Chapter 176: Shelling of the Tsarist Russian Barracks
September 4, 1900, around 8 p.m.
Thundered!
Thundered!
Thundered!
On the bank of the Songhua River, the sound of cannons rumbles, and under the reflection of the night, it is particularly dazzling.
"Haha, look and see, there is another cannon on the Songhua River, how many times is this today?"
"It's been a lot of times, I can't count them, but each time the cannon sound lasted for a short time."
"Hehe, the Black Dragon Army is here, and the end of Lao Maozi is coming."
"I heard that the Black Dragon Army will start recruiting troops tomorrow, I must go to sign up for the Black Dragon Army tomorrow, and go to the old Maozi on the dog day."
"Go, go."
……
The remnants of the Tsarist army were defeated, and they cowered in the barracks on the banks of the Songhua River, holding their troops still, Yue Weihua naturally would not let them have a good time, so after returning from Qingshui Town in the early morning, he began to implement the battle plan of shelling the Tsarist Russian army camp to force it to evacuate the ice city.
So on this day, the tragedy occurred in the Russian military camp.
Yue Weihua personally led the mortar artillery of the cavalry battalion to constantly bombard the Russian army camp, of course, there are many batteries in the Russian army camp, and there are many river boats and gunboats on the side of the dock, and the Tsarist Russia will definitely not only be beaten and not fight back, but unfortunately they encountered Yue Weihua's perversion, so the artillery battle at the Heihetun Wharf reappeared on the bank of the Songhua River, Yue Weihua took the team to shoot a few artillery and changed places, and when the Tsarist Russia reacted and carried out the counterattack, there was no one left, and the Tsarist Russia's counterattack could only become a bombing air.
Although it was a few artillery shots to change places, but at the end of the day, the number of mortars that bombarded the Russian military camp was nearly 1,000, and the entire Russian military camp was already full of holes and a mess, although Lao Maozi tried his best to hide, but still killed more than 200 people, and even blew up several cargo ships and tugboats.
The arrival of the Black Dragon Army not only wiped out the Tsarist Russia in the Bingcheng City overnight, but also let them see with their own eyes how the Black Dragon Army bombarded the remnants of the Tsarist Russian army.
On the bank of the Songhua River, hundreds of meters outside the Russian barracks, Yue Weihua took nearly 100 artillery soldiers and once again evacuated the place where the shelling had just begun.
"Commander-in-chief, there is a call from Fufu County, more than 2,000 remnants of the Tsarist army on the West Road have left Fufu County, all the way to the west, and the people have been released before leaving." On the march the correspondent reported.
When Yue Weihua heard this, a big stone in his heart finally landed.
"Damn, it's good to be right."
Yue Weihua took a deep breath and secretly exclaimed luck, after all, the lives of three or four thousand people, if Lao Maozi chooses to die together, then this matter may be able to make Yue Weihua feel guilty for a lifetime, fortunately, everything is still going well.
"Commander-in-chief, Commander Yue Weiyun sent a telegram at the same time, saying that Fan Yi'an and Li Zongzan have agreed to defect to the Black Dragon Army, and asked the commander-in-chief, these two teams, as well as Yu Busheng's subordinates, how to arrange them?" The correspondent then reported.
After hearing this, Yue Weihua groaned for a while, and then ordered: "Inform Yue Weiyun that these three teams, including Zou Yin's department, are all handed over to Zhou Dabiao, and let Zhou Dabiao lead them to the Wolf Domain headquarters as quickly as possible to receive special training for reorganization." ”
"Yes, Commander."
Although in the battle of Fufu County, these three teams suffered a lot of losses, but this battle was also a very good whetstone, and fighting side by side with the Black Dragon Army again would also make it easier for these three teams to integrate into the Black Dragon Army, plus Zou Yin's independent battalion, these four teams still have nearly 3,000 troops.
These 3,000 troops are definitely a big help for the Black Dragon Army, after all, they are not recruits, they are all veterans who have worked with Lao Maozi, and even more than one battle, as long as they enter the wolf domain for special training, these 3,000 troops will soon be reborn and become a qualified Black Dragon Army team.
However, for these 3,000 people, how to reorganize them, Yue Weihua is still a little hesitant, of course, the best choice is to break up and reorganize, so that the imprint on them can be removed to a great extent, but if this is done, I am afraid that Fan Yi'an, Li Zongzan, Yu Busheng and others will make some emotions, but if they don't do this, in case of a tough battle, I am afraid that there will be a time when the command will not move, so this makes Yue Weihua a little undecided.
After a half-mutter, Yue Weihua shook his head, sent what he wanted back to the headquarters in the form of a telegram, and asked the General Staff to discuss it properly, and then after they entered the wolf domain, they would discuss it after meeting, and let Yue Xiang and Feng Xiang decide when the time came.
"Commander-in-chief, are you still shelling?" Duan Feng, the commander of the third battalion of the cavalry regiment, asked, Duan Feng, as a native of Bingcheng, naturally accompanied Yue Weihua to accompany the whole process of the bombardment.
