"Regiment leader, the fire point in the direction of 2 o'clock is too fierce, and the brothers below can't rush up, what do you think should be done?"

In the headquarters of the 10th Regiment on the beachhead, the chief of staff of the 10th Regiment said anxiously to Xu Hu.

In the direction of the Beiyang position at 2 o'clock, a Makqin was constantly spitting out tongues of fire, and under his silver might, a battalion of the Nationalist Army could only lie down on the sand a few hundred meters away, unable to move even a single step.

"What should I do..."Xu Hu spun around twice in place. Can't the 37 infantry guns knock out that point of fire? ”

Although the 60 mortar is very powerful, and it can also carry out vertical strikes, it is definitely the natural enemy of the infantry in the fortifications, but the range is too close, only about 1 km, while the range of the ruler of Makqin is 2200 meters (of course, the standard range is still 1000 meters, after all, no matter how far you go, you can see it or not, and it is a question whether it can be hit or not...). So now 60 can only shrink behind the obstacle for limited support.

Although in this case the 60 mortars also knocked out some of the firing points, after all, not every firing point happened to be within the range of the 60 mortars, and there were also some firing points that were in the inner line of the Beiyang Army's position, which could condescendingly suppress the Nationalist Army troops on the beachhead...

That's why Xu Hu asked the 37 infantry gun, although the infantry gun is very powerful because of the caliber, but at least the firing range has reached 3 kilometers, which is completely out of the range of Makqin to strike at the firing point. Then, just like Yu Gang and the others just now, one shot made the Mark Qin in the firing point dumbfounded...

But...

"Nope." Hearing Xu Hu ask, the chief of staff shook his head and said. "I've tried many times, but the layout of that firing point is very tricky, even if the 37 guns hit directly, it can't be completely destroyed"

This is the trouble of the 37 infantry gun, one is that the power is too small, the other is that the trajectory is straight, if it is just an ordinary fortification or a point of fire, of course, there is nothing, but if it is a too strong target, the role of the 37 gun is not so great, after all, in order to ensure lightness, the caliber of the infantry gun is only 37 mm.

"Isn't it okay to have 37 guns..."

Hearing the chief of staff say this, Xu Hu also felt a little angry.

Just when Xu Hu and the chief of staff were thinking of a way in the headquarters, the commander of the suppressed infantry battalion also seemed to feel very angry, so he rushed with a platoon of troops, but the infantry platoon had just rushed a distance of dozens of meters before being swept down by the heavy machine gun in the fire point, and the battalion commander who led the charge was the first to bear the brunt...

"Bastard, you're too impulsive, can't you wait until we figure it out!"

Seeing that half of the platoon of people under his command were swept down like this, Xu Hu kicked the sandbags in the headquarters with his foot.

Seeing Xu Hu like this, the chief of staff on the side smiled bitterly in his heart.

"The people below will be like this, and it's not you, the head of the regiment, who plays a leading role?"

It's just that the most important thing at the moment is to knock out this firepower point, so after throwing these thoughts out of his mind, the chief of staff began to think about what should be done in the command headquarters.

In the same way as Xu Hu, the other four regiments also encountered some troubles to a greater or lesser extent, and most of these troubles were brought by the Makqin machine guns.

Although there are less than 200 Makqin heavy machine guns left on the Beiyang Army position after being baptized by artillery fire, and these Makqin are still being "named" by the 37 infantry guns, but after all, not every firepower point is so fragile, and there are many firepower points that are not only built very tricky, but also very strong, just like the battalion under Xu Hu encountered, even if it was hit by several 37 infantry guns at the same time, it could still spit out fire snakes to firmly suppress a battalion of infantry on the beach...

Just when Xu Hu and the chief of staff were in a hurry, a young officer in his 20s in the command headquarters suddenly stood up and said.

"Commander, if it really doesn't work, let me bring someone up to try it..."

"You?" Xu Hu glanced at the young officer and frowned. "Aren't you even armed with 60 mortars? If the range is not enough..."

"If the range is not enough, you can stick it!" The young officer said loudly. "Commander, if you stay like this, you don't know how many brothers will die under the machine gun, so let's try it again!"

The young officer was the commander of the mortar company directly under Xu Hu's regiment, and was armed with six 60-caliber mortars.

Looking at this somewhat impulsive young officer, Xu Hu naturally felt that this guy had a good temper with himself, but at this time, Xu Hu still looked at the chief of staff on the side.

"Let him go?"

After all, human life is at stake, and Xu Hu still hopes to ask the chief of staff for his opinion.

And after hesitating for a moment, the chief of staff nodded.

"There's no other way now, so let him try..."

"It's okay..."

Agreed, and the young officer immediately ran out of the headquarters and gathered his men.

