Not far from Yingshang County, located in a bridgehead for attacking Yingshang County, the Southern Army naturally attached great importance to it, and in the case of insufficient troops, there were still one or two hundred people stationed here, forming a peripheral position.

Especially some time ago, since the team of fifty people was crippled by the top soldiers of the Han Zheng Department and fled back to the city, this group of southern troops has stepped up their defense, and before the main force comes to the future, they will retreat in the position as a defensive battle to fight.

There is no local defender stationed here, and those local defenders are honestly cowering in the city and dare not come out, they can only patrol or something, as for going to the battlefield, it is a bit unrealistic at present.

For those people, these southern troops were very disdainful, but since the above wanted to accept these people, they had nothing to do.

The commander of the Southern Army battalion guarding here is called Xiao Shu, who is also an old soldier, when the Xinhai Revolution was in full swing, an uprising also broke out in Anqing, Anhui Province, and he entered the revolutionary army at that time and participated in the uprising.

But then, as the South gradually began to compromise with the North and the foreigners, the young officer's heart was filled with grief and indignation, and his own old brothers had died in the uprising, and his own men had changed several times.

But in the end, he didn't expect that he would fight to the death, the south would compromise with the north, and what made him even more unbearable was when his brothers struggled for their ideals, and those big people showed their ugly faces, this kind of loss in his heart made him unhappy, and he only felt that the ideals he had been pursuing became a joke in the eyes of those big people???

Disappointed and even desperate, Xiao Shu once left his team for a while, and then he didn't even have a copper plate in his body, and he almost fell into the streets, knowing that the recent Bai Dudu took over the military affairs of Anhui, and when the soldiers under him were not bad, he had nowhere to go and had nowhere to go so he had to return to the army.

It is indeed much better here than before, and he was quickly promoted to the position of battalion commander, although the military salary or something cannot be paid in full, but at least he has been able to eat enough, as for the ideal, Xiao Shu only felt bitter in his heart.

The enemy he was going to face this time, Xiao Shu was already clear, it was not the regular army in the Beiyang Army, but he didn't dare to be careless, especially after coming here and hearing that the local villagers even hoped that the other party would attack in, he was even more secretly surprised in his heart.

If in the past, after he heard the news, he couldn't say that he would abandon his current identity and go directly to the past, but now he has long seen through those so-called ideals, and only wants to avenge his dead brothers, where is the mind to take refuge in each other? On the contrary, the more you understand each other, the more wary you become.

And this kind of vigilance turned into a slight fear at noon today, when I saw the appearance of the other party's vanguard troops??????

At three o'clock in the afternoon, no matter whether Xiao Shu was vigilant or afraid, the war finally kicked off amid the rumbling cannon???

After Chen Feng led his troops to the front line, he personally commanded the battle, and because of the abundance of artillery shells, he took the lead in using artillery fire to cover the enemy's positions.

Twelve artillery guns fired a volley, and bursts of smoke and dust suddenly splashed on the enemy position in Eighteen Miles, and from time to time a large stream of flames rose, mixed with the corpse of an unlucky person who didn't know which one was thrown into the sky, and then turned into several pieces, and then fell heavily.

After the shelling lasted for three minutes, the soldiers of the third battalion who undertook the first wave of attacks moved forward under the leadership of the battalion commander Tang Shunzi, and three or four hundred people lined up in a straggler formation and slowly advanced towards the enemy position under the cover of artillery fire.

Xiao Shu lay in the trench, listening to the sound of the cannon outside, his heart fluttered, and from time to time a shell fell in the trench, causing a large number of casualties, making Xiao Shu secretly scold the other party for the real fucking accuracy.

And those soldiers are even more tightly lying in the trench motionless, they can be regarded as having seen a big scene, they have participated in many wars, and they have also seen this kind of artillery battle, but it is just not so dense, but they also know that what they can do now is to wait slowly for the artillery fire to stop, and the enemy will start to attack this routine.

After a while, the other party's artillery fire gradually stopped, Xiao Shu shook his head, took out his ears that were shaken, and then spit out the soil in his mouth, didn't care to check the casualties, and shouted for his soldiers to prepare for battle.

However, when he first appeared, he was taken aback, only to see that on the battlefield filled with gunpowder in the afternoon, a straggler line composed of more than 400 people was almost approaching the front of their position!

"Shoot!" Seeing this situation, he instantly roared after reacting, and then shot the bullet from his gun, and the subordinates behind him who reacted from the shock also joined in, and the attacking troops on the opposite side fell down in an instant.

However, before they could be happy, they saw more than a dozen tongues of fire suddenly appearing from the opponent's rear position and licking towards them, from time to time making bright red "flowers" bloom on the position, and the soldiers around them kept snorting, and then they convulsed a few times and then made no sound, and most of these fallen people left blood holes on their foreheads.

It's not that Chen Feng's side is accurate, but that the other party only shows a head in the position, and as long as he is swept by a machine gun, almost all of them are headshots.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, Tang Shunzi rushed forward with his subordinates again, stopping from time to time to aim at the opponent's exposed head and firing two shots.

Chen Feng stood in the back, looking at the front line with a telescope, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, this weapon and the quality of the source of soldiers, no one is missing, it is really important!

Seeing dozens of fire whips constantly cross-pumping on the opponent's position, suppressing the opponent's army to the death, so that the opponent could not cause a counterattack on the attacking troops, I secretly thought to myself: "This is a good start!" ”

However, just when he put his mind at ease and thought that there would be no accidents, he didn't expect that when Tang Shunzi led people to the front of the opponent's position, the machine gun on this side had just stopped in order to prevent accidental injury, and a large number of enemy troops suddenly poured out of the local position, and they rushed out of the trench without fear of death, and Tang Shunzi's three battalions began to engage in short combat, and the melee was together!

Originally, everyone thought that with such a powerful fire suppression, and the soldiers were so well-equipped, they must be able to quickly take the opponent's position under the first infantry artillery cooperation and machine gun cover, especially after seeing the effect of a round of artillery bombardment and machine gun cover, this idea was even more firm.

Even Tang Shunzi, who was at the forefront of the attack, thought so, and when the other party rushed out of the trench, he suddenly suffered such a sudden resistance, and there were a lot of casualties for a while!

Fortunately, this side usually trains very hard, and after the last few battles, it has an advantage in numbers, so it was not driven out.

And a machete on everyone's body, but at this time it is useful, more than the bayonet to use, although just a surprise attack was killed twenty or thirty soldiers, but when Tang Shunzi's men reacted, slowly the casualties gradually decreased,

This group of Zinan troops really worked hard, and they were not afraid of the big knife at all, and they did not hesitate to move forward with a bayonet from time to time to pick the machete, and then stabbed into the opponent's body from a tricky angle, although Tang Shunzi's casualties slowed down, but it was still bleeding.

Finally, after holding out for a while, the recruits in the army began to be afraid, and slowly retreated, and then the whole battalion retreated, and was driven down by the defenders!

Chen Feng looked at the instantaneous changes on the battlefield and the cheering defenders, he couldn't help biting his lip, his face was blue, and he couldn't wait to rush forward with his gun now, but he couldn't hold back this **, and with a wave of his hand, the machine gun in the back roared again, covering the defeat of the three battalions.

This was the first defeat in this campaign, and it was also the first head-to-head battle with the Southern Army! (To be continued.) )