Song Beiyun

And at this moment, Goudan, who is in a foreign land, is leaning in the trench and sharing a bottle of canned food with his companions. The conditions for joining the army are difficult, but even though he is the top nobleman in the Song Dynasty, he has never cried out. During the day, he trained and prepared like ordinary soldiers, and at night, he taught soldiers how to read and write with other scholar soldiers in the big tent.

Although it is bitter, it is very fulfilling.

Coupled with Goudan's excellent physical fitness and culture, he is very popular in the military camp, and many soldiers rely on him to write letters from home.

On this day, the moon and stars were sparse, they received a reconnaissance mission, Goudan didn't need to come out to carry out the mission, but he refused to stay behind, so he went out with the reconnaissance company and groped forward in the vast mountains .

"When the war is over, I should be able to be a company commander when I go back." The soldier who ate canned food with Goudan said with a smile: "At that time, I can take my parents to live in the city."

"Don't say these things on the battlefield." Goudan took a mouthful of canned food, poked his head out to observe for a while, and found that there was no movement, he continued to sit back in the trench, patted the dirt on his body: "Have you finished eating? Eat When we're done, we're leaving."

"Finished."

"go!"

Goudan beckoned, and a dozen people immediately appeared from the darkness like ghosts, and then quickly disappeared into the night.

They walked along both sides of the road, but when they were about to arrive at the predetermined place, they suddenly heard a series of dogs barking in the distance. They looked at each other and continued to explore for a while, but they found that there was an open space in front of them. There is an army of 2 people stationed there.

"stop!"

Goudan stretched out his hand to signal, then took out the map from his arms and looked at it by the moonlight, because the target army unexpectedly appeared here!

He compared the paths carefully and found that their target was probably Nineveh.

In other words...the other side has finally begun to march.

"Take this route." Goudan raised his hand and clenched his fist. After marking the location on the map, a group of scouts retreated quickly.

They quickly brought the news to the chief general of their camp, who frowned after hearing this: "2 people?"

"General, I thought there were more than 2 of them. According to the topographical map, they might come in two ways."

"We only have 8000 people."

The general pursed his lips and muttered: "Send someone for help, and the others are going to rely on favorable terrain to block the enemy."

Goudan responded and was about to go out to prepare immediately, but was stopped by the general: "Wait a minute."

"What's the matter, General?"

"You must leave the camp before tomorrow and go to the rear base camp, don't stay here."

"Why!" Goudan said with astonishment on his face, "Did I make a mistake?"

"Ancestor, I'll call you ancestor." The master put his hands on the table and said, "You are Yun Shuai's own son. If this really caused you something wrong, how can I explain to Yun Shuai?"

This general started from Nanchang with Song Beiyun back then, and gradually became a general from the bottom of the city gate. He naturally knew Goudan.

"I don't, just because I am Yun Shuai's son, I can't take half a step back! Even if I die in battle, I can't discredit my father, my family, or my country. I won't back down!"

"This is an order!" The general slapped it heavily on the table: "Immediately, go to the base camp for help!"

Goudan was extremely upset, but after hearing the words "This is an order", he still instinctively stood at attention: "Yes!"

Chapter 913: Rain on February 20, 2

According to the information sent back by the reconnaissance company, the opponent's military strength is far superior to our own, and the equipment does not seem to be as backward as imagined.

As a general with rich experience, he must be adaptable when executing the plan. Under such a disparity in military strength, the best tactic is still the defensive tactic that Song Dynasty has continued for many years, delaying as much as possible to wait for the support of the base camp .

The base camp is about 20 kilometers away from the vanguard camp, which means that the fastest time for the support troops to arrive is [-] days. This is still a state of rapid march, and under normal circumstances it takes about [-] days to arrive at the battlefield and go into battle.

In other words, the Fourth Pioneer Battalion of the Song Dynasty needs to rely on favorable terrain to defend this place for 20 days.

The general of the Vanguard Battalion unbuttoned his neck. He knew that this would be a tough battle, and it might even be a battle of life and death.

A few days ago, he had mobilized his subordinates to fortify and clear the town where they are currently sitting, and all the residents in the city had been evacuated with the cooperation of local officials.

"Report to the general! The other party is marching towards our department in a hurry. It seems that they have discovered our intention. The number of people verified is about 7000."

