1o81319o8 Far East Madman Invincible

The brightest Mi Sect in Deng Yaobian disappeared. Darkness began to cover Dapono

However, the fierce gunfire sound did not disappear with the arrival of night. On the contrary, the gunfire sound became denser after nightfall. Like a storm, the sky was shining from time to time. This made the soldiers suffering from night blindness very painful.

The Beiyang Army, trapped in the encirclement, tried to break out of the encirclement with the help of the cover of night, almost madly took out the last ammunition and poured firepower into the United Front's troops. From afar, the entire battlefield seemed to be boiling, and it was hard to tell which was the Beiyang Army's artillery fire and the United Front troops were artillery fire.

Ye Zhan had no choice, but the orders of soldiers and officers of both sides of the war must be implemented, and for the Beiyang Army, Ye Zhan was probably their only chance.

"Woooo, a few long whistles came from the night. They were low, but deafening, especially for the Beiyang Army, the armored train was simply a nightmare existence. It was stuck on the way to retreat north. The Beiyang Army could only break through west or east.

But to the west is the control area of ​​the United Front. If you can't go there, you can only fight eastward and go eastward to Chenzhou, and then you can turn northward and go back to Zhengzhou. If you can't go there, you can continue to advance eastward and Anhui or even go to Shandong. For the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army, there is the place they yearn for and their confidence in breaking through.

However, the defense line in the east was stronger. The Southern Army had long expected that the Beiyang Army would choose the east to be the direction of Tuge. For this reason, they arranged a large number of heavy weapons on the defense line. The most elite troops were given priority to the eastern line.

In front of this iron wall, the Beiyang Army had a bruised nose and a swelling face. Every step forward had to pay a heavy price. On the way to break through, more and more soldiers lost their final fighting spirit. They surrendered to the Southern Army or simply lay in trenches and foxgloves. No matter how the officers beat him, they refused to charge forward. The officers and soldiers suffering from night blindness were even more desolate. They couldn't tell the direction. Many people died under their own guns.

The war reached this point and the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army were no longer fighting for the Beiyang or for Yuan Shikai and Yuan Laoshuai. They were just fighting for themselves and fighting for their lives. No one was willing to do the errands of death.

In order to meet the Fourth Beiyang Division, the Seventh Division broke through. Outside the encirclement, the remnants of the Third Beiyang Division and the Ninth Division also launched an attack after dark. The main attack direction was also chosen on the Eastern Front. The armored train troops on the United Front were far away from the railway line could not provide effective support. The RUF forces there struggled.

In order to provide more powerful support to the Eastern Front troops, the United Front Front's Front's Front's Front decided to transfer most field artillery to the Eastern Front for visual distance. The artillery fire within the visual distance was also transferred. The flares that were fired by them in the past reflected the Eastern Front's positions like daytime. All the exposed people became targets of bullets and shells.

Not all artillery soldiers were fighting, and the field artillery soldiers were in close contact with the Beiyang Army's breakthrough troops. At the same time, Xuan was in a small woods not far from the city wall in Xinyang City. A RUF artillery unit could only listen to the artillery sound coming from the northeast in the woods, but could not provide any artillery fire support to its own troops.

This artillery unit only has two cannons. However, the firepower of these two cannons is enough to match the truly invincible of more than ten field cannons.

This is a heavy artillery unit under the United Front equipped with two Austro-Hungarian heavy howitzers, which were made by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, cannons can be used to guard the fortress and can also use artillery vehicles to mobilize in the field to provide long-distance artillery support to their own troops. This is a powerful weapon in the hands of artillery soldiers in this era.

However, since there were not many shells and the command seemed to plan to win with surprises, from the Xinyang battle to the present, none of the two heavy howitzers had been fired, only several test shots were conducted before the war to calibrate the shooting coordinates, and they were not using explosive bombs but solid bombs.

