Baoying Xiaoguanzhuang Town.

A convenient place with a flat surface and open fields. Liu Xian's previous life Beijing-Shanghai Expressway reached here and passed through. And now it has become the decisive expenditure of the Huai and Qin armies.

Li Hongzhang dispatched the main force in his hand, except for Tang Renqian, who led more than 3,000 cavalry to shoot around Yanghu, the Huai army can be said to be pouring out.

Liu Xian also raised his army at the same time, and also released a part of the cavalry to meet Tang Renqian, and the remaining main force appeared on the stage.

The Liang army converged in Xiaoguanzhuang Town, and the scouts on both sides could see each other's large forces, but neither of the two armies, who knew the power of the breech guns at the moment, dared to put themselves within the range of the opponent's artillery.

"Attack! Don't give the Huai army time to dig trenches! "Liu Xian has already paid attention. The main forces on both sides collide, and if there is no action, a slight stalemate, it is necessary to repair trenches on both sides.

Although the times have changed, the rapid development of weapons has long swept the original surface warfare into the dust of history. Liu Xian is still willing to fight a retro-style battle. Strive for one day today to settle the dust of this battle! Otherwise, Li Hongzhang would not have come out to fight like this again.

To put it more bluntly, the sooner the Huai'an War ends, the greater the shock to the world, and the more beneficial it will be to the unification of Xinqin. Liu Xian must seize this opportunity given by Li Hongzhang!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery of the Qin army opened fire first, and it was impossible to reach the Huai army, but the powerful artillery fire blew up the dust and smoke billowing less than two miles in front of the Huai army's front, and it would not be long before the Huai army's vision would be affected.

Li Hongzhang is sitting in Baoying, of course, he can't see this scene. But Pan Dingxin, as the commander-in-chief of the Huai Army's front, knew that this was not a good thing, and immediately ordered the hot air balloon to be lifted into the air. Of course, it will take time!

Just as the Huai Army's school shooting balloon team began to carry out the order, the Qin Army's offensive troops had already begun to attack.

Liu Xian directly threw himself into the power of his fist - the garrison regiment!

The 5,000-strong garrison is his most credible force. Almost all the officers were born from the Boy Scouts, or the children of the farms in Hanzhong, and the soldiers were recruited from the children of workers in Liuzhou, Qinzhou, and Hongji, and almost all of their families had received the favor and favor of Liu Xian, and their loyalty was not ordinarily high. Moreover, the training level, equipment, and treatment of the soldiers are also among the few units in the Qin army.

There was a slight commotion among the Huai troops on the opposite side, but it quickly subsided. In the face of the direct attack of the Qin army's 'camp' and the position was not repaired, Pan Dingxin chose to defend on the spot.

After all, defense is more in control than offense at all times.

At the same time, the middle and rear armies of the Huai army began to seize the time to dig trenches, and used the villages north of Xiaoguanzhuang Town as a base to deploy troops. The artillerymen always paid attention to the movements of the Qin army, and when the Qin army came out of the dust, they had to open fire as soon as possible. The troops at the forefront began to organize soldiers to dig single bunkers.

The Qin attacking forces quickly rushed out of the smoke and dust. Their battle lines were very scattered, with at least three or four meters between the soldiers and the other at least seven or eight meters apart from one triangular attack group.

Part of the Huai artillery began to fire, and shells continued to explode above the heads of the charging Qin soldiers. Even if the soldiers of the Qin army widened the distance between each other, they were also knocked down one by one.

There was also a part of the Huai artillery that began to shoot in the direction of the Qin army's large force, and the plan was only a blind interception.

When the Qin attacking troops rushed to a distance of 300 meters from the Huai army, the first troops began to lie down and shoot under cover. The marksmanship of the Huai soldiers is inferior to that of these elite Qin troops in the garrison regiment.

When the former is not fighting, he does not get to touch two live-fire training sessions a month. In the latter, the supply of bullets is open, and each accurate marksmanship is piled up with countless bullets.

On the training ground, the soldiers of the garrison regiment can shoot in a 200-meter target lying position, and any one of them can be guaranteed to be above the benchmark point of 80 rings/10 rounds. Of course, it was on the training ground, not the real battlefield. But the basic abilities of the soldier are here. Moreover, the garrison regiment has also experienced several battles in the past year or so, and there are a large number of veterans among them, who are by no means donkey and eggs with a bright appearance!

This group of soldiers held all the repeating pistols in their hands, and as soon as they made a move, they shot and crawled forward, and the soldiers on the front line of the Huai Army immediately felt the pressure.

In the midst of the continuous artillery fire, the mortar units of the Qin army also moved forward.

A mortar is carried by five soldiers, one of whom carries the barrel, one carries the mount, one carries the chassis, and the other two are responsible for ammunition. But in fact, only two people can carry the ammunition with manpower, and the number of shells that can be loaded is too small to be enough to fight. In actual combat, all five people were carrying ammunition. Two full-time ammunition men can carry four mortar shells on their backs, and one box of mortar shells on their shoulders, and two people can carry twenty shells [six shells in one box]. The other three men had four for each of them, for a total of thirty-two mortar shells, enough for one mortar to move from multiple positions to fire.

