Chapter 252 Han Hezhuang Bloody Battle 2

The flash of the explosion and the light of the torch reflect the former quiet small village of Hanhezhuang as bright as the day. From time to time, people who do not know may think that it is a meteor crossing, but in fact, this is a cannon that is directly under the two armies firing dense shells.

On the front line of the position, accompanied by the sound of machine guns, the bullets of Mark Qin's heavy machine gun kept flying in the night sky on Li Cengao's head, stirring up a little smoke and dust at the feet of the opposite straight army.

"Pay attention to the shooting world, don't hit it randomly, just suppress it with point shooting!" Li Cengo looked at the light machine gun shooter in front of him.

This light machine gun shooter is not the main shooter before the war. The shooter of the light machine gun was killed half an hour ago and replaced him as a very young deputy shooter.

The face of the young second-class soldier looked slightly pale in the firelight, and his military uniform was still stained with the blood of the former shooter. Just now, he was so nervous that the bullet in the magazine was suddenly exhausted. At this time, he was replaced with another magazine with the assistance of another deputy shooter.

After hearing Li Cung-go's words, the second-class soldier Dong Daquan breathed heavily and tried to calm himself down. Although his hands were no longer trembling, the tension in his heart was still difficult to eliminate.

Dong Daquan is different from those officers and non-commissioned officers who have been in the army for more than half a year.

He was originally from Shandong. Two years ago, his family, like other people who broke into Guandong, took the whole family and walked east for several months before coming to Fengtian. Then he used the whole family to save more than ten taels of silver that he had accumulated for many years. After borrowing part of the money from the people in the same village, he bought more than 50 mu of semi-ripe soil from the Fengtian Reclamation Bureau. Land.

When Dong Daquan's old father, who had been digging in the field for a lifetime, got the land deed of more than 50 mu of land, more than 50 people were overjoyed and cried for hours. After several generations of fine farmers, their family finally owned their own land after a hundred years.

After having these lands, their whole family went to open up the wasteland. After paying the agricultural tax last year, they not only had enough food for the family to eat for a year, but also some of the remaining soybeans that could be sold in exchange for silver. Finally, they dared to buy such a catty of meat during the Spring Festival.

It seems that he will be able to live a good life, but last year, news came from outside that Marshal Zhao rose up to overthrow the Manqing Dynasty that exploited everyone and established a republic.

Those who came to recruit soldiers went to the village and said that everyone's previous lives were so hard because those old men occupied all the land and left everyone without land. Now Marshal Zhao wants to fight with others. Once he loses, the previously cultivated land will be recovered, and everyone will bear all kinds of harsh taxes. .

At that time, Dong Daquan's father said to Tian Qi in the box, "These are ours*. No one is allowed to rob them!"

In addition to several brothers in his family, I heard that there are not only 20 yuan in the family fee, but also several pieces of money every month. More importantly, I heard that the army was full of white-faced and white rice, so Dong Daquan, like many young people in the village, ran to the county recruitment station. At the beginning of the year, he completed the new After the military training, he was assigned to the 7th Mixed Brigade.

Although when he came to join the army, he and his partners who came to join the army boasted that if there was a war, he would definitely be at the front, and even fantasized that one day he could make great achievements as he said in the joke, and then be promoted to general by Marshal Zhao.

But today, he found that war is not as easy and beautiful as he had imagined before!

From the afternoon to now, he has seen three comrades-in-arms fall in front of him, and he may be the next one.

In the Feng army, there are quite a lot of recruits like Dong Daquan, who joined the army from last year to the beginning of this year, which can almost be said to occupy more than 50% of the total strength of the Feng army. Otherwise, Zhao Dongyun would not have expanded from 50,000 to 100,000 troops.

