The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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The sound of guns rumbled along the Jiahe River, and the surrounding people fled in panic with their families and their mouths. They couldn't figure out why the sudden war would come.

Immediately after the encounter between the Revival Army and the Imperial Guards, an artillery battle began.

Before the infantry meets, the artillery is always the beginning of a conventional war, and the duel of the artillery is a process full of the fog of war.

As soon as the artillery battle started, the scene showed a one-sided situation. [

Although the imperial guards compiled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were well-equipped, their equipment was not enough compared to the revival army, and the imperial guards had never experienced any wars. Judging from the history of the imperial guards led by Feng Guozhang in modern times, This seemingly elite Imperial Guard has actually made no achievements at all.

First of all, the Janissaries were at a disadvantage in terms of the number of artillery pieces. Although the Janissaries had 52 cannons, most of them were field cannons.

On the other hand, the first division of the Renaissance Army is a Type A division. It is organized to fight in large corps in the plains. It has a heavy artillery brigade equipped with 105 155mm and 54mm howitzers. It also has an artillery regiment equipped with rapid-fire guns. 54 rapid-fire guns.

In terms of rate of fire, the firepower of the rapid-fire cannon is completely outmatched by the artillery of the Praetorian Guards.

In terms of range, it is even worse. The artillery of the Imperial Guards of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties is actually a backward model, and it is not as good as the artillery of the Revival Army in terms of range.

As soon as the artillery battle started, the artillery of the Janissary was overwhelmed by the rapid-fire artillery of the revival army.The artillery of the revival army was very accurate, because the revival army had not only undergone frequent practical training, but also had many German artillerymen with combat experience in the artillery unit.

In this artillery battle, the heavy artillery brigade did not come in handy at all. The artillery of the Janissaries was overwhelmed by the firepower of the rapid-fire artillery as soon as it fired.

Although these rapid-firing guns fired cannonballs, and some of the Janissary's guns had mantlets, too many were fired.

After dealing with the artillery of the Janissary, all the artillery of the Revival Army fell silent, and did not continue to fire at the infantry of the Janissary, because the staff was unanimously afraid that the fierce firepower would scare the Janissaries away.

The staff department directly ordered the construction of trenches along the Jia River, but the staff department did not want to defend them all. Facts have proved that even at the stage of World War I, the war in China is still a mobile war.

China is too big, it is impossible to divide the entire land in half with a line of defense like Europe, and the two sides do not have so many troops.

Trench warfare can only be used for partial defense.

While building the trenches, the staff ordered the Second Brigade of the First Division to roundabout and outflank the rear of the Janissaries in order to achieve the goal of annihilating most of the enemy troops.

On the other side of the Jia River, Feng Guozhang was heartbroken when he saw it. The artillery battle just now was too fierce. 54 of the 43 artillery pieces of the Imperial Guard were scrapped, and only 11 were still usable. The artillery was hidden, and I didn't dare to take it out again to make it embarrassing.

Seeing the revival army on the opposite side building a trench, Feng Guozhang hesitated for a while.

attack?

It seems that this battle is not easy to fight, but from the outside, the revival army on the opposite side has uniform uniforms and sophisticated equipment. It is obviously not a mob. This is completely different from Feng Guozhang's previous imagination. Feng Guozhang even doubted , this war is not wrong.

If you don't fight, then retreat?

Feng Guozhang hesitated, unable to make up his mind for a while. [

Feng Guozhang is often able to act vigorously and resolutely in small matters, and act with confidence.However, he is not good at making decisions in major matters, often indecisive and misses good opportunities.

The same is true this time. If Feng Guozhang ordered to retreat at this time, it is very likely that he will escape and keep the imperial guards who obeyed his orders.

While Feng Guozhang hesitated, the two armies entered a confrontation stage across the Jiahe River.

The Jiahe River was not wide, and the dry river course was only more than [-] meters, but the Imperial Guards got too close, and they were frightened by the snipers on the opposite side.

As the sniper shots sounded, soldiers of the Imperial Guard who were too close were constantly killed, and many of them were officers of the Imperial Guard. They were the key targets of the snipers.

Seeing that the revival army on the opposite side did not take the initiative to attack, Feng Guozhang relaxed his vigilance.

It wasn't until an hour later that the Second Brigade of the First Division of the Revival Army appeared behind the Imperial Guards that Feng Guozhang woke up.

"General Feng, what should we do?"

A group of wild boar skin officers of the Imperial Guard were sweating anxiously, and Feng Guozhang was also caught in a difficult decision.

Feng Guozhang understood that once they retreated, the entire army would be directly defeated, and there would be no need to fight at all.There are only two ways to deal with this situation.

