107981908 Far East Madman Chapter 317 Fighting the West and Flattening

By a thousand just test firing, a round of artillery strikes with a difference in the number of heads. Most of the shells fell to the south flank of the forward position of the central troops, which did not pose a threat to the fortifications, but they unexpectedly interrupted the field telephone line connecting the forward command headquarters to the regimental headquarters.

Therefore, from the very beginning of the battle, Yang Ben and his comrades lost direct contact with their superiors. They can only fight on their own.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

"Tom tom"

In the dense sound of artillery and explosions, everyone in the trenches curled up, even the platoon commander Yang Ben was no exception, although he had seen the Beiyang Army's artillery bombardment in the Battle of Hankou, but it was watching the battle from afar in the rear, and now, he was on the position to bear the fierce bombardment of the Beiyang Army's shells, and the pungent smell of Tim made him a little breathless.

Stimulated by the smoke of gunfire, the men in the trenches began to cough, and several soldiers even lay at the bottom of the trenches in extreme fear, throwing their weapons aside.

At this moment, the explosions suddenly stopped, and the surroundings suddenly fell silent, only the sound of people coughing, interspersed with a few curses, and the soldiers began to complain about why their artillery did not fire back.

Yang Ben had no time to pay attention to the soldiers' complaints. He stood up and craned his neck to look to the north of the position. But I saw a fog on the horizon in the distance. I don't know whether it was the smoke of gunpowder or the dust stirred up by the muzzle shock wave, but a moment later, the smoke of the explosion on the south side of the position was blown by the wind, and the vision became blurred.

At this time, Yang Ben noticed that there was a huge gray object on the horizon in the distance that was slowly rising, like a moon without light.

It was a reconnaissance hydrogen balloon, exactly the same as the one equipped by the RUF troops, and probably for exactly the same purpose, which was to carry out artillery school firing missions.

But before the hydrogen balloon could fully rise in the sky, there was another flash of light on the distant horizon. The artillery of the Beiyang Army began a new round of shelling. And this time, after calibration. Their aim will be higher.

"Get into cover! Get into cover! ”

Yang Ben shouted a few words loudly. ordered his subordinates to retreat into the anti-artillery bunker behind the trench, but only those soldiers of the Republican Army who could correctly understand what he meant, as for the soldiers of the Southern Henan People's Army who came to help the battle, they didn't know what Yang Ben was shouting, maybe because of the accent, but it was more likely that they never knew what "bunker" was

But in front of high-speed flying shells. It doesn't matter if you can understand what Yang Ben means or not. Several soldiers carried rifles and hid in anti-artillery bunkers, and the shells of the Beiyang Army flew over and landed accurately on the position.

Thankfully, this is a high-explosive shell. And not a shrapnel.

"Concubine! Rumble! ”

The scorching shrapnel flew in all directions, and the air waves carried the dirt and small sawdust to the sky, and for a while I couldn't hear anything in my ears, and it became more difficult to breathe, and the whole position was shrouded in gunpowder smoke and dust.

Yang Ben lay at the bottom of the trench, feeling that his entire chest was shaking with the earth, and the soil fell on his back like hail, but in just a few minutes, he was covered by a layer of soil that exuded a strong smell of gunsmoke.

He had to crane his neck and shake his head. At this time, he saw a civilian soldier who was lying in front of him jumped up, jumped out of the trench like a cat, shouted and fled in what he thought was the right direction, in fact, even Yang Ben didn't know which side was north and which side was south, and the shelling was accurate and fierce, and everyone was indeed a little panicked.

Yang Ben looked towards the anti-artillery bunker and saw a few soldiers bending their waists to touch there, leaning on the position of the bunker, he could distinguish the north-south direction. And realized that the panicked Nationalist soldier just now ran in the wrong direction, and he ran towards the north, which was the offensive position of the Beiyang Army.

"Come back!"

Yang Ben jumped up, ignoring the shells that were still exploding in all directions, poked his head out, and shouted at the fleeing Nationalist soldier, but he only shouted and stopped, stunned by the scene in front of him.

I saw that it was only more than two miles away from the position. There was a lot of earthy yellow stuff in the wilderness. It's moving fast to the south.

It was the soldiers of the Beiyang Army, who were charging in a straggler formation, all with their waists bent and rifles with bayonets on their hands, and they were rushing towards the southern position in a jogging position, and the speed was gradually increasing.

Obviously, the Beiyang Army took advantage of the beginning of the second round of shelling just now to launch the charge, and they did not blow the trumpet of the charge.

"The Northern Army is up!"

Someone shouted not far away, and obviously, Yang Ben was not the only one who discovered the attack force of the Beiyang Army.

Yang Ben hurriedly turned around and ran towards the anti-artillery bunker. At this time, he was surprised to find that there were not a few people left in the trench, and when he arrived at the entrance of the bunker, he saw that it was already crowded with people, and the entire anti-artillery bunker was like a bag full of cotton, and it was impossible to squeeze in even one person.

After all, this anti-artillery bunker was built according to the number of people in a platoon, and now, thanks to the addition of the civilian army, the total strength of this platoon in the position has reached seventy people.

