Chapter 70: The Time of Trial
If a knife that has slashed itself appears in front of you, your attention will move with the movement of the knife. The same is true of the army, when there are considerable enemy troops on the flanks, any general will take a look at his flank from time to time.
20,000 militia# moved to the east of the Imperial Army, digging earth to build land acquisition. The Imperial Army felt a great headache. Whether or not to move to the north and solve his own flank first is a question. In the tent, Sun Ze looked at the chattering officers and discussed.
Officer A: "If the threat to our right flank in the northeast is not eliminated, future operations will bring me huge hidden dangers." ”
Officer B retorted: "Solve the hidden danger in the northeast? How to solve it, our whole army is pressing, what if they run? Follow their ass in circles like they did two months ago? The division of troops to solve the problem, not to mention whether the frontal battlefield forces are enough, the red bandit army that eliminated the fourth, eighth, and sixteenth regiments in Bozhou a few days ago is still in the north and may come out at any time. ”
Officer C pointed his finger to the south of the map and said: "After reconnaissance, there are signs of a bandit army numbering no less than 8,000 men on the left flank of our southwest direction. They have signs of what appears to be a breach of the boundaries south of the Huai River. ”
Looking at the noisy arguments of the officers under him, Sun Ze's eyebrows were twisted together. After fighting with this bandit army for such a long time, the biggest feeling that this bandit army gave Sun Ze was that he could run. When the rebels in other places can fight, they are all waiting for the officers and soldiers to exterminate them in one range. Only when it is defeated by the Imperial Army and scattered into wisps will it flow, but at this time, the flow is no longer a climate. It will be quickly extinguished under the guidance of local team exercises.
It's a good thing that it's slippery like a loach from the start. While running, he waited for an opportunity to bite back, cunning with ferocity.
The camera switches to look at the huge fortifications built under the city of Fuyang, 10,000 people have already surrounded the entire Fuyang, and the artillery battle a few days ago suddenly beat the imperial army in the city honestly. Ren Di looked at the position in the distance with a telescope, Fuyang City is the main position where Ren Di's headquarters is located, and the materials transported by local wheelbarrows are gathered here. When Fuyang City was taken, the entire Huaibei Campaign was over. Because the Ming Dynasty's efforts to confine the base area to the mountainous areas of western Anhui will be completely frustrated. There will be a stable base industrial base in the red zone of the Huaibei Plain.
After putting down the binoculars, Ren Di: "If you move, I will accompany you." Position or something, I'm big, let's see who rides whom. ”
When Sun Ze went straight to Fuyang, Ren Di understood that this time the opposite side of the initiative was not easy to refuse, the war was not with tower defense, Ren Di did not gather all the troops together, and used his own military advantage to compete with Sun Ze's firepower advantage in one place. That's the meat # bullet tactic of the book Nogi Noshinori, which is very much in line with bushido, which is called "the path of death" in the orthodox interpretation of bushido in Japan. "It's very forced. But Ren Di had a nonsense in his mind, "the way to die"
The tactic Ren Di is trying is the turtle warfare method in his memory. Although it is still half-baked, it is trying hard, and although the level of this tactic is still far from the level of the three major battles of the Liberation War, it is much better than that of the Red Army before the Long March. And the opponent is not a reactionary army of hundreds of thousands at every turn.
Ren Di knew where to put 10,000 or 20,000 troops would make Sun Ze unhappy. Ren Di's current central position is waiting for Sun Ze to come and attack, as long as Sun Ze comes to fight the front, there will be other militia units on the left and right to pick up the cheap, no matter how elite Sun Ze's imperial army is, it can't still exert its combat effectiveness with its back to the republican army.
However, Ren Di was wrong, the thinking of a general who had been deprived of everything by the ensuing failures could not be guessed by ordinary people. Sun Ze felt aggrieved by this battle, and seemed to want to really fight a sweaty war with Ren Di, an enemy he had never met. Ignoring the outflanking of Ren Di's huge forces on the left and right flanks, he went straight to Ren Di's main defensive position, and the final battle of the Huaibei Campaign began with the roar of artillery fire.
One hundred and fifty cannons roared at Ren Di's position, shrapnel exploded in the sky, and iron eggs the size of grapes were thrown on the ground. Deeply embedded in the earth. The projectile at high speed met resistance and rolled in the dirt. The whole earth was beaten and softened.
All the soldiers were clinging to the bottom of the trenches, withstanding the raging artillery fire. Trenches can defend against most shelling, but a battlefield is a battlefield, and a 1 in 10,000 death rate on the road is an accident. Ten percent of the death rate on the battlefield is a good thing.
Ren Di never thought of asking the militia to resist, but the reality was cruel, and in the time difference when the main field troops were being reorganized, Sun Ze fought desperately. When artillery shells massively fell on the militia positions of Rendi. Ren Di immediately angrily telegraphed to the two troops in the north and south, and finally ordered: "Put your pocket in for Lao Tzu." ”
Sun Ze pressed all the chips up like a red-eyed gambler, and Ren Di, the boss of the village who had the initiative on the battlefield, naturally gave Sun Ze a lot of anger. Since casualties are inevitable, simply leave everything behind. Press it and use your best efforts to eat the hard dishes that have been brought to you.
