1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Run!"

"The revolutionary army is full of murderous lunatics!"

"The commander is asking me to die!"

"Stop! Stand still! No chaos!" Zhiwei shouted.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Whoever dares to run again, I will shoot him!" Zhiwei raised his gun and fired three shots at the sky.

Just half an hour ago, the 11th regiment artillery battalion, under Hua Rui's order, bombarded Wusheng Pass.

At the same time, the two battalions of the 22nd regiment had been attacking Jiuli Pass and Pingjing Pass for an hour.

Hua Rui's control of the 11th regiment was the result of Duan Fang's strong support, so he had to report to Duan Fang, and the most direct way was to break through the three passes.

Hua Rui used two battalions to feint to attack Jiuli Pass and Pingjing Pass, and the artillery battalion, the 41st battalion, and the 42nd battalion attacked Wusheng Pass.

Because Zhiwei, the commander of the 42nd battalion, was also from the Zhengbai Banner and was a distant relative of Duan Fang's concubine, he got the main attack mission.

PS: Duan Fang was also a white flag, but he was the fourth generation after the flag was raised.

Zhiwei thought that with the support of artillery, dozens of cannons would have fired randomly, and the rebels would have run away long ago. Even if they didn't run away, they would have suffered heavy casualties.

So after the shelling stopped, he launched a charge in battalions.

And after the first battalion easily approached 200 meters, he sent out the second battalion in his hands, hoping to capture Wusheng Pass in one go.

"With this credit, if you work harder, it will be easy to take down the assistant commander. I have to let my wife go and talk to my cousin. She is such a prodigal woman. She doesn't even know to pay respects to relatives."

Zhiwei held a telescope while fantasizing about becoming an assistant commander... or even a commander.

Suddenly, the soldiers of a battalion began to fall in groups, and the charging column suddenly became much sparser, and the team walking in the front was almost wiped out.

(A team is equal to a company. A battalion has four teams, and a team has 150 to 160 people. The leader is the team officer.)

"What happened?" Zhiwei was still confused.

Boom, boom, boom...

When he was confused, the dull sound of machine guns came.

...

"Report, the enemy has begun to retreat. The remaining number is about one and a half battalions, about 700 people."

A standard battalion of the new army has 659 people, including a little more than 500 infantry. After a machine gun sweep, the intact fleeing soldiers of the first battalion and the advancing team of the second battalion collided with each other.

"Hello, artillery position? Area No. 16, air-burst bomb, air-burst fuse set at a height of 15 meters, three rounds of rapid fire." Kong Desheng said to the other end of the phone.

"Don't they like bombing very much? Let them taste the taste of being bombed." After hanging up the phone, Kong Desheng said viciously.

The revolutionary army has occupied Wushengguan for five days. Not only has it built a complete field fortification, but it has also measured the artillery parameters in advance.

Wuuwuwu...

Not long after I put down the phone, I heard the piercing whistling sound of shells cutting through the air.

Bang bang bang...

Six 105mm shrapnel shells and six 152mm shrapnel shells exploded at a height of more than ten to twenty meters above the heads of the Qing Empire's new army.

There are thousands of small steel balls, iron pieces, or bent iron wires inside each shell. Under the impetus of the explosion, these small things will carry enough deadly energy to fly in all directions.

The explosion is not very dangerous. Whether it is the fire or the smoke, it is not as obvious and as much as the high-explosive bomb, and the sound is also different.

But the lethality is not lower than that of the high-explosive bomb, and even in such a dense crowd, the lethality is even stronger.

Thirty-six shells were blown up in just one minute. Within the area of ​​the Revolutionary Army code-named Area 16, more than 700 new army soldiers were all injured or killed.

In the distance, Zhiwei, who witnessed what happened, couldn't believe it all. The huge gap and fear made him panic.

But there were even more panicked than him. Seeing this, the captain of the third battalion, which was ready for the attack, took the lead in deserting and became a deserter.

The soldiers also panicked and wanted to run away, which led to the beginning of Zhiwei's appearance of stopping the soldiers.

"The evaluation of the effect of the bombardment has been completed. Most of the enemy has been annihilated. The effect is unexpectedly good." Wang Jin had a strange look on his face.

This was the first time he had seen such a scene in so many years of military service.

Even when they were fighting in Manila, they had the support of the navy's heavy artillery, and they did not achieve such a result simply by a burst of artillery.

By the way, at that time he was a partner of Kong Desheng... Kong Desheng was the company commander and he was a soldier.

Now Kong Desheng is the brigade commander of the revolutionary army, and he is the battalion commander.

"How are the casualties in your battalion?" Kong Desheng nodded, not feeling strange.

Seeing from the telescope that this group of people were still attacking in groups, he was not surprised by such a result.

He just felt strange. Wouldn't the various armies of the Qing Empire's new army exchange tactics?

This kind of artillery tactic had already appeared in the battles against the Japanese in the Beiyang.

"The enemy's artillery attack was not very accurate. Seventeen people were killed and more than forty were injured." Wang Jin said helplessly.

In order to cause as much casualties as possible to the enemy and make the enemy more obedient, Nanhua did not immediately launch anti-artillery operations.

"Everything is valuable. After such a fight, the enemy should not launch another attack in a short time." Kong Desheng sighed.

...

