. The Beiyang Army hired a large number of German military instructors at the beginning, and later a large number of British instructors joined, and basically kept pace with other countries in the tactical use of the army, and of course knew the role of machine guns in combat. Unfortunately, they were heavily damaged in the artillery fire, and Liu Jinbiao can imagine how difficult the battle will be in the future.

Liu Jinbiao did not order the artillery regiment to counterattack, on the flat terrain, the artillery position did not have a wide field of vision brought by the height, and it was impossible to locate the artillery position of the Chinese army. After many battles, many secrets in the Chinese army were known to the outside world, including their unsightly artillery, which not only had a long range, great power, large caliber, but also was very accurate, and it was said that it had a great deal to do with those airships floating in the sky. In previous battles, as long as the artillery fired, soon the artillery fire of the Chinese army would cover their artillery positions.

The strange thing is that the Chinese artillery fire did not continue to penetrate after leaving the frontline position, Houhu Zhuang is very small, and the Chinese artillery should be able to completely cover it, but they did not do it, Liu Jinbiao vaguely felt the reason - are they concerned about the civilians in the village? So the absence of an attack in the first place is also for this? Woman's kindness! Liu Jinbiao commented, war, how can there be immortals, scruple about this, worry about that, and still can't fight?

The interior of the village was not shelled, which allowed the command system of the 20th Division to operate normally, and immediately after the shelling, Liu Jinbiao ordered to organize the frontline positions, repair the firing points, and ordered the reserve team on standby in the village to send some support. Soon the gunfire of the forward positions and the results of the losses caused by the artillery bombardment reached Liu Jinbiao, and the casualties made Liu Jinbiao doubt that his 20th Division would be able to hold out for a few days -- about 1,500 killed and about 2,000 wounded, which means that a main infantry regiment lost its combat effectiveness after a round of artillery bombardment. In the face of powerful artillery fire, there is no difference between a well-developed fortification and a death sentence.

No matter how difficult it is, you have to fight, Liu Jinbiao didn't plan to surrender like this. As a soldier, as a soldier raised by Yuan Shikai, Liu Jinbiao thought about killing himself and serving the kindness of Lord Gongbao. So at the will of the commander, the battle became fierce.

The soldiers of the Beiyang Army stubbornly attacked the Chinese soldiers on the broken position, and more than a dozen surviving heavy machine guns became the core of the defense on the position, and the Chinese troops who broke through to the position about 300 meters were suppressed by the fire of the machine guns. It's just that on the front of the wide position, more than a dozen machine guns cannot be completely covered, many defensive loopholes were broken into by the Chinese army, the machine guns of the Chinese army were also erected by the charging soldiers, and the mortars of the Chinese army in the rear were also aimed at the heavy machine gun positions, and the sound of "tom tom" was endless, and soon the fire of the defending side was suppressed.

"Artillery fire!" Liu Jinbiao was finally willing to let his artillery exert his might, this is the last hole card, but the Chinese army's offensive methods are too sharp. forced Liu Jinbiao to show his artillery in the first attack.

"Boom!" Field artillery and mountain artillery shells exploded around the Chinese soldiers, and the attack was stalled, and Lü Feng, seeing that the battle was becoming more and more fierce, had no choice but to order the artillery to suppress the enemy's artillery. In fact, the artillery regiment of the 1st Division had already obtained the detailed coordinates of the artillery positions of the Beiyang Army, and under the aerial reconnaissance planes, Houhuzhuang could be seen at a glance. Just in order not to make the battle more fierce and not to accidentally injure the villagers of Houhuzhuang, Lu Feng has not ordered the artillery to bombard the enemy's artillery position, now. I can't care so much about it.

The first attack of the Chinese army temporarily retreated, just when Liu Jinbiao lamented that the Chinese army was nothing more than that. The sound of whistling came from the air, and the shells flew by in the blink of an eye, and quickly landed on the threshing floor in the center of Houhuzhuang, and the covered shelling completely shrouded the threshing floor in the explosion, artillery parts and artillery stumps flew in all directions, and the nearby farmhouses also collapsed in large areas because of the blast wave, and the soil or stone farmhouse structure could not stop the violent explosion at all.

The somewhat retaliatory shelling lasted only five minutes. More than 200 shells fell on the artillery positions in these five minutes, and the consequences were truly devastating. Of the 54 artillery pieces, only 15 were intact, and of the more than 1,500 artillery pieces, more than 200 soldiers who operated the artillery were killed or wounded, and more than 100 infantry and logistics soldiers who were responsible for guarding the artillery were also killed or wounded.

The training of artillery is recognized as the most expensive branch of the army within Beiyang. Skilled artillery is even more priceless, artillery can be bought as long as there is money, but skilled artillery is all after a long period of study, training and training. However, Liu Jinbiao did not have time to grieve the loss of his artillery, because the soldiers finally showed signs of demoralization after this shelling.

