Text Chapter 226 Crushing Exercise
The three of Lin Man were not without self-knowledge at all, although they were still confident in the combat effectiveness of their private army, but they were not to the point of believing that they would be able to defeat the field brigade of the company's first battle sequence. However, if they fight with the militia division, they will win and win, and if they accidentally lose, then they will be completely disgraced. Therefore, they specified that they should fight the second battle sequence of the company, that is, the fighters of the garrison division. In order to be more secure, they also specifically chose a newly formed black brigade.
The 4th Black Brigade of the Garrison Division, most of the fighters were made up of black slaves purchased by the company. However, there were almost two battalions of soldiers, which were made up of the Huaxia, Korean, and Dongying people of this era. In general, this is a force made up of all the nominal slaves of the company. Originally, this brigade belonged to the militia battle sequence, but because of the courage of the battle, the only few opportunities to fight, actually made a lot of contributions every time, and caught up with Xiao Lin's plan to continue to expand, so they were upgraded.
The brigade commander of this brigade is not a good stubble, Lin Xin, the former champion of the Qing Dynasty, and the current colonel of the company. Not long after coming to the company, he found that something was wrong with Xiao Lin, the so-called Indians, and was fooled by Xiao Lin, thinking that these were really the descendants of the former Yin Shang, and the Xiao family came here to organize them. After being brainwashed by Xiao Lin, Lin Xin completely settled down here, and when he was training later, because of his previous experience, he did not choose to enter the ranks of civil officials, but went to the road of military attaché.
Unlike the Qing Dynasty, which inherited a lot of legacy from the Ming Dynasty, the Yanhuang Trading Company did not emphasize literature and military force. If you really want to calculate it, the treatment of soldiers is better than that of some petty officials. At the beginning, Lin Xin fell to this point because he didn't have any strength in his hands, except for an official body, and he didn't even have an intimate personal guard. escaped from the mainland later, but also because the force in his hands was not strong, he was taken away by George's men, if it wasn't for the middle of Igic, the future outcome would definitely not be good.
So, he has a terrible attachment to the army. Because he did not make any meritorious contributions, but the training and assessment results even far exceeded the original Apache, James and Babu, Xiao Lin thought about it, and could only arrange him to the third brigade of the militia at that time. At that time, the brigade was basically full of black slaves. When Shawlin first wanted to rely on blacks to form a garrison brigade, and when he took over the training, he found this idea a bit unrealistic.
The black slaves, who had been stripped of their backbones by the slave traders, were not suitable candidates for warriors at all. Although the garrison division is not the existence of the first combat sequence, it still has a very important combat mission. When there is not enough manpower, it is necessary to be responsible for the soldiers of the field division. When there are enough people, they are also responsible for guarding the front lines of the company's territory or important cities. But the blacks are simply not up to the task.
There was no way, so in the end they could only be turned into a militia brigade, and in this way, this became the last place that the officers of the company wanted to come. It was too strenuous, and the effort required to command a battle was more than twice that of other militia divisions, and one by one they applied for transfer, all because they were afraid that they would die of exhaustion in a short time. Lin Xin came here with the same batch of people who went to the company with him and completed the officer training in the same batch, but he didn't expect that in just two months, this brigade would completely change.
It's probably "a soldier is a bear, and a nest of bears will be bears", don't look at Lin Xin was a scholar before, but now he is a terrible wolf. Intelligent, wise, and at the same time extremely ferocious to enemies. Under the leadership of this wolf, the black brigade has joined many Asians who dare to fight for their lives, who may not look very good in normal times, but when they arrive on the battlefield, their performance makes Xiao Lin look sideways. However, Lin Man and the others were deceived by the appearance of the black brigade, and actually chose such a strong combat brigade.
Because Lin Man didn't know much about how the exercise should be conducted, Xiao Lin assisted them in making a plan. Of course, in order to convince these people, Xiao Lin has been under the supervision of the other party since then, and there will be no chance to reveal the plan. The British saw that the machine guns were still empty, so they chose the defensive side and entered the exercise site to build a defensive position first. I have to say that people's learning ability is still good.
The trench system was well constructed and extended in all directions, each of which was convenient for one's own side and at the same time could avoid enemy shelling as much as possible. The anti-artillery holes were set up very reasonably and there were enough of them. The artillery positions were also good, separated into three places, with each other as horns. It was barbed wire, and they also learned from it, and made a batch of barbed wire by themselves, and surrounded all the fronts of the position. Except that there were no mortars and machine guns, and it was not much worse than the army of the early 19th century.
