() Many things in the world are so wonderful. When the war began, the Russians wanted to take advantage of the civil unrest to cross the Yalu River and turn Northeast China into Yellow Russia. However, after several months of competition, except for Inner Mongolia, Russia also maintained its offensive.

, whether it is at sea or on land, the Russian team is on the defensive. What is even more embarrassing for the Russians is that the Russian team concentrated on the front line in Heilongjiang now actually has only more than 20,000 people, of which more than 8,000 are used to warn Hailanpao.

, there are less than 10,000 people defending the thousand-kilometer-long river. Faced with such a loophole-filled defense line, Beiyang was not polite and chose the most embarrassing and efficient way to cross the river - daytime crossing.

River

It is said that Russia also has some river defense gunboats, so why is it indifferent to the actions in Beiyang? This is really an injustice to the Russians. The Russians have some inland river gunboats, but because the war is tight and the situation on the mainland is relatively calm, some river defense gunboats

The armaments of Heilongjiang were disassembled and used to support the Japanese war zone. The remaining Jiang defense gunboats were used to blockade the direction of Hailanpao. In addition, Heilongjiang is indeed too long, so it is normal for large blank areas to appear. Just

In this way, when the northern attack group launched an attack, the Russians did not discover it immediately

When Peng Yi set foot on the land on the north bank of Heilongjiang, he couldn't help but be filled with emotions. Ten years ago, he was just a businessman in Southeast Asia. In the eyes of the Dutch, he and his compatriots were just economic animals.

.Under the exploitation of the Dutch and the greedy eyes of the indigenous people, they were eking out an existence. Their hard work could not be respected, and they could not even guarantee a normal life. But now, he and his compatriots were not only living in the Dutch East.

India has enjoyed legitimate rights, and has returned to the land of its motherland and participated in the great process of national rejuvenation.

Considering that there are really no difficult targets for the Russian team along the Heilongjiang River, Peng Yi's troops are mainly light-armed troops, with a certain amount of cavalry, equipped with 75mm rapid fire cannons and 120mm heavy mortars. At the same time, there are a small number of 105mm

The cannons were used to suppress the opponent's artillery, while the division's 6-inch heavy artillery and the battle group's 8-inch siege artillery were temporarily left on the south bank to block the river. Although the troops crossed the river and were not intercepted, but for the sake of the past

, Beiyang still needs to leave some heavy firepower to block the river.

In this way, after Beiyang smoothly sent the troops of three regiments, the Russian army in Svobod, which was more than 100 kilometers away, finally reacted. The Northeast Armed Guards actually fought over. Ever since, Beiyang and

This is how the Russian Army's first field encounter after the war began

In a real encounter, the large Beiyang troops were busy crossing the river and did not build systematic defenses. However, the Russian troops ran for hundreds of miles in a panic, not to mention preparations, and many supplies and baggage were still left behind.

Without any tricks, the two troops collided together. The leading troops of a regiment of the Beiyang Army and a regiment of the Russian Army met 15km away from the crossing point.

If someone can stand on a high place and overlook the entire battlefield, he can see two torrents approaching quickly. One is the Russian army wearing gray military uniforms, and the other is the Northeastern Armed Guards wearing green military uniforms. The two troops are different.

Know the situation of the other party. You can only know that the other party is coming through the trembling ground and the telescope, and there are many people coming.

Facing the upcoming encounter, the choices of the two sides were very different. The Beiyang Armed Guards first stopped advancing, and the vanguard battalion immediately deployed a defense line on the spot. Although complete bunkers could not be built in a hurry, most of the soldiers still

The limited time was used to dig out shallow or deep individual bunkers. The engineer brothers helped the machine gun team and mortar team build temporary machine gun bunkers and artillery nests. Both sides only had more than half an hour at most.

, but even so, the heavy firepower team on the front line can still build a recommended semi-buried bunker. Of course, this semi-buried bunker has no roof. But it is still enough for the brothers of the machine gun team to hide.

When the leading battalion was preparing to defend the enemy, the two following battalions began to circle to both sides. The establishment of positions on both wings was used to prevent the opponent from outflanking on the one hand. On the other hand, it could suppress the opponent's offensive from the flanks. Because the rear camp was

To engage the enemy, the troops on both flanks of the Beiyang Army have more time to establish positions. However, in general, the Beiyang Army still tends to defend and counterattack. Although it is more conservative, it is absolutely practical. When facing the enemy with machine guns and artillery, they rush forward rashly.

Absolutely undesirable.

Relatively speaking, the Russian Army is more offensive. However, this kind of attack is more reckless. In other words, the Russian Army's thinking still remains at the level of suppressing the opponent with artillery, and then using a sea of ​​​​people to break down the opponent's defense line. If the two sides use

They are all rifles and anti-aircraft guns. In such a hasty encounter, launching an attack first can indeed achieve miraculous results. However, with the large number of weapons with super delivery capabilities such as machine guns and rapid fire cannons, the human sea charge has already

It seems quite outdated. Although the Russians also know the importance of fire support, they really cannot expect the low-quality Russian soldiers to fully debug their weapons in a hurry.

