Human's Foot Rock front, 10 a.m.

In the position of the machine gun group to which the second battalion belonged, a bearded man in his prime cautiously leaned out, and then took a telescope to look ahead, and said while observing: "Ten o'clock, the distance is five hundred and thirty, long bursts!" ”

As his words fell, the heavy machine gun shooter below quickly pulled the trigger, and after the clicking sound sounded, a series of bullets shot out of the muzzle of the machine gun, and then erupted from this civil machine gun fortress, forming a dense bullet net sweeping towards the Anhui army that was charging in the distance.

The huge power of the heavy machine gun bullets directly tore their bodies apart, most of the heads of the Anhui soldiers who were hit in the head were knocked off, and almost the entire arm of the Anhui soldier who was hit in the right hand was knocked off.

This was not the end, and after a few seconds, another Fengjun heavy machine gun fired a long shot at them, although the hit rate of the heavy machine gun has always been low, but the dense bullet net still allowed several Anhui soldiers to be hit.

The connection was intercepted and strafed by two heavy machine guns, which caused the Anhui infantry company, which had just jumped out of the covering position to charge, immediately collapsed.

The rest of the soldiers either lay down on the spot, or turned around and ran back to the position before departure, and even the few Anhui army officers who took the lead in the charge had to find cover nearby.

This is not to say that they are not brave enough, but when they charge in the open area, they are strafed by the enemy's heavy machine gun fire, and continuing to charge forward is not an act of bravery, but a foolish act.

The officers of the Anhui army, who were in charge of commanding the battle, were not surprised by their retreat, and the attacking troops were hit by heavy enemy fire, which was already expected by them.

They didn't care, why, because at the same time more Anhui soldiers launched a charge, and the opposite Anhui army was able to repel a company's charge, but at the same time there were three, four or even more Anhui infantry companies to charge.

Although the heavy machine gun fire of the Feng army was fierce, the number was limited, and in the face of the charge launched by the Anhui army on the entire front, they could not be afraid of everything.

The Anhui army only needs to make a breakthrough in one position, then it can lead the line with points, and then expand the breakthrough, causing the collapse of the entire defense line of the Feng army.

Lei Zhenchun's offensive tactics are quite simple to say, that is, to use his own strength far beyond the 33rd Regiment of the Feng Army to launch an attack on the whole front, so that the Feng Army does not care about the tail, as long as there is a loophole in any part of the Feng Army, then he Meng Enyuan will be able to win the battle.

In the face of Lei Zhenchun's simple and crude tactics, Fang Qingkun felt difficult to deal with.

He already has a lot of heavy machine guns in his hand, and after receiving reinforcements from the rear, the current 33rd Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 34th Regiment have a total of 15 heavy machine guns.

Although Fang Qingkun has a lot of heavy machine guns in his hand, there are not many heavy machine gun bullets in his hands!

The reason why the heavy machine gun has become the core weapon in defensive warfare is because of its terrifying rate of fire!

And what does the high rate of fire represent? It means that a large number of bullets are needed!

In order to get the most out of a heavy machine gun, you need to give it enough ammunition!

After more than a day of fierce fighting, most of the heavy machine gun bullets in Fang Qingkun's hand have been consumed, and although they have been supplied with bullets transported by ship from the north shore, they still can't meet the huge consumption of heavy machine guns!

Without bullets, those heavy machine guns would not be able to play their due role, and in the face of the charge launched by the Anhui army on the entire front, even if the 33rd Regiment was well supplied, it would be quite difficult to defend, not to mention the current situation of the 33rd Regiment running out of ammunition and medicine.

"The situation on the second battalion's side is already very critical, urgently contact the artillery units in the rear and let them fire rapidly!" Fang Qingkun knew that it would be difficult to hold the defensive line with his own strength alone, and it was impossible to get reinforcements from the rear, so he could only ask the artillery in the rear to increase fire support.

After receiving Fang Qingkun's urgent request, Colonel Fei Xuqing, an artillery staff officer of the Fourth Army, and Colonel Zhao Dongan, commander of the Ninth Artillery Regiment, also had a deep face.

"Brother Fei, the troops can't continue to fight like this, there are more shells fired this morning than in a large-scale battle in the past, and the barrels of many artillery pieces are worn out, if we continue to maintain the current high-intensity rate of fire, I'm afraid that most of our artillery will have to be scrapped in this battle!" Zhao Dongan said with a worried face.

Zhao Dongan, the name seems to be similar to Zhao Dongyun, it is easy to think that he may be Zhao Dongyun's cousin or something, but in fact, the two have no relationship, Zhao Dongan is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and has nothing to do with the Zhao family in Suqian, Jiangsu, and it was not a family five hundred years ago.

