The reconnaissance balloons hanging high in the air made the comrades of the People's Party feel extremely unaccustomed, and they were not accustomed to the existence of reconnaissance balloons, but they were not accustomed to the raising of reconnaissance balloons from the enemy's side.

"Can you pop the balloon?" Several commanders couldn't help but complain to Hitoshi Kuroshima.

Looking at the balloon in the air in the distance, Kuroshima Ren felt like he had eaten a fly. Despite this, Hitoshi Kuroshima said something else, "Comrades, I've been on a balloon. The magnification of the telescopes of the Forces nouvelles is not high, and they can't really see clearly at this distance. Can you use a telescope to see the people in the balloons? Let's hide well, they can't see ours. Everyone made it clear to the other comrades, so that everyone could hide well and fight with confidence. ”

Many of the comrades had already raised their binoculars to look at the balloons, and the shadows of the new army in the balloon baskets could not be seen clearly at all. Hearing what Kuroshima Ren said, everyone was also relieved. The soldiers were just embarrassed in their hearts, and the commanders at all levels made this reason clear and asked the comrades to look at the balloons with binoculars one by one, and finally solved the problem.

Kuroshima was secretly glad in his heart, although his words were true, but Kuroshima didn't make it clear that the People's Party's telescope magnification was limited. If the enemy is holding a telescope with a greater magnification, they may not be able to see clearly.

"Never fight this kind of meaningless positional warfare again in the future." Kuroshima Ren secretly made up his mind. If it was in the vast countryside, Kuroshima Ren was absolutely confident that he would use more than 500 people to pull tens of thousands of enemies around. If the enemy dares to chase after him, Kuroshima is confident that it will take a few days to lead the nose of tens of thousands of enemies and break them apart. Eventually, exhausted enemy forces were brought into an ambush circle, and the rest of the ambush troops were able to annihilate the enemy with a single blow.

In the past, when it came to the rural areas, everyone felt that the rural areas were bitter and tiring, but after the People's Party devoted itself to building the rural areas, the vast rural areas in the base areas have a lot to do. As long as it is closely integrated with the broad masses of the people, any enemy can be easily defeated. Don't look at the tens of thousands of enemies in Nanjing now gathered together like hedgehogs, it seems difficult to deal with. As long as these tens of thousands of people enter a county in the base area, this idea of strength is nothing at all.

Thinking of this, Kuroshima Ren felt a kind of chagrin in his heart, if he had this feeling before this dispatch, he would definitely not be confused by such a thing as a battle of tens of thousands of people. Arrange evacuation routes, urgently relocate and carry the wounded. Although the effect may not be great, it is still better than now. As long as you can get out of such a close distance from the enemy, there are many other ways to use even if you are to block the attack. But at this point, it's useless to think so much. Hitoshi Kuroshima banished thoughts that had nothing to do with the battle, and his attention began to return to the battlefield.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army never gave up the construction of fortifications, and even if there were enemy balloons in the air, the communication trenches connecting the various positions could obscure the movement of the troops. The cat crawled and ran around the waist, and Kuroshima walked through the defensive positions of the two companies. Boost the morale of your comrades and look at the features of the defense system. Even if the Qing army brigade began to advance to the positions of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the final preparations before the war could not be sloppy.

The morale of the soldiers was high, and they did not have the slightest fear because of the disparity in strength. Everyone whispered hello to Hitoshi Kuroshima who passed by. The Supreme Commander personally came to his side, which meant that he was not ignored by the command, which knew what kind of situation he was facing, which was a great psychological encouragement to the soldiers.

The fighters did not nervously observe the enemy, but began to check their rifles one last time. Whether the crosshair is loose or not, and the position of the crosshair is negatively fixed to the logo engraved on the back of the school gun. Some soldiers with nimble hands and feet even roughly disassembled and reloaded the gun to ensure that the internal parts were running without problems.

By the time the soldiers were making their final preparations for the battle, Hitoshi Kuroshima had already finished inspecting the position and returned to the command position. The command position was in the middle of the front with the best view. But there weren't too many troops here. In the bunker, Kuroshima Ren condescendingly watched the enemy gradually approach, and there were about 600 people in the front and rear of the Qing army that rushed up, showing a standard horizontal attack mode. Yesterday's performance of the Forces nouvelles can be said to be exactly the same.

"Don't these people learn a lesson? Didn't you send enough to die? The commander of the second company beside Kuroshima Ren couldn't help but say. Not all the troops went to the front, the first line was arranged with the troops of the first company, and the second company was only one platoon. The other three platoons remained a little further back as reserves. The commander of the second company naturally observed the enemy situation on the front line.

"No way, they've learned to fight like this." There was a sense of relief in Kuroshima's tone.

"I hope so. If they attack like this, we can definitely hold it. The commander of the second company also felt a little relieved.

