【172】Galaxy Shadow Shakes the Three Armies (1)

When Zhou Shengchuan's Tanma reported that he was lost, and Yao Fan's large army was rushing towards him. Zhou Shengchuan's first choice was to retreat to Yaogou Town, about ten miles west of Changle City, and set up camp to arrange a battle formation.

Zhou Shengchuan rode on his horse and looked at the snowy fields in the east, and he was faintly uneasy in his heart.

Zhou Shengchuan was not surprised that the rubber thieves were able to attack those county towns with little troops before, he carefully read the report of the Ministry of War, and also knew that the city gate was difficult to support under the blasting of a large amount of gunpowder. Zhou Shengchuan only hated those foreigners, and actually sold so much black powder to these rubber thieves, you must know that according to the field research results of the Ministry of War, the gate of Pingdu was blown open by the equivalent of 1,000 catties of black powder!

Zhou Shengchuan didn't know that there was a TNT explosive in the world, and his detonation speed was not 500 meters per second of black powder, but close to 7,000 meters per second. Zhou Shengchuan also didn't know that the decisive factor for the explosion of black powder was the instant detonation of the safety detonator, so that the granulated black powder could be detonated instantly.

In recent years, no general in China dared to carry such dangerous goods as mine detonators in his army, which would explode immediately at the slightest bump, and there was no such war case even abroad.

Zhou Shengchuan knew that these thieves had a lot of artillery in their hands, but he never believed that there would be as many as 100 guns advocated by Wang Zhengqi's men, because he knew how expensive artillery was, and every shot was a waste of silver.

"There are about a dozen foreign cannons for rubber thieves, and some mountain splitting cannons, Shandong's brave army horses have been in Nanshan for many years, and they probably can't even shoot accurately under the long-term sparse battle array." This is Zhou Shengchuan's preliminary judgment.

Now Zhou Shengchuan heard the report from the sentry that the rubber thief had advanced all the way to Changle, and this news made him nervous, and suddenly the fox fur wrapped around his body became less warm.

"Why are these thieves able to advance so fast! And it's all the way to the city! That's an amazing speed! ”

There is a way for soldiers to block the water to cover the earth, although Zhou Shengchuan was nervous but did not hesitate at all, according to his experience in suppressing bandits, the thieves and soldiers are all peasants who rely on three-plate axes to mix rice, as long as they give a head-on blow to discourage their morale, they will naturally collapse immediately.

Zhou Shengchuan had artillery, not only the six infantry battalions in his hands were equipped with 36 domestic smoothbore guns, but he also had a battalion of Li Hongzhang's personal soldiers and foreign artillery brought from Tianjin, equipped with 30 12-pounder guns, four 24-pounder guns and two 36-pounder guns.

This is not the short and thick field chicken cannon cast by the Qing Dynasty itself, but the authentic British three-hoop long-bodied iron cannon, which is only three or four hundred paces away from the enemy, and the closer it gets, the more accurate it is.

Zhou Shengchuan thought of the power of foreign cannons, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile: "Whether it is the Taiping Army or the Twist Army, as long as they are bombarded by foreign cannons, there is nothing that will not be scattered!" ”

So Zhou Shengchuan neatly placed the heavy treasure that Li Hongzhang relied on, the pitch-black foreign cannon with a cold light, at the front of the position, and the 72 guns were like a black giant iron cable, cutting the earth apart.

On the two flanks of the artillery position were infantry battalions and cavalry battalions, which were arranged in a very neat formation on the field, and looked as if a whole square wheat field had grown out of the snow.

"Come on! Anti-thief Yao Fan! Accept your life!! ”

From the beginning of the war to the present, Yao Fan has always demanded himself as an ordinary soldier in life, wearing the same green liberation shoes as the soldiers, marching on the sparse land that has been trampled. The dirt roads of the Qing Dynasty were muddy and full of pitfalls when the army marched over with horses and wheels.

Yao Fan stomped his feet vigorously during the march, trying to warm his numb feet a little.

He knew that he was going to face a regular artillery battalion, and he was a little uncertain. Because he really doesn't know how far Li Hongzhang's personal foreign artillery battalion can carry out long-range shooting, which has nothing to do with the maximum range of the Krupp gun, but depends on the training level of the artillery, but even the French army, which attaches the most importance to the use of artillery in these years, generally chooses about 1,500 meters for firing artillery, and at this distance, the artillery hit rate is still relatively reliable for such a large target as an infantry cluster of several thousand people.

