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Chapter Ninety-Five: Night Attack

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When receiving Zhang Wenjing's telegram, Yang Qiu had already arrived in Weidian Town, which is close to the river, and the Jinghan line passes through the middle, which has been the passage of Wusheng Pass south to Xiaogan since ancient times, and it is also the only commanding height in the vicinity, so in addition to the two regiments of the second brigade of He Xifan, the first brigade and the second regiment are also deployed here, and the position is spread out to the two wings with the railway line as the central axis, in addition to the three infantry regiments, there is also an artillery battalion equipped with 12mén Wusheng Qishan cannon, four heavy machine gun squads and a cavalry company to assist (). Starting

The cold wind blew through the position, and people shivered, because they were worried about the other side's spies and artillery, so there was no light source in the dark pressure of the position, and the soldiers were huddled together and snuggled up to each other, but few people spoke. Yang Qiu's arrival immediately caused a small sāo movement, everyone did not expect him to come to the front line to inspect in person, many officers and soldiers saw this commander-in-chief for the first time, only knew that he had fought a few beautiful battles before, but the excessively young appearance made many people faintly worried, and many people simply showed disbelief in their eyes, which made the wrinkles on his forehead a lot deeper.

The Xiaogan Incident, the burning of grain, the change of commanders before the battle, the integration of the two armies, and the restructuring and reorganization of the past few days have inevitably affected the front-line soldiers.

After inspecting the position at night, Yang Qiu returned to the command post, which was a kiln set up behind a mountain nest less than thirty meters high, where the only artillery company was also deployed, and only a kerosene lamp was still flashing. The map was spread out on the table, and it looked like the shelling had affected it during the day, so traces of dust could still be seen on the ground and on the table.

He Xifan rushed here after getting the news during the day, and was discussing tomorrow's battle plan with several regiment commanders, and was also a little shocked to see Yang Qiu, who saluted and walked to the map without delay, and asked: "Shaoyue, the battle started first here with you, you can talk about the process during the day first." ”

Hearing the inquiry, He Xifan immediately pointed to the map and said: "The location of the first shot is in the northwest of Weidian Town, the time is after breakfast, the first to meet the enemy is the cavalry company, at that time they were patrolling north along the water, encountered a horse team in Beiyang, and then I sent someone to collect the corpse to see the mark, it should be the fourth town horse mark."

The Beiyang cavalry was all Chaliman's cavalry, and the patrol immediately retreated to our Weidian town after being defeated, and the three regiments took the lead in receiving the enemy, and the artillery company and the machine gun squad quickly helped, and they could not break through the machine gun sweep and retreated northward. By noon, he had gone and returned, and had brought with him a step marker and six mén seven lives and five cannons. The main battle began after lunch, the Beiyang artillery was very powerful, hitting our bunkers and positions one after another, the infantry launched a charge immediately after the artillery fired, and retreated after about an hour, our army suffered a total of 177 casualties, lost five lives, seven artillery and one mén, most of them were killed by shells. Beiyang suffered 114 casualties, and no ordnance losses were found. ”

"Didn't the enemy machine gun team come?"

"There were two machine-gun teams, but they withdrew after a while."

The introduction is very simple, but it also reveals some information, such as the speed of the Beiyang striker, and artillery is still the most headache. Secondly, the destruction of the Jinghan line in Wushengguan did bring a lot of trouble to Feng Guozhang's troop transfer, otherwise there would not have been only one artillery company arriving. But war is like this, it was originally a game of containment and counter-containment woven with blood and life, so when the artillery advantage could not be brought into play for the time being, there was a tug-of-war in which less than a few hundred people were killed and wounded in two hours. Device: No ads, full text, more

"Where is the enemy now?"

"This location."

