Chapter 81: The Sunset Ends

The battle under the city of Hefei gradually evolved into a hanging fight, the cannon ploughing demonstrated by the Hai Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and the future tactical thinking of the infantry advance guided the development of the army of the Ming Empire for decades, and attached importance to the orders of the army from top to bottom. Communication between officers and soldiers was neglected.

After five hours of fighting, the Red Republican Army became more and more skillful, and one position after another was quickly captured. Charging behind the smoke and flames, cooperating with each other to shoot bullets like a combined harvest, all the Imperial soldiers who came into contact with them felt their loneliness, the loneliness of no one to cooperate, although there were still soldiers around, but they could not order these colleagues to stand up and fight together. Even if you stand up and fight with fire, you will soon be greeted with a grenadier projectile.

The new infantry and new tactics, with a very fast pace, fought the Ming Empire, a modern army, without the power to fight back. Under the combined fire of the Red Republican Army, all the artillery and machine gun soldiers of the Imperial Army could not keep up with the rhythm and fought alone. No matter how strong an individual's combat effectiveness is, when he arrives on the battlefield, he will know what it means to be invincible with two fists and four hands.

This is not a lone wolf-like special forces combat style, but a style of crushing a large corps. This is the only way for local soldiers to outperform conscripted soldiers in the era of colonels, and the conscripted soldiers of officers are also very strong. But the battlefield in the era of firepower is too unpredictable, and the evolutionary officer can inject thinking skills, but not emotion, and the evolutionary officer can grasp the control of one person on the battlefield, but cannot grasp the war situation that all comrades-in-arms may deal with. The combat skills of the recruited officers in the war are standardized by data, but the soldiers you recruit must cooperate with the soldiers of the original plane, but if you want to get to know a person first, you must live face-to-face for three months. Officers simply don't have time to do this, which also shows that the evolution of knowledge and skills on the battlefield, the medal base for the production of weapons are all tools, and it is human beings who master their battles after all.

The retreat, the Imperial army as the defending side of the retreat, these invincible armies in Southeast Asia encountered an unprecedented army on the mainland battlefield. This mercenary army is not a unit with complete aircraft, tanks, battleships, aircraft carriers, nor is it an information-based unit in which electronic equipment has spread to grassroots soldiers in the 21 st century. This Imperial Army is at best at the level of a country# army, and even the #Zhiguo# army is stronger than them.

The originally intact defensive positions were now being beaten like dogs, and the trenches of the Red Republican Army had been completely dug through the trenches of the occupied Imperial Army. By the time the sun was shining, the Red Republican Army, which was almost overshadowed by the charging of artillery explosions and bullet barrage, began to turn around and flee when the trumpet sounded. They are no longer accustomed to this mode of fighting, fighting alone is death, and the junior officers of the Imperial Army are no longer able to control the army, because the command of the junior officers in this afternoon's battle is obvious to all is to command the Imperial Army to send them to death, without any improvement to solve the problem.

"Shoot them for me" Seeing that his carefully constructed defense system was beaten into such a torn situation, his first reaction was impossible, and his second reaction was that his soldiers were too cowardly. Several machine guns were mounted with rattling bullets and fired at the fleeing soldiers. Trying to drive the soldiers back to their positions. But the sky quickly screamed, and dozens of shells dragged the light towards the exposed machine-gun fire.

The fire barrier that held back the rout turned into an exploding crater in an instant, the heavy machine gun was reduced to a spare part state, and the Imperial infantry lying on the ground were hesitating whether to continue into the trench or retreat, and the artillery fire at this time gave them a choice. When people are helpless, they are afraid of the powerful. The machine guns that blocked the fire were blown up, and like the dam collapsed, a large number of Imperial soldiers blindly retreated to the rear.

As the clock ticked into the evening, the moon sprinkled the land with a silvery white glow, yet the glory of the empire had already fallen for hours as the sun set. Under the night generals, the battlefield of the earth is illuminated by the leaping flaming flames, and the light and shadow sway. In the darkness, the retreat of the Imperial army was further expanded, because of the poor communication between the battlefields in other areas in the dark, and they mistakenly thought that they were already alone.

In addition, some mercenary officers have found that the situation is not good and are ready to transfer in, of course these officers who want to transfer in want someone to stay and break the queen, but other mercenaries are not stupid, "The soldiers are in chaos, sir, I will protect you." "The column of the road was withdrawn from the battlefield in this way. The act of desertion is simply not prosecutable.

Shi Tianming watched the battle line under the city advance rapidly, the same opponent last year, different tactics, he suffered two different defeats, Shi Tianming's feelings were mixed. In the past four months, the Third Army was besieged by this army with several times its strength, ran out of ammunition and food, and fought until the last 6,000 men died. However, this defeat caused the Third Army to suffer great criticism.

However, now this legion, which was urgently transferred from the south, is known as the Jungle Tiger, and now it has been beaten alive and beaten into a sick cat. What is the definition of the loss of troops in an army? It is not that part of the troops on the front line has been completely killed, but that the forces on the front line have lost contact with the command, and there is no sense of contact at all. Now the Imperial Army is widely deployed on the position. The connections that the Imperial Army can grasp from the headquarters in the city to the front-line positions are marked on the operational map, and if there is an information connection, it means that the position is still on its side, and at this time, a large area of positions in front of the headquarters has become an information blackscreen, and there is no more information to come, not even the heralds. In a commanding sense, the Imperial Army at the front had lost all its strength. Although Shi Tianming knew, these soldiers did not die at all.