Wang Youhong really did not expect that the march of the Qing army was not attacked by the People's Party at all. The two battalions in the vanguard not only crossed the position in the middle of the valley, but even crossed the "death line" formed by the corpses of the new army under the heavy blows of the People's Party yesterday. The noise of the Qing army's attacking troops gradually faded away, and there was still a dead silence on the hill guarded by the People's Party.

"Ask the people on the balloon where the hell is the BJP!" Wang Youhong didn't know how many times he urged.

After a while, the news came back. "There are people in the BJP hospital. Some of the BJP troops hid behind rocks on the hills. Can not see clearly. ”

"Let them take a closer look! Tell me where to hide! Wang Youhong said angrily. After several questioning, the people on the balloon said that the BJP was hiding on the hill. Isn't that nonsense! Wang Youhong didn't need to look to know that the People's Party was hiding behind rocks on the hill. Where is it? The observer on the balloon was silent. If it weren't for the fact that he had left his identity, Wang Youhong would have liked to get on the balloon to see it in person.

Picking up the binoculars, Wang Youhong looked at the position. The Qing army that had taken the lead had reached the bottom of the opposite hillside, and the ant-like crowd was crawling towards the top of the hill. The People's Party did not shoot, and the Qing army climbed up the hill, crossed the halfway up the mountain, and got closer and closer to the top of the mountain.

"Could it be that the rebels have fled?" Wang Youhong couldn't help but ask the people around him.

"This ......" The officer next to Wang Youhong couldn't answer. When more than 500 people faced tens of thousands of people, they could not imagine how much courage it would take to hold on.

Wang Youhong himself began to be a little suspicious, and the People's Party had actually run away a long time ago. He looked at the hill again with his binoculars, and the BJP flag was still alone on the ridge. No matter how you look at it, it gives people an eerie feeling. At this moment, the sound of gunfire was suddenly heard in the distance. The field of view of the telescope was not wide enough, Wang Youhong put down the telescope and searched for the place where the battle broke out.

It was the Qing army that fired, and the Qing army that was about to rush up the mountain beam stopped, and the front row tried to start firing at the mountain beam in a horizontal line, and the Qing army in the back continued to try to keep up, trying to maintain a battle line and suppress the enemy with firepower. This is one of the most standard tactics for lining up to shoot.

Hurriedly raised the telescope to put the front of the lens object, Wang Youhong tried to see more clearly. Then Wang Youhong clearly saw that the Qing army's front was being punched out one after another at an incredible speed. The terrain near the ridge was steeper, and the downed Qing army rolled down the hillside like sacks. Although the heavy reward greatly stimulated the morale of the Qing army, the Qing army behind continued to rush up to make up for the queue despite the fierce firepower of the enemy, but how to make up for the people, the whole queue became more and more sparse. couldn't see clearly in the camera, Wang Youhong couldn't help but put down the binoculars and shouted, "What's the matter!" ”

Hitoshi Kuroshima was so close to the front that he could see it very clearly. The original plan was to let the Qing army get closer before shooting. At the time of deployment, the troops had already established a firing area. But not long after the Qing army entered the firing area, they began to scream and stop shooting. I think some of the fighters were not well concealed and were discovered. Naturally, it was impossible for the troops to be beaten passively, and the confrontation began.

The Qing army was well trained, and some of the soldiers who fired were standing, some were crouching, and they looked decent just by looking at them. But the fancy frame is useless, the rate of fire of the single-shot rifle is too slow, and although the firing speed of the five-shot Hanyangzao of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is deliberately suppressed, it is in pursuit of accuracy. The distance between the two sides was only more than 20 meters, and for every two shots, several Qing soldiers were shot. It sounds like a sparse gunshot, and the lethality is amazing. The Qing army had tried to maintain a line of 50 men for platoon firing. In less than a minute, with the Qing army constantly replenishing the front, the front of fifty men shrank to less than thirty.

After another minute, the battle line of thirty men shrank to ten. In Kuroshima's observation, at least fifty Qing soldiers were knocked to the ground in this minute. The Qing troops, who were trying to maintain the front, fired at most one shot, and stood there for less than ten seconds before being knocked to the ground by bullets. The Qing army led by them could no longer fight, and they began to flee.

The "firing zone" set aside by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is the one that guarantees the best firing effect. Bullets flew mercilessly from behind, and the fleeing Qing army moved because it was possible, so the original situation that two bullets could defeat a Qing army became a four-way bullet to hit a Qing army. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's firing intensified slightly, and the Qing troops who escaped were killed one after another. As they ran down the hill, the momentum was greater after the corpses fell, and Kuroshima Ren saw that there were even Qing troops rolling down the hillside, crossing halfway up the mountain, and only stopping when they reached the foot of the mountain.

