"! !! ”

Wang Wu's military hat in the fortification had already been lifted off by the air waves, and at this moment he could only lie in the pit with his head covered and continue to endure this scene like the end of the world.

The other soldiers were either lying in the tunnel with their heads in their hands, or just holding the committee rifles in their arms, and kept chanting the names of the gods and Buddhas they knew, praying for the protection of these gods and Buddhas.

Above their heads, however, the power of the four-shot shrapnel was more powerful than that of any god or Buddha...

The caliber of the shells falling from the sky was large, and even the fortifications reinforced by ash in front of them would be directly blown down, and those trenches more than two meters deep directly turned into deep pits.

Although there were explosions everywhere around him, he couldn't hear even a sound in his ears.

In this confusion, I don't know how long it took, an officer suddenly strode over, and then kept shaking his body with his hands. And beside him, those comrades-in-arms in the same class had already stood up one by one, but judging from the expressions on their faces, they were obviously not much better than Wang Wu.

The officer obviously knew what the mental state of these soldiers was, not to mention that there were more soldiers waiting for him to summon, so after "shouting" Wang Wu, he walked over to the other soldiers who were lying in the fortifications.

Although Wang Wu was not "shouted" by him―――――― because Wang Wu obviously couldn't hear any sound now, the officer's violent shaking still played a big role, at least now Wang Wu's expression was much better than the muddy appearance just now.

So it didn't take long for Wang Wu to know what he was supposed to do and why the officer had come over and shouted at him. Because at this moment the shelling outside has stopped, and the cessation of shelling also means one thing, that is, the people of the National Social Army are rushing towards here...

"! !! ”

Continuing to vent on his lips, Wang Wu threw it on the ground, and held the "Mauser 1888 Rifle", a love gun that had not been replaced since a year ago, in his hand―――――― it is obvious that even if he does not know that the 1888 Mauser rifle is the 1888 Committee rifle, in fact, there are still many people who have nothing to do with the Mauser rifle.

After picking up the love gun, Wang Wu ran out of the fortifications with the comrades who had come to their senses around him, and then stood on the steps of the trench and poked his head out.

In front of their eyes, what greeted them was a group of soldiers of the National Social Army dressed in gray uniforms, scattered in formation, but not chaotic.

With the help of the artillery, these soldiers of the National Social Army have entered the area less than 500 meters away from the Beiyang defense line―――――― and if they go further, the charging soldiers will be in danger of being accidentally injured by their own artillery fire, of course, the same is true for the artillery of the Beiyang Army, after all, if the shells are thrown on the heads of their own troops, it will be lively, not to mention that they must be careful not to be discovered by the cannon group of the National Social Army.

On the position of the Beiyang Army, the machine gunners who were hiding in the pillboxes or fortifications and were in the Maxim had long known that the infantry of the National Socialist Army was charging, but they did not dare to expose it at all under the fierce bombardment of the artillery army, for fear that their position would be discovered by the reconnaissance balloons floating in the sky opposite, and then attract a large area of shelling.

So they had to wait, wait until the infantry of the National Socialist Army had entered a distance where the artillery did not dare to shoot, and then they dared to set up their machine guns, and then aim at the National Socialist Infantry who were slowly walking into the charging distance...

"Dada!!"

The hundreds of guns on the defense line of the Beiyang Army spat out tongues of fire, so that the soldiers of the National Society who originally launched the charge had to crawl up.

"Quick, hurry, get these damn barbed wire fences out of me."

Prostrate on the sand, Mu Ying shouted loudly to several soldiers on the side.

Although the artillery had already cleared the obstacles in front of the infantry with artillery fire before the charge, due to the accuracy and the saving of ammunition―――――― those who used to be in the artillery corps did not know what it meant to save ammunition.

Because of the above two reasons, there are many obstacles on the battlefield that have not been cleared, and these have to be dealt with by the soldiers themselves...

