Chapter 117

A map of Xuzhou City appeared in front of him, and Zhang Xiaohuai was secretly surprised while being overjoyed. The capabilities of the MIA are far beyond expectations. Judging from the content, this picture is extremely detailed, just like the picture drawn by the Beiyang Army itself. The map is carefully marked next to it, the number of troops, the number of troops, the number of troops, firepower, etc.

With such a picture, it can be said that the battle of Xuzhou won half of the first. How did this map come about, Zhang Xiaohuai didn't ask, and smiled at Zhao Yi, who personally sent the defense map, and said: "Director Zhao, after this battle, the Military Intelligence Bureau is the first contribution." ”

"The chief of staff is polite, compared to the brothers who worked hard before the battle, my generation is really nothing. The fewer people I want to know about this matter, the better. "Low-key is the basis of intelligence officers Chapter 117 Fierce Battle on the Eastern Front (1) Bensu zhì, to get this defense map, Zhao Yu took a lot of effort. But I also have to thank the ** of the Beiyang system, such a fateful Wen Jiàn took less than 5,000 oceans to win. The difference in the sense of secrecy on the Beiyang side made Zhao Yu secretly wake up, and it was necessary to ask the marshal for secrecy matters within the National Defense Force.

On the Xuzhou front, it was dark after a short contact battle. The Wehrmacht set up camp in an orderly manner and set up sentry posts.

The acting division commander Hu Yan Aobo held his breath in his heart, and he must remove the word "generation", this battle is very hard. I went to every company-level unit, inspected the state of preparations, returned to the headquarters, and held a pre-battle preparation meeting.

How to fight tomorrow's battle, Huyan Aobo, who likes to fight skillfully, has been pondering this question in his mind. When we returned to the camp, the chief of staff was waiting outside. When he saw him, he stepped forward and greeted: "The commander-in-chief is here." ”

The commander-in-chief naturally refers to Zhang Xiaohuai, Huyan Aobo was in good spirits, tidied up his clothes and said, "No problem, right?" ”

The Wehrmacht's tradition of attaching importance to discipline has become even more demanding in the hands of Jiang Fangzhen and Zhang Xiaohuai. These two are well-dressed all day long, especially Zhang Xiaohuai, whose subordinates are a little lax in pretending, and it is common for them to be scolded in person in Chapter 117 Fierce Battles on the Eastern Front (1).

Walk into the headquarters. Zhang Xiaohuai was facing away from the door, staring at the map on the wall. The map marked the deployment of the 6th Division, and footsteps were heard. Zhang Xiaohuai turned his head, looked at Huyan who came in with a stern gaze, waved his hand and said, "Are you back?" Huyan and the chief of staff stayed. Everyone else went out. ”

Such a mysterious appearance, Huyan Aobo is very curious. When everyone went out, Zhang Xiaohuai took out a map from his bag and said: "Look carefully, this is the deployment map of Zhang Xun's headquarters opposite the Sixth Division." You study slowly, I still have to go to the fifth and seventh divisions. Zhang Xiaohuai left after speaking, and the two looked at each other when they sent them out of the door, and they were secretly surprised in their hearts. How did this information come about?

I can't care so much, Zhang Xiaohuai personally sent it must be no problem. Huyan Obo immediately ordered to go down to the meeting, the last preparatory meeting before the war.

For Zhang Xun, it was also a sleepless night. Jiang Gui's old body bones. I also stayed up late with him.

"Jiang Laoshuai, how many days do you think the outer position can be defended?" Zhang Xun didn't have much confidence in his heart, Jiang Gui heard this, and secretly pondered in his heart, he had seen the combat effectiveness of the National Defense Army. It was in Bengbu at the beginning. The veterans of the ten battalions are not good at fighting. Although there is a suspicion of being sneak attacked, after thinking about it carefully, even if it is an upright battle, it may not be someone's opponent.

"Hold on to one day for a day, if you lose this battle. You and I have to go home and farm. Jiang Gui replied with such a question, Zhang Xun knew that this was the truth, and it was difficult to mix a piece of territory under Yuan Shikai! Finally, Xuzhou got it, and I couldn't help but not work hard. Jiang Gui's mind is probably the same. I really want to retreat, where is the end of retreat?

"It's almost dawn! Let's go lie down for a while, don't stay up for a while. Zhang Xun muttered, took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, and the pointer pointed to 5:58 in the morning.

Jiang Guidi stood up and said, "I'll just squint with this for a while." Zhang Xun got up and went out, and the cold air in the courtyard was thick, and he shivered. Subconsciously glanced at the dark sky, but when he saw a piece of fire suddenly tear through the darkness before dawn, he was shocked, and the deafening sound of cannon sound seemed to explode in his ears.

Three heavy artillery regiments and 76 heavy artillery guns fired together, this kind of scene that no one on either side of the warring side had ever seen, let alone the 75th Mountain Artillery Regiment under the division. The silence of dawn was broken, and from silence to deafening, it was only a matter of moments.

Jiang Guidi, who was in the house, was alarmed, ran out and looked at the fire outside the city, as well as the huge shelling, he was stunned for a moment, and looked at it for a while before muttering: "Shaoxuan, I'm afraid I won't be able to pass this level." ”

Zhang Xun threw away his hat and yelled viciously: "If you want to destroy us, it's not so easy, Lao Tzu personally went to supervise the battle outside the city, and this time he fought with the green skin." "The sound of artillery continued, and the positions outside the city were blasted into daylight by shells. The fortifications that the pigtail army had worked so hard to build flew into the sky like papier-mâché in the face of powerful artillery fire.

