Chapter 206 Battle of Lintingkou 2

"What's going on? Who the hell called? Is it Zhao Dongyun or Wang Yingkai or Wu Fengling? How many people are attacking? Damn it, you son of a bitch!" In a private house in Lintingkou, when several officers from the fourth town were holding an emergency meeting, Zhang Dian was full of anger.

Obviously, several other officers had just got up, and even the officers who were not neatly dressed also looked at me. I looked at you, and no one spoke for a long time. Half a day later, the second battalion took Liu Chaolu and said:

"The direction of attack comes from the east, and ten* are Zhao Dongyun's people. Judging from the density of their shelling, there is at least the support of a gun battalion. In this case, the person who came is at least one association!"

Although the big guys are still confused, several of them here are also veteran officers, and judging how many artillery the enemy has by the density of the shelling, and then deduce how many enemies are attacking, which is also the basic skill of an officer.

"As for the association of the Fengjun, we don't know for the time being, but now they have shelled several rounds, and it is estimated that it won't take long for the team to attack. Standard unification, look at us now?"

Zhang Dianru took a deep breath and said after a long time, "Let's see how many people are coming to attack, and then immediately send people to Baodi to tell us about the situation and ask for immediate reinforcements!"

As soon as the sky brightened in Lin Tingkou, Feng Delin had already commanded his subordinates to launch his first charge!

In an offensive battle, Feng Delin naturally did not fill in all his troops, but only sent two battalions, and then one as a reserve. In addition to preventing accidents, the main purpose is to prepare for the battle at any time to expand the results.

At the front of the front line, Shi Jintong, like other Feng army officers, wore a dark blue officer's regular uniform, a yellow-bottomed white bar on his shoulders, and a gold star epaulette, and the red collar directly showed his identity as an infantry officer.

"Let the second team slow down first, don't rush against the fire, and order the machine gun to give fire suppression to the second team!" Shi Jintong did not look as excited or afraid as other officers and soldiers at this time.

On the contrary, he is very calm now, and his plain face can't see any emotional fluctuations. He just picks up the telescope to observe the front line, and then gives one combat command after another to the summons and other officers around him.

In contemporary wars, if platoon and team-level officers need to fight blood and fight directly with the enemy, then at the level of standard unification and co-unification, most of them are considered the layout of the whole front.

Between these two low-level officers and senior officers, battalion officers and officers at this level play a connecting role, and officers at this level not only have to face the enemy's firepower to personally command the troops on the front line, but also must have a certain strategic ability to enable the troops to play more Great combat effectiveness, and then cooperate with larger-scale operations.

Therefore, in the contemporary officer class, the battalion officer belt is a watershed. The team officers and platoon commanders below are typical lower-level officers. As long as the rank reaches the rank of the ranks and becomes the battalion commander, they can be regarded as middle-level officers in an army and become the core class in an army.

In the battle, every tactical decision made by Shi Jintong directly affected the process and result of this offensive battle!

"The messenger battalion belongs to the mortar group, and let them carry out three rapid fires of the enemy in front of the second team!" Shi Jin had just finished saying this, and soon he gave another order: "Let the third team go into battle and reinforce the second team!"

"Order the first team again, let them speed up the detour, be sure to reach the * front within 15 minutes, and then let the fourth team end the rest early and get ready to fight!"

After a series of command orders were issued, Shi Jintong looked at the second team still suppressed by the enemy's two heavy machine guns and immediately said, "Send the latest artillery to the rear artillery and ask for immediate artillery support!"

Shi Jintong is quite dissatisfied with the current progress. The two heavy machine guns on the opposite side have continued to fire for a long time, and the enemy on the opposite side only arrived at Lintingkou yesterday. It is impossible to build a strong heavy machine gun fortress at all, but why did his own mortar still fail to defeat them?

Although it is the first time for Shi Jintong to participate in the battle in Guannei, a series of battles in Tongzhou in the third town have long been passed on to the whole army. Almost all officers have been studying various battle cases in Tongzhou during this period. Some senior officers are generally very interested in the fast circuitous tactics used by Gu Lanyu, and With the staff as the center, a lot of theoretical research has been carried out, but what the low-level officers pay more importance on is the tactics of mortars to conquer heavy machine guns!

