Unlike Yuxian and Lu Changyi's relaxation, Zhangjiakou at this time was already in a state of tension, which was a solemnity and heaviness before the outbreak of the war, and had nothing to do with fear.

In order to occupy Shanxi as soon as possible, Wang Jundao mobilized an army of 400,000, although he knew: to occupy Shanxi, with the combat effectiveness of the Dragon and Tiger Army, 100,000 people are enough, but in order to train the troops, in order for the 400,000 troops to adapt to the battle of the large army as soon as possible, he did not hesitate to mobilize the army, and did not hesitate to consume a large amount of logistics, just to play prestige, only to play the momentum, just to play the myth of the undefeated Dragon and Tiger Army!

Now, the vanguard of the Dragon and Tiger Army, the 100,000 troops of the two corps, has been deployed at the junction of Zhangjiakou City and Datong Mansion in Shanxi, and only needs to wait for Wang Jundao to give an order, and they can divide into two routes and launch an attack on Shanxi.

At eight o'clock in the morning of September 17, under the order of Wang Jundao, the battle to attack Shanxi was started in two ways: the first army served as the main attacking force, attacking Datong County from Yangyuan County to Datong County, and the second army serving as the main attacking force launched an attack from Huairen County to Tianzhen County of Datong Province.

The two artillery regiments directly under the First Army Corps and the Second Army Corps were the first to raise their might, and the artillery regiments launched a 30-minute artillery bombardment of the forward positions of the Jin army in Tianzhen County and Datong County, respectively.

The artillery regiment directly under each regiment of the Dragon and Tiger Army is a heavy artillery regiment, and the regiment is equipped with 50 heavy guns, half of which are Krupp and Armstrong heavy guns captured from the original Qing soldiers and the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the remaining 20 field guns are all produced by various arsenals of the Dragon and Tiger Army. The new field guns of the 'Piercing Sky' generation are fourteen 105mm medium-caliber cannons, six 205mm large-caliber cannons, and five 152mm howitzers, all of which are high-explosive shells filled with TNT explosives, which are nearly twice as powerful as the shells of this era.

In addition, the artillery of the Dragon and Tiger Army also has the newly developed HMX explosive-filled shells and phosphorus-containing incendiary shells, but these two kinds of shells are only available in the artillery brigade directly under the Dragon and Tiger Army, and the number is very small, and they have not been transported to Zhangjiakou, Wang Jundao does not want to use these lethal and terrifying shells against the Chinese, he wants to use these shells against people in other countries, not only that, but he will also let the Military Weapons Research Institute research liquid oxygen bombs, napalm and other chemical weapons with terrifying lethality, which will be used exclusively in foreign wars in the future.

Although Wang Jundao did not use the large-scale artillery shells on the Shanxi battlefield, the half-hour heavy artillery bombardment still made the defensive position of the Jin army a mess, and the soldiers of the Jin army, who had never experienced such a terrible war, seemed to feel that the end of the world had come.

They had no idea where the shells were coming from, only a screech like death descending, followed by a violent explosion......

Smoke, dust, fire, ruins, stumps, and minced flesh have become the most tragic landscapes on the earth.

The situation of the forward defensive positions of the Jin army in Tianzhen County and Datong County was exactly the same, and after less than five minutes of the artillery bombardment of the Dragon and Tiger Army, it was completely chaotic, and the soldiers of the Jin army who had not experienced the real battlefield abandoned their positions one after another, and fled to the rear for their lives, without the slightest consciousness of swearing to stick to their positions, and most of the Jin officers who had not seen such a formation also fled back with the soldiers.

Fifty steps and a hundred steps, no one laughs at anyone.

At this moment, there is no soldier, no honor of a soldier, no duty to guard the position, no meritorious service, only escape, only survival!

Wang Jundao had already come to the former enemy headquarters of the First Army, and looked at the Jin army's position a few kilometers away through the high-powered military telescope, and his heart was silent......

He knew very well that before the First World War, artillery was not the main branch of the army at all, and artillery was not the main weapon on the battlefield, because the power of the shells was not great enough, the quality of the artillery was not good enough, and the cost of artillery was too high.

The dominant weapon on the battlefield in this era is the gun, which army has a good gun, which army has more machine guns, under normal circumstances, that army is the victorious side, such as the British South African War, there have been many times one or two Makqin heavy machine guns to hold their positions and destroy tens of thousands of enemies, and for example, in the Russo-Russian War in Wang Jundao's previous history, the Russians fought again, with only a few Makqin heavy machine guns, they wiped out nearly 5,000 people......

These bloody facts have made all countries desperately equip their armies with Makqin heavy machine guns before World War II, almost whoever has the most Makqin heavy machine guns in their army will be the most powerful, and in World War I, the weapon that kills the most people is also Makqin heavy machine guns.

However, since Wang Jundao came to this world, he has devoted himself to the development of artillery and vigorously developed artillery.

Because Wang Jundao knows very well that on the real battlefield, if you can launch a fierce artillery bombardment before the battle, most of the enemy's position will often be destroyed, and sometimes it can even make the enemy's soldiers lose more than fifty percent, just like during World War II, before the army attacked the [***] team, it was often the artillery and aircraft that raised their power first, which almost allowed the [***] team to lose more than half of the soldiers before launching a shootout.

The most important thing is that the fierce shelling before the war can destroy the morale of the opposing army to the greatest extent, just like the current Jin army!

The half-hour shelling seemed to be much longer than the previous half-hour, but there was a time for it to end.

