Chapter 248: Abandon the First Line of Defense
The Black Dragon Army's actions are still very fast. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Half an hour later, Yue Xiang, chief of the general staff, called Yue Xiang, the chief of the general staff, and then went to the general headquarters to discuss with Yue Weihua.
This efficiency, this speed, is really not covered.
First of all, give priority to the selection of artillery, no way, this kind of offensive and defensive warfare, as long as you are not a fool, you can understand the importance of artillery, and the artillery Black Dragon Army is really not lacking now, and this account has been calculated last time, plus just in the battle of the Eighteen Forts, and captured the equipment of an almost complete field artillery regiment, so ah, now the Black Dragon Army is not short of artillery, but there is a shortage of artillery.
Li Dulei acted resolutely, and selected more than 500 artillery soldiers from the more than 6,000 Qing army prisoners at the first time, which is not a small number, because these 500 people are artillerymen, not auxiliaries.
More than 500 artillery soldiers were scraped away overnight by the people from the three artillery regiments, and as for the assessment, it was naturally not about the teaching team.
After selecting artillery, it is to choose cavalry, Zeng Qi is such a cavalry association, except for the dead, the rest are all in the prisoner camp, preliminary statistics, there are more than 1,500 people, this number makes Li Du very embarrassed, and the same makes Botat, the deputy commander of the cavalry regiment who came to receive this batch of cavalry, feel very embarrassed.
Although Botat is Yang Fengxiang's old subordinate and is from the cavalry of the Qing Army, the only identity he recognizes now is the deputy head of the Black Dragon Army Cavalry Regiment, so when he looks at the more than 1,500 cavalry of the Qing Army, and even the second-grade members like Xiedutong Hairi Gusiro, Botat really doesn't know what to do for a while.
After all, there are only more than 1,500 people in the entire cavalry regiment of the Black Dragon Army, and now so many people go back directly, it will definitely not work, and in the end, Botat will go back directly, as for the 1,500 cavalry, it is better to be locked up in the prisoner camp first, because there are too many people, it has become not scarce, whether it is considered a technical class, well, this remains to be discussed.
After the cavalry matter ended like this, Li Du took the instructors of the teaching team and began to preach in the prisoner camp, which is called brainwashing, of course, brainwashing is a technical job, not everyone can do it, but Li Du is indeed a master, a leader.
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Da-da-da-da!
Bang bang bang!
The day slowly dawned, and the 87th and 88th divisions of Tsarist Russia, under the mobilization of Chief of Staff Kirilenko, finally took their places, and when the sky was bright, the first shot was fired.
The 87th and 88th Divisions were both the main divisions of Tsarist Russia's invasion of Mukden, well-equipped and fierce in combat, and the commander of the 87th Division, Kirilenko, and the commander of the 88th Division, Engel, were also generals of a hundred battles.
The rumbling sound of artillery sounded from time to time in the first line of defense of the Black Dragon Army, although the coalition army only had one directly subordinate heavy artillery regiment, but each division also had an artillery battalion directly under its jurisdiction, and the 87th and 88th divisions each had a field artillery battalion, each with about 18 field guns from 87 mm to 107 mm.
Although the firepower of the field artillery battalion cannot be compared with that of the artillery regiment, it is more flexible and mobile than the artillery regiment, where it needs to be hit, and it will be transferred as soon as the battle is finished.
For the main defense line of the Black Dragon Army, the heavy defense area, although a large number of troops were also dispatched, most of them were mainly bluffs, and their main attack direction was actually to launch an uninterrupted impact on the long flank defense line of the Black Dragon Army with battalion and company units, or even with ranking units.
Although it is said that the flanks on both sides are mostly continuous mountains, and even if it is a pass, it is also very steep, but when more than 10,000 people of Kirilenko's entire 87th Division were all thrown into this five or six kilometer-long front, it immediately made more than 3,000 people of Luoqing of the First Fleet of the Naval Division feel boundless pressure.
The defense line is too long, 3,500 people, it seems that there are a lot of people, and 500 people can be stationed in one kilometer, but the mountains are continuous, the mobility is too poor, and sometimes they are only a few hundred meters apart from each other, but if you want to go to reinforcements, you have to bypass one or even several mountains, and it is impossible to effectively watch and help each other.
For this reason, when the battle lasted until noon, Luo Qing had to ask Yue Weihua for help.
Wolf Domain Headquarters.
