Chapter 66: Battle of Duolun (2)

The next morning, the sun just came out, but it was calm for a night, Duolun once again sounded the earth-shattering gunfire, and after holding back all night, after receiving reinforcements from four Japanese-style heavy machine guns, he opened his posture in high spirits and tried to break through the position outside the east gate in one fell swoop, and approached the city of Duolun. After resting for a night, the company also held back its strength and calmly responded to the opponent's attack.

From a few hundred steps away, the Mongolian bandits will shoot while walking, but unfortunately the shooting level of the vast majority of the bandits is too poor, many people don't even know how to aim simply, the muzzle of the gun is raised to the sky and shoots, this situation generally exists in the warlord melee in the early stage of the Republic of China, especially in the later period of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression performance is quite reasonable.

Comparatively speaking, a company under the command of the company commander Xiang Qianliang is much more powerful, and only when the opponent enters the effective range of the rifle will it fire uniformly, forming a local firepower advantage, and the two Maxine supporting the battle outside the city will only fire together when the enemy enters the range of 100 steps, so that as long as the heavy machine gun goes off, it will be like a harvester harvesting the lives of the bandits, forming a huge psychological pressure on the attacking bandits.

Of course, the four heavy machine guns of the Mongolian bandits are not vegetarian, and their quantity and quality are higher than those old antiques in the mixed group. Under the cover of the machine guns, the bandits finally passed through the first few obstacles in an attempt to rush through the last 80 steps, but unfortunately the death net composed of long and short guns and heavy machine guns ruthlessly strangled anyone who tried to approach the position of the company. What was especially a headache for the attackers was that the soft snow became hard and slippery after they trampled back and forth, and they would fall if they were not careful, which invisibly increased the difficulty for the attackers.

At this time, Xiang Qianliang had to admire the first line of defense chosen by Commander Tang, from a distance, this flat land seemed to be very close, as long as you climbed the slightly slippery slope, you can pass with a charge, under such a temptation, the enemy wants to try their luck, but they underestimate the power of Maxine, in this era Maxine is almost the code name of the Grim Reaper, this summer's Somme battlefield alone, on July 1 alone, 60,000 British soldiers fell under the muzzle of Maxine's heavy machine guns!

In this way, the two sides fought fiercely for a morning, and the Mongolian bandits successively invested more than 1,000 troops, but there was still no sign of breaking through the first line of defense, and they did not even touch the edge, but they just dropped more than 100 corpses in front of the position. There were some casualties on the side of the company today, but they were still within acceptable limits and were far from the point where rotation was needed.

"Jebel, this useless waste!" Babu Zabu on the bandits' side did not have the calmness he had after yesterday's setback, and he pointed at Commander Jebe and scolded: "How did you promise me yesterday, I also sent you a Japanese-style heavy machine gun, but you gave me such a result!" ”

"Sir, the snow has been flattened, and the ground is too slippery! In the end, there was no shelter at all in the slightest distance, and I couldn't rush up at all! Jebe said with a sad face: "And the other party's machine gun fire is too fierce!" ”

"It's only eighty steps, and your people have climbed over it!" Babu Zabu scolded angrily: "It's not that you and those Han people under your command are afraid of death!" ”

"Sir, how can you say that! More than 100 of my men died in one morning, plus yesterday it was almost 30 percent! Jebe was clearly enraged by Babu Zab's words, and said with a flushed face.

"Humph! It's just two or three hundred Han people! Babu Zabu said lightly: "In order to take Duolun City, even if all the Han people along your way die!" ”…,

"The lord is right, Zhebei, you cherish the lives of your Han people too much!" Dai Qin, the commander of the cavalry, shouted at Jebel with disdain: "I knew that your infantry team was so useless, if we let our cavalry attack the city, now we should have lunch in Duolun City!" ”

"Sir, you give me another chance, I will definitely be able to break through the first line of defense of the official army in the afternoon!" Jebel shook his teeth and said stubbornly, "But I still need to increase fire support!" ”

"No problem, I'll give you two more heavy machine guns! The left infantry is also under your command, and no matter what the cost, make sure to reach the walls of Duolun under sunset. Babu Zab thought for a moment and said, there were too few infantry commanders available to him.

"Piercing!" Jebe half-knelt and clenched his fists in a military salute, and then returned to the front line to arrange the afternoon attack.

"Master Guo, what do you think?" After arranging the attack and defense in the afternoon, Babu Zabu habitually asked the thinker beside him who had not spoken, obviously ignoring the harm of what he said just now to our master Guo.

"In my opinion, the officers and troops in the city are obviously heavily armed in the eastern part of the city, as long as we take the east city gate, Duolun will have it at your fingertips!" Master Guo is definitely a master of gags and small conspiracy, but when it comes to arranging troops, he is a layman, and he can only echo and say two or three sentences in the face of the master's inquiry!

