Chapter 416: Encounter at the foot of Hunchun Ridge (3)
Upon hearing Zargu's order, all the Sauron soldiers around him responded in unison: "Hey!"
In the past, they couldn't defeat the Northern Navy in the plains and wilderness, which made these Sauron soldiers suffocate. Now they are in the mountains and forests, and if they can't defeat even ten Northern Navy soldiers, they might as well go home and coax their children.
So a group of Qing troops dispersed and began to form an offensive formation. Considering that the Beihai soldiers were in a commanding position, Xizhi Madai led half of the troops to outflank them from the flanks to form a pincer attack from the front and rear. In order to avoid the Beihai navy's rapid fire,
The Qing troops responsible for luring the enemy from the front all wore two layers of foam-studded cotton armor. Although they all started sweating profusely after taking a few steps, it was still better than being shot.
But the problem is that even two layers of cotton armor don’t work!
The battle started soon.
The leader with a yellow flag urged Rilke to be shot first and fell to the ground. Henked, wearing armor, was about to step forward to rescue him, but was hit by a bullet in the thigh, which immediately caused him to break out in a cold sweat.
But unfortunately, this battlefield is a mountainous forest area. Hunchunling used to be a closed area of the Qing Dynasty. Except for ginseng pickers and nearby border residents, no one came at all. The mountains and plains are covered with oak, birch and pine trees, and the open space
There are dense shrubs everywhere, which has a great impact on the shooting field of view and killing effectiveness of firearms.
The squad from the Mongolian River Military Station did not expect to run into the Qing army before setting off, so they only brought half of the ammunition. 100 rounds of rifle ammunition per person, two grenades per person, and 500 rounds of machine gun ammunition.
Although it was discovered that there were more than a hundred Qing troops, it was too late to go back and call for help at this time.
Because they carried little ammunition, the squad leader ordered everyone to save bullets, and the machine gun only occasionally fired bursts. However, the soldiers were nervous about engaging the enemy, so many of them ignored them as soon as they came up, and twenty rounds of bullets were fired in the blink of an eye.
The Sauron armored men relied on the cover of tall trees and braved the rain of bullets. After losing more than ten people, they desperately rushed to a position within 200 meters of the Northern Navy.
A close combat with hot and cold weapons began.
Don’t think that cold weapons have little power in a firefight at a distance of 100 to 150 meters. These armored soldiers are holding 120-pound heavy bows. Even in modern warfare in another time and space, the general firefighting distance of small weapons is
It does not exceed 250 meters, but the density and accuracy of firepower have increased. In combat examples, the engagement distance of most hot and cold weapons is even less than 50 meters.
To give a simple example, the shooting training of ordinary soldiers is a 100-meter prone chest ring target. Of course, there are also 200-meter and 350-meter targets. Even if they fire ten rounds every month, how many of them can guarantee ten rings?
What's more, as the number of members of the North Korean navy increases, the supply of ammunition has become the biggest constraint on the development of the army; if the nearly 30,000 troops are prepared based on only one base number of ammunition, the bullets alone will cost more than five million rounds.
No matter how rich Zhao Xin is, the arsenal and arsenal in another time and space are not specially prepared for him. So now, except for the reconnaissance team, recruits are only given five rounds of reloaded ammunition when firing live ammunition, and each combat unit is only given five rounds per month.
Used for live fire training.
If you shoot less, your shooting level will naturally drop; this is the same as archery, one costs bullets and the other wastes arrows.
His eyes turned back to the battlefield.
At this time, an armored man named Weng Jinai relied on his flexible skills to dodge all the way. When he was only 100 meters away from a location where the North Navy fired, he saw the right position and raised his hand to draw the bow and shoot an arrow. As the bowstring vibrated,
Wengginai raised his back hand like a whip, and the plum needle arrow with red tail feathers was thrown out at an angle of more than ten degrees. In the blink of an eye, it got into the bush, and then, there was a sound of the arrow hitting the string.
Screams began immediately.
Just as Weng Jinai was about to move forward, a string of bullets hit his pocket, and the flying wood chips scared him and he rolled quickly on the ground. Only then did he save his life.
As the Qing army got closer and closer to the Northern Navy, two black and smoking objects flew out of the bushes, and the assistant leader Zalgu happened to see them. He immediately shouted: "Get out of the way, thunderbolts!"
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When he was hiding behind a slope to avoid the explosion, Erdene, who was lying next to him in armor, held his head and cursed: "These rebels! Use fast guns when they are far away, and throw thunder bullets when they are close. Damn it!"
Toy!"
Boom! Boom!
An armored soldier who couldn't dodge was overturned by the air wave of the explosion, flew two meters and hit the ground heavily. Zargu looked over and saw that the armored soldier had been blown to pieces, and the nail armor on his chest had also become pulpy.
He picked up the 140-pound bow at hand, nocked the arrow, looked at the target and where to dodge next, and sprinted forward to the left.
This man is a left-hander with powerful arms. The heavy bow creaked as he pushed it. His left hand with the antler ring on it was loosened and swung back. A long arrow shot out like lightning with a clang.