Commander-in-Chief Yue Weihua, Chief of General Staff Yue Xiang, General Adviser Yang Fengxiang, Logistics Minister Yue Hu, Deputy Chief of General Staff Wang Hankun and other Black Dragon Army giants are gathering together to discuss countermeasures.
"I see if it's okay to let the engineer regiments and marines who are responsible for the imperial auxiliary positions on both sides of the main defense position expand the defense area on both sides, so that the pressure on Luo Qing's department can naturally be reduced." Wang Hankun proposed.
Since the change of defense on the night of the 21st, the main position was guarded by Zhou Dabiao of the 105th Regiment, and the auxiliary positions on both sides were in charge of the engineer regiment and the marines, and there was no battle all day on the 22nd, so the defensive task of the first line of defense was still these teams.
"No, if you do this, the 88th Division of Tsarist Russia will inevitably be fully pressed, and when the time comes, it will make us even more scrambling, rather than this, it is better to directly increase troops to Luoqing." Yang Fengxiang said.
"The General Counsel was courteous." Yue Weihua nodded in agreement, but then shook his head and said: "But as a mobile 101st Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment fought last night, and now they are resting, it is really not appropriate to go to the battlefield at this moment, and these two regiments are the two sharp knives of our Black Dragon Army, unless it is a last resort, I don't want to send them to the position to defend." ”
Although Yue Weihua has always proposed to use the meat grinder of the wolf domain to grind the hundreds of thousands of troops of Tsarist Russia to death, Yue Weihua has never denied that offense is the best defense, look at the records of the 101st Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment since the start of the war, and look at the elusiveness of the special combat team, you can understand what is called a trump card and what is called a sharp knife.
"As for the 102nd, 103rd and 104th regiments, you all know that I went to the Qing army prisoner camp early this morning to replenish the source of troops, especially Nie Youcai, the head of the 102nd regiment, this guy even ran over in person, but I'm afraid that he is still picking people over there."
Li Du, the deputy captain of the teaching team, preached and educated the Qing army prisoners, brainwashed them, explained the policies of the Black Dragon Army, etc., these things were done overnight, and it was obvious that last night, the head of the 102nd regiment, Nie Youcai, the head of the 103rd regiment, Kang Quan, and the head of the 104th regiment, Song Yaoming, were not notified.
These three regiments in the first day of the defensive battle, the battle damage is not small, especially the 102nd regiment Nie Youcai, three battalions, there are less than two battalions left, originally Nie Youcai was ready to add the idea of replenishing troops to the recruit camp, who would have thought that when they came together in the morning, they heard that they were brainwashing the Qing army prisoner camp, and the artillery regiment went to the prisoner camp last night to lead people.
Where can Nie Youcai sit still now, although the overall combat effectiveness of the Qing army is not very good, it does not mean that they are not good, nor can it mean that their combat effectiveness is still not good after entering the Black Dragon Army, after all, the weapons and equipment are obviously different, and the spirit of a team is also obviously different, take 10,000 steps back and say, these Qing soldiers are also trained, on the battlefield, and veterans who have seen blood, are better than the recruits in the recruit camp who have just been trained for a few days.
Therefore, Nie Youcai, the head of the regiment, personally rushed to the prisoner camp, and then Kang Quan and Song Yaoming also sent capable men to pick people, because the battle losses of these two regiments were not small, so it was obviously not appropriate to let these three regiments reinforce at this moment.
Of course, this is not the main reason, the main reason is that these three regiments may have to change guards with the 105th Regiment, the Engineer Regiment and the Marine Corps on the main position at night, after all, these three regiments count until the evening, so the time to hold the position has reached two days and 48 hours.
Although it is said that there was no battle yesterday and today's battle is mainly a feint, the pressure on the main position is still very great, especially today, when more than 10,000 people are pressed up, and the suppressed breath on the entire position is out of breath.
"Otherwise, ask Luo Qing if he can hold on until the evening, if he can hold on until the evening, then see the situation at night." Yue Weihua said: "It is impossible for the 88th Division to feint all the time, I guess that the 88th Division should launch a fierce attack on the main position at night, if this is the case, we will simply abandon the first line of defense and enter the second line of defense to defend it, and the provincial troops will be stretched." ”
Yue Weihua's proposal has won the unanimous approval of everyone, the first line of defense of five or six kilometers of the line of defense, for the total strength of the Black Dragon Army, is indeed a little long, and another reason is that the main position of the first line of defense, after the first day of the fierce bombardment of Tsarist Russian artillery, caused many defensive facilities to be unable to be repaired in a short time, and in this way, for the soldiers in the defensive position, its danger or the probability of death must be much greater.
