After another ten minutes, all 29 targets finally entered this section of the road.
The squad leader immediately said: "Shanba, send a signal to the headquarters, all enemy vanguards have entered the minefield."
The correspondent next to him immediately turned on the radio, clicked the button, and the radio made a slight "chunk, chugging, chugging, chugging" sound.
This experimental small radio station cannot yet make direct voice calls and can only communicate using telegraph codes.
A few minutes later, combat engineers in ambush on a nearby mountain connected to the headquarters command.
"Comrade Company Commander, there is a call from headquarters.
All enemy vanguards have entered the minefield."
"Got it.
Comrades, prepare to detonate immediately to kill these idiots."
Yi Damao jumped up with excitement.
The combat engineers who had been waiting impatiently cheered and rushed to their stations to turn on the electronic detonators.
The safety device pulled up the piezoelectric rod.
"Don't panic, detonate in order."
Yi Damao stood up carefully and looked at the road down the mountain with a telescope.
The new Hubei troops had no idea that the god of death was coming, and they were still walking around talking and laughing.
Yi Damao retracted, raised the small red flag in his hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Get ready".
Then, he waved the red flag down hard: "Detonate" The combat engineers immediately pressed the piezoelectric rods in sequence according to the predetermined order.
Zhang Jingliang, who was observing the surrounding situation, suddenly stepped on a pebble, lost his footing, stumbled and fell.
"Oh, Lord Biaotong."
Before Ma Bian could react, Wen Yindi and several other leading party members who were following him quickly ran over, scrambling to help Lord Biaotong up.
"I'm fine."
Zhang Jingliang secretly shouted that he was unlucky and waved his hands to those flatterers.
He was not that fragile.
He was about to say no.
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the road sign diagonally opposite suddenly shot up into a ball of fire and exploded.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom" In just a moment, all the road signs exploded one after another.
The marching officers and soldiers of the 29th standard were unprepared.
They never dreamed that the road signs would also explode, and they were immediately blown to pieces.
Because it happened so suddenly, most of them didn't even have time to scream, before they were torn to pieces by spraying steel balls and shrapnel.
Of course, this is not a real road sign, just a heavy anti-infantry directional mine disguised as a road sign.
In the original time and space at the beginning of the 21st century, the directional mine charges of all countries did not exceed one kilogram.
However, Kyodo News did not have C4 yet.
They were afraid that the power was not enough, so they increased the charge.
A full five kilograms of tnt, which is equivalent to the current 105 The charge of the cannonball.
Cannons are just entry-level artillery, but at this time they are already full-fledged heavy artillery.
On this section of the road, 120 such directional mines are arranged at an angle, which is equivalent to 120 heavy artillery shells.
He was hit by 120 heavy artillery shells at close range, and most of the energy was focused into directional radiation.
If there is still a complete body preserved, I can already thank God for blessing.
In less than 3 seconds, the entire 2,005 officers and soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division lost their combat effectiveness.
Among them, the only one who was not injured at all was Zhang Jingliang, the commander of the infantry.
Zhang Baotong stared blankly at the road littered with corpses and blood, his mind going blank.
This was also because he was extremely lucky.
Just when he fell on the roadside and everyone gathered around to flatter him, the directional mine exploded.
Those who led the way and Ma Bian became his human shields.
The "shields" were killed and injured, but he himself did not lose a hair.
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He didn't even realize what was going on.
Although his face and the military uniform on his body were stained with blood, they belonged to others.
Wen Yindi, who had been flattering all the way, was dead.
A piece of shrapnel hit him through the head.
The other leaders were also dead, and their bodies were smashed into sieves by high-speed flying steel balls.
The few horses were not much better, they were all lying motionless in a pool of blood.
"I must be having a nightmare," Zhang Baotong muttered to himself in despair.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
This was a whole Biao, and the whole army was wiped out in a few seconds.
Not only was he petrified, but the makers of this Shura field were also petrified.
"Company commander, is this really what we did?"
A soldier from the combat engineer company took a long time to recover and asked stammeringly.
"Of course we can't kill them all."
Yi Damao felt that his throat was very dry, and he swallowed hard before he felt better.
That's right, this plan to use directional mines to pretend to be road signs was his idea, Yi Damao's.
His original idea was even more perverted.
