Chapter 4: The First Shot Firing
Two days later, on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Hu Zining summoned another 24 soldiers. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Among the 24 soldiers, there is a 6-man machine gun crew, equipped with two MG34 German general-purpose machine guns, one for every three people. This machine gun weighs about 12 kg without tripods and 19.2 kg with tripods, and has an effective range of 1000 meters.
In addition, among the soldiers of the third squad, two soldiers were armed with Japanese Type 89 grenadiers. The caliber of the Type 89 grenadier is 50 mm, the length of the whole gun is 413 mm, the length of the barrel is 260 mm, the weight of the whole gun is 2.7 kg, the weight of the gun barrel is 1.6 kg, the length of the barrel foot is 170 mm, the weight of the barrel plate is 1.1 kg, the height of the foot plate is 60 mm, the width of the foot plate is 67 mm, the maximum firing range is 700 meters, and the effective firing range is 500 meters.
The grenadier is essentially a miniature mortar, its main features are a large angle of fire, a curved trajectory and a short range. It is mainly used to kill and injure the enemy hiding behind fortifications and concealments or to kill and injure the enemy's living force at a long distance.
The 24 soldiers reported to Hu Zining at the same time, and one of the officers was dressed very differently and said: "Master, Pan Xiaoli, the platoon commander of the first platoon, reports to you that now the 44 brothers of the entire platoon of the first platoon have arrived, and the remaining 4 brothers belong to the second platoon, and their platoon commander and other brothers have not yet arrived. ”
This system is really good, even if the soldiers summoned on the first day are in their brains, the platoon commander summoned today is their commander by default, as if they have known each other for a long time, and among the 48 people, the other 4 soldiers who do not belong to the first row belong to the second row by default, and the default platoon leader is the 88th person summoned.
For ten days in a row, one or two of the soldiers were left to teach Hu Zining how to operate various weapons, and half of the rest went hunting, and half built houses.
One is for Hu Zining and Hu Xiaodie, one is used as a kitchen, another is used as a weapons storage room, and the rest is used as a soldier's dormitory.
Ten days later, on January 30 of the lunar calendar, army soldiers summoned a total of 168 people, of which 160 belonged to the first company, and the company commander was named Peng Zehui. A company of 160 people. It includes 3 separate infantry platoons with direct personnel: 1 mortar group of 9 people, 12 people in a guard squad, 3 people in a medical team, 2 communicators, and one deputy company commander.
Among the 9-man mortar crew, it is equipped with 3 80 mm mortars of the Gr.W.34 type of World War II Germany, which has a barrel length of 1143 mm and weighs 57 kg, of which the barrel weighs 19 kg, and the maximum range is 2400 meters when firing 3.5 kg of Type 34 mortar shells.
The company commander was equipped with a telescope, and among the two communicators, he was equipped with a telegraph.
Among the medics, each of them carried bandages, scissors, syringes, hemostats, sterilizers, hemostats, morphine (for pain relief), anti-infective solutions and powders.
At 3 o'clock in the morning on March 26, 1910, the county seat of Hejiang County was quiet, there were two teams of people in the county, a team of 116 people, quietly went to the county yamen, and the other team of 44 people went to the county gate.
These two teams of men and horses are all soldiers summoned by Hu Zining, the third company under the first battalion, and the company commander is called Ma Zhitao. At 2:30 a.m., Hu Zining, who was waiting outside the county seat, summoned a company of soldiers to appear in the county seat, and immediately sent an order to the company commander by telegram, asking him to capture the yamen and the city gate, and open the city for Hu Zining to lead his troops into the city.
Ma Zhitao ordered the first platoon to occupy the city gate, and he took the rest of the people to attack the county office. When the company commander Ma Zhitao took the first team of men and horses to the yamen, two dogs barked "Wangwang", and the guards were alarmed.
The soldiers tied 20 grenades together, pulled the fuses, and with a loud "jump", the gate of the county government was blasted open. Of the 116 soldiers, 16 were left to guard the gate, and the remaining 100 rushed to the county office.
At the same time, the first platoon of the third company launched an attack on the defenders of the city, and immediately solved the few guards under the city gate, and several soldiers immediately went to open the city gate. But there were dozens of Qing soldiers on the city walls, and they hurriedly shot at the city. The platoon commander ordered the machine gunners to suppress the fire of the Qing soldiers on the city walls, and several more soldiers threw grenades at the city walls.
When the gate was only half open, hundreds of soldiers who had been waiting outside for an hour rushed towards the gate, and it took only a minute or two to rush in.
The whole battle ended in less than an hour, with 2 dead and 9 wounded on Hu Zining's side, more than 120 Qing soldiers killed, and nearly 100 wounded. Originally, the Qing soldiers had more than 400 soldiers and officials in Hejiang County. More than 200 were killed and wounded, the rest more than 100 surrendered, and the rest fled without a trace, taking off the clothes of the soldiers as if they were civilians.
As of today, Hu Zining has been in this world for 71 days, and the soldiers summoned in 70 days have accumulated 852 people, and there are 850 people left who have died in 2 battles. Hu Zining asked a platoon of 44 soldiers to stay in Maxi Village, because there was a lot of ammunition stored there.
At seven o'clock in the morning, just after dawn, gongs and drums were beating on the square in front of the yamen of the entire county of Hejiang County, and a large number of people gathered in the square.
Seeing that the soldiers had not committed any offense against them, the people gathered at the county government one after another.
Hejiang County has a population of more than 200,000 people, and there are more than 30,000 people in the county seat, and by 9 a.m., nearly 10,000 people had rushed to the square in front of the yamen. The people whispered to each other, and no one knew what the rebels were.
"Mazi, what do you say are the origins of these rebels? Is it Brother Pao or a member of the Revolutionary Party? ”
"It's possible, in recent years, I heard that Brother Pao's people have rebelled in Guang'an, Jiading, and Jiangyou, but every time they have been exterminated by the imperial court, we still don't have anything to do with these rebels, if the soldiers and horses of the imperial court come over, I am afraid that these revolutionary party people will not be able to stop them for a few days."
With a few gongs, the people in the square fell silent, and a soldier shouted: "People, don't panic, we are the Huaxia Army led by Commander Hu, and we are specially here to rescue the people oppressed by the Manchus. ”
Hu Zining said loudly: "Fellow citizens, my name is Hu Zining, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has occupied our Chinese territory for more than 200 years, ceded land and paid compensation, suffered humiliation, internal officials are corrupt, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are countless, the people are not able to make a living, and the people live in poverty. Today, I, Hu Zining, will raise the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty in Hejiang County, and will not overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and swear not to rest, as long as everyone follows me, we will definitely have a good life, I will try to reduce the taxes of the people, the officers and soldiers will strictly abide by military discipline and will not infringe on the people, and the officials will definitely abide by the law and be good parents and officials of the people. ”
After a pause for a few seconds, Hu Zining continued to say loudly: "Today, I announce that the Huaxia Military Government has been officially established, I, Hu Zining, am the commander-in-chief of the Military Government, and Hejiang County is the first county seat under the rule of our Huaxia Army. ”
Hu Zining picked up the scissors and cut off the disgusting braid without hesitation. Those hundreds of soldiers did not have braids in the first place, so there was no so-called braid problem.
Few of the people present were willing to follow Hu Zining to cut off their braids, no matter how many uprisings and rebellions there were in the past, they were exterminated by the Qing court, if they followed these revolutionary parties, where would the army of the imperial court fight and their lives would still be there.