Crimson Dawn

Chapter 172 no_name

The so-called strategy is to never follow the opponent's pace, but to ask the opponent to follow your own pace.This is one of the basic strategies of struggle. If you can't defeat the enemy at the pace that you are good at, then the only option left is to follow the pace that the opponent is least good at.

Pang Zi hadn't read this passage, but when he found out that after repelling the first wave of the official army's attack, the official army did not retreat at all. After less than a quarter of an hour, the official army's cavalry was divided into three.Two cavalry of 20 men galloped to the left and right, and the trajectory of their actions was to detour behind Pang Zi.Pang Zi immediately felt a chill run down his spine.Pang Zi couldn't come up with an effective way to deal with this kind of response from the officers and soldiers.

The best way is to separate troops to attack these two scattered cavalry, and eat these two small troops with superior forces.Then join forces and attack the enemy's main force.However, Pang Zi is very aware of the strength of his brothers. There are only more than 200 people fighting one-on-one, and his brothers are not opponents of the opposing army.No matter what, it has to be two-to-one, or even three-to-one.But in this case, there are only more than 100 people left in his main force.And the officers and soldiers on the opposite side must have more than 300 people.After the division of troops, there will be more than 200 people left.If the troops are divided, if the frontal army rushes over, there is absolutely no chance of winning by yourself one against two.

It's easy to think, Pang Zi is not an idiot, it took a few minutes to figure out the key.But facing the brothers who were so emotional and still immersed in the little victory just now, Pang Zi couldn't even restore order to them.Moreover, at this moment, under the command of the officers of the army, the large group of people in front of the army had already mobilized their horses and slowly approached Pang Zi.

From the perspective of military command, aside from the perspective of human nature, the commander's responsibility is to let his subordinates die in the most effective way.The so-called "one general succeeds and ten thousand bones die" simply and clearly pointed out the essence of war.How to distribute the dividends of war is one thing, but whether the subordinates can die worthwhile is another matter.From the current point of view, Pang Zi is not at the same level as the commander of the official army.

Facing the enemy that was getting closer and closer, Pang Zi made a choice that he regretted for the rest of his life.

"Push the machine gun forward!" Pang Zi shouted.He believes that pushing the machine gun to the front can effectively deter the enemy's main force from approaching.It was Pang Zi's idea to frighten the main force of the enemy on the opposite side first, and then come up with a better way.And this method, which might be useful if facing the official army before 1900, was already a backward tactic when facing the official army opposite Pang Zi on September 1906, 9.

Pang Zi may know the suppressing and intimidating effect of machine guns, but Pang Zi actually knows nothing about the role of machine guns in war.It is even more impossible for him to know how cavalry and machine gun positions should cooperate.Because of the great power of the machine gun, Pang Zi subconsciously saw the cavalry as infantry.Carrying the machine gun requires adjusting the formation. At this time, the chaos of the cavalry is much higher than that of the infantry.

But the commander of the official army did not miss this opportunity and saw the chaos of Pang Zi's troops.A flag in the army formation of the officers and soldiers began to wave.Then the officer squad that was close to the Pangzi machine gun changed direction in an instant. They drew an arc and outflanked the obliquely rear of the Pangzi machine gun position.

"Song Ling! Block them!" Pang Zi roared.Gao Songling hurriedly took his brother and rushed towards the official army.The brother of the transfer machine gun also became at a loss when he saw the enemy rushing towards him.Some people wanted to follow Fu Cong and Pang Zi's order to move the machine gun to the front, and some people couldn't help but want to turn the machine gun around and head towards the small army of officers and soldiers that was approaching rapidly.Pang Zi's order, as well as the enemy's instant lead to chaos in his troops.To make matters worse, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side did not miss this opportunity at all. Under the leadership of the leading officer, they urged their horses to charge towards Pang Zi.

At this time, Pang Zi showed his tough side. Now that he could no longer use the machine gun, Pang Zi could afford to let it go, "Brothers, follow me to the north! Fight!" Then With this shout, Pang Zi urged the horses, and took the lead in charging towards the main force of the army.

Such a choice requires a lot of backbone, and there are at least 300 positive officers and soldiers.What Pang Zi didn't know was that the officer army on the opposite side was a cavalry battalion of the Beiyang Army stationed in Dezhou, with a total strength of 500 troops.After the Canal Defense Battalion was defeated, they immediately reported the news of Pang Zi's rebellion to the Beiyang Army.Before the canal defense camp, the news that the landlords headed by Jing Tinglie reported Pang Zi's rebellion spread to the Beiyang Army earlier.

Except for the uniforms of this cavalry battalion and the Beiyang Army, the other training equipment is the same as that of the Beiyang Army.The difference in military uniforms led to Pang Zi's illusion that the group of people opposite him were not from the Beiyang Army.This information gap made Pang Zi make a huge mistake.

After the cavalry battalion stationed in Dezhou received the "counter-insurgency" order from Wang Shizhen, the military headquarters of the Beiyang Army, it immediately dispatched lightly in accordance with Wang Shizhen's specific instructions.They walked a dry road for a total of one day, took a boat for two days, and rushed to Nangong County as quickly as possible. After learning about the situation from the county magistrate, they rested for a night, and set up troops in the early morning and went straight to Gaojiazhai.If the peasant association's information network is still there, the actions of this troop will definitely be able to reach Chen Tianhua in advance.Chen Tianhua would not ignore Pang Zi, and would tell Pang Zi the news.However, the disbandment of the peasant association made the intelligence network useless.Pang Zi had to face the Beiyang cavalry attack directly.

