Chapter 162: The Battle Begins

Flames burst out, and white smoke rose everywhere.

For a while, the visibility was very low, and everyone couldn't see the figure on the other side.

But in the Yugoslav armament played steadily. The fire continued, and a group of people turned on their backs, but the cavalry of the Southern Army still followed one after another, and even more than a dozen cavalrymen rushed into the bayonet formation of the Southern Army, and then were pierced by countless bayonets.

About ten minutes later.

There was a sharp whistle, and the sound of horses' hooves gradually subsided.

Then the sound of the fire ceased.

When the smoke cleared, the battlefield was full of human and horse corpses, corpses layer by layer. There are also some horses who stay where they are because their owner has become one of the carcasses on the ground.

Sheng Yong glanced at it, and roughly estimated that there were more than two thousand corpses lying on the ground.

Don't underestimate more than two thousand people.

The cavalry of the First Army was only more than 10,000 horsemen. In addition, in the face of the superior cavalry of the Southern Army before, there were many battle losses. The battle was damaged by more than three people.

In fact, this desperate attack was not ordered to stop by the above. It's that they don't move. I have to admit this fact.

Most of the army, after more than 30 percent casualties, lost the desire to attack. Enter the crash countdown. The kind of fight to the last soldier, many times, is just a slogan, except for the volunteers to resist US aggression and aid Korea, such an army almost does not exist.

It's not that there aren't overseers or anything.

But it is impossible for the Overseer to go against the general trend, otherwise it will be urgent, and it is not impossible to turn back and kill the Overseer.

However, after ten minutes of delay, it was enough.

Sheng Yong could see clearly that the front army and the Chinese army had converged.

The phalanx, which preceded the main formation of the First Army, became a column, and withdrew into the phalanx through the gaps in the phalanx. The First Army became a whole.

At this time, the real battle has just begun.

The advantage that Sheng Yong had managed to make before no longer exists.

Sheng Yong looked at the sun.

The sun was hanging in the middle of the sky, at noon. Both sides have relatively ample time.

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Wu Li was in the middle of the military formation, taking stock of his army, and fighting for a whole morning. In total, it was folded into three or four thousand people.

The most serious was the cavalry, the last assault of the cavalry, which inflicted heavy losses on the cavalry. Under such circumstances, it is estimated that it will take some time to restore the morale of the army. In today's battle, Wu Li is not ready to let the cavalry participate in the battle.

Thirty percent of the loss, it doesn't seem high, but this is not an average of thirty percent, but the overall thirty percent, counting a certain team, it is very likely that no one in the whole team survived. It's also possible that only one or two people survived.

In this case, how much mental pressure is put on the people behind you.

Watching the front ones go to death one by one, they can't bring any casualties to the other party.

This is really not the mental pressure that ordinary people can bear.

They must be given a break.

Wu Li's mind is very simple, the friendly army is more than 30 miles away, even if it is in a battle formation, it cannot be reached within a day, but it can be reached the day after tomorrow.

There are so many of them, holding together and defending themselves, it is impossible for the other party to take it down in one day.

Time is on his side.

Why should he be in a hurry?

Immediately, Wu Li gave an order.

Small squares unfolded. Form layers of horizontal formations. There is a considerable distance between the horizontal team, which is not only the fire channel, but also the path for cavalry or artillery to enter and exit.

Immediately, behind the first horizontal team, thousands of people all took off their firearms, picked up sapper shovels, and began to dig on the spot.

Digging trenches, building fortifications, under the action of sapper shovels, is very fast.

If Sheng Yong was indifferent, Wu Li wouldn't mind building a city in situ.

This is the last thing Sheng Yong wants to see.

But now, I can only eat hard.

Sheng Yong

At the sound of an order, the southern army infantry began to march to the northern army.

Although it is said that it is impossible for Fu Youde to carry out the reform of the Northern Army in the whole army, it is still possible to carry it out in some armies. Today's southern army formation is not much different from that of the northern army, and it is also a three-column horizontal formation.

It's just that in terms of command, Sheng Yong is much harder than Wu Li.

