The enemy of artillery is artillery! This is what Yang Rui said when he pushed the artillery to shoot intermittently, and his original intention was to say that only under the intermittent firing can the artillery be better concealed and not be destroyed by its old enemy. However, to Li Chengyuan's ears, this was the golden words of the artillery commander.

Now that the old enemy has finally counterattacked, Li Chengyuan unconsciously looked at his watch, ten minutes, the artillery positions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are ready-made, and the artillerymen can directly run to the artillery position to find targets and fire after getting up, he doesn't know if this can be regarded as whether they are qualified. The crux of the matter is where the artillery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty hits, if it is just fired according to the previously set shooting Zhuyuan chaos, then it cannot be considered qualified. The question of the Manchu artillery Su zhì only shook in Li Chengyuan's mind for a moment, and in the telescope, he only saw the field artillery positions two kilometers behind the Qing army's trenches constantly rising, and these fires were extremely conspicuous in this fogless morning.

According to the operational plan of this artillery, the targets of the artillery bombardment are first the command post, barracks, observation stations and known fire points, and then the trenches and artillery positions, the reason why the enemy artillery positions were not shelled before was to wait for the enemy artillery to enter the artillery array before firing the artillery, only in this way can the damage effect be the most obvious, especially these artillery positions are located at high places, and there are no civil fortifications to cover them, and even these artillery cannons do not even have a defensive shield.

The rapid firing against the trenches was about to end, and the adjutant brought the firing of the enemy's field artillery positions and mountain artillery positions, and Li Chengyuan sighed slightly in his heart after receiving the pieces of paper, but he still gave the order to shoot at the artillery regiment.

Their positions were covered by the revolutionary artillery, and the enemy calibrated quickly and with such a high density of fire. Only let the artillery battalion manage Qi Xieyuan with a mouthful. "Where is the enemy artillery? See where the enemy artillery is? He squeezed his throat, eager to give a few lashes to the observers who had been in front of the artillery mirror for a long time but could not find their target.

"No target found!" The observer still said as he had just done, except for the fire that exploded under the indiscriminate fire of his own cannon on the side of Dayuan Creek. There was nothing else, as if there was no one on that side at all.

"Fuck you!" Qi Xieyuan was furious, "How can the revolutionary party fire without artillery?" They must see us before they can beat us. How could I not find it? All of them are blind! In a fit of rage, Qi Xieyuan tore away a soldier who was watching beside him, and then found it himself.

In the unclear field of vision in the artillery mirror, the cross-reference line was empty. He couldn't see the artillery array, let alone the fire when he fired the cannon, Qi Xieyuan still didn't give up. He didn't believe that the revolutionary party's cannon came from the sky, but he wanted to leave tears in his eyes under the hard search, so he left the artillery mirror and said to his subordinates beside him. "It's too low. Go to a higher place. ”

Qi Xieyuan couldn't find the revolutionary party's artillery array, so he only thought that the place where he was standing was too low, and even thought of the artillery observation balloon in the headquarters, which had just been introduced from the Japanese, and it was said that he could rise hundreds of meters in the air when he sat on it. The thing was good, but it wasn't around, so he had to pull the telephone line to a higher place to find the enemy artillery.

The test launch took more than a minute. The first rapid fire took more than two minutes, and the second took more than eight minutes. When Li Chengyuan's pocket watch pointed to 6:12, the rapid fire on the Qing artillery positions began. Unlike the revolutionary army, which had a distance of 30 meters between each artillery piece, the Manchu artillery that fought according to the Japanese Army's code of conduct had a width of only 70 meters for an artillery company and only 210 meters for an artillery battalion.

Li Chengyuan only saw the ammunition of the enemy's artillery position detonated in his telescope, and after a while, he ordered the artillery regiment to stop shelling the field artillery position, and then let the field artillery in the artillery regiment that was firing far away begin to extend to the enemy's mountain artillery position, and the short-range mountain artillery bombarded Taiping on the other side of the river to the north, which was the target of the first brigade's attack.

The artillery was finally removed from the top of his head, Zheng Jinsheng patted the dust on his body in the trench, and wanted to stand up but only felt that his legs were weak, but after all, he was still a team deputy, and he struggled a few times and became stronger. Fast! The revolutionaries are coming up, the guys! ”

Zheng Jinsheng shouted a few words in a row, but there were still some big-headed soldiers pretending to be dead, and only when he kicked over, these people had a trace of movement, only to see that the rest of the team was up, and these people got up with their groping. Fortunately, the officers of the regiment had all attended a crash course at the military academy and knew that after the shelling, the enemy's artillery extended backwards, which was a precursor to the enemy's attack, so they all shouted "The revolutionary party is ......coming up," and at the same time kicked and beat the soldiers to take their places, waiting for the first charge of the revolutionary party.

