Chapter 0064: The Power of the Heavy Machine Gun
High in the mountains, the headquarters of the Mengshan Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Xu Lie and the commanders of all walks of life are holding high-powered military binoculars to observe the enemy's movements.
"Report to the commander, all the baggage troops behind the enemy line have entered the valley!"
"Okay, order the five battalions, tie up the pockets, and never allow a single Qing army to escape! Order the four battalions to immediately launch an attack on the Qing army's forward! Order the artillery company to immediately destroy the artillery ranks of the Qing army! Order the battalions, the general assault begins! ”
Xu Lie took a breath and issued four orders.
Theoretically, there should be a time lag between the last order and the previous three orders, and it is necessary to see the effect of the attack before deciding when to launch a general attack, but the performance of the Qing army in front of the four battalions, one company and one platoon just now really made Xu Lie look down on him a little. Mao, this kind of war scum, what else to consider, attack directly. After all, if the main force of the Qing army has not been taken after dark, the number of Mengshan troops is insufficient, in case the big fish are missed.
"Boom, boom—"
The attack was first launched by artillery batteries, and their targets were the artillery of the Qing army. Just now, because the forward was blocked, the Qing army was in a state of slow movement, and their artillery was also moving slowly. It means that the artillery of the Qing army did not stop at all and prepared to open fire, so the Mengshan Army's 6 75mm mountain guns, as soon as the shells exploded on the ground, the Qing artillery scattered and fled.
"Enemy attack-" The artillery commander saw the shells explode in front of his eyes, and the stumps and broken arms of several artillerymen flew into the sky, and he was terrified.
"Kill-" All battalions of the Mengshan Army, except for the artillery platoon and heavy machine gun platoon, who were condescendingly monitoring the battlefield, everyone else jumped into the valley to participate in the final encirclement and annihilation decisive battle!
"My lord, no, we are surrounded by bandits!" Governor Zhang Rumei was panicked by the artillery of the Mengshan Army, and an adjutant ran to report.
"The bandits are heavy, where do the bandits come from?" Zhang Rumei asked rhetorically.
"My lord, quick, transfer immediately! A bandit rushed at us! At this time, Zhu Yi also turned around on his horse, ready to pull the governor to avoid.
The heavy soldiers he was talking about were the guard company and reconnaissance company led by Xu Lie himself.
These 300-strong team are all sharpshooters, and they are also masters of martial arts. In this kind of battle, Xu Lie naturally took out the Type 05 strategic gun, coupled with his amazing marksmanship, within two hundred meters of the fan-shaped area in front of him, any enemy who raised his gun against him did not need to shoot the platoon commanders under his company, and he had already been slammed down.
"Don't panic, we have tens of thousands of troops!" At the critical moment, Zhang Rumei is also very face-saving, or has the majesty of a superior.
"Boom-" A 75-mm mountain artillery shell exploded near the left, and the air wave set off by the explosion immediately carried more than a dozen soldiers into the sky.
"Quick, quick, transfer immediately!" Seeing this, Zhang Rumei dared to insist, and immediately asked the sedan chair driver to turn.
"Rush—"
"Kill—"
"Shoot or kill! Surrender or kill! ”
On the battlefield, there were the figures of the Mengshan army everywhere, the roar of the Mengshan army everywhere, and the crisp gunfire that the Qing soldiers had never heard.
In this battle, the most important thing is to take the middle where Zhang Rumei is located, which is a large group of 6,000 people, as long as it is broken up, or Zhang Rumei is captured and killed alive, this group can be disintegrated.
Therefore, in this battle of annihilation in the Pig Waist Valley, Xu Lie asked the fourth battalion to block the attack, let the fifth battalion pinch the tail, and let the 123rd battalion group attack the enemy's middle army.
At the same time, the mountain artillery company of the Mengshan Army actually took the enemy's Chinese army as its own artillery target.
The three main battalions, plus the artillery company, the guard company, and the reconnaissance company, have a total strength of exactly 2,000 people, and with 2,000 people armed with modern weapons, they can not win against only 6,000 people with old-fashioned muskets and a small number of Hanyang-made people?
"Bang bang bang ......" Seeing a group of enemies resisting stubbornly, Xu Lie immediately swept over. Of course, it is impossible for Xu Lie's style of play to destroy an enemy with a single bullet, but in the face of the enemy group, this style of play is the most effective.
"Boom-"
Huang Jisheng, the commander of the mountain artillery company, although he was a general of the Qing army, he won the essence of Xu Lie's tactics. After the Qing artillery was almost blown to pieces, he asked each artillery to find its own target and fire shells at the enemy group of more than 500 people to disperse the enemy's situation.
As for the Mengshan Army, although it arranged its tactics with battalions as units, it was impossible for a battalion of hedgehogs to gather together during a battlefield assault, but to use a company or a smaller platoon as a unit to make a rapid assault, and in this kind of assault, each company also carried two mortars from the firepower squad and immediately bombarded them with mortars if they encountered a large force of enemies.
"Lord Governor, can you please get off the sedan chair and ride a horse instead?" Zhu Yi exclaimed eagerly.
Because in the process of breaking through, I found that no matter which direction I rushed, there were always shells coming from front and back, and at the same time, the bandits rushing behind were getting closer and closer. It had been only two quarters of an hour since the first shell exploded, but, it seems, the army had lost a third.
"Okay, horseback riding!"
Zhang Rumei also doesn't want to sit in a sedan chair, because there is a particular thing about sitting in a sedan chair, that is, if the sedan chair bearer is walking steadily, the feeling of the sedan chair person is comfortable, but if the sedan chair bearer carries the sedan chair on uneven ground and runs, it is equivalent to taking the life of the sedan chair person, and if he can't run for a few miles, the porridge of the sedan chair person overnight may be shaken out.
"Da Da Da, Da ......" At this time, in the direction of Tanao, the roar of a heavy machine gun was suddenly heard. It turned out that the commander of the rear army of the Qing army at the end of the valley was quite clever and could not get out at first glance, but he organized 2,000 soldiers and rushed out of the valley on all fronts.
The fifth battalion responsible for pinching the tail, the battalion commander Wang Ye is Xu Lie's sworn brother, and he also has a lot of prestige in the army.
Originally, there were more than 500 people in the fifth battalion, and it may not be impossible to block the 2,000 people who were backward, but as mentioned above, this Pig Waist Valley is not a good place for ambushes, whether it is in the valley, or the mouth of the valley, or the tail of the valley, it is relatively wide, and the narrowest place is more than 1,000 meters, so if you want to block the cross-section of more than 1,000 meters with a force of about 500 people, the strength will inevitably be very thin, and when the enemy breaks through in a cluster charge, it is not enough to rely on semi-automatic rifles alone.
So, the heavy machine guns of the 5th battalion were the first to go into battle.
When the heavy machine gun sounded, the soldiers on both sides involved in the battle, only to see the person hit by the bullet, like wheat under the sickle, stubble falling, and the situation is extremely miserable, 12.7 mm bullets, the power is at least two to three times that of rifle bullets, so no matter where it hits the person, it is absolutely seriously injured, as for the situation of broken legs and hands, and diarrhea, it is even more common.
"Wow......" Some soldiers couldn't stand this miserable situation and immediately vomited. Nima, it's really miserable, a human tragedy!