Chapter 16 Bullet Rain
Under the gloomy sky, countless military flags were flying, and rows of soldiers picked up rifles. The eyes were filled with the yellow military uniforms of the Hubei army, one square after another, and there was no end to see, and I don’t know how many troops there were.
Whether it was the Rouran rebels attacking with a battalion formation under Linxi City, or the charge of several infantry regiments under Yichang City, compared with the countless battle flags in front of them, the countless soldiers were simply not worth mentioning.
This situation is difficult for others to understand the impulse of the soul. According to Li Jianshuang's memoir, it is: "It's all the enemy's ocean!"
Even Liu Jingxiao couldn't help but jump up suddenly, with big eyes open. At this time, Guo Junqing said to the side: "It's going to start!"
Liu Jingxiao finally calmed down, but even the veterans of the Dingbian Army who had passed the Linxi Battle were uneasy. Many new recruits simply opened their mouths and looked at all this, and then looked at the artillery unfolded in front of the enemy's formation. The officers and soldiers sank again. Fortunately, the officers played their role at this time and shouted loudly: "What are you afraid of! What are you afraid of! One shot at a time! It's not enough for us to stuff our teeth!"
These were all words to comfort himself. Captain Hu Bo was frightened and shouted, "It's just such a small number of people..."
Liu Jingxiao's mind was even further away. Now that the journey from Minquan is the main force of the enemy, he still has to pay attention to the troops in the south. God knows how many troops Henan will invest in the south. Just as Guo Junqing asked again, "Do you want to transfer the reserve team!"
In addition to modifying the armored chariot this time, Liu Jingxiao also controlled four armies as reserve teams in Guide City. The reserve team stayed in the car for food and accommodation, and did not have any equipment. She was ready to support all aspects at any time. When she heard Guo Junqing's words, Liu Jingxiao became completely calm: "Don't move for the time being! I don't believe that all ten thousand people can't withstand their attack!"
Almost at the same time, the enemy's team began to advance. The veteran took neat steps and said nothing. Regarding the fierce artillery fire of the 17th Division, the journey ahead must be full of blood and sacrifice.
The most calm person is Meng Dingguo. He has endless confidence in his artillery, and he doesn't need to go into battle to fight the bayonets himself. He shouted loudly: "Grandma, do you have to! Use the cannon to smash them..."
Dozens of cannons roared together, and the shells drew beautiful arcs and fell into the enemy's formation. Most of the formation was shrouded in smoke. You can see that many places were tore through big holes, and the 17th Division cheered violently.
But no one finished cheering, and then opened his eyes to look at the incredible things in front of him. The formation in front of him was neat and could not see any damage. Mengdingguo even opened his eyes to look at all. According to historical experience, as long as a round of artillery fired, the enemy's formation would become incomplete.
Liu Jingxiao saw some tricks: the enemy's troops were too strong, and a round of artillery would not cause much damage at all. The officers and soldiers immediately blocked the gaps, but what was terrible was that the enemy's strong fighting will was really out of Liu Jingxiao's expectations!
In such a violent shelling, no one turned his head back, and could not even hear a word of gossip. Apart from the intense military music, the entire formation seemed very calm. Looking at the flying tiny snowflakes, the entire formation moved towards this like a hill, and some new recruits could hardly control it.
Fortunately, Meng Dingguo did not believe in evil at this time. Countless shrapnel flew, causing heavy casualties in the enemy's army. They tore open one big hole after another in the entire formation. Because the range was close, some close-range artillery was also thrown into the volley. However, the enemy was like a huge rock in the sea. Meng Dingguo's artillery only hit a few small waves. The officers and soldiers of the Hubei army automatically filled the gaps, and soon they could not even find the traces.
However, Meng Dingguo said honestly at this time: "I used to think artillery was omnipotent! Now I know that artillery can't solve the problem!"
Almost at the same time, the enemy's artillery began to fight back. The four-fly shrapnel flew overturned dozens of people on the position. The worst thing was that as a company of the Hu Bo regiment reserve team, he stood inexplicably after the fortification. The entire company was scrapped under the artillery fire without firing a single shot.
