Chapter 270: The Battle of the Villa (4)

The soldiers of the city guard did not look back, they did not know that the Praetorian Guards who were pressing behind them were far away from them, they just braved the rain of bullets, howling and desperately charging forward.

Soon they entered a minefield within a range of 600 meters, and were scattered and scattered by the sound of the mine, but the soldiers of the city guard did not dare to retreat, they still charged forward, and when they crossed the minefield, they jumped into the deep ditch without hesitation.

It's not that they are heroic enough, but most of them think that they can dodge the enemy's fire in the deep ditch, and there are many wounded soldiers in the garrison camp from yesterday, which should have been turned into corpses by now, just to protect them from stepping on the hidden weapon inside.

The soldiers of the city guard originally wanted to hide in the pit, but unfortunately they were wrong, the wounded soldiers of the garrison had already been rescued by Fang Xiaoyu, and the four-corner nails were also reinstalled inside. The city guard soldiers who jumped down first hit the ground hard, and the sharp screams of the corners of the nails buried in the shallow earth immediately pierced the soles of their shoes. With a scream, the instep of their foot pierced the four corners of the spike. The wounded soldiers threw away their guns and wailed with their feet, but the soldiers did not hesitate to step on them, causing them to fall directly to the ground, stabbed all over the body by the four corner nails.

After the sacrifice of the first soldiers, more and more people jumped into deep ditches, which seemed to them to be safe, at least without thinking about the threat of bullets and mines, but unfortunately they were wrong again.

"Grenades." Liu Mingzhao's order was immediately issued, and all the fighters pulled out their grenades, opened the safety and threw them into the deep ditch. Those City Guard soldiers thought they could take a break here, but suddenly found countless smoking iron bumps falling under their feet.

They had seen yesterday's battle, and naturally they knew what this iron lump was, and everyone began to wail and climb up the road. It's a pity that although the deep ditch was dug hastily and not deep enough, it was not something that a person could climb up, and they couldn't come up at all unless they took a human ladder, but who would want to go down as a human ladder to save others and face the smoking grenades themselves.

Therefore, everyone only cared about climbing up to the ground, and no one cooperated at all, and the result was that no one was afraid to go up, and everyone could only face the ensuing explosion together. The explosions of grenades rang out one after another, and the severed limbs and stumps of the soldiers of the city guards in the deep ditch flew wildly, being thrown out in the explosive flames like festive fireworks, and splashed in all directions.

Liu Mingzhao suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, because the huge power of the grenade was too great, and most of the deep ditch was blown up, and the original position of the deep ditch became a depression, although there was still a slope, but it could pass people. But now is not the time to regret it, Liu Mingzhao gave an order, and everyone, including Chen Junhe, the commander of the Second Guards, picked up their rifles and rushed out.

The city guards who had not yet jumped into the deep ditch were stunned by the huge explosion, and looked blankly at the depression where their companions were buried, not knowing what to do, at this moment, the Chinese leader with rifles and the Tubo County coalition troops rushed up, and the bright bayonets poked in front of them, and they came to their senses, but it was too late, and they were quickly slaughtered by surprise.

"Go back to the position and hide immediately." There was no time to cheer, Liu Mingzhao immediately ordered loudly, and the other officers also reacted after Liu Mingzhao gave the order, and under the shouts of the officers, everyone jumped back into the position when they heard the order.

Liu Mingzhao had quite a lot of experience in actual combat, and as soon as everyone returned to the position, the retaliatory artillery bombardment of the Xiahou army fell on the battlefield just now, and the Chinese artillerymen quickly began to counterattack and destroyed several more cannons.

The death of the city guards did not make Xiahou Huan feel a little unbearable, in his mind, only his own descendants are the most important, like those people in the city guards, they will die when they die, and it will not make a trace of waves in his mood at all.

In order to save ammunition, after the rebel artillery stopped firing back, the Chinese artillery also stopped shelling. Now that most of the mines have been swept away and the deep ditch has been filled, Xiahou Huan is very confident in this charge, and he immediately sent the First Army and the Third Army of the Praetorian Guards, which had just been shelled and suffered little losses. This time, the Praetorian Guards learned to be obedient, not only did they stretch the formation very wide, but also the front and back waves were tighter.

Eight hundred meters away, the soldiers of the Chinese side began to block and shoot. Since both the Second Guards Division and the Wild Leopard Regiment were selected elites by thousands, their marksmanship was very accurate, and under the fire one by one, the Praetorian Guard soldiers were put down one by one, and blood quickly soaked the ground.

After all, there were too many enemies, and the defenders of less than 20,000 were charged by nearly 100,000 Praetorian Guards, and the defenders who were not heavily armed still allowed the opponent to approach the position step by step.

"Grenades." Liu Mingzhao again had the soldiers throw grenades. In the midst of an explosion, the soldiers of the Chinese Collar and the Tubo County Coalition Army rushed forward again with their bayonet rifles.

