Chapter 261 All-Out Siege

Today's two more words, brothers, by the way~~ hehe

Luo Wei smiled, arched his hand and said: "My lord, Xiaguan has a cousin Luo Xing, who is a minor official of Tianjin Weitong (Liupin), but because he often walks in the Governor's Palace, he can be regarded as well-informed......"

Speaking of this, Luo Wei stole a glance at Qin Kai, and the face of Lord Qincha seemed to be a little deep, and his heart ached, could it be that his own news, Qincha already knew? But after saying this, he naturally had to continue.

"Xia Guan is also quite concerned about the war in northern Vietnam, so I asked my cousin to inquire about the news, and I received a telegram the day before yesterday, my cousin inquired that the Minister of Beiyang, Lord Li, seems to have reached a treaty with the French!"

As soon as Qin Kai heard this, the anger in his heart rose violently, this Lord Zhongtang, it seems that he still has to spare no effort and use any opportunity to compete for power, and suppress a force that may have conflicts with him, including himself! He was only appointed as the commander of the North Vietnam Command and the commander of the North Vietnam Army, and it was obvious that this Lord Li Zhongtang had already seen the decline of the French through the Battle of Guò Keelung.

In this situation, those who are in a hurry to sign a treaty should be the French who lost at sea, and the war on these 6 has not broken the pattern in any way, and this court should not be a soft-footed shrimp in this matter anyway! But...... When it comes to the essence of the power struggle, any of the interests of the state can be betrayed, including the state......

After thinking about it, Qin Kai was a little relieved, the people in power in the Manchu court, from the middle-aged fùnv of the Yehenala clan, to several princes and nobles, and then to the powerful Li Zhongtang, how could they really regard these vassal states as the interests of the country, and in their opinion, these lands were just the bane of conflicts with the great powers!

None of them have a visionary! Qin Kai finally hated the Lord of the Middle Hall...... Land means wealth, and in a later period, even the sea was a source of wealth, and when I think of the fishermen of my time, they were even hunted down by their neighbors because they went to the disputed waters to catch some ownerless seafood!

This kind of thing should never be born again, above the sea, what my cannon refers to, is the property right of our Huaxia!

After Luo Wei finished saying the news, Lord Qincha's face was always calm, and a small drum was playing in his heart, and he naturally understood the value of this news, Lord Li Zhongtang seemed to ...... It's almost certain that you're going to stumble on this Chincha-sama...... Surrendering to Lord Zhongtang by himself, it is 100% no mén road, even if there is mén road, it will definitely not be taken seriously!

However, it stands to reason that this news is enough to impress this Lord Qincha with himself, but it is just ...... At this moment, Qin Cha didn't know what he was thinking about, and after thinking about it repeatedly, he didn't say a word wrong! It's all been carefully considered......

Qin Kai got up and paced back and forth a few steps, and then asked, "Governor Luo, is this news from that day?" ”

"Two days ago!"

"Governor Luo, I'm very satisfied with this news," Qin Kai smiled slightly, this news really made him very satisfied, at least he bought some time to react, and he didn't know what this wise Zhongtang Lord and the French talked about, it was really terrible news.

If the stupid court nobles approve this treaty, they will inevitably be afraid to do things on their own side, and they have not yet reached the stage of independence, which is a blatant violation of the treaty, although the Qingliu side should be against the peace talks, and there are still those people in the capital who are not allowed to find trouble with themselves.

Thinking of this, Qin Kai affectionately took Luo Wei's hand, "Governor Luo, I estimate that I will leave Taiping Mansion temporarily today, if there is any news from the front, please send someone to report to Guilin Mansion urgently, can you?" ”

As soon as he said this, Luo Wei was a little dizzy at the time, this lord is really resolute, Lord Qincha let himself be in charge of the official document transfer here, this is the responsibility of the core staff of Qincha, obviously, he can be regarded as officially climbing this big tree! He moved naturally and in response......

