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Chapter 500 Fight and retreat

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    The People's Army did not sleep well all night. Half of them were sleeping with their clothes on, but they woke up from time to time. Half of them did not sleep at all.

    An emergency headcount was carried out at night, and 87 people were killed on the spot, more than 30 were seriously injured, and many more were slightly injured.  As for the enemy, no one paid attention to them. Everyone huddled in the barracks and waited for dawn to see the results of the battle.  There was a roar of wind that night, and everything that moved outside the camp was the enemy's figure.

    As a commander, Dong Yanping cares about much more than that.  There is no way to treat the seriously injured in this place. What we are considering now is not whether to leave, but how to send them back to Jiuquan faster, where there is a field hospital.  It is absolutely not feasible to leave the main force with light equipment and simple obedience. Whether they can survive the bumps on the road these days depends on fate.

    And the fighting power of the bandits is astonishing.  It's not that they are good at fighting, but that the speed at which they can travel in such mountainous terrain is not as fast as ordinary troops who are good at fighting on the plains can imagine.  The young marshal once mentioned the formation of mountain troops. It turns out that fighting in the mountains and on the plains is indeed different!

    The long night finally came to an end, and in the dim dawn, Dong Yanping personally led a company of troops to clean up the battlefield.  The Gobi Desert for miles around was full of bloodstains and bullet casings, as well as frozen bandits.

    Preliminary statistics show that more than 200 people were killed in this battle, half of whom died of injuries. They were probably too injured to leave and froze to death on the ground.  You must know that in the Gobi in January, the nighttime temperature is usually more than 30 degrees below zero. If you bleed and the cold is added, it is unreasonable to die.

    In order to prevent the bodies of the dead from being damaged by other wild animals, the People's Army piled up the corpses of the bandits and buried them in a low ground. They also chose another low ground for their fallen comrades and built a large tomb with stones.  Living in the same camp and dying in the same cave, this is the most reasonable funeral that can be done in the Gobi Desert.

    Putting the wounded on the backs of camels, six machine guns were also mounted on the camels, and the People's Army broke camp and withdrew.  It was a sneak attack last night. The bandits did not use cavalry because war horses were also not suitable for night fighting.

    Now, daytime has come, and the bandits have the opportunity to use their advantageous projects. Dong Yanping and his officers are worried and secretly increase their vigilance.  Along the way, we will definitely face many sneak attacks, assaults and various tricks, and we must not take it lightly at any time.

    However, the Black Lama didn't even intend to let them leave Gongpoquan. Before the men and horses set off, the cavalry team serving as peripheral security had already discovered a large bandit army ambushing behind the mountain.  This surprise is no small matter. The ground here is covered with rocks and the heights are very high and low, making it very unsuitable for infantry to walk, let alone attack and advance.

    Dong Yanping immediately fell into a dilemma.  The two-legged People's Army will definitely not be able to engage in mobile warfare with the four-legged bandits. The advantage of the infantry lies in defense and positional warfare.  But judging from the fact that the bandits had been watching them all night, it seemed that they had changed their style of play after suffering the consequences of the forceful attack.

    That¡¯s what the Black Lama thinks.

    He had been planning for a raid last night for a long time.  In fact, from the moment the People's Army left Jiuquan, he had already figured out all the details.

    In order to teach the People's Army a lesson, he gave up the harassment on the way here, because he was afraid that if the People's Army lost, it would quickly retreat to Jiuquan.  When the other party arrived at Gongpo Spring, nearly half of the important water source had been consumed. After several days of hard march, the personnel began to feel a little tired.  This is the best time to take action.

    He first organized a large-scale night attack, taking advantage of his geographical advantages and the difficulty of not distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy at night, and mobilized almost half of the bandit army to participate in the battle.  It lasted for nearly an hour and started very smoothly, catching the People's Army by surprise.

    But when the People¡¯s Army¡¯s heavy machine guns rang out, everything quickly returned to pre-war conditions.

    In the Army, there has always been a saying that "new recruits are afraid of cannons and veterans are afraid of machine guns."  The cannons are noisy and scary, but veterans all know that although the cannons can fire happily, infantry is not the target of attacks. Trench, blocking nets, fortifications, machine gun or artillery positions are their favorites.

    When shells are flying, half of your life can be saved by lying down, and almost your whole body can be saved by squatting in a pit.  Of course, there is nothing to be afraid of if you are hit directly. What is there to think about if you cannot die anymore?

    On the contrary, it is a machine gun. As a weapon to suppress the firepower of infantry, it is born to kill infantry.  No matter how far or near, if you scratch a piece, it will be injured. If you hit it, it will either damage the muscles or bones or cause bloody injuries.

    The opposite is true in the Gobi Desert.  Cannons are rare, and ordinary soldiers have no impression of them, but they have seen machine guns: the defenders of Xinjiang have them, and the earliest Mazongshan bandits have seen them; the Anmeng Army and later Mongolian defenders have them, and the remnants of the Asian Cavalry Division have learned from them.  However, that is the natural enemy of the cavalry.

    Last night, machine guns sprayed flames, moving towards everything in the melee.Can one person escape from the siege?  He disclosed this idea to deputy battalion commander Chen Huairen and instructor Hu Bicheng, but Chen Huairen expressed opposition.

    "Battal Commander, we are not familiar with the place. The cavalry has no guide and it is difficult to find its way back. As long as the bandits catch up with them slowly on the road, they will definitely die with this little manpower. And even if one of them breaks out of the encirclement and finds the regiment headquarters,  That will be four days later, and when the regiment headquarters sends troops to support and find us, they will probably collect the bodies for us."

    Hu Bicheng put forward an idea: "The chances of sending troops to ask for help are slim, and staying in the Gobi is still a narrow escape. Should we think differently: Where will the supplies of the Black Lama's people come from?"

    Dong Yanping¡¯s eyes suddenly lit up.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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