Shortly after the retreat of the National Socialist Army, a group of men dressed in orange appeared on the battlefield.

Orange is an extremely conspicuous color, and when you go to battle in such clothes, the warring parties simply can't ignore these guys. However, for the time being, the Beiyang Army turned a blind eye to these people, because these guys in orange clothes were specially dispatched by the National Social Army to treat the wounded and dispose of the corpses...

Let the enemy treat the wounded right under your nose? Originally, it was impossible for Feng Guozhang to agree to such a ridiculous thing. It's just that when the officers below agreed that they should agree, Feng Guozhang also had to agree. Because Yan Guang also proposed when he sent people over that he could treat the wounded of his own army at the same time as the wounded in Beiyang.

For this point, the generals and officers under Feng Guozhang were very moved.

In the course of the engagement, Beiyang was completely on the defensive, and this was already obvious. In other words, they don't know when they might become one of the wounded, and at this time they naturally hope that they too can be treated. Moreover, being injured on the battlefield is no better than stumbling at home, and it is absolutely impossible to recover combat effectiveness if you are shot casually and do not lie in the hospital for three or two months.

Of course, in addition to the wishes of the officers, the opinion of the British also provided a great influence, especially the British Minister Juerdian. In this matter, Zhu Erdian played a role in fueling the flames. According to the British observation team, if Feng Guozhang can agree to this condition, then at least in the eyes of the great powers, he can add a lot of impression points to Beiyang, after all, sometimes the great powers still like to pretend to be angels. It is precisely because of this that Yuan Shikai nodded and agreed to the conditions of the National Social Army after weighing the pros and cons.

However, in order to cause unnecessary friction and suspicion, these teams of mostly medical personnel, dressed in orange clothing, were not armed, which is why the Beiyang Army would safely let them less than 100 meters away from the defense line.

"Don't worry, don't worry, you'll be fine!" After a survivor was found on the battlefield, a female paramedic dressed in orange shouted to a neighboring companion while stopping the bleeding of the injured survivor. "Bring the stretcher, there are people here who need a stretcher."

The whole ambulance team numbered about 200 people, so after hearing her shouts, four or five people quickly ran over with stretchers.

"Have you stopped the bleeding for him? Ruoxi. ”

The female medical woman named Ruoxi nodded.

"The bleeding has stopped." Saying that, Lin Ruoxi looked at the wounded man who had been carried on the stretcher and smiled. "Don't worry, your injuries are not serious, as long as you go to the hospital for a few months to recuperate, there will be nothing to do..."Saying that, Lin Ruoxi brushed the bangs that hung down to his forehead with his hand...

Lin Ruoxi was already very beautiful, and the action of brushing her bangs made people look straight, and even the wounded on the stretcher stopped moaning, as if someone had given an anesthetic injection.

Maybe he was used to it, so Lin Ruoxi didn't pay much attention to the expressions of the wounded and his companions. It was only after his companions came to their senses and carried the wounded away that Lin Ruoxi continued to look for the surviving wounded soldiers.

As a doctor who is still studying medicine at Sichuan Medical College, Lin Ruoxi should not have gone to the battlefield, after all, a female surname, especially a beautiful female surname like her, will always be very dangerous on the battlefield. However, because the First World War in Hubei was very important, and the talents who were good at Western medicine in Sichuan and Guizhou were very nervous, Lin Ruoxi and her classmates were finally packed and taken away by the officers who came.

After Lin Ruoxi and her classmates rushed to the battlefield with the army, the officer in charge of them also frowned sharply when they saw Lin Ruoxi, after all, a beautiful woman like her on the battlefield usually means trouble and danger...

Fortunately, although the National Socialist Army is very lenient in many places, at least the military discipline in this regard is extremely strict, and there is a circle of armed female soldiers around the female medical staff station, so there has been no major incident until now―――――― unless those salivating male soldiers have a way not to alarm the surrounding garrisons and commanders before they settle those armed female soldiers...

After arriving at the battlefield, Lin Ruoxi was also shocked, panicked, and vomited...

But now, like her classmates, she has long been used to the smell of blood on the battlefield...

And on the rear position, when the soldiers who had just retreated saw the rescuers in orange clothes constantly searching for survivors and sending back the bodies of the dead soldiers, they were also excited tears, and even the morale of the army, which had declined because of the defeat, has rebounded a lot, after all, it is really rare to see an army that attaches so much importance to the officers and soldiers under its command in this era...

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On the position of the Beiyang Army, because the ambulance personnel wearing orange clothing appeared on the battlefield for the first time, and there was no need to worry about the shelling of the National Social Army at this time, many soldiers of the Beiyang Army ran to the fortifications and trenches to watch the excitement.

