Due to the influence of Scrooge, trench warfare was an old trick in the great powers, but in China, it was definitely a novelty. There are several important things that make up trench warfare that are still very lacking in China, such as barbed wire and mines. Because of the lack of steel, it is impossible to imagine laying hundreds or even thousands of kilometers of barbed wire in one go, as the Europeans did. Even, Xu Xilin and the others did not find even a meter of barbed wire in the arsenal of the New Army. So you don't have to think about setting up barbed wire or anything.

In fact, when building a new army and ordering weapons and other things from foreign countries, there were also knowledgeable officers who proposed to Enming to order barbed wire. It's just that, in Enming's opinion, the guns and cannons are at least dragged out, majestic, and can scare a lot of rebels, as for the barbed wire, there is no difference between seeing and not seeing this thing if you don't know how to do it, and there is no deterrent effect at all. Isn't it a waste of money to buy that thing with such limited funds? In short, good steel should be used on the cutting edge...... As a result, there was no such thing as barbed wire in the arsenal of the Anhui New Army.

For the same reason, mines or something, naturally, were not procured. There is also a vital hand. Pomegranate. bombs, and also did not procure. Well, it is said that there was no purchase of this because of the fear that this thing would be stolen by the people who watched the arsenal and sold it to the revolutionary party. Because this thing is really suitable for the revolutionary party to carry out assassination.

As a result, several sharp weapons in trench warfare are gone. However, there are remedies. If the barbed wire is not enough, it is better to use the rejection horse, of course, the cost of rejecting the horse is not known to be higher than the barbed wire. Therefore, the horse can only be placed in a key position, and in other places, it can only be impersonated by a wooden stake tied with a rope made of rattan or bamboo.

Other than that, it's honest digging trenches. Digging trenches seems simple, but it is very much a reflection of the level and combat effectiveness of an army. In the history of warfare in modern times, it can basically be said that an army that digs trenches well cannot fight without war. Because digging trenches is a rather boring and tiring thing, if the organization of the army is not high enough, it is easy to be lazy when digging trenches, so the trenches are always not so up to standard.

Originally, according to the level of the Anhui New Army, the defensive battle idea they thought of was actually to defend on the city wall. In their view, the modern method of warfare is no different from that of ancient times, except that bows and arrows have been replaced with rifles, and catapults have been replaced with cannons. In the original history, this backward practice even continued until the period of the Liberation War. During the Liberation War, KMT's army also played the trick of driving tanks on the city wall as a firepower point, but when they were defeated, they had nowhere to run, so they gave it to TG by the way. Of course, this is not necessarily stupid or ignorant, it may also be a communist party, after all, from Chang Kaishen, an expert in military logistics, to ordinary soldiers, as the so-called people in the world do not communicate with the communists.

But in fact, there was a lack of shelter on the walls, and the concentration of people was bound to be heavy in the event of shelling. And the Hubei New Army not only has ordinary artillery in its hands, but even has the support of gunboats on the river, and it is guarded against the city wall, which is simply looking for death. Therefore, the people of the Liberation Society, who had received primary training from the Americans, also knew that they could not do this, and thanks to their efforts, the Anhui New Army finally left the city and dug trenches according to the requirements of the Lion Rock generation outside the city.

There is not much skill in digging trenches, but there is still a lot of exquisiteness. The first is that the trenches must not be a straight line. The trench must be zigzag, and it needs to be large with small serrations. The large sawtooth is used to form crossfire, and the small sawtooth is used to defend against shells falling into the trench to ensure that not a single shell or hand appears. Pomegranate. The situation of a large column of people being blown up by the bomb. So when digging trenches, every few meters of digging you have to turn in a direction to create a corner that can block shrapnel. And for each more than a meter of dug, a large turn is required so that there is an angle between the two sections of the trench, which can form crossfire.

In addition, there are certain requirements for the depth of excavation of the trenches and the thickness of the mound of soil in the bunkers in front of the trenches. Before the battle, the soldiers who dug the trenches, as well as the laborers temporarily hired by the Restoration Society with the treasury silver, inevitably wanted to be lazy when digging the trenches, either digging deep enough, or trying to reduce the turning, so as to reduce the amount of labor. Even after two days of digging trenches, even some of the Recovered members were more or less lazy.

