Soon, at the urging of Li Zhigao, Zheng Yun also sped up, he had already found the corresponding shooting Zhuyuan, and told the various shooting Zhuyuan to each artillery group through the walkie-talkie, so that they could fire a salvo according to the coordinate parameters provided by themselves.

Just as Zheng Yun was about to shoot, suddenly, Li Zhigao saw through the telescope that the sky above the enemy's position suddenly exploded with a bang.

These four explosions in the air were definitely not caused by shells fired by Krupp's 75-mm field guns, they could only be caused by their own 93 mortars, and only the 93 mortars they brought had this kind of air-burst steel ball shells.

Obviously, this should be Wang Erbiao in the rear of the enemy They let their artillery squad shell, as for why the artillery is fired so fast, it is very simple, their artillery method is the same as Zheng Yun's method, there are advanced positioning and orientation instruments, and they have also carried out grid work in advance, plus the number of people in the artillery squad is concentrated, the order is sent quickly, the mortar shooting is relatively simple, there is no need to set a time to do coordination, and the firing speed is naturally fast.

Of course, this is also related to the resoluteness of the commander to carry out the order, just like this Zheng Yun, it has been so long, and he has not fired yet, and he is obviously grinding! Don't you know that the more you grind, the closer your soldiers rush, the higher the chance of accidental injury?

Li Zhigao saw through the telescope that although the explosions of most of the shells were far away, one shell still fell directly above the enemy's head, and the air explosion of this shell was just for a moment, and the steel balls shot at the enemy within the range of the air explosion either killed or wounded, even if they were lying on the ground, it was useless, because the steel balls of the air explosion would also hit down, which was not the same thing as hitting the ground and exploding.

I don't know if it's luck, this shell happened to fall on the top of the patrol battalion horse team, directly blasting out a blood mist in the crowd of the horse team, and people shouted that the horses neighed, and the shape was unbearable.

It is estimated that the other side will have at least twenty or thirty casualties in the damage caused by such a shell in the crowd, but it can scare the officers and men of the patrol battalion, who have never seen all this, and even the gunfire that blocked the shooting was much weaker.

At this time, the Type 63 107mm rocket launchers on Zheng Yun's side were finally ready, so when Zheng Yun gave the order to launch, Li Zhigao immediately heard an even louder whooshing sound from behind!

Sixteen 12-barreled 107-millimeter rocket launchers fired 192 107-millimeter rockets in an instant, and these rockets shot straight through with white smoke, and immediately formed a ballistic trajectory visible to the naked eye in the air.

Although the accuracy of this 107-mm rocket is slightly worse, it depends on who it compares with, whether it is not good compared with modern artillery and missiles, and it is still much more accurate than the artillery of this era. Moreover, because the distance is relatively close, only five or six hundred meters, at this distance, the accuracy of this rocket is still very good. And even if the accuracy is worse, it can't stand up much, and the covering shot of one hundred and ninety-two 107-mm rockets is not a joke!

You must know that the warhead of this rocket weighs 8.33 kilograms and the killing radius can reach 12.5 meters, and because of the large number of rockets fired and Zheng Yun's calculations are relatively accurate, at least half of all 192 rockets have penetrated into the ranks of officers and men of those patrol battalions, and at least 90 rockets have hit the target.

In an instant, the rockets caused a dense carpet bombardment within a radius of more than 60 meters from the opponent's camp, which directly engulfed nearly 400 people, and other people who were lucky not to be killed and disabled by the explosion were also covered by this burst of firepower.

In addition to blowing up all the blocking positions of the patrol battalion, this bombardment also slightly affected the ordinary troops who charged at home, fortunately, their own troops also just started to charge, and when the mortar shells exploded in the air above the enemy's heads, their soldiers had automatically slowed down the charge, so now the nearest person is still more than 300 meters away from the fire explosion point, so only the nearest one may be shocked by the explosion shock wave A little tinnitus, but there are no casualties.

Of course, such a good situation was not deliberately calculated by Zheng Yun, but by luck, because Zheng Yun deliberately made a little advance when he fought, and the rocket landing point was calculated to be 550 meters, that is, the strike point was placed behind the opponent's position, not to prevent the opponent from escaping, but to prevent accidental injury to his own family, but who knew that because of the poor accuracy, the result was wrong, just because of the extra 50 meters, the result was that nearly half of the rockets hit the opponent's position, causing such a shocking result.

