Chapter 753: When mobilizing troops

"My ears were knocked out at the time. The bullet hit directly from my side. I didn't even know that the ears were hit. All I knew was that I was hit in the abdomen, and I was about to die of pain. Then I passed out directly." The veteran continued.

"Tututu. Tutu." The machine gun fired continuously. This Qi army team, who had just come to reinforce, was beaten by a machine gun, and was wiped out by the Qin army before it even deployed its troops.

The main battle is not only happening here, there are other directions, but the scale of the battle is not very large. But the number of deaths caused is huge. The firepower point supported by the core position of the machine gun is the defense system of the system. The Qin Army defended the Qi Army's attack very well.

Not only the machine gun, but also the six mortars of the Qin Army. These mortars continuously provided fire coverage in the direction of the Qi army's offensive. These fire coverage interrupted the contact between the Qi army's offensive forces and the rear support forces.

The Qi Army troops who attacked in front were completely wiped out because of the continuous attack of Qin Army machine guns. The troops in the rear had to retreat because of the fierce mortar firing. In this way, the Qi army's offensive in all directions was disintegrated.

As the sky gradually brightened. The battle gradually came to an end, and the night's battle was gradually exposed to the sun's rays. Qi Jun, who had attacked all night, couldn't move when he was tired. They are all tired. The battle is also over.

This battle was reported to the General Staff in Xianyang of Qin State by telegram. The staff took this telegram excitedly and submitted it to Wang Jian, King Qin, Wei Liao, and Shang Wen for review.

"Preliminary estimates are that in this battle, our army killed 32 people, injured 58 people, and seriously wounded eight people. The loss of the Qi army was higher than that of our army, about 700 people. The Qi army retreated temporarily. One step is unclear. We have sent fighter jets to reconnaissance and conduct certain firepower strikes." The telegram only reported some battle results, and the specific details of the subsequent battles will be reported to the Xianyang military through a long combat report. leader.

According to the report that the major concluded by combining information from all parties, the Qi army's offensive was originally doomed to failure. There are several reasons for the failure.

First, at the beginning of the plan, there was no more complete plan. Qi Jun’s offensive was a multi-point attack. The focus was on the use of his late force. The first multi-point attack sought a breakthrough point. This breakthrough point was found. After seeing it, they immediately used their reserve forces to launch an offensive. This plan looks perfect, but it is very difficult to execute.

First of all, it is very difficult to find a breakthrough point. This difficulty lies in uncertainty, because no one can be sure where the breakthrough can be made, and Qi Jun's reconnaissance is not very complete. This leads to great randomness of breakthroughs.

Secondly, the Qi army did not have a good guarantee of having a complete reserve team to conduct breakthrough expansion operations, and the reserve team was sent out to fight until it was used, and then temporarily withdrew, carried out a second assembly, and finally sent out operations. This caused the situation. The soldiers wasted a lot of physical strength. This kind of physical waste directly led to the lowering of the combat effectiveness of the Qi army.

The last thing to point out is that the Qi Army’s communication capabilities are very poor, so bad that this battle failed because of communication problems. It could have been avoided by Qi Jun, but Qin Jun’s use of telephones and other modern communication tools seized the opportunity because of the delay in communication, which eventually led to the defeat of Qi Jun and the victory of Qin Jun. This also shows that the application of some modern technologies, especially communication technology. Use can greatly accelerate a certain backward combat effectiveness. Or a certain kind of ability.

The second is the major gap in weapons. Although the Qin Army has some weapons, such as short-range rapid-fire weapons, the quantity and quality of the Qi Army’s equipment exceeds the Qin Army’s quality, such as pistols and the replacement of Qin’s revolver. The bullet is too much trouble. However, Qi Jun’s magazine pistol can quickly replace bullets, and in terms of application. The Qi army attaches great importance to the assault effect of these short-range rapid-fire weapons, mainly aimed at the beginning of trench warfare. And in this short-to-hand combat, the Qi army caused a lot of casualties to the Qin army. After one of the Qin army's platoons was breached by it, the platoon was almost wiped out.

