Chapter 384 The coalition army was defeated and the Qing Dynasty was in danger
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In the fortifications of Jinping Mountain, more than ninety percent of them are newcomers who have never fought a war. In the revolutionary army sequence, they are at most considered substitutes, not even second-line troops. Before the outbreak of the war, most of them had just completed three months of basic military training, mainly as a reserve force to help maintain the construction of the Xudong Railway and the land reform work in northern Jiangsu.
After the multinational coalition troops came ashore, they were temporarily drawn out to the battlefield, skillfully built positions and fortifications, and then when the enemy arrived, under the leadership of less than one percent of the veterans, they nervously carried out defensive operations according to the training subjects.
In the absence of qualified mid-level officers, most of the lieutenants with only one or two years of military experience took on heavy responsibilities, honestly squatting in the trenches to direct soldiers to shoot and fire, and took the initiative to attack high-end tasks such as elastic defense.
There are more than 20,000 recruits on the two fronts, and tens of thousands of young construction workers.
The old lady of the Yang family, who couldn't stay idle, stepped forward at a critical moment, wearing an old military uniform that didn't pull a few pieces, the same as when he was a militia battalion commander fifty years ago, holding a two-foot-long dry tobacco pouch in his hand, his waist was straight, and he was full of spirit and spirit to sit at the Jinping Mountain Headquarters.
It's not because he's Yang Hao's own grandfather. The old man was over 70 years old, and from the very beginning, he led the villagers to engage in infrastructure projects, opening mountains, building roads, dams, wharves, and factories. The great battles of a few thousand to tens of thousands of people have always been well directed. From the first phase to the present, there are at least 100,000 young and strong migrant workers. They all worked under him. Listening to his old man's loud voice shouting through the loudspeaker all day long, his prestige has long been established.
Later, a large number of soldiers selected from the young and strong are now filled with various units in the south, north, south, and north, and have long spread the prestige of his old man. Now, when I heard that he was personally sitting in the former enemy, no matter how worried I was before, I felt like I had taken a reassuring pill and found the backbone of the heart.
If you don't say that there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, the effect of Mrs. Yang coming to the front line is outstanding. The meaning of the identity he represents was directly instilled into the ears of the recruits by the grassroots officers, and when the battle began, the young and old used him as a talk to encourage the soldiers: "There is nothing to be afraid of, the foreign devil is also a head and two eyes, and the bullet still drills holes and blooms!" All show it well, the old lady is behind and watch it with his own eyes, don't smear his old man's face, his legs are soft and his eggs are shrunk, beware of him breaking bones with a stick! ”
…… It seems that Mrs. Yang's style is also relatively strong, and the young man who is disobedient to the bastard is not less beaten with a crutch. But the big guys still eat this set, which shows that the prestige and prestige are not only gathered by the ability of organization and command. Daring to hit people has become an advantage!
In the minds of many soldiers, it seemed that the old man's crutch was more intimidating than the rubber stick of the gendarmerie, and he nodded violently when he heard the instructions of the veteran commanders. After the outbreak of the battle, the calm morale and high morale of the army ensured their performance, and the defensive line was firmly established.
However, not everyone is as simple as the lower-level soldiers, and Cai Qu, who represents the organizational strength of the officials, is impatient.
At the beginning, Cai Juren became the county governor not long after he became the lord of Rizhao, and after Yang Hao's power was stabilized, the eldest brother of the editor of the Tongguò Hanlin Academy became the magistrate of Haizhou. After the revolutionary army rebelled, he took the opportunity to replace Zhizhou as the director of the management committee of the prefecture. If nothing else, in the future, the revolutionary army will sweep through the two rivers, and he will most likely be mixed with the high position of the chairman of a province. It has to be, this is an ambitious and aspiring new generation of gentry.
As the chief official of Haizhou Prefecture, he had an unshirkable responsibility, not only to personally lead the official team to coordinate the logistics and civil affairs, but also to bring representatives of the local gentry and youth condolence groups to the front when the battle broke out in front.
I really saw with my own eyes the artillery fire on the position at the foot of the mountain, and the shouting and charging of thousands of foreign devils and ghosts, which scared these old and young people who were used to living a peaceful life! Some people who are timid and have a bad heart simply sit on the ground with weak legs and can't get up, and there is urine in the crotch of their pants.