The Qing army was screaming and chaotic, but the revolutionary party on the other side of the stream suddenly burst into gunfire, making a strong momentum to attack immediately. The guns on the other side rang out, and the guns on this side were even louder, as if they didn't do so, they wouldn't be bold. Without seeing a single enemy, the rifles and machine guns of the Qing army were incessant, and the excitement under the panic only caused many soldiers to scream while firing, but they were greeted not by the infantry of the revolutionary party, but by the artillery shells of the revolutionary party.

The second rapid fire on the enemy's trenches was at 6:18, because there was one shot, and this time the shells were more accurate. It seems that the Qing army that can be memorized can penetrate the trenches of the Qing soldiers, and the Qing troops who are blindly shooting to meet the enemy in the excitement are really crippled by this cannon, and the deputy Zheng Jinsheng has not yet shouted the word "hidden" for "hidden", and the artillery fire exploded on his side, and then his broken body was blown far away by the explosion like a broken sack, and the others were either blown away by the air wave or were crippled by shrapnel. The field artillery mountain artillery was not counted, and the mortars of the attacking troops were also aware of the current situation, and the target was the few remaining side-firing machine gun positions. Unlike barbed wire, this is the weapon that prevents the onslaught of the revolutionary infantry.

The artillery again bombarded the Qing trenches, and the infantry mortars cleared the Qing firing points. Taking advantage of this, the assault team began to charge forward with a wooden ladder. Although Dayuan Creek is a stream, but the water surface is not narrow, the wide place has nearly 100 meters, and the narrow place has 30 or 40 meters. However, this section of the stream above the breakthrough is also more than 50 meters wide, and in order not to delay the speed of the infantry's attack, the staff office has arranged for people to build a ladder in the stream.

In March, the stream was still bitterly cold. As soon as the company commander Nie Li Tang entered the water, he only felt that the clothes and flesh and blood all over his body seemed to have been stripped naked, and there was only one skeleton left that had been washed away in the icy stream, and he wanted to exhale a few times. But that gas just can't get in. It only took a long time for him to pick it up in one breath, and then he shouted "Really...... He... Horse's... Cold! ”

Nie Litang scolded his mother, and the guard opposite him held a wine bottle and said, "Company commander, second pot head!" ”

Even Nie Litang, who couldn't drink, was no longer particular about it at this time, so he took a sip of it violently, and the spicy and fiery thing went down his throat and into his stomach, just waiting for this time. He felt that his stomach was still there.

When the ladder was built, two minutes had passed since the second artillery bombardment of the Qing army's trenches, and the deputy company commander Jiang Rongfei looked at the pocket watch given by the company commander. Holding on to the time, the signalman on the bank of the stream raised his flag, jumped onto the trench, and with a wave of his hand, went ahead. Behind him were carefully organized assault teams, which would pass through the Dayuan Creek before the assault, and then wait five minutes for the assault to be launched at 6:25 p.m., when the artillery had just turned the muzzle and extended its fire only to the rear of the enemy, so as to cut off the connection between the trenches and the rear, and to prevent the reinforcements of the clear troops in the rear.

The commandos, dressed in gray and dark winter camouflage, tried their best to maintain their formation during the run, quickly rushed towards the stream, jumped off the river bank and stepped on the ladder in the water, and then turned ashore, and finally stopped at a distance of 150 meters from the Qing army's trench. While the others were hiding in the depression, the Demomen dragged the long blasters and continued to crawl to the barbed wire, where they only connected the blasters more than a meter long into each other, and then inserted them deep into the barbed wire. Although the barbed wire fence was only less than three meters, and at the same time it was raging by the previous artillery fire for a while, and became somewhat scattered, but the short shelling could not completely destroy them, and these half-crippled barbed wire still hindered the onslaught that the troops were about to start, and they were stuffed everywhere with the blasting canisters of the commandos, and when the time came, all these things would be detonated, sweeping away the last obstacle to the impact.

