It was also because Yuan Shikai's new army was in the vanguard before, and when the Mengshan army launched a charge, it turned into a natural "rear army", so when the Gan army and Wu Yi's army were raided, Yuan Shikai only heard the sound of guns three or four miles away, and as for his own new army, of course, he did not forget to find favorable terrain and establish some small positions. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yuan Shikai in this era should be regarded as a person who knows soldiers.

However, Yuan Shikai's idea of blocking and holding on to the spot was really a mistake at this time, because he had a serious problem with his estimation of the combat power of the Mengshan Army.

His estimate of the total strength of the Mengshan Army was a bit exaggerated, but he did not expect that the organizational ability of the Mengshan Army was already seriously higher than that of his troops.

As far as the historical armies of mankind are concerned, they can be roughly divided into ancient armies, modern armies, and modern armies.

The ancient army was completely a cold weapon force, and the battle basically relied on the number of people, the ability of the commander, and even like the fighting generals in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the ordinary soldiers at that time had a very low combat power, as long as the chief officer died, the battle was basically over.

The modern army can be understood as the troops before World War I, they are equipped with firearms equivalent to the modern army, but their combat thinking is closer to the ancient army, such as liking the tactics of queuing and shooting, even if they occasionally use odd soldiers, they are only used as strange soldiers, and do not regard them as the key to turning the tide of the war. The degree of organization of the modern army is also low, and if the commander-in-chief is killed or captured in battle, the combat effectiveness of the officers and men at the grassroots level will be greatly reduced.

And the Mengshan Army is neither an ancient army nor a modern army in the hands of Yuan Shikai, but a modern army with the most advanced ideas. Such an army, not to mention the equipment, but only the degree of organization of the soldiers, is much higher.

The so-called degree of organization refers to the combat effectiveness that soldiers can exert in different atmospheres. For example, in the ancient army, a soldier was not called a soldier, and in the modern army, a few soldiers could not have any combat effectiveness, and maybe a few farmers could capture these soldiers with farm tools.

But the soldiers of the modern army are not the same. If there is only one soldier left, then this soldier has the tactics of fighting alone, he can survive in the field, and he may even complete the combat mission when the conditions are right; If there were three or five people, they would definitely form a battle group; If there were a little more of them, they would automatically organize themselves into the appropriate military structure and have one of the officers with the highest rank or most distinguished military achievements as commander.

In the case of the death of the army in battle, the modern army has a system of commander postponement. The chief officer died in battle and was replaced by an adjutant, and the adjutant died in battle and was replaced by the commander of the first detachment in the battle series. In other words, under the modern military system, the impact of officer death on the outcome of the war is quite low.

As the Mengshan Army, which is basically equivalent to a modern army, its combat power is naturally much higher than that of the newly formed army of the modern army. This kind of gap is usually not noticeable, but as long as this kind of field engagement, it will immediately show its original form.

The reconnaissance battalion and the guard battalion were not equipped with heavy machine guns or mortars of more than 81 mm caliber, but they were armed with 60 mortars, and each company was equipped with 4 60 mortars. Because the total weight of the 60 is less than 10 kilograms, plus the shells are shared by each soldier, it is completely light.

Therefore, the two armies met and fought, Yuan Shikai picked up the telescope and looked, Mao, you only have a thousand people and dare to attack my tens of thousands of people, isn't this Tai Sui's head breaking ground, is it completely an act of looking for death! Therefore, Yuan Shikai continued to sit in the courtyard of a small village, ignoring the fighting outside, he felt that he had overestimated the combat effectiveness of these Mengshan bandits.

It seems that in fact it also proves Yuan Shikai's judgment, the Mengshan army attacked for half an hour, and did not make any progress, if it weren't for the lack of shells in their artillery, these bandits would have been bombed away a long time ago.

However, not long after the stalemate between the two sides, some of his subordinates came to report: "My lord, it's not good, the Mengshan bandits' marksmanship is too accurate, we are not opponents!" ”

"Send another force to attack from the flanks and leave this group of bandits behind!" Yuan Shikai did find that the bandits were getting more and more energetic, and his own side seemed to have killed two or three hundred people, Mao, what can I do like this.

Yuan Shikai really saw the crux of the problem, that is, in the stalemate between the two sides, most of the soldiers who were killed were their own new army, and the bandits didn't seem to see anyone killed in the battle.

However, Yuan Shikai's instructions are only equivalent to the "send-off" hand on Go. When the flank of one of his battalions had just entered a depression, it was suddenly bombarded by a burst of shells, and the rapid shelling of 16 60 guns of the guard battalion was equivalent to blowing up the depression into a sea of fire, and Yuan Shikai's new army lost hundreds of men in just one round of shelling. However, when the new army tried to retreat, they could not, because the mortars had sealed off their retreat.

If you can't go back, then scatter and hide, right? However, in this natural environment of annihilating the enemy, in addition to the preset 16 mortars, there is also at least one platoon of sharpshooters, whether it is a guard battalion or a reconnaissance battalion, almost all of them are sharpshooters.

"My lord, the flank attack force we sent was ambushed, and there is a lot of bad luck!" After a while, his subordinates came back to report.

"Send two more battalions to relieve the siege, and at the same time send two more battalions to the frontal position to beat the bandits back!" Because of the terrain and many other reasons, Yuan Shikai wants to deal with the guard battalion, only these two means, of course, can also be farther and detour, but that back and forth is not a problem that can be solved in an hour.

"Report to the commander, a regiment and a battalion are coming to report!" Just when Xu Lie felt that Yuan Shikai had increased his troops, and he wanted to take out heavy equipment such as light machine guns from the ammunition warehouse, Huang Xinzhong arrived at the scene with a battalion.

Originally, Huang Xinzhong had already gone to the front and was sending a small army to lay a trick mine for Yuan Shikai, when Du Ning's telegram came, the situation on the battlefield changed, the encirclement and annihilation were advanced, and Huang Xinzhong was asked to lead the team to turn around and join the commander.

Yes, radio. In addition to the intercom opportunity, the Mengshan Army will temporarily equip telegraph operators and radio stations for troops above the battalion level that are more than the intercom distance according to the combat situation, of course, these radio stations have the technology that is at least 50 years ahead of this era, and Xu Lie is particularly cautious in using them.

"Okay, Huang Xinzhong, immediately use your battalion's heavy machine gun, Lord Yuan is here to give a big gift!" When looking at the black Qing soldiers in front of him, Xu Lie said excitedly.

"Commander, how can the mortar be used?" Huang Xinzhong asked.

"Mortars are temporarily hidden, as a strategic reserve!" At this time, the guard battalion had not yet encountered the Qing army's cannons, which made Xu Lie feel a little unreal.