Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 492

"Qi Xieyuan, come here!" Liu Cunhou called Qi Xieyuan over, "Let me tell you, how did you become the commander of the infantry regiment, and why haven't you been able to break through the opponent's defense line?"

Qi Xieyuan wiped his face, and said out of breath: "Commander, the enemy's defense is too stubborn, and their firepower is very fierce, brothers can't fight at all in a short time!" "This is not a reason, we have already attacked them Once you have suppressed a certain amount of firepower, you immediately organize a charge for me, saying that you must break through the enemy's northern city defense line, our purpose is not to occupy Leigu, we want to break through Leigu and march towards Tonggu, you know?" Liu Cunhou yelled at Qi Xieyuan loudly.

"Yes, Commander, I'll arrange it right away!"

Liu Cunhou continued to observe the battle ahead with his binoculars.After a period of firepower suppression, the rebel army, perhaps due to the lack of ammunition, gradually lost the firepower attack that was evenly matched with the Huwei army at the beginning, and gradually turned into a disadvantage. Attacking in the opposite direction, the opponent can only passively defend without strong firepower support, but what they get in such a passive defense can only be more painful depression mentally.

Liu Cunhou saw that the battle situation had changed, and immediately ordered: "Pass my order, the artillery unit will continue to support the attacking infantry with firepower, and completely overthrow the enemy's artillery position to me."

"Commander, I don't think it's a good omen for our troops to enter the city so easily." Chief of Staff Hong Zhaolin said with a frown.

Hong Zhaolin's words immediately poured cold water on Liu Cunhou, who was so hot-headed. Liu Cunhou thought for a while and said, "You are right. We must pay attention to the coordination between the various combat units. Once there is a danger of being dumped, we should immediately withdraw from Leigu City. I don’t want to see all my infantry regiments buried in such a small city like Leigu. inside."

"Yes!" After receiving Liu Cunhou's password, Hong Zhaolin immediately conveyed it. Anyway, this infantry regiment must not be wasted in a small town like Leigu.

"Regiment commander, the headquarters is calling." A telegraph operator ran to Qi Xieyuan, commander of the infantry regiment, who was charging forward.

Qi Xieyuan wiped the sweat off his head, and looked at the telegraph operator with sharp eyes, "What does the letter say? Read it quickly."

"The headquarters called and asked my infantry regiment to pay attention to all aspects of precautions after entering the city. All combat units must coordinate with each other. Once there is a danger of being dumped, immediately evacuate from Leigu City."

"What! You just came in, and you want to go out? What are you doing!" Qi Xieyuan was a little stunned, and the army commander made a fuss too much. After calming down and thinking about it, the army commander's caution is also reasonable. "Soldier, please pass on the orders from the headquarters to the various units below. Quickly, tell the battalions not to rush forward and pay attention to the coordinated combat steps between the various combat units, do you understand?"

"Yes!"

The troops advanced cautiously, and encountered several counterattacks by the rebels on the way, but they were all resolved one by one by the well-equipped infantry regiment. Qi Xieyuan was overjoyed when he saw that the enemy's combat power had weakened a lot, so he ordered the troops to Advance at full speed towards the Rebel Leigu Garrison Headquarters.

In the Leigu Garrison Headquarters, Li Chunzheng looked at the military map with a dark smile, and said to his chief of staff: "It seems that the main force of the Tiger's Mighty Army has entered our big pocket, and it's time to close the net. Hmph, Liu Cunhou is too careless. Does he really think that just one army can eat up the strength of our division and three brigades? The result of rushing forward is that the whole army is wiped out. Immediately send an order to start closing Wang, no matter what, we must eat their main force, if we can kill the 20th Army, it will be a great achievement!"

Zhou Ziqi, chief of staff of the division, also said to Li Chun with a smile: "The division commander is strategizing, and the decisive victory is thousands of miles away. This time Liu Cunhou's troops are about to be wiped out. If we fight in positional warfare, the opponent will have a great advantage in firepower. We can't destroy their vitality, but we will consume a lot of vitality, but if we introduce them into the city and fight with our soldiers, then the opponent's aircraft and artillery will be completely useless, and we will be able to achieve the goal of defeating Governor Yuan. promised."

One after another, Li Chun was very pleased with what he heard. He squinted his little eyes and happily enjoyed the compliments from his subordinates.

Besides, Qi Xieyuan led the troops forward, but the more he walked forward, the more strange he felt. The resistance of the rebels seemed to be scattered and mixed, but it was not chaotic at all. You must know that his infantry regiment is now going to Leigu Running to the center of the city, the target is the enemy's garrison headquarters. At such a critical moment, they are not desperately resisting, but engaging in harassment tactics. What does this mean?Where did their large army go?

It can be said that there are two possibilities for them to do this: the first is that the garrison headquarters has moved and moved, and the place where the infantry regiment rushed to is no longer the garrison headquarters, and the building is already empty. .The second possibility is that the enemy has made a pocket and is waiting for him to drill into it.

