the many troops in the country!

"Commander-in-chief, I have sent some cavalry to guide the outstanding brothers and let them gather slowly here." Ma Quanliang, who had arranged the matter of collecting the defeated soldiers, came over and said, "This place has left the boundary of Fei County, and I think the guards will not chase here. But I think we should go back to Teng County first, and leave a few brothers here to collect their troops."

Ma Hongkui said tiredly, "Junru, I'm very smart now, everything is up to you." Then, Ma Hongkui sighed and said with a wry smile: "After seeing the Guards today, I realized that I had always been a frog in the well. This time I showed off my momentum and tried to revenge the Guards, but it ended up hurting my brothers!"

"It's right to avenge your brothers. You can't blame the commander-in-chief." Ma Quanliang comforted, "If you want to blame, you can only blame the guards for being too strong."

After pausing, Ma Quanliang asked again: "Commander-in-chief, our battle failed. Should we inform Chairman Han of the news?"

"It's almost dark this day, and we threw the radio station again, and we couldn't inform Han Xiangfang for a while." Ma Hongkui thought for a while, and then said expressionlessly: "When we gather the protruding brothers tomorrow, we will send someone to tell him."

"The sun has not set yet. Besides, don't we have backup radio stations in Teng County?" Ma Quanliang asked in confusion.

"Junru, you still can't think about some things." After this period of rest, Ma Hongkui recovered a little bit of energy and his mind became active again. "You said, if Han Xiangfang knew that we were defeated and there were only a few hundred people who rushed out now, what would he do?"

Seeing that Ma Quanliang was in deep thought, Ma Hongkui continued, "I can't say whether he will take the opportunity to attack us. But we have to give up most of the more than 10 counties occupied in the southwestern Shandong area. And without these territories and the food and wages provided to us, we will not be able to recover our strength as soon as possible. In this day, without the strength, we are nothing, and we can only let others control it."

After hearing what Ma Hongkui said, thinking about the possible reactions that Han Fuju and other troops would have after knowing that they had suffered a great defeat, Ma Quanliang couldn't help but fight a cold war, and felt awesome in his heart, and then said, "It's better for the commander-in-chief to think carefully, we will follow your instructions."

"I have also come to know that after following my old man since I was a child, I have seen many intrigues and confrontation in the officialdom," Ma Hongkui patted Ma Quanliang's shoulder and said, "Junru, you are too real. Whether you are leading troops to fight or governing the local area, you are really likely to suffer losses these days."

"I will follow the commander-in-chief. With the commander-in-chief, I can't suffer any loss." Ma Quanliang responded with a smile.

"You." Ma Hongkui sighed, shook his head, but said nothing, but from then on, he looked up to Ma Quanliang and regarded him as someone he could rely on.

From April 14th, the attack was launched. Ma Hongkui's troops only fought for two days before the escort army annihilated most of the troops. However, this news was not notified by Ma Hongkui on the excuse of the loss of the radio station and the others who were fighting on the Eastern Front in time. It was not until the morning of the 17th that Ma Hongkui saw that no more defeated soldiers came, so he sent people to inform Han Fukui and others of the battle in Linyi.

Of course, in the letter to Han Fuju, Ma Hongkui claimed that his radio station was lost and Tengxian radio station was malfunctioning. Moreover, Ma Hongkui also said that his defeat on April 15 was the 16th, and signed the letter he wrote on the 17th with the words "16th". In this way, there would be no delay in the war situation reported by Chief Ma Ma.

After doing this, Ma Hongkui asked Ma Quanliang to select a thousand capable personnel from the five more defeated soldiers he had collected, and went to more than 10 counties he controlled, first disguised the militia into a regular army, and at the same time stepped up recruitment.

"We must expand the number of troops in 10 days, and more than 10,000." Ma Hongkui talked to Ma Quanliang's generation. "In addition to our current 5 people, we have more than 15 people. Even if others want to attack us, we have to weigh it."

"It's easy to talk about, but the guns are not enough when they are ammunition. Even if we take out all our inventory, we still lack more than 4 guns." Ma Quanliang was embarrassed.

Ma Hongkui grabbed his head and had no choice but to do anything for a moment, so he said, "Pull up the people and horses first, and we will slowly think of ways to get the guns and bullets later."

