As Gong Chehou led the second company to attack the left flank of the Anhui army, An Yulong in the rear was not idle, he personally commanded other troops under his command to launch a suppressive attack, providing fire cover for the attack of Gong Chehou's second company.

"Keep the machine gun platoon on on your shoulders, suppress enemy fire at two o'clock, and never let the enemy come up and return fire!" An Yulong was already on the front line, and he overstepped the command of heavy machine gun and mortar units.

As his order was handed down, the two Fuzao Type 01 heavy machine guns belonging to the third battalion spewed out tongues of fire, and countless heavy machine gun bullets hit the Anhui army's position hundreds of meters away on the opposite side, and the bullets of the heavy machine guns hit the trenches on the opposite side with great power.

However, although this suppressive fire looked powerful, the results achieved were extremely limited, except for the initial strafing of a few enemies who were rising, and as the enemy retracted, most of the subsequent bullets were missed.

However, An Yulong originally did not expect much success from the suppressive shooting of the heavy machine gun, and the so-called fire suppression, as long as it could suppress the enemy's return fire, it would be a success.

However, despite the suppression of two heavy machine guns, the Anhui army on the opposite side also has a lot of troops, and the suppression of heavy machine guns can only suppress one direction, and the Anhui army in other directions still raised their heads to fight back, and at this time they also found the attack of the second company on the left flank, and a heavy machine gun in the machine gun fortress also began to suppress the second company that was attacking, and the second company of Gong Chehou was also beaten for a while and could not raise his head, and the offensive was only carried out for more than ten minutes before it was pressed down.

Seeing this situation, An Yulong frowned, and secretly said in his heart that there were still too few heavy machine guns that he could use.

It seems that it is necessary to request heavy machine-gun fire support from the regimental headquarters!

At present, the establishment of the Feng army was formulated after the republic last year, and the Feng army carried out a large-scale adjustment of the establishment according to the experience of the Russo-Japanese War and the Tongzhou Campaign after entering the customs.

The initial adjustment did not change the basic establishment of the Feng Army, but only changed the equipment and establishment of mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns, and with the increase of these weapons, it was also appropriate to increase the establishment of logistics troops, for example, an ammunition platoon was added to the battalion-level troops, which specially carried ammunition to supplement the large amount of ammunition needed by the troops, so as to increase the troops' long-lasting combat capability.

These many changes in the establishment also formed the latest establishment of the Feng Army, which was called the 1907 establishment in the Establishment Department of the General Staff.

Compared with the original establishment, the 1907 establishment of the Feng army greatly increased the number of 60 mm mortars, light machine guns, and logistics units, but the increase in heavy machine guns was not much, and this was not only influenced by strategic thinking, but also related to the production of heavy machine guns that the Feng army could obtain.

In the new 1907 standard establishment, the original infantry squad remained unchanged, still 14 people per squad. Each infantry platoon has three infantry squads and one light machine gun. The infantry company has three infantry platoons and two 60-mm mortars.

The infantry battalion has four infantry companies, a machine gun platoon with two heavy machine guns, a mortar platoon with two 80-mm mortars, and an ammunition platoon with additional mortar shells and ammunition.

In addition to the three infantry battalions mentioned above, the infantry regiment also has a machine gun company with nine heavy machine guns and a mortar company with four 80-mm mortars.

The infantry brigade has two infantry regiments, and the brigade headquarters does not have other directly administered troops except for the two infantry regiments on weekdays, but in actual combat, the Feng army often uses a brigade as the basic combat unit, for example, the 10th Division in the Northern Jiangsu Campaign is divided into two brigades, and the 19th Brigade and the 20th Brigade fight separately. As a result, a mixed brigade unit with independent combat capability will be formed.

In addition to the two infantry brigades, the infantry division also has a three-battalion artillery regiment with 16 guns each, a 16-gun 120-mm mortar battalion, a 600-cavalry cavalry regiment with three cavalry companies, a baggage regiment with three battalions with a total number of more than 1,800 people, an engineering battalion with more than 800 people, and personnel directly under the direct jurisdiction of the military music, military police, and division headquarters.

If it were to be established in full accordance with the standards, the total strength of such an infantry division of the Fengjun Army in 1907 would exceed 15,000, nearly 16,000, with nearly 1,000 mounted war horses, nearly 3,000 logistics horses, and more than 700 Western-style heavy transport carriages.

It has 36 75-mm field guns, 16 75-mm mountain guns, 16 120-mm mortars, 40 80-mm mortars, nearly 100 60-mm mortars, 56 heavy machine guns, and 156 light machine guns. There are also nearly 10,000 rifles per infantry and thousands of revolvers or automatic pistols needed by cavalry, officers, machine gunners, artillerymen, engineers, baggage and other auxiliary forces.

