When the counterattack of the 2nd Regiment was in full swing, more than a dozen heavy machine guns of the Russian army, which had been re-transferred to the new position, opened fire again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Caught off guard, more than a dozen people on the position of the second regiment were immediately hit by bullets because half of their bodies were exposed.

The dozens of light and heavy machine guns equipped by the Second Regiment quickly turned their muzzles and counterattacked against the heavy machine gun bullets fired by the Russian army.

At this time, the remaining heavy machine guns of the Russian army no longer had a numerical advantage.

As soon as the 2nd Regiment counterattacked, these heavy machine guns were suppressed, and the fire became intermittent.

However, in this way, the Russian offensive forces ushered in a chance to détente.

With the loss of dozens of light and heavy machine guns of the 2nd Regiment, the pressure on the Russian offensive troops was immediately greatly reduced.

Facing the sparse bullets fired by the rifleman, he quickly advanced dozens of meters.

At this time, the mountain artillery battalion of the guard division finally adjusted the firing angle and opened fire on the newly selected heavy machine gun position of the Japanese army.

In order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, as soon as the guns of the mountain artillery battalion sounded, the Russian heavy machine gunners began to transfer.

The light and heavy machine guns of the 2nd Regiment immediately seized this opportunity and opened fire on the Russian attacking troops to block their offensive.

In this duel, the Russian army had less than twenty heavy machine guns, and only five of them were successfully transferred.

After identifying new heavy machine gun positions, the five heavy machine guns opened fire again.

This time, the 2nd Regiment used only ten heavy machine guns to suppress the opponent.

The light and heavy machine guns were left, and they continued to strafe the Russian attacking troops, blocking them at a position of seventy or eighty meters in front of the formation, and there was no way to push forward any further.

When the remaining five heavy machine guns of the Russian army were destroyed by a round of shells from the mountain artillery battalion, ten heavy machine guns of the second regiment quickly joined the counterattack against the Russian attacking troops.

At this time, the Russian infantry, who had lost their heavy machine guns, had no room to fight back in front of dozens of heavy machine guns, and were slaughtered in pieces.

"Retreat! Order the attacking troops to retreat immediately! "In the blink of an eye, more than half of a regiment was lost, and even if the chief of staff of the Russian army had more troops in his hands, he could not withstand such attrition. Heartache, decisive order.

They have already rushed to the front of the second regiment and still want to retreat, it depends on whether the second regiment agrees or not.

Rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, closely followed the Russian army butt beating, until they withdrew from the range of the heavy machine guns, and the dense gunfire did not stop.

The Russian army, which had already lost more than half of it, once again left hundreds of corpses on the retreat of nearly two hundred meters.

In the end, those who succeeded in retreating back did not even have a battalion of 500 men.

"Bastard, I didn't expect the Liaodong Army to bring all the artillery!" Facing the remnants of the retreating soldiers, the chief of staff of the Russian army couldn't help but scold.

After finishing, he directly asked several division commanders around him: "You say, do we have any other way to tear a hole and successfully break through!" ”

Seeing that several division commanders shook their heads one after another to say that they were helpless, the dissatisfaction and anger on the face of the chief of staff increased, and he continued.

"There's no way! What do you eat? There is no solution to the problem at all, what is the use of the empire raising you? I don't care, I'll give you five minutes, and one person will find a way to get out! ”

Several division commanders were stunned suddenly, and their faces were ugly and their heads were lowered.

At this moment, another staff officer suddenly rushed over.

Before the people arrived, a voice full of horror reached the ears of the chief of staff: "Sir, the attack of the Liaodong Army is too fierce, and there is heavy artillery cover!" The troops of the Royal Highness have suffered heavy losses, and they are about to be unable to withstand it! ”

It was only at this time that everyone realized that they had been flanked by the Liaodong Army.

In addition to the fact that there are people blocking the road in front, there is also the Liaodong Army attacking itself in the back. And his real opponent was not the two regiments of the Liaodong Army in front of him, but the main force of the Liaodong Army that attacked him from behind.

After realizing this, several division commanders, including the chief of staff, immediately rushed to a nearby high ground and raised their binoculars to observe the battle situation.

If you don't look at it, you don't know that half of the positions of the troops behind the palace have fallen into the hands of the Liaodong Army.

It seems that the Liaodong Army is attacking slowly, but their results are great.

Because of the heavy artillery support, every time the Liaodong Army occupied a position, the troops behind the palace on the position must have been completely annihilated, and few of them could retreat or escape.

Therefore, when the Liaodong Army captured half of the position of the palace rear troops, the palace troops also lost nearly half of their troops.

On the other hand, the Liaodong Army, because of the cover of heavy artillery, as soon as it encountered the blocking of its own troops behind the palace, it was a burst of artillery fire, and the troops behind the palace did not even have a chance to escape and retreat, let alone counterattack.

Although the specific casualties of the Liaodong Army cannot be seen, from the corpses on the battlefield, the chief of staff of the Russian army is sure that the casualties of the attacking troops of the Liaodong Army must be less than 20% of the troops behind his palace.

This caused his palace troops to fight fewer and fewer, and their strength became weaker and weaker.

The attacking troops of the Liaodong Army, which had heavy artillery support, were getting stronger and stronger, and the offensive was becoming more and more fierce.

A division commander next to him, shocked, said with a painful face: "Chief of Staff, if you continue to fight like this, in half an hour at most, a division behind the palace will return to the whole army and be annihilated." ”

"So what solution do you have?" The chief of staff asked helplessly.

The division commander replied very unwillingly: "Me! I can't think of a solution yet. But I'm sure that with our current strength, we will definitely not be able to break through the Liaodong Army's blockade of us within half an hour! ”

"The cunning Liaodong Army has actually driven tens of thousands of our elites to a dead end, we all underestimate the Liaodong Army too much!" There was no solution, and the chief of staff could only vent his anger on the Liaodong Army, which he couldn't help for the time being. In the direction of the Liaodong Army, he scolded loudly again and again.

When he saw that on the battlefield not far away, another battalion of troops had disappeared under the cover of dozens of heavy artillery pieces of the Liaodong Army, and the chief of staff knew that if he continued to fight like this, it would not play any other role except to increase casualties.

In that case, why should these troops be sent to their deaths in vain?

As a result, a determined expression quickly appeared on the solemn face of the chief of staff.

Under the stunned gaze of several division commanders, he decisively ordered: "Let the troops in the rear of the palace withdraw immediately, and the whole army will organize defense on the spot!" I want to negotiate with the Liaodong Army. ”

"Without artillery, this battle would be an unequal battle, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as a slaughter."

"So, in order to keep the warriors from dying here in vain, we can only choose to negotiate with the Liaodong Army!"

After listening to these explanations, several division commanders were unwilling, and they held back their anger and dissatisfaction. In the face of the facts, they can only agree.

As soon as the troops behind the Russian army retreated, the gunfire on the battlefield slowly stopped.

Zhou Qiangsheng, who was on the battlefield to command the battle, rushed into the headquarters as soon as possible with excitement on his face.

"Commander, the Russian army has retreated. As you might expect, they're organizing defenses on the spot! I have ordered the troops to surround them in battalions! (To be continued.) )