Looking at the devastated position in front of him, Han Zheng even regretted it faintly now, not that he regretted attacking Xuzhou, but that he regretted whether he took it for granted, sprinkling the strength of those two battalions outside, if he withdrew into the city to occupy the advantage of confronting the enemy, although it would not cause so much pressure on the enemy army as it does now, but compared to the practice at this time, it was a lot less sacrifice!

Most of the artillery fire here was used to defend the city, and there were only three or four cannons moving to the front, even if they used their strength to eat, there was no way to effectively suppress the enemy's artillery fire, that is, Han Zheng took out all the artillery in his hand now and only twenty cannons, and the others were transferred to the first and second brigades.

Outside the city, after the frantic retaliatory bombardment, the artillery fire under Zhang Shuyuan gradually stopped, and then the pigtail army, which had been at the forefront of the position, under the orders of their respective commanders and the cover of heavy machine guns, loaded bayonets and bullets, formed a wave-shaped impact formation, and quickly rushed towards the defenders' positions that seemed to have been disabled.

The angry soldiers, under the leadership of the commander, let out a loud shout, this attack, Zhang Shuyuan tried to give the defenders of the Northern Anhui Army in the outer positions the last blow, and completely clean up the positions on the periphery of Yonggu Town.

For this reason, Zhang Shuyuan mobilized the troops of the two battalion heads to carry out the first wave of attacks, and after the artillery fire, the peripheral positions of the Northern Anhui Army, at this time, in the eyes of Zhang Shuyuan and other Zhang Xun's subordinates, it was difficult to send out too fierce snipers at this time.

For this reason, when he saw the resistance of the northern Anhui army in front, the corners of Zhang Shuyuan's mouth moved, and he seemed to see the scene of the army recovering Yonggu Town, once the outer positions of Yonggu Town were cleaned up, he could calmly bombard the defenders in the city, and Zhang Shuyuan did not think that there were too many troops in Yonggu Town, at most more than 1,000 people, and the outside of the city had already occupied half of the military strength.

Just when Zhang Shuyuan thought that this move was certain and that the army would successfully occupy the enemy's position, but at this time, it had been beaten scattered and scattered, like an abandoned pit in the enemy's position, and when Zhang Xun's army saw that this position was about to be overwhelmed by its own crowd, a strong firepower suddenly broke out from the ground!

Several heavy machine gun positions that had not been destroyed once again let out an angry scream, and the blazing bullets shot out of the chambers, forming a stream of fire, wantonly venting the grievances and dissatisfaction they had just received in this group of people, especially in the places on both sides of the position that were not attacked by the focus, there were two or three machine gun positions in a fan-shaped strafing, and the two firestreams formed in the two places formed a crossed place of death, and with the cooperation of the rifles, the lives of the soldiers in front of the position were wantonly harvested!

Behind these charging soldiers, the heavy machine gun battalion of Zhang Xun's pigtail army obviously did not expect this situation, and after the shock, they finally reacted, and all the heavy machine guns opened fire, suppressing the enemy position that was constantly throwing fire.

At the same time, the artillery fire that had been silent in the rear resounded, and the shells fell on the positions that were being attacked from time to time, and occasionally the firing accuracy almost fell on the heads of the attacking soldiers, causing bursts of abuse from the soldiers, but the artillery fire behind still did not stop.

But this method finally played its due role, as for those accidental injuries caused by artillery fire, they were also automatically ignored by the commanders of the two battalions, after all, exchanging a small sacrifice for a greater victory is the consciousness that every officer must have, as for what the soldiers who died in battle think, where can they care about the affairs of the dead.

Under the death orders of their respective commanders, these people kept stepping on the corpses of their robes forward, forward, and forward!

The people in front died, and the people below quickly followed to fill the gaps left behind, and were knocked to the ground again.

At this time, a thick layer of corpses had fallen in front of the position, and even the soldiers who were accustomed to seeing death did not dare to look down, and no one knew whether they would lose their last courage after bowing their heads, let alone imagine whether they would lie on the ground in the next moment, trampled by the robes and trampled into flesh!

Han Zhengjun finally suffered a large number of casualties under artillery fire and heavy machine gun fire, and a battalion head of the division at the front was the first to be retaliated by enemy artillery fire, and it was also the object of key care.

At this time, the strength of nearly 400 people has now been less than 200 people, and more than 50 people died in a retaliatory attack of the enemy army, plus the main offensive pressure of the enemy army is almost all borne by them, and the casualties will only get bigger and bigger!

