Back to the Republic of China as a commander

The bombardment of the youth army's line of defense lasted for 10 minutes. The three heavy artillery units of the Zhilu coalition army, a total of 144 heavy artillery pieces, unceremoniously fired more than 2 shells at the youth army's position.

This is unprecedented wealth. The Japanese consultants who saw it felt a little heartbroken. You must know that Zhang Zongchang is different from Zhang Zuolin. His arms purchases are all on credit from the Great Japanese Empire.The only thing that feels happy is that more than 900 Japanese retired artillery soldiers have come. They didn’t play so well when they served in the Japanese army. Now they have stripped off their clothes and are shirtless. It's a Chinese pig, so naturally the more dead the better, anyway, that's what the officers said.And Zhang Zongchang was very happy to see such fierce firepower, and he kept applauding: "It would be exciting if there was such fierce firepower when Shangqiu and Wu Xiucai fought last time. Just bang his mother and it's over."

After looking at the effect of the bombardment with the binoculars for a while, Zhang Zongchang suddenly shouted to Shi Congbin and the others: "I will tell the brothers below, after the bombardment stops, buy some strength, and I will clean up the Nanmanzi's army in one go. Let's fight all the way to Nanjing along the Jinpu line to see who owns this great river and mountain."

Shi Congbin and others hurriedly said: "Of course it belongs to the commander in chief."

Zhang Zongchang's face changed: "If fart, it's all mine, what about that old general?"

Everyone was stunned immediately after being frightened like this, but Zhang Zongchang laughed again and said: "It's just to scare you, but I heard that Wang Zhenyu's two wives are very beautiful. Wait for me to snatch them over to make the 24th wife and wife." Aunt 25. Hahahaha"

The generals breathed a long sigh of relief, but thought to themselves: I am a fool to believe you.

On a rare occasion, Zhang Zongchang paid half of the cash before the attack was launched, so the morale of the attacking troops immediately became as high as it could be.Everyone from the officers to the soldiers screamed wildly, vowing to tear the enemy on the opposite side to pieces.

Boom, with the explosion of the last heavy artillery shell, the entire battlefield fell into a brief silence. This silence came so suddenly that people were unprepared.

The veterans of the youth army who had combat experience spit out the cigarettes dangling from their mouths without hesitation at this time, and then checked their firearms again. If this thing jams at a critical moment, it will be a lot of fun up.

The attack of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces began without hesitation. Groups of infantrymen, holding Japanese-style 100-shaped covers in one hand and large domestic-made knives in the other, pressed towards the youth army's position very strangely.On both sides of the battle line, when the infantrymen were less than [-] meters away from the youth army's position, they unceremoniously launched a desperate charge from both ends of the battle line.The momentum of this charge made Itagaki, who served as the general adviser in Zhang Zongchang's army, have to sigh: "The power of the Chinese army's charge is extremely amazing, and even the imperial army may not be able to compare with it."

However, Itagaki did not forget to add in his report that the Chinese can only erupt such amazing fighting power in the civil war.Such a report can be regarded as a disguised comfort to the Japanese Imperial Army, because the ensuing battle shocked Tokyo.

In our daily life, we can always hear a tall guy bragging in front of us how about us northerners, we northerners are real men.It seems that in the whole of China, only the northerners are real men, while in the south there are only petite women left.Since everyone is Chinese, with yellow skin and dark eyes, it would be unpleasant to always emphasize this point.

But in many cases, people may not really be bragging. In terms of combat alone, the tall and strong northern soldiers are naturally not comparable to the southern soldiers.People who eat rice are doomed to not have enough physical advantages. If they have to fight with people who eat wheat in military affairs, it can only be in terms of wisdom and courage.In history, the military performance of soldiers in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other southern regions in the middle of the mainland of the Republic of China also proved this point of view.In fact, when you can successfully integrate the southern soldiers and the northern soldiers into a whole, your army will be invincible in the world, so the descendants of Yan and Huang should unite, not split, be united, and not humiliate themselves.

Pulling away, let's go back to the performance of the Zhilu coalition forces.This is indeed the tiger and wolf division trained by Japanese instructors for assault. Even the charge is neatly covering the youth army's position.

A young battalion commander who had participated in the European War and had just joined the First Division couldn't help but drop a sb when he saw the way the opponent charged.It made the extremely nervous youth soldiers around him all look at him stupidly. How could such a majestic charge become a smack? In this way, everyone forgot their nervousness and uneasiness amidst their doubts.

