New Warlords 1909

21 Aircraft psychological warfare

It was almost noon on October 111, [-], and there was still no movement in Anqing City, and the sentries sent to each gate also reported that each gate was calm.There was no fleeing, and no team was sent to play any tactical tricks.

Although an hour or two ago, there was a commotion in Anqing City and gunshots were heard, but it has quieted down this afternoon, presumably it was the actions of the revolutionaries.

The subordinates marched quickly for a long distance, and only rested in the middle of the night, so they were extremely exhausted physically.In addition, in order to pursue speed, his artillery battalion is still seriously lagging behind.So if you want to storm Anqing, this is definitely not the best time.

However, now is the time when things are changing all over the country, and only when we act at this time will we not attract more attention.Moreover, the domestic situation is chaotic, and no one can judge what will happen in the next minute.So speed is the key to Hua Fei's victory and the greatest benefit.

"The machine gun battalion is ready, wait for the order to siege the city, shoot to cover the commando team, and take the city gate!"

Following Hua Fei's order, the nine Maxim heavy machine guns facing the city gate pulled out their safety guards one after another, aiming at the direction of the city gate.

noon!As the second hand of the pocket watch in Hua Fei's hand just reached the scale, Hua Fei shouted without hesitation, "Siege!"

chug chug...!The nine Maxim heavy machine guns immediately sprayed tongues of flame, making a dull and gripping mechanical firing sound.

Such dense heavy firepower caused the head of Anqing city to be hit with rubble and the roar of bullets could be heard endlessly, making people dare not look up.

At the same time, a group of commandos carried explosives and under the cover of heavy machine guns, bowed their waists and approached the city gate quickly.The Anqing defenders seemed to have sensed something, and people began to shoot stray bullets one after another, and began to fight back aimlessly.

It's just that wherever there is a counterattack, it will inevitably receive priority attention from the heavy machine gun immediately.The sporadic counterattacks had no effect on the assault squad at all.They arrived at the gate of the city smoothly, placed explosives and ignited them, and quickly avoided the safe area.

"Boom!" With a sound, the whole earth seemed to tremble, and all gunshots were completely covered up at this moment.All Anqing citizens stopped all actions at this moment.The new revolutionary army outside the city all looked in the direction of the city gate.Everyone secretly thought in their hearts, with such a powerful explosion, the city gate should be broken!

"Damn it, blow the horn and order the Assault Squad to withdraw. The machine guns stop firing!"

After the smoke and dust cleared, and after seeing through the binoculars the scene of the city gate being blown up, even Hua Fei, who was so calm and self-cultivated, couldn't help cursing.It turned out that the wooden city gate was bombed to pieces, but the Anqing defenders, who had prepared for it, piled up dirt bags behind the city gate.No wonder the scouts reported that there was no movement at the four city gates. It turned out that all the gates were blocked.What a fucking tortoise shell, hard to chew!

Just as Hua Fei ordered people to cut down trees, build ladders, and prepare for the next round of powerful offensive, a low roar suddenly came from the sky.

airplane?Hua Fei's heart skipped a beat.Suddenly, he looked where the sound came from.Sure enough, it was an array of three planes. Looking at the fuselage, isn't it the training plane of the Flight Academy?

How can it be so fast?Everyone subconsciously looked up to the sky, and saw that it was the plane of the Flying Academy. The new army, who was a little frustrated because of the failure of bombing the city gate, suddenly burst into cheers.Everyone looked excitedly at the plane belonging to their side in the sky, with pride and courage in their hearts spontaneously.

Seeing the morale of his subordinates soaring like chicken blood, Hua Fei laughed.No matter how much damage these three planes can cause to the enemy, judging from the effect of boosting morale, it is not in vain that he gave Feng Ru the labor of a battalion militia!

At the same time, the gunshots from the Anqing defenders also stopped, and they all looked up at the strange thing in the sky in amazement.Those citizens who hid back home because of the explosion sounded the strange sound of the plane, and poked their heads out of their homes one after another.

Wow, what a big bird!What a strange big bird!What kind of monster is this?Quite a few people can put a fist into their mouths after seeing the plane.The mood of panic caused by the war was thrown to Java in an instant.

