After sending Guo Cheng and others away, Fang Xiaoyu began to deploy his defense wholeheartedly. The remaining armored trains could only hold 2,000 people at most, and he still had nearly 50,000 people to evacuate, unless he waited for the train to turn back.
Otherwise they would not be able to evacuate them all, so those who remained would have to hold on for several days.
In order to strengthen the defense, the military workshops have not stopped working. Traditional Chinese defensive weapons, landmines, roller barbed wire and square nails have been manufactured in large quantities, and the soldiers have carefully deployed them to the front of the position. All work is being done intensively.
The sequence proceeds.
Seeing the well-trained Chinese soldiers, Wang Xuan was very moved. He praised Fang Xiaoyu for his skills. Even the militiamen were trained so professionally. Fang Xiaoyu smiled slightly and said nothing. His army started with defense. This defense
Naturally, they practice the most, even the militia training.
Perhaps it was because the armies of the Cheng family and the Xiahou family needed to be reorganized, or perhaps because they needed to prepare ammunition and other supplies. Anyway, the rebel groups of the Cheng family and the Xiahou family did not arrive until the afternoon of the third day.
This is a defensive battle that must be fought, and it is also an extremely difficult battle. What is even more frightening is that many of his men are just militiamen who lack training and heavy weapons. Looking at the enemy troops that can't be seen at a glance, Fang Xiaoyu's
I can't help but feel a little uneasy in my heart.
Fang Xiaoyu's preparedness seemed to surprise Cheng Yuhuan. He could not have imagined that in just two days, Lanting Villa would have set up such a tight defensive position, and the position looked so neat and tight, completely in the manner of a regular army.
"General Xiahou, should your imperial guards be dispatched? We must act quickly to eliminate the rebels before His Majesty can ascend the throne." Cheng Yuhuan smiled and looked at Xiahou Huan aside.
Xia Houhuan said in a trembling voice: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, this Fang family has no intention of rebellion. How can it be wiped out on just one crime? What's more, the Chinese leader has a strong horse. If we kill Fang Xiaoyu here, I'm afraid the Zhonghua leader will
The army will come in full force to attack, and then you and I will die without a place to die."
Cheng Yuhuan squinted his eyes and said: "How many years has the Chinese Leader been established? How high is the cohesiveness of the subordinates? The current Chinese Leader, Fang Xiaoyu, is a big flag. As long as he dies, even if the tree falls and the hozens disperse, the situation has come to an end.
At that time, the seemingly powerful Chinese leader could immediately fall apart."
Xia Houhuan snorted and said: "To put it nicely, what does it mean that things are falling apart? I heard that Fang Xiaoyu has a son. If those generals support his son and rebel, will there be anyone in the entire Lanfang Empire who can stop them?"
Cheng Yuhuan's eyes flashed when he heard Xiahouhuan's words, and his voice immediately turned cold and said: "General Xiahou, I won't argue with you. But don't forget, your whole family is in my hands, including you.
I only have three sons, if you continue to delay and push back, I will have to operate on them one by one."
After hearing Cheng Yuhuan's words, Xia Houhuan's momentum immediately dropped, and he had no choice but to order the adjutant beside him: "Go and ask the Second Army to send a division as a test attack, and let them be careful."
Cheng Yuhuan said with a smile: "General Xiahou is right, you and I are already the criminals of the country who killed the prince and launched the coup. If we don't support the second prince to the throne, we will really die without a burial place.
If we can help the second prince to ascend the throne, you and I will be worthy ministers. Isn’t it up to us to decide whether we will tamper with him or not?"
Xia Houhuan whispered: "You only said that you would use force to support the second prince's enthronement. Who knew you actually killed two princes? If my whole family was not in your hands, even if I died, I would never conspire with you.
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Cheng Yuhuan smiled and said: "What a pity, General Xiahou, now you and I are accomplices. If we can't succeed this time, even if I let your whole family go, they will be killed for your treason." Cheng Yuhuan said.
Pointing in the direction of Lanting Villa, Xia Houhuan sighed, held his head and sat back on the chair.
After receiving the order, the Fourth Division of the Second Army of the Guards immediately began to attack. Under the cover of mortars and heavy machine guns, more than 10,000 soldiers spread out a skirmish line and attacked the forward position of Lanting Villa.
Listening to the fierce firepower of the Guards outside, Fang Xiaoyu sighed: "I really shot myself in the foot. I thought that strengthening the equipment of the Guards would prevent the major families from taking rash actions, so as to buy me enough time to develop.
Now these weapons have actually hit my own head."
Liu Mingzhao smiled and said: "Master, don't worry. Fortunately, the Imperial Guard is a lightly armed force guarding the imperial city. They do not have heavy artillery. The same is true for the City Guard. Most of the garrisons have light mountain artillery. I think even Cheng Feng's
In order to speed up the march, the army will not bring heavy artillery, so we are still safe."
Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said: "But how come there are no heavy artillery to defend the city in the capital?"