"Da ......" The six heavy machine guns of the Mongolian bandits opened fire at the same time to kick off the afternoon attack, this time Jebe first sent only a small force to infiltrate, the infiltration did not succeed in retreating, and so on. However, in the process, he made a trick, more went up and less retreated, and gradually accumulated three or four hundred troops at the forefront.

"Rush!" While waiting for the two heavy machine guns outside the east gate to rest, the Mongolian bandits operating to the front suddenly rushed up, although they slipped a lot, but most of them still rushed up, and the distance of eighty paces was only half a minute.

Although the long and short guns of the "Bang ......" company kept greeting, there were too many people on the opposite side, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen Mongolian bandits who were not afraid of death rushed to the middle of the position.

"Brothers, get on the bayonet!" Xiang Qianliang didn't care about being annoyed by his negligence just now, and was the first to pick up a spear and jump out of the trench, and a company of soldiers behind him rushed out one after another, and the first hand-to-hand combat between the two sides was staged in the two days since the start of the battle. The company, which had been training for assassination for more than a month, finally got the opportunity to fight.

At the forefront of the Mongol bandits were some of the bravest Mongol soldiers, who had not had time to taste the thrill of victory when they were stabbed by the oncoming cold bayonets and fell in a pool of blood. The battle ahead, and the last eighty paces of the sprint, had almost exhausted the last of the Mongol bandits, so they retreated step by step under the pressure of a company of soldiers' bayonets, until they died under the bayonets. And rushed a little slower, the Meng bandit soldiers saw that they still dared to step forward in this posture, and hurriedly rushed back, so despite the advantage in numbers, the first hand-to-hand combat was still won one-sidedly!

"Grandma's, that's it!" Jebel, who was commanding in the back, said hatefully that he had lost two or three hundred men in this attack, but from this attack, he still saw the hope of success, at least the eighty steps that he had originally desired could be broken through.

Tang Zhidao, who was also watching the battle at the head of the city, was also frowning, although the battle of the past two days, a battalion still had a clear fight, its own losses were only twenty or thirty people, and the enemy was no less than four hundred, but this all relied on the field fortifications that almost the entire city's labor force dared to build, once the fortifications on the periphery were breached, even if the city wall was still there, it was very dangerous.

"Commander Tang, the firepower on our front line is still insufficient, why don't we arrange a few more heavy machine guns outside the city!" Lin Jianzhong was also aware of the potential weakness of the defensive line, namely the lack of continuous firepower, especially after the two heavy machine guns had been fighting for two days. …,

"Chief of Staff Lin, our regiment only has a total of six heavy machine guns, plus the original two of your department, there are only eight, and two of them are too old to be very bright!" After receiving Tang Zhidao's signal, adjutant Zhou Wenruo said helplessly: "In addition to the east gate, we also have to take into account the other three directions, and two heavy machine guns are already the largest amount!" ”

"Don't you still have an artillery company!" Chief of Staff Lin asked unrelentingly, "Why didn't you see the cannon fired?" ”

"It's not yet the most critical moment, how can you come up with a killer weapon!" Tang Zhidao said coldly, he was also helpless, the so-called artillery company only had four small-caliber mountain guns, and they had to be used at the most urgent moment. The bandits are also said to have an artillery team, which has not yet been used. According to the news obtained from outside the city, the artillery team of the Mongolian bandits is still on the way, and it is expected that Han Zitai can drag the other party's artillery team on the road.

While the three of them were talking, Jebe organized another attack, this time the scale was larger than the last one, and the Mongols accounted for more than half, and the heavy machine guns were also followed up with close fire support, and for a time the pressure on the position of the company increased sharply, and the Mongolian bandits frequently attacked the position and fought with the officers and soldiers of the company. Seeing that the situation of the first company was critical, Zuo Jiwu did not wait for the Tang regiment commander to issue an order, and took the initiative to lead the first battalion and four companies to move outside the city through the communication trenches that had been dug long ago, and launched an attack on the place. The timely reinforcement of the third company made the balance of victory quickly tilt to the side of the official army, and the Mongolian bandits were defeated and retreated, if it were not for the subordinates pulling Zuo Jiwu, they might have pursued all the way.

In this way, the battle was extinguished the next day, and the officers and soldiers defending the city held the initial defense line after paying a certain price, and although the attacking side suffered losses and defeats, it was not nothing, at least the fierce combat effectiveness shown also made Babu Zabu feel a lot more at ease.

"Sir, punish me!" After Mingjin withdrew his troops, Jebel came to Babu Zabu with a depressed face and said, "I still haven't been able to break through the defense line of the official army!" ”

"Jebe, you are acting like a Mongolian lord today worthy of your name!" Babu Zabu said with a smile: "Let's work hard tomorrow!" ”