Chapter 671: Scared them to death
When more than a hundred light and heavy machine guns were fired, the Mongol cavalry commander realized that he had been deceived. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After the fierce cannon sound sounded on the battlefield, the commander realized that the 3,000 cavalry he sent to the battlefield was dangerous, and if one was not good, the 3,000 cavalry would die on the battlefield.
Seeing that the remaining more than 1,000 men on the battlefield suffered more and more losses under the front and rear flanking of firepower and artillery shells, it was impossible to kill the Liaodong Army's defensive line. The commander immediately reacted and ordered the attacking troops to disperse and break through, and as many people as they could.
At the same time, order the last thousand-man squad around him to prepare for reception and retreat.
As soon as the front troops withdrew, the troops immediately retreated and retreated directly to the Mongolian steppe.
The cavalry commanders were Mongols and had little contact with this new army, which was armed with a large number of light and heavy machine guns. However, he still has some of the most basic judgment ability on the battlefield.
The battlefield was less than 2,000 attacking troops, and even if someone was lucky enough to retreat in the end, it would not be too many.
At that time, there will be about 1,000 of his 5,000 cavalry. However, the Liaodong Army still had several thousand people, and more importantly, the Liaodong Army was equipped with nearly 200 light and heavy machine guns.
If you drag on here for too long, the back road will be blocked by the Liaodong Army, and with only the remaining 1,000 cavalry at hand, you will not be able to escape the encirclement and interception of the Liaodong Army, and in the end you will only be completely annihilated.
Therefore, the commander must seize the time and strive to evacuate Tongliao before the Liaodong Army blocks his own back road.
On the battlefield where bullets rained down and the corpses of war horses were everywhere, it was very difficult for the cavalry to continue the attack or retreat immediately. When they finally withdrew from the battlefield from all directions, the Mongolian cavalry who survived was very sad to find that ten minutes ago it was still an elite cavalry of 3,000 people, but now there were less than 300 left.
"What are you still doing in a daze, retreat immediately, retreat to the grassland, and get out of here!" Looking at his subordinates who were stunned, the commander who was bent on bringing the remaining soldiers back to the grassland immediately ordered his subordinates who were still stunned.
More than 1,000 cavalry had just begun to retreat, and Wang Hu, who was two kilometers away, received information.
In this raid on Tongliao, Wang Hu did not have bulky field artillery and heavy artillery with shoelaces.
However, the dozens of artillery pieces captured by the forbidden army a few hours ago directly made up for the lack of heavy artillery in Wang Hu's hands.
Through coercion and inducement, more than 1,000 gunners from the two artillery battalions of the forbidden army finally decided to join the Liaodong Army on the spot.
More than 500 gunners of the forbidden army, plus two or three hundred gunners drawn by Wang Hu from the three mountain artillery battalions, could completely allow all the captured field artillery and heavy artillery to open fire.
At this moment, 54 field guns, 18 heavy guns, plus 12 mountain guns of a mountain artillery battalion, and nearly 100 barrels of black holes, were all aimed at the Mongolian cavalry assembly area.
As soon as Wang Hu received the news that the Mongol cavalry was preparing to retreat, he gave the order to open fire.
More than 80 shells of various calibers smashed steadily on the assembly area with a screeching sound.
The remaining more than 1,000 Mongol cavalry in the assembly area, which was originally scattered, was gathered together when the shells smashed over in order to facilitate the retreat.
Despite the fact that less than half of the shells fell directly into the middle of the cavalry, the power of field and heavy artillery shells was far from being comparable to that of mortar shells.
A heavy artillery shell smashed down, and the cavalry and war horses within twenty or thirty meters of the surroundings. They didn't get hit by the fragments of the shells scattered around, and the powerful shock wave generated by the explosion of the cannonballs alone could have killed them.
After a series of violent explosions, one or two hundred cavalry fell in the cavalry assembly area at once.
"Retreat quickly, disperse and retreat, get out of here and retreat to the grassland!" The cavalry commander, who had narrowly escaped the first round of artillery fire, shouted loudly while his face instantly showed a shocked expression.
The cavalry, who was also frightened, immediately reacted, with a frightened expression, urging the horses under their crotch to retreat and flee for their lives.
The area covered by the artillery fire of more than 80 artillery pieces was not a little, and the Mongolian cavalry had just reacted from the shock, and then they began to urge the war horses under their crotches to flee for their lives outside the artillery coverage area.
In the end, more than 80 artillery pieces fired two more rounds of shells, and the remaining Mongol cavalry all escaped.
And in the artillery fire covered area of the craters, at least 400 corpses of Mongolian cavalry remained. There were less than 900 remnants left, and under the leadership of the commander, they were embarrassed to return to the grassland.
As soon as the Mongol cavalry retreated, Wang Hu shifted his gaze to the 5,000 Beiyang Army, which was less than twenty miles away from Tongliao City.
"Chief of Staff, the two and three regiments of the first division were also hard just now, and against the five thousand Beiyang Army, I think I will let the guard regiment fight the vanguard." Wang Hu ordered to Chief of Staff Wang Lin.
Although he was very confident in the whole plan, Wang Lin couldn't help but worry: "Will one guard regiment be too small, after all, the Beiyang Army has five thousand people, and the strength is more than twice that of the guard regiment." ”
"Not a lot, I will have the mortars of the two regiments fully cooperate with them. Moreover, the battlefield we originally set for the Beiyang Army was less than ten miles away from Tongliao City, and it was completely within the range of heavy artillery. At critical moments, we can also scare them with heavy artillery. ”
"Also, the Beiyang Army is different from the forbidden army, the ordinary soldiers of the forbidden army are all Manchus, but the ordinary soldiers of the Beiyang Army are the lowest people, and if they are done well, most of them can be transformed into the Liaodong Army. Therefore, for these 5,000 Beiyang troops, we can take prisoners as much as we can. ”
Soon, the guard regiment went out of the city with a large number of mortars.
At this moment, because there was no radio station, the Beiyang Army, which had been on the road for a day and a night, did not know that their two brother troops had been wiped out, and still rushed to Tongliao in accordance with the military order given to them by the marshal Yuan Shikai himself two days ago, and cooperated with the forbidden army to recapture Tongliao City from the Liaodong Army.
Because the Janissaries carried a large number of artillery, and there was also a battalion of heavy artillery. In order to hurry, the Beiyang Army, which relied on a two-legged march, directly abandoned its artillery and rushed in the direction of Tongliao with only light and heavy machine guns.
Therefore, for them, more than ten miles can be completed in an hour and a half.
However, what they did not expect was that on another road less than two miles away from them, the officers and men of two battalions of the First Army Guard Regiment were carrying mortars and a large amount of ammunition in the opposite direction, straight into the rear of the Beiyang Army.
Twenty minutes later, when the 5,000 Beiyang Army rushed to Bali outside Tongliao City, the forward team suddenly stopped, and a relatively dense burst of gunfire rang out.
As soon as the assistant commander of the team was about to send a humanitarian front to check, the herald sent back by the forward brought him a shocking and incomprehensible news.
The old book "Rebirth of the Iron and Blood Warrior" of the Rebirth of the Anti-Japanese War was finally unsealed after being sealed for two years, at the starting point, Tencent Literature and mobile literature were uploaded at the same time, with more than 4 million words, interested readers can take a look! (To be continued.) )