After hearing Mu Ying's order, the soldiers did not say a word, and directly took off a large pair of scissors from their backs, and risked their lives to cut the barbed wire under the deadly tongue of fire of Makqin.

However, the machine gun fire of the Beiyang Army was very intensive, and these soldiers were also working while evading, and after five or six minutes, the barbed wire was actually cut less than half.

Seeing that his subordinates around him were shot one by one, Mu Yingwo said to the deputy platoon commander on the side after being on fire for a long time.

"You and I, damn it, just blow up the barbed wire with a grenade!"

The deputy platoon commander is also a person who is not afraid of death, and besides, he is lying here like this, and he doesn't know when he will be taken away by the machine guns of the Beiyang Army, so after hearing Mu Ying's order, the deputy platoon commander replied directly and loudly.

"Yes!"

After greeting the deputy platoon commander, Mu Ying didn't talk nonsense, and directly removed all the wooden handles of more than 20 grenades on the two of them with the deputy platoon commander, leaving only two as detonators, and then tied them into two balls to make cluster grenades.

More than 20 grenades, each of which was loaded with 100 grams of TNT explosives, all of which were in no way inferior to or even surpassed ordinary blasting canisters in terms of power. It's absolutely fine to blow a gap in the multi-layered barbed wire fence that blocks the road. And it's not that Mu Ying doesn't want to use blasting canisters, it's that the sappers who belong to their platoon have already fallen on the way, so now Mu Ying can only make do with grenades.

"One, two, three!"

When he counted to three, Mu Ying and the deputy platoon commander jumped up together and pounced in the direction of the barbed wire.

Fortunately, at this time, the machine gunners in Beiyang had been attracted by the Guoshe infantry in other directions, and by the time they noticed the movements of Mu Ying and the two of them a few hundred meters away, Mu Ying and his deputy platoon commander had already rushed to the front of the barbed wire as fast as possible.

"You guys go to the back..."

After seeing the two bundles of grenades brought by Mu Ying and the others, the soldiers who were still slowly cutting the barbed wire with scissors also knew that they were not suitable for staying, not to mention that other people's grenades were more suitable for the current situation than the scissors in their hands no matter how they looked at it, so after nodding their heads to Mu Ying, the soldiers retreated.

After the soldiers retreated to a safe position, Mu Ying and the deputy platoon commander glanced at each other, and then very tacitly stuffed the grenade under the barbed wire, after pulling the fuse of the grenade, within 4 or 5 seconds, the two quickly escaped from the killing range of the grenade―――――― more than 20 grenades, the power is equivalent to 2 blasting canisters, if they don't run, they will really lie here.

After Mu Ying and the others ran a distance of more than ten meters and then quickly plunged into a crater blown out by heavy artillery shells, they only heard a "boom", and the barbed wire that had just blocked them for half a day had been blown out of a big gap.

Wiping the dirt off his face with his sleeve, Mu Ying grinned at the mortar man who was adjusting the 120-caliber mortar in the crater. "I'll be in trouble for your support in a moment." The latter was looking at the two of them in amazement.

At this time, the entire battlefield was full of huge craters from heavy artillery, so troops such as mortars did not need to look for cover everywhere, just find a deeper crater and hide inside, so they did not need to worry about the threat of Maxim machine guns.

Of course, this may be a little inconvenient in terms of vision, but it is better to do a few more adjustments than to be shot into a hornet's nest with a machine gun.

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Except for Mu Ying's troops, the other troops were moving smoothly, after all, not every army had obstacles in their way. With the support of mortars or 37mm infantry guns, the Guoshe infantry also entered within 300 meters of the Beiyang defensive line, which was not only the main lethal range of Makqin, but also within the effective range of the committee rifles.

Of course, although the distance of 300 meters is already within the effective range of the committee, and accurate shooting is also the strength of the Beiyang Army―――――― at least it is much more accurate than the National Social Army.

