With a single ignition from Anthony, more than a hundred former European captives lit dozens of leads.

A few minutes later, a series of violent explosions occurred in a three-kilometer-long and two-kilometer-wide area along the front line of Xinglongtun, Shitun, and Zhangjiafang, with the nearest explosion point about 100 meters away from the Qing army's trenches, and the explosion area enveloped more than three-quarters of the strength of the Third Division.

The soldiers of the Tiance Army of the Third Division were sitting in the crater of a volcano, and the violent explosions continued to explode, and for a time dust flew and rubble flew wildly, and the entire offensive position was filled with gunsmoke, and soldiers were constantly thrown into the air by the explosions.

Most of the tank units that had just arrived were also affected, more than a dozen armored vehicles were blown up by the blast of the explosion, several armored vehicles were overturned, and the thick-skinned tanks were blown up and scattered.

"Good, good fried! Blow up these damn Tiance Army! Hahaha! Dolgon laughed excitedly when he saw the Tiance Army struggling in the explosion.

Dorgon was so excited, he endured a whole day for this moment, and prepared for this moment for a year.

In order to attract most of the Tiance army to the minefield, the Qing army in this section of the defense line put up a desperate resistance, and the Qing army also paid a heavy price. If the Tiance Army is allowed to easily break through a dozen lines of defense, the commander of the Tiance Army will not invest more troops, and the launch of the minefield will not be able to obtain the greatest results.

The Qing army set up a total of four minefields on the Gaizhou defense line, and now this minefield is the largest, with 500,000 catties of black explosives buried in a radius of about six square kilometers.

Six square kilometers, or six million square meters, is an average of one pound of explosives per twelve square meters. The density of this explosive is frenetic, and if it were modern explosives, there would be no living creatures in the area.

However, the Manchus still used black powder, and it was unrealistic to kill all the Tiance troops in the area. Therefore, the new force led by Du Du, the king of Anping County of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was the last straw for Dolgon to crush the Tiance army.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was a semi-feudal and semi-slave form of government, and its productive forces were much more backward than those of the Ming Dynasty.

It was a stupid way to use minefields to attack the Tiance army, but it was a way that the Manchus had no way to do, because the difference in the generation of Tiance's weapons was too great.

"What's going on? What really happened on the battlefield? ”

Suddenly there were continuous explosions on the battlefield, and the scope of the explosion enveloped most of the area where the Tiance Army was located, Li Zixuan asked loudly after observing through the binoculars.

"One brigade, one brigade, please answer when you receive it!"

"Second Brigade, call Second Brigade, please answer if you receive it!"

"Three brigades, three brigades ......!"

The staff headquarters of the 3rd Division and the communications platoon of the division headquarters were in a hurry, urgently calling and contacting the troops at the front.

"Sun Shengjie, Sun Shengjie, Staff Officer Zhang, Staff Officer Zhang!" Li Zixuan hurriedly walked over and shouted.

"Divisional Commander!" Chief of Staff Sun Shengjie said.

Li Zixuan asked, "Chief of Staff Sun, have you contacted the front?" What happened? ”

"Report to the Divisional Commander!" Sun Shengjie calmed down his nervousness and said: "According to drone observation and news from the front line, Jiannu set up a minefield more than 100 meters in front of the front line of Xinglongtun, Shitun and Zhangjiafang, and detonated it after our army stepped into the minefield.

"The current situation is that the commander of the 1st Brigade, Wang Anmin, was seriously wounded, and the 1st Brigade was temporarily commanded by Li Zeyang, the brigade instructor. The commander of the Second Brigade, Yang Jie, had been killed, instructor Chen Wenquan was wounded, and the Second Brigade was temporarily commanded by Wu Yuming, chief of staff of the brigade. And the third brigade has not been contacted so far. ”

"The situation at the front is very unpromising! According to preliminary estimates, more than half of the casualties of our troops may have been lost, and most of the soldiers were shocked after the minefield was detonated, and their reaction ability and combat effectiveness decreased sharply. ”

"Li Zeyang, the instructor of the 1st Brigade, asked the division headquarters to immediately send reinforcements to stop the counterattack of Jiannu, and Wu Yuming, chief of staff of the 2nd Brigade, asked the artillery and air force to fiercely shell the Jiannu positions on the front line of Xinglongtun, Shitun and Zhangjiafang, and create a buffer zone to buy time for our army to withdraw the wounded."

A cold sweat broke out on Li Zixuan's forehead, the Tiance Army had never encountered such a big setback and blow, and it was the first time that the front-line troops had asked for reinforcements.

After listening to Sun Shengjie's report, Li Zixuan immediately said: "Order the artillery and air force to immediately launch the most fierce attack on the Jiannu positions on the front line of Xinglongtun, Shitun and Zhangjiafang to provide fire support for our army." ”

Sun Zhengchun said: "Division commander, more than half of our mortars were damaged in the explosion just now because they accompanied the infantry to attack the Jiannu trench. The Air Force has just returned home, and it may take about 40 minutes to relaunch an attack on the enemy after reloading. Therefore, the only firepower that our army can use now is self-propelled howitzers and Type 38 artillery. ”

Li Zixuan shouted: "Order the self-propelled howitzers and Type 38 artillery to fire with all their strength and hit the highest rate of fire." In addition, four Wuzhi-9 helicopters on reconnaissance missions were ordered to launch an attack on the enemy with machine guns. ”

"Yes!" Sun Zhengchun stood up and saluted.

"Shoko, Shoko!" Li Zixuan shouted Dai Guixiang, the commander of the guard platoon of the Third Division.

"Here!" Dai Guixiang responded loudly.

Li Zixuan took out his pistol and said: "Immediately notify the guard platoon, the engineer battalion, the division headquarters cooking squad, the logistics office, etc., all the soldiers who can hold weapons will support the front line with me." ”

"Yes!" Dai Guixiang rushed away.

In a short time, the cadres and soldiers of the guard platoon, the engineer battalion, and the subordinate departments of the division headquarters were assembled, and the total number was about 600.

Li Zixuan stood in front of the team and said loudly: "Our army encountered Jiannu's conspiracy in the process of attacking the Gaizhou defense line, and the situation is very critical, and now we need your support." ”

"The engineer battalion drove and rode buses to the front, others drove dump trucks and trucks, loaded with reinforcements, and set off immediately."

"Yes!"

The first time the guard platoon and the engineer battalion were put into battle, all the soldiers were extremely excited, as were the civilian personnel of the units and the officers and men of the subordinate units.

"Division commander, division commander, take us there, we are not bad seeds, we can also kill the enemy."

When Li Zixuan saw that it was someone from the medical team and the communication platoon, he couldn't help but reprimand: "Don't make a mess, the medical team will immediately prepare to receive the wounded, and the communication platoon will do a good job of communication and liaison." ”

"The others immediately got in the car and set off with me."

"Li Zixuan, Li Zixuan!" Instructor Wu Zhengchun panted and ran over to stop him: "Li Zixuan, you are the division commander, the military commander of the third division, I ask you to stay at the division headquarters, coordinate the overall situation, and do not act recklessly." ”

"Old Wu, you...!"

"Don't say it again, the support front line will be led by Chief of Staff Sun, and you stay." Wu Zhengchun said categorically.

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