Chapter 44: Artillery Battle (Part II)
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The artillery battalion in Sun Daoren's hand was immediately laid out on the official road.
The 10th town of the provisional army trained in Fujian was reorganized by the army stationed in Fujian and Hunan provinces. The Tenth Town Artillery Brigade actually has only one mountain artillery battalion, of which there are only a few new Krupp mountain guns, and the others are copied by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.
"My lord, we don't know where their artillery positions are?" The people from the artillery battalion ran to report to Sun Daoren, who pointed in the direction of Dayang Mountain, "It should be there." ”
However, Sun Daoren only pointed out the direction, but he did not know where the artillery position of the security regiment was, and the artillery company of the security regiment had already arrived at the hidden position in Dayangshan after choosing Dayangshan as the artillery position.
It was about 4,000 meters away from the battlefield, and at such a distance, the Qing army could only distinguish the direction according to the trajectory of the shells, but it could not necessarily calculate the distance.
Sun Daoren pointed out a general direction and then ignored it, and the artillery theory of this era, hiding or not hiding is a topic of debate.
The artillery battalion of the 10th town was under the command of Sun Daoren, and the mountain artillery pulled the artillery to the river beach below the official road with such a swagger, and after about five minutes, after judging the position of the artillery company of the security regiment from the trajectory of the shells, they fired in the direction of Dayang Mountain.
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Ocean Mountain Artillery Position!
As soon as the Qing artillery fired, the commander of the artillery company picked up the walkie-talkie (the walkie-talkie level in World War II, which could talk within 20 kilometers).
"Report to the regiment commander, our company was shelled by the Qing army and was missed."
"Did you find the artillery positions of the Qing army?" Xia Jun asked.
"Found it, on the river beach, extremely scattered."
"Very good, stop the shelling immediately, give you 30 seconds to aim at the Qing artillery, and cover the ......fire after 30 seconds," Xia Jun ordered after the command heard the report.
Before the decisive battle of the infantry, the artillery is the protagonist.
"Yes, my subordinates understand."
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The artillery positions of the Qing army fired two rounds in a row in the direction of Dayangshan, and when the artillery was reset after two fires, the shelling on Dayangshan suddenly stopped.
The artillery battalion of the Qing army on the river beach was very proud, thinking that it had hit.
"That's the hit?" Sun Daoren looked up at the direction of Dayang Mountain and muttered, then grinned: "A group of mud-legged people still dare to play with grandpa, hey!" ”
As soon as Sun Daoren finished speaking, a sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded, and then a cannonball landed beside him.
Rumble!
A bang!
When Sun Daoren heard the whistling sound, he had already fallen to the ground like a dog eating, and after the shell exploded, Sun Daoren got up from the ground with a disgraced face.
"It's a corrective bullet!" Sun Daoren choked on the smoke and dust and coughed violently twice, and then shouted, "Fight back, fight back, fight back for me." ”
On the artillery position of the Qing army, the sound of artillery sounded again.
However, more than ten seconds later, the artillery position of the security regiment on Dayang Mountain launched a thunderous counterattack, only to see shells raining down on the artillery positions of the Qing army.
Shot after shot!
The 75mm rapid-fire gun showed unparalleled firepower at this moment, a gun poured 13~14 shells in one minute, and individual gunners even hit the standard speed of 15 shells.
On the other hand, in the artillery position of the Qing army, the artillery had to be reset once it was fired, and the speed was too slow, while the rapid-fire guns of the security regiment were retreated, and there was no need to reset after the battle.
As soon as the artillery battle began, the artillery fire of the Qing army was drowned out by the shells from Dayangshan, and the fire intensity of the 18 guns was far less than that of the 6 guns of the artillery company of the security regiment.
Six rapid-fire guns poured fire on the river beach, and carried out a fierce covering blow to the Qing artillery position, and the covering fire lasted for nearly three minutes.
One minute ago, the Qing artillery battalion dared to bombard, but in the next two minutes, the Qing artillery position was blown up, and what was even more disastrous was that the shells on the position exploded, and the flesh and blood of the men and horses were blown up in all directions.
The Qing artillerymen, who were not killed by the bombing, ran away with their heads in their hands, running all over the river beach, not to mention firing back.
Three minutes later, the artillery positions at the foot of the Ocean Mountain gradually stopped shelling.
Sun Daoren looked at the messy river beach in a daze, and felt aggrieved for a while, his artillery battalion was unexpectedly knocked out by a group of mud-legged artillery.
When Sun Daoren asked people to clean up, they found that only 6 of the 18 artillery pieces could still be used, and two-thirds of the artillery was lost in this artillery battle, and many people and horses were killed and wounded, and the entire artillery battalion was disabled, and Xiao Qibin, the head of the artillery battalion, was also killed in the artillery battle.
At this time, a scout report came, and the defensive position of the security regiment was found in front, and Sun Daoren hurriedly ordered to stop advancing, although he felt that he had lost the artillery battle just now, but losing was losing, and it was not appropriate to attack now.
Let's get rid of these mud-legged cannons first.
"Your Excellency, the Governor has come to ask what's going on here."
"Tell him it's okay here, let him camp on the river beach, and attack tomorrow." Sun Daoren sent a sigh impatiently, thinking that the governor was annoying enough, he didn't know how to fight and came to eat and things that got in the way.
"Wang Cheng." Sun Daoren let out a loud shout.
"My subordinates are here, what do you command?" A pipe band (battalion commander) hurriedly stepped forward and asked on his knees.
"Take your battalion and get rid of those mud-legged cannons for me, it should be right behind that hill." Sun Daoren pointed to the condescending Yangshan Mountain in the distance and said to Wang Cheng, and then explained: "It's best to snatch all their cannons, it should be a good thing." ”
"Yes, sir."
"You are the most daring and capable of fighting in the tenth town of our new army, don't let Lord Ben down."
"Remember the teachings of your lords."
"Go ahead!" Sun Daoren waved his hand, and Wang Cheng retreated.
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