Lin Ziran didn't pay attention to Luo Mazi's words. This person has always been so greedy for life and afraid of death. There is nothing surprising.
Anyway, as long as he is around, this Luo Mazi will not do anything too outrageous.
If one day Luo Mazi stops being greedy for life and fears death, Lin Ziran may have to wonder if this person is possessed by another soul like himself.
Luo Mazi was also a wonderful person. When he saw Lin Ziran's action of drawing the sword, he quickly said: "Sir, calm down, sir, calm down. I'm just reminding you to pay attention to safety. I definitely don't want to shake the morale of the army!"
Lin Ziran ignored Luo Mazi again. Now he was more concerned about the reactions of the soldiers under his command.
Damn it, everyone has turned into a soft-footed shrimp, how can we fight later!
Looking at these soldiers, they all look like little kids who were frightened by vicious dogs. They just cry and don't even have the courage to resist!
This scene made Lin Ziran frown. This training was enough, but there was a serious lack of actual combat experience and morale was too low!
After receiving professional training from professional officers such as Wu Guanlin and Xu Zhongshu, today's Qingshan Patrol Battalion is also very disciplined in training. I can't say that each tactical move is done well, but at least it is passable.
Sometimes during drills, they performed well.
But why are they all weak when it comes to actual combat?
Lin Ziran also knew that he couldn't blame them. After all, most of the people here had never really experienced the battlefield. Many of them were recruits recruited in the past month or two. This was their first mission to escort the baggage north.
Even though some of them had fought in battles, they had only fired a few shots from a distance, and had never fought with the enemy at medium or close range.
His Qingshan patrol camp seriously lacked practical experience.
At this point, there is no point in thinking too much. Anyway, with just such a few people at his disposal, Lin Ziran can't conjure up a group of elite soldiers.
The only thing that can be done now is to keep riding around, holding the command knife high and shouting: "Don't panic, hold on!"
"We are blocked by a car formation, and those cavalry can't rush over!"
"We hid behind the car formation and opened fire. When they got close, we would beat them. We would kill every one of them. If we killed a few more, they would run away."
"There are reinforcements next to us. The three thousand troops of the temporary brigade are not far away. They will be here soon. We only need to hold on for a while!"
"As long as we don't mess up our position, they won't be able to rush in. As long as we hold on for a moment, reinforcements will arrive soon!"
"After these cavalry are defeated, I will treat everyone to drinks and meat, and then I will find a group of girls for everyone. I will ensure that you have a good time!"
Lin Ziran shouted in person, and what he said was simple and straightforward, even somewhat inappropriate for his status as an officer.
But that's all he could say at this time.
He wanted to ease the tension of these soldiers and prevent them from getting into trouble.
And then we have to give these soldiers confidence!
We are guarded by a vehicle formation, so they cannot rush in, and reinforcements will arrive as long as we hold on for a while.
This will make the soldiers feel that the difficulty is greatly reduced, and they will not be thinking about escaping.
In fact, Lin Ziran didn't know when the reinforcements would arrive.
He knew that Jian Liangzhi's temporary brigade was not far to the north to meet him, but it was several kilometers away. At the same time, it would take time to report the news, and it would also take time for reinforcements to arrive.
And these times can be long or short.
To put it bluntly, who knows when Jian Liangzhi's reinforcements will arrive.
Lin Ziran was waving his saber, running around on horseback, and shouting to boost morale, when more than two hundred cavalrymen in front also rushed over.
However, they did not rush towards the vehicle formation where Lin Ziran was located, nor even towards the front half of the transport team stationed by the three companies of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion. Instead, they rushed towards the rear half of the transport team stationed by the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment.
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This was not because the Guang'an cavalry thought Lin Ziran's troops were awesome and did not dare to charge over, but because of the terrain.
The artillerymen of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment were stationed on both sides of the convoy in relatively open areas, which was more suitable for cavalry attacks.
So, after Lin Ziran shouted for a long time, he saw the enemy's cavalry roaring past a few hundred meters in front of him, and then rushed towards the vehicle formation stationed by Cheng Hongbin's artillery.
Cheng Hongbin, who was several hundred meters away behind him, saw this scene!
I cursed in my heart: Damn it!
Then he also directed the artillerymen to hold steady.
Because the artillery pieces in his heavy artillery regiment are all heavy artillery, there are only more than 20 artillery pieces in total, because although the name of the heavy artillery regiment is used, the artillerymen and loaders who serve the artillery, including the baggage troops, are actually
There were more than 600 people in total.
Otherwise, more than a thousand civilians would not have been requisitioned to transport the artillery shells.
The strength of these more than 600 troops is also equivalent to the strength of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion brought by Lin Ziran this time.
However, although his more than 600 troops are all artillery and not professional infantry, they can still pick up Fuyuan muskets and line up to fight at critical moments.
It's just that the artillery under their command are not professional line infantry. It is difficult to say whether they can rely on vehicle formations to block the enemy's cavalry charge.
When Cheng Hongbin commanded the artillery to line up to meet the enemy, Lin Ziran did not breathe a sigh of relief and did not take any chances.
They are all on the battlefield. If the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment is destroyed, the fate of his Qingshan Patrol Battalion will not be much better in the end. Is it possible that the Guang'an rebel cavalry will let them go?
Time passed bit by bit, and soon, the more than two hundred Guang'an cavalry rushed to the many vehicle formations in the second half where the gunners of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment were stationed.
However, these cavalry did not disperse and rush towards a large number of vehicle formations. Instead, they only attacked the last vehicle formation consisting of more than ten carriages.
There were only dozens of gunners and soldiers and nearly a hundred civilians in the vehicle formation.
The cavalry roared past. They didn't even pause and crossed the station directly. When crossing the car formation, these cavalry first opened fire with cavalry revolver pistols from a high position and threw torches at the same time!
Lin Ziran saw with his own eyes that the whole process only lasted for more than ten seconds at most. At least dozens of people in the car array were killed and injured, and more importantly, many of the carriages were set on fire!
Immediately afterwards, Lin Ziran saw the soldiers in the car array running out in a hurry, which made Lin Ziran a little puzzled.
Why didn't they put out the fire?
At this moment, Luo Mazi said with a panicked face: "Sir, those vehicles behind are vehicles transporting grenades!"
Hearing this, Lin Ziran was stunned for half a second, and then cursed: "Fuck!"
As soon as he finished cursing, a flame suddenly rose from the car array in his sight, and then he heard a loud noise in his ears!