Naturally, ruthless bullets greeted the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces, but this time the officers of the Youth Army did not order the soldiers to shoot within 50 meters, because they had long been familiar with the attack mode of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces, and they asked the soldiers to wait until the enemy entered 200 meters. shoot when.After firing five bullets from one magazine, all soldiers were ordered to abandon the first-line position and retreat directly to the third-line position 100 meters away.This is probably the strangest position, at least that's what the officers of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Army led the charge.Generally, the popular domestic defense is straight line defense, digging deep on the basis of straight line, but when the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces broke through the first-line positions, they realized that they had only broken through a trench, which was still not deep. It's a straight ditch.

It doesn't matter. What really discouraged the officers and soldiers of the Zhishan-Shandong Allied Forces was that when they rushed into this trench, they didn't find an enemy, and a strange position appeared less than 20 meters away from them.A circular formation, haven't you seen it?There are all semi-circular blocks in the middle, and the blocks opened their eyes, but they don't know what they are for. In short, people who see it feel very strange, so strange that they can't help but feel a little hairy.

But at this time, it is no longer allowed to stop, and the commander's law enforcement team followed behind with the ghost knife and machine gun, charging, continuing to charge, maybe the opponent is so vulnerable, maybe rushing over is a victory.

"The youth army will never tolerate being underestimated" was engraved on the wall of the library of Wuhan Army University many years later, and the source of this sentence was Zhang Zizhong, who was then the commander of the first division of the youth army.

The Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces soon suffered. When they rushed through these circular positions and continued to advance in depth, these circular positions fired tongues of fire at them without hesitation, and the strong flames did not hesitate. The officers and soldiers of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Army who had turned their backs on him were swept to the ground.

In the open space between the circular positions, every officer and soldier of the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces was hit by at least three heavy machine guns. They had never seen this formation before, and the result was naturally heavy casualties.

This is the "elastic defense" of the Germans in the legend. For the French, this is a hell-like existence. Simply put, it is to use bunkers to change the surface defense originally composed of trenches into point defense. Then this defensive position uses hooks and trenches as an aid, with concrete and steel bunkers as the center to make a deep layout, relying on heavy machine guns and other rapid-fire weapons, to hide themselves in the concrete fortifications as much as possible, and expose the enemy to the open area. Then use firepower to kill severely.The youth army went a step further on this basis and developed a triangle attack tactic. To be precise, three machine guns cover one surface, so that no dead ends are left, and the effect is amazing.Just now, in less than 3 minutes, a platoon of about 50 people from the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces was wiped out by three machine guns. What made the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces despair is that such a strong blockhouse was built. Four hundred of them, and 10 of them still existed after three and 380 minutes of shelling.A total of [-] machine guns were distributed in the bunker, and Tao Zhiyue concentrated the machine guns of the entire First Army to the First Division. , This is naked cheating. . .

In fact, this position was also mentioned in the internal announcement of the Japanese military, and this position was also specifically introduced in the European war report sent back by the European war reporter of China's "Shenzhen".It's a pity that the Zhi-Shandong Allied Forces are usually masters who don't read books or newspapers, but now they rushed in stupidly.However, this kind of position has one of the biggest requirements, which is to have enough heavy weapons and supplies, so not everyone can play it. After studying for a long time, the researchers of the Japanese military department decided that the imperial army could not play this thing. This position construction method was ruthlessly abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army just like the submachine guns of later generations.

The ensuing battle was very cruel, but this kind of cruelty was only for the Zhilu coalition army. The first brigade and the seventh brigade of the Zhilu coalition army that rushed in first lost their combat effectiveness almost instantly.All the officers and soldiers were blinded, and they were trying to find a place to shelter, but such a place did not exist.They tried to fight back, but it was useless except for a few sparks on the concrete bunker.Desperation soon permeated the army, and they attempted to surrender, but the machine guns showed no sign of stopping.At the meeting of the Nanjing National Congress, Senator Liang Shuming of the Senate proposed a proposal to declare the Zhilu coalition army as the butcher of the country's thieves.This proposal was passed by both houses, so from the beginning of the battle, the youth army issued an order not to accept the surrender of the officers of the Zhilu coalition army.However, this also made the officers and soldiers on the front line feel uncomfortable. At least the [-] officers and soldiers in the bunker were now soft-handed.

The [-] cavalry who followed the Zhishan coalition army also plunged into this big trap aggressively, and the result was tragic. . .

Zhang Zongchang couldn't believe his eyes. In just one hour's attack, the three infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades he sent out had a total of 3000 troops and less than 6000 troops were withdrawn. That is to say, Nearly 7000 people were confessed to the youth army's position. This is an unprecedented terrorist incident since the formation of the Zhishan coalition army.

Zhang Zongchang suddenly looked directly at the enemy on the opposite side, and his body couldn't help shivering. . .