Chapter 248: The Reason for the Death Battle
After communicating with each other the information they had obtained, Zhong Fulin and Lakshen issued an order for the whole army to attack and advance in the direction of Tashan.
Moreover, because of the special terrain in the east and west of Tashan, it is impossible to put all the horses on its side away, and it is impossible to give full play to the superiority of the Chinese army in firepower.
So, Lakshin led the Tashan defensive line and the scattered troops around it, and together advanced the position two kilometers. A formation was set up on a small plain between the mountains.
The infantrymen carried sandbags and quickly built a defensive line, and the sappers also drew out the steel bars and barbed wire they carried with them, and quickly laid out a short square barrier line on the front line.
This low barbed wire fence was not designed to keep the enemy infantry at bay.
When the enemy's infantry attacked, they didn't really need to stop the enemy, as long as they could delay the speed of the infantry slightly, their mission would be completed.
And it was only when the enemy sent out the cavalry that this low division into several rectangular barbed wire positions really came into play.
This kind of chain of formations specially designed according to the leg length of Mongolian horses is like a continuous tripping rope, which can make the enemy's cavalry unable to accelerate the charge to the greatest extent.
The steel bars smashed into the ground by the hammer can ensure the toughness of the barbed wire to the greatest extent, and will not be washed by the war horse and fall to the ground.
Cavalry without speed, in front of a large number of musketeers, was nothing more than a target.
While the sappers were busy, in the rear, in front of the first sandbag fortifications, the soldiers began to dig again.
The infantry were digging trenches, and this time was one of the means just in case.
And the artillerymen were digging their own gun emplacements.
When the Chinese Army entered the mountains, it used light equipment that was convenient for mountain operations, and did not carry heavy artillery, but each battalion brought a 40mm caliber infantry gun.
Although the power of this kind of artillery is not great compared to other caliber artillery, it is lightweight, and it is enough to deal with equipment such as shield vehicles of the Houjin army, or to shoot at those smoothbore guns.
This infantry gun is not only lightweight, but also the shells are equally light under the small caliber, and it can carry as many shells as possible in the same volume.
Even the albatross of the [Naval Tactical Research Group] in a critical moment can carry a dozen shells at a time to support the front-line team.
Now, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy army has not yet arrived, the infantry guns of each battalion are quietly hidden in the gun emplacements in front of the infantry array, and in order not to scare away the Houjin army, they are also covered with camouflage nets.
In terms of Houjin, Gao Shaokuan, with the support of An Buyang, has completed the collection of his own remnants.
To survive last night's situation, in addition to being lucky enough, you must also have a lot of experience dealing with chaos.
Therefore, the Houjin army he gathered up, on the contrary, was dominated by veterans, and the combat effectiveness did not decline much compared to before.
Seeing that the materials that could be pulled out had already been pulled out, Gao Shaokuan ordered, "Hurry up and eat, after eating, we are ready to go out of the mountain." ”
Taking advantage of the time when An Bu walked away to eat, Gao Shaokuan's cronies came over and asked quietly, "Master, this seems to have no chance of winning at all!" An didn't dare to surrender because he and Chen Xin, the lord of the Huaxia Kingdom, were mortal enemies, but why did we have to fight to the death with the Huaxia people? I heard that Huaxia takes good care of the Han people, and if you go, you will have land to divide. ”
Gao Shaokuan was silent for a while, and then said with a gloomy face, "Do you think I want to die?" It's not the sin we sat down before.
Do you remember when we were in South Korea, how much benefit did we receive from Chen Xin? But in the end, when An Buyang rebelled with Sukh Saha, we didn't reveal the truth to the contact person sent by Chen Xin at all, and killed a few of Chen Xin's messengers as a petition. ”
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Gao Shaokuan's cronies quickly recalled what had happened when they were working under Amin.
Chen Xin was really generous at that time, and boxes of silver were sent to military camps in various places, constantly making friends with the real power figures of various armies.
However, when An Buyang rebelled against Suke Saha, except for a small number of Jurchens and Han people who chose Chen Xin's side, most of the Eight Banners chose to eat and wipe out Chen Xin's benefits and then follow Houjin.
At that time, they all thought that the Houjin soldiers and horses were the strongest, as long as they raised troops against Amin, and then met with Huang Taiji across the Yalu River to meet the army, Chen Xin's more than 10,000 people were just chickens and dogs, and they would die out at any time.
Therefore, at that time, most of the children of the Eight Banners did not leave any room for it, collected money and killed people. Now, retribution has come.
At the beginning, they took the initiative to do things, and now who dares to say that Chen Xin, who is the master of a country, will be generous to the extent of ignoring previous suspicions?
Looking at the faces of his subordinates crying mourners, even Gao Shaokuan himself felt that he was so short-sighted and so cheap, and he not only received the silver, but also killed the messenger.
As the old saying goes, leave a line in your work, and see you in the future.
Now, the retribution for what they did is coming.
If you want to surrender, you don't dare.
Sighing, Gao Shaokuan picked up the big bowl sent by Goshha, "Let's eat, eat early, start the war early, whether you are dead or alive, it depends on the next trembling." ”
After eating in silence, it was probably the last meal, and more than 10,000 people began to gather and line up.
The old rule, Bao Yi and Aha stand in the front row to block guns, bows and arrows, and cannonballs,
He was followed by a group of elite foot soldiers, who were responsible for escorting the cannon fodder in front, and if the people in front could get close to the enemy line, these people would be responsible for charging and opening the mouth of the enemy line.
If the people in front can't get close to the enemy, then, after the cannon fodder has attracted enough firepower, the dead cavalry in the third row will look for an opportunity to quickly insert it, use their own lives to plan the enemy's formation, and find an opportunity for the main force behind to attack.
This set of processes has been used very skillfully by the Houjin Army.
The trick is not new, as long as it is easy to use.
Just like in World War II, the small book is a set of rigid and rigid tactics of artillery bombardment, infantry rushing, infantry rushing after artillery bombardment, and artillery bombardment after infantry rushing, with roundabout tactics, occasionally interspersed with the assistance of some fighters and tanks, all the way across most of China.
The current Houjin army, also relying on a mature and rigid tactical system, defeated all the strong enemies it faced one by one, conquered Mongolia, Korea, and the Ming Dynasty all the way and embarked on a road of barbaric conquest of civilization.
However, this set of tactics of the Houjin Army, in the face of the superior firepower of the Huaxia Army, can be regarded as a nemesis.
In terms of firepower projection and accuracy, the Chinese Army defeated the border army of the Ming Dynasty.
The tactics that worked against the Ming Dynasty and the Korean Kingdom always seemed a little powerless in the face of the Huaxia army.