Chapter 299: Yunnan Baiyao
The quality of the German soldiers is obviously much higher than that of Britain and France, which is also the capital of their ability to fight the world with the strength of one country.
Although the soldiers of the squadron are all new recruits, but the morale is high, the will to fight is very tenacious, after the end of the shelling, they came to the position one by one, set up machine guns and mortars and other weapons, ready to deal with the German charge, in the use of machine guns China can be regarded as half of Germany's teacher, compared with Britain and France is more skilled, China did not arrange the heavy machine guns in the front, but adopted a cross arrangement, forming a dense firepower network.
As soon as the German soldiers rushed up, they were unable to raise their heads by the dense machine gun bullets, many soldiers were shot through the body, and the battlefield was full of dead bodies.
However, such casualties did not stop the Germans, who still relied on skilful tactical maneuvers to avoid incoming bullets while rapidly approaching their positions.
Many of the bandit-born people in the [***] team have long been accustomed to seeing life and death, although the European war is more crazy, but they can maintain a calm mind, and some even play the instinct of a marksman, every time a shot is fired, there will be German soldiers fall to the ground.
Bai Xiaoshan is such a sharpshooter, he participated in bandits when he was a teenager, and he emerged among the bandits with amazing marksmanship, and became a small leader, but he was soon surrounded and suppressed by the Sichuan army, and he was also captured and became a laborer, the Sichuan-Han Railway, farmland and water conservancy, and roads all over the country shed his sweat, and when he invaded Qingdao in 1914, Bai Xiaoshan was fortunate to be sent to Qingdao to assist the German [***] team against himself.
In the battle of Qingdao, Bai Xiaoshan gave full play to the advantages of marksmanship, and there were twenty-three people who died in his hands, Wu Fenglou quickly took a fancy to Bai Xiaoshan's ability, and brought him to Sichuan, after strict training, he became an excellent sharpshooter, this time in the European battlefield, Bai Xiaoshan can be regarded as standing up after a hundred battles, so he is extraordinarily calm, the earth-shattering cannon sound, and the deafening shouting and killing sound can not affect him.
There was only one jumping German soldier in his eyes, only to hear a crisp sound, a hole was drilled into the head of a German [***] officer, and the red brain was all over the ground, and he died on the spot in an instant, Bai Xiaoshan used to fight side by side with the Germans, but now he shot at the Germans, which looked awkward, but Bai Xiaoshan was not surprised, in his eyes, whether it was himself or the Germans, they were foreigners.
As long as it is a foreigner, there is no good thing, it should be killed, at this moment, a few bullets just hit the trenches around Bai Xiaoshan, obviously the Germans have found this sharpshooter, Bai Xiaoshan's body quickly rolled away, followed by two shots, and two more German soldiers were killed.
The whole front was like this, the Chinese soldiers used their bravery and wisdom to fight to the death with the Germans, the corpses of the German soldiers were all over the ground, and the huge casualties made the Germans angry, they ignored the casualties, and quickly rushed to a place only a hundred meters away from the position.
At this time, everyone could see each other clearly, and when these Germans saw that it was not the French who were fighting against them, but the black-haired and black-eyed Asians, they immediately decided that this was Yue himself, who had joined the Entente a long time ago, and now he definitely sent troops to Europe, and in their impressions, they did not believe that this was the Chinese army, and the sick man of East Asia could still participate in the war.
Lu Jianzhang, Long Jiguang, and Zhang Xiaohuai, who were in charge of the command, were all in the command headquarters, very anxious, they knew very well that this was the first time that the squadron had participated in this kind of high-intensity operation, and it was very difficult to withstand it.
At this time, the fastest German troops were less than 50 meters away from the Chinese position, and along the way they rushed through layers of barbed wire and trenches, and now they could rush into the opponent's position as long as they worked harder, and the blood of the French had been drained, and they had to rely on themselves to replenish it, and victory was beckoning to Germany.
These German soldiers were fighting hard with excitement, but they were greeted by a dense burst of grenades, and the violent explosion kicked up dust and smoke to cover the German eyes, and the shrapnel scattered in all directions, leaving terrifying wounds on their bodies, and countless German soldiers fell under the grenades.
Only a small number of German soldiers rushed to the front of the position, who knew that these yellow soldiers did not have any fear, picked up bayonets, sapper shovels and other weapons and fought with the Germans with bayonets, although they were relatively short in stature, but the tactical coordination was very appropriate, three people formed a combat group, someone was responsible for attacking, someone was responsible for defense, and a number of combat groups could cooperate with each other, as if a hedgehog in general, Rao was a German soldier tall and large, and it was difficult to resist.
It didn't take long to get rid of all these German soldiers, and it was at this time that the German soldiers suddenly discovered that their opponent was not Yu himself, but the Chinese, and they were once again stunned, when did the sick man of East Asia have such combat effectiveness, is God joking with the Germans.
