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Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Fierce Battle

On the afternoon of November 1, with the arrival of Wang Yujiabu and Yuan Shikai personally sitting in Wushengguan to supervise the battle, the front line of Weidian was completely opened.

In the explosion and smoke of gunpowder, a ménmén mountain field artillery was rapidly advanced into the position, and the second artillery battalion from Hankou finally arrived at the most critical moment, and the arrival of the 18mén Qisheng 5 Krupp field artillery greatly strengthened the defense of Weidian Town.

When the cannons were pushed into the battle positions that had been dug up long ago, the hired men were like a long dragon to pick up the cannonballs from the banks of the river, and boxes of cannonballs were opened, loaded with fuses, and the first round of Qi shè was quickly fired.

Cai Demao and Jiang Tai are alumni, the two went to Japan together to learn artillery, after coming back he went to the second battalion, before the uprising was the second battalion of the right banner officer, after the merger of the two armies Jiang Tai immediately recommended him to lead Jing Rui's second battalion of artillery, and he did not live up to the recommendation, not only took everyone to train hard for a few days, but this time after getting the order, he set off overnight to arrive here to cooperate with the infantry to hold on.

"Ruler 3500 Left Skew Cannon"

In Cai Demao's shout, the second artillery battalion that had determined the coordinates began to fire at full speed, and the same tube retreat artillery as Beiyang kept roaring, creating a wall of fire 3,500 meters in front of Weidian Town.

This time, all they brought were new shells made by Hanyang and filled with German yellow sè fried yào, and the power of the cannonballs after landing was much greater than that of the black fire, and one after another flames rose from among the Beiyang soldiers, and the metal fragments swept away like a hurricane, constantly harvesting lives. The arrival of the 2nd Artillery Battalion made the Weidian front line breathe a sigh of relief, and the 3rd Artillery Battalion, which had been stationed here before, saw that its partners were so vigorous, and they were also mobilized with all their strength, and the 10mén 5th and 6th captured 7th and 5th guns were also aimed at Beiyang and opened fire fiercely, and in just five minutes, the two artillery battalions poured 300 shells on the front line, so that Beiyang, which considered itself the first infantry artillery combined with the first in the country, tasted the pain of their enemy for the first time ().

"cào his grandmother's"

"The cannon is ready for me to blow up those deer cavalry in charge"

Wang Yujia and Li Chun on the opposite side saw that Weidian Town was actually hiding such a strong firepower, and their faces changed, but this time Feng Juntong had already given a death order, and Weidian Town must be taken within two days. What's more, Gong Bao has also arrived at Wusheng Pass to personally supervise the battle, and now there is no Xiongguan to block it, and the ordnance and soldiers have the advantage, if you can't take it down, I'm afraid that the black gauze hat will not be able to keep it, so I gritted my teeth and took out the precious cavalry.

The most important thing for a cavalry assault is to ensure that there are no obstacles ahead, due to the lack of barbed wire, so Yang Qiu asked the second division to prepare a lot of improvised deer barbs piled up in front of the position, and these things became the biggest obstacle in the eyes of the cavalry. 4∴8065 So the two Beiyang artillery battalions that received the order immediately abandoned the bombardment position, and threw all their fire on the deer barricades and obstacles that were scattered hundreds of meters in front of the position.

The position that was bombarded one after another has been covered with a layer of floating soil, dead bodies and stumps are everywhere, Chu Nan pressed his head and his comrades were struggling and saw that they were about to be unable to hold on, but they didn't expect the Beiyang artillery to stop fighting, and when he shook off the dust and quietly got up and saw the deer and the obstruction being blown apart, he suddenly understood what Beiyang was going to do, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly shouted: "Get up, get up and get ready, the rifle ruler is 300 meters, the enemy's cavalry is coming"

"Dog Wazi went to inform the machine gun fort, Lao Tzu must support here, otherwise he won't be able to stop the cavalry."

Thousands of soldiers of the two battalions in the position immediately climbed to the edge of the trench, adjusted the rifle ruler to a distance of 300 meters according to the order, and the bolt clicked one bullet after another into the chamber, and all eyes focused on the small crosshair on the muzzle.

A moment later, the Beiyang shells began to spread to the flanks for tactical cover, and a thin black line also appeared under the central horizon, and the speed of the thin line became faster and faster, accompanied by shouts and rumbling hooves resounded through the four fields. Yang Qiu, who was in the back bunker, also saw this scene, his brows locked suddenly, it was the first time he saw this kind of cavalry charge, he understood that because of the lack of barbed wire, it was difficult to block the cavalry by relying only on the deer, even if it was machine guns, it was impossible, after all, many positions in World War II could not block the cavalry impact, so immediately Jiāo prepared to dispatch the second division death squad on behalf of He Xi, and at the same time asked the guards and machine gunners to help prevent the cavalry from breaking through the defense line continuously ().

Wang Yujia was determined this time, and pulled out all four cavalry battalions of him and Li Chun in one go, and lined up two infantry battalions behind them, and at the same time sent five machine gun teams to go around from both sides, preparing to suppress the machine gun fort built with thick sandbags and logs on the defense line of Weidian.

In the machine gun fort, boxes of bullets were all opened, canvas cartridge belts were continuously connected, and when the figure of the cavalry gradually became clear, the terrible Maxim heavy machine gun finally fired the first bullet. The terrible sound of popping beans sounded from both sides of the position, compared with the Beiyang machine gun team on the opposite side, although the training was insufficient, but the tactical application was better, because all the machine gunners had personally listened to Yang Qiu's explanation of machine gun tactics, so they would not be in the middle like Beiyang in use, all of them were deployed on both wings, and then obliquely shè cover.

