The fierce battle lasted for a full day. The two assistants under the two towns attacked by the Yuan army took turns to participate in the battle to ensure the intensity of the attack. Therefore, at dusk, the Yuan army had already captured a position of about 500 meters deep and a width of about 3,000 meters. The Deyou army was forced to retreat and set a distance of more than 100 meters from the Yuan army. Because it was too late, both sides temporarily ceased to fight again tomorrow.

This decision also puzzled the advisory group. Although the two towns that Yuan's army was very tired after fighting fiercely for a day, the Yuan army also had a reserve army and the defenders in the positions, which could completely rotate the attack and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. Moreover, the enemy's position has been drilled through most of the enemy's positions. We should take advantage of the momentum that we are in full swing and the enemy's momentum is weak, and we should launch night battles to continue the attack and break through the enemy's position in one go. If we stop the attack at this time, it will only give the enemy a chance to breathe. The enemy can set up the defense line at night or transfer reinforcements, which will cause difficulties for Yuan's army's attack tomorrow.

In fact, not only the advisory group, but also Duan Qirui, Cao Kun and others believed that they should continue to attack at night and completely break through the enemy's positions in one fell swoop.

But Yuan Shikai considered differently. On the one hand, the night battle itself has uncertainties. The one that Yuan’s army can fight the most is these two towns. If other troops are replaced, can they completely break through the enemy’s positions in one fell swoop? In the daytime battle, Yuan’s army suffered a lot of losses. The soldiers who died were nearly 2,000, and the injured were injured, and the combat personnel were reduced by as many as 5,000. Therefore, it is better to rest overnight and supplement the troops of these two towns to a certain extent.

In battle, even if these two towns do not go out immediately, they can still go to battle at any time; on the other hand, the Yuan army now occupied most of the positions, but they are also trapped in three situations of being attacked by the Deyou army, both sides will be attacked by the Deyou army. Don’t just focus on attacking and forget to defend. Once the flanks are attacked during the attack, it will be very dangerous. Therefore, the attack should be suspended and the defenses of the occupied positions will be arranged before they can be invincible first.

Among the Yuan army's generals, Wang Shizhen supported Yuan Shikai's opinion, so the Yuan army finally stopped the attack. Of course, both sides were not idle that night, and they fought overnight, stepped up emergency repairs and arranged defense lines.

The next morning, the Yuan army launched an attack on the Deyou army again. Since the positions of the two sides were less than 100 meters apart at this time, the Yuan army no longer used artillery, but first launched a strike on the Deyou army's position with a grenade launcher in its own position. Although the power of the grenade launcher was far less than that of the 75mm artillery, due to the large arc of the ballistic, it could fall into the trenches, which actually had a greater lethality to the Deyou army.

After a round of grenade launcher attack, the Yuan army launched another attack, and the distance of more than 100 meters passed in a flash, so the Yuan army easily entered the Deyou army's position again. However, after a night of adjustment, the Deyou army not only re-arranged the defense line, but also organized the army. Although it was attacked by the Yuan army's grenade launcher at the beginning, after the Yuan army entered the position, the Deyou army's resistance was much better than yesterday. Of course, this was related to the fact that the Yuan army was dispatched not the troops of the two towns yesterday, and it was indeed not as Yuan Shikai expected. On both sides of the Yuan army, the Deyou army also launched an attack. Fortunately, Yuan Shikai was prepared for this, and arranged defensive positions on the left and right sides, and also resisted the Deyou army's counterattack, firmly defending the position.

The two sides fought fiercely for a morning. The Yuan army did not make much progress and was moving forward for less than 100 meters. However, on both sides, the Yuan army repelled several attacks from Deyou Army. At this moment, Yuan Shikai replaced the second and third towns that he fought yesterday. The two towns were divided into two routes. One cooperated to attack forward and continued to assault the enemy's positions; the other cooperated to counterattack both sides and expanded the width of the position.

After a night and one morning rest, the second and third towns all replenished more than 1,000 troops, and their combat power was restored to 90%. They were also new forces, and their weapons were better. Therefore, after these two towns entered the attack, they immediately achieved results. First, on the front battlefield, although they could not be said to be unstoppable, they also advanced layer by layer and advanced step by step. The Deyou army could not stop them at all, and could only retreat step by step. On the battlefields on both sides, Yuan army even took advantage of the failure of the Deyou army's attack and launched a counterattack when retreating, which caught Deyou army off guard. As a result, they rushed and advanced fiercely, and defeated Deyou army in a row.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the Deyou army on the front finally couldn't resist and completely withdrew from the position. Yuan army also successfully broke through the Deyou army's defense line. On both sides, Yuan army made a major breakthrough, breaking through more than 1,000 meters on both sides.