The first method is to divide the troops to block the enemy army from the rear. The second method is to launch an attack directly. Since the revival army on the opposite side divides the troops, it will inevitably reduce the frontal forces. We just need to defeat the frontal enemy troops before the enemy troops from the rear surround them. You can turn around and annihilate the enemy army behind you.

Feng Guozhang stared at the renaissance army on the opposite side, and suddenly his blood surged up, and he said angrily: "It's too deceitful, you want to swallow my imperial guards in one bite, treat my imperial guards as if they can't be pinched, hit me."

As he spoke, Feng Guozhang stretched out his hand and waved forward.

"beat!"

A group of wild boar skin officers below were very energetic. As the best-paid and best-equipped troops of the Qing court, they had a strong sense of arrogance in their hearts.

With an order, the imperial guards lined up in a dense formation, easily crossed the dry river bed, and charged the revival army with shouts.

Skirmish tactics?

There is no such thing at all these days!Moreover, the heavy firepower equipped by the imperial guards is only heavy machine guns, and the infantry has no automatic firepower at all, and skirmish tactics can't pose any threat to the enemy at all.

The strange thing is that the revival army on the opposite side just watched the Imperial Guard cross the river bed like this, and none of the soldiers opened fire.

Feng Guozhang on the other side and a group of senior military officers around him were surprised for a moment. What's going on?

Soon they knew what was going on.

When the infantry of the Guards rushed to the barbed wire, the firepower points arranged by the revival army on the flank opened fire, and the fire came from the flank like a pour. [

The infantry of the Praetorian Guards in a dense formation fell down like cutting wheat. As early as when Jiang Yu was still in the German Army Academy, he had already proved the horror of flanking firepower.

The bullets fired by the heavy machine guns on the flanks can often kill two or even four of the enemy troops in a densely packed enemy army!The sub-power of a heavy machine gun is great.

Of course, there are also wasted bullets, but on average, each bullet can kill nearly one enemy.

Facing the dense infantry of the Guards, the machine gunners on the flanks frantically pulled the trigger. It took only half a minute to blow up the canvas with 333 rounds. The first machine gun fired all shots, and the second The machine gun then fired.The Resurrection Army deployed five machine guns on each flank, two of which were spares.

The whole scene was like a slaughterhouse. Row after row of Janissary infantry fell in front of the barbed wire. Fortunately, a few of them were not killed, and they were also stranded in place due to lack of tools to break through the barbed wire. They were heavily patronized by the machine gunners and they were shot in bursts.

The battlefield is an extremely cruel place, and it can often have a crushing effect on an individual's fate.Every soldier might think before he dies, is this the end of me?Perhaps the arrogant nature of human beings is reluctant to admit it, but it is indeed over.

Feng Guozhang stared dumbfounded on the other side of the river. The revival army had almost no firepower in front of it. However, with the ferocious flank firepower, the rhythm of the entire battlefield was perfectly controlled by the revival army, as if they were carrying out a "slaughter operation". Cooperate, perfect carnage.

At this time, the artillery of the revival army joined the battle.

The ferocious firepower instantly roared towards the imperial guards like the sky falling apart, the whole area seemed to be shaking, and the guards' positions on the other side of the river were engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

The flakes produced by the rapid-fire cannon's hail blast were splashing around, and the high-explosive explosion from the howitzer lifted a large piece of soil from the ground, followed by a large pit, and the surrounding guard soldiers were directly submerged in it.

In an instant, Feng Guozhang's face turned pale, and he fell to the ground under the shelling.

"General Feng, it's not good, the rebellious army is coming up from behind." At this moment, a war horse galloped towards Feng Guozhang. A cavalryman jumped down and reported anxiously to Feng Guozhang.

"General Feng, the rebellious army is too strong, let's withdraw! If we don't withdraw, we won't be able to leave."

"Yes! General Feng, let's retreat!"

A group of boar-skin officers of the Imperial Guard shouted that they had lost the faith of soldiers, and they didn't know who they were fighting for or who they were defending.

At this time, they can only choose to fight for Feng Guozhang. They have no determination to fight to the death because they have no position in this war.

"Retreat." Feng Guozhang quickly got up from the ground. Seeing that the situation had taken a turn for the worse, he no longer had any confidence in defeating the enemy. He was also frightened and ordered to everyone with a trace of hesitation on his face.

Suddenly, there was a burst of shouts from the position of the revival army on the other side.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

I saw thousands of revivalist infantry pouring out of the trenches, holding guns in their hands, and crushing the imperial guards with steady steps...