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- Chapter 857 The End of the Sipaxi Cavalry
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Lei Hu¡¯s team only has about sixty people. Of course, it is impossible to defend the entire unknown highland. He briefly reported the situation in the unknown highlands to his superiors. Soon, the frontline commander ordered a reinforced squadron to be stationed to guard the unknown high ground.
This reinforced squadron has five infantry squads, a mortar squad, and a Maxim heavy machine gun squad. Shortly after the Thunder Tiger team arrived at the unknown highland, other teams arrived one after another. The squadron leader is naturally Sun Dasheng.
Sun Dasheng walked around the unknown highland and set up his headquarters behind the unknown highland. Here, a deep trench has been dug. The function of trenches is not only to block enemy cavalry, but also to effectively avoid artillery attacks.
When the Thunder Tiger team entered the unknown highlands, the first thing they had to do was to dig trenches. They used the engineer shovels they carried with them to dig various trenches on the unknown high ground. The soil in the nameless highlands is quite loose, and the speed of digging trenches is not slow. Soon, the simple trench was dug and continued to develop in depth.
To be honest, digging trenches is definitely a painful thing for grassroots soldiers. Especially after a long march, it is absolutely desperate to have to spend a lot of effort digging trenches. When the White Army was first established, many officers and soldiers would rather die in battle than dig trenches everywhere. Nothing else, too tired, too boring.
But, no matter how painful, no matter how boring, the trench must be dug. This is the military rule of the White Army, and no one can violate it. After reaching the combat area, trenches must be dug. Otherwise, they will be severely punished by military law. Because, without such trenches, it would be impossible to block the enemy's cavalry assault, and it would not be able to effectively avoid enemy bombardment.
The relative height of the nameless highland is only more than twenty feet, which is about seventy or eighty meters. The surrounding slopes are not particularly steep. In such terrain, the cavalry can rush up in an instant. Even with enough ferocious firepower, accidents cannot be completely prevented. But among the enemy troops, there were quite a lot of Sipaxi cavalry.
Originally, to deal with cavalry, horse blocking stakes and horse blocking ropes were the best. The intertwined barbed wire can also effectively block the impact of enemy cavalry. It's a pity that in West Asia, there are deserts and Gobi deserts everywhere, and there are basically no trees. It is simply impossible to find wood to make horse blocking posts. As for landmines, Sun Dasheng's squadron did not carry them because they were too heavy. Therefore, the only solution is to build wide and deep trenches.
Xu Canhuai naturally joined the army digging trenches. The soil in the nameless highlands is indeed transported, and it doesn't take much effort to shovel it down. However, due to the dry climate, there is a lot of dust, and when you shovel it down, there is even more dust. Hundreds of people were wielding shovels, and the entire unknown highland suddenly became filled with dust, making it suffocating.
Within the bursts of dust, people kept coughing, looking very painful. It was obviously choked by dust. Sun Dasheng had to order the soldiers upwind to temporarily stop digging so that the breeze could blow away the dust. As a result, dust was easy to pick up but difficult to blow away. However, time was tight and everyone had to continue working.
By evening, the trench fortifications were basically excavated. Xu Canhuai was not tired, but his throat felt terribly dry. Even if you keep drinking water, you can't get rid of the feeling of dryness. According to veterans, this is all because of too much dust. In fact, Xu Canhuai just picked his nostrils and found that they were all filled with dirt.
In the notebook he carried with him, Xu Canhuai recorded today¡¯s events exactly as they were. This notebook of his is actually his homework. When he saw his father Xu Xingxia, it was time to hand in his homework. Xu Xingxia will get a lot of real, unmodified information from the grassroots from his notebook.
After all the trenches were dug, Xu Canhuai and others had a real chance to rest. They were all hiding in the deepest part of the trench, half-naked, allowing their bodies to fully contact the soil and absorb the coolness of the soil as much as possible. If not, they wouldn't be able to sleep at all. Above their heads was a tent snatched from who knows where. There were several small holes in the tent, and the sunlight penetrated through the small holes and fell tenaciously on Lei Hu.
The climate in West Asia has always been hot. During the day, the sun always hangs in the sky, emitting a scorching light. The blue sky, not a single cloud. At night, steam kept coming out of the ground, and it was extremely hot. This is true even in the middle of the night. As for the rain I heard that it has not rained for more than a thousand days. Whether it is the True God, the Buddha, or the Three Pure Ones, they all seem to have forgotten about the rain.
