The sound of guns, shouts, and groans is the most beautiful symphony of war in this era, which makes countless generals so intoxicated.

Blood, black earth, white smoke, and occasional flashes of light intertwined, enough to consume the painter's countless canvases.

War, in the eyes of many people, is a kind of art, an art written with life.

However, for those soldiers on the battlefield, this is not art, this is hell on earth!

Under the threat of the machine guns of the rear overseers, and led by the sabers of the officers, the soldiers charged towards the brisk step with frightened, numb, or excited expressions, they turned a blind eye to the bullets flying beside them, and did not care about the little smoke and dust caused by the bullets hitting the ground under their feet, they just rushed towards them, as if nothing could stop them!

Then, no matter how numb and agitated an army is, as pieces of heavy machine-gun bullets are scattered towards them, the comrades in front of them and behind them will also collapse when they fall one after another.

When he saw that the soldiers who had launched an attack in front of him had once again retreated from the front of Feng's position after suffering heavy casualties, Lei Zhenchun could no longer see any angry expression on his face.

In the past few days, Lei Zhenchun has gone through too many such things, and if he jumps like thunder every time, he will probably die of anger.

He just sighed deeply, and then said in a calm tone: "Go up for the twenty-seventh regiment!" ”

A colonel next to him looked worried: "The 27th Regiment just rushed once, and it was quite badly injured, if you let them rush again, I'm afraid it will be ......."

But before he could finish speaking, Lei Zhenchun interrupted him: "If you don't continue to rush, do we have to stay here and wait for death?" ”

The current situation of the Liangjiang Seventh Division is very bad, there is the 36th Regiment of the Feng Army in front of the block, and then there is the 33rd Regiment and the 34th Regiment of the 17th Brigade of the Feng Army in pursuit, it is unceremonious to say that the current Liangjiang Seventh Division has fallen into the encirclement of the Feng Army, if it cannot break through the resistance of the 36th Regiment of the Feng Army on the opposite side, then there is only one result waiting for the 7th Division of the Liangjiang Army: that is, the whole army is annihilated!

When Lei Zhenchun was in Jiangbei, he had already tried the feeling of fiasco, and now he is absolutely unwilling to try again, no matter what, he wants to break through the blockade of the Feng army on the opposite side, and then take the 7th Division of Liangjiang out, even if it is better to suffer heavy casualties than the annihilation of the whole army.

However, not every officer and soldier of the Anhui Army had the same decisive combat confidence as Lei Zhenchun, just when Lei Zhenchun commanded two regiments to launch a tidal attack on the 36th Regiment of the Feng Army, trying to break through the 36th Regiment's blockade and fight for a way for the troops to survive.

The 25th Regiment of the Anhui Army, which was responsible for the blocking mission in the rear, had something unexpected for Lei Zhenchun, facing the onslaught of the Feng army, and when they learned that they had been surrounded and that they still belonged to the broken rear troops, the officers and soldiers of the 25th Regiment were desperate.

What does the post-break force represent?

That means that they have been abandoned by Lei Zhenchun, and Lei Zhenchun wants to use the sacrifice of the 25th Regiment to fight for the other units of the Seventh Division to survive.

The officers and men of the 25th Regiment who were abandoned did not have great personal loyalty to Lei Zhenchun or Duan Qirui, they were just soldiers to eat food, and it was no problem for them to fight hard under normal circumstances, but let them take on the combat mission of death, and it was certain that they would be shaken.

In fact, not only them, but most of the other troops in the contemporary country have this kind of problem, that is, these domestic troops, including the Feng army, actually lack national consciousness, lack of ism, religion and other beliefs, and there are generally two aspects to maintain their morale, one is the idea of being a soldier and eating food, this idea generally exists in the soldier class, in their eyes, being a soldier is a profession to support their families, Duan Qirui or Zhao Dongyun pay them to support their families, then these soldiers give them their lives.

In the officer class, although some people have a sense of the country and the nation, they are not strong, and there are basically two reasons why they work for Zhao Dongyun or Duan Qirui, one is personal loyalty, and the other is the desire for power and personal future.

In the case of the Feng Army, most of the officers in the Feng Army had a slight sense of national and national identity, but this was not enough to be the main reason for their allegiance to Zhao Dongyun. Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan, Yang Deming and other high-ranking generals were loyal to Zhao Dongyun because they were the same interests as Zhao Dongyun and the Soviet Union. And for those advanced students, it is personal loyalty that plays a greater role, they claim to be Zhao Dongyun's students, the descendants of the lineage, they are not loyal to the Su family, they are for Zhao Dongyun's personal loyalty.

