The advance speed of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment was fine in the first few days, but it became quite slow when they crossed the mountainous area north of Qingshan Town.
Because of the slow advance, Lin Ziran even set up his headquarters in a ruined temple for three consecutive days.
The soldiers of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion were still patrolling the perimeter at first, but later they simply set up fixed observation posts on the perimeter to keep manpower stationed, and most of the remaining people rested and trained in place.
Lin Ziran and his Qingshan Patrol Battalion were waiting leisurely for the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment, but Cheng Hongbin was a little anxious.
Because the Third Division had sent documents twice in a row, urging him to speed up, saying that the front line was in urgent need of heavy artillery support.
But looking at the mountains and winding mountain roads in front of him, Cheng Hongbin could only sigh helplessly!
The terrain is like this. What can he do? He is helpless!
During this period, Jian Liangzhi also sent someone over once, mainly to inquire about the itinerary of the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment and to agree on a subsequent pick-up location.
After going through this rugged mountain road, there is still a hilly area of about ten kilometers, but it is relatively gentle hills.
If you don't have to walk in a straight line, there won't be frequent ups and downs on the winding road. It's basically the same as marching in the plains, except that you have to make frequent detours.
But after passing through these gentle hills, there is a flat plain area.
This plain extends all the way to Chongguang City, and is the key active area of the Guang'an raiding force. After several raids by the temporary brigade led by Jian Liangzhi, the Guang'an rebels suffered considerable losses, and most of the troops were forced to withdraw.
But there will definitely still be many small groups of cavalry units active.
Whether it is the baggage troops or the artillery troops marching in this area, the danger is quite high, and they are very likely to be attacked by the cavalry of the Guang'an rebels.
When Lin Ziran led his army north to Chongguang City twice before, he was attacked by the cavalry of the Guang'an rebels in this area. Although the casualties of the Qingshan Patrol Camp were not large each time, a lot of supplies were destroyed.
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There was no way, the Guang'an rebels' attack force was in the dark, and the escort troops were in the open. What's more important was that these Guang'an rebels didn't want to kill too many people, they just wanted to rush over, set fire to them and run away. Lin Ziran's
There is nothing the Qingshan Patrol Camp can do if it encounters this kind of thing.
Subsequently, the Third Division simply stopped letting Lin Ziran continue to lead the Qingshan Patrol Battalion to escort the baggage, and instead conducted a handover with Jian Liangzhi's temporary brigade troops in the hilly areas.
The temporary brigade under Jian Liangzhi has two cavalry regiments, which can stop the cavalry assault troops of the Guang'an rebels on the periphery and even deal a devastating blow. Its tactical advantage is that infantry-based troops such as the Qingshan Patrol Battalion cannot
Comparable.
The same is true this time. Lin Ziran will lead the Qingshan Patrol Battalion to continue escorting for about five kilometers, and then hand over to the troops sent by the temporary brigade in the hilly area.
By that time, Lin Ziran's mission will be completed.
However, neither Lin Ziran nor Jian Liangzhi knew that the moment the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment left Qingshan Town, the Guang'an rebels had already taken action.
The Guang'an rebels also have spies. Although they don't pay much attention to Qingshan Town on weekdays, who asked the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment to come over?
In fact, before the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment entered Qingshan Town, it was already under the surveillance of Guang'an rebel spies.
Who knows that the deterrent power of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment is too huge? The more than 20 heavy artillery pieces are no joke. If they really reach the front line of Chongguang City, they will pose a huge threat to the Guang'an defense forces in Chongguang City.
No general of the Guang'an rebels would remain indifferent at the thought of huge artillery shells of more than 200 or even 300 millimeters falling on their defense lines.
For this reason, they naturally wanted to block the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment on the road. They had originally planned to deploy an interception force in Luohe, but they did not expect that Luo An's army would rather go over the mountains with heavy artillery and leave from Qingshan Town. This also disrupted Guang'an.
Preliminary rebel plans.
But it only disrupted the initial plan, and they quickly adjusted.
Now in a valley unknown to Jian Liangzhi and others, a cavalry unit of about 800 cavalry is camping and resting. In the Chinese army camp, Lin Ziran's old friend and Jian Liangzhi's old rival Fang Yuanxin is half lying on a deck chair.
, looking at the report from the reconnaissance team.
An officer on the side said: "Sir, are we just waiting like this?"
Fang Yuanxin raised his head and glanced at the other party, and then said: "At their speed, it is estimated that it will take three days to arrive at the scheduled location. What else can we do if we don't wait?"
The officer stopped talking!
This is also a fact. The Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment is still drilling in the mountains and has not even reached the relatively plain hilly areas. Even if our own side wants to launch an attack, there is nothing we can do.
That was a big mountain. Although the tops of the mountains didn't look very high, they were still mountains. The cavalrymen like me immediately turned into infantry as they passed by.
Fang Yuanxin said: "This time, Chongguang City has issued a death order. This heavy artillery unit must be killed. They must not be allowed to reach outside Chongguang City, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous!"
"So we must be cautious and cautious, let the troops hide, and we must not expose ourselves in advance!"
"That Jian Liangzhi's dog has a very good nose. He might smell the slightest movement!"
"So we only have one chance!"
When Fang Yuanxin said this, he seemed to be saying it to his subordinates, and sometimes to himself.
The subordinates next to me also knew the importance of the matter, and all of them looked heavy.
In recent months, Fang Yuanxin has been leading cavalry troops to attack Luo An's army's supply troops in this area. In the early months, the effect was pretty good, but since Luo An's army organized a temporary brigade to maintain supply lines in the rear, and
After the pursuit and elimination began, the effect was not great.
A month ago, a Guang'an Cavalry Regiment was ambushed by Jian Liangzhi and was beaten to a semi-crippled state. Even the commander of the Cavalry Regiment was killed in the battle. In the end, these remnants were incorporated into Fang Yuan's new Cavalry Regiment.
Continue to fight.
Fang Yuan's new cavalry regiment was better. Although it was deep behind enemy lines and its troops were at an absolute disadvantage, making it difficult to fight, he still successfully attacked a Luo An Army's supply unit half a month ago.
At least dozens of tons of supplies were destroyed.
But about five days ago, he received a new combat order. The order said that a heavy artillery regiment of the Luo An Army was about to pass through Qingshan Town and then go to the outside of Chongguang City. He must lead his troops to kill this heavy artillery regiment.
Their mission this time is very heavy, and it can even be said that they can only succeed but not fail, because once they fail, the Chongguang City side will be in danger.
Once these twenty-odd heavy artillery pieces arrive at Chongguang City, the blow to Chongguang City's defense line will be absolutely huge.
Fang Yuanxin continued to read the report, but soon he noticed that the escort unit of the Luo An Army's heavy artillery unit in the report turned out to be only a militia group, and the name of this militia group seemed familiar: Qingshan Patrol Battalion.