For the same confidentiality, the heavy howitzer was almost always covered in oilcloth. It was disguised as two large tents. The sentry stood in the tent and guarded without permission. No one was allowed to approach.

Although this small unit is only the size of an artillery company, it is actually organized into an artillery regiment. Moreover, the commander's rank is a colonel.

The colonel named Chen Shangyuan was originally the artillery battalion of the Jinjipo Fortress of the Qing army, led the revolutionary army to start the Jiujiang Battle. After the Revolutionary Army started the Jiujiang Battle, he led his troops to join the Revolutionary Army. Later, he followed Wu Zhenhan, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Republic Army, to guard Jiujiang. He made great contributions to the restoration of Wuhan and was promoted to the regiment commander. Later, he was transferred to the military academy to teach. He also served as the commander of the Turtle Fortress fortress in charge of the four heavy howitzers.

After the "Dawn of the South" operation began, Chen Shangnuan was ordered to take two heavy howitzers to Xinyang to assist Lan Tianwei in establishing a blocking position.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Shangyuan also studied in Japan's 6th Sergeant School and was also Lan Tianwei's classmate. Now he is working together to defend Xinyang. This tacit understanding of cooperation is understandable.

He was guarding two heavy howitzers but could only watch others shoot the cannon. Chen Shangqian felt a little sad. However, considering the overall situation of the entire battle, he still conscientiously implemented Lan Tianwei's order of "no fire without orders". Every day, except for capable soldiers and gestures on the map, his only job was to wait in this woods for Commander Lan's order to fire the order.

The mechanics of the troops who have already entered the night are not over yet night firing tests the artillery skills of the artillery soldiers in order to master the shooting skills more skillfully. Chen Shangyan is taking advantage of the night to urge a night.

Because the shells of this heavy howitzer are too heavy to move, they can only rely on small cars, so the exercise site looks more like a camp for engineers, and the guys who are throwing Ding are also varied, let alone outsiders, even if the enemy pointed at the officers, they may not be able to call their names.

Carrying shells and lowering the cannon body to send the cannon body into the chamber; the soldiers tilted the cannon body and carried out drills strictly in accordance with the operating procedures, while Shen Shangyan stood aside without saying a word, watching the movements of the officers and soldiers holding a watch in their hands and carefully counting the time for the cannon shell loading.

Although the actions of the officers and soldiers were already very fast, even the German artillery might not be able to compare with them, but Chen Shangyan still felt that the loading time of the shell was too long. He asked the officers and soldiers to further shorten the loading time of the shell and wield stronger firepower in a limited time. Use fierce firepower to destroy the enemy's fighting spirit.

There is no way that China's national strength is weak now. It can only make mountain cannons in small quantities. Field cannons such as heavy howitzers cannot be controlled by themselves. But heavy howitzers like this are not imported. When the Republican army got the four heavy howitzers from the Germans, the Germans got the neck of the shells and each howitzer had an average of more than 200 high-explosive bombs. With the current manufacturing capabilities of the arsenal, it is impossible to imitate such large-caliber high-explosive bombs, which can only be charged with solid iron bombs.

Since there are few cannons, you must use these small number of cannons to bombard more shells to deal fatal blows to the enemy in a short period of time.

Artillery is the pursuit of fire density and intensity.

For this fire density and intensity, Chen Shangqian urged his subordinates to practice carefully and repeatedly without realizing it. The exercise was carried out for several hours until eleven o'clock in the evening. Chen Shangqian ordered the exercise to end the exercise and ordered the soldiers to take a shower and prepare for a rest.

“What are we?”

"We are artillery!"

"What is the responsibility of artillery?"

"Everyone is strong and can't stand it!"

The shouts of officers and soldiers echoed in the woods, making the already uneasy late night even more noisy.

At this time, the guns in the northeast direction were still continuing and more intense than the guns in the net at night. Obviously, the battle was still going on there.

