Chapter 149 Wind Blowing Red Flag Earth Flip (5)

【149】The Wind Blows the Red Flag and the Earth Turns (5)

Yao Fan kept the soldiers resting until eight o'clock in the morning before getting up to wash, and a mandatory cold water on the face made the soldiers refreshed.

After breakfast, the kettle was filled with water, and the whole army set out again. Head west to the town of Guozhuang, 10 kilometers away.

So at noon, when Wang Zhengqi's 4,000 horse infantry army arrived at Zhang Gezhuang, 939 soldiers, including Yao Fan, had already rushed to Guozhuang Town, and carried out a surprise attack on the town, capturing the Qing army scouts who had rushed to the town in advance.

The fleeing Qing scouts also reported the news back to Zhang Gezhuang.

The big war is imminent.

Xie Jiaxiang sweated profusely and urged the horse to run in front of Yao Fan, dismounted and shouted: "Chairman! The Qing army is coming south! There are countless people! ”

Li Hainiu looked at Yao Fan with a little nervousness: "Chairman, do you want to have a pre-war mobilization?" ”

Yao Fan smiled: "Yes, we all know that we have mobilized before the war." Good! Let the fighters line up, let me say a few words. ”

Standing in front of the neat queue, Yao Fan looked at the cold and resolute faces of his soldiers before the battle, and shouted loudly: "Comrades, to the north of us, it is the largest Qing army cluster in Shandong at present, and defeating them is our goal today!"

After this period of study, each of us has improved a lot in our minds, and we have awakened! Understand that the Manchu Dynasty is a prison for the people of all ethnic groups in China!

To overthrow this dynasty! End the brutal crackdown! End the endless plunder! End the dark old society! Today, we want to use our blood and lives to defend the rise of Shandong Commune!

To build a new society where everyone is equal! A great country where all nationalities are united and progressive! I will shed the last drop of blood with you and fight the enemy in a decisive battle! ”

After saying these simple words, Yao Fan and the officers waved their fists into the air and led all the soldiers to shout:

"Long live Shandong Commune!"

"Long live the People's Liberation Army!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

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The cold of late autumn hit, and the Qing army's baggage team had set up camp in the field south of Zhanggezhuang.

At the same time, the cavalry scouted out, vigilantly scouting the surroundings, when the large force of Yao Fan was getting closer and closer from south to north, these scouts and cavalry tentatively moved a small group of raids, but before they could get closer, they were beaten by the company in charge of vigilance in Yao Fan's troops.

After confirming the intention of Yao Fan's large force to go north for a decisive battle, the Qing army no longer sent cavalry to harass, but shrank back and began a formal decisive battle arrangement.

Yao Fan, who arrived after an hour of marching, was on a high hill 1.5 kilometers away from where the Qing army had camped, holding a telescope to observe.

The fence on the periphery of the Qing army's camp Chapter 149 Wind Blowing Red Flag Earth Flip (5)

It is an all-wooden structure, and the pine pillars that have not been stripped of their bark are as thick as a thigh, and they are erected one by one by the logistics auxiliaries, and they are tightly twisted with hemp ropes between each other, and they are fixed horizontally with thick logs, and they are also tightly twisted with hemp ropes.

The camp is twenty meters outward, facing the Yao Fan army in the south, and a cannon is placed at intervals of ten steps horizontally, and 24 guns are lined up. The four wheels of the wooden frame are equally bulky, the wood is solid, the outer layer of the wheel is not even wrapped in rubber, and the wooden wheel is about 20 centimeters wide and 50 centimeters high, looking like a log chopping board.

Each infantry battalion of the Huai Army was equipped with six artillery pieces, each with 8 gunners and 12 auxiliaries. Wang Zhengqi's four infantry battalions had 24 12-pounder front-loading smoothbore guns, each gun was equipped with 2o shells, and theoretically had a range of 3,000 meters, but in actual combat, the Huai army's artillery bombardment was limited to the naked eye, and it was pure blindness to go any further.

On the two flanks of the artillery position, there were two thousand Huai troops armed with foreign guns from four infantry battalions, arranged in parallel according to two battalions on the left and right. Each infantry battalion of the Huai army was divided into ten posts, each with fifty people, with two chief and deputy commanders. Yao Fan saw that the front of each battalion of the Huai Army was divided into three posts on the left, the middle and the right, each post was lined up in two columns, and the three posts were lined up, and behind each post there was a response post with the same horizontal line, as for the remaining four posts, they were still lined up in a horizontal line, and they were on standby layer by layer behind the middle response post. The formation of the entire battalion was as if it were a bold letter "T" in capital letters.

The weapons of the Huai army have reached the appearance of the modern army, the spears and broadswords have been abandoned, and the two thousand infantry are all rifles, Yao Fan carefully observed, and now it is actually very unified, using the Enfield 1853 smoothbore rifle and the American version of the former - M1855 Springfield rifle, both of which are front-loading smoothbore rifles.