Yao Fan never let it go, he climbed a small slope, and after seeing Zhou Shengchuan's hard village and military formation in the distance through the telescope, after careful observation, he ordered Gui Ba to arrange the mortar battalion three kilometers away from Zhou Shengchuan's position.

"No problem, Chairman, I can see the whole situation from this slope." Katsura Badao.

"We had very few long-range strikes in actual combat before, you remember, if you can't see clearly, use a walkie-talkie to contact me, and once the school is at the right landing point, we will carry out continuous strikes, and we must completely destroy the enemy's artillery positions." Yao Fan admonished.

"Don't worry, chairman, as soon as I start fighting, I will destroy all those stinky Huai troops." Gui Ba is full of confidence.

"Don't skimp on shells." Yao Fan admonished again.

The troops gathered in Changle included Li Hainiu's 1st Regiment and 3 battalions, Cao Guisheng's 2nd Regiment and 1st Battalion, Liu Jinbao's 3rd Regiment, 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion, and Yang Ping, the new commander of the 5th Regiment, 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion.

"Li Jun, you take the second regiment and one battalion to outflank the left flank."

"Yes!"

"Liu Jinbao's 3rd Regiment and 1st Battalion outflanked the enemy's right flank, and the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment served as a reserve to guard Changle."

"Yes!"

"Yang Ping, Zhang Ercang, you take the first battalion and the second battalion of the fifth regiment to attack from the middle!"

"Yes!"

"The first regiment of Li Hainiu is the general reserve of the middle lane."

"Yes!"

"Chairman, where is our cavalry battalion?" Xi Dahu asked anxiously.

"It's also a reserve."

Xi Dahu frowned and pursed his lips, obviously a little unwilling.

Yao Fan's tactics are very simple, and they are still the PLA's best two-sided style of play, only to see columns quickly spread out to both wings and quickly insert themselves to both sides of the battlefield.

After Zhou Shengchuan lined up, he finally waited for Yao Fan's bold approach.

"This Yao Fan is bold, he doesn't stick to Changle City, but wants to confront me head-on."

Chang Ying, the commander of the tree army, twisted the sparse beard on his chin and said, "The grasshopper shakes the tree, and it is beyond its strength. ”

Zhou Shengchuan sneered: "The reason why I didn't send a horse team to harass him is that he thinks that our army is slow, and when the war starts, I must let him know what the thunder and thousands of forces are." ”

After groaning slightly, Zhou Shengchuan ordered: "Tell the artillery battalion to fight me when it reaches 1,500 meters, I see if he can escape." ”

Chang Ying gave a thumbs up and said, "Bright! When the thief army wants to break and escape, our army will catch up with it with thunder, and it will definitely kill the corpses of the thieves all over the field! ”

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After receiving the order from the interpreter, the foreign officer of the artillery battalion, Dutchman Breman, stretched out his arm straight to the front, and skillfully looked at the Yao Fan bandit army like green ants in the distance with his thumb.

"These bandits are about 1,800 meters away and are spreading out on both wings. When they advance a little bit and enter the shelling zone I have set, I will let them know what God's wrath is. ”

Zhou Shengchuan could also see that Yao Fan was arranging the formation, and he relied on the superiority of his troops and decided to use the infantry array to press forward from both sides of the artillery position, on the one hand to lure the enemy into the range of artillery strikes, and on the other hand, to oppress the opponent with rows of troops.

So the six infantry battalions of the Tree Army on the left flank of the artillery position and the four infantry battalions of the Sheng Army on the right flank of the artillery position began to move, and they slowly pressed towards the moving cluster of the People's Liberation Army in a neat shooting formation, and the snow on the white field, which was only more than an inch thick, was suddenly trampled to black, as if a vast white paper was being brushed with mottled black ink by ten square-headed brushes. Zhou Shengchuan's army array was more than two kilometers long, and the white mist from the mouths and noses of the people and horses was scattered in the solidified cold air, looking murderous.

