The order to allow the attack issued by the Italian headquarters of the Allied Allied Forces was quickly handed over to Wang Maoru, who gathered all the commanders together for discussion, and the staff officer Liu Xiangjiu frowned and said: "The Italians want to see our jokes, look at this word, good show!" In their eyes, the war of our Chinese is actually just a play, and it is really too deceitful. ”

Gong Xiaoqi and other officers also gritted their teeth, Wang Maoru smiled indifferently and said, "Since they want to watch a play, let's put on a show for them." ”

"What play?"

"Show the enemy to be weak, scare the snake, lure the snake out of the hole, go up the house to draw the ladder, close the door and beat the dog, and then take advantage of the fire to strike." Wang Maoru said confidently. Everyone looked at him, not knowing what was hidden in his stomach, only to see Wang Maoru sneering: "The Italians look down on our squadron, and the Austrians look down on us even more, so let's show the Austrians how weak we are." Then he carefully analyzed this and this, and after more than three hours of deliberation with everyone, they all came up with ideas, and after more than three hours of deliberation, the officers returned to their own armies to prepare.

Wang Maoru left Xizhong, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Second Division, alone, and said: "The key to success or failure depends on how well you act." ”

Xi Zhong smiled bitterly: "Xiu Shuai, it's just right to let Zhang Haipeng of Fengjun play it." ”

"Nonsense, Zhang Haipeng can turn a fake defeat into a real failure, and I will suffer a lot." Wang Maoru said, "It's just that some soldiers will be killed or injured, so you first let the soldiers write a desperate letter, and don't leave a suicide note until the body can't be found in the end." ”

Xi Zhong nodded and said, "Xiushuai, don't worry." I know how to do it. ”

Wang Maoru patted him on the shoulder again and told him again: "You must play this scene well." Then asked Ma Liang to bring Yongxingbao, a businessman in Europe, and Yongxingbao was about to kneel, but Wang Maoru hurriedly stopped him and said: "How many years have passed since the Qing Dynasty, and now our country is not happy to kneel." ”

Yong Xingbao said excitedly: "I have heard of the general's name for a long time, and when I see it today, it is better to meet if I am really famous." ”

Wang Maoru asked, "What is the matter that Mr. came to me?" ”

Yong Xingbao said: "I am a Chinese businessman representing Europe. This is a donation of 200,000 francs to my ** team to support the first time the squadron went abroad to fight. I hope that the general will play with prestige and play with the ambition of our Chinese. ”

Wang Maoru said with his forehead: "Okay, what do you mean, I will sue my soldiers." But I have one thing to ask of you. ”

"General, please."

"Are you afraid of death?"

Yong Xingbao asked, "The general wants me to join the army?" ”

Wang Maoru retreated left and right, Yong Xingbao saw that he attached so much importance to it, and he was also a little dignified, at this time Wang Maoru said: "I ask Mr. to be a spy and do me a favor." ”

"What's the busy?"

"Send you to Austria to act as an interpreter, and when our captives are captured by the Austrians, you will come to tell the Austrians how weak our Chinese army is." Wang Maoru said in a deep voice.

"This ......," Yongxing Bao said, "isn't this a betrayal of the general?" ”

"That's what you do." Wang Maoru said with a smile, "In this way, we can lure the snake out of the hole, and we can close the door and beat the dog, Mr. Thirty-six Ji knows, right?" Whether the squadron can fire this cannon depends on the performance of Mr. Mr. Please! ”

Yong Xingbao thought for a while and said: "General, I will definitely swear to complete the trust in order to make the squadron famous in the world." ”

Wang Maoru smiled, "Sir, you can't die, if you do." Mr. Half of the credit is for that. ”

Later, Wang Maoru secretly mobilized the army and made the Fourth Division ready for battle and ambushed, and the Fourth Division then scattered and ambushed on the mountain. After the preparation of the Fourth Division was completed, it sent a signal to the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division, which was armed with all Japanese forces.

The 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Division of Xi Zhong's participating army began to carry out a tentative attack, and because the independent artillery regiment under Wang Maoru was all hidden and could not be supported, Xi Zhong could only concentrate 20 Japanese 50 mortars and 5 Japanese imitation Krupp 75 field guns of the machine gun battalion under the Second Division to shell the Austro-Hungarian army.

The sudden attack of the squadron suddenly made the Austro-Hungarian army a little confused, and what made them even more unexpected was that the military quality of this squadron was indeed extremely poor, and the shells were far away, which was simply ...... It's just a waste of shells. As the commander of the Austro-Hungarian 73rd Infantry Regiment at the forefront, Haubenstock asked their artillery to return fire after hearing the shelling of the squadron, but after a while, the artillery sent a signal that the Chinese cannon had been destroyed...... It's weak. After a while, the sound of artillery was heard again, but not artillery, but mortars scattered to various trenches for attack, it seems that the Austro-Hungarian artillery only scattered the artillery of the Chinese, and it was really not completely annihilated.

Haubenstock personally came to the front line and asked his company commanders how the enemy was, and one company commander said: "I sat in the trench and watched the Chinese mortar fire three corrective shells in a row, but it actually missed, these Chinese might as well throw stones accurately." ”

Haubenstock laughed and said, "Sure enough, the Chinese can't fight." ”

The Shandong recruits of the Second Brigade of the Chinese Participating Army listened to the sound of their own artillery, and were excited, and said in their hearts, look at our artillery......

