"grown ups."

The guard reached out to support Xu Ping, and he stood up behind him and asked blankly, "Where are we now?"

The two guards in the tent had a dark face, and one of them said sadly: "Sir, this is our army's camp in Cuma Mountain."

Xu Ping frowned when he heard this and asked, "Why are you still in the Seima Mountain?"

The two guards reported to Xu Ping that after he fainted, the Ming army continued to attack and defeated the rebels at the foot of the east and west mountains. When the road was cleared, the central army's baggage troops and wounded began to pass, Ji Tui Si and He went up.

Ten thousand rebels arrived. The Ming army, which had been fighting for a day, was unable to defeat the rebels' new forces anymore. Moreover, the Ming army's troops were relatively scattered at that time, and they were driving away the rebels' scattered soldiers around them. As a result, the two armies fought again. Finally, Zhang Chengye met

The wounded were unable to pass safely, so he ordered a camp in Chomashan.

Xu Ping struggled to put on his military uniform and armor, lifted the tent door and walked out to the camp to check. The sun had just set, and there was still a sunset in the sky. When Xu Ping was about to walk to the wall of the camp, he saw Ming soldiers on the wall.

He pointed to the north, and there were still low voices of discussion. After climbing up the observation deck, Xu Ping saw a fire dragon winding along the mountain road, flowing continuously towards the rebel camp in the distance.

There were at least three thousand people going up.

Ignoring the whispers of the soldiers around me, Xu Ping went straight to Zhang Chengye's camp. When he entered the door, a messenger was reporting the scene Xu Pinggang saw to the people in the house. After Wei Landu saw Xu Ping in, he nodded slightly to him.

After reporting on military information, the soldier left the tent, leaving only Zhang Chengye, Xu Ping, Wu Zhong and Wei Landu in the room.

Without even having to greet each other, Xu Ping said to Zhang Chengye blankly: "Sir, our army should break through tonight."

Since this sentence was said, the other three people did not care about Xu Ping's injuries, and Wei Landu and Wu Zhong did not say anything. Zhang Chengye looked at Xu Ping and told him that Changqing, Shanlan's two camps were killed, and the number of missing people was as high as 920 people.

There were hundreds of wounded people who could not move, and countless minor injuries were innumerable. The officers and soldiers were very tired after two consecutive days of fierce fighting. The combat soldiers owned by the two battalions had been reduced to a very dangerous level. I am afraid that the daytime combat was very good.

It's hard, not to mention breaking through at night.

Wu Zhong just suggested to Zhang Chengye that he would stay on the spot and wait for other new troops to reinforce. Although Wei Landu was willing to fight again tomorrow, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was indeed very considerable. The remaining combat soldiers were less than 3,000, and they had to be divided during the attack.

To cover more than a thousand baggage and wounded soldiers in the central army, there are probably only two thousand people who can participate in the war. The number of rebels on the opposite side is over 10,000, and now another three thousand have arrived. The advantage over the Ming army's military strength has exceeded 5 to 1.

"I will give the troops a break." Zhang Chengye's tone was also hesitant: "The reinforcements may arrive in three days. If the reinforcements were not yet available at that time, some of our wounded soldiers would have recovered."

After hearing Zhang Chengye's words, Xu Ping immediately asked, "Can we eat our food for three more days?"

Wu Zhong and Wei Landu nodded to Xu Ping at the same time and said, "Our army's gunpowder has almost been exhausted, and we need to save and use it."

Needless to say, Xu Ping knew this, too. The new army had been fighting at high intensity for the past two days, especially yesterday, attacking the rebels one by one, and the shells were shot out like water splashing, so when he decided to damage the cannon last night.

No one objected. Today, in addition to further consuming the small amount of gunpowder, the healing medicines were also seriously insufficient. Neither Changqing Camp nor Shanlan Camp expected that there would be thousands of minor and serious injuries, and there would be insufficient medicines and bandages.

Under normal circumstances, such severe wear will definitely be strongly supplemented by the rear.

Xu Ping turned his head to look at Zhang Chengye: "Sir, now many minor wounded people can still fight after bandaging, but their wounds will start to get inflamed tomorrow and pus will flow the day after tomorrow, and then they will be the same as those who are seriously injured.

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Zhang Chengye sighed softly, and Xu Ping knew it clearly. However, if there was no slight adjustment, the Ming army would have no strength left. Xu Ping grabbed the previous step and said loudly: "Sir, we defeated Zhen yesterday, Chen Er

The thief defeated the Wen thief's troops again today. They were unable to gather the troops within two days to fight again. But it would be hard to say if they waited for a few more days. If they could only wait for more and more bandits.

You must break through immediately and leave tonight.”

