ps: Thank you for the heavy rain in winter!

Two days later, Le Yu, the governor of Haiphong, led a total of 13,000 regular troops and militia troops under his command to advance to the Ha Long camp.

The Annam troops approached the Halong camp without encountering resistance on the way, which deepened Le Yu's determination to surprise the enemy and quickly exterminate the Chinese troops.

In front of the defensive position formed by a trench in the outermost part of the Xialong camp, Li Yu took the binoculars sent by his generals and carefully observed the deployment of Chinese troops on the position.

After observing for about a quarter of an hour, Li Yu returned the telescope to Chen Wuyuan.

"The Tang traitors definitely didn't expect that this official would gather a large army to crusade." Li Yu grasped the momentum and pretended to be a commander to teach his generals: "The army of the national dynasty is coming suddenly, and the rebels have no time to build a strong defensive line, just digging two or three earth pits to resist the army of the national dynasty, it is really self-defeating!" ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, the last general Guan rebels' forward positions are poorly structured, and there is no artillery to suppress the formation, and the leader of the rebels is either really like Nei Ying said, and left Xialong by boat two days ago to go to sea, or he is a person who does not understand military strategy, and he recruits bandits with the intention of rebelling with a few coins, which is really reckless and unscrupulous."

"General Chen is worthy of being a general who fought with his own officials, and he discovered the reality of the traitors in a moment, and he did a very good job."

Li Yu is very praised by professionals, which can bring out his wisdom and insight.

"The matter of commanding the battle at the front will be handed over to General Chen, and this officer will sit in the Chinese army and wait for the news of the general's victory."

"The last general obeys!" ……

On the wooden floor of Xialongying, Ye Chenglin stood beside Sun Bin and watched the situation on the front line.

"Mr. Sun, I don't understand why I don't put artillery in the forward position?" Before the two armies fought, Ye Chenglin looked at the hundreds of soldiers who were lonely on the first line of defense and asked.

"Artillery is a sharp weapon on the battlefield, and it can be placed in the forward position to hit the morale of the enemy and assist our army in defending the position, but although Battalion Commander Ye saw me withdraw the artillery to the third line of defense, he did not notice the five machine guns on the first line of defense."

"Five machine guns are worth five guns?"

Ye Chenglin had seen the five 75-mm field guns unloaded from the armed merchant ship, and the pitch-black and short barrels and neatly stacked shells made him very close. After seeing the test firing of the 75-millimeter field artillery, he would like to see five field guns firing together on the battlefield to strike at the Annan team.

"The firing of five artillery pieces together can suppress the offensive speed of the Annan team, and in the early stage of the offensive of the Annan troops, the morale of the troops is strong, and the placement of artillery in the forward formation can cause partial damage to them, but it cannot defeat them.

Only by inflicting a large number of casualties on the Annan troops can their morale be suppressed, and then the whole army will launch a reactionary uprising and win the war. ”

"With five heavy machine guns, you can inflict huge casualties on the Annamites?" Ye Chenglin didn't believe it.

"Hehe, Battalion Commander Ye didn't fight with Shizi, when he was in South America, the machine gun tactics arranged by Shizi played a big role.

Battalion Commander Ye will open his eyes wide and take a closer look at how our machine gun unit is killing and wounding Annan soldiers in rows. ”

"We'll see." ……

"Knock knock!" More than a dozen Annan drummers beat their skin and bones vigorously, and the dull and long drum sound spread seven or eight miles away, and the Annan soldiers who were squatting in the camp four or five miles long heard the drums and lined up under the leadership of their respective commanders, preparing to attack.

When all the troops gathered, Chen Wuyuan, the chief general of the Annan army, drew his sword and shouted heroically: "Destroy the bandits and make meritorious contributions in this battle!" ”

Chen Wuyuan's voice was very loud, but the ordinary soldiers below did not cater to the reaction of the commander, and stood listlessly on the ground one by one, although they were wearing army uniforms and holding weapons in their hands, they did not look like soldiers should be at all.

"You, you, what are you doing with wrinkled faces! General Chen led everyone to exterminate the rebels, and they all showed some spirit to Lao Tzu! Chen Yuanjia did not respond to the soldiers' words, and several middle-level generals below taught their soldiers a lesson with a tiger face.

The soldiers reacted very little, Chen Yuanjia's face was a little unbearable, he shook the fat on his face, held back his anger and said loudly again: "Your Excellency the Governor has a leader, those who attack the Tang bandit position first will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and those who capture the leader of the bandits will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver!" ”

"Ten thousand wins!" Chen Yuanjia announced the bounty offered by the governor, and the soldiers below finally burst into shouts.

"Quiet!" Chen Yuanjia spoke out again to stop the chaotic troops, his fat body took two steps forward, and pointed his sword at the Chinese position in high spirits: "The whole army listens to my orders, target the thief position, attack!" ”

"Boom!" Chen Yuanjia waved his sword downward, and the prepared Annan artillery unit immediately fired shells.