In the dark alleys, there were a large number of soldiers wearing Imperial uniforms, but these people were no longer soldiers, their formations had been broken, and their courage to fight had been punctured. Legend has how fierce and ruthless it was in South Asia, and now on the battlefield, the reputation of being as gorgeous as a bubble in the sun's rays is as hypocritical as a bubble.

Isn't it in the dark corners where gunshots erupt, cursing sounds. and the sound of smashing, snatching, and tearing clothes in clothing stores. The streets are littered with garbage-like Imperial uniforms. This army, known as the Jungle Tiger, has been spiritually wiped out.

However, the chaos was only temporary, "drip, drip、、、, drip, drip, The Qian 2 soldiers, who were hiding in the shadows like ghosts, quickly stopped the chaos and dispersed in unison.

have already given up, including the charter, an hour ago, the charter was already packing, as a mercenary, there is no need to be bound by the royal power, the charter has its own industry in Haisong, when he thought that this war could not be won, this retired officer from Haisong immediately chose to pack his luggage and prepare to escape. Before leaving, the charter issued an invitation to Shi Tianming. However, Shi Tianming refused. Shi Tianming understood that it was impossible for the charter to escape, and the general on the opposite side was a pot of stew as soon as he made a move, and it was better to sit in the command headquarters and represent the dignity of the entire Jungle Tiger Legion than to be captured in disgrace in civilian clothes.

The wooden door was kicked open, and the soldiers of the Red Republican Army rushed in, Shi Tianming straightened his military uniform and said, "I, Shi Tianming, the chief of staff of the Ming Dynasty in the Twelfth Group Army." ”

Camera cuts. The breath of victory of the command of the Red Republican Army, which commanded the deployment of army fire for a day, diluted the fatigue of the day of command, and there was never an atmosphere of white-glove coffee brewing in the command headquarters of the Red Republican Army. Because of the understanding of each soldier, some commanders were to preside over the pacification of the families of the deceased soldiers, so the commanders in the rear of the line of fire had to do their best to cooperate with the demands of the front-line soldiers and achieve victory. War is a death story, and no matter how brilliant a victory is, there is bitterness.

The tick-tock telegram delivered the news of the contribution to the enemy's command post, and the telegram went to Ren Di to take a look, found a familiar name, and said: "Hey, this guy is here again." Li Youran glanced at it and said, "Why are there no general-level officers in the headquarters?" Ren Di said: "Mercenary, if you don't have enough money, you shouldn't be a soldier." A commander next to him asked with a natural face: "Aren't they afraid of military law?" Ren Di said: "This comes back to the question of who to fight for. ”

No one could have imagined that the city defended by a group army stationed in the land of Anhui would be taken down in one day, and the victorious side did not expect it, and the losing side did not expect it. The strongest and most critical city in the entire Anhui is the Ming defense cluster in the Jianghuai region. There are a series of defensive sub-cities around, such as Shucheng and the like. And now there is still an accident in the sub-city, and the main city has been served by the pot. The strategic support of the Ming Empire to defend Huai was abruptly withdrawn.

Now the 50,000-strong Red Republican Army yearns for the unrestrained across the river and in the south, while the army in the north is still slowly moving south. Now it's not about playing real-time strategy games that can give you a change of home. Ren Di's incomparably strong soldiers made the monarchs and ministers of the southern capital of the imperial army sleep restlessly at night. Hai Song's embassy has sent a detachment into the Yangtze River to be ready to evacuate people at any time. Of course, such an ironclad fleet is wandering in the Yangtze River, and Ren Di naturally won't feel uncomfortable. A capital ship of 7,000 tons with a ship of artillery is worth the firepower of half an army division.

The task of the Republican Army now is not to fight an asymmetrical southward battle with its opponent in the southern capital. Before Jingzhou in the west was resolved, it was premature to launch a campaign to cross the river. The first battle in Huaibei forged the army's military soul from immaturity to tenacity, and from this time it was to practice its own set of combat methods. As a science student, I was very skeptical of the triumph of faith. If faith can win, those white lotus, red lotus, Maitreya and the like in ancient times have no life, and I haven't seen them fight the regular army. The victory of the war comes from the logistical support and the mutual trust and cooperation of the soldiers. As well as the commander's keen observation and calm thinking on the battlefield.

The same battle knocked out the strategic courage of the Ming army commander, annihilating an imperial army group army under the nose of the southern capital like lightning, knocking down the big city strongholds between the Jianghuai and Huai one by one like a wind sweeping away leaves, so that the Ming army commander in the southern capital was strategically timid, and they are now thinking about how to guarantee the defense of the southern capital in a limited way, and they are no longer ready to send their limited forces to Jiangbei. These gentlemen of the southern capital are waiting for the army on the northern front to win. A week later, after the troops that had completed the Jianghuai Campaign replenished their strength on the spot, one division was left to expand in the Jianghuai region. The remaining troops went north again by train. The next main battlefield is in Qilu.