"Oh my God……"

The general of the Pioneer Battalion was named Gu Dawei, who once followed Song Beiyun to recover Nanchang City, and also fought all the way to Chang'an.Later, he participated in the officer training camp. Because he had studied for several years, he was selected into the Beihai New Army and became a member of the officer training group.

His tactical ability is not outstanding in the Northern Navy, but he is indeed considered a good general. After receiving the information, he immediately evaluated the combat power of both sides, but the result of the evaluation was not optimistic.

The Pioneer Battalion did not have heavy firepower, and the opponent obviously came prepared, plus the opponent had a certain amount of heavy firepower, so this battle was very difficult to fight.

But the more difficult it is to fight, the more you have to fight, because once you withdraw from this pass, you will expose the thousand-mile plain behind you to the enemy, which will cause strategic passiveness.

Gu Dawei put his hips on his hips and let out a long breath: "It doesn't matter, let's fight first."

In the afternoon of that day, the enemy's vanguard had already arrived at a place [-] kilometers away, and the Song army was waiting quietly in the trenches. Both sides remained calm for the time being, but this distance could actually be said to be imminent.

"Report! General, the reconnaissance company has captured two enemy spies."

Gu Dawei followed the soldier to the place where the prisoners were held. Because of the language barrier, he couldn't ask why, but their equipment seemed familiar to Gu Dawei.

They carried rifles on their backs and pistols on their bodies. This configuration was almost the same as that of the Song Army. Even the armed belts on their bodies looked very familiar.

Gu Dawei put their equipment on the table and compared it with the standard weapons installed in the Song Dynasty, only to find that the two countries that had never met each other made things not only with the same ideas, but also with almost the same structure. .

The only difference is that their things are rougher, not as refined as Da Song’s. Some parts of the same weapons can be interchanged, but some parts can’t match at all. The workmanship of the bullets is relatively good. But the jamming rate is also around 15.00%, which is basically one jam for eight shots, which is far from the structure of Da Song’s 35 rounds that only jam once.

But the backwardness of weapons and equipment does not mean that this side can take it lightly. It is the first time they have seen the same type of weapons when they came here through the Persian countries in the Western Regions, and most of the other countries are still using steel knives to rush into the trenches. .

Just when Gu Da was astonished, there was a sudden gunshot outside, which meant that the blocking battle had officially started.

Soon, information was continuously delivered, and the gunfire outside began to crackle like New Year's Eve, with unknown gunfire mixed in.

Hearing this voice, Gu Dawei's heart skipped a beat, because there was a cannon on the opposite side...

The rumbling of the cannon shook the house above Gu Dawei's head to shake off the dust. He looked nervously at the map, trying to find a breakthrough.

And at this time outside the city, the encounter between the two sides began without warning, and both sides were surprised by this sudden conflict.

Da Song was surprised that the opponent also had hot weapons, and the opponent was surprised that this Asian barbarian actually had a fucking machine gun!

In this face-to-face meeting, both sides were a little confused, so they could only start shooting based on instinct. Because the opposite side had the advantage of shelling, they could still withstand the absolute disadvantage of being ambushed.

And when the battle started for the second hour, the commander on the opposite side was in a state of confusion. He estimated that there were 3 people here, and it took four hours to resolve the battle and occupy this fortress city that curbs the throat.

But now it has been two hours, and I have lost more than 3000 people on my side, but they are firmly nailed to the same place and cannot move forward.

Who is the person on the other side?The commanders of the European troops have always been thinking about this question. As the most elite troops in Europe, they have always existed like gods on the battlefield. In the eyes, but how could it be like this today?

At this time, his scouts rushed in and shouted excitedly: "General, the front line is almost overwhelmed! We need artillery support."

At this moment, Gu Dawei also received a message: "The enemy is weak, and the shelling should start soon."

"Everyone into the trenches."

Sure enough, less than 10 minutes after he gave the order, a large number of shells fell from the sky.

Although the lethality of these shells was limited, they couldn't stand up to the large number, and Gu Dawei found that they were using projectiles, that is, mortars.This made him difficult. Although the effect of bombing trenches with mortars is not obvious, because large trenches have a complete combat system, and there will be command posts, observation decks, communication stations and other military fortifications inside. They are used by troops. The places used to rest and live when fighting a long-term war are not just a few temporary drainage ditches.

