In the territory of Hengshui, the most common terrain is the slow post, the slow post is a geological term, it is the natural embankment left over from the ancient river channel, often distributed in a belt, three or four meters above the ground, Duan Qirui department, the position is deployed on the slow post, and the attack is launched condescendingly.

When the Huaxia Army used howitzers and mortars to bombard the positions of the Qing army, Duan Qirui's troops hid in the back of the slow posts, and the shells could not blow them up at all.

Hengshui is the only way for Jinan to go north to Shijiazhuang, the grain reserves here are also extremely rich, the Huaxia army to lay here, will be a great relief of logistics pressure, although Lin Fei has formulated a complete logistics supply plan for the Huaxia army, but it is still a good thing to get food from the Qing country.

Duan Qirui's troops were obviously the elite of the Qing army, and the guns were extremely accurate, and before the Huaxia army launched a close-range charge, the bullets had already flown over and hit the Huaxia soldiers.

When the Huaxia army launched a close-range charge, Duan Qirui's troops took out the Green fast cannon again, completely suppressing the charging troops, Duan Qirui's troops did not put the Green fast gun in the most conspicuous position in the trench like the previous Qing army troops, waiting for the Huaxia army to knock it out, but hid behind the slow post, and waited until the Huaxia army approached before taking it out.

When the commander of the Huaxia Army saw Duan Qirui's troops take out the Green Quick Cannon, he did not dare to order the mortar bombardment, because the Huaxia Army was too close to Duan Qirui's troops, and the mortars were likely to injure their own people by mistake.

The Huaxia army had no choice but to retreat temporarily, from March 8 to March 10, for three whole days, the Huaxia army did not break through the defense line of Duan Qirui's troops, and during these three days, the defenders of Shijiazhuang were still stubbornly resisting Yuan Shikai's troops.

The 9th Division of China was assigned the attack mission, and the division commander was named Zhang Zhenhai, who had shown his skills in the battle against the Spaniards, and was originally a battalion commander, and now he is a division commander.

The position in front of him could not be attacked for a long time, Zhang Zhenhai was anxious, the 9th Division of China arrived in Shijiazhuang one day late, and the defenders of Shijiazhuang would bear one more day of attack, and there would be one more day of losses.

What the Huaxia Army didn't expect was that a large number of Qing people rushed over to help the Qing army kill the Huaxia Army, Shandong is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and the people agree with "the way of Confucius and Mencius, loyalty and patriotism", and the Qing army took advantage of this to bewitch a large number of people to help them, plus Duan Qirui's troops were strict in military discipline and did not fight for the interests of the people, and many people volunteered to come to help.

The officer death squad consisted of just over 100 people, and it was soon drowned in the sea of Qing soldiers and Qing people, and more than 100 people were all killed.

Zhang Zhenhai has no good way now, the only way is to use the tactics of the sea of people to rush hard, but the loss is too great, so this trick can't be used at all, and the battle situation is stalemate for a while.

The news was sent to Dayu City, Huaxia, in front of Lin Fei, at this time, only Yuan Shikai launched the Central Plains Campaign in the Qing Kingdom, and Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong were not moving, so Lin Fei's eyes were completely focused on the Central Plains Campaign.

Lin Fei's side were Li Tianqian, He Kaisheng, Xiyun and other staff officers, who handled all kinds of reports for Lin Fei. ”

Lin Fei smiled helplessly, "Although the Qing State is weak, after all, it has a population of 400 million, more than 10 million square kilometers of land, and a unified regime, how can it be defeated in a few days to fight such a country?" ”

"Then what should we do now, the battle of Hengshui is not going well, I am afraid we will have to change the battle plan."

"There's no need to change, I've already figured out a solution to the problem."

Xi Yun smiled and said: "My husband has never been to the battlefield, how can I think of a solution to the problem, I can't talk about it on paper." ”

"Of course, what I think of is not specific tactics and tactics, but the use of new weapons, I guessed before the war that the Qing army would definitely use the terrain for defense, so I prepared a new weapon for the front-line troops, which had been shipped from Taiwan a few days ago, and should soon be able to reach the front line, Zhang Zhenhai's hands."

Sure enough, in the early morning of March 11, the new weapon that Lin Fei said was sent to Zhang Zhenhai, Zhang Zhenhai heard that Lin Fei had sent a brand-new weapon, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly came to watch. ”

"Malaysia Truck" is the nickname of the LCC-5-1 truck of the Huaxia Army, and there will always be many nicknames for the weapons in the hands of the army, and the LCC-5-1 truck can transport a lot of things, just like a pack horse, so the Huaxia Army gave it the nickname of "Malaysia Truck".