In the early morning of the 5th, when the morning light in the sky was just 1 ù, Feng Zhaojin, a general of Guangxi Staff, rode a war horse and led four battalions of troops directly to Zhennan Pass.

The shelling of the camp of the French team south of Xiaodongcao, from the beginning of the Xu Jin barrage shelling to the later regional shelling, lasted for nearly two hours, and the sky had just dawned, and the artillery commander Tang Fang received an order from the headquarters to assist in the ground attack, which made all the artillerymen boil...... The decisive battle has begun! ,

After the shelling in the second half of the night, one-third of the artillery regiment's artillery regiment reserves had been removed, and Tang Fang naturally knew that the shells produced by the Mawei industrial system in the past two years had been requisitioned here, and after they were exhausted, the commander of his artillery regiment would be able to command the artillery to fight with rifles.

The artillery of the frontal French army did not need so much artillery to participate in the shelling of those superficial fortifications of the frontal army, and the commanders of several detachments were immediately assigned, and the current artillery establishment at the battalion level was a mortar squad with 4mén artillery, and a detachment commander was responsible for the command squad to command three mortar squads and participate in the ground offensive.

In the previous months of training, these control of the group's artillery were only on paper or in the combat mode of exercises, and these contents naturally came from some concepts copied by Qin Kai from the later "Ground Artillery Officers' Manual", and these contents were somewhat incomplete and too general.

Qin Kai also wanted to transcribe it comprehensively, but the difference of nearly 8o years in artillery technology made it impossible for him to complete the content of the excerpts, and there was no way to explain them in detail, and a lot of things still needed Tang to understand and mosuo himself, and Tang put it in the past few months, this plausible quasi-modern artillery regiment, at least in last night's battle, was not bad!

The temporary tranquility after the early hours of the morning put the entire Xiaodongcao area into a temporary state of shock, and neither side had any jiāo fire, but everyone on the battlefield clearly knew that the next moment it might be a battle that would decide their life and death, and they would never die!

Zhou Ruidong, the commander of the battle, has been standing motionless in front of the observation position since the bombardment began at four o'clock in the morning, and Xue on the side has been carefully checking the hanging topographic map from time to time, and the herald officer came in almost 5 minutes to report the advance of the troops.

The officers of Xue He's command moved the positions of the various troops on the map at all times, and since the first half of the night, the infiltration of the forward positions has begun, and if you look down on the entire Xiaodongcao area at this moment, the French use the small ditch of Xiaodongcao as an obstacle, and set up three defense lines at a position of 25o, 3oo, and 45o meters south of the ditch.

And the entire French camp was built behind these three lines of defense, but after the continuous shelling, except for the curling black smoke, the entire camp has long been gone.

The main frontal force of the first two and three battalions of the first association is 32oo people, which is the main force of Zhou Ruidong except for 3oo personal guards, and the 4ooo people of the four battalion servant army trained by the logistics battalion of the first association are led by Fang Jin to support the attack, and the main force of the first to third battalions will launch a strong attack from three directions in the front, and strive to break through the superficial fortifications on the front of the other side.

Xue's five standard Chinese battalions had already opened the Xiaodong Caohe Trench at night, forming two attack arrows to the east of the opponent's position, and once the frontal assault began, they would attack from the opponent's right flank and right rear, directly threatening the opponent's retreat.

And as a reserve is Zhou Ruidong's pro-barracks 3oo people, Xue's pro-barracks 2oo people, and Ma Long's four assistant servant army in jīng Rui 4ooo people, although Ma Long desperately fought for the first BO to attack, but Zhou Ruidong thought about it again and again, or refused this order, he knew that Ma Long invested jīng power in this servant army and the results, but to meet his own requirements, obviously there is still a certain distance.

Use me in battle, use me to win!

This is the instructor wrote into the training minutes of the text, in the past this is a slogan to lift the morale of the army, today think about it, but it represents the army of the army, who else is me, this momentum throughout the ages and a few people dare to shout out loudly! Today...... But the protection ** has to shout out on the battlefield of the head-on confrontation between the strong armies of the East and the West!

