Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 53 Exercise Results
It was a dark night as a group of cavalrymen marched through the vast desert, stepping on the soft yellow sand.

"Captain Fang, how far are we from the enemy camp?" Feng Changqing said softly as he walked in front of the troops.

"About thirty miles." Fang Minghong replied as he looked into the distance illuminated by the moonlight.

The moon was at its zenith, but it was not yet midnight. "Order the soldiers to be on high alert and launch the attack in half an hour."

"Yes"

The messenger immediately rode on horseback to deliver the order.

"When launching an attack, the Flying Cavalry Regiment will be responsible for containing the enemy's main force, while your unit will be responsible for capturing the enemy's command system. Captain Fang, are there any difficulties?" Feng Changqing politely discussed with Fang Minghong.

Fang Minghong is the battalion commander of the Cavalry Regiment. Because the exercise was temporarily assigned to Feng Changqing for command, Feng Changqing was very polite to him.

"No problem." Fang Minghong considered the importance of raiding the other party's headquarters and replied quickly.

As the night deepened, the wind blew slightly. A soldier on guard sneezed, rubbed his tired eyes, and suddenly saw a figure flashing in the moonlight ahead.

The guard suddenly woke up, all sleepiness gone, and looked forward vigilantly.

"There's nothing here. Am I dazzled?" The soldier muttered to himself as he looked carefully and found nothing unusual in front of him.

The sentry checked for a few minutes and found nothing unusual, so he continued to stand guard with his rifle.

In the sand pile that the sentry was just looking at, a rustling sound was heard, and then two people stood up from the sand pile.

The first person to stand up made a gesture to the other person, and then the two of them separated and quietly moved towards the sentry.

The sentry stood guard in the same place, not noticing the two extra figures behind him.

The two men approached the sentry silently, and when they were five or six meters away from the sentry, one of them quickly accelerated and rushed towards the sentry.

The sentry noticed something was wrong at this moment and subconsciously grabbed his rifle. However, before he could pull the trigger, he was knocked unconscious by a knife-wielding blow from the person behind him. The rifle in his hand was about to fall but was caught in time by another person, preventing any accident.

"That was a close call." The man who grabbed the rifle breathed a sigh of relief.

"Report to the commander, the sentry has been dealt with. I will continue to check deeper into the barracks."

"Yes, squad leader." Putting the seized rifle aside, the other man left quickly.

After Feng Changqing led his troops to Zheng Guosheng's camp, he dispatched more than a dozen groups of scouts to deal with the enemy's sentries.

"Captain, eliminate the target sentry."

Feng Changqing waited for the last scout behind a sand pile in a sheltered area.

"Order the troops to advance separately and launch an attack after reaching a hundred meters from the camp."

"Yes"……

The sentries at the camp were removed, and more than a thousand cavalrymen were still sleeping soundly like blind men without eyes.

Suddenly, there was a vibration and Zheng Guosheng, who was sleeping, woke up in an instant. He picked up his saber and rushed out of the tent. "Old Sun, quickly order the soldiers to mount their horses." Zheng Guosheng saw Sun Yanming who also rushed out and shouted.

"What happened to the sentry on duty? He let Feng Changqing's men sneak in without any sound." Sun Yanming said dissatisfiedly as he ran towards the direction of Pi.

Next to the fence, Fang Minghong raised his saber and shouted at the soldiers guarding the horse farm, "You have been captured. Stay here and wait for the people behind you to take over. Don't do anything that violates the rules of the exercise." The person guarding the horses was a company commander under Zheng Guosheng. When Fang Minghong's troops rushed in, he was driving the horses, but was stopped on the spot by Fang Minghong.

"I won't cheat even if I fall into your hands." The company commander who was guarding the horses said unwillingly.

Fang Minghong glanced at him, nodded, and asked the people around him, "Have you found Deputy Brigade Commander Zheng and Deputy Brigade Commander Sun?"

"The brothers searched fifty or sixty tents but found no trace of them."

