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Chapter Eighty-Six: Vicious Blockade

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At the same time as the first rays of the morning sun rise (). The first shell fell on the Wusheng Pass on time, and the Beiyang gunner quickly opened the bolt without looking at the smoke column on the hillside, and the hot shell fell out of the barrel, and the yellow-orange-orange shell just now was already covered with blackened burn marks, and a new shell was re-stuffed, the bolt was closed, and the firing action was skillful and swift ().

The new military commander Feng Guozhang stood behind the artillery position in military uniform, his fingers lightly curled his white gloves, the gilded scabbard on his waist glittered in the sun, and the horns covered by his beard were slightly bent, looking at Wu Shengguan who was trembling under the artillery fire, his eyes were cold. Behind him, the Beiyang officers, who are usually stationed in various places and rarely seen, talked happily, and they didn't seem to feel that they were in a big war, and everyone had only one topic in their mouths, the founder of the Beiyang Army, the brain and soul of this army were finally coming back

Since Duan Qirui, the commander of the Second Army, has not yet come, the so-called 25th Battalion of Hubei Patrol City is far away, and the second and sixth towns are not yet peaceful, so there are actually only two towns and three associations that have entered Hubei, plus some miscellaneous patrol battalions in Henan and Anhui, the total is only more than 30,000, and others feel that it is not enough to deal with 40,000 to 50,000 people's troops. But after a few days of probing, Feng Guozhang felt that this was enough.

In order to open the first battle for Yuan Gongbao out of the mountain, this time he transferred another artillery battalion, and the three artillery battalions were full of 54mén Krupp speed shè guns kept roaring, but even the three passes were covered by black and yellow smoke, and he didn't show any joy, artillery could not solve the battle, the geographical advantage of Wusheng Pass was too obvious, and the infantry was needed to clean up those "little mice" on the opposite side.

"Zichun, have you had enough rest these days?" Feng Guozhang gently swept the dust on his cuffs with his gloves, as if the battle in front of him was not a life-and-death battle of tens of thousands of people, but an ordinary hunt, and walked up to Wang Zhanyuan: "You play as a striker?" All right. ”

Wang Zhanyuan said with a smile: "Don't worry, the third Hun Chengxie has already been prepared."

Feng Guozhang didn't speak, and turned his head to look at Li Chun: "Xiushan." ”

"Si Cheng (the fourth town commander Wang Yu Jiazi."

After following Yin Chang intentionally or unintentionally after fighting a bad battle for so long, these Beiyang generals had already held their breath, and this time they could finally do a big job

After Feng Guozhang finished speaking, he walked to the two infantry targets of the third Hun Chengxie who were ready to fight, beckoned the guards to bring a few large boxes, and opened the lid of the box with a scabbard, and the dazzling silver sè immediately stabbed all the eyeballs: "Catch an officer and reward 100 for killing 50, and the soldier 10 yuan, if you want to earn money, if you want to eat rou, give me a beating."

Several large boxes of silver dollars immediately aroused the emotions of the infantrymen, one by two with red eyes and greedy gazes swept over and over again.

Feng Guozhang disagreed. This is Beiyang

Jia Deyao stepped out of the crowd and drew his bright saber to wait for the shelling to end. He was originally a cadet of the Baoding Army Accelerated School, and was later selected to go to the Japanese non-commissioned officer school to study the infantry department, and immediately joined Beiyang after returning to China. He was a well-known upright man in Beiyang, and he was familiar with infantry tactics, so this time Feng Guozhang specially asked him to command the front army.

"Brothers, follow me" After the half-hour textbook shelling, the sky over Wusheng Pass was already filled with gunsmoke, and Jia Deyao led two standards and six battalions of more than 4,000 Beiyang soldiers to attack, and there were as many as three battalions in the first BO alone, but this time they had not rushed to the best shè course, and dense bullets were sprayed out on Wusheng Pass, and the remaining two mén five lives and seven guns also kept firing at the infantry.

"Hehe, it seems that I was frightened by the large formation of the military commander, can I shoot at such a distance? Xiushan, my brother is going to take the lead this time. ~~" Wang Zhanyuan and Li Chun chatted, and seemed to see the picture of himself snatching the first prize, only Feng Guozhang suddenly frowned, except for the first and second days, the Hubei army should be said to have fought very well. Why is it so disappointing? Is it a change of command? Or is it supported to the point where you are no longer stingy with bullets?