Zhou Ruidong's eyes had already passed through the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield at this time, behind the land on the opposite side that was about to merge into the blood of countless soldiers, the brother who was always talking by his side in the past should have taken the iron-blooded army he built himself to build a line of defense that made the enemy desperate......

The French camp was full of groups of soldiers lying in shallow trenches, and on the front, less than 3 kilometers from north to south and 1.5 kilometers from east to west, they had just two hours earlier been subjected to heavy artillery fire that even the legendary Marshal Napoleon had never inflicted on the enemy.

Major General Bo Slip and Major General Thaler have worked out a defense plan under the baptism of artillery fire, and this sudden baptism of artillery fire, a cruel fact has been clearly laid in front of them, they have gone from hunters chasing prey, completely reduced to hunted prey, and the other party has shattered any illusions they have with the fact of iron and blood. ,

Last night, for more than two hours, the entire position and barracks were baptized in neat artillery fire, and this qiē was born in the quiet of the night, and countless French professional soldiers came to this land from their distant homeland, and they were buried in this wilderness.

In addition to the 18 companies and more than 2,000 people who were put into defense in the three superficial trenches on the first line, the two brigades stationed in the barracks and the attached Vietnamese servant army, and the troops that have been assembled at present, made the two major generals feel crying.

Major General Bo Slip's Fourth Brigade was formed and gathered with less than 2ooo troops, and when it was temporarily organized, the losses of the officers were far more unexpected, and in the shelling last night, these officers who were professional soldiers were far more dutiful than those mercenaries and soldiers, and their attempts to gather troops under artillery fire cost them their lives.

The 2,000 men were temporarily organized into 15 companies, but less than 8 companies were able to form a two-tier officer system, and the rest of the companies were equipped with only a few officers.

The situation of Major General Thaler's 11th Brigade is worse than his own, and the troops who hastily escaped from the camp have now completed the formation of 13 brigades and 16oo people, and there is also a fatal problem that more than a dozen servant corps and several Yellow Flag barracks used as cannon fodder have completely collapsed in the two-hour shelling, and now there are less than 100 people who can be gathered.

When the artillery fire outside stopped, the two generals immediately realized that the opponent's general attack was about to begin, but the worst thing was that they were struggling to even set up a command center, and after a moment of discussion, the two formed a joint brigade command center, and with the newly formed army ready to retreat one kilometer back, outside the opponent's artillery shè range, set up a command center.

But the artillery fire had only stopped for less than ten minutes, and the shelling began again, and to the despair of Bo and Sayler, the target of this attack was actually the French team that had just completed the assembly...... They all let the army lie behind the mound, how could they show it.

At the observation post, Zhou Ruidong had a surprised expression on his face, he had not yet given the order for a general attack, and the artillery regiment was the first to start...... As soon as he turned around and was about to order his own soldiers to inquire about the situation, a herald sent by the artillery regiment had already arrived outside, "Report!" The observation post detected that a large number of remnants of the French army were assembled on the left flank of the French camp, and Tang Qian had no time to ask for instructions, so he took the lead in artillery attack! ”

Zhou Ruidong looked back at Xue, and both of them frowned, this Tang Fang ...... It's really bold, this opportunity to violate the offensive sequence, according to the "Training Minutes", it will be dealt with with in violation of the military order, this crime is a headless thing, this guy actually did what he said!

Zhou Ruidong frowned, "Go back and tell Mr. Tang Qian, immediately order the artillery detachment to launch an artillery bombardment of the superficial positions of the French army, and be sure to drive the French out of the trenches!" The shelling of the remnants of the French forces continues! And also...... Let him take a closer look at the "Training Minutes"! ”

"Yes!" The herald replied loudly, and immediately turned and ran out.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", the three liturgical huā bombs soared high into the air, forming a beautiful pattern in the sky of northern Vietnam, and the billowing white smoke dragged by the liturgy huā bombs crossed the sky, even the farthest French people could see it clearly!

