"Why haven't you come yet?"

This question is a question in everyone's mind. When the drizzle started, Zhou Baoyu, who was guarding the horses not far from behind, remembered Xiang Xueqin's instructions and ran to Zhang Qingshan quickly, while wrapping Zhang Qingshan's left calf in varnish to prevent the wound from getting stained with rain again. He asked in a low voice: "Brother, do you think the enemy will come? We won't be in the night rain here, right?"

At this time, it was already early morning. The troops of the Red 17th Division had been ambushing at the Swallow's mouth as they were deployed in advance. But when they waited for the enemy to come to the door, everyone was inevitably a little anxious. Now it started to rain again, and everyone was suffering and was in a bad mood.

However, it is true that since everyone left Ganzi, it was still good. Whether it was reactionaries or bandits, they were in a wait-and-see position, they did not dare to try it easily. However, after only three days of advance, some people could not hold back, and there were bandits or small groups of reactionaries, who used horses to disturb them at night. The Red Army was eager to rush to the road and did not take these small forces seriously. They just fought them away, but never expected that they saw that the Red Army was just driving them away but did not dare to pursue them, so they became more courageous, and thus they numbed the Red Army more frequently.

At this time, the Red Army naturally took this matter seriously. The elders had a meeting and felt that this disturbance was like a fly. They slapped the group next to them, which made you tireless. Since that's the case, then just play a big one. Let's endure it first, and after all the enemy forces emerge, we will wipe it out at once.

But a few days ago, a cavalry regiment came. I don’t know if I saw the Red Army endurance that the Red Army was easy to bully, but I came up and sneaked into the Red Army headquarters at night. To be honest, the unexpected attack this time was really beyond the expectations of the Red Army. No one expected that just a cavalry regiment would dare to attack the troops of tens of thousands of people. Although they finally killed them, from the perspective of casualties, the Red Army did suffer a little loss. And for such consequences, not to mention that the Red Army soldiers were all red-eyed, even the elders were very angry.

Going forward to plan to wait for them to gather in the first place and then encircle and annihilate them. Therefore, according to the reconnaissance, although the cavalry regiment was claimed to be a regiment, there were actually only six or seven hundred people. Although they took advantage of the last unexpected sneak attack, they also lost one-third of their troops. However, because of their sneak attacks and their reputation, they gathered the bandits and bandits around who plagued the Red Army. In this way, their number grew to nearly a thousand.

In the next two or three days, the Red Army was alert, and the cavalry regiment knew that it was impossible to have the advantage of the last sneak attack, or in other words, they were also planning bigger plans. Therefore, in the past two or three days, they did not disturb the Red Army at all, but followed closely on the grassland more than twenty miles away. For the cavalry, more than twenty miles were really not a long distance.

Perhaps because both sides were brewing a big explosion, although the main force had not moved, the reconnaissance cavalry of both sides could be said to have all the gunshots and screams of fierce fighting among the reconnaissance soldiers on the grassland.

The 17th Division ambushed at Yanzikou, while the main force camped four or five miles away. This made many middle-level commanders and fighters with rich combat experience unable to understand: Since you want to lead the enemy to the bait, you can run away at least, otherwise the enemy is not stupid, how could you come out to sneak attack you on a large scale? Besides, there is a natural barrier like Yanzikou next to you. If you camp here, it is obvious that you have set up a trap at this Yanzikou.

Zhang Qingshan was naturally very puzzled by this point. His curiosity and the sense of responsibility of the commander made him have to ask about this question. However, he was inconvenient to his legs and feet, so he instigated Hu Yingze to go to the regiment headquarters to ask. As a result, Hu Yingze went quickly and came back faster, but he got a sentence: Don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask, this is discipline.

Zhang Qingshan understood this: You think that only you know that this deployment seems very strange, but others can't see it? Tell you that this is the intentional arrangement above, but your level is too low.

Therefore, Zhang Qingshan naturally smiled confidently and replied: "Baoyu, I don't know when they will come, just wait."

Sure enough!

After Zhang Qingshan finished speaking, there was a noise in the place where the large army camped.

Interestingly, this sound made people feel that someone was covering something, but they accidentally made some noise: there were torches outside the camp illuminating it, and someone patrolled, but there was no light in the camp, but some sound came out vaguely.

Soon, after a few shouts, there was no sound, which gave people the feeling that the previous sounds were scolded and no one dared to say anything. In this way, it would give people something to hide, and they were afraid that they would be revealed.

In the end, under the cover of the quiet night, everything returned to peace. However, if you listen carefully, you could vaguely hear someone treading on the ground. If you put your ears on the ground, you would definitely hear many messy footsteps. In addition, the light rain has begun to change to the moderate rain, and the torches have been extinguished, leaving only the blue-gray luster of the half-moon, but the blurring of the vision, the more suspicious it is.

It took more than half an hour from beginning to end, giving the enemy a feeling of an organized and premeditated retreat.

