On April 11, the war in Jiagouji had entered its third day. Yesterday, the first brigade began to counterattack after repelling several attacks of the enemy.

Under the command of Tian Zhong, the first brigade adopted the tactic of successive assault, divided into three areas, battalions were used as combat units to launch assault under the cover of artillery fire, tear open a hole in the enemy's defense line, attacked forward for two, and then turned on the spot to defend and defend, and never exceeded the range of the artillery. Thus, three protrusions were formed on the battlefield.

Then, the mortar team and battalion that followed the army, all equipped with light artillery such as Baizi Guns, bombarded the enemy troops in the depression, forcing the Yuan army on both sides to retreat to avoid being divided and surrounded. The Song army in front of them took advantage of the situation to pursue and level the front again. The artillery then moved its positions to follow up, launching artillery bombardment on the enemy again, and launching a new round of attacks.

The Song army's tactics seemed clumsy and had a slow speed of advancement, but the effect was extremely significant. Not only did they cause serious casualties to the enemy with extremely small casualties, forcing the enemy to retreat continuously, especially to give a devastating blow to their morale. In the subsequent battle, as long as the cannon sounded, they ran backwards and lost their intention to resist.

Seeing that the Song army was constantly advancing, the several thousand-man teams that were defending were difficult to resist, and the enemy continued to increase their troops, but they still could not stabilize the defense line and continued to retreat. They sent a supervision team to kill dozens of people in succession but could not stop the defeat. After they were about to retreat across the Gangu, they ordered the bridge on the ditch, and then crossed the bridge and immediately snatched the spot, and then stopped retreating.

The enemy troops who were trapped in death had to fight to the death. In the evening, the Song army stopped the attack. The enemy troops in the south of the gou were compressed into a narrow area about three miles long and less than two miles wide. They built a simple line of defense to defend with trees, stones, and even corpses. Not to mention opening the road back to Xuzhou, even the ability to counterattack was lost.

The enemy troops in the south entrance also made no progress. After strengthening the defense of the mountains on both sides of the intersection, the positions were further stabilized. They occupied the favorable terrain and shot at the enemy from a high point, but the enemy had to climb the mountain and attack upwards, and were suppressed by artillery. After attacking for a day, they only occupied a few irrelevant mountain bags at the foot of the mountain, but they suffered thousands of casualties.

The battle report of the First Brigade said that one day the enemy's corpses were everywhere. At first, the enemy was robbed and regained. As the front line advanced, the enemy had already run away, and the body was like a hill, and there was no time to take care of it. The broken limbs were within reach, and they could only walk on the corpse, bleeding filled the ditches, and the ankles were not enough, and the soil was dyed red, and blood soared into the sky. After the war, seven dead people in the enemy were injured by artillery fire, and the rest were killed by guns, and more than 30 seals were collected from more than a hundred households of the enemy, hundreds of flags, weapons and armor were piled up like mountains, and there was no time to check. Because the corpses were broken in the cannon, and the remains were very heavy, they were not as detailed as one by one, and roughly planned that more than 6,000 dead people in the enemy's battle were about to be killed.

The Second Brigade's battle report stated that the enemy was eager to open the southward passage, and the offensive was very fierce, one after another, with more than 100 attacks in a day, more than 40 attacks above the battalion level, and more than 10,000 troops were dispatched. Because our army occupied favorable terrain and built solid fortifications, the enemy's attacks were all defeated. The enemy mostly used dense formation attacks, and most of them were upside attacks. Our army could make achievements by using muskets to gather fires. In the melee battles in mountain attacks and defenses, grenades were especially preferred, and even artillery shells could hurt more than ten enemies. After the war, the enemy's corpses were accumulated in gullies, blood flowed like streams, and weapons were discarded everywhere. Because it was difficult to verify in detail, we could only estimate that the enemy's casualties were more than 4,000...

Today is the deadline for the complete annihilation of the Halalu Guards, but the command posts seemed extremely busy. The correspondents from each unit came in and out to report the combat preparations. The soldiers of the troops reported the situation and kept sending people to ask about the ominous points. However, Ni Liang, in the side hall, seemed calm at this time, and even replying was often just a few words, without a word.

"The chief minister, all the troops have completed pre-war preparations and mobilizations, waiting for the offensive order!" Xiao Ting came in to report and asked for orders.

"Our army has been rushing for hundreds of miles and has been fighting for two consecutive days. I am already very tired. Is it too hasty to launch a decisive battle today?" Ni Liang's face was a little hesitant at this time and asked softly.

"Du Shuai, the subordinates think that the quick battle is the best." Xiao Ting knew that Du Shuai's responsibility was too heavy, and he was worried that he would fall into an endless place after taking a wrong step. Therefore, he couldn't help but hesitate and hesitate on the last step. At this time, he needed to push him.

"How is the morale of each department?" Ni Liang raised his head and asked.