Moreover, in addition to some of the people who died in the Qin army's battle, a considerable number of people died under Qi's pistols and submachine guns. The Qi army's assault tactics show that it is still very effective.

in contrast. The Qin Army is very lacking in short-range assaults. The revolver equipped with it performed very poorly in actual combat, especially in terms of continuity, even though it was very powerful. But in terms of continuous shooting, it is not as good as the magazine-style pistol equipped by the Qi army, the most important thing is. Qin Jun lacks this kind of assault awareness. As a result, the Qin army suffered weapons in short-sold combat, and suffered a loss of consciousness.

However, Qin Jun is not without advantages. The advantage lies in the huge firepower suppression advantage of long-range operations, especially in static defense. Qin Jun does the best. Qin Jun’s fortifications have developed into a complete system. The use of landmines and barbed wire has played a very good role in alert and defensive action, and use these defensive weapons with a large number of equipped machine guns to carry out large-scale shooting operations. In this way, the Qi army attacking from the front can easily suffer heavy casualties. More than 1,000 people, more than 700 people killed in action, more than 500 people died of machine gun fire, most of their bodies fell on the defensive belt between mines and barbed wire. Especially with more machine gun usage. The rapid-fire effect of the machine gun caused great casualties to the Qi army.

If a mere machine gun shooting cannot completely cause a large number of casualties, the defense is an overall system. The defense system established by the Qin army is to attach importance to the fire support role of the machine gun, especially the infantry squad tactics. An infantry squad revolves around machine guns. Then the other infantrymen used their rifles for auxiliary shooting. This arrangement provides safety protection for the machine gun, and at the same time, the machine gun provides strong fire support for the infantry.

In the application of machine guns, the Qin Army used cross fire to the extreme, especially the use of side fire. Multi-angle shooting can minimize the dead angle of shooting. In this way, the enemy hit may form a multi-faceted strike effect. The formation of multi-faceted strike effects makes it easier to disrupt the enemy's attack.

These are all the experiences that Qin Jun himself summed up from his opponent's Huns, mountain people, and people from the Western Regions.

Third, in the use of troops, the Qi army did not make good adjustments to the allocation of troops, especially without the concept of a reserve team. The Qi army puts its troops into combat to the maximum when they are used. Temporary deployment to form a reserve team is both manpower and time consuming. On the battlefield where soldiers are expensive, this waste caused the Qi army to constantly miss opportunities for formation on the battlefield.

However, the Qin Army formed a reserve team early. Although the frontline defense of the Qin Army was difficult, especially in some areas, the Qin Army was able to quickly mobilize the military reserve team to make up for it with the help of a developed communication network. , Qi Jun could not do it. In terms of firepower weapons, the role of the reserve team has become more and more important, because the breakthrough of the use of weapons has become stronger and stronger, no one knows where what will happen, and the reserve team can carry out a very good counterattack. , Qin Jun himself admitted this.

"We originally wanted to counterattack so that we could expand our results on a large scale, but the actual situation does not allow us to do so. First, our mission is to defend the entire airport, and the second is that our forces are very limited. , Defense is very difficult, so don’t mention taking the initiative to attack. And our landmine burial situation is not very ideal, although we have reserved some safety zones. But the place is too narrow, which brings us a lot of counter-impact. Trouble." Qin Jun said in the report.

The last point to be said is that the principle of concentration of forces, the biggest mistake of the Qi army is that the strength of the army is not maximized. On the contrary, he adopted multiple offensives, which greatly dispersed his strength. At this point, his strength advantage ceased to exist. Because the Qin army had the advantage of long-range weaponry, they used this advantage to transform into Their superiority in strength. Qi Jun should not be able to block it very well. From these points of view. Qi Jun's defeat was wronged at all.