He wanted to lay out directional mines all along the road, and when the new army arrived, it would all be wiped out in one fell swoop.
There are just not enough directional mines to lay out a section of the road, but this is enough.
At this time, a large group of soldiers stood on the hillsides on both sides and rushed down the road with a roar.
"Quick, come with me to capture the prisoners.
The 3rd battalion has already gone down.
Damn it, we can't let them take advantage."
Yi Damao reacted immediately, grabbed the Springfield rifle, and was the first to jump out of the bunker.
Combat engineers followed with guns drawn.
At this time, the main force of the crusade was still five kilometers away, and such a loud noise would alert them.
"What's going on ahead?"
Xietong Wang Desheng asked on his horse.
"It sounded like an explosion."
"The 29 standard does not carry a cannon, how could there be an explosion?"
"It's so dense, why does it sound like firecrackers?"
an officer said with some confusion.
Those directional mines exploded in sequence, and they sounded like firecrackers from a distance.
"It's not good that there is an ambush. 29 marks were ambushed by bandits.
The bandits must have used explosives."
Wang Desheng is also an old soldier with rich experience, and he quickly reacted.
"Expand immediately on the spot" Just in the middle of his words, a ball of blood suddenly burst out from his chest.
Wang Desheng's expression suddenly froze on his face, and he fell straight like a wooden stake.
"Pop!"
Only then did a gunshot sound.
As they got closer, there was another burst of gunfire.
Like him, the officers around Wang Desheng were all killed and injured by bullets fired from a distance.
In the blink of an eye, all the officers were lying down.
On the distant hillside, hundreds of Revolutionary Army snipers had turned their guns and aimed at other targets.
The new army column suddenly stopped, and the officers and soldiers looked at each other, shocked by this sudden change.
"The sharpshooter of the bandits!"
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Ma Bian shouted and hurriedly ran towards Wang Desheng.
He hadn't run a few steps when he heard a "boom" and a cannonball exploded more than ten meters away.
Ma Bian and several surrounding soldiers were blown away by the shock wave.
There was more than one cannonball.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom," the shells fell like raindrops on the new army's ranks, and the originally neat queue suddenly became a mess.
The quality of these new Han soldiers is much better than that of the bannermen.
At least they know how to place scouts in front and around them, but these scouts are also the first to suffer misfortune.
While sniping at senior officers, these scouts were also attacked from nearby bushes.
The Revolutionary Army used 24 mountain guns and 64 mortars this time, divided into 8 artillery positions.
Because they were all arranged on the reverse slope, the New Army's scouts did not notice them at all.
They had calibrated the coordinates in advance, and they didn't even need to test-fire, they just fired.
After the first five-round salvo was completed, the soldiers on the hillside took off their camouflage, revealing 24 Maxim heavy machine guns, and then 24 fire chains fiercely whipped down the new army.
The snipers also selected their targets, and the four-fold optical sights were aimed at each officer.
The new army, which had just been blown away by artillery, fell into a hell of bullets again.
Seeing that it was almost done, Rossi, who was sitting at the frontline headquarters, issued an order: "Stop the attack, all troops are on standby, and try to persuade them to surrender first."
Immediately, several loudspeakers hidden on the surrounding hillsides were withdrawn and shouted to the still confused New Army soldiers below.
"Hand in your arms and surrender without killing" "The revolutionary army treats the captured New Army brothers with preferential treatment.
Stop working for the decadent Manchu Qing Dynasty and surrender as soon as possible."
Most of the high and middle-level officers of the New Army had been killed or injured in the stormy attack just now, and the rest, like the soldiers, had been knocked out of their souls.
Looking at the black holes on the hillside, there were countless gun muzzles, and their morale was suddenly wiped out. .
After a while, several white flags were raised in the new army.
"Surrender, surrender, stop fighting!"
Several officers shouted at the top of their lungs to the people on the mountain.
They were really frightened.
Basically, these officers and soldiers had never experienced war.
They saw that within a few minutes, their army was in disarray.
In addition, they themselves were not loyal to the Qing government, and they had no morale.
The artillery, engineers and baggage troops who were further behind had even less combat effectiveness.
Although their position was not bombarded, they knelt down and surrendered obediently after being fired upon by more than 60 light machine guns.
Not to mention the civilians who followed behind.
As soon as the gunfire rang out, these civilians hugged their heads and lay on the ground.