In order to conquer the Xialong camp, Li Yu dispatched more than 60 large and small artillery pieces from all over the country, and more than 60 artillery pieces were fired together, and the huge roar instantly covered out other sounds on the battlefield.

"Ahem." Inside the Chinese troops' defensive line, Chen Zongbai leaned over and hid in the trench, choking on his throat because of the smell of the shells, and coughing violently twice.

"Brother Chen, there are a lot of Annan artillery on dog days!"

Wu Fengdian said loudly.

"At least four or five pieces of artillery, it seems that that old boy Li Yu has brought all the artillery in Haiphong Province!"

Chen Zongbai couldn't help but curse, and asked loudly, "How is the defense line?" Did the brothers suffer heavy casualties? ”

"The line of defense is fine, the brothers are safe hiding in the trenches!" After Wu Fengdian finished speaking, he carefully stretched out his head to check the position environment: "His damn Annan artillery is not accurate, and the shells are flying behind the position." ”

"Hey, Hey, Annan soldiers, it's not that Brother Wu doesn't know, when they finish firing the cannon, it's our turn to shoot!" ……

After the first round of artillery salvos, the intermittent artillery fire lasted for about five or six minutes, and when the last artillery stopped firing, the Annam infantry assembled at the front began to attack, led by junior officers.

"Bang Bang Bang" was still four or five hundred meters away from the Chinese troops' defensive line, and the advancing Annan soldiers began to shoot.

"Brothers, hold steady, wait until the Annam people enter a range of 300 meters before shooting!" Bullets rained down in front of the position, and several experienced Wehrmacht officers shouted a shout to the young men who had just joined the army to prevent them from getting too nervous.

"Lord Zhou, is this thing really as powerful as you say?" In the machine-gun position, a peasant soldier asked, pointing to a bulky machine gun.

"Needless to say, when Lao Tzu followed the prince to fight the world in South America, a machine gun burst through, and none of the enemies in front stood up!" The machine gunner was a veteran of Sun Bin's transfer from the 300 Wehrmacht, and he spoke with a sense of pride.

"Alas, the villain is relieved." The peasant soldiers glanced at the Annan soldiers who were swarming up, and calmed down their nervousness a little.

"Brother Wu, my brother reminds you, study the battlefield, maybe you can become an officer like me in the future." The machine gunner is a veteran with deep qualifications, because he followed Sun Bin to Nanyang and was promoted to second lieutenant officer before departure, so the Annan soldiers in front of the position were not only not nervous and afraid, but also had a sense of expectation to obtain combat achievements.

"Yes......" The peasant soldier nodded in reply, focusing mainly on the Annan soldiers on the position.

"Lord Zhou, the Annan people have touched it!"

"Don't make a fuss, I'll watch it!" The Heavy reproached and said to himself, "Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps...... Get into the shooting range! As soon as the last sentence fell, the machine gunner immediately shook the Gatling heavy machine gun shooting wrench, and the crisp machine gun fire sounded, and the Gatling heavy machine gun with nine shooting holes fired bullets continuously, and the Annan soldiers who swarmed in front of the position fell in rows.

"Prepare spare bullets!" The machine gunner operated the machine gun and loudly alerted the three ammo men who were stunned.

The Gatling heavy machine gun fired 300 rounds per minute, and the machine gun quickly consumed more than half of the bullets, while the three peasant soldiers who were responsible for loading ammunition were stunned for a moment because they saw the lethality of the machine gun for the first time.

"What are you doing, hurry up and get the ammunition!" The Heavy got angry and kicked a soldier.

"Yes, yes," the reacting soldier quickly stood up, one of the three cleaned up the shell casings left behind by the shot, and the other two worked together to reload the ammunition.

After a hectic reload, the Gatling machine gun was fired again, and the sound of "da-da-da" firing became a nightmare for the Annan soldiers, and all the soldiers fell within the range of the machine gun.

In less than half an hour after the start of the battle, the front-line soldiers of the Annan army suffered more than a thousand casualties.

The Annan army belonged to a backward feudal army, with 1,000 casualties accounting for nearly one-tenth of the total number of Annan troops, and was close to the brink of collapse of the Annan army.

"Youkai!" The heavy machine guns that appeared for the first time on the battlefield of Annam frightened the soldiers of Annam at the front of the position, and it is not known which soldier was the first to shout, and then the other soldiers retreated one after another, colliding with the troops in the rear who continued to attack.

"Steady and steady, who dares to retreat Lao Tzu killed him!"

General Annan, who was supervising the battle in the rear, shot and killed a fleeing soldier with one shot, and just as he shocked a group of defeated soldiers, an even larger rout surged in front of the battle line.

"General, withdraw quickly, the troops are defeated, and it will be too late to withdraw if you want to!" The soldiers grabbed the sleeves of the generals who supervised the war and persuaded them eagerly.

"Alas! The defeat was like a mountain, and the general could not return to the sky with the strength of one person. The general sighed and reluctantly retreated to the rear with his own soldiers.