Although Wu Li's staff system is not perfect, Wu Li has at least a professional staff system, and Wu Li only needs to give general orders, so he naturally breaks down Wu Li's orders into specific orders and transmits them to the units below.

Although Sheng Yong also has his own staff group, it is completely different from the professional staff group. Much worse in every way.

However, Sheng Yong's ability to command the Southern Army in an orderly manner shows that Sheng Yong is indeed outstanding.

Moreover, the middle and lower rank officers of the Northern Army were trained. However, the Yugoslav army has not been trained, and many of them have taken office in a hurry. As a result, on the whole, the formation of the southern army was much more chaotic than that of the northern army.

Specifically, when the Southern Army marched one or two hundred paces in a horizontal formation, there must be a pause for the whole team. And if the Northern Army can basically keep its formation unchanged, there will be a little bit of a small problem, which can also be solved while it is on the move.

The armies of both sides are getting closer and closer.

The Northern Army had five infantry guns per 1,000 households, and this time a total of more than 200 guns were brought out. But this cannon is the most heavy. When it was light, a considerable part of it was thrown to the north bank of the floating river.

At this moment, Wu Li only had more than a hundred artillery pieces in his hands.

However, even the power of more than a hundred artillery pieces gathered together is quite impressive.

Although the Southern Army is getting closer.

As soon as Wu Li gave the order, the horizontal formation in front immediately transformed into a phalanx, revealing the artillery position behind.

One artillery cannon opened fire.

Horizontal formations can effectively reduce the lethality of artillery.

For example, it is very likely that a solid shell will hit the gap between the horizontal teams. Even if it was bouncing, it let go of the horizontal team. Of course, this is unlikely. But the average number of people killed per shell is not high.

In particular, the land here is all farmland.

The farmland is not solid. When hit on the ground, many times it can't ricochet.

So, in the face of the artillery on the opposite side, the Southern Army just paused and continued to advance.

More than a hundred artillery pieces, on a front that was several miles wide, also seemed much sparse.

Artillery concentration, this concept has been proposed by He Xi, and Ye Shen also knows it. But alas, the gunners of this year are too bad. Most of the time it is flat. Therefore, when the artillery is fired, no one is allowed in front.

However, in fact, the artillery can raise the muzzle, pass over the crowd in front, and hit directly.

However, no number of gunners can do it.

After all, it is easy for Beijing to produce artillery. It is not easy to train a group of professional gunners. And for artillery concentrated firing, there must be a professional artillery commander who is proficient in mathematics.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to do this.

Because it is not the artillery that is concentrated, but the fire of the artillery. It can be divided into several artillery positions, but to strike at the same place, it is also a concentration of artillery.

But such artillery personnel have not yet been cultivated by Beijing.

Maybe a few people can do it. But alas, it also needs the elite gunners below to cooperate.

When how many gunners are not qualified. This tactic, let's wait for a while.

So, there is what it is today. Although the cannon roared, the marching speed of the southern army did not slow down.

Immediately, the artillery of the Yugoslav army also fired.

The artillery of the Southern Army was arranged on both flanks of the Southern Army, and under the escort of the cavalry, it went to a place one or two miles outside the two corners of the Northern Army's military formation in advance and began to bombard.

In the face of artillery bombardment by the Southern Army.

The sergeants of the Northern Army are also standing.

The artillery of the Southern Army was far less than that of the Northern Army. After the Northern Army departed a part of its artillery to bombard the artillery positions of the Southern Army, the frequency of firing at the artillery positions of the Southern Army was not very fast.

The two sides are getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, all the artillery of the Northern Army was stunned.

All artillery stopped.

Before the Southern Army could react.

A salvo of artillery began.

Nothing else. It's a shrapnel. The steel balls contained in the tin cans are shot into the sky and then sprayed down from the sky.

Each cannon can cover one or two square meters.

Although there are a lot of cannons that are fired above the open ground. But there were still a lot of artillery bombardments on the horizontal line, and in just a moment, there was a lot of emptiness in these columns.

Seeing this, Sheng Yong suddenly tightened his whole body, and he was so depressed that he could barely breathe.

This is the case, he knows. He had expected it for a long time. After all, it's not a secret weapon either. It's just that when you see it with your own eyes, it's still unbearable.