"Come out! It's all out! The Northern Army is coming! ”

Yang Ben didn't talk nonsense, and picked up a civilian soldier who was squatting at the entrance of the bunker. Then he kicked him to the side, and then dragged the second man out of the artillery bunker.

After Yang Ben drove his subordinates out of the bunker, the straggler line of the Beiyang Army passed through the trenches of the Beiyang Army less than 500 meters. The position was shrouded in smoke and dust. It's overwhelming.

"Get closer! Got closer to hit".

Yang Ben roared at the top of his throat, but he couldn't hear the shout in his own ears.

Although the ears of the others did not hear Platoon Commander Yang's order, they were driven by instinct. They raised their rifles and earthen guns one after another. Heavy fire was fired at the charging Beiyang Army soldiers.

"Smack! Quiet! ”

"Bang! Bang! ”

The gunshots rang out like fried beans, harvesting life along with the cannonballs that were still exploding, greedily and ruthlessly extinguishing the fire of life one after another.

"Ah finally, the first Beiyang Army soldier fell, clutching his throat and fell, then the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth" Some were shot in the chest, some had their heads blooming. Different parts of the bullet. The same battlefield fate.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only more than 200 meters, and some Beiyang Army soldiers tried to stop the charge. They were prostrate and fired, but they were driven up by the officers, and at such a distance, they exchanged fire, and the only one who suffered was to go to the attacking side.

Having stood in the trenches and fired, the soldiers of the RUF had little to worry about the bullets of the Beiyang Army. But the shells that were still exploding were also threatening their lives.

For the soldiers on both sides of the war, there are only two kinds of people on the battlefield, one is the one who died in battle, and the other is the one who survived. They are all fighting for themselves.

At the same time as Yang Ben's platoon opened fire, other troops on this front also opened fire one after another, and hundreds of rifles projected a dense rain of bullets, and under the accumulation of bullets, many soldiers of the Beiyang Army fell on the way to charge, even the junior officers who led them to charge.

Under the cover of the artillery bombardment, the attacking troops of the Beiyang Army rushed to a place less than a hundred meters away from Yang Ben's position, and saw that a breakthrough was about to be achieved, and both sides were ready for hand-to-hand combat. But at this moment, the shelling suddenly stopped.

The atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly froze, and both the defender and the attacker froze for a moment almost at the same time, and then, the gunfire became more intense.

The Beiyang Army stopped the charge. Almost all of the soldiers lay on the ground, rifles in their hands, and the RUF troops hiding in the trenches did not miss the opportunity to continue to fire at the enemy with their rifles, and some of the anxious soldiers even threw grenades, but most of the grenades exploded at a great distance from the enemy.

At that moment, there was a sudden howling in the sky, and then a dense stream of shells fell from the sky and covered the positions again, but this time, not from the north, but from the rear of the RUF front.

It was a shell from a RUF artillery unit. They were supposed to intercept the enemy halfway through the charge, but for some reason, they didn't open fire until now, and they didn't hit accurately, and most of the shells fell to the rear of the straggler line of the Beiyang Army.

Soon, however, the RUF artillery corrected the firing and began to deliver shells directly to the heads of the Beiyang Army.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The grenade exploded only a few meters from the ground under the action of the timed fuse, and the large number of steel balls thrown formed a denser rain of bullets, which swept the ground from the air and blew up the Beiyang Army soldiers who were crawling on the ground with nowhere to hide, but because the two warring sides were too close at this time, some shells also landed near the trenches of the RUF forces, causing some casualties.

Yang Ben's military hat was also pierced by a shotgun, looking at the subordinates in the trench who were scolding, he lost his temper, but he also made up his mind that when he left the trench alive, he would definitely "greet" his artillery commander with his fists and big feet in leather shoes.

However, the sudden fire of the artillery commander was also very effective, and with these two volleys, the attacking force of the Beiyang Army collapsed, and before the artillery stopped, most of the soldiers had fled back to the north with their heads in their hands, and when the artillery stopped, all the Beiyang soldiers who were still alive fled back, but in the sound of rifle fire from the RUF soldiers. Many of them fell on the way to retreat.

The first attack of the Beiyang Army was repulsed, and hundreds of corpses lay in the open field in front of the frontal positions. The closer you get to the position, the denser the corpses become, and when you look at them, it's shocking.

There was jubilation in the trenches, and some anxious Nationalist soldiers jumped out of the trenches without waiting for orders, and rushed to the north to pick up the rifles and bullets around the dead soldiers of the Beiyang Army, no wonder they were anxious, the number of RUF troops in this position exceeded 2,000, and nearly half of them did not have decent rifles.

"Count the casualties".

Yang Ben shouted a few times, and he heard his own voice in his ears, and he was very happy, at least his ears were not deaf.

But soon he heard the whistling of cannonballs tearing through the air from the sky again, and this time. The voice was noticeably muffled, and it sounded like a train's whistle.

"Hidden!"

Yang Ben shouted a few times, but then realized that the shell was not falling towards the position, but flying farther to the south.