Chapter 314 Wu Chenzhuang Fierce Battle 3

As Gong Chehou led the second company to attack the left wing of the Anhui army, An Yulong in the rear was not idle. He personally commanded other troops under his command to launch a suppressed attack and provided fire cover for Gong Chehou's second company's attack.

"Let the machine gun platoon pay attention, suppress the enemy's firepower in the direction of two o'clock, and never let the enemy fight back!" An Yulong has personally arrived at the front line and crossed the level to command heavy machine guns and mortar troops.

Following his order, two Fuzuo 01 heavy machine guns belonging to the third battalion spewed out a tongue of fire. Countless heavy machine gun bullets hit the Anhui army position hundreds of meters away from the opposite side, and the bullets of the heavy machine gun hit the trenches on the opposite side with great power.

However, although this suppression shooting looks very powerful, in fact, the results achieved are extremely limited. Except for the initial shooting of several fake enemies, as the enemy retracted, most of the subsequent bullets were empty.

However, An Yulong did not expect much results from the suppression shooting of heavy machine guns. The so-called fire suppression, as long as he can suppress the enemy's counterattack firepower, it will be successful.

However, although there were two heavy machine guns to suppress, there were many troops on the opposite side, and the suppression of heavy machine guns could only be suppressed in one direction. The Anhui army in other directions still looked up to fight back. At this time, they also found the second company's attack on the left wing, and a heavy machine gun in the machine gun fortress was also It began to launch a suppression shot at the second company that was under attack, and Gong Chehou's second company was also hit so that he could not raise his head for a time, and the offensive was suppressed only ten minutes later.

Seeing this situation, An Yulong frowned and said in his heart that there were still too few heavy machine guns he could use.

It seems necessary to request the heavy machine gun fire support from the regiment!

Today, the establishment of the Feng army was formulated after the republic last year. At the beginning, according to the experience of the Russo-Japanese War and the Tongzhou Campaign after entering the customs, the Feng army made a large-scale adjustment.

The original adjustment did not change the basic staffing of the Feng army, but only changed the equipment and staffing of mortars, heavy machine guns and light machine guns. With the increase of these weapons, it also appropriately increased the staffing of logistics forces, such as adding an ammunition platoon in battalion-level troops, specially carrying ammunition for supplementing. The large amount of ammunition required by the army increases the endurance of the troops.

These many changes have formed the latest establishment of Fengjun, which is called 1907 in the Department of Staff.

Compared with the original establishment, Fengjun's 1907 establishment has greatly increased the number of 60mm mortars, light machine guns and logistics troops, but there is not much increase in heavy machine guns, which is not only affected by strategic ideas, but also related to the production of heavy machine guns that Fengjun can obtain, whether it depends on Whether it is purchased or produced by Fu factory itself, the output of heavy machine guns has actually been relatively limited. At present, the number of heavy machine guns belonging to the division is about the same as when it entered the customs last year.

In the new 1907 standard, the original infantry class remained unchanged, and there were still 14 people in a class. Each infantry platoon has three infantry squads and a light machine gun. The infantry company has three infantry platoons and two 60mm mortars.

The infantry battalion has four infantry companies, another machine gun platoon with two heavy machine guns, a mortar platoon with two 80mm mortars, and an ammunition platoon carrying additional mortar shells and bullets.

In addition to the above three infantry battalions, the infantry regiment also has a machine gun company with nine heavy machine guns, and four 80mm mortars in a mortar company.

The infantry brigade has two infantry regiments. Usually, the brigade does not have other directly administered troops except for the two infantry regiments, but in actual combat, the Feng army often takes one brigade as the basic combat unit. For example, the 10th Division in the Northern Jiangsu Campaign is divided into two brigades, and the 19th and 20th Brigades are fighting separately. In this case, infantry Brigades are generally assigned from the forces directly under the division headquarters, and often get an artillery battalion and other additional assignments of heavy, engineering and cavalry units, thus forming a mixed brigade with independent combat capabilities.

In addition to two infantry brigades, the infantry division also has a three-based 16-gun artillery regiment per battalion, a 16-meter mortar battalion, a 600-meter mortar regiment with three cavalry companies, and a heavy regiment with three battalions, with a total of more than 1,800 people. , an engineering battalion with more than 800 people, as well as military music, gendarmerie, division headquarters and other directly under the central government.

If it is fully compiled according to the standards, the total strength of such a Feng Army infantry division in 1907 will exceed 15,000, nearly 16,000, with nearly 1,000 horse riding horses, nearly 3,000 logistics horses, and more than 700 Western-style heavy transport carriages.