When the two diagonal fires finally converged in the center of the battlefield, a terrible bullet storm formed, and I saw that the dozens of Beiyang cavalry who rushed to the whole area were pierced by seventy-nine bullets before they even had time to shout, and one by one the war horses fell down after them. Bullets poured out of the small shè holes in the two machine gun forts like a summer rainstorm, and the loaders fed boxes of bullets one after another, and seeing the cavalry constantly being ravaged by the machine guns, the Beiyang machine gun team finally rounded up and aimed their guns at the machine gun forts.

In an instant, the thick sandbags of the two machine gun forts were beaten loosely, and the bullets even drilled in from the shè holes and observation holes, and the blood in the bunker was constantly falling, and the machine gunners had to point their guns at the Beiyang machine gun team in order to protect themselves, trying to take advantage of the thick ROU to solve the terrible machine guns first.

The cannonballs were still falling vigorously, but the damage caused by the cannonballs to the cavalry was much smaller than that of the machine guns, and after a while, these Beiyang cavalry reached 300 meters, and when they raised their Chaliman cavalry spears, Chu Nan immediately waved his arms.

The crisp sound of the guns formed a dense line, and although it was not as dense as the machine guns, many cavalrymen were still hit and fell off their horses.

"Ruler 200 meters"

"150 meters"

"100 meters ()."

Even if it can't be compared with Jing Rui's Cossack cavalry, the well-trained Beiyang cavalry is still very fast, although Chu Nan reminded the distance to let the soldiers pay attention to the ruler change, but many people still didn't have time to change the ruler on the bolt, and the distance was getting closer and closer, but the hit rate dropped a lot.

"Be careful."

In Chu Nan's last shout, a Beiyang cavalryman had already swung a snowy saber over his head, and at the moment of emergency, he slammed the butt of his rifle to block the slash of the saber. But there were not many people who could react as quickly as he did, especially since many of the recruits were cut off by the cavalry who rushed into the position before they were ready.

"Squad Leader"

Seeing that the squad leader had his neck cut off, several soldiers forgot the gap between the bayonet and the saber, rushed out of the trench with red eyes and stabbed with their guns, and at the same time that several bayonets pierced a cavalryman at the same time, the cavalry next to them had already swept past them, and the sharp tip of the knife immediately cut their bodies.

As the cavalry continued to pass over the head of the trenches, the two infantry battalions that followed closely behind also came, taking advantage of the hunluàn to rush towards the position.

This scene deeply stabbed everyone's eyeballs, Huang Keqiang and Song Jiaoren, who had just arrived, even trembled uncontrollably, and Miao Yuan, who thought he was good at kung fu, knew for the first time that war and fighting in the rivers and lakes were completely different things, as for Miao Luo, she only had the back of standing in the artillery bunker and seemed to be blind to the bloody scene in front of her.

"The reserves of each battalion entered the position, waved the flag, let Chu Nan, they all lie down in the position, don't look up, the second line of defense, machine gun forts No. 3, No. 4 and No. 6 open fire at full speed, and the death squad rushes up." In He Xi's jumping order, the three machine gun forts in the rear of the side opened fire quickly, forming a second dense line of bullet rain defense line, and at this time, Jin Zhaolong also led the death squad to meet the cavalry with terrifying impact.

After transporting a large number of grenades, Yang Qiu immediately armed the death squad into a special grenadier team, with four long-handled grenades in hand, and immediately scattered and lay down collectively after seeing the cavalry coming, and then pulled out the grenades and went crazy in all directions, anyway, according to Yang Qiu's words, it was the word "bomb".

This group of "grenadiers" who played with their lives gave full play to the power of the grenade, as long as there were horses, one or even several would definitely fly, and after the rumbling explosions sounded one after another, these cavalry who broke through the first line did not have time to be happy, and they encountered the baptism of countless fragments, and the war horses were not directly blown up because they were cut through the pain of the fragments and ran up (). The light machine gunner on the second line of defense began to point shè, because the death squad was ordered to lie on the ground and throw grenades, Chu Nan and others in front were all lying on their stomachs and squatting in the trench, so the machine guns could rest assured that they could boldly continue to fire, even if there was no Makqin kind of power, but the more than a dozen Madsen and the machine guns of the guard company deployed here fired together, which had formed a bullet barrier, completely disintegrating the remnants of the cavalry impact, and the Beiyang cavalry finally stopped walking on the second line of defense under heavy losses.

While the cavalry took the lead in retreating, the two Beiyang infantry battalions took the opportunity to kill in front of the position of Chunan, and in an instant, the soldiers were strangled together, blood splashed, and spears flickered. In order to stabilize the position as soon as possible, Zhang Tingfu even personally led a regiment of the Third Brigade and the reserves of each battalion to rush over.

Seeing that the small bomb that appeared in Wusheng Pass some time ago appeared again, and they also blew up their cavalry, and there were a large number of light aircraft and fast artillery on the second line of defense behind them, Wang Yujia and Li Chunquan were so angry that they slapped the stone pier in front of them, plus the opponent's reserves were also on board, and they didn't want to lose two more infantry battalions in vain, so they had to order a retreat.

After the cavalry retreated rapidly, the front-line soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief, but before everyone could clean up the battlefield, one after another eye-like shells began to fall.

After Yang Qiugang walked to Huang Keqiang and Song Jiaoren and didn't say anything, the sound of the explosion behind him made him shake his head and smile bitterly, this time Old Man Feng was really crazy by himself, this posture was obviously ready to forcibly take Weidian Town regardless of casualties