Since the battle plan was drawn up, sporadic gunfire from the Green Camp soldiers has not stopped, and the distance between the two sides is now about fifty meters.
Although this is the effective range of a rifle, you can't have any hope in marksmanship in this era. Both sides have no lights and are fighting based on judgment.
After all, the Guanwai Army is well-trained and has superb marksmanship. However, the supplies were left on the train. Everyone does not carry many bullets, especially the heavy machine gun bullets, which need to be leftover.
The commanders of the four battalions couldn't help but look at the dying flames on the railway tracks. Seeing that the ammunition in the three carriages behind did not explode, they couldn't help but feel lucky in their hearts.
In the round of fire attack just now, these Guanwai troops broke through very quickly, so the Green Camp soldiers set a fire without adding more fuel.
Many fires started to burn out without fuel and had no time to burn through the cast iron carriages, so they gradually went out.
There is no need to worry about arms for the time being, but the Guanwai Army does not know what is going on and dare not break out to grab it. Now all the information is unclear, and they do not know how many rebels there are in the darkness.
Is it ten thousand or twenty thousand? Was the attack just now just a test?
Everything needs accurate intelligence to verify. Without intelligence, they will be blind. Staying still at this moment is the best strategy. If you keep the system stable, you will have nothing to fear at dawn!
The green battalion soldiers on the rebel side are terrible at marksmanship and timid. They have to rely on courage to do anything. But the good thing is that Tianjin Wei is now under their control.
The supplies at the rear can still keep up, and there are no worries about bullets, so the gunfire is closer.
The Green Battalion soldiers were looking for hiding places everywhere. Behind tree trunks and under low walls, people piled up some straw bags. Some even pulled over some empty wooden boxes and filled them with soil to serve as shelters.
There are also some digging holes in the ground with shovels, and the mess they dug can barely be regarded as shooting bunkers for individual soldiers!
This offensive rhythm temporarily confused these foreign troops. They saved their own ammunition and only relied on the direction of the opponent's gunfire to occasionally counterattack with one or two bullets from the sharpshooters.
Just when these Guanwai troops thought that their opponents were just a little bit better, suddenly there was a loud sound of gunfire in front of the position, in the direction of the train station to the west.
Thousands of guns of various models and even old blunderbuss were brought out, bang bang bang... pouring down on the Guanwai Army's position like a heavy rain.
There was a rain of bullets as dense as locusts in the pocket. Dozens of soldiers who could not dodge were shot and fell to the ground. Some unlucky ones were shot in the head and died on the spot.
Thanks to the fact that the civil work has not stopped during this period, although the position cannot be said to be perfect, it can at least withstand the attacks of these individual muskets.
This wave of attacks by the green battalion soldiers is very powerful. Don't look for them in hand-to-hand combat. These people are not bad at firing volleys from a distance. No one wants to be accurate anyway.
The rain of bullets regardless of cost began to tilt, and the flames from the muzzle of the gun formed a fire dragon in the dark night. The Guanwai Army was unable to raise its head under the pressure of bullets.
"Concealment...concealment...saving bullets...small range fire suppression..."
Wherever the green battalion soldiers have the strongest firepower, the heavy machine guns can fire a shuttle to suppress them, or the infantry platoon can fire two volleys to kill some exposed rebels.
Gunfire broke out and the entire east side of Tianjin Station completely turned into a battlefield!
Before ten minutes had passed, just when the Guanwai Army's attention was focused on Green Camp, bursts of movement came faintly from the darkness to the north.
A thousand heavy cavalry were gathering, and they began to accelerate three hundred meters away. They were all spacious crop fields, and even if the horses were running in the dark, there would not be much danger.
The sound of gunfire covered up the sound of horse hooves in the distance. When the war horses began to accelerate slowly, the Guanwai Army did not have the slightest consciousness.
But when the cavalry approached to a distance of 150 meters, a group of the five hundred people who had not been involved in the battle at the core of the military formation suddenly became alert.
They felt a numb and electric shock in their lower back. This was an intuition trained through a lifetime on the battlefield.
Several soldiers were lying on the ground and listening, and then more and more soldiers were lying on the ground!
"True north...1,000 cavalrymen...one hundred and fifty steps away...set up defenses! Set up defenses!"
This was really a sneak attack by the cavalry on the ancestors. There was actually a battalion of Mongolian soldiers recruited from the Hulunbuir Grassland and the Ergun River area among these foreign troops.
These are all the ancestors of cavalry. If Hunchun had not had enough horses, these people should also be incorporated into the cavalry battalion and go to Chengde to support the capital.
It was so dark in the north that you couldn't see your fingers, and the sound of gunfire suppressed any movement in the north. People who have never dealt with horses will not be as clever as they are!
"Arrange defenses...arrange defenses...the enemy's cavalry charges..."
If you are caught off guard and are charged by cavalry in the dark night, you can't expect the musket in your hand to be effective. The only purpose of these cavalry is to disrupt their own formation.
As long as the formation is disrupted, the rebel infantry will definitely rush forward. Facing these fierce cavalry, the only way is to form a formation to block them.
Anyway, they cannot be allowed to rush to the core of the position, otherwise once the camp is disrupted, coupled with the chaos of the night and unable to provide sustained firepower, the battle will be in doubt!
"The Ergun camp... form a formation... fix the bayonets..."
To the north, none of the five hundred soldiers of the Ergun Battalion hesitated. Their sharp bayonets were already fixed, and they jumped out of the newly dug shooting bunkers and individual soldier pits.
With companies and platoons as units, shoulder to shoulder, bayonets are stacked one on top of another, three rows of infantry form one formation, and three sharp bayonets move forward like a forest.
"Free fire..." At this time, the heavy machine gunner did not need to wait for the officer's order at all. This was a moment of life and death. One hundred and fifty infantry cavalry could rush over in an instant.
Click, click, click... The sound of shooting was like tearing cloth, hitting the darkness in the north. This time, the cavalry was hit hard!
Some people say that artillery ended the era of dense infantry arrays, so heavy machine guns are the weapon that ends the cavalry tide!
There is absolutely no accuracy in smear shooting. Just shoot at the sound of horse hooves in the darkness in the north!
The four fire dragons fired across each other, and the rain of bullets was like a sickle, harvesting the cavalry in front layer by layer!
Whoosh whoosh... The strongest soldiers in the army formed a mobile grenadier squad, and almost all the grenades in the battalion were concentrated in their hands.
Boom boom boom... Explosions came one after another. In the flickering firelight, the Guanwai Army finally saw the appearance of those cavalry.
"Blessed by the eternal God... the children of the Ergun River... we are cavalry even if we don't have horses... we will not lose to them!"
"Fight to the death...kneel down and hold on!"
Countless soldiers in the front row of the array fell to their knees with a roar. They knelt on one knee, with the bayonet of their rifle pointed upward at a 45-degree angle, and the butt of the rifle pressed against their thighs.
The thighs are firmly pushing against the earth, relying on the power of the earth, while the second row is lunging forward, with bayonets listed above the first row.
There is nothing to rely on in the third row. Stand up straight and use your body to resist!
"Is it the fierceness of your horse's charge, or is it that our military formation is as solid as a rock... Let's give it a try today!"
boom! Boom boom... The charging cavalry wave disappeared in an instant, like a stormy wave hitting the Ergun Battalion directly on the head!