?Two days later, a large number of Sipaxi cavalry appeared from the direction of Damascus. They were the first wave of defenders to retreat from Damascus. As the vanguard of the retreat, the highly mobile Sipaxi cavalry is indeed a good choice.
Looking through the telescope, it can be seen that there should be a lot of people in Sipaxi, estimated to be at least 5,000 people. The Sipaxi cavalry also discovered the White Army on the unknown high ground. However, they didn't pay much attention to it. Perhaps, they felt that the number of white-clothed army defenders on the unknown high ground was too small. There are five thousand of them, and they can easily level the unknown high ground. Therefore, without thinking, they shouted towards the unknown high ground and came to kill them.
The person at the front was still the man in black among the Xipaxi cavalry. They waved their shining sabers and charged straight towards the unknown highlands. Green religion advocates green and black. Green symbolizes life and black symbolizes death. These black-robed Sipaxi cavalry are the elite of the Sipaxi cavalry, possessing the best equipment and the strongest combat effectiveness.
Strictly speaking, the Sipaxi cavalry does not actually belong to the "Central Army" of the Ottoman Empire. They should belong to the order of local armed forces. Their composition and command are quite complicated. In the past, the Ottoman Empire did not trust them. Their rise came after the White Army entered the Ottoman Empire itself.
When the "Central Army" suffered serious losses in strength, local forces naturally increased sharply. The central government of the Ottoman Empire also needed to rely on the power of local armed forces to counterattack the White Army's attack. Therefore, the Ottoman Empire issued multiple instructions in succession, asking the powerful factions in various places to form their own armies to stop the White Army.
"The policy of the White Army is a huge blow to the local forces. Because, they have to give up their beliefs. The White Army will not tolerate the continued existence of the Green Religion in West Asia. Anyone who refuses to give up their religious beliefs will be severely punished. In this regard, Xu Xingxia is absolutely unrelenting. He caught it himself.
??Obviously, this is a certain resistance to the current battle of the White Army. If the White Army was open-minded and willing to allow the Green Sect a way to survive, the resistance the White Army would encounter would certainly not be so huge. Many local powerful factions would obediently raise their hands and surrender in front of the White Army. As long as there is a slight chance, they will not fight to the death with the White Army. Because the White Army is indeed too powerful.
¡°However, from a long-term perspective, it will be beneficial to the White Army.
In the land of West Asia, due to the long-term influence of the Green Religion, the local people have been completely brainwashed. The true God is everything to them. The true God controls everything about them. Their faith in the true God has reached an unparalleled level. But the true God can be used by others, especially by people with ulterior motives. If the Green Sect is not completely eradicated, it will be impossible for the White Army to exercise effective rule here.
While exterminating the Green Sect, Xu Xingxia vigorously introduced Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism in an attempt to completely change the face of West Asia. However, if a new sect wants to thrive in this area and recruit many followers, the first thing it must do is to completely clean up the Green Sect. Otherwise, the followers of the Green Sect will definitely try their best to obstruct it.
Because of the policy of the White Army, there was no concession to the Green Religion. This resulted in the followers of the Green Religion having to use all their strength to continue fighting to the death with the White Army. The Sipaxi Cavalry is their representative.
"Mortar ready!"
Xu Canhuai heard a cold voice coming from behind him.
This is of course the mortar unit preparing to fire. Since the day the mortar appeared, it has been the most reliable support weapon for the White Army infantry. The vast majority of infantrymen in the White Army are accustomed to fighting with the support of mortars. For their own safety, they are willing to help the artillerymen carry heavy mortar shells no matter how hard and tired they are.
Many new troops are very dependent on mortars. Some soldiers even barely knew how to fight without mortar support. This led to a sharp increase in the popularity of mortars in various units of the White Army. In the past, any infantry operation above the squadron level was absolutely inseparable from the support of mortars. Now, sometimes, even in small group operations, more than three mortars will be carried.
Strengthen the mortar squadron of Sun Dasheng Squadron, with ten mortars with a diameter of 60 mm. This is the third generation mortar of the White Army, with a maximum range of more than three kilometers. This is absolutely a disaster for the Sipaxi Cavalry. This mortar unit carries quite a sufficient number of shells, so they can squander it as much as they want. When going south, Xu Canhuai carried six mortar shells on his back.
"Puff puff!"
"Puff puff!"
?There was a muffled sound, and the mortar shells drew beautiful arcs in the sky, whizzing towards the Sipaxi cavalry.
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