Ma Hongkui was busy covering up the emptiness of troops after the defeat. Han Fuju, on the other side of the Eastern Front, received a letter from Ma Hongkui at noon on the 17th, and learned that Ma's troops were attacked by heavy artillery by the escort army and had retreated, he was mixed in his heart. He was happy that Ma Hongkui was defeated and his strength was damaged, and it was difficult to threaten him on the ground in Shandong. He was also glad that he did not choose the Western Front and avoided the heavy artillery attack of the escort army. At the same time, he was a little disappointed. Unexpectedly, Ma Hongkui was defeated so quickly and did not cause much damage to the escort army at all. Of course, he was even more surprised by the strong combat power of the escort army.

However, if Han Fuju knew the real situation of the battle between Ma Hongkui and the guards, especially the good brother Ma Hongkui's actions after his defeat, I wonder if his face would be so angry that he turned green. At the moment, Han Fuju was worried about how to withdraw his troops.

"This Ma Shaoyun, some time ago, insisted on inciting me to send troops to clean up the guards and regain Fei County so as to avenge his two brigades and fifth regiments. Now, he can't stand the defeat first." After reading the letter, Han Fuju was so angry that he came to fight.

"Since the west is defeated, we should retreat too." Li Shu advised, "We have been fighting these days. If the guards on the Western Front mobilize their troops, we will be unable to deal with it."

"That's right." Han Fuju nodded in agreement, "What I am worried about now is that the guards will transfer heavy artillery from the Western Front. After this afternoon, we will withdraw our troops overnight tonight."

However, Han Fuju and Li Shu planned to withdraw their troops, but Gao Fengxue and Jiang Bin on the opposite side were not going to give them this opportunity.

"It's been two days since the west end, so we can't delay it for too long." Jiang Bin suggested, "Besides, through the combat in the past few days, the recruits who have been added have grown up completely. There is no need for us to waste time with Han Fuju and others on the opposite side. Why not just before this evening, with the cooperation of artillery fire, how about launching a full-line counterattack?"

"After these 4 days of training, the recruits have indeed adapted to the battlefield. However, if you want to fight back on the whole line with artillery fire, you don't want to learn from Yishan and the others on the Western Front to advance, right?" Gao Fengxue said with a smile.

"Of course we need to learn good things." Jiang Bin smiled, "But we must also promote it while learning."

"Oh? Tell me, how do you want to spread it?" Li Yunhai also became interested.

"Of course, your special combat brigade will be the brigade here." Jiang Bin explained, "Then our other troops follow closely. What's different from the Western Front is that we have more than a thousand war horses seized, and we can completely transfer cavalry combat personnel to form the third wave of cavalry pursuit forces."

"In this way, the special operations brigade followed the barrage as the first wave of attacks, tearing apart and attacking the enemy's deployment; most of our division followed closely behind and continued to expand and consolidate the results of the battle; and the selected cavalry will serve as the backbone of the pursuit, carry firearms, and pursue the vast plains between the eastern part of Fei County and Linyi. I think we will definitely have a good harvest."

"This plan is very good, I agree!" Gao Fengxue nodded and said, "I will add a requirement that all pursuit troops must return before dark, so as not to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it after dark, causing unnecessary losses."

At around 3 pm, the guards were ready. After Gao Fengxue issued an order to "fire" to the artillery regiment of his division through field phones, 24 75-caliber artillery pieces began to launch continuous artillery bombardment on enemy positions that had been observed long ago.

The 75-caliber artillery used by the Guards was a standard equipment used by the US military in World War I. It was produced in 1917. Although the projectile weighs only 6 or 7 kilograms, its maximum range can reach about 10 kilometers due to materials and production technology, which is much stronger than the xing energy of the Shanghai-made or Jin-made artillery used by Ma Hongkui. Moreover, this artillery fires faster, and can fire about 15 per minute. In addition, its weight is only 134 kilograms and can be disassembled and transported, which is really a good choice in field battles.

As soon as the cannons on the escort side fired, Han Fuju jumped up from the chair in the command center behind the opposite side like a spring. For a moment, he thought the escort's heavy cannon was coming. But when he listened carefully, it was a 75 field cannon, and his heart was relieved half.

However, before Han Fuju could understand what was going on, Li Shu broke in: "Chairman Han, let's retreat quickly. The guards have launched a full-scale attack under the cover of artillery fire. Moreover, it is likely that it is the kind of fighting style that Ma Hongkui encountered in the west."

"Damn it! This Ma Shaoyun is such a devastating star!" Han Fuju cursed with a blushing face and a thick neck. "Last time I sent troops to cooperate with me to clear out the bandits in Baodugu, his troops had a lot of trouble, which made me lose Fei County. This time he encouraged me to send troops to Fei County, and he ran away first. Damn, I sent a letter at noon, and the escorts bombarded the entire line and counterattacked the entire line! Damn, this shouldn't be a cooperation, come and play tricks on me?!"

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