Chapter Eighty-Nine: Artillery
"The battle cannot continue to be fought, otherwise, our remaining thousands of soldiers will also be lost here......," Major General Vasily, who hesitated for a short time, immediately made a decision in his heart. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Then, with a firm face, he ordered: "Retreat immediately, join Colonel Malni, and leave here......"
"It's full of conspiracy, and I will never enter this mountain forest again, and I will never ...... until I have figured out my opponent."
After the old hairy man of a company, with a face full of unwillingness, he withdrew from the battlefield in embarrassment.
It didn't take long for Lao Maozi, who still had five or six hundred people left, to carry heavy machine guns and slowly disappear from the field of vision of the two companies.
One hour later, Major General Vasily finally joined up with Colonel Marni.
Compared to the fiasco of Major General Vasily, Colonel Malny was no better.
The two battalions in Yang Xingguo's hands, although they were unable to continue to eat one battalion reinforced by Marni because of heavy losses. However, just seeing the fat that has been sent to his mouth slip away, that is not Yang Xingguo's style.
So, Yang Xingguo directly made the decision to give Lao Maozi reinforcements a head-on attack.
Concentrate all six heavy machine guns and set them up on the road that Lao Maozi's reinforcements must pass......
As soon as Lao Maozi's reinforcements entered the battlefield, the six heavy machine guns used their fiercest firepower to inflict heavy losses on Lao Maozi's reinforcements and repelled them.
The bandits had six heavy machine guns, and they had only three of them.
Just fought with them like this, and the one who failed in the end was undoubtedly himself.
More importantly, the fact that the bandits were able to concentrate such heavy firepower on themselves has proved to themselves that the battle that took place in Zhangjiazhuang is over. Otherwise, they would not have been able to equip them with so many heavy machine guns.
So, Colonel Malni, who lost dozens of his subordinates before seeing the bandits, gave the order to retreat very decisively.
After listening to Colonel Malny's report, Vasily annihilated the entire army of the 2nd Battalion, although he had been prepared for it. However, after really hearing and confirming the authenticity of this news. Major General Vasily still couldn't help but show a desperate expression on his face.
"Your Excellency the division commander, the artillery is gone, the baggage is lost, the troops have lost more than a third, and more importantly, the reserve ammunition for the heavy machine guns is running out...... Don't know what we're going to do next? Colonel Marni, who was also solemn, clearly had lost all hope for this encirclement. No matter what Major General Vasily is feeling now, he asked directly without any scruples......
"Is there any other way out for us than to withdraw immediately?" Major General Vasily, with a desperate face, was like a defeated rooster, and replied helplessly
"Order, the troops will immediately withdraw and temporarily return to Anshan County for rest and recuperation......"
"When Ben has drawn enough troops from the surrounding area, Ben will attack this bandit again to avenge the death of the Imperial warriors who died here and destroy them...... When the time comes, Ben will definitely bring more heavy machine guns and artillery......"
Lao Maozi withdrew his troops, and he was very embarrassed to withdraw from the large dense forest controlled by Yangjiazhai.
After the news came, the entire Anshan county was suppressed.
Then, like a plague, the news quickly spread throughout Liaodong, and even leaflet the Russian Far East Command and the Qing Imperial Court.
Of course, these are not Yang Xingguo's main concerns.
At this moment, what Yang Xingguo wants to know most is the casualties of the troops and the gains of the entire anti-encirclement and suppression operation.
In particular, the guard company and the reconnaissance company.
Although Yang Xingguo hasn't seen these two companies yet, he doesn't even have a connection.
However, from Lao Maozi's hasty withdrawal of troops, Yang Xingguo can be sure that the reconnaissance company and the guard company must have won.
Since he won, Yang Xingguo must want to know how the two companies won, whether the losses are big, and how many good things they have gained......
The mountain road to Yangjiatun was repaired, and after a day, the guard company and the reconnaissance company returned to Yangjiatun with the capture.
Looking at the six mountain cannons in front of him that were being pulled by a war horse, Yang Xingguo's eyes quickly shot out two rays of fine light.
The six mountain cannons in front of him look very rough and heavy on the surface, completely adhering to the rough character of Lao Maozi.
However, it is precisely because of its roughness and heaviness that the various weapons equipped by Lao Maozi have a very common denominator, that is, durability......
The six 76-millimeter caliber mountain guns in front of us, because they are still eight or nine percent new, as long as there are no accidents, there will be no problems in using them for five or six years, or even seven or eight years.
"Good, good gun...... With these artillery, we can set up the first mountain artillery company in Yangjiazhai regimental training. From now on, my Yangjiazhai can bombard others with artillery on the battlefield, instead of being beaten passively all the time......"
Speaking of this, Yang Xingguo seemed to think of something, and then asked: "By the way, Zhang Shanlin, the cannon is there, if there are no shells, then these cannons are a pile of scrap iron, have you captured the shells of this kind of artillery......"
"Yes......" Zhang Shanlin replied excitedly without thinking about it......
"The shells brought by Lao Maozi were all piled on the baggage cart behind, and not a single shell was useless...... I just counted, a box of three shells, a total of ten cars and three hundred boxes, nine hundred shells......"
"In addition, we also found 200 brand-new Mosina rod rifles in the old Maozi cart...... 100 boxes of 200,000 rounds of rifle ammunition unopened, 20 boxes of 40,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition unopened, plus other supplies, a total of 25 baggage trucks were loaded......"
"From now on, all weapons and ammunition, including baggage trucks, are trained by our Yangjiazhai regiment......"
Just when everyone's faces were showing heartfelt excited smiles because of this gratifying harvest, Zhao Zhigang on the side suddenly flashed a helpless expression on his face.
After touching the cold barrel of the mountain cannon, he said to Yang Xingguo: "Commander, I have seen the power of this kind of cannon, as soon as the cannon goes down, the enemy within a radius of four or five zhang around it will be blown away......
Seeing that everyone nodded in surprise, Zhao Zhigang's words changed and continued: "However, the cannon is there, and the gunner is also there...... However, we are missing only the most important gunner......"
"Our Yangjiazhai regiment has trained more than 1,000 brothers, but there are not many who have seen artillery, let alone ...... who have fought artillery."
Just when the smiles on everyone's faces were quickly covered with solemnity, a mysterious smile suddenly flashed on Yang Xingguo's face.
Facing everyone's puzzled eyes, he replied: "Don't worry, I will shoot this kind of artillery...... Ten days, ten days at most, I will be able to teach a few gunners to come out. These gunners can only be called earth gunners. ”
"And if you want to become a qualified gunner, it is impossible to ...... without a year"