At this time, the Dingbian Army was the most useful veterans. They all calmed down and made the final preparations before the war. Some even started to slap: "I can defeat the Rouran rebels in Linxi with one squad! What's so scary about this!"
The officers played a crucial role, using leather shoes to suppress the soldiers' commotion, and Hu Bo seemed a little frightened. Fortunately, Liu Jingxiao also came up to inspect himself. When he saw that he was a little guilty, he shouted loudly: "Teacher told us to ask for three lights even if we die... Look at your leather shoes! Don't wipe them!"
Hu Bo quickly took off his leather shoes, then wiped them with his pants. After a while, he realized, but he calmed down and thought to himself: "It's good that I've got a team leader in more than a year! Maybe I can upgrade to another level..."
However, the group offensive of nearly 30,000 people in Henan does have endless rushing intentions. "Su Hanqiu's impact" is famous for a moment. Bai Ling personally led the team to the forefront of the formation. Every step he took was like a hill and pressed against the officers and soldiers of the 17th Division, and was also clamped on Liu Jingxiao's heartstrings. Liu Jingxiao couldn't help but secretly grabbed Guo Junqing's hand. Guo Junqing struggled hard, but did not break away. He only heard Liu Jingxiao say: "I'm afraid the victory or defeat is still outside the battlefield!"
"The victory or defeat is outside the battlefield." Liu Jingxiao's life-saving straw was in Yang Linyi's headquarters. When he heard that the great benefactor Murong Fenghua was coming, Commander Yang was extremely polite. He asked to make tea and sit down. He apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! I didn't expect that Mr. Murong could come to my broken nest. It was really a shame to welcome..."
At present, Murong Fenghua had a white towel tied around her neck, a fox fur coat, and a blue belt tied around her waist. She looked like a successful businessman. She couldn't tell at all. As soon as she met, Murong Fenghua said, "Teacher Yang, I came here as a lobbyist..."
There is no such lobbyist in the world. As soon as we meet, of course everyone will directly point out their intentions, and it will be heard in Li Fu's ears. Of course, Governor Li has always been suspicious, and Liu Jingxiao's purpose can be reached halfway, so Commander Yang's face was very bad. He immediately stopped everyone and asked Murong Fenghua to go in and discuss secretly.
Murong Fenghua is a local snake. Even if there are some rumors, as long as you can’t catch the real evidence, Li Fu can’t do anything to him. At most, he has knocked a big pen. But Commander Yang is different. As soon as he meets, he keeps saying: “Mr. Murong, you are too reckless… If this falls into someone’s ears, wouldn’t it be a big deal for Commander Liu…”
Then Yang Linyi said, "Mr. Liu does beautiful things in Shandong! I admire Zhang Ke very much, please rest assured... We Shaanxi men are all loyal, and I will never shoot at Shandong!"
At this time, Murong Fenghua said with a question on his face and innocent, "I am not a lobbyist for Liu Jingxiao!"
Yang Linyi really wanted to pick up the pistol and shoot it with one shot, but he was a big financial owner, and he gave it to him at any time. With this alone, he had to smile: "Was Miss Murong the lobbyist of Duke Li? Then I am also welcomed. Think about it, we are all family in Shaanxi and Henan, and the most realistic brothers in Henan. As long as Duke Li gives us 30,000 brothers, we will rush up immediately!"
At this time, Murong Fenghua revealed a card: "I'm sorry! I'm just a temporary residence in Kaifeng. I'm here to be a lobbyist for Governor Ding of Shandong..."
Fuck! Ding Jing and Liu Jingxiao are not wearing pairs of pants, what's the difference? Unfortunately, Yang Linyi is still smiling there: "That's that's the worst Henan person in the world. I think how could Mr. Murong be from Henan... I don't know what Governor Ding has to give!"
Murong Fenghua controlled the situation at the negotiating table. She was not talking for a while. Yang Linyi was also kind-hearted and waited for her to speak. At this time, she said: "Governor Ding sent me to congratulate Governor Yang. When will he enter Kaifeng, he will do his best to help!"
Yang Linyi has always been steady, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but stare at Murong Fenghua with a little excited expression. Now is a great time! Great time! Almost all the troops from Henan have arrived at the front line of civil rights, and there is not much force left in the rear. If his 30,000 people take the opportunity to change their banners and fight, wouldn't he have settled the position of the provincial chief?
