9oo34983 Chapter 461 defensively

※ The Mongolian bandits outside the city of Guihua did not attack immediately, they set up camp far away from the city of Guihua, but sent a small number of rangers to run back and forth outside the range of rifles, circling around the city of Guihua.

For nomadic tribes, storming cities is a big taboo, mobility is their advantage, and the same applies to the bandits of the steppe.

Therefore, Xu Shuzheng was a little unsure about the intentions of this bandit team, and he didn't know if the other party was bluffing.

The enemy did not take the initiative to attack, and the defenders of the city of Naturalization restrained their ranks and did not shoot at the rangers. At this distance, even if you fire, you will not pose any threat to the other side, but will waste bullets. And increase the tension in the city.

The "Northwest Frontier Office" is the highest military and administrative organ dispatched by the Central Committee and the Sixth Army Department to naturalization, so the current naturalized city defense commander is Xu Shuzheng, director of the Northwest Frontier Affairs Office and the Northwest Frontier Affairs Office, and he is the highest military commander in the city, even if Yang Bang recommends, he must obey the orders he issued.

Although Yang Banghan is a high-minded and arrogant figure, but under the critical situation of the army, he also had to obey Xu Shuzheng's dispatch, summoned his guard company and heavy team, and stood by in a cattle market in the north of the city, and was responsible for organizing those guys who could ride horses and shoot guns sent by various businesses in the city and forming a cavalry team, not expecting these people to be able to go out of the city to meet the battle, but if the war was unfavorable and the bandits broke into the city, these people could come in handy, after all, they were locals. I am very familiar with the grass and wood here.

As for Xu Shuzheng. He was not idle, and took his staff officers to visit the leaders of merchants of various ethnic groups in the city one by one. As for those businesses that stored guns and ammunition, they also mobilized them to temporarily lend their guns and ammunition to the "Northwest Frontier Office" to organize the city defense forces in a unified manner.

The bandits outside the city were busy setting up camp, and the defenders of the city were also busy reinforcing the city defenses, and using the time. Xu Shuzheng organized the strong men in the city, and quickly dug some trenches and foxholes behind the city walls. Some improvised barricades were erected to allow for street fighting with bandits after they stormed the city. Be sure to defend the Naturalization City, after all, the geographical location of the city is too important, if it can't be held here, then, in a few days, a large group of bandits may appear in Zhangjiakou, although when they arrive in Zhangjiakou, these bandits will definitely be annihilated by the First Cavalry Brigade, but Xu Shuzheng will definitely not allow this situation to happen, which is related to whether he is derelict in his duties, and it is also related to the central government's opinion of the Beiyang officers.

Because the bandit rangers appeared in all directions, the news of the "bandit siege" could not be sent out for the time being, and only after it was dark could the cavalry be sent to deliver the message, and now, Xu Shuzheng felt even more the importance of deploying a flying detachment in the city, if he had an airplane, then he could not only ensure communication and contact, but also conduct long-distance reconnaissance of the whereabouts of the bandits, so there would be no situation where the bandit brigade suddenly appeared in the city.

A few hours later, Xu Shuzheng finally finished preparing for the battle, hurriedly returned to the city wall, took a telescope and looked at the bandit camp in the distance, and then summoned Yang Banghan to his side.

"Deputy Division Commander Yang, when will your cavalry regiment arrive at naturalization?" Xu Shuzheng asked.

Yang Banghan thought for a moment. said: "Arrive tomorrow morning at the latest, if you discard the insertion, you can go to Naturalization City today."

Originally, the division headquarters planned to transfer all these heavy equipment to Shanhaiguan, and the 1st Cavalry Brigade was also preparing to transfer the whole brigade to Shanhaiguan, if it weren't for your urgent telegram a few days ago. This time, I am afraid that it is only a cavalry battalion, not a cavalry regiment. ”

"Shanhaiguan takes into account the east and west directions, and now those" eight flags outside the pass, jumping up and down, the center attaches importance to the northeast region is also the correct strategy, but now I think that the situation in the Simon and Central Mongolia regions is becoming more and more tense, the central forces are stretched, and the equipment is also stretched, and it is really difficult for the 6th Army Department, I don't know how General Duan will deal with the situation in the Northeast and Mongolia. ”

Seeing Xu Shuzheng suddenly mention Duan Qirui, Yang Banghan shook his head disapprovingly, and said: "General Manager Xu, what you said is not right, now it is the president who is in charge of the overall situation, and the chief Duan is just doing things according to the president's will, and it is also the president's worry to worry about it, and it has nothing to do with President Duan."

Xu Shuzheng smiled faintly, he was nostalgic for the old, Duan Qirui pulled him with one hand back then, and he couldn't help but remember the kindness of the old master. However, he didn't want to dwell on this topic with Yang Banghan, a Republican Army general from the United Front, so he changed the conversation.

"Deputy Division Commander Yang, I heard that your heavy planting team brought a batch of cannons, now, you can hand it over to me, and I will drag out the old guns in the city and form an artillery battalion. Send another adjutant as the battalion commander, and we will have fire support. ”

Seeing that Xu Shuzheng was about to adjust his cannon, Yang Banghan groaned slightly, nodded, and said: "A total of six mortars, all of which are under your command, there are not many of them, but the shells are abundant, but the range is shorter." ”

"Mortars? I thought it was a field artillery, or a mountain artillery. Small.