At this point, there was no suspense in the battle, and there were only more than 500 people coming out of the entire patrol battalion, and the previous mortar fire and this 107-mm rocket salvo wiped out more than half of the opponent at once, not to mention the death or injury, and completely lost morale.

The previous mortar was vicious enough, and there was an explosion in the air to scatter steel balls, and there was no place to hide in this open place, and the later rocket artillery salvo was even more impressive, the scene of an almost carpet-like dense explosion, not to mention running, there was no way to hide, so it could only be done next to each other, and finally caused more than half of the entire patrol battalion to be attritional, and most of the remaining 200 or so people who did not die were also wounded, and all of them lay on the ground motionless and did not dare to move, it seemed that they were completely frightened and stupid.

Just kidding, nothing else, but the rocket artillery is so ferocious that it blows up and turns an entire area into a sea of fire, so that these people who have not seen a few shellings have no will to resist.

At this time, the soldiers who charged on their side had not rushed over, and they were lying on the spot stupidly because of the rocket explosion, and the platoon of Wang Erbiao and Lin Sanxi in the rear was also some distance from this side, in other words, the officers and soldiers of these patrol battalions were beaten and lost their resistance just because of a mortar and rocket artillery shelling.

Seeing this situation, Li Zhigao hurriedly informed Zheng Yun and asked them to stop bothering to load rockets, the battle is over, and it is useless to pretend again, the other party is going to surrender like this.

At this moment, seeing that mortar shells were still falling in the sky near the enemy, Li Zhigao hurriedly informed Wang Erbiao and Lin Sanxi, asking them to stop the shelling, and let their people stop passing, and quickly retreat, the enemy has no morale, there is no longer the heart to resist, they are no longer needed, their equipment is quite eye-catching, if they don't come out to show their faces, there is no need to show them.

After the order was issued, Zheng Yun, who received the order, stopped loading rockets, and Wang Erbiao and Lin Sanxi's troops also stopped shelling, and let their subordinates slowly retreat and ambush again.

At this time, the ordinary soldiers on their side also reacted from their original sluggishness, the whistle sounded again, and the soldiers rushed over breathlessly again.

When the soldiers rushed into the patrol camp in one breath, they found that in addition to the dead and wounded soldiers, they were soldiers who threw weapons and frightened their guts, lying on the ground begging for mercy and surrendering.

In short, the whole battle can be summed up in one word - small surprises!

"It's too impatient." Li Zhigao, who put down the binoculars, shook his head, "The training time is too short, and the quality of this group of soldiers is still not good." The morale is quite good, they are not afraid of death, they dare to fight and rush, but unfortunately they have no combat experience, and they will be dizzy when they fight. Sure enough, actual combat is the best place to test the troops, and as soon as the actual combat is fought, all problems will come out. If it weren't for my advanced equipment and powerful firepower this time, I might have lost this first battle! Lesson, we must sum up the lessons of this battle in retrospect, and we must not make similar mistakes again! ”

In any case, although there were such and such mistakes and accidents, in the end, Li Zhigao's first battle was won, and it was a beautiful battle of annihilation, and none of the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion who went out of the city slipped through the net! Strategically, Li Zhigao's original design has been realized, and the next step can be continued.

After winning this battle, Li Zhigao sent a platoon to escort these prisoners back according to the pre-made plan, and these people don't want to be free again in the short term, and they can't let them go out and talk nonsense at will for the sake of secrecy, and it is their fate to be sent to mining.

After that, in addition to letting the three special operations platoons go back to rest first, Li Zhigao immediately changed their clothes on the spot, changed into the clothes of the original regimental training, and then drove to the Taiping Mansion.

After coming to the Taiping Mansion, Wang Yongni, who had already received the news, immediately ordered the opening of the city to welcome this regiment into the city, and then forcibly disarmed the few remaining officers and men of the patrol battalion in the name of the chaotic party.

In other words, at this moment, Li Zhigao is the most powerful person in Taiping Mansion, and he is also the actual controller here.

Although Li Zhigao destroyed the patrol battalion, because he had long colluded with local officials such as the prefect Wang Yongni, it was not the same as the rebellion, this was not the information age witnessed by the whole people, whether the rebellion was or not, who was rebelling, it was not the common people who had the final say, but the local town guard officials.

