The straw bales filled with sediment were thickly piled up to form a half-circle, revealing only a one-foot-wide gap in the middle of the front, forming a makeshift artillery bunker, and a slope was dug out behind the gun emplacement, so that when it was necessary to change positions, the artillery could be quickly pulled out for transfer ().

Eighteen seven-life five Krupp field guns were lined up, and there were more than a dozen artillerymen squatting behind each gun, some of them were holding paper and pencils, not that the gun position needed so many people, but that the headquarters was ready to take advantage of this rare opportunity to let the new gunners learn how to use the field guns more intuitively.

Kang Tae held down his military hat and shuttled back and forth between the gun emplacements, answering no matter how strange the new gunners asked, and personally supervising the new gunners to shoot in real combat.

On the second day of the uprising, he was invited by Zhang Wenjing and Song Ziqing to join the Right Route Army, at the beginning, because of the incident of the three battalions, and the soldiers rioted on the night of the uprising, many officers like him were forced to take off their uniforms. He was also present just now, no matter what Yang Qiu was, there was a saying that was right, soldiers don't talk so much, and the cannon is the guy who talks.

After crossing the river, he was immediately appointed as the commander of the first artillery battalion, and the eighteen German-made Krupp seven-life and five-field guns made him jump for joy.

In just one day, this team that had been hiding in Hanyang for two months of intensive training made him feel a little different, they were disciplined and carried out orders without discount, especially when the internal fighting on the other side was continuous, and the three towns had just recovered from the instability of the people. Just this kind of soldier's style of saying everything makes him look forward to joining this group.

"Fire!"

With his shouting, eighteen shells shuttled out, and in the blink of an eye, several clouds of black-red gunsmoke had risen above the Liujiamiao Railway Station opposite, and large bricks and tiles flew up under the explosion.

Due to the lack of gunners, only the 1st Artillery Battalion was invested in this operation, but a full artillery battalion was not something that the remnants of the hastily escaped army on the opposite side could resist, and in less than a few minutes, Liujiamiao fell into a thick black smoke ().

In the temporary command post, Yue Peng put down the binoculars: "Commander, isn't it time for the infantry to attack?" It's ...... to go on like this. He flashed his eyes at Zhang Wenjing, who had a stinky face next to him, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid Wenjing's face is going to be darker!" ”

Can Zhang Wenjing not have a black face, he is the chief of logistics! What is most lacking on my side now is cannonballs, and most of the shells seized in the warehouse of the gun factory are five lives and seven shells, and the total number of seven lives and five shells in the reserve is more than 3,000. This is good, Yang Qiu actually asked for twenty minutes of firepower coverage, according to the calculation of three rounds per minute, it will also consume 720 pieces, if you want to fight like this, you will first fall into the dilemma of having artillery and no bullets in Beiyang. Later, I will have to communicate with the gun factory and ask how many shells can be made in a day when the project starts at full speed. After thinking about it, Yue Peng bumped his shoulder: "By the way, Wenjing, how much did you get in that donation box just now?" ”

Thinking of the extra-large donation box, a snickerer sounded all around, not to mention anything else, just the 50,000 yuan that Hu Ruilin "donated", saving a little bit can feed the Right Route Army for half a month. Faced with this "unreasonable" question, Zhang Wenjing directly gave him the back of his head, turned around and asked, "Commander, do you say that Li Du will provide support?" If not, it will be very difficult to rely on the gun factory. ”

"How can you not support it, Li Du is a person who knows the soldiers, how can he not see through Hankou is the most dangerous."

"It's hard to say, it's not Li Du in charge now."

The question aroused everyone's discussion, Song Ziqing secretly glanced at Yang Qiu, did he want to get support or not? With support, the two armies will naturally slowly merge. But if you can't get it? Letting hob meat cross the river is nothing more than borrowing his voice and temper, but what such a person can't get out of the horse may be greater than getting it! Wouldn't he know? Maybe he just hopes that there will be some small rift between the two armies, as long as he waits for the big mouth to come back disappointed and preach how he was harassed, the soldiers who have just won the battle here will be resentful, which is better than lip propaganda! This is what soldiers look like, the more external pressure there is, the more united they become, and wait for a long time...... Naturally, everyone screwed together.