At the same time, three mortar detachments had already launched a fixed-point artillery bombardment of the French trenches in front of them, and in order to ensure the degree of assault, several mortar detachments came down from their positions and advanced to the forward positions of the jiāo battle.

He Xiaojun, the general manager of the first association and the first battalion, was already impatient at the moment, and he was full of resentment about the artillery regiment transferring the top artillery detachment in his battalion, with the strength of the first battalion of our first association, which was the sharpest of the sharp, and even the artillery was gone, but fortunately, our machine guns were still there.

He memorized almost every record of the instructor in the infantry canon, but the passage that made him understand the most was the role of machine guns in infantry warfare - "Use artillery to drive the enemy out of the trenches, and machine guns to destroy the enemy!" "So, in his battalion, there were only three weapons, the Type 8O submachine gun and the Maxim machine gun and mortar squad.

And there is only one combat regulation for the first association and one battalion...... Onward, beat the enemy into a sieve!

When the artillery detachment cooperated with them to launch an artillery bombardment, and arranged on the two flanks of the main attack position in the front, the luxurious 5 Makqin machine gun squads and 25tǐng Makqin machine guns immediately launched fire suppression, and the dull sound of the mortar even suppressed the sound of the mortar and became the main theme on the battlefield. ,

The attack of the 1st BO was started by 2oo men of the 3rd and 4th battalions of the 1st battalion, and under the cover of machine guns and mortars, the officers jumped out of the trenches and pounced in a dispersed formation towards the French trenches 6oo meters away. After advancing two hundred meters, the attacking squadrons of the 2nd BO were the 5th and 6th Brigades, which followed closely from the right flank of the frontal trenches.

He Xiaojun lay on the observation hole to observe the movement of the trenches on the opposite side, at a distance of 6oo meters, the counterattacks of the French positions were scattered, and it took a lot of luck to hit the target at this distance, but after entering the distance of 4oo meters, the French counterattack had entered the white heat, and the barrel of the black dòngdòng stretched out from the trench fired fiercely at the front of the battlefield that was advancing forward.

&éng lying in the trench, he is a mercenary, has a wealth of combat experience, many brothers in the army are like him, participated in the Franco-Prussian War, retired from the army before coming to the Far East to pan for gold, last night's nightmare made these experienced veterans understand the arduous xìng of today's battle, so he took advantage of the dark night, desperately dug his own single pit, and the excavated soil was also carefully spread on the trench.

The combat experience of that year made him understand the great role of this trench, and only by carefully protecting himself could he maximize his chance of survival, especially now that the situation was almost exactly the same as when he was surrounded by twice as many German troops as he had in Sè.

The Chinese soldiers on the other side were advancing through the chā in the front, providing each other with this fire cover, and it was strange that the counterattack fire of the opposing side in the advance was extremely weak, and at a distance of 4oo meters, the assault troops barely deployed the shè, but used the fire of their rear machine guns to suppress the desperate forward crossing of the chā.

&éng naturally will not let go of this opportunity to block, he used the M1876 rifle in his hand to constantly want to clear the team from two shè positions, but the whole battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, at a distance of 4oo meters, shè hit the effect was unsatisfactory, there were two bullets, he felt that he could hit the enemy.

However, the machine guns on the opposite side did not stop at all, so that the soldiers in the trenches on this side almost did not dare to raise their heads to attack, as long as the intensity of the counterattack increased slightly, they were immediately swept by several machine guns of the other side, setting off a floating soil!

Seeing that the opponent's assault team had narrowed the distance, the two 11mm revolver machine guns arranged on the right flank counterattacked, and the machine guns of up to 5oo per minute immediately swept down several Qing soldiers on the right flank, and the fierce fire immediately suppressed the opponent's piercing chā...... Under such firepower, any form of wearing chā is an extreme risky act! Roa。