The weapons under its jurisdiction include 36 75mm field guns, 16 75mm mountain guns, 16 120mm mortars, 40 80mm mortars, nearly 100 60mm mortars, 56 heavy machine guns, and 156 light machine guns. There are also nearly 10,000 rifles with infantry and thousands of revolvers or automatic pistols required by cavalry, officers, machine gunners, artillery, engineering, heavy and other auxiliary forces.

The above is the Feng army compiled in 1907. Of course, the above standards actually only exist on paper, but in fact, the equipment of each unit is more or less, and it is difficult to strictly implement during the battle. For example, the Third Division, which lost a lot during the entry into the customs, but more were captured, and many heavy machine guns were captured. Artillery is often directly integrated into the third division.

Therefore, the number of heavy machine guns in the third division is more than other divisions, reaching more than 60. In addition, the 12th Regiment of the 3rd Division is also a pilot unit of light machine guns. Zhao Dongyun personally ordered the regiment to equip light machine guns to the class to experiment with a series of tactics after the light machine guns to the class, so the light machine guns of the 3rd Division In fact, the quantity will be dozens more.

All kinds of weapons of this third division have been overstaffed, but some troops are lacking. For example, the newly formed 13th Division, due to the shortage of weapons, the 48 guns of the artillery regiment of the 13th Division have not been fully compiled. Heavy machine guns, light machine guns and even mortars are lacking, and Lu Yongxiang, who has just joined the army. Although the first division has added a lot of personnel and weapons, the vacancy is still relatively large. The First Artillery Regiment of the First Division belongs to only two battalions.

In fact, except for the three main divisions of the Third Division, the Ninth Division and the Tenth Division, all other troops in the Feng Army are short of weapons. This is not that Zhao Dongyun is biased, but that the current weapons of the Feng army is really scarce, although they have been purchased and from Fu Factory has obtained a lot of self-produced weapons, but the gap is still very large, especially for artillery, heavy machine guns and light machine guns.

In addition, although it has been captured in the battle, the Feng army will more or less lose many weapons in the battle, such as the simplest rifles. The Feng army has lost at least tens of thousands of rifles in previous operations, some of which are lost, some of which hit the rifling lines, and some of which are damaged.

Several repair houses set up in the Ordnance Department have repaired at least tens of thousands of rifles in the past few months. It can be seen that during the war, these rifles, artillery and machine guns are as consumables as ammunition. In order to keep the front-line troops full of weapons, they must be continuously provided.

Now the third battalion commanded by An Yulong can be regarded as the standard infantry battalion in the Feng army, with two heavy machine guns and two 80mm mortars, and the subordinate infantry companies also have two 60mm mortars and one light machine guns in each platoon.

However, only in this way, An Yulong feels that the available firepower in his hand is still insufficient!

"Go to the regiment headquarters and ask for the support of the heavy machine gun!" An Yulong ordered the commanding soldiers to request reinforcements of heavy machine guns, and commanded the 80mm mortars under his command to shell.

In addition to the two inherent 80mm mortars, his subordinates now also have an 80mm mortar that has just been supported. The firing speed of these three 80mm mortars is extremely fast, and the fire density of the outbreak in a short period of time is enough to compare with a mountain artillery battalion.

However, the firing speed of the mortar was fast, and An Yulong could not let them fight endlessly, which made each gun order to stop the shelling after three rapid shots.

It's not that he doesn't want to continue to fight, but that the shells of the 80mm mortar are limited. If you keep firing at the maximum rate of fire, the shell will have to be fired in less than two minutes, and the mortar that hit the shells are not as good as scrap metal.

Although the ammunition base of the 60mm mortar group compiled by the Feng army has reached 50 rounds, and the base of 80mm mortars has reached 80 rounds, this standard has never really been realized since it was issued, except for the Tangshan Campaign, and is limited by the weak logistics and transportation capacity of the Feng army. In many cases, a 60mm mortar on the front line often carries only about 20 to 30 rounds, while 80mm mortar shells rarely carry more than 50 rounds.

In order to prepare for the Xuzhou Campaign, although the Feng army prepared a large number of mortar shells, and theoretically can allocate more than 150 shells to each 80mm mortar, you have to know that these are the shells reserved by the Feng army for the whole battle. It is impossible to say that they were all fired in the first few days, and there are also At least one-third of the ammunition is actually still being transported from the two logistics transfer centers of Haizhou and Zhengzhou to Xuzhou, and the real-time ammunition ration that the front-line troops can get is actually far less than the rated base.

In this case, An Yulong could not say that he would shoot out all the mortar shells at once. He could only say that he would fight for a while at a critical moment to suppress the enemy's firepower.