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    Chapter 212 Prologue Ambush Battle

    In the morning mist on the south bank of Sanmenxia, ??more than two thousand cavalrymen hid in the wind-blown mountain col to rest. After the continuous journey, everyone was a little tired, but when they thought that this was already enemy territory, they were extremely excited and wished they could encounter the enemy immediately and fight.  .  \\.

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    After Mei Sheng finished feeding a bag of beans mixed with salt, he patted his beloved horse and sat back among his companions.

    He comes from Gansu, and his father was the apprentice of the famous broadsword Wang Wu. He followed Wang Wu to participate in the boxer movement in the Gengzi years. After the defeat, he was so discouraged that he took more than a hundred brothers to move to the northwest and started a bodyguard business.  Because of his good kung fu and good reputation, he is quite famous in the local area.

    Therefore, he has been studying martial arts since he was a child, and he has mastered sword skills. He often hears his father talk about the chaos in the pass, so he has long been interested in visiting the pass.  After the news of the gunshots in the Year of 1911 reached Gansu, he immediately took nearly a hundred young Han people from Gansu to Shaanxi to participate in the uprising, and captured Xi'an with the troops. However, after Zhang Fenghui seized the governor, expelled the Kuomintang and colluded with Beiyang,  They were also persecuted and had to pack up their things and return to Gansu.

    Unexpectedly, not long after arriving home, An Guoliang came to select people. In addition, when he was in Shaanxi, he heard that the National Defense Force was different from other troops, so he took everyone to Sichuan.  After arriving in Sichuan, it coincided with the Civil Peace Operation. When I saw that the National Defense Forces were well-organized and treated the people with no offense, and they were dedicated to fighting the powerful bullies and restoring peace to the people, I decided to do something here.  Because of his good skills, his skills on horseback were not much worse than those of Mongolian riders who grew up on horses, so he was quickly promoted to company commander.

    Looking at the sun getting higher, he opened his gun bag and started to prepare like everyone else.

    The gun bag used by the cavalry is specially made, waterproof and dustproof, and it is separated by multiple layers of canvas.  The first thing I took out when I opened the gun bag was a strange-looking short gun. It looked somewhat similar to the Sten submachine gun used by the guard company in Guilin, but it had an extra sleeve on the barrel, and the sleeve was covered with plum blossom petals.  The heat dissipation holes, people affectionately call it a flower machine gun based on these heat dissipation holes.

    The official name of the flower machine gun is the Type 13 submachine gun. It is one of the new guns officially equipped by the National Defense Force. In fact, it was manufactured together with the Sten submachine gun prepared for export before the end of 2012. However, considering that the new rifle is also 2012  It was finalized, so it was renamed the Type 13 submachine gun.

    Different from the "Butter" Sten submachine gun that has not yet been officially named and is intended to be used to make money in a few years, the Type 13 submachine gun is one of the official equipment of the National Defense Forces. All of them are arranged to be manufactured in Chongqing. The template comes from the improvement of the famous MP18 in later generations.  MP28 submachine gun.

    Of course, Yang Qiu would not just copy the drawings. He used his knowledge of firearms to make great improvements to the MP28. The most important thing was to redesign the receiver and replace the side-feed ammunition that was criticized and difficult to use in dense forests and narrow areas.  It was changed to the bottom feed that is more in line with later generations, and the safety and speed machine were also improved.  In addition to these, taking into account the extremely poor accuracy of the MP28, the rifling was also modified, and the inner wall chrome plating technology was used to increase the hardness of the barrel. At the same time, the barrel was slightly lengthened, increasing the gun length from the prototype's 815 mm to 835 mm.

    Whether it is MP18 or 28, the firepower sustainability is not the best unless a strange snail-shaped drum is used, so Yang Qiu also used the double-layer magazine specially developed by Finnish designers for the Somi submachine gun in history.  The magazine can hold 32 rounds of nine-millimeter bullets at a time without changing the length, which greatly improves the sustainability of firepower.  \\.

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    Of course, the price will be much higher after such a modification, and the new technology also makes manufacturing a lot of trouble, especially the double-layer magazines. When domestic stamping technology and molds were not as good as foreign countries, almost all were made by hand.  Fortunately, he has not thought about equipping submachine guns on a large scale. This production method of several thousand units is still acceptable.  However, in order to ensure quality, these guns were all manufactured under the supervision of senior technical workers imported from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Any unqualified guns were immediately scrapped. The barrels and double-layer magazines were made by them themselves.

    The introduction of these Austro-Hungarian political prisoners was a huge profit. Just from the workmanship of the gun in Meisheng's hand, we can see that even the unimportant heat dissipation holes were replaced with exquisite plum blossom shapes taking into account the aesthetics of the Chinese people.  , Yang Qiu, who saw the gun for the first time, scratched his head and even wondered if the "political prisoners" were too idle.  But he didn't stop it. It wasn't mass production anyway, and the workers could do whatever they wanted, as long as the performance met the standards.

