(74) Strange artillery fire

Weixian, Shandong, China.

"These little Oriental devils are not easy to deal with!"

"Braided handsome" Zhang Xun held a telescope and looked at the military position in the distance, and at this time, the military position was full of huge columns of smoke rising high.

"The tenacity of this soldier is famous, they have suffered two big losses from us in succession, and this time it should be the surname of Changji." The Yanzhou town guard reminded Zhang Wensheng of the scene when Yang Shuoming's Jiangxi army did not arrive, and they fought with the Yue army and suffered defeats one after another, and said with palpitations, "We can't just point and bombard with artillery, now the shells are a little unhelpful, if we continue to fight like this, once the shells run out, it will be troublesome." ”

"Then we have to knock Weixian down!" Zhang Xun put down the binoculars with some annoyance, looked at Zhang Wensheng and shouted, "The new guy surnamed Fu in the fifth town has beaten Qingzhou!" He, Cao San, a fool, is about to take Zibo! What they can do, why can't we do it in the front army! ”

"I feel that there is something wrong with the arrangement of that Yang Zhen Guard this time." Zhang Wensheng said, "Why did we let the three troops of our old Beiyang attack the fortification, but he and Zhang Xiaozhun's soldiers and horses ran behind us to hide?" ”

"You figured it out! He's not hiding! Zhang Xun's eyes widened at Zhang Wensheng, "Haven't you heard him say it?" He wanted to prevent himself from coming out of Qingdao to copy our back road! ”

Seeing that Zhang Xun was angry, Zhang Wensheng stopped talking, but raised the telescope as if in disguise, observing the battle situation ahead.

Since Yang Shuoming rescued Zhang Xun and his Wuwei Qianjun last time, Zhang Xun had a great impression of Yang Shuoming, who was also from Jiangxi, so he instinctively gave Yang Shuoming all his trust.

Like this time, the armies launched a counterattack against the Yue army without unified command, and as Yang Shuoming's envoy to the town of Ganxi, he actually couldn't command those old Beiyang generals who had followed Yuan Shikai all the way for many years. For example, after the start of the war, Yuan Shikai appointed Duan Qirui's right-hand man, Xu Shuzheng, as the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, and unified the command of the armies in each battlefield to fight against him, but the shrewd Xiao Xu knew that there would not be many people who listened to him (plus he himself had offended many people before). He was afraid of the infamy of defeat, so he was stunned and did not take office.

Yang Shuoming's qualifications are relatively shallow, even if he is a brilliant victory in annihilating the Yue army in the first battle, he may not be able to move these future Beiyang warlords to listen to him. If it weren't for Zhang Xun's single-mindedness to help him as an old man from Beiyang, like this pre-war military meeting, they wouldn't have come at all, let alone listen to your words and take action.

And this time, Zhang Xun not only helped him settle this problem, but also led the Wuwei Front Army to carry out his orders.

Soon, the shelling of the former army of the Wuwei army stopped, and after a while, a dense burst of gunfire rang out.

At this time, outside the gate of Weixian County, the soldiers of the Wuwei Front Army had advanced to a place very close to the position of the Yue Army under the cover of rocks, soil slopes and craters.

At this moment, the hidden artillery of the Yue army suddenly rang out, and several shells fell on the ground between the communication trenches abandoned by the Yue army, splashing countless mud and gravel, and then falling like raindrops, falling on the heads of the officers and soldiers of the front of the Wuwei who were advancing.

"Ahh I say that your mother's little Oriental devil ancestors are eighteen generations! ”

The officers and men of the vanguard of the Wuwei front army attacking the city were carefully hiding in the trenches at this time, and one of the battalion commanders was hit with a stone on the head, and he was covering his head and scolding.

The battalion commander took off the general's hat, revealing his braided head. He reached out and rubbed the place where he had been hit by the stone, and found that there was no bleeding.

"It seems that it is still good for the handsome to let us not cut our braids." The battalion deputy said to the battalion commander flatteringly.

"What a fart! On a hot day, suffocate to death! Bury everything! If you let the gun hurt, you have to suppurate! Can it still make you so comfortable? The battalion commander named Na Liangsheng put on his military hat again, put the brim of his hat with the barrel of the revolver in his hand, and carefully poked his probe to observe the situation outside.

"Mother's little book, Lao Tzu has to cut off your heads this time!" He touched his waist with some regret, where he wore an elegantly decorated Qing-style waist knife.

"Stop thinking about your big blade, that thing, it's out of fashion now." A platoon commander understood his thoughts, smiled and patted the Mauser rifle with the bayonet in his hand and said, "It's better to use this bayonet,"

The platoon commander named Liu Wu was holding the barrel of the Mauser rifle at this time, leaning on the wall of the trench, and on his face, a long scar crossed the door, making him look very fierce, but at this time, the smile on the corner of his mouth seemed very kind.