The above is the Feng Army formed in 1907, of course, the above standards are actually only stored on paper, and in fact, the equipment of each unit is more or less, and it is difficult to strictly implement it during the operation, such as the Third Division, he suffered a lot of losses during the entry operation, but captured more, and many captured heavy machine guns and artillery were often directly incorporated into the Third Division.

Therefore, the number of heavy machine guns in the third division is more than that of other divisions, reaching more than 60, in addition, the 12th regiment of the third division is also a pilot unit of light machine guns, Zhao Dongyun personally instructed the regiment to equip light machine guns to the squad, and to implement a series of tactics after the light machine guns are equipped with the squad, so the number of light machine guns in the third division is actually dozens more.

For example, the 13th Division, which had just been formed, was not able to fully complete the 48 artillery pieces of the artillery regiment due to the shortage of weapons, and there was a shortage of heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and even mortars, while the 1st Division of Lu Yongxiang, which had just joined the Chengfeng Army, although it had replenished a lot of personnel and weapons, the shortage was still relatively large, and the 1st Artillery Regiment to which the 1st Division belonged only had two battalions.

In fact, in addition to the three main divisions of the 3rd, 9th, and 10th divisions, the other troops in the Feng army are all short of weapons, which is not to say that Zhao Dongyun is biased, but that the Feng army is really short of weapons today, although in the past year, it has purchased a lot of self-produced weapons from outside and obtained a lot of self-produced weapons from Fuchang, but the gap is still very large, especially the gap in artillery, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns is not small.

In addition, although there were some captures in the customs operation, the Feng army would more or less lose many weapons in the war, such as the simplest rifles, and the Feng army had lost at least tens of thousands of rifles in previous operations, some were lost, some were rifled, and some were damaged.

In the past few months, at least 10,000 rifles have been repaired by several repair shops within the Ordnance Department of the Fengjun Army, which shows that during the war, these rifles, artillery, and machine guns were consumables like ammunition, and it was necessary to keep the front-line troops fully equipped with weapons.

Now the third battalion commanded by An Yulong can be regarded as a standard infantry battalion in the Feng army, with two heavy machine guns and two 80-mm mortars, and the subordinate infantry companies also have two 60-mm mortars and one light machine gun in each platoon.

However, just like this, An Yulong felt that the available firepower in his hands was still insufficient!

"You go to the regimental headquarters and ask for support from heavy machine guns!" In addition to ordering the herald to ask for reinforcements from heavy machine guns, An Yulong also commanded his 80-millimeter mortars to carry out artillery bombardment.

In addition to the two 80-millimeter mortars he had now, he also had an 80-millimeter mortar that had just been supported, and the rate of fire of these three 80-millimeter mortars was extremely fast, and the density of fire that broke out in a short period of time was enough to compare with that of a mountain artillery battalion.

But the rate of fire of the mortars was fast, and An Yulong couldn't let them fight endlessly, so that after the guns hurriedly fired three rapid fires, they ordered to stop the shelling.

It's not that he doesn't want to continue fighting, but the 80-millimeter mortar has a limited number of shells, and if he keeps firing at the maximum rate of fire, the shells will have to be exhausted in less than two minutes, and the mortar that has run out of shells is better than scrap copper and rotten iron.

Although according to the establishment of the Feng army, the 60-mm mortar group has a base of 50 rounds of ammunition, and the base number of 80-mm mortars has reached 80 rounds, this standard has never been truly realized since it was issued, except for the Tangshan Campaign, and due to the limitations of the Feng army's weak logistics and transportation capabilities, in many cases, a 60-mm mortar of a front-line combat unit can only carry about 20 to 30 rounds, and the shells of an 80-mm mortar rarely carry more than 50 rounds.

In order to prepare for the Xuzhou campaign, although the Feng army said that it had prepared a large number of mortar shells, and theoretically could be equipped with more than 150 shells for each 80-millimeter mortar, you must know that this was the artillery shells that the Feng army had reserved for the entire campaign, and it was impossible to say that they were all used up in the first few days, and at least one-third of the ammunition was actually still on the way to Xuzhou from the two logistics transfer centers of Haizhou and Zhengzhou, and the real-time ammunition ration that the front-line troops could get was actually far less than the rated base.

In this case, An Yulong can't say that he can shoot all the mortar shells at once, he can only say that he will fight for a while at a critical moment to suppress the enemy's firepower.