Chapter 237: The Imperial Head of State
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However, to the surprise of the Russians, shortly after the infantry launched a major attack, a sharp whistling sound sounded in the dark night, and these shells did not fall on the heads of the infantry who were running around to avoid the shells? Just when the Russian army was surprised that the accuracy of the Chinese Imperial Artillery's accuracy was so poor, beautiful flowers of death bloomed on their artillery positions, although every flash was so dazzling and beautiful, but no one could feel the beauty of death. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The artillery positions of the Russian army became a sea of fire, with the cartridges of martyrdom, the soldiers covered in fire wailing, the flying shrapnel mixed with the earth and stones falling from the sky, and even internal organs and stumps and severed arms!
Margolov desperately urged his troops to attack! The Russians with rifles are like clumsy polar bears, they are natural good targets, their swaying figures sway between the crosshair and the gap, the Reich 1 tilts the rain of bullets through the machine gun, the yellow-orange-orange shells fall to the ground with the smoke crackling, and soon, a chain of bullets is finished, the second pair of shooters is busy changing the chain, and the fifth pair of shooters are busy filling the water tank, and constantly fanning hard with a fan on the side, so as not to affect the shooter's aim.
Compared with the shooter of the general-purpose machine gun, the shooter of the Dai's type 1 light machine gun is much more dangerous, if it is better in the fully enclosed fortress fortifications, if it is in the semi-excavated or open fortifications, the secondary shooter has to poke his body out of the fortifications for every reload, which is also the main reason for the frequent casualties of the light machine gun shooter.
The real battlefield is different from the machine gun shooter in the film and television works to change the magazine and pull the gunshot, in order to maintain the firepower and the shooter's shooting accuracy and continuous observation, the secondary shooter must complete the task of loading and retracting the handle to return to the position alone, in the dense firefight, people's lives are extremely fragile, and no one knows that the bullet in the next second will kill him! The only thing you can do is to pour bullets at the enemy as hard as you can!
Finally, the Russian army found the so-called weakness at the combination of the second main fortification and the fifth main fortification, several assaults were suppressed under a small slope less than ten meters from the trench of the position, the so-called dead angle was just a continuous shelling crater formed a shooting dead end, the defenders tried to drive the Russian army out with grenades several times, and more than a dozen soldiers who threw bombs were hit one after another, although they successfully blew up the Russian army several times, but the Russians, who had realized the important surname of the depression, continued to pour in like crazy, And try from where to continue the offensive!
Margolov, who was already in a hurry, immediately ordered the heralds to signal to the Cossack cavalry that the breakthrough they wanted had been found and was about to open it!
Perhaps the meaning of immediately and immediately in Chinese is different from that of Russian, the Cossack cavalry, who were greatly inspired, pulled up their horses from the ground, turned over their horses, and directly began to charge with revolvers, and the infantry at a distance of 500 meters took several minutes or even ten minutes to move to the distance within 100 meters of the attack, although people were constantly shot and fell on the way, but the infantry was always able to maintain a rhythmic pace to attack.
The cavalry was different, they were like a whirlwind, the sound of hurried horses' hooves, the shouts of cavalrymen, and the neighing of war horses were mixed together! They were followed by six regiments of Russian infantry, and it can be said that the Russian army has invested the largest number of troops in the main fortification battlefield of the big crescent-shaped defense in Chenjiahang Town, and the intention of the Russian army has been very obvious.
Xu Renda and Huang Shengzhi put down their binoculars almost at the same time, because the binoculars were full of groups of figures attacking the Russian army, and there was even the impact of the Cossack cavalry in front of them like a stormy wave.
Xu Renda and Huang Shengzhi exchanged glances with each other, Xu Renda turned to the communications adjutant and said: "Fire three red signal flares, two bases of one hundred and five mm howitzers, five bases of seventy-five mm field artillery, each mortar group is in charge of itself, and order the hidden bunker groups on the left and right flanks to start firing!"
This half-moon defense system was actually designed by Lin Haijiang himself, and many people objected at that time, because although the defense system that poked out had various perforations of 260 degrees, it was relatively isolated and extended a distance of 200 meters.
However, Lin Haijiang still insisted on this design and construction, because Lin Haijiang had seen a science and education film about machine guns, in the classic battle of the British army being massacred by Germany in World War I, the German army used side-firing firepower arrangement, because of the use of 250 rounds of ammunition chain, from the front of an experienced shooter to shoot a fixed balloon, the hit rate is only less than 11 percent, and the hit rate will reach about 96 percent when shooting on the flank, which is an extremely astonishing ratio.