Zhang Qingshan covered his forehead with his hands in confusion, opened his eyes wide, and looked back at the camp. Although he couldn't see anything, he was curious!

But at this moment, a bright spot appeared on the front of the swallow's mouth. Soon, as the bright spot approached, everyone saw that it was a small string of torches.

Zhang Qingshan looked at it, with his rich combat command experience, immediately guessed what this small torch meant, and quickly whispered to Wang Wu who was lying beside him: "If you pass the order, this must be the enemy's scout. Without my order, no one is allowed to shoot."

As it turned out, Zhang Qingshan's eyes were worthy of his order: the enemy openly held the torch and ran directly to the entrance of the swallow's mouth, and then the torch was extinguished almost at the same time. Then, it was a bit rainy in the dark valley. In addition, the other party was in the valley and could not see the other party at all. In other words, occasionally, in places with accumulated water, the moonlight was reflected by the water surface. The moment the other party passed through here, he could vaguely see the other party's blurred figure.

Obviously, this must be because the enemy received the changes from our camp and sent scouts to reconnaissance. To be more precise, it should be for testing.

Soon, three black shadows returned from the swallow's mouth. It was obviously back to report the news.

However, Zhang Qingshan frowned slightly and turned around to look. This time, he was not looking at the camp, but worried about Qi Zixuan and the others. Because the enemy's reaction was already expected by the superiors, the three rows led by Qi Zixuan received an order: no matter how many reconnaissance cavalry the enemy sent, they did not need to pay attention. But if the enemy thought of observing or alerting around Yanzikou, they had to catch them all without making any gunshots. In short, it was necessary to ensure that the ambush of the 17th Division could not be exposed.

But the problem is that the moonlight is not bright and it is raining again. You can imagine that you must see the other party at close range, which increases the difficulty of the silent captive task. Once a gunfire sound is heard, it may alarm the snake, which will make the entire plan fail.

Fortunately, after waiting for more than ten minutes, there was no sound in the rear of the gray film, which made Zhang Qingshan feel a little relieved. He continued to pray that Qi Zixuan and the others could complete the task smoothly. In fact, the enemy's scouts had no time to check Yanzikou, and they focused all their attention on the direction of the camp. Not long after, they were brave enough to quietly touch the Red Army camp, so an interesting curtain appeared: the main force of the Red Army completely withdrew from the camp and rushed forward on the rainy night. The enemy's scouts naturally had to hurry to report this huge new situation to the rear. The most depressing one was the Red 17th Division, who just watched the enemy's scouts come down and run back and forth under their noses, and had to worry that they would come to the top to reconnaise.

In the end, the enemy was also anxious by this huge change, or they were a little relieved about Yanzikou. As the scouts were shuttled back and forth, they actually opened their torches. The soldiers of the 17th Red Division were really amused and crying about this, but they could only watch it and tried hard to hold it in order to avoid laughing out loud.

This kind of busyness finally took new changes until after four o'clock in the morning, which was the darkness before dawn.

In order to make the enemy more convinced that the main force of the Red Army was retreating quickly, they took advantage of the darkness and crossed three mountains and ran more than twenty miles. After running for the front, the troops finally showed a small light of torches, which made the entire army move faster. However, the cavalry in charge of the Red Army behind the palace lined up in a shape of finished shape and used to attack the cavalry to sneak attack. After the large army advanced for a distance, they could also use the horse's degree to catch up, so that they could relatively get rid of the enemy's big block. Of course, more importantly, they even shot out the torches so as to remind the enemy: Look, we even gathered the cavalry behind the palace, and you can pass through the swallow's mouth with peace of mind. Don't worry, there is no ambush there.

But the entire Red Army troops gave people the least feeling of throwing away the enemy behind them at night. As the fire flashed, the horses of the Red Army cavalry could be vaguely visible inside and outside.

The enemy Yi received this information, and you can imagine the situation: Hey! You want to advance in the dark, and you know that the cavalry's degree is greatly reduced on rainy nights. How can you get rid of us? Today I have to tell you: Cavalry is cavalry, whether it is rainy or scorching sun, four legs are always better than your two legs. What's more, we have to hold you far away, otherwise, when the cavalry division arrives, you disappear on the vast grassland. How can you let me bear this responsibility? In fact, the Red Army has long deciphered the enemy's radio code and learned from the frequent telegrams of the enemy that the enemy's cavalry division will meet with the enemy cavalry regiment at 7 am this morning and at the latest at around 10 am. The key is here: if they want to bite the Red Army that suddenly moves forward, they are destined to not have much time to reconnaissance, let alone God help, rainy nights!

However, since the enemy dared to attack the Red Army headquarters at night, it means that their commander is not only a bold person, but also has a very useful head, and his vision is vicious and his command experience must be rich.

Therefore, although they set out to chase after him immediately, they were still very cautious, especially when they arrived at Yanzikou, they used some tricks.
Chapter completed!