Section 203 Frog Jumping and Fighting - Battle of Hangzhou (3)
War is always cruel, whether it is just or unjust, and the warrior on the battlefield is probably only heroic or not, and whether he belongs to justice or not, they all have the glory of a simple warrior.
Someone outside the "bang" car was knocking on the shell of the chariot.
Xu Liejun poked his head out, and the soldier who was knocking was covered in blood, and his hands were already covered with bloody handprints.
"What's going on?"
"Report, I am from the Pioneer Company, the first two vehicles of our company have been attacked by enemy artillery fire, and now eight soldiers have been killed, and the way forward is blocked and it is impossible to advance."
"Wait, I'll go to the front with you." Xu Liejun turned around and took his weapon and got out of the chariot.
Xu Liejun ran forward with his guard squad and followed the soldier.
In the long convoy of oolongs, two chariots had been reduced to ashes in the raging flames, and the troops from the vehicles fled and crowded under the eaves to shoot at the rooftops on both sides.
A sturdy figure, raising the crossbow gun in his hand, fired a grenade at the window above the second floor opposite, and a puff of smoke erupted from the "boom" window, and the arrows and the Lu Mi gun there stopped firing.
Xu Liejun glanced at it, and it was Chen Tianliang, the company commander of the reconnaissance company, who rolled back to the eaves.
"Chen Tianliang" Xu Liejun shouted and made a gesture of "clean up the nearest house".
"Understood" Chen Tianliang didn't say anything, and shook a gesture. He waved his hand at the soldiers beside him and went into the side alley.
At this moment, the first two chariots and one vehicle have been damaged and have lost the ability to move, but the turret on the roof of the chariot keeps spitting out grenades and blowing up the rubble at the bell tower, but the grenades on the chariot are 30 mm, and the power is limited, and the lethality of the enemy in the bell tower is limited.
"Gun grenade, level it for me" Xu Liejun pointed to the bell tower.
More than a dozen gun-fired 50-millimeter grenades dragged white plume smoke towards the bell tower, which was pouring lead pellets and feather arrows outward. A 50-millimeter rocket-propelled grenade is not a little more powerful than a 30-millimeter grenade, and after a series of explosions, you can see the big hole in the wall of the bell tower.
Xu Liejun knocked on the back door of the first chariot and shouted "keep going" at the crew, but the scene after opening it made him stunned. Inside, three corpses lay side by side, and as soon as the door opened, blood flowed down the back door of the chariot.
"Push these two chariots aside, and the other vehicles move on, first taking the barricade in front of you." In fact, the barricade had now become a large black low wall, and there was no sign of any living people. However, the convoy remained motionless as it was now, and it was purely a target for the enemy.
"On my orders, the reconnaissance company left one company to merge with the rangers whose chariots had been destroyed, and to take up a position at the bell tower, and set up an advance base in the bell tower, and the forward company left all the chariots, and the rangers were ready to dismount and fight. Signal that the attack is blocked. ”
Xu Liejun finally realized that it was not possible to use the reconnaissance company as the vanguard, their firepower was too weak. So fifteen chariots of a company were left here to strengthen the protection of the stronghold, and the vacated Ranger company and the remaining reconnaissance company were mixed and advanced forward.
At this time, the city gate is like a big river with the gate open, and people and materials are constantly pouring inward. The two Ranger battalions of the 1st Marine Regiment were advancing along the city walls, and the weapons of the Shenzhou Army were just right for use in this flat and wide place, and under the cover of the machine gun squads of each platoon, the advance was smooth.
Yue Xiaofei and Murong Zhuo had already ascended the city tower and set up a headquarters in the open space above the top of the city tower.
Yue Xiaofei took the telescope to see Xu Liejun's situation clearly. In his heart, he secretly scolded himself as a bastard, "Isn't this use of armored forces a repetition of the mistakes of the Russian army in Chechnya, alas, the next time you fight in the streets, you must remember to think of some infantry." And it seems that the artillery fire of our chariots is not fierce enough, well, this time I went back to Shenzhou City to find a way to solve this problem. ”
Murong Zhuo felt that the speed of the Shenzhou army's attack was staggering, you see where Xu Liejun's convoy was blocked, the Qing army seemed to have a very strong military force, but it was broken through in less than half an hour. "This chariot is really powerful." Murong Zhuo, the chief of staff, really doesn't know much about the Shenzhou Army.
The two platoons led by Gan Hui and the supplementary rebel soldiers numbered about 200 people, and Yue Xiaofei left their troops near the city as a reserve because they did not participate in the entire training of the Shenzhou Army.
"Platoon Commander Gan, there is an order." The herald passed through the groups of soldiers who were sitting or standing, and found Gan Hui, who was in a hurry.
Gan Hui, who was a little impatient, was busy unpacking the order.
After reading it, he signed the receipt for the herald and shouted back, "Prepare to act, Jiang Yong come to the front." ”
"How do you have a mission?"
"Well, the front attack of Commander Xu's chariot battalion has been blocked, and an advance base has been set up in the center of the city, where it is now under attack by the enemy, and the pressure is extremely great, and our task is to advance covertly, reinforce there, and protect the medical platoon of the first battalion by the way."
"In this way, I will take all the soldiers of the Shenzhou Army as the lead, and you lead the others to be the rearguard, if you encounter an interception of me in front of the head, you will give us a detour to attack from the flank, understand?"
Jiang Yong was singled out as the elite of the Shenzhou Army when they came to Suzhou, who knew that this time it would be more than three months, and many things such as changing clothes by mistake made the first person hold a fire in his chest, and everyone hoped to have a good performance in this battle to get promoted.
In order to complete the task, Gan Hui specially chose a relatively remote road, a platoon of people was divided into five teams, a team of ten people was about fifty meters in front of the forward, divided into two groups, followed by three teams, and then followed by the brigade led by Jiang Yong.
In the dark night, all that could be heard was the sound of small footsteps, and the two squads were half-bowed, one end of their newly replaced crossbow guns resting on their shoulders, the other hanging down to the ground, ready to shoot at any time.
Walking to the end of the alley, the spearhead poked his head out cautiously. A barricade was in the middle of the road, and the Qing soldiers could be seen on the opposite side, and one hundred and ten Qing soldiers were lying across the road, and there seemed to be several cannons in the middle of the barricade at the end of the road.
The Soldier stopped, raised his fist, and hid sideways in the darkness of the alley. The entire search team crouched silently in the dark.
Gan Hui, who was walking in front, raised his hand, and the troops stopped advancing, and they bent down and ran forward.