Chapter 302: Battle of Jiangnan 4
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The excerpt hinted that the fleet was no longer able to support the land division to continue the battle, and hoped that Lord Zhongtang would not hesitate and make a quick decision.
The battle report sent by Nie Shicheng when he was in charge of the lamp was even worse, and after summarizing, the Beiyang departments lost about eight battalions of men.
The scale accounts for about a quarter of the total number of troops brought by Lao Li Tou, which is equivalent to a heavy loss.
This is not counting the beaten green battalion and local armed forces, otherwise the casualty figure will make Lao Li even more frightened.
By the evening of the landing day, 30,000 ground troops had landed from Puxi, including Wang Shizhen's 2nd Infantry Brigade and Cao Kun's 4th Infantry Brigade.
Carpet flat pushing, of course, is Kim Hans powerful. But to clean up those hidden snakes from time to time, it also needs the Chinese indigenous armed forces to sweep away.
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Don't bother, it's getting dark! Company and platoon-level officers kept shouting and urging at the side of the marching procession
If you can't find a dry place to stay before resting, then the entire combat unit will have to be a "toad" again.
The camping equipment of the clan army is very complete, tents, sleeping bags, cooking utensils, food, and drinking water are all standard standards, and the process of making clothes has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
For the troops who went ashore later, the next day really started fighting, and today is just a warm-up.
In order to contain a large number of "short hairs" that were attacking Shangyang City from the south, cut off their support, and curb their long-distance offensive.
The next day, the Qing army gathered about 20 battalions of cavalry infantry from west to east, from Luodian and Guangfu, and organized a counteroffensive of 20,000 men with a small amount of artillery.
The landlord of Luodian will be Liu Shengxiu, the general of the Huai Department, and the six battalions of the Ming Army under the jurisdiction of Pan Wancai and Ma Jinxu, and the ten battalions of the green battalion and the four battalions of the newly formed regiment.
The Qing army around Guangfu was led by Xu Bangdao, assisted by Wei Rucheng and Zhao Huaiye, including the six battalions of the newly formed Gong Guard, the twelve battalions of the green battalion, and the four battalions of the local regiment.
Lao Li Tou was reluctant to let his subordinates attack again, but the war became more and more unfavorable to Beiyang, and the imperial court ordered that he should not abandon Shangyang.
The northern defense line was tightened again and again, and positions were frequently lost in various places, and the Wuyi Army under the command of Nie Shicheng was facing unprecedented defensive pressure.
In this case, if you don't take the initiative to attack and slow down the momentum of the "shorthair" attack, it will probably be a matter of the past two days if you are beaten into the city by the other side.
Moreover, the Beiyang Fleet suffered heavy losses on the first day, and six capital ships were sunk, which was an unprecedented psychological blow to Lao Li Tou.
The already panicked people, coupled with the low morale of the officers and men, seriously affected the follow-up operations and urgently needed to be boosted.
Therefore, whether it is to the imperial court or to Beiyang himself, Lord Zhongtang has to explain everything.
If you can take advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold and defeat that descendant in a short period of time, even if there is only one victory, you can still win the initiative in negotiating peace.
Although several high-level officials in Beiyang have not publicly expressed their intention to discuss peace, everyone has tacitly agreed to it.
This is the best result in front of us, and everyone understands that without the support of foreigners, Beiyang will not last long at all.
For this reason, the senior generals also discussed countermeasures, but everyone believed that it was still difficult to resist the strong surprise of the opponent by blindly defending.
With the help of the two evil weapons, the "Iron Monster" and the "Flying Monster", it is almost impossible to deal with the "Shorthair" head-on.
This is a lesson that took thousands of lives to draw, and considering the situation of the previous battle on the island, Beiyang also quickly made a response.
At present, the only way is to outflank them from the side, cut off their back roads, and strive to make them unable to take care of each other, and then Beiyang will win in chaos.
But during the day on April 2, although the sky was cloudy and full of haze, there was a drizzle in the air, which seemed to be a bit poetic.
"Boom ......" but the pigtails still have to hide in bunkers and continue to endure the incessant bombardment and shelling of the clan army.
Through this battle, they finally saw what it means to be wealthy, and they could hear the sound of explosions every minute.
"When the landing force is all in order, Lao Tzu will let them push it over in one go." This is the established tactic of His Majesty the Clan
Although only 30,000 ground troops were brought this time, as long as there were enough heavy equipment, they could still defeat the Qing army, which was several times their size.
On the first day, the offensive of the Clan army was only aimed at consolidating the beachhead, protecting the landing grounds, expanding the buffer zone.
The official battle will start next, but there is not much left of the surrounding braids that have been bombarded by the artillery troops.