    In the eyes of Yang Qiu, the flower machine gun is nothing but the favorite of Mei Sheng and others. It is simple, easy to maintain, and has strong firepower and long-lasting firepower. It becomes a treasure almost from the moment you get started. Unfortunately, the ammunition consumption is too high, and the three-shot state  It was gone after pulling the trigger ten times, so the troops were reluctant to load the bullets during training, and the entire cavalry regiment, with more than 2,000 men, was only equipped with 300 guns.

    He had just finished checking the gun and loading the magazine when a rapid sound of horse hooves came fromIt was reported that several partners from the Shanxi Datong Escort Bureau came running in on horseback. When they saw An Guoliang, they looked excited and pointed to the east, croaking and croaking.  Although I couldn¡¯t hear it clearly from a distance, I could tell by looking at the faces of my comrades that a big fish was coming!  So everyone got excited, and the grenadiers around them couldn't wait to take out the grenade launchers with the same new equipment. They looked as if the enemy was already in front of them.

    After a while, Mei Sheng also changed into an escort uniform. A dozen carriages filled with wheat straw were tightly wrapped in oilcloth, looking like a cart of valuable goods. Dozens of machine guns were also stuffed.  After getting into the special gun rack under the car, from the outside it looks like an escort team.

    "Be careful." At An Guoliang's instruction, Mei Sheng nodded, waved his whip, and led the commando team and camouflaged carriage to the east to greet them.

    In the swaying carriage, Zhao Ti squinted his eyes and took a nap, but kept his hand on the small box next to him. Inside was his life savings, not only more than a hundred gold bars, but also money from Yokohama Bank of Japan, Bank of England, etc.  There are several checks from Standard Chartered Bank, worth millions.  In addition to these private properties, the long convoy following the carriage was also full of Japanese Type 30 rifles, bullets, and hundreds of boxes of opium that had not been processed. In the future, whether he and Yi Jun could establish a foothold in the northwest or even  Xinjiang¡¯s capital.

    In order to protect these things and prepare for the large force behind him, he specially led two battalions of nearly 3,000 soldiers to advance into Shaanxi this time. If the artillery had not been able to come quickly to accompany them, he might have simply set up cannons to clear the way.  But he didn't worry too much about safety. After all, this was still Beiyang's controlled area, not to mention there were so many Yijun soldiers around him.

    Yijun can be regarded as an army active in the late Qing Dynasty. It fought against Changmao, fought fiercely in the Sino-Japanese War, and also participated in the Gengzi Year to strangle the Boxers. However, this unit lost one point of spirit every time it fought. With Beiyang and other  As the new army emerged, they were gradually abandoned from the country's core strength.  Although all of them were equipped with Type 30 rifles that had been phased out by Japan, and even a lot of Manley summer rifles, the soldiers with full faces were still issued a simple sword hanging on their waists according to tradition.

    "Third brother, where do you think we are going this time? Didn't you say that the bandits are in the west? Why are we going north? After Sanmenxia, ??we will reach Tongguan." A member of the team who went to Shaanxi last time to fight with the people's army  The soldier recognized the road, glanced at Zhao Ti's carriage and kept frowning.

    "Who knows, I don't know what kind of evil they have committed, and they want us to suppress the bandits! Don't we have tens of thousands of Beiyang troops in Xinyang? It's our turn."

    "Xinyang? It would be good if you can protect yourself. I heard that the south will send an army of 500,000 to attack Xinyang this time."

    "Nonsense, he Yang Qiu only has a total of 200,000 troops, and he still has to take care of the southwest to get 500,000."

    "Isn't there still a Democratic Party? They also have hundreds of thousands in their hands."

    "Whatever, our brother won't have anything to do with it anyway. Beiyang is in front of us, do you see it?" A soldier winked at the hundreds of tightly wrapped carriages in the middle of the team: "While loading the carriages, I  But I saw that they were all filled with bullets and tobacco paste, ***it seems that Zhao Daguan is desperate this time, it is the first time I have seen so many bullets and tobacco paste."

    "What's so great about this? I heard from people in Zhili that this time our Yi Army was dispatched in full force. Mr. Jiang also specifically asked the President for a few railcars to transport ordnance. In my opinion this time  We may have to live in Shaanxi for a long time."

    "No wonder it's smoke cream and bullets. This time, I asked our brothers to move the big head for him."

    "Whatever, Shaanxi is not bad. I heard that the fields there are now growing tobacco. Maybe we could make a profit in the past, and the brothers will be rich too, right?"

    "hehe"

    There was a burst of snickers in the team. Following Jiang Guiti and Zhao Ti, they have made a lot of money in the past few years. Although this stuff is sold cheaply in the mainland, when shipped to the southeast, the profit is several times or even ten times higher, so  There have long been rumors in the outside world that Yijun is a member of the Great Smoking Army, a bandit during the day and a bandit at night, and openly using the army to smuggle opium. However, due to President Yuan's face and his own tens of thousands of guns, no one dared to touch it.

    When the soldiers looked at the long carriage with eager eyes and wondered how much it was worth, the team in front suddenly became restless, and the shouts alarmed Zhao Ti. He suddenly pulled out his pistol and opened the curtain and asked: "  what happened?"

