Chapter 1065: The Beginning of a Naval Battle
The horse's hooves trampled swiftly on the muddy mountain road, and a dull sound of horses' hooves made the earth quickly retreat at the knight's feet.
The rain became heavier and heavier, and it hit the knights of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment on their heads.
A great deal of rain poured down their heads, faces, and necks, into their collars; In the blink of an eye, there is no trace of dryness inside and outside the body.
As soon as the cold wind blew, goosebumps rose.
It's just that for Yu Hanfeng, he doesn't feel cold at all at this moment.
Because after he issued the order of the 'whole army assault', together with the two teammates of Fenghuahui and Hanjiang, who rushed back to report the news with light skills.
Immediately, with more than 1,800 soldiers of the Second Cavalry Regiment under his command, he began to charge against the little devils who were miles away.
At this moment, the heart of this product is full of indescribable heat.
Special! With so many people in their Xuange Battalion team, they have been preparing for more than a year.
If you count the previous two warm-up system tasks, then the time for all kinds of preparation is even longer, and God knows how much suffering and how many sins have been suffered.
Isn't such a long and difficult preparation for the purpose of killing these little devils in the first year of the First Sino-Japanese War?
And now, it's finally time to get your hands dirty.
Thinking of this, an indescribable sense of pleasure made Yu Hanfeng feel like he was burning; Cold? It's not a little cold.
With such an excited mood, not long after a while, the little devils of the Yuanshan detachment, which had a total of seven or eight hundred, appeared in front of Yu Hanfeng and others.
These little devils rushed down from the sniper position on the hill with bayonets.
Facing the little beast in front of them, who only knew how to flee for their lives and didn't know how to resist at all, they thought that they had won and that they were going to create a world-class martial arts.
Even the fatigue of fighting and running for a long time seemed to be gone at this moment.
It is a pity that they are the generals who rushed off the position, stabbed dozens of legs with bayonets and were so frightened that they had no time to flee.
The sound of horses' hooves was heard in their ears, and they approached them quickly from behind.
The cavalry that appeared from that direction would naturally not be their allies; So these little devils were in a panic, and they no longer bothered to chase and kill those green soldiers.
Under the orders of the detachment Nagayama Daisa, they all turned around.
Loading the rifle in his hand, ready to block these cavalrymen who appeared out of nowhere.
It was only the infantry who used single-shot rifles, they did not have heavy machine guns as the core firepower, and they did not have a tight position and formation; Trying to resist the charge of superior cavalry was destined to be a joke.
The situation in the subsequent battles was indeed the same.
When the distance between the two sides was about 100 meters at most, both sides pulled the trigger of their rifles one after another.
Because the heavy rain blocked everyone's sight, coupled with the speed of the war horse when charging at high speed, although this round of rifle fire was very lively, the casualties caused were not large.
Only one or two dozen people were hit on both sides, and fewer than single digits were killed.
But then the situation was completely different.
The little devils who were using single-shot rifles were still pulling the bolt of the Murata Type 13 or Type 18 in their hands before exiting a bullet case.
A new bullet came out of the bullet box on his waist and was too late to be loaded into the chamber.
The group of cavalry that rushed to the front had already entered a distance of about fifty meters in front of them.
These people, however, did not continue to pull the bolt of the MAS36 to load and fire the bullets; Instead, he quickly picked up his rifle and pulled out a revolver from his waist.
Pull the trigger and fire with a 'pop, pop~'.
Call out the six bullets in the nest in the shortest possible time.
Even if a revolver is a weapon that fires at this distance, the accuracy and lethality are a little unsatisfactory, but it can't stand the number of bullets that come over in a short period of time.
In the blink of an eye, almost all of the little devils at the front were knocked to the ground.
Several people were shot several times and were also killed instantly.
