When Dong Daquan blew the copper whistle at platoon commander Li Cungao, his sweaty hands grabbed the ammunition box and magazine in his hand, he was scared!

The light machine gun shooter who had just been transferred from the second platoon nodded to him at this time: "There's nothing to be afraid of, wait a minute, don't run straight, well, you just follow me, I guarantee that you can't die!" ”

Then he followed the shooter to climb out of the trench and rush, after this rush out of the trench, although his mind had forgotten the various tactical moves he had learned in previous training, but he was following the machine gun shooter in front of him, and for a while he seemed to forget that the shell exploded next to him, and the bullet flew overhead, at that time, his mind was almost blank, he just kept running forward.

However, halfway through the run, the machine gun shooter in front of him quickly lay on the ground, and then suppressed the fire on the opposite side of the direct army, his marksmanship is far from being comparable to Dong Daquan, a half-hung deputy shooter, and a few simple point shots suppressed the direct army soldiers who wanted to shoot back.

Dong Daquan also quickly stopped his pace and lay on the ground, but when he was closely watching the number of remaining bullets in the magazine, he suddenly felt like someone was pressing down on his body, reached out and touched the slimy clothes in his hand, it was obvious that his comrade-in-arms should have been shot.

Looking back, in the light of the explosion, he saw Li Cungao's conspicuous officer uniform, Li Cungao's hand was still tightly holding the gold-plated five-star saber, I heard that this command knife was when he graduated from the army officers in the three eastern provinces, because he ranked fourth in the second phase of the infantry section, this was awarded by Zhao Dongyun personally issued a gold-plated five-star saber, the blade style of the knife is the same as the blade of other officers, it is the style of the Beiyang Army officer saber in the era of Yuan Shikai, but the end of the knife handle is carved with a gold-plated five-star and the word republic, This five-star represents the five-colored star, the national emblem of the Northern Republican Government.

The blade of the knife is directly imported from Germany, as for the saber of ordinary officers is not so good, in addition to the sabers of senior generals and cavalry continue to be imported from Germany or Japan, most of the sabers of middle and low-level officers are mass-produced by Fuyuan Machinery Factory, and the quality is naturally not as good as the blade imported from Japan or Germany.

Many officers of the Feng army dislike the poor quality of the sabers of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, and often privately fund the purchase of a good knife, and then replace it with a standard knife handle as a saber, but they can change the blade, but this gold-plated five-star knife handle can only be used by the officers personally awarded by Zhao Dongyun, not only the top five top students of the military academy, but also the officers of those meritorious officers are sometimes awarded the gold-plated five-star saber.

This gold-plated five-star saber is part of the honor system in the Fengjun!

In the entire Seventh Mixed Brigade, there are only five or six people who use gold-plated five-star sabers, including Li Cungao, and even Li Chun, the brigade commander, cannot use this gold-plated five-star.

In the past, no matter what the occasion, Li Cungao never left his sword, but today, this gold-plated five-star saber fell next to Li Cungao!

Dong Daquan immediately shouted: "Platoon commander, platoon commander!" ”

Li Cungao turned his head, probably because his face was separated by the sharp gravel on the ground, his face was stained with blood, and it looked extremely terrifying mixed with the soil!

"Why don't you rush?" Li Cungao struggled to get up again, and the clean saber that he had wiped in the past was directly inserted into the ground by him, but the sharp pain in his right shoulder made him grit his teeth.

Dong Daquan didn't answer his words in time at this time, but quickly handed a new magazine to the shooter next to him, and after changing the magazine, he crawled over half-squatting and wanted to help Li Cungao.

At this time, the first row of soldiers who rushed to the front had already arrived at the trenches of the direct army one after another, and then they threw down a round of grenades, and before the smoke of the grenade explosion had dissipated, they had already rushed directly with their rifles loaded with bayonets.

Seeing that the two sides were standing together, and that the heavy machine guns of the direct army on the opposite side were also firing one after another in this direction, the light machine gun shooter decisively stopped the practice of continuing to shoot support, but picked up the light machine gun and continued to rush forward, and said: "Hurry up!" ”

Dong Daquan helped Li Cungao to keep up, although Li Cungao's shoulder was stained red with blood, and the severe pain made him clench his teeth, but he also endured it and continued to move forward, otherwise staying in this open land would be a dead word sooner or later.

In the explosion around them, among the bullets flying in front of them and behind them, Li Cungao and Dong Daquan moved forward step by step, and when they crossed that distance and arrived at the trench of the direct army, there were no more soldiers of the direct army standing in the trench.

There were still eight or nine corpses lying in front of and behind the trenches, five or six of them were in the gray uniforms of the direct army, while the others were wearing the khaki Fengjun uniforms.

In the charge, although Li Cungao was hit on the way, he had already rushed to the second half at that time, and the soldiers continued to rush forward according to the prior order, and directly held the rifles with bayonets to play white-knuckle combat with the direct army.