Chu Nan, the commander of the second brigade and the third regiment, is also a student who graduated from Hubei Wugao School, and he is often in contact with ** ideas in school, before he was the deputy company commander of the eight towns, and after the uprising, he served as the standard commander, and after the restructuring, he became the head of the regiment, and today it is his position that has become the main attack point, so he knows the deployment of Beiyang best, and immediately said: "In Chenjiaao, ten miles northwest of us, the spies I sent came back and said that no excavation fortifications were found, only a few sentry posts were set up outside the village, and two machine gun teams were set up at the entrance of the ancestral hall. The artillery company is also in the open space next to it, and this is supposed to be the headquarters (). ”

Glancing at the short, thin officer of twenty-five or sixteen years, Yang Qiu continued to ask, "Is there any news about the Beiyang troops behind?" ”

"A town division sent someone to deliver a letter in the afternoon." He Xifan, like everyone, often made mistakes about the name after the restructuring: "It is said that there is a Hun Chengxie, and there are two artillery battalions that have arrived in Guangshui and are heading south, which is about a hundred miles away from us." ”

A hundred miles is about fifty kilometers, and it would take an hour and a half for the cavalry to arrive at full speed. Yang Qiu silently estimated the time in his heart, if he didn't fight tonight, then the forward of this Hun Chengxie would definitely be able to come down tomorrow morning at the latest, and the two artillery battalions should also be able to arrive in the evening, which means that Beiyang could launch a brigade-level attack in the morning after tomorrow at the earliest, and it would be difficult to fight in the current state of the second division.

However, night attacks are notoriously difficult and require very high troops, not to mention that there is a full regiment stationed in Beiyang at Chenjiaao, as well as a cavalry battalion and an artillery company, with a total number of about 2,500 people, and at least two regiments need to be dispatched if you want to win a steady victory. The two regiments can bear the regiment of the night attack, unless they let themselves go to Beiyang to pick up people, it is possible to do it, but if it is sāo disturbance, it may not be impossible to force the other party to retreat

Yang Qiu looked at the map repeatedly, and after asking some of the terrain of Chenjiaao and the location of the Beiyang guard post in southern Chu, he made up his mind: "Lei Meng, the guard company gathers the head of Chu, gives you one hour, and selects two companies of veterans to cooperate with me to attack Chenjiaao at night."

"Commander, you want to attack Chenjiaao at night?" Chu Nan jumped up immediately, even He Xifan was taken aback, from the previous orders and restructuring, he could know that Yang Qiu was very decisive, but he didn't expect that he would simply come to the point where he would personally attack the Beiyang Mark

Yang Qiu didn't give everyone a chance to persuade at all: "You should know what soldiers Commander Chu needs for a night attack, go and prepare."

Chu Nan glanced at He Xifan, gritted his teeth and rushed out, for some reason he faintly liked this kind of military style of doing what he said (). As soon as the soldiers outside heard that the commander was going to personally lead the team to attack Chenjiaao at night, almost all of them rushed over, and they rushed to join in, and the atmosphere suddenly became much more lively.

The night attack was the most difficult of all operations, the soldiers had to strictly follow the orders, because there was no communication equipment, they had to attack according to the pre-negotiated line during the battle, which required a very high degree of coordination, fortunately it was still 1911, otherwise he would not dare to take a unit without such training to attack.

On top of that, he has a company of guards that he has built with his own hands

Before the retreat of Wusheng Pass, the guard company was adjusted, and according to the establishment of the two companies, it has reached the standard of two companies, in addition to all the veterans who have fought with Beiyang Jiāo, Chen Méng, a senior student of Nanjing Lushi School who came with Chen Guofu, because he showed sè on Wusheng Pass, calmly commanded and repelled the enemy in the case of the platoon commander's sacrifice, and was also transferred to the guard company as the commander of the second company.