After seeing such a scene, Toyama Daisa, who was a little behind, waved the family heirloom katana in his hand and shouted frantically:
"Don't reload, stab them with a bayonet~"
Under such an order, the remaining little devils threw away the bullets in their hands and made a gesture of preparing to assassinate with their rifles.
It's just that they soon learned that such a coping method is also useless.
Because after running out of bullets from the revolver in their hands, the cavalry let go of the revolvers in their hands; This thing has a thin string attached to the butt and holster, so you don't have to worry about losing it.
The next second later, Qi Brush pulled out the Snow Maple Knife on his waist.
And then, the saber slashed at the heads of the little devils?
Of course not, you must know that the Xuefeng knife is a new type of saber designed by the four masters in the next few decades, which is more suitable for flower growers.
Although it may seem, it looks a little weird.
However, it has the advantages of lightness and agility, long blade, light and thin back, and extremely sharp, but the cavalry of the little devils at that time has changed to the point of smelling it.
So when Yu Hanfeng and the others rushed towards these devils.
Relying on the speed of the horse, after dodging the assassination of the devil, the Xue Feng knife, which was dragged diagonally on the side, just slashed over the little devil's body, and there was no need to slash at all.
But after the contact of the electric light and stone fire, those little devils were horrified to find out.
In his chest and abdomen, a long, deep and terrifying wound appeared; Amazing blood gushed out, and it was impossible to cover it with your hands.
In this way, the little devils were quickly put down as if they were being mowed.
Although some cavalry were stabbed with bayonets, the casualties were almost negligible.
When the people who rode a regiment charged down, only the one-armed Aoyama Dazuo was left in place, and he remained in place with two or three hundred people, almost all of them bloodied and with fear and despair on their faces.
It is said that at this time, as long as you shout 'surrender the gun and don't kill', it is estimated that these devils will surrender immediately.
The problem is that Yu Hanfeng and the other three finally encountered an opportunity to cut devils, where are they willing to start and end.
Under their command, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment turned around, and the rear team was replaced by the front team.
After another charge, there was no more devil on the ground to stand; The ground is full of devils who have been cut into blood gourds, and have lost their breath, or are about to die......
Subsequently, when others were cleaning up the battlefield.
The main thing is that no matter whether the devil is dead or not, when he makes up for it.
Yu Hanfeng, Hanjiang, Fenghuahui, and a group of three people, under the escort of the guard company, walked towards the position outside Lixu, and the defeated soldiers of Daqing.
Since the cavalry came out and the little devils turned their heads to fight, they just stopped fleeing.
After all, the little devil in the back doesn't know when he will kill him, and running back is also a death.
And now that the three of them have passed, it is precisely necessary to gather these routs and prepare for some follow-up plans; But I never thought that I walked out a hundred and ten meters away.
A green soldier who had been stabbed to death on the side of the road suddenly moved.
To be more precise, it was a bloody man covered in blood below, who pushed away a corpse that was pressed on his body, got up and staggered towards this side.
While rushing deep and shallow, he shouted in his mouth:
"Shopkeeper Zhou, shopkeeper Zhou, I'm Ye Zhichao; Today, I want to thank your brothers for saving me and Sheng Jun.
Thank you for your kindness, you two can rest assured that you will be Ye's brother in the future; As long as you can go back alive, I will protect the business of the two of you and make it bigger than that Hu Xueyan.
Hey, why are these brothers so strangely dressed? ”
It turned out that when he saw the little devil kill with a bayonet, Ye Zhichao, who was fleeing for his life in a hurry, fell to the ground and twisted one ankle.
In desperation, he pulled a subordinate who was killed by a gun and covered himself.
With such a method, he actually let this thing escape a way out; When I heard that there were cavalry coming to help, and it should have killed the little devil cleanly, it was finally up.
When he saw that among the people who came, there were Fenghuahui and Hanjiang, and then he hurriedly appeared.
The good words in his mouth, and the promise that he didn't know if he could fulfill it, shouted out like no money, in order to let the other party protect himself and leave successfully.