Behind Pang Zi, he quickly followed up with a group of galloping men and horses. Although there were only more than 200 big horses, they spread out on the unsheltered field, and they were quite powerful. The mud they splashed and the dust.Those who rushed to the front were all the best equestrian and marksman brothers. When Uncle Jing Tingbin started an incident, he practiced the ability to shoot from horseback. As they fired sporadically in the wind, the gray ranks of the officers and soldiers lined up. , a bunch of figures began to fall sporadically, and there was a slight commotion.Then clouds of smoke began to envelop the gray queues. After reaching a certain distance, they also started to fire guns. The whistling bullets in the air immediately knocked over a dozen people. Like the explosives hidden in their veins, more gunshots howled and shot back from their horses at the same time, as if they suddenly ignited a Chinese New Year's cannonball, and those gray lined up front and back also shot back. Dusty from being beaten.

Pang Zi slowed down the speed of the horse, and the brothers behind rushed to the front in an instant. Pang Zi hoped to gather the brothers under his command according to the training of the previous few days.But at this time, the cavalry of the Escort Brothers had dispersed, and the brothers under different leaders had been mixed together, and it was impossible to tell who was whose subordinate.Pang Zi finally saw a few brothers under his command gathered together, and they rushed to the front without waiting for a greeting.When Pang Zi turned his head, he saw that the orderly cavalry of the officers and soldiers reined in their horses and started to turn around. They retreated in front of Pang Zi's team and escaped!

Pang Zi would not let go of this opportunity, "Brothers, go! The officers and soldiers have escaped!" The rifles seized from the Canal Defense Battalion are for infantry, and are not suitable for fighting on horseback.Many brothers even fired a few shots but failed to hit an enemy.When they saw that Pang Zi stopped shooting and waved a long knife to direct the charge, they simply gave up their plan to continue shooting and drew out their own swords, or simply used the rifle as a short spear and waved the charge. To the back of the fleeing enemy.

Facing the fleeing enemy, no matter how hard Pang Zi urged his horse, he couldn't catch up.It took only a moment for a few miles to rush over, but the officers and soldiers in gray uniforms suddenly stopped, as if they were stunned by the desperate charge of Pang Zi and the Escort brothers, and were ready to fight to the death.They lined up in a very long row, so the queue line they stood in looked very thin, and they could be crossed with a single dash.Then there was a sound of air leaking from the water pot, like a sharp siren, overwhelming the only sound of horseshoes in the ground.

Those old brothers who were yelling and galloping seemed to have bumped into an invisible barrier suddenly, or were whipped by an invisible whip. They jumped up from the horse's back with spurts of blood, and fell to the ground in an instant. , while others, being groaned in pain, suddenly twisted and fell to the ground, and then were trampled by, completely losing their vitality.

"Turn around, don't stop, keep shooting." Pang Zi roared loudly, just a few breaths, a large part of the 200-man horse team was missing, and Pang Zi saw it clearly, hiding in the bushes at the edge of the jujube forest The two lines of fire spewed out from the center ravaged among his companions like poisonous pythons. They were the heavy machine guns of the Beiyang Army, and they were actually ambushing on their flanks.Fiery warheads creaked and criss-crossed in the air, continuously bursting out bloody flowers from the human body or the horse.

Then some cavalry brothers who managed to escape the volley of guns had already rushed in front of the gray-skinned men who retreated again.And the gray-clothed officer at the head of the formation raised his sharp saber high, and then swung it down heavily.The cavalry of the officers and soldiers sat firmly on their horses, aiming at the escort brothers who were galloping forward, and began to shoot in a neat row.

Under such shooting, the horses of the Escort brothers suddenly stumbled and leaned forward, and the man and the horse hit the ground heavily, or were shot with blood splashing on the chest, and then seemed to be violently shot. With a push, it fell backwards from the horse.Before the brothers who fell on the ground got up in pain, the cavalry of the officer army pulled the bolt, reloaded the bullets, and continued to shoot at the brothers who continued to charge forward.The brothers on the horse and on the ground were knocked down one after another under the neat shooting of more than 300 people, and the splashed blood soaked a large area of ​​the ground as they struggled.

At this moment, Pang Zi deeply realized the difference between the so-called militia armed forces and the regular new army well-trained by the imperial court.

"Don't come here... spread out" he yelled in pain, but the wailing and screaming and roaring of men and horses on the battlefield easily overwhelmed his efforts, and the frenzy of charging made most people ignore the prior agreement, so , Pang Zi could only watch helplessly as more people followed their dust and smoke, catching up.The herd mentality of the crowd made them fall into the death line constructed by volleys of guns and machine guns in a short period of time.

Following the most powerful attack, the cavalry was completely killed and injured, revealing the follow-up cavalry composed of mules, donkeys and other large animals that were chaotic and somewhat at a loss. The officers and soldiers also blew their horns.Then the dust began to surge behind the gray arrays that had become sparser, and the cavalry of the official army also began to dispatch. The army began to chase these "rebels" who had lost their fighting spirit and fled in all directions.

The brothers in the Escort collapsed in an instant, not just fighting head-on.At some point, the two groups had already outflanked the position where Pang Zi started, and the organized resistance on the position had collapsed.More than forty officers and cavalry were chasing and killing the twenty or so Escort brothers who were in a mess and kept retreating.Now Pang Zi has fallen into the state of being attacked from front to back.

"Brothers, follow me! Go west!" Pang Zi issued the last order in this battle.Then he brushed the lead and set an example, mobilized the horses, and fled westward.

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