It hit the Bei Haijun on the helmet, causing him to stagger immediately.
The Northern Navy soldier who was shot was dizzy at the moment, and a sunken white spot on his dark green helmet was very eye-catching. He was just about to take off his helmet to take a look when he heard someone beside him shout loudly: "Don't take it off!"
As soon as he finished speaking, seven or eight plum needle arrows fell down again. The branches and leaves of the surrounding bushes and helmets were hit with random noises.
The light machine gun, which had been silent for a long time, finally stopped waiting and fired continuously at the positions of several armored soldiers. The deputy shooter on the side was sticking out his butt and loading the ammunition chain. Suddenly, his whole body was shaken, and he felt severe pain from the sharp arrow piercing his flesh.
It almost made him jump. He hit his head on the ground and screamed: "You bastard! My ass!"
At this moment, the two soldiers of the Northern Navy discovered the Qing soldiers who had outflanked them from the right. They immediately turned their guns and fired several shots at the Qing soldiers on the flanks, emptying their magazines, and then fired three grenades.
It was thrown over.
A large gash was opened on the face of the assistant leader Xizhi Madai by the flying shrapnel. His face, which was already full of anger, became more and more ferocious at the moment. He was about to stand up and rush forward, but was held back by an armored soldier. He turned his face
, said angrily: "What are you going to do?!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Sir, the thieves have thunder bullets, and so do we!"
Xizhi Madai was stunned and asked: "Where is it?"
"Sir, wait a minute." After saying that, the armored soldier took off the horns containing the propellant of short muskets from his waist, and took out a few iron bullets from another cowhide bag and made a gesture. Xizhi Madai's eyes suddenly lit up.
Just do it. Under the order of the leader, a dozen armored soldiers gathered the gunpowder and iron bullets they had on them and packed several half-fist-sized explosive bags in cowhide bags. Each of them was stuffed with twenty
There were multiple iron bullets; then he soaked the cotton strips from his underwear with gunpowder and stuffed them into a cowhide bag.
While the outflanking armored soldiers were busy, the Qing soldiers that were attracting fire from the front had already suffered heavy casualties. The assistant leader Zalgu was anxious and angry, thinking to himself, what is Xizhi Madai doing?! Could he be trying to escape before the battle?
Not long after, he heard a "bang" while huddled behind a tree root. When he raised his head again, he saw a puff of white smoke rising from where the Beihai soldiers were. Then, dozens of steps behind the Beihai soldiers,
At this point, seven or eight strange smoking objects were thrown out, and with a dull roar, streams of white smoke filled the hillside.
"Kill!" Seeing that the gunpowder pack had taken effect, Xizhi Madai shouted, stood up and fired several arrows into the smoke, then took the lead and charged forward.
Not far away, the Beihai Navy was blown to pieces by a sudden gunpowder packet. Fortunately, the Qing army's cowhide bag was not tightly sealed and the quality of the gunpowder was poor. When it fell on the ground, it just exploded into clouds of white smoke. The iron bullets inside were even worse.
Useless.
However, the battle lasted for a long time, and except for the deputy archer who was hit by an arrow in the butt, almost everyone among the ten people suffered injuries. The most seriously injured person was shot through the shoulder blade by an arrow, and he could no longer lift his arm at all.
He could only lean on the bunker and shoot with the pistol; however, every time he fired, the recoil shook the wound and he grimaced in pain. After firing two shots, he could no longer hold the pistol.
Hearing the Qing army shouting for kill behind him, the squad leader raised his gun and fired while shouting: "Grenade! Fix the bayonet!"
Dozens of armored soldiers holding weapons were like ferocious gods jumping out of hell. At this time, each of them had a fierce look in their eyes, and they kept flashing around among the woods, approaching quickly. The bullets kept spraying from the guns of the North Navy.
The rain knocked each of the armor soldiers to the ground, and seven or eight grenades exploded into billowing black smoke in the forest. The flying shrapnel ripped open the cotton armor of the armor soldiers with ferocious kinetic energy, beating the armor leaves inside to pieces.
A Northern Navy soldier who was closest to outflanking the Qing army fired all the bullets in his magazine. Seeing a Qing soldier rushing towards him, he straightened up his bayonet without thinking and stabbed the armored soldier in the chest.
After the sharp sword-shaped bayonet hit the foam nail on the opponent's cotton armor, it made a heart-wrenching squeak, then slid open half an inch, and after a slight pause, penetrated the first layer of cotton armor.
The Qing army soldier showed no fear. He held the muzzle of the rifle with one hand and pushed it out hard. The Yanling knife in his right hand swung over and struck the Northern Navy soldier on the shoulder. The two of them were completely unaware of the fierce battle around them at this moment.
He only knew that he must try his best to kill the opponent.