But under such suppression of firepower, they couldn't show themselves...

This is the difficulty of the vanguard. If it is an encounter in the rear base camp, if they encounter such shelling, they can directly use artillery fire to fight back, and the two sides will just fight with artillery.

However, the vanguard marched lightly and carried out tasks in different directions so that they could not carry too much ammunition, let alone shells.

"Wait until it gets dark." Gu Dawei shrank his neck from the shock of the shells: "Siying smeared and went out to spank a bunch of asses."

The night is always the most terrifying death on the battlefield, because no one knows what is hidden in the darkness, but this happens to be what the Pioneer Battalion, which is tasked with reconnaissance, is best at.

As the night gradually approached, the sound of artillery outside gradually stopped, and the Fourth Battalion quietly went out. At this moment, the opposing general was also analyzing the sudden encounter in the temporary headquarters.

He realized that the opponent obviously lacked heavy firepower, but their individual capabilities were extremely strong, and they had quite advanced military combat knowledge. He didn't get any benefit from the superiority of firepower. From the afternoon until now, they lost more than 5000 people , However, these 5000 people are basically sacrificed in vain, because their front has not advanced half a step.

"I've never heard that those low-level barbarians can have such combat power. Didn't you say that the people here still only ride horses and chop with knives?"

The commander of the European side had a beard, and he was furious in the headquarters: "How can I explain to the Marshal! How can I explain to that adult!"

His staff officers and adjutants were speechless. This time they obviously miscalculated the opponent's combat capabilities. They thought that the city might resist, but it would be completely occupied after a few hours, just like theirs. The smoothness of pushing all the way, in their words, is a sharp hot knife cutting butter, effortlessly.

But today they suffered the biggest setback since the expedition, and even now they don't even know who they are facing!

This forced them to let go of their arrogance and reactivate the dark whistle around them.

But their secret sentry is being massacred at this moment... The fourth battalion of the Great Song Vanguard is exactly the battalion of Goudan. They are the most elite soldiers, and they are best at detecting whistles, sneak attacks and creating chaos.

For them, those dark whistles were just a part of their daily drills, and they used the cover of night to harvest the lives of these dark whistles like a silent Yama.

Maybe it was a crossbow bolt in the dark, maybe it was a broken neck suddenly, more than [-] people from the [-]th Battalion just like this carpet-like cleared the secret sentries scattered in the woods and approached their artillery position step by step.

"If my brother Goudan was here, his skill would be called Lisuo." Lian Sheng, with his face smeared with oil paint, lay in a hiding place and stared carefully at the soybean-sized enemy camp in front of him: "Just that bastard just now. It’s gone before it’s too late to call.”

"Didn't Brother Goudan ask for help?" Zhou Cheng next to him whispered, "Actually, I don't want him here. He is a scholar, and a scholar should not come here. He must study hard."

"Okay, don't talk!"

Lian Sheng saw a group of four people patrolling in this direction with a dog in front of them. The four people hidden in the darkness took out the military crossbow behind them. Lian Sheng pointed at himself and then pointed at the four people in front of him. , lightly clenched his fist.

The companions understood, and raised their crossbow arrows to aim at their targets. When the patrolling soldiers of the opponent approached within range, the four crossbow bolts were fired almost simultaneously, knocking down those patrolling soldiers without any effort.

And before their dog could even bark, Lian Sheng jumped at him and broke his neck.

But just when they were about to make up the knife, a sentry on the ground blew the damn whistle with his last breath.

"Damn it!" Lian Sheng threw the crossbow and picked up the short-handled gun behind him: "Get ready to fight!"

The whistle pierced the night sky, and the enemy's artillery positions immediately became tense. The soldiers who had been resting began to rush out in a panic, and began to shoot around with their weapons.

"That's it?"

Lian Shengmao muttered for a while, and then rushed up with people. They used the night and specially processed weapons to start an assault on the enemy under the cover of stones and bushes.

At the beginning, the enemy was able to organize an effective counterattack, but in the panic, they did not grasp the movements of the winning streak and the group of four, so they were beaten very passively.

At this time, someone yelled "the main force of the enemy is coming", and the entire artillery position was in disarray at that time. Lian Sheng seized this good opportunity and rushed all the way to the enemy's hinterland, and then took out the explosives directly from the backpack Pasted on the ammunition boxes around the position.

