"Next time, you must pay more attention to the situation of the enemy!" Thoughts of remorse flashed through the battalion commander's mind, but the feeling of remorse lasted only a few seconds. After all, the battalion commander had the experience of life and death, and he gritted his teeth tightly and continued to observe the enemy situation with a telescope. The momentum of the attack of the Sharp Knife Company was halted by the enemy's heavy machine guns, and the first half of the attacking column came to a standstill, while the second half was still moving forward.

After looking at it for a while, the battalion commander finally scolded, "Quickly unfold the formation!" Are you standing there and being beaten? ”

In the face of fierce enemy resistance, either concentrate your fire to eliminate the enemy's firepower or use sharpshooters to eliminate the enemy's firepower, or quickly spread out in formation to maintain the offensive line. If the enemy adjusts the deployment of forces with the support of the fire point and then counterattacks, the casualties of the blocked attacking troops will soar.

The Sharp Knife Company and the enemy obviously adopted the method of firing at each other, and the effect was good or not, but the Beiyang Army, which had been driven away like a duck, gradually broke away from the distance from the Sharp Knife Company under the cover of heavy machine gun fire. There has been a fairly noticeable distance between the two sides.

"Artillery, fire support!" The battalion commander saw that he could not get entangled with the enemy, and immediately gave a new order.

"The shooting Zhuyuan has not been adjusted! There is no way to guarantee accuracy. The commander of the artillery platoon replied anxiously.

"Hit from a distance first, and adjust as you go! Don't save ammo now. The battalion commander shouted. After shouting at the artillery platoon commander, the battalion commander asked the correspondent again, "When will the regiment commander and the four battalions led by them catch up?" ”

"There is no sign of previous movement at the regimental headquarters for the time being." The correspondent replied immediately.

The military academy is divided into four levels, and the squad platoon is the primary class, which is trained by each infantry school. Regiments, battalions, and companies are mid-level commanders who are trained by military academies. Senior commanders at the corps and division levels are uniformly trained by the Army Academy. As for the higher-level training, it is a training course set up by the Central Military Commission, which is basically of the nature of discussion and discussion.

The regiment commander and the battalion commander both graduated from the same batch of military academy training, and when they heard that the regiment headquarters did not continue to move forward, the battalion commander was furious in his heart. But he also figured out after a while that there are two methods of operation against Beiyang at the moment, either to annihilate Beiyang at the same time in three ways and one blow, or to completely divide and encircle the Beiyang Army, "eat one, clip one, and watch one". Where the breakthrough point is, no one can be sure before the battle. In fact, front-line commanders, especially battalion-level commanders, have a considerable say in how to choose in the course of the battle.

"The fourth company is ready, follow me." The battalion commander ordered.

The commander of the fourth company happily went to prepare, and the deputy battalion commander hurriedly came up and persuaded: "Battalion commander, let me lead the team." ”

"You take care of the artillery and fire suppression troops, and if there is any order in the regiment, you will notify me in time." The battalion commander replied.

The deputy battalion commander did not admit to the battalion commander's arrangement, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Battalion commander, there is a political commissar for these tasks!" You, can't you trust me? ”

"I can't trust you? In a moment, if I am glorious in front, you will have to be on top. You now have to observe the situation and be in charge of liaison. How many times have you said that you have to use your brains to fight! Now you obey the order and hurry up and get ready. After the battalion commander finished speaking, he drove to the front of the front with the fourth company.

The 4th Company did not directly engage in the offensive battle, and the battalion commander asked them to take over the right flank of the 1st Company to continue the offensive. The first and second companies all entered a frontal offensive state.

But the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and after the battalion commander went to the front line, the enemy in front had already taken refuge in the range of the Beiyang heavy machine gun. The railway road is basically higher than the ground, and Beiyang puts machine guns on the carriages and flatbed cars, which is even more condescending. Fang had just been hit hard by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and the Beiyang heavy machine gunners, frightened, manipulated their machine guns in a furious manner to fire fiercely at the positions of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Looking at their intentions, there was great hope that they had the intention of killing all the units of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army with more than 20 heavy machine guns.

"Start digging bunkers!" The battalion commander ordered. Hard-hitting tactics are the way that will be given the highest priority when there is no other choice, and at this time, it is necessary to rely on the quality of individual combat to conduct combat battles.

The commander of the first company and the commander of the second company argued a little, and the battalion commander pushed them back with a word, "Don't you have confidence in your marksmanship?" ”

Now the two company commanders were silent. The pre-war mobilization was not a shout to the comrades to "sacrifice for the revolution". It is naturally impossible to say that the troops will not leak military secrets, the pre-war arrangement, the timing of military operations, etc. But in addition to this, the weapons, troops, training, characteristics of both sides. This is all part of the pre-war mobilization. These things are classified in other armies, and the PLA mobilization tradition is something to be said publicly.

According to the debates on the Internet that Chen Ke has read, as well as the literature and comments put forward by all sides of the debate, it is claimed that the Beiyang Army has done extremely poor in infantry aiming and shooting training. It is true that there is no right to speak without investigation, and Chen Ke is finally convinced that this comment is correct. This can be inferred from the data collected by the People's Party intelligence officers on the ammunition inventory of the Beiyang Army. The Beiyang Army uses less than 20 rounds of ammunition for soldiers to shoot live ammunition in a year.

