Chapter 9 Capture a lot
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Two days later, Gangchen's reserve battalion had all changed its clothes, and then quickly approached about eight kilometers away from the Tieji tribe station, behind the Gangchen reserve battalion was a pioneer battalion and a combat battalion responsible for responding, as long as they saw that things were bad, they would rush out to help Gangchen's reserve battalion.
Gangchen had already decided to start attacking their positions about four kilometers away from the Tieji tribe, so for the remaining four kilometers, they had to carefully observe the opponent's position and the surrounding situation to make sure that nothing unexpected happened.
The twenty large-caliber howitzers of the Serenfu Corps had been pulled behind the Gangchen Reserve Battalion, and Gangchen and the artillery commander had already discussed that within 20 minutes before the Gangchen Reserve Battalion was ready to launch an attack, the artillery shells would tear an irreparable gap in the opponent's line, and then the Gangchen Reserve Battalion would charge with cavalry in front and infantry behind. This can greatly reduce your own casualties and effectively suppress the enemy's counterattack.
In the Tieji tribe, everyone is also busy nervously, and Cheng Lei is the busiest one. With a flue-cured cigarette in his mouth, he shouted loudly and ordered Chongshan and Li Changcheng to arrange all the soldiers of the Tieji tribe and the Lion King army according to his plan.
Cheng Lei marked on the map the areas that all soldiers were not allowed to enter, which was the area he predicted would be bombarded by enemy artillery. The soldiers in the frontline positions also withdrew, making it look like they wanted to retreat and escape. The thousands of cavalry of the Tieji tribe were divided into two teams and arranged on two wings. If you need to charge, you will charge out from both sides.
Dozens of 530 guns and sentries have already marked the bombing sites, and they will fire together when the other side is coming. However, these are completely unaware of the other party. Because all this action is hidden behind the layers of heavy tents in front of you. There is no way, when the time comes, you can only sacrifice these tents to let the enemy blow up enough!
Now everyone on both sides is staring at the time. Cheng Lei and the others had been completely arranged before the enemy attacked, just waiting for the enemy to come forward and throw themselves into the net. Everyone in the Serenfu Corps was very excited, if they could take down all the Tieji tribes, then their supplies would become very abundant, and they would no longer have to suffer from lack of food and clothing in a short period of time.
Selenf stared at his watch silently, the second hand on it clicked and beat, and with each beat, Selenf's heart followed suit. The time he and Gangchen agreed to launch the attack was 10:25, so the howitzers would start bombarding the enemy positions at 10:5.
It's 9:40 a.m. Twenty-five minutes to go, their assault on the Tieji tribe was about to begin. Serenfu sighed, in fact, he didn't have any knowledge of Gangchen's reserve battalion at all, so before that, he called the commanders of a pioneer battalion and a combat battalion behind Gangchen's reserve battalion, and ordered them to if Gangchen was not defeated or defeated, the combat battalion would gather Gangchen's troops, and the vanguard battalion would directly charge forward.
This is also the reason why Serunfu did not play according to the routine and put two main battalions behind the vanguard team. Several staff officers in the Serenfu command looked at Selenfu's solemn appearance, and they didn't dare to take a breath one by one. Because they know it in their hearts. Serenf took this battle with the Tieji tribe very seriously, but because he was provoked by Montali at that time, he came up with the method of drawing the vanguard, and also put in the two reserve battalions that were usually not qualified at all.
It's good now, it's useless to regret it. As the commander of the army, he naturally has to keep his word, and in the end, he can only bite the bullet and let the Gangchen reserve battalion go on the field to be the vanguard. However, Serenfu arranged two main battalions behind Gangchen in preparation to prevent the failure of Gangchen's reserve battalion.
As soon as he thought about it, Serenf was angry with Montali. Originally, it was safest to use Montali's Pioneer Battalion. But now it was good, and Muntali had brought Serenfu into the great pit of Gangchen. Serenf couldn't get out yet, so he could only stay inside. Then think of some remedial measures.
At this time, a staff officer cautiously spoke: "Your Excellency Commander, do you think we will send another main battalion to meet the reserve battalion of Gangchen?" According to the rumor, there are about 1,000 cavalry of the Tieji tribe, and if there is not enough army, I am afraid that ......"