Yue Weihua looked up at the military camp of Tsarist Russia, there was still fire in the barracks, shook his head and said: "Forget it, it's been a day of bombardment, brothers are also tired, I think our goal has been achieved, in fact, our bombardment is just a gesture, whether it is shelled or not, Tsarist Russia will withdraw tonight." ”
……
The wharf, in the Russian barracks of the Tsarist army, was gloomy.
With the commander of the Ice City side, Gerasimus and Chief of Staff Nowvis, after being sniped for no reason, the entire Tsarist Russian battalion was leaderless, and the highest-ranking commander was a temporary fleet captain Lieutenant Colonel Tuckers, as well as several infantry majors and battalion commanders, not even a major level officer, and was shelled by the Black Dragon Army for another day during the day today, which caused the morale of the entire military camp to be extremely low.
Fortunately, in this era, although backward, but at least already had a telegraph, when the Tsarist War Department learned of the death of the commander and chief of staff, Tuckers was appointed by the War Department as the acting commander, in charge of the remnants of the defeated army, and their task was only one, that is, to carry their belongings, smoothly evacuate the ice city, from where to go back and forth, down the Songhua River, and rush back to Boli.
If it was a week ago, when the army of the Eastern Route of Tsarist Russia had not yet been destroyed, and the Black Dragon Army had not yet shown its sharp fangs, I am afraid that Tux would have thought that this was a very easy task, after all, it was no problem to go down the river, and the speed of the river wheel reached forty kilometers per hour, so even the cavalry of the Black Dragon Army could only watch them leave.
However, the fleet of more than 100 warships of the East Route Army, said that it would be destroyed, such combat effectiveness, so that Tux's heart cast a shadow, after all, the current fleet under his hands, only there are sixteen river ships, only five gunboats, the rest are tugboats and cargo ships, in addition to the crew, the real combatants, there are only fifteen or six hundred people, plus the Songhua River is much narrower than the Black Dragon Army, and some sections of the river are even only passable by waterways, the conditions are far less than the East Route Fleet, and the only advantage is to go downstream.
"Those damn officials."
Tux was very angry in his heart, because he, the acting commander, was only appointed this morning, if the high-level of Tsarist Russia could be more efficient, and replied to them last night and appointed him to take full responsibility, then if they evacuated last night, maybe they had a much better chance of successfully evacuating, of course, this was purely Tux's hunch.
Time ticked slowly, when the clock pointed to zero o'clock, when it entered the fifth of September, all the Tsarist Russian troops who had already secretly boarded the ship, the motors of the entire fleet sounded almost at the same time, and the sudden sound of the motor pierced the sky in the silent night, making it difficult for the Black Dragon Army who were secretly monitoring not to find out.
"Xiaodong, just let Duan Feng rush to Qingshui Town with the three battalions, and you can stay in Ice City."
The reason why Duan Feng was asked to follow was that Yue Xiaodong was worried that the troops in Qingshui Town were not enough, so he had to let Yue Weihua take them, Yue Weihua had no choice but to let them rush there, and Yue Weihua himself took more than 20 special combat team members, riding a Harley motorcycle, and left first.
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Qingshui Town, two o'clock in the morning.
"Hey, squad leader, why is it that someone is driving a fishing boat down the river at this time, and no one cares?"
Tang Erhu, an artillery soldier of the Black Dragon Army lying on the north bank of the Songhua River, obviously felt a little unbelievable when he saw this scene, so he asked his squad leader Bai Bodao.
Bai Bo glanced at Tang Erhu, a little helpless, this Tang Erhu is a good material to be an artilleryman, he joined the artillery regiment from the new barracks, it was only a few days, until the first battle in Xinrongpo, he really began to touch the field artillery, just touched a few times, this guy was able to open the artillery, and the hit rate was quite high, even the old squad leader Bai Bo had to admit that Tang Erhu was very talented as an artilleryman, but this guy had a problem, that is, he lacked heart, and he talked a lot.
"Second Tiger, you are really two and two tigers." Bai Bo glanced at Tang Erhu before he continued: "Have you seen it, the fishing boat set off from the shore from the position opposite us, this still needs to be asked, it must be our people, go to the river to check the situation of the waterway." ”
"Oh, by the way, I heard that the commander-in-chief performed another miracle in the early hours of this morning, squad leader, did you see it, oops, I was fixing the cannon at the time, and I didn't see it." Tang Erhu continued to mutter.
Yue Weihua wanted to let the Tsarist fleet run aground here, naturally he wanted to add some gambling to the waterway, so Yue Weihua threw down seven or eight scrapped river ships and a few train wagons in the channel downstream of the preset position.
However, because it was already thrown down in the early morning, there were only some floating markers tied to the river, and now more than ten hours have passed, so as soon as Yue Weihua returned to Qingshui Town, he hurriedly went down to the river again to check, if the sinking river wheel and train wagon have been displaced, I can't say, I have to adjust it myself, so there is this scene.
"All of them, first-class combat readiness."
Bai Bo was about to say two words when he suddenly heard the voice of the company commander in combat readiness.
"Haha, the battle is about to start, and you can bombard Lao Maozi again." Tang Erhu said happily.
"Silence."
…… (To be continued.) )