"Dashuai, although it can last for three days, we are short of one thing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info "Dong Fuxiang remembered that he would break through the Yanghe defense line of the Mengyin giant bandits tomorrow, and his heart suddenly had no bottom.

"What's missing?" Nie Shicheng was still immersed in his own plans, but he didn't know much about the current situation of the other two armies.

"Cannonballs! Each cannon of the Gan army only had 5 shells with the cannon, and the other ammunition was placed in the baggage camp. Dong Fuxiang said.

"Marshal, our new army is the same, there is a serious shortage of shells." Yuan Shikai also suddenly interjected.

"At the beginning of the attack, all the shells of the three armies were used together!" Nie Shicheng said decisively.

Nie Shicheng actually has no better way, knowing that his supplies are exhausted and his morale is low, but he also has to fight against the water, no matter whether he wins or not, he has to take the initiative to find out the situation of the Mengyin giant bandits. If tens of thousands of troops sit here and wait for the supplies sent by the green camp three days later, and they don't fight a single battle, they will lose all their supplies, I am afraid that the emperor and the queen mother will not be able to pay the difference.

"Order the sergeant of the baggage battalion not to spread the word about the robbery!" In the end, Nie Shicheng did not forget to keep it secret.

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After Xu Liedai evacuated the Qing army camp with the guard battalion, he gave the guard battalion a great commendation after arriving at the temporary command headquarters, so that Lou Ming, the commander of the guard battalion, could earn a good performance in front of Yan Qiubai, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion.

While Xu Lie took advantage of Lou Ming's explanation of the combat process, he sneaked back to the arms warehouse and slept beautifully, and at the same time cleaned up the various possibilities of the Qing army's encirclement and suppression in his brain.

Through several contacts in the early stage, Xu Lie felt that he had figured out the strength of Wu Yi's former army and Gan's army, as for Yuan Shikai's new army, it might be more powerful, but the depression that he felt that it was difficult to get rid of when encountering the enemy's heavy soldiers had already cleared up. And after the Qing army lost a lot of supplies, it must not have lasted long.

Xu Lie, who was in a bright mood, immediately ordered all the soldiers of the guard battalion to rest immediately, and the battalions of the main regiment and the reconnaissance battalion were on alert in accordance with the established plan, and were ready to annihilate the small Qing army that dared to attack.

As for Xu Lie, naturally he didn't need to rest, because he had already rested. Of course, Xu Lie will not only stay in the temporary headquarters, he has a feeling that the baggage and supplies are almost lost and the Qing army is very likely to attack.

Besides, Nie Shicheng had to wait for the two armies behind, but now that the two armies have arrived, and he hasn't launched an attack yet, does he have to wait until the last few grains of grain are eaten before he starts?

It's just that the feeling is the feeling, but Xu Lie doesn't know which direction the Qing army will move.

Fortunately, Xu Lie's doubts were answered in less than two hours.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, more than 3,000 people of the Qing army (Gan army) drove to the bank of the Yanghe River, and some of the Qing troops blocked the Mengshan army's position with rifles and electric guns, while the other part of the Qing army carried all kinds of bridge-building equipment and prepared to build bridges over the Yanghe River.

The Qing army was just preparing to make a move, and Xu Lie got the news.

Because on the opposite side of the Qing army, only one company of the Mengshan Army was defending, Xu Lie was worried that the defensive strength was insufficient, so he immediately took a reconnaissance company with him to reinforce it.

At the same time, Xu Lie also asked Ren Hang, the commander of the first regiment of the main force, to immediately send troops to reinforce several other places where the Qing army might cross the river.

Xu Lie was still two kilometers away from the battle site when he heard the sound of artillery from the Qing army. Xu Lie had to order the entire reconnaissance company to run forward.

Xu Lie suddenly felt a little pressure again, because as a war, the side that fired first always seemed to be able to take advantage of it.

Indeed, in this short-handed battle across the river, which broke out for less than twenty minutes, the Qing army took advantage of some advantages.

The Qing army was at the forefront and prepared at least three hundred riflemen to cover the soldiers who were building the bridge. The 300 riflemen of the Gan Army did not use Hanyang-made or old-fashioned rifles, but Mosin Nagan (M1891) rifles made by Xiongguo. Although the rifle in Gan Jun's hand is not as good as the five or six semi-automatic in Mengshanjun's hand, it is much more advanced than Hanyang's hand.

Hanyang-made, imitation is the commission 1888 rifle, theoretically with the Mosinagan rifle of the same generation, but because it is an imitation, there are many problems, in short, Hanyang-made even if it is a new gun, its effective shooting distance will not exceed 250 meters, and the half-new and half-old rifle, the effective distance is only about 150 meters, so the use of Hanyang-made and the effective range of more than 400 meters semi-automatic but not compared.

However, as a generation of famous guns, although the Mosinagan rifle is not as good as the overall performance of the Type 56 semi-automatic (the semi-automatic rifle is two generations ahead), it is not much different from the semi-automatic rifle in terms of effective firing distance, and coupled with the particularity of the riverbank location, the distance between the rifles on both sides of the river is only 300 meters.

Therefore, the battlefield situation became: the Qing army wanted to build a bridge, and the infantry of the Mengshan army blocked it with guns; The 300 riflemen of the Qing army suppressed the rifles of the Mengshan army; The Mengshan Army took the lead in using electric machine guns, and then the Qing army used electric test guns, but the number of electric race guns in the Qing army was less than that of the Mengshan Army (a company of the Mengshan Army was equipped with 2 heavy machine guns as standard, but the battalion headquarters had a heavy machine gun platoon, and another 6 heavy machine guns, and on this port, the Mengshan Army arranged 4 heavy machine guns), so they used artillery, and used artillery to hit heavy machine gun positions, and at a distance of several hundred meters, basically a dozen and one accurate.

What Xu Lie heard was that the Qing artillery was shelling the heavy machine gun position of the Mengshan Army. Due to the limited number of artillery shells, the Qing army only fired a dozen shells in total, but at this moment, a heavy machine gun and soldiers of the Mengshan army were basically destroyed, and the most important thing was that a group of people who built bridges in the Qing army had penetrated deep into the river valley, and the terrain on the river bank naturally blocked the Mengshan army's shooting at the enemy who went deep into the river valley.

The company of the Mengshan Army also has artillery, but there are only 2 60 mortars, this kind of small mortar, in fact, is the best to deal with the machine gun position, but when the machine guns were fired before, because the machine guns of the Mengshan Army did not suffer, the company commander did not call the 60 forced artillery in time.

However, after the Qing army opened fire, the 2 60 guns could only stare dryly, because the two small cannons could not hit the artillery positions of the Qing army at all. And when 60 was forced to find the bad luck of the Qing army's machine gun position, he found that the Qing army's machine gun had already shifted its position.

Depressed! This feeling is the true portrayal of the heart of the artillery of the Mengshan Army at this time.

When Xu Lie arrived, the morale of the Mengshan army had dropped to the freezing point, and the Qing army would not lose to themselves by fighting rifles; Fight heavy machine guns, but their own side was knocked out, fight artillery, other people's artillery has a long range. Therefore, including the commander, they didn't know what to do next, but they hid in the trenches and fired slowly and aimlessly with the Qing army.

"Bastard, what kind of battle are you fighting?" As soon as Xu Lie saw this appearance, he immediately burst into flames: "Mortar squad, immediately retreat two hundred meters, and launch an artillery bombardment on the dense place of the Qing army on the riverbank, note: the point is to change positions immediately after one shot, don't be bitten by the Qing artillery!" ”