Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 144 The Decisive Battle in Southwest Guizhou ([-])
On the forward high ground guarded by the Ming Fuguo Army, they could already see the Qing army attacking in their direction.

The entire front is composed of dozens of hilly highlands controlled by the Ming army. Each highland has several platoons or one or two companies stationed on the highlands. In order to make up for the insufficient firepower of the Fourth Army Division, Bai Mingxiu, The 104 regiment with heavy machine guns was split to different hills.

On the flat ground, the Ming army also built a trench line of defense connected to the high ground, and also had firepower points composed of various weapons.

Because the defense line of the Ming army has obvious canine and criss-cross features, this perfectly meets Bai Mingxiu's requirements for fire control.However, the Qing army has not reacted now, what is the reason for the Ming army to do this.

The target of the troops led by Tun Qi was the No. 72 highland where Li Ershui sat. This highland belongs to the karst hills. Compared with the peak forests in Yunnan and Guizhou, it is not too steep. There is a gentle slope on one side. The Ming army connected a trench here. , the gentle slope of Hill No. 72 was secured by fraternal troops in the trenches.

Most of the Ming army's front lines were set up in such a way that they faced each other offensively and defensively, but Tunqi couldn't see the strength of it.

"The north slope is too steep to go up the mountain, so go up the mountain from the west!"

The Qing army ignored the trench defense line built by the Daming Fuguo Army at all, and planned to pass through it.

In the front trench, You Long, the battalion commander of the Red Police Battalion, was in command.His identity is actually closer to the leader of His Royal Highness's personal army, but the Red Police Battalion is the most important firepower output unit in Bai Mingxiu's hands, so in order to strengthen the entire defense line, the Red Police Battalion was directly divided into squads and distributed to different defenses position.After all, every Red Police soldier is equipped with an AK-47 assault rifle. With sufficient ammunition, these soldiers are basically used as machine gunners.

"This is the simplest way of begging for death. The Qing army is really a group of good people who are worried about us working too hard and rush forward to kill us." You Long has a frivolous temper and always talks nonsense, but Bai Mingxiu really treats him very well. trust.Probably because he was born in the world of Red Police, he may still have more knowledge and experience than those mercenaries from "European Universal", "Age of Empires", and "Total War Series".

The Qing army very cooperatively placed themselves in the crossfire between the trench and the No. 72 highland. Tun Qi was unaware of this. After all, in his cognition, the shooting range of the shotgun could not be on the highland at all. stretch out.

A general of the Qing army's green battalion rushed forward with a big knife in his hand, shouting: "Brothers, the time has come to repay the emperor's kindness by killing thieves, let me do it!"

Hundreds of soldiers from the green camp, armed with blunderbuss or swords and guns, charged towards the Ming army's defense line in a somewhat organized manner.The soldiers of the Green Camp were quite strange. After all, their enemies did not form a formation, but squatted in the ditches. They all looked very wretched.

"Battalion Commander, do you want to fight?"

You Long laughed and said, "Hit a bird? Wait until you get closer before you hit it."

The reason why You Long was unwilling to fight the enemy as soon as they entered the range of their M1 rifles was naturally because the flintlock rifles of the infantry of the 4th Division could not reach the enemy. Of course, the more important factor was that his defense line If you can't form crossfire with the firepower points on the high ground, the efficiency is not enough.

When the Qing army finally rushed into the area designated by You Long in advance, You Long finally ordered to open fire.

At multiple nodes along the entire trench, soldiers began to fire fiercely at the Qing army. Whether it was M1 or flintlock guns, or AK rifles or M2 machine guns, the various weapons of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, which had crossed the era, frantically moved towards the Qing army. The army spit out flames.And the machine gun fire points on the high ground also began to fire fiercely.

The Green Battalion soldiers rushed up as if they were stunned by a hammer, and they didn't know the essence of evacuating the charge. In their concept, since there was going to be a war, of course they had to charge intensively to form coercion.However, such a dense charge formation has all become the result of the bullets of the Daming Fuguo Army.

Just now, the general who was calling to repay the emperor's favor, watched the brothers who were charging around him, but they were half thinned. Looking back, the charging formation that was originally dense like a swarm of bees has become sparse at this time. .Many soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, and many of them stopped charging at all and started running back.

"The thieves' firecrackers are powerful, run away!" The morale of these green battalion soldiers is not good at all, and they can't maintain it after a slight setback, and the charge has become a joke.

Tun Qi was furious when he saw it from behind, pulled his own coat servant, and shouted: "Drive these green battalion soldiers back for me. Whatever you say today, I have to break through the defense line of the Ming army and take down this mountain." !"

"Come on, master!"

The Eight Banners soldiers immediately waved their firecrackers, knives and guns ferociously and began to drive away the retreating green battalion soldiers. Some of the green battalion soldiers were directly beheaded by the Eight Banners soldiers. : "If you are bloody, charge me again!"

They were a bit shrewd this time, and chose to try again in a different position, but the Ming army's trench line was extremely three-dimensional, no matter how they changed positions, they would encounter the Ming army and beat them back.

At this time, Tun Qi's heart also became a little cold, "How did the Ming army's firearms become so powerful?"

He had scolded Zhao Butai for his caution before, if he couldn't break through the defense line of the Ming army at this time, it would obviously be a big loss of face.

However, Tun Qi also felt that he had almost seen through the defense line of the Ming army. The Ming army in front of him only had a hundred people. Although the density of firepower was high, it also had a limit.

"Manchurians, attack, it's time for you to start killing!" Tun Qi chose to lead his Eight Banners soldiers to attack regardless of his injured body.He planned to use the cover of the green battalion soldiers to let the Eight Banners soldiers follow behind the green battalion soldiers. The green battalion soldiers acted as human shields. As long as they could rush into the trenches of the Ming army, he believed that they would succeed.

The onslaught of thousands of Qing troops did make You Long feel more pressure, but You Long was even more excited: "Hit me hard! Prepare the grenade!"

Bai Mingxiu couldn't equip his troops with too many artillery pieces under such harsh terrain conditions, but he had a lot of hand grenades. The peasants carried them on their shoulders and on mules. Shipped here.

When the Qing army got closer, the M2 machine guns that had been shooting hot were like death, harvesting a large number of Qing troops. At the beginning of the battle just now, You Long also asked the machine gunners not to fire continuously, but intermittently. Fire.

By now, the machine guns were finally firing without restriction.There were a total of 6 M2 machine guns in this trench. Under the sweep of crossfire, the Qing army suddenly suffered heavy casualties. Pieces of Green Battalion soldiers and Eight Banner soldiers fell down like felled wheat.

(End of this chapter)