Chapter 212 Prologue Ambush Battle

In the morning fog on the south bank of Sanmenxia, more than 2,000 cavalry hid in the windswept col to rest, and everyone was a little tired after continuing to hurry, but when they thought that this was already an enemy area, they were extremely excited, and they couldn't wait to encounter the enemy immediately. \\9vk。 Starting\\

After Mei Sheng finished feeding a bag of beans mixed with salt, he patted his beloved war horse and sat back between his companions.

He is from Gansu, his father was the apprentice of the famous big knife Wang Wu, followed Wang Wu to participate in the boxing movement of Gengzi year, after the defeat of the discouraged and lazy simply took more than 100 brothers to move to the northwest to do the dart master business, because of good kung fu, good reputation so it is quite famous in the local area.

Therefore, he has learned martial arts since he was a child, practiced good swordsmanship, and often heard his father talk about the chaos in the pass, so he has long had the heart to come to the pass to see. After the news of the gunfire in Xinhai reached Gansu, he immediately took nearly 100 young people from the Han family in Gansu to Shaanxi to participate in the uprising, and fought Xi'an with the troops, but after Zhang Fenghui seized the governor, expelled the Kuomintang and colluded with Beiyang, these people were also persecuted, so they had to pack up their things and return to Gansu.

Not long after he arrived home, An Guoliang came to pick people, and when he was in Shaanxi, he heard that the National Defense Force was different from other troops, so he took everyone to Sichuan. After arriving in Sichuan, it coincided with the Anmin Operation, and when he saw that the National Defense Force was neat and tidy, he treated the people without committing any crimes, and was bent on cracking down on the powerful and bullies and restoring peace to the people, so he made up his mind to do something here. Because of his good skills, his kung fu was not much worse than that of a Mongolian rider who grew up on horseback, so he was soon promoted to company commander.

Seeing the sun rising, he opened his pouch and began to prepare, just like everyone else.

The cavalry pouch was specially made to protect against water and dust, and the inside was separated by multiple layers of canvas. The first thing that was taken out when opening the pouch was a short gun with a strange appearance, which was somewhat similar to the Stearns submachine gun used by the guard company in Guilin, but there was an extra sleeve on the barrel, and the sleeve was also covered with heat dissipation holes like plum blossom petals, and everyone affectionately called it a flower machine gun according to these heat dissipation holes.

The official name of the flower machine gun is the Type 13 submachine gun, which is one of the new guns officially equipped by the Wehrmacht, in fact, it was manufactured together with the Stern submachine gun that was ready to be sold for export before the end of 12 years, but considering that the new rifle was also finalized in 12 years, it was renamed the Type 13 submachine gun.

Unlike the "Butter" Stern submachine gun, which has not yet been officially named and is ready to be used to make money in a few years, the Type 13 submachine gun is one of the official equipment of the Wehrmacht, all of which are arranged to be manufactured in Chongqing, and the template is derived from the improved MP28 submachine gun of the later famous MP18.

Yang Qiu, of course, will not die of copying the drawings, he used his knowledge of firearms to make great improvements to the MP28, the most important thing is to redesign the receiver, the criticized and not easy to use in dense forests and narrow areas of the side feed ammunition to a more in line with the later generations of the lower feed ammunition, but also improve the safety and fast and slow machine (). In addition to these, taking into account the extraordinary accuracy of the MP28, the rifling was modified, and the barrel hardness was increased using the technique of inner wall plating, while the barrel was slightly lengthened, so that the length of the gun was increased from 815 mm in the prototype to 835 mm.

Whether it is MP18 or 28, the firepower continuity is not the best, unless a peculiar snail-shaped drum is used, so Yang Qiu came up with a double-layer magazine specially developed by Finnish designers for the Suomi submachine gun in history, so that the magazine can hold 32 rounds of nine-mm bullets at a time while the length remains the same, which greatly improves the firepower continuity. \\9vk。 Starting\\

Of course, the price is much higher in this way, and the new technology also makes it a lot of trouble to manufacture, especially the double-layer magazine, when the domestic stamping technology and molds are not as good as those abroad, almost all of them are made by hand. Fortunately, he did not think of mass-equipping submachine guns, and the production method of several thousand units was still acceptable. However, in order to ensure quality, these guns were all supervised and manufactured by senior technicians imported from Austria-Hungary, and if they were not qualified, they were immediately scrapped, and the barrel and double-layer magazine were even more hands-on by themselves.

The introduction of this batch of Austro-Hungarian political prisoners is really profitable, and it can be seen from the workmanship of this gun in Mei Sheng's hand alone, even the unimportant heat dissipation holes have been replaced with exquisite plum blossoms in consideration of the aesthetics of the Chinese, so that Yang Qiu, who saw this gun for the first time, scratched his head, and even wondered if the "political prisoners" were idle eggs. But he didn't stop it, anyway, it wasn't built in large quantities, and the workers could do whatever they liked, as long as the performance was up to standard.

