In fact, Na Qitai guessed wrong. The small Northern Navy force at the foot of the mountain was not the one attacking the Mongolian River camp. Instead, it was ordered to attack the Jiuzang headquarters from the north bank of the Mongolian River to the west from the Tongken Mountain fortress.
Their unit has so much combat experience that they have participated in every battle from the Battle of the Furkaha River to Southern Kyushu. In the Battle of Mount Hidō, it was this company that was the first to rush into Shimazu Shigehao's camp.
As the leader of the regiment, Jiuzang's only regret is that he has never fought against the Tsarist Russians.
The reason why Zhao Xin transferred this regiment back was because after experiencing the battle in Southern Kyushu, the entire third regiment was very familiar with mountain and jungle warfare.
The trouble with mountain jungle warfare is that it is not conducive to the troops' operations. After the operation, it is easy to lose contact and be easily separated by the enemy and the terrain. In addition, the personnel consume a lot of physical strength, move slowly, and easily lose their way. From a defense perspective,
There are also problems such as large gaps in positions, many blind spots, and exposed wings due to the terrain.
But the biggest problem is not the above, but logistics. Once the supply line is cut off, we must either retreat or wait to be besieged.
The commander of the leading company was born as a refugee from the island country. He was brought out of Songdao Town by Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others. After naturalization, he changed his name to Lin Shizhong. If Zhao Xin had not ordered the bombardment of Songdao Town, Sendai was defeated.
Fan, Lin Shizhong and his wife had long since become bones in the ditch on the roadside.
At this moment, everyone has entered the bunker. If you look at it from the air, the bunkers of the North Navy form an oval-shaped fortification, with camouflage made of branches and shrubs mixed in. Light machine guns and rifles are intertwined to form an oval-shaped fortification.
A dense firepower combination.
When the Qing army, which had detoured from the mountains to the north, arrived 400 meters in front of the position, there was no sound except the sound of digging. At present, the soldiers were using engineering shovels to continuously expand and extend the individual bunkers to form a "
W" shaped circular trench.
The Qing army crouched and cautiously stopped more than 300 meters away from the Beihai Navy. They all lay on their knees and stood ready. The leader of the team waited for almost a stick of incense before hearing a trumpet blast from the fortress on the mountain.
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"Boom!"
"Woo~~" Immediately afterwards, the shrill conch horn also sounded in the fortress, and the leader knew that the attack had begun. He pulled out his sword and ordered the two second-level cannons scattered on both sides of the formation to fire first.
With a loud "Boom!", the gun emplacement on the right side of the Qing army's formation opened fire first.
The second general's cannon, which was set up on several pieces of wood and stones, jumped upwards, and then hit the ground heavily. Two gunners with leather gauntlets hurriedly stepped forward to lift the long cannon body, and the others
Others stacked the stones and wood. After the gunner in charge of aiming saw the impact point of the cannon, he quickly estimated the position, then asked his companions to raise the cannon body higher, and then used stones to cushion it.
At the same time, the gun position on the left wing also adjusted the height of the gun body according to the direction of the bullet.
The iron bullets flying out of the first shot passed through the gaps in the mountains and forests, whizzed and hit the ground three hundred meters away, and then immediately jumped up and landed almost ten meters in front of the Beihai Navy position, dripping everywhere.
Rolling and beating weeds and fallen leaves danced wildly.
"shooting!"
The Qing troops who launched the attack formed an offensive formation according to small teams, advancing in a row of ten people per team, a total of five rows; in front of these musketeers were armored soldiers holding thick cowhide wooden shields, followed by more than a dozen
Guy holding bow and arrow.
The leader of the team kept Na Qitai's instructions in mind, regardless of whether he could reach it or not, and started shooting from within three hundred meters. In an instant, white smoke billowed in the forest, and the sound of gunfire and gunfire was deafening. Two hundred musketeers were divided into
The four groups formed a fan shape and slowly came towards the Beihai Navy's position.