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Austro-Hungarian artillery returned fire, and ten Type 1908 80mm field artillery shells fell on the left and right of the trenches of the Central Participating Army, and suddenly the mortars of the Second Brigade were dumbfired, and twenty small-caliber mortars and five 75 field guns could not bombard the ten field guns of the Austrians, so they had to disperse to prevent them from being overturned by the cannons.

"Why don't you fight?" After not hearing his own artillery for a long time, the brigade commander Hee Chung ran to the artillery and shouted.

The artillery captain looked gloomy and said: "No, those big-nosed cannons are too accurate, we can't hit them, they can watch us, no, once they are exposed, they will definitely die." Just fortunately, I transferred in time, otherwise our mortars would have been served. ”

"Grandma's." Hee-joong also knew the nature of his troops, and they were all composed of new recruits. At the beginning of the war, I was enthusiastic, and after fighting for a while, I cried my father and called my mother, this is the artillery bombardment, I lost for a while, and I don't know what to do when I charge. He asked the adjutant again if the death squad was ready, and the adjutant said that they were all ready. Hee-jung ordered the artillery to disperse and harass the bombardment. The artillery of the 2nd Brigade continued to harass, and for a morning the Austro-Hungarian troops were overwhelmed.

At lunchtime. Hee-joong let the soldiers eat in advance, and after the artillery stopped firing, he waited for the other side to start preparing for dinner. The soldiers of the 2nd Brigade immediately jumped up with the 38 big cover with bayonets on their bayonets (the 2nd Brigade of the participating army was trained by the Japanese with ordnance provided by the Japanese, and the weapon system was also a Japanese 38-style rifle) jumped up, jumped out of the trench, and rushed forward with a shout.

The heavy machine guns of the Chinese continued to spray tongues of fire in the rear, and bullets hit the soil in front of the Austro-Hungarian formation, and the Austro-Hungarian soldiers returned fire from the trenches. The weapon used by the Austro-Hungarian soldiers was the M1891 rifle with 7.9 mm arrow rounds, which was lethal and had a long firing distance, which caused great trouble to the squadron.

Fortunately, the cuirass was required to be worn in advance, so that many Chinese soldiers were spared serious injuries. After the first wave of the assault was stubbornly resisted by the Austro-Hungarian 73rd Infantry Regiment. The 2nd Brigade Death Squads were forced to withdraw and return to the trenches.

The Austro-Hungarian soldiers did not shoot the people according to the wartime practice, but they also sent the people to collect the opponent's weapons, and the squadron did not attack the opponent's people.

It was getting dark. The wounded and the dead had just been brought back when Hee Chung's second wave of attack suddenly began again, this time while the infantry charged, the mortars kept ringing, showing the idea of infantry and artillery coordinated combat taught by Japanese instructors. Moreover, the Japanese instructors of the second division were in the forefront of this operation, and under their leadership, the squadron faced the Austrian artillery. Several Chinese soldiers even stormed the enemy trenches. The Austrians of the 73rd Infantry Regiment immediately bravely took up their bayonets and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese soldiers, and in the process of hand-to-hand combat, the disadvantages of the recruits were revealed, they were timid, they were afraid, and the gap was closed. After throwing more than 200 corpses earlier, the 2nd Brigade was once again reluctantly defeated.

The two attacks brought only more than 400 casualties to the Second Brigade, but other than that, the situation did not change in any way. When it got dark, the squadron finally stopped attacking, and the Austro-Hungarian 73rd Regiment on the opposite side also breathed a sigh of relief, and the people on both sides began to carry the corpses with torches again, but some Chinese soldiers were still wounded and taken prisoner by the Austrians.

That night, the Austro-Hungarian interrogated the prisoners, but had no choice but to give up because they did not understand Chinese. Haubenstock sent a telegram to the headquarters, saying that he easily repelled the attack of the Chinese, and the Chinese suffered heavy casualties estimated at more than 2,000, and his own casualties were less than a hundred. The commander of the 17th Army, General Kritik, laughed and gave a commendation to the whole army of Haubenstock. But Haubenstock asked for a Chinese interpreter, saying that they had captured the captives but did not know how to interrogate them. Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a multi-ethnic country, they actually had more than a dozen languages, mainly German, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, Serbian, Romanian, Croatian, and more than a dozen other minor languages, but there was not a single linguist on the front line who was proficient in Chinese.

Admiral Kritik was embarrassed by this request, but fortunately the rear patrol caught a Chinese businessman for illegal trading. Kritik asked the soldiers to send this Chinese named Yong to the 18th Division as an interpreter, and after talking to the wounded Chinese soldiers, he told the information he had obtained in detail to the commander of the 18th Division, Major General Maxim, that the opposite squadron had only been formed for less than half a year, including two months at sea. It can be said that the Chinese on the opposite side are a group of peasants who have just put down their hoes and picked up their rifles, and they can't even shoot, and it is no wonder that the combat effectiveness of the squadron ** is so low.

Maxim laughed and said wildly: "One of my 73rd regiments can resist the attack of one of their divisions." Then he told the news to the commander of the 73rd Regiment, Hauben Stock, so that he could rest assured of his bold meritorious service.

The next day, Xizhong launched three more unsuccessful attacks, and the squadron suffered heavy casualties and had to switch to the strategic defensive stage. The poor fighting of the Chinese soldiers made the Austro-Hungarian soldiers laugh at it even more, saying that the Chinese are taking new recruits to send them to death. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )rv