Chapter 27: The Battle of Suwanlu (9)

June 6, 19o9 A.D., a.m. - half past one.

"Boom...... Rumble...... "......The PLA's offensive is still in the lead with heavy artillery.

More than a hundred heavy guns of more than 156 mm opened the battle. In less than ten seconds, dozens of tons of artillery shells fell on the most important area of the Beiyang Army camp, or the area with the highest concentration of people. The artillery of the PLA did not carry out actions such as test firing calibration, and directly began to fire rapidly.

Such a sudden blow was completely unexpected by the Beiyang Army, and many Beiyang officers and men were even asleep when they were blown into the sky by the roaring shells. Even those who didn't sleep, or woke up in time, were directly stunned.

"Bastard, why did they suddenly open fire? they didn't even need to fire a test shot?" Duan Qirui looked at the chaotic scene, and his heart was filled with grief and indignation.

He didn't sleep, he reacted as soon as the PLA opened fire just now, and his personal guards immediately set him up from the carriage and moved him to a temporary bunker dug up overnight.

"Minister, this is a surprise attack, so they will not test the fire, that is, they estimate that the attack will start, and the hit rate will not be very high. We will organize the troops now and rebel ......" Before Xu Shuzheng's words fell, he saw that two British armored trains not far away had already ignited a raging fire, and his words suddenly couldn't go on, it was something they relied on as a pillar.

How could it be reimbursed for the first round of shelling, how could it be so accurate? Or on a night like this, this is too much

The fact of slapping his face continued, and Xu Shuzheng clearly saw in the bunker that the material hoarding points, the tents, as well as the bunkers and various fortifications they set up, were constantly being destroyed. The PLA's shells are like having eyes, picking the most important places, and the hit rate is amazingly high, Xu Shuzheng feels that even in daylight with good visibility, it is difficult to hit this level of hit.

Xiao Xu only felt that his face was hot, he just said that the People's Liberation Army was fighting indiscriminately, but his face was swollen by the facts.

At this time, an adjutant couldn't help but exclaim: "How can it be so accurate? It's still night at this time, are the artillery of the vultures all immortals?" But at this time, no one said anything, because his words really went to the hearts of everyone.

The artillery of the People's Liberation Army is certainly not a fairy, it's just that they are hanging.

Indeed, if they had followed normal procedures, they would definitely not have been able to play so accurately. Even if their artillery was more advanced, their training was better, and even if they had pre-mapped the area and equipped with the latest transistor computers, they would not have been able to do so much in this way. Because the night is a natural fog on the battlefield, and the attacker cannot see the target clearly, it is difficult to determine the effect of his attack, and it is difficult to make corrections for the next shot. After all, humans are still visual creatures, and most of the information is obtained visually.

But tonight's shelling is clearly outrageous. For example, one of the key points of the first round of attacks was the two British armored trains, which had more than 4o guns replaced with armor-piercing shells to deal with them. As a result, in the first round of shelling, more than 2 hit the target, and in the second round, more than 3 shells hit, directly turning the two armored trains into two piles of scrap metal. In fact, the first round is enough, and the second round is all whipping.

The reason why they fought so godly this time was entirely because of the "eyes" of heaven. It was an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that crossed over with Mr. Wen. Mr. Wen had a total of 6 such planes in his hands, and 4 of them were sent over in this battle, one to monitor Duan Qirui, one to monitor Feng Guozhang, one to monitor the Beijing area, and one to patrol back and forth in Shandong and Henan.

These reconnaissance vehicles were originally used to explore for minerals, although they are not professional military equipment, but they cannot stand the technology of the second century, and their reconnaissance capabilities are unimaginable in this era. At an altitude of 20,000 meters, they can achieve a resolution of 1 mm on the ground, plus they are equipped with visible light, low light, infrared, ultraviolet, magnetic field lines...... and other detection instruments with multiple fields of view, and the night when the human eye cannot see clearly, is not a problem for the surveyor at all. It first uses a variety of field of view detection instruments to take pictures, and then enters the information into its own quantum computer, which synthesizes these multi-field images in a second, and then retouches them, and finally makes the equivalent of photos taken during the day, which look no different from photos taken at the best visibility.

