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Lin Haijiang stood in the front enemy headquarters of the Supreme Command in Hangzhou City and looked at the map in front of him, and he realized that he was a little talented? The talent of the crow's beak? The 12th Infantry Division was able to stubbornly block the pursuers along the way despite being attacked from front to back, and it was able to withdraw 5,000 combatants and nearly 1,000 wounded.

However, the loss of artillery made Lin Haijiang a little worried, the brand-new fifty-four 75mm field guns, thanks to a brave artilleryman who later detonated the shells, otherwise the defenders of Shanghai would now taste the power of the flowering shells produced by the empire itself!

Lin Haijiang did not come alone this time, he brought the corps directly under the Command, the Second Army of the Army Mountain Infantry, and the Fifth Army Corps to Hangzhou, because Lin Haijiang got the exact news that Zuo Zongtang's new army in the seven towns of Beiyang had secretly moved in the direction of Shanghai, and it seemed that the breakthrough and decisive battle place chosen by Zeng Guofan should be between Shanghai and Suzhou and Hangzhou!

Feng Jingbin, the commander of the Second Army Corps of the Mountain Infantry, and Shen Chengwen, the commander of the Fifth Army Corps of the Army, are both the first cadets of the Imperial Academy, although the information is equivalent to the third batch of students studying in Europe, most of the students who studied in Europe were appointed as ship battles or brigade commanders at this time, and the two of them were able to serve as the commanders of the corps, which can also be said to have a lot to do with Lin Haijiang's exceptional promotion, but the ranks of the two are not major generals at the level of corps commanders, but colonels. After all, the division commanders below are all colonels, the brigade commander is a lieutenant colonel, and the overall imperial rank is low Lin Haijiang is also very clear, but the country has not yet been unified, so he rashly made many generals and marshals come out, and when the country is unified, he will use force to the outside world repeatedly, and then what will he reward them?

The only point that Lin Haijiang was dissatisfied with in the Battle of Changshu was that he lost two capable brigade commanders, and there were no bullets in the chaotic army, and the imperial officers would charge in front and retreat in the rear in every battle, which was also one of the main reasons why the proportion of casualties among its officers remained high once the troops suffered heavy casualties. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lin Haijiang brought a letter to Xu Renda and Huang Shengzhi in Shanghai, it can be said that the letter from the head of state gave Xu Renda and Huang Shengzhi a reassurance, Xu Renda was happy that his Ninth Division as the main force of the Second Army finally sang the leading role, and the corps commander and chief of staff were not there, so it was time for him to show his face.

And Huang Shengzhi was glad that the Führer did not have the consciousness of punishment, but praised him for his good command in the face of danger, although this praise made Huang Shengzhi extremely ashamed, but at least let him settle down, thinking about how to repay this blood debt from the Russians, he lost four thousand and twenty-one brothers in the battle of Changshu! If calculated according to the slogan of the Imperial Army's blood debt, he would have to kill 40,210 Russian troops to completely fill this blood debt!

Veredovsky's first full-scale attack on Shanghai invested as many as 30 regiments of troops, and Chenjiaxing Town and Zuojiatan became the focus of the Russian army's attack, because the defenders were less than three kilometers away from the Huangpu River, so the Russians had a posture of driving all the defenders down the river, but Xu Renda and Huang Shengzhi seemed to be very confident, and they even refused the reinforcements of the second river ship formation!

Lin Haijiang, who was in Hangzhou, knew the situation of the battle on the front line a little later because of the transmission of intelligence, and the direction of the Russian army's main attack was actually in Chenjiaxing Town and Zuojiatan? Lin Haijiang can only feel sad for the Russians, these two seemingly easy breakthrough points are actually the two largest support points of the defenders of the Chinese Empire, all its firepower points are built underneath, the ground part is some simple residential buildings, all the firing boundaries have been cleared, and the artillery has already been calibrated to shoot Zhuyuan, on the battlefield, some places that look weak are not necessarily weaknesses, they are likely to be traps, showing weakness to the enemy, virtual is real, real is virtual!

As early as 2,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese handed over to their children and grandchildren the way of the art of war is nothing more than the heart, the ancestors of the Russians should have been picking leaves and eating like most of the ancestors of Europe 2,000 years ago, and their ancestors only told them that mushrooms are poisonous and will hang up if they eat them! So the Russians are out of luck!