Unlike the Leopard Regiment, these soldiers of the 2nd Guards Division, who were accustomed to the Lanting Type 1 rifle, were not used to the long bayonets on the Type 92 rifles, and most of them threw their rifles in the trenches, and when they rushed out of the trenches, each of them had a thick-backed machete in their hands.

As it turned out, these machetes absolutely worked. The soldiers of the Praetorian Guard also did not have bayonets, although they also carried waist knives, but the waist knives were very light and thin, and they could not withstand the attacks of thick-backed broadswords, and they often had their swords cut in half.

"Artillery fire." Xiahou Huan looked at the hand-to-hand combat that was going on on the opposite side with red eyes, although the Third Army also rushed forward, making the battle slightly different, but the Praetorian Guard was still gradually retreating.

"My lord, there are a lot of our own people there." The adjutant reminded from the side.

Xiahou Huan, who was already red-eyed, gritted his teeth and said: "As long as I can destroy the Chinese army, I will endure the losses and give me a bang." ”

The small-caliber artillery soon began to attack, and when the shells flew, all the soldiers who were fighting stopped, and they looked into the air in amazement, at the flying shells.

'Boom', the shells accurately fell into the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, blowing up the soldiers on both sides, but the soldiers of the Chinese collar reacted quickly, most of them rolled on the spot and rolled back to the position, and only a few were shelled. It is a pity that the soldiers, who had neither trench protection nor the order to retreat, had to lie on the ground, cover their ears with their hands, and resign themselves to fate.

Seeing that the opposing soldiers were hiding in the trenches, Xiahou Huan immediately ordered to stop the shelling, but for fear of being affected by the pond fish when the opponent's artillery retaliated, the artillery position in Xiahou Huan's command post was far away, and when his order reached the artillery position, three rounds of artillery bombardment passed. The Praetorian Guards, who were on the ground, were killed by their own artillery, and when they heard the sound of the artillery stopping, they immediately broke and fled.

Although the Chinese soldiers retreated into the bunker at the first time, thousands of people were still killed, which made Chen Junhe feel distressed, these are all old brothers who have followed him for many years.

The large number of casualties of the Praetorian Guards forced Xiahou Huan to stop and reorganize the remnants of the army, and there was a rare silence on the battlefield. Taking advantage of this time, the Chinese leader seized the time to distribute new bullets and grenades and replenish them to everyone.

Liu Mingzhao personally came to see Fang Xiaoyu and Wang Xuan, who had been in the rear. "Young master, we won't be able to last a few days if we continue to fight like this, so it's better to rush out of the city and fight like in Ulan City." Liu Mingzhao analyzed the current situation for the two.

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "It should indeed be so, but who should be sent?" ”

Liu Mingzhao said: "Let the Wild Leopard Regiment attack, they move quickly and have strong firepower, if you use the No. 2 special train again, the harvest will definitely be great." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "If the Crazy Leopard Regiment and the No. 2 special train attack together will weaken the frontal firepower, and without heavy artillery to suppress the enemy, they can open fire unscrupulously, it is very dangerous." ”

Wang Xuan said: "It's okay, pull up my first division of the personal guard to resist it, I think I should be able to hold on until the Crazy Leopard Regiment makes a move." ”

Qi Feng, the commander of the Wild Leopard Regiment, was very excited after receiving the task, and he immediately began to prepare. Before leaving, Qi Feng said to Fang Xiaoyu that the heavy artillery of this sortie would not be of much use, and they could be moved off the train and used as suppressive artillery in the villa.

At Qi Feng's request, Fang Xiaoyu agreed to his request, moved all the heavy artillery down, opened the exits on both sides of the vacated carriage, piled up thick sandbag bunkers, and turned them into machine gun fortifications.

After withstanding the rebels' two attacks again, the Leopards completed their preparations for departure, and they immediately began to move. A long whistle sounded, and the No. 2 train started slowly, and soon drove out of the villa from the other direction along the railway line.

Xiahou Huan was already a little crazy, there were not many city guards left, the Praetorian Guard and the garrison had almost lost half of their men and horses, and the huge losses overwhelmed him, and he had decided to put all his remaining troops into battle in a desperate gamble.

"All charge." Xia Hou Huan gave an order, and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard and the garrison all picked up their rifles and began to charge, and even Xia Hou Huan rushed up behind the charging team.

The Janissaries artillery began to fire at a rapid rate, regardless of losses, but the unscrupulous shelling did not last long, and they were quickly wiped out by the 105-mm howitzers of the Chinese Collar.

The mines had been depleted in the previous attacks, the deep ditches had been blown up, the barbed wire had been destroyed as early as yesterday, and in the face of the hordes of rebel soldiers, the two divisions of the defending Tubo County had to fight hard.

Fang Xiaoyu, who saw the other party pouring out in the binoculars, immediately ordered the militia who were resting to also go up to support the battle of the two guard divisions.

It was a head-on confrontation with all the strength of both sides, and it seemed that the soldiers on both sides knew that this was a battle that would decide the fate of both sides, so they both showed extraordinary bravery.