It's not a shameful thing, anyone who can't help but hear the thunderous explosion sounded on the side, the landslide cracked and the fire splashed everywhere, all kinds of debris swept the woods in all directions, and the chirping shrednel on the top of the head, the same had to kneel!
But when I looked at the old lady Yang, her face was ruddy and calm, and even the shell exploded not far away, and her eyelids were not calm with trembling, and her demeanor and temperament stood out a lot.
Cai Qu was shocked enough by his ascension, and hurriedly dissuaded: "Old man, it's too dangerous for you to stand here, why don't we go to the anti-artillery fortifications to command?" ”
Old lady Yang stuck her waist with one hand, waved her cigarette pouch and replied loudly: "I have to stand here, so that the little ones at the bottom of the mountain can see Lao Tzu when they turn their heads!" Don't worry about it, just look at the current miscellaneous devils, and you haven't had the blessing to smash the cannonball on Lao Tzu's head! ”
This was said to be arrogant, but the young students who participated in the condolences listened with enthusiasm and reverence. is worthy of Mr. Yang's grandfather, sure enough, all of them are heroes, this kind of bearing and this style is heartbreaking!
Old lady Yang is not a fool, let alone nonsense. First of all, he knew very well the range and power of the artillery used by the foreign devils, and under the threat of the heavy artillery position in Jinping Mountain, it was already the limit that it could be advanced to five kilometers of deployment, and it was still exposed as soon as the fire was fired, and it would be uprooted by a counterattack immediately. It is basically unrealistic to expect them to hit the shells on high mountains.
Second, he did want to boost morale. The position at the bottom of the hill was built along the high ground of the village riverbank, and in clear weather, it was easy to command from the hill. The soldiers in the position can also see this side with good eyes, and they can see his calm smoking figure with binoculars.
For most rank-and-file soldiers and officers, it is a great comfort to know that there are big men fighting alongside them. Don't panic when you fight. This ensured the entire Haizhou defense line from the beginning to the present. Even if it's a group of recruits fighting. There has never been a panic or defeat.
On the other hand, the soldiers who were able to perform steadily according to the training requirements, with ten times the ammunition and automatic weapons of the enemy, successfully survived the most difficult first 24 hours, and resisted the concentrated artillery bombardment of the coalition forces and the desperate charge of the Maozi Regiment, but their own casualties were so small that they were completely stable.
Cai Qu was sweating and trembling until the Russian army retreated in panic, and he also realized that there was nothing to worry about in this battle. He stiffened up and walked out of the bunker with everyone, stood beside Mrs. Yang and pointed out the wind and clouds, brushing up the zài sense.
The foreign devils standing on the opposite side are a different picture. Nikola. Seeing the countless corpses dropped on the position, the thousands of troops who rushed forward were attrition by at least two percent, and the rest were being chased by the dense artillery fire of the extended strike, and the soldiers were constantly torn apart and thrown into the air, and the heart-rending howl of terror could be heard from several kilometers away, frightened and angry, almost crazy!
Regardless of etiquette, he grabbed the neck of the Englishman Dou Nale and sprayed the spit stars in the other party's face. Screaming: "Damn it! This is what you call a militia force?! What kind of militia can have such a powerful combat capability ?! ”
Dou Nale almost lost his breath for him, and desperately pulled the wrists that looked like bear paws. The hissed justified: "There can be no mistake in our intelligence!" The elite main force of the enemy army did go to the northeast, and the second-line troops were deployed on the front line of Tianjin to confront the Qing Armed Guards, and there were indeed only militias and a small number of reserves here! ”
Lenavich's carrot-like fingers pointed at the nearer and closer explosions and shouted, "Then how do you explain the number of artillery and machine guns like this?!" Don't sue me, they secretly sent all the technical troops here! ”
Dou Nale couldn't figure out what was going on, so he could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, desperately trying to break free from the tearing of this crazy hairy officer. In addition, in order to maintain the reputation and dignity of the British Empire, he insisted on not letting go: "I absolutely believe in the accuracy of the intelligence of the British Empire, and there will be no mistake!" As for the current problem of enemy firepower, we can only suspect that their navy intervened. You should know that similar situations have happened before. ”
Liannevich froze for a moment, trying to dig out a message from his overdrunk Chaos head from a long time ago. It seems that the Japanese army attacked Yang Hao's lair at the beginning, but it ran head-on into the naval officers and sailors of the Beiyang Naval Division in Rizhao, and as a result, the naval artillery was put into operation and the combined fleet was destroyed alive with powerful coastal defense artillery.
