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 Furjiaha River to Southern Kyushu. It was this company that was the first to rush into Shimazu Shigehao's camp in the battle of Mount Hidō. As the leader of the regiment, Jiuzang's only regret is that he has never fought against the 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 biggest problem in mountain jungle warfare is that it is not conducive for the troops to carry out operations. After deployment, they easily lose contact and are 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 defensive perspective, there are problems such as large gaps between positions, many blind spots, and exposed wings due to terrain.
But the biggest problem is not the above, but the logistics. Once the supply line is cut off, expect to be surrounded and killed.
The commander of the vanguard company was born as a refugee from the island country. He was brought out of Songdao Town by Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and others earlier. After he was naturalized, he changed his name to Lin Shizhong. If Zhao Xin hadn't ordered the bombardment of Matsushima Town and frightened the Sendai clan, Lin Shizhong and his wife would have turned into white bones in the ditch on the roadside.
At this moment, everyone has entered the bunker. If viewed from the air, the bunkers of the North Navy form an oval-shaped fortification, with camouflage composed of branches and shrubs mixed in. Light machine guns and rifles are intertwined, forming a 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 earth on the Beihai Navy's position. At present, the soldiers are 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 co-leader who led the team waited for almost a stick of incense before hearing a trumpet blast from the fortress on the mountain.
"Tum!"
"Woo~~" Immediately afterwards, the shrill conch horn also sounded in the fortress, and the assistant leader knew that the attack had begun. He drew his sword and ordered the two second-level general cannons scattered on both sides of the formation to fire first.
With a loud sound of "Boom!", the artillery position 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 cannon body, while the others stacked the stones and wood. After the gunner responsible for aiming saw the impact point of the cannonball, he quickly estimated the position, then asked his companions to raise the cannon body higher, and then pad it with stones.
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 drop.
The iron bullets flying out of the first shot passed through the gaps in the mountains and forests, roared and hit the ground three hundred meters away, and then immediately jumped up. They landed almost ten meters in front of the Beihai Navy position, and fell everywhere. Rolling, beating weeds and fallen leaves.
"Shoot!" The Qing troops who launched the attack were organized according to the rank and file, advancing in five rows of ten people in each team. In front of these musketeers were armored soldiers holding thick cowhide wooden shields, followed by A dozen guys armed with bows and arrows.
The assistant leader who led the team kept Na Qitai's instructions in mind, and began to give orders to shoot from within 300 meters, regardless of whether they could reach them or not. Suddenly, white smoke billowed in the forest, and the sound of gunfire was deafening. Four teams of two hundred musketeers spread out in a fan shape and slowly came towards the North Navy's position.
After completing the shooting, the musketeer in front quickly squatted down under the cover of the shield to charge. 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. .
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 in advance on a big tree, the only mortar at the center of the position opened fire. The first shot hit the back of the Qing artillery group on the left, and the second shot that followed exploded three meters away on the right side of the artillery group, 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 tall, holding up a telescope and watching the movements on the battlefield. When he saw his men advancing towards the Northern Navy with continuous fire from the Five Dragons without stopping, he almost shouted in excitement. At the same time, the four hundred Qing soldiers who had already arrived one mile west of the Beihai Navy also began to attack the Beihai Navy's position.
Na Qitai then turned around and shouted: "Bang the drum!"
On the Xiaobaishan defense line 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 Xiaobaishan back to the west.
In order to ensure the fierce offensive of the Western Front offensive troops, Zhao Xin, who had arrived at Ninggu Tower 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.
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 laborers 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, loudspeakers in every village and town from Sanxing City to Ningguta, from Khabarovsk to Beihai Town kept broadcasting the war situation and mobilization orders; The subsidy of one silver dollar attracted many housewives to sign up enthusiastically.
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; if Beihai Town cannot develop, the fifty acres of fertile farmland assigned to them will become Bubble.