In Yang Qiu's eyes, the flower machine gun is nothing but the favorite of Mei Sheng and others, simple, easy to maintain, strong firepower and long-lasting, almost from the first time it becomes a baby bump, but it is a pity that the ammunition consumption is too large, and the trigger is gone when the trigger is pulled ten times in the state of three shots, so the troops are reluctant to load the bullets during training, and the entire cavalry regiment has more than 2,000 people, and it is only equipped with 300 pieces.

As soon as he finished checking the gun and loaded the magazine, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from outside, and several partners disguised as Shanxi Datong Dart Bureau rode their horses and galloped in. Although it is not true to hear it from a distance, I can also know that a big fish is coming by looking at the faces of my comrades! So everyone was excited, and the grenadiers around them couldn't wait to take out the grenadiers of the same new equipment, as if the enemy was already in front of them.

After a while, Mei Sheng also changed into a dart master's outfit, more than a dozen wagons piled with wheat straw were tightly wrapped in oilcloth, looking like a cart of expensive goods, and dozens of flower machine guns were also stuffed into the special gun racks at the bottom of the car, which looked like a team of darts from the outside.

"Be careful." At An Guoliang's advice, Mei Sheng nodded, and with a wave of his horsewhip, he led the commandos and camouflage carriages to the east.

In the rickety carriage, Zhao Wei squinted his eyes and took a nap, but his hand was always on the small box next to him, which was his life savings, not only more than 100 gold bars, but also several checks from Yokohama Zhengjin Bank in Japan and Standard Chartered Bank in the United Kingdom, worth millions. In addition to these private properties, the long convoy behind the carriage was also full of Japanese Type 30 rifles, bullets, and hundreds of boxes of opium that had not had time to be disposed of, all of which were the capital of whether he and Yi Jun could gain a foothold in the northwest or even Xinjiang in the future.

In order to protect these things and prepare for the large troops behind, he deliberately brought two battalions of nearly 3,000 soldiers to personally enter Shaanxi this time. However, he didn't worry too much about safety, after all, this is still the controlled area of Beiyang, not to mention that there are so many Yi soldiers around him.

Yijun is also an army active in the late Qing Dynasty, fought long hair, fought in the first day, and also participated in the strangulation of boxers in the year of Gengzi, but every time this army fights, it loses a bit of spirit, with the emergence of new armies such as Beiyang, they are gradually abandoned outside the core strength of the country. Although all of them were replaced with the Type 30 rifles eliminated by Japan, and there were even many Manli Xiabu rifles, the soldiers with ruffian faces were still issued with a simple knife hanging from their waists according to tradition.

"Third brother, where do you think we are going this time? Didn't you say that the bandits were in the west, why did we go north? After Sanmenxia, it is Tongguan. A soldier in the team who had gone to Shaanxi last time to fight with the People's Army recognized the way, looked at Zhao Qi's carriage and frowned.

"The devil knows, and I don't know what kind of evil trick we have committed to suppress the bandits! Isn't there tens of thousands of Beiyang troops in this Xinyang, which is our turn. ”

"Xinyang? It would be nice to be able to protect itself, I heard that Nanfang is going to send 500,000 troops to attack Xinyang this time. ”

"Nonsense, he Yang Qiu only has a total of more than 200,000 horses, and he has to take care of 500,000 in the southwest."

"Isn't there still the People's Party? They also have hundreds of thousands in their hands. ”

"Whatever, anyway, it's not our brother who fights anyway, there is Beiyang in front of you, do you see?" A soldier squeezed his eyes at the one hundred and ten tightly wrapped carriages in the middle of the team: "I saw it when I loaded the car, it was all bullets and cigarette paste, *** It seems that Zhao's head is playing with his life this time, and it is the first time that Lao Tzu has seen so many bullets and cigarette paste." ”

"What's the big deal. I heard Zhili say that this time our Yi army is all dispatched, and Lord Jiang also specially asked the president for a few train wagons to transport ordnance, in my opinion, this time we may have to live in Shaanxi for a long time. ”

"No wonder it's cigarette paste and bullets, and the feelings are to let our brother move for him Zhao Datou this time."

"Whatever, Shaanxi is not bad, I heard that all the tobacco is planted over there, maybe we can still get a vote in the past, and the brothers are also rich and rich."

"Huh."

There was a snickering in the team, following Jiang Guidi and Zhao Kui over the years, they have not lost money on tobacco, don't look at this thing being sold cheaply in the mainland, but it is several times or even more than ten times the profit when it is transported to the southeast, so there have long been rumors that the Yi Army is a big smoke army, and it is an army during the day and a bandit at night, and it also openly uses the army to smuggle opium, but because of President Yuan's face, and he also has tens of thousands of guns, so no one dares to move.

