"What's going on? Who the hell called? Is it Zhao Dongyun or Wang Yingkai or Wu Fengling? , how many people attacked? Fuck, you're talking the fuck! "In a private house in Lin Tingkou, when several officers of the Fourth Town were having an emergency meeting, Zhang Dianru, the commander of the Sixteenth Standard, was full of anger.

The other officers who had obviously just gotten up, and who weren't even dressed neatly, also looked at me, I looked at you, no one spoke for a long time, and after a long time, Liu Chaolu, the commander of the second battalion, said:

"The direction of attack is from the east, and nine times out of ten it is Zhao Dongyun's men and horses, and judging from the density of their shelling, at least there is an artillery battalion to support them, in this case, the people who come are at least a co-ordination!"

Although the big guy is still confused, several of the people here are also veteran officers, and judging how many artillery pieces the enemy has through the density of artillery bombardment, and then deducing how many enemies are attacking, is also the basic skill of an officer.

"As for the association of the Feng army, we don't know for the time being, but now they have shelled several rounds, and it is estimated that it will not be long before the infantry team will attack, Biaotong, you see us now?"

Zhang Dianru took a deep breath, and said after a while: "Let's see how many people are coming to attack, and then immediately send someone to Baodi to inform us of the situation and ask for reinforcements immediately!" ”

As soon as the sky at Lin Tingkou lit up, Feng Delin had already commanded his subordinates to make their first charge!

In an offensive battle, Feng Delin naturally did not fill all his troops into it, but only sent two infantry battalions, and then one as a reserve, in addition to preventing accidents, the main purpose was to be ready to enter the battle at any time to expand the results.

At the front of the battle line, Shi Jin, like other Fengjun officers, was wearing a dark blue officer's uniform, wearing a white bar on a yellow background on his shoulder, and a gold star epaulette with the rank of assistant staff leader, and the collar badge with a red background directly indicated his identity as an infantry officer.

"Let the second team slow down first, don't rush against the fire, and order the machine gun platoon to suppress the fire on the second team!" Shi Jintong did not seem as excited or scared as the other officers and soldiers at this time.

On the contrary, he was very calm now, and there was no fluctuation in his plain face, only if he picked up the telescope to observe the battle line, and then issued one battle order after another to the heralds and other officers around him.

In contemporary warfare, if it is said that officers at the platoon and team levels need to fight bloody battles and directly fight the enemy, then at the level of standard and co-unification, most of the considerations are already the layout of the entire front.

Moreover, officers of this rank not only have to face the enemy's firepower and personally go to the front line to direct the troops, but must also have a certain strategic ability, which can enable the troops to exert greater combat effectiveness and then cooperate with larger-scale operations.

Therefore, in the contemporary officer class, the battalion officer belt is a watershed, and those team officers and platoon commanders below the battalion officer belt are typical lower-level officers, and as long as the military rank reaches the leadership level and becomes the battalion officer, then it can be regarded as a middle-level officer in an army and become the core class in an army.

In the battle, every tactical decision made by Shi Jintong directly affected the process and outcome of this offensive battle!

"Order the battalion to belong to the mortar group, let them carry out three rapid-fire suppression artillery fire on the enemy in front of the second team!" As soon as Shi Jintong finished saying this, he gave another order after a while: "Let the third team enter the battle and reinforce the second team!" ”

"Then send the first team to speed up the detour, be sure to reach the predetermined line within fifteen minutes, and let the fourth team end the rest early and prepare for the battle!"

After a series of orders were issued, Shi Jintong looked at the second team in front that was still suppressed by the enemy's two heavy machine guns, and immediately said: "Send the latest Zhuyuan to the rear artillery team, and request immediate artillery support!" ”

Shi Jintong is quite dissatisfied with the progress now, the two heavy machine guns on the opposite side have been firing for a long time, and the enemy troops on the opposite side only arrived at this Lin Tingkou yesterday, it is impossible to build a strong heavy machine gun fortress, but why did their own mortars still fail to defeat them?

Although Shi Jintong participated in the battle in Guannai for the first time, but the previous series of battles in Tongzhou in the third town had already been transmitted to the whole army, and almost all the officers were studying the various battle examples in Tongzhou during this time, and some senior officers were generally very interested in the quick detour tactics used by Gu Lanyu, and carried out a lot of theoretical research with the staff as the center, but the low-level officers paid more attention to the tactics of mortar to overcome heavy machine guns!

