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

Chapter 148: Ren Tingting is pregnant and ambushes Marshal Xu

Logically speaking, after two months of training and having obtained the map drawn by Jiang Youchi, he could immediately start sending troops towards Wuzhu Mountain.

But because his younger sister Jiang Xiaohua was getting married, he stopped for a while. Anyway, there was no rush for this kind of thing, it was just a matter of waiting for a few days.

Jiang Xiaohua's wedding was held as scheduled. As the second brother, he naturally participated in the whole process. After several days, the wedding finally ended.

Just when he was having dinner with his family, Ren Tingting suddenly started to retch. After calling a doctor, he found out that Ren Tingting was pregnant.

To be honest, Jiang Li was a little confused when he received the news. After all, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation in his two lifetimes. It took him a while before he excitedly laughed out loud.

In desperation, he had to postpone the plan to send troops again. Fortunately, he had never told the soldiers below the specific date of the dispatch.

They were just asked to repeatedly practice how to capture two towns and twenty-one villages along the way.

After several days passed and Ren Tingting's emotions and body stabilized a little, Jiang Li led the army out. Originally, he was reluctant to use troops at this time.

But Jiang Youchi sent him some information, which forced him to act as soon as possible.

It turned out that according to him, there were two towns along the way, Longquan Town and Youlin Town. The latter was close to Wuzhu Mountain, with dense forests and less arable land, so there was nothing to worry about.

But Longquan Town is not that simple. It has an advantageous geographical location, flat land and abundant water resources. Not counting the villages, there are six or seven thousand people in the town alone.

There is also a warlord in the town named Marshal Xu. He only had about a hundred men under his command before, but recently he obtained a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry from tomb robbing, so he quickly expanded his men and now has a total of five hundred men under his command.

During this period, he frequently used troops and occupied several towns and dozens of villages in the surrounding areas. If he were allowed to continue expanding, it would be difficult to deal with him.

Therefore, Jiang Li and his company commanders discussed and decided to take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy had not yet established a firm foothold, the army was scattered and inadequately trained, to quickly defeat them and by the way, incorporate all the surrounding villages and towns under their command.

Everything developed just as Jiang Li had planned. After arriving at the right location, the troops were divided into two groups. In just a few hours, they captured the two towns of Lanxi and Anling, and captured all the hundreds of new recruits in the two towns alive.

Afterwards, while the news had not spread, they continued their attack and occupied Canglan Town and Jinhua Town overnight, capturing hundreds of people alive.

It was not until the next morning that Marshal Xu received a call for help from Lanxi Town, saying that it was attacked by two to three hundred people, so he hurriedly took less than three hundred people to reinforce.

As a result, they ran head-on into the 300 people led by Jiang Li. Fortunately, Jiang Li had learned from Wang Zhi that it was necessary to send cavalry to explore the way during a march, otherwise they would have to run into them head-on to discover anything unusual.

The scout reported that "five miles away, there is an army of about 300 people heading this way."

Jiang Li ordered a retreat without hesitation, and retreated to a small mound a mile away. He planned to use the terrain and bushes as cover to launch an ambush.

When they reached the earthen slope they had passed by on the way here, he immediately ordered his men to dig up the soil and find stones to build simple fortifications. He then asked them to collect grass and branches to make some simple camouflage.

Fortunately, these people, in addition to physical training and live-fire training, have also learned some basic field combat knowledge over the past two months. They have practiced finding cover and simple camouflage many times, so they are not at all confused now.

It only took them more than twenty minutes to do all this, so Jiang Li gave an order and asked everyone to stay where they were and not move, and then they waited quietly for the enemy to arrive.

Marshal Xu's men were indeed a combination of a motley crowd and new recruits. It took them more than an hour to walk just five miles.

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Back to Marshal Xu, he was also very angry at this time. He was sitting on the horse, holding a whip and shouting to speed up.

But he didn't even look at what kind of people these soldiers were, some lazy thugs, some forcibly conscripted recruits. These people had no morale at all, so how could they possibly march fast?

If it weren't for the hundred or so soldiers he had, these unorganized and undisciplined recruits would have been disbanded on the spot.

Only after being reminded by his adjutant did he come to his senses.

"Hurry up. Once we get to Lanxi Town and defeat the enemy, I will extort a large sum of money from the wealthy families in the town. Everyone will get a share then."

Hearing this, everyone immediately perked up and moved forward quickly. When they arrived at Jiang Li's ambush point, they heard a gunshot and the soldiers opened fire continuously.

For a moment, machine gun bullets and grenades were fired at full speed as if they were free.

In just a moment, this group of completely unprepared rabble suffered heavy casualties and turned around to flee.

Marshal Xu was lucky, although he was taken care of at the first moment, he was not killed on the spot, but was just thrown off his horse.

His reaction was quick. He reacted in an instant and quickly hid behind a big rock and organized people to fight back.

After all, Marshal Xu had led troops for many years and had some experience. He knew that at the moment the enemy was in secret and we were in the open and had no chance of winning, so he immediately and decisively ordered to fight and retreat at the same time.

When Jiang Li saw this, he of course ordered a pursuit, and so the two sides chased and fled, crawling for several miles, with people falling down continuously.

Marshal Xu felt that the enemy was chasing him closely, so he quickly asked his adjutant to take thirty or forty men to stay behind to block the enemy and buy him some time.

When the adjutant saw that the muzzle of Marshal Xu's gun was about to poke his nostrils, he had no choice but to accept the task.

Marshal Xu immediately led his men to run after the fleeing soldiers. Marshal Xu and those old soldiers had good food and regular training on weekdays, so they soon caught up with these miscellaneous soldiers who had just eaten a few full meals and had little weight on their bodies.

When he reached the front of the fleeing soldiers, he immediately ordered his men to draw their guns and point them at the deserters, demanding that they turn around and fight back, but it was of no use.

Seeing that these people were still thinking about escaping, he fired a few shots and killed four or five of them, and only then was he able to barely calm down the group of deserters.

He then ordered everyone to find cover on the spot and prepare for a counterattack. However, less than two minutes after he gave the order, his adjutant came crawling over with seven or eight people.

"I can't hold on, Marshal. All my brothers are dead!"

"You go to the back to supervise the battle. If there are any deserters, shoot them immediately!" Marshal Xu patted him on the shoulder without blaming him, but said sternly.

The adjutant felt as if he had been pardoned when he heard this, and immediately ran to the back.

At this time, Jiang Li was leading his men to defeat a group of resisting enemy forces, and then he led his men to continue chasing. However, he had not chased far when he saw that the enemy in front did not run away, but found cover to counterattack.

The situation was critical and he didn't care about too much. He just used the Xuanjia Gong and fell to the ground, shouting loudly, "Be careful of the enemies ahead."

The soldier behind him was so engrossed in the pursuit that he couldn't hear clearly and had no time to dodge, and actually stepped over him.

A burst of gunfire was immediately heard from the opposite side, and dozens of people who were rushing in the front were immediately killed or injured.