Liu Mingzhao said: "I asked the intelligence commissioner in detail, and he said that in order to prevent people from treason and shelling the imperial city, the heavy artillery in the capital was usually placed in designated warehouses. Before retreating, Marshal Xia, in order to prevent the enemy from collaborating,
All these warehouses have been blown up."
Fang Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is the only good news I heard today."
Although they did not have heavy artillery, the Cheng family and Xiahou family rebels also had nearly a hundred small-caliber mountain cannons. Before the attack, they used these mountain cannons to attack. The entire position was beaten into dust, but they soon ran into trouble.
Several freight car doors of the No. 2 special train parked in the villa were opened one after another, and eight 105mm howitzers raised their muzzles, quickly locking the position of the opponent's artillery position.
Following an order, eight artillery pieces fired a salvo. The soldiers of the Guards were more than two thousand meters away from the position when they suddenly heard a scream in the air. Before they could understand it, several heavy artillery shells had already fallen on them.
on the artillery position.
The rebel artillery position that originally bullied Fang Xiaoyu had no artillery. In order to enhance the effect of the salvo, the artillery was placed relatively densely, and a lot of ammunition was piled next to the cannon for easy access.
The heavy artillery shell roared down from high altitude and plunged into the middle of the artillery position. The warhead filled with colloidal explosive exploded when the trigger fuse was detonated.
The huge explosion power knocked a large number of rebel artillery to the ground, and then the ammunition that the rebels randomly piled near the cannon exploded. An even bigger explosion threw the artillery and its broken limbs into the air. These fragments were blown up in the air.
Driven by the waves, it splashed in all directions.
How could the rebel artillery, which had not been in battle for a long time, see such a formation? The surviving artillerymen were so frightened that they immediately dropped their artillery and fled in all directions. No one paid attention to the artillery, which was all destroyed by several subsequent shellings.
After several rounds of shelling, the artillerymen who were forced back to move the artillery discovered that the entire position had turned into dozens of large pits stacked together, and the artillery and ammunition had long disappeared.
Fortunately, this position is only one of the three artillery positions of the rebels. The Iron Blood Army has only eight howitzers, so it can only attack the rebel artillery positions one by one. After being attacked, the other two positions have been moved in time.
Part of the artillery was saved.
Cheng Yuhuan was furious, but he didn't understand military affairs at all. His son Cheng Feng was busy raiding wealthy households in the capital in the name of tracking down rebels. Now he could only rely on Xia Houhuan.
Knowing that the opponent had large-caliber heavy artillery, the artillery of the Guards and the garrison no longer dared to shoot easily. Without fire suppression, the soldiers of the Guards advanced more cautiously.
Eight hundred meters away from the position, the Imperial Guard encountered a roller-type barbed wire fence deployed by the Lanting Villa militia. The Imperial Guard soldiers who had never seen such a weapon did not know how to climb over it. The soldiers in front stopped, but the soldiers behind still continued.
As they continued to advance, a large number of soldiers soon gathered around the barbed wire fence, and the soldiers in the first position immediately started shooting.
The soldiers on the frontal battlefield are all Lanting Villa's militia and Jagged Army. They use Type 91 and Type 92 rifles. The effective range of these two rifles is more than one thousand meters. In addition, the Guards are very dense.
, there is no need to aim at all, so they can easily destroy enemy troops eight hundred meters away. Even militiamen who lack shooting training have a very high hit rate.
The Imperial Guard used the Lanting Type 1 lever-action rifle. The biggest problem with this type of gun was that its effective range was only 400 meters, and it could not reach the Chinese soldiers who were 800 meters away. However, despite this, they still fired their guns randomly.
To embolden themselves, the Guards soldiers fell down row after row. Their morale soon collapsed, and those who survived began to turn around and run back.
Seeing that the barbed wire fence could not be passed, Xia Houhuan immediately ordered mortars to attack. Xia Houhuan knew that he had no way out, so he simply did not stop and commanded the team seriously.
It must be said that as a commander of 150,000 Imperial Guards, he is by no means an idle person. He immediately grasped the weakness of the barbed wire fence. The rate of fire of the mortars was very fast, although some of the mortars were captured by the Chinese.
The shelling destroyed them, but the dense mortar shells still punched several gaps in the barbed wire fence.
The charge order was given again, and this time the soldiers of the entire Second Army of the Guards rushed forward. They rushed in through several gaps under a hail of bullets, but soon the soldiers at the front stepped on a mine.
The landmines used by the Chinese leader today are not the black powder variety of the past. These landmines are filled with colloidal explosives, and a lot of metal scraps leftover from the military factory's gun-making are also put into them. Once detonated, they will definitely belong to the infantry.
nightmare.
After the landmine was stepped on, the person who stepped on the landmine was directly blown into pieces and flew into the sky. People nearby were also hit by irregular steel scraps that flew out. Those who were hit in the vitals also died immediately.