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A soldier of the Qing army said to the officer beside him: "Is that a main artillery tank? Why is there such a big thing installed in the front, it looks like the plow stick we used in our old home."

Cold sweat dripped from the officer's forehead, and he said, "I think Lin Ni's bandit soldiers must have created some new weapon, we have to guard against it."

The soldiers of the Qing army asked: "Sir, how can we defend?"

Of course the officer didn't know how to defend himself, not only he didn't know, but also Xu Yingkui didn't know, the officer said such words just to find a way for himself, so as not to make people think that he didn't understand anything, the officer actually asked the soldiers when he saw the soldiers, He couldn't help but glared at the soldier, and the soldier turned his head away in fright, not daring to speak any more.

It turned out that the tank with something like a plow stick in front was a mine-sweeping tank prepared by Lin Yuan's troops to break through the minefield. The plow stick in front was actually a plow-shaped mine sweeper. On the ground, underground mines are brought up, and then the baffle behind the plow pole minesweeper can push the mines aside.

After the mines were pushed aside, there was no threat. Lin Yuan's troops could either detonate them or ignore them. The mine-sweeping tanks slowly approached the minefields. The Qing soldiers in the trenches silently prayed for the sound of the explosion, At this moment, the plow-shaped minesweeper in front of the minesweeper tank was inserted into the ground, turning up the underground soil like a plow stick.

The biggest advantage of the plow-shaped minesweeper is its light weight. In order to be able to float, Lin Yuan equipped the mine-sweeping tank with this plow-shaped minesweeper. However, this minesweeper has an obvious disadvantage, that is: it cannot dig hard The land, fortunately, the soil in the Huaihe River basin is soft, so the minesweepers turned over the mines in the soil as soon as they went up.

Seeing this, the officers of the Qing army hurriedly called the engineer battalion in charge of laying the mines and asked, "Can they detonate our mines by doing that?"

The engineer said: "It can't be detonated. Our landmines use detonation fuzes. Only when the main artillery tank is pressed on it will the spring be triggered and the explosives will be detonated!"

The officer of the Qing Army panicked when he heard this, and said, "Does that mean that our minefields can't hurt the main artillery chariot of the Lin Ni bandits at all?"

The commander of the engineer battalion nodded again and again, and the officers of the Qing army hurried back to the headquarters. When they met Xu Yingkui, they said in a panic, "Master Xu, it's terrible. Lin Yuan's troops dispatched a group of iron oxen to push our plow sticks, and put our The mines have been dug out!"

After Xu Yingkui listened to the officer's report, he raised his hand and slapped the officer, cursing: "You stupid thing, what is the iron ox pushing the plow stick?"

The officer hurriedly said: "The iron ox is very similar to the main artillery tank, but it is equipped with a plow pole in front, which can turn over all the mines in the ground."

After hearing this, Xu Yingkui's expression changed. He pointed at the minefields protecting Lin Yuan's tanks, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up and think of a way to stop these iron bulls."

The officer asked: "Is there any way? Please tell me clearly!"

Xu Yingkui said: "Didn't you ask you to prepare death squads? It was originally used to fight the main artillery tanks, but now it's just right for these mine-sweeping iron bulls, so hurry up and let them go!"

The officer agreed with a yes, turned back immediately, returned to the trenches and began to organize death squads. Xu Yingkui was also trained by Japanese officers, and his fighting will was stronger than Xu Shanbu. Moreover, Xu Yingkui also carried out hatred training methods similar to Li Dingguo in the army, which inspired The hatred of the subordinate soldiers towards Lin Yuan.

Xu Yingkuo's methods are more sophisticated than Li Dingguo's. Li Dingguo asked the officers to tell stories, while Xu Yingkui held a complaint meeting every five days, specially finding people to pretend to be victims, and publicly publicized that Lin Yuan's troops raped and plundered everywhere, and did all kinds of evil. Lin Yuan's hatred was deeper than Li Dingguo's, and his will to fight was naturally stronger. When the officer said to form a death squad, everyone immediately gathered to respond, and the officer drew more than 100 people from it to form a death squad.

The death squad rushed out of the trench holding the explosives, but there was a trench between the trench and the minefield, and the slope was so steep that people could not climb up if they went down, so the death squads began to set up ladders in the trench, ran across the trench, and headed towards the minesweeping tanks. rush away.

The mine-sweeping tanks were naturally followed by infantry, and when the infantry saw the death squads rushing, they immediately opened fire. The death squads of the Qing army suffered heavy casualties. He was shot hundreds of meters away from the minesweeping tank.

At this time, Xu Yingkui also personally rushed to the battlefield to command. When he saw that the Death Squad could not charge up, he immediately ordered: "The Death Squad should stop charging, save your strength, and wait until Lin Yuan's bandit soldiers get close before going up."

The mine-sweeping tank slowly made a way in the minefield and came to the edge of the ditch. Xu Yingku raised the binoculars in his hand and found that Lin Yuan's army did not follow the bulldozer-type main artillery tank. He had already received reports from other troops. It was reported that the Lin Ni bandits had a bulldozer-type main artillery tank that could carry a lot of sandbags to fill up trenches.

Xu Yingkui did not see the bulldozer-type main artillery tank, and was very happy in his heart, thinking: "Let me see how you can get over the ditch." He stopped, and couldn't help laughing: "The Lin Ni bandits have stopped, they won't be able to fight."

There was a burst of cheers on the battlefield, and at this moment, Xu Yingku saw one of his subordinates running over with sweat on his face, and said anxiously: "Master Xu, I have found you, something is wrong, Lin Ni bandits are in the east. The Shuanglin in front of us has crossed the Huaihe River and is now coming to us."

Xu Yingkui was taken aback when he heard this, and asked, "Where's the defenders at Shuanglindu? Didn't they stop Lin Ni's bandits?"

The subordinates said: "Lin Ni has too many bandits, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of people, and our defenders have less than 1000 people, how can we hold them!"

Xu Yingkui said in surprise: "How did Lin Ni bandits get to Shuanglindu? Aren't they always opposite Fengyang Mansion?" On the battlefield, the deployment of defensive troops is determined by the deployment of the enemy's offensive troops. Where the enemy's offensive force is the largest, put the focus of defense.

During the offensive and defensive battle of the Huaihe River, Xu Yingku discovered that Lin Yuan's troops had always lived on the north bank of Fengyang Fucheng, so he put the key defensive troops here. In Lin Yuan's army, there are no aerial pictures, and they have only one way to see how many troops Lin Yuan's army has: counting the tents!

The tents used by Lin Yuan's troops are standardized equipment for the army. The size parameters of this kind of tents are announced to the public, which is convenient for each factory to produce. So Xu Yingkui got the data of this kind of tents, and deduced that a tent can live in How many people, and according to the total number of tents, the number of Lin Yuan's troops can be known.

As Lin Yuan's troops won one victory after another in Zhejiang, Lin Yuan was familiar with Xu Yingkuo's method of counting tents to see the strength of troops. So in this battle, Lin Yuan resorted to the strategy of "building tents openly and moving troops secretly". The strategy is to keep the number of tents in the main barracks unchanged, and divide a force to go eastward. They don’t set up tents and only sleep in moisture-proof sleeping bags at night. Sure enough, Xu Yingkui was deceived. After gathering troops, the 14th Brigade of the No. 39th Division broke through Shuanglindu in an instant. The line of defense appeared on the flanks of the Qing army.