In the position where the shells were still flying, Han Duotian shouted loudly while trotting, and the soldiers also came out of the anti-artillery holes one by one in the face of artillery fire, and then lay down on the trench, the rifles in their hands were already loaded, and they could meet the enemy who rushed up at any time.

At this time, the soldiers of the attacking Sixth Town were hit by heavy machine guns and artillery shells, and the defending Third Town was actually no better, they also had to endure the artillery fire of the other side, the trenches were not holes in the ground after all, and the bullets could not hide from the shells.

Especially on the side of the heavy machine gun position, which is more exposed, although people cannot strike accurately, and the efficiency is low, but more than a dozen artillery pieces come over, and as long as a grenade fired by one gun explodes over the heavy machine gun position, then this heavy machine gun group will have to be reimbursed.

It's just that this small chance hasn't happened yet!

Although both the offensive and defensive sides are facing the threat of each other's firepower, war is a more tragic game than anyone else!

Everyone endured the blows and casualties equally, but whoever dies more and who can't withstand it first loses!

In this era of warfare, there is no doubt that the defending Third Town has a much smaller casualty ratio than the attacking Sixth Town.

When the two teams of soldiers in the Sixth Town braved the shells to charge, the two heavy machine guns under Li Yuanjun were already the main force of defense, and the two heavy machine guns continued to shoot at long points, and once they hit, they had to fall down, but the officers of the Sixth Town were not stupid, and they would not be unaware that they would be intercepted by dense heavy machine gun fire if they rashly launched an attack.

So the reason why the attack is going on is because the distance between the two is quite close, and the closest place is actually less than a hundred meters!

Why did the Sixth Town launch a counterattack, that is, Han Duotian dug the trench in front of the defensive position of the Sixth Town, and the previous confrontation distance was three or four hundred meters, but now it was so carried out by Han Duotian, and it was suddenly approached about 100 meters, and two heavy machine guns were deployed behind the swagger, there was such a thorn in the eye here, and the position of the Sixth Town on the opposite side with a radius of thousands of meters did not need to do anything else.

So they have to pull the nail out!

On the one hand, this salient is too threatening to them, and on the other hand, because the distance is quite close, it will not take too long to launch a charge, and if the soldiers use all their strength, they can run through it in more than ten seconds. Moreover, Han Duotian's trench was newly dug, and he had not yet had time to deploy obstacles such as barbed wire and wooden fences to facilitate the charge.

Under the combination of many circumstances, the sixth town of the people launched this attack, don't think they are stupid to send them to death!

In addition, in this offensive battle, although the core goal is to conquer this small section of the position where Han Duotian and Li Yuanjun are located, it is far more than here, and within the width of thousands of meters around, there are actually troops from the Sixth Town attacking, and the two heavy machine gun groups of Li Yuanjun, which are the core of defense, actually bear not only this small section of the position where Han Duotian is located, but actually bear the defense line of the entire second battalion of Xi Hezhi.

When thousands of people launched an attack on Xi Hezhi's second battalion position, the two heavy machine gun groups under Li Yuanjun were simply too busy to give enough support to Han Duotian's defensive front.

In the eyes of Han Duotian on the front line, he could already see the enemy in the trench on the opposite side gradually crawling out of the trench, his place was different from the other troops of the second battalion, the place he was in was only about 100 meters away from the enemy, let alone running out of the trench, he didn't even dare to lie on the trench casually and shoot, because at a distance of 100 meters, even a soldier with ordinary marksmanship could blow off your head with one shot if he was lucky......

Han Duotian's forty or fifty subordinates lying behind the trench were all extremely nervous at this moment, and they were already trembling when they were worried, and even if they were calm, they couldn't help but breathe heavily.

The sound of heavy breathing echoed faintly in the sound of explosions and the click of heavy machine guns!

At this time, a series of copper whistles sounded in the trenches of the sixth town on the opposite side like other directions, and the sharp sound of the copper whistle could even reach Han Duotian's ears, and at this time, he also pulled out his pistol, continued to wield the saber in one hand, and held a revolver six-shot pistol in the other hand.

