Chapter 192: Surprise Attack Behind Enemy Lines
It can be said that Lin Haijiang, who is known as the principal, has achieved his own good intentions in building an army, and in China's desire to eliminate factional struggles is simply wishful thinking in Lin Haijiang's opinion, the Chinese seem to have special plots for factions and regions, the Chinese are very smart, but disunity is the biggest drawback of the Chinese, as long as it is not the last moment of life and death, ten Chinese can still have a very good mind.
Lin Haijiang thought that this was the result of the ancestors of the Chinese who used too much thought on power schemes, and generation after generation of Chinese people thought that their minds were unparalleled in the world, and they always hoped that they would become people who controlled people, and did not want to become the subject of control, if the majority of people in a nation were at peace and only a few people were restless, then this nation would be an unprecedentedly united nation, and if on the contrary, this nation would be a scattered sand.
First use fascism to invigorate the decadent spirit of Mingzhuanism, and then remove its dross and retain its essence, Lin Haijiang is very confident in the ability of Chinese assimilation and integration, it can be said that the Han nation has been invaded by countless foreign races and ruled more than a dozen times in history, but without exception these occupiers were all assimilated or completely exterminated and expelled, such as the famous Xianbei in history, which was assimilated because of the invasion of the Central Plains, so that even the nation died out together.
So Lin Haijiang remembered that there were people who made such jokes in later generations, saying that if he really occupied the whole of China at the beginning, then there would be no one at all now, and even the book would become a province of China, although Lin Haijiang knew that this was just a joke, because people should not be stupid to talk about integration with beasts.
In terms of Lin Haijiang's impression of himself, the greatest contribution he made to the world in later generations was their AV industry, and the current Yue himself has not been helped by the Americans to improve their genes, so it can be said that it is useless.
Whether it is ethnic integration or the integration of foreign ideas, Lin Haijiang is very confident that ethnic integration is just an excuse for an occupier, just like the great national unity advocated by the Marine Corps in the Indochina Peninsula now, which is nothing more than letting the countries of the Indochina Peninsula use minerals, spices, and gold in exchange for weapons, and then attack each other, from small villages and tribes to large countries!
The Indochina Peninsula can be described as full of beacon fires, and annexing it by force is also a good fusion in Lin Haijiang's opinion, and when the monkeys in the Indochina Peninsula are all fused, they are using guns to fuse them!
Lin Haijiang is an authentic pragmatist, for all kinds of theorism, Lin Haijiang does not think that there is a fatal problem in that kind of theory and meaning itself, it can be said that different theories and isms are produced in response to the environment at that time, and it is easy to go wrong by force.
In Lin Haijiang's view, what the Chinese lack now is not guns, but a spirit of rising and fighting, and the pace of reunification should be twofold, and the substantive unity of geography should be synchronized with spiritual unity.
As for the capture of Changsha and the change to the current encirclement point to send reinforcements, Lin Haijiang's idea was to first try to consume the enemy's elite and vital forces, contain the enemy's mobile forces, and fight several decent large-scale annihilation battles, in order to deter the enemy's courage.
The foundation of the Chinese Empire was already solid in Lin Haijiang's eyes, and the common people of China had an advantage, that is, their insensitivity, they didn't care who was the emperor at all? Monarchy? Republic? Boiled? Reading talents? Nobody cares, they only care if they can eat enough, and whether tomorrow will be slightly better than today? As long as they don't poison their food and don't burn down their homes and kill them all, they won't rise up and resist.
It is precisely in this way that Lin Haijiang made up his mind to start the prelude to the war of reunification under the condition that many conditions are not met, Lin Haijiang knows that he is very inadequately prepared, but his own enemy is the same, even unprepared, and only in this case can he quickly resolve the war, control the scale of the war to a minimum, and minimize casualties and losses.