After completing the shooting, the musketeer in front quickly squatted down to charge under the cover of the shield. After the five rounds of shooting, the archer in the back began to throw long arrows, and then the shield man took ten steps forward, stopped and continued shooting.
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After firing three rounds, the artillery crews on both wings raised their hot barrels and began to move forward. When they crossed the 200-meter line that the North Korean navy had marked on the big tree in advance, the only mortar at the center of the position opened fire. The first
The artillery hit the back of the Qing artillery battery on the left, and the subsequent second artillery blast exploded three meters away on the right side of the artillery battery, killing one person and wounding one on the spot.
Na Qitai in the fortress of Yingchengzi leaned forward and lay on the edge of the fortress wall that was half a man high, holding up a telescope and watching the movements on the battlefield. When he saw his men shooting at the Northern Navy step by step with Wulongzhisui's continuous fire,
They pressed forward without stopping, and almost shouted in excitement. At the same time, the four hundred Qing soldiers who had already arrived one mile to the west of the Northern Navy also began to attack the Northern Navy's position.
Na Qitai then turned around and shouted: "Bang the drum!"
On the defense line of Xiaobai Mountain of the Qing Army, the attacking Beihai Navy took battalion units as units. With the cooperation of the reconnaissance team, after destroying many fortresses, they fought continuously and finally drove the defenders at the eastern foot of Xiaobai Mountain back to the west side of the main peak.
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In order to ensure the fierce offensive of the Western Front offensive troops, Zhao Xin, who had arrived at Ningguta at noon, once again acted as the "logistics captain". In fact, it was precisely because of his arrival that the shortage of ammunition for the attacking troops was alleviated.
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At the foot of Xiaobai Mountain, where the Huji regiment headquarters is located, in several temporarily built warehouses, mountains of ammunition and supplies are being continuously transported towards the front line by civilian workers from Fuldan City and Khabarovsk Town.
For this battle, the entire Beihai Town mobilized 7,000 migrant workers. Encouraged by the propaganda department in charge of Yu Deli, from Sanxing City to Ningguta, from Khabarovsk to Beihai Town, the loudspeakers in every village and town continued.
The war situation and mobilization orders before the war were broadcast; the subsidy of three silver dollars per person per day attracted many housewives to actively sign up.
Those naturalized people from the island countries and the refugees from the mainland now understand that if the Qing army is not driven away, Beihai Town will not be able to develop; Beihai Town will not be able to develop, and the fifty acres of fertile farmland and the 90% of the fertile land that were allocated to them will not be able to develop.
The harvest will be in vain.
No one who has come to Beihai Town for more than a year and experienced abundant food and clothing is willing to go back to work as a slave or a pariah for others, to endure the life of being extorted for tribute and borrowing money twice a year;
I am willing to relive the life of being precarious, relying on the weather for food, not being able to eat meat all year round, and even picking up the tea foam that others have drunk as a treasure.
Zhu Dagui and his wife also came. His son Zhu Xiaoshun has now entered the technical school in Beihai Town and will work in a factory to earn money to support his family in three years.
As the head of Xingkai Lake No. 2 Village, under his leadership, more than 30 strong laborers and more than 20 women in the village formed a team, specifically responsible for the task of transporting ammunition from the warehouse at the foot of Xiaobai Mountain to the forward position.
.Among them were Han Chinese, Manchus who had served as post boys at Fuldan City Post Station under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and even three Hezhe people.
After each of them transports the materials from the warehouse to the forward material storage point, the logistics officer there will give them a small metal tag; when they return to the regiment headquarters, they will give the metal tag to the officer at the door of the warehouse and register it.
Departure and return time. As the North Navy's attack line deepens, Zhu Dagui and his team's transportation distance becomes further and further away.
Because there were no roads and carts could not be used, all supplies, weapons and ammunition were carried on the soles of the migrant workers' feet and a few horses along the winding and rugged mountain roads.
After arriving at the forward headquarters on the Western Front, Zhao Xin first listened to the combat report and assigned tasks, and then immediately came to the logistics transfer point.