Kong Desheng guessed correctly. When Hua Rui got Zhiwei's battle report, he didn't believe it at first. After confirming it again and again, he was only terrified.

"Sir, the battle report of the 42nd Battalion." Hua Rui nervously handed the battle report to Duan Fang.

"Defeated?" Duan Fang opened the battle report in surprise. After reading the content clearly, he stood up immediately in shock.

"Is the situation true?" Duan Fang stared at Hua Rui.

"It is true." Hua Rui said with a stiff face.

"In just a quarter of an hour, the loss was nearly a thousand. Does it mean that even if the eleventh town attacked together, it can only hold out for an hour and a half?" Duan Fang took a deep breath and said with his cheeks tightened.

Hua Rui lowered his head and dared not speak.

"Why? Don't you speak? Are my Daqingtian soldiers blocked in a small Wusheng Pass?" After a long silence, Duan Fang said unhappily.

"Is there any way? Tell me!"

"For now, either mobilize artillery to support, or attack from surrounding provinces together, so that the rebels can't take care of each other." Hua Rui said.

"Artillery? Hanyeping can produce fifteen cannons, which are cannons. The largest ones in other towns are only ten and five cannons, most of which are howitzers. What's the use of mobilizing more? Give credit to the rebels?" Duan Fang said sarcastically.

"Shanhaiguan..."

"Don't mention this again." Duan Fang knew what he was going to say and waved his hand in disappointment.

There are 305mm cannons on Shanhaiguan, but they are from the Beiyang. Want to borrow them? It's not impossible, but the price must be high.

"Then we can only siege. The number of rebels must be small. Otherwise, after the bombardment, the 42nd Battalion will be annihilated.

Your Excellency has the right to dispatch troops from various provinces. He mobilized various armies to siege Chu, so that the rebels will lose sight of one thing and wait for them to make mistakes." Hua Rui said again.

Duan Fang thought about it and was a little reluctant, but there was no other way now. Sending more people up would also be a waste.

"Forget it. The main force of the rebels should be in our front. I will send a message to the Governor of Bashu, the Governor of Sanqin, and the Governor of Liangjiang to let them mobilize troops and march from the east and west at the same time.

In the next few days, we will reorganize the 11th Town. When the reinforcements from the left and right wings arrive, the 11th Town must firmly contain the main force of the rebels in the front. Go down." Duan Fang waved his hand.

He mentioned the main force of the rebels twice in one sentence, in order to preserve his own merits.

He was unwilling to mobilize other troops for this reason. Although he had the power of the general, he did not have the title of the general. If he mobilized other troops, his merits would be divided a lot.

…

On June 14, the revolutionary army had been launched for half a month. Duan Fang's attack was blocked and he was ready to mobilize troops from various provinces to attack Chu from three sides.

Bashu and Sanqin were adjacent to Chu. After receiving the telegram, the governors and governors of the two places cooperated quite well and began to mobilize troops and set out to Jingchu.

The governor-general of Liangjiang was quite procrastinating. He had a lawsuit in front of the emperor and got enough benefits before he started to send troops.

The governor-general of Liangjiang governed three provinces, two of which were adjacent to Jingchu, but these two provinces were similar to Xiaoxiang. They were all drawn from the new army but did not have time to form.

The financial and material resources of the two provinces were given priority to Jinling to form the Jiangnan New Army. Currently, one town has been organized, but it is still a temporary number.

In other words, these two provinces have no offensive power, and their defensive power is insufficient, and the province to which Jinling belongs is not connected to the land of Jingchu.

The temporary number means that the army has not yet been formed, and the Ministry of the Army has no sufficient reason to withdraw it, so the Governor-General of Liangjiang can go to court.

On June 17, the First Brigade of the First Town of the Jiangnan New Army, carrying artillery and horse marks, set out from Jinling, went upstream along the river, and attacked Jingchu.

PS: The six Beiyang towns and the eight new towns have official numbers, and their actual names are the new army town, while the temporary numbers do not even have numbers, so they can be called anything.

On the day when the first town of the Jiangnan New Army set out, the news reached the revolutionary army...

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Three towns, the former governor's office (the governor's office was bombed into ruins).

Lin Pingzhi, Sun Zairen, Chen Jiayin and others were discussing the news they had just received.

"The Jiangnan New Army has finally left the city, and most of the towns have been withdrawn at one time. The defense force of Jinling is already extremely empty!" Sun Zairen said excitedly.

"Thanks to the intelligence department, pretending that the revolutionary party launched several revolutions, creating the illusion that the Jinling revolution has been suppressed, otherwise the Qing Empire court would definitely not let people go." Lin Pingzhi smiled.

"Since the new army has already left the city and the plan has entered the second stage, we must speed up our progress." Chen Jiayin touched his nose and looked at the location of Wuxue on the map.

At present, the fifth and sixth regiments and four artillery battalions, twelve gunboats, and four torpedo boats are waiting in Wuxue.

They are waiting for the Jiangnan New Army to leave Jinling.

"The five thousand cadres and retired officers sent by Borneo have all disembarked in Yangcheng and will arrive in Changsha within half a month." Lin Pingzhi said another good news.

"Good! Good! It seems that I have to find more young students. Don't worry, I can provide 50,000 young and strong people within three months." Sun Zairen said with a red face.

In addition to being capable, young students also have a great role - acting as translators.

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