Chapter 132 The enemy peeks at the White Horse Crossing

The sound of gunshots and cannons has stopped for a while, and the entire Sheepskin River has returned to calm again.

Large areas of blood stains have been carried away by the continuously flowing river water, and only some corpses soaked in the water are still releasing a small amount of blood.

Li Ping just stood on the high ground, watching the officers and soldiers of each company on the beach below happily walking out of the wooden wall to check the results of the battle, communicate with each other, clean up the corpses or rafts that floated to the shore, and fish out the few

Several enemy soldiers came over crying and wanted to surrender.

Seeing the remaining enemies in the river retreating to the north bank dejectedly, and seeing a group of enemy cavalry in bright armor gathering on the opposite bank looking this way, Li Ping was thinking "fortunately" in his heart.

Li Ping knew very well that the current level of firearms was far from the level that could determine the outcome of a battle. The current victory was only caused by the asymmetry of the extremely special battlefield environment.

If it were on land, and the enemy troops used denser formations, faster speeds, more support means, and wore multiple layers of armor, the current level of cannons and artillery would never be a big trouble for the enemy troops.

They will also be unable to stop this powerful enemy force.

Looking at the agency personnel around him who were also talking happily, Li Ping was a little worried that his troops would imagine war too simply and be too superstitious about the power of current firearms.

The sound of artillery fire in the west has stopped for a long time. I wonder what the situation is in Fancheng?

As a small earth city, Fancheng's defense conditions are really not ideal, and the peasant army is likely to attack by force.

"Sir, will the enemy attack again?"

Duan Qiang's voice rang in Li Ping's ears.

Li Ping turned his head, looked at Duan Qiang, who looked much more relaxed, and said firmly: "No, it won't happen today. There are prisoners below, let your people take over."

Then, Li Ping called a staff officer to find Hu Zhongshan, the director of the logistics department, and informed Hu Zhongshan to immediately organize and prepare lunch for everyone to eat hot.

At this time, Hu Zhongshan was with the health team behind the soil bag, checking on the situation of the wounded soldiers.

In the battle just now, Li Ping's troops also suffered many wounded soldiers. However, none of these wounded soldiers were injured by the enemy. They were all injured by the blast of bird cannons.

A total of 7 muskets exploded, one from the 2nd company, and the rest from the 8th company.

The injured person was pulled to the back by the medical soldiers for treatment. This not only facilitated full treatment, but also effectively reduced the negative impact on other soldiers.

In fact, in order to ensure that the Eighth Company could quickly use the muskets, the Second Company sent many key personnel to assist during the battle, and they were not required to have a rate of fire at all. They were only allowed to fire after repeated reminders, and they were also explicitly asked to use less guns.

medicine.

However, there are still so many problems with chamber explosions. One is that the time that the Eighth Company was exposed to the bird guns was too short, and nervousness and mistakes were inevitable. The other was that the quality of the newly received bird guns was too uneven, with many of them being of poor quality.

.

As soon as Li Ping finished his instructions, two cavalrymen from Prime Minister Hui Deng's army came to Li Ping and saluted with clasped fists. They wanted to go back and report the situation to their general.

The two cavalrymen of Vice-General Huiden and Prime Minister have been waiting on this soil bag since this morning, obviously in order to grasp first-hand military information and communicate relevant situations in a timely manner.

They didn't move during the previous battle, but now they are all leaving.

Li Ping looked across the river again, and sure enough he found that the enemy soldiers on the bank were beginning to move backwards, and the cavalry with bright armor had already walked into the retreating crowd.

The enemy retreated from the shore.

After standing for a while, Li Ping stepped down from the soil bag and went to the riverside to check the situation on the battlefield.

At this time, on the edge of the beach, the fourth company commander Han Jiu and the fifth company commander Zhou Wen got together again. They stood on the riverside holding their knives and watched the enemy troops on the opposite side leave.

Han Jiu turned his head and glanced at the first company, where the three commanders of the second company and the eighth company were exchanging loudly, and said sourly: "Old Zhou, this blunderbuss is too sharp! A newly built eighth company

Got it all

With so much credit, apart from the 3rd company (which is responsible for the archery platoon) and the 6th company who are the general reserve team at the back, we two brothers are the only idlers. You say! From now on, we two brothers will not go back to help others.

Bar!"

Zhou Wen glanced at Han Jiu and said: "You are not worried about our situation at all? You are actually worried that there will be no war. The bandit army has 400,000, and we only have 200,000. This is just the beginning, but you are quite worried."

"Our commander is no ordinary person at first glance. I think it is right to follow him. Anyway, I believe in him. If you follow him, you will definitely have a good life in the future. Now, I think this matter is not a problem for our general. He

There must be a way." Han Jiu said carelessly, as if he really didn't care.

But Zhou Wen was not affected by Han Jiu's mysterious confidence.

He said worriedly: "Today, we are retreating from the enemy because of the favorable geographical situation, not because of how powerful our cannons and artillery are. If on the flat ground, the enemy's army is covering them up, and the cavalry rushes in, our cannons will be able to hit them."

one round, then

It's no different from burning a fire stick. Think about it for yourself, even with the five-stage strike method, I'm afraid it can't stop the enemy's full blow. Otherwise, if the blunderbuss and artillery are really so sharp, wouldn't Zuo Zongbing

Already invincible?"

