Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 416 The Encounter at Hunchun Ridge ([-])

Hearing Zargu's order, all the Sauron soldiers around responded in unison: "Hey!"

In the past, they couldn't defeat the Northern Navy in the plains and wilderness, which made these Sauron soldiers suffocate.Now in the mountains and forests, if you can't even kill ten Beihai soldiers, just go home and coax the children.

So a group of Qing troops dispersed and began to form an offensive formation.Considering that the Beihai soldiers were condescending, Xizhi Madai led half of his men and horses to outflank from the flanks, so as to form a front and rear pincer attack.In order to avoid the rapid guns of the Northern Navy, the Qing army responsible for luring the enemy head-on put on two layers of foam-nailed cotton armor.Although each of them began to sweat profusely after taking a few steps, it was better than being shot.

But the problem is that it doesn't work even with two layers of cotton armor!

The battle soon began.

The leader of the Xianghuang banner urged Hu Rilke to be the first to be shot and fell to the ground. Henkard in armor was about to step forward to rescue him, but was hit by a bullet in his thigh, and immediately broke out in cold sweat with pain.

Unfortunately, this battlefield is a forested area.Hunchun Ridge used to be a restricted area in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Except for the ginseng collectors and nearby border residents, no one came here. The mountains and plains are covered with oak, birch and pine trees, and dense bushes are everywhere in the open space. The killing effect is greatly affected.

And this squad from the Mongolian River Military Station never expected to run into the Qing army before they set off, so they only brought half the base number of ammunition.100 rounds of rifle bullets per person, two grenades per person, and 500 rounds of machine gun bullets.Although it was found that there were more than 100 people in the Qing army, but at this moment, if you go back and ask people, you will not be in a hurry.

Because the ammunition they carried was small, the squad leader ordered everyone to pay attention to saving bullets, and the machine gun only fired once in a while.However, the soldiers who couldn't hold back the nervousness of meeting the enemy, many people didn't care as soon as they came up, and twenty bullets were shot out in a blink of an eye.

Relying on the cover of the tall trees, the Sauron armored men fought against the rain of bullets, and after losing more than a dozen people, they desperately rushed to a position within 200 meters of the Beihai Navy.

A close combat with hot and cold weapons began.

Don't think that cold weapons are not very powerful in a firefight at a distance of 100 meters to 150 meters. These armored soldiers are all holding 120-pound heavy bows.Even in modern warfare in another time and space, the general firefighting distance of light weapons does not exceed 250 meters, but the density and accuracy of firepower have increased.The firefighting distance of most of the hot and cold weapons in the battle examples is even less than 50 meters.

To give a simple example, the general shooting training for soldiers is a 100-meter lying chest ring target. Of course, there are also 200 meters and 350 meters. Even if you shoot ten rounds every month, how many of them can guarantee ten rings?

What's more, with the increasing number of people in the Northern Navy, the supply of ammunition has become the biggest shackle to the development of the army; if the nearly 500 troops are only prepared according to a base ammunition, more than [-] million rounds of bullets alone will be needed.

No matter how rich Zhao Xin is, the arsenal and arsenal in another time and space are not specially prepared for him.So now except for the reconnaissance team, recruits are only given five rounds of reloading when firing live ammunition, and each combat unit only has five rounds for live ammunition training every month.

If you shoot fewer guns, your shooting level will naturally drop; this is the same as archery, one costs bullets and the other costs arrows.

His eyes turned back to the battlefield.

At this time, an armored man named Weng Jinai relied on his agility to dodge all the way. When he was only 100 meters away from a location where the Beihai Navy fired, he looked at the location and raised his hand to draw a bow.With the vibration of the bowstring, Ongine's back hand raised the string like a whip, and the plum needle arrow with red tail feathers was thrown out at an angle of more than ten degrees, and it got into the bush in a blink of an eye. Then, there was a scream of being hit by an arrow.

Weng Jinai was about to move forward, when a string of bullets and rain pockets hit him, and the flying sawdust scared him to roll on the ground in a hurry, only to save his life.

As the Qing army got closer and closer to the Beihai Navy, two black and smoking things flew out of the bushes, and the co-leader Zargu just saw it, and he immediately shouted: "Get out of the way, Thunderbolt! "

When he hid behind a dirt slope to avoid the explosion, the armored Erdene lying beside him held his head and scolded: "These gangsters! Use quick guns when you are far away, and throw thunderbolt bombs when you are close. It's so fucking bad." stuff!"

boom!boom!
A armored soldier who couldn't dodge was overturned by the explosion, flew two meters and hit the ground heavily. Zargu looked at it and saw that the armored soldier had been blasted to bloody flesh, and the nail armor on his chest had also become rotten.He picked up the 140-pound heavy bow at hand and set up the arrow. He aimed at the target and the next step to avoid, and rushed forward to the left.