As long as it is not a robot army, a clone army, no matter how powerful the army is, there will be times when it collapses, and it is really rare to fight to the last person, except for the Chinese army and the Japanese army that was brainwashed by the spirit of bushido, I can't think of that army that can do this, and the German army, which is known as the world's first army, is also not good, in fact, this can be said to belong to the patent of the Orientals.

The relative strength of the Beiyang Army is based on sufficient military salaries, strict training, advanced equipment, and a single source of soldiers, but this does not mean that they are invincible, not to mention that they are facing the same Chinese people of the same root and species, and it is not a shame to lose to them.

Liu Jinbiao, who was anxious to restore the morale of the army, suffered another major blow fifteen minutes later, and the Chinese army seemed to understand that the leaflets had little effect, so they sent dozens of soldiers with loud voices to lie on various positions, holding loudspeakers and shouting to the positions of the Beiyang Army: "Brothers of the Beiyang Army, we are the first division of the Sixth Army of the Chinese Army, you have been surrounded to death, and no one will be able to please if you continue to fight!" Without reinforcements and logistics, there is no need to hold on. They are all Chinese people, who put down their weapons, let's treat him as brothers, eat and drink well, and want to continue fighting, we have a lot of shells for our cannons, one for each person! ”

The Beiyang Army soldiers in Houhuzhuang were stunned, and after several confrontations, the shells and bullets that split their heads and covered their faces completely stunned them, and the cannon shook their ears numb, and now they can't hear clearly, someone helped translate the persuasion of the Chinese army to surrender, and at this time the officers were no longer seen to come to stop it.

Some people know the current affairs, and when they can't fight, they will simply raise their hands and surrender; Some people become more and more courageous, like a red-eyed gambler, whether it is in a large-scale battle or a fight between two thugs on the street, this kind of person is the most difficult one.

Liu Jinbiao entered this state, he wandered around the positions in and around the village, roaring loudly with red eyes, and two junior officers who were in a sluggish state and did not react were shot by him cleanly, and finally, military law and Liu Jinbiao's prestige made the army work again. Mending positions, carrying the dead and wounded, transporting ammunition and supplies, the officers and soldiers were numb and busy under the military orders, at least in Liu Jinbiao's view, the position was once again impregnable.

Lu Feng's brows became tighter and tighter, this was forcing himself to fight with them, so that the casualties would be great! However, the battle here has a bearing on Henan's overall strategic layout, on the decisive battle with Hebei's anti-China allied forces, and on the life and death of China.

This is what Lu Feng, as a genetic person, is best at, and in less than a minute he decided to storm Houhuzhuang, and after a simple discussion of tactics with the command, at 3:15 p.m., the Chinese army launched the largest attack. The 1st Division invested the strength of an infantry regiment and an artillery regiment, and the reinforced regiment under the 2nd Division was dispatched to attack from the south under the cover of the artillery fire of the 1st Division, and the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division was prepared as a reserve force.

Both sides of the Chinese people are elite soldiers in this land, and the will to fight is not up or down, and the red-eyed soldiers often ignore the behind, move forward, and focus on destroying the enemy in front of them. However, the difference in equipment level and firepower intensity can not be erased, that is, the Beiyang Army is also lagging behind a lot in individual weapons, and the rifles used by Chinese soldiers comprehensively suppress the M1988 commission rifle of the Beiyang Army in terms of rate of fire, range and accuracy, in addition, the Beiyang Army is also equipped with a number of Manlisha rifles, Japanese-made 6.5 mm 30-year series rifles, of course, the commission rifle is the mainstream of the Beiyang Army's equipment.

The Beiyang Army on the defensive side was suppressed and couldn't raise its head, the Chinese Army took the opportunity to lower its body and slowly approached, not counting the difference in weapons, the Chinese Army also had to suppress the Beiyang Army in terms of individual quality, and the accurate shooting made the soldiers who raised their bodies to counterattack quickly hit and lost their countermeasures, the artillery was suppressed by the Chinese Army, and the Beiyang Army could only watch the Chinese Army approach the position, and then, a large number of grenades fell from the sky, and the machine guns and mortars of the Chinese Army in the rear also stopped firing. After the grenades exploded one after another on the positions of the Beiyang Army, the Chinese soldiers followed, and the bright bayonets appeared in front of the surviving Beiyang soldiers.

"Kill!"

The bayonet pierced the enemy's chest with a roar, and in the army, the most respected were not the sniper, not the machine gunner, nor the middle and lower rank officers who were armed with submachine guns, but the veterans who had fought a lot of battles and dared to fight with bayonets and blades in the face of the enemy, who were extremely brave and experienced, and were the object of admiration of all soldiers and the object of respect of officers.

The moment the Chinese army rushed into the position, it meant that the Beiyang Army had completely lost the first line of defense, and it was less than 500 meters from the first line of defense to the village, and the second line of defense was also ravaged by the Chinese artillery, and the defeat of the Beiyang Army was a foregone conclusion. Amid the shouts of the Chinese soldiers and the strafing sound of submachine guns, most of the surviving Beiyang Army soldiers on the first line of defense retreated into the second line of defense, and a few units surrendered.

(To be continued.) )