Mengshan Army

After the troops set off, Sun Dewang and the rest of the leaders did not sleep, and stayed at Guangming Temple waiting for news.It wasn't until the news finally came back in the early hours that the family leaders knew that last night's stealing camp had failed, and it failed miserably.From the distraught Sun Deming, the remaining leaders of the cottage roughly knew the process of the sneak attack last night, and the twists and turns of the battle surprised Sun Dewang and the others.

Sun Deming's deployment looks quite satisfactory to laymen, but there are big problems in the eyes of insiders: the attack has not been carefully reconnaissance, and the strength, equipment, and defensive focus of the officers and troops stationed in Zhangjiazhai are ignorant; what's more, it is a pity The most important thing is that there is no focus on the distribution of troops. Three teams, one in the east and one in the south and one in the west, have not been considered in the reserve team.Moreover, they did not listen to the opinions of Zhou Yi, the leader of the third team, and Long Qian, the leader of the eighth team, and only stipulated the route and time of the attack.

Sun Deming firmly believed that as long as he rushed into Zhuangzi and fought hand-to-hand, with the bravery of his old team, the army would undoubtedly be defeated.

The root is still underestimated.

The officers and soldiers were very vigilant. As soon as they touched the Zhangjiazhai where the officers and soldiers were stationed, they were spotted by sentries. position.The sneak attack carefully planned by Mengshanzhai turned into a fortified attack. The three teams launched attacks from the east, south and north. The offensive was quickly woven into the fiery fire net of the defenders.

Sun Deming led the first team to attack from the south.He made this arrangement out of selfishness, and any general who regards the army as his private property will unconsciously make such mistakes when directing operations.Zhangjiazhai is the stockade that Mengshan bandits must pass through when marching westward. The terrain is very familiar. There are two gates in the stockade, which are located in the east and west directions. The west gate is the main entrance.There is only one main street in the east-west direction in the village, and the rest are irregular north-south alleys. If you look at it from the air, Zhangjiazhai looks like a small centipede facing west.

Because of the existence of Mengshan bandits, Zhangjiazhai has been looted countless times in more than ten years. Although the bandits have thieves, most of the bandits are from poor people. Sun Dewang formulated and Liu Yucai perfected the village regulations that forbid looting the poor. regulations, but it does not specify what kind of people are considered poor.When soldiers and horses are dispatched westward from the stockade, they must pass through Zhangjiazhai, and those households with a little surplus money are always harassed and plundered by the people from the cottage.Generally speaking, Mengshanzhai is a special group that only cares about consumption but not production. It lacks almost everything from food to use.If it is a loan, who would dare to go to the bandits and ask for the return of the property?Therefore, the villagers of Zhangjiazhai escaped from their ancestral village one after another, and fled to Maoyang Town and Pingyi Village.All those left in the village were the impoverished people who were unable to escape, and the walls of the village were even less repaired.

Sun Deming knew that the Nanzhai Wall was the easiest to breach, because a section was almost flattened.The Dongzhai Wall is the most difficult, because there are gates and dilapidated towers.So he handed over the east to the third team that he thought was more effective, and his old team attacked from the south.But his arrangement was wrong, and the facts will soon teach Sun Deming a bloody lesson.

Let's talk about the east first.Zhou Yi soon discovered that there were at least a hundred rifles firing on the Dongzhai Wall, and the accuracy was astonishing.Under the intensive shooting by the officers and soldiers, his team members fell crookedly like autumn crops.

Anxiously and panicked, Zhou Yi shouted, "Get down, get down." But his voice was heard by few people amidst the popping bean-like gunshots, and the lack of training of the bandits had already collapsed under the sudden blow. In a panic, they were either knocked down by the rain of bullets, or turned around and ran back, and more people were knocked down while fleeing back.

"Damn it, get down!" The shouting Zhou Yi was shot in the left shoulder and fell to the ground with a scream. His two guards were shot to the head and died beside Zhou Yi, the red Blood and Bai's brains stained Zhou Yi all over.The other guard was so frightened that he lay down next to Zhou Yi and trembled, forgetting even his basic duties.

In the first wave of attack, the elite third team lost about 50 people, at least 20 of whom were killed in battle.

The first team attacking from the South Road was also defeated. The official army took special care of the non-existent section of the wall, built temporary fortifications there, piled up parapets, and the first team's attack crashed into the firepower of the official army. In the net, the first round of attack caused at least ten casualties. The first team, which was hit suddenly, was repelled, but the casualties were much smaller than the third team.

It was the eighth team that Sun Deming didn't like to successfully break into the stockade.Long Qian's attack was a little later than Zhou Yi's third team. As soon as the gunshot fired, Long Qian stopped the team that had just launched the charge.

