Section 123: Occupation of trenches

Yang Chao thought about it, although he was very confused, but he still refused, without discussing with those guys who drove the airship, and rashly let the soldiers attack, and he must have been injured by mistake. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Turning to the watch, he said, "Give up the attack." Poplar! ”

The computer in the watch immediately converted Yang Chao's words into code and sent it back.

"My lord, are you still fighting? The Russians are all gone! ”

At this time, a voice sounded in the cockpit, it was the crew with Yang Chao, three people, all outside, and only Yang Chao was driving the boat alone.

"Forget it, withdraw it!"

As soon as Yang Chao's airship turned around, the others also withdrew to the position, and at this time the sky had already darkened, and all ten airships were parked in a safe place behind the position, and two thousand soldiers were sent to protect them.

Yang Chao's airship returned to its previous appearance at this time, with the cockpit and an empty cargo compartment, and all the seats and compartments that should not be there were removed, and they were transported as much as possible.

Outside the airship, Wu Peifu was talking to Yang Chao.

"As soon as we started fighting yesterday, the Russians protested to the international community."

Yang Chao said.

"They said that this was a provocation to the Russian Empire and that they would defend the Russian Empire at all costs."

The Russians reversed black and white and only showed the world that it was the Qing army that first provoked the war, not the Russians, but they never mentioned that they were lying on Chinese soil.

"The Russians have said so, and there will definitely be something to be done next. If my guess is correct, they are planning to launch a thunderous offensive, wanting to completely scare the imperial court, and dare not mention the matter of the northeast to them again. In order to seize the Northeast, the Russians fought with the Japanese for two years, and the country was in a mess, and they would definitely not give up easily. So it's not that easy to deal with, and we have to be prepared for a tough battle. ”

Yang Chao gave Wu Peifu a preventive injection.

Wu Peifu has never thought so simple, international diplomacy is changing rapidly, no matter how good the plan is, it may change, and he has always considered the worst.

"My lord, I feel that this group of Russians is not quite right, it is completely different from last year. It doesn't seem to have any fighting spirit, if it weren't for pretending to confuse people, he felt that this battle would still be fought. If they can capture Mukden as soon as possible, deploy defense with Mukden as the center, and use defense as an attack to consume them, they can still do it. ”

Wu Peifu noticed that the current Russian army is too different from the Russian army that fought with the Japanese army last year in terms of military morale.

Yang Chao nodded: "The country is in chaos like that, it's strange to have a fighting spirit." Moreover, the newspaper published that even the sailors had rebelled, and I am afraid that there may not be no people in this group of Russian troops who want to rebel. The morale of the military is not aligned, and this is indeed a good opportunity. ”

The situation in Russia will definitely affect the Russian army in the northeast, and the famous Kronstadt sailors are still revolting.

Among the poor soldiers, there were not a few who were in the same mood as the workers in Petersburg, and because of the dismissal of their co-workers, and because the wages were too low, these soldiers not only lived a hard life, but fought with the Japanese for two years, and suddenly had to fight, and did not complain.

"That's right. Is there any movement of the Russian army in the direction of Liaoyang and Lushun? ”

Yang Chao asked. They were between Liaoyang and Mukden at this time, although Ma Huowa took forty or fifty thousand bandit troops to harass and intercept them, but those people were okay to shoot in the back, and if the Russian army really sent troops to rescue, they couldn't stop it.

Wu Peifu immediately unfolded the map: "There are several teams of scouts who have come back today. Ma Huowa and his men had already blown up all the railways in the Liaoyang area, and also ambushed a Cossack, killing 300 people, and the Russian army in Liaoyang retreated. There was an operation in the direction of Lushun, and about 30,000 people were dispatched, but there was no railway, and they could not reach it within three days. ”

Yang Chao nodded: "Then you are ready to attack, and my airship will cooperate with you tomorrow." ”

Wu Peifu is busy today. A group of soldiers with low military literacy have to attack a well-established position, and there is a river in front of them, how to cross the river is a troublesome matter.

Wu Peifu doesn't have to sleep tonight.

Wu Peifu really didn't have anyone, tossed all night, selected assault soldiers, picked out 2,000 who had a bitter enmity with the Russian army, and had good military skills, and then simply taught them how to cross the river with a wooden platoon, and then how to rush to the position of the Russian army at the fastest speed, how to leave the organization and defense after occupying the position, occupy a breakthrough, and so on.

There was even a small-scale exercise, and the soldiers went down the river in batches, and it was still very cold in the northeast for more than three months.

Yang Chao didn't rest much, as soon as he got on the airship, the watch rang, and more than a dozen telegrams were sent, all of which had been received just now, but because of Yang Chao's settings, the watch would not alarm when there were outsiders within ten meters.

The telegram of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the telegram of Zhang Zhidong, and the telegram of Yuan Shikai.

Yiliang conveyed to Yang Chao that Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Japan and other military attaches in China all asked to observe.

In their opinion, without their support, the Qing government would never dare to go to war, even if the army had entered the northeast, even if it had already entered Mukden, before the war began, they all thought that the Qing government was bluffing, to be precise, Yang Chao was bluffing.