The previous scene really frightened him.
It wasn't until they got closer that they found that Yu Hanfeng and the others were all dressed in straight wool new-style military uniforms, and there was no braid behind their heads, which was such a problem.
As a result, before the words fell, he was kicked to the ground by Han Jiang, and scolded in his mouth:
"When I am a brother, with you Ye Zhichao's waste dim sum, you can't fight, greedy for money and run away, you are the first, are you worthy of Zuo Baogui and Huaijun soldiers who died in battle?
Listen, Lao Tzu is Xuange Camp Hanjiang (pseudonym, after all, the third generation)~"
"Xuange Camp, Fenghuahui~" Fenghuahui on the side, also added a sentence in his mouth.
Seeing this, Yu Hanfeng shouted impatiently: "What are you doing with this kind of nonsense, cut him to avenge Zuo Baogui and those Huai soldiers who fought to the death, otherwise he would not be able to stay for the New Year?" ”
After scolding, he stepped forward and grabbed Ye Zhichao's braids.
With a strong pull, the round neck of this cargo was revealed, and when the knife fell, Ye Zhichao's skull was cut off.
At this moment, the face of this creature was full of horror and pleading, and there was also deep remorse.
Without waiting for the three of them to continue to move forward, the green army in the direction of Pingyao City was restless again, and hundreds of people galloped all the way towards this side with difficulty.
After looking at it from a distance, it was actually Nie Shicheng, Ma Yukun, Yuan Datou and others who were full of embarrassment.
Originally, in the process of retreating in embarrassment, they heard that there was a little devil blocking the way in front of them.
Immediately, he didn't care about being tired, so he rushed up with Goshha, who was not much around, and planned to come to organize the manpower to fight a bloody way.
As a result, when I arrived in a hurry, I saw such a situation.
Hurriedly stopped a hundred and ten steps away, his face full of confusion and panic.
Seeing this, he took over Ye Zhichao's braincase, and after Han Jiang raised it high in his hand, he shouted loudly to them in the distance under the dantian:
"Listen, Wednesday's name and I are fake.
A year ago, I came to the dynasty to lurk on the order of Hu Ertong, the master of the Xuange camp, in order to thwart the plot of the little devil and annex my flower family and subject country today.
The matter of beating the little devil is naturally borne by my Xuange Battalion.
Now, I don't want you to take refuge in our Xuange camp immediately, but you must lay down your weapons and obey the rules, and in the future, you will naturally be sent away and let you leave safely. ”
After the voice fell, after waiting for about ten seconds, a voice shouted, and the owner of the voice was Sheng Jun, the soldier Zhao Youfu who planned to repay them after eating their fish soup and bacon:
"I've heard it since I was a child, the grandfathers of the Xuange camp talk about a spit and a nail, I am willing to believe it~"
As he spoke, he walked over and threw away one of the rifles in his hand.
With him taking the lead, more and more Sheng troops came over to this side and laid down their weapons; Or, many don't have weapons at all.
More and more people are seeing them lay down their arms and surrender.
Nie Shicheng, Ma Yukun, Yuan Datou and others all voted, and after glancing at each other, they all saw the helplessness that there was no other way.
He could only drive his horse up and throw down his pistol and waist knife.
About six hours later, after a short rest, the little devil pursued the troops and hurried here.
disguised as the second regiment of the Sheng army, the two sides fought here for two hours; Because they came lightly, they didn't have any heavy firepower at all, so they naturally couldn't beat the defense line with Makqin heavy machine guns.
In the end, I had to give up the pursuit and retreat for the time being.
Wait until the weather is better, and then bring artillery to attack.
At this point, the battle of Pyongyang City was completely over, and because of the intervention of the Hyungo battalion, the outcome of the battle finally became a little different.
At least the devil has no choice, and he will stop by crushing the rout and killing all the way to the Yalu River.
