Chapter 182: Veteran Recollections
Forty years later, the honorary officers who recuperated somewhere in Hebei can still clearly recall the specific experience of this vicious battle, and taste it repeatedly, which has become a great pleasure in life.
"That battle is really hanging."
"Hanging down is not necessarily, it is wonderful."
General Wang Huamin, who once served as the deputy minister of the Beijing garrison, was in the army of Lan Chengchun's army at that time, and was still a small soldier who had not dried up, and that night, in the fierce bombardment of the Qing army, a shrapnel cut his left cheek, forming a glorious scar that will accompany him for the rest of his life.
In the darkness, this little soldier was very panicked, it had always been the Huaxia army that bombarded the Qing army and bombarded the Hui army, and now, suddenly being bombarded by such a fierce artillery fire from the enemy, the ground of the entire barracks for several miles was a sea of fire, and the test for everyone was huge and cruel, at that time, he was lying on the ground, and he didn't dare to move.
"Rush, rush, rush." A burst of angry restlessness sounded in the barracks, at first, everyone didn't know who started first, only after the war did they know, it was Lan Chengchun who personally took the lead, anyway, all the Chinese officers and soldiers were infected, they were in the chaos, encouraging each other, with simple individual weapons, rushing towards the enemy,
Later, someone asked the question, if someone had retreated at that time, would the others have fled?
No one answered positively, which shows that the firepower of the main force of the Qing army, the monk Greenqin, is indeed extremely ferocious, after the defeat of the Tongzhou Bali Bridge more than three years ago, the heroic Mongolian prince only realized the importance of firepower in modern warfare, and then, with the strong support of the Qing court, his troops have been qualitatively improved.
It can be said that if at the time of this battle, Monk Greenqin was still equipped four years ago, then Huaxia Tian** would be completely abused.
Because of the panic, the Huaxia Tian** officers and soldiers who were annoyed and angry because they were suddenly abused and beaten rushed out, but instead became a post that took the initiative to attack.
In the strange environment of darkness and war, the Qing officers and soldiers were ecstatic, because any enemy rushing towards them was killing themselves.
Columns of Qing army foreign guns are waiting for battle,
Because of the darkness of the environment, the Qing army was asked to fight again when it got closer.
This requirement is correct, they are not worried that such a strong crowd of Huaxia Tian ** can completely break through their foreign spear team formation, several queues, and they can completely defeat it in the first round of blows, and the enemy's casualties will be extremely heavy,
However, the Qing army was wrong,
At that time, Monk Greenqin held the telescope, full of ambition, breathing deeply, had raised his saber, ready to command the cavalry to rush and kill when the Chinese army retreated, and annihilated the enemy in one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, he did not have the opportunity to send a cavalry charge, on the contrary, he later gave the order to retreat, and more seriously, he had no time to give the order, so he had to lead the troops, or was carried by the troops and fled.
The heroic and warlike Mongolian prince, in the last moment, was still confident,
The black wave of the Chinese army swept in, and at a distance of thirty meters, or even fifty meters, it was almost a few seconds ahead of the Qing army's shooting, and suddenly became threatening,
Specifically in the location of the battle, the distance is unequal, and it is completely self-estimation in the night battle, which is very confusing,
Relying on experience, the Qing army forbears and wants to lure the Huaxia army to the front and exert the greatest lethality.
One after another, the earthen grenades flew up, ignited the arquebus, and flew above the heads of the Qing army with a roaring flame, and then exploded one after another.
Fire, explosions, smoke,
This was a completely unexpected ending, many Qing troops were waiting for the enemy's flying sabers, as well as long iron spears,
This kind of accident is very scary, like walking on the edge of a cliff at night, and you suddenly lose weight.
In fact, Huaxia Tian** in the chaos still maintains the combat principle of a time-tested division, bombarding the enemy with firepower, and taking advantage of the enemy's chaos to rush to kill.
The troops of Mr. Mu Tushan, the general of Xi'an, suffered a big loss, even the general of Changshun also heard a little, but the army of the monk and the king who had just been reinforced from the front line of the Huai River was completely unaware, in front of them, it was a special force, in the Huai River, although there were many cavalry of the Twist Army, and they were flying back and forth, but they did not have any modern firepower that could ignore the confrontation, and they were completely cold weapons.
As soon as it exploded, it was a large piece of grenades, which the soldiers threw desperately at that time, and the Chinese officers and soldiers could also see the faint enemy queue, knowing that it was not a good thing, and at a casual glance, they knew that it was the enemy's foreign spearmen, and it was not a team, not a group, but a series of copper walls, about to be able to fire stormy ammunition of the enemy infantry cluster,
Preemptive, last-struck,
After several months of use and training, Huaxia Tian** is quite experienced in throwing, so the density and power of that round of throwing, you can refer to the first version of "Bright Sword" Li Yunlong's grenade to destroy a certain high-altitude stronghold of the Japanese Kou,
In fact, this short three or four seconds determines the real victory or defeat.
encountered a surprise attack, and many Qing infantry did not have time to fire the trigger, and were either killed or wounded or were so shocked that they fled.
It's as simple as that, the weapon of individual melee combat, Huaxia Tian** has the advantage, killing the Qing army in seconds,
According to the statistics of the later battlefield inventory, the Qing army's foreign artillery bombardment caused 50 percent of the damage to the barracks of Lan Chengchun's army, more than 800 people were killed, 400 were seriously wounded, and countless minor injuries were inflicted.
On the infantry contact line, there were more than 700 corpses of the Qing army, which was a masterpiece of grenades of the Huaxia army in a few seconds, and then, because the Qing army retreated and trampled, and the continuous bombardment of grenades, more than 2,000 people died within 500 meters from the contact line.
The Qing infantry who collapsed and fled in shock threw away their weapons, forming a huge wave, recoiling their cavalry units and other troops, only a few places, are still resisting, and the power of foreign guns also made Huaxia Tian** pay the price of more than a hundred people,
In general, the Huaxia army was chasing, the Qing army was retreating, and even the great monk king, one of the most famous generals of the late Qing Dynasty, Chang Sheng, was forced to turn around and flee.
Huaxia Tian** chased angrily and expelled the Qing army from more than ten miles, and then returned to his military camp position.
In the dark night, Huaxia Tian ** did not have more combat results, because the Qing army was all veterans, and they ran away like thieves, once they found something wrong, they simply found a place in the tunnel, drilled it up to hide, or pretended to be dead.
The biggest result was that the Huaxia Army captured all the foreign artillery of the Qing army.
This is the deadliest,
The enemy's heavy weapons and equipment, totaling more than 120 large and small artillery pieces, together with a large amount of ammunition, all fell into the hands of the Huaxia Army.
Lan Chengchun's exploits were the most among many generals, and this battle was won, but it was a tragic victory, because, in the retaliatory bombardment before the final retreat of the Qing artillery, at least more than 1,000 Chinese officers and soldiers were killed or wounded, so that the total loss of troops in this night battle reached an astonishing two regiments and more than 2,300 people.
It is worth mentioning that since then, the only thing that can be relied on is its cavalry.