Serunfu waved his hand a little irritably: "What can these herdsmen cavalry do even if there are tens of thousands of people, they can still be the opponent of our large-caliber howitzers?" And how can their weapons and equipment be compared to ours? Behind the Gangchen Reserve Battalion, the strength of the two main battalions is sufficient! I wonder now why these barbarians haven't run away until now, and are they really determined to fight us? That's underestimating us, and we're going to have to make them suffer a lot this time! ”
At this time, the hands of Serenf's watch had already run to the position of 10:5, and Selenv stood up and walked to the door of the headquarters, picked up the lookout and looked at the battlefield in the east. His headquarters was about six kilometers away from the front line, so he could see the situation there with a lookout box.
At this moment, the howitzer group exploded, and one shell after another bombarded the front positions of the Tieji tribe and the tent complex to the west of the station. Serenf didn't have many howitzer shells from the commander of the higher corps, but in order to make sure that nothing went wrong this time, he still took out one-eighth of the ammunition stock, which is 200 shells, to bombard the Tieji tribe.
He still has a lot of confidence in these howitzers, he knows very well the lethality of these howitzers, I am afraid that this round of shells will be bombarded, and the herdsmen of the Tieji tribe will be frightened, and they may all come out and surrender.
More than 200 shells were fired in nearly 10 minutes longer than expected, so the Gangchen reserve battalion launched an assault on the local positions at about 10:30. The vanguard of the shock was, of course, the cavalry, a total of more than one hundred and fifty horses carrying the cavalry and charging towards the positions of the Tieji tribesmen.
When they ran five hundred meters away from the position of the Tieji tribe, the horses began to neigh, their legs went limp, and they looked particularly painful. Many of the horsemen were lifted to the ground. As soon as they touched the ground, they began to wail, and it turned out that there were many zama nails scattered on the ground. Not only can you tie a horse, but you can also pierce people.
When the cavalry behind saw this, they all reined in their horses and wanted to retreat, when the heavy tents of the Tieji tribe were opened layer by layer, which had been blown apart by shelling and full of flames. The 530 guns and sentries behind them were exposed.
Without any hesitation at all, the artillerymen immediately opened fire on the cavalry, who had not had time to turn around and retreat. Of course, these shells are not as powerful as large-caliber howitzers, but they are quite enough to deal with these cavalry. The power of dozens of cannons firing at the same time is also very amazing, and the firing speed of these small cannons is very fast, and it didn't take a few minutes for those cavalrymen to be blown up to the point of crying dad and mother's flesh and blood.
Many horses were affected by the cannonballs, and they were afraid so they curled up and knelt on the ground, and the cavalry was so bad that they could outrun the cannonballs on their two legs. In the end, he was either killed in a pool of blood, or he was blown up and lost his arms and legs. A few hundred meters away from the Tieji tribe's position, this place has become a hell on earth, and the blood is flowing like a river.
Gangchen didn't dare to look at this scene at all, and he hurriedly asked the commander of the artillery to order the artillery to fire back. However, Serenf specified the amount of shells to be fired, and if it was to be increased, it had to be reported to Serenf. Gangchen had no choice but to send someone to the headquarters immediately to ask Serunfu for instructions, and at this critical moment, thousands of cavalry rushed out from both sides of the Tieji tribe station to charge Gangchen's reserve camp.
When Gangchen saw this scene, only two words appeared in his heart: It's over! There were some herdsmen who followed the cavalry of the Tieji tribe, and they came out to pick up those horse nails, and these horse nails were not placed many under Cheng Lei's orders. Instead, it is only placed in a small place, as long as it can block the opponent's cavalry, it is completely fine.
The cavalry of the Tieji tribe quickly rushed behind the Gangchen reserve battalion, and their target was not the Gangchen reserve battalion at all, but the twenty large-caliber howitzers of the artillery team behind them. Very smoothly, Shigeyama led the cavalry to capture all the opposing artillerymen. Then all twenty howitzers were loaded into the wagon.
Prior to this, the cavalry vanguard had already turned its horse's head and launched an assault on the Gangchen reserve battalion. How could the remaining infantry of the Gangchen Reserve Battalion be the opponents of these elite cavalry of the Tieji Tribe, and they fell to the ground like straw. Gangchen was also captured by two cavalry squad leaders. Then they took prisoners and howitzers and quickly withdrew to the Tieji tribe in two sides.
