Chapter 40, Cavalry Corps VI
The troops found a mountain bun ten miles outside Qingyang County to set up a formation, so that the soldiers could replenish the physical goods and recover their physical strength. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info At the same time, the equipment was inspected, and the political workers dispersed to carry out the ideological mobilization before the war. Send the army sappers up the hill to cut down suitable wood to make horses. If the cavalry cannot be slowed down, even if it is several times that of the enemy, the defeat and death of the soldiers are only a matter of time.
The age of the appearance of the rejection of the horse is no longer verifiable, and it is very likely that the cavalry appeared soon after the appearance of the horse. Even far earlier than the appearance of cavalry, there may be wars, and the rejection of horses began to appear, at least in the Xia Shang Zhou Dynasty, and the rejection of horses was called "sharp iron" by the Mo family of the Warring States Period. In "Mozi", there is a special article "Prepare for the Moth Fu" on the "sharp iron" tactics: the moth Fu, the enemy soldiers come like moths and ants, at this time, along the way to cloth five lines of sharp fish, three feet between the rows, three feet buried in the roots, and five feet long with a sharp cone, which can block the enemy's advance. In the middle of the Warring States period, the rejection of horses developed into iron spears as the head (later generations called rejection of horse guns), with solid wood as a fixed support, and then fixed six to ten iron spears on the frame, all over the enemy's road so that its cavalry could not gallop.
It's just that if you have to strictly extrapolate, maybe the primitive rejection of horses began to appear when the human tribes appeared. It can be said that the rejection of horses has accompanied almost the entire history of human civilization. In modern warfare, there is still the existence of rejection of horses. Perhaps there will be a long time to accompany human wars in the future. In the wilderness war, after all, the number of rejected horses is limited, so it is rarely used, but the city is fortified, and the rejection of horses is very useful. It is mostly used for defense, and it is rare to rush forward with a horse when attacking.
However, Sun Tzu Youyun: Therefore, the army is impermanent, the water is impermanent, and the one who can win due to the change of the enemy is called a god. There is also Xingyeyun: It is a piece of handpaper, and it has his use. Xia Xinsheng personally stared at the removable horses, several cross forks were prefabricated, the holes that should be punched were laid, the repulsion rifles that should be sharpened were made in advance, and the tenon rivets were made and transported in a carriage. When it's time to use it, a simple splicing is enough. If you have enough time, it will be enough to deal with a big battle with a dozen steel nails, at least you will not be counterattacked by the enemy to attack the starting position. Repeat the rehearsal side. To ensure that five or six people could assemble it within three minutes during the war, Xia Xinsheng relieved the sappers to hurry up the production.
In the meantime, Xia Xinsheng took Zhong Wei to climb to the top of the mountain bun and took a look, and almost didn't recognize it, is this the Northeast Army? If it weren't for that dress, Xia Xinsheng would have thought it was his comrade. Zhong Wei asked in surprise: "When did the Northeast Army become so bloody?" ”
Xia Xinsheng sighed and said: "The rabbit is in a hurry and bites, not to mention that the army of these two horses has always been murderous, and most of the people in China look different, although they are all sons and daughters of China, they have never been united for thousands of years." We're going to have to divide the males and females with them in a while, what a good soldier, it's a pity......"
The big war is imminent, and Xia Xinsheng can't be allowed to think so much. Gathering his mind, he raised his binoculars and looked around, Ma Jiajun was galloping back, sneering, Ma Jiajun's reaction was really slow enough. Turned around and went down the mountain to gather He Zhuguo and the soldiers on the dozen or so armored cars, and spread out the map of Qingyang on the front hood of the armored car, and so on.
The whole army once again pulled up the camp, surrounded the armored cars in the middle, and pushed forward in a strict and orderly manner. The army said that it was slow, and the scattered stragglers from time to time reported the enemy situation within the radius one by one with banners. In less than half an hour, the spread out formation stopped at five miles outside Qingyang City, and the Northeast Army position two or three miles away could already be seen.
Xia Xinsheng asked the Northeast Army flag to be erected high on the roof of the car, and the sappers quickly assembled the base horses to build a starting position. Seeing the reinforcements coming, the northeast defenders were boosted, and the shouts of killing were raised again, Ma Jiajun had already prepared, but the Red Army was in the mountains at that time, and Ma Jiajun, who had suffered a big loss, naturally would not make the same mistake, while stepping up the offensive, on the other hand, two thousand troops were sent to occupy the favorable terrain and monitor the movements of the Red Army.
The Red Star Column came step by step from Kunming, and had already formed its own unique military soul, as the first group of people to follow Xia Xinsheng to shout "Lao Tzu is the first in the world", they have their own arrogance. He didn't look at Ma Jiajun, who was eyeing him, calmly refueled the car, refilled the machine gun on the roof of the car, carried boxes of grenades onto the car, and opened the lid. Tie up a few more explosives packs for the Thunderbolt.
The infantrymen checked each other's straddles, unloaded the obstructive objects in the same way, and tightened the leggings. I was making the final preparations before the station. As Xia Xinsheng pushed away the blocking guards, climbed into the armored car, and let the casual signal soldiers play the flag, the armored car spread out into a huge triangle without a bottom, and the forward troops slowly moved forward in the triangle in twos and threes, without slogans or shouts, and walked forward like a silent movie.
Most of the rear team carried the horses under the command of Zhong Wei, followed behind the striker to protect several infantry guns, mortars and flying thunder cannons, and slowly moved the camp forward. At the end is a heavy machine-gun team mounted on a carriage guarding the flanks and rear. didn't leave a flaw for Ma Jiajun and slowly moved forward. Approaching about 200 meters in front of the dirt slope occupied by the cavalry, and once again stabbing its position, the armored car suddenly slammed the accelerator, spewed black smoke, soared more than 100 meters, and suddenly stopped, and the additional flying thunder cannon removed the canvas covered, and ten explosive packs roared in and exploded in the middle of the enemy formation.
The cavalry of the Ma family army was in chaos, and the horses were so frightened that they were spinning all over the ground, and no matter how the cavalry tightened the reins, they couldn't stop. The armored car was even more unforgiving, half of the car was distributed, the machine guns rattled loudly, and under the cover of the forward infantry of a battalion that arrived later, they drove towards the hillside. The artillery in the middle of the large array was fired at the place where the cavalry gathered, blowing up the opponent's formation a little. In the middle of the formation, the cart was quickly pushed out, and a barrier was placed on the periphery.
Seeing that the distance is about to be eaten away, the possibility of acceleration will be lost if the distance is lost. If you don't make any move, you will be forced to die on this mountain. The cavalry commander did not dare to slack off, whistled, raised his horsewhip and waved it heavily. Swoop down first. The soldiers beside him drew their sabers, smashed the horse's buttocks fiercely, and rushed wildly. Suddenly, the three thousand-strong team was like thunder, rolling up three yellow dragons, divided into three directions and rolling up in the trend of catching the moon, intending to bypass the armored car and go straight to the Chinese army formation of the Red Star Column, giving Xia Xinsheng a salary.