Suddenly, countless white pieces of paper floated out from the stomachs of the three strange big birds!Um?What is this stuff?It was so strange.Is it the droppings of big birds?Could it be paper?I don't know if I pick it up and hide it at home, will it turn into gold the next day?

Curiosity drove many people, including the new army in the city, to rush to the streets, raising their hands, jumping to grab those pieces of paper.

Huh?There are words on it?Take a closer look, the declaration of the revolutionary army!

Wow, it turned out to be something from the Revolutionary Army. Many literate people were taken aback.Some people quickly threw away the paper and ran home, while others quietly put the paper in their pockets, looked around, and then walked home as if nothing had happened.

After the plane finished scattering the paper, it pulled up a long banner.Sun Wen's main political program was written on it with a brush, "Expel the Tartars and restore China." ''National Revolution, Republic of China. ''Equal land rights, everyone is equal. '

The three planes swaggered over Anqing for several weeks before returning back with long banners.Flying over the heads of the new army outside the city, another wave of cheers arose.

Zhu Jiabao, governor of Anhui Province, was also looking at the planes in the sky, his face was really chameleon-like.At this moment, there is only one voice in his heart.That is, where did the revolutionary army get the plane?Is this really a Revolutionary Army plane?Where did the revolutionary army come from Anhui?Where did the plane come from Anhui?

Um?Zhu Jiabao just remembered that a Longteng Flying Academy seemed to be established in Hefei not long ago.Hefei?Hua fool?Guard group?Revolutionary Army?

Just when Zhu Jiabao was about to figure out the joints between them, several yamen servants rushed in with a lot of papers in their arms and said, "Look... my lord, there are so many revolutions..."

"Shut up!" Zhu Jiabao snatched a few pieces of paper angrily, and saw what was written on it.Brothers and compatriots in Anqing.The fire of the Wuchang Uprising has already ignited a wave of revolution across the country.Let's get up, let's be independent, get rid of the rule of the Tartars, and be an upright Han people!

The new army in Anhui, the revolution is unstoppable.The incompetence of the current imperial court has caused my ancient country of China to be bullied by foreigners.What else can you get if you work hard for such an imperial court?

The soldiers and civilians in Anhui have been surrounded by tens of thousands of revolutionary troops outside the city.Put down your weapons, fighting to death is really not worth it for you.Think of your family, you died here, you won't even get a pension...  

Seeing this, Zhu Jiabao was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.Originally, he didn't care about the scraps of paper dropped by the plane, but after seeing these provocative leaflets, Zhu Jiabao immediately understood the seriousness of the matter.This will be widely circulated by the new army stationed, then the morale of the army will be out of control.

"Order to confiscate all rebellious leaflets in the city. No one is allowed to hide leaflets, otherwise, once discovered, they shall be punished as treason!"

A few pieces of paper were blown to the front of the new army outside the city. When the content on it was read aloud, everyone laughed happily.And when Hua Fei saw the content on the piece of paper, he secretly exclaimed in his heart.This is the very popular public opinion warfare in later generations, psychological warfare.I never thought about it, let Feng Ru unconsciously fiddle with it.The influence of this tactic may be greater than the psychological deterrence brought by dropping a few bombs.

"Your Excellency, Commander, please allow me to lead my troops to attack this city!" German Heber, the commander of the second regiment of the New Army, suddenly stepped up and asked Hua Fei to fight.

"Oh? How sure are you?" Hua Fei was preparing to organize a group of elite teams and planned to personally lead the team to attack the city. Seeing Heber's sudden call for battle, he couldn't help being very interested.To be honest, although he was a mercenary in his previous life, firstly, the tactics of his later generations are completely different from the present, and secondly, he has never commanded such a large-scale siege campaign.So he really wanted to see what characteristics this retired German captain had in siege battles.

"Give me all the grenades, I still need the fire support of heavy machine guns!" Heber was a man of few words. He didn't answer Hua Fei's words, but directly asked.

22 Anhui Independence

The second siege began in an all-round way. Accompanied by the powerful firepower of the Maxim heavy machine guns, Heber immediately dispatched a company of soldiers, carrying a large number of grenades, and quickly approached the city wall. back.The engineering battalion has prepared the ladders and is on standby at any time.