Just when the copper whistle sounded on the opposite side, Han Duotian immediately shouted loudly: "Ready!" ”

The next moment, a large number of Beiyang soldiers who were also dressed in dark blue, but did not have strips of cloth wrapped around their arms, rushed out of the trenches, some of them shouted loudly, some kept rushing forward with their heads down, and at this moment the rifles in their hands were inserted with shiny bayonets.

"Shoot!" Han Duotian also gave the order to fire at the first time, and at the same time pulled the trigger of the pistol, of course, not to hit the enemy, the pistol could not hit anyone at a distance of hundreds of meters, but to act as an order to fire.

At this critical moment, many soldiers will even be stunned, unable to hear the verbal order, or simply unable to react, but people have a blind obedience mentality, that is to say, others will shoot themselves, so at this critical moment, direct shooting is more effective than conveying verbal orders.

As Han Duotian took the lead in shooting, more than 40 soldiers under his command also quickly pulled the trigger, whether they hit or not, they immediately pulled the bolt, and then aimed and fired the second shot.

The soldiers of the Sixth Town who rushed towards them were knocked down one after another, but the rest continued to charge!

These charging soldiers did not fight back with guns, but it did not mean that the soldiers of the Sixth Town let Han Duotian shoot and intercept them, in fact, at the same time, a heavy machine gun of the Sixth Town was also continuing to fire, and the task of this machine gun at this moment was to suppress Han Duotian and others who were shooting back in the trenches.

With the click of Li Yuanjun's heavy machine guns, harvesting the lives of one after another soldiers in the Sixth Town, the trenches of Han Duotian's headquarters also stirred up a little smoke and dust, and as a long point of the enemy's heavy machine guns fired, a series of bullets swept over the trench bunker, and many bullets directly hit the bullets lying on the trench to shoot, and one of the people's head was overturned in half......

Even in the era of the trenches, it is impossible to say that the defenders can stay in the trenches and shoot without a little casualties, in fact, the casualties will still be very large, in the Western Front of World War I, people heard that most of the British and French soldiers who launched the attack were killed and wounded by German machine guns in a day, but few people will pay attention, in fact, the German army as the defender died a lot.

In the era of positional warfare, in fact, most of the large-scale battles were of the meat grinder type, and it was all about you and everyone dying, and it was up to who could not stand the complete collapse of the guide first. The reason why Germany suffered a crushing defeat in World War I was not because of the emergence of tanks or the shortage of resources, but for a simple reason, that is, the meat grinder could not play Britain and France, in other words, the Germans could not send as many people to death as Britain and France......

Therefore, when Li Yuanjun commanded his two heavy machine guns to inflict heavy casualties on the two battalions and thousands of soldiers in the attacking Sixth Town, the Sixth Town on the opposite side was also suppressed with artillery and heavy machine guns, and it also achieved good results.

Xi Hezhi once again came down from the hidden command headquarters observation trench, and then said with a deep face: "Send a letter to the standard department and ask for artillery support from the standard department!" ”

Although Xi Hezhi was supported by an entire artillery battalion in the rear, it was still not enough for the current battle situation, and Xi Hezhi's second battalion itself only had the battalion firepower of two 80-millimeter mortars and two heavy machine guns, and as for the 60-millimeter mortars, they were team-level firepower and could not be put on the table.

The equipment of the third town is different from other Beiyang troops, because a lot of equipment, especially heavy machine guns and mortars, are mostly additional weapons purchased by Zhao Dongyun himself, so most of the various establishments are not regular, plus the level of weapons and equipment in the third town changes with time, especially last year, it began to be affected by the training of troops in the other two towns in Fengtian and the various tactical influences presented during the Russo-Japanese War, resulting in the equipment establishment of the third town has been unstable.

For example, in terms of artillery, the Beiyang Army had already formulated a standard establishment, that is, a battalion of 18 guns, and the Third Town had also made this kind of establishment before, but last year, in order to organize and train the two towns of Fengtian, many artillery personnel and even active artillery were transferred to the past, resulting in the artillery units of the Third Town being dissatisfied with the formation, and later it was always lacking more than a dozen artillery pieces.

