A long time ago, the Hangzhou Arsenal developed a new type of trigger mine, and it was used several times during the Second Southern Expedition of Qingting, which also caused certain damage to the Qing army and captured Nanjing in Shangyi.
After that, the arsenal has been developing landmines. In recent years, a batch of new mines with more stable performance and greater explosion power have been created. However, the Chinese army rarely used them on the battlefield after recapturing Nanjing.
Landmines are here.
Because landmines are essentially a pure defensive weapon, and they can only play a major role in positional warfare. Shang Yi's tactical thinking has always been active, mobility and flexibility, and in sports
The main force of annihilation of the enemy's army was to avoid positional wars with the Qing court as much as possible.
In addition, after the Chinese army recovered Nanjing, Nanjing had already taken the strategic initiative, and the Qing court was on the defensive side strategically. Therefore, the subsequent battles, whether it was the recovery of the six provinces of the Yangtze River, or the recent
From the overall perspective, the Chinese army was the main attacker and the Qing court was the main defense. In the process of the battle, the Chinese army occasionally had several blocking defensive battles, but the time was not long, and they were ready.
The time is not long, so for a long time, the Chinese army did not use mines. But Shang Yi was very clear that landmines could still play a considerable role in some specific environments.
But this time in the southern Henan battle, both sides invested heavily in heavy troops, and large-scale positional wars and defensive wars were inevitable, so there was a chance to use this weapon again. Therefore, Shang Yi also gave it to the Huainan Military Region.
A large number of landmines came to block the Qing army's attack in this battle. On the three blocking fronts on the north bank of the Huai River, the Chinese army laid a large number of landmines, all of which were ten landmines in a group.
The circulating thunder reached more than 200 steps in depth, just waiting for the Qing army to step forward to trigger it.
Sure enough, in front of the position of Tongzhongdian, the Qing army's first attack triggered a large number of mine explosions. Although the Qing army had tried its best to disperse the attack formation, and the power of the mine explosion at this time was very difficult.
However, this series of explosions still injured and killed hundreds of soldiers. The Qing army's attack did not wait until it reached the range of the Chinese army, and it immediately retreated.
On the battlefield, hundreds of corpses of Qing soldiers were left, many of which were blown to pieces, leaving behind many broken limbs, broken arms, broken armor, broken swords and guns, and broken and burning flags.
There were also more than a dozen injured and undead Qing soldiers. Some struggled to crawl back on the ground, and some shouted to their companions for help. However, at this time, the surviving Qing soldiers were busy running backwards and running away at all.
No one went to rescue these wounded soldiers. Some of the wounded soldiers had somehow triggered another mine explosion during the crawling process. As a result, a few Qing soldiers who were preparing to go back to rescue their companions saw this, Li Ji gave up the idea.
In fact, this is not to say that the Qing army is greedy for life and death, but it is indeed scared by landmines. However, there was a cheer on the Chinese army's position. I didn't expect that the Qing army's first attack would be so easy.
It was repelled, and it seems that the landmine weapon is indeed very useful.
Although China created the most primitive landmines more than a hundred years ago, in this era, landmines are still a brand new weapon on the battlefield, and the Chinese army rarely used landmines in previous battles.
Most of the Qing army that had seen landmines were killed in previous battles. In fact, most of the people, including the soldiers of the Chinese army, have not had the power of mine explosions with their own eyes. They just knew that there was such a weapon in the Chinese army, so they could
Buried underground, waiting for someone to step on, trip the lead, causing an explosion. Therefore, some people would briefly mention the surrendered troops of the Chinese army who acted as instructors in the Qing army, while others would simply forget.
Among this group of Qing army soldiers, they were almost the first time they had contacted landmines. Many people had never known that there was such a weapon before, so they were all surprised and did not know that the Chinese army was
What strange new weapon is used that can bury shells under the ground and explode without using leads.
Generally, people often have fear in their hearts about things that they are unknown or do not know about, because they are a weapon they have never seen before, and suddenly appear, causing a lot of killing and imitation to themselves, so
Most Qing soldiers were at a loss at this time, and they felt an inexplicable panic in their hearts. In addition, few Qing soldiers who knew that they had landmines were also nervous because they did not know that the Chinese army was buried in front of the position.
There are so many landmines, and I don’t know how to prevent landmines.
Of course, in this era, there is basically no solution to landmines. In fact, even in the later generations of time and space, all countries in the world are quite the top priority for landmine arrays. As for the United Nations, it is prohibited to lie in large quantities in wars.
Landmines.
