Chapter 400: Fighting Tianjia Town Again (1)
Before the war, the air was filled with tension, especially the Xin'an Temple camp that the Wu army temporarily decided to establish, and there was even a lot of busyness and tension everywhere. The Wu army soldiers and civilians who seized time to dig trenches and build walls were all nervous and kept shouting.
"Quick, hurry up, the Rakshasa people are coming soon, hurry up and dig!"
"Didn't eat? Dig it quickly! The Rakshasa devils are coming!"
"If you pierce the antlers deeper, don't let the Rakshasa people knock them down! Our enemy this time is not a rebellion party or a rebellion thief, but a Rakshasa people!"
Although he didn't understand psychology very much, when he heard these anxious shouts and saw the hurried and panicked actions of soldiers and migrant workers, Wu Chaoyue knew that there was something wrong with his morale, and the soldiers were still a little afraid and afraid of the Tsarist Russian army.
However, Wu Chaoyue did not blame Cao Yanzhong, Yang Shilin and others for their poor military management, because most people are afraid of unknown things. At the same time, the foreign teams have such poor foreign performance, and the privileges gained by foreigners in China by force are so huge. Under the influence of the eyes, it is not surprising that the Wu army soldiers are seriously lacking in confidence when they face the foreign team.
In this regard, Wu Chaoyue did not waste any time to give a speech, and then told Wu soldiers that the Russians could also be killed and injured. He just arranged a task for his own personal military battalion officer Wu Dasai to let the sniper touch the vicinity of the Qing and Russian joint fleet, find an opportunity to kill a Russian, and then find a way to bring the body back to public!
"Young Master Sun, you're so embarrassed." Wu Dasai said frowningly: "If you just kill a few Rakshasa devils with cold guns, you're sure to be a little sure, but if you still have to bring the body back, the little one might have no choice."
"I don't care about this, you go and find a way." Wu Chaoyue looked full of Zhou Bapi and said with a smile: "Don't you often boast about being smart? Why can't you even get this little thing done?"
"This..." Wu Dasai was even more embarrassed. He thought for a long time before saying, "Young Master Sun, then I can only give it a try. Also, I want to find a woman to help."
"Sure enough, smart." Wu Chaoyue laughed and asked curiously: "But how do you know that the Rakshasa people have poor military discipline? Can you come up with such a solution?"
"The young man doesn't know if the military discipline of the Rakshasa people is good." Wu Dasai replied truthfully: "The young man is just thinking. Since the Rakshasa people have walked so far and held it in so long, they have to vent their vent when they see a woman."
Wu Chaoyue laughed even more, first praised Wu Dasai for his brain, and then said: "There is no need to spend time finding a woman with this courage. Choose a pretty woman from our army and wear a little dress."
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"Damn the Qing Dynasty pigs, they can't even measure the minimum mountain height! I really don't know how you have such a vast territory? Or is our Siberian Governor right, so you should kill all of you yellow-skinned monkeys and grab all your land!"
Swearing at the incompetence of the Qing army scouts, the Tsarist Russian Navy Sergeant Ge Luomeijin finally completed the height mapping of the Wu army's defensive positions, recorded the obtained data on paper, and ordered the Qing army's sampan to leave with a slap. However, the Qing army scout could not immediately understand what Ge Luomeijin meant and did not start the ship immediately. Ge Luomeijin was furious and raised his hand to slap the Qing army scout twice, pointing downstream to signal back.
After finally understanding what Geromekin meant, the Qing army scouts swallowed their anger and set sail. But at this moment, the second-class private Basil, who accompanied the protection of Geromekin, pointed to the south bank and shouted, "Gromekin, Kelasave! Kelasave!"
"Kelasavi (woman)?!"
Since leaving the Baltic Sea, Goromekin turned his head quickly and looked in the direction of his subordinate's fingers. He saw that among the rocks not far from the shore, there was indeed a Chinese woman in red looking into the river. She didn't know what she was looking for, and she seemed to be looking good.
The invading army had no military discipline, which has always been the most obvious in Russian soldiers. After holding it in for more than half a year, I haven't touched a woman. Such a good opportunity to vent my feelings is in front of me. It is of course unreasonable to hold it. So Goromekin quickly ordered the Qing army's sampan to dock. As a result, the Qing soldiers who could not suffer losses reacted in time this time and immediately leaned on the shore. Goromekin, who was about to become impotence, took the lead and jumped off the ship. Private Brazil followed closely, "Midam up high, Holmes!"