This man is left-handed, with powerful arms, the heavy bow creaked when pushed by him, and the left hand wearing the antler finger was loosened and swung back, a long arrow shot out like lightning, with a clang. It hit the Bei Haijun's helmet, causing him to stumble immediately.

The Beihai soldier who was shot was dizzy at the moment, and a sunken white spot on the dark green helmet was extremely eye-catching.Just as he was about to take off his helmet to have a look, he heard someone beside him shout loudly: "Don't take it off!"

As soon as the words fell, seven or eight plum needle arrows fell down again.The branches and leaves of the surrounding bushes and the helmet made a chaotic sound.

The light machine gun, which had been silent for a long time, finally stopped waiting and fired continuously at the positions of several armored soldiers. The deputy shooter on the side was putting his buttocks on the bullet chain, and suddenly his whole body was shaken, and the sharp pain pierced his flesh. Almost made him jump.He put his head on the ground and screamed: "Bastard! My ass!"

At this moment, two soldiers of the Northern Navy discovered the Qing soldiers who had already outflanked from the right side, then turned their guns and fired several shots at the Qing soldiers on the flank, emptied the magazines, and then fired three grenades Throw it over.

Xizhi Madai, the co-leader, had a big gash cut on his face by the flying shrapnel, and his face, which was already full of flesh, became even more ferocious at this moment.He was about to stand up and charge forward, but was held back by a soldier.He turned his face and said angrily, "What are you doing?!"

"My lord, the thieves have thunderbolts, and so do we!"

Xizhi Madai was taken aback, and asked, "Where is it?"

"My lord, wait a moment." After saying that, the armored soldier took out the horn that contained the propellant powder of the short gun from his waist, and took out a few iron bullets from another cowhide pocket and gestured, Xi Zhimadai's eyes lit up.

Just do what you say, under the order of the leader of the association, more than a dozen armored soldiers gathered the gunpowder and iron bullets on their bodies, wrapped several half-fist-sized explosives in leather bags, and stuffed more than 20 explosives in each of them. Then he used the cotton strips hidden in his underwear to soak them in gunpowder, and stuffed them into a cowhide bag.

While the outflanking armored soldiers were busy, the team of Qing soldiers who were attracting fire from the front had already suffered heavy casualties.The co-leader Zargu was anxious and angry, wondering what Xizhi Madai was doing? !Could it be that he wanted to run away?

Not long after, he heard a "bang" when he was hiding behind the tree roots, and when he raised his head again, he saw a puff of white smoke rising from where Beihaibing was; At this place, seven or eight strange smoking things were thrown out. Amidst the dull roar, puffs of white smoke filled the hillside.

"Kill!" Seeing that the gunpowder bag had worked, Xizhi Madai shouted, got up and shot several arrows into the gunpowder smoke, and then took the lead to charge up.

Not far away, the Beihai Navy was blown up by the unexpected gunpowder bag. Fortunately, the cowhide bag of the Qing army was not tightly sealed, and the quality of the gunpowder was not good. When it fell on the ground, it just exploded into clouds of white smoke. Use no.

However, after fighting for a long time, almost all of the ten people were killed except for the deputy shooter who got an arrow in the butt.The most seriously injured one was shot through the shoulder blade by an arrow. He couldn't lift his arm at all, so he could only lean on the cover and shoot with a pistol; Grinning his teeth, after firing two shots, he couldn't even hold the pistol.

Hearing the shouts of the Qing army behind him, the squad leader raised his gun to shoot and shouted: "Grenade! Put on the bayonet!"

Dozens of armored soldiers armed with weapons looked like menacing spirits jumping out of hell. At this moment, they all had fierce eyes, and they kept dodging among the trees and approaching quickly.The rain of bullets sprayed from the guns of the Beihai Army knocked the armored soldiers to the ground. Seven or eight hand grenades blasted billowing black smoke from the woodland. The nail leaves inside were smashed.

A Beihai soldier closest to outflanking the Qing army fired all the bullets in the magazine. Seeing a Qing army rushing forward, he raised his bayonet and stabbed the armor soldier hard in the chest without thinking too much. .After the sharp sword-shaped bayonet pierced the foam nails on the opponent's cotton armor, it made a tooth-piercing creak, then slid half an inch away, and after a short pause, it penetrated the first layer of cotton armor.

The armored soldier of the Qing army showed no fear, and held the muzzle of the rifle with one hand and pushed it out forcefully. The Yanling knife in his right hand swung forward and slashed on the shoulder of the Beihai soldier.At this moment, the two are completely unaware of the fierce battle around them, they only know that they must use all their strength to kill each other.

