Chapter 254 Target, Across the Pacific

The target of this shot turned out not to be his own advancing troops, but to a major officer who was directing the forward movement of the troops 5o meters later...... At this moment, the officer had fallen to the ground like a piece of rotten wood, and a pool of blood gushed out of the beautiful major's uniform, dripping blood all over the ground.

The medical soldiers hurriedly came, rescuing, several veterans shook their heads, this kind of bloodshed, there is no hope of life, in this era, there may be no blood transfusion, life and death depend on themselves.

On the mound, Ma Desheng lay in a trench, holding a telescope to observe the situation in the distance from behind the shè hole made of several stones, and after seeing that the judge who organized the frontal attack was knocked down, he happily patted Zhan Biao beside him, and pointed to the slightly strange-style rifle in his hand, "Old Zhan, what does this O2 sniper rifle look like?" This is a new gadget that I specially requested for us to try out in the camp! ”

Zhan Biao is obviously very satisfied with his debut, if it weren't for Ma Desheng being his boss and fighting for this big killer weapon in his hand, he would really be too lazy to pay attention to him, he is fighting, you don't want to command the troops, what are you doing when you run to the shooting position, do you want to be addicted to this new weapon?! The more I thought about it, the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might be big.

Hurriedly turned his head sideways and said: "Mr. Qian, you are lying next to me, the goal is too big, play a good Frenchman, I will report to you again!" Hurry up and deal with the French at the other two ends......" With that, the cat ran to another shè position, Ma Desheng blew his beard and glared at this damn barbarian with his eyes, and looked at the French who pressed up on both wings, and hurriedly patted his ass and went down to command, ready to counterattack.

This scene of long-range killing, obviously just a prologue, followed by a continuous burst of gunfire, at a distance of more than 6oo meters, according to the army's shè strike specifications, the shè hit probability at this distance is almost extremely low, unless for large-scale movement of troops, will be carried out in unison.

But in today's attack, the previous shè attack norms have been completely subverted, and soldiers continue to be shot, when the troops advanced to a distance of 4oo meters, the continuous gunfire in the opposite trench killed seven or eight lieutenant officers in charge of the command in a row, this amazing shè hit jīng, immediately made all the soldiers involved in the frontal attack frightened.

Next, during the attack, the officers with different styles of clothing were constantly killed by snipers in various individual bunkers hidden on the mound, and the soldiers were obviously apprehensive, and did not dare to rise at will at all, they all lay on the ground and blindly attacked the mound, and the attack on the middle line had not yet started, and they had already lost their sharpness.

And the attack on the two flanks of the protective line is even more, in terms of firepower and shè, the French M1878 breech-loading rifle is far inferior to the O2 of the guard, although they have their own strengths in training, but for the French on the attacking side, this combat mission that expected an easy breakthrough was aborted without suspense after throwing down more than two hundred corpses.

What was even more unfortunate was that the 7 companies of the French army commanded by Major White were outflanked from the left flank, and as a result, they reached the left flank, and there were more than 1,000 guards here, and in the flank and rear positions, there was also a strong firepower force waiting for the rabbit, and they unfortunately became this rabbit.

The fire on this side was even more fierce, at least 4 tǐng or more machine guns suppressed them in a small depression in the middle of a wasteland, after seeing the danger on this side, Major General Bo Slip had no choice but to increase the 1O company on the left flank again, but the result was that he suffered more casualties, and he reluctantly took back the attacking troops.

The attack of five companies of General Sale's 11th Brigade, which coordinated the siege on the right flank, had achieved some success, and he steadily began with a skirmish position on a wasteland in the outermost part of the right flank, and the weak forces on the periphery were indeed unable to stop the French group charge with companies as formations.

However, after the opponent was attacked, he quickly shrank his forces, and after the five companies of the 11th Brigade followed up the pursuit, he realized that he was obviously also in the situation of being besieged by the opponent's two flanks, and the flank guard also laid at least 6 or more Makqin machine gun jiāo fork fire points, and the call of death brought by the dull sound of machine guns.

The 11th Brigade has just invested 5 companies of nearly 7oo troops, under the suppression of the opponent's powerful firepower, suffered heavy losses, the worst thing is that before they can recover from their senses, the other side instead invested at least 5oo troops from their right flank to start the counter-outflanking, the attacking troops of the 11th Brigade and Regiment that were hit by both sides could not raise their heads to counterattack at all, and were immediately beaten by the flank assault troops, more than 7oo people, only fled back to 1oo to come, and the rest were either captured or killed. ,

On the frontal battlefield, with the appearance of sniper gunners, the offensive on the entire battlefield has become very dull, and Major General Bo Slip was also surprised when he received the thorny problem encountered in the frontal attack, you know, in this era, the so-called god shè hand is to accurately hit the enemy at a distance of 2oo meters.

Although with the popularization of rifled guns, the farther the rifle can be, it is already very difficult to hit a target two hundred meters away due to the limitation of eyesight, and this encounter, the opponent actually directly hit an accurate shè at a distance of 4oo-6oo meters, which is absolutely unimaginable.