Rather than this, it is better to abandon the first line of defense and put the enemy into the real wolf domain to fight.
Once you enter Buren Mountain, the road is getting narrower and narrower, the battlefield is getting smaller and smaller, and the strength advantage of the Tsarist side will become more and more inconspicuous, because the battlefield is small, then the troops you invest each time are bound to be limited, while the Black Dragon Army side can be a man.
The war is still going on, because of Yue Weihua's proposal, the Luoqing Department has not received reinforcements, but if it just holds on until dark, it is not impossible for the Luoqing Department, but the sacrifice is greater, but it is inevitable.
In the afternoon, the 87th Division was still looking for fighters on the rolling hills, and launched a fierce attack and strong attack on some weak points of the defense of the Luoqing Division.
Seeing that, the sky was getting dark, and when night fell, all the units of the 87th Division suddenly died down, and all units receded like a tide.
In front of the main position of the first line of defense, the 88th Division, which had rested all day, began to launch a fierce offensive at night, first requesting fire assistance from the heavy artillery regiment of the coalition headquarters.
The rumbling explosions, waves of invisible shock waves, made the main position of the Black Dragon Army crumbling, and the soldiers hiding in the anti-artillery holes were all shocked with blood from their mouths and noses, and their eyes were full of Venus, not to mention those who held on to the position, even if they did not die, they were almost buried in the ground.
Da-da-da-da!
Thundered!
Bang bang bang!
As soon as the artillery stopped, the Russian assault troops were already less than 200 meters away from the position, and the 105th Regiment, the Engineer Regiment, and the Marine Corps began to fight back fiercely.
Although Yue Weihua had already prepared to retreat to the second line of defense, it was obviously impossible for Tsarist Russia to succeed easily, and the 105th Regiment, the Engineer Regiment and the Marine Corps also held their positions for two days and two nights, but the real brutal battle had just begun, so it was naturally impossible to let them withdraw at this time.
Life never ends, and the battle never stops.
Anyway, the 87th Division died down for the time being, and Yue Weihua would naturally let the three regiments on the main position fight a few more rounds.
The 88th Division's tidal charge was indeed not comparable to that of the Qing army two days ago, and their charge was also very distinctive; first, they made very good use of the time of artillery support to sprint; second, they were also equipped with a large number of Makqin heavy machine guns; third, every time they advanced a certain distance, they would build simple positions on the spot, or even quickly dig small positions, or carry sandbags into the battlefield, build bunkers on the spot, and so on, so that the efficiency is naturally higher.
"The regular army of Tsarist Russia is indeed not comparable to the Qing army, whether it is military quality, weapons and equipment, or the execution of battlefield orders." On a certain high ground, Yue Weihua observed the scene for a long time and sighed.
Yue Weihua's words made the face of Yang Fengxiang, the general adviser present, also hot, but what Yue Weihua said was true, and he couldn't tell the difference, and it could even be said that if it weren't for the fact that the Black Dragon Army was still strong in its position and far superior to Tsarist Russia in terms of weapons and equipment, then the 105th Regiment, the Engineer Regiment and the Marine Corps might not be able to hold out for a few rounds, and the position would be breached.
Even so, when the battle was carried out until about eleven o'clock at night, the positions of the engineer regiment were almost broken twice, and the 105th regiment and the marines were also rushed to the position by Tsarist Russia once, of course, the battle on the position, although the Tsarist Russia was tall, but it was indeed not the opponent of the Black Dragon Army, because almost all the men of the Black Dragon Army were equipped with barge guns, and submachine guns were even more melee weapons.
"Almost, let them get out."
At about half past eleven o'clock in the night, the 102nd Regiment, the 103rd Regiment and the 104th Regiment re-entered the position after replenishing the source of troops, of course, the position they entered was the second line of defense of the Black Dragon Army, and at this moment the battle losses of the 105th, Engineer Regiment and Marine Corps were not small, and the preliminary estimate was that each regiment had more than 200 casualties.
Therefore, Yue Weihua had to order the evacuation.
The second line of defense, fight again.
…… (To be continued.) )