After graduating from the artillery crash course of the Third Town Suiying School, this person has been serving in the Ninth Artillery Regiment, and has climbed up step by step to the current commander of the Ninth Division Artillery Regiment.

Fei Xuqing and him on the side are two types, Fei Xuqing first graduated from the Beiyang Military Academy, and later served in the Feng Army, and a few months later he was admitted to the advanced training class, and graduated last year, which was a senior student in 1907.

He was awarded the rank of major when he graduated, and at the end of last year he was transferred to the Ordnance Department and promoted to lieutenant colonel, and after the establishment of the Fourth Army, he was transferred to the Fourth Army as an artillery staff officer, and at the same time the rank was also promoted to colonel.

This kind of promotion speed is incomparable to Zhao Dongan.

Although Fei Xuqing's face was also dark, his tone was not the slightest hesitation: "Fight, continue to fight, the brothers of the 17th Brigade in front are counting on us, if we retreat at this time, it will be difficult for the 17th Brigade to survive alone, if the 17th Brigade has any accidents and the Jiangnan strategy fails, you and I will not be able to bear this responsibility no matter what." ”

Fei Xuqing still hasn't said a word, if he stops artillery support for the 17th Brigade because of difficulties and leads to a series of mistakes, how can he be worthy of the teacher's cultivation!

Claiming to be Zhao Dongyun's most descendant officer, Fei Xuqing has his own code of honor and responsibility!

Just when the artillery unit forcibly continued to launch intensive artillery support for the 17th Brigade regardless of the loss of the artillery itself, the 33rd Regiment at the front also ushered in the most critical moment.

The shells fired by the artillery of both sides continued to fall on the positions of both sides, and the sound of explosions did not stop from the moment they sounded, in addition to the continuous high-intensity shelling of the barreled artillery of both sides, there were also many mortar shells fired by the unique mortars of the Feng army.

The light and heavy machine guns on both sides have never stopped!

The sound of guns and cannons was mixed with gunsmoke, making the life on this small battlefield seem extremely fragile, and there were constantly Anhui soldiers who were knocked down on the way to charge, and there were also Fengjun soldiers in the position who were hit, and then lay on the position, the whole person seemed to be asleep, but the soil under him was already stained red with blood.

The battle continued like this, the Anhui army rushed forward regardless of casualties, and the Feng army desperately tried to block it, and under the fire of both sides, they suffered a large number of casualties.

The second battalion of the 33rd Regiment in the Feng army suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining strength of the second battalion was now less than 700, and a considerable number of them were wounded, which can be described as heavy losses.

However, the Anhui army on the opposite side was even better there, and the two infantry regiments they charged were both suffering heavy losses, and at least nearly 1,000 people were killed and wounded at this day.

And more importantly, Lei Zhenchun's attempt to use the superiority of troops to break through the direction of the Anhui army head-on failed!

By the time the sun went down, although the defense line of the 33rd Regiment of the Feng Army had many holes and looked crumbling, it was still not defeated, and they still held their positions.

This made Lei Zhenchun, who had already personally gone to the front line to supervise the battle, very angry, and he was also extremely depressed, although he had estimated in advance that his attack would be desperately blocked by the Feng army, but he still did not expect that the 33rd Regiment of the Feng Army on the opposite side would be able to hold on under his full onslaught.

However, no matter how depressed Lei Zhenchun was, it was a fact that he failed to break through the defensive line of the Feng army on the opposite side today, and what Lei Zhenchun needed to consider next was how to break through the defensive position of the 17th Brigade of the Feng Army in the limited time left.

That night, the Liangjiang Seventh Division rarely stopped the strong attack, on the one hand, the night attack was too difficult, and on the other hand, after two days of hard fighting, the situation of the Liangjiang Seventh Division was actually not much better than that of the 17th Brigade.

Their soldiers also suffered heavy physical depletion, heavy casualties, and a large consumption of ammunition, which took a certain amount of time to recover.

The Liangjiang Seventh Division stopped its offensive and began to prepare for tomorrow's offensive.

More than ten kilometers east of Ma'anshan, a cavalryman wearing a blue-gray military uniform is quietly walking through the low jungle, and outside the jungle in front of him, there is a team of troops who can barely see the end of the march, the color of the army's uniform is dark blue, and the army that can appear along the Yangtze River in southern Anhui and also wear dark blue winter uniforms is the only one in Anhui.

The scout cavalry of the Feng army cautiously walked in the jungle, observing while quickly recording on the small notebook he carried, and soon he put away the notebook, and then quietly retreated, and after the small steps reached the path below the forest, he untied the reins tied to the tree, and then turned over and galloped backwards.

It didn't take long for Pan Luanqing of the 17th Brigade to receive a report from the reconnaissance cavalry, and traces of the Fourth Division of the Anhui Army were found fifteen kilometers to the east.