In Fengtian Wubei School, the tactics of how to use mortars to conquer machine gun positions have been included in the priority teaching and assessment.

So even if he has not fired a heavy machine gun, Shi Jintong also knew that he would order the teams to use the 60mm mortar in his hand to kill the enemy's heavy machine guns in time, but now, seeing more than ten minutes have passed, the enemy's heavy machine guns are still firing, which is not normal. .

What he didn't know was that on the front line of the second team, Yu Zhuangming, the team officer, looked at the mortar platoon under him with a sad face!

"Damn it!" His mortar platoon was just about to shell the enemy's heavy machine gun position, but because the reconnaissance of the terrain before the attack was not detailed enough, and it was at night, it was not familiar with the local terrain. As soon as the mortars of the mortar group were put down and assembled, a series of enemy machine gun bullets were fired. Come on, and then he found that the mortar position he chose happened to be in the shooting window of the enemy's heavy machine gun!

At that time, the commanders of the two mortar sets and more than a dozen soldiers were killed and half injured on the spot. The most important thing was that the commanders of the two mortar groups died and one was seriously injured, and one of the two main gunners survived.

Although this mortar is simple and convenient than the traditional barrel gun, it is also a kind of artillery. It is very simple to launch, but it is not easy for you to hit it accurately. At least you have to use the scope. You have to calculate how to shoot Zhuyuan!

In the Feng army, these things are generally used by the commanders of the mortar group and the main gunners, while ordinary ammunitionmen and Fu gunners actually don't, and ordinary infantry don't know much more about these things.

How to put it, no matter how much it is, it is a technical arm, and it is still relatively difficult to cultivate, and the cultural quality of domestic soldiers is endlessly close to zero, so even Zhao Dongyun, who attaches great importance to technical arms, can only choose some slightly more Or smart soldiers should be trained, as long as ordinary soldiers can understand the command command.

As for officers, they are well born in the formal class. In addition to basic tactical skills, they can basically understand everything else. Because mortars are assigned to infantry, most officers from the formal class will also play with this mortar. However, in the past, the officers from the accelerated class in the Third Town and today's Fengtian Wubei School, except for the officers in the accelerated class artillery department, most of the other infantry accelerated officers did not know this thing. In just three months, they basically had to spend on enriching the cultural foundation and improving the tactical literacy of the infantry. I don't have much time to learn other things.

According to reason, there are four people who can play two mortars in a team and two mortars. If you count the team officers from the official class, it is five. Basically, this is enough, but no one expected that one of the enemy's heavy machine gun would fire two commanders and two mortar groups. The main gunner has been killed, and Yu Zhuangming is an officer from a crash course. You can let him play mortar tactics, but if you let him fire in person, the accuracy will be uncertain.

When Yu Zhuangming used the remaining gunners and ammunition to pull up the mortar group again, he found that no one would aim at the target and adjust Zhuyuan. He also bravely commanded two shots, but it was okay for him to use the mortar to suppress the infantry charge, but first he had to reduce the accuracy to a few meters. Within the encirclement, and then remove the enemy's heavy machine gun position, it is too difficult for him.

After secretly scolding, Yu Zhuangming pulled the messenger: "You go to the third team behind and ask them to support a mortar commander to come to our department!"

This mortar is still useless. This kind of thing is intolerable!

It didn't take long for a sergeant to be in front of Yu Zhuangming. This person's military rank was a non-commissioned officer in the soldier class in the rank system at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the rank of third-class and ninth-level officers commonly known by later generations, there were additional officers, that is, which is equivalent to the warrant of foreign armies. At the same time, there was also a sergeant officer and a third-level sergeant. , sergeant, sergeant, soldier three-level regular soldier, first-class soldier, second-class soldier, thus forming a six-class and sixteen-class military rank system.

Among the Feng army under Zhao Dongyun's command, because the formation is slightly different from other troops in Beiyang, this mortar force is newly formed, and a ' mortar platoon' is under the jurisdiction of the team. Its platoon leader is also the commander of one of the mortar groups, and the rank is the auxiliary military academy, that is the lowest officer. The commander of another mortar group is a senior mortar, with the rank of sergeant.

