On the 25th, the Qing army vanguard who came from Chenyang arrived at the frontier positions of the Ming army, and a great war began.

In the early morning of the 26th, the sky was still a little dark, the sky to the east was gradually turning white, and the mountains in the distance were still dark. From the trenches of the Ming army, there was an open land directly in front of the trenches, and all the trees were cut down. Even the lush weeds in front of the formation were burned by the Ming army. In addition, all obstacles that affected the shooting range, including earth slopes, were cleared by the Ming army.[]

In front of the trenches are two barbed wire mesh, which are about ten meters apart. After more than a month of preparation, the Ming army dug the trenches and traffic trenches in a crisscrossing position, and had already built the position as solid as a solid foundation.

Looking at the Ming army's position with a telescope, the barbed wire in front of the position was in sight. A distance from a distance, you could vaguely see machine gun fortifications built with sandbags, a pile of dark and twenty or thirty steps away. It seems that the Ming army's position should not be underestimated after some painstaking efforts. If you want to take down the Ming army's position, it is definitely not that simple. The Qing army is already very afraid of the power of the machine gun, but this is a decisive battle. No matter how strong the Ming army's defense line is or how powerful the Ming army's firepower is, you have to rush up.

The Qing army's Niulu Zhang Jingjile Zhanga looked at the pocket watch in his hand, and the hour hand was about to point to five in the morning. He turned around and looked behind, and then heard the booming cannon sound. As the cannon sounded, it meant that the entire line of attack had officially begun.

The Qing army's shelling lasted less than a minute. Jilezhanga waved his hand, and then Zalombi blew the horn. The next moment, a team of horses rushed forward.

The artillery fire just now caused almost no damage to the Ming army's positions. The Ming army hid in the tunnel, and except for a few injured, no one was killed. Rather than saying that the sparse artillery fire of the Qing army was an offensive artillery preparation, it would be better to fire a war of cannons to the offensive and defensive sides.

A sound of horse hooves sounded. The Ming army in the trench saw a few steps away from a distance, rushing from slow to fast, and the sound of horse hooves became more and more urgent. Soon, it began to detonate mines at the front of the position, rumbling and rumbling. A man was overturned. Before the Ming army's gunshots sounded, the first group of cavalry fell on the way to charge.

However, the second group of cavalry of the Qing army rushed up again, and they still rode a few steps away. The single-row cavalry once again rushed forward. With the explosion of mines and the crackling gunshots of the Ming army, the second group of cavalry also fell on the way to charge.

The Ming army in the trenches could not help but feel relaxed when they witnessed this strange and ridiculous scene. A few bold people even laughed, saying: Tartars, isn’t this going to die!

The company commander Tian Deli didn't think so easily. After Tian Deli returned from Luzon, he did not go to Sichuan to suppress bandits because of his injury. After he recovered from the wounds, he was promoted to company commander. Guo Yanqi, who almost recovered at the same time, became his deputy company commander and was then transferred to the Liaodong battlefield. Tian Deli Guo Yanqi claimed that fighting from the south to the north was no problem to fight the Japanese. The Tartars were nowhere to be the case, so Brigade Commander Guan placed Tian Deli's company on the first line of defense, based on the strategic department of the entire battle. The first line of defense is both a temptation to lure the enemy and a first step to consume the Qing army. However, the fire of the artillery is limited, and the grenade can be relied on is a heavy weapon, and the machine gun is just a light machine gun. Tian Deli has no experience in fighting with the Tartars. He just saw that the Tartars were charging as soon as they came up. The Tartars really dared to invest in capital. The cavalry was fast and did not have sufficient firepower. After the mines were blown up, Tian Deli also felt it was a bit tricky when facing the cavalry's desperate rushing and fighting style.

However, the cavalry of the Tartars did not charge continuously, but used oil-adding tactics. Each group was a single row of cavalry, which was very rare. In the dim morning, the war horses and the cavalry on the telescope were also dark and hazy. I only heard that the Tartars used straw men to disguise the firepower of the Ming army. Could it be that this trick?

Tian Deli was just suspicious, but Guo Yanqi ran over and shouted:

"Damn, the Tartars are making fakes, fooling people. They waste our bullets in vain."

Tian Deli smiled bitterly, thinking that his deputy was yelling at the same time, which made the dignified company commander feel a little embarrassed, so he pulled Guo Yanqi over and said:

"I understand, stop yelling, yelling nonsense! What if the real Tartar cavalry rushed up!"

Guo Yan touched his head with a silly smile and said:

"Yes, I really can't feel sorry for the bullet."

Tian Deli became more and more proud and said:

"No matter how fake it is, it is at least a horse. Knocking down a horse is also a military merit. Brothers, just fight. The horses of the Tartars are said to taste good. If you defeat the Tartars, I will invite the brothers to eat horse meat."

Tian Deli was just using this to boost morale. When the Ming brothers around him heard this, they all burst into laughter.

Then, the Ming army couldn't laugh, and the third round of the same charge finally rushed to the barbed wire mesh and pulled down a large piece of barbed wire mesh.

The three groups of horses of the Qing army were all strapped. They rushed forward while the morning was dark and pretended to charge. The Ming army's mine formation was detonated one by one, whether it was a mine or a raid. In addition, it consumed a lot of bullets from the Ming army. Horses were scarce resources for the Ming army, but for the Qing army, it was a must-have for traveling at home. It was a bit exaggerated to say that it was a consumable, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was an ordinary thing. As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and water to eat water. The Qing army has few people, but there are many horses, so of course they have to abandon horses to protect people. The Qing army cannot afford the tactics of the sea of ​​people, but can defeat the tactics of the sea of ​​horses. In the use of horses, the Qing army has created many tricks, which are unique and the Mongolians have no match.