Since October last year, Zhao Dongyun has used various means to tap the population resources of the three eastern provinces, which is limited by the scarcity of the population of the eastern three provinces. Zhao Dongyun had to lower the standard of recruitment in order to expand his army. Although this led to a slight deterioration in the physical quality of the recruits recruited from the end of last year to this year, after a month of new After the training of soldiers, after months of training in the army, these new recruits can barely fight.

In the eyes of the great powers, the troops under Zhao Dongyun, especially the newly expanded soldiers, are of poor quality, but compared with the troops of other warlords in China, these field troops under Zhao Dongyun are much better. The soldiers have been fully trained as new soldiers and have been sent to various units for several months. Unequal training.

Although this Feng army cannot be compared with the great powers, it is also a regular army.

As for other warlords in China, the poor quality of the army of the Southern Federation is well known. For the more than 200,000 troops before Duanfang and Yanchang, there are only less than 20,000 new military backbones, and the rest are all strong men and civilians who have been requisitioned in recent months. They are the kind of people who are given a gun and pulled to fight on the front line. There is no systematic training for new recruits.

The First Army of the Northern Expedition in Zhang Zhidong was better, but it was not better to go there. Otherwise, it would not have been defeated by Wang Shizhen's tens of thousands of attacks. At the beginning of the year, when Wang Shizhen went south from Zhengzhou, Henan Province to attack Xinyang, Wusheng Pass, known as one of the four great gates in the world, was conquered by Wang Shizhen in just two days. Later, Zhang Zhidong relied on more than 100,000 troops in the three towns of Wuhan to resist Wang Shizhen's attack, otherwise the capital of the Southern Federation would have been lost.

Compared with the low quality of the Southern Federation, the troops of the Beiyang warlords are much better. Although the soldiers of the newly established provincial army, such as the Liangjiang Army under Duan Qirui and the Hubei Army under Wang Shizhen, are not as good as that of the Southern Federation, they still have a large number of backbones of the former Beiyang Army. Soldiers and officers, so although the combat effectiveness of the provincial army formed by these Beiyang warlords is poor, there is still no problem to fight against the troops of the Southern Federation.

Of course, these provincial armies are actually in the Beiyang system. The main forces of the major warlords are basically the old Beiyang troops in the Yuan Shikai era, that is, the six towns of the Beiyang Standing Army, the town of the Beijing Flag Standing Army and the two towns of the Fengtian Standing Army. As for those mixed brigades, they were basically formed by the old Beiyang troops. The most obvious example is the Li Chun Department of the 7th Mixed Brigade under Zhao Dongyun, whose predecessor was the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Town of the Fengtian Standing Army and the 20th Brigade of the 10th Division.

As for the provincial army of the first division and two brigades that Zhao Dongyun only expanded this year, it has only been formed into two regiments, and the rest are still on paper.

Although the number of Chinese civil wars these days is very important, in fact, in many cases the number often does not work, and it can rely on a small number of elite troops in the hands of major warlords.

And the two armies fighting in Hanhezhuang today are the elite troops under Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai. The Beiyang armies have been in existence for the longest time, known as the first division of the cradle of the Beiyang expansion army and the seventh mixed brigade, one of the main infantry brigades of the former Fengtian Standing Army under Zhao Dongyun.

The intensity of this fight is completely different from the North-South civil war in the two rivers and Hubei.

"Damn, how did they get so many shells? They have been hit for a day. Can't they use all their shells?" Li Cun Gao looked at the shells falling from his position and was very depressed. The contrast between the artillery firepower of the two sides in this battle was too different.

Although a mountaineer battalion of the 7th Mixed Brigade is equipped with new tube retreating guns, and the speed of fire is fast enough, the direct army on the opposite side has at least four artillery battalions, and at least half of them are field guns. In the afternoon, Li Chun ordered the artillery battalion to approach the deployment in order to support the front-line troops, but soon after It was a counterattack by the field artillery of the direct army, causing the artillery battalion to lose two mountain guns and dozens of gunners, and finally had to evacuate urgently.