The battle is over. The guns that had been fired all night finally calmed down.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah." Flock of crows flew over the war zone, they started pecking Lanrou the bodies of the battlefield. Most of these corpses belonged to the Qi army, and their corpses were in various states. Some are relatively complete, but also bloody, and some are fried into bits and pieces. Various organs and limbs are everywhere, and they become the delicacy of crows. The battlefield was in a mess. Corpses, guns, and various defensive equipment.

"Oh." The soldiers of the Qi army came back one by one. There were many wounded among them. There was mud all over their bodies. They were listless. Obviously they were defeated.

The general looked at everything silently. He couldn't say anything. The loss is being counted. He was worried and blamed for the numbers he got later, just overnight. Over 800 people were lost. There are currently only a hundred people in Qi Jun. Most of the more than one hundred people were injured. This loss is too great.

The Qi army's first offensive ended in this way, but everything was not over yet.

"Victory. Victory. Victory." Qin Jun cheered loudly after winning the victory. They feel that they have done a particularly beautiful thing. But soon they were not happy.

Because the combat aircraft sent quickly brought back a piece of news that they didn't want to see.

"About fifty miles away, we saw a huge number of Qi army troops. They are so many, we can't estimate them. There are probably tens of thousands of people. Moreover, we also found cannons. And cavalry units." Qin Jun’s pilot gave this report to the lieutenant colonel.

"What? Cannon, cavalry." The lieutenant colonel said in surprise.

"Yes," the pilot nodded and said.

"Oh. Damn." The lieutenant colonel was very speechless, he couldn't say anything. When he heard the news, he felt his heart jumped out. It was so possible, just repelling a Qi army's offensive. And the Qi army quickly appeared a large force.

"I think we should apply, we must retreat. Retreat, no matter what, we must retreat." The lieutenant colonel said nervously.

Immediately, the lieutenant colonel began to draft a telegram to send a telegram to Qin State Xianyang.

While in Xianyang, Wang Jian looked at the sand table silently. There is also another person looking at the sand table silently. That person is Li Mu. However, they looked at the sand table differently. What Wang Jian looked at was the sand table in the war zone, where the Qin army fought. But Li Mu saw a big "world." map. The world used in this map is all known areas of Qin and some areas that are not yet known. However, what Li Mu is interested in is not the geographic environment above, but the railway network. The railroad transportation of troops is fast, and the reaction speed is also fast, he wondered how fast this kind of speed can be.

Wang Jian had already learned that the front line had finally repelled the enemy's attack. But he was not happy. in contrast. He was a little worried, because repelling the Qi army this time could only be regarded as repelling the outpost army of the Qi army once.

And is there no army behind the Qi army? The answer is yes. And there are many.

"General, look at this." A staff officer carefully handed over a folder.

"What did you say?" Wang Jian asked.

"Our people used aerial reconnaissance and found a large number of Qi army troops, with a preliminary estimate of tens of thousands. The most important thing is that they also discovered artillery."

"Those who should come will definitely come back. Those who shouldn't have come but none come." Wang Jian said.

"What else?" Wang Jian asked.

"Also, the base commander asks you whether to retreat now." the staff officer asked.

"Retreat, now there is no way to retreat. Once the enemy gets the situation, he will catch up immediately. And our people fight all night. It must be exhausted and can't retreat very far."

"Let them stand by. Let me think about whether I can mobilize troops in other directions." Wang Jian said.

"Yes, sir." The staff officer left.

Then Wang Jian re-entered a state of contemplation. The current situation is still very serious for the Qin army. Regardless of the victory of the Qin army, the Qin army will still face big problems in the future. For example, there is a huge difference in military strength. Although the Qin Army has a great advantage in technical weapons, the Qi Army has an advantage in numbers. Most importantly, the Qi Army now has artillery. Although these artillery pieces are old-fashioned artillery pieces, their power is enough to affect the defense of the Qin army stationed there.

