Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 523
"Change tactics!" Seeing that his soldiers had fallen into a passive state, Lu Jianzhang, the chief of the Public Security Bureau who was observing through a telescope on the front line, roared loudly.A soldier standing next to him reacted, took out a flare gun and pulled the trigger towards the sky.With a shrill whistle-like sound, a white flare rose into the sky.After the white thing fell slowly, the gunshots suddenly and gradually disappeared.

"What are these idiots doing?" Hearing the gunshots that gradually stopped, it was the 21st Division of the Huwei Army that was attacking as the vanguard. Sun Chuanfang, the division commander, was full of surprise.

"It may be that the enemy took remedial measures after they discovered that we had been able to break through the defense line they set up. They shrunk their defense line, thereby strengthening their defense force and preventing it from being infiltrated by us!" A staff officer beside Sun Chuanfang expressed his opinion , Then he pointed to the map and said: "Our troops are here now, and people will definitely focus on defense there. I suggest that the troops start attacking immediately, and give the enemy a fatal blow when the enemy's foothold is not stable. Break through the opponent's defense."

"Well, what you said makes sense." Sun Chuanfang nodded, and said loudly: "Give me an order to continue attacking and advancing. You must constantly put pressure on the opponent's defense line, and use the form of wheel warfare to collapse the opponent."

After receiving this order, the forward troops immediately launched a second wave of attacks, and soon most of the army began to break through the defensive positions originally set up by the rebels.Sure enough, they were not frantically blocked by the previous rebels.As the vanguard moved forward, they carefully searched for every possible invisible building, but what surprised them was that the enemy did not arrange snipers there. It was empty, only piles of bullets and shell casings, and even a few long handles The hand grenades and the tripods of the machine guns, it is obvious that the rebels retreated in a panic.The engineers sent out did not find any landmines set by the enemy after a rough inspection.

Sun Chuanfang looked up and laughed loudly: "It seems that the enemy was frightened by me, and they all retreated in a swarm! Order the vanguard to move on."

So the troops began to infiltrate slowly, and soon they occupied Gangli Road, the first line of defense of the rebels.Tiger's mighty army has finally stepped into the land of urban Singapore.

Satisfied, Sun Chuanfang stood at the entrance of the street and looked around for a while. It was strange that there was not even a single person on the big street except for the tinkling wind chimes on the shops on both sides. Come cool.

Suddenly, there was only the sound of glass shattering one after another, and countless black muzzles protruded from the windows of the building, and they started shooting crazily at the Huwei army on the whole street.Grenades were thrown like a storm, and even some light recoilless guns and mortars joined the fray.

In an instant, bullets whizzed across the street like rain, and the shrapnel that exploded flew in all directions like butterflies under the action of powerful shock waves.Even Sun Chuanfang was made dizzy by the enemy's powerful firepower counterattack, seeing dozens of soldiers shot one after another and fell to the ground.

"Quick retreat! Find a cover!" Sun Chuanfang shouted hoarsely, while being protected by his men and hiding in a low bungalow behind him.

After a brief panic, the remaining soldiers hurried into the houses on the nearby street and fired blindly at the opposite window.

At the beginning, the firepower of the rebels was very strong. After all, they had built a complete attack strategy and equipped with heavy weapons such as machine guns and artillery. However, the vanguard of the Huwei Army only had rifles and a small number of light machine guns. Most of the heavy weapons were They are all behind the line, so the firepower is overwhelming.But soon the follow-up troops pushed the heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns onto the frontier street.

For a moment, the two sides shot at each other indiscriminately in the buildings occupied by the two sides of the small road, and dazzling flames shot out from the window sills facing the street, and the glass and wooden windows of those windows had been removed. , was blocked with planks and bricks, and turned into temporary firepower points. Except for some corpses of the Tigers on the road, all of them were evacuated into buildings, because anyone who walked there would be shot by machine guns and The bullets fired by the sniper ruthlessly knocked down.However, the heavy artillery, one of the advantages of the Huwei Army, is also unable to fire because the distance between the two sides is too close, and it is difficult to find a better attack position in a short time.

Although Sun Chuanfang really wanted to keep the troops at a distance from the enemy, as soon as they moved, the mortars from the opposite window came and cut off their retreat, making them pinned there and unable to move.

"Very good, the bastards have all entered our net pockets, it's time to close the net!" Commander Tian Zhongyu, who was in charge of Yishun's defense, waved his fist excitedly.

The messenger immediately sent out a black signal flare, which exploded in the sky with a long tail of smoke.

"Get down, get down!" Tian Zhongyu yelled, and at the same time hurriedly got down on the ground.

"Boom!" With loud bangs, the whole earth began to shake.