At this time, the woman of course ran away, but Goromekin and Basil chased each other and quickly left the river bank. Then, naturally, two gunshots suddenly sounded in the grass by the river, one of which hit Goromekin's heart accurately. Goromekin's scream fell down, and was very lucky to become the first Tsarist Russian soldier to die in the battle of Tianjia Town.
We must praise the quality of the Tsarist Russian soldiers. Although they were only a second-class private, they just found out that they were ambushed. Basil immediately rolled over with a lazy donkey and hid in a pile of rocks. While quickly searching for the location of the Wu army's ambush, they called Qing soldiers to come for reinforcements.
It's also a pity that although Basil's combat quality is good, he met the most elite sniper around Wu Chaoyue. Seeing him hiding behind the stone, the experienced Wu army sniper immediately stopped shooting, quickly changed his position to prevent the smoke from exposing his hiding place, and at the same time patiently waited for the opportunity to appear. Even if the Qing soldiers came to reinforce, the Wu army sniper did not rush to shoot, but stared at Basil hiding behind the stone calmly.
The Qing soldiers hugged their waists and carefully touched Goromekin's side. They first confirmed that Goromekin had been killed, and then carefully searched the surrounding area. The Wu army snipers covered in disguise were still motionless. Seeing that there was no movement, the Qing soldiers said that the enemy had escaped, so they went to transport Goromekin's body. Basil also stood up with confidence, but at this moment, another gunshot was heard, and the bullet hit Basil's lower abdomen. Basil screamed and squatted down. The Qing soldiers here also shouted and threw Goromekin's body away from home and hid, while Wu army snipers continued to wait patiently.
"Go back quickly!"
Basil, who was shot in the lower abdomen, couldn't hold on first, and called on him to flee to the Qing boat, and tried to lower his body as much as possible to avoid being shot. However, it was a pity that the Wu soldiers who could enter the sniper team were not only extremely talented, but also all of them were treasures with Wu Chaoyue's bullets. If the bullets fired during training were replaced with silver, the weight would have almost half of their weight. So how low did Basil be? A Minnie bullet hit his back accurately and directly hit his kidney. Basil screamed again and fell to the ground and started to cry wildly.
The gunpowder smoke finally inevitably exposed the position of the Wu army sniper. Several Qing soldiers randomly shot at the place where the Wu army sniper was hiding, but the third Wu army sniper who had not moved suddenly took action and hit a Qing soldier with one shot. The soldier ran away in a scream. The other Qing soldiers were also afraid of the Wu army sniper's magical shooting skills and did not dare to stay where they continued to be a living target. They all ran back to the shore and immediately set up a boat to leave. They didn't even pay attention to Basil, who was not dead.
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The most important reason why Wu army soldiers were able to snipe two Tsarist Russian soldiers so smoothly was that even the Western powers had not yet appeared in the army of Western powers, and they were unexpectedly attracted. However, Wu Chaoyue asked Wu Dasai to spend so much effort to kill two Russian soldiers, and of course the purpose was not to show off this advanced tactic as simple as this.
The bodies of the two Russian soldiers were squeezed out of bone marrow by Wu Chaoyue. First, they were reported to the camps in turn, so that the Wu soldiers who had not competed with foreign troops on the battlefield could see the enemy clearly, and let the Wu soldiers know that the Russians were just tall and big and weird, and they could actually be killed with one shot. Then they called the reporter of "Hubei**" directly controlled by the Wu army to take photos and write articles to denounce the invaders. Finally, the missionaries were asked to hold Western funerals for the two Russian soldiers, and asked Western reporters to take photos to promote the civilized and culturalization of the Wu army, and completely draw a clear line with the barbaric and backwardness of the Qing court.
Wu Chaoyue's move has indeed achieved great effect of stabilizing the morale of the army. After seeing the bodies of Tsarist Russian soldiers killed by their companions, the fear and concern in the hearts of the Wu army soldiers greatly reduced, and their confidence gradually returned to the Wu army soldiers. Not to mention the efficiency of preparation for war greatly accelerated, many general soldiers began to yearn for the enemy to land in battle as soon as possible in order to establish greater merits.