On the city pass, Yang Qiu ignored the threat of Hakan, personally led three battalions and a detachment on the left and right passes, in order to prevent Feng Guozhang from seeing the truth and falsehood, in addition to ordering full speed fire at the maximum distance, he also gritted his teeth and left all the machine guns, pretending to be well defended.

Although it is fake, the play still has to be done enough, in addition to a total of 24 light machine guns gathered on the position, and there are as many as eight light machine guns in the eight platoons of the guard company alone, so it can temporarily suppress the impact momentum of Beiyang.

Seeing that so many firepower points appeared on the city gate at once, Feng Guozhang's brows finally gradually dispersed, and he ordered the Beiyang machine gun team to dispatch ().

Beiyang has not been equipped with Makqin for a long time, and the advantage is that the machine gunners are all German instructors Jiāo, and Beiyang is rich and generous and does not skimp on bullets, so every machine gunner has shot a lot of bullets, which is much better than Yang Qiu's temporary battle who can only sweep and beat the butter hand who will not deal with the problem.

The firepower of the heavy machine gun is not comparable to that of the light machine gun, and it is not a matter of one plus one being greater than two, so Beiyang gradually suppressed the firepower, seeing that the enemy was hit by his own machine gun and could not move, Jia Deyao took the lead in jumping and lowering his body, pulled out two self-made pistols and rushed down like an angry wild boar.

It has to be said that the officers of the Beiyang generation who went to study in Japan were too deeply influenced by the Japanese Army, and the pig assault tactics pioneered by Nogi Noshinori, the "Army God" during the Russo-Japanese War, were also vividly brought back. But this imitation is only a formality, first of all, the Beiyang soldiers do not have the fanatical bushido gods of Japan. Secondly, the pig attack tactics also need firepower cover, Beiyang in terms of firepower is only slightly stronger than the Japanese artillery at that time, once the heavy machine gun enters the assault, it does not dare to fire again, and the impact of continuous and oppressive xing is incomparable, but this also confirms that later generations said that the early six towns of Beiyang had the strength of the Japanese army is not an empty word.

The soldiers were still a little nervous when they saw this assault tactic for the first time, after all, the Russians were able to block it with a large number of Makqin machine guns, and now they only have a heavy machine gun on their side, and the light machine gun is still limited in the face of this assault tactic because of the lack of continuous xingxing, so Yang Qiu immediately ordered the use of grenades.

Jia Deyao was leading his troops to rush wildly, and when he was about to reach the position, a string of small black dots suddenly threw out of the battlements and the trenches of the position.

This is?

Just when he was stunned, Yang Qiu smiled, the M24 long-handled grenade that he had only taken out until now finally played a miraculous effect, the dense grenades exploded in front of the position and rolled away, and the 72 fragments on the preset shell exploded and quickly disintegrated to the surroundings, and before the Beiyang infantry understood what was going on, the shrapnel passed by, and the shrunken version of the pig protrusion tactical arrow was blown up by a stream of metal fragments, and the rest of the people who did not die were also light machine guns ().

It was also the first time for the guard company to use grenades in actual combat, and when they saw that the effect was so good, they smashed it even harder, and most of the more than 1,000 grenades they brought were consumed in the blink of an eye, taking advantage of the moment when Beiyang was stunned. Light and heavy machine guns swept wildly, and large numbers of soldiers fell like wheat.

From seeing through the telescope that so many "small bombs" suddenly flew out from behind the enemy's position, Feng Guozhang and many Beiyang officers were a little bored, they didn't expect that the other party still had this kind of killer weapon, Wang Zhanyuan was even more angry and ordered the second BO attack to pick up, not wanting to give the opponent a little respite.

"Commander Nine Mile Pass"

After two hours of fierce fighting, a large puff of smoke came out of Jiuli Pass, which was a signal that had been discussed before, once it could not be held, it would immediately prevent fire, first, to notify Wusheng Pass that they began to retreat, and secondly, to make it impossible for the Beiyang infantry to quickly occupy the pass. Make sure that the enemy can't use both places until the Wusheng Pass retreats. Immediately after the Pingjing Pass was also filled with flames at the same time, Feng Guozhang and Wang Zhanyuan and others who were watching the battle from a distance all smiled knowingly, and after the left and right passes were broken, they could easily attack Wusheng Pass from both sides.