They only need to send these photos to the artillery command, which then corrects them according to wind and other factors, and calculates the exact orientation of the ground target. In this way, the PLA's artillery bombardment is naturally like a divine help, and the hit rate has reached about 6 percent, and even if it deviates, it is close to missing bullets.

These guys of the Beiyang Army were already very tired, and now they are sleeping soundly, and when they are bombed by this kind of artillery with a hit rate against the sky, they naturally can't pounce on the street anymore. Now the entire Beiyang Army camp is like an ant nest that has been splashed with a basin of boiling water, and there are Beiyang officers and soldiers crying and howling with their heads in their hands everywhere, and the officers cannot find the soldiers, and the soldiers cannot find the officers, and the entire camp is in chaos.

"Minister, you must quickly rectify the troops, otherwise it will be too late......" Xu Shuzheng reacted the fastest, and he immediately crossed Duan Qirui to issue a series of orders to the adjutants and pro-soldiers, asking them to quickly contact the officers of various departments to rectify the troops.

Duan Qirui didn't care about Xu Shuzheng's ultra vires behavior, because Xiao Xu was his closest cronies, and when he saw that Xu Shuzheng finished speaking, he said: "Don't hurry up and do what Xu Tong said."

Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng continued to observe the battlefield in the bunker, and after a while, Duan Qirui suddenly said strangely: "You Zheng, Kuang Xun Qi Wenbao's heavy artillery association doesn't seem to be attacked......

Xu Shuzheng immediately turned his binoculars to look at the camp in the north, and said strangely: "Indeed, there has been shelling everywhere, only the Heavy Artillery Association has not moved......

If you look at it from the sky now, the entire Beiyang camp is like a boiling pot, full of fires and explosions, but the heavy artillery camp area located in the rearmost position is calm, like the eye of a typhoon. It's particularly weird in the chaos.

"Quick, go and inform Qi Wenbao and let them carry out a counterattack as soon as possible" Duan Qirui seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and hurriedly gave an order to the adjutant beside him.

Night artillery bombardment is also good for the defenders, that is, it is easy to see the enemy's artillery position, and the muzzle fireworks during heavy artillery fire are difficult to cover up at night.

Xu Shuzheng's heart moved, and he just wanted to say something, but there was no evidence, and he might have reported a little luck, so he didn't say anything.

4o minutes passed, and the PLA shelling continued, only now it was replaced by medium-caliber artillery belonging to divisions and regiments. After half an hour of rapid fire, the artillery needed to cool down, and the artillery needed to rest.

Because Wen Desi is a typical artilleryman, he repeatedly emphasized in the army that he would never use a gun when he could use a gun, and he would never use a knife when he could use a gun. Because human lives are much more valuable than shells and bullets in Wendehei, and the "production period" is much longer, it is very cost-effective to exchange shells for human lives. As for money, is Mr. Wen still short of money? The local tyrant army must have the fighting style of the local tyrant army.

Therefore, the Chinese People's Liberation Army he single-handedly created also fully implemented his ideas, such as such a large-scale battle, artillery preparation does not take more than an hour, and the infantry will never be dispatched.

Although, the heavy artillery association of the Beiyang Army was still quiet.

"What the hell is going on? What are they?" Duan Qirui was in a hurry, he had now fully understood what it meant to live like a year.

Not long after, the adjutant sent to herald returned, followed by an officer. Duan Qirui recognized this person, he was the deputy assistant commander of the Heavy Artillery Association, a descendant officer of Beiyang, who was specially sent by Lao Yuan to Qi Wenbao as his deputy.

The two of them were panting, their faces were black and gray, obviously they had suffered a lot on the way, and their expressions were very ugly.

Before Duan Qirui could ask, the deputy assistant commander suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted with a crying voice: "Military seat, all our heavy artillery bolts are gone."

"What? you say it again," Xu Shuzheng stepped forward, twisted up the deputy co-ordinator, and asked sharply.

"The heavy artillery bolts are all gone, it's all our heavy artillery can't be used, can't be used," the deputy assistant commander was about to cry.

Duan Qirui hurriedly asked, "What about Qi Wenbao and the others????"

"It's gone, I can't find him, and my cronies are gone. More than half of the members of our Heavy Artillery Association are gone," the deputy commander knelt on the ground in despair.