The soldiers looked at the long carriage greedily, and when they secretly thought about how much it was worth, the team in front suddenly became agitated, and a shout alarmed Zhao Wei, and suddenly pulled out a pistol and lifted the curtain and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"My lord, there's a team of dart carts ahead."

When Zhao Wei looked forward, a small group of Yi Army cavalry had already blocked in front of Mei Sheng, looking at the revolver in the waist of the dart master, he hurriedly bowed his hand and said respectfully: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are from the Shanxi Datong Dart Bureau, please raise your noble hand ()." ”

Mei Sheng's family originally ran a dart game, so the incision code words on the road had long been familiar to him, and after a few words, he quietly took out a dozen pieces of ocean from his sleeve and stuffed them into the hands of the soldiers. The soldier's face immediately improved after weighing it twice, and he turned his head and said, "Go, report to your lordship, it's the horse team of Shanxi Datong Dart Bureau." ”

Hearing that it was the convoy of the Datong Dart Bureau, Zhao Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "Let them pass, be careful." ”

The soldier who got the order waved his hand to signal that it could be passed, Mei Sheng nodded again and stuffed more than a dozen silver dollars, until the corners of the soldier's mouth were crooked, and then he led everyone to drive the carriage to meet the large army of Yijun.

Taking the opportunity of the Yi Army's cavalry to report back and forth just now, Mei Sheng had already taken a look at the carriage that was at the head. As his convoy passed by the Yi Army, many of the cavalry regiment soldiers also became nervous. However, their nervousness did not attract the attention of Yi Jun, because they had seen a lot of this kind of thing, but fortunately, this time Zhao Wei ordered not to cause trouble and hurried at full speed, so they did not swarm up to blackmail.

Seeing that the carriage was getting closer and closer, Mei Sheng quietly glanced at his partner, and the wheels of the first cart that had been manipulated suddenly fell crookedly.

"What's going on? Didn't I let you double-check before you went out! This thing can't withstand a fall, why are you still stunned? Get off the horse and check it all for me! Before the soldiers of the Yi Army woke up from the accident, Mei Sheng began to beckon dozens of cavalrymen disguised as executioners to dismount and pretend to inspect the goods.

"Do it!"

Mei Sheng was the first to take out the flower machine gun from under the car platform, and before the lively Yi soldiers around understood what was going on, the bolt of the gun let out a roar, and the comrades quickly pulled out their guns and opened fire, more than 50 submachine guns formed a terrible bullet storm, and nearly 100 Yi soldiers fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Originally, the submachine gun did not have such great power, and even if the barrel and rifling were improved, it was impossible to improve the accuracy too much, but now Mei Sheng and the nearest Yi army were only a few meters away, and the distance between them and Zhao Wei who was separated by the soldiers was less than twenty meters, and the Yi army was still in the fourth row of marching army columns, so when a magazine was finished, a "big hole" () was directly in the middle of the Yi army column.

After a few clicks under the cover of his comrades, Mei Sheng rushed to Zhao Qi's carriage from the middle of the Yi army that had already been in a mess, and the rest of the comrades knew that they must use this opportunity to break up the Yi army as much as possible, after all, they had more than 3,000 guns, so they ran like crazy while chasing the scattered Yi army, and at the same time fiercely strafed the Yi army who were still pulling the bolt.

The ferocious firepower was vividly brought into play at this moment, and the Yi Army, who had never seen a submachine gun or even a few machine guns, had never seen such a strong and lifeless fight, and the sum of more than fifty people was simply more powerful than the charge of hundreds of people, and they were suddenly frightened and rushed away, and it was rare that a few dared to resist, and they were immediately covered in blood by several bullets that arrived at the same time.

Zhao Wei is worthy of being an old officer, he understood the plan when he heard the gunshot, grabbed the pistol and wanted to run out, but he was reluctant to give up the box so he turned around to hug it, maybe in his opinion, these few seconds could not be wrong, but he didn't know that he was facing a close-range killing weapon that appeared on the battlefield on a large scale for the first time! By the time he picked up the box and lifted the curtain, the muzzle of the black hole was already aimed at his head.

"Boom, boom."

A series of shells exploded from the end of the Yi army, and the only two 80mm mortars of the cavalry regiment began to suppress at full speed, and a moment later, the black pressure appeared under the horizon like a cross-river iron lock, and in just a few minutes, it violently crashed into the middle of the Yi army, which had been beaten by the commandos with submachine guns. Three hundred flower machine guns swept together, grenadiers and mortars blocked the front and rear ends, grenades rained out, in the face of this extraordinary onslaught, many resolute soldiers finally simply dropped their guns and jumped into the rolling Yellow River not far away to escape.

The Great War of the Central Plains, which had been brewing for a long time, suddenly opened the curtain under the picture scroll of Zhao Wei holding his head in his hands and trembling, and Mei Shengmei counting the spoils