However, when they saw the five-color flag flying over the position, the Germans finally believed that this stubborn force was Chinese, and the first round of the German offensive was easily defused, and the Chinese soldiers did not have any time to rest, immediately treating their wounded comrades, burying the bodies, reinforcing the trenches, and transporting ammunition.
At this time, Lu Jianzhang also disregarded the danger, personally came to the front line, and constantly encouraged the soldiers, in just one hour of confrontation with Germany, more than 300 people have been killed in the middle [***] team, no less than 500 people have been injured, of course, they also killed nearly 1,000 German soldiers, in terms of the number of casualties, the [***] team has taken a big advantage.
However, Lu Jianzhang knows very well that the real battle has just begun, and the German army will definitely increase its attack after knowing that the [***] team is not easy to provoke, and now the [***] team must be prepared to deal with it.
Sure enough, not long after, the German artillery again began to fire fiercely at the positions of the [***] team, this time the fire was much more fierce than the last time, and the protection of the trenches alone could no longer completely offset the power of the German shelling, and the artillery of the [***] team also began to speak.
The Chinese artillery is different from the French artillery, and the main cannon that Qiao Yu equipped the participating troops with was a 155-mm howitzer, not the 75-mm Miss Seventy-Five, which the French were proud of.
The heavy losses of the French in World War I definitely had a lot to do with the French old-fashionedness, and the French were generally equipped with 75mm rapid-fire guns, which could fire 30 shells per minute at extreme speeds, far faster than other artillery of the era, so this kind of artillery became a dream lover in the eyes of the French army.
However, it was this kind of artillery that made the French suffer in the First World War, although the German artillery was not as fast as the French rate of fire, but the Germans took a different path, they increased the caliber, increased the charge, and also increased the firing range.
Therefore, in the course of the war, the French Miss 75 did not get close to the German artillery, and was smashed to pieces by the German heavy artillery, and the French [***] team was frequently deflated in front of the German artillery from the beginning of the war.
In fact, France does not have better weapons, for example, the 155 mm howitzer produced by the technology provided by France to Sichuan is superior to the Germans in terms of surname, but the French [***] side is resolutely opposed to equipping this better artillery, but insists on using Miss 75, so the French can only continue the tragedy.
The French are not stupid, and the reason why they insist on using Miss Seventy-Five is the result of the obstruction of huge arms interest groups, but the Chinese side obviously will not make such a mistake, and the heavy artillery equipped is enough to compete with the German artillery.
The Chinese artillerymen are frantically loading, like machines that don't know how to be tired, and they don't need to rest, in the midst of the bombardment, from time to time there are shells falling on the positions of the squadron, causing serious casualties, but these excellent soldiers don't care about death, as long as they still have a breath, they try their best to reload and shoot.
In this contest of life and will, the Chinese [***] team has never fallen behind, in fact, the Chinese are not as cowardly as they seem, history has proved that as long as the Chinese [***] team is properly trained, equipped with the right weapons, coupled with relatively reasonable command, it can definitely fight with any strong soldiers, and now it is no exception, the German [***] team is once again attacking China's position under the cover of artillery fire.
However, as last time, the Chinese soldiers refused to back down, desperately fought back, bombarded with artillery in the distance, approached machine guns and mortars, and there were grenades and bayonets in front of them, the tenacious will to fight of the [***] team shocked the Germans, and in the face of the rock-solid Chinese position, they could only end hastily and began to concentrate the direction of the counterattack on the defensive part of the French [***] team.
The news that the Chinese [***] team repelled the German attack also quickly spread throughout the French [***] team, shocking the entire Entente countries, the commander of the French Sixth Army, Fayole personally came to the field hospital to comfort the wounded Chinese soldiers, in the hospital Fayole saw a scene that made him even more surprised, it turned out that the wounded Chinese soldiers were smearing the wounds with a strange white powder, the wounds quickly stopped bleeding, and they were able to relieve the pain, seeing here Fayole was shocked, to know that the war was so cruel, There are a large number of wounded soldiers to be treated every day, and if simple wounds can be treated like the Chinese, the efficiency of field hospitals can definitely be greatly improved.
The soldier who had been shouting just now was immediately alive again, and the miraculous powder attracted Fayol's attention.
"Chief Lu, what is the white powder used by your soldiers, and how can it have such a magical hemostatic effect?"
"Mr. Commander, this medicine is called Yunnan Baiyao, which was developed by Qu Huanzhang, a famous doctor in Yunnan Province, China, which can stop bleeding and relieve pain, invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis, and is a rare healing medicine!"
"How does this drug work?"
"I don't know, I just know that the effect of this drug is amazing!" Listening to Lu Jianzhang's words, Fayol was thoughtful.
(To be continued)