The officer in charge of equipment transportation said with a smile: "Division commander, this is not an ordinary horse truck, but an armored attack vehicle!" ”

"Armored assault vehicles? What do you mean? ”

"Division commander, this type of armored attack vehicle, officially designated LCC-5-3, uses the same engine and the same chassis as Malaysia trucks, and can be regarded as a member of the Malaysian truck family, but it is very different from Malaysian trucks."

"If you look closely, you will find that its front is different from the original Malaysian truck, the front of this type of truck, there are two more grooves, these two grooves, distributed on both sides of the front of the car, are used to inlay bulletproof steel plates, at present, you can inlay two bulletproof steel plates two centimeters thick, don't look at the thickness of only two centimeters, but the use of composite armor technology, bulletproof ability is already good, at least the Qing army's existing Grimm fast cannon can't penetrate it."

"Each steel plate is two meters long and two meters high, which means that each armored attack vehicle can provide an attack force with a steel barrier up to four meters long, which our fighters can use to get close to the Qing army's positions and then throw grenades with precision."

Zhang Zhenhai's eyes lit up, but the look in his eyes quickly dimmed, and he said in disappointment: "The two bulletproof steel plates are only four meters long, and we can deploy four bombardiers in them at most, can't we make the bulletproof steel plates longer?" ”

"Division commander, the four-meter-long bulletproof steel plate is already the limit, the density of steel is about eight tons per cubic meter, you can calculate how heavy the steel plate is so long, if it is longer, not only is it a problem that the car cannot be moved, but the installation and disassembly of the steel plate will also be very troublesome."

Zhang Zhenhai still shook his head, "Then how can the driver protect himself?" I have already heard that in the battle of Shijiazhuang, bullets were fired through the gaps in the steel grid, directly killing the driver, and this kind of armored attack vehicle must have been used close to the enemy trenches, and the bullets must have been more suffered. ”

"Division commander, you don't have to worry, Your Majesty has already taken this into account, for this reason Your Majesty has equipped this type of truck with a periscope, and the driver can hide behind the thick armor plate to see the road situation, it is said that this periscope technology is to be used in future tanks."

Zhang Zhenhai exclaimed: "Tank? When will Your Majesty's tank come out? ”

"The division commander made a small noise, the tank is still a top-secret weapon, and if you talk about it in public, you will be invited to tea by the agents."

"Okay, I know, you immediately add bulletproof steel plates to the armored attack vehicle, and then launch an attack on Duan Qirui's troops in front of you, and use the fastest speed to take down the enemy position."

The bulletproof steel plates of the armored attack vehicle, each of which weighed more than 600 kilograms, so the installation process took nearly three hours, Zhang Zhenhai watched the engineers nervously lift the steel plates and load them into the front grooves, and helplessly thought to himself, the use range of this type of armored attack vehicle may not be too large, and the installation process of this steel plate is too time-consuming.

The steel plate of the armored attack vehicle was finally installed, and Zhang Zhenhai first ordered the division's artillery regiment to fire shells at the position of Duan Qirui's troops.

When the armored attack vehicle approached Duan Qirui's position about 400 meters, the divisional artillery regiment did not dare to open fire, because this distance was already within the error range of the grenade, that is, if the divisional artillery regiment continued to fire at this time, the shell might accidentally damage the armored attack vehicle.

Behind the guard plate of the armored attack vehicle, followed by four bombardiers, in the compartment, more than 300 grenades, in the cab, the driver hid behind the guard, looking at the road with a periscope, without fear of being killed by enemy bullets.

In fact, the armored attack vehicle has a weakness, that is, it is afraid of grenades and shells, if the grenades and shells explode behind the guard, the person will be all finished, but who made the Qing army poorly equipped, there are no grenades and shells, Lin Fei is bullying the Qing court with poor equipment, and the Qing court will cry.

Duan Qirui's troops were shocked when they saw a row of twenty strange cars driving over, and the front of that kind of car was actually flanked by steel plates several meters long, which was extremely strange.

Duan Qirui's troops hurriedly organized the Green fast artillery to pour fire on the armored attack vehicles, but they didn't expect that when the bullets hit the armored attack vehicles, they could only make a ping-pong sound, but they could not shake the armored attack vehicles in the slightest, and those vehicles were still slowly approaching the position.

Seeing that the armored attack vehicle was only more than 50 meters away from the front of the position, a dense number of grenades suddenly flew out from behind the steel plates, and the grenades exploded on the position one after another.

Zhang Zhenhai has explained to the bombardiers, when throwing bombs, you don't have to think about anything, just throw all the grenades on the enemy's position as quickly as possible, as for how the bombardier sees the enemy's position, there is an observation gap on the steel plate, this gap is only one centimeter wide, and the bullets of the Qing army will never get in.