My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

This sudden blow immediately stunned Liu Zhen and his soldiers, and then fear spread rapidly like a plague.

In a very short time, the news spread throughout the entire team, and then they changed from pursuing the enemy with all their might to fleeing for their lives, and the price they paid was that they lost hundreds of people in just one encounter.

But Liu Zhen was lucky. Since Jiang Li did not specifically target him and focus his fire on him, he miraculously did not get hurt. Instead, he ran at the fastest speed in his life and was on the front line of escape.

When Jiang Li saw them running away, he immediately sent half of his men to chase them.

Liu Zhen and his men fled at a very fast speed. Before they had run for long, they saw Han Jinlong slowly approaching from behind, so he immediately led his men to rush forward regardless of everything.

But Han Jinlong was not as stupid as him. When he heard the intensive gunfire, he knew that Liu Zhen must have been ambushed.

So he immediately ordered his men to find cover on the spot, ready to catch the pursuers by surprise.

But he underestimated the stupidity of Liu Zhen. He never expected that the frightened Liu Zhen would lead the remaining soldiers and rush straight towards his defense line. He had no common sense at all.

Seeing this, he had no choice but to fire warning shots and ask the soldiers to shout and disperse to both sides.

But Liu Zhen was so frightened at this time that he couldn't react at all. He just kept running away and prepared to meet up with his teammates.

Seeing this, Han Jinlong cursed Liu Zhen's ancestors in his heart, but this could not stop Liu Zhen at all.

Finally, Han Jinlong had no choice but to order the troops to open fire, but Liu Zhen was not so lucky this time and died in the first wave of shooting.

When Liu Zhen's soldiers were attacked again, they collapsed immediately. Some fled in panic, some pretended to be dead on the spot, and some scattered to both sides. In short, it was a mess and the army was completely routed.

When the soldiers chasing behind heard the gunshots in front of them, they immediately slowed down and listened carefully. They found that the gunshots were different from their own, so they immediately found a nearby cover and took out binoculars to observe carefully.

As a result of this observation, it was discovered that a group of people appeared behind the group of fleeing soldiers and were shooting at them. Judging from their clothes, it was clear that they were most likely another enemy force.

So they moved forward carefully until the gunfire from the opposite side stopped and they barely entered the effective range.

As Han Jinlong's soldiers discovered the pursuers, the two sides immediately started shooting at each other.

However, since the distance was more than 500 meters, although both sides suffered casualties, they were far less than the casualties of the soldiers who fought Liu Zhen before.

However, since neither side had any fortifications, they did not dare to advance rashly. After all, it was very difficult to find a suitable cover during a battle.

Unable to advance, of course, it is impossible to retreat, because once leaving the bunker, the chance of being hit will greatly increase, and then there will inevitably be heavy losses.

There was no other way, and the two sides could only fight a positional war.

Jiang Li was scratching his head at this moment, looking confused. He remembered that the task assigned to them was that if they met Han Jinlong, they should fight with him for a while and then pretend to be defeated and escape back to their position.

But now I heard gunshots in the distance. It was so continuous, with no sign of leaving the battle at all.

He had no choice but to send someone to check the situation. The person quickly came back to report, "My Lord Mayor, our people are fighting with the enemy. Due to the terrain restrictions, it is difficult for our people to retreat."

Jiang Li was speechless. "In TV dramas and novels in my previous life, this kind of thing could be done with just a hand. Why is it so difficult for me?"

But now that things have come to this, he can't just leave those one or two thousand people alone, so he can only bite the bullet and send people to contact the front, and then get the exact news that they can't escape from the battle.

He led his men out of the shelter and cautiously went forward to provide support.

After a while, Jiang Li and his men approached the battle site. While the enemy had not yet discovered the reinforcements, he immediately divided his troops into three groups.

He divided his men into two teams and prepared to encircle the enemy from the side. He himself led a company of Taoist soldiers to assist the artillery in setting up the cannons.

In just twenty minutes, the people on both sides were in place, and then they opened fire decisively and engaged the enemy.

At this time, the artillery had also completed loading and continuously fired shells at the enemy positions.

Since Han Jinlong's soldiers did not build any fortifications at all, the killing radius of the 75mm caliber shells was more than ten meters when they exploded, and each shell could cause great damage.

In fact, Han Jinlong had already noticed that something was wrong after the firepower on both sides increased, and now he was being bombarded by artillery.

He finally understood that the enemy's weapons and equipment were clearly much stronger than his own, as were their numbers and level of training.

So he did not dare to stop at all and immediately and decisively ordered a retreat to avoid annihilation of the entire army, and of course he himself ran in the front.

He took the lead and the other soldiers followed. However, as mentioned before, the chance of being hit would increase greatly after both sides left the cover.

In this rush of escape, crowding and trampling are inevitable. The slowed retreat speed caused by the riots increases the probability of being attacked.

So during the retreat of more than ten minutes, two or three hundred people were hit, which was a heavy loss.

When Jiang Li saw the enemy fleeing, he immediately ordered a pursuit, but the artillery did not participate due to the inconvenience of transportation. Instead, they adjusted the muzzle and continued firing using the advantage of long range, hoping to kill more enemies.

The main force of the pursuit was naturally the motorcycle brigade, because the cavalry company was already very tired, and although it had rested for a while, it was still unable to participate in the pursuit.

With the Maxim suppression of the motorcycle brigade, the enemy didn't even dare to turn around and fight back, and could only grit their teeth and flee desperately.

The infantry under Jiang Li's command ran and shot, hanging behind them and constantly killing the enemy.

In this way, one chased and the other fled, Han Jinlong finally escaped back to the nearest Asakawa Town, and used the wall to gather the remaining soldiers to resist the pursuers.

When he counted the number of people, he found that less than two thousand people had escaped, and the remaining half were either killed or captured, or at worst ran away.

This made him want to die. In this battle, he lost more than half of his men and was trapped in a place with only 3,000 people and no weapons or ammunition.

He had just questioned these remaining soldiers in detail, and they had thrown away most of the ammunition they were carrying in order to run faster.

Some even threw away their weapons and now stood there with empty hands, not knowing what to do.

This was a situation he had never expected. Since he had never considered the possibility of defeat before, he was completely unprepared for it.

With only a few bullets left, I don't think we can fight for long. We can only hope that the enemy is not aware of the situation and is afraid of suffering heavy losses in the attack, so they withdraw on their own initiative.