Among those who have come to Beihai Town for more than a year and experienced ample food and clothing, no one is willing to go back to work as slaves or untouchables for others, and endure the life of being extorted for tribute and borrowing money twice a year; I am willing to go back to the precarious life of the past, where I depended on the weather for food and could not even eat meat all year round. I even picked up the tea foam that others drank 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 couriers at the Fuldan City Post Station under 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 times. As the North Navy's attack line deepens, Zhu Dagui's transportation distance becomes further and further.
Because there are no roads and carts cannot be used, all supplies, weapons and ammunition are carried by migrant workers on their soles 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 counting 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 tireless running and running around, Zhao Xin's physical strength was able to keep up. In order not to attract attention, Zhao Xin deliberately put on the same clothes as the guards, but the people around him looked like they were facing an enemy, and with the behavior of surrounding him, it was difficult not to be 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."
Gu Fu and the others then put down their things along the mountain trail, drank water, ate dry food, and even lit up a bag of cigarettes and took a few puffs. After a while, everyone heard footsteps coming from behind. When they looked around, they saw dozens of Beihai navy wearing steel helmets and fully armed walking quickly. There seemed to be many people behind them.
A group of villagers hurriedly moved the materials piled in the middle of the mountain road to the edge. 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 newcomers to the time travel secretly chuckle. What kind of ID card is this? It's just like a corporate employee badge from another time and space, the kind that hangs around the neck.
In order to prevent waterproofing, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is headed by Chen Qingsong, specially sealed each card with plastic before putting it into the work badge. In addition to a frontal color photo, the identity card also contains name, ethnicity, age, village and house 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, which effectively eliminates many people who want to sneak in. Many of the early Manchu and Qing spies were caught in this trap. It was useless to steal them, and they would be caught immediately if the photos did not match.
Those who live temporarily in Beihai Town use different colors of paper and work badge casings, which can be seen at a glance.
There are two people in Zhu Dagui's village, both of whom are Hezhe people who came to find work from Boli.
After hearing the question from the officer leading the team, Zhu Dagui stopped smoking. He quickly stood up and patted the dirt on his buttocks. He walked forward and said, "We are all from Xingkaihu Village No. 2. I am the village chief. My name is Zhu Dagui. Qianlong Came here by boat in the fifty-first 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. This is 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: "Are those two Hezhe people from your village too?"
"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 Beihai navy emerged from the other side of the mountain road. In the middle of the team, there was a tall Northern Navy soldier walking. But because the man kept his head down and looked at the road, many people took a second look and passed by.
Zhu Dagui, who was 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 that he had seen it wrong. When he saw the man turning his head and grinning at him, Zhu Dagui was so shocked that he almost hit his head on the ground.
I'm a good boy! Why is his 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.
After the entire team passed and disappeared around 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 who I just saw?"
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 end of the team stretched their ears and heard the excited discussions of the people in front and Zhu Dagui. They looked at each other and then muttered a few words in Manchu.
The group of people 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."
Here is a sharp bend, with abrupt rocks on the inner side, and deep valleys with rapids on the outside. 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 falling into the torrent in a blink of an eye. After a few ups and downs, no one could even see it. Not here.
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? It's not possible to stop in this corner. , 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, three people had already fallen off the cliff and died because of the rugged mountain roads for transporting supplies.
Unsurprisingly, after the officer inquired about the situation, he immediately sent a few soldiers to search for him on the river beach. After that, he comforted Qibukadai and said that regardless of whether he was found or not, if he was injured by Bei Haijun's administration, if he died, Bei Haijun would 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, becomes pitch black. On the other side of the ridge, the North Navy's cannon fire was still rumbling, and the explosions were flashing.
At the right time, the general's mansion in Wula City, Jilin was brightly lit, and battle reports came back one after another from the front. In the signing room, Qinggui was wearing a coat, holding a lantern and looking at the wooden plan, thinking about how to deploy the troops.
well! It would be great if the troops from the northwest arrived. Send another eight thousand, no! As long as five thousand, the Beihai Navy can be dragged tightly to the line of Xiaobai Mountain, preventing it from crossing the Lafa River.
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