The bombardment continued, but the time passed minute by minute, just waiting for the pocket watch of each chief officer to reach 6:25, the artillery regiment immediately stopped the artillery to set up an extended firing of Zhu Yuan, and the demomen in front of the enemy formation neatly pulled out the fuse that had been installed on the blaster barrel for a long time, and shouted and threw themselves backwards in unison, "Bang... Bang... Bang...", and patches of dust and barbed wire flew up.

Jiang Rongfei had already looked at the barbed wire fence in front of him, and only waited for the blaster in front of him to explode, and he didn't see if the explosion was blown up, so he hurriedly shouted: "Go!" Above! Hurry up! He shouted and rushed, followed by his two brothers, Gundam and Gao Kui, who also ran forward. These two bandits on Maling Mountain outside Jinhua City in the past, after two years of tempering in the army, they were even more brave and difficult, they rushed forward while only screaming, ran to the nearest place to throw grenades but two threw together, and when the smoke in the trench cleared, one end bayonet, the other end of the shotgun jumped into the trench, to both sides of the fierce killing.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the heads of the Qing soldiers in the trenches at the breakthrough were still in the concussion and did not come back to their senses, compared with the previous artillery, this time the artillery killed more people, after all, the last time I knew that the revolutionary party was going to open fire, and this time I only thought that the revolutionary party was finished with artillery, and they all stood in the trench and waited for death. The Qing soldiers were dizzy, their eyes were full of gunsmoke, their ears were full of screams, and after the sound of artillery stopped, a large number of grenades were smashed, and it was once said that if they saw the grenades of the revolutionary party, then the bayonets of the revolutionary party would be in front of them. Indeed, after a round of grenades exploded, many revolutionaries wearing gray-gray-brown-brown cotton jackets appeared above the trenches, some jumped into the trenches and began white-knuckle fighting, some threw grenades at crowded places, and some were very bad, only standing on the edge of the trench with a shotgun and pulling the trigger, just to see that the muzzle of his gun jumped, and with a "bang", a bunch of Qing soldiers were put on the ground.

Even after two years of hard fighting, the white-knuckle battles and hand-to-hand battles in the Sixth Town are still not much better. What's more, the artillery fire has already beaten them to death, and after a short confrontation, the slogan of "surrender the gun and not kill" was shouted. The remnants of these hundreds of meters of Qing troops all chose to surrender. The breakthrough of the second battalion was opened, and the breakthrough of the first battalion was also opened, and the next thing to do was to pour people into it with all their might. As soon as the trumpet sounded on Lu Arong's side, the entire second battalion rushed forward, and the third battalion and the third regiment as the general reserve also followed; And the artillery regiment did not stop here, the shells all over the ground were not ignored, and all the artillery was tied to mules and horses. also followed the large army to rush forward.

"Chengyuan cannon is well fought!" On the high hill on the east side of the battlefield, the morning sun is shining. Lin Wenqian had been watching the whole battle, and he had not spoken. It was only when the soldiers finally attacked and occupied the Qing army trenches that they spit out such a sentence.

"yes. It's very delicate, and it's not much worse than embroidery. Zhou Sixu beside him said: "The Northeast is not lazy." ”

"So you're saying we're lazy?" Lin Wenqian was happy. couldn't help but joke with Zhou Sixu.

"Nothing. None of them were lazy. Zhou Sixu was not as happy as Lin Wenqian, and only said: "There is still a co-ordination over there, can you occupy the entrance before noon?" Isn't that too harsh? ”

"I just want to see the combat capability of the troops under the coordination of the large army, our army rushed the Qing troops to retreat to the field, and even pursued the victory, our side has not yet been beaten, and their army is afraid that it will be chaotic a long time ago. Now they are only afraid that they will feel that our army is already attacking from both sides, and they are going to drive them down the river. Lin Wenqian said with a smile. Brother Guangting, after this battle. When the Manchus came to encircle and suppress again, it was really necessary to weigh and weigh. ”

Xindeng, Narrow Creek, Chang'an, these three places have been full of guns since the morning, Zhao Guoxian, the commander of the sixth town, sleeps old and young, gets up before dawn, hears the sound of guns in the southwest, and sends people out to investigate, but the telephone line from the field to Narrow Creek has long been cut off, and the exact news is not known until the sun comes out. Zhao Guoxian was waiting at the headquarters with other generals in military uniform, and after a while, he saw a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside, and several guards only escorted a bloody person to Yuanmen, and when this person entered Yuanmen, Zhao Guoxian had not drunk as usual, "Who is coming?" The soldier himself shouted, "Commander, the revolutionary party has attacked in a big way, and it has already rushed through the narrow stream...... They... They're coming! ”

