Chapter 450: Can't Be Demolished (1/3)
Shout! With a sharp howl in his ears, Li Ershun hurriedly dropped the half pocket of millet in his hand and threw himself on the ground, although this half pocket of millet was the ration of their sentinel for three days, although lying down in the mud and snow in this dog-gnawing posture would wet his clothes, but he had no choice to survive.
Li Ershun, who learned hunting skills from his father since he was a child, was very powerful, and a month after being pulled down to the Yantai front line by Li Ershun, the governor of Shandong, he was already able to judge the approximate location of the "divine thunder from heaven" of the Great Song Dynasty people through this kind of long howl that made the regiment brave and frightened. With this ancestral magic skill, Li Ershun still kept the parts on his body intact after a month of wandering in Yantai. This is already a remarkable achievement for a man who has changed troops a few times in the whole outpost.
Throwing that half pocket of millet in the muddy snow water will attract abuse from the whistle pipe that eats the mud and sand, and lying on the muddy ground will make him soak wet and cause him to be unable to sleep at night, but all this is worth it compared to the blur of flesh and blood caused by the close detonation of a "heavenly thunder" by his side.
How terrifying is this kind of "Heavenly Divine Thunder" launched by the Great Song people, you can barely let Li Ershun's sentinel live for three days through that half pocket of millet. Although the Manchu army had always had a tradition of eating empty salaries, no matter how bold the Manchu patrol battalion officers were, they did not dare to compress their own establishment to the point that half a pocket of millet could feed a sentry for three days for the sake of money. The reason why Li Ershun, a sentinel horse, was in such a situation was because of the "rout but not dispersal" strategy implemented by Li Bingheng, the governor of Shandong of the Qing Dynasty.
Let the brave soldiers of the Shandong patrol battalion fight against the local elite of the "pseudo-Song Dynasty", the end must be self-evident, even the elite soldiers of the old Maozi of the Japanese will not be unable to go for a round in the head-to-head duel with them, and Li Bingheng will bring the trouble brought by these rabble to the "pseudo-Song" soldiers and horses who landed in Yantai after the First Sino-Japanese War, and it is estimated that even the intensity of people's daily exercises cannot be compared.
Defeated at the first blow, or even fled when he heard the wind, this is the "wonderful" performance of Li Bingheng's patrol battalion and the brave battle against the crossing crowd in the past month or so. Of course, as Li Bingheng, who had a mess in the First Sino-Japanese War like Wu Dashi of the Jinshi family, he was at least a few grades higher than the Jinshi family in terms of ability. As an official who presided over military affairs in Guangxi during the Sino-French War, Li Bingheng still had a little bit of expectation, and he was able to let his regiment Yong surround Yantai without mutiny, which is not something ordinary people can do.
Yingkou outside the gate has fallen into the hands of the "pseudo-Song Dynasty", if this Yantai Weihai is lost again, then the Qing Dynasty court, which Li Bingheng is loyal to, may not be far from collapse. After entering the end of the 19th century, the original transportation artery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Cao Yun system, could no longer work normally. The capital is basically maintained by sea, and taxes and rice grains are transported to Tianjin Wei by sea and then transferred to the capital. The situation of the "pseudo-Song Dynasty" controlling the Liaodong Peninsula may not be changed by the imperial court in the short term, and if Weihaiwei is lost again at this time, the capital will have to face the dilemma that not a grain of rice or copper plate can enter the Bohai Sea.
At that time, the imperial court had to rely on the canals that had been silted up for many years to transport taxed rice and grain, and by that time, there would be almost no capital to compete with the "pseudo-Song" outside the Guan. For this reason, even if Li Bingheng faced the dilemma of his soldiers and horses being defeated by the enemy, he could only continue to collect the defeated troops and continue to "besiege" the "pseudo-Song" soldiers and horses who landed in Yantai.
Fortunately, for some reason, the soldiers and horses of the "pseudo-Song Dynasty" were only entrenched in the coastal areas and did not go deep inland, so Li Bingheng had room for maneuver and adhered to the battle plan of "revolving but not dispersing."