It was not until the eve of entering the customs that artillery was transferred from the two towns of Fengtian and refilled with 18 guns in a battalion, but this establishment made many artillery officers have some opinions, believing that a battalion has too many artillery under its jurisdiction, which affects the mobility, and that it is better to establish four artillery battalions in the artillery standard of the division, and one battalion to get 16 guns; although there are artillery officers who vainly attempt to expand the artillery establishment and raise the artillery of the division from 56 to more than 70 guns, but it also shows from another angle that the 18-gun artillery battalion is not in keeping with the times.

At present, the personnel of the staff office of the Fengtian Army Headquarters have begun to reduce the existing artillery establishment and return to the old way of one standard and three battalions and one battalion of 16 guns, so that they can not only improve the flexibility of the battalion-level artillery units, but also free up more artillery to equip other expanded units.

You must know that the newly established Fourth Mixed Association and the Fifth Mixed Association are still waiting for artillery, and this new purchase is naturally too late, and the easiest way is to draw from the existing troops, so reducing the number of artillery in this case is also a helpless measure.

The artillery establishment has changed back and forth, and the heavy machine gun establishment has actually changed frequently, the Third Association era was concentrated in one battalion, and then the third town was divided into six units per standard at the beginning, and then in 1904 began to expand the heavy machine gun establishment, so two more were assigned to the battalion level, and after 1905, it continued to expand, and three more were added to the machine gun team under the standard department, so that the number of heavy machine guns belonging to the standard machine gun team increased to nine.

But this hasn't been played, at the beginning of last year, Zhao Dongyun created a so-called independent machine gun team, equipped with twelve heavy machine guns, this heavy machine gun team is also under the jurisdiction of the third town on weekdays, and has become the town's machine gun firepower of the third town, but later this team was dismantled, and the internal machine guns were transferred to the first town of Fengtian.

However, on the eve of entering the customs, a large number of machine guns were transferred from the first and second towns of Fengtian, and two machine gun teams were reorganized, which were respectively attached to the First Cavalry Association of the Fengtian Standing Army and the Third Town.

After this change, so far, the third town still has more heavy machine guns, reaching more than seventy, this level can already be compared to the Russo-Japanese army in the late Russo-Japanese War, but the independent machine gun team assigned to the town is a temporary establishment, and it is estimated that it will be dismantled after the war.

In this way, the 10th standard also has four 80-mm mortars and nine heavy machine guns, and these firepower, especially the nine heavy machine guns, are actually the core support weapons of an infantry standard.

Now, Xi Hezhi felt a little unbearable, so he immediately asked for the support of the standard department, especially the support of heavy machine gun fire.

Xi Hezhi felt that his entire battalion was under heavy pressure, and it was at the forefront of the battle line, the competition was the fiercest, and it was also the core of this battle, and the salient where Han Duotian was located fought even more fiercely.

Han Duotian was already wrapped in a white bandage on his arm at this time, and his face was stained with the blood of not knowing whether it was himself or his comrades, and in his sight, the enemy's infantry dozens of meters away stood up again, and then rushed towards his side.

Han Duotian shouted loudly: "Grenade ready!" ”

A few seconds later, a circle of grenades was thrown, and then although the enemy on the opposite side fell in large numbers, they still did not stop the pace, Han Duotian was already hideous at this time, and even disregarded safety, arrogantly stepped on the ammunition box, leaned half of his body out of the trench, brandished a saber in his hand and shouted loudly: "Bayonet ready!" ”

For a while, the soldiers in the trenches stopped shooting one after another, and then nervously pulled out the bayonet from their waists, and then inserted it into the bayonet slot of the rifle, and some soldiers' nervous hands have been trembling, and they have not been able to insert the bayonet into the slot for half a day.

However, the enemy on the opposite side was already holding a rifle and shouting with a bayonet to kill, and then the gunfire in Han Duotian's position stopped, the enemy's suppressive heavy machine gun had ceased firing, and Han Duotian's subordinates also stopped shooting, and all that was left was shouting and screaming, and blood flowed out of the wound, impregnating this land that made countless people die.