Chapter 267: The Battle of the Mountain Villa (1)

After sending Guo Cheng and the others away, Fang Xiaoyu began to arrange the defense wholeheartedly. The remaining ironclad trains can only hold a maximum of 2,000 people, and they still have nearly 50,000 people to evacuate, and they can't all evacuate unless they wait for the train to turn back, so those who remain must hold on for several days.

In order to strengthen the defense, the military industry workshop has not stopped working, and the traditional defensive weapons of the Chinese collar, mines, roller barbed wire and square nails have been made in large quantities, and carefully laid by the soldiers to the front of the position, and all the work is carried out in an intense and orderly manner.

Seeing the well-trained scene of the Chinese leading soldiers, Wang Xuan was very emotional, and he praised Fang Xiaoyu for having a way, and even the militia was trained so professionally. Fang Xiaoyu smiled slightly and didn't say anything, his troops started with defense, and this defense was naturally the most trained, even the militia training.

It may be due to the need to reorganize the armies of the Cheng family and the Xiahou family, or it may be that they need to prepare ammunition and other supplies, anyway, the rebel brigade of the Cheng family and the Xiahou family was not late until the afternoon of the third day.

This is a defensive battle that has to be fought, and it is also an extremely difficult hard battle, and what is even more terrifying is that many of his subordinates are just militiamen who lack training and heavy weapons, looking at the enemy army that cannot be seen at a glance, Fang Xiaoyu's heart can't help but feel a little worried.

Fang Xiaoyu's strict preparation seemed to surprise Cheng Yuhuan a little, he didn't expect that in just two days, Lanting Mountain Villa had set up such a tight defensive position, and the position looked so neat and tight, it was completely the way the regular army was arranged.

"General Xiahou, shouldn't your Praetorian Guards be dispatched? We have to act quickly to eliminate the traitors so that His Majesty can ascend the throne. Cheng Yuhuan smiled and looked at Xiahou Huan on the side.

Xiahou Huan said in a trembling voice: "Prime Minister, this Fang family has no intention of rebellion, how can it be wiped out casually according to the last charge?" What's more, if we kill Fang Xiaoyu here, I'm afraid that the army of the Chinese leader will come to attack, and then you and I will die without a place to bury. ”

Cheng Yuhuan squinted his eyes and said, "How many years has the Chinese Collar been established?" How high is the cohesion of subordinates? The current Chinese leader, Fang Xiaoyu is a big banner. As long as he died, even if the tree fell and scattered, at that time, the seemingly powerful Chinese Territory would immediately collapse. ”

Xiahou Huan snorted and said, "It's a good thing to say, what is falling apart?" I heard that Fang Xiaoyu has a son, if those generals support his son and rebel, will the entire Lanfang Empire have anyone who can stop them? ”

Cheng Yuhuan's eyes flashed when he heard Xiahou Huan's words, and his voice immediately turned cold and said, "General Xiahou, I don't have a war of words with you. It's just that you don't forget, your whole family is in my hands, including your only three sons, and if you keep grinding and pushing, I will have to cut them one by one. ”

After listening to Cheng Yuhuan's words, Xiahou Huan's momentum immediately became a little shorter, and he had no choice but to order the adjutant beside him: "Go and let the Second Army send a division as a tentative attack, let them be careful." ”

Cheng Yuhuan smiled and said: "General Xiahou, that's right, you and I are already a national sinner who killed the prince and launched a coup d'état, if you don't put the second prince on the throne, you and I will really die without a place to be buried." If the second prince can be put on the throne, you and I will be meritorious heroes, and whether we will usurp at that time is not up to me? ”

Xiahou Huan said in a low voice: "You just said that you supported the second prince to ascend the throne by force, who knew that you actually killed the two princes, if it weren't for my whole family in your hands, even if I died myself, I would never have conspired with you." ”

Cheng Yuhuan smiled and said, "It's a pity, General Xiahou, now you and I are accomplices." If you don't succeed this time, even if I release your whole family, they will be killed for your treason. Cheng Yuhuan said and pointed in the direction of Lanting Villa, Xiahou Huan sighed, hugged his head and sat back on the chair.

The 4th Division of the 2nd Army of the Praetorian Guards, which received the order, immediately began to attack, and under the cover of mortars and heavy machine guns, more than 10,000 soldiers spread out a scattered line and attacked the forward positions of Lanting Villa.

