In fact, even if the Qing army in Dagukou is relatively elite, it still does not have the ability to shoot accurately, and the soldiers of the cavalry company who can be injured at once before, in the final analysis, are still because the firepower of the repeating rifle is too fierce (if you only talk about the rate of fire in a short time, the old repeating rifle is not inferior to the new pull-and-loop rifle, although the reliability and accuracy are poor, but in a short time and at close range, these two problems are not big. ), and the attacker has too many people to increase the target.

After the number of people sent to the front line was reduced from one platoon to one squad, the Qing army's hit rate was at least halved, not to mention that this time the sharp knife squad was still crawling, and the target was much smaller than when it was charging at full speed before, so it was even more difficult to hit.

As a result, a squad of 12 people, with only two losses, advanced to a distance where grenades could be thrown, and considering that it took several times longer to stand up and charge to crawl forward, the lethality of the Qing army was reduced by almost an order of magnitude.

At this time, there were already many casualties in the last attack (in fact, if Zhao Hu was ruthless in the first attack, he could have taken the fort, but then he would definitely have huge losses, and it would be difficult to have the strength to attack other forts.) The Qing army had already been completely crippled by the fierce and accurate fire of the cavalry company, and in this case received three more rounds of grenades

As a result, after capturing the fort, Zhao Hu found that almost all the prisoners were wounded, and the only two guys who were not seriously injured were also frightened by the terrifying machine gun fire and the power of the three-row grenade explosion, and they all trembled and intermittently when answering.

This is naturally not a bad thing, although it cost Zhao Hu a little more lip service, the information he got must be much more reliable.

"It turns out that the general army is nearby, no wonder the resistance was so stubborn just now!" , Zhao Hu was overjoyed now.

What made Zhao Hu even happier was that after occupying the fort, when he got closer, it turned out that the cover that the Qing army could rely on was only the parapet wall around the fort, which could only block the bullets that came from the front, and if the bullets fell from above, it would be completely defenseless.

So Zhao Hu immediately remembered the "curve shooting" technique taught by the boss when he was learning machine gun shooting, as long as he shot at a large elevation angle and let the bullet fall at a large angle, he could avoid the obstruction of the parapet wall and kill the Qing army hiding behind.

Different from the round-tipped bullet, the pointed bullet has less air resistance, and the falling from a high altitude can produce a large enough penetrating force to cause fatal damage to the unprotected human body.

In particular, the warhead of the 8*65mm rifle bullet is very heavy, and the storage velocity effect is better than that of ordinary rifle bullets, which is especially suitable for this kind of attack, which even Li Hui, the designer, did not expect.

The Qing troops stationed at the fort were all unlucky, because the distance was too far, with their completely unqualified marksmanship and the already poor accuracy of the black powder round-headed bullet, the officers and men who wanted to hit the cavalry company were as slim as the hope of winning a million-dollar jackpot for two dollars, and they could only be beaten in vain by the machine guns of the cavalry company from a long distance

With heavy losses on their own side and no casualties on the enemy's side, such a huge contrast is enough to quickly erode the morale of almost any army in the world, and the defenders of Dagukou Fort are only the so-called "elite" of the Qing army after all, so it is naturally more difficult to hold on, and the speed of collapse is even beyond Zhao Hu's expectations.

Some of the Qing soldiers put down their weapons and surrendered, while others took refuge in the artillery barricade. However, although the fort was extremely strong, not to mention bullets, even the shells had to be large enough to penetrate, but because there were no exits from the sides and rear, it was impossible to counterattack, and hiding in it was simply a turtle in an urn

In the meantime, the defenders of other batteries also rushed to support, but for the enemy exposed in the field, the lethality of the heavy machine guns was too great, and after the six Jiawu heavy machine guns were erected, not to mention dozens of hundreds of Qing troops, even if they were thousands, don't think about getting close, it is not so much a battle as a massacre

The terrifying fire of the heavy machine gun easily crushed the Qing troops who rushed to the rescue, and even caused panic to spread rapidly in the South Fort, and even the young Feng Yuxiang, who was on the winning side, was deeply shocked, which even affected his later combat style.

Luo Rongguang, the general soldier of Tianjin, did not escape at the first time, and then even had no chance to commit suicide, just when he angrily ordered the execution of the deserters, the overwhelming rain of bullets completely covered the entire fort where he was, and then there was no more

"Actually, Lord Luo is a good official", Feng Yuxiang saw Luo Rongguang's bullet-riddled corpse, and said with some sadness, although he didn't have a direct understanding of Luo Rongguang, but with Feng Yuxiang's cleverness, looking at what the soldiers he brought out looked like, he could guess Luo Rongguang's personality, not to mention that after coming to Dagukou, the people in the town also had a good evaluation of him.

Zhao Hu straightened his face and used the words of the political commissar to educate Feng Yuxiang at the beginning, "That's right, there is no absolute thing in the world, and there are always individual good officials in the Manchu government, but the entire regime is rotten, and the conscience of a few people is not enough to change the general trend." To save China, the Manchus must be overthrown, and the sooner the better. Whoever stands in our way to prevent us from overthrowing the Manchus, we must not hesitate to defeat him, even if they are good officials and good people."

"When Lao Tzu was wandering the rivers and lakes and doing chivalrous deeds, he always didn't understand how the corrupt officials, profiteers and inferior gentry in the world killed more and more. It wasn't until I defected to the Flying Tiger Army that I finally understood that the way of the world was wrong, as long as the way of the world was upside down in black and white, it was useless to kill a few bad people and corrupt officials. And to change this cannibalistic world, we must first overthrow the corrupt court of the Manchu Qing Dynasty! Zhao Hu was limited to the theoretical level, and he didn't say it very clearly, but it aroused a strong resonance in Feng Yuxiang's young heart

Although he has only been in the army for more than a year, Feng Yuxiang has witnessed countless strange phenomena in the Qing army, and the phenomenon of officers deducting salaries and even the phenomenon of officers below falsely reporting their salaries and eating empty salaries has long been common, and the oppression of soldiers by officers and the bullying of new recruits by veterans are also phenomena that everyone is accustomed to. As a low-level soldier who suffered deeply, Feng Yuxiang, who had been diligent in thinking since he was a child, germinated a simple class consciousness early, and Zhao Hu's words instantly ignited the fire in his heart and completely changed the trajectory of his life