Before the war begins

Duan Qirui turned around and ordered the commander of his subordinates, "The thugs entrenched in Ilawara Town are stubborn and try to fight with force. The outbreak of the battle is inevitable. Now I order you to return immediately and gather all the reinforcements and militias to support immediately, and the most important thing is to bring more shells."

"As for the order, sir." The commander immediately turned over and galloped quickly into the distance.

Since the cavalry team is the vanguard team who went south to explore, it is naturally impossible to place the rear. Instead, it has moved to the outskirts of Wollongong, which is more than 20 kilometers away. If it moves quickly, it will take an hour to reinforce.

After explaining the request for reinforcements, Duan Qirui waved to Sheriff Meiers and his dozen of his men, and ordered with a solemn expression. "The town has launched a brazen attack, which can be defined as a malicious riot, but I believe that there are still many innocent people in the town being held hostage, so please ask your police to come forward and shout. As long as you avoid the main road of the town, residents in the town who are unwilling to be involved in the war can leave safely, including the thugs who are willing to put down their weapons. They can leave for half an hour. After this time, we will launch an attack. At that time, both jade and stones will be burned. Don't say it's indescribable."

"Okay, the police will do their best to cooperate."

"Then go and shout, and be careful to be hidden to prevent being hurt by the thug's bullets."

"Thank you, sir."

Sheriff Meers led his men to hide behind the rock not far from the entrance of the town, holding a copper trumpet in his hand and began to persuade him with a bitter voice. Their words caused a fierce shooting, and the scorching bullets hit the rock and exploded countless stone chips, as well as the arrogant curses of the thugs in the town.

The persuasion cannot be said to be ineffective. Many women and children came out from several other intersections in the town one after another. They carried packages on their backs and heavy bags in their hands. They took the children to support the old man and left the town in panic.

About half an hour

Six or seven hundred elderly, weak, women and children appeared one after another, but there were few young and middle-aged men. This was very unusual for a town with a population of more than 3,000.

This means that almost all the middle-aged men stayed in the town, and only a few of them were ready to resist to the end. Most of them stayed for one reason or another, some were because of their fathers and brothers, some wanted to watch the house, some couldn't erase their pride, and some were purely stupid and bold to watch the fun.

As it turns out, these Irish people are quite in a group when facing external violations.

Sadly they did not realize that from this moment on all those who remained in the town would be targeted for severe crackdowns, without exception.

"Order the heavy machine gun team to block all roads out of the town, and the third team is responsible for strangling the remaining fleeing enemies, and strive not to arrest one person."

Duan Qirui issued an order with a stern expression. This time, he brought a total of 4 heavy machine guns, which were enough to block out all the town exits, and the rest was to catch turtles in the jar.

In addition, there are three 60mm field artillery, all gathered at the gun position near the main road of entering the town, only more than 800 meters away from the barricade at the entrance of the town. All the muzzles were flat and ready to be shot directly, giving the opponent a ruthless one.

"Now I order the offensive operations to begin and the artillery fire!"

A command

Three 60mm field guns "Bangbang..." that had been prepared, fired three shells, one of which exploded on the dirt road not far from the barricade, causing a large area of ​​dust.

One shot hit the terrace house next to the barricade, and the broken stone fragments flew out, sweeping down a large area of ​​the thugs hiding behind the barricade, and screaming loudly.

There was also a barricade at the center, which broke the barricade amid the flames and the violent explosions, and seven or eight criminals fell down like harvesting wheat.

Needless to say, the two field guns that had been missed slightly adjusted their shooting numbers, then they roared one after another, formed a chorus with another gun, and poured out more than twenty shells in less than a minute, completely turning the barricade into a flesh-and-blood mill.

More than 60 thugs gathered here were either dead or injured. They were corpses everywhere among the broken bricks and tiles. The smoke and dust emitted a strong smell of blood, and there were broken limbs and arms everywhere.

"The first team attacks, the second team is alert."

Under Duan Qirui's order, more than 80 dragoons in the first team carefully advanced forward with rifles, and the field artillery group behind them also attacked, slowly approaching about 150 meters from the entrance of the town. Then the dragoons stopped under the command of the officers, holding spears and half-squatting on both sides of the road, waiting for the artillery group to continue to show their power.

The artillery team also approached about 200 meters away from the entrance of the town, re-debug the artillery, and then aimed at the window on the second floor of the terrace house to "bang..." with a shot. Such a close distance was like a bayonet on the cannon, and there was no reason to deviate.

I saw the shells hit the solid walls of the row house directly, and a big hole was exploded with the violent explosion. Smoke and fire filled the light, and the broken limbs were broken everywhere.

Several thugs with ulterior mobs died in the shelling, but they didn't understand what was going on until they died?

The 60mm field cannon bombarded the second floor of the row house almost everywhere. The thugs hiding inside were killed and injured in the gravel that was bursting everywhere. The strong row house was bombarded with air leakage everywhere, and it turned into a bloody slaughter field.