And more because Lin Haijiang did not have time to accumulate enough power to overwhelm the surname, because while he continued to strength, the enemy was also accumulating strength, and the British, who had been hit hard in the Second Opium War, could also be said to have learned from the pain, Parliament passed Queen Victoria's naval bill, thirty-seven ironclad ships were built in dockyards across Britain, and Armstrong Shipyard and Royal Artillery Factory received the huge orders they coveted.
Lin Haijiang's many designs of the honor-class armored protection cruiser derived from the classic design of later generations were all plagiarized by the British, although Lin Haijiang knew that this was inevitable, in this era when there were almost no secrets to speak of, Lin Haijiang could only strive to move forward as soon as possible, and it was possible to always maintain his partial superiority in weapons and equipment, but to occupy an overall advantage compared with a big empire like Britain, I am afraid it would take at least fifty years of unremitting struggle!
The sinister British sold the Qing court seven of the latest armored protection cruisers with an average tonnage of more than 6,000 tons to the Qing court in Beiyang, while the Russians also sold nine battleships in Beiyang, all of which were under construction, and according to intelligence, these two batches of warships were very likely to be tested at sea next year, in the second half of 1862.
Once these warships return to form combat effectiveness, then his imperial fleet will encounter an unprecedented huge crisis, so Lin Haijiang decided to strike first and completely cut off the Qing court's Beiyang wings before they became full.
On August 3, 1861, followed by the dense fog in the middle of the night, the 12 gunboats under the river gunboat team under the command of Qi Zhitao were sequentially numbered from Fugu 001 to Fugu 012, carrying a twelve-man assault squad of armed gendarmerie special forces, and a reorganized general-purpose machine gun company.
Because from August 1 to 2 these two days, the river gunboat team in the Qing army after the blasting of the barrage chains, every night along the river swim around, all found suspicious or can be used as military unidentified objects, will basically be shelled, the first day of the first day of the Qing army artillery on the land and water docks and the head of the city artillery also carried out a return fire, but the Qing army soon found that their return fire seemed to make the other side more excited and even more crazy?
Don't bother with these crazy people, but after they walked around and fired a few shots at random, they had no choice but to retreat, so the Qing army grasped the vital point of the Lin rebel bandit army, no matter how you shelled and scolded with an iron horn, no matter how ugly the scolding was, Lao Tzu I just don't show my head, I can't fight back, I don't fight back, I don't fight back, I don't fight back, I am angry with the Lin rebel bandits.
The greatest pleasure of Lin Yi and others in the city is to gather in the governor's yamen and listen to Lin rebel army scolding the street, it can be said that Lin Yi, Zhou Fuming, Tuatu, Taiqia and others are now nerves have been fully able to adapt to the other party's scolding, only two days, Tuatu was also very shocked by his changes, on the first day he sent a thousand always with an iron horn to scold, as a result, the other party shelled for half an hour, and the thousand total he sent was left with a tattered top that was picked up by the people below, It is said that it is not the thousand total or two said.
The next day, Tuatu learned a lesson and sent a general manager who even peed his pants, which led to the other side shelling along both sides of the river for a whole hour, and it is estimated that the shells carried in the end were exhausted before retreating.
The biggest gain of the two-day scolding is that Tuatu lost more than 400 people on the first day, and Zhou Fuming lost more than 1,000 people in the headquarters on the second day.
Tonight, the gunboats of the anti-bandit army in the foggy forest are here again, but the four people here are not so worried, they originally thought that their shells would be able to make them comfortable for a few days, but they didn't expect that there would be another fleet, a fleet of steamships that can sail against the water on the turbulent river?
Lin Yi, Tuatu, Taiqia and even Zhou Fuming have only heard of the giant ships of the Lin Rebel Bandit Army, but they have not seen it with their own eyes, they only knew that the giant ship of the Lin Rebel Bandit Army could not enter such a narrow channel as the Xiangjiang River, although they were very relieved, but the military might of the Lin Rebel Bandit Army left a very deep impression on them, and a river like the Xiangjiang River is a small river ditch? How big will the big warship of the Lin rebel bandit army be? Almost all of them are divided into curiosity.