Listening to the fierce firepower of the Praetorian Guards outside, Fang Xiaoyu sighed: "I really lifted a stone to shoot myself in the foot, I thought that strengthening the equipment of the Praetorian Guard would make the major families dare not act rashly, so as to give me enough time for development, but now these weapons have actually hit my own head." ”

Liu Mingzhao said with a smile: "Young master, don't worry, fortunately, the Praetorian Guards are lightly armed troops guarding the imperial city, they don't have heavy artillery, and the same is true for the city guards, and most of the garrison camps are light mountain artillery." I don't think even Cheng Feng's army will bring heavy artillery to speed up the march, so we are still safe. ”

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "But how can there be no heavy artillery defending the city in the capital?" ”

Liu Mingzhao said: "I asked the intelligence commissioner in detail, and he said that in order to prevent people from rebelling and shelling the imperial city in the capital, the heavy artillery in ordinary times is placed in the designated warehouse. Before Marshal Xia retreated, in order to prevent the enemy, he had already blown up all these warehouses. ”

Fang Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is the only good news I heard today. ”

Although there was no heavy artillery, the rebels of the Bucheng family and the Xiahou family also had nearly 100 small-caliber mountain guns, and they used these mountain guns to attack before attacking, and the entire position was dusty, but they were soon unlucky.

Several cargo compartment doors of the No. 2 special train parked in the villa were opened one after another, and eight 105-millimeter howitzers raised their muzzles and quickly locked on to the position of the opponent's artillery position.

With an order, eight artillery pieces fired in a salvo, and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard were still more than 2,000 meters away from the position, and suddenly heard a scream in the air, and before they could understand, several heavy shells had already fallen on their artillery position.

The rebel artillery position, which originally bullied Fang Xiaoyu without artillery, placed the artillery relatively densely in order to strengthen the salvo effect, and a lot of ammunition was stacked next to the cannon for easy access.

Heavy shells whistled down from high altitudes and plunged headlong into the middle of the artillery positions, and the warheads, filled with colloidal explosives, exploded with the detonation of the trigger fuse.

The force of the explosion knocked a large number of rebel artillery to the ground, and then the ammunition that the rebels had randomly piled up near the cannon exploded, and the even greater explosion threw the artillery and its broken limbs into the air, and these fragments flew in all directions under the air wave.

How could the rebel artillerymen, who had not been in battle for a long time, see such a formation, the surviving artillerymen were so frightened that they immediately abandoned their artillery and fled, and no one cared about the fact that the artillery was destroyed by the subsequent shelling.

After several rounds of shelling, the artillerymen, who were forced to return and transfer the artillery, found that the entire position had become dozens of large pits stacked together, and the artillery and ammunition were long gone.

Fortunately, this position was only one of the three artillery positions of the rebels, and the howitzers of the Iron Blood Army had only eight guns, and the rebel artillery positions could only be attacked one by one.

Cheng Yuhuan was furious, but he didn't understand military affairs at all, and his son Cheng Feng was busy raiding rich households in the name of tracking down the rebellious party in the capital, and now he can only rely on Xiahou Huan.

Knowing that the other side had large-caliber heavy artillery, the artillery of the Praetorian Guard and the garrison no longer dared to shoot easily, and without fire suppression, the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard advanced more cautiously.

Eight hundred meters away from the position, the Praetorian Guards encountered the roller-type barbed wire fence laid by the militia of Lanting Villa, and the Praetorian Guard soldiers, who had never seen this kind of weapon, did not know how to climb over the road, the soldiers in front stopped, but the soldiers behind continued to advance, and soon a large number of soldiers gathered around the barbed wire, and the soldiers in the first position immediately began to shoot.

The soldiers on the frontal battlefield are all militia and iron-blooded troops from Lanting Villa, they all use Type 91 and Type 92 rifles, both of which have an effective range of more than a thousand meters, plus the Praetorian Guards are very densely populated, and they don't need to aim at all, so they can easily eliminate the enemy army eight hundred meters away, even if the militia lacks shooting training, the hit rate is very high.

The Praetorian Guards used the Lanting 1 lever rifle, the biggest problem of this gun is that the effective range is only 400 meters, which is not enough to reach the Chinese soldiers 800 meters away, but despite this, they still put their guns indiscriminately to embolden themselves. Ranks of Praetorian Guard soldiers fell, their morale quickly crumbled, and those who didn't die began to turn around and run back.

Seeing that the barbed wire could not be passed, Xiahou Huan immediately ordered the mortars to come forward to bombard. Xiahou Huan knew that he had no way out, so he simply didn't do anything and commanded the team seriously.

It must be said that as a commander of 150,000 Praetorian Guards, he was by no means an idle person, and he immediately keenly grasped the weakness of the barbed wire. The rate of fire of the mortars was very fast, and although some of the mortars were eliminated by the shelling of the Chinese collar, the dense mortar shells still made several gaps in the barbed wire.

The order to charge was given again, and this time the entire Janissary Second Army rushed forward, rushing through several gaps in the hail of bullets, but soon the front soldiers stepped on the mines.

The mines used by the Chinese Collar now are not the black powder of the past, these mines are filled with colloidal explosives, which are also put into a lot of metal scraps left over from the manufacture of guns in military factories, once detonated, it is definitely a nightmare for the infantry.

After the mine was stepped on, the people who stepped on the mine were directly blown into pieces and flew into the sky, and the people nearby were also hit by the irregular steel scraps that flew out, and those who were hit by the key were also killed immediately.