However, limited to the surname of the rifle―――――― you should know that the Mauser G98 is a generation more advanced than the Commission 1888, and the biggest feature of the Mauser G98 is his accuracy. What's more, the National Social Army is also armed with another type of rifle, a rifle modified from the Mauser G98 ...

On the position of the Beiyang Army, Wang Wuzheng, who had just retrieved his hat, was aiming at a soldier of the National Social Army who was crawling forward with his love gun.

"Grandson, do you think I can't see when I'm lying on the ground..."

As he spoke, Wang Wu aimed the muzzle of the gun at the soldier's steel helmet, and then slowly hooked the trigger with his fingers. Even though the soldier was wearing a steel helmet, a 7.92mm bullet might not be able to penetrate the helmet at a distance of 300 meters. But even so, the powerful momentum brought by the bullet can also make people's cervical spine injured or even fractured, for which Wang Wu, who has been in the army for many years, really knows too well.

After all, the main function of the helmet is to protect against stray bullets and flying shrapnel, and the steel helmet that can directly defend against bullets without bringing a trace of harm has not been produced even in later generations...

"Smack!"

Just as Wang Wu was about to pull the trigger, a bullet suddenly hit his eyebrows slightly to the left ―――――― a centimeter, and then came out directly through his brain.

This is a cup without a steel helmet, if you have a steel helmet, although you will die if you are hit by a bullet, but at least you can remain more or less intact when you die, instead of a big hole in the back of your head...

Through the scope, after seeing Wang Wu slide to the ground like a puppet that has lost its longitude, a soldier of the National Social Army put down the sniper rifle with a wry smile.

"Is it really my problem? It's obviously already aimed, but it's still such a long distance. ”

That's right, in the eyes of others, the distance of 300 meters is only 1 centimeter, which is already a very staggering number, but in the eyes of these snipers who can be called sharpshooters, the distance of 300 meters is one centimeter, which can only be regarded as barely passing, after all, they are not using ordinary rifles, but sniper rifles specially used for sniping.

That is, when the soldier was still shaking his head and sighing, many soldiers in the position of the Beiyang Army were inexplicably shot in the head, and many of them hit the center of the eyebrows directly, and the slightest deviation would not be much worse.

The one who will cause this effect is naturally the sniper who is entering the battle for the first time.

As the most critical battle, although Yan Guang has always been a treasure for these snipers, but in the end he transferred them to the Hanyang front, after all, the sniper rifles in their hands can play a great advantage even in trench warfare―――――― of course, when crossing the river to fight against Hankou, Yan Guang will never allow Zhu Qinglan and others to incorporate snipers into the river-crossing troops, after all, when crossing the river, even if they are careful, there will be great casualties, Therefore, it is the safest way to wait until the position on the beachhead is stabilized and then put the troops into use.

And many soldiers on their own positions were killed inexplicably, this situation also caused great panic in the Beiyang Army, after all, almost every bullet hit the center of the eyebrows or near the center of the eyebrows, this situation is really abnormal.

"Could it be that all the soldiers of the National Social Army are sharpshooters?"

This is the voice of almost all the soldiers of the Beiyang Army, and it is precisely because of this that the Beiyang soldiers who originally used committee rifles to block the charging Guoshe infantry in the trenches gradually cringed, after all, it was never what they wanted to lose their lives in such a daze.

After finding that many soldiers were cowering, many Beiyang officers hurriedly rushed to the position to supervise the battle. However, it would be better if these officers just stayed in the trenches honestly to supervise the battle, after all, in the trenches more than 2 meters deep, no matter how accurate the sniper's bullets were, they would not be able to shoot into the trenches, but if they showed their heads to observe the situation outside...

You must know that in the Beiyang Army, the attire of officers and soldiers is very different, and the sniper's rifle is equipped with a scope, so you can easily distinguish the difference between officers and soldiers. Therefore, as long as there are officers who are found to show their heads, then there will definitely be more places for officers among those who die in a daze.