When the already dense gunfire stopped, the Qing army suffered more than 200 casualties, and the first wave of the charge was completely defeated. The Qing soldiers who fled for their lives retreated all the way to the valley before stopping.

Without Kuroshima's urging, the troops had already begun to count casualties. After hearing the report, Kuroshima Ren couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked, "Are you sure you're right?" ”

"Yes, only one comrade was wounded, a bullet in the shoulder. The wounded comrades have already been taken to the hospital, there are no other casualties. "The correspondent himself ran through the entire front and received absolutely accurate information.

"Hehehe!" The laughter of the second company commander couldn't tell whether it was a sneer or a laugh, anyway, it was a fusion of happiness and ridicule.

Ren Kuroshima glanced at the commander of the second company a few times, and found that he had nothing to say.

"The 11th Battalion was wiped out?!" Wang Youhong's eyes widened. You must know that yesterday there was a one-day battle with 10,000 people and horses at the Liberation Conference, and the casualties of the New Army did not exceed 1,000. Not to mention the annihilation of a battalion of 300 people. Now that it has been fighting with the People's Party for less than 10 minutes, the 11th Battalion of the Jiang Defense Army, which rushed to the forefront, has been completely wiped out. Soon, more accurate intelligence came back. In the 11th Battalion, which consisted of 300 men, the officers were either killed or wounded, and less than 40 people in the battalion were not injured.

Wang Youhong went up and kicked over the signal soldier who came to report the news, "Lying about the military situation is a capital crime!" Wang Youhong shouted.

Seeing that Wang Youhong was furious, the signal soldier hurriedly got up and knelt down, "Commander Wang, the results of the previous inspection are indeed the case, and the villain will never dare to deceive the adult." ”

The officers around Wang Youhong also had extremely difficult faces, and when the battle was first engaged, the troops that rushed to the forefront must have suffered heavy casualties, and everyone could think of this. But the casualties of a unit reached ninety percent in a moment, which is also too appalling.

Just when the officers didn't know how to speak, they heard Wang Youhong say viciously: "Order, let the thirty-five standards attack." In any case, give me a hill. ”

Wang Youhong's voice was full of anger and resentment, and his tone was fierce and terrifying.

The offensive of the Forces nouvelles was more methodical, and the shelling began. The only problem was that the observers on the balloon could not point out the exact location of the BJP's position, and the artillerymen were only given the order to "fire at the hill". This made the artillerymen feel a great embarrassment. It must be noted, however, that even if the spotters on the balloon pointed out the exact location, the probability of their accurate hit, at the level of the Forces nouvelles artillery, was entirely a matter of luck.

Fortunately, the People's Party completely gave up the valley, and the artillery of the New Army set up their positions in the middle of the valley in the front area, and in the rumbling artillery, a lot of smoke and dust randomly broke up on the hill. When the shells occasionally landed near the hill, the ranks of the Qing army erupted in cheers.

Even if the shelling was at a low level, the number of shells was sufficient, and it really caused casualties to the BJP. The positions of a squad of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were hit by shells, resulting in one dead and two wounded.

"Does the new army think that artillery shells don't need money?" The second company commander became a little nervous. Within an hour, the Forces nouvelles fired at least more than 100 shots. If the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had so many shells, it would have to knock out at least several important enemy firing points, or break up several of the enemy's heavy assault groups.

"Don't worry, they won't last long." Hitoshi Kuroshima persuaded.

Sure enough, the artillery soon got Wang Youhong's order, "Don't fire any more!" ”

The cannonballs cost a lot, and Wang Youhong's reason in anger can still understand the truth of not wasting money. The battle changed from an artillery battle to an infantry charge.

The new army is still the only characteristic of fighting around, attacking in horizontal formations and firing in formations. The BJP's skirmish line is not an even dispersion of troops across the entire front. In some places, there were only a handful of people on the wide front. And on the point of fire, a squad of troops may have been placed. On the entire front, containment and elimination coexist. As the offensive route of the Qing troops changed, so did the configuration of the defensive line.

After repelling the fourth attack of the Qing army, although he did not participate in the battle, because of the observation and command, the equally exhausted Kuroshima Ren suddenly came to the old Chinese saying, "When the book is used, you hate less!" ”

The commander of the second company was fully able to understand what Kuroshima wanted to say, that it was necessary to observe and command during the battle in the headquarters, and to study the deployment of troops during the period when the battle was stopped, and to have a predictive assessment of the enemy's movements. It's just a battle with more than 500 people in command, and the front is at most a thousand meters. But it exhausted the energy of the comrades.

The fourth battle was actually very dangerous, and the commander of the second company felt a chill in his back when he recalled it. When the Qing army tried to give full play to its superiority in strength and attacked from three directions, it really made all the comrades in the command feel a chill in their hearts.