After the guard company was quickly reassembled, everyone finally knew why they dared to launch a night attack. Two companies, all of which were made by the German-made Máo Se 98 and Han Yuan style pistols, 12 machine guns (of which 6 were Han 1 type) had 16 magazines per ting, and the soldiers were also equipped with 200 pointed bullets per person, and they were also equipped with four grenades that were loaded with Huang Sè fried yào for the first time. I haven't even heard of this kind of equipment, let alone seen it

In addition to his own equipment, Lei Meng also quickly distributed the extra grenades to the selected veterans of the two companies, and also asked the guard company to teach them how to use them one-on-one, in order to enhance their firepower, Yang Qiu also divided the machine gun to cooperate, and when everyone learned to use it, Yang Qiu immediately issued an order to set off.

At 2:30 a.m., after making a big circle, Yang Qiu led the team to the west of Chenjiaao.

In fact, there is no mountain col in Chenjiaao, the only barrier is a half-human high earthen wall, the earthen wall is about two kilometers long, it is said that this is the corner city built by King Chu Xiang after fleeing here in the late Warring States period, which is used to defend the Yunmeng Chu King City behind. Time flies, and only the wreckage of the former Chu King City remains, and there is no trace of this corner city, only an earthen wall remains.

Chu Nan really fought a night raid for the first time, looking at the "black line" looming in the darkness, his breathing gradually became rapid (). Yang Qiu was afraid of him, handed over a white máo towel and quickly tied it on his arm and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, people are the most sleepy at this time." ”

Yang Qiu likes to explain tactics on the battlefield, because this can give the listener a deeper understanding of the use of tactics, which is much luckier for the guard company, and even many soldiers have listened to him teach tactics. Given that the troops had never been trained in night combat and came from two systems, his tactics this time were very simple. With Chenjiaao as the center, attack from three sides at the same time, without doing any complicated tactics, the company is a straight line assault, and the center of the assault is the village ancestral hall.

"You must be careful with heavy machine guns, don't brute force, light machine guns hit frontal containment, the third team bypassed from behind and attacked with grenades, and immediately used machine guns as a guide to disperse around after taking the ancestral hall." Yang Qiu brought the officers and machine gunners together and said: "Tell every soldier that it doesn't matter if you run away and can't find the original unit, just follow the sound of the machine gun, and don't panic when the enemy organizes resistance, the machine gun is suppressed first and then immediately solved with grenades." Remember, if you don't have to, or are you not sure enough, you should never rush into dwellings, woods, and difficult terrain, and would rather trap them until dawn than risk attacking, understand? ”

After the deployment, it was already ..., Yang Qiu gave the order to attack at the most sleepy moment of the menstrual cycle, and all four companies were strictly ordered to close their mouths and crawl towards the center of Chenjiaao little by little, and when they arrived at the earthen wall, Chu Nan personally led the selected death commandos to go to the sentry with a big knife in hand.

Said to be a sentry, in fact, it is some leeward outpost, as expected, the Beiyang sentry who had been guarding for most of the night finally couldn't stay up after seeing that it was almost dawn, and squeezed into a pile and dozed off, although the slight footsteps woke up a few of them, but it was too late.

In fact, Yang Qiu wanted to use a dagger or a bayonet, but it seemed that Chu Nan and the others were not interested in knives, so they used machetes.

"Enemy attack."

At the same time that blood splashed out of the necks of dozens of Beiyang sentinels, a terrible shout also sounded, and Yang Qiu suddenly rose up without delay: "Run, run, run, run."

The soldiers who had been waiting impatiently immediately ran over the earthen wall towards the center of the village, and the machine gunners led the team to quickly disperse to find a position, and after a while, several lines of fire woven by jiāo were the first to appear in the night, and at this moment everyone had only one thought, that is, to rush to the entrance of the ancestral hall as soon as possible, otherwise as soon as the machine gun cannon fired, it would be all over ().

