klisemfg Chapter 361: The Biggest Military Taboo: Adding Fuel to the Tactics
Chapter 361: The Biggest Military Taboo: Adding Fuel to the Tactics
At that moment, 20% of the hundreds of defenders on the shore were killed. After suffering such heavy casualties, they immediately turned into birds and beasts and scattered, no longer having any intention of stopping the enemy.
Upon seeing this, Liu Huaqiang and his two companions immediately ordered their men to wave torches to signal the other side to stop the shelling. Then they divided their troops into three groups. Hua Yong led three hundred people and went straight to the navy camp along the river bank.
Liu Sheng led two hundred men and quietly entered the woods, preparing to create trouble behind enemy lines and support Qiang Zhengde's defense.
As for Qiang Zhengde, after he had someone send a signal to Jiang Li, he immediately led his men to occupy the enemy's position.
Then he sent out boats to row over and deliver more soldiers, while he led his men to reinforce the wall in preparation for the enemy's onslaught.
Sure enough, although these defending soldiers were dispersed, there were still a few deserters who reported the news.
Soon, a large group of enemies came to encircle and suppress them, trying to drive back the landed enemies.
However, because there was a period of defensive gap in the meantime, another group of about 2,500 Anmin Army soldiers landed successfully.
Moreover, they deliberately reduced the number of people landing this time and sent a lot of weapons and ammunition, which greatly consolidated the defensive position.
When the 10,000 people sent by Hu Duozong arrived at this position, they immediately launched a siege on it.
For a while, the sound of gunfire was heard continuously and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle.
As soon as the two sides started fighting, the officer in charge listened to the number of guns and artillery on the opposite side and immediately estimated the number of enemies.
Judging from the density of the gunfire, there were at least four to five thousand of them, so he immediately reported the news to his superiors.
When Hu Duozong, He Chengjun and Xia Douyan learned the news, they finally understood the details. They immediately guessed that the landing troops were the main force tonight.
When they thought of this, they immediately dispatched heavy troops to this direction to support and try to repel the enemy.
However, the situation was not optimistic. Because of the beachhead, subsequent Anmin troops landed one after another until Xia Douyan personally arrived here with tens of thousands of troops.
It was seen that both sides had entered into a fierce battle.
Because Qiang Zhengde received the order to defend his position to the death, he fought extremely frantically and did not care about casualties at all.
As long as they are alive, they must continue to fight until their last drop of blood is shed.
It was with their tenacious resistance and the support of artillery fire from the rear that Qiang Zhengde was able to withstand wave after wave of fierce enemy attacks.
Seeing this, Xia Douyan knew that he could not wait any longer, so he immediately sent people to join the battle.
After receiving orders from their superiors, Hubei's ragtag troops could only rely on their numerical advantage and launch a fierce attack on the positions of the Anmin Army like a surging tide.
However, what awaited them was wave after wave of heavy artillery bombardment and heavy machine gun fire.
Amid the deafening roar of artillery and incessant machine gun fire, the fierce charge was quickly repelled.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Xia Douyan ordered his soldiers to continue charging and at the same time immediately gave orders to transport his few cannons to suppress the enemy with artillery fire.
Just half an hour after he gave the order, the soldiers had been repelled twice before the artillery finally arrived.
Following Xia Douyan's order, the soldiers who had already thought of retreating quickly evacuated to the rear.
After another flurry of activity, the Hubei Army's artillerymen nervously set up the cannons, and then, without waiting for Xia Douyan's order, they launched a chaotic artillery attack on Qiang Zhengde's location.
However, although these bombardments were chaotic and disorderly, and the gunners had a low hit rate due to panic, the positions of the Anmin Army were too small and the personnel were too dense, so these bombardments still caused a lot of casualties.
But Qiang Zhengde was ordered to hold his position, so even though they suffered heavy casualties, all the soldiers of the Anmin Army still fought to the death (in fact, there was no way to retreat).
Machine guns spewed out tongues of flame, bullets whistled across the battlefield, and cannons made heart-pounding roars. Soldiers on both sides died every moment.
But despite this, neither side had any intention of giving up, and the stalemate remained. The Hubei side kept replacing the troops participating in the battle, while the Anmin Army kept transporting soldiers using small boats.
But in this way, the originally planned surprise attack turned into a futile battle, and the situation was very unfavorable for the Anmin Army.
The fighting lasted all night, and even when the sun rose, the two sides had not stopped.
On Jiang Li's side, when he was anxiously thinking about a solution, a soldier suddenly came to report that a fleet suddenly appeared upstream and went down the river, and the people on the boats seemed to be their own people.
Jiang Li was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately ran out to check the situation. He was even more overjoyed to see that the person on the boat was none other than Hua Yong.
After he got off the boat, he came to Jiang Li and saluted, "Commander, I have fulfilled my mission. I was lucky enough to take advantage of the enemy's laxity and raided the enemy's navy, and captured a hundred large merchant ships!"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Li immediately burst into laughter and gave each of them a bear hug.
"Hahahaha, you've done a great job. The battle situation is not favorable to our army right now, and your one hundred merchant ships are a great help!"
"Don't talk about anything else for now. When this battle is over, I will definitely give you three credit for the first place!"
After that, he arranged for people to board the ships and use these one hundred merchant ships to transport more soldiers to the other side.
However, these merchant ships were not like the previous fishing boats that could only carry five or six people. Instead, they were large ships that could carry forty or fifty people.
This time, four to five thousand people could be sent directly over, and as more soldiers arrived at the battlefield, the battle situation, which had been difficult due to the small number of people on the other side, immediately improved a lot.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Li immediately ordered the other soldiers who were feinting the attack to retreat and defend, and then concentrated all the artillery to cover the enemy positions with the most intense artillery fire.
The Hubei coalition forces on the opposite side were fighting well, but suddenly they felt that the firepower of the Anmin Army was more than twice as strong.
Before they could figure out what was going on, they were disoriented by the sudden and intense artillery fire.
Under this saturation attack, the Hubei coalition forces suffered heavy casualties in an instant. Even their artillery positions were hit by several heavy artillery shells, and the artillery output was immediately reduced by nearly half.
Until this time, the coalition forces on the opposite side finally came to their senses, and the soldiers on the front line immediately began to flee. No matter how the supervision team whipped and shot, they had no courage to continue fighting.
In order to stabilize people's hearts, Xia Douyan directly ordered the shooting and killed all the deserters.
In this way, although he stabilized the war situation, he also caused the soldiers to completely alienate themselves from him.