Thinking of the second possibility, Qi Xieyuan only felt a chill on his back, and a chill came out spontaneously. This uneasy premonition made him a little creepy. He knew that the enemy might indeed be preparing to make dumplings for him. "Pass my order, everyone is ready to retreat, the front team will change to the back team, and the back team will change to the front team, retreat for me!"

However, even if he has already detected the enemy's plot, it is very unlikely for them to evacuate at this time. He only heard a signal bomb shoot directly into the air from a bungalow not far away, and then it was like an explosion in the dark night. into a demonic red face.Immediately afterwards, a large number of rebels appeared all around.

"Grass!" Qi Xieyuan was very annoyed at this moment. Although he was already extra cautious, he finally got his way. I never expected that the enemy would be so cunning. "Attention all troops, immediately find a bunker, counterattack, and prepare for a desperate breakout."

According to Qi Xieyuan's instructions, all the ministries hid in the ruined walls on the side, and at the same time found the best position, preparing to start a bloody battle with the surrounding rebels!
In Mandalay, inside the headquarters of the Huwei Army, Cai E stared at the huge battle map with a solemn expression. "Jiyao, you are right. Now Liu Cunhou, as the attacker, is attacking the heavily fortified city of the enemy. It is indeed possible to fall into the quagmire. Moreover, if the rebels let go, the 20th Army may not Surrounded by them, or even wiped out by them, the situation is serious. Jiyao, it seems that the headquarters wants to contact Liu Cunhou and ask him how the current situation on the northern front is."

Just as Tang Jiyao was ordered to go out, a communications soldier hurried in, "Chief of Staff, something went wrong with the 20th Army. In Leigu, Qi Xieyuan's vanguard group was besieged by the enemy!"

Tang Jiyao said anxiously: "Besieged? Didn't I warn Liu Cunhou? Don't rush forward. Although your 20th Army's equipment is better than your opponent's, the rebels' fortifications in Leigu are very solid. What is going on with Liu Cunhou? thing!"

Fortify the north of the city.

With a bang, the artillery shells of the rebels once again landed on the bunker where the soldiers of the infantry regiment were hiding. Several soldiers were injured or died. Qi Xieyuan sighed deeply when he saw the enemy troops surrounding them. After a sigh of relief, the infantry regiment has been surrounded by the enemy for most of the night.Qi Xieyuan felt ashamed. You must know that the infantry regiment with the most combat effectiveness in the whole division was taken into Leigu City by him. Now that his infantry regiment is surrounded, he doesn't know how long he can last.

"Brothers, hold on to me, hold on!" Qi Xieyuan shouted loudly.

"Yes, Commander!" The crowd shouted loudly.

"Call me the three battalion commanders, hurry up!"

The three infantry battalion commanders came to Qi Xieyuan in a rain of bullets. Qi Xieyuan said: "Brothers, the battle has reached a critical moment of life and death. The rebels obviously want to trap us here, but we must not sit still. Let me tell you, today's battle is all about death, and we must not back down in the face of the rebels, you understand?"

The three battalion commanders nodded.

"If I, Qi Xieyuan, unfortunately die in battle, the command of the infantry regiment will be temporarily handed over to the commander of the sixth battalion, and so on, understand?" Qi Xieyuan gritted his teeth and said tragically.

"Yes, we got it!"

"Okay, order everyone, put on the bayonet, and once the enemy gets close, start a hand-to-hand combat with them! Remember, we are the iron-blooded tiger army, and we must not embarrass our commander, do you understand?" Qi Xieyuan shouted loudly.

"Yes, I see!"

"Bayonet on!" Qi Xieyuan shouted at all the soldiers.

Li Chun observed the situation in the north of the city through the binoculars, and a smile flickered across his mouth, "The Huwei army is going to fight us to the death, they are going to fight to the death!"

"No, no, these people are just desperate to fight, fighting to the death? They have already lost the capital to fight to the death. The so-called deadly battle is only when the strength of the two sides is equal or the difference is not too big. , To fight to the death without strong firepower support is tantamount to courting death. Commander, it seems that we are going to report victory to Governor Yuan Da!" Chief of Staff Zhou Ziqi took the opportunity to flatter him.

On the battlefield, Qi Xieyuan yelled: "Brothers, the brave wins when we meet on a narrow road. Trumpeter, blow the charge horn, and everyone will be killed!" As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed out first, and the soldiers saw The head of the regiment was so heroic in the front, and everyone was full of enthusiasm, screaming and rushed out of the bunker, and killed the oncoming rebels.

"Fuck you, go to hell!" Qi Xieyuan brandished a broadsword and chopped an enemy soldier to the ground. Although he was equipped with weapons, a veteran like Qi Xieyuan still likes to equip himself with a sword when he goes to the battlefield, so that It comes in handy when necessary, for example, at this time, when the enemy and the enemy are in close combat, the power of the big blade wielded is much greater than that of the bayonet. When killing, he also paid more attention to the lancet technique left by the Northwest Army's broadsword team, and some soldiers who liked to use broadswords all learned this kind of knife technique.

(End of this chapter)