Chapter 306: Retreat and attack

When Sun Jizhi heard the heavy machine gun stop, he immediately realized the enemy's intentions, and at the same time he made a vague judgment that the enemy's troops were not large and they were definitely not advance troops. Otherwise, he would never turn around and flee when he saw that the Guangdong army's formation stabilized. He still couldn't guess why this small group of Beiyang troops wanted to launch this small-scale sneak attack, which was very likely to be underestimating the enemy.

"The second company went around from the south, and the others followed me to chase them and drove them towards Baishi Ferry!"

He decisively issued an order, no matter whether this small group of Beiyang troops had a purpose or no purpose, they dared to hit the stone with eggs, so they simply told them to go back without a return. If a group of Beiyang troops could be captured alive and returned, the Seventh Regiment would have truly made the first great contribution since the war began.

The Guangdong army turned against the defense and attacked, and commanders at all levels followed the orders of the regiment commanders and began to pounce on the forest.

After crossing the official road, the two companies immediately split their heads. One company ran to the south. They had to circle a large circle to block the enemy. Sun Jizhi led another company to bite the retreating Beiyang Army, without any chance to breathe with the Beiyang Army, and pursued him desperately like a gangrene attached to the bone.

The Beiyang Army behind the palace had to drop many corpses before retreating for a distance, but the Beiyang Army's gun technique and formation have always had an advantage. Even under such fierce pursuit, every volleyball shooting maintained a stable hit rate.

After chasing for more than ten minutes, a series of horse neighs suddenly came from the depths of the woodland, followed by the sound of horse hooves far away. Sun Jizhi knew that the enemy was equipped with war horses, and obviously some of the Beiyang troops retreated to the meeting point and started to move. This was not good news, because Sun Jizhi's Seventh Regiment did not have enough cavalry, and even if the mounts of officers and correspondents were counted, there was still not enough 100 horses. What's more, the incident happened suddenly, and there was no extra kung fu to organize cavalry interception.

However, Sun Jizhi didn't care about these things. It didn't matter if he escaped some of the enemies. Anyway, no one of the soldiers behind the palace who were fighting fire with the Guangdong army in front of him could escape. If the escaped cavalry accidentally retreated to Baishidu, the net of heaven and earth would have been set up near Baishidu, just waiting for these people to get in.

"Catch me the live ones, fast, three rows, two rows, and round them from both sides."

"You can't escape if you give up the gun! You can't escape!"

Several Guangdong military officers shouted at the right time.

After hearing the sound of horse hooves gradually faded away, the Beiyang soldiers behind the palace fell into despair. Faced with the Guangdong Army, which was twice as many as their own, more and more comrades fell down, and they no longer had the confidence to persevere.

"Don't, don't shoot, we surrender!" A platoon leader with Hubei accent knelt down first, raised his hands to beg for mercy. With the surrender of the leading officer, the rest of the soldiers followed suit. They did not have the determination to sacrifice their country, and the survival of the people infected everyone.

The Guangdong Army soldiers quickly surrounded the dozen abandoned Beiyang Legion.

Sun Jizhi walked forward, grabbed the Beiyang platoon leader's military uniform and took a look. He was indeed the first target of the No. 1 town.

"Say, what are you from the way you are? What is the attempt to attack us!" he shouted.

The platoon leader looked cowardly, and the captured people naturally did not dare to speak stubbornly, and replied truthfully: "We are from the vanguard cavalry company of the 3rd Battalion. This time we were just reconnaissance of the information of Yizhang County. In fact... we had completed the task yesterday and returned to the battalion headquarters to report, but... But the company commander who was hit by a thousand swords was a fool and insisted on transferring a heavy machine gun to ambush... I didn't expect that the Guangdong Army was not what we thought at the beginning..."

Sun Jizhi smiled coldly and asked, "Oh? Is that true? Then you thought about what our Guangdong Army looks like at the beginning!"

The platoon leader swallowed a saliva and said tremblingly: "The people above said that the Guangdong army is actually the same as the Hunan army, all of which are soft persimmons, and they also said... and they also said that your soldiers in the south are all born women..."

Before the platoon leader finished speaking, a Guangdong army officer on the side couldn't help but curse: "Pun your mother, you are the girl, your whole family is the girl. Humph, we are not worse than you northerners!"

