987 Breakthrough
Since ancient times, night battles have been a taboo for soldiers, although there have been many cases of sneak attacks at night in history, it seems to look like a lot, but this is definitely your illusion.
The battles that can be circulated in the history books are destined to be not simple, and the historiography is willing to record the classic night raids in thick and colorful colors, which has proved that this kind of battle is very rare, so it has the value of recording.
In the real history, more than ninety percent of the wars were fought during the day. The reason is very simple: One is the backwardness of the means of command, and the other is the poor quality of the troops.
In the Middle Ages, the army relied on flags and drums to transmit orders, one using sight and the other using hearing, while flags could no longer work in field battles, and it was easy to cause confusion by relying solely on drums and trumpets for command.
Coupled with the factors of the dietary structure of ancient Chinese people, there were many night blindness, and the field battle could easily become a blind melee, often not long before it became a separate battle, and the military formation system completely collapsed.
In the current battle of Sandaogou, there are already signs of confusion on both sides of the enemy, and there are always troops in rapid movement who cannot keep up, and sometimes they can't find the squad leader and platoon commander when they fall and get up.
Many times I ran and turned my head to see that I had actually gotten into the company of another commander, and the musket shooting in the field would injure my own people by mistake, not to mention that the defenders of Sandaogou also set a large number of traps outside the wall, although it was simple, but it worked wonders in the dark night chaos.
When the demolition team led by Pang Chaoyun was frustrated in the trap area, the heroes behind Long Ye suddenly exclaimed. At this moment, Long Ye's palms were all sweaty.
Sister Wu next to her stomped her feet and wanted to rush up, "I'll take the reserve team to support Pang Chaoyun...... Before she could take a step, she was grabbed by Long Ye's shoulder.
"I am the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, and no one is allowed to act rashly without my orders......"
"But ......" Sister Wu wanted to argue, but she saw the resolute gaze in Long Ye's eyes.
"There's nothing, this is just the first appearance of the Volunteers, if this little setback can't be overcome, and the commander needs to play in person, then I don't think it's a pity that this army is disbanded!"
"If you fight, you have to have casualties, and you can't build an undead iron army!"
The loud words shocked the surrounding heroes and trembled, there is no shortage of characters who are ruthless to others in this world, but it is terrible to those who are equally ruthless to themselves.
Sister Wu took a step back and did not continue to insist, and at this moment, Pang Chaoyun on the battlefield finally got the support of friendly forces.
Date Hakuya and Uesugi Shin are all family samurai in the Daimyo of the Outer Daimyo, and they were abused by these special combat members when they landed, and now everyone is holding back a lot of energy in their hearts, and there is even a kind of gambling psychology that controls them, and they rush wherever they are in danger.
"Sir...... We're here to support you......" A squad of samurai crawled to Pang Chaoyun's side, and Date Baiye took out a first-aid kit and wanted to bandage Pang Chaoyun's wounds.
"Fuck off, leave me alone...... The wall must be blown up, the wall must be blown up!" Pang Chaoyun's face was hideous.
"Sir, give us the explosives pack...... This kind of trap area can't be relied on, you have to climb over it or roll over!" The anxious Uesugi Shin snatched the explosives bag, "Let's go! We absolutely don't believe that the first battle of the expedition will fail, and my martial arts will definitely not stop here!"
All the explosives bags of the demolition team were snatched by this group of Japanese samurai, and at this moment, the snipers led by Ye Qiu in the rear also increased the fire suppression on the wall, and any outcropping defenders were shot in the head.
The heroes of the headquarters were shocked by the scene in front of them, and the old ginseng trembled all over, and muttered to himself, "This is a war, this is a war!"
The local heroes are just one or two grass kings with hundreds of people in the village, and it is enough to brag about a year's worth of commanding a hundred people to fight on weekdays, where have they seen this kind of scene of blood and fire, especially those tenacious soldiers who are injured and do not go to the battlefield, that kind of spirit directly shocks people's hearts.
The two sides were intertwined with bullets and rains, the cannon roared, and the shouts of killing in the field were earth-shattering.
Date Hakusa and Uesugi Shin climbed forward with their hands and feet on the ground and the serpentine machine on the ground, and the trap on the ground no longer worked, and by the time they rushed to the bottom of the wall, it was already a dead spot for the enemy to shoot.
A dozen samurai leaned against the heavy logs, snorting and panting, their hearts pounding wildly, threatening to fly out of their throats.
Through a log wall, you can hear the roar behind you, and the gunfire and fire on the wall more than three meters above your head.
Digging pits, burying explosive packets, and pulling out the fuses, the samurai trembled and completed a series of preparations, and finally, when Uesugi Shin lit the fuse, the ghost screamed "Run!" and a group of people rushed back.
Bang Bang Bang ...... The Russian army who found them on the wall of the wall was suddenly under gunfire, several samurai were knocked to the ground, Date Hakuya felt as if his buttocks had been bitten by something, wet and slippery but no pain, and at that moment the tension had overwhelmed everything.
Rumble...... After an earth-shattering explosion, the wave of air pushed all the soldiers to the ground, billowing black smoke rushed into the night sky, and the stars were obscured.
The mud crackled and fell like rain, and when the rain was over, everyone almost fainted.
"Stupid! What a stupid ......"
It turned out that Date Baiye and the others had not received formal training in explosives, and the arrangement of the explosives package was not scientific, and the explosion did not blow up the expected gap, but blew up four or five logs to the barracks a lot, almost showing a gentle slope at a 30-degree angle to the ground.
There is green smoke on the surface of the trunk of the tree hugged by one person, which has been burned and carbonized, but people have underestimated the tenacity of this old mountain forest log, and none of them are broken.
"Blow the trumpet...... Rush in through the gap!Destroy those two field guns immediately......" Long Ye seized the moment of the fighter and ordered.
The horn of the charge sounded, and the headquarters suddenly flew into the air with several bright red fireworks, and the Japanese military regiment hidden in the rear and ready to attack finally had a place to use.
"Reserves...... Draw a knife and assault ...... Duck give!" Shimazu Asuka and Mori Ichigen led more than 500 samurai with their swords drawn, and swooped towards the gap like crazy.
"Marines cover friendly attacks...... Free Fire, Targeted Killing!Throw incendiary grenades to illuminate the ...... of the Knife Drawing Team" A series of incendiary bombs smashed near the breach, and the roaring fire illuminated the entire western area of the barracks.
The Battle of Sandaogou entered the most tragic stage of hand-to-hand combat.