After the Qing soldiers retreated to their positions, they waited for more than twenty minutes without any movement. Everyone stared at the positions, as if another explosion would occur at any time. And on the positions of the Chinese army, a series of anti-Qing army was triggered.
Mocking and scolding.
At this time, the chief general of the Qing army, Ashan, was a little anxious and immediately ordered to launch another attack on the Chinese army's positions. The Qing soldiers who attacked this time were all so scared that they changed their colors, which was like sending themselves to
There is no difference between dying. In fact, this is not because the Qing soldiers are timid, but because they do not have much knowledge of landmines. But the general ordered that no one dared to disobey, so he had to bite the bullet and launch an attack on the Chinese army's positions again
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After arriving at the site where the mine exploded last time, the Qing soldiers stopped or slowed down unconsciously, looked around and looked around. Someone stretched out his foot and stepped on the ground in front a few times, as if it was
After confirming, the other foot followed, fearing that another explosion would suddenly occur from the ground. At first, there were only one or two people, but later all the soldiers followed their appearance and advanced one step deep and one step shallow.
Not to mention the Chinese army, even the Qing army behind them felt angry and ridiculous when they saw it.
But walking in this posture is impossible not to trigger landmines. After the Qing army entered the minefield, someone soon triggered the landmines, so there were immediately a series of explosions, and the attacking Qing soldiers were also "Hula".
"After a moment, they all retreated. Fortunately, the Qing soldiers were very careful this time and retreated immediately as soon as they triggered the mines. Therefore, there were not many mines triggered, and not many Qing troops killed.
However, this time, Ashan saw a little trick. When there had been a mine explosion, there seemed to be no explosion after walking up. The new explosion occurred in the first place where the Qing soldiers did not arrive.
So Ashan ordered another attacking force to be sent, and asked them to attack along the route taken by the army ahead. Of course, this time many Qing soldiers were timid and did not dare to advance, and Ashan also ordered a team of musket soldiers.
Behind them, the soldiers who dared not advance immediately opened fire and killed them.
Under Ashan's oppression, the Qing army tried again and again, and suffered more than 600 deaths in total, and finally drove a passage of more than ten steps wide in the mine formation.
But here has long been within the range of the Chinese military muskets, and it can only attack from such a narrow passage, and it is impossible to break through the Chinese army's defense line. It is obviously not advisable to send troops to expand the passage, so Ashan also I had to give orders to temporarily withdraw my troops and think of other ways.
At this time, on the other two fronts, they encountered the same problem, and their respective solutions were different. Ahanikan on the right simply stopped his troops early and went back to discuss countermeasures. Of course, it is certain that he could not discuss anything. When the good countermeasure came, I had to send someone to report to Ajige.
Ajige's method is the simplest and most direct, which is to fill in the life and open the escape passage. Of course, this is the same as the Ajige tribe with more than 20,000 directly subordinate troops under Geng Zhongming's troops, and this group of soldiers At this time, of course, it was used as cannon fodder. As a result, on the first day of the attack, Ajige finally cleared most of the landmines at the cost of more than 2,000 casualties, so the Qing army could do it too. An attack was launched on the Chinese army's positions.
Ashan and Ahanikan have no cannon fodder, and now the Qing court must rely on the Han army, and can no longer use the Han army as cannon fodder as they did in the past. If the Han army is too anxious, maybe the capital will be They went to the Chinese Army. Both of them knew very well about the regulations on the uprising of the Qing Dynasty and Han Army announced by the Nanjing government. Therefore, of course, it was impossible for the two of them to adopt Ajige's method.
But both of them thought of another move, and they would catch the cannon fodder without cannon fodder. In the past siege, the Qing court had always done a very easy job in driving the people as the leader, but now it is just a recapture. The tricks of that year were all my own. Therefore, on the next day, both of them ordered the Qing army to arrest the people nearby and act as cannon fodder envoys.
However, the people in this area had been evacuated by the Chinese army long ago. In the whole day, no one was caught. Ajige couldn't help but urge the two to break through the Chinese army's defense line as soon as possible, and it would be impossible to spend time. Going far away to catch people, the two of them had no choice but to draw hundreds of horses, cows, donkeys and mules from the barracks, plus some soldiers to go to landmines and avoid roads, which led to the dispatch. Those soldiers who went to do this job could only be determined by drawing lots, and whoever caught them would be unlucky.
It took three days like this that the Qing army lost at least 4,000 troops and nearly 1,000 animals, and finally removed a large number of mines on the three fronts and could launch a target on the Chinese army's positions. Direct attack.