    "Sir, there is a group of escort cars ahead."

    When Zhao Ti looked forward, a small group of Yijun cavalry was already standing in front of Mei Sheng. He looked at the revolver in the escort's waist with an unkind look. Upon seeing this, he quickly raised his hands and said respectfully: "Gentlemen, we are the Shanxi Datong Escort Bureau."  Yes, please show your respect."

    The Meisheng family originally ran an escort agency, so they were already familiar with the secret codes on the road. After a few words of confusion, they quietlyHe took out a dozen yuan from his sleeve and stuffed it into the soldier's hand.  After weighing it twice, the soldier's expression immediately improved a lot. He turned around and said, "Go and report to your lord, they are the cavalry team of the Shanxi Datong Escort Agency."

    After hearing that it was the convoy of the Datong Escort Bureau, Zhao Ti breathed a sigh of relief: "Let them pass, just be careful."

    After receiving the order, the soldiers waved their hands to indicate that they could pass. Mei Sheng nodded and bent down and stuffed more than a dozen silver coins, which made the soldiers' mouths twist with joy. Then he led everyone to drive the carriage to meet the Yijun army.

    Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Yijun cavalry to report back and forth just now, Mei Sheng had already spotted the leading carriage.  As his convoy passed by Yijun, many soldiers of the cavalry regiment became nervous.  However, their nervousness did not attract Yi Jun's attention, because they had seen this kind of thing many times. Fortunately, this time Zhao Ti ordered not to cause trouble and drove at full speed, so there was no swarm of swarms coming to extort money.

    Seeing that the carriage was getting closer and closer, Mei Sheng quietly winked at his companions, and the first cart that had been tampered with suddenly tilted its wheels.

    "What's going on? Didn't I ask you to check it carefully before going out! This thing can't withstand being dropped, why are you still standing there? Get off your horse and check it!" Before the Yijun soldiers woke up from the accident, Mei Sheng said  He began to call for dozens of cavalrymen disguised as riders to dismount and pretend to inspect the goods. At this time, Zhao Ti also heard his shout, but the moment he opened the curtain, a loud shout suddenly broke out.

    "Do it!"

    Mei Sheng was the first to take out the flower machine gun from under the carriage. Before Yi Jun, who was watching the excitement around him, understood what was going on, the bolt of the gun let out a loud roar when he pulled it, and his comrades also quickly pulled it out.  The guns opened fire, and more than fifty submachine guns formed a terrible storm of bullets. In the blink of an eye, nearly a hundred Yijun fell to the ground.

    Originally, the submachine gun was not so powerful, and even if the barrel and rifling were improved, it would not be able to improve the accuracy much. But now Mei Sheng and the others are only a few meters away from the nearest Yijun, and they are less than two meters away from Zhao Ti, who is separated by soldiers.  Ten meters, and the Yi army was still in four rows of troops, so when one magazine was finished, a "big hole" appeared directly in the middle of the Yi army column.

    After quickly changing the magazine with a few clicks under the cover of his comrades, Mei Sheng rushed towards Zhao Ti's carriage from the already chaotic Yi Army. The remaining comrades knew that they must use this opportunity to disperse the Yi Army as much as possible.  After all, he had more than 3,000 guns, so he chased the scattered Yijun like crazy while firing fiercely at Yijun who was still pulling the bolt.

    The ferocious firepower was fully displayed at this moment. Yijun, who had never seen a submachine gun or even a few machine guns, had never seen such a powerful and desperate attack. The total of more than fifty people was simply more powerful than the charge of hundreds of people.  It was so powerful that they were all frightened and ran away. The few who dared to resist were immediately covered in blood by several rounds of bullets that arrived at the same time.

    Zhao Ti was indeed an old officer. When he heard the gunfire, he knew he had been tricked. He grabbed the pistol and wanted to run out, but he didn't want to let go of the box, so he turned around and hugged it. Maybe in his opinion, these few seconds would not be enough.  But he didn't know that he was facing a close-range killing weapon that appeared on the battlefield for the first time on a large scale!  When he picked up the box and opened the car curtain, the black gun was already pointed at his head.

    ¡°Boom, boom, boom¡­.¡±

    A series of artillery shells exploded from the end of Yijun's team. The only two 80mm mortars of the cavalry regiment began to suppress it at full speed. A moment later, the cavalry, as dark as an iron chain across the river, appeared below the horizon. In just a few minutes, they violently crashed into  In the middle of the Yi army, which had been beaten with submachine guns by the commandos, they were just running around without any formation.  Three hundred machine guns worked together to sweep away, grenades and mortars blocked the front and rear ends, and grenades were thrown out like raindrops. Faced with this extraordinary and violent attack, many Yi soldiers finally dropped their guns and jumped in  Escape from the rolling Yellow River not far away.

    The war in the Central Plains, which had been brewing for a long time, suddenly kicked off with a bloodless ambush battle, with Zhao Ti holding his head in his hands and shivering, and Mei Sheng happily counting the spoils

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