The current establishment of the French army is an offensive system based on battalions and companies, and in frontal assaults, although the popularity of rear-loading single rifles has long freed the army from the embarrassment of having to stand to load, in the Jiāo battle in the Far East, the French are still accustomed to suppressing the opponent by platoon guns and attacking.

However, with the situation of 6 Erzhuang and many times with the fire of the guard, this situation is also changing, the combat order issued to the troops this time is to attack with the company as a unit and the platoon as the sequence level, and there is no use of the impact method of the formation, of course, as the company commander and the officer at the squad and platoon level must follow the troops forward, and the will of the officers in the army has always been the greatest help to support the battle.

The problem now is that the firepower on the opponent's main position covers the surrounding positions at any time, causing a large number of casualties among officers, and condescendingly, even the soldiers who are crawling on the ground to counterattack are also killed by the opponent in large numbers, which is definitely a loss that he cannot afford.

After thinking about it for a while, he immediately found Major General Sailer, who was in charge of the flank attack, and the two of them changed the situation of the first round of attacks, and they were surprised by each other, Sale's side lost nearly 7oo people in the first round, and Major General Bo slippery's side outflanked in the first round of the four-way outflanking, and the result was indeed close to 11oo casualties, and what was even worse was that more than 5o officers and officers above the second lieutenant rank were killed.

After some discussion, the two basically confirmed that the number of enemy troops on the front should be more than 4ooo people, and the heavy weapons on his side were not in place because of the rapid march, so he immediately decided to postpone the attack until tomorrow.

The news of the battle was urgently sent to the Lone Army, requesting that field artillery be dispatched to participate in the attack on the enemy, and at the same time scouts were sent to investigate the situation of the surrounding Qing troops, hoping to know the actual strength of the opponent as much as possible.

However, according to the current degree of follow-up troops, this distance of more than 6o miles will not be arrived until the afternoon of the next day, but fortunately, since the enemy who has bitten it is not worried that this small group of enemy troops will escape, the French began to send servant troops to dig improvised fortifications and build a night defense.

In the evening, some reconnaissance companies obtained some important information from the interrogation of the captured French officers, and they were immediately sent to the command center, and after comparing them with the information of the daytime battle, they finally had a relatively clear understanding of the situation of the enemy forces in front of them, and the French team in front of them actually had more than 10,000 people in two brigades and regiments of the main force, plus more than 2,000 servants.

More importantly, it was confirmed that the two French brigades did not use heavy weapons including Haggais machine guns and 68mm field guns in the attack that day, and the captured officers also confirmed that it was because they did not bring anything at all, and the two brigades were preparing to enter Bac Ninh directly after carrying two days of dry rations.

The French estimated in advance that the number of guards on this side was also insufficient, and the information heard from the mouths of many officers who interrogated confirmed that the French army thought that the number of Qing troops attacking Bac Ninh should be about 3ooo people, and they did not expect that all the forces of the guard were invested in the small land of Bac Ninh.

A bold plan was formed in Zhou Ruidong's mind, and some of the methods originally used for the decisive battle could be completely adapted, or this battle could completely solve the stalemate situation in northern Vietnam and light a fire for the instructor to take office!

Zhang Kui, Xue, and Ma Long were all called to discuss the matter, and after listening to Zhou Ruidong's idea, several people felt that this tactic was too bold and even a little crazy, such tactics they had indeed carefully studied in the tactics class discussed with the instructor, but they had never implemented it, it was too challenging!

However, several militants unanimously agreed on this plan of battle, and the French had been defeated in today's battle, and the superiority of the French in close combat was far greater than that of the French, which was fully reflected in the battle. ,

The 8O submachine gun and the oval grenade that has just been popularized are both melee weapons, even if it is an O2 rifle, it has obvious advantages over the single rifle of the French army, but the next task assignment has made several commanders fight for each other.

One after another, urgent orders were issued to the officers above the sentry commander of each battalion, and the entire guard began to be mobilized, and the troops of Zhou Ruidong and the First Association, which were the Chinese army, took the lead in moving forward, aiming directly at the defensive position of Xiaodongcao on the front line, and it seemed that they were going to fight the French on this defensive line.

Above the vast East China Sea, a high mast gradually rose at the first line of the sea and sky, and soon after, a fleet of 12 merchant ships slowly appeared on the sea, the dragon flag fluttering high at the top and a red five-star red flag showed that this was the fleet of the Mawei Shipping Company, and the very peculiar phenomenon was that on the tail of the fleet, there were some other sporadic ship followers.

What makes this fleet unique is that there is an armored cruiser on one side of the fleet! A caravan escorted by a new type of warship, and in this era, even the British Empire only occasionally sent out old-fashioned sail hún powerships to do this.

The battleship escorting was the Nanyang Naval Division 6O1 light armored cruiser, and the battleship commander 6 Zhiyuan was called by Qin Kai to carefully arrange the task of travel before this departure, and now Guangzhou and Fuzhou pass through the Ryukyu Islands to transport industrial products on the route without his 18-section fast ship to escort it.