Xu Shuzheng was a little surprised and asked, "Is it the kind of heavy mortar with a 1-drop caliber?" In the last Great War in Southern Henan, the Beiyang Army was very taboo about this kind of artillery, although the range was not far, but the power was quite strong, and the officers and soldiers on the front line were most afraid of this kind of artillery

Yang Banghan shook his head and said, "The field artillery is still on the way, I am in a hurry to get to naturalization, and it is not fast to drag that kind of field artillery." I also didn't bring mortars of 1 field caliber, and where ... The path and pattern are the new guns of the Hanyang Arsenal. Well to the cavalry military headquarters Ejing let our cavalry try it. The cannon was much lighter, and the cavalry equipment was more suitable, although the caliber was not large and the power was not great. However, the range is much farther than 1 spider pack, which is more than enough to deal with machine guns. ”

In this way, it is not possible to preemptively preemptive. Now the bandit camp is too far away from us, and only field artillery can reach it. ”

Xu Shuzheng sighed, he originally planned to use artillery to preemptively attack people, but now it seems that as long as the bandit's camp is not moved closer, the artillery will not be able to open artillery bombardment.

"Fortunately, I didn't see that there were cannons in the bandit team, and it would not be a problem for us to hold the naturalization, but I was afraid that the bandits would besiege it, and I didn't know that the food in the city could last for a few days." Yang Banghan said worriedly.

Xu Shuzheng was not worried about this food problem, he pointed to the city wall and said: "There are thousands of peaks in this city alone, even if the bandits besiege us, we have food, what I am worried about is the bandits in the city." Although I have sent someone to investigate the spies just now, we can't take it lightly. ”

Yang Banghan nodded, glanced around the city, and saw some merchant men driving their horses to the cattle market in the north of the city. The horses were loaded with bundles of guns, many of which were foreign guns.

"Mr. Xu's office. Are you in the city to get a drug and a gun? Yang Banghan asked.

"We don't know the exact number now, but it is said that at least thousands of foreign guns can be collected in the city, although most of them are old guns, but they are better than local guns, but there are not many bullets, these guns are used by business guards, and they usually deal with only a small group of horse bandits, and dozens of bullets are enough, but in this situation, these bullets are too few."

Xu Shuzheng also looked at the city, but he was thinking about how to organize a team of strong men, although these strong men had not received formal military training, they still had the will to defend the naturalization city, after all, this is their home. Having lost their home, they are rootless wanderers.

At this moment, there were suddenly several long horns from the steppe outside the city, which had been silent for a long time, and then there was a burst of gunfire, but the gunfire was fleeting, did not last, and was obviously fired towards the sky.

Xu Shuzheng and Yang Banghan raised their binoculars to look, and saw many cavalry rushing out of the bandits' camp, carrying the flag and approaching the city wall.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

Some of the defenders on the city wall couldn't help but shoot, judging from the sound of gunfire, it should be an old-fashioned rifle, and the people who use this gun are basically organized strong men, not to mention this marksmanship, but also the range of this rifle is also very problematic, so these shots did not hit any target.

"There is no order. Don't shoot! ”

Xu Shuzheng sent someone to pass the order, and emphasized discipline again, in this situation, wasting a bullet will weaken the city's defense force.

"Rack the mortar here."

Yang Banghan also issued an order to an adjutant that since there was no field telephone, it was impossible to carry out artillery bombardment beyond visual distance, and this method could only be adopted, looking down on the battlefield from a high position.

Soon, the Lou Heavy Brigade set up six millimeter-caliber mortars on the north city wall, and Xu Shuzheng also ordered the adjutant to lead people to drag two old erection field guns to the root of the north city wall, and dug a pit in the ground to increase the elevation angle of the field guns.

The old field guns used shells filled with black powder, which had a long range, but were not very powerful. Therefore, Xu Shuzheng did not plan to throw these two field guns into the war bull at the beginning of the battle, he decided to let the mortars fire first.

There are artillery officers in Yang Banghan's heavy team, these few. The officer did not shout any coordinates, went directly into battle, adjusted the shooting Zhuyuan with his own hands, and then, all the mortars were completely ready to shoot.

Xu Shuzheng's chosen target was the few bandit leaders who carried Dasen and rode horses, and it was these people who used their banners to command the bandit brigade to circle around the Naturalization City, which was a psychological tactic to try to disturb the hearts of the people in the city, and if the bandits had artillery, they would not have resorted to this kind of battle

Finish.

The bandit brigade was divided into two teams, east and west, and they rushed towards each other, and there was always a time when they met, and the shelling area chosen by Xu Shuzheng was at that intersection.

The bandit cavalry circled the city for a week, and seeing that they were about to meet in the north and west of the city, Xu Shuzheng decisively gave the order to open fire.

"Six salvos! Ready, put! ”

An artillery officer shouted a few words, and the six soldiers standing by the mortar quickly threw the shells in their hands into the barrels of the guns through the muzzles.

"Tom! Tong! ”

In the dull sound of cannons. Six cannons flew into the sky, and after a few seconds, they landed on the grassland a few miles away.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Accompanied by flames and black smoke, the explosion of shells billowed in. One of the shells landed a little farther away. But the other shells used flying shrapnel to knock off more than a dozen horse bandits.

Receiving such a fierce blow, the two groups of bandits suddenly disorganized their formation, and they didn't care about showing off their might, and immediately retreated to the north in a hurry, and thousands of people retreated like a tide with the sparse sound of gunfire, and those few big poisons also disappeared in the horse team, but they didn't know whether they fell to the ground.

"A rabble!"

Yang Banghan snorted coldly, waved his hand, and stopped the officers who were preparing to extend the range of the mortar, to deal with such an enemy, anti-personnel are secondary, and the important thing is to destroy their fighting spirit.