After the exposed firepower of the Qing army was discovered by the Bf-109T, the "Stuka" would follow one after another and take it out in one pot.
Without the fire support of the 75-mm Krupp guns, the pigtails wanted to be anti-tank impossible task.
The "Stuka", which made a sharp roar during the dive, had been named "Vicious Strange Bird" by the Qing army, and everyone was so frightened that they had nightmares at night.
"The deity is here to see when the arrogant old Li Tou will come over for peace talks!" His Majesty watched with relish, with his binoculars, as a string of fireballs rose on the distant horizon
On the battleship "Black Pearl" ("Tirbitz") can guarantee the absolute safety of the commander-in-chief, and with Nina watching by his side, it is impossible for the second-class young man to slip away.
Everything seems to be going well, but the only thing that annoys is the bad weather and the muddy battlefield that has spawned.
Fortunately, in April, the Shangyan area has warmed up, otherwise the soldiers of the clan army would have been frostbitten at night.
"My dear, we have only two brigades of troops on the front, is that enough?" Nina wants to put more pressure on her enemies
If 10,000 people are removed from the auxiliary units, there are only about 7,000 left.
It is not enough to use this person to deal with fifty or sixty thousand pigtails in the south.
Add hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, and the balance of victory will still tilt.
For His Majesty, the motor vehicle can be repaired if it breaks down, and if Jin Hans dies, it will be a direct loss.
Jin Hans was bought with gold, one less died, and there was not much gold in the local tyrant's house.
Mi Ji thought for a moment before saying, "If necessary, transfer two more brigades from the second line, but at least one brigade should be left on the western front to defend the flank." ”
Lao Tzu was on the side of the Three Kingdoms, and he was plagued by the guerrilla tactics of wild boars.
In the late Qing Dynasty, he was exposed to chrysanthemums by the other party again, so how can he embarrass the deity?
Nina suddenly mentioned the results of yesterday afternoon's air raid: "Those Qing Navy friends of yours, I'm afraid ......"
"If they are really my friends, they should not be my enemies! A true friend is one who looks at each other and sticks a knife in both sides, not the other way around. As long as you go to the battlefield, you are the enemy. If the enemy does not surrender, he must be defeated, even destroyed! ”
"It's a pity that the Qing people, even if they are soldiers, don't understand as clearly as you think. They can't recognize their own strength, let alone find their own positioning. The shortcomings of incompetence, blind obedience, arrogance, and following the trend can be reflected in them, and many people have these shortcomings at the same time. ”
"But don't you think that the more shortcomings the enemy has, the better it will be for us?"
"Aren't you about to conquer here? The more shortcomings there are, the more waste they are, and who likes to be all waste under their rule? ”
"My dear, you have to look at this dialectically. The more wasteful, the more incompetent, the more incompetent, the more incapable it is, the more it will not threaten my ruling position! I need a bunch of obedient minions, and I don't need them to be very competent, just obey orders. ”
"But there are still a lot of disobedient guys!"
"They're going to heaven or hell, and they can't stay on earth anymore! Our cannons will send them there for free, won't they? ”
"My dear, as you wish!"
Nina knows this very well, as long as she meets her husband's needs during the day.
In turn, at night, the husband can meet his own needs......
But not tonight, because the two forces commanded by Liu Shengxiu and Xu Bangdao were preparing to attack the position of the clan army at night.
"Whoosh...... Syllable~! "Flares in the night sky illuminate several hectares of land as if it were day
......Seeing a group of enemies running over from the opposite side, the machine gunners instinctively opened fire without the officer's order.
As soon as the gunshots rang out, the nearby counterparts immediately entered the battle mode, and hundreds of deadly fire snakes of various types of machine guns began to harvest the lives of the braids.
I wanted to quietly run to a distance of fifty meters from the other party and shoot again, but now I saved everything, and I couldn't do it without fighting.
The battalion officers held their pistols and shouted to their subordinates: "Rush me!" Kill one, reward 100 taels of silver! ”
Since I didn't see the "short-haired" "ironclad monsters" and "flying monsters" along the way, the braids gradually became bolder.
Everyone held a variety of rifles produced by the Taixi countries, and charged in the mud.
For Qing soldiers, it didn't matter what weapon they were holding in their hands, they had to get close to the enemy first.
The advantage of a night attack is that the clan army cannot provide fire support in order to avoid accidentally injuring their own soldiers.
However, this is not a difficult task for a large number of infantry brigades armed with ghost grenadiers (Type 89) and machine guns.
A large number of mortar shells fell in the braid ranks, which, combined with the rain of machine-gun bullets, formed an invisible barrier.