Could it be that this time they are doing the same trick again? It's not impossible!
He hesitated for a moment, and was even more distracted by the terrible situation in front of him.
Dou Nale is full of unsolvable mysteries. Britain had never stopped collecting intelligence before, and before the war began, it was repeatedly confirmed that there were very few main forces of the revolutionary army in northern Jiangsu and even Shandong with combat experience. Especially here, even when the coalition troops arrived, the spies who pretended to be engineers and technicians mixed in the design and command teams of major factories and railways and mines in Haizhou reported back the latest intelligence that no more troops were mobilized to support.
If it weren't for such accurate intelligence support, how could the coalition forces rush into the battlefield and fight hard? The lives of military personnel in Western civilized countries are precious, and it is impossible to waste drops casually.
But now they can't make up their minds - there are too many artillery and machine gunners exposed on the opposite side!
Machine gun cannons are not as easy to operate as ordinary bolt-action rifles, and it is extremely difficult for uneducated soldiers to accurately perform their performance! It has only been two years since the founding of the revolutionary army, where can they train so many people to support the rapidly expanding contingent of two or three hundred thousand?
Or there is a possibility, they secretly transferred most of the technical personnel to quietly enrich it, but there is no intelligence to support it, and there is no way to judge!
The generals of the allied forces who were confused did not know that the level of training of the contemporary army in their impression was 108,000 miles away from the revolutionary army, which had summarized the best army discipline in the world for hundreds of years! They have heard but never believed that under the rule of the revolutionary army, the whole people implement literacy education, and all soldiers must have a primary school education level, is actually true!
A literate soldier and an illiterate soldier are two distinct levels. Among the armies of the contemporary powers, only the German army has vigorously promoted education at the national level to change the level of the entire nation, and their rapid rise and burst out of strong combat effectiveness are directly related to basic education.
And the lower-class soldiers of Britain, France, Russia and other countries. The treatment is still poor. Especially Tsarist Russia. That simply doesn't treat soldiers as human beings, and in terms of bad Cheng dù, it's not much better than the Great Qing Kingdom.
A series of miscalculations by the one-sided guidance of intelligence, and now the offensive has been completely blocked, and in the face of huge casualties, the foreign devils really can't be calm, especially the most tragic Maozi, who is the first to be the first, exposes his rude and irascible nature. Can't wait to start the infighting!
Dou Nale almost guessed the truth, the artillery of the Haizhou defense line was indeed mixed with part of the navy, but he was an intern in the naval school. Although they could not achieve the level of precision strikes of qualified artillery, they could ensure that the artillery would give a certain accuracy and rate of fire according to the preset elements.
Yang Hao is also a staunch artilleryist, the arsenal has been manufacturing artillery of various calibers endlessly since its inception, as long as there is enough artillery, he wants to make the establishment of the kind of artillery division of the Soviet army in the world!
Dodge the coalition forces and choose the wrong opponent and run headlong into the defense line built by such troops. It can only be said that it is unlucky!
Dense artillery shells bombarded from the front of the position to a distance of 10 kilometers, grabbing the ass of the coalition forces and blowing up a longitudinal kill zone covering dozens of square kilometers. Shells of various calibers were consumed in the tens of thousands, and the earth-shattering explosion rang out for two hours!
The soldiers who waited for the wolf bèi to escape finally ran out of the killing range, and as soon as the casualties were counted, Liannevich almost vomited blood on the spot! Commander Wadsey was even more distressed, a third of their troops were killed and wounded in this attack, but they couldn't count how much damage they had inflicted on the other side!
At this point, fools know that something is wrong, and they will not believe that engineers, technicians, and missionaries from all over the world continue to provide information.