Sun Chuanfang clearly felt that the ceiling was shaking violently, and the cement crumbs covered with dust were falling down continuously. At this time, his heart began to sink a little bit.Looking out through the window, I was stunned and stunned!
A puff of thick gray smoke spewed out from the entire row of buildings occupied by the vanguard of the Huwei Army, and then the entire row of buildings fell to the east like a group of giants who were stumbled at the same time. It turned into a huge tumbling "mushroom cloud" slowly rising from the ground, and soldiers' severed limbs and arms fell from the sky from time to time in the black cloud.

Sun Chuanfang closed his eyes in pain, waved his hands and said to the messengers beside him, "All retreat! All retreat!"

With an order, the soldiers of the Huwei Army hiding in the building began to break out of the encirclement with difficulty, and the troops staying in the alley also began to retreat in large numbers after receiving the order. They carried their equipment and dragged their injured companions to start Quit the first line of defense set up by the rebels in Yishun, Gang Lai Street.

However, Tian Zhongyu did not intend to give those Sun Chuanfang a chance to retreat calmly. With a piercing whistling sound, one after another mortar shells drew black arcs in the sky covered with black smoke, and then kept falling on the enemy. On the way of the army's retreat, the flying shrapnel and the shock wave caused by the explosion of the artillery shell caused great trouble to these soldiers who retreated hastily. Soldiers were constantly hit by the roaring mortar shells, and many fell to the ground. There were heart-piercing screams, and more people just lay on the ground without saying a word and died.

Immediately afterwards, the infantry of the rebel army followed up and began to shoot frantically at the retreating people. Soon, many soldiers of the Huwei army were hit by the black guns behind them and fell to the ground.However, most of them managed to return to the new city defense line.This is mainly because the machine guns used by the rebels are still old-fashioned Maxim machine guns, and the light machine guns are also equipped with old-fashioned American Madsen or French Hatches. These machine guns are very heavy and inconvenient to carry. The road conditions in Beijing are not very good, so when the troops were pursuing, these machine guns held them back.

"Order the 95th Infantry Regiment to move forward! Continue to attack!" Tanaka Yu had a cruel sneer on the corner of his mouth, and waved the command knife in his hand vigorously, "Everyone has seen that the Tiger's Mighty Army is nothing more than that. Now the enemy is at the end of its battle. We We should continue to attack and annihilate them all in one fell swoop."

"Yes!" Encouraged by the commander, the officers below also let out an astonishing roar.But Tanaka Yu forgot that the army he was facing had been battle-hardened and had received very strict military training. Soon he found that many soldiers who were retreating had extremely sharp marksmanship. After almost every gunshot, there would be a His own soldiers fell to the ground.The astonishing hit rate of the Tiger's Mighty Army began to make the pursuing rebels feel timid, and the morale of the Tiger's Mighty Army was greatly boosted by this.In addition, some people rushed fast and some people rushed slowly, the pursuit team was very messy, so the formation of the rebels began to appear chaotic.

At the beginning, this kind of chaos appeared at the front of the troops. The enemy's surprising hit rate frightened the timid soldiers who rushed forward, and they retreated one after another.Then this situation was like a group of people suffering from a vicious infectious disease. Rows of people began to retreat, at first a few, and finally turned into hundreds of people fleeing together.A few minutes later, the originally neatly lined up troops turned into groups of scattered deserters.And the supervisor team was useless at this time, they couldn't stop the rout at all, and were soon dispersed by the oncoming rout.

Facing the scene in front of him.Tanaka Yu, who just felt that he had won the victory, was very annoyed, and immediately issued an order: "The commander of the 95th Infantry Regiment was relieved of all duties due to improper command, and was shot on the spot. In addition, the same was true for the soldiers who took the lead in fleeing." In addition, he reiterated , If anyone can insert the banner of victory into the Huwei army camp in Xincheng, then that person will be rewarded with 1 yuan! "

Sun Chuanfang took the troops back to the Xincheng camp with great difficulty. At this time, Cai E had already received the news and was waiting here.As soon as Sun Chuanfang saw the commander staring at him with a livid face, his legs softened and he knelt on the ground, mourning: "Commander, Chuanfang is incompetent and failed to break through to the city. We fell into the trick of the rebels."

"Enough!" Cai E roared angrily, startling all the people present. They had never seen this gentle general lose such a temper, and they all looked at Cai E in a daze.

The veins on Cai E's forehead were throbbing, and he pointed to Sun Chuanfang and said, "I knew it a long time ago. This time it was entirely because of your carelessness and pride that we lost the lives of more than 500 brothers in vain. Such a tragic result , Even I can't explain to the Ministry of War, what face do you have to come back to see me!"

(End of this chapter)