You must know that in the era of the Eighth Route Army, even though the number of bullets for soldiers in each battle was only 5 rounds, the Eighth Route Army paid special attention to the training of basic shooting techniques, such as the posture of the gun, which was to hang bricks at the muzzle. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army fought tens of thousands of company-level battles during the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the number of shots each soldier fired in actual combat every year was not only five. It is not uncommon for elite troops to fight a lot of wars firing hundreds of rounds a year. This not only gave birth to a large number of elite marksmen, but also made the infantry squad platoon tactics of the later PLA era fully mature.

However, Beiyang does not engage in tens of thousands of actual battles every year, and among the intelligence collected by the People's Party's intelligence organs, the Beiyang Army does not have large-scale training in arduous shooting postures. The content of Beiyang's training is that the officer directs the soldiers to rush forward and rush forward.

There were not many field troops of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and most of the 20,000 troops of the 4407th Division were still recruits, and a lot of time they were still engaged in labor work. Even so, during the six-month training and three-month intensive military training from the beginning of last year to this year, each soldier fired an average of more than 100 rounds of ammunition.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has a special school gunner, and every soldier has a special school gun and shooting training course. The troops have special school gun experts and marksmen, and the fighters who have won these two titles are the technical backbone of the troops, and they must go down every day to train the fighters. The Beiyang Army did not have these two positions, and it was not found that there were positions equivalent to these two units.

In this pre-war mobilization, these disparities were specifically explained to the officers and men. Therefore, the battalion commander asked the Sharp Knife Company to start digging bunkers and trenches to shoot at the Beiyang Army, but the commander of the Sharp Knife Company did not refuse. There were not so many taboos on the battlefield, not only did the sappers shovel and dig the soil, but the corpses of the Beiyang Army scattered on the battlefield were also dragged and piled up into bunkers. As a result, some of the Beiyang troops who pretended to be dead were exposed in the dragging.

The fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were all peasants, and they often carried out civil engineering work on weekdays, and soon set up bunkers and began to shoot at the Beiyang Army in a purposeful manner.

The heavy machine guns of the Beiyang Army rained down bullets on the ground, splashing bits of dirt on bunkers or flesh on corpses. Duan Zhigui is not completely incompetent, at this time, the Beiyang rout also began to try to return fire with a platoon of guns, and in the sound of ping-pong gunfire, Beiyang was also stable for a while.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army no longer tried to continue the attack, but returned fire with accurate fire, and the casualties of the Beiyang heavy machine gunners, who were the first to encounter the heavy fire of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, immediately increased. It was clear through the telescope that every ten shots passed, a certain heavy machine gun fire point in Beiyang would stop. The battalion commander even saw that the Tianling Gai of several Beiyang Army shooters was beaten and flew up.

Even if the shooting accuracy of the heavy machine gun is not high, the heavy machine gun firepower is fierce, and there are a large number of Beiyang heavy machine guns, at least seven or eight soldiers were injured or killed under the fire of the heavy machine guns. First weakened the heavy machine gun threat of the Beiyang Army, the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army dared to show their heads more and start shooting. It was the turn of the ordinary infantry of the Beiyang Army to suffer.

Beiyang did not have the habit of digging trenches, let alone field trenches. Even if the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army could not destroy an enemy with every bullet, the Beiyang Army's dense presence in front of the train made it an excellent target. The key to the People's Party's Hanyang manufacturing is that it does not use magazines, but magazines. This led directly to an increase in the rate of fire.

The soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were each to carry 100 rounds of ammunition, and the soldiers of the Beiyang Army on the opposite side were either squatting or standing, completely exposed to the guns. The fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army hid in bunkers and even trenches. Although the light machine gun did not have a long range, it did not join the warband for the time being. However, the fighters aimed and shot, and the accuracy was not comparable to Beiyang at all.

With the prolongation of the time of the counterfire, the heavy machine gunners of the Beiyang Army suffered a large number of losses. There were some machine gun positions where people certainly appeared, but they didn't shoot. In the binoculars, I watched the enemy fiddle with the heavy machine gun in a hurry, but it was never able to operate it smoothly. The battalion commander already understood that the enemy's machine gunners were almost exhausted.

Not only did the machine gunners of the Beiyang Army run out, but the Beiyang Army was knocked down one after another in the confrontation. This was a serious blow to the morale of the Beiyang Army.

With the prolongation of the time of the counterfire, the heavy machine gunners of the Beiyang Army suffered a large number of losses. There were some machine gun positions where people certainly appeared, but they didn't shoot. In the binoculars, I watched the enemy fiddle with the heavy machine gun in a hurry, but it was never able to operate it smoothly. The battalion commander already understood that the enemy's machine gunners were almost exhausted.

Not only did the machine gunners of the Beiyang Army run out, but the Beiyang Army was knocked down one after another in the confrontation. This was a serious blow to the morale of the Beiyang Army.