In order to get out of the current strategic stalemate, the 10th Division, which had been blocked for 10 days on the Suqian-Qingjiangpu line, changed its previous tactics, and under the advice of Su Kangyun, chief of staff of the division, Ren Cungao, commander of the 10th Division, transferred the main force of the 19th Brigade, which was originally used on the front line of Qingjiangpu and Taoyuan County, and left only one battalion in each of the above two places to monitor and guard against the movements of the Anhui army in the above two places, and then the main force of the 19th Brigade, including four infantry battalions and one artillery battalion, was quickly transferred to Suqian.

By the 24th of October, the 10th Division had gathered most of the infantry and all the artillery units in Suqian City, with a total strength of more than 12,000 troops.

In this attack, in order to support the troops, Ren Cungao not only concentrated all the artillery of the 10th Division Artillery Regiment under his command, but even risked putting 120 mm mortars in front less than 2,000 meters from the front line.

There is no way for him to do this, this 120 mm mortar is very powerful, but the range is tragic, only a little more than 3,000 meters, and this is still the maximum range, if it is really launched from more than 3,000 meters, God knows where the shells will fly.

If it is just used for the cover of artillery fire before the ordinary attack, anyway, it is a covering artillery bombardment, and the poor accuracy is endured, but now Ren Cungao is facing very great pressure, his top boss, the commander of the Second Army, and the former deputy commander of the enemy in Xuzhou, Xu Bangjie has called many times to reprimand, and even bluntly said that if the 10th Division is unable to make progress, then he Xu Bangjie will personally come to Suqian to command the 10th Division.

If it really happened that Xu Bangjie ignored the unwritten tradition within the Feng army and personally commanded the 10th Division, it means that the situation has reached a point where Ren Cungao cannot bear it, and even if his military career will not end completely, it is estimated that he will only be a cold bench for a lifetime in the future.

Under such huge pressure, Ren Cungao was also forced to give up the previous tactics of steady and steady fighting, and began to take the risk of transferring the main force of the 19th Brigade to Suqian, trying to take Suqian in one fell swoop, and then make peace with the 1st Mixed Brigade in the north and march west together to completely cut off the southern passage of Xuzhou.

The transfer of the 19th Brigade has taken such a big risk, and now it is very dangerous for the mortar group to move the 120-mm mortars belonging to the division forward, but this risk is nothing to Ren Cungao.

When a battalion's 120 mm mortars ventured to the front, the shortening of the shelling distance made this mortal heavy mortar, which had always been inaccurate, have a relatively good hit accuracy for the first time, and those huge, 120 mm shells loaded with picric acid began to continue to fall into the position of the 5th Division of the Liangjiang Army of the Anhui Army on the opposite side, and the huge explosion power was far from being comparable to those 80 mm mortars or 75 mm barreled artillery. Often the explosion of one hundred and twenty-mm mortar shell was enough to cover a radius of fifteen meters.

If you just talk about the explosive power on the flat ground, that is, the explosion coverage radius, the 120-millimeter mortar equipped in the Feng army is the most powerful artillery with the most explosive power, and the explosive power of the 100-millimeter cannon purchased by the Feng army from Germany is far inferior to this gun.

"The 120 mm mortar of this battalion is powerful enough to compare with the two 75 artillery battalions, and even surpass!" Chief of Staff Su Kangyun, who was holding a telescope in the rear, sighed.

Although it was not the first time he had seen this 120-millimeter mortar fired, it was the first time he had seen a dense salvo at close range, and in less than three minutes, the front of the Anhui army on the opposite side was almost shrouded in a patch of yellow smoke, which was the smoke left after the explosion of picric acid.

Ren Cungao also nodded and said: "The power of the cannon is powerful, but the range is too short, and the accuracy is too poor, if it can reach a range of more than six thousand meters, and the accuracy is slightly better, then it can effectively offset the defects of our army's lack of physical management." ”

The range of the mountain artillery equipped in the Feng army is also generally short, only about six thousand meters, and some old-fashioned mountain artillery only have a range of four or five thousand meters, but although the range is short, at least it is stronger than mortars, and the accuracy is not at the same level.

There were even cases in the Feng army of using field guns to lower the barrels of guns thousands of meters away and destroy the fortifications of the Anhui army with direct fire, but if you let a 120-millimeter mortar fire thousands of meters, the ghost knows where the shells will fly.