What came soon was the naval battle of Dadonggou; I don't know what the result should be because of the addition of the Xuange camp, and what changes will be made.
It was also on this day that Lao Ma, a novice rookie, urgently entered the court after receiving the telegram.
Because the team needs him to give full play to his strengths, do a good job of the ideological work of Nie Shicheng and others, and let them turn against Daqing and throw themselves into the arms of the Xuange Battalion.
This point is very important for the follow-up main quest to overthrow Daqing......
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Time: September 17, at half past eleven in the morning, on the sea surface of Dadonggou.
When the Northern Yang Fleet and the Island Combined Fleet, the lookouts on the mast of both sides roared out at the same time at the same time:
"Smoke has been found ahead, there are at least three warships, we have found Qingguo's fleet~"
"It's not good, there's a fleet of little devils ahead~"
At such a mournful shout, the spirits of all the people in the fleets on both sides instantly tensed; All sailors, under the orders of the officers, went into combat condition.
There are some good changes caused by the appearance of this scene, which can be regarded as the appearance of the Xuange camp.
Because in the original history, the Beiyang fleet was high because of the inferior coal burned, so that the black smoke rose, and as early as almost an hour ago, the whereabouts were discovered by the combined fleet, so as to prepare for battle in advance.
This time, thanks to the high-quality 'five-trough coal' they provided in advance, the two sides are on the same starting line.
At the same time, next to an uninhabited island about thirty nautical miles away; The three warships of the Xuange Battalion sub-fleet were also approaching this side at full speed.
While sailing at high speed, Hu Biao and the others also threw a large number of branches and leaves from the battleship down to the sea.
They had arrived at such a sea area at night two days earlier, and by such a camouflage method, they had managed to remain undetected.
Now it's a combined fleet that rushes to the battlefield and kills the little devils.
After discovering their opponents with each other, both Beiyang and the island nation had no intention of retreating, and continued to get close to each other to prepare for a fight.
In the process of approaching each other, the Northern Yang fleet changed from a double vertical formation to a horizontal formation.
The flagship was located in the center, and the rest of the ships were deployed to the left and right, and the fleet was in a wedge-shaped echelon, that is, all the ships were lined up, and the bow of the ship was forward, towards the combined fleet of the island nation.
However, due to the different speeds of several ships in the fleet, this horizontal formation actually became a herringbone goose-shaped formation.
Among them, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, these two ironclad ships are in the middle and the first position.
The four slowest warships, such as Jiyuan, Guangjia, Chaoyong, and Yangwei, need to move to the farthest flank position.
Because of the speed, it was gradually dragged to the last position of the left wing.
On the island side, the First Guerrilla Fleet, consisting of four ships, including Yoshino, Naniwa, Takachiho, and Akitsuzu, rushed to the forefront at a speed of up to 15 knots.
However, judging by the trajectory they traveled, they should be prepared to start a roundabout attack on the flanks.
The main fleet, with the Matsushima as the flagship, was dragged a little further back and set up a single column.
In contrast, the formation adopted by Beiyang can only use the main guns in the bow; Therefore, in the tactical comparison between the two sides, it is obvious that the little devil side has more advantages.
At 12:50, when the two sides were 5,300 meters away, the Dingyuan ship took the lead in firing and did not hit anything.
A few minutes later, a shell fired from Matsushima, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, hit the Dingyuan observation deck of the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, the Dingyuan ship.
Admiral Ding Ruchang, who was supervising the battle on the watchtower, could not command the battle because he was 'burned on his right side of the head and neck'.
Then, another salvo from the Combined Fleet knocked down Admiral Ding's flag and destroyed the signal rigging.
From this moment on, the Dingyuan ship's letter flag was issued for no reason, and in the following battle, other warships could only follow the Dingyuan ship instinctively, and the fleet lost command and contact.
There are some of these things that are similar to those in history; It can only be said that in the dark, the inertia of history is called an astonishing and terrible ......
(End of chapter)