Chapter 110: Flag

In the era of firepower, the armies are fighting, and the attacking troops on both sides are like the sword blades of masters, and the sword blades have not yet pierced the heart of the local headquarters, and the victory or defeat cannot be easily judged. A crash can be a split-second thing.

The assault force of the Wu Army in the northeast was like a long fist, with a punch, and the effect was obvious, but when this assault force was detected by the planes of the Republican Army, Ren Di's command quickly adjusted the tactics, and it was better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his palm. Ren Di, Zhang Youhe and others selected the target of this assault force......

Even if you suffer the losses of being assaulted in the early stage, you must leave this attacking force here. The new weapon, the heavy rocket, has been fired. As the password was issued, the rocket launchers on the train were pressed by the soldiers one by one under the order of the commander. At the point where the resistance increases, an electric spark suddenly erupts, igniting the fire #. Waves of air from the rocket launcher swept the side of the train en masse, and a large number of stones were swept five meters away. One rocket after another galloped like ten thousand horses, galloping along the invisible slope staircase in the sky towards thousands of horses in the sky.

More than 700 shells flew into the air in 30 seconds in the flash of fire. Columns of smoke spread out like big tails and remained on the ground. The smoke massively obscured the entire train. After the soldiers of the launchers reported the situation like a command, the commander of the train gave the order to retreat.

When the artillery is finished, it will be withdrawn quickly, and it will be left after loading. That's the last word. The locomotive at the other end of the train began to pull the train back, expecting to reach a safe spot in half an hour. Then continue to reload, waiting for the command of the command for the next attack.

As early as seventy years ago, when Hai Song had just arrived in Daming Qiongzhou, it showed its power, and the effect was to directly eliminate the large sail wooden battleships at that time. This thing is loaded with incendiary # bullets, and the accuracy is much more accurate than that of smoothbore guns, and the firing # medicine uses nitrate sugar seems expensive, but compared to a sail battleship made entirely of high-quality solid wood. It's a lot more cost-effective. Moreover, the cost of making nitrate sugar is much more convenient than that of heavy smoothbore guns made of cast iron.

Ten years later, this weapon was cracked by Europe, and suddenly the European maritime disaster broke out, and the result was a major regression in Europe's large ship technology. The sea has become a world of flying clippers with less payload, especially pirates, after this artifact is in hand, a large ship with dozens of small boats, throwing rockets, and hitting the European Royal Navy. This is the fascinated nitrate shipwreck.

However, with the advent of the era of ironclad ships and rifled guns, rockets faded into the history of naval warfare. The armor-piercing ability of rifled shells, as well as their stability, are much better than those of rockets. However, in land warfare, this kind of expensive ammunition has also faded out of people's eyes, as for the route of Hai Song's navy supplemented by the main army, as long as it has not reached the guidance era, their arsenal is still dominated by artillery. That's why the development routes are different.

The Republican Army, which followed the policy of the Continental Army, needed large-scale firepower projection on land to contain the enemy's offensive, so this weapon was preemptively equipped by the Republican Army in this era.

Today's weather was very fine, and since the morning, the attack has been very smooth, and Martin has operated a mortar, and under the cover of the fire of the rear train guns, he easily occupies the position abandoned by the Republican army, but this Frenchman who has traveled thousands of miles to learn war. Suddenly, I noticed that there was another gradually approaching whistle in the southern sky, and this sound still came from the sky.

He raised his head and saw a strange scene, many points of light from the horizon getting closer and closer,

Seventy or eighty tons of ammunition were thus propelled by solid propellant and scattered across five kilometers. The ceramic bump has turned into a red-hot state, and the spiraling rocket warhead has already gained enough kinetic energy in this propulsion.

When the points of light falling from the sky fell on the earth one after another, the Republican Army's reconnaissance battalion, which was several kilometers away, could feel the shock of the earth shaking. This artillery shelling directly covered a radius of one kilometer. From a distance, the ammunition in the sky is like crackling beans. Then it exploded like a hundred strings of firecrackers lit. The concussions of each explosion were as powerful as the collapse of a giant tower.

This time the range covered by the firepower was already comparable to that of the super-heavy cloudburst bomb. Although there were no mushroom clouds, the smoke rose more than 30 meters into the air, as if the earth was boiling. This coverage just includes the armored train of the Wu Jiajun. And the Wu family army in this area is in an offensive state, and there is no solid cover to protect it. Under the harvest of steel pieces and marbles that fell from the sky, there were heavy casualties.

This kind of firepower projection beyond the times is also a new product. Madan was lucky enough to save his life, and of course after this time, he had a leg amputated and became God's most godly child. As for the scene at that time, the explosion was only a minute, Ma Dan felt that he had come to purgatory, and there was a whipping of flames everywhere, and then there was a sudden silence, the smoke screen covered the sky, and the surroundings were dim, and after the sound of the explosion suddenly disappeared, the ears seemed to be deaf, and there was silence everywhere, or no one survived, or the sound of the cannon just now was too loud, and it suddenly changed to silence. This silence, with the smoke and smell of blood in the air, was a hellish dead silence.

Wu Jiajun's armored train was directly hit by a total of 16 shots. Six heavy rockets penetrated the steel plate directly. It seems that this unimaginable blow is too terrifying. At the rear locomotive, the operator immediately started the boiler and dragged the three cars back quickly, leaving the remaining cars on the ground. However, this frantic retreat spread the terror far and wide.