Long Qian walked at the head of the team, groping to move the eighth team into a ditch washed out by the rain, which he had already expected. Long Qian called the three team leaders under him to hold a pre-battle meeting, emphasizing once again what he had planned. Tactical arrangements, Long Qian's plan is to attack in two ways, avoiding the front of the wall, and attacking from two ends, namely the northeast and northwest parts of the wall.His decision is to take the first team as the left side, under the command of the small team leader Lu Shan, and the third team with Feng Guozhu as the right side.After specifying the contact password and the meeting place after entering the village, Long Qian left Wang Mingyuan's second team as a reserve team to occupy a cemetery in the north of the village. There were more than a dozen large willow trees on the cemetery, which was the only terrain in the north of the village that was conducive to defense. Modestly said to the stable and reliable Wang Mingyuan, if you see the person I sent to pass the order, you will lead your team into the village. If the attack fails, you must stay here to meet us.

Then he told Lu Shan to pay attention to the essentials of charging, to be fast and fierce, and not to hesitate on the open ground.

These attacking methods have been repeatedly mentioned in the usual training, and the squad leader and the chiefs all remember them very firmly.

As soon as the gunshots from Zhaidong and Zhainan rang out, the gunshots from Zhaibei wall also rang out.The response of the officers and soldiers was quick, vague figures swayed on the uneven wall, and rows of dense bullets hit the eight teams of soldiers rushing towards the wall in the wilderness.The attacking soldiers subconsciously fell to the ground. Long Qian squatted under a jujube tree about [-] feet away from the wall of the village. He aimed at the shooter's position with the flame of the opponent's muzzle, and fired repeatedly, suppressing the opponent.The captain of the third team, Feng Guozhu, yelled, and led the team members to jump up and rush towards the wall a hundred meters away.

Long Qian ran forward a few steps quickly with his waist down, and the guard Jiang Yun followed closely behind Long Qian, carrying a spare rifle for Long Qian.Long Qian squatted down again and continued to look for his target. The clip of the first French-made Lebel rifle was emptied. Jiang Yun quickly handed over the prepared rifle. Long Qian took the shot and shot a half body. The enemy exposed on the wall of the stronghold was knocked down, and at this time another figure took up the position of the man just now, and it only took Long Qian two seconds to bring him down again.Then he jumped up and quickly caught up with the members of the third team who were charging. From behind, Long Qian could clearly see that it was a member of Feng Guozhu's team named Sheng Guang. The footsteps slowed down obviously, and Long Qian shouted, "Don't stop! Go up, stay here and wait for death! There are not many of them, so we will win if we go in."

Long Qian's appearance boosted morale, shouts rang out around him, and he had rushed to the wall of the village in less than a minute, and now he could clearly see the figure shaking on the wall, and the gunfire produced by the officers and soldiers was increasing. Players around him kept being shot and fell down, screaming.Now is the most critical time, Long Qian couldn't care about the dead and injured companions, he squatted on the ground and shot quickly in a squatting position, shooting all the remaining bullets from the second rifle, knocking down at least two more enemies, while the one who rushed to the front The team members had already crossed the dry ditch and jumped onto the half-man-high wall.

Long Qian was relieved to see that his team members did not flinch under the intensive firepower, which showed that his hard work for several months was not in vain.What made him happy was that the northern wall was still dilapidated, it was not difficult to cross such an obstacle, no special engineering equipment was needed, and Long Qian didn't have any of those things.

Long Qian took Jiang Yun's loaded rifle again, and threw the empty gun to Jiang Yun. He ran two steps forward, and he could already see the upper body of the defender clearly.Long Qian threw out the throwing knife, and the knife accurately inserted into the throat of a defender.Then Long Qian grabbed the top of the wall with one hand, turned over and jumped into the wall.Before him, at least five companions had climbed over the wall, and among them was the team leader Feng Guozhu.

As the eighth brigade rushed to the wall of the village, the piercing gunfire just now seemed to stop suddenly, and there were heavy gasps and shouts all around. Fierce and cruel hand-to-hand combat unfolded on the wall and in the village. Acting bravely, two teams of 60 people from the eighth team broke through the defenders' fire interception within a few minutes and rushed into Zhangjiazhai from the north.

Long Qian's eighth team attacked the stockade, but they didn't know that the official army had repelled the attacks from the east and south, especially Zhou Yi's third team, which had collapsed under the accurate and intensive firepower of the official army. He was shot and was rescued from the battlefield by his subordinates.The first team led by Sun Deming was also repelled, and the third leader was cursing his soldiers at the moment, preparing to organize a second attack.Instead, his eighth team took the first charge and captured the wall of the village and entered Zhuangzi.