It's just that when they saw that the rescuers were carrying the wounded or killed soldiers back to their positions one by one, they were unbalanced. Without him, compared with the Beiyang officers who had just supervised the war, the performance of the National Socialist Army at this time was indeed eye-catching―――――― although sometimes the National Socialist Army would also supervise the battle, but this did not prevent the soldiers from scolding their superiors.

"Really, you can see how the People's National Social Army does it, and you can see how our Beiyang Army does it."

"Yes, yes, and people's monthly military salary is 10 oceans, I heard that there are a lot of benefits or something in peacetime, no wonder they are so desperate when they fight."

"That's right, look at us, when we are fighting, we still have to supervise the battle team to suppress the formation, and those officers who supervise the battle are still hiding in the trenches to supervise the battle..."

The soldiers may not really hate Beiyang so much, but the performance of the officers just now made them full of resentment, so they wanted to take this opportunity to vent well.

However, Feng Guozhang and others didn't care much about the grievances of the soldiers, after all, this kind of thing is actually relatively common in the Beiyang Army. What's more, Feng Guozhang and the others are still wandering around another thing that shocked them―――――― the corpses of the Beiyang Army that were accurately sniped...

In terms of the grievances of the soldiers below, Feng Guozhang and the others pay more attention to these Beiyang soldiers who are mostly shot in the head, and even many of them are shot in the center of the eyebrows or even around the center of the eyebrows...

"Could it be that there are so many sharpshooters in the National Socialist Army all at once?"

This is what Feng Guozhang and they are most concerned about, you must know that these sharpshooters are the source of the panic in the Beiyang soldiers―――――― they were hit in the head inexplicably, even Feng Guozhang They are also hairy, not to mention the officers and soldiers below?

However, when they first heard about this incident, Feng Guozhang and the others actually didn't believe it in their hearts, after all, where in this world did so many sharpshooters come from, and they could open a gun hole in the heads of so many officers and soldiers, but when Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui really saw the corpse in front of them, they had to admit that there was indeed such a thing in this world...

"Could it be that the National Social Army implements a crack military system?"

After seeing the more than a dozen corpses placed in the morgue, and the fatal bullet holes on each corpse appeared around the center of his eyebrows, Duan Qirui frowned and said to Feng Guozhang.

Feng Guozhang is also very strange, you must know that in the information they obtained, the level of the soldiers of the National Social Army was very low, but now there are so many sharpshooters at once......... And Feng Guozhang is even more strange, why didn't these sharpshooters appear in the previous battles?

If these sharpshooters also appeared at that time, Badong would not count, at least the battle of Qianjiang would have been easier, right?

But it's no wonder that Feng Guozhang is so strange, after all, the existence of snipers is also a secret in the National Social Army, especially the sniper rifle is a secret among secrets. The Military Defense Bureau has not been established for a long time, but it has more personnel than the Military Intelligence Bureau, so even if I have deployed a lot of spies in Sichuan, and even bribed many military and political officials in the Kuomintang Party, I don't know much about some confidential matters, so naturally I can't give their Beiyang quasi-allies any help...

Looking down at the gun hole on the left side of Wang Wumei's heart, he looked at the almost fatal wound on the forehead of the other officers and soldiers. Because the Mauser G98 modified sniper rifle and the Mauser G98 equipped by the National Social Army use the same caliber of 8x57mmJS bullets, plus the Beiyang Army did not capture any strange equipment on the battlefield, so in the end Feng Guozhang still did not see a reason―――――― in fact, the National Social Army sent a rescue team, in addition to rescuing the wounded and enhancing the morale of the army, the most important purpose is to recover these "strange" equipment. (The 8x57mmJS bullet is a "S" (Spitzer) lightly-pointed bullet with a flat-bottomed pointed bullet developed by Germany on the basis of the M1888 rifle cartridge in 1905, that is, the committee 1888 rifle cartridge, and thus formed a relatively complete M1914 series rifle cartridge, which is the 8x57mmJS bullet just mentioned)

In the end, after being puzzled, Feng Guozhang had no choice but to turn to other problems.

"Staff Officer Zhuang, how about the loss of heavy equipment, and have you ―――――― found any traces of the mountain artillery group of the National Socialist Army?"

That staff officer Zhuang is also a young staff officer who explained the Danish Madsen light machine gun not long ago, and his surname is Zhuang and his name is Yiguang, which is somewhat similar to Yan Guang. This Zhuang Guang is 1.85 meters tall, with a majestic atmosphere, coupled with extraordinary knowledge and has returned from studying abroad, he is a henchman that Feng Guozhang relies on on the battlefield.