The Qin Army was not equipped with large-caliber artillery, not even small-caliber flat-fire artillery. What they only had was a three-inch slap cannon that could reach two miles. This mortar was a curved-fire weapon, and it was not able to shoot far at all. At the time, it was specially designed for infantry. As a result, Qin Jun's situation became worse and worse.

When Shangwen heard the frontline report, he was very happy for a while, but after reading the telegram, Yingyu told Shangwen straightforwardly,

"It's impossible. Qi Jun can't underestimate it. You should think of a way to transfer troops." Ying Yu said coldly.

"We have won the battle now," Shang Wen said.

"It's just a temporary victory. You have to know. The war is not fought for a day and a half. It is normal for a few months. There are also several years. Moreover, the Qi army is advancing rapidly, and they are likely to increase at any time. Soldiers. There are only three hundred people in our place. The nearest ones are in Yandu, but there are not many of our people. In this way, we can immediately tell the winners in the subsequent wars. The most important thing is, You have to rescue those people, the weapons, ammunition, and various supplies used by those people are consumed day by day. It's not that they don’t move. Do you know how to fight a war." Yingyu is an insider. Look at Shang Wen with the eyes of a layman.

"Oh." Shang Wen nodded. If Yingyu doesn't say anything, he really doesn't know that there is so much attention to war.

"In this world, it's really strange, that is, you who don't know how to fight command those who know how to fight. And you can also control the battle. It's really strange." Yingyu said grumblingly. Yingyu had to complain. It's been several days since I came to Zhao State. She feels very uncomfortable with the lack of everything here.

For taking a bath, there is no such big bathroom. The bed is ok, but the bed is smaller. You know, in Zhao State, box-spring beds are used by noble families. And Yingyu doesn't have that kind of thing that can't sleep.

What made her even more annoyed was that she wanted to go to the streets, but as soon as she left the house and was about to get out of the car, she dismissed that plan, because Zhao Guo's streets were not clean at all, and the most terrible thing was that there were no fun things. Yingyu, who was born to be fun, immediately felt that it was a mistake to come to Zhao, and Handan was not as interesting as Xianyang.

Faced with such a country, Yingyu is naturally unwilling to stay longer. She wants to go to the grassland and see the snow scene of the grassland. Then let the nerd make something called skiing.

The more he didn't want to stay, the more he couldn't stay. Yingyu urged Shangwen every day, but Shangwen couldn't get away because of Qin Jun's encirclement, especially as he kept approaching representatives of various parties. Consider the attitudes of all parties.

Foreign affairs are annoying enough. It's getting more and more annoying now.

"The prime minister, the new information just came." A clerk handed Shang Wen a telegram folder. Shang Wen opened it and took a look. Sure enough, it was the same as Yingyu said.

"As you said, the Qi army was discovered. There are more than 10,000 people, there are artillery and cavalry. Now the trouble is really coming. Three hundred people, to fight 10,000, and there are artillery and cavalry. This battle , What do we think, we are all set to lose. What should we do?" Shang Wen felt that there was no hope at all. The difference in strength is too great.

"We have to urge Zhao Guo. Let them send troops to support as soon as possible, otherwise we will really be over." Shang Wen said.

Regarding support, without Shangwen's urging, all parties were working hard, and Yan Jun finally got on a train and set off in a battalion. There are more troops on the train behind, and a large number of weapons and equipment are quickly loaded onto the train.

Artillery, armored fighting vehicles, machine guns, horses, and various weapons and ammunition were all intensively loaded onto the train under the loading and unloading arrangements of the Qin State Engineers, and the Qin State could only send out a foot of the Yan State Prince's Army within this day. corps. An armored tank company. Others can do nothing, because this has exceeded their transportation capacity. And being able to transport an infantry regiment and armored fighting vehicle company is already the best effort.

Qin's domestic practice of dispatching other troops was directly denied. Because King Qin would not agree to use ground troops, as for air troops, it will be delayed for at least three days due to weather conditions. In the next few days, Qin will usher in a wide range of snowy weather. In this kind of weather, it is difficult for airplanes to take off and transfer. Regarding the transfer of the heavenly army, Qin had to take apart the plane and complete the transfer task by railway transportation. In this way, the State of Qin faced the difficulty of being surrounded by his own army and called in the army to rescue.