However, the same mortar, 80 mm and 60 mm mortars are much better than the large 12 mm mortars in terms of accuracy, especially the 60 mm mortars, although the mortar is generally powerful and has a relatively short range, but in the case of well-trained mortars, especially within 500 meters of the enemy, even if it cannot be 100 percent, the hit rate of more than 80 percent can still be maintained.

You must know that at the beginning of the entry operation, the Feng army destroyed many heavy machine guns of the enemy, and nine out of ten of these results were the results of 60-mm mortars.

Basically, in the case of the enemy's machine-gun position, where there were no strong fortifications, but only an open-roofed machine-gun position, it was only necessary to bring a trained 60-mm mortar group to within 500 meters to declare the destruction of the machine-gun position.

Speaking of which, the role of this mortar in the Feng army is very similar to the 50 mm grenadier in the Japanese army in history, which is mainly based on anti-machine gun combat, but the 60 mm mortar of the Feng army has much lower requirements for the gunner, and basically the recruits who have been trained for two or three months can be proficient in operation, and the hit rate of those veterans who have been trained for more than one year is already quite impressive.

There is no doubt that the 60-millimeter mortar has acquired an irreplaceable importance in the combat sequence of the Feng army, and has even become an indispensable weapon in the battle of the Feng army.

When Su Kangyun and Ren Cungao were talking about the 120 mm mortar, the other artillery of the Feng army was also firing at the same time, and when the artillery fire was suppressed for nearly 20 minutes, the artillery fire of the field artillery in the rear began to extend to block the reinforcements of the forward positions of the follow-up troops of the Anhui army.

However, those mortars and 75-millimeter mountain artillery still suppressed the positions of the Anhui army.

The artillery bombardment at the front has not stopped, but in the Fengjun infantry trenches in front, one by one the officers have already begun to act, and they have senior officers who have been in the army for many years, and these people are often calm, arranging for the non-commissioned officers under them to make the final preparations before the charge.

There are also rookie officers who have just graduated from military academies, although they want to calm down, but they can still let others see the nervousness in their hearts, which makes many veteran non-commissioned officers who have been in the army for many years feel contempt for these rookie officers.

These veteran non-commissioned officers who have been in the army for many years are not afraid of machine guns or artillery, and they are afraid of a rookie officer who has just graduated from a military academy, because when fighting, these rookie officers are either fanatical militants, or they pee their pants like ordinary recruits, and only a very small number of rookie officers will remain calm and calmly deploy various tactics.

However, fortunately, the Fengjun has been an adult for many years, especially the main force such as the Ninth Division, which has a large number of senior non-commissioned officers who have been in the army for more than four or five years, although these non-commissioned officers are not officers, but they generally hold positions such as squad leaders and even deputy platoon commanders, and they have always been the real backbone of the army.

Therefore, when those rookie officers are frightened and panicked, there are often senior non-commissioned officers who take on the responsibilities of junior officers and begin to prepare the soldiers for the charge.

However, whether it was a senior officer or a rookie officer, after they got the order to charge, they all pulled out the command knife on their waists one by one, and then blew the copper whistle in their mouths, and the sharp copper whistle sounded on this battle line that was more than 2,000 meters long, and the next moment, countless Fengjun soldiers wearing blue-gray military uniforms began to climb out of the trench, and then rushed towards the Anhui army position more than 400 meters away.

In that moment, as if the sound of the artillery had stopped, and the sound of the machine guns had also stopped, and only the shouts of the mountains could be heard, and there was horror and excitement in those shouts, and they were shouting with all their might, as if this would give them the courage to continue charging forward after their comrades fell.

The silent explosion kicked up a cloud of dust around him, and the dust did not fall in mid-air for a long time, so much so that the entire sky was dyed blue-gray.

From a distance, this small battlefield looks like a still oil painting, an oil painting that is enough to suffocate!

In this picture, there are several smoke balls formed after the explosion, and there is a scene where the cannonball exploded when it just landed, and some of the soldiers were hit by the cannonball, and the whole body was lifted, and some soldiers were hit by the opposite machine gun bullet on the way to charge, and the high-powered machine gun bullet directly tore his entire body to pieces, bringing flesh and blood flying in the air.

Some of the soldiers who had fallen to the ground, some of them had painful faces, their mouths open, as if they were groaning, as if they were screaming.

Some of the soldiers also fell to the ground, but they were either lying face down, or lying on their backs with their faces facing the sky, and some curled up on their sides; Some of them have closed their eyes, while others are still looking up at the sky with their eyes open. Their bodies are either half cut off, or their entire chests are pierced, or they are missing legs or hands, and so on.

The only thing in common: they're dead!