Wu Jiajun's spiritual totem of sustenance for victory became this miserable, his mood turned into a 180-degree turn, and panic and panic appeared on the requisitioned land. What would it be like for modern people to enter the battlefield and find themselves in the event of a tactical nuclear strike? If there is no reason to stay. So how far can you escape, how far can you escape. What people fear most is the unknown.

This kind of whistling artillery bombardment also exceeds the common sense of the current Imperial Army. The Imperial Army, which had seen the tragic shelling, watched the half-armored train retreat frantically. The panic of the retreat of the inpatient infection appeared.

The attack came quickly, and the retreat was fast. The originally elated offensive imperial army was suddenly infected by defeatism and inexplicable panic. The results of the morning, the attack that Wu Shijie had finally accumulated, the courage of the entire Northeast Wu Army to take the initiative to attack, was a thousand miles away at this time.

The projection of fire also seemed to shake the Republican front-line command, so much so that it was not until a minute later that the command determined that the shelling had begun to receive an excited response from the various commanders on the front.

The trumpet sounded as scheduled, and the advancing team dissipated like frost in the scorching sun under the Republican counterattack. However, the bad situation of the Imperial army did not end, they attacked along the railway line, and the forces were also gathered on the railway line, two hours ago. The Yoyuki artillery train moved forward again. Once again, terrifying fire covered a large area. This time it covered the machine-gun positions that Wu Shijie threatened to make the Republican Army bleed.

As a result, having seen this shelling with their own eyes, this position collapsed directly after the shelling. The Republicans, who had expected to charge after covering the cover of the artillery bombardment, easily rushed into this heavily defended position, without even being stopped by machine-gun bullets.

In the next hour, such fire coverage appeared on the position of the Imperial Army, in the morning it was the Imperial Army attacking, and in the afternoon it was almost the Republican Army chasing the back of the Imperial Army's butt and beating, and any strategy of the Wu Army that wanted to defend on the spot was smashed by an artillery piece, and it collapsed in an instant. More than ninety-five percent of the artillery of any Imperial Army that tried to counterattack was smashed on the ground. The remaining two shells were protected by the heavy iron armor of the armored train, causing damage to a launcher. The armored train quickly fled the battlefield, and after an hour it was loaded with ammunition, and the train drove over to make another round against the positions of the Imperial troops.

The entire three corps of 90,000 Northeast Army were completely wiped out. A large number of soldiers were not killed, but simply fled and then captured. Recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of sentinels. The Wu family's expanded army this time is all croppers. So I can't stand this kind of shrew's sprinkling of artillery.

The consequence of the destruction of these three armies was that there was a huge gap in the strength of the Beiping defensive circle. How could the IRA let go of such a good opportunity. Ren Di's power of a decisive battle made the Republican Army in North China excited. At the same time, it moved. Fighting also began to break out on the Shanhaiguan side. But it seems that the Imperial Army did not have long to resist and began to retreat.

The Republican Army on the high ground of Beijing will fight sooner or later, but I didn't expect Wu Shijie to send it directly to the high ground so simply. After hearing the bad news, Wu Shijie's face suddenly turned red, and he grabbed the herald and confirmed it three times. Then his face was sallow, and he collapsed on the Taishi's chair as if his bones were falling apart. As for Xiao Xuan, his face was pale, and he notified the sea transport unit that the landing operation was canceled.

As for Beiliang, who was still reading Wu Shijie's newspaper for an hour, he suddenly heard the bad news of such a reversal from the telegram. grabbed the newspaper and threw it angrily and said: "I don't have this ability, how dare I make such a rash advance in front of such a strong army and such a clever general." Where do you get your self-confidence? ”

Then Xiao Xuan got Beiliang's inquiry, "Can Beiping hold on" Xiao Xuan looked at the clerks in the room and hurriedly packed up the documents. The appearance of burning materials, sighed and said: "Call back, Beiping may have troops, but there is no longer the will to resist." ”

The Battle of Beiping may be the worst cooperation of the large corps in the battle commanded by Ren Di, because the situation is developing too fast, and the will to fight on the opposite side collapses too quickly, so fast that Ren Di did not react. This force either scattered or simply abandoned its arms and fled all the way north on its legs. An army that is already in defeat can launch a huge attack, but it will definitely not be able to withstand a defeat.

The current situation of the Wu Jiajun is the same as the military situation in history when the tsar abdicated and the bourgeois parliament formed a government. Now you are the last straw that overwhelms the Wu family's rule. After all, Wu Shijie's Wu Jiajun still did not have the ability to prove that he was capable of resisting the Republican Army militarily. When the victory on which the last hope was placed did not arrive. The hearts of the people were scattered all at once.

In time, the Wu family can still raise an army in the northeast. But without the confidence of victory, he entered the battlefield.

The streets of Beiping were quiet on a summer night, and there was no fierce exchange of fire, and the Republican Army entered this thousand-year-old city silently. It seems that the remnants of the city's original forces have drained all their courage to resist.

The Republican Army occupied the key departments of Beiping, the Forbidden City in Beijing, the data room, and already the arsenal. Ren Di stood on the towering Beiping city wall in the night. He said to the guards who followed: "Tell the comrades who have entered the various departments in Beiping that our flags will be raised with the sun this morning." ”