And after discovering this, those officers did not show their heads, but just stood in the tunnel to supervise the battle, as long as they saw any soldier cowering, first went up and gave a kick or a whip, if they were not willing to fight, they were directly shot.

Although the officers did this well, the soldiers were full of resentment towards the officers behind them, after all, they were the ones who were fighting to the death, and the officers who were hiding in the trenches were not in danger. It's just that although they are full of resentment, these Beiyang soldiers don't dare to resist, so they can only stand on the steps and carefully block the soldiers of the National Social Army with the committee rifle in their hands.

The soldiers on the battlefield did not know the situation in the Beiyang position on the opposite side, and they only advanced slowly under the cover of 60, 80, 120 mortars and 37mm light infantry guns.

It's just that whether it is a 37mm light infantry gun, a 40mm grenade launcher, or even a mortar of 60, 80, and 120, these three calibers cannot effectively destroy the machine gun fire point of the Beiyang Army reinforced by ash. Even if they are hit, as long as they are not directly hit, after a short period of mute fire, the machine gunners in these firing points can continue to unscrupulously highlight the deadly tongue of fire to harvest the soldiers of the National Social Army on the battlefield.

Especially at a distance of 300 meters, the Nationalist Army paid nearly 1,000 casualties.

And the threat to the machine gunners, those snipers in the rear are also well aware of it, and they have also thought of using the sniper rifles in their hands to teach these damn Beiyang machine gunners a lesson. (In a European war, if one of the belligerents is defeated, then when the winning side finds and captures the enemy machine gunners, most of the time the soldiers who captured the machine gunners will kill the machine gunners privately, because these guys with machine guns harvest too many lives on the battlefield and gather too much hatred.) ）

It's just that the Maxim machine gun is different from the French Hatch Chase machine gun, this machine gun usually has a shield, which is one of the reasons why the Russian Maxim machine gun can overwhelm the Hatch Chase machine gun during the Russo-Russian War, so although the snipers have aimed at the Maxim machine gun that protrudes from the tongue of fire, but in the end, no one can successfully kill these machine gunners―――――― although the Makqin machine gun shield is not very thick, but at least it is no problem to block the 8mm bullet of the Mauser G98 rifle, otherwise, the Maxim machine gun would not have carried such a heavy shield.

So in the end, even the sharpshooters in these armies can only look at the shield and sigh...

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After launching a number of charges against the defense line of the Beiyang Army, after paying huge casualties, in the end, the Beiyang Army had to retreat to its position under the cover of the artillerymen, and then end the battle today―――――― although the machine gunners of the Beiyang Army also thought about pursuing when they retreated, but when the large-caliber shells of the artillery of the National Army were approaching, the machine gunners of the Beiyang Army still had to transfer the machine guns to other positions, after all, their machine gun fire points had been exposed, If they hadn't been transferred, I'm afraid they would have been buried in the collapsed firing point along with the expensive machine guns.

Although the Chinese Socialist Army paid a great deal of casualties in today's battle, in addition to the 37mm light infantry guns with straight ballistics, the revolver grenade launchers and mortars are all sharp weapons against the trenches, so when the Nationalist Army retreats, the Beiyang Army will not pay much less than the Nationalist Army...

After the National Social Army all returned to their positions, the military doctors who had already prepared rushed to the front line with medicine boxes, and many soldiers who could still move even carried the seriously injured soldiers directly to the field hospital on stretchers―――――― although penicillin and other drugs had not yet appeared, at least the field hospital with complete equipment could save some lives...

In the battle, the Kuomintang Army paid more than 3,000 casualties, and the Beiyang Army on the opposite side also suffered at least nearly 2,000 casualties, most of which were caused by heavy artillery, mortars, grenade launchers and even snipers, and only a few were directly killed by rifle shots...

At this point, the first battle was completely over...

(To be continued)