Lin Yi summoned a scribe who had run through the docks in Nanyang and said: "This is Xu Jiewen, Ben Fu's bookcase, he procured goods and ran in Nanyang for a year last year, he must have seen the giant ship of Lin Yi's bandit army, let him talk about it!" ”
Xu Jiewen said a little timidly: "I don't understand the distinction between the navy and the navy, if you talk about the size of the ship alone, the warships on the sea of Lin are ten times the size of the one on the river, and they have never seen it in the artillery fire, it is said that every cannon is a crack, and a few shells in the South Sea razed a small city, and their iron ships are very fast even if they sail against the current, and they don't need to take into account the direction of the wind and sail, and they think that most of the materials of the Lin Rebel Bandit Army are transported by water. ”
Lin Yi, Zhou Fuming and a few others suddenly gasped, Tai Qia's face on the side looked very bad, Lin Yi regretted letting Xu Jiewen come out very much, so he waved his hand absentmindedly and said: "You can't do without water if you are powerful, do you have the ability to drive to my governor's yamen?" Hahaha! Ha ha! ”
Lin Yi laughed out loud, and suddenly said solemnly to Tuatu: "Those 2,000 catties of gunpowder are our last resort, don't be negligent!" ”
Tuatu said with an indifferent expression: "Lord Lin, since the four of us have gone from being a joint guard to taking turns to take turns to guard, and even now that it has been handed over to me, you should rest assured, don't you feel at ease about my old plan?" ”
Lin Yi glanced at Zhou Fuming and didn't speak, and the atmosphere in the hall became very strange for a while, which reminded Lin Yi, Zhou Fuming, and Tai Qia of a few flying pigeon biography a few days ago, Beiyang Zeng Guofan's Zeng Dashuai, Monk Greenqin's Prince's, the Military Aircraft Department's Master A, and the Imperial Edict written by the Two Palaces!
The city of Changsha is almost open, and it is the news from all sides that let him know that Li Hongzhang's Huaizi battalion and the foreign gun team formed by 4,000 foreigners are fighting fiercely with the Lin rebel bandit army in Hangzhou.
But when he thought back to Lin Wei's brilliant achievements in the past, even Zhou Fuming, who always thought that Lao Tzu's martial arts strategy was unparalleled in the world, didn't dare to take a stubble, Lin Yi couldn't understand, how could the imperial court push such a talent outward? And do you have to force it back? Could it be that the nursery rhymes in the city are sung ordinarily? Is this Qing Dynasty's qi really coming to an end?
Four people, four backstage, four dead hearts, it is really not easy to hold this Changsha City for so many days! Lin Yi sighed slightly.
According to Qin Guozhong's memory, the 103, 104, and 105 boats in the formation began to unload the commandos and the general-purpose machine gun company under the cover of the rest of the boats, and the twenty Imperial Type 1 general-purpose machine guns that needed to be disassembled and transported by eight people were moved onto the embankment, and the machine gun crew was quickly looking for a favorable firing site to dig a bunker, except for the four returning ships to confuse the Qing army, the rest of the gunboats were anchored and waited.
Qi Zhitao, who was a little restless, looked at his pocket watch, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and Shen Chaoyang's commando had already landed for a full hour.
At this moment, Shen Chaoyang's whole person seemed to be blended into the night, according to the direction pointed by Qin Guozhong, the assault team of twelve people was divided into six battle groups and slowly touched in, the fog seemed to have a tendency to disperse, but Shen Chaoyang didn't care at all, even if there was no cover of dense fog, this kind of infiltration behind enemy lines was a piece of cake for them who had experienced a hundred battles.
Shen Chaoyang can be said to be very satisfied with the Führer's readjustment plan, and all twelve assault teams will be put into an assault operation at a time, which is essentially contrary to the essence of special forces operations for Shen Chaoyang, but Shen Chaoyang knows very well that the outline of their training, tactical plans, etc. are all written by the Führer himself, so the Führer's own profound intentions will definitely have the Führer's own profound intentions, he is a soldier, obedience, obedience, and obedience are his heavenly surnames, There will never be any question of any order issued by the Führer, which is also an iron discipline of the special forces of the armed gendarmerie.