As soon as the little soldier opened his mouth, the news that the sky was falling, Zhao Guoxian bit his tongue with his teeth, only let himself not faint, and then shouted and asked: "Who is coming, and what is the military situation ahead?" How many troops does the rebel party have? If you have half a lie, you will not be spared! ”

Zhao Guoxian broke off and listened, and then listened to "cut and not forgive", the little soldier seemed to finally sort out some of his senses, and only said: "The small is Zhang Zhijiang, the sentry commander of the left team of the sixth standard and the first battalion of the horse team, at dawn the revolutionary party began to shell our army's position, the revolutionary party artillery fire was fierce, after dawn, the soldiers pressed the border, penetrated the first line of Dayuan Creek, the horse team to block the revolutionary party, the standard commander Wang took us to rush back, how can the revolutionary party not be afraid of death, there are many machine guns, Wang saw that he could not arrive, so let the small one come to report. The lord said that the revolutionary party was afraid of no more than 10,000 or 20,000 people here, and that it was menacing, and asked the commander to send troops to the front line as soon as possible. ”

The more the sentry commander named Zhang Zhijiang spoke, the more Zhao Guoxian's heart jumped out, and when he finally said that there were no more than 10,000 or 20,000 people in the revolutionary party, Zhao Guoxian jumped up from his chair and drank: "There are gunshots everywhere that are chaotic parties, how can there be 10,000 or 20,000 chaotic parties from Narrow Creek?" You are a gossip to confuse the public, come on, pull him out for me! ”

The boss was angry, and Jin Yunpeng, the chief of staff of the sixth town, hurriedly dissuaded: "Marshal, Wang Biao will not retreat from the battle, and he will never exaggerate the enemy army and confuse the public with evil words." The first line of Dayuanxi is ......," Jin Yunpeng said, and here he looked at the Japanese adviser Aoki Xuanchun on the side, "But the Japanese lords have commanded and arranged, and if the revolutionary party wants to break through, I am afraid that there are more than 10,000 people." ”

Awakened early in the morning by the sound of the revolutionary army's artillery, Major General Aoki Nobujun, who was waiting at the headquarters to deliberate, was the highest-ranking martial artist of the Japanese army in China. The Zhejiang Revolutionary Party has been repeatedly suppressed, and the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes, which has to arouse his great interest, and he began to be hired by Yuan Shikai as an adviser to the Beiyang garrison when he was a child. Aoki Xuanchun came immediately, but he didn't come completely to assist the Qing army. He has been very interested in this organization since the revival society took advantage of the situation in Tohoku, especially since the Manchu Diet was immediately opened, and the secret diplomacy of the past could no longer be carried out, and it was no longer possible to obtain greater benefits at the negotiating table as before, and to obtain greater benefits for Japan. Then we must support the revolutionary party in the south, and the best way to support the revolutionary party in the south is to support the revival society. Aoki had heard of Yang Rui's 100 million yen plan. Unlike other people who dismissed this as the arrogance of the revolutionary party, he thought that the person who dared to propose such a plan was the best partner of the Empire, at least this person would not be like Sun Wen, who could not be supported repeatedly and was the first to do so, and who took the money of the Empire, but opened up territory for the French.

Jin Yunpeng took advantage of the prestige of the Japanese adviser to suppress Zhao Guoxian's suspicions, and then after Zhao Guoxian waved away the cavalry sentry commander who reported the message. He added: "Marshal, now the revolutionary party is not only attacking the entrance of the field, but Xindeng on the other side of the river also seems to be exchanging troops. From this point of view, there should be no less than 30,000 or 40,000 people who will be attacked by such a revolutionary party, and its main force should be gathered here. If our army can delay them for a few days, and at the same time inform several other friendly forces to enter immediately. Then take advantage of this emptiness, and the state can be broken. As for our army, after a day or two of hard fighting, when the enemy's rear has been lost and the army's morale is in turmoil, it can enter the army and kill it. ”

Jin Yunpeng knew what Zhao Guoxian, who was loyal to the monarch and patriotic, liked to hear, so he didn't talk about his own crisis first, but first said that Yanzhou could be broken, and Zhao Guoxian, who only listened, was very satisfied. He was satisfied, but Li Chun, the leader of the Twelfth Association, was very dissatisfied.