At this moment, another man in armor was about to step forward to help, but was knocked down by a shot. Immediately afterwards, the Qing army who was stabbed by the bayonet suddenly shook all over his body, and the strength of his whole body receded like a tide, and the black bayonet on his chest There was no resistance, and it sank into the chest with an ear-piercing sound of friction.The Beihai soldier who had exhausted all his strength to kill the enemy took a few breaths, and was about to step on the corpse and pull out his bayonet, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong, when he raised his head, a plum needle arrow shot out, piercing through with a "poof". down his throat.The long arrow still had momentum, and it slammed into the tree trunk behind him.

"Little Five!" Seeing this scene, the monitor who led the team felt like his catalog was about to burst, and the one shot by the arrow was his neighbor from the same village in Henan.

He moved the muzzle of his gun and fired several shots at the strong Qing soldier who was shooting arrows, spattering the blood on the opponent's chest.When the magazine was empty, he immediately threw away the rifle, pulled out the pistol on his thigh and fired continuously, while several Qing soldiers hiding not far away continued to shoot long arrows.
The gunpowder smoke gradually dissipated. At this time, the Qing army besieging from the flanks had suffered heavy casualties, and the few who survived had turned around and fled.The Qing army, attacking opposite the Beihai naval position, also began to retreat.

All the Beihai soldiers alive on the battlefield were wounded at this time, and the squad leader who was avenging his fellow countrymen had already died. Two long arrows pierced his body, one of which was in his heart.

At the end of the battle, almost everyone had run out of bullets.Weapons are advanced, but the cost of advanced is more bullet consumption.The Beihai Navy in this class lacked combat experience, and many of them kept holding the triggers as soon as they came up, and ten rounds of ammunition were gone in a blink of an eye;

Xiong Mulu was still not rescued, and the retreating soldiers of the Qing army did not forget the prisoner. They carried Xiong Mulu back to the position of the horse, threw him on the horse's back, jumped on the horse in a hurry, and headed towards the fortress of Tongken Mountain. direction.

For the Qing army, the report of the Hunchun Ridge encounter was quickly spread to Jilin a few days later. Qing Gui was extremely astonished after asking about the battle. The fight was defeated, and only more than 20 people escaped.Xizhi Madai, the co-leader, died more than 50 people in the battle, but the corpses were not brought back, and several seriously wounded people who escaped with Zargu also died of serious injuries after returning to the Tongken Mountain Fortress.

The only bright spot in this battle is to bring back a living Beihai soldier.After Qinggui received the military report from the Hunchun Camp, he immediately ordered the Guanbao to send heavy troops to escort Xiong Mulu to Jilin.

In order to boost the morale of his subordinates, Qinggui ordered his subordinates to write a special report on this battle. In the victory report sent to Qianlong, Qinggui claimed that 37 Beihai soldiers were killed and 23 were injured in this battle. A total of 60 enemy soldiers were killed and wounded. A junior officer of the Northern Navy.

Afterwards, when the battle report was sent back to the capital, Qianlong's Ministry of War, who learned of the battle, rewarded the co-leader Zargu and others. As for the armored soldiers who died in battle, they also received double compensation.Among them, Xizhi Madai, the leader of the dead association, was worth 800 taels of silver, and the rest of the leaders who died in battle were worth 400 taels of silver; the first-class wounded got 100 taels of silver, the second-class wounded got 80 taels of silver, and the third-class wounded got 60 taels of silver.

At this time, the lunar eclipse money and food for a Sauron leader wearing armor was only two taels, and the worth of 400 taels was equivalent to 16 years' income of the dead.However, only half a year later, the Ewenki and Daur people in the Heilongjiang City area were lured by the Beihai Navy with a monthly salary of [-] silver dollars, free food and clothing, plus [-] mu of land and a wooden carving. The power outside the customs was constantly weakened, and he resolutely threw himself under the command of the Beihai Navy.

Three days later, two soldiers of the Northern Navy with minor injuries rushed back from Hunchun Ridge to the Mongolian River Depot. The battalion commander of the depot was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately sent two platoons of soldiers to the rescue.

After receiving the report, Zhao Xin, who was in Zhuergen City, ordered someone to contact Erlu's reconnaissance team immediately to find out the whereabouts of the captured soldiers as much as possible.

What else?Ten ordinary soldiers fight against one hundred elite armored soldiers. It's pretty good to be able to fight like this.

For the Northern Navy, after this battle, many people no longer dared to underestimate Sauron's soldiers.After Wang Yuanfang learned of the battle, he immediately sent a telegram to Sheng Haizhou in Heilongjiang City, asking the other party to recruit [-] soldiers from Sauron's department and send them back to Beihai Town for him to train in person.He really wanted to know what kind of fighting power these "kings of the jungle" of the cold weapon era would explode after being equipped with the equipment that was armed to the teeth of the Beihai Navy.

Sure enough, two years later, a special battalion composed of more than 300 Sauron soldiers killed the Dutchman in the jungle of South Asia, and then shined in the battle to support Tipu Sultan in Bangladesh. .But that's all for later.

(End of this chapter)