"Weapons are the first life of a soldier. In battle, apart from yourself and your comrades, the only thing you can trust is the weapon in your hand." This is the first sentence that all Beiyang soldiers heard in their first weapon maintenance class.

With more and more technical equipment being installed, how to debug the weapons in your hands and put them into battle as soon as possible in a short period of time has become the key to determining victory or defeat.

A machine gun is not like in later TV series where you can just set up the tripod and then put on the body to kill everyone. In order to better exert the power of the weapon in your hand, Beiyang has a very strict procedure for setting up the machine gun. First of all, before placing the tripod

After the frame, machine gun, cooling water and ammunition are arranged in place, the shooter must determine whether the tension of the recoil spring is appropriate, and then fill the cooling water jacket with cooling water. Open the upper part of the machine gun receiver to check whether the internal operation is smooth. After confirming that it is correct,

, add the ammunition belt and twist the crank to load the bullet. The last step is to adjust the scale and aiming baseline. At this step, only the preparations before firing the machine gun are completed, and then the shooter still needs to test and fire according to the commander's order to determine

Only after the machine gun performance is correct can it enter the battle.

Without the participation of highly qualified and skilled machine gun crews in such a complex work, the machine guns would not be able to fully exert their power, and most of the machine gun crews of the Russian Army are definitely not excellent. These soldiers, who are mainly serfs, are under the leadership of officers.

With whips and scoldings, they reluctantly assembled the Maxin machine guns in their hands. They had no time to debug, so they were forced to start firing under the commander's coercion. At the same time, they did not know how to debug, plus daily maintenance problems, the ruler

The wear and tear and the uncorrected aiming baseline are enough to have a fatal impact on the accuracy of the machine gun. Bullets like locusts are shot out from the muzzle, but no one knows where these bullets can hit the ground. It does nothing except increase the momentum.

What's even more unfortunate is that due to daily maintenance problems, these delicate weapons will have problems of one kind or another after a long period of firing. It is not uncommon for a weapon to misfire after less than ten minutes of firing.

If the use and maintenance of weapons determine the hardware strength of an army, then the tactical arrangement highlights the soft power of an army. The Beiyang Army does not only operate in a tightly defended trench system.

Different from previous linear fronts that overemphasized firepower, Beiyang's defense line placed more emphasis on depth and mutual cover. All teams were deployed with automatic firearms as the core, forming firepower points that supported each other, while light mortars were located at

The rear part of the position is used for force support. As for the grenade team, it is given the right to operate freely and is specifically used to attack high-value targets such as the opponent's machine gun team.

Although the Russians have paid attention to the coordination between fire support and infantry, it is still a lot rougher than the Beiyang. The infantry charge is still a concentrated charge. (Don't laugh, France still used intensive charges in the early days of World War I.

tactics, not to mention the current Russian Army) Although the Russians also know how to forward light artillery, machine guns and mortars to support infantry attacks, this support seems disorganized, and the advance of heavy weapons squads also appears more messy, often with infantry

When support is needed, the heavy weapons team is still setting up, or simply still moving. But when the support team is preparing to support, they find that the firepower point that was spitting out deadly flames just now has died down or has simply been moved.

In this way, two troops with a huge gap in hardware and software had their first encounter on the north bank of Heilongjiang. When the Russian infantry held the Mosinagan rifles in their hands and launched an attack on the Beiyang position in company units, they were first greeted by

It is the heavy machine gun's long point shot and sporadic mortar bombardment. Its function is not to cause much damage to the opponent, but to disrupt the opponent's attack rhythm, slow down the opponent's impact speed, and at the same time attract Russian support firepower.

I have to say that after a long period of fighting with the Japanese army, the Russians have learned something. At least they know how to assign wing troops on both sides of the main force, and also know how to let the flanking troops attack in a roundabout way. But obviously, they learned from the Japanese.

The experience of the Beiyang Army is of limited use for the Beiyang Army. Beiyang's slightly forward two-wing positions will block the Russian troops that are outflanking from both sides. So the problem the Russian army faces now is that if the main force continues to attack, there will be no two-wing troops.

If you provide support, you will be hit hard by the opponent's flanking fire. The flanking machine gun attack can be far more deadly than the machine gun deployed in the front, especially for this kind of single-charge column attack formation.

Realizing that the situation was not good, the Russian commander quickly ordered a suspension of the attack. Launching a charge against the well-defended positions with strong fire support was undoubtedly courting death. So after some discussions with the officers, the Russians decided to change the original attack.

Battle plan, give up the frontal assault

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