"Kettle"

The wolf smoke rising from the left and right levels made Hao Wenbao anxious, and the sub-machine gunner twisted the kettle and poured cold water on the barrel of the Madsen light machine gun, and the hot barrel was suddenly sizzled by the cold water, although it can accelerate the cooling of the barrel, but the damage to the barrel is too great, but as long as he sees the dense Beiyang infantry, he can't care about so much. The bent 30-round magazine was stuffed with force, and after two pots of cold water were poured through the barrel, he immediately picked up the machine gun and drove it back to the sandbag...... In the sound of shè blows, several Beiyang infantry in front of them who were caught off guard were immediately knocked to the ground.

The light machine gun is not a heavy machine gun that can completely block the enemy, so it is necessary to constantly change the battle position to prevent being targeted, and when he drilled into a pile of rubble to re-set up the machine gun, the entire Wusheng Pass defense line has begun to shake, and the only remaining heavy machine gun spewed out long flames like crazy, and the sub-machine gunner connected three bullet belts together in a row.

But camouflage is camouflage after all, it is impossible to hold Wusheng Pass with three battalions, and when Hao Wenbao pressed a Beiyang squad to the ground and had to retreat, the squad leader of the heavy machine gun squad connected a large bomb to the fuse, although the commander promised to replenish them immediately after returning to Hankou, but the soldiers were still very reluctant, but it was impossible to quickly evacuate to a safe distance with a heavy Makqin, and it was necessary to completely blow up in order not to fall into the hands of the enemy ().

After receiving the fuse, the squad leader patted the heavy on the shoulder, who immediately tied the trigger with a rope, and the secondary machine gunner also connected several cartridge belts, and then fixed them with wooden sticks to allow the machine gun to fire automatically and then withdrew from the machine gun fort. The four boxes of bullets could only last a few minutes in a fully automatic state, so after leaving the machine gun fort, the machine gun squad spread its feet and ran all the way south, and a large number of partners behind them also got orders to start retreating.

"Your Excellency, you must."

"I know." Yang Qiu interrupted Hakan, turned his head and saw that several engineers who had tied their bodies full of branches and dead grass had already prepared and began to retreat, and immediately took the last battalion and guards to light the pyre and put smoke to cover the company's retreat to the south.

Jia Deyao, who was stunned by the grenade, finally reorganized his troops and launched another attack with the two battalions of the second BO that had rushed in. But this time it was surprisingly relaxed, not only did there be no dense bullets, but there was no clattering machine gun, and the position was broken in the blink of an eye. Such an easy success gave him a hint of alarm in his heart, but he didn't pay too much attention to it, because the soldiers who rushed to the front had already begun to rush forward, trying to cross the pass and enter the city.

No matter how many soldiers there are, it is not better if there is no resistance, so they flocked to Guancheng, and when Jia Deyao ran in, he found that the Hubei army stationed here had been evacuated, only to see a flying tiger flag flying high suddenly raised from the southern slope, and he was about to give the order to continue the pursuit and suddenly found a different place.

What about the craters in Sekijo?

In six days, the artillery dropped no less than a thousand shells on this obvious Guancheng, and it stands to reason that the surface of the Guancheng must be full of potholes, but now it is almost filled with rubble. More and more Beiyang soldiers climbed in, scrambling to cut off the ears of the dead Hubei soldiers and prepare to receive the reward, until a little spark appeared under the southern city wall, Jia Deyao suddenly grew his mouth, and his pupils suddenly shrank into a little cold star

A few kilometers away from the southern slope of Wusheng Pass, the soldiers of the First Division who had withdrawn in advance all stopped, quietly looking at the wolf smoke of Wusheng Sanguan behind them, the dense sound of guns and artillery made everyone uncomfortable, although the retreat was a planned thing, but when I thought of giving up the persistence of these days, I still felt a little sour when I thought of the sacrificed comrades.

As the sound of artillery became more and more intense, everyone began to worry about the fate of Yang Qiu and several troops who had been left behind in person, and even Yue Peng and Wu Zhaolin could not be spared, and the hand holding the handle of the knife was already covered with hot sweat unconsciously.