Yang Linyi's eyes were as sharp as lightning, but Murong Fenghua had no trace of fear at all. She said calmly: "Our Governor Ding is willing to subsidize 10,000 rifles, 1 million military salary, and 60 cannons..."
Yang Linyi weighed the gains and losses, and finally said: "The most important thing is that people must have moral character. We soldiers must also have martial ethics. I can keep the troops on the other side of the river and watch the fire, or calculate the accounts with Li Fu in the autumn. At this time, if you stab him in the back, you will lack morality."
Yang Linyi's face was full of righteousness as he spoke. Murong Fenghua admired this kind of backbone man very much. She stood up and said, "Teacher Yang, it's true that he is a man. It's not a favor to trade... I'll take a step for the time being!"
Yang Linyi didn't expect Murong Fenghua to reply so simply, and immediately said, "Why don't Mr. Murong stay here for a few more days? Don't worry, you have to agree to Governor Ding that as long as I, Yang Linyi, will definitely not invade Shandong for one day!"
How could this kind of trick of writing make Murong Fenghua coax her? She also simply wrote a blank check: "Then Fenghua will thank you! As long as Commander Yang can control his brothers, we Governor Ding promised to thank 100,000 oceans again afterwards!"
However, if the far fire cannot relieve the near thirst, Liu Jingxiao can only give birth to himself. The continuous rounds of artillery bombardment seemed to be ineffective, and the torn opening was automatically filled in, which made Meng Dingguo feel a little dejected. Afterwards, the article recalling the Battle of Guide was rarely humble: "Our artillery only played a little auxiliary role."
Of course, on the other hand, the feeling is completely different. "Hundreds of cannons bombard us almost at the same time", "Their cannons are ten times more than us, and they have better performance", "that's probably hell", "I'm not willing to go on that journey again", "I hope to walk this road quickly, but after only a dozen steps, the enemy's shells kept falling down. The only thing that can support us is probably the friendship for our comrades."
Standing at both ends of the battlefield, there was a completely different feeling. Before hitting the position of the 17th Division, it was nearly one kilometer of open land, and all the infantry were exposed to artillery fire without any concealment. The several rounds of artillery bombings in Mengding Kingdom were completely the greatest killing effect, but it could only cause a few waves to charge against nearly 30,000 enemy troops.
The enemy also responded with fierce artillery fire, and the number of their artillery soldiers was slightly higher than that of the 17th Division. For example, Bai Siwen often used this subject to traditional education in the future: "Let us remember the martyrs... That was under the city of Guide, the enemy concentrated fifty or sixty times the artillery fire and more than twenty times the force to carry out crazy attacks, but my brave officers and soldiers of the 17th Division braved the artillery fire and repelled the enemy's attacks again and again."
When he said this, Bai Siwen's eyes widened and sometimes he couldn't cry, as if he had returned to the war years of fighting against the sky and the earth, and his loyalty and righteousness were far superior to Yue Wumu.
Of course, just memoirs of revolutionary history, the memories of others are relatively credible, of course they are just relative. Hu Bo said that "the enemy's artillery is ten times that of our army", and Li Jianshuang "the enemy's artillery has concentrated more than four times that of the enemy." Meng Dingguo gave a more professional estimate: "the enemy's artillery is more than twice that of ours."
However, if Bai Siwen went to the front line, he would probably be similar to the performance of the bells. The bells were so bombed by shells that they held their heads and ran around, screaming: "I'm injured... I'm seriously injured... Brothers take care of my wife..."
However, God seemed to take good care of the yellow sheep and did not want his wife to become a widow surnamed He. As a result, he was injured nothing except ash. In the end, the yellow sheep was caught in something evil and ran around in the open space. The shells on both sides had eyes, but they were not injured. In the end, the yellow sheep sat underground and couldn't get up for a long time. Finally, she said: "It turns out that many people will die in war..."
Of course, the rest of the people did not have such blessings. Although the construction of fortifications of the 17th Division greatly reduced the damage, the Sifei's projectiles could take away people's lives at any time.
Chapter completed!