The total opposite to the Wu army, the report of the two soldiers being attacked and killed by the Wu army made the Tsarist Russian army full of anger, so that the Qing army sailors who were ordered to protect the terrain of Goromekin were all dealt with by the most severe military law because of Novosilisky's forced. In addition, they were unwilling to leave too much preparation time for the Wu army in Xin'an Temple. On the morning of the second day after arriving at the battlefield in Tianjia Town, the Qing and Russian joint fleet launched an attack on the Wu army's defense line.
Given the narrow surface of the river and the threat of Wu army's artillery on both sides of the north and south, Wu Quanmei, who led the Qing navy to act as cannon fodder in front, did not dare to invest too many ships at once. She was very careful to send ten red single ships as the current team and took the lead in launching a tentative attack on the Wu army's Banbishan artillery.
In order to lure more enemy ships into the range range, and unwilling to expose the artillery position too early, the Wu general Cao Yanzhong, who was responsible for commanding the battlefield in Tianjia Town, deliberately did not fire first, allowing the Qing Navy front team to approach Banbishan to fire first, and then ordered the Banbishan Fort to fire on its own. The North Bank Fortress continued to hold its troops and wait patiently for the enemy's main force to go out.
As expected before the war, the too narrow position of Banbishan Fort was indeed caused great trouble to the Wu army soldiers. As long as the artillery shells of the Qing army could hit the Banbishan Fort, it would be easy to cause casualties to the Wu army soldiers who fought open-air. Forcing Banbishan Wu army could only adopt the tactic of adding fuel to the fortifications, most of which were hidden in the fortifications to avoid bullets, leaving only the gunners to fight on the stage, and put them into the battlefield in batches to reduce casualties.
At the same time, Wu Quanmei also saw at a glance that the Wu army's North Bank Fortress had no purpose to open fire, and sneered: "I want to lead me to mobilize the main force to serve your North Bank Fortress as a living target? I think so beautifully! You are patient, and I am even more patient!"
After sneering, Wu Quanmei quickly arranged a combat queue, grouped the Qing army's red ships into one team for every twenty lines, and took turns to bombard the Wu army's Banbishan Fortress. Once the participating fleets had excessive damage to the warships, they would immediately withdraw and rest, and rotated teams to continue fighting.
Not to mention, Wu Quanmei's move really put a lot of pressure on the Wu army. He suffered a loss and was easily shot when he was too small. Even if the Qing navy only invested twenty warships to fight each time, he could still effectively attack the Wu army's Banbishan Fort. On the contrary, because the Qing army fleet was too evacuated, how did the Wu army soldiers fight back on the Banbishan Fort fight again? The hit rate of the mobile target was still not high, and they could never effectively damage the enemy. They fought fiercely for a long time before they sank two enemy ships by luck.
Seeing this scene, Cao Yanzhong, who was responsible for commanding the battle, was inevitably a little anxious. He wanted to adopt the suggestions of his generals several times to let the North Bank turrets fire and assist in the war. However, every time he said that Cao Yanzhong forced himself to hold back. Because Cao Yanzhong knew very well that at this time, he would not only not achieve too many results in the North Bank turrets fire, but also immediately exposed the artillery position, which attracted the overwhelming artillery fire of the Qing and Russian Combined Fleet, which was removed from bottom to top by the Qing and Russian Combined Fleet.
"I am willing to compete with me for patience, and I will compete with you to the end! I don't believe that you only use such a small boat to suppress the Banbishan Fortress, and you dare to launch a landing battle directly!" Cao Yanzhong thought so viciously.
The first thing that could not withstand was Wu Quanmei. Although Wu Quanmei still had the patience to waste with Cao Yanzhong, the commander of the Tsarist Russian fleet, Novosiliski, had no patience. He asked the interpreter to bring a message to Wu Quanmei several times, asking Wu Quanmei to strengthen the offensive, suppress the Wu army's Banbishan Fort with fire, and forced the Wu army's north shore fort to open fire and expose the artillery position, and then applied fire to suppress it in order to cover the landing operation. At the same time, the imperial envoy Wen Xiang also felt that the progress was too slow, and also forced Wu Quanmei to send more warships to step forward to strengthen the offensive.
"It's really a waste of our Qing soldiers!"
Chapter completed!