"The bayonet is a broken thing, it's almost the same as killing a chicken and slaughtering a pig, but it's far from cutting people, if you want me to say, it's still the big knife, and it's a head when it goes down, it's no different from cutting a watermelon." Na Liangsheng shook his head and said, "This foreign spear is the most suitable to aim at from a distance, and it will not work when it gets close. ”

"If only there was something that was lighter than a heavy machine gun, and could fire in bursts without pulling the bolt." Liu Wu looked at the rifle in his hand and sighed.

"Yes! Thinking about the shotgun and the pole we used at the beginning, it would take a while to clean the barrel, fill the gunpowder surface, and stuff the projectiles after a shot. Later, I got this Mauser tube, which can shoot five rounds in a row without reloading bullets, and everyone thinks it is very easy to use. When there was that heavy machine gun, one or two hundred rounds of ammunition, all of them flew out suddenly and swept a large area, and it was simply impossible to live. Na Liangsheng said, "Who knows if in another ten years, the thing you just said will come out?" ”

"My lord, I heard that the brothers of the Gan army have that thing," said one of the heralds suddenly, "it seems that our Chinese factories made it themselves." ”

"! How can it be! Na Liangsheng rolled his eyes and said in disbelief.

"It's true, sir." Another soldier of the former army of Wuwei said, "My hometown is from Fengxin County, Jiangxi, and our Zhang Dashuai is a fellow countryman. ”

"Really?" Liu Wu's eyes lit up instantly, "If only I could get one to play!" ”

At this moment, there were several loud noises, interrupting the conversation between the officers and soldiers in front of the Wuwei.

"What's going on?" Na Liangsheng's head was hit by a rock much larger than the previous one, and he grinned in pain.

"It doesn't seem to be the cannon ...... of the Japanese Invaders," Liu Wu looked up at the sky and said with some hesitation.

Just as he finished speaking, a dense and powerful explosion shook the earth like a thunderbolt, and then through the clouds, straight to the sky, and the eardrums of the officers and soldiers in front of the Wuwei were almost shattered. Many people couldn't stand the stimulation of this loud noise, and they all fell to the ground involuntarily.

In the earth-shattering explosion, the earth trembled incessantly, and large and small stones and mud balls flew down like hailstones, falling on the heads of the officers and soldiers in front of the Wuwei, mixed with some broken flesh and bones. When a bloody palm with three broken fingers landed at Na Liangsheng's feet, Na Liangsheng's eyes almost popped out of his sockets.

I don't know how long it took, the explosion gradually subsided, Na Liangsheng waited for a while, he didn't hear the cannon sound of the counterattack like last time, he carefully poked his probe and observed the situation outside.

The hillside, which had just looked green, had now become an uninhabited scorched earth with black smoke. There was a strong smell of gunpowder smoke in the air.

"Brethren! Rush to Lao Tzu!! Kill all the little ones! Na Liangsheng shouted in a hoarse voice, drew his sword, and swung it, but he was not the first to jump out of the trench, and when he heard his shout, the soldiers of the front army of the Wuwei army shouted and shouted and jumped out of their shelters in a hurry, and rushed forward with their rifles loaded with bayonets.

Seeing that the soldiers who rushed in front were not attacked, Na Liangsheng shouted a few more times to boost his morale before jumping out of the trench and rushing forward with the soldiers.

Unlike the high-pitched shouts of the officers and soldiers of the former Wuwei in order to drum up their courage, the position of the Yue army was surprisingly quiet, and the soldiers of the former army of the Wuwei rushed out of several hundred meters with loud shouts, but did not encounter any enemy.

Na Liangsheng slowed down his pace, he calmed down, let his mood stabilize a little, then he felt a soft thing under his feet, he looked down, only to find that at his feet, lying horizontally and vertically, were all covered with charred and incomplete corpses of the army.

The soldiers of the former army of the Wuwei who charged also noticed the strange scene on the position of the army, and one by one they slowed down, gathering in groups of three or five, looking around with a suspicious gaze.

All around them, there were corpses of soldiers, as well as broken guns and equipment.

There were bursts of groans and screams from the pile of corpses, and Liu Wu, who was holding a rifle, walked over cautiously, and immediately saw a small soldier whose leg had been blown off.

The little man said that the soldier saw Liu Wu approaching, his eyes were covered with blood and a kind of hatred like a dying beast, he howled, and stood up with his rifle supporting his body, he just wanted to put the bayonet up, but one leg could not support his body at all, and he fell to the ground again.

Looking at his funny appearance, Liu Wu couldn't help but laugh. But when he saw the vicious look on the other party's face, he somehow felt a little chill in his heart.

Liu Wu saw that the other party still wanted to hold the gun, sneered, stepped forward, raised the rifle with the bayonet, and stabbed the opponent in the chest.

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