The Qin army invested fifty mortar groups at one time, and actually arrived at forty-seven mortar groups. By the time these mortars reached within 500 meters of the Huai Army's front line, the Huai Army's front line had already changed from Alexandria to being overwhelmed.

Li Yuanyong's face was already flushed, and he waved the waist knife in his hand and ordered the two heavy machine guns under his command to shoot!

"Hit, hit me! Hit hard! ”

He is a native of Luzhou, although he is not from Hefei, but his sense of belonging to the Huai Army is definitely engraved in his bones. For the Qin army in front of him, how much the banner man hated, how much he hated. It's just because the Huai army has repeatedly suffered big losses at the hands of the Qin army.

Liu Bingzhang, Zhang Shusheng, Wu Changqing, Liu Shiqi, Zhou Shengchuan......

One by one, the generals who achieved fame in the Huai army were beaten to the shame of the Qin army.

At this moment, a bomb exploded near this simple heavy machine-gun fortification made of dirt bags. Although the shock wave of the explosion was not large, fragments of bombs flew in, reaping the lives of two heavy machine gun crews. Especially the ammunition hand on his left, the chest that was hit was almost completely sliced open, and the huge blood mouth and blood spewing red the entire fortification. Before the man could fall to the ground, he had already lost his life.

Li Yuanyong stretched out his hand and touched the blood splashed on his face, then opened his eyes wide to look at the few soldiers who were already stunned next to him, and scolded loudly: "Bastard, what are you still doing in a daze." Hurry up and replenish your ammo, keep shooting, and don't stop! Keep calling me! ”

The heavy machine gun position under Li Yuanyong can be said to be one of the core targets of the Huai Army's front line, and one mortar shell after another fell, Li Yuanyong escaped the first day of the first month and could not escape the fifteenth, and finally followed his heavy machine gun into pieces.

On the other side, the vanguard of the Qin army's offensive troops, a large group and a squadron of the garrison regiment, the squadron leader Luo Hu had already retracted the binoculars, and then bent over and ran to the east with his head bowed and leaned against the ridges, shouting loudly as he ran: "Brothers, fight hard, fight me well!" ”

The battlefield was outside the town of Xiaoguanzhuang, and naturally covered a field. Now the first squadron is nested in this crop field, and the knee-long wheat is their best cover.

Therefore, this place was the most bombarded by the Huai army!

In the position where the shells were still flying, Luo Hu shouted loudly while trotting, and the soldiers also braved the artillery fire one by one to move forward firmly. And from time to time to fire the rifle in his hand.

Throughout the battlefield, the form was rapidly pouring towards the Qin army. Although the attacking Qin soldiers were hit by heavy machine guns and artillery shells, the Huai army, as the defender, was actually no better, and they were also enduring heavy artillery fire with mortars overhead. The bulletproof thing in the personal bunker is not protected against the shells overhead!

Especially on the more exposed heavy machine gun positions, the accuracy of the mortar can be much stronger than that of the artillery. One mortar shell after another, the light of the shells turned the heavy machine guns into a lot of broken parts.

Both the offensive and defensive sides are facing the threat of each other's firepower, and war is a more tragic game than anyone!

Everyone endured the blows and casualties equally, but whoever dies more and who can't withstand it first loses the war!

The casualty figures kept gathering into Pan Ding's novices, and the faces of the generals of the Huai Army turned black and blue little by little. As the defender, their casualties are so large?

How long has it been? The front-line army [Yang Dingxun] has killed and wounded more than 1,000 people. So how much will the Qin army lose?

The artillery of the Qin army has been silent for a long time. The artillery of the Huai army, which was firing artillery, was already asking to transfer positions. Because the school-fired balloon that flew into the sky did not find any trace of the Qin artillery, the latter had already entered the smoke area.

The Qin army set fire to a large number of crops and trees in the rear of their house, and the black smoke that rose followed the breeze obscured the view of the school-fired balloon. The observers on the balloon could only confirm that a part of the Qin army's artillery must have burrowed into the black smoke area, but the specific number and location distribution, they could not confirm it at this time.

"Ordered the artillery to transfer positions. Again, organize reserve forces and be ready to reinforce the front at any time. ”

Pan Dingxin's burden is very heavy, Li Hongzhang handed over the command to him, and Pan Dingxin can't wait to be cautious and cautious. Judging from today's war, if Li Hongzhang had not commanded the troops to move forward, Pan Dingxin would definitely not have come out of the nest.

These 40,000 or 50,000 troops are the only team that the Huai Army can come up with now. Liu Mingchuan is still in Sichuan. If the battle of Huai'an is over, the Huai army can say that it will no longer exist!

"Report!"

"Speak!"

"Our artillery is ready!"

Roy's aide-de-camp, a Pole like him, stood in front of Liu Xian, spitting out incoherent Chinese.

"Launch!"

Unlike Li Hongzhang, who stopped in Baoying County, Liu Xian came to the front line in person. The cannonballs fired by the Huai army exploded less than two miles in front of him.

A long tongue of fire erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, followed by a loud bang, and the cannon and gunner were enveloped in white smoke, and the huge recoil drove the heavy gun to slide several meters backwards...... R1152