And Lin Haijiang also prepared a two-way cross side firepower, Chenjiaxing Town was originally a deliberately exposed salient, a slaughter field to show the enemy's weakness, for the blood debt of Nanjing, Lin Haijiang thought that the Russians should also pay a higher price, the entire defensive front of Chenjiaxing Town is 3.3 kilometers, which allows the Russians to invest what they think is enough troops to break through, otherwise after hitting the wall a few times, the Russians will try in a different direction.
However, Lin Haijiang still underestimated the stubbornness of Veledovsky and the stupidity of Margolov! The sound of artillery on the periphery of the sea shook the sky, and even in Hangzhou, you could see the night sky in the distance like a sunset burning clouds!
Lin Haijiang handed a lit cigar to Li Anmin, turned to Liu Quansi, Xu Dawei, Shen Chengwen, and Feng Jingbin behind him and said, "If you have a cigarette, take it yourself, you're welcome!" ”
Several army commanders looked at the Führer who personally lit a cigarette with envy, but they could only be envious, Li Anmin's qualifications were incomparable to any of them, Li Anmin participated in almost all the large-scale battles on land and sea in the empire, and in many of them he was quite insightful, providing many strategic and tactical advice on construction! can be called the first person in the Chinese imperial realm, if it weren't for the birth of Zhanyang, many people thought that Li Anmin would sit firmly in the position of deputy head of state.
Rather than the Führer's whimsical thinking, it can be said that very few people in the Empire can keep up with the Führer's thinking, and the most that the staff officers of the Imperial General Staff do is to analyze the Führer's strategy, as if every strategy is so magical that it is difficult to imitate even imitation? Because of the mixed luck, timing and other important factors! Zhanyang is a very exception, he can basically keep up with the Führer's thinking in the navy, which is also the main reason why Zhanyang stands out!
Lin Haijiang looked at the night sky and said to Liu Quansi: "Don't worry about your Second Legion, you can't always hold them in the palm of your hand, what the empire needs is a general who can conquer the east and the west, there is no success without failure, there can be no generals in this world who win all battles, and those who suffer small losses and take advantage of big losses are good generals!" As a general, the interests of the empire are your highest standard, for the interests of the empire and the nation, there should not be any secular concepts and values of right and wrong in your eyes, everything is in the interests of the empire as the highest interests! ”
Lin Haijiang took a deep breath and said: "The secret of the arrival of our army's four corps in Hangzhou will not last long, so I am determined not to wait for Zhang Wei's two artillery brigades, and plan to launch a full-scale attack on the Russian army outside Shanghai and the Beiyang New Army in Jiangyin on June 22, 1862. ”
The people present were all graduates of the imperial official school or had studied many times, and they naturally understood the meaning of the war of annihilation, and it was necessary to destroy at least 75 percent of the enemy's mobile forces and living forces in order to be regarded as a war of annihilation, and it could be said that it was the first time in the history of the Chinese Empire that a war of annihilation was to be carried out on such a scale against a large army of the enemy.
The difficulty of carrying out a war of annihilation against the enemy under the condition that the infantry forces of the enemy and ours are on par can be imagined! Li Anmin looked at Lin Haijiang and hesitated for a moment and said, "Führer, is it possible that you really want to close the door and beat the dog?" Directly send troops to occupy Changzhou? You need to think about it! The headquarters of Zuo Zongtang of the Qing army is already very close to Nanjing, and the troops we are sent to close the gate are likely to be attacked by the enemy, which is a dangerous move! It is easy for the enemy to discover our intentions when large troops are interspersed, but small troops have no strategic value, and even if they are interspersed in place, it is difficult to hold them, and at most they can only be the establishment of one division, and it is taboo to go behind enemy lines alone! If the whole army is wiped out, then it will be a serious blow to our morale! ”
Lin Haijiang nodded slightly and said, "So the one sent must be the elite of the elite!" The legion directly under the Imperial High Command, the first division of the Imperial Army! Führer Division! ”
"What?" Li Anmin and several others exclaimed almost at the same time! The corps directly under the Chinese Imperial Command has four standard divisions and two special divisions, which is a special case in the Imperial Army, and its first division is already the envy of many troops, especially when this unit is crowned with the honorary title of the Führer Division without any combat merits, it can be said that it is staring at the huge pressure, after all, the first, second, third, fourth and the first army of mountain infantry are all troops that have been tested by war, and only one of the brigades of the Führer Division has participated in the bloody battle of Ningxiang, It can be said that the name is not substantial, so everyone present was a little hesitant to hand over such a particularly important task, which even had a bearing on the success of this campaign, to this unit of 45 percent recruits.
(To be continued)