Chapter 114: Scorched
After three o'clock, the Hufeiling Mountains were simply a mess, and there were battles, marches, and escapes everywhere, and the sound of gunfire, artillery, and explosions constantly resounded in this area.
In the vicinity of Tower Hill, 150 scouts and more than 3,000 Houjin troops engaged in a back-and-forth battle.
The fighters of the reconnaissance battalion were very advanced in weaponry, and they had the advantage of firepower, firmly blocking the enemy in front of the position.
Later, under the cover of a heavy artillery, the Jin army also gave full play to its numerical superiority, and through earthwork, established a close trench in front of the Tashan blocking position that was sufficient to launch a charge.
The battle here was at a stalemate.
On the other side, according to the order of the General Headquarters, with the efforts of the ground crews and trainers of the [Naval Tactical Research Group], the [Kunpeng] team was dispatched again.
Twenty-four well-fed, well-fed and cheerful albatrosses, guided by falcons, flew 80 kilometers and bombed the Houjin army named Houjin No. 1 by the kingdom again.
Under the unexpected air strike, 48 aerial bombs once disrupted the rearmament plan of the Houjin army, which was preparing to retreat, and the people in the entire barracks were frightened.
The top of the Later Jin Army were all Jurchens, as a fishing and hunting people, ten years ago, they did not even have their own writing, and the entire tribe was still in the era of ignorance.
In the face of the air strike, many Jurchens thought that they had encountered heavenly punishment, and they were panicked to the extreme.
The higher-ups are panicking, so how much better can the fighters below be?
The Houjin army, which was already preparing to retreat in the barracks, directly began to scatter and flee.
The albatrosses, who had completed the bombing, after seeing the thousands of people on the ground who were frightened, once again exerted their bear children's nature, and constantly swooped down, intimidating the enemy troops in the camp.
From time to time, this group of bear children also swept over some pigs and sheep caught by Houjin, grabbed those small animals whose weight did not exceed their own weight limit and flew back into the sky, and then threw the prey down fiercely in the frightened cries of pigs and sheep.
Fortunately, this group of bear children still knew the severity and did not get close to the Houjin soldiers who were on the verge of collapse.
The older falcons faced the play of the bear children without the slightest connivance, and after issuing several warnings to no avail, they directly moved their claws and forcibly drove the bear children together.
After counting a few days, in a bow on the ground, escorted this group of bear children back to the "Baxia" all-steel test ship.
By the time the Houjin army on the ground had regrouped, gathered most of its men, and pacified the terrified soldiers, several hours had passed.
In order to open up the road out of Tashan, Houjin No. 10 has notified several other Houjin camps nearby.
But Houjin 1 was different, they were in the forefront position, and in order to be able to ensure the safety of their rear, they did not inform the troops in the rear of the news of the defeat of the forward battalion.
Therefore, the bombing of [Kunpeng] dragged on for several hours, which also prevented the front-line camps that had not received the news of Houjin No. 10 from moving in advance.
And those Houjin troops who received the notice of Houjin No. 10 and were close to the southern area of the Hufeiling Mountain Range were not having a good time.
When the reconnaissance battalion was reading and interspersing towards Tower Hill, it also arranged rear hands at some key points.
Several groups of veterans, dressed in camouflage suits weighing several kilograms, were ambushed in the mountains on a hot day.
They installed Broadsword anti-infantry mines in some of the enemy's paths.
When the large army of the Houjin Army, which was heading for reinforcements from Tashan, passed by, it was suddenly launched.
This brutal weapon, which once shone in the four-year war, has a unique and powerful power when faced with the group's goals.
Each [Broadsword] is capable of sweeping an entire space within a distance of 200 meters in front of it at once.
Just a dozen [broadswords] frightened the enemy, and they didn't dare to walk swaggeringly anymore, and they were suspicious all the way.
Some timid Houjin slave owners simply chose to take a detour, going over the mountains and mountains to bypass those narrow passages.
It was not a simple matter for the army to climb the mountain, and in this way, it greatly slowed down the enemy's march.
This series of actions finally bought a little time for the blocking war on the Tashan battlefield.
At 6 o'clock, in Tashan, the 1601 battalion faced the more than 2,000 post-Jin troops.
Although nearly one-fifth of the reconnaissance battalion had been wounded, it was evacuated to the Tashan logistics camp that had long been occupied by its own side for rescue.
However, the good thing is that they are already using a tunnel to shorten the distance to the enemy's heavy artillery by means of excavation.
High-explosive and incendiary shells were then fired, destroying the gun carriage of the immobile smoothbore gun of the Houjin Army and the gunpowder piled up around it.
Without the smoothbore barrel of the gun carriage, it is no longer possible to aim, and without the propellant, that is, Wukong has no golden hoop stick, and no matter how powerful the cannon is, it can only temporarily lose its effect.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the 1601st Battalion launched a counter-charge and drove back the enemy troops who were digging trenches in front of the barbed wire.
However, the enemy had established a tight defensive line 300 metres from the barbed wire, dug a large number of trenches and built several breastworks.
More than 1,000 and nearly 2,000 Korean bird gunners waited solemnly on the chest wall, and more than 100 scouts of the Huaxia Army who did not have heavy weapons really did not dare to rush hard.
Therefore, the two sides are still in a state of anxiety for the time being.
Fortunately, the task of the reconnaissance battalion is to intercept, so the fighters of the reconnaissance battalion are not in too much of a hurry until the enemy forces cannot pose a mortal threat to them.
At this moment, there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves behind Tower Hill.
"I'll wipe it, won't it be our back road that will cut off the Houjin Tartar?"
"No, neither the falcon nor the military dog have been warned."
"Hey, that means it's definitely friendly forces?"
"It's ironclad."
"However, just in case, transfer a squad of fighters to the high ground on the flank. In case it is the enemy, attack from the flanks and prepare us to adjust our tactics. ”
"Yes, I'll do it right away."
After a while, just as the 1601 battalion was just getting ready, a bright red flag appeared in the distance, and the number and regimental emblem on it were also very familiar.
"An old friend is here."
"It's still the old brother who is reliable, look at the sweaty appearance of those dragon horses on the other side, I haven't rested along the way."
"Hurry up, boil water, prepare dinner, you must not let the brother troops be wronged."
The reconnaissance and search unit, the predecessor of the special service regiment to which they belonged, was also an elite unit, and in the early days of its formation, it often trained and fought with the other side.
Later, when the reconnaissance and search unit was split up and the special service regiment was formed, they also received initial training in the Ranger regiment.
Later, in the stage of training with battles, they also followed the first few actual combat training conducted by this ranger unit.
A deep friendship was established between the two regiments.
When it became known that the first unit to come to reinforcements was the troops of the 15th Regiment, the fighters of the 16th Regiment gave enthusiastic cheers.
This burst of cheers, but the Houjin army on the opposite side, who seemed to be frightened birds, made a burst of nervousness, and all stood up, lit the fire rope, and waited for the charge of the 1601 battalion.
It's a pity that this time, they have to wait in vain.
Just when the 1601st Battalion was chopping wood and burning fire, more than 500 dragoon cavalry cavalrymen of the 1502nd Battalion of the 15th Ranger Regiment quickly passed through the plain area south of Hufei Ling and came to the Tashan camp.