The careful prescription can show the means, and this person's mind seems to be much deeper than before.

Yang Qiu didn't seem to see Song Ziqing's gaze, his mind was focused on this first battle, although the opponent was weak and pitiful, but there must be no mistakes, even if it was too big a casualty! That's why 20 minutes of fire coverage was imposed, but it was just ...... Looking at the black smoke of Liujiamiao, he was really "resentful" of the shells that only smoked in the early years of the Republic of China, and wanted to replace them with 155mm howitzers with black Suojin charges in later generations, not to mention 18 guns, 1 door can declare Liujiamiao to be flat from now on.

Explosives also need to be improved. After Yang Qiu took a note in a small notebook with him, he turned his head and ordered: "The heavy machine gun enters the battle position, shoots obliquely to cover the infantry, focuses on suppressing the open ground in front of the railroad track, and the light machine gun accompanies the infantry charge, try to spread out when charging, lower the body, and cover each other." ”

After the order was given, three machine gun squads of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, each of which were responsible for the attack, a total of 9 Makqin machine guns were quickly set up in front of the artillery, and the canvas cartridge belts were quickly stuffed into the machine guns. From the direction of the command post, the three Makqin formed horns with each other, and fired rapidly at the front of the central railway track in an oblique manner, and the dense fire points pulled out three death lines in front of the Liujiamiao Railway Station.

It's just that...... Tamad! The Heavy actually broke the fast and slow machine into a fully automatic burst fire! The firepower is fierce, but the bullets are ...... Zhang Wenjing's face darkened, and even Yang Qiu secretly scratched his head. But he didn't stop it, after all, all the things that can be pulled out here now are half-hangers trained by two bad light machine guns, and they need to be constantly fed bullets to mature, in order to seize this rare opportunity to fight, he ruthlessly invested 9 heavy machine guns and 30 light machine guns.

"Dashuai, it's the German stun gun (the name of the early Makqin in China)!" Li Xianglin finally had some insight, and when he saw that the other party launched Makqin, his scalp suddenly exploded, he never thought that Yang Qiu would have a German-made heavy machine gun in his hand that was not even equipped in the Eight Towns! But before he shouted, Suosuo's bullets hit the locomotive that was used as cover like a torrential rain, and the steel body could not stop such fierce fire, and in the blink of an eye, it became a hornet's nest.

"Cannon, cannon at machine gun!"

Zhang Biao's eyes were bleeding, he was also the "Baturu" of the Qing Dynasty, he was by no means greedy and afraid of death, on the night of the riot, his subordinates were not without a fight, but the Governor's Mansion was broken, and the morale of the troops was completely lost after Ruicheng's disappearance, and he had no choice but to be surrounded by cronies, and fled here in a panic, thinking that with a battalion of more remnants, and several machine guns to help support the arrival of reinforcements, but I didn't expect Yang Qiu to have so many cannons in his hands, as well as the German heavy machine guns that Beiyang had just begun to equip, if he had known that 42 was marked with such strong firepower, He took the train north early to join Yinchang ().

It's too late to regret it at the moment, it's surrounded on three sides, only one side along the river remains, which is obviously going to wipe yourself out! So ignoring the bullets of the shuttle, he ran behind the four five-life seven-mountain guns hidden in the house, pulled out his knife and pointed at the machine gun squad on the opposite side and jumped to his feet and shouted.

"Boom." The four mountain guns were shocked, and the shells in the concussive smoke and dust fell directly in front of a machine gun squad not far away, and the smoke that exploded made Yue Peng's heart tremble.