At this time, another armored man was about to step forward to help, but was knocked over by a shot. Immediately afterwards, the Qing soldier who was stabbed by the bayonet suddenly shook, and all the strength in his body receded like a tide. The black bayonet on his chest
There was no resistance, and it sank into the chest with a harsh friction sound. The Northern Navy soldier who exhausted all his strength to kill the enemy took a few breaths. He was about to lift his foot to step on the corpse and pull out the bayonet. Suddenly he felt something was wrong. As soon as he raised his head, a
The plum needle arrow shot out, and penetrated his throat with a "pop" sound. The long arrow still had its momentum and pierced the tree trunk behind him hard.
"Xiao Wu!" The squad leader who was leading the team was shocked when he saw this scene. The person who was hit by the arrow was his neighbor from the same village in Henan.
He moved the muzzle of the gun and fired several shots at the strong Qing soldier who was shooting arrows, causing blood to fly on the opponent's chest. When the magazine was empty, he immediately threw away the rifle, pulled out the pistol on his thigh and fired continuously, and
Several Qing soldiers hiding not far away continued to shoot long arrows...
The smoke gradually dissipated. At this time, the Qing army besieging from the flanks suffered heavy casualties. The few who survived had turned around and fled. The Qing army attacking opposite the Beihai Navy position also began to retreat.
All the surviving soldiers of the Northern Navy on the battlefield were injured at this time. The squad leader who avenged his fellow countrymen had already died. Two long arrows penetrated his body, one of which was right in the heart.
By the end of the battle, almost everyone had used up all the bullets on their bodies. The weapons were advanced, but the price of advancement was more bullet consumption. The Beihai navy in this class lacked combat experience, and many people kept hugging them as soon as they came up.
With the trigger, ten bullets are gone in the blink of an eye; the last machine gunner has to even out the bullets for others to use.
Xiong Mulu still could not be rescued. The retreating Qing soldiers did not forget the prisoner. They desperately carried Xiong Mulu back to the position of the horse, threw him on the horse's back, jumped on the horse in a hurry, and headed towards the Tongken Mountain Fortress.
Go in the direction.
For the Qing army, the battle report of the Hunchunling encounter was quickly transmitted to Jilin a few days later. Qinggui was extremely shocked after asking about the battle. He did not expect that one hundred Sauron soldiers faced ten Northern navy soldiers and were actually killed.
The battle was severely defeated, and only more than 20 people escaped. More than 50 people including Xizhi Madai, the co-leader, were killed in the battle, and their bodies were not brought back. However, several seriously wounded people who escaped with Zargu returned to Tongken Mountain.
The people behind the fort also died one after another due to serious injuries that were difficult to treat.
The only highlight of this battle was to bring back a living Beihai soldier. After receiving the military report from Hunchun Camp, Qinggui immediately ordered Guanbao to send heavy troops to escort Xiong Mulu to Jilin.
In order to boost the morale of his men, Qinggui ordered his men to write a special report about this battle. In the victory report sent to Qianlong, Qinggui claimed that 37 Beihai soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in this battle, with a total of 60 enemy soldiers killed and captured.
A junior officer of the Northern Navy.
Later, when the battle report was sent back to the capital, Qianlong's Ministry of War, who learned of the battle, greatly rewarded the associate leader Zargu and others. As for the armored soldiers who died in the battle, they also received double the pension. Among them, the associate leader Xizhi Madai who died in the battle
Those who were killed in battle were worth 400 taels of silver; the first-class wounded received 100 taels of silver, the second-class wounded received 80 taels of silver, and the third-class wounded received 60 taels of silver.
At this time, a Sauron leader wearing armor only had two taels of monthly food and food, and his worth of four hundred taels of silver was equivalent to the salary of the fallen man for sixteen years. However, only half a year later, the Evenki and Daur people in the Heilongjiang City area
, under the temptation of the Bei Navy’s salary of fifty silver dollars per month, free food and clothing, plus a hundred acres of land and a wooden ridge, and the Qing court’s continued weakening of power outside the Pass, he resolutely devoted himself to the Bei Navy.
Under his command.
Three days later, two lightly injured soldiers from the Northern Navy rushed back to the Mongolian River Military Station from Hunchunling. The garrison commander of the military station was shocked when he learned the news, and immediately sent two platoons of troops to the rescue.
After receiving the report, Zhao Xin, who was stationed in Jurgen City, ordered his people to immediately contact Elu's reconnaissance team to try his best to find out the whereabouts of the captured soldiers.
What else can we do? Ten ordinary soldiers fight against a hundred elite armored men. It’s great to be able to fight like this.
For the Northern Navy, after this battle, many people no longer dare to underestimate Sauron soldiers. After Wang Yuanfang learned about the battle, he immediately sent a telegram to Sheng Haizhou in Heilongjiang City, requesting the other party to attack Sauron soldiers.
He recruited three hundred troops and sent them back to Beihai Town for him to train personally. He wanted to know what kind of combat effectiveness these "Kings of the Jungle" from the cold weapon era would unleash after being equipped with the equipment of the Beihai Navy that was armed to the teeth.
Sure enough, two years later, a special operations battalion composed of more than 300 Sauron soldiers killed the Dutch to pieces in the jungles of South Asia. Later, they showed great success in the battle to support Tipu Sultan in Bangladesh, beating the British
Talking about it makes you look like a tiger. But that’s all for another day.