But at this time, they did not receive the order to retreat, no one would retreat, they were still using their own weapons to create wounds one after another on the enemy's body, putting the enemy's blood, and at the same time they were also exhausting every drop of blood!

Zhang Shuyuan never thought that the will to resist of the ground army would be so strong, at this time he would no longer look down on the young commander of the other party, what method did the other party use, in such a short period of time, to train his subordinates to be so powerful, he was very curious!

However, this did not affect the pace of his own army to occupy the opponent's position, because in his eyes, his attacking troops had slowly approached the position of the ground army, breaking through the blockade formed by the enemy's machine guns.

On the front line, the pigtails paid nearly twice as many casualties as the defenders, and finally moved the heavy machine guns in the rear, and then in front of the position, and then set up a temporary machine gun position with the corpses of their own people, and they would never be beaten passively again!

With the establishment of the first heavy machine gun position, more and more people crowded to the front, and then several heavy machine gun positions were established, constantly pouring fire on the defenders, and the already thin defense line finally loosened, and the remaining soldiers were no longer enough to resist the opponent's fire at such a close distance!

At this time, the Han Zheng army in the peripheral position was trying to fire the bullets in the gun, but there were too many enemy troops, so many that their arms holding rifles were already sore, and their fingers were trembling, as if they could no longer hold the gun, but the number of enemy troops did not seem to have decreased!

The commander of the defending battalion of the Northern Anhui Army, who was at the forefront of the peripheral position, watched the soldiers under his command snort painfully from time to time, and then there was no sound, he didn't know when the commander and the commander let him and others retreat, but he knew that as long as there was no order, he would die here! Bullets swept over their heads like a torrent of bullets, and they had to hold back their fear and stick out as many bullets as they could, without even aiming or looking, each bullet striking a bright red flower in the dense enemy shock formation.

The defenders of the Northern Anhui Army tried to organize firepower many times to destroy the machine gun positions of several Xuzhou Braided Army that had been established, but they were of no use, and the two counter-charges that were barely organized tried to shock the enemy army down, but also ended in failure.

They all knew that the rest of them wouldn't last long!

However, just when these people were about to despair, finally, the gunfire behind them instantly became fierce, and then, the enemy's attack paused, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the order to retreat from the rear was also issued.

But in the face of this situation, they don't dare to turn around and leave directly, which will only become a live target for the other party.

It was not the first time that the soldiers of the Northern Anhui Army had gone to the battlefield, and no one knew this truth, so after they heard the clarion call to retreat, they quickly converged towards their commanders and battalion commanders, and the wounded and sick were also pulled up by their companions and supported by their shoulders.

After a while, the defending forces of Han Zheng's army finally gathered together, and then slowly retreated under the cover of the soldiers of the gendarmerie battalion behind them, and all the pursuing enemy troops were mercilessly covered and killed.

The pigtailed army knew Han Zhengjun's plan when the horn sounded here, and then the pigtailed army who wanted to follow the pursuit broke out into a shout and collectively charged!

However, they did not expect that even when the enemy army retreated, it was in an orderly manner, and there was no sign of chaos! And they came out of nowhere, just swept away by the firepower of the other side, so they had to lie down again, crawl towards the enemy's position, and shoot at the retreating northern Anhui army.

When the divisional battalion was withdrawn, it was completely disabled, there were only less than 100 people who were not injured, more than 70 people were slightly injured, and the remaining surviving soldiers were all seriously injured and pulled by the soldiers before they could be withdrawn!

It wasn't until these men withdrew to the second line of defense that the pigtails completely occupied the first line of defense of the defenders, and by this time the battle had reached this point, the defenders already knew that it would be difficult to hold the second line of defense. After all, the makeshift defensive line was too low, the trenches were too shallow, and the enemy had already occupied the first line of defense, so they had lost the best position.

However, then, when the pigtailed army thought that they would have to carry out a strong attack like the first time to expel the enemy army, who knew that the defenders of the second line of defense had received an order from the commander that when repelling the first wave of enemy troops, the rear artillery would carry out a covering bombardment of the enemy troops to meet the return of these soldiers, and there was not much to gain from fighting at this time!

Sure enough, when the pigtailed army attacked the second line of defense on the momentum of victory, it was again subjected to strong fire sniping, and then under the frightened gaze of these people, a large amount of fire extended from behind the enemy's second line of defense, forming a separation zone of artillery fire between the first and second lines of defense.

Just as the Braided Army launched another powerful attack, the defenders had already left under the cover of artillery fire, leaving behind an empty and broken position (to be continued). )