"That's true, haha."

Han Jiu was also not disturbed by Zhou Wen. He actually laughed happily, and then said carelessly: "It seems that we have to rely on our swords and spears. Let me tell you, the swords and spears are so reliable in your hands!"

"

Zhou Wen rolled his eyes helplessly, he was completely defeated by Han Jiu's thick lines.

"Ma Dajiao, you caught something good. Don't stay under the water for too long. Just come up and warm yourself over the fire. If you get sick from the cold, I will whip you hard." Han Jiu

Suddenly he started shouting loudly in the river.

Following Han Jiu's words, a man in the river more than forty or fifty meters away from the shore raised his head, grinned at the shore, and shouted loudly: "I know, company commander. I'll go back right away."

As he spoke, the man raised two picked up knives and waved them in the air to show off.

Li Ping, who had already reached the riverside, was also attracted by Han Jiu's shouting. He looked at the middle of the river and then at a few soldiers who were warming themselves by the newly raised fire by the riverside, and only smiled.

He had no intention of interfering with some soldiers who were so anxious to go into the water to salvage the trophies, as long as they were well organized. The morale of the soldiers was very good, and this was also a good spiritual incentive for the soldiers.

Although the principle of returning seized items to the public will not change, the principle of giving priority to activists in distribution is also very important.

After walking around the entire south bank of Sheepskin Beach, Li Ping came to the tent area of ​​the health team in the woodland behind the soil bag (there were a few unpacked tents here, mainly for the convenience of treating the wounded). He wanted to see

Look at the wounded soldiers.

But as soon as he got close, Li Ping was scolded and frowned.

At the door of a tent, Ma Yong was cursing Wang Huqiang, the reconnaissance platoon leader. Wang Huqiang, a tall and powerful man, was like a little daughter-in-law who had made a mistake. She was aggrieved and did not dare to reply.

Seeing Li Ping coming, Ma Yong had to temporarily calm down his anger and explain to Li Ping.

It turned out that in the battle just now, a small group of cavalry from the reconnaissance company, led by Wang Huqiang, was ordered to deal with the enemy soldiers who were rushed downstream. In order to ensure that they could return to defense and support other places in time, they would rush up and chop them down whenever they found the enemy.

Kill, strive for quick victory.

The few rafts, bamboo rafts and the like were all scattered and washed downstream one by one.

Being able to float so far away from the Sheepskin Beach itself means that either the enemy's boating skills are really bad, or they deliberately don't want to die. Moreover, they are also quite far apart from each other, and there are not many people on the raft.

It would have been very safe for a small group of cavalry to clean up the rafts one by one.

Who would have thought, but Wang Huqiang was careless.

Five or six poorly equipped enemy soldiers pecked the eyes of a bamboo raft, seriously injuring not only one brother, but also the horse.

How could Ma Yong not be angry?

The loss is too low-level!

Especially the scouts and war horses are still treasures! Such losses are quite worthless.

This was also their first combat loss caused by the enemy in this battle.

Li Ping was speechless after hearing this.

But war is like this, full of variables and unpredictable, and there is no formula for equivalent exchange.

Li Ping had no choice but to pat the platoon leader Wang Huqiang on the shoulder and walked into the tent.

At this time, a young man in white clothes wearing a mask was treating the wounds of the seriously injured scout in the tent.

This young man in white is very skilled in his techniques. He does debridement, repair, suturing and disinfection in a perfect manner.

Li Ping watched from a distance, then walked out of the tent and asked the health captain who followed him about the situation of the wounded who had suffered gunshot wounds.

After understanding the situation, Li Ping asked the health captain with some curiosity: "This doctor looks very unfamiliar, how come his techniques are better than yours?" Li Ping was also surprised that the health captain, who was supposed to have the highest medical skills, did not go and do it himself.

"Oh, he is new here. He used to be a doctor. When the thieves attacked Kaifeng, he was there to diagnose and treat the army. He is well-informed and his job is quite good." The health captain said a little sarcastically.

"What's his name?" Li Ping asked out of habit.

"Jia Youliang." the health captain replied.

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During lunch, a scout cavalry hurried over to report: "It was discovered that a large group of our army came out of Xiangyang City and headed west. The specific situation is unknown. A group of cavalry came from the city and joined General Hui's cavalry. They have already crossed us and are heading west.

Galloping. General Hui's infantry is also forming and heading west."

When Li Ping heard this, he started to feel a little dazed.

After reacting, he immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks and ran to the earth bag to take a look.

There does seem to be some dust in the southeast in the distance, indicating that a large number of people and horses should be moving, but these people and horses are still a bit far away and cannot be confirmed. But to the west and further inland, there are indeed the shadows of a large number of cavalry and it is very obvious.

of smoke.

Prime Minister Hui Deng's troops were stationed near the official road near Wanshan, and since Sheeptan was only about 4 kilometers away from Wanshan, Li Ping could still observe the movements of Prime Minister Hui Deng's troops very well.
To be continued...