The Jin army's position has less than a third of the defenders, and half of this third are injured and cannot escape, most of the rest are trembling slightly, and the Jin army's front-line headquarters has already been reduced to ruins under the explosion of TNT shells, and the Jin army's already very backward fortifications have been almost destroyed.

The trumpet of the Dragon and Tiger Army sounded, and the charge began!

At the vanguard of the charge was a cavalry brigade of three cavalry regiments, a full 4,500 cavalry.

Wang Jundao's cavalry is not comparable to other cavalry, his cavalry, the most basic weapon configuration of each cavalry is a twenty-shot barge gun and a sharp steel knife, the barge gun is based on the Mauser pistol, newly produced after research and development, the surname can be much stronger than the Mauser 1896 type, the longest range is more than 150 meters, the effective range is more than 120 meters, Wang Jundao himself named the 'piercing sky' barge gun.

In addition, Wang Jundao also designed a Chinese saber saber, which was based on the horizontal knife of the Tang Dynasty, and was improved and designed, including knight sabers, infantry swords, bayonets, generals' sabers, school officers' sabers, captain's sabers, ceremonial sabers and other styles.

In addition to the shell guns and knight's knives that each cavalry was equipped with, there were also a large number of submachine guns, as well as grenades.

At this time, many of the knights of the Dragon and Tiger Army who rushed to the front of the cavalry were holding cavalry submachine guns, most of them were shooting with guns in one hand, and throwing grenades in the other.

At a distance of less than ten meters from the front of the Jin army, the cavalry of the charging Dragon and Tiger Army turned to hold a gun in one hand and a knife in the other.

Guns can shoot, knives can chop, this is a necessary subject for the cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Army to practice, if you can't use a gun on the battlefield, you can't use a knife at the same time, you can't become a cavalry on the battlefield.

The cavalry won with speed, and now they were far superior to the Jin army in terms of weapons, and the situation on the battlefield naturally presented a one-sided situation.

In the whole round of charge, the Dragon and Tiger Army occupied the forward position of the Jin army, and in the Dragon and Tiger Army shouted the slogan of 'surrender without killing the guns', most of the Jin troops were shocked by the might of the Dragon and Tiger Army, and raised their guns above their heads, squatting on the ground and surrendering.

The cavalry did not care about these surrendered Jin troops, because the infantry that caught up behind them received the prisoners, and under the leadership of the various cavalry commanders, the cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Army kept going, chasing the fleeing Jin soldiers in the direction of Tianzhen County and Datong County, and the follow-up infantry teams also caught up.

Looking at such a scene from a distance, Wang Jundao nodded slightly, and said to Yang Poyu and his party next to him: "After a year of hard training, the Dragon and Tiger Army has been completely reborn and has become a real battlefield powerhouse, as long as it fights a few more battles, it is enough to adapt to any battlefield!" ”

Yang Poyu naturally also saw the situation on the battlefield, and said with a smile: "This is all because the commander has led the troops well. ”

Wang Jundao handed the telescope to Han Muxia next to him, turned his eyes to look at Yang Poyu, and couldn't help laughing: "Haha...... You've learned to pat yourself on the back too...... Say, what's next? ”

Yang Poyu said: "I listen to the commander." ”

Wang Jundao said: "You are the commander of this battle, I am just here to watch the battle." ”

Wang Jundao's words were already obvious, of course Yang Poyu understood, and he stopped talking nonsense, and said directly: "Chief of Staff, pass on my order that the First Brigade of the Third Division will take over the prisoners and reward the battlefield." The rest of the troops hurried to Tianzhen County to fight a quick battle, and at noon today, the First Army Corps was going to have a banquet for the commander in the best restaurant in Tianzhen County. ”

Chu Feng, the chief of staff of the First Legion, recorded the order and said in a deep voice: "Yes, Legion Commander. ”

After Chu Feng went to give the order, Wang Jundao said to Nie Yuanzheng, the commander of the Third Legion, Xiang Zilong, the commander of the Fifth Legion, and Tang Jian, the commander of the Sixth Legion, who also came to watch the battle: "The three of you also rushed back to the various legions, led the army, and entered Tianzhen County with me. ”

The three of them answered: "Yes, Commander." ”

When the vanguard of the First Army rushed to the east of Tianzhen County, under the personal command of Zhang Decheng, deputy commander of the First Army, and launched an attack on Tianzhen County, the vanguard of the Second Army was already under the county seat of Datong.

Cao Futian, the deputy commander of the corps, did not take any rest, and let the troops launch a fierce attack on Datong County.

Thirty-six mortars from the vanguard simultaneously opened fire on the east gate of Datong County, which was not particularly strong, and was soon destroyed by heavy mortar shells.

Cao Futian did not take the 10,000 Jin troops in Datong County into account in the slightest, and personally led the army to launch a fierce charge against Datong County under the cover of more than 10 heavy machine guns and more than 30 light machine guns.

This figure, who became famous with Zhang De in the Boxer Rebellion, once again showed his ferocious side in the battle, with 4,500 cavalry, 5,000 soldiers of the 2nd Brigade under the 4th Division, the main force of the 2nd Army, and nearly 10,000 pioneers, like giant beasts in the wilderness, regardless of the rain of bullets fired from the Datong city wall, rushed to the east gate of Datong County, which had been destroyed by artillery fire.

In just ten minutes, the cavalry, under the personal leadership of Cao Futian, took the lead in rushing into Datong County from three miles away from the city gate.

An hour later, with Xu Jian, the commander of the Second Army Corps, stationed in Datong County, the offensive battle in Datong County came to an end.

At noon, Wang Jundao was already under the leadership of Yang Poyu and sat in the best restaurant in Tianzhen County-Tianxiang Restaurant. (To be continued.) )