Yuan Shikai couldn't help but be overjoyed and immediately ordered the second and third towns to attack the left and right sides with all their strength to expand the breakthrough, and the two associations who served as reserve forces were responsible for the front-line advancement.

After another fierce battle, Yuan Juncheng expanded the breakthrough to about 10 kilometers. On the front battlefield, Yuan Jun pushed forward about 5 kilometers and pushed it to the front of Baojing County, but here he was hit by the new defense line arranged by Deyou Army and resisted Yuan Jun.

It turned out that after learning that Yuan Jun launched an attack on Baojing's defense line, Rama and Martinez also realized that they had been fooled. However, on the first day of the attack, Yuan Jun occupied most of the positions and mobilized the army to reinforce. It was too late. Therefore, after discussing overnight, the two immediately made a decision.

The reinforcements mobilized gathered near Baojing County and based on Baojing County, they arranged a second line of defense. In order to order the Deyou army on the original position to arrange positions overnight to block the Yuan army's attack. At the same time, they ordered the troops on both sides to attack the Yuan army, restrain the Yuan army, and gain time for the arrangement of the second line of defense.

But on the next day, the Deyou army's defense line was broken by the Yuan army, and the second line of defense had not been arranged yet. However, at this time, two reinforcements from the association had been gathered in Baojing County. So Rama ordered the two associations' troops to go forward and block Yuan army, and retreated all the Deyou army on the defense line to Baojing County. While reorganizing and resting, a second line of defense was arranged. At the same time, residents in Baojing County were recruited to help the army dig trenches and build positions.

Although this arrangement was made, Rama and Martinez were not sure. Bi Jingdeyou's army's combat effectiveness was not as good as Yuan's army, and now there was no position. How could it stop Yuan's army's attack?

In the next two days, the Yuan army devoted all their energy to attacking both sides and expanding the width of the breakthrough, while the frontal attack slowed down. The two days were very closed. On the one hand, the Deyou army was constructed day and night, and finally built a defense line with a width of about 6 kilometers but a depth of less than 300 meters. Although it could not be matched with the previously built defense line and the width was not as wide as the gap that Yuan army broke through, it was a defensive position after all, and could still withstand a period of time. On the other hand, in the past two days, the Deyou army assembled reinforcements from three alliances, and at the same time reorganized the troops that retreated from the original position, and formed three alliances from two towns, plus the two alliances from the Yuan army, and blocked the Yuan army's two alliances. The Deyou army gathered a total of eight alliances, totaling more than 50,000 people, and the troops were quite sufficient.

However, although Deyou's army has a large number of troops, its morale is very low. If it hadn't been punished in the army and replenished the soldiers' salaries, they would have collapsed at this time.

Although Rama and Martinez had never commanded such a huge force, they also woke up from being stunned by the Yuan army's head-on attack. After all, both of them had received formal military education and had considerable practical experience. They knew that they should never defend blindly at this time. They had to fight against the Yuan army. Taking advantage of the fact that the Yuan army had just occupied the position of Deyou army and their foothold was not yet stable, they would fight against the Yuan army. On the one hand, they would use a victory to boost their morale. On the other hand, they forced the Yuan army's front to retreat, expand the depth space of the Deyou army, reverse the current passive situation, and gain time for the Deyou army to arrange the depth of the position, and reconnect the current defense line with the original defense line, forming a whole without gaps again.

Of course, in addition to strategic needs, the time for the Deyou Army to counterattack is now ripe, because now the Deyou Army has not only gathered enough troops, but also transferred more than 300 artillery pieces, from which the strongest 20 88mm cannons were all concentrated in Baojing County, so the firepower of the Deyou Army was unprecedentedly strong. After several days of fierce fighting, although the Yuan army achieved major results, the teacher and veterans were exhausted and reached the point of "three-in-three". Therefore, the Deyou Army still had a great chance of winning when launching a counterattack at this time.

The Deyou Army's counterattack was also carried out in the early morning, and it was mainly concentrated on the south bank of Youshui, because Baojing County was on the south bank of Youshui, and like Yuan's army, the Deyou Army first concentrated artillery and launched a fierce shelling at the Yuan army.
Chapter completed!