This can't compete with artillery, and the 7th Mixed Brigade can only rely on a large number of mortars as the main artillery support force.

The direct army on the opposite side seemed to have sufficient shells. Although the firepower of the shelling weakened in the evening, it still maintained the suppression of shelling on their own positions, making Li Cungao and other front-line troops very flinching.

"It's not okay to go on like this. If we return their cannons, we can directly hit the Fuchang. In that case, what can we keep!" Li Cunyu frowned and said, "Commorgan Han, look, there should not be many direct troops on these two sides, and it happens to be in our machine gun suppression shooting world. Do you think we will fight back? Otherwise, when they stand firm, it will be even more difficult for us to fight when we are threatened on the right side!"

"How many direct troops are there?" Han Wuduo said, "We have reduced our troops a lot now, so I'm afraid it's not easy to counterattack!"

Li Cengao on one side said, "They are at most a dissatisfied arrangement. Just now, our No. 2 machine gun suppressed them. They left at least a dozen people before, and now there are 30 people there."

Han Wuduo doubted, "Now our first task is to defend, and I'm afraid it's difficult to explain the camp!"

"Offense is the best defense!" Li Cun Gao said rudely, "If this section of defense can be regained, a light machine gun here will be enough to contain hundreds of enemies!"

Han Wuduo objected, but looking at the eyes of Li Cungao and several other officers, he could only say, "That's Lieutenant Li, you take your first platoon, Lieutenant Chen, your second platoon to cover the first platoon!"

After hearing this, Li Cungao turned his head and said to Lieutenant Chen, "At that time, give me your light machine gun shooter. I want a veteran!"

Lieutenant Chen looked embarrassed: "One of my two machine gun shooters has been injured, and there is only one left!"

Li Cungao said, "Brother Chen, you know that the light machine gun can suppress the enemy to the greatest extent in the old hand, otherwise it won't be very useful!"

Lieutenant Chen said, "In that case, I will let him go to your side first, but you should also take it easy and don't damage this main shooter. Now we don't have many skilled shooters in a whole company!"

Although the light machine gun is a continuous shooting weapon, it is mainly a point shot in actual combat. Only novices will pull the trigger without letting go of the magazine. As for the "heroes" in the film and television drama, they stand up from the trench with light machine guns, and then call 'Hil' while pulling the trigger without shooting, first Without mentioning the problem of shooting the bullets in the magazine in a few seconds, after all, it is also possible for people to have a magazine with infinite bullets. The person who only said that he did this is a fool in reality. Without the enemy beating him into a hornet's nest, the officer who supervised the battle would shoot him directly.

This light machine gun is the same as the Japanese ammunition barrel of the Japanese army in later generations. It is difficult for novices to use, and it is generally used by veterans.

The same problem exists in the use of the Feng army's mortars. This is not that the mortar requires soldiers to be trained for several years and have any feel, but that the gunners need to know how to use the scope and calculate the shooting of Zhuyuan. In the illiterate domestic army, this kind of soldier is a real technical soldier. In order to become the backbone of an army.

Li Cunhao soon crossed the trench with more than 40 cats in his first row. At the same time, Han Wuduo also ordered the company's mortars to fire properly*, and the heavy machine guns also began to shoot repressively at the direct army.

A moment later, Li Cuntingo led his troops along the trench, which was already close to the direct army less than 100 meters. At this time, he had pulled out his saber, and the bronze whistle hanging on his chest was also in his mouth.

He silently counted the number of mortars falling on the position of the direct army in front of him. After dropping more than ten*, he blew the bronze whistle and waved his saber to lead his men to launch this short charge of less than 100 meters.

Li Cun Gao, who waved a saber in one hand and held a 1904* in the other, ran forward in the firelight of the explosion, and kept shouting, "Go!"

Just as he rushed forward, his right shoulder was suddenly hit hard. In an instant, he was black in front of his eyes, and his footsteps staggered and fell to the ground.