Boom, at the moment when Li Ershun lay down, the "Heavenly Divine Thunder" launched by the Great Song Dynasty exploded. From the screams coming from around, Li Ershun judged that at least three unlucky people had been tricked, well, I'm afraid that today's dinner will be eaten a few miles away in the inland direction. Although tomorrow will still be driven to the beach by those full soldiers on horseback, but tonight at least there is no need to worry about the sneak attack of the Great Song people, and you can sleep peacefully, Li Ershun thought to himself.
The situation was the same as Li Ershun expected, after being bombarded by the "divine thunder from the sky" of the Great Song people, the sentry officer of the Qing army's patrol battalion quickly shouted for his men to flee inland. Li Ershun got up and dragged the half pocket of millet and ran away, not even caring about the muddy and water-soaked Lianfa gun.
The gun is really not important to Li Ershun, whether it is to raise a gun or to shoot a fast gun in a war with the Great Song Dynasty, the effect is just to listen to the sound. They have been replenished three times with soldiers at this outpost, but they have never been full of men and horses since the start of the war, and they often retreat without seeing the appearance of the Great Song people, so what is the use of asking for guns? Unless it is a mutiny with the muzzle of the gun, these fast guns and raised guns are useless in the face of those cannons of the Great Song people!
Regarding the situation of confronting the rabble under Li Bingheng in Yantai for a month, Zhao Yi was also helpless. At first, according to Hao Dajian's suggestion, the Provisional Executive Committee sent a maintenance team and large equipment to Yantai, intending to dismantle the malfunctioning "Osprey II" and transport it back to the green paint area.
However, this aircraft with the lowest failure rate in the Eagle Sauce Marun War, although it looks solid, it is very finely workmanlike, and the difficulty of disassembling it is simply incomparable to those Maozi helicopters that can easily unload eight pieces.
After seeing the real thing, the rough embryos of the maintenance team found that they were not sure that they would disassemble the body without causing irreparable damage to the "Osprey II". All they can do is dismantle some of the equipment on the "Osprey II" to reduce its weight, but they still can't dismantle large parts such as the rotor wing to change its overall mechanism, which has achieved the purpose of batch transportation.
What should I do if I can't dismantle it, I can't learn the eagle sauce and fry it directly, and finally I came up with a "stupid" solution. A trestle was erected to transport the Osprey II to a mobile platform made up of several tugboats, and then the Osprey 2 was transported to the BB63's tarmac with a crane on the BB63 and back to the green paint area.
However, it takes time to build the trestle and assemble the tugboat moving platform, and the traversers have to play a game of tug-of-war with the ragtag army under Li Bingheng. In order to prevent the Qing army from carrying out a surprise attack by a sea of people, the crossing people successively sent reinforcements to the Yantai area, including two Hans's "Weasel" airborne infantry chariots.
The trestle bridges, the ever-increasing number of troops and equipment, in the eyes of the Manchurians and the great powers, were all signals that the crossing was about to attack the Shandong Peninsula. Although Huang Xiaolei has repeatedly told other countries that the military operation of the Great Song Empire in the Yantai area is to bring back the malfunctioning plane, even Miss Litigator herself has helplessly shaken her head at this statement in private.
Which large-scale war of the end of the nineteenth century was not provoked under one pretext or another? The devil believes that you even sent out a giant battleship to bring back a malfunctioning plane!
Even Hans, who had the closest ties to the Crossing Empire, expressed support for the Song Empire's military operations on the Shandong Peninsula, and the German Foreign Minister even said that in order to consolidate the cooperative relationship with the Song Empire, the German Empire could abandon its interests on the Shandong Peninsula.
Hans was also an unprofitable and early riser, and now the Great Song people were not only able to provide them with technical support in armaments, but their expansion in the Far East could also contain the power of Britain, France, and Russia, the three European military powers, for Germany and Germany. Giving up a mere imaginary sphere of influence is nothing compared to these interests.
Once the Great Song people's military operations on the Shandong Peninsula angered the British, it was very likely that a fierce military conflict would occur between the British and Song Empires, and the German Empire would even be able to form a military alliance with the Great Song Empire. Although this possibility is not large, there is a slight possibility, and it is certainly cost-effective to give up the claim to the Shandong Peninsula! The stereotypical Hans is not ambiguous at all!