Fortunately, the shells were still far away, and the five shells were not very powerful, so the machine guns slowed down for a moment and began to roar again, at this time Jiang Tai also caught the location of the fire, and immediately ordered the six guns to be turned to the two-story house. Zhang Biao's artillery was buried in only three rounds of houses, and Yang Qiu immediately waved his hand when he saw this: "The light machine gun squads of the first regiment and three battalions alternately go up to cover the infantry attack." ”

Hang Zhi, who was really fighting for the first time, couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately rushed out of the command post after hearing the order, and shouted a few times at the three battalions that were in reserve, and the six Madsen light machine gun squads quickly ran forward under the cover of heavy machine guns.

The advantages of the light machine gun finally appeared, a machine gunner, a sub-machine gunner is a machine gun squad, and the addition of an additional sub-machine gunner is for the sake of expanding the machine gunners in the future, and the light and fast-moving light machine gun quickly arrived at the position and grabbed the cover task of the heavy machine gun squad.

At the same time that Yang Qiu recorded that he wanted to install a tripod BMX for the heavy machine gun, the soldiers of the second regiment and the first battalion had also jumped out of the bunker, scattered and then attacked frontally, judging from the posture of the soldiers when they ran, the Hubei New Army is a new type of troops, and now they are all veterans who have been trained for many years and have been strengthened for two months, so most of the soldiers can skillfully lower their bodies and run, and the infantry line is also relatively open, and after running for a while, they will lie down to cover their comrades behind.

At the beginning, charge with the company as a unit, take the whistle as the signal, run to about 400 meters and spread out to change the group, quickly lie down and push the gun forward, there is no optical sight at this distance, even Yang Qiu is difficult to hit the enemy who is crawling (). After crawling about 100 meters, the accompanying light machine guns took the lead in scattering and leaning against the rocks or trees to fire, leaving the infantry to continue crawling, and only after 120 meters of distance did the sentinel suddenly sharpen, everyone jumped up and charged.

The overlapping charging soldiers soon arrived at the front of the station, because Liujiamiao is a township, the terrain is open and easy to defend and difficult to attack, so even under the cover of machine guns, you can still see soldiers being shot and falling from time to time.

Throwing in the infantry meant that the battle was heating up, and the machine guns did not dare to open fire at will at this time to avoid accidental injury.

Yang Qiu frowned, the overall strength of the new army is good, and the tactical positioning is relatively in place, but there are still many problems, such as the infantry line is still too tight, the soldiers always pause when they charge because of nervousness, and the combination of infantry and artillery is also very poor, and the machine gunners are completely inexperienced, and they do not seize the opportunity to provide good cover for the infantry assault.

But these are not Yang Qiu's headaches, the most headache is that most of the soldiers have a very bad habit! That is, when reloading after a shot, he always habitually presses down the muzzle, unlike the European skilled soldiers who lean against the shoulder, looking for the next target while moving, don't underestimate this little gap time, when facing elite soldiers, it is enough to be killed several times in seconds!

"Hold, hold!"

Seeing the infantry on the opposite side coming up, Zhang Biao was even more anxious, pulled out his saber and shouted over and over again to stabilize the position, but the threat to the mobile phone gun was too great, and the rainstorm of bullets swept in front of the position again and again, so frightened that many soldiers did not dare to look up.

"Whoever dares to run, shoot and kill!" Seeing that a soldier turned around and wanted to escape, Zhang Biao grabbed the saber from his heart and slashed it fiercely, and actually split the soldier in half, this behavior was caused by the times, and even Li Yuanhong killed one person on the night of the first uprising to strengthen his courage. The gushing blood and internal organs frightened the remaining soldiers and trembled, so they could only shoot with bullets in their heads.

"Enter the building!" Ke Shao, who took the lead, led a company to finally rush into the station, and when he saw a large number of enemies hiding in the trenches in front of him, he immediately rushed into a house next to him, and before he could rush to the second floor, he saw several enemies rushing up with guns, and hurriedly raised his guns and fired.

