Sun Li, who was watching the battle situation nervously in the observation command post behind the village, couldn't help but nod his head and praise, the 19th Army is worthy of being Li Zongren's main force, he has stayed in Sun Chuanfang and Sun Dianying's troops, that is, the Northeast Army and Zhang Zongchang's Lu Army, he has also seen it. With such heavy casualties, if these troops were replaced, most of them would not be able to hold on. In Sun Li's opinion, Sun Dianying's troops would collapse in the area of artillery bombardment; Zhang Zongchang's troops and most of the Northeast Army would lose confidence and be defeated after Huang Dafu's firepower; Only the main force of the Northeast Army and the troops of Sun Chuanfang and Sun Dashuai, who have always been known for their good management of the army, will still have the courage to storm the opponent's position after more than half of the casualties, and a hand-to-hand fight seems inevitable.

However, Sun Li did not send people to reinforce Huang Dafu's company, it was not that he entrusted him, he really had no reserves now, and only one platoon of all the personnel, including his guard company, was still by his side. He resisted the urge to send the guard platoon up, he believed in the ability of his troops to fight the stabs, and now was the time for them to prove themselves.

Seeing the Gui army rushing over, Huang Dafu knew that it was impossible to prevent the other party from rushing to the position, and shouted: "Throw a grenade." As nearly 100 white-smoking wooden-handled grenades exploded in the crowd, Huang Dafu grabbed a 38 gun beside him, jumped into the trench, and ordered loudly: "Brothers, follow me, the time has come for the bayonet to see red, kill." ”

In the explosion of the grenade, the Gui army fell dozens more, but this only made their charging pace slow down a little, and they quickly rushed to the position. Many Gui soldiers even breathed a sigh of relief, and they could finally compete with the security army face to face fairly.

Two streams of people with bayonets collided head-on with great speed, and screams rang out from time to time amid the sound of guns colliding.

The soldiers of the first company of the security army, when they first rushed out of the position, the formation was a little scattered, but soon the results of the usual training were revealed, and they quickly formed a group of three or five people in the process of charging, and followed Huang Dafu into the enemy group.

Huang Dafu faced the Gui soldier who was not very tall, but very strong, and at the moment when the two were about to meet, the Gui soldier was obviously a little timid, and instinctively wanted to put on a defensive posture.

The 38 rifle was already a little advantageous in length, Huang Dafu was tall and long-armed, and rushed to the Gui soldiers with one stride, this little Gui Jun had not yet put up a defensive posture, and with Huang Dafu's killing sound, the bayonet had already pierced into his chest. Without waiting for Huang Dafu to pull out his bayonet, two bayonets stabbed at Huang Dafu on both sides almost at the same time. Huang Dafu did not abandon his gun and retreat, but kicked away the corpse of Gui Jun and drew his bayonet, believing that his comrades would protect his safety. At the same time, the two soldiers beside Huang Dafu stretched out their guns to the left and the right to open the bayonet that stabbed Huang Dafu, Huang Dafu shook the bayonet to the Gui soldier on the left, and the Gui soldier hurriedly drew his gun to block, but was stabbed down by a company of soldiers who confronted him with a sudden stab.

Huang Dafu stepped sideways, pressed the gun of another Gui army with his rifle, and the soldier covering Huang Dafu stepped forward with a thrust. The Gui soldier reacted quickly, immediately let go of the rifle in his hand, and retreated sharply, only then did he dodge the fatal knife.

The Gui army that rushed up began with more than 400 people, some of whom fought hand-to-hand with Huang Dafu and others, and the Gui army, who could not intervene on the periphery, bypassed the desperate crowd from both sides and rushed towards the second trench.

The third and fourth platoons in the second trench, which were in reserve, also jumped out of the trench. Mortars were no longer able to shoot at this time, and the gunners were equipped with pistols, which were also known as box guns, also known as shell guns and box guns. Originally, Song Zhewu wanted to wait 31 years later, when there were shell guns that could shoot quickly and slowly, and then equip the troops, but he really couldn't find the pistols he thought would be suitable, so he had to match these semi-automatic shell guns first.

These shooters were all armed with guns in one hand and sapper shovels with sharp blades in the other, and some of them were in groups of three or five; Some of them mixed with the fighters of the other two platoons.

The Gui army who met them was even more unlucky, as soon as the spear stabbed out met the sapper shovel with a sharp blade, it would be swept away at once, and then there would be a snow-bright blade directly to the neck. If you hesitate, you will be knocked down by them with a pistol. The gunners mixed in the infantry group made the Gui army even more defenseless, and under the protection of the infantry, they continued to calmly shoot the Gui army who was fighting hard, and the Gui army retreated step by step. If there is no third wave of reinforcements rushing up, it will be a matter of time before these frightened Gui troops are wiped out.

At this time, a somewhat dull scream sounded that was different from the past, and twelve huge groups of smoke and dust suddenly exploded in the third wave of Gui army group that had just rushed through the mountain artillery firing area, and each smoke and dust was mixed with many residual value broken arms, after the explosion, the group of Gui soldiers who originally had more than 400 people rushed over, and there were less than 300 people left.

This is Sun Li was afraid that these Gui troops would rush up, and Huang Dafu would not be able to stop them, increasing casualties, so he ordered 120mm heavy mortars to shell the follow-up troops that were rushing up.

With a three-shot rapid fire from the 120mm mortar, there were less than 200 people left in the third wave of more than 400 people, and the rest of the people didn't care about the warlords, they were frightened by the flying flesh and broken arms, and ran backwards. The 120mm mortar then turned its muzzle and turned to bombard the follow-up troops of the Gui Army in Zhujia Henan, where the position had already broken through a gap.