At this moment, a vanguard battalion and a combat battalion behind the Gangchen reserve battalion had already rushed over, and hundreds of cavalrymen were rushing at the front. Their main goal was to get those howitzers and artillery back. Without them, the heavy firepower of the Serenf Corps would have been reduced by more than half.
However, I saw that the cavalry of the Tieji tribe was divided into two parts, one left and one right, and retreated to both sides. They ran out of ideas again and began to hesitate. If you divide the pursuit, you may fall into the enemy's conspiracy to disperse your own forces and annihilate them, but if you don't divide the troops, one side of the howitzers on both sides will always fall into the hands of the enemy.
If Serenf had known about it, he would have been furious, and perhaps he would have put the blame entirely on the heads of these two battalions. Because there are not many people left in the reserve camp of Gangchen, and Gangchen has been captured.
They hesitated for less than a minute, but Cheng Lei didn't give them a chance to hesitate, and dozens of artillery pieces began to bombard again. Perhaps the change came too suddenly, and the commanders of the two combat battalions actually forgot about the artillery that blew up the cavalry under Gangchen.
Now that these artillery fires are being used on their heads, they feel the pain of Gangchen. Blocked by artillery fire, they could not catch up with the cavalry of the Tieji tribe who wanted to pursue them back to their station. The cavalrymen were ordered to retreat backwards, lest they be hit by enemy fire and lose their vital forces.
At this time, the artillery of the Tieji tribe suddenly stopped, and under the bombardment of the opponent's large-caliber howitzers just now, the soldiers and civilians of the Tieji tribe lost dozens of people, and a lot of livestock and horses. However, compared to the number of killed and wounded enemies and the howitzers captured, these losses are nothing, after all, there must be blood and tears in war.
Originally, Cheng Lei had already prepared the plan to lay mines this time, but because they didn't want to blindly defend and wanted to take the initiative to attack, they gave up the plan. However, the 530 guns and sentries they brought with them contributed a lot, and they were not much less powerful than laying mines.
Serenv almost fainted when he received the news that the Gangchen reserve battalion had been completely annihilated and that all the howitzers and artillery had been captured. This is simply a major mistake in intelligence work! He immediately called Montali over, and confronted him loudly in a voice that he had never heard before.
"Montali, can you explain to me what your reconnaissance intelligence was like in the first place? What is the current battle situation! Do you know how much your intelligence mistake has caused our corps, and if you don't want to go back to your country and go to court-martial, I want you to give me a reasonable explanation! Serenf snarled at Montali.
Muntali didn't expect the final outcome to be like this, if he had known that the Tieji tribe would be so strong, he would definitely have volunteered to be the first to be the pioneer.
However, at that time, Muntali did misestimate the strength of the enemy and their intentions, and he believed it after seeing the illusion made by Cheng Lei, which was indeed one of the main factors leading to this defeat. However, Montali's previous reconnaissance of the Tieji tribe was based on the 1st Pioneer Battalion as the vanguard, and the 1st Pioneer Battalion certainly had a way to deal with the situation of the Gangchen Reserve Battalion at that time, but the Pioneer was the Gangchen Reserve Battalion instead of the 1st Pioneer Battalion.
"Your Excellency, I admit that I am responsible for this defeat and my erroneous information. However, the situation found out at that time was just as my intelligence said, and besides, who would have thought that those herdsmen could have such strength and strategy? I think if you thought about it, I wouldn't let the Gangchen Reserve Battalion fight the vanguard, right? ”
Serenfu's face turned red, and then he said angrily, "Are you questioning my ability to lead and command, Mr. Montali?" Well, if you have any problems with me, you can go to the military court in your home country and sue me when you return home. But now I order that Montali be removed from the rank of battalion commander, and that in the future, Montali will fight with the 3rd Combat Battalion, and the 1st Vanguard Battalion will be served by the former battalion deputy commander Ceren! ”
Muntali's eyes widened and he couldn't believe that this was the truth, the first pioneer battalion was brought out by him, and he was precise enough to command everyone, and only he could use the first vanguard operation to be called the most effective vanguard battalion in the entire second-level corps, but Serenf was now going to take off his official rank and let him go to the combat battalion as a soldier, isn't this a tyrannical thing? But the facts are here, Serenf has already turned his head away from him, and Montali realizes that he has indeed been completely abandoned by Serenf, and his heart is as if he is dead......
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