After a volley of guns passed, several of Zhang Biao's personal guards fell in a pool of blood, and he immediately led the soldiers to seize the commanding heights on the second floor, set up a Madsen light machine gun and swept the enemy position from the bottom to the top, and the power of the condescending light machine gun was completely released, and from time to time enemy soldiers were hit by bullets from the top of their heads.

Li Xianglin also knew that it was time to work hard, and when he saw that the roof of the building was occupied, he immediately shouted to follow me, and rushed towards the small building with a personal guard. At this moment, Zhang Biao finally came up with his killer weapon, and a horse team set up in ambush on the right suddenly rushed out, rushing straight towards the first battalion of the second regiment that was charging head-on, and more than 20 soldiers of the first battalion who were caught off guard in the rolling of iron hooves were directly picked off their necks by Xue Liang's saber.

"Machine guns? What about machine guns! ”

The picture of blood spraying and skull falling to the ground made Zhang Wenjing's eyes red, you must know that the first battalion of the second regiment turned out to be the second battalion led by him, so he shouted regardless of Yang Qiu still on the side, and Song Ziqing, who was watching the battle next to him, hurriedly grabbed him and said, "I have gone up." ”

Following Song Ziqing's fingers, everyone saw that the two heavy machine gun squads of the first battalion had finally arrived at the predetermined cover point, and the two Makqin machine guns spilled countless bullets after a slight adjustment, and several heavy soldiers carrying ammunition boxes followed behind them further boosted the power of the machine guns. At this time, the light machine gun squad of the 3rd Battalion also saw the danger posed by the horse team, and under the tension, the six Madsen also turned all the muzzles of their guns.

People who have never experienced war can imagine how terrible it is to fire at full speed with 2 heavy machine guns that can fire 600 rounds per minute, plus 6 light machine guns, the machine gunner only needs to hold the trigger, hold the trembling handle to keep it steady, and then shake the machine gun from side to side slightly, and there will be a dense rain of bullets in the front.

Especially for heavy machine guns, the loader does not need to repeatedly stuff bullets into the machine gun, as long as the lock at the interface of the two canvas cartridge belts is locked, the cartridge belt can be extended all the time, and the water-cooled type does not have to worry about the barrel being too hot, unless it is jammed or the bullet is gone, otherwise it can be fired all the time.

It was precisely because of this terrible situation that the diagonal crossfire formed by the large array of machine guns was like a hurricane that swept by, and in just a few minutes, more than 100 cavalry and horses were beaten to pieces, leaving flesh and blood all over the ground.

The misery of the horse team gave Li Xianglin a chance to breathe, because the machine gun was less than half, so he smoothly led the team into the small building that was seized ().

"Plug them!"

Seeing that there were many Qing troops coming down the stairs, Ke Shao waved his hand into the distance while organizing everyone to block it, and after solving the heavy machine gunner of the horse team, he saw the gesture on the top of the building, and immediately threw bullets on the building. Although the thick blue bricks and stone slabs blocked most of the bullets, some of them still penetrated through the gate and window, and Zhang Biao's personal guards were immediately killed and wounded, and finally Li Xianglin had to retreat from the back.

Seeing that there were more and more opponents rushing up from the front, Zhang Biao's heart continued to sink, and at this time, the bad news came from the other two directions, and the middle and left flanks were also torn apart by the enemy's fierce firepower, especially the patrol battalion stationed in the middle was about to collapse, making the small Liujiamiao area full of defeated soldiers fleeing in embarrassment.

"My lord, on the river!"

Under the reminder of the guards, Zhang Biao saw three sailor gunboats flying the dragon flag slowly approaching, and immediately jumped up happily: "Heaven will not kill me!" Heaven will not kill me! ”

"Signal and tell the sailor to boom here! The others follow me to the riverside! ”

After receiving the order, the soldiers who had already lost all their hearts immediately spread their feet and ran towards the river, hoping to hide within the range of the ship's guns as soon as possible, but no one expected that behind the cold steel plate, Wang Guangxiong, who was leisurely touching his beard, winked at the baby-faced Bingwen.

"The muzzle of the cannon is down three inches."

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