"The Dushuai, our army won consecutive battles and wiped out more than 10,000 enemies in two days, and its morale is in full swing. If we turn to rest, we may relax. In the past two days, our casualties are far lower than expected, and less than 10% of the army is still intact. Moreover, the vanguard is the reserve team of each brigade. They have been resting for a day and are full of energy and can complete the task of breakthrough! On the other hand, the enemy's casualties have reached nearly 40%, and they are surrounded again. In addition, the commander has been killed in battle, and they have lost consecutively after breaking through the siege. The morale is low and has reached the verge of collapse. They only need a forceful blow to kill their lives." Xiao Ting replied.

"Okay, order the artillery fire to prepare, and launch an attack in a quarter of an hour!" Ni Liangxu clenched his fists a few times, and then hit the table hard and issued a combat order.

"Please move to the outside of the hall to watch the battle!" Xiao Ting nodded and said.

‘Swish, swish, swish!’ Three red signal flares soared into the sky with a roar, and it was very bright in the twilight sky, reflecting the blood-stained earth even more red!

‘Boom, boom, boom…’ Then the cannon sounded, and the counts could be divided at first, but it quickly became one. In addition, the echoes of the valley, I felt the roar constant, and the mountains were trembling.

Ni Liang held the telescope and looked at the brigade's position at his feet. They would take the lead in launching an attack. He saw hundreds of mortars and dozens of rapid-fire cannons in front of the formation, pouring iron and fire into the enemy camp. These small cannons actually fired the power of heavy artillery, which made him feel energetic. After the bombardment began, the infantry also began to line up, radiating three array lines in battalions, standing in the smoke of gunpowder, floating under the flag.

Under this situation, Ni Liang was a little excited. Although he could not see the faces of the soldiers in the queue clearly, the resolute faces of those soldiers who had experienced many battles had emerged in his heart. He must have been full of the courage to kill the enemy and make achievements and set the enemy formation. His eyes were full of murderous aura and bright eyes that despise everything. This made him excited and had the urge to become a member of the queue and fight with them to kill the enemy side by side.

But Ni Liang quickly calmed down and felt a little sad. He was no longer a personal guard beside His Highness King Wei back then, and could accompany him to charge and avenge his enemies. Now His Majesty is different from his own identity. His Majesty is already the lord of a country that governs hundreds of millions, and he is also the commander of 100,000 elite troops under his command. He never had the chance to personally face the attack. His Majesty may be even more depressed and can only look at the battlefield a hundred miles away. What he said is more of a helpless move!

Ni Liang's eyes turned to the enemy camp. At this moment, under the fierce shelling of the shelling, he was already shrouded in heavy smoke. He could only faintly see the enemy soldiers avoiding everywhere in a panic in the explosion of fire, fleeing backward, trying to stay away from the bombardment of artillery fire. However, the headless flies rammed around, which could only make them pounce on another death trap.

A quarter of an hour passed in a flash, and the artillery began to extend forward and fire. At this time, the enemy's simple camps had been destroyed and could no longer be an obstacle to the Song army's advancement. The sound of war drums suddenly sounded, accompanied by loud military horns, sharp whistles and neat steps. The entire front began to move forward, and artillery fire fell down.

"Magnificent, majestic, majestic!"

"The Great Song Dynasty is mighty, Your Majesty is mighty..." The majestic slogan, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of slapping the butt stock, the Song army array gradually accelerated and pressed towards the enemy's formation.

After the artillery was stopped, the enemy barely organized and tried to stop the Song army's advancement, but under the volley of muskets, all casualties were all before they could get close. In the fierce battles for several days, the enemy had already suffered heavy casualties. The fierce enemy, who was killed by the Song army's firearms, could no longer hold on, and turned around and retreated. The Song army quickly changed its formation and pursued it in a scattered formation.

The dispersed Yuan army dispersed the hindering supervision team and rushed to the only flat bridge that could lead to the west side of the Gangou. The bridge that could pass by two large trucks on weekdays was instantly filled with people. They ran fast and rushed over smoothly. When they ran slowly, they were inevitably squeezed out by the crowds that flocked to them. I don’t know how many people fell under the bridge. When more people arrived at this only passage, everyone wanted to escape first. Thinking about the inevitable occurrence of thousands of people squeezing together. Countless people were pushed down the dry ditch, trampled to death, squeezed to death, and hacked to death by their companions who were eager to cross the bridge.

The flat bridge paved with stone slabs finally could not bear the weight of so many people. It collapsed with a bang, and hundreds of people on the bridge fell into the ditch. As the chasing Song army got closer, the people behind were constantly knocked down by bullets and stabbed to death by the Song army who were driven up. The Yuan soldiers who could not cross the bridge jumped into the dry ditch regardless of everything. Fortunately, they did not fall to death and climbed towards the opposite shore. More people either fell to death or were hit to death by the persons who jumped down later. But at this time, it was impossible for the people behind to stop, and they were knocked into the ditch by the people who arrived one after another.

With the continuous efforts of the Yuan army, which was eager to escape, the trench that was two meters deep was filled with dead bodies for a short time, forming a bridge of more than ten meters wide for human flesh. The soldiers who escaped from death not only defeated the defending soldiers who were blocking them, and carried them back. The pursuing Song army followed their steps through the dry ditch, quickly unfolded, re-arranged the array to establish an attack line, and the artillery arrived and set up artillery to shoot at the counterattack enemy cavalry...
Chapter completed!