Lin Xin let his adjutant enter the battlefield with great fanfare with his troops, and the three thousand sergeants guarded the whole body tightly, without giving the British a chance to sneak attack. The army came directly to the trench fortifications of the British and set up a position to storm it. And Lin Xin, the main brigade commander, actually personally took the charge company in the brigade and quietly touched the back of the British position. Along the way, the British arranged enough secret sentinels, but they were all discovered by Lin Xin and touched them one by one.
The dark whistle is no better than the open whistle, because it is necessary to ensure absolute concealment, and the shift change time is several times that of the bright whistle, so it has not been discovered. On the adjutant's side, the attack began with great fanfare, chalk bullets flew all over the sky, there were judges on each position, and all those who were judged to be incapacitated could not be fooled. The shooting accuracy of the black brigade was no worse than that of the comrades of the three garrison brigades in front, but the private soldiers had only just come down from the battlefield, and for a while, they were actually evenly matched.
It's just that the black brigade, no matter what, did not try to storm the barbed wire. It was not until evening, looking at the pitch darkness outside, that the commander of the British spotted the troops. What is the color of a black person? Black, it's night, and a black person stands in the middle of the night, without showing his eyes or teeth, and he can't necessarily see it when he walks in. The commander guessed correctly, Lin Xin fought with this idea. Because of the particularity of black people, they are really the best candidates for night raids in this era.
According to Lin Xin's arrangement, the adjutant specially selected a group of capable black fighters to cover their eyes and mouths with night vision devices and masks. Putting on a black combat uniform and holding a black-lacquered weapon, he quietly approached the barbed wire from a dark place. The British were still playing with steam at this time, and there was no such thing as a flashlight, and how far could they shine just by torches. The black fighters crept up and soon cut the barbed wire of the British with their tools.
If you want the barbed wire to be a deterrent to the enemy, you need to place the barbed wire as far as possible at their maximum effective range. Therefore, the barbed wire fence of the British, which was 95 meters away from the first trench of the Yamen, could only be watched by the faint moonlight. When the British commander found the troops and ordered someone to hurry up to check, a chalk-tipped bullet hit the chest of the British soldier who was leaving the trench.
The British soldier could only curse and drop his gun, did not dare to say anything, walked out from the left, came to the person who had "sacrificed" before, and continued to observe the direction of the exercise together. Killing his gun was an anti-inflammator, and although the gun was heard, no one could see where the gun was fired. The British were awakened in front and kicked awake by the officers who drove over, and just as they were about to enter their respective positions, four huge gaps were opened in front of the barbed wire at the same time.
Mortars opened fire, and one after another empty cartridges were fired into the trenches, and the assessors could only run around, ordering those who were hit to leave the field consciously. The British put their minds in front, but they didn't notice that they had set up on the cliff behind them and sent rootless and tough nylon ropes. They also thought that if they built a position with their backs to the cliff, they would not be attacked from behind. But I don't want to, how powerful the company's army infiltration operations are. In particular, Lin Xin also went to Sam's Night Stalker Special Reconnaissance Battalion to learn from it.
Lin Xin personally led the charging company to descend from behind the enemy, and as soon as he landed, he immediately took cover alternately, and touched the British artillery position at a very fast speed. On the British artillery position, there were only some gunners who loaded and aimed the ignition, because their tools were not small, and few people held firearms, at most a few foreign trade version revolvers, and some short-handled firearms. Those with Hall M1819 have already gone to the front to support. Even if a company separated, there were only about thirty people along the way, and it was not possible for the people on the three artillery positions to block it.
In just five minutes, the artillery positions were taken by them, and all the British artillery was killed. Then, Lin Xin and the others immediately mobilized the muzzle of the cannon and fired out their kind of exercise shells stuffed with rags and straw stuffed into the iron sheet, because the weight of the shells was different, and there were also regulations on the gunpowder they were filled, otherwise if they were full of gunpowder and hit this kind of exercise shells that were too light to be 2,000 meters away, how would the results of the exercise be calculated. The British's command booth was attacked by shells from the rear, and then the referee ruled that all the commanders in the command booth had been killed.
Lin Xin once again cooperated with the large army led by the adjutant to flank the private army that had lost its command before dawn, and the battle had already ended before dawn. The 3,000 private troops who participated in the exercise did not hold up for even ten hours a night when they were officially attacking, which made Count Linman and his face really gloomy. Several private army commanders still wanted to argue, but the three counts who were passing by with iron faces glared at each other snorted, completely honest.
They just took the people back to the manor where they had negotiated the alliance agreement before, and they had already lost so completely, and the rest of the matter would be talked about when they were rested.