After checking the departure and return times of the migrant workers and checking the number of metal plates, he immediately issued an order to Hu Ji: move the headquarters westward and shorten the supply line from thirty miles to ten miles, and the longest distance cannot exceed
Fifteen miles.
In order to save logistics transportation time and ensure the speed of the attack force, Zhao Xin led a dozen guards and entered the vast mountains under the escort of the Sixth Regiment Guard Company.
Thanks to years of unremitting running exercise and running around, Zhao Xin has the physical strength to keep up. In order not to attract attention, Zhao Xin deliberately put on the same clothes as a guard, but the people around him looked like they were in danger.
With his enemy's appearance and his actions of surrounding him, it was difficult to avoid being noticed.
There was a piece of felt on the back of Zhu Dagui's wife's neck, and a rectangular wooden box was placed on it. She bent over, holding the rope tied to the box tightly with both hands, and followed her man step by step.
The couple and a group of migrant workers from the village walked for about five or six miles. Zhu Dagui stopped and shouted to the people behind him: "Have a rest before leaving."
Then everyone put down their things along the mountain trail, drank water, ate dry food, and even lit up a bag of cigarettes to take a few puffs. After a while, everyone heard footsteps coming from behind. When they looked around, they saw only dozens of people.
Wearing steel helmets and fully armed, the Beihai navy walked quickly, and there seemed to be many people behind them.
A group of villagers hurriedly moved the supplies piled in the middle of the mountain road to the side. The Beihai Navy who came over saw these migrant workers and greeted them with a smile, then asked them where they were from, and then checked their identity documents.
It is said that Beihai Town's identity certificate has made many new time-travelers snicker secretly. This is not an ID card at all. It is completely like the employee badge of a company in another time and space, the kind that hangs around the neck.
In order to be waterproof, the Ministry of Civil Affairs headed by Chen Qingsong specially sealed each card with plastic and then put it into the work ID card. In addition to a front-facing color photo, the ID card also has name, ethnicity, age, village and house number.
Number.
Although the time-travelers think it is very strange, they also admit that such identity documents are absolutely impossible to forge in this time and space, and effectively eliminate many people who want to sneak in. Many of the early Manchu spies were
There's no point in stealing here. If the photos don't match, you'll be caught immediately.
Those who live temporarily in Beihai Town use different colors of paper and work badge casings, which can be seen at a glance.
There were two people in Zhu Dagui's village, both of whom were Hezhe people who came to find work from Boli.
After hearing the question from the officer leading the team, Zhu Dagui stopped smoking and hurriedly got up and patted the dirt on his buttocks. He walked forward and said, "We are all from Xingkaihu No. 2 Village. I am the village chief. My name is Zhu Dagui. Qianlong
Came here by boat in the 51st year. These dozens of numbers are all from our village, what else do you want to ask, Master Jun?"
A man who looked like an army officer smiled when he saw Zhu Dagui and said: "Village Chief Zhu, I know. My family is from Sicun Village, just twenty miles away from Kaimen Village. My surname is Zhang, Lao Zhang from the west end of Sicun Village.
Home."
"Hehe" Zhu Dagui also laughed when he heard the other party's Zhangde accent. He was really a fellow countryman. The officer pointed at Zhu Dagui's shoulders and pretended to be chatting. He turned his back to the other villagers and asked in a low voice: "Those two
Are the people from Hezhe also from your village?"
"Yes. I came here from Fuldan City last year when I was sowing seeds. I said I wanted to do odd jobs. We all got along pretty well. But here we are again this year. What's the matter?"
"Oh." The officer patted Zhu Dagui on the shoulder, shook his head and said, "It's okay. There will be a team coming from behind. Don't make a fuss for a while. Just pretend you didn't see anything."
"What?" Zhu Dagui said in his heart that he didn't see anything else from one end to the other that day, except for soldiers, there were just soldiers, so there was nothing to make a fuss about.
Twenty minutes later, more Northern Navy soldiers emerged from the other end of the mountain road. In the middle of the team, walking was a tall Northern Navy soldier. But because the man kept looking down at the road, many people looked at him twice.