But as soon as the battle began, the trenches, which were very laborious, immediately showed their usefulness and might.

After arriving near Lion Rock, the Hubei New Army did not immediately attack the positions of the revolutionary army, but first set up camp and held it, after which both sides carried out some tentative attacks, and it was not until the fourth day, after the artillery of the Hubei New Army kept up, that they launched their first decent attack on the positions of the revolutionary army.

The offensive process of the Hubei New Army was quite standardized, and at first more than a dozen guns were laid out in a row, shelling some targets on the positions of the revolutionary army.

There is such a saying on the battlefield that "new soldiers are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns". This statement is indeed very reasonable, when under shelling, recruits are particularly prone to panic and make wrong moves, as a result of which they are killed or wounded by artillery. According to the statistics of the Americans, in positional warfare, many recruits will have behavioral disorders when they are shelled, and do things such as jumping out of the trench and running away. And when they are hit by sudden shelling, it is often difficult for them to react correctly, resulting in huge casualties.

This was also reflected in this attack by the Hubei New Army. Although the artillery bombardment of the Hubei New Army was not very fierce at all, there were only a dozen or so cannons on the ground, plus four guns on two gunboats, in fact, the firepower density was quite limited, and the caliber of the artillery of the Hubei New Army was also relatively small, (of course, this is relatively small compared with the great powers) only 75 mm caliber, and the power of the shells was naturally limited. In addition, the artillery shells are limited, so it is impossible to prepare for his artillery fire for an hour in one breath, as in the battle between the Western powers. Therefore, if the trenches are dug well enough, and then some anti-artillery holes or something are prepared, and considering the training level of the Hubei New Army, there will definitely be no barrage Xu Jin, and such artillery bombardment is actually more just to scare and scare people.

However, the level of the Hubei New Army is not high, and most of the personnel from the revolutionary army of the Anhui New Army are actually even lower; even the personnel of the Liberation Society who have been trained in Heishui have not received much training in shelling due to problems with training funds, and at most they just squat in the anti-artillery hole and listen to the explosion of the preset explosion point outside. It's not the same as real shelling. So when the shelling of the Hubei New Army began, panic in the revolutionary army immediately arose, especially when a shell fell into the trench and killed two soldiers, some of the soldiers next to it suddenly lost control, several soldiers screamed, threw away the guns in their hands, jumped out of the trench and ran back, and then were blown over by the shells, or knocked to the ground by the gunners in the second set of trenches.

Qiu Jin squatted in this trench, and beside her, there was also a soldier who stood up and wanted to jump out of the trench. Just as he jumped out, Qiu Jin stretched out a hand and pulled him, and he immediately lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Do you want to die! I want to die and I will fulfill you! Qiu Jin roared angrily, and put the MacDonald automatic pistol in his hand against the head of the frightened guy. The cold, black muzzle of the gun made the soldier sober up a lot. Before the war, the platoon leaders of the Restoration Society, who had received primary training, warned the soldiers more than once that when they were shelled, running around was looking for death.

If the shelling of the Hubei New Army can continue for a while, maybe there will be more recruits. However, even if the Hubei New Army, backed by the Hanyang Arsenal, artillery shells were still a very expensive thing for them, so their artillery fire stopped, and immediately after, the infantry attack began......

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"Mr. Tao, Mr. Tao, Mr. Xu, and Mr. Qiu sent a telegram back from Anqing, and they repelled the attack of the Hubei New Army......" Fan Ainong said as he handed a telegram to Tao Chengzhang.

Tao Chengzhang took the message and looked at it. According to the description in the telegram, the revolutionary army successfully repelled the first attack of the Hubei New Army, but the consumption of ammunition was very large, and the ammunition in Anqing's inventory may not be able to withstand the consumption for a long time, so they hope that Tao Chengzhang can help them get some ammunition supplies as soon as possible.

"How can ammunition run out so quickly?" Tao Chengzhang was taken aback, because of their previous calculations with American advisers, Anqing's ammunition could still last for a considerable amount of time. Now, however, it seems that the situation on the front line has exceeded the expectations of American advisers.

"With so much ammunition, it must