The pigtailed corps on the positions experienced a maximum of an hour, and experienced veterans huddled in the trenches with their heads in their hands, waiting for the shelling to end. The recruits were afraid of artillery, and many of them were frightened and got up from the trenches and ran, only to be blown up into the sky, flying everywhere with broken hands and feet.

After an hour of shelling, the sky was also overcast, and the troops of the 6th Division on the front rushed out of the predetermined starting point, lined up in a straggler formation, and rushed forward in the footsteps of the extension of the division's 75th artillery. The counterattacks of the first line positions of the Braided Army were sporadic and such a heavy shelling destroyed the will of the vast majority of the people to resist.

However, some people were not satisfied, and Cheng Zhixuan, the supreme commander of the artillery unit who came to the front line to command the operation, jumped to his feet and scolded: "A group of losers' things, just hit a base number, how can you hit a base and a half?" Is it easy to transport point shells logistically? Do you know how much this cannonball costs? ”

For this battle, the General Logistics Department of the National Defense Forces prepared ten base shells, one of which started with a base of one and a half bases, no wonder Cheng Zhixuan jumped to his feet, who knows how long this battle will have to last?

Huyan Obo was very satisfied, standing in front of the high-powered artillery mirror, watching the assault troops rush to the enemy's position very smoothly, and his mood was very happy. Judging from the process, the artillery played an important role, and the fierce artillery fire made the pigtail army on the opposite side bear the limit of their mental capacity, and most of the trenches and obstacles in the front-line positions were cleared.

Before the First World War began, the battle that took place in China did not have the consciousness of digging a deep trench on both sides. The whip in the so-called trenches, which are actually more than a meter deep, can play a very small role in the face of large-caliber artillery.

The attack of the 6th Division met with relatively stubborn resistance when the second line of defense set by the Braided Army. In the morning, Zhang Xun's troops with braids hid in the trenches and shot desperately. Some of the firing points remained in the artillery fire, and the resistance of the pigtailed army ended somewhat hysterically amid the punches, kicks, and angry shouts of the officers.

Within an hour of the battle, the second line of defense was already crumbling. The resistance of the Braided Army seemed to them to be stubborn, but in the eyes of the Sixth Division, this kind of resistance was really nothing. A large number of light machine guns played a huge role in the battle, and the pigtail army was overwhelmed by the dense machine-gun fire in the trenches. Tata Tower, Tata Tower, very rhythmic point shot suppression, became a nightmare for the pigtail army. Some soldiers who dared to show their heads to resist were ruthlessly knocked down by machine guns. Several firing points were under the intensive care of the mortars, and none of them were spared, and they were bombarded into the sky before and after. A ghostly sniper, looking for officers to attack, accurate marksmanship, and constant headshots. In the minds of the pigtailed soldiers who were later captured, the sniper was the devil's cunning.

Although Zhang Xun went outside the city and personally cut off the heads of several defeated officers, he could not prevent the end of the second line of defense from being captured. Zhang Xun reluctantly ordered the artillery to block the firing, and in less than five minutes, Zhang Xun's artillery was suppressed by the Wehrmacht artillery. Half of the artillery of the two battalions was blown up, and the distressed Zhang Xun almost cried.

Finally, in front of the third line of defense outside the city, the Wehrmacht's offensive was contained, this line of defense was not hit by heavy artillery, the officers and men of several battalion heads were still in order, the machine guns were still there, and the continuous attack of the Wehrmacht was beaten back.

Zhang Xun angrily scolded Feng Guozhang for not being interesting enough, and asked the heavy artillery unit to shoot several times, but he did not get a response. Just as he was about to go to the door to scold in person, the communications soldiers sent out came back, and a heavy artillery battalion assigned to Zhang Xun was reimbursed for not firing a single shot. The green-skinned artilleryman looked like he had eyes, and at first he went to the heavy artillery position.

Zhang Xun was cold when he heard the news, and he couldn't believe his ears while holding on to his sword. That's heavy artillery, it's a long range, right?

Before the war, the Wehrmacht had a clear rule that heavy artillery should not be used against the city. That's why the third line of defense was not shelled, it was so close to the city, only a hundred meters. No matter how good the Wehrmacht artillery is, there is no guarantee that shells will not fall into the city.

Huyan Aobo was very dissatisfied with this regulation. Thinking that this was ignoring the life and death of the soldiers, judging from the defense map, Feng Guozhang still had two artillery battalions in the city, and at Zhang Xun's request, the heavy artillery battalion in the Beiyang Army opened fire, and the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division who attacked the position suffered a lot of losses. The position that had just been won was forced to retreat, Zhang Xun breathed a sigh of relief, and Huyan Aobo angrily led the telescope.

"Shit's regulations, send a telegram to General Staff Zhang, asking the heavy artillery to fire at the enemy artillery positions in the city." Although the casualty figures have not been counted, Huyan Aobo is still distressed to death.

Zhang Xiaohuai's reply came back soon after, and he telegraphed: He had sent a telegram to the commander-in-chief of Wuhan to make a decision. Obviously, Zhang Xiaohuai has no right to break this regulation, so he can only ask Fang Jianxiong to call the shots.

The morning of Wusheng Pass was immersed in dense fog, and Fang Jianxiong, who was standing on the pass, put down the telescope helplessly, and now the telescope was redundant at this time. From the point of view of time, Xuzhou has already started, and Fang Jianxiong hopes that Xuzhou will have good weather, so that he can give full play to the advantage of firepower.

Yin Weijun quickly arrived at him and said loudly: "Fu Shuai, Su County is in an emergency." ”rq！！！