Chapter 470: Driving the Enemy into the Urn
The brothers rummaged in the position for a while, and finally found a few smoke bombs, but they didn't find the incendiary bombs that Zhao Yongfu requested, but the brothers will use their brains, there are no ready-made incendiary bombs, so they can modify it themselves, and there is also flammable white phosphorus in the smoke bombs, so take apart the other smoke bombs, pour out the white phosphorus inside, plus some gunpowder and other flammable substances, re-modify a shell, stuff it into the gun chamber, and smash it into the reeds on the opposite side!
"Boom", the cannonball whistled out, flew in mid-air for a few seconds, and exploded on the edge of the reed, Zhao Yongfu stared at the reed swing with a telescope, he was ready in his heart, if this modified incendiary bomb really can't work, then let the men who are attacking the devil infantry in front of him use the bamboo here to make a bow and crossbow, light the fire and shoot it, and burn the reed!
The cannonball did not live up to the expectations of Zhao Yongfu and his subordinates, after the explosion, a flame rose from the ground, and soon burned the nearby reeds, and suddenly the wind helped the fire, and all of a sudden the reeds burned fiercely, and the flames quickly spread, and soon swallowed the nearby reeds, engulfing all the materials that the devil hid here.
The flames quickly swept towards the devil infantry on the side of the trench, and the few devil infantry who were desperately resisting the attack of Zhao Yongfu's men were terrified and shouted: "Fire! Come on! ”
But it was too late, the flames roared and immediately devoured those devils! Those devil soldiers were surrounded by flames, and their bodies were full of burning flames, constantly rolling back and forth on the ground, and the miserable howls were endless.
Zhao Yongfu saw this scene in the telescope, was overjoyed, and ordered to those subordinates behind him: "Concentrate artillery bombardment, let those devils die early and live early!" ”
A rain of shells rained down, and because of the fire and smoke as target designations, the shells landed accurately, and most of them smashed on the devil's position, and the debris of the earth that exploded filled the deep trench at once, burying the bodies of the devils who had been killed.
Bombarded for a while, Zhao Yongfu thought it was almost, so he hurriedly ordered to stop shooting, at this moment, there were two fast horses galloping over on the road in front, the scout thought it was the devil soldier coming, just wanted to raise the gun to shoot, but only to see the two fast horses waving a flag, the scout looked, it turned out to be "blue sky and white sun flag!" Knowing that it was his own person, he put down the rifle in his hand and came back to report to Zhao Yongfu.
The two fast horses came in an instant, and immediately jumped down Two soldiers of the Central Army wearing steel helmets presented a piece of paper to Zhao Yongfu out of breath, Zhao Yongfu saw that it was a handwritten order from Division Commander Hu, asking his team to immediately launch a surprise attack on the Tianjiacun position in front of him, and contain the large army of the Devil Brigade that was storming the main position in Danyang!
"How's the forward battle going?" Zhao Yongfu wants to ask clearly, this can't be sloppy.
"Report to the sir, the situation in the main position of Danyang is not good, and the division and his subordinates are doing their best to resist the onslaught of the main force of the devil brigade!" The two guys who reported the news were in an official tone, almost saying nothing.
"Can you mark the actual location of that Tianjia Village on the map?" Zhao Yongfu thought about it, but he still felt that he would first use the robbed devil cannon to test fire at Tianjia Village, and then explore the path of the devil.
"We came down from Tianjia Village." The two messengers hurriedly marked them on the map, and judging from the proficiency of the two messengers on the map, they were definitely not ordinary soldiers, but probably the operational staff officers in the headquarters.
"Lao Li, you take your brothers and follow these two to the vicinity of Tianjia Village to have a look!" Zhao Yongfu said to Li Dagang behind him.
"What are we going to do?" Li Dagang didn't understand what Zhao Yongfu was going to do when he asked him to go to Tianjia Village in front?
"Lurking near Tianjia Village to see the situation, we can't rush to attack until we find out the real situation over there!" Zhao Yongfu said.
Let's not talk about how Zhao Yongfu and Li Dagang reconnoitred and attacked the devils in Tianjia Village to help Master Hu and them resist the attack of the devil brigade on the frontal position, and then let's talk about the river bank outside Zhenjiang City, after the Suzuki devil crossed the river, he rushed towards Zhenjiang City with a high spirit.
In the process of crossing the river, the devil hardly encountered any counterattack, which made the Suzuki devil feel that the Shina army facing the river bank in front was completely vulnerable, and they were just bluffing when they blocked the imperial infantry on the river bank just now.
Is it Haizi, can't they withstand the devil's attack and run back? Of course not, after Haizi received Han Fei's latest order, he hurriedly retreated towards Zhenjiang City, there is a high ground behind the river bank, the altitude is not high, only a few tens of meters, but it is very suitable for the troops to launch an ambush here, and the river bank is an open land, unobstructed, lying there to block the devil will definitely suffer, it is better to give up over there, run to the high ground here, and wait for the devil to cross the river and assemble on the open ground to give them a fatal blow!
The Suzuki devils crossed the river and found that the terrain here was an open field, so they felt unsafe, and hurriedly ordered their subordinates not to stay here for long, and immediately divided into three teams and rushed towards Zhenjiang City!
The devil did not stop and assemble on the bank of the river, but rushed directly to Zhenjiang City, and it was divided into three ways, these changes in the situation were quickly reported by the scouts under Haizi, Haizi immediately made a deployment change, stayed all the way to continue the nearby devils, and the remaining two roads went to block the other two teams of devils, don't fall in love with the war, after a little contact, they immediately evacuated to Zhenjiang City, to create the illusion that they can't beat the devils, and lure the devil troops in.
The main reason why Haizi wanted to change the combat deployment of the Suzuki devil troops near Zhenjiang City was that he had just received the news that Liu Ruye's advance team had arrived in Dongcheng, Liu Ruye brought a battalion this time, followed by an artillery battalion, counting the artillery brothers, this time thousands of troops rushed to Dongcheng, to deal with a devil squadron, it is estimated that it should be about the same!
Liu Ruye ordered his infantry to immediately set up an ambush in the east of Zhenjiang City, pull all the artillery battalions up to the city, arrange them along the first line of the city wall, and arrange them according to the range of the artillery, and arrange them in echelons, just wait for Haizi to lure those devils over.
Suzuki was fooled, and when his mid-lane troops encountered a nearby port on that high ground, the guy was a little worried that his troops had been ambushed.