"Bastard, what are you eating, thousands of people are gone, you don't know that you are a pig, why are you not missing" Duan Qirui was almost so angry with this pig teammate that he fainted.

"Last night... Before camping last night, I was called by Qi Wenbao to drink and sleep...... I'm dazed," replied the deputy United Front tremblingly.

"Why don't you step on the horse, don't you die," Duan Qirui went up with a kick.

At this time, another communications officer ran in: "Junzuo, the 6th standard of Liguo Town has sent someone to report that they have a large number of bandit airships flying north in the middle of the night. At first they didn't care, but not long after, the airships returned. Later, they contacted Hanzhuang's guards, but they couldn't reach ......"

Before Duan Qirui could react, Xu Shuzheng's face turned white all of a sudden.

"It's not good, the bandits used airships to transport troops and copied our back road, and now Hanzhuang must have been lost."

Xu Shuzheng immediately said to the communications officer: "Hurry up and notify the 6 bids, let them go out immediately and recapture Hanzhuang, otherwise we will be finished."

Temporary command of the People's Liberation Army.

"Hahahaha, General Qi, it's really hard" Xin Jie warmly shook the guest's hand.

The person who came was Qi Wenbao, the commander of the Beiyang First Heavy Artillery Association who had "disappeared" in the Beiyang camp.

Qi Wenbao is a veteran of the Restoration Society, and his qualifications are very old. As early as the spring of 19o3, Qi Wenbao pre-joined the Restoration Society (the Liberation Society was formally established in November 19o4 of the following year), and had a strong relationship with Tao Chengzhang and Zhang Binglin. Later, the Science and Technology Socialist Party was established, and most of the members of the Liberation Society joined the Science and Technology Socialist Party, and Qi Wenbao was no exception and became a party member. But his identity has always been very secret, so Yuan Datou didn't know his details, but only knew that his thoughts were somewhat sympathetic to the revolution, and he didn't want to use him. However, the artillery really lacked talents, and they had to use it, so they sent a group of descendants to mix sand.

This time, Yuan Datou sent him to fight with Duan Qirui, that is, he was in the middle of it, and he revealed a lot of information to the PLA along the way. When Duan Qirui decided to camp on the spot at night, he began to act. Although they couldn't pull out too many people, there were still many of his disciples and grandchildren in the heavy artillery brigade, and at least half of them were mastered, so they first drunk a few Beiyang descendant officers, and then ran away in the group, and they also took the cannon bolt away smoothly, so that all the heavy artillery in Beiyang lay down.

After the two sides sat down, Xin Jie said sternly: "General Qi, I must criticize you, your operation to remove the bolt this time is too risky. For us, your people are more important than the cannons, it doesn't matter if those cannons are or not, if you have an accident because of this, it will be our heavy loss."

Qi Wenbao hurriedly stood up and said seriously: "Mr. Xin, I know that our army is well-equipped and doesn't care about those things. But we took into account that those heavy artillery poses the greatest threat to our PLA, and in order to reduce the losses of our comrades-in-arms, we did so. We are all revolutionary soldiers, what is it to take a little risk for victory, if you are afraid of death, you should not be revolutionized Chairman Wen has emphasized many times that talent is the most important thing, and to save the lives of more officers and soldiers, I think our adventure is worth it......"

"Uh......" Xin Jie was speechless for a while, so he had to shake his head and smile: "General Qi, what do you really want me to say...... But you seem to have forgotten yourself, your life is precious, and we don't want you to take any risks. Aren't you?"

"Uh...... Hahaha......" Qi Wenbao was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing.

With this smile, the original mustard of both sides suddenly disappeared.

"Hehe, okay, that's it, I'll give you credit according to the regulations......" Xin Jie changed the topic and said: "Comrade Qi Wenbao, Chairman Wen means that I am going to let you be the commander of the Fourth Heavy Artillery Brigade or the commander of the 2nd Division." Of course, it's your own opinion......"

Qi Wenbao almost didn't think about it: "I'm still in my old job, I'm not familiar with the infantry......

Xin Jie smiled and asked again: "Well, then we are going to annihilate the two armies of Beiyang next, do you go back to the headquarters to rest, or do you stay with us as an advisor?"

"The war is not over yet, of course I will stay and give me a gun, I can go to the front, give me a cannon, I can also fight"

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