It is also fortunate that although Shanghai at this time is the distribution center of foreign trade, the area of Shanghai is small and small, not even comparable to a district in later generations, which makes the defenders in Shanghai can calmly build a trapezoidal defense system to defend Shanghai, Chenjiaxing Town is the front of the entire defense system, and it is also the strongest place, and Zuojiatan, a place that has been forgotten for a long time in later generations, is the core of the entire defense system, and its position is followed by a vital artillery position. From 82-mm mortars to 75-mm field guns, and to the latest 100-5mm howitzers, the Ninth Division's capital to defend Shanghai can be said to have been pulled out, in addition to 11 Ping'an-class gunboats on the Huangpu River equipped with two 100-mm Krupp naval guns, and these gunboats can also provide necessary fire support at any time.

The infantry of the Russian army wore short leather boots, stepped on the ground and made a creaking and creaking sound, and the pace was neat and uniform, it can be said that in the Crimean War, this is a diagonal line combat formation often used by the Russians, but since the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War machine guns were widely used, the Russian army has not been very practical This dense formation, although this formation will have a strong sense of oppression for the enemy, but once it is strafed or shelled by the enemy's machine guns, the heavy casualties are not something that any commander can bear.

So the dense formation of the Russian army soon dispersed into a skirmisher formation, the distance between one wave and the next wave was about twenty meters, at first it was a slow step on the drum, and then the drum beat became faster and faster, and the pace of the Russian infantry became faster and faster, in the trenches behind the battle line, more than 4,000 Cossack cavalry were pulling their beloved horses and waiting, once the infantry found the weakness of the enemy's defense, their task was to rush over like a whirlwind, waving the Cossack knife high above the enemy's head.

The Russians can be said to be not stupid, since the first time Veredovsky launched a tentative attack with two infantry regiments of about 4,000 people in Changshu Baiyue, the Russian army has not attacked the positions held by the Chinese emperor during the day, because the Russian army found that the night is a natural good cover for them, and the accuracy of the opponent's machine gun at night will be much lower, and the continuous fire makes the enemy's machine gun quickly overheat or malfunction, so the night becomes a friend of the Russians, they drink and sing during the day, Fight at night!

This is the moon that belongs to China, yours in Russia! Leaving a large number of corpses of the Russian army in a trance, when the Russian army attacked the most fierce, the moon hiding behind the dark clouds miraculously appeared in the night sky, the dim moonlight sprinkled the earth, the attacking Russian army was clearly reflected, the defenders of the Chinese Empire in the fortified bunker naturally did not let go of this opportunity, all the firepower was unreservedly opened at the same time!

The long tongue of fire from the machine gun made the heart of Veredovsky, who was watching the battle with a telescope, chuckle, and he could vaguely see the situation on the front line after the war, but the moon suddenly appeared, and Veredovsky knew that something was wrong, and sure enough, in just a few minutes, all the efforts made by the Russian army before were in vain, and the officers and soldiers who were defeated were knocked down and killed by the opponent's stray bullets from time to time, and in just a few minutes, Veredovsky lost at least 1,500 to 2,000 people!

"Damn the moon!" Veredovsky howled and waved his arm at the moon, and then said helplessly to Margolov: "You will organize the next attack yourself, it is impossible for their entire defense line to have such strong firepower, there must be a problem in this, send your troops to find the opponent's weakness, as long as you find the weakness, the Cossack cavalry will help you take care of everything!" ”

Margolov hesitated slightly, because his officers were not convinced by the indiscriminate command of his guy who climbed up by women, and Villedovsky saw that Margorov hesitated, so he immediately kicked Margolov on the heel and scolded: "You bastard, I'm talking to you!" Be quick! Do you understand? We capture Shanghai every night for a minute, and Lin Haijiang will have time to transport the gold and silver, as well as those supplies, and more troops will be transported, understand? We need to fight quickly, if there is a non-stop command below, you shoot him directly, you don't have to tell me! ”

Margolov, who had the power of life and death, left the headquarters of Willovsky with a hideous face, Veledovsky actually didn't really think that the first line of defense that could break through Shanghai tonight was the last line of defense, he was just unwilling to stay within the range of the other party's artillery fire now, and when he thought of Margolov's sister Eliza, Villedovsky was full of energy, like an old bull in heat.

After the failure of the first large-scale Russian attack, it took a full two hours to organize a second attack, and Margolov brandished his bloody saber as if he had been beaten with blood, shouting at his subordinates, urging them to attack quickly.

Before the attack, the Russian army also bombarded the front of the defenders' positions with heavy artillery fire, which seemed to be clearing mines and barbed wire for the infantry, but in fact, both sides understood very well that because of the range of the old-fashioned closed-door rear-loading artillery equipped by the Russian army, the Russian army could not effectively shell the positions of the defenders of the Chinese Empire, and if it entered its artillery fire, it was equivalent to entering the effective and accurate range of the 75 mm field artillery of the Chinese Empire, which was equivalent to suicide for the Russian artillery.

(To be continued)