Staying"

"Bullet up, it's too close"

The Beiyang machine gunners and artillerymen who were awakened by the sound of gunfire immediately drilled out of the ancestral hall, and several Beiyang officers came out together, and the good training allowed them to rush into the position as soon as possible, but when they opened the gun latch and stuffed the cartridge belt, they found that several dense tongues of fire had suddenly drilled out of the darkness.

"Ho ho."

Hao Wenbao hid under the root of the tree and quickly pulled the trigger, and the unique two... The shè is deeper than Madsen's, and he loves it when striking with a pointed bullet made from Germany, and the unique built-in buffer spring minimizes recoil.

The first target must be the two heavy machine guns and artillery positions guarding the mouth of Mén, the Beiyang heavy machine guns use old-fashioned tripods, which are neither convenient to move nor install shields, so when Hao Wenbao and they seized the opportunity, they actually suppressed the heavy machine guns and artillery at once, and the machine gun bullets with powerful kinetic energy clanged on the steel, twisted and scattered, forming a more terrible and irregular metal scatter shè stream, and the Krupp Seven Life and Five Field Guns also lacked shields, So after being bounced off, it immediately plunged into the bodies of those Beiyang artillery who could not be touched.

The Beiyang machine gun team and artillery, who had suffered heavy casualties, had not yet come to their senses, and there were dense shè blows and explosions behind the ancestral hall, and several brave commandos climbed onto the roof of the ancestral hall and threw grenades from above into the heavy machine gun position.

At the same time as the artillery was slaughtered, the Beiyang infantry who rushed out of the houses also suffered heavy losses, and when they rushed out of the houses in disheveled clothes, they were immediately subjected to the most terrible attack, even if there were no machine guns, they would definitely be greeted by a dense platoon of guns, and this was not the most terrible, the most terrible thing was those flying in the air, often several or even dozens of grenades at the same time ().

The whole village was filled with shouts of killing, screams, and wails, because of hunluàn, many times the soldiers on both sides were almost aiming their guns at the muzzles and firing, and finally the Beiyang 13 standard, which was caught off guard, had to give up the shè and prepare to use white-knuckle warfare, wanting to rely on the advantage of numbers to regain the disadvantage. At this time, the light machine gun finally played an advantage, although it could not be compared with Makqin, but the agility of the light machine gun was fully reflected in the night attack, whenever there were Beiyang soldiers organized by the officers to prepare, it would always attract a dense rain of bullets, and the simple tactical orders before the war also played a good effect, the soldiers almost followed the machine guns, so as long as the machine guns fired somewhere, they would definitely shoot a row of dense bullets in the direction.

After experiencing Wusheng Pass, Yang Qiu has fully understood that Beiyang, which was built on the German model, began to gradually change after the Russo-Japanese War, especially with the return of a large number of non-commissioned officers in Japan, the elements of the Japanese army began to be deeply integrated into this army, so they almost had the impression that the Japanese army was a typical combination of infantry and artillery, and it was a terrible force when there was an artillery advantage, on the contrary, they were not much stronger than the Hubei New Army.

The 13th mark in the hunluàn now has no artillery support, and the lack of heavy machine guns is left with the fate of being cut and scattered.

Yang Qiu rushed to the front with a machine gun of the Han type, the battlefield and the sound of shouting and killing made him feel as if his heart was on fire, and the battle ** was completely released, at this moment he completely forgot the yin clouds that began to accumulate again in the rear, forgot the pressure of Beiyang, and immersed himself in the battle and killing.

No one is more accustomed to using automatic weapons than him, the Han Yi machine gun in his hand seems to be alive, the bullets keep hitting the Beiyang soldiers, and then the infantry behind him carried out a grenade assault A ball of flames tore through the darkness, the explosion brought up a broken selection and a flying whirl to cut the body, and the flying blood was spread all over the small village, and after the few cavalry left, the 13 standards began to follow them to flee northward, and the hurried retreat copper whistle made the battlefield more and more hunluàn.

The bloodshed began to expand outside the village as it fled, and the east finally began to turn slightly white