Zhou Shengchuan pulled his hand out of the fox cage and pointed ahead, and continued to dispatch troops: "Sue sù Duolonga!" The five Qingzhou Zhenghuang and Huang cavalry battalions with him followed behind the left wing Shu Army, and Wu Yingji led the four cavalry battalions of my Sheng Army to follow behind the right wing, and once the thief army retreated, immediately go around the front to chase and kill! ”

Yao Fan saw that Zhou Shengchuan actually pressed it, and said loudly: "Okay! Guts! ”

After being hooked, he picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Guiba! Fire now! Hit me hard! Beat Zhou Shengchuan and can't take care of himself! ”

"Yes!"

After receiving Gui Ba's reply, Yao Fan continued to order with walkie-talkie: "The rest of the troops pay attention! Resolutely implement a two-sided tactic! Keep flanking the enemy's flanks! Keep your distance from the enemy's artillery positions! ”

As soon as Gui Ba heard that he was fighting, his blood immediately boiled.

Gui Ba clenched the red and white benchmarks in his hands, and shouted and ordered the whole battalion to open fire. The three companies and nine platoons of the mortar battalion and 27 artillery squads had already been deployed around the high ground, and the company commanders and platoon commanders had already repeatedly calculated the distance and direction for half a day with optical sights.

The winter noon sun was pale with a faint temperature, and it was too late to heat the steel shells of the mortar shells flying in the air, these long-distance flying killers turned the direction under the action of the earth's gravity, and fell from the top of the arc towards the Qing army's position, the improved design of mortar shells in the 21st century is no longer what it was like in World War II, and the body of the projectile that adheres to the principle of fluid science only emits a very faint whistling, and there is a faint strange wind sound when it is close to the ground.

It was too late for Zhou Shengchuan to hear the strange wind that was like a cry, and the nine high-explosive anti-personnel grenades exploded in front of the Qing army's right flank at intervals of less than half a second, and the positions were all concentrated in the infantry battalion pressed forward by the right flank of the Sheng army.

The white smoke of the explosion was ten meters in diameter, and the killing range of the fragments and steel balls exceeded twenty meters. The soldiers who had fallen in the circle were all dead, their leather and cotton suits charred black, red flesh and blood pouring into the mud and snow, countless limbs and torsos twisted into strange death sculptures, like sacrifices in discs.

"Ah!!!h

"Ah!!!!!h

The Sheng army was stupid by the shelling! They suddenly went from the pre-war tension to the chaos, crying indiscriminately: "The glue thief has opened fire!" Come on! ”

Gui Ba used his binoculars to see that the landing point deviated from the enemy's artillery position, and stood on this small high ground with a fist in hatred and roared: "Each squad has begun to adjust the ruler!" Keep the test launch! Don't stop! ”

There was a commotion in Zhou Shengchuan's formation, and the two-kilometer-long front suddenly changed from straight to twisted, as if it was a long snake that had been hit hard, and the foreign artillery instructor Dutchman Breman anxiously watched as the right flank was suddenly crushed by a burst of artillery bombardment, and ordered in a hurry: "Raise the muzzle of the cannon by an inch!" Fire!!! Right now!!! Don't wait!! ……”、

He yelled as he reported the new parameters to the pole on the ground in front of him.

The Qing army messenger immediately began to convey his order, and the artillerymen began to shake the rocker arm on the sports car vigorously, preparing to raise the muzzle of the gun to bombard the Chinese troops who were standing still in the distance of Yao Fan.

But the first to complete the coordinate correction was Gui Ba, and another 9 test-fired shells hit, and one shot landed on the artillery position in the middle of the Huai army, where the three 12-pounder guns next to each other were suddenly blown apart, and more than 20 artillery pieces around were all killed, but fortunately, the black powder behind the position was not detonated.

Gui Ba saw it really in the telescope, and shouted: "The whole battalion ruler is minus one!" One salvo! Put! ”

Twenty-seven shells flew out in an instant, waking up the earth like spring thunder, and shrouded the right flank of the Huai Army's artillery array in gunsmoke.

Katsura Hachi yelled excitedly, "Good fight! Each platoon adjusted the scale according to this bullet, and the first round of five rapid fire! ”

In an instant, all the 82mm mortars on the artillery position joined the spectacular percussion, and the 27 green steel barrels began to clatter in unison, pouring shells at high speed.

This shore is a mechanical percussion, and the other shore is hell on earth.