If you pay for so many horses, it is not just about detonating landmines and consuming bullets. The most important thing is that the horses that fall down every other section of the open ground have become the best barrier for Qing infantry to attack and avoid bullets. The Qing army crawled and used the corpses of horses as cover. The Ming army's bullets hit the horse's corpses, and the flesh and blood were flying. The dead horse doesn't care whether you can shoot more or more bullets, but you can't hit the Qing soldiers hiding behind the horses. The Ming army's bullets were flying, but the Qing army's casualties were not large.

When Tian Deli saw that the original open and good shooting world was messed up by the Qing army's horses. Seeing that the shooting effect was greatly affected, Tian Deli quickly ordered the grenade launcher to be launched. More than a dozen grenade launchers immediately popped the grenade launcher. However, except for the three soldiers' grenade launchers being more accurate, the other grenade launchers were rarely hit by the Qing army. This is the grenade launcher. It is a job of practice that makes perfect. Without long-term live-fire training, there is no accurate fight. Tian Deli was all under his command. After only four months of training, the grenade launcher fell into their hands, so he had to make a comeback.

Soon, the Qing army approached not far from the Ming army's trench. When the distance to the grenade was closer, the Qing army began to throw grenades. The Ming army was unwilling to fall behind and began to throw grenades in a tit-for-tat way. The Tartars' arm strength was generally stronger than the Ming army, but they could not use force when they crawled on the ground. The Ming army's arm strength was worse than that, but they could shake their arms. Moreover, the Ming army had tunnels as barriers. After this round of grenades, the casualties of the Qing army increased sharply.

Among the Qing army rushing up, Zhuketu was the most accurate in throwing grenades. With his years of horse-drawing, his grasp of the power of throwing grenades was incredible. He threw both far and accurate. The Ming army's grenades could not reach him. Seven or eight of his ten grenades were thrown into the trenches of the Ming army. In this section of Zhuketu, the Ming army's firepower was immediately suppressed, including the machine gun position, and two grenades were hit continuously. One of them exploded in mid-air, and the Ming army's machine gun was completely stumbled.

Guo Yanqi immediately brought people to reinforce, and the two grenade launchers also aimed at Zhuketu and fired grenade launchers. However, in this period, the Qing army had already rushed up in the gap of the Ming army's firepower. When Guo Yanqi brought his men to arrive, several Qing soldiers also crossed the second barbed wire, and the two sides met in close combat, and then they started hand-to-hand combat.

Gillerzhana, in the distance, saw this scene from the telescope and immediately shouted:

"Cabinets obey orders, hurry up and charge with me!"

As the Zalmbi Cowhound sounded, the Qing army, who had been riding on the war horses, suddenly pulled the reins and the war horses rushed forward.

Tian Deli hurriedly commanded the remaining machine guns to shoot at the rushing cavalry, but the Ming army was already struggling to deal with the approaching Qing army infantry. The Ming army felt it was difficult to take care of it, so they lost the other. In addition, Guo Yanqi had already engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army, and both sides were constantly engaged in hand-to-hand combat. No matter how hard Tian Deli tried, he could no longer organize a powerful firepower to block the cavalry whistling by the Qing army. At this time, the grenades thrown by both sides made the battlefield full of gunpowder smoke. In the smoke, the sound of horse hooves was heard from sparse to dense. Then even the horses were trembling with their feet. Five or six hundred steps apart, but in an instant, the Qing army's cavalry rushed up and joined the ranks of hand-to-hand combat in a blink of an eye.

The Ming army had only bayonets. Facing the cavalry that was rushing at high speed, they had already lost in momentum, especially the new recruits. Facing the rushing war horses, a huge sense of oppression arose in their hearts, and they were timid after they were not fighting. Many people were hesitating whether to stab the bayonets at the war horses or the Tartars on the horses, the Tartars' scimitar had already cut their heads.

With the addition of cavalry, there is no suspense in this hand-to-hand battle. Tian Deli is a good player of the Eagle Battalion. With his pistol and agile battlefield reaction ability, he killed five Tartars in a row. However, the Tartar cavalry was extremely fierce, and there were fewer and fewer Ming army brothers around him.

Tian Deli knew that he could not defend himself. Besides, the first line of defense was to be given up, but he didn't expect it to fall so quickly. Tian Deli weighed the trade-offs and immediately ordered the machine gun to cover and retreat. However, the two armies were fighting hand-to-hand, especially Guo Yanqi, and the two sides were already twisted together, and Guo Yanqi was obviously dissatisfied. Although Guo Yanqi was a veteran of the Eagle Camp, he was weak and had been hit by several times at this time. He was just forced to resist with a fighting spirit.

Tian Deli led six people to pounce, and finally killed Guo Yanqi. He pulled the injured Guo Yanqi backwards along the traffic trench.

Finally, under the cover of the second line of defense, Tian Deli, the remaining soldiers of the company, finally retreated. Once the number was counted, there were only twenty-seven people left, most of them were injured.

Tian Deli was so angry that he twitched his teeth and said:

"Damn it, I'm raising a bastard of Tartars. It depends on how long can you be arrogant when your cavalry is arrogant! I have recorded this account, and I will ask you to repay it twice as much."

(During the journey, updates have some impact.)
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