Chapter 1127 Battle of the Valley (2)
Wei Fengling could not learn the battle situation in Yinan Village in detail, but he was not as anxious as he imagined. The field troops of nearly 10,000 people, not to mention that the main force of the kingdom people was restrained in the Guyongfeng area, so what if there was really one army or even two army tens of thousands of people? Zou Yun was not a pig? He couldn't beat him and could not run away? With mountain cannons and infantry cannons, how could the kingdom people use them to open the way?
He didn't know that Zou Yun had really turned into a roasted pig, and his reinforcements were also in dire straits and were almost turning into a roasted pig.
Regarding the black technology of the Principal Army, which is not considered a cannon, which is at most an ejector, Liu Lang actually did not say that he had great confidence, hoping to defeat nearly 3,000 Black Hawks in the valley with 500 explosive packs.
That miracle is unreplicable.
This river valley is not like Yinan Village. In fact, the terrain is quite wide. There are about 200 meters in narrow places and 300 meters in wide places. As long as you hide far away, no matter how powerful the explosive pack is, it will be limited after all.
But Liu Lang forgot that the launch of the thunder cannon was ejected from the top of the mountain, with a much further range than on the flat ground, and the attack surface was naturally much wider.
There were actually quite a lot of casualties. Two minutes before the explosive packs were flying, the Black Hawk Army that was killed and killed was at least 300, and it gradually decreased later.
However, it is one of the reasons that caused damage to the Black Hawk Army, and the most important thing is to blow the Black Hawk Army up at dusk.
There was an infantry regiment on each side of the mountains, a total of more than 4,000 people shooting downwards. The Black Hawks didn't have the courage to rush into the unblocked valley.
For these Black Hawk Empires who entered the encirclement, they would have to hide in a field with only stones and shrubs without being blown up by explosives. But if they go there, they would have become a living target for the kingdom soldiers who were shooting from a high place.
Either being shot to death or being bombed by explosives, the Black Hawks must make a choice.
New recruits were afraid of artillery, and veterans were afraid of guns. The Black Hawk Army, which had received military training in China for at least one year and fought in the north for at least two months, made a relatively correct choice and did not run into the field blindly. After experiencing the initial panic, under the constraints of the squadron leader and the squad leader, searching for cover to hide along the mountain road, and also launched a counterattack on the mountain.
However, the lower part of the mountain is mostly bare stones and even weeds. Any Black Hawk Empire who dared to climb up the mountain was hit by the main force of the Duchy Army on both sides of the mountain.
In just three minutes, there were no less than a hundred Blackhawk Empire people killed on the way to counterattack.
Perhaps Chi Liang's military order also played a role. The Black Hawk Empire Army no longer blindly counterattacked upwards, but organized a team and squadron to build positions frantically. The grenade launchers carried by the army continued to fire grenades at the fire point on the mountain to cover their infantry.
The Black Hawk Army's grenade launcher is worthy of being the best front-line support weapon designed by the Black Hawk Empire during World War II. In particular, the Black Hawk Army's grenade launcher is almost the most cunning veterans. They hid from the beginning of the battle. Although the power of the explosive packs flying all over the sky was scary, the Black Hawk Army suffered many casualties, but the casualties of the veterans were actually not too great. Most of the Black Hawk Army who were bombed or shot to death were new recruits, especially those in the second-line soldiers who rarely had the chance to go to the battlefield.
Dozens of grenade launchers followed by smoke from explosives, sneaking into the mountain, causing certain casualties to the attacking troops. Two heavy machine gun teams were attacked by grenade launchers because they were too busy and not only were the team members either sacrificed or seriously injured, but even the heavy machine guns were blown up.
This made the two infantry commanders extremely angry. They sent elite shooters from their respective infantry battalions to focus on the Black Hawk Army grenades on the battlefield, but also took out their own personal belongings - mortars, and chased the Black Hawk Army grenades who were discovered.
That's right, although the Duchy's army was so poor that it was so poor that each soldier only fired twenty bullets in a battle, there were still mortars. Not to mention that Liu Lang sent a batch of mortars in Gangshan Town, even the Duchy's army itself. When he set out from Landzhou, he was reluctant to throw away the mountain cannons that had been empty. He carried the thing hundreds of kilograms on his shoulders and crossed 25,000 miles with the priest soldiers. You will know how much the Principal soldiers attached to artillery.
The mortar, each infantry regiment of the Principal Army, ranges from two doors to four doors, is much stronger than the Qiu Tong Army, who once used to be in time and space, wearing straw sandals, straw hats, bolts, and hemp ropes, and then came out of Qiu Tongzhou to fight against the Black Hawk Empire.
When using mortars and grenade launchers, they naturally take advantage of it. The two weapons are not on the same level at all. That is, the Black Hawk Army has more grenade launchers.
In fact, compared to their number, the number of Black Hawk Army grenade launchers in the valley is actually quite pitiful.
There are two infantry squadrons and four baggage corps squadrons surrounded by the valley, with a number of up to 2,500. If the Black Hawk Army is equipped with an infantry squadron and three infantry squadrons, and the average number of 6 infantry squadrons per squadron is 6, then this Black Hawk Army with a force of up to 2,500 will have at least 60 grenade launchers.