And this Zhuang Guang replied after hearing Feng Guozhang's question, after holding his fingers on the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"Because of the lessons of the Qianjiang Campaign, this time our machine gun fire points were reinforced with more ash and steel bars, and after the defeat of the National Socialist Army, we transferred the heavy machine guns, so the losses of heavy machine guns were not very large, and most of them were lost in the earlier artillery bombardment, as for the mountain artillery group of the National Socialist Army......... Although the scouts had done their best, the Socialist Army seemed to be guarding against our field artillery group, so mountain artillery and lighter howitzers were not used in the previous shelling, so the scouts didn't find anything..."

A scout in Zhuang Guang's mouth? Actually, it's just some scout balloons.

In 1908, the Manchu government purchased Yamada-style balloons for individual towns of the Beiyang New Army to carry out reconnaissance and artillery correction missions. In 1910, he bought a French Sand Sale aircraft, and in the spring of 1913, on the eve of the Second Revolution, Yuan Shikai bought 12 French G-IV aircraft.

Although these planes cannot be used in air combat yet, they can still be used for reconnaissance or throwing artillery shells with bare hands. (Although it is rudimentary, this kind of aircraft still has a cockpit, not the ultra-rudimentary kind of aircraft that is piloted on its stomach......... Although the cockpit doesn't look very reliable) and the weight of this aircraft is very light, and the requirements for take-off and landing airports are not very high, if it is only used for reconnaissance, it is definitely much better than a hot air balloon.

It's just that some time ago, the Beiyang Army has been busy transporting reinforcements and their equipment to Hankou by train, and there is no way to take the time to transport the planes that are difficult to transport together, so now the Beiyang Army can only use the Yamada-style hot air balloon...

"That's it..."Hearing that the scouts on the hot air balloon did not find the mountain artillery group of the National Social Army, Feng Guozhang frowned, although the National Social Army has a lot of heavy artillery, but after all, the absolute number of mountain artillery and field artillery is still 75mm caliber. In particular, mountain artillery with a firing range of just over 5 kilometers is obviously more threatening than field artillery with a straight trajectory.

Originally, Feng Guozhang had been subjected to artillery bombardment for such a long time and had not let the artillery fight back, just to lure the mountain artillery and light howitzer groups of the National Social Security Army, but the opponent never took the bait, which inevitably made Feng Guozhang a little anxious.

Fortunately, it is only the first day, and there is still a lot of time to go, plus Feng Guozhang's city is deep enough, so he is obviously anxious, but his face does not show a trace of urgency.

At this time, the position of the Beiyang Army was also busy, and after being bombarded by so many heavy artillery of the National Social Army, many fortifications collapsed, and some trenches and tunnels were directly blown into deep pits.

You know, today it was possible to pay less than 2,000 casualties to repel the Nationalist Army, which had the advantage of artillery, but it all relied on these fortifications that were constantly reinforced. Otherwise, even if the casualties of the Beiyang Army do not double, at least they will be on par with the Nationalist Army as the attacker.

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"The casualties are too big to fight so hard, do you have any good solutions..."

Walking in a fortification, looking at the wounded soldiers who were being carried back on stretchers by the rescuers, Zhu Qinglan kept frowning.

After listening to Zhu Qinglan's words, looking at the tragic scene in front of them, Yang Shan, Peng Xiu and the others also frowned, and only after half a sound did Peng Xiu speak.

“……… If we can really come up with a solution, we will not have proposed it before the attack..."

It is true that before the campaign, the staff officers of various departments had put forward many battle plans, but there was only one of the most practical and effective among them, and that was a frontal hard attack. After all, the two sides of Hanyang are either the Han River or the Yangtze River, the two rivers are not easy to cross, Hankou and Wuchang are also heavily guarded by Beiyang, if you want to bypass Hanyang and take the two places, it is better to think more about how to eliminate as many enemies as possible in Hanyang to come more realistically, after all, both the Yangtze River and the Han River are wider than the Dongjing River, there are such two natural dangers, as the defender of Beiyang must definitely occupy more advantages.

So in the end, after several operational meetings, there was only one final result, and that was a frontal hard attack. It's just that more than 3,000 people were killed or injured on the first day, and this result made Zhu Qinglan a little uncomfortable, so he asked Peng Xiu and the others if they had come up with any good solutions.

"Don't worry, Staff Officer Song just counted the casualty data. Although the number of casualties in today's battle exceeded 3,000, less than 1,000 were killed, and all the rest were wounded..."

"That's it...", but after listening to Peng Xiu's words, Zhu Qinglan's face didn't get much better, after all, the 8mm caliber Hanyang was good to say, but the 11.43mm Makqin was ―――――― hit by this kind of thing, even if he didn't die on the spot, it was impossible to return to the battlefield in a short time. If you hit one of the more important positions, you may be left with a disability and have to choose between spending a lifetime on the Invalides Farm or returning home to retire. And in today's battle, at least half of the more than 3,000 casualties were caused by Maxim...