However, the newspaper of Qin State did it. They began to participate in the war of words.

The media finally learned from an unknown military officer that a 300-member Marine Corps unit of the State of Qin and related air combat units of the Celestial Army were besieged on the airport. The news was published in newspapers, and Qin was in an uproar.

"Our army is besieged in the country of Yan. When is this? When is our army in the country of Yan." The people of Qin were very unaware of the news reported in the newspapers. There are many things they don't know. The reporters seemed to have an intention to answer. They surrounded the news platforms of the Qin State General Staff, Guowei Mansion, and Prime Minister's Mansion. They want to know what is going on right away.

"How should we answer the reporter's question?" Wang Jian asked.

"These reporters really added chaos to us. Do we have to explain everything? Now Qin State is about to become a mess here." Wang Jian said.

So the staff of the General Staff began to think of ways to solve the problems of the reporters.

"Excuse me, why did our army appear in the country of Yan?" a reporter asked.

"This question. It's like this." The spokesperson didn't know what to say, but there was a manuscript, so he found out a prepared manuscript and started reading it.

"This problem is like this. Our airport is not protected in Yan State. Because there is no protection, our airport is often stolen. Therefore, in order to maintain the secrecy of the aircraft, we will send troops to garrison outside. The garrison is normal, and it couldn’t be more normal. You know, we also have troops stationed in South Korea. These troops defend our concessions and protect the interests of our businessmen from infringement. I don’t think I need to explain too much about this. Is it wrong for the army to defend the people of one's own country? I think there is nothing wrong." Qin spokesperson said.

"Then why Qi suddenly attacked us, and heard that there was a fierce gun battle, the two sides exchanged fire. Did we lose?" the reporter asked.

"Well!\" said the spokesperson.

"How can I say that the relationship between Qin and Qi was not good at all, and the prime minister of the country had insulted our prime minister before. We couldn't understand this behavior and asked the other party to apologize sincerely, but the other party ignored it. So. , The relationship between the two countries was broken. Our diplomats all rushed back. Everyone knows about this." The speech said.

"Not only that, they also bullied our ally Yan, Qin and Yan are friendly countries, and Yan has been doing business with us. We all know that, now, they ignore our Qin people’s business. Openly invaded the country of Yan, and will soon reach the country of Yan. Can we ignore such a thing?"

"Obviously we can't leave it alone." Qin State spokesperson said.

"As for the situation on the battlefield, I can tell you clearly. Our soldiers are very brave in fighting. In the fierce battle yesterday. Our soldiers killed more than 700 people on the other side. We must know that the number of people besieging us exceeds two thousand. The combat effectiveness of our Qin army is very strong. We all have confidence in this." The spokesperson said.

The subsequent speaker spoke. They all said something inconsequential, such as how the Qin army fought, the equipment of the Qin army, the tactics of the Qin army, and the commander of the Qin army. Wait, these are relatively important reports for the people of Qin who want to know the specific battle story. But for the further development of the matter, it has no effect.

"We think that the military seems to be hiding something. Our three hundred people are surrounded. Why did the military not propose a specific method to clear the siege? According to our observations and known information, we don't have many troops in the country of Yan, and these The army does not have enough capacity to rescue these three hundred people."

"Not only that, it is impossible for us to mobilize a large army to help our army get out of trouble in an extreme period of time. In this way, what should we do with the lives of these 300 people? We really want to know."

"None of the Qin military gave a profound answer. On the contrary, they tried their best to talk about irrelevant topics. We don't like to listen to these topics."

"What we care about is the safety of the soldiers of the Qin Army, not the Qin Army soldiers who are paying the price of their lives to win. And this victory is not worth it at all, and we are selling our lives for the people of Yan. How can the lives of soldiers in our own country be like this? Betrayed?" Qin's newspaper wrote.