However, the baggage corps squadron is just a supplementary force for the regular infantry of the Black Hawk Army. Their main job is to transport supplies. Their equipment cannot be compared with the regular infantry squadron. Although the number of people is as high as more than 500, it is still divided into three squadrons. Each squad has three times the number of people as that of a regular infantry squadron. There are basically one pistol, but the light machine gun and grenade launcher are still equipped with 2 squads and 2 squads.
To put it bluntly, the four baggage corps squadrons exceeded 2,000 people, almost close to two infantry brigades or an infantry regiment in the kingdom, but they were 24 light machine guns and 24 grenade launchers. Without heavy machine guns and infantry cannons, they were pure light infantry.
The Black Hawk Imperial Army's awesome Continental Army equipment was not reflected in them at all. Not to mention meeting an ordinary kingdom infantry regiment, they would not have much advantage. If they met an Ordnance Infantry regiment that the king had put a lot of effort in equipting them, they could be beaten into Xiang.
The Black Hawks in the valley are only equipped with 36 light machine guns and 36 grenade launchers. The most awesome ones are probably the 12 heavy machine guns and the two infantry guns of the heavy machine gun squadron.
It would be pretty good if you just look at it. Such equipment is enough to beat an ordinary kingdom infantry regiment, even more powerful than the infantry divisions of some local warlords. However, they faced two infantry regiments with the most elite army of the Principality and had a lot of guns, and were on a 3,000-meter-long position.
Only when the average is more than 80 meters can a light machine gun and a grenade can be distributed, and only when the average is 250 meters can a heavy machine gun. Such a fire density is too sparse.
What's more, under the leadership of Major Chi Liang, a squadron of infantry and a squadron of 700 people were running desperately towards the future, trying to defend the rear. The firepower value of the No. 1,800 people who remained in the valley was so low that it was outrageous.
Fortunately, the independent regiments are not involved in the battle now. Otherwise, with their crazy firepower output that strengthened the mortars and "chainsaws" to the infantry platoons, they would immediately fight the Black Hawk Army, which is mainly the second-line soldiers of the baggage corps, immediately doubt their lives?
After the Black Hawks' crazy counterattack achieved certain results, they immediately encountered a retaliatory blow.
Not only the two large regiment commanders of the infantry regiment angrily brought out their secret treasures, but also used the few mortar shells to attack grenade launchers that caused considerable casualties on their own.
As the commander-in-chief of the front line, Liu Lang, who had observed the battle situation at close range, quickly ordered 80 flying thunder cannons with a base of five explosive packs to stop shooting, leaving 2 explosive packs for each cannon for final use.
After several minutes of throwing explosive packs, the expected effect has basically been achieved. Although it is impossible to replicate the miracle of the shocking explosion in Yinan Village Canyon that solved more than 2,000 Black Hawk Imperial Army, the Black Hawk Army also suffered at least three or four hundred casualties.
Originally, the role of the flying thunder cannon in this kind of ambush battlefield is to "attack him unexpectedly", and use the characteristics of the enemy's previous unfamiliarity with such weapons to kill and have a large number of killing and living forces, but we cannot expect our opponents to be stupid all the time. The opponent is not stupid. Although the halo of the number one army in Dongzhou is a bit ridiculous, they really did not meet any opponents in Dongzhou, except for being spent in the kingdom for eight years.
But how many casualties did the kingdom pay for it? Those were almost eight years of life.
The Black Hawk Army, which had basically determined that the approximately range of the Flying Thunder Cannon, hid outside the explosion range of the explosive pack thrown by the Flying Thunder Cannon. If they continued to fight, they would only create more smoke to cover the Black Hawk Empire.
Therefore, the flying thunder cannon, which relied on great power and killed the great fortune, stopped the artillery attack, and the artillery battalion officially appeared.
The artillery observation team, which had already been on the mountains, quickly sent the position they observed that the Black Hawk Army was building, especially the location of the heavy machine gun firepower point to the artillery battalion in flags.
The valley is wide, and for the Black Hawk Army, which was ambushed by pure infantry, is not as miserable as the 40th Infantry Brigade in Yinan Village before. At least there is still some room for survival. They can even build field positions based on the terrain in the valley and resist stubbornly.
Just like the battle at Xiongjiao Pass, because the 115th Division had only a small number of mortars, the two squadrons of the baggage corps were ambushed and resisted for several hours in front of their opponents who were several times more than theirs.
However, this terrain is simply the most exciting artillery position for the artillery battalion that has moved the mountain cannons to the mountains, no doubt about it.
They didn't have to worry about accidentally attacking the friendly forces on the mountains on both sides. They just needed to aim at the Black Hawks' positions at the bottom of the valley and fired fire.
The mortar position with a range of 2,500 meters was built at a mid-section of only 700 meters away from the valley. The four-type four-one mountain cannon with a range of 6,000 meters was on Cangyan Peak, completely covering all locations in the valley, with almost no blind spots.
Chapter completed!