But I didn't expect Yang Chao to really fight, and the battle situation was beyond their expectations, especially when Yang Chao bombed the Russian artillery position on the first night with an airship, which aroused their interest.

However, airship bombing has never appeared in actual combat, and the bombing that appeared in the northeast is very likely to go down in the annals of war history, and this is a new application of a new weapon.

As for the results of the bombing, they already know through all aspects, that is, the Russian artillery has been destroyed, and all countries are very interested in this, and the only ones who know the inside story are Yang Chao and the Russian army, and the bombed Russian army is of course impossible to tell the powers about their experience of being bombed, so they plan to observe it themselves.

Yang Chao immediately replied: "Military attaches from all countries are welcome to observe." ”

For Yang Chao, who is about to mass-produce airships, the more people are interested in airships, the happier he is, and the advertising costs are saved.

But how did they come, Yang Chao was not responsible, for the one that was sent behind Yixuan, I hope Yang Chao will send an airship back to pick it up, Yang Chao replied directly that the war situation is tense and can't get out, and they want to figure out their own way.

Zhang Zhidong expressed concern about the battle situation and advised Yang Chao that if something could not be done, it was better to retreat and advance, or to focus on peace.

Zhang Zhidong, who assisted Zeng Guofan, was not so timid and afraid, but the Qing army fought with foreigners again and again, and never won, and it was difficult for the old prime minister to be optimistic.

Yang Chao told him that everything was normal at the moment and that the situation was in my favor, and simply accepted the battle situation, and at the same time told him that if he could say that Yuan Shikai would send troops, he would be nine out of ten.

Yuan Shikai also sent several telegrams, all of which were looking for reasons to shirk, what weapons were insufficient, ammunition was insufficient, and he hoped that Yang Chao would get him a batch of arms and so on. complained about the lack of food and clothing, the imperial court had not allocated military salaries for a long time, and hoped that Yang Chao would talk to the emperor. In the end, Yuan Shikai was also persuading himself not to force anything if he couldn't do anything.

Yuan Shikai really made Yang Chao half angry this time, but he still needs him now. But there are no weapons and ammunition, and at this juncture, Yang Chao is really angry when he threatens Yang Chao to ask for arms and materials and money.

Yang Chao admitted that Yuan Shikai grasped this point very well, so that Yang Chao really couldn't refuse, and he had to give him benefits. But Yang Chao is a businessman, he is not a politician, although he once thought that in order to learn to do business, you must understand politics, in this regard, Yang Chao also has certain attainments, but there is still a fundamental difference between him and a politician, that is, he has a bottom line.

Therefore, Yang Chao did not plan to compromise with Yuan Shikai this time, and there were no weapons, ammunition, and military salaries.

Early the next morning, Wu Peifu waited nervously, Yang Chao's airship raised fire and anchored, and ten giant beasts pounced on Fengtian.

It was still yesterday's steps, not enough to drop a round of bombs first, and then use machine guns to continuously strafe the Russian troops.

Today, the Russian army is on guard, and they actually made a simple bracket for the heavy machine gun, which can shoot in the air, but the effect is not so obvious, the height of 300 meters consumes up the kinetic energy of the bullet, and Yang Chao's airship is bulletproof, so it is useless at all.

After the Russians were beaten violently, it was the same as yesterday, and many people ran away in a hurry and ran to Mukden, three miles away, but the number of Russian troops today seems to be much smaller than yesterday, and it looks sparse.

Wu Peifu's side was immediately ready, Yang Chao had been keeping an eye on Wu Peifu's movements, and had already greeted the other airships, their pilots saw through the glass window of the cockpit that their people were holding driftwood and swimming to the opposite bank, and then rushed over frantically, twenty meters away from the trench, all the drivers shouted to remind the machine gunners, and at about the same time, all the machine guns stopped firing.

And the soldiers who were running wildly at high speed at this time jumped into the trenches of the Russian army, jumped in and occupied the trenches.

The central breakthrough, Wu Peifu chose to break through from the center, 2,000 people occupied a trench that was a mile long, and then quickly set up machine guns, and the machine guns of the Russian army were also used, and if there were no machine guns of the Russian army, they immediately used their own.

The airships in the air were not idle, taking the center as the boundary, and began to extend their firepower to the sides to help their own people suppress the enemy's firepower.

These are also explained by Wu Peifu, including Yang Chao, who is also doing it, but it doesn't seem to have any effect, because there are really few Russian soldiers in the trenches, and even if there are, almost all of them are disabled.

Over there, Wu Peifu was nervously organizing the strength of the main force to cross the river, and then lined up in formation to press forward, this is the tactics of this era, lined up in arrays, loaded with bayonets, holding rifles, and moving forward in unison.

If this is the opponent's machine gun, it will be a large piece in one sweep.

But it's a pity that the other side didn't, and luckily they captured the trenches.

It was too easy, so easy that Yang Chao couldn't believe it, and he began to wonder if the Russian army was hiding in Fengtian City.