His mission was to lead the six merchant ships in the fleet to cross the vast Pacific Ocean after completing the replenishment of Naha, escorting the ship's Taoist surnamed Huang to San Francisco across the sea to serve as consul general, and of course, he also had another important mission, to declare the force of the Nanyang Naval Division in the United States on the other side of the Pacific.

6 When Zhiyuan was in the Mawei School, he often heard the instructor talk about this big North American country across the ocean, and when the instructor talked about this big country, there were praise and disapproval between the words, but the hostility between the words was strong, although he didn't understand why the instructor had such a big opinion about this country thousands of miles away, but he was convinced that this qiē was right!

In the past six months, a lot of news has been passed on in the Nanyang Naval Division, that the Chinese, the people of the world's oldest civilization, have been criticized in another country that was founded under the slogan of equality and freedom, and even public opinion in this country has applied vicious words such as stupidity, unassimilation, and morally corrupt inferior people to Chinese laborers.

These news have caused great repercussions in the entire Nanyang system and even in the Qing Dynasty, but the imperial court has not made too many moves on this issue, except for the tariffs on the export of raw silk stuck with the United States, and there is a weak protest, it has gradually died down, which has been hyped up by the "Fujian Xinbao", and there is still no perfect result.

In fact, this result has long been expected by the officers of the Nanyang Naval Division, and the instructor's famous words - "A weak country has no other than jiāo!" "It has long revealed the essence of this issue of the foreign Jiāo incident involving the dignity and interests of the Chinese, without strong national strength, how can these Western powers take you seriously!

In his subconscious, he also thought that the instructor was leading him, as well as so many officers and soldiers behind him, and the huge technical workers in the factory 24 hours a day, carrying out a major event that he could not imagine, and every time he thought of this, he was excited......

The zodiac officer who escorted this time, to be honest, 6 Zhiyuan felt that this jīng was a tall, thin scholar who was suitable for teaching and educating people in Mawei College, and he didn't know how to think of what consul to be, and what could he do when he was alone? However, the instructor asked himself to fully cooperate, which naturally had to be carried out conscientiously.

The voyage on this vast sea is really boring, 6 Zhiyuan watched the officers draw the charts, while watching the sea and sky in the distance, the unchanged scenery, from time to time in his mind pondered the war that was taking place in the north of Vietnam at this moment, his colleagues could sail on a ship, pointing out the country, although he was full of confidence in the protector and sailor, but still looked forward to getting the news of victory as soon as possible......

The mén of the bridge was pushed away, and Huang Zunxian walked in with a book very interested, and the officers had already been taken care of, so they all politely saluted this bookish Taoist, and 6 Zhiyuan slipped into the bridge with the guests on the ship. ,

"Lord Huang, the battleship is not as comfortable as the merchant ship, are you uncomfortable? If there's anything you want, I'll let someone deal with it! 6 Zhiyuan smiled slightly, and said with his hand, for officials outside the Nanyang Department, if it weren't for the special care of the instructor, he wouldn't bother to pay attention to it, and all his thoughts were on his precious battleship.

"6 General is polite, I am very comfortable on the ship, this kind of ironclad ship is really a weapon of the country!" Huang Zunxian has obviously walked through the entire battleship to visit all the places, except for the forts, bomb warehouses, and boiler rooms, which are really not allowed to enter, otherwise he is also going to visit one or two, but the more he visits, the more interested he becomes, so he came here to explore the wind.

Speaking of battleships, 6 Zhiyuan, who was originally not very talkative, also had a lot of topics, and he laughed, and he laughed. Yi quietly salivated Wat Φ male pouring, iii. Tsa Bu Т Jian said that the curtain jacket this burden faded cliff Dong vulture poured (10) Xue Yu Zheng

Huang Zunxian is clearly a military outsider, and he naturally seems to understand 6 Zhiyuan's words, and after pondering for a while, he raised a series of his questions, such as "What is the same level", "Why is this ship called Light Patrol", "Why is this cannon thinner......

6 Zhiyuan turned his face away, spat hard behind him, and began to give the guest a literacy lesson with a depressed face, but the zodiac was very studious, and his brain was really not stupid...... In fact, it should be very smart, but as a result, the problems are one after another, 6 Zhiyuan has a black line on his face, and he is overwhelmed to deal with it, and suddenly sees an island on the left wing of the ship, and he thinks about it.

"Lord Huang, I will talk to you in detail about these questions you raised in the future, and you can come and see the island in the distance!"

Huang Zunxian didn't answer his own questions about this young officer, and it was not easy to delve into it, after all, he was a guest, and when he saw the other party mention the opposite island, which is a rare island in the sea, he sailed for almost a day, and only then did he see the first island, which looked like a very small uninhabited island, and after looking at it carefully for a while, he didn't understand why this officer wanted to mention it in particular.

"It's ......"

"Lord Huang, this small island was named by the governor himself, called, a monument was erected on the island as proof, and it was specially noted on the chart of our Nanyang Naval Division!"

…… This stone island with few grasses, this Qin Liefeng is really a lot more elegant, Huang Zunxian looked at the distance blankly! Roa。