Chen Shangqian was very surprised that he did not expect that the Beiyang Army would have the will to fight until now, even the Republican Army was a little worried. Xi, the Beiyang Army could have persisted in fighting until now? He clearly remembered that the sound of gunfire was already sparse more than an hour ago, but why is the battle getting fiercer now?

Soon Chen Shangqian's question was solved by an order.

The order was issued through field phone calls from the commander-in-chief Lan Tianwei of the front enemy.

The command is simple and clear:

"I'm asking your artillery to use high-explosive bombs. The instant fuse flash fires at the following two coordinates with the most violent firepower: the first target coordinate and the second target coordinate."

Chen Shangyuan did not dare to neglect and hurriedly ordered the artillery to gather and immediately take off his cannon coat and prepare to open fire. At the same time, the front enemy command sent a liaison officer with a handwritten hand with the same content to ensure the correct coordinates. The liaison officer was not an ordinary staff officer but Wu Luzhen, a senior staff officer at the front enemy command.

Just when the artillery soldiers were busy, Chen Shangyuan expanded the map and compared the ruler. "The coordinates of the two targets were basically at the edge of the extreme range of the heavy howitzer. Whether the target could hit it is basically based on the missile.

Perhaps it was because of the hesitation of Chen Shangqian Wu Luzhen pointed to the two coordinates on the map and said, "This is the division headquarters of the Beiyang Ninth Division, and this is the front command of the Beiyang Second Army. According to the disguised reconnaissance of our army's scouts, Feng Guozhang himself is probably in these two

"Has Feng Guozhang returned to Xinyang?"

Chen Shangyuan was slightly stunned in the afternoon and heard that Feng Guozhang was running back to Changle Pass with the headquarters. Now he actually brought his troops back to Xinyang. This time, he was indeed fast enough. He deserved to be a Beiyang general.

Wu Luzhen nodded and pointed to the northeast direction and said, "Otherwise, the Beiyang Army would have stopped fighting long ago. Where would the battle last until now? Feng Guozhang's troops arrived in Xinyang an hour ago. Now they are attacking the positions of the Beiyang Third Division. The Ninth Division fought desperately to attack the positions of the Beiyang Fourth Division. If the Seventh Division is rescued, we can't tell them to run away. Now it's time for your heavy artillery to make contributions! Colonel Chen. Whether our army can defeat the Beiyang Second Army in one fell swoop. It depends on you now!"

"Report! Howitzer is ready. You can open fire and shoot!"

Before Chen Shangqian could reply, an adjutant rushed to him and stood attentively saluted.

Chen Shangqian turned around and saw that the two heavy howitzers had raised their guns and pointed to the north.

"Calibrate coordinates, square!"

Chen Shangqian handed a note to the adjutant and turned his head and smiled faintly at Wu Luzhen. He said nothing and put on the military cap and put on his uniform and walked to the side of the cannon position.

"Soldiers, listen! The target we are about to shoot is the Beiyang Army Command! In order to defeat the morale of the Beiyang Army, our headquarters must use the most fierce firepower to gather fire! Now I order to first hit the first target and each cannon will be fired at five shells! Follow my command."

Chen Shangqian's words made everyone feel refreshed and operated step by step. The cannon was quickly loaded and the cannon body was adjusted according to the coordinates and the cannon seat was adjusted.

In order to avoid the muzzle storm, most of them retreated to the rear gun position and left only a few artillery soldiers. They will be responsible for firing.

Everyone's eyes were turned to Chen Shangyuan and waited for his order.

Chen Shanglu slowly raised his right hand and stopped slightly. Then he waved his hand down violently.

"Open fire!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Two deafening cannons were heard, and the earth shook two shells and flew into the night sky with a long whistle to the north.

Most of the people present subconsciously looked north and only Chen Shangyou's eyes never left the two heavy howitzers.

"Everyone is like! Loading shells!"

Chen Shangqian's orders sounded particularly clear and firm in the night.
Chapter completed!