However, looking at the busy back of the young officer, Xu Hu sighed.

"If I knew this would happen, I should have brought a few 80 and 120 caliber mortars..."

Although the range of the 60 mortar is 1 km, the 120 mortar with a range of 2 km is absolutely enough, if you can get a few 120 mortars, Xu Hu and they can knock out the fire point of the Beiyang Army outside the effective range.

However, I regret that it was not at the beginning, and now in this situation, Xu Hu and they can't let the rear ship 120 mortars over, so they can only look at the mortar company commander...

And after gathering his men, the young officer surnamed Lin Mingfang led his men to run briskly to the front with 60 mortars. Waited until it was in the effective range of 60 mortars and stopped.

"Company commander, isn't it dangerous for us to do this?"

After lying on the ground, looking at the few dusts raised beside him, the deputy company commander smiled bitterly at Lin Fang.

However, after listening to the words of the deputy company commander, Lin Fang shook his head and said.

"Don't worry, I already have a plan..."

Of course, it is not possible to shoot directly against the fire of Makqin, you must know that although the accuracy of the mortar is not bad, it is definitely not high, and it is absolutely impossible to strike at a target 1 km away at the limit range of 1 km, and it is absolutely impossible to do a few more test firings, but a few test firings???

Don't forget what Maxim's ultimate rate of fire is, if they do, I'm afraid they will be swept to the ground by Maxim before they can shoot a few rounds, so...

"You go, talk to those gunners, let them come up with infantry guns!"

"Gunner?"

Hearing Lin Fang's order, the deputy company commander was obviously a little confused.

But even so, the deputy company commander obeyed the order and ran to the infantry gunner.

Although Lin Fang commanded mortars, and those gunners used infantry guns, Lin Fang was the captain and company commander of the mortar company after all, and these mortars were just ordinary gunners in each strong attack squad, even if the rank was higher than that of ordinary soldiers, it was just the level of regular soldiers (the military rank of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty was composed of privates, first privates, regular soldiers, corporals, sergeants, and sergeants), so after hearing the call of this captain and company commander, although it was a little strange, But the gunners climbed as fast as they could.

Among them, there is Yu Gang, who just knocked out a peripheral firepower point.

"Company Commander Lin, may I ask what you called us to do?"

It took a few minutes to crawl over with the infantry guns, and Yu Gang and a few other gunners asked a little strangely.

"Nothing." Yu Gang shook his head: "I just want to borrow your infantry gun." ”

Saying that, Yu Gang said what was in his heart.

It turned out that when he took the initiative to ask for battle, Lin Fang had already put his mind on Yu Gang's infantry artillery.

You must know that the full weight of the 37 infantry guns is 80 attacks, of which there are 40 kilograms contributed by the cannon body, 30 kilograms contributed by the artillery carriage, and of course, 10 kilograms contributed by the artillery shield, and Lin Fang is looking at the 10 kilogram gun shield of the infantry gun.

The 10-kilogram gun shield, although not very heavy in serious terms, is thick enough to withstand the power of the 11.43 mm caliber bullets of the Maxim heavy machine gun.

Of course, the area of a 10-kilogram heavy gun shield is certainly not very large, at least it is absolutely impossible to completely protect the mortar with the gunner, but it is enough to protect some of them. After all, war is a very risky thing, and since Lin Fang wants to win, he must take risks...

"So, I want you to lend me the cannon shield!!"

After listening to Lin Fang's words, Yu Gang and the others looked at each other, although they were still a little confused, they agreed to lend the cannon shield to Lin Fang.

It's just that while borrowing, Yu Gang and the others also scolded in their hearts.

"You bastard, if you want to borrow a cannon shield, you just say borrow a cannon shield, why do you want us to move the whole cannon over? That's an 80-kilogram infantry gun, and it's still under the nose of the Maxim machine gun, and we have to carry an 80-kilogram infantry gun while crawling forward, do you know how uncomfortable we are? ”

Although they cursed so secretly in their hearts, they still removed the cannon shield from the infantry cannon as quickly as possible.

After all, they are also very clear about the current situation, and now there is a battalion of brothers in their regiment alone who is suppressed by the firepower point that is on the inner line, and the whole army is now having 4 regiments attacking the positions of the Beiyang Army.

In fact, on the way they climbed over with the infantry guns, two people were already swept by the Maxim machine gun, and one of them fell down directly......... Although 1000 meters is the effective range, 2200 meters is also the ruler range, although the accuracy after 1000 meters is not very expected, but this does not mean that at a distance of 2000 meters, Maxim is not lethal...

After the cannon shield was removed and the 60 mortars were blocked on the way in, Yu Gang and the others looked at Lin Fang in a complicated way.

"Now, we can only watch Company Commander Lin and them."

(To be continued)