The situation was exactly the same as the battle of Maling Jianshan, which was the main battle of the Hunan army, and the Qing army, which launched the tactics of crowd warfare, was immediately suppressed by the firepower of the clan army when it reached the effective firing range.
For the battle of Baodao, because the South Sea and the North Ocean, the Hunan and Huai systems have always been at odds, so the generals of the Huai Army know very little about it.
If Chen Xiang, Zuo Xiaotong, and Li Guangjiu were in the trio, even if one person was present, they would definitely not do this.
Even if the clan army does not have the advantage of terrain, with its own strong firepower and the support of tanks and armored vehicles, the position can be as stable as Mount Tai.
"What the hell!" When dozens of flares were lifted into the air at the same time, even the Qing barracks officers felt that something was wrong.
In the light of day, the sneak attack was completely unable to achieve the desired effect.
The effective firing range of the Soviet-made M1930 7.62 mm "Maxim" machine gun can reach more than 1,500 meters.
Measured by buses, it means that all creatures within a three-stop distance can be "taken care of" by it.
It's easy to "catch fire", but it's raining right now, and when it runs out of hundreds of rounds of ammunition before it is flooded, there is not much left of the braid on the other side that can stand.
Just like the lyrics sing: When everyone is shot, abandon all your troubles and swing together~!
Many of the braids did not see the appearance of the enemy, and the bullets pierced the body, and they fell into the muddy water, and they did not blink an eye.
Jin Hans felt that they were fighting scarecrows whose combat effectiveness was close to zero, so they all pulled the trigger and did not stop......
Several 75-mm Krupp cannons brought in from Beiyang fired only five or six shells before they were smashed and "silenced" by something flying from the opposite side.
The two-pounder cannon is not very useful, and once its location is revealed, even the Ghost Grenadier can directly kill the goods.
If everyone is fighting blindly, the clan army has a numerical advantage in technical weapons.
If they can see each other, the clan army has a range advantage.
And there is no need for the army to fire, the naval guns are directly washed on the ground......
"No retreat is allowed, violators will be killed!" Liu Shengxiu looked at this group of guys who were worse than mud, and shouted loudly, but no one listened to him after the defeat was like a mountain.
Thousands of dead people didn't rush down, who would dare to continue playing in the dead pile?
It's just that they didn't think that it would take time to run back.
This time, the number of casualties in the pigtails will have to double~!
On the morning of April 3, after a post-battle count, the clan army killed 1,635 pigtails and captured 3,521 prisoners.
"Let the panting dig a pit, bury all the dead ones, and then carry the injured ones on a stretcher, and you can go!" His Majesty the Patriarch will not raise rice buckets here
Keeping these captives, not only to take care of food, but also to treat them, as an uncle to live, can not contribute any value, isn't this nothing to look for?
Nina saw a large group of pigtailed soldiers with dull eyes and sallow faces, and snorted, "Looks like they have to thank you!" ”
Last night, Liu Shengxiu and Xu Bangdao's two-way sneak attack army was like that at first, but they were stunned by machine guns and grenadiers.
The closer you get to the enemy, the more casualties there are, and under the weight of the rain of bullets, the psychological defenses of the pigtails immediately collapse.
The Green Battalion was originally a rice bucket army with poor discipline, lax training, decadence, and uselessness, and could only hitchhike.
Once they encounter a strong enemy, almost every one of them will be defeated on the whole line, which is even more wasteful than the improvised township brave regimental training.
Their large-scale escape directly led to the chaos of the Qing army's organization, and the attack fell into a state of complete collapse.
The Beiyang Ming Army and the Gong Guard Army that participated in the battle combined were only 12 battalions, less than one-third of the total strength.
“…… Such stubborn people are really hateful to do a great thing to me, and they should be killed according to the law! Xu Bangdao was extremely annoyed by the performance of the green camp
When they reached their own position, they regrouped their men and horses, and found that the twenty-two battalions at the time of the battle were now about ten battalions.
Removing the dead, wounded, and captured in battle, the rest are missing, and it is highly likely that these scum were deliberately lost.
Wei Rucheng, who had mud on his face, pinched his waist and sighed: "Alas, the matter has come to this, how can I explain it to Lord Zhongtang?" ”
The exhausted Zhao Huaiye whispered with sorrow: "...... It's hard! ”
This is also a night attack, and if it is replaced by daytime, it is estimated that there will not even be enough people left around him.
"Shorthair" is well-armed and well-trained, and the "Iron Monster" and "Flying Monster" are invincible.
There are foreign soldiers in the army to help, and if you want to resist its onslaught, the difficulty is comparable to that of the blue sky.