But Yao Fan didn't look at the formation of the four battalions of infantry on the left and right flanks of the Qing army, what really made him care was a total of eight cavalry battalions armed with big blades and short spears at the very edge of the two wings of the Qing army.

According to Yao Fan's plan, he hoped to crush the infantry in the middle of the Huai army before the Huai cavalry could charge quickly on his two flanks.

Yao Fan turned around and faced behind Gao Qiu.

The whole army had already set up a long formation, the left and right flanks sparsely spread out a thin skirmish line, and the 1st and 2nd battalions and 3rd battalions in the middle gathered ten companies of heavy troops, and stretched backwards like a dragon.

The green steel helmets and blue uniforms reflected the solemn faces of the soldiers, and the cold calm on everyone's faces was surging with excitement and anger.

The fighters are ready! I'm going to kill today!

Yao Fan ordered: "Prepare a company of cannons!" Continuous artillery bombardment of the enemy's central artillery positions! ”

"The straggler columns on both flanks immediately deployed, encircled the left and right, and fired long-distance shots at the enemy cavalry group!"

"The four machine gun teams of the 1st Central Battalion Teaching Company are ready to go forward to test the fire of the infantry on the right side of the enemy's artillery line! Take a look at Chapter 149 Wind Blowing Red Flag Earth Flip (5)

How is the morale of the enemy! ”

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Yao Fan's orders were passed down like thunder and lightning, and the steel helmets surged behind the high hills, and the sturdy warriors had already completed their preparations, took out all the bullets and grenades in their backpacks, and put them neatly on the ground. They ran on the field one by one like fierce tigers, holding five or six semi-automatic rifles and leaping briskly in front of Yao Fan, and their agile movements condensed the discipline and tenacity learned during this period of training and actual combat!

Wang Zhengqi stood behind the infantry formation on the right side of the Qing army, and used a telescope to look at the rubber thieves rebels in green helmets, blue clothes and green rubber shoes sparsely jumping in the distance on a small two-meter-high earthen platform temporarily built.

"Then will Yao Fan lead the troops? The battle line is so scattered! The 200 men on the west side have been stretched together for more than a mile, and they are still scattering! There were more than a hundred people in the east, and they actually spread out to be a mile wide! ”

"Pass the order! Xu Zixiang on the left flank and Wang Zhengtai on the right flank, the two cavalry battalions went out to meet the enemy, scattered after approaching, and charged the two wings of the glue thief in an all-round way! After breaking through the line, they gathered, and then hit the middle of the rubber thief to the north, and cooperated with our Chinese army to attack before and after! The two cavalry battalions of Yuan Yunbing on the left wing and Luo Guangmai on the right flank followed the front battalion and repeatedly charged and killed the enemy's infantry on both wings! Don't let a head go! ”

Wang Zhengqi's orders were passed down one after another, and in his opinion, the gang of rubber thieves in front of him was about to be destroyed in an instant.

"These glue thieves dare to underestimate me!"

"Foreign guns and cannons in hand, two thousand iron horsemen. I don't care about the millions of troops of the Taiping Army, these glue thieves are only a thousand people, and they dare to make trouble!

"It's presumptuous!"

Wang Zheng wrinkled his nose and glared, his chest was churning with blood, and he fiercely despised the green-haired rubber thief, because Yao Fan's army wore green steel helmets and red flags, and the squires who escaped from Jimo were called green hat soldiers, but the more outrageous they became, they became green-haired and red-faced, and finally, even the Qing army called them "green-haired rubber thieves".

Yao Fan did not bring a red flag with his troops this time, although the artillery of the Qing army was very bad, Yao Fan did not want to give the opponent a target.

The four artillery squads of the first artillery company have set up four 82mm mortars on the high hill, and after aiming, they are ready to start firing at the Qing army's position 15oo meters away.

finally had the opportunity to show his skills, and Gui Ba seemed too excited.

"A row ready! Elevation angle 45! Ruler O12! Charge No. 2! Kill the grenade! A shot! Put! ”

Although Gui Ba's voice trembled with excitement, he looked at the optical sight on the mortar, and carefully calculated the number jù was very accurate, and a shell fell directly on the westernmost part of the Qing artillery position, directly destroying a 12-pound cast-iron front-loading smoothbore gun emplacement, which required six horses to pull and weighed 5 tons, and all the Qing artillery and auxiliaries within a radius of more than 2o meters were collectively killed, and some soldiers around were blown up with broken stomachs, broken hands and feet, and rolling and screaming all over the ground.

Yao Fantong Guò Wangyuan Chapter 149 Wind Blowing Red Flag Earth Flip (5)

Jing, seeing the chaos of the Qing army in the distance, was so happy that he hurriedly shouted: "Guiba! Well played! ”

Gui Ba saw the target and shouted excitedly: "All five rapid shots!" ”

For a while, the mortars were all fired, and twenty shells were whistling through in seven seconds!

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