Han Wuduo shook the sand and dust off his body, and a cannonball just now fell and exploded a few meters behind the trench he was in, although the cannonball fell outside the trench, but the huge sound of the explosion still made Han Wuduo feel like his ears were buzzing, and his body was covered with a layer of dust kicked by the cannonball.

In addition to the dust, his body was also covered with blood, the head of the herald who followed him had been hit by enemy grenades before, and it was good that the trenches could withstand ordinary grenades, but if the grenades exploded directly above the trenches, ordinary trenches could not stop the enemy's grenades, which is why the defenders had to stay in the anti-artillery holes when the enemy launched an artillery attack.

He was now half-crouched in the trenches, gulping in the air filled with the smell of gunpowder, and his mind went blank, as if the whole world was only the rumbling of cannons.

Although he has been in the army for many years, Han Wuduo, like many officers and soldiers of the Feng Army, is still the first time to personally participate in the real battle, the Feng Army has been an army for many years since the era of the Third Association, but in fact, only the Third Division, the First Cavalry Brigade, and the Second Cavalry Brigade have really participated in large-scale wars.

However, the other troops have never fought a formal war, and in previous years, they only fought bandits, and those bandits did not even have many rifles, let alone artillery and the like, so the anti-bandit operation was at most to let the soldiers see blood, but it did not allow them to experience the horrors of real war.

When the large-scale artillery bombardment of the direct army began, not only many soldiers were stunned, but even Han Wuduo, an officer, was stunned, when the shelling began, it was okay, he could still brave the artillery fire to patrol his battle line and encourage morale, but since his herald's entire head was cut off in front of his eyes, and his blood was splashed, his mind was suddenly blank.

I don't know how long it has been, and the rumbling cannon seems to have decreased a lot, at this time, a sergeant next to him bent over and trotted over: "Company commander, they are about to rush over, what should I do?" ”

Han Wuduo, who was in a trance for an unknown amount of time, came back to his senses at this time: "Ah, they rushed up? ”

Although he was a little overwhelmed, Han Wuduo still retained the instinct of an officer, he hurriedly took out his binoculars, and then cautiously poked his head out of the trench, from the telescope he clearly saw a blue-gray figure looming hundreds of meters away, and their infantry was about to attack.

Han Wuduo was looking through the binoculars, while trying to recall what he had learned in the military academy back then, and recalled how the instructor explained how to deal with the enemy's infantry and artillery coordinated attack.

At this time, a lieutenant also trotted over: "Captain Han, more than 300 people from the enemy army have bypassed the front of our platoon position on the northeast side!" ”

Han Wuduo was still a little stunned, he couldn't remember any of the tactics and ideas in the past, his mind was blank, and he just muttered: "What, how many people?" ”

"At least two companies of enemy troops have already circled the flank of our platoon, and our platoon continues to reinforce!" The young lieutenant Li Cungao looked at this Han Wuduo, and his eyes showed a look of contempt, how did this kind of scumbag get mixed with the captain as a company commander.

"Oh, this...... This ......" Han Wuduo, who still hadn't been able to recover, couldn't speak for a long time.

Lieutenant Li Cungao looked at Han Wuduo, and then took a deep breath again: "I need the second platoon to reinforce me, after the second platoon is transferred, the No. 2 heavy machine gun should be transferred to the rear of the third platoon, so as to strengthen the defense of the third platoon and avoid the No. 2 heavy machine gun position from being in danger." ”

Han Wuduo listened: "Oh, yes, yes, that's it!"

After Li Cungao heard this, he immediately turned around and left, and when he left, he was already thinking in his heart, after this battle, I must report to the battalion headquarters, I, Li Cungao, am the top five top students in the infantry section of the provincial military academy this year, and I deserve a commander who can be respected by me, and I must not tolerate fighting under the command of a wreck.

In a short time, in the trench of the first row, Li Cungao and another lieutenant were half-crouching in unison, and they were facing a crude hand-drawn map spread on ammunition boxes.

"The direct army in front of us has at least two companies, and considering that the enemy may have a company of reserves, then when the battle starts, we are afraid that we will have to face three companies of enemy troops." Li Cungao frowned and said: "Although we can get the support of two heavy machine guns on our side, but when we fight, we will also need the support of heavy machine guns in other directions, in case the support is not enough, Brother Chen, our side will be in danger!" ”

"What about the battalion headquarters, when will the reinforcements come up?" Lieutenant Chen also frowned: "Relying on the strength of one of our own companies to block the attack of an enemy battalion, I'm afraid it's very difficult!" ”

"The situation on the battalion headquarters will not be much better than ours, looking at the scale of the artillery bombardment just now, the enemy has invested at least three artillery battalions on the entire front, which means that we are at least tens of thousands of direct troops on the opposite side, and we are only one regiment stationed on the southern defense line, and our second battalion has to resist the strength of at least one regiment of the enemy!" Li Cungao said: "But don't worry too much, we have perfect fortifications, and there are a large number of light and heavy machine guns, it is not easy for the enemy to enter." ”

Because of the outbreak of war, Li Chun's 7th Mixed Brigade urgently took away a large amount of ordnance from the warehouse of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, of which bullets and shells were the mainstay, but there were not many artillery, because the artillery had always been taken away by the people of the Ordnance Department to distribute to various units after leaving the factory, and only other ordnance materials would have a small amount of inventory.