The generals quarreled again in the headquarters, and Liannavic shouted: "This battle cannot be fought any further, we must retreat temporarily, and we must not lightly consume our precious soldiers until there are no more Qing troops to attack!" ”
…… At this time, they remembered that it seemed that the coalition forces were here to help! Shouldn't the main force of the attack be the army of the Great Qing Kingdom?
But they seem to have forgotten that the previous plan was for the coalition forces to first show their strong combat effectiveness, contain the considerable revolutionary army, and encourage the Qing army to launch a full-scale attack.
Now that he has made a fool of himself and suffered a loss, no one has mentioned that stubble again. The revolutionary army gave them this head-on blow, and it is estimated that after the results of the battle were announced, the Qing army not only did not dare to attack, but they might be so frightened that they peed their crotch! To the point where it has gotten to such an extent, the whole inside and outside is not a person!
The so-called blessing and misfortune are not a single line, what are you afraid of. The coalition army remembered that there was still a powerful Qing new army in front of them, so they hurriedly sent someone to find Zhang Biao for a meeting, intending to encourage him to take the initiative to face the battle. Master Zhang, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, was first responsible for Zhang Zhidong's orders and strictly ensured that the new army under his command would not be lost. Throw yourself into a battle that is destined to end badly? I can't do it!
Zhang Biao simply pretended to be sick, and even ordered the troops to take the initiative to retreat to strictly guard against death, and be ready to run away at any time.
The foreign adults of the coalition army were anxious and angry, but they could only scold helplessly. But another bad news suddenly came, the Chinese Navy ships suddenly cut off the Yangtze River channel, cutting off the rear retreat and supply support! Immediately afterwards, there was the explosive news that the attacking troops on the left flank were completely annihilated and the Sixth Division was annihilated, and the foreign devils were suddenly collectively blindfolded!
Dou Nale, who was familiar with Yang Hao's style, saw the newspaper that came from time to time, his face was pale and trembling, he was afraid in his heart, this time it would be completely finished! There are more than 50,000 coalition troops, and maybe they all have to be explained here!
Soon, the main force of the 2nd Division of the Revolutionary Army appeared on the right bank of Lake Llama, and another group of marines came out of the back at some point, completely blocking the retreat of the coalition forces. The trough gang and the people who used to transport them were cleaned overnight! And the supply transfer stations set up along the way have also been dismantled and uprooted one by one by the elusive small forces.
The entire coalition army was trapped between the narrow areas of Haizhou Capital, and even if they jumped into the sea, they couldn't swim out!
A day later, leaflets were sprinkled over the heads of the coalition forces, and Yang Hao personally issued a letter of persuasion to surrender, demanding that the coalition soldiers immediately lay down their arms and surrender. Otherwise, what awaits them will be the wrath of hundreds of millions of people, and the iron fist of the revolution will surely beat them to pieces!
The news of the victory published in the newspaper spread all over the country, and the governors of the provinces who were about to move changed their colors when they heard about it! Zhang Zhidong immediately secretly ordered Zhang Biao and Li Yuanhong to quietly withdraw the troops, which can guarantee that as much as possible, and the bad things of foreigners and the imperial court can no longer be mixed blindly!
In the capital, Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi received reports on their front and back feet, and they were shocked that their hands and feet were cold! They stretched their necks and waited for the foreigners' friendly troops to show their might, and taught the empty Yang Hao's hinterland a hard lesson, and then took the opportunity to wave their troops eastward and regain the lost territory in one fell swoop. As a result, waiting and waiting is such a result!
Emperor Guangxu repeatedly confirmed that he was not dreaming, and immediately fainted in the hall, panicking a group of loyal Manchu and Han ministers to cry and wipe their tears. After the diagnosis of the imperial doctor on duty 24 hours a day, it was determined that the emperor had run out of oil and dried up, and his body was completely useless.
The Empress Dowager Cixi was old after all, and immediately summoned the Minister of Military Aircraft to discuss countermeasures after panicking, and finally ordered Rong Lu and Tie Liang and other trusted Manchurian officials to immediately disintegrate Yuan Shikai and others to directly control the Wuwei Army, and then the two palaces packed up their things and prepared to hunt in the west - this is going to run away! (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)