The long-awaited first team of raiders quickly entered the town to occupy the terrace house, and then sporadic gunshots sounded, which was to re-shot the seriously injured and undead thugs to consolidate the existing positions.

At this time, fierce gunfire sounded in several places in the town. The thugs hiding in the dark were resisting. As expected, they were all dead and hard-working elements, and they would not shed tears until they saw the coffin.

Although these bullets were lively, they were actually not effective.

The dragon cavalry occupied the solid row house as a support to shoot against the thugs. Soon the field artillery advanced into the town to assist in the battle. One by one, one blow away the fire points of the thugs hiding in the dark, and the remaining limbs were scattered all over the ground, causing heavy casualties.

Duan Qirui looked at the time calmly. The battle had been launched for more than half an hour, and about 170 or 80 thugs had been wiped out. The first team and the second team all entered the terraced house area one after another, and were slowly and firmly penetrating into the town with the terraced house.

It's almost 2:00 pm now, and reinforcements should arrive soon.

There are now about 20 casualties, of which less than six were killed. Three soldiers were killed by thugs at the entrance of the town, which is still within an acceptable range.

As it turns out, the offensive strategy previously arranged is very effective.

Under the leadership of grassroots officers, wash it with artillery fire, and then the infantry followed up to remove these cockroaches hiding in the dark one by one. It looked good, but it was a bit expensive.

After half an hour of fighting, more than 70 shells had been fired, so I calmed down at this time.

This is still a waste of time. If you really want to fight, adding 0 to the 70 shells is not enough.

The cavalry team led by him carried a total of 120 shells. As reinforcements were about to arrive, they had to leave some with them.

When studying at the Huangpu Army Officer School, the instructor repeatedly emphasized that at any time, some reserve teams and backup teams should be left behind to deal with the most difficult emergencies.

This cautious battle is very consistent with Duan Qirui's careful style. Now the first team of soldiers occupy several row houses on the left side of the front, and the second team of soldiers occupy several row houses on the right side of the front, forming a pattern of moving forward in unison.

Duan Qirui's command has moved forward to the terrace house on the edge of the town. In addition to the guards and messengers, there are more than a dozen policemen and more than ten people from Hongshan Iron and Steel United Enterprises, all of which are about 30 people. They can be invested as the final reserve team if necessary.

There are more than 80 third cavalrymen left outside the town. They cooperated with four heavy machine guns to block all roads leaving the town.

As the cruel battle proceeded, some people in the town tried to break out of the blockade and flee, and now they all turned into corpses on the road, warning all the thugs who were lucky; the only way out was to put down their weapons and surrender.

It turns out;

Fighting is not useful if there are too many people, nor is it possible to defeat the enemy by bragging. No matter how many loose sand is, it is still loose sand, and it will never turn into reinforced concrete.

Attack temporarily

This gave the thugs who were beaten to the point of being beaten to a rare respite. Another barricade ahead hindered the way forward. An unknown number of thugs hid in the street behind the barricade, and seemed to be in a large number.

Duan Qirui was not in a hurry to attack. He looked calmly at the soldiers behind him transporting ammunition forward, then raised his telescope and looked towards Wu Ronggong, with an implicit look of expectation.

The situation is now under control. As long as reinforcements arrive, they will be ruthless to the other party, the collapse of these mobs will inevitably be inevitable.

According to the information obtained before;

There are no more than 20% of the deadly white people in Ilawara town, and they are about to touch each other between five or six hundred people. Nearly 200 thugs have been eliminated, and the rest cannot last long under the thunder strike.

Even if a few thugs came from the coal mines joined, the number would not be large.

The advantage of time lies in his own side, so Duan Qirui is not in a hurry. It is the kingly way to take steady steps and take every step.

"Telephone 1 and 2, order them to repair their positions, stand firm on the spot, and wait for reinforcements to arrive."

"Yes, sir."

The messenger straightened his back and saluted, then turned around and ran out quickly. When passing through the empty street, a heavy machine gun sound suddenly came, like a whip of the Vulcan splattering the surrounding roads. The messenger twitched and shook a few times in the rain of bullets, and then fell on the street like a rag doll, with blood flowing.

The sudden sound of heavy machine guns made Duan Qirui change color. Unexpectedly, the enemy actually had such a big killer hidden, and it was only now used.

"Da da da...da da da..."

Two heavy machine guns fired wildly, and dense bullets whipped into the row house and made countless shallow pits, leaving one shocking and huge white dots after another. The stone chips were flying, and the soldiers could not raise their heads, and the artillery did not dare to show their heads to face their tassels.

Just then

A large group of thugs rushed out from the back of the street with guns, looking overwhelmed by darkness, ready to use a strong counterattack to make all the cavalry soldiers attacking the town, and then extinguish the fire one by one by one with the advantage of the number of people.
Chapter completed!