Wu Zhong said nothing, and Wei Landu argued: "We don't know where the firefighting camp is. I think they should be coming here."

"We are not sure if the firefighting camp can arrive within five days, at least I don't think they can." Xu Ping retorted that the rebels have only defended but not attacked for two days, and it is obvious that there are those who trapped the Ming army here.

Thoughts. Both the rebels and the Ming army are very clear. As long as the Ming army starts to defend, the rebels will be at a loss. Xu Ping judged this that the rebels obviously believed that they could trap the Ming army to death. The rebels have been doing this for two days.

The hurry to gather at this battlefield shows that they are under limited pressure in other directions, which is also an ominous sign. Xu Ping firmly advocates breaking through immediately: "Sir, I will think twice before that, they must not be near Qihe, the firefighting camp,

Otherwise, the Supervisor Biao Battalion would never be defeated. They would not have been near the main force of the rebels before, otherwise the rebels would never have the spare energy to attack the Supervisor Biao Battalion, and they would not be able to calmly turn to attack us - the firefighting camp has been counted on

Not going to go."

"Then you have to wait until dawn," Weilandu pondered: "It is easy for the troops to be confused at night. There are many enemies and we are few. We cannot take this risk."

"Tomorrow is probably too late." Xu Ping shook his head and said, "The rebels are coming at night. This is the nest of the bandits. Except for the thief who we don't know where they are, the staff officer estimates that the thief chief Ji Tui Si himself

There are at least 20,000 followers under Shandong. He has arrived now, and we may have to face 20,000 bandits tomorrow."

At present, all combat units of the New Army are seriously short of units. Xu Ping thought for a while and said: "Discard all the supplies, big trucks and tools, separate the supplies and engineers, and all of them are organized into the infantry team."

Wu Zhong's face changed slightly, Wei Landu stared at Xu Ping and asked, "What should I do if the wounded?"

"We can't control them anymore," Xu Ping's face showed a sad look, but in an instant his tone became firmer: "Sir, the lives of thousands of soldiers in the two battalions are in our hands,

If you should break it, you should break it."

Xu Ping's suggestion was opposed by Wei Landu. He said that the new army had never abandoned the wounded since its establishment, and he also said that he could not understand why Xu Ping was able to cruelly abandon hundreds of unmovable troops. At present, the army has not yet reached the end of his life.

However, Xu Ping was unmoved. He thought the situation was already very dangerous. Although he had not yet reached a desperate situation, he was not far from it.

When Wei Landu argued with Xu Ping, Zhang Chengye and Wu Zhong listened patiently. When they gradually couldn't find any new ideas, Zhang Chengye coughed and calmed the two of them. Without saying much, Zhang Chengye sat down and picked up the paper and wrote.

A letter was sent to him and ordered him to send the letter to the rebel camp. After the guards left, Zhang Chengye told Xu Ping and others that in this letter to Ji Tuisi, he declared that he was willing to order his subordinates to surrender.

However, Ji Tuisi must ensure that the Ming soldiers who put down their weapons will not die.

"Thirty years ago, Ji Tuisi and I also met one by one, ah, it was not just one by one." Zhang Chengye recalled the scene when he went to Lushun from Ningyuan. At that time, Ji Tuisi was just a matter of

A sixteen-year-old child. Zhang Chengye not only met Ji Tuisi, but also Zhen Zhangyu, Xiao Bailang and Wen Desi were also familiar with Zhang Chengye. He also guided them to practice martial arts. Zhang Chengye said: "Ji Tuisi and I are here."

I've eaten in a pot and he owed me some favors, and I don't think he won't agree."

"But the last general thinks that they don't believe we will surrender." After quietly waiting for Zhang Chengye to finish his words, Wu Zhong said the first thing: "Our army has 4,000 officers and soldiers. If we abandon the wounded and break through with all our might, they may not be able to stop us.

.”

"So Ji Tuisi would agree even more. He must be very strange when he saw my letter." Next, Zhang Chengye began to discuss with the three people the possibility of breaking through at night. Wei Landu's original proposal was based on new

The army's sense of honor and pride in their hearts. Now that Zhang Chengye also has the intention of breaking through, he no longer objected. Xu Ping believed that the rebels came overnight and must be in a hurry to strengthen the camp. It was dark tonight, and the rebels could not dig trenches.

And traps. Although the Ming army is tired at the moment, the rebels are even more tired after coming from a long distance, so there is a great chance of breaking through.

While discussing the specific details, the guards sent to the rebel camp rushed back to reply. He said that after Ji Tuisi read the letter, he gave him two taels of silver and took out good wine and food to entertain him. However, he was in a hurry to come back to report the letter.