In the Fengtian Martial Arts Academy, the tactics of how to use mortars to overcome machine gun positions were included in the priority teaching and assessment.

So even if he hadn't fired a heavy machine gun, Shi Jintong also knew that he had ordered all teams to use the 60mm mortar in his hand to knock out the enemy's heavy machine gun in time at the first time, but now, seeing that more than ten minutes have passed, the enemy's heavy machine gun is still firing, which is not normal no matter how you look at it.

And what he didn't know was that on the front line of the second team, team officer Yu Zhuangming looked at the mortar platoon under his command with a sad face!

"Damn it!" His mortar platoon had just prepared to launch an artillery attack on the enemy's heavy machine gun position, but because the reconnaissance of the terrain before the attack was not detailed enough, and it was at night, the guide was not familiar with the local terrain enough, and the mortar of the mortar group had just been put down and assembled, and a series of enemy machine gun bullets strafed over, and at this time he realized that the mortar position he had chosen happened to be in the firing window of the enemy's heavy machine gun!

At that time, the commanders of the two mortar groups and more than a dozen soldiers were killed and wounded on the spot, and more than half of them were killed and wounded, and the most crucial thing was that the commanders of the two mortar groups were killed and seriously wounded, and neither of the two main gunners survived.

Although this mortar is simple and convenient compared to the traditional barreled artillery, it is also a kind of artillery, it is very simple to launch it, but it is not easy if you want to hit it accurately, at least you have to be able to use the scope, and you have to be able to calculate the shooting elements!

In the Feng army, the commanders and main gunners of the mortar group generally use these things, but ordinary ammunition men and Fu gunners actually don't, and ordinary infantry don't understand these things.

How to say it, no matter how much this artillery is played, it is still a technical branch of arms, and it is still relatively difficult to cultivate, and limited by the cultural quality of domestic soldiers, it is close to zero, so even Zhao Dongyun, who attaches great importance to technical arms, can only select some slightly educated, or smart soldiers for training, as for ordinary soldiers can understand the command command.

As for the officers, the regular class is okay, except for the basic tactical skills, basically everything else can understand a little bit, because the mortar is assigned to the infantry, so most of the officers from the formal class will also play this mortar. However, in the past, the officers from the crash course in the Third Town Suiying School and the current Fengtian Martial Arts Academy, except for the officers of the crash course artillery department, most of the other infantry crash officers did not know this thing, and in that short period of three months, they basically had to spend on enriching the cultural foundation and improving the tactical literacy of the infantry, and they did not have much time to learn other things.

According to reason, there are two mortars in a team, and there are four people who can play these two mortars, if you count the officers from the official class, it is five, basically this is enough, but no one thought that a heavy machine gun strafing of the enemy actually killed the two commanders and two main gunners of the mortar group, and Yu Zhuangming is an officer from a crash course, you can let him play mortar tactics, but if you let him fire the cannon himself, the accuracy will be uncertain.

When Yu Zhuangming used the remaining gunners and ammunition men to pull up the mortar group again, he found that no one would aim at the target and adjust Zhu Yuan, and he also commanded two shots, but his half-hung water was used to command the mortar to suppress the infantry charge, but it was too difficult for him to first reduce the accuracy of the hit to within a few meters, and then end the enemy's heavy machine gun position.

After secretly shouting and scolding, Yu Zhuangming pulled the herald over: "You go to the third team at the back and let them support a mortar commander to come to our department!" ”

This mortar can't be used, this kind of thing Yu Zhuangming can't tolerate!

It didn't take long for a sergeant to be in front of Yu Zhuangming, this person's military rank was a non-commissioned officer in the soldier class in the military rank system at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the well-known third-class nine-level officer rank, there were also additional officers, that is, equivalent to warrant officers in foreign armies, and at the same time, non-commissioned officers were also established to be three-level sergeants, sergeants, and corporals, and soldiers were three-level regular soldiers, first-class soldiers, and second-class soldiers, thus forming a sixth-class and sixteen-level military rank system.

In the Feng army under the command of Zhao Dongyun, because the establishment is slightly different from other units in Beiyang, this mortar unit belongs to the new formation, and the 'mortar platoon' is established under the jurisdiction of the team, and its platoon commander is also the commander of one of the mortar groups, and the military rank is the Cooperative Military Academy, that is, the lowest officer. The commander of the other mortar group was a veteran mortar with the rank of sergeant.