This kind of battle is a very test of the morale of an army and the training of soldiers, and the soldiers on both sides are not much different, Zhao Dongyun's seventh mixed brigade is a regular field army from the old Beiyang, Wang Yingkai's first division is not a nameless division, but the morale of the two sides is quite different, the direct army began to attack Tangshan in the afternoon, just to conquer this small Hanhezhuang is the vanguard of a multi-battalion army, after eight or nine hours of fierce fighting, although the direct army has overcome the first line of defense of the Feng army, but still failed to take Hanhezhuang, and at this time, the attacking infantry battalion of the direct army actually lost quite a lot of troops.

In these years, the attackers always have to pay a greater price than the defenders to achieve certain results.

The infantry platoon of the direct army that faced the battle just now was the first to fight fiercely for many hours, and after losing more than 10 people, there were less than 30 people left, and there was no fire support from light machine guns, and there was no hand grenade as a melee weapon, so after the first platoon of Li Cungao rushed up and threw a round of grenades, many people were killed and wounded immediately, and when more than 40 people in Li Cungao's first row rushed over with rifles with bayonets to start a white-knuckle battle, the direct army had no way to resist at all, but only made a slight contact. The remaining twenty or so people scattered to the rear.

However, the round of grenade attacks just now and the white-knuckle battle that touched for less than a minute also successfully killed and injured more than a dozen people, not to mention the wounded and fled, there were as many as six corpses left behind.

And Li Cungao's first row only killed three people, and the other three died on the way to the charge!

Despite the fact that the death toll on both sides was about the same, it was a great victory for the first platoon in a frontal assault battle.

You don't see that when the Russo-Japanese War launched an offensive war, the corpses of the attacking side fell one by one, even in the domestic civil war between the north and the south, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen's elite troops surpassed the Southern Federation by a lot, but they rarely rushed directly towards the frontal position of the Southern Federation, most of the time they played small-scale tactical maneuvers, or simply used artillery to directly bombard the enemy to a rout, and the infantry easily occupied the position.

Li Cungao gritted his teeth at this time, while Dong Daquan used gauze to bandage him on the surface: "Platoon leader, you have shed a lot of blood, I'm afraid you will ...... if you continue like this."

Li Cungao looked down at his shoulder, and from the bullet hole, he could see that he was hit by a 6.5 mm bullet from the direct army, which was fortunately only a rifle bullet, if it was replaced with a 7.92 mm Makqin heavy machine gun bullet, it was estimated that his shoulder would have to be punched out of a big hole at such a close distance. But even if he didn't study medicine, he knew that if he continued to keep blood like this, he would not be far from death.

But now at this critical juncture, I can't leave!

After simply setting up with the light machine gun in the first row, the machine gunner's skillful point fire once again suppressed the direct army on the opposite side, at this time, although Han Wuduo's tactical ability was very average, but he also saw the opportunity, and after a while, the second and third rows rushed up.

After a gap of four hours, Han Wudo's second company successfully counterattacked and captured part of the first line of defense, forcing the enemy to retreat on a large scale for the first time.

"Lieutenant Li, your injuries are very serious, I'll send you back to the regiment headquarters for treatment first!" Han Wuduo was reluctant to let Li Cungao die while fighting under his command.

Although this Li Cungao is only a lieutenant, as an honor student who has just graduated this year, he is already on the reuse list of the Quanxu Division, and it will not take long for him to be promoted to company commander after a few months of gold plating at the grassroots level, and there is a greater possibility that he will be directly transferred to the headquarters or division headquarters or brigade headquarters to serve as an operational staff officer.

The staff system in the Feng army is a bit special, and the staff department of the headquarters has great power, which also leads to the fact that the staff officers at all levels of the subordinate troops are not small, and because there are no deputy positions at the two levels of division and mixed brigade in the Feng army!

The deputy positions in the army are only at the level of the infantry regiment, and the brigades and divisions do not have such posts as deputy brigade commanders and deputy division commanders, but rather brigade chiefs of staff and division chiefs of staff, and a group of operational staff officers are under the chief of staff.

And the combat staff officer in this kind of field unit has a low rank, generally the rank of captain, and those who can become combat staff officers are generally extremely outstanding lieutenants, and they are the kind of people who will be promoted to major in the future.

A person like Li Cungao is destined to be impossible to stay at the level of lieutenant platoon commander for a long time, even if there is no war, it is estimated that he will be born as a captain in a few months, and he will be promoted to major in less than a year or two.

If this kind of young officer, who has made a name for himself in the Quanxu Department and belongs to the key training, dies under his command at the gilding stage at the grassroots level, he will inevitably be repnoked by his superiors.

And there is also a reason that Li Cungao is putting too much pressure on him here, and in today's battle, the actual commander of this second company is not Han Wuduo, but Li Cungao. Although Li Cungao does not skip the command, but often uses the way of building yì for himself to get himself to agree to his combat plan, but he is a captain and company commander, he also went to the army officer school of the three eastern provinces, although he was ranked two hundred outside the army when he graduated, but I also went to a military school, which was regarded as stupid by a junior, which made Han Wuduo feel a little uncomfortable.

Now that he saw that Li Cungao was injured, he naturally immediately sent Li Cungao to the rear, and the province continued to look at him without feeling uncomfortable.