, did not wait too long, and did not see any reaction from other rebel generals. Zhang Chengye nodded and asked the guards to rest. He immediately opened the reply and looked like he had. Ji Tuisi agreed to not kill the surrendered soldiers, but he asked Zhang Chengye not to destroy them.

Weapons and materials were used as a reward. Zhang Chengye picked up his pen and wrote the second letter, asking Ji Tuisi to interview between the two military camps tomorrow.

After watching the guards leave with the letter again, Xu Ping asked: "Sir, will Ji Thief keep his promise?"

Now they all know that Zhang Chengye is playing a word game. Xu Ping is worried that when Ji Tuisi sees him tomorrow, the so-called surrendered Ming army will definitely be furious after they are unable to move. Xu Ping can do anything about Ji Tuisi.

Shuyou was very suspicious, worried that this method would not only fail to save people, but would also harm the wounded soldiers. Zhang Chengye was silent for a long time and said slowly: "If he were still the Ji Tuisi I had seen before, he would keep his promise. But now

I don't know what he became."

After saying that, Zhang Chengye ordered the entire army to rest immediately. His plan was to break through at midnight. In order to prevent chaos, the plan did not notify the subordinate officers for the time being, only the commander, Qian Zong and the staff members knew about it.

As soon as the hour arrived, Xu Ping ordered the sentry to issue an alarm. More than 4,000 officers and soldiers rushed out of the tent, and the staff who had prepared were lined up immediately. Although the food of the new army was much better than that of other Ming troops.

However, half of the soldiers still suffer from night blindness due to long-term malnutrition. This operation is not allowed to raise fires. The staff members connected the night blind soldiers with long ropes that had been prepared long ago and ordered them to support the soldiers in front of them.

All engineers and baggage soldiers were organized into infantry teams, and even the medical staff of the rescue team were put on armor and picked up weapons. Fortunately, all the soldiers in the new army received basic training, and they were no worse than ordinary infantry.

Although the officers and soldiers felt something was wrong, obeying orders had become their instinct, so there was no chaos. The soldiers who could see things took the lead, while the night blind people strung together tied their weapons to their backs, and the people supported them to slow down.

Walk out slowly. Zhang Chengye estimated that there would only be more soldiers suffering from night blindness in the rebels than in the new army, and the rebels' sentry probes would basically be arranged around their unstable camps to prevent the Ming army from robbing the camp.

As long as the Ming army did not raise fire, they could secretly hide it from the enemy for a long time.

Watching the soldiers leaving the barracks in a row, Xu Ping said to Zhang Chengye: "Sir, we should leave."

The cavalry in the Ming army wrapped the horse's hooves in cloth and quietly guarded the four commanders. Zhang Chengye smiled slightly at the three subordinates: "You guys go first, I will break the back personally and lead the wounded soldiers to break through."

Xu Ping, Wu Zhong and Wei Landu made a sound of breathing at the same time. The flames of the torch were pounding and dark, reflecting Zhang Chengye's firm gaze and upright body. Time did not reduce his majesty slightly. He chuckled again,

The order said: "Go." The tone was unquestionable.

Xu Ping stood in front of Zhang Chengye, after being silent for a while, suddenly raised his hand and saluted the latter solemnly without saying a word. Wu Zhong and Wei Landu also stood shoulder to shoulder beside Xu Ping and saluted Zhang Chengye.

"Go and take care of yourself all the way."

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After leaving the barracks, the Ming army walked onto the road in the dark. Xu Ping walked in front with half of soldiers without night blindness, Wei Landu and his other half at the end, and Wu Zhong led most of the cavalry to maintain order in the central army.

After seeing the rebel camp with a bonfire, Xu Ping led his command to quietly go around. The rebels were indeed inadequately prepared, and the battalions had not been connected yet. As for the wilderness outside the camp, there was no one sentry. Several rebels were successively

After the camp was around, a whistle suddenly sounded in the darkness, and the sharp whistle tore the silence of the night. A rebel camp in front of Xu Ping immediately heard a messy shout, followed by a series of gongs and drums.

It was a secret whistle that alarmed, and countless rebels' busy figures shone in the firelight in the camp.

Xu Ping immediately whispered to several officers around him to attack with muskets. Several teams of musketmen who had been on standby immediately began to shoot at the rebel camp. Suddenly, whistles sounded everywhere, and countless rebel secret whistles were alarmed.

After hearing the sound of muskets, the army immediately put out the bonfire in the camp, and in a blink of an eye it was endlessly dark again. Then the rebels kept throwing torches from the camp, illuminating the trench in front of their camp.

Bright.

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, a relatively advanced example, from which we can see how behind the machine I set up, the steam turbine used is less than 15 tons of machine weight and 38,000 kilowatts of power. This is my setting
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