Together with the two chief gunners with the rank of sergeant or corporal, the core of a mortar platoon with two 60-mm mortars was formed, and as for the others, such as the deputy gunner, the ammunition man, or something, he could just call a few people to come and raise money.

It is worth noting that the titles of sergeant, sergeant and corporal in the new army at the end of the Qing Dynasty actually have nothing to do with foreign armies, but are derived from the official titles of the third generation of the Xia and Shang dynasties.

However, contemporary people still rarely call the military rank of the soldier verbally, and generally call him position, for example, when Zhao Dongyun was the commander of the third town before, no one called him Zhao Dutong, and he was generally called Zhao Tong.

With this mortar commander seconded from the third team, the two 60mm mortars under Yu Zhuangming's hands can be regarded as exerting their true power!

After a series of intensive rapid-fire artillery bombardment, soon the heavy machine guns of the fourth town on the opposite side no longer sounded the clicking sound, and at this time there was also a dense sound of gunfire from the flank, Yu Zhuangming knew that the first team that had detoured from the left flank had successfully detoured and launched an attack on the enemy from the flank.

As he expected, he soon met with the herald, who brought the latest order from Shi Jintong, the second and third teams, to attack from the front and break through the enemy line in one fell swoop.

This dawn is destined to be unstable!

Zhang Dianru's troops were unable to stop the fierce attack of Li Chunyi's entire Xiejia artillery battalion in the face of two hours, and after two hours of resistance, Zhang Dianru led the troops to retreat from Lintingkou and fled to Baodi County.

In this battle, Li Chun secretly attacked one of Zhang Dianru's targets at the cost of more than 50 casualties, killed and wounded more than 200 enemy soldiers, and successfully defeated Zhang Dianru's troops, forcing him to lead the remnants to retreat to Baodi.

It didn't take long for the news to reach Duan Qirui's desk in Beijing!

Duan Qirui immediately looked black, took the telegram from Baodi and found Wang Yingkai!

"He Zhao Dongyun deceived people too much, and he actually attacked my sixteenth standard in the early hours of this morning, he still has us in his eyes, he is going to rebel!" Duan Qirui threw down the battle report angrily, looked at Wang Yingkai, who was also black, and said: "Shao Chen, it's not that we want to fight now, it's him Zhao Dongyun who wants to fight, and he is determined to join the Beijing Division!" ”

Although Wang Yingkai had expected a war with Zhao Dongyun, he didn't expect Zhao Dongyun to react so quickly, his second town and the first association of Fengtian had just arrived in Tangshan, so he couldn't wait to start a war!

"It's not impossible to fight, but it's not a day or two early, your fourth town will shrink back first, and after my first town and fifth town go north, then gather the sixth town, and the seventh town will go north in one fell swoop, I'll see if he Zhao Dongyun is really so good at fighting!"

Seeing that Wang Yingkai had made up his mind, Duan Qirui's anger calmed down slightly!

"Since you're here, let's have lunch and leave!" Wang Yingkai said this, Duan Qirui did not postpone it, and immediately said:

"Then I'm going to nag you!"

As noon approached, when the two of them sat down one after another to eat, there was a burst of urgent footsteps outside, Wang Yingkai saw the panic on the face of the visitor, and reprimanded: "What's the matter, panic!" ”

The person who came was his entourage, but he didn't react to Wang Yingkai's reprimand, and walked up to Wang Yingkai in a panic, and then handed out a telegram.

The dense messages written in these years are generally electrified, and Wang Yingkai's face quickly darkened after reading this telegram: "Okay, he is Zhang Nanpi, I really have no one in Beiyang!" ”

Duan Qirui was a little puzzled when he heard this, but after he took the telegram handed over by Wang Yingkai and looked at it a few times, he quickly became angry in his heart!

"They dare!" Duan Qirui threw down the telegram, and then stood up directly: "If they dare to do this kind of Chinese Federal Empire, my Beiyang army of more than 100,000 troops will immediately wave Jiangning and set foot on the three towns of Wuhan!" ”

At the same time, in Zhao Dongyun's temporary residence in Tangshan, Zhao Dongyun looked at the telegram published by Zhang Zhidong in his hand, and couldn't help laughing: "This Nanpi is really old-hearted!" 'The Empire of the Federal Republic of China', he dared to say! ”