Dai Tianqiu quickly discovered this solemn atmosphere, quickly turned on the camera to shoot, and the dignified faces were recorded on film, because Yang Qiu issued a gag order, so except for the officers and some soldiers, the vast majority of them did not know the plan to break off, which made the soldiers even more uneasy.

"Look at the commander's handsome flag" Just when everyone was most anxious, the young Chen Zutao suddenly jumped up from the crowd, and followed his finger Dai Tianqiu immediately saw that the flying tiger battle flag had been raised high from the southern foothills, moving south little by little.

The flag instantly grabbed all eyes, those who knew it, those who didn't know, the soldiers or the people, and even the ordinary people who lived nearby saw this flag, and many people who didn't know the details couldn't help but burst into tears, they knew that Yang Qiu couldn't be blamed for this, let alone the soldiers, a federation plus a few battalions of less than 6,000 people blocked the sharpest Beiyang for seven days with their lives and blood, what else needs to be eulogized more than these?

Dai Tianqiu quickly pressed the fast mén, he couldn't wait to shoot everyone here, and when the camera focused on the flag, a thick column of smoke suddenly rushed out of the Wusheng Pass City, which should have been occupied

Immediately after, more and larger pillars of smoke rose one after another, and huge fireballs spread around with the pillars of smoke, and after a while, a series of deafening huge explosions filled every pair of ears, and the pillars of smoke gradually became entangled together, forming a huge mushroom cloud that appeared in the sky above Wusheng Pass, and the roaring impact could be felt for miles away, and the ground under his feet shook a few times.

Although Jia Deyao shouted bad at the first time and fell on the spot, he still failed to save the thousands of soldiers who had rushed into the city, the explosion occurred from under the craters, and the inner wall of the city wall also erupted countless rubble and rubble like an explosion, and there was also an explosion on the hillside outside, and the entire Wusheng Pass was covered with tons of rubble by the strong impact of the explosion, and swept down everything that stood upright and uncovered.

The smoke was filled, the dust was flying, and in an instant, Wushengguan seemed to disappear from all eyes, leaving only a smoke-filled phantom, and when Jia Deyao finally passed the explosion and looked around with the scars cut by stones, he found that Wushengguan, who was still full of cheers and shouts just now, could no longer see a human figure.

While the south was surprised, the eyes of Feng Huafu and the Beiyang generals in the north also widened, and the smoke clouds up to a hundred meters high rose into the air, carrying rubble and rubble, sweeping through like a terrible whirlwind. At the same time as a sharp pain came, the more than 1,000 Beiyang Jingrui infantry who took the lead in rushing into Wusheng Pass were shrouded in black smoke and rubble in the blink of an eye, and when the whirlwind gradually dissipated, the entire Wusheng Pass was dead silent.

Feng Huafu pinched his mouth, his eyes were red

The person who viciously came up with this plan was too vicious, so he set a trap, and took advantage of the moment when he was happy after his occupation and was not in a hurry to investigate in detail, and instantly launched a terrible massacre, which was nearly two battalions of Jing Rui, plus the consumption of these days, Beiyang actually killed and injured nearly 5,000 people for Wushengguan, that is to say, before entering Hubei, he had already lost a hun Chengxie, and even more seriously, this explosion will directly lead to the complete paralysis of the road to the pass, and the strongest artillery in hand will not be able to go, and wait until a new road is opened, I'm afraid it will take four or five days, and the Hubei army will already be ready for battle at that time

The power of the bombs hidden in Wusheng Pass and filled with a full ton of German yellow sè bombs was detonated at the same time, which was extremely terrifying. From the point of view of power, the entire Wusheng Pass seems to be ravaged by hundreds of 305 mm heavy artillery shells, not to mention the Wusheng Pass, which is less than four square kilometers in radius, even the old town of Hankou cannot withstand such a terrible blow.

The fluttering military flag began to speed up in the silence, and when Yang Qiu, who was walking in the front, appeared in the field of vision of the first division with the soldiers who were broken, everyone cheered, and the haze that was forced to retreat was blown away in an instant.

"Let's go."

Walking in front of Yue Peng and Wu Zhaolin, Yang Qiu took off his military hat and said firmly, "We will come back." ”。