Chapter 188: A Strange Battle
When the Dashiqiao stronghold reported the news of its siege by the Qing army to the command center of the Green Paint District through the radio, Zhao Yi was very surprised, could this be a side effect of the diplomatic note submitted to the Prime Minister through the British? However, Zhao Yi only expressed surprise at the siege of the Qing army. www.biquge.info Diana said in a very relaxed tone on the radio that this time the Qing army gathered about 5,000 to 6,000 troops and surrounded the stronghold that crossed the large stone bridge. The tactics of the Qing army did not change much from the caravan besieged here last time, although the field artillery was brought in this time, but the Qing army could not advance the artillery into its range and was blasted into parts by the traversal mortars and anti-tank missiles, and then the Qing soldiers participating in the siege operation began to shoot at the Dashiqiao stronghold with their guns a kilometer away.
"Oh my God, are they setting off firecrackers to celebrate the Spring Festival in advance? From such a distance, a rifle with a full-powered bullet may not be accurate, so what are they shooting there with this kind of shotgun? Zou Heming teased in a motherly voice.
"That's a gun, not a shotgun! What else can they do, grinding foreign workers? If you can't fight it, and Shangguan don't retreat, then use the gun to make a noise from a distance to fool the people above, if you get too close to us, you won't give people heads. Diana shrugged and said she was surprised by the strange behavior of the Qing army.
"Well, now it's okay, everyone has been delivered to our door, and Mom doesn't have to worry about us not being able to find anyone to beat us at night. This will be the real life of eating, sleeping, and fighting the Qing army, and we may be able to harvest the heads with a shot when we go out. Zou Heming welcomed the Qing army's behavior of besieging but not attacking, anyway, the task given above is to collect people's heads, and this is not also to harvest the heads of Qing soldiers.
Although the Jin Shi family's attack on the crossing was reprimanded by Liu Kunyi, the diplomatic note forwarded by the crossing to the prime minister's national affairs yamen through the British made him rewarded by the Qing court, encouraging him to make persistent efforts to continue to look for fighters, and must eliminate this group of rebels who claimed to be pseudo-Song Dynasty. Both the old witch and Guangxu consciously or unintentionally conveyed such an idea to Wu Dayi, they could lose to the Japanese Yi, but they must not let go of the pseudo-Song.
When the Jinshi family, who was overwhelmed by the night attack of the people, received the commendation order from the Qing court, they suddenly felt that Lafayette and the saint were too clever, and this group of people who regarded themselves as pseudo-Song Dynasty were the henchmen of the Qing Dynasty.
Ignoring the dissuasion of their generals, the Jin Shi family simply dispatched 6,000 men and 10 artillery pieces from the various positions where they were short of manpower, and besieged the stronghold built by the crossing people near the big stone bridge.
At first, these generals who led the troops still relied on the advantage of numbers to attack a few rounds, and from a distance they saw that this stronghold was not large, and it was estimated that there were no more than 500 people in it. In fact, there are only about 200 people in the Dashiqiao stronghold, most of whom are still recruits of the security army, but because of the large number of Russian-made field tents provided by the "director team" in D+45, the barracks in the Dashiqiao stronghold are spacious enough, and according to the standards of the Qing army, it looks like a camp that can accommodate more than 500 people.
Due to the firepower network built by the crossing crowd with light and heavy machine guns, the Qing army's several rounds of attacks had nothing else to gain except for the corpses that were left on the ground, and the Qing generals found that the attacking soldiers did not even see the appearance of the other side clearly, and the people were almost dead. As for the ten guns that were brought to attack the fortifications, they were all tears, and those infantry could still fire at least two shots, and these guns were dismantled into parts by the opponent with an inexplicable attack before they could be pushed to the gun position.
The kind of tail that breathes fire, looks like the kind of fireworks and rockets set off during the Spring Festival, and can kill a whole person if it rushes headlong. Even more bizarre shells with no fire and a strange whistling sound are even more unguardable, and even hiding behind cover will be blown to pieces. These generals felt that this siege war launched by the ignorant commander was not so much that the Qing army was besieging the stronghold of the puppet Song Dynasty, but that the puppet Song army treated the Qing army as a captive lamb and killed whenever they wanted.
The Qing army was trapped around the stronghold of Dashiqiao by Wu Dayi's orders, and the traversers had no intention of breaking through or completely defeating them. More often than not, the people in the Dashiqiao stronghold were teasing the Qing troops surrounding them, and they would shell or snipe the surrounding Qing troops from time to time. It may be before breakfast, it may be during the lunch break, or it may be getting up in the middle of the night to pee and see someone on the opposite side warming up and improvise a long-range sniper.
In short, the purpose of this kind of flirtation is more like a reminder to both sides that this is the front line, and there is fighting here, rather than how many Qing casualties were caused by shooting or shelling. Of course, this is not because the archery skills of the people in the Dashiqiao stronghold have regressed, nor is it because the Spring Festival is approaching, and the people who have crossed the country have shown mercy, but the reason for this situation is that the order issued by the Provisional Executive Committee has turned this place into another "Kinmen artillery battle".
Recently, the Foot Basin Chicken has been asking the eldest lady at the negotiating table when the Crossing Crowd will be able to complete their retaliatory strike against the Qing army and withdraw their garrison at Dashiqiao. Miss Fox, a little expert in the pit day, spread her hands and said, not to mention any retaliatory strike, our people were besieged by the Qing army at Dashiqiao, where is there room for retaliatory strikes. Fall back? Let's wait until the Qing army withdraws from the team headquarters besieging us.
Daji Anchun doesn't even believe in a punctuation mark in MissFox's words, and those turtle soldiers of the Qing army are also worthy of surrounding you? Can you type a draft first when you lie, are you blind to us, is this called encirclement? The gap between the positions of the Qing army was wide enough for ten cruisers to pass side by side, you call this a blockade!? You can't be too shameless.
But the eldest lady said that the battle was going on every day, and our men were putting up a hard resistance at the big stone bridge. Perhaps after the Spring Festival, the Great Song Council will send reinforcements to rescue the troops besieged in the stronghold of Dashiqiao, and then we will talk about the withdrawal of Dashiqiao.
As a result, Lou Chenggong of this conversation was led crooked by the eldest lady, and the footbasin chicken focused on the eldest lady's words that the Great Song Council would increase troops after the Spring Festival. The footpot chicken is starting to burn his brain again, and he has increased his troops? How many more troops will be added? Will there be the arrival of the ships of the Great Song Navy? Is the purpose of their troop build-up against the Qing army, or against us, or at Tsarist Russia?
In short, when the crossers of the Great Stone Bridge were no longer aimed at the surrounding Qing troops, the Qing troops there had a tacit understanding of releasing their guns into the air, in fact, even at the beginning of the battle, when they wanted to capture the stronghold of the Great Stone Bridge, they also released their guns into the air, it was not a matter of attitude, it was a technical problem.
In the end, the gap in the Qing army's defense area was so large that the people in the vicinity began to sell things to the Dashiqiao stronghold. The artillery and shooting of the people through the crowd also began to be regular and punctual, and there was a fuss on time before three meals every day, and the Qing army would not suffer casualties as long as they grasped the time to hide.
In the end, the Qing generals who were confronting the foot basin chicken all found out about this cat and asked for reinforcements of the Qing army in Dashiqiao. Everyone knows that the Japanese don't dare to approach the big stone bridge, and the pseudo-Song Dynasty doesn't move the real thing, this is a good place to save your life. Only Wu Dayi, a small platinum stone family in military affairs, was kept in the dark alone.