The 120mm mortar is extremely powerful, leaving a one-meter-deep crater and a patch of flesh and blood at each blast point......

Hu Zongduo, who was watching the battle in the observation post, was still very satisfied with the performance of his soldiers. The Gui army hired a large number of military instructors very early, and even after the Jinan tragedy, they still remained in the Guangxi Gui army, and they still do.

In the original history, Bai Chongxi took the passenger ship Osaka in Tanggu and prepared to return to Guangxi, and Chiang Kai-shek sent Xiong Shihui, then the commander of the Songhu garrison, to take a warship to intercept the Osaka at sea and kill Bai Chongxi. After Li Zongren received the secret report, he found the Kwantung Army Headquarters through the consulate in Shanghai, and the relevant Eastern Army came forward to contact a Yueben freighter in Shanghai, left the port ahead of schedule, and picked up Bai Chongxi to Yueben on the way, which made Xiong Shihui pounce.

Therefore, the combat thinking of the Gui troops was greatly influenced by the Yue army, and the organization of the storm formation was similar to that of the Yue army, and many times, they used a three-stage rolling attack, that is, the so-called "pig rush" attack. Even in the Gui army, like the Yue army, they attach great importance to the training of individual soldiers.

Although Hu Zongduo saw with his own eyes the fierceness of the Fourth Route Army's artillery fire at this moment, there were three regiments in each direction of the charge, and each regiment was divided into three waves, and each wave had a battalion of more than 400 people. Rushing through the artillery interception zone, at least two-thirds of the troops could be left in each wave, and these people were enough to rush into the opponent's position. He was even full of hope for a moment to break through the position of the Fourth Route Army in front of him, believing that as long as his troops rushed to the opponent's position, the Fourth Route Army would not be able to exert its advantage in firepower, and these little soldiers would never be the opponent of his veterans of a hundred battles. When he saw in his binoculars that his troops had rushed up to Zhujiahe Village and the position of the Fourth Route Army on the road south of the village, Hu Zongduo shouted happily.

However, Hu Zongduo's good mood was quickly destroyed by the huge explosion sound coming from the riverside, Hu Zongduo could hear that this was definitely the sound of large-caliber artillery explosions, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart, he knew that so many large-caliber artillery pieces were only available to the river defense fleet of the Central Army, so he hurriedly walked out of the observation post and looked at the riverside.

I saw more than a dozen gunboats driving on the south bank of the Yangtze River, constantly bombarding Yin Chenggang's troops waiting to board the shore with naval guns. The shore was already in chaos, and Yin Chenggang's troops were blown up by the dense naval artillery fire. After driving the troops away from the river, the gunboats turned their guns to the fishing boats parked on the shore, and more than 50 fishing boats were quickly blown to pieces and sunk, and several of them were even blown up and set on fire.

Hu Zongduo raised his binoculars and saw clearly that these gunboats were Chu You, Chu Tai, Chu Tong, Chu Qian, Chu Guan, Jiang Yuan, Jiang Zhen, Jiang Kun, Jiang Xi, Jianzhong, and Yong'an, a total of 10 gunboats, which Hu Zongduo had seen when he was in Nanjing in 27 years, and these gunboats belonged to the river defense fleet of the Central Army.

Hu Zongduo understood that it was impossible for his troops to cross the river, not only here, but also in Hankow.

Hu Zongduo glanced at the solemn who was a little nervous, turned around and walked back to the observation post without saying a word, solemnly swallowed his saliva, and followed Hu Zongduo back, at the door of the observation post, he couldn't help but look back at the ten gunboats on the river.

Hu Zongduo, who was thinking about his thoughts, was awakened by a solemn sudden shout, and solemnly pointed to the battlefield with a complicated expression and said loudly: "Rush up." Zheng Zheng regretted it a little now, if he really broke through the position, his troops would have to continue to follow Hu Zongduo to western Hubei.

Hu Zongduo raised his binoculars and looked at the battlefield, the attack on the high ground north of the Zhujia River was still deadlocked, and although the Gui army suffered heavy casualties, it still fought to the death. Due to the fierce offensive of the Gui army, the heavy machine guns on the high ground could no longer divide their firepower to support the defensive positions of Zhujiahe. Hu Zongduo turned his telescope to Zhujiahe again, the battle situation here made him a little excited, more than 500 earthy yellow figures were rushing towards the Zhujiahe position to meet the more than 200 security troops, these more than 200 security troops were soon overwhelmed by the earthy yellow crowd.

Hu Zongduo is still very confident in his troops' stabbing skills, and his troops' stabbing skills have always been trained by military instructors who have always been good at stabbing stabs. But soon he became puzzled again, and instead of his troops quickly crushing the opponent with their powerful stabbing ability, as he thought, it was the smaller security forces in grass-green uniforms who had the upper hand, and his troops were slowly retreating, and within a few minutes the earthy yellow crowd was much thinner.

Hu Zongduo was very surprised, this Fourth Route Army surprised him too much, not only the firepower is fierce, but the quality of individual soldiers is also so high, obviously stronger than his own veterans with actual combat experience.

With surprise and doubt, Hu Zongduo turned his telescope to the battlefield south of the Zhujia River, and the situation here made Hu Zongduo's surprised and frustrated mood better again, the Gui army had broken through the defense line of the security army composed of several trenches, and was trying to expand the breakthrough on both sides. "Division Commander Zheng, immediately order the troops to follow up and completely break through the enemy's position." Hu Zongduo put down the telescope and gave the order loudly.

The hand holding the telescope solemnly trembled slightly, and said in a trembling voice: "Commander, it's too late, take a look." ”

(To be continued)