I saw the first company came under the city wall, rang out grenades one after another, and threw them accurately on the city wall.Boom, boom, boom...!As a series of explosions sounded, Heber waved his hand, and the engineering battalion rushed towards the city wall with a ladder and a shovel.

Boom boom boom!The second round of grenades exploded more intensively, and the originally very sparse gunfire fell silent for a while.The ladder was quickly set up, and the pistol company that had already been prepared climbed onto the city wall immediately.Ding Liuhai, the old man of the Hua family, was the first to climb the city wall, and he swung his gun and fired a burst of fire.The defenders who were wriggling and struggling on the stone wall soon became silent.

Several surviving defenders were awakened by the gunshots, subconsciously raised their guns and shot in the direction of Liu Hai.Liu Hai reacted very quickly, rolled over, and quickly fired all the bullets in the magazine.

"careful!"

At the same time as he heard the shout, Liu Hai only felt a pain in his arm, and instantly felt a little hot and humid.Looking back, a defender pulled the bolt and loaded a bullet.Looking at the black muzzle of the gun, Liu Hai's brain froze for a moment.

boom!The shot rang out, but it was the familiar sound of a Browning pistol.Watching a bullet-sized hole appear on the forehead of the defender, he fell slowly.Liu Hai couldn't help exhaling, and while quickly reloading the pistol, he turned his head and laughed at his brother who saved him, "Damn, thank you, I owe you my life!"

The soldier named Goudan didn't say much, just smiled honestly, raised his gun and began to suppress the enemy's counterattack on the city wall.

As more and more new troops boarded the city wall, more Anqing defenders began to rush up from the bottom of the city to support, and the battle at the top of the city became fiercer and more intense.

At the same time, a company of engineering soldiers was digging open the mound behind the city gate with shovels, while another company of engineering soldiers climbed up the city wall, ready to lift heavy machine guns at any time.

Hua Fei made a decisive decision and immediately blew the horn for a full-scale siege. A group of soldiers jumped out of the trenches one after another, shouting, rushing, and rushed to the top of the city with high morale.

At this moment, the revolutionary army lurking in Anqing City saw the opportunity and immediately decided to take advantage of it. Li Qianyu of the 62nd bid quickly led his troops to the north gate, planning to assist the revolutionary army to open the city gate. 61 targets Bai Yutian, Zhang Baode and other revolutionaries led their troops to intercept the new army on the spot to persuade them to surrender and reinforce them.

When the first Maxim heavy machine gun was hung on the city wall and started shooting, the outcome of the entire battle was basically settled.The Anqing defenders fled one after another, and no new army dared to attack the city wall protected by heavy machine gun bullets.

At this time, an Anqing garrison with a red rope tied to his arm and holding the banner of the Revolutionary Army rushed quickly.Just when Heber decided to open fire, the team shouted from a distance, "Don't shoot, we are revolutionary soldiers, everyone is our own!"

Heber doesn't care what kind of revolution you are, he only knows his duty and task, which is to prevent any enemy from getting closer to the city wall.Just as he was about to give the order to fire, Hua Fei had already arrived, pressed his arm, and said softly.

"One platoon, only forty or so people, let's see what tricks they play!"

But Li Qianyu saw that there was no fire on the city wall, and excitedly led his troops to the bottom of the city wall.While ordering his subordinates to quickly dig the city gate, he led the two of them to the city wall.

"I am Li Qianyu, the representative of the 31 Mixed Synthesis Association and the 62 Standard League. May I ask who is your minister?"

"Ah, it turns out to be Brother Li, who has admired his name for a long time." Hua Fei walked up and grabbed Li Qianyu's hand, and said enthusiastically, "My humble commander, Hua Fei, the First Division Commander of the Anhui Revolutionary New Army, heard the incident in Wuchang. Leading the troops to the south to recover Anqing. Brother Li and other comrades contributed a lot to the successful recovery of Anqing this time. Brothers and others are all heroes of the Republic of China!"

Li Ganyu blushed when Hua Fei praised her so much, and said embarrassingly, "Where, where, we are both revolutionaries, we are both nationals, and we dare not take credit for anything!"