Section 204 Frog Jumping and Fighting - Battle of Hangzhou (4)
Some people are saying we have to adapt to this, some people are saying that we can get everything if we just fit the beat. No! I'm talking about if we see that this society is no longer suitable for us, and we join forces to improve it until it is suitable for our needs.
The spearhead made a gesture, and Gan Hui quietly lay on the ground, carefully stretching out the telescope to look ahead.
In the clear moonlight, I could see that on the street about fifty meters away, groups of Qing soldiers were coming and going behind the barricades, some were playing lanterns, and some were busy loading ammunition.
"Blocked in the way?" Jiang Yong also arranged the team, ran to the front, and whispered in Gan Hui's ear.
Gan Hui grabbed Jiang Yong, leaned into his ear and said, "Have you seen it, it's the avenue from here." About 400 meters north of the avenue is the bell tower, where I reckon their artillery is blazing. ”
Jiang Yong nodded and said in a low voice: "This barricade must be knocked down, otherwise we won't be able to get through, even if we do, according to their bombardment, the bell tower will not be able to hold it." ”
"Well, then, you lead your men around and attack from the side, and I'll start fighting here to get their attention."
"Yes" Jiang Yong responded, and quickly ran to the back, and in the darkness when his back was hidden without dawn, Gan Hui began to arrange the battle.
"The second and third squads occupy the courtyard in front, and the fourth and fifth squads occupy the courtyard in the back, pay attention to concealment, and use the sound of guns and grenades firing here as a signal to shoot at the barricades over there." (They are still infantry squads, a platoon of fifty people)
Ten soldiers in a squad put grenades into their muzzles, and Gan Hui waved his hand to "let go". The sound of a few muffled grenades fired, followed by a dense hail of bullets from the roof wall of the small courtyard nearby.
From the direction of the distant barricades, the shouts of the Qing army "Wow, wow".
Jiang Yong returned to his platoon, and his men plus a hundred volunteer soldiers were almost a company of men.
"A group of spearheads moved forward, and the rest of the men spread out in a melee formation, aiming for a building fifty meters in front of them, and advancing covertly."
The "boom" fired grenades sent out a series of roars.
The rising smoke and flying debris weighed down the Qing soldiers and could not raise their heads.
Fifty meters away, not far, not close, but also a little breather.
Due to Gan Hui's attack in front of them, the Lumi guns and bows and arrows here also shot out in waves. It's just that in the dark of night, the accuracy of both sides is much worse.
According to Jiang Yong's request, the twenty or thirty soldiers in front took out their grenades, and with an order, they threw themselves at the Qing army more than ten meters away.
The soldiers of the Qing army who were returning fire at an unknown attack in the distance panicked under the sudden blow, and they didn't know how much artillery fire would be fired here, they were no better than the full set of armor worn by the soldiers of the Shenzhou army, and the fragments of anti-personnel grenades made them suffer enough.
In a wail, Jiang Yong led his troops to rush out. With the crossbow and gun in his hand behind his back, the revolver in his left hand and the dog-legged knife in his right hand, he silently pounced on the frightened Qing soldiers.
Clouds of gunpowder smoke and white ash tossed the miasma here, and most of the Qing soldiers were made to tears by these things. Jiang Yong rushed forward, and where the knife in his hand fell, blood splashed everywhere. When it came to hand-to-hand combat, those rebel soldiers showed a kind of ruthlessness that the soldiers of the Shenzhou Army could not match, and the long knives in their hands often split people in half.
The air was filled with the smell of disgusting internal organs, but fortunately it was still winter, otherwise it would soon emit an unbearable stench of corpses. However, Jiang Yong, who was rushing to kill, found something in this unbearable fishy atmosphere that ordinary people could not bear.
The simultaneous attack from two directions made those Qing gunners panic. And these people rushed out with knives in one hand, and when they really came closer, there were bursts of firearms in the other hand, which made it impossible for people to fight with them at all, and soon this artillery fortress was beaten up by the people led by Jiang Yong.
The two battalions under Xu Liejun that were cleared along the city wall advanced smoothly. First the rifles fired suppressively, and then under the cover of constantly throwing lime grenades, each platoon of machine gun squads with iron shields advanced, and the wide city walls, those soldiers who originally belonged to the Righteous Army and the Ming Army, collected the firearms of the Qing Army, and also advanced together.
Once advanced to a distance of 100 meters, grenades, crossbow arrows, gun grenades, and various other captured old firearms formed a complete lethal surface on top of the narrow city wall. Often a target only needs one salvo to completely disintegrate, and then the infantry detachment approaches to capture the prisoner. To the next target remained the same, starting with a suppressive shot, the lime grenade laid the barrier, and then ....... Soon, except for the walls of the north gate, the walls of the east side were completely cleared.
Compared with the advance of Xu Liejun's chariot troops, the clean-up work in the urban area was quite smooth. Groups of soldiers began to clean up the small courtyard according to the divided courtyard, starting from the east gate. Occasionally, a hidden Qing soldier is found, and the soldiers are like treasures.
Yue Xiaofei above the city was holding a telescope, and here he could see Xu Liejun's convoy moving and stopping through the layers of houses, struggling to move forward. The piles of fires that erupted from time to time also showed that Xu Liejun was facing considerable resistance, and Yue Xiaofei's heart trembled, sacrificing these soldiers just for Boluo's supply warehouse.
"War, what the fuck." Yue Xiaofei scolded and said to his subordinates: "Tell Shi Lang that now he can act." ”
Shi Lang's two chariot companies with an infantry battalion had been preparing at the city gate for a long time, and when Xu Liejun's convoy was initially blocked, Yue Xiaofei had already realized that he was overconfident in the attack power of the chariots. He made the same mistake as the Russian army in Chechnya, unreasonable and insufficient for the assault force. On the contrary, the force at the city gate was too strong, and the Qing soldiers here had obviously given up and did not deploy much force.
Murong Zhuo was a little ashamed, but these were all things that he should know about the Military Intelligence Department, and he was too unfamiliar with this army, and this first battle was like this, and his face as the chief of staff was a little unpleasant.
Soon Murong Zhuo issued an order at the head of the city, asking Shi Lang to organize a strong assault force to attack the West Gate, which was quite calm due to Xu Liejun's strong attack, and it was almost certain that the Qing army there must have mobilized a lot in order to stop Xu Liejun, and the troops must be empty.
Shi Lang poked his head out of a chariot and patted the chariot, and the single chariot was flanked by the rangers' cannon squad's flying crossbows and grenade launchers, which were much more powerful, and there was a vanguard platoon and soldiers in front of them divided into six sharp groups to search forward.