However, the revised tactical implementation plan can be said to be very suitable for the use of armed gendarmerie special forces, and it can even be said to be a standard classic textbook-style plan, from the intelligence confirmation of the operation, to the delivery of inputs, the deployment of support, and the retreat plan route can be said to be readily available, which can be said to be the most supportive operation carried out by Shen Chaoyang.
When the dense fog cleared, Shen Chaoyang finally found dozens of tents located on the edge of the grove not far from the embankment, and a few bonfires exposed the Qing army standing guard, and the eight Qing army sentries who were supposed to be distributed around were all gathered next to the fire because of the damp and cold relationship of the dense fog, talking and laughing about something!
Shen Chaoyang waved his arm slightly, and the eight team members pulled out their jet-black daggers one after another and quietly sneaked up, waiting for the team members to arrive at the positions they each thought were convenient for shooting, Shen Chaoyang suddenly learned a vivid bird cry!
When the Qing army sentry turned his head distractedly, the eight team members instantly pounced, inserted the sharp dagger directly into the back of the Qing army sentry's ear, and twisted it hard!
The Qing army sentries didn't even have time to scream, and they were solved on the spot! Shen Chaoyang nodded with satisfaction, it can be said that such a large-scale successful sentinel, killing eight sentinels at the same time at a time, this is unprecedented, and it also requires a certain amount of luck while strength and technology.
Almost all the Qing troops were sleeping peacefully, which was the best result for Shen Chaoyang, Shen Chaoyang checked the Qing army sentries that had been eliminated, and he found that these Qing troops were very powerful? What is surprising is that these Qing troops turned out to be double spearmen with two guns, one long and one short? This can be said to be very rare in the Qing army, which reminds Shen Chaoyang of the cavalry of the Tuatumun Eight Banners that appeared in the Qing Army's Changsha City Defensive Battle, since the other party is a cavalry with strong mobility, then Shen Chaoyang can't simply blow up the gunpowder and retreat directly, because once bitten by the other party, it will be extremely troublesome, so the twelve people acted in unison to start cleaning up these backbones of the Qing army one by one, Meng Baqi!
These cavalrymen, who had been killed in their own land and were asleep, could be said to have died unjustly, even if they fought head-on for a period of time with their hard-trained marksmanship and numbers.
When there was some accident when the last tent was cleaned, a Qing soldier who got up to pee at night and Shen Chaoyang walked head-on, Shen Chaoyang stabbed the other party in the mouth, but the other party still shouted, and the first thing the dozen Qing cavalry who were awakened was to touch their short guns.
After a short and fierce shootout, the battered Qing army tent collapsed, and Shen Chaoyang and others immediately picked up all the gunpowder bags in the Qing army's cowhide tent, pulled out a fuse of dozens of meters and ignited the retreat! But two minutes later, the expected explosion or combustion did not occur?
Shen Chaoyang, whose face was very ugly, immediately took someone to check, and there were already neighing and shouting of people and horses in the distance, Shen Chaoyang, who quickly entered the tent regardless of the danger, checked the normal burning of the fuse, grabbed a handful of gunpowder and felt slimy? Put it under his nose and smell it, and then checked more than a dozen paper bags, Shen Chaoyang shook his head helplessly, and led the team members to retreat quickly.
Shen Chaoyang can be said to be really a little frustrated this time, originally this perfect plus classic surprise attack can be put into a big fireworks as a perfect ending, but because the stupid Qing army does not know how to keep the gunpowder, this batch of gunpowder is completely scrapped.
Returning to the boat, Qi Zhitao anxiously asked Shen Chaoyang: "Missed?" ”
Shen Chaoyang shook his head and sighed, "It's successful!" ”
Qi Zhitao looked at the embankment on the river bank a little puzzled: "Then why didn't you hear the explosion?" Two thousand pounds of gunpowder? ”
(To be continued)