For such reports. There are many newspapers in Qin State, and there are not a few. Such reports have a great impact on Qin State's military. Qin's military is under great pressure. Wang Jian is under the greatest pressure. He now thinks about how to withdraw the army, he is considering whether to use diplomatic means to solve the problem, such as the use of peace talks.

But after much deliberation, these ideas are not appropriate, because Qin and Qi have nothing to talk about. And I can't talk about it.

For a time, Qin State fell into a desperate situation.

In the State of Zhao, the State of Zhao was also in the midst of nervous deployment of troops. Wang Zhao followed Guo Kai’s advice in detail. Therefore, the Zhao army began a large-scale assembly. These military regulations went directly to the battlefield by walking. Avoid Zhao Guo getting involved in a larger war. Guo Kai proposed to use the name of the Zhao State Volunteer Army to borrow troops.

As a result, a large number of the Zhao army went directly to the border, where they would cancel the Zhao royal house badge and use a kind of armband instead. Such words will be written on the armband.

"Zhao State Volunteers." They sent troops to defend Yan State. It can be said that they are just. This kind of justice has been greatly questioned.

But distant water cannot save a nearby fire. No matter how Zhao Jun dispatched troops to battle, he could not rush to Qin's war zone in time. At this time, Qin State hoped that Zhao State could send a special team to support Qin State. One of Zhao’s paratroopers is in the Handan area. Can they drop this paratrooper by air?

But this suggestion was quickly answered, no, no. impossible. This is Li Mu's reply. He believes that this unit is an elite unit, and its ability to project is very poor. If Qin wants to use it, for example, it provides planes and airships. Moreover, these things are only used by the people of Zhao. In this way, it was equivalent to taking care of the air force in disguise, and Qin directly rejected such a request.

However, another country has offered to help. That is South Korea. South Korea hopes to send a thousand troops to help. But when it comes to transportation, it is still a problem that distant waters cannot save nearby fires. Moreover, the Korean army's combat style is dull and unsuitable for fighting against the Qi nationals. But considering the relationship between the allies, Shang Wen still accepted South Korea's kindness.

So before South Korea sent troops to help the Kingdom of Yan, and the name used was also the Volunteer Army, the Korean Volunteer Army.

In this way, South Korea and the Kingdom of Zhao established a volunteer army.

Now that both countries have volunteers. So why doesn't Qin State organize its own volunteer army? Qin Guo thought too, but Shangwen was considering it.

"The Prime Minister, I think we should set up the Qin Volunteer Army, so that we can not only make diplomatic relations with Yan, but also provide necessary assistance militarily. The most important thing is that we can solve our three problems in a short time. The problem of a hundred people.” A military adviser said.

"However, we recruited volunteers from there. Don't we need to know that the troops can be used from the troops." Shang Wen said.

"Not the army, but our quasi army. That is our reserve." said the military adviser.

"En." Shang Wen nodded.

"But I still disagree, and I don't want to see it." Shang Wen said.

"The dispatch of volunteers means that we are participating in a civil war. I don't want to see such a thing." In Shangwen's view, this is the act of fighting a civil war, and this behavior is extremely annoying to Shangwen. disgust.

Shangwen is still unwilling to see the civil war happening, especially in the State of Qin. Qin State can send air power, but it can dispatch ground troops. Shangwen believes that in the current situation, there are armored combat vehicles, artillery, machine guns, and so on. The killing effect of the weapon is far greater than before. If Qin was involved in a civil war, then it would not be known how many people would die. The most important thing is that Qin’s participation will not lead to further war, because the people of Qi will definitely not be able to withstand the combined attack of the four countries. They will definitely be called helpers. This helper is Chu. Once Chu joins, then civil war can be true. Fight. In that case, Shang Wen is the least willing to see it.

For this level of consideration, Shangwen was unwilling to send troops. And it's a volunteer army. Regardless of the form, Shangwen would not send troops like this.

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