Soon, Wang Yongni, the prefect of Wang Yongni, together with Fan Zhixian and the commander of the Yangtze River Naval Division, jointly sent a telegram to the governor Zhu Jiabao, the content of the report was predetermined, saying that the officers and men of the patrol battalion had mixed with the revolutionary party, and they set a trap to lure the officers and soldiers of the local patrol battalion out of the city and annihilate them all, and then those revolutionary parties planned to take advantage of the situation to attack the city.

Because those revolutionary parties had gone through a big battle with the patrol battalion before, it was when they were weak, so they could not stop the regimental training of the new army, and finally retreated, and the minister of regimental training Li Zhigao Li made a wise decision, and after interrogating the prisoners, he learned that the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion left behind in the city were all the revolutionary party annihilators, so he immediately returned to the city and promptly suppressed the revolutionary party annihilation left in Taiping Mansion.

After this battle, in view of the fact that the local patrol battalion has been completely wiped out, and there is no suitable armed force in the local area to protect itself in a short period of time, in order to prevent the thieves from coming back to make chaos and suppress the locality, Li Zhigao's regimental training troops were specially asked to defend the city on behalf of the people, and to prevent the thieves from coming back, but this is not a long-term solution, and the governor is also requested to send troops over quickly.

Needless to say, as soon as this telegram was sent, it immediately surprised Zhu Jiabao, the governor of Anhui, and after verifying the authenticity, he immediately wanted to send a new army over, but he quickly dispelled this idea, because he could not trust these new troops, and the soldiers of the other patrol battalions could not believe it. Once the new army is here, he can still watch them, once he is sent to Taiping Mansion, if there are rebel parties in these new armies who take the opportunity to incite the troops to mutiny and seize the city, and cooperate with the local rebel parties in Taiping Mansion to take Taiping Mansion, it will be a really big problem.

This concern is not unfounded, the recent uprisings of the new army in various places have continued, not to mention the recent uprising of the new army in Guangzhou, just say that on his side, Zhu Jiabao himself had just suppressed the uprising of the horse artillery battalion the year before last, and Zhu Jiabao was able to suppress it smoothly, Zhu Jiabao also wiped a cold sweat, and sighed that he was lucky.

In short, since the suppression of the uprising, Zhu Jiabao began to lose trust in the new army, but the patrol battalion was also unreliable, so he began to disperse the new army and the patrol battalion to strictly guard against each other, so that they could contain each other, and at the same time, he also increased the salary and doubled the envelope, which maintained the current situation, but if the new army was sent out and the balance was broken, the consequences would be unimaginable.

It should be said that Zhu Jiabao, as a person with some insight among the local governors, his concerns are very reasonable, why did the later Wuchang Uprising come out? In addition to various deep-seated reasons, one of the most important reasons was the transfer of the Hubei New Army to Sichuan, and only as a result did people feel moved. But there was no way at that time, because if you don't send troops over, Sichuan won't be able to keep it, and sooner or later it will be reversed, but if you don't drop the troops to go over, there is still a way to figure it out, but unfortunately, the mediocrity of the Qing court center made all this happen early.

Having said that, although it was unrealistic to transfer the new army in the past, it was not a trivial matter that the Taiping Mansion patrol battalion was completely wiped out, so he followed the advice of his subordinates, approved Wang Yongni's performance, and simply changed Li Zhigao's regimental training into the patrol battalion of Taiping Mansion, and gave Li Zhigao the position of acting commander of the patrol battalion, so that Li Zhigao's troops could temporarily maintain the law and order and city defense of Taiping Mansion.

After all, in Zhu Jiabao's view, since the regimental training has fought with the chaotic party, and the good thing of the chaotic party has been ruined, that is, it has become a mortal enemy with the chaotic party, and with this thing, it is absolutely impossible to become a chaotic party, and it must only rely on the imperial court, which is much more reliable than the new army and the patrol battalion to some extent, in addition, they can defeat the chaotic party, whether it is cheap or not, but the combat effectiveness is estimated to be okay, this is the best target.

Although this kind of appointment is a bit hasty, it is not difficult to implement, because the patrol battalion itself is a local army, which can be appointed and recruited by the local governor, as long as you say hello to the court afterwards, the court generally does not have a disapproval, or it does not make a difference whether the court approves it or not, and the governor is appropriated, after all, the salary is actually made by the local governor, not the imperial court.

In this way, Li Zhigao became the acting commander of the new patrol battalion of Taiping Mansion and the head of the local supreme armed forces.

According to Li Zhigao's words, the obstacles have been cleared, the situation has been opened, and all that remains is to let go of your hands and feet, and run fast in small steps for development!

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