None of them were okay, not even a scratch on their skin.
In this counter-encirclement and suppression operation, the actual fighting only took more than ten minutes, but it took more than half a day to clean up the battlefield afterwards.
In addition to the revolutionary army and local civilians who volunteered to help, civilian husbands brought by the Hubei New Army were also ordered to help clean up the battlefield.
"Yi Damao, this is all your bad idea.
The road we just built needs to be repaired again."
"Yes, there is blood in the drainage ditch.
You are so cruel.
You killed 2,000 people in one blow and they were all in pieces.
Damn it, aren't you cheating us?"
When cleaning up the war, the section of the road at No. 29 was the worst.
The entire No. 29 road, along with dozens of leading party members, was almost completely wiped out.
Blood, minced meat and mutilated limbs were everywhere, and there were not many intact bodies.
The dozen or so survivors that the soldiers finally found from the pile of meat were all injured, and they didn't know whether they could be saved alive.
The soldiers who came here to clean up were so disgusted by this hellish scene that many of them vomited.
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As the instigator, Yi Damao naturally received the most attacks.
Yi Damao didn't feel disgusted, but it didn't feel good to be pointed at by thousands of people.
He could only say weakly: "Uh, I didn't know this would be so powerful.
Be careful next time."
That night, the Pingdingshan base was filled with joy.
The soldiers were all beaming and talking loudly about today's victory.
The canteen also added food today.
Everyone was given a braised chicken leg, a bowl of braised pork, 2 salted eggs, and half a liter of sugar cane wine produced by Xingke.
Everyone was drinking and eating meat, feasting and talking loudly. .
The staff on duty can only go back to eat and drink after changing their posts.
After the celebration banquet, officers above the company level came to the conference room for a summary meeting.
"In this battle, our army annihilated 3 infantry targets of the Qing army, one battalion each of cavalry and artillery, and one team each of engineers and baggage troops. 3,767 enemy soldiers were killed and 3,570 captured, including 456 seriously injured.
More than 900 people were slightly injured and 18 Krupp 57mm mountain guns were seized, 5,740 Hanyang-made rifles, 235 pistols, 420 rounds of artillery shells, more than 30,000 silver coins, 700 taels of gold, and more than 20,000 kilograms of grain."
"Our army has 13 killed, 7 seriously injured, and 36 lightly injured.
The ammunition consumption is as follows" The Chief of Staff first announced the results and losses.
President Luo Xi then spoke: "In this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, thanks to the efforts of our army's commanders and fighters, our army achieved an initial victory.
However, I would like to remind everyone that this victory is only a phased victory.
Although the Hubei New Army was defeated by our Some of the troops were annihilated, but most of them were still in Wuchang.
Our victory this time was mainly based on their underestimation of the enemy and their lack of understanding of us.
The next battle will not be so easy, and the Qing government still has 100,000 new troops in other provinces.
If they assist Hubei, we will be under pressure. will increase significantly, so we must not be blindly optimistic.”
“The battle summaries of each unit must be done well, and political workers must strengthen the transformation of prisoners.”
After Rossi finished speaking, the political commissar of the 3rd regiment asked: "Comrade President, among our prisoners this time there are civilian husbands recruited by the Qing army.
What should we do with them?"
"They do not need to be imprisoned, but they have to live together and participate in labor.
They will receive seven days of political education together with the prisoners of the Qing army.
After the education, those who are willing to leave will be given travel expenses and sent home, and those who are unwilling to leave can stay."
Someone else asked: "Some New Army prisoners claim to be members of revolutionary organizations such as the Tongmenghui, the Gongjinhui, and the Japanese Society for Advancement.
How should they be dealt with?"
"Like other prisoners, we have no contact with these organizations and cannot confirm their identities," Rossi said calmly.
Revolutionary parties such as the Tongmeng Society had also contacted the Kyodo Society before, but these people were rejected and Rossi ignored them at all.
The Restoration Society was informed in advance and did not get involved in this matter at all.
"Comrade President, can we liberate the city now?"
Yi Damao couldn't help but ask.
He raised this issue at the last meeting, but was told that the time was not ripe.
"Well, it's okay now.
Let's start from Xingshan County next to the base first, and then Zigui.
After occupying Zigui, we will electrify the whole country."
Rossi nodded
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