Soon, there was a loud noise and a crimson cloud evaporated from the artillery position. The huge flame could be clearly seen even in the Song Army camp a few kilometers away.

"Good job!"

Gu Dawei used a telescope to see the scene of the opponent's artillery position: "The fourth battalion is indeed my heart."

And it was this explosion that made the enemy completely chaotic. Not only the enemies around the artillery position began to flee in all directions, but even the people who came for reinforcements were terrified by the battle.

They could have about 500 people before and after, and they were chased away by four people in a row.

There was a slow runner who was kicked by Zhou Cheng, and there was a gun butt on his head.

At this time, other companies also gradually achieved results. Taking advantage of the chaos created by the winning streak, the other brothers of the fourth battalion quickly formed an assault line and began to completely clean up the enemy's artillery positions.

At this time, the enemy's rear has become a mess. They are thinking that everyone is a vanguard battalion, so why can they fight at night on the opposite side?

But it was too late to think about it at this time. Under the calmness of the commander, they quickly organized a retreat to protect the vital forces.

But even so, nearly 2000 people were still handed over by the fourth battalion, and all the artillery formations were completely lifted.Just the winning streak alone captured more than 130 people in this four-person team.

At dawn, Song Jun went to the location to clean up the battlefield, and Gu Dawei also went there in person. Seeing such a long strip of enemy troops tied behind Lian Sheng, he was a little confused: "This... all of you did it?"

"That's right." Lian Sheng's face was covered in black and gray, and his voice was a little hoarse: "We made some small mistakes yesterday, and we were discovered. We simply started fighting with them. Not only did these bastards not surrender, they dared to attack me. Fight back, that's unbearable."

Gu Dawei stood there, a little suspicious of life.

And the other commander also understood what happened last night at this moment, he didn't know what to say for a while, he had never been wronged like this from Italy all the way across Eurasia...

After this night, both sides made a second assessment of each other. Before the European Army thought that this place was a barbarian who could only wield a kitchen knife, Song Jun subconsciously believed that the European Army was the same monster as the Guokuishan Blue Army.

But now...their evaluation is completely reversed in two levels. The Song Army's evaluation of them is only five words "will they fight?", while the European Army's evaluation of this unknown armed force is also five words "will they fight?" fight!".

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Gu Dawei said to the next few battalion commanders with the assessment report at the moment: "They were just caught off guard, and our supplies are not much. It will be very hard in the future, and we even have to prepare to fight with them. The consciousness of the bayonet."

Chapter 914: Sunny January 20, 2

The Europeans who had suffered a defeat did not give up easily, and they quickly re-analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy.

First of all, there is no doubt that the opponent has excellent light weapons and strong combat capabilities.They can easily evade the shelling that swept across the Eurasian battlefield and can organize effective counterattacks while taking advantage of the gap between the shelling, which is obviously very different from the natives who ran away with their heads in their arms when they heard the sound of the shelling.

Secondly, these people's tactical ability is superior to their own. Although they don't want to admit it, the individual combat ability on the opposite side is extremely strong, and they are definitely excellent professional soldiers.But why such a terrifying military group appeared in this place and started to block them without any hesitation, they still haven't figured it out yet.

In the end, the opponent has super high mobility, and can completely keep up with their usual fast-forward and fast-reverse style of play, and can even go around and outflank, so that subsequent battles must be head-to-head. But in this regard, the opponent obviously has an advantage. They have trenches and adequate preparations, and they are also equipped with machine guns.

Machine guns, they are machine guns. With the industrial capacity of Europe, there are only less than a hundred machine guns, and they are all equipped in the most elite party divisions. But here they encountered machine guns that were faster and faster than theirs. The more powerful machine gun, what is the other side?

But at the same time, as an excellent commander, he can clearly realize the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, that is, the opposite side lacks heavy weapons, and the lack of heavy weapons means that they are traveling lightly, and their supplies will not be like their own. Sufficient, as long as they consume their limited supplies, then this place will be captured soon.

So the question is, how to consume?The large army on my side will arrive in four days. If the fighter plane is delayed because the city cannot be attacked for a long time, one can imagine the final result.

After a lot of hard thinking, he made a decision that made him astounded, that is, to use the ordinary natives who were imprisoned in concentration camps in the rear as forwards to attack the city.