Chapter 45: Fierce Battle at Da Yuanshan

  Wang Cheng led a battalion of over 600 men, directly entering the mountainous area and heading in the direction of Dayang Mountain. After walking on the mountain trails for about an hour, Wang Cheng arrived at the foot of Dayang Mountain with his troops.

  Only under the Da Yang Mountain, there were six cannons far away, and the security team set up artillery under the Da Yang Mountain. The high point of the Da Yang Mountain was used as a reference for the artillery to aim at the target. The shells were fired from the V-shaped pocket between the mountains, and the position was extremely concealed. Most of the shells were blocked by the mountains on both sides of the V-shape, no wonder the new army's artillery would be blown up in the crossfire.

  Not far from these artillery pieces is a defensive position.

  Looking at the defensive fortifications of the security team under Dayang Mountain, Wang Cheng didn't feel anything out of the ordinary, just a few trenches and some barbed wire. He observed them from afar through binoculars for about five minutes.

  Wang Cheng saw that there were at most a hundred or so people in the trenches, and his heart was filled with a strong desire to capture this position in front of him, seize those artillery pieces, and achieve a great merit.

  Wang Cheng didn't think much and immediately ordered an attack.

  Seven hundred meters away!

  Six hundred Qing troops charged forward in a swarm.

  The defense of Da Yang Shan was the responsibility of a company, the 24th Company of the Second Line troops, equipped with Springfield rifles, but it was a reinforced company, with a machine gun platoon attached.

  Lian Changxu Haicheng was also observing the approaching Qing army through binoculars, seeing that it was only a force of 500-600 Qing soldiers. He calmly reported to headquarters using the telephone machine.

  Xu Haicheng reported the situation and the command from the headquarters was just two words - "hold on tight", apparently they were not worried.

  "Snipers, don't shoot at the officers first, machine guns, don't fire yet, wait until they get closer." Xu Chenghai ordered each squad. After Xu Chenghai's order was given, each squad suppressed their excited emotions and watched the advancing Qing army like hungry wolves.

  No one was timid, good training and excellent equipment had given the soldiers great confidence, while also carrying some immature national beliefs, making them very positive about fighting against the Qing army.

  A few days ago, the camp showed them a military educational film, an introduction to the combat effectiveness of the Qing army. The soldiers of the Security Regiment had not seen fewer military educational films, and there were military educational films for snipers, machine gunners, artillerymen, and trenches, which were often shown to them, raising the combat awareness and vision of the soldiers in the Security Regiment with a literacy rate of nearly 90%.

  At the same time, the instructor told them that fighting against the Qing army and bandits was no different, and they could fight according to their usual training methods.

  The Qing army advancing in a 24-row formation felt eerie because there was no movement on the enemy's position.

  600 meters... 500 meters... 400 meters...

  Xu Haicheng calculated the distance, thinking that since this group of Qing soldiers had come, they shouldn't think about leaving. It wasn't that he was too confident, but rather that he felt the Qing army was too stupid, what era were they in, still using dense charging tactics?

  The era of charge tactics ended with the appearance of the Maxim machine gun, and Westerners have gradually realized this, but before the outbreak of World War I, they had not fully realized it, let alone the Qing army's military theory was relatively backward, and naturally would not use skirmish tactics.

  300 meters!

  Arrived at the barbed wire.

  "Fire!" Xu Haicheng shouted loudly, and the five heavy machine guns in the machine gun squad suddenly opened fire, with three more heavy machine guns placed behind them for replacement.

  Five machine guns opened fire at once, immediately forming a deathly web of firepower. Bullets poured down on the charging Qing soldiers from different angles.

  Hehehe...

  The sound of bullets hitting flesh filled the mountains, and the Qing soldiers who rushed to the front of the barbed wire were shot to pieces, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. Bullets coming from different angles instantly gave the Qing army a big blow, like a terrifying harvesting machine, causing heavy casualties among the Qing troops.

  The Fujian New Army was a temporary organization and therefore did not have any heavy machine guns. Apart from the Beiyang Sixth Division, none of the other new armies had heavy machine guns.

  Machine guns opened fire, snipers and infantry also fired at the same time.

  Wang Cheng held a light machine gun, saw the soldiers falling beside him, and his eyes turned red. The light machine gun (Madsen light machine gun) in his hand swept across the opposite side, Wang Chen was able to rise to the rank of squad leader because he dared to fight and fight hard, once on the battlefield, he would not care about his life.

  The 24th rifleman on the opposite side suddenly saw a man wearing a Qing army uniform holding a strange gun scanning around, and although he didn't recognize the gun, its firepower was extremely fierce, causing his comrades to dare not stick their heads out.

  The Madsen light machine gun is a high-performance light machine gun with an early invention time, lightweight and powerful. It is an excellent light machine gun that was considered a fine individual weapon during World War II and can still be seen in local conflicts after the war.

  Maddison is so excellent mainly because its production cost is relatively high, belonging to the type that looks at quality and ignores cost.

  The Guangdong Arsenal had copied it before, but the Madison in Wang Cheng's hand was not a copy, but a genuine foreign goods.

  *gulp*...

  A single shot rang out, and the 24th sniper hit Wang Cheng's forehead with an M1 Garand sniper rifle. The sniper couldn't help but smile when he saw that he had hit his target in the forehead.

  Wang Cheng's death was extremely tragic, his head had just been shot and exploded into a pulp when the machine gun swept over, his entire body was cut in two.

  Those 600 Qing troops were immediately stunned, and when they tried to turn around in terror and flee, it was already impossible to escape. The heavy machine gun had an effective range of 1000 meters, although it may not have hit at 1000 meters away, but this 700-meter distance was doomed to be impassable.

  The Qing army fell one after another, and the remaining Qing soldiers fled wildly in the mountains and fields. The 24th Regiment immediately sounded the charge.

  The infantry rushed out of the trenches and pursued the Qing army all the way.

  The 24th Regiment chased them for several hundred meters, shooting down the fleeing Qing soldiers from a distance. In less than three minutes, all of the Qing troops were shot to the ground.

  The battle ended and the 24th Regiment immediately returned to the trenches and hastily cleaned up the battlefield. This time, no one was even injured.

  The Qing army was annihilated with just one regiment.

  The artillery battalion nearby witnessed the entire battle, this low-intensity battle did not require their artillery support at all. Since there were few shells, the artillery battalion stopped firing after destroying the Qing army's guns.

  ……

  Sun Daoren was waiting on the riverbank for good news. The artillery of the security team on the other side might have run out of ammunition or something, anyway, it had stopped making a sound.

  But what made Sun Daoren impatient was that Wang Cheng still hadn't sent any news back yet?

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  Xiaocai has been catching a cold and having a fever, with a runny nose all the time. The state is very poor, plus the stored draft is not much, so the update speed can only be reduced. Moreover, according to the normal speed of the public version, Xiaocai is already at high speed.

  But today I got a shot, took some medicine and drank syrup (bitter, oh well), condition greatly improved, three chapters are a must for today!

  Additionally, thank you again for the reward from Wei Wei and 12 comrades!