In addition, the two main gunners with the rank of sergeant or sergeant have formed a core composition of a mortar platoon with two 60mm mortars. As for others, such as deputy gunners, ammunition players and so on, you can call a few people to raise the number.

It is worth explaining that the names of sergeants, sergeants and sergeants in the New Army in the late Qing Dynasty actually have nothing to do with foreign troops, but come from the official name of Xia Shang's Wednesday.

However, contemporary people still rarely refer to the military ranks of soldiers verbally, generally referring to their positions. For example, when Zhao Dongyun was in the Third Town Control, few people called him Zhao Dutong, and they were generally called Zhao Tongjian.

With this mortar commander seconded from the third team, the two 60mm mortars under Yu Zhuangming can exert their real power!

After a series of dense rapid shelling, the heavy machine guns in the fourth town opposite the street soon stopped rattling, and at this time, there was also dense gunfire on the flank. Yu Zhuangming knew that the first team that had successfully detoured from the left wing and launched an attack on the enemy from the flank.

As expected, he soon saw the messenger, who brought the latest order of Shi Jintong, requiring the second and third teams to attack from the front and break through the enemy front in one fell swoop.

This dawn is destined to be unstable!

Zhang Dianru's troops were facing the fierce attack of Li Chunyi's whole association and a artillery battalion, which could not be stopped at all. After two hours, Zhang Dianru led his troops to retreat from Lintingkou and fled to Baodi County.

In this battle, Li Chun attacked Zhang Diru's target at the cost of more than 50 casualties. After killing and injuring more than 200 enemy people, he successfully defeated Zhang Dianru's troops and forced him to lead the remnants to retreat to Baodi.

It didn't take long for the news to reach Duan Qirui's desk in Beijing!

Duan Qirui immediately found Wang Yingkai with a black face and a telegram from Baodi!

"Zhao Dongyun bullied people so much that he attacked my 16th bid early this morning. Is there still us in his eyes? He is going to rebel!" Duan Qirui threw down the war report angrily and looked at Wang Yingkai, who was also black and said, "Shao Chen, it's not that we want to fight now, but Zhao Dongyun who wants to fight. He is determined to enter the capital!"

Although Wang Yingkai had expected to go to war with Zhao Dongyun, he did not expect Zhao Dongyun to react so quickly. His second town and the first association in Fengtian had just arrived in Tangshan, so he couldn't wait to go to war!

"It's not impossible to fight, but it hasn't been so early for a day or two. Your fourth town will shrink back first. When my first town and the fifth town go north, then gather the sixth town and the seventh town will go north at one stroke. I'll see if Zhao Dongyun can really fight so well!"

Seeing that Wang Yingkai made up his mind, Duan Qirui's anger calmed down slightly!

"Since you are here, let's have lunch before leaving!" Wang Yingkai said this, and Duan Qirui did not delay and immediately said:

"Then I'll nagging you!"

As noon approached, when the two people sat down one after another to prepare for dinner, there was an emergency footsteps outside. Wang Yingkai saw the panicked face and scolded, "What's going on? I'm in a panic!"

The visitor was his direct follower, but he did not respond to Wang Yingkai's reprimand. He still walked to Wang Yingkai in a panic and handed over a message.

The dense telegrams written these days are generally connected to electricity, and Wang Yingkai's face quickly darkened after reading this telegram: "Well, Zhang Nanpi, I really care about no one in Beiyang!"

Duan Qirui sounded a little puzzled, but when he took over the telegram handed over by Wang Yingkai and looked at it a few times, he was also quickly angry!

"They dare!" Duan Qirui threw down the message and then stood up directly: "If they dare to deal with this Chinese Federal Empire, my more than 100,000 troops in Beiyang will immediately wave Jiangning and flatten the three towns of Wuhan!"

At the same time, in Zhao Dongyun's temporary official residence in Tangshan, Zhao Dongyun looked at the electricity published by Zhang Zhidong in his hand and couldn't help laughing: "This Nanpi is really old-hearted!" The Chinese Federal Empire, he dares to say!"