Fang Minghong looked up at the sky. The morning star had already risen in the east, and it was less than half an hour before dawn. If he waited until dawn and allowed Zheng Guosheng to gather the troops, it would cause considerable trouble for his side to win the exercise.

"We can't wait any longer. Gather the troops and follow me into the military camp again." Seeing that Zheng Guosheng's troops were rushing towards the horse farm, Fang Minghong made a decision immediately.

"Old Sun, what's the current situation of the troops?" After dodging Feng Changqing's pursuers, Zheng Guosheng asked Sun Yanming beside him.

"Feng Changqing is such a cunning guy. He specifically targets groups with large numbers of people. Just now, when we gathered a force of two hundred people, we were targeted by a group of cavalry. If we hadn't separated quickly, we would have been captured by them now." Sun Yanming said.

Zheng Guosheng's team was originally the largest one, but was forced to split into four or five groups by the cavalry under Feng Changqing. Now there are only more than 40 people following him. This is the situation of the troops led by Zheng Guosheng himself, so one can imagine the situation of the other soldiers who cannot find their commanders.

"I really underestimated Feng Changqing. I didn't expect him to do this to me." Zheng Guosheng said.

"Don't think about these useless things. Hurry to the racecourse. Maybe you can turn defeat into victory."

"I've fought for so many years, I can't lose to a young man. Hurry, go to the horse farm." Zheng Guosheng knew that it was unlikely to turn defeat into victory, but he couldn't save face and admit defeat directly, so he wanted to get ahead of Feng Changqing's troops, control the horse farm, and gather the cavalry troops to avoid losing so ugly.

Fang Minghong led more than 300 soldiers under his command to leave the horse farm and rushed into the military camp again. Along the way, Fang Minghong encountered five or six groups of thirty or forty soldiers. At first, he captured them. Later, in order to capture Zheng Guosheng, he directly dispersed the gathered soldiers and did not allow his men to capture prisoners, and rushed forward with all his strength.

"Battalion Commander, the two people in front seem to be Deputy Brigade Commander Zheng and Deputy Brigade Commander Sun." Fang Minghong was leading his troops on the journey when suddenly a soldier reminded him. Looking forward, he saw that his target was indeed among a group of more than 40 people.

"Old Zheng, it's bad, they seem to have recognized us." Sun Yanming, who didn't have time to dodge the pursuers in front of him, reminded.

Even without Sun Yanming's explanation, Zheng Guosheng knew that he couldn't escape.

When Fang Minghong discovered Zheng Guosheng and Sun Yanming, he did not hesitate and immediately ordered his cavalry to surround them.

"Deputy Brigade Commander Zheng, Deputy Brigade Commander Sun, I finally found you." Fang Minghong rode up to the two men and said.

"I admit defeat. Come on, take me to see your Captain Feng." Zheng Guosheng was surrounded by Fang Minghong's men and there was no way he could escape, so he admitted defeat.

The capture of Zheng Guosheng and Sun Yanming marked the end of the exercise. After receiving the news, the soldiers under their command quickly stopped resisting and accepted their fate of failure.

In an open space in front of the camp, Zheng Guosheng and Sun Yanming met Feng Changqing who defeated them.

"Captain Feng, what you did this time was a bit unkind. I led the troops to wander in the desert for three days, hoping to have a fair fight with you, but you took advantage of my unpreparedness and launched a sneak attack on me." Zheng Guosheng immediately questioned Feng Changqing as soon as he saw him.

"The situation of war is ever-changing, and the shape of water is ever-changing. The most important key to a war is to win at the lowest cost, so there is nothing wrong with my sneak attack." Feng Changqing chuckled.

"I can't argue with you youngsters about big principles. I lost, so there's nothing to say. Next time, Lao Zheng will compete with you to see who can kill more enemies."

Many middle-level officers like Feng Changqing have listened to Li Mingyuan's lectures. In more than two months, they have also learned many new terms and new knowledge from Li Mingyuan, so it is normal for Zheng Guosheng not to argue with him.

"My pleasure." Feng Changqing bowed to him with a smile, then went back to the camp to report to Li Mingyuan.

(End of this chapter)