"That's right, what's the Beiyang Army going to show off? You'll still be our prisoners!"

"Let's see, we will kill you as much as your Beiyang army comes!"

The officers and soldiers of the Guangdong army shouted and cursed in anger.

The captive platoon leader quickly did not dare to speak anymore, and shrank his head and looked pitiful.

"Everyone keeps the sound!" Sun Jizhi waved his hand, his face very serious. He heard a key clue from the prisoner's mouth and asked the platoon leader again, "You just said that you went back to the camp to report yesterday?"

The platoon leader looked up at Sun Jizhi and nodded repeatedly.

"I'll ask you, where is your battalion?" Sun Jizhi asked loudly. Even if each of these Beiyang soldiers was equipped with war horses, they returned to the battalion to report after the battle at noon yesterday, and today they returned to ambush. It can be seen that the battalion is definitely no more than fifty miles away from here.

"Just... just behind Jiuziling, there is a town nearby, which seems to be called Tianzi Township. Sir, I... we just arrived yesterday, and the place name here is not very familiar..." said the captive platoon leader sincerely.

"Get the map." Sun Ji turned around and shouted.

An officer immediately handed over the map. Sun Jizhi found the location of Jiuziling on the map. It was indeed only about 38 miles away from Yizhang County. The terrain was mostly low hills. He cursed in his heart: The Beiyang Army is really capable, and he still touched the bottom of his eyes.

He did not put the map away, put it directly in front of the captive platoon leader, and ordered him to mark the deployment locations of his troops one by one. However, the captive platoon leader had a low level of education, and had just passed Hengyang to Chenzhou from Changsha and then to here. He stayed there for no more than two days, and he was unfamiliar with the place and could not recognize the specific location.

"Fuck, isn't it?" A Guangdong military officer next to him said furiously.

"I dare not, I really dare not. I really don't know the way here. I can't even write the three words Jiuziling!" The captive platoon leader was so scared that he shrank his head and said bitterly.

"How many people are there in Jiuziling?" Sun Jizhi thought for a while, and then asked for some easy information.

"Our battalion has a total of 650 people. When our cavalry company left this morning, there was only one infantry company and a baggage team in the battalion headquarters, and the remaining one infantry company and another logistics team were still behind. It should be that we will also arrive at Jiuziling within today. Our battalion is a reinforcement battalion, with a total of nine heavy machine guns, twelve light machine guns, and two mountain cannons." The captive platoon leader said in a panic. In order to show his sincerity, he took the initiative to answer the questions he had not asked.

When Sun Jizhi heard this, he sighed in his heart that the Beiyang Army was indeed rich. His Seventh Regiment was equipped with a total of fourteen heavy machine guns, but it turned out to be only slightly better than one reinforced battalion of the Beiyang Army.

At this moment, a cavalry ran over from the north and saw that it was Chen Jingsheng. Chen Jingsheng was previously responsible for notifying the battalion commander of the Second Battalion to set up defenses at Baishidu. He also went with the two companies of the Second Battalion. He had just fought a battle with a team of escaped Beiyang cavalry on Baishidu.

Chen Jingsheng found Sun Jizhi, and after dismounting, he went straight to this side. He glanced at the Beiyang army prisoners kneeling on the ground, and then said, "Captain, we intercepted a team of cavalry on Baishidu. But the battle was not very good, but the first round of platoons dropped more than a dozen people, and the other cavalry rushed over from our ambush circle. The second battalion commander captured two living people and captured three war horses."

Sun Jizhi had no expression of happiness on his face. At first, he was still planning to attack the Beiyang Army battalion in Jiuziling, and accidentally fired a backlash. He would bring a lot of anger at the beginning of the entire war. However, after hearing Chen Jingsheng's words, he gave up this idea without hesitation. Three companies ambushed a cavalry team in Baishidu and fled in panic, which actually made most of them escape. How ugly is this?

He didn't want to teach his subordinates a lesson in front of the prisoners. All the Seventh Regiment were born in the old army. It was reasonable to have combat effectiveness and military qualities. He just hoped that the Seventh Regiment would gradually become a mature main combat force after being tempered by iron and blood in the future.
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