In the specific environment of the contemporary era, the centripetal force of many warlord forces in China is actually limited, and it is far from being comparable with the forces of those great powers with national, ethnic, religious, and religious beliefs.

The biggest difference between the modern army and the modern army is not the difference in weapons, but the gap in faith.

In World War I and World War II, the troops of the great powers could launch a death-defying charge for the sake of the country and the nation, and the casualty rate often reached 40 percent, and 50 percent did not collapse.

For modern armies that lack faith, it often collapses with only 10 percent casualties, and if it exceeds 20 percent casualties, then 100 percent is a great collapse of the entire army.

The contemporary Feng army and the Anhui army belong to a very typical modern army, the army generally lacks faith, and can only rely on power, wealth and personal loyalty to maintain. If such an army fights smoothly, it will not be a problem, and it will be enough to create ace troops such as the Fourth Division of the Anhui Army, the Third Division, the Ninth Division, and the Tenth Division of the Feng Army, but once it encounters a setback, it will collapse very quickly.

Relatively speaking, the ace troops in the two armies of Fengwan are better, and they can still fight a dozen tough battles, for example, the 17th Brigade of the Ninth Division held the beachhead for three days. However, this is not the case with other inferior troops.

Although the foundation of the Liangjiang Seventh Division is good, there is still a distance from the ace troops, and after many days of hard fighting, it is not easy for the troops to launch a breakthrough operation without immediately collapsing, but after the 25th Regiment was regarded as an outcast, it finally collapsed.

Under the leadership of the two battalion commanders, the soldiers of the 25th Regiment threw down their guns and raised the white flag.

After receiving the surrender of nearly 2,000 remnants of the enemy's 25th Regiment, Pan Luanqing, who was supervising the battle on the front line, was also a little surprised, according to his previous combat experience with the Liangjiang Seventh Division, this Liangjiang Seventh Division was still relatively capable of fighting, but he did not expect to surrender so soon.

However, Pan Luanqing did not have the heart to guess why the 25th Regiment would surrender, for him it was much better for the enemy to surrender than to resist, and immediately disarmed these surrendered Anhui troops, which were handed over to a small number of troops in the rear to guard, and he continued to attack with the 17th Brigade.

In the evening, there was a very good scene, nearly 2,000 people hung their heads, looked ashamed or numb, or glad that the soldiers of the Anhui army were under the custody of only more than 200 Fengjun soldiers, and they consciously lined up and walked towards each other.

Even the soldiers of the Feng Army who took care of these prisoners of the Anhui army were not combat soldiers, but soldiers of the baggage regiment of the Ninth Division.

Influenced by the era of the old Beiyang Standing Army, the auxiliary forces of the Feng army, such as baggage and engineering, were rationed with rifles, and many front-line officers liked to use these auxiliary forces as infantry to fight on the front line when necessary.

However, this kind of thing has been strictly restricted by Zhao Dongyun since last year, and the high command even issued a formal order, asking the front-line generals not to use the auxiliary forces as infantry, because these auxiliary troops are actually more difficult for infantry training, they should be used where they are needed, not as infantry to use, but at present, the situation has not been much improved, when the war situation is urgent, many generals of the Feng army will still temporarily organize auxiliary troops such as baggage and engineering, and then put them into the front line.

Previously, the 17th Brigade had also temporarily organized several combat detachments of these auxiliaries into reserves, and had committed two of them when the situation of the 33rd Regiment was critical.

However, since the 18th Brigade crossed the river to reinforce, the strength of the Feng army on the south bank has increased a lot, and at the same time, the number of troops has increased, and there is a greater need for auxiliary troops such as baggage to transport ammunition, so these auxiliary soldiers have been withdrawn from the front line.

Now that he has accepted nearly 2,000 prisoners of the Anhui army, Pan Luanqing is naturally willing to transfer the main troops out as guards, so he let a soldier from a baggage battalion act as a guard.

As a result, more than 200 soldiers of the Fengjun Baggage Battalion appeared, escorting nearly 2,000 unarmed Anhui prisoners forward.

The surrender of the 25th Regiment allowed most of the soldiers of the regiment to avoid death and injury, which was a good thing for the soldiers of the regiment, but for the entire Liangjiang 7th Division, the impact was catastrophic!

The surrender of the 25th Regiment directly caused a big hole in the rear defense line of the 7th Division of Liangjiang, and the 33rd Regiment of the Feng Army continued to advance westward all the way, and could no longer encounter any large-scale obstruction.

And when Lei Zhenchun, who was in front, learned that the 25th Regiment that was responsible for blocking the task behind him had surrendered as a whole, he closed his eyes, and he once again felt the kind of despair when he was in Jiangbei!

He knew that his Liangjiang Seventh Division was finished!