"The revolutionary party is one or two hundred thousand people. also broke through the narrow creek defense line and came straight to the entrance of the field. The narrow stream has been lost, and there is no danger to defend the mouth. Chief of Staff, don't forget jì, the 11th Association has been defeated by the Revolutionary Party, and the life and death of the horse team are uncertain, just with my Association and those patrol teams who can only eat dry food, how can this mouth be defended? "Li Chun was promoted by Tie Liangbao as the leader of the Twelfth Association, so naturally he is also somewhat capable. He knew that the Dayuanxi defense line was broken through by the revolutionary party in less than an hour, so how strong is this revolutionary party, and he is absolutely unwilling to wait for death in this mouth.

The chief of staff's opinion disagreed with the co-ordination, Zhao Guoxian was very troubled, and when he was thinking about Lu Jianzhang, he didn't want to be surprised outside the gate, only to hear the voice of Lu Jianzhang, the commander of the eleventh co-ordination, shouting, and hurriedly greeted him in person.

Lu Jianzhang escaped death, when he went out in the morning, the artillery of the revolutionary party happened to be testing fire, and when he put on his pants and was about to run back to the headquarters, he didn't want to be unusually fierce and dense artillery fire only blew up the headquarters, and after the artillery fire, his co-headquarters was no longer there. Since the revolutionary party opened fire, then the attack was in front of him, and he only waited for him to send people to order the 22nd standard horse defending the mountainous area to reinforce the trenches, but he did not want to meet the extension of the artillery fire after the general impact of the revolutionary party, and this extended fire was to prevent the enemy from reinforcing the trenches, so he transferred a battalion of nearly 1,000 soldiers who were transferred over, and they were immediately baptized by the extended artillery fire, and when the artillery was over, there were not many people left alive.

Lu Jianzhang only watched the slaughter of the 22nd Standard from afar, and then saw that the revolutionary party had broken through its own position, and ordered Wang Engui of the horse team to rush again, not wanting the revolutionary party to have a lot of machine guns, and the horse team lined up in two columns to attack closely, which happened to become the live handle of the revolutionary party machine guns, repeating the mistakes of the Cossack cavalry during the Russo-Japanese War. At this time, Lu Jianzhang knew that the general trend had gone, and he ordered to withdraw to the entrance of the field, and on the way to the entrance of the revolutionary party, he was bitten by the advance team of the revolutionary party.

Zhao Guoxian rushed to the gate of the Yuan, only to see Lu Jianzhang, who had even lost his hat, being supported by the soldiers, his face was dusty and dirty, gray and black, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him and said, "Lang Zhai, you are ...... this"

"Handsome! Withdraw quickly, the revolutionary party is unstoppable. Lu Jianzhang was already frightened stupid by the revolutionary party's fierce fighting style, and when he fled here, he only felt that there were revolutionary party squads everywhere, and this kind of squad did not capture prisoners at all, let alone stay away from the rear, but blindly attacked forward, only chasing his defeated soldiers and abandoning their armor. The defeat was like a mountain falling, and the soldiers behind who even wanted to resist the enemy on the spot were frightened by these defeated soldiers, and many guns ran backwards. Lu Jianzhang came on horseback, thirty miles of land is less than half an hour, the revolutionary party has no cavalry, it is estimated that it will be killed in another half an hour, the entrance is just a commercial town, not like the county town has a city to defend, now the only way is to retreat,

"Lang Zhai! Lang Zhai! Seeing that Lu Jianzhang was a little stupid, Zhao Guoxian hurriedly shouted a few words, just waiting for him to come back to his senses, and then asked, "How many people are in the chaotic party?" Why did Narrow Creek lose so quickly? ”

"Disrupted party...... There are at least seven or eight thousand members of the revolutionary party," Lu Jianzhang finally said a more reliable number, and then said: "The artillery of the revolutionary party is really powerful, only bombarding and bombing our army's positions, and destroying our army's artillery unit, and then several thousand people rushed in at once. Dashuai, there is no danger to defend here, and it is the best policy to retreat quickly. ”

Another one said to retreat, Zhao Guoxian was very displeased, and only said: "The entrance is in Jiangdong, Jiangdong is the only place where it is open, and there is no way to retreat if you want to retreat. Then he shouted loudly: "The generals obey the order, quickly purge the departments, and start a war on the spot." ”

Seeing that Zhao Guoxian's determination had been made, everyone who wanted to persuade him again was silent, although there was no danger to defend at the entrance of the field, but the few gunboats on the river could still keep themselves safe. With this thought, all the generals bowed down and went back to reorganize their troops and prepare for war. (To be continued......)