It was a green cannonball with the name I-2001 on it, and it and its brothers had a strange spelling of HFPY written on it, and at the moment they were enjoying the pleasure of a once-in-a-lifetime roller coaster, whistling softly, swooping down from the sky, once in a lifetime, enough to intoxicate them, I-2001 secretly thanked his creator for completing his life's mission in an instant.

When I-2001 and his brothers were about to fall, Breman's artillerymen also put the torches they lit in their hands with the medicine twist, and the iron cannons opened fire one after another, but apparently the improvisational parameters were not up to standard, and one after another solid iron balls landed one after another a hundred meters in front of Yao Fan's skirmisher formation, or jumped, or plunged into the mud, and they would be turned into reddish-brown residues of ferric tetroxide or ferric oxide in the long journey of centuries.

Zhou Shengchuan's artillery battalion is over, completely finished.

As fireballs and steaming white gunpowder smoke rose in the central position of the Huai Army, mushroom clouds grew out of this land one after another with the sound of spring thunder-like cannons, the artillery positions were full of bombed British iron cannons, the corpses of artillerymen everywhere, the black powder propellant box was detonated one after another, and in the terrifying explosion and burning, the choking smell of nitrification permeated the sky above the Huai Army.

Katsura didn't give Brayman a second chance, and the nine platoons determined the approximate bounce after three rounds of correction, and began a free five-shot rapid fire. Gui Ba saw the Qing army firing back, and looked at the bullets and shouted frantically to his subordinates:

"Don't stop! Beat me to death! Each platoon commander pays attention to the observation of the landing point and corrects it at any time! ”

27, 27, 27...... 27 rounds in five consecutive rounds...... The central artillery position of the Huai Army was completely enveloped in gunsmoke, and the soil in the depths of this land was raised by the explosion and cultivation from a hundred years of sleep, and the smell of earth and gunpowder smoke were mixed together, and the water vapor was swirling, and it was almost impossible to see the original position at all.

Yao Fan shouted on the walkie-talkie: "Guiba! Don't stop cooling! Give me the infantry and cavalry of Zhou Shengchuan! Blow them up for me! ”

"Attention the rest of the army! Both sides began to outflank! The center begins to assault! ”

"The trumpeters of each battalion blow the trumpet!"

"Di Di ~ Di ~~~~~~~~~~~ Di ~ Di ~~~~~~~~~~~"

"Kill! ~~~~~~~~”

Without the threat of enemy artillery, Yao Fan began to launch a general offensive with impunity.

The fierce charge resounded throughout the earth, in the earth-shattering shouting and killing, the green PLA soldiers wore steel helmets on their heads, holding 56 semi-automatic frantically rushed to the Zhou Shengchuan front two kilometers away, the green straggler tide was connected to form a line of green tide on the earth, the two wings were like Dapeng spreading their wings and constantly inserting to the north and south, outflanking in the movement, the infantry assault cluster in the center of the front rushed out violently like a river bursting its embankment, and a majestic green torrent appeared on the ground.

With the spread of endless artillery bombardment, Zhou Shengchuan's position is collapsing and dying, the formation has lost its meaning, the position is no longer valuable, and the dense line of infantry has become a ridiculous rout, and death is everywhere! Blood everywhere! There are stumps and severed arms everywhere!

Zhou Shengchuan was riding on a horse with a sword in his hand, his face full of horror, not believing what was happening in front of him. He involuntarily leaned forward and screamed in a delirious voice: "Don't run!" Don't run! Violators will be killed! Violators will be killed! Violators ......"

But his voice was in the midst of countless shouts and killings all over the mountains and fields, and countless "Defeated!" Defeated! Defeated! ......" shouted that it seemed so small.

The rain of cannonballs sprinkled like pepper noodles was like the snort of a dragon spewing on the earth, the frightened cavalry and horses fled in terror regardless of the life or death of the infantry, the horses on the earth trampled the deserters like turbulence in the ocean, countless infantry were trampled to death by the horses' hooves, boundless fear spread like a plague, the roar of artillery fire knocked on the earth like the footsteps of death, and the hearts of the cannonballs exploded into a concrete scythe of death......

The trumpet frightened the enemy like a sharp sword, blew out a cadenza and the warriors rushed forward overwhelmingly!

Five or six semi-automatic frantically pouring bullet raindown! The enemy is falling one by one!

No one dares to resist anymore! No!

All the Huai troops and generals are on the run, and no one dares to face the east!

The East is Yao Fan and his warriors! It's where the sun rises!