"A, C, D, 3411 to 4236, this line, one cardinal number, plan four, derivation of five hundred meters" Ren Di Mingrui's eyes looked at the cannonballs flying in the sky. A map of the position of the enemy's artillery roughly came to mind. As the telegram went down, the artillery in the three areas began to fire in unison on Rendi's position, and the artillery swept over like a line, brushing forward on the ground for 500 meters like playing a QR code.
Unlike the types of artillery shells of the Imperial Army, Ren Di used high-explosive shells. These high-explosive shells were originally used to attack Fuyang City's inventory for a year's survival. Now drag it out, in this artillery battle you are shelling back and forth.
The line of fire that crosses the earth pushes everything. This is the scene of artillery bombardment that can only be seen in a general battle. The flames of the explosion swept away the smoke and dust rising from the gunpowder, and even the wind blew clean after the fierce shelling.
Here again a truth was proved, skilled artillery was enough to take advantage. In this battle, Ren Di was 80 conscripts who participated in the battle. These conscripts were all injected by Ren Di's thinking. Its fierce and decisive counterattack caught the Imperial artillery off guard.
From the deviation of the trajectory of the imperial artillery counterattack, Ren Di understood that the training on the opposite side was good, but when the shells could fall on the top of his head, he couldn't help but be anxious, and the parameters were not adjusted in place, so he hurriedly roared the shells out. However, this deviation is the most fatal.
Ren Di's forty artillery pieces pressed the opponent's one hundred artillery pieces. Neither side used corrective balloons, Ren Di purely relied on Superman's eyes to see the trajectory, the shrapnel exploded in the sky, and the flame trajectory of the shotgun was calculated by Ren Di to calculate the approximate range of the enemy. On the opposite side was a hot air balloon that was raised, which was cut off by Ren Di's artillery, and the rope connecting the hot air balloon to the ground was directly blown up, and the peacock flew southeast. Only by abusing vegetables can the hot air balloon be corrected, Ren Di's side is not a dish.
Sun Ze's total number of long-barreled artillery pieces here is two hundred and seventy-six. When he found that his artillery could not suppress the opposite side, he began to mobilize more artillery. However, Sun Ze's newly mobilized artillery participated in the battle, and the artillery that was also ambushed on Ren Di's side also participated in the battle, and it was pointed along the trajectory.
At this time, the difference in the types of bullets between the two sides is reflected, and the iron eggs sprinkled by the shrapnel have a strong lethality against soft targets, and cover a wide area, which can be described as the ultimate weapon in which firearms overwhelm cold weapons. Shrapnel fire over a wide area can suppress a massive cavalry charge. It's a pity that the lethality of the fortification inner step target is weak.
Ren Di's artillery had a steel shield in front of it, and although it was not thick, it was enough to defend against projectiles. On several occasions, the steel bullets of the howitzer shrapnel swept near the Red Republican gun emplacement, and the bouncing iron eggs took the lives of the artillery near the gun emplacement, but did not cause fatal damage to the artillery structure.
Sun Ze's troops came over to suppress bandits, and he didn't expect Ren Di to wait for him with this kind of firepower. From the very beginning, the ammunition was aimed at field anti-personnel personnel, and when he learned that the Red Republican Army had artillery to attack the city wall of Fuyang, Sun Ze was already halfway there. This artillery battle, in which the Imperial Army had an advantage in numbers, and the Red Republican Army, which had an advantage in terms of artillery quality, was fought in this way.
After learning of the heavy losses of artillery, Sun Ze did not send off the thunder, but just sighed. Then he said in a dull voice: "Commando prepare." After speaking, there was a sensation, and a cannonball exploded seventy meters away from Sun Ze's headquarters, and the dust of the artillery fire made a wisp of dust fall on the ground.
On the Red Republican position, a row of gunshots rang out, and dozens of militiamen who were unwilling to enter the forward positions were shot and fell to the ground. These people were frightened by such earth-shattering artillery. In fact, they are not to blame, recruits are always afraid of artillery, especially these recruits, when they see the horrible corpses of the shelled for the first time, the fear in their hearts will always burst out. The blame is that their fear has exceeded the limit. No general will allow the line of fire to have soldiers spread fear. Refusal of orders.
In the trenches, party flags painted with sickles and hammers were hung. One by one, the soldiers with pale faces but gradually determined eyes began to take an oath in front of the flag. "I volunteer to join the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Party, support the party's program, abide by the party's constitution, fulfill the obligations of party members, implement the party's decisions, strictly abide by the party's discipline, keep the party's secrets, be loyal to the party, work actively, fight for the Chinese civilization for life, be ready to sacrifice everything for the party and the people, and never betray the party."
When people are afraid, they need to find sustenance the most, and cults such as childless old mothers often occupy people's hearts when they are desperate. At this time, when the strong force of the imperial army was displayed in front of these peasants, under the might of the imperial army, only ideals and the hope of overthrowing oppression could support the army to continue fighting.
When joining the party, party members are made of special materials. If this is a lie, then the only flaw is the person who spreads it. The one who uttered the lie shouted, "Follow me." This lie is unbreakable, and if the person who utters the lie says "give it to me", then the lie will be exposed in an instant.
Of course, if Ren Di is the terminal of the lie, he is afraid to run away at this time. Then everything is self-defeating. The time of the test has come.