Among these materials, the most important should be more than 10 heavy machine guns and more than 20 light machine guns, this batch of machine guns was originally purchased by the Ordnance Department for the newly expanded Provincial Army First Division, but before it could leave the factory, it was directly assigned to the 7th Mixed Brigade by the Ordnance Department. In addition to machine guns, there were more than 1,000 rifles and more than 500 pistols, of which rifles were mainly allocated to the militia units that had been temporarily conscripted, while pistols were not used.

Because these pistols were of little use to Li Chun's troops.

Pistols in contemporary warfare, according to the role can be roughly divided into three kinds, the first is the cavalry pistol, the cavalry in the American Civil War is very fond of using pistols to fight at close range, after using pistols is to use sabers to slash, but now cavalry with pistols to fight rarely, either with cavalry rifles for foot combat, or directly wielding sabers for slashing.

The second is the artillery, machine gun shooter and other types of pistols, the main role is to act as a close self-defense, but the effect of self-defense is quite limited, when the enemy's infantry kills your artillery position, there is no way to defend yourself with a pistol, most of the time it is just to give a psychological comfort.

The third type is the officer's gun, whose main role is decoration and suicide.

According to the military system of the former Qing Dynasty, the Feng Army, one of the Beiyang Army, was naturally equipped with a large number of pistols, and there were two kinds of standard pistols, one was the Colt revolver, which was often called the 'six-shot pistol' in the world, and the Beiyang Standing Army era was equipped with a large number of pistols.

After 1904, the Fuyuanji Qì factory imitated it and launched the Fuzao 1904 revolver produced by the Fuyuanji Qì factory, which was not much different from the Colt revolver, and fired a 7.62 mm Colt pistol bullet.

The second is the Browning 1900 pistol, mainly when the army was first established, it also imported hundreds of pistols from foreign banks to serve as high-ranking officers, and later Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory also purchased the production authorization from Belgium and began to produce the pistol, called the Fuzao 1905 automatic pistol, but the price is relatively expensive, and it is currently only a small-scale purchase to serve as a pistol for officers at all levels.

It is worth noting that these two pistols use the same kind of pistol cartridges, otherwise they would not be equipped at the same time, and the two pistols are dominated by Colt pistol \ Fuzo 1904 type revolver, which is massively equipped with cavalry, artillery, machine guns and other arms and some low-level officers. The Fukuzo 1905 automatic pistol, on the other hand, was equipped with a small number of officers of all ranks.

The actual role of these pistols in modern warfare is quite limited, which is why Li Chun doesn't care about these pistols!

In fact, Zhao Dongyun did not think about introducing the famous C96 Mauser pistol in history and establishing an assault force equipped with C96 submachine pistol, but the C96 pistol in this year is only a large automatic pistol, and it has not yet developed into a submachine pistol model in later generations.

For domestic troops, the value of C96 is as a submachine gun, so that the assault troops can obtain the firepower density of submachine guns, and not just use them as ordinary pistols, so the C96, which has not yet developed to the submachine pistol stage, actually does not have actual combat value.

In an era when submachine guns, submachine guns, and automatic rifles had not yet been invented and equipped with troops, light and heavy machine guns were the only option for sustained firepower.

Now the number of light and heavy machine guns in the 7th Mixed Brigade has increased significantly, which also offsets its own strength disadvantage to a certain extent.

However, even if it had the advantage of machine gun firepower, but the inferiority in the number of artillery and the disadvantage in strength was still a problem faced by the Feng army, when the direct army gathered more than one battalion of more than 800 troops, and with the support of the entire artillery battalion, launched an attack on Hanhezhuang, where Han Wuduo's second company was stationed, even if Han Wuduo's company was supported by two heavy machine guns, it still could not resist the absolute superiority of the enemy's forces.

Of course, in the eyes of some people, this has a great deal to do with Han Wuduo's incompetent command!

Li Cungao looked at the position hundreds of meters away with an angry face, that position was originally his position, but when the enemy attacked him and Lieutenant Chen's two platoons with more than three companies, although they commanded the troops to resist stubbornly, but soon came Han Wuduo's order, he asked the first platoon and the second platoon to withdraw to the second line of trenches to preserve their strength.

"I knew that he was a waste, and now this is the time when I am waiting to be a big handsome and dedicate a fortune to the country, and he actually ordered a retreat, he is a coward!" Li Cungao was quite dissatisfied with Han Wuduo's order to retreat, if it weren't for the strict military order, he would have to disobey the order.

"Needless to say, this matter is naturally decided by the battalion headquarters, and now while the enemy's foothold is not stable, it is only right to make a small counterattack!" Lieutenant Chen persuaded.

Li Cungao stopped his anger slightly, then picked up the binoculars again and looked at it, and then said: "First use a mortar for a while, and then see the situation, if they mess up, we will fight back!" ”

Lieutenant Chen nodded, and after these two people made a decision, the two 60-millimeter mortars not far away quickly launched a fierce rapid fire on the direct troops who wanted to rush into the trenches, and in almost less than a minute, the position of only a few tens of meters was the white nitrate after the explosion of nearly 30 60-millimeter mortar shells and mortar shells with black powder charges