Although Zhu Qinglan, Peng Xiu and others thought hard for a long time, they didn't come up with any good way, and finally had to grit their teeth and attack to the end.

In the following days, the Kuomintang Army continued to launch fierce attacks, not only fierce artillery bombardment, but even the air force passively used ―――――― Yanguang's proposal, using cargo ships to load the planes and transport them to Qianjiang, and then by train to the Hanyang front.

Anyway, the planes in this period do not have high requirements for the airport, as long as it is a relatively flat open space, plus there are not many other things in Hanyang now, that is, there are many idle idlers, and the terrain of the area near Hanyang is not complicated, so it didn't take two days to sort out a few "airports".

Because the Sichuan Aviation School has just been established not long ago, and there are not many "domestic" pilots who have just been trained, so most of the people responsible for piloting these aircraft are German instructors who have been "imported" along with the aircraft―――――― Sichuan has brought together engineers from Britain, Germany, Belgium and other countries, and in the Chinese of saying no more, even Yan Guang himself can't stand it, so in the end he did not hire French pilots as instructors, but hired Germans, after all, the Germans who fly planes will also, and they are definitely stronger than the French in technology. (Red Baron, Black Tulip...) ）

In addition to carrying out some reconnaissance missions, these pilots will also carry cluster grenades and throw them on the heads of the Beiyang Army while conducting reconnaissance. Even the headquarters of Feng Guozhang and others in the rear were bombed by the air force several times because they were conspicuous in the past, so that Feng Guozhang and others had to change to a more hidden place.

However, although these pilots have also made a lot of contributions, Zhu Qinglan and others do not look at them very well, and they ―――――― comments of Zhu Qinglan and others on Yan Guang's use of trains to bring these "toys".

Regarding Yan Guang's use of trains to send these "toys" to the front line in Hanyang, Zhu Qinglan and others also had a lot of complaints. There is no other reason, the ammunition of artillery has been very expensive in the recent period, and the water route is temporarily unreliable, so it can only rely on the railway from Jingzhou to Hanyang for transportation, because the transportation capacity of the train is not as good as that of water transportation, so each carriage is extremely expensive in the eyes of Zhu Qinglan and others. In this kind of matter, Yan Guang's use of precious carriages to transport planes, fuel, and parts used in planes is simply a shameful waste in the eyes of Zhu Qinglan and others.

You must know that in order to ensure the safety of the logistics line, Zhu Qinglan even arranged for at least three cavalry regiments to be responsible for patrolling back and forth, so as not to let this life logistics line be attacked and disturbed by the Beiyang cavalry―――――― anyway, the cavalry will not be of much use in attacking the fortified positions, so it is better to let them guard the logistics line in the rear, as for letting them go to the rear to attack and disturb the logistics line of the Beiyang Army or something? Not to mention whether the Arabian horses could carry their riders across the Han River, if the Beiyang Army also sent cavalry to encircle them, I am afraid that they would have to stay on the other side of the Han River forever. After all, the strength of the Guoshe cavalry lies in firepower, and across the Han River, Zhu Qinglan has no way to supply ammunition to the cavalry crossing the river...

However, although Zhu Qinglan and the others did not like the planes and the pilots who flew them, the appearance of the planes still caused a lot of panic to the Beiyang Army. After all, in the past, airplanes were only used for reconnaissance, and the first actual combat was on November 11, 1911 (Singles' Day of the last century... Flying planes by Italian pilots threw grenades to bomb the Ottoman Turkish troops located in the Libyan region ...

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that there were more than a dozen planes in the Beiyang Army, I am afraid that many Beiyang soldiers would have been flying around in the sky, and the planes that dropped cluster grenades from time to time would have been regarded as monsters or gods...

If things continue like this, perhaps the status of the aircraft in the National Social Army will continue to be so unembarrassing. However, a very fortuitous incident that happened afterwards completely changed the fate and status of the aircraft in the National Social Army. That is, during a bombing mission, a "domestic" pilot in charge of piloting the plane accidentally bombed at a low altitude, which not only made more than a dozen bullet holes on his mount, but also allowed him to discover the Beiyang Army artillery group that had been hidden...

This discovery completely changed the course of the entire war, but Zhu Qinglan did not make a noise, and did not even let the artillery group destroy the discovered Beiyang artillery group, but used all the planes until these pilots confirmed the location of at least half of the artillery group...

At this time, Feng Guozhang didn't know that the location of the artillery group that he thought was hidden had already been exposed, because even when the Beiyang Army's own hot air balloon was reconnaissance in the air, it couldn't find any trace of its own artillery group―――――― which may be the difference between high altitude and low altitude...

(To be continued)