It's over.
Zhu Dagui, squatting under the tree, held a cigarette in his mouth and tilted his head to look. When the tall soldier walked past him, Zhu Dagui rubbed his eyes vigorously with the back of his hand, thinking he had seen it wrong. When he saw the man turned his head
Come on, grin at him. Zhu Dagui was so shocked that he almost hit his head on the ground.
Oh my goodness! Why is this old man here too? Zhu Dagui has met Zhao Xin several times. Not to mention that he was far away. Last year, when Zhao Xin got married, he even went to have a wedding banquet.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After the team all passed and disappeared at the bend of the mountain road, Zhu Dagui and his party got up and continued moving forward. While squatting down to carry the box, he said to his wife: "Guess what I just saw
Who is it?"
His wife helped put the box on Zhu Dagui's back and asked casually: "Who?"
"Prince Zhao."
"What? Prince Zhao!!" Zhu Dagui's wife exclaimed, attracting the attention of the surrounding villagers.
"What are you yelling about! I saw it was real. He even smiled at me."
Hearing that the great master of Beihai Town had arrived, all the villagers immediately started talking. The two Hezhe people walking at the back of the team stretched their ears and heard the excited discussion of the people in front and Zhu Dagui. They looked at each other and then murmured in Manchu.
A few words.
The group walked seven or eight miles, and when they came to a bend on the mountainside, Zhu Dagui habitually reminded loudly: "The road ahead is narrow, keep to the inside, and be careful."
This is a sharp bend, with abrupt rocks on the inner side, and deep valleys on the outer side. A waterfall falls straight down from the cliff, and the mist is clear.
Unexpectedly, when all the people in front had passed, and only the two Hezhe people were left, everyone heard a scream, and then saw a figure falling downwards, and in the blink of an eye, he fell into the torrent. After a few ups and downs, no one could even see it.
Not here anymore.
At this time, everyone heard the Hezhe man named Qibukadai crying hoarsely. Zhu Dagui finally put down the box on his back, walked carefully through the crowd, turned the corner, and saw him lying on the edge of the cliff crying.
, hitting his head on the ground from time to time, looking very sad.
"Look at what happened!" Zhu Dagui sighed, stepped forward to help Qibukadai up, and comforted him: "Don't worry, maybe he climbed ashore from the front? There's no way to stop here.
, let’s move forward first.”
Qibukadai looked sad and wiped his tears before saying, "It's all my fault! If I hadn't accidentally slipped just now, I wouldn't have knocked him down."
Two hours later, after the group arrived at the logistics supply point fifteen miles away, Zhu Dagui explained the situation. The officer in charge of logistics supplies was also very sad. Less than a day after the war started, the mountain road for transporting supplies was already rugged and difficult to navigate.
Three people fell off the cliff and died.
What I didn’t say was that after the officer inquired about the situation, he immediately sent a few soldiers to search on the river beach. Afterwards, he comforted Chibukadai and said that it didn’t matter whether he was found or not, the administration of the Beihai Navy was injured and the Congress of the Beihai Navy was killed.
Send the pension to his wife, children and children.
Qibukadai listened with a sad face and hurriedly bowed and thanked him.
Because it was getting late, Zhu Dagui and the others did not go back. Instead, they set up a tent near the logistics point to rest and spend the night.
As night falls, Xiaobai Mountain, which was green during the day, also becomes pitch black. On the other side of the ridge, the North Korean navy's cannons are still rumbling and the explosions are flashing.
At the right time, the lights were brightly lit in the General's Mansion in Wula City, Jilin, and battle reports came back one after another from the front. In the custody room, Qinggui was wearing a coat, holding a lantern and looking at the wooden plan, thinking about how to deploy the troops.
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Alas! It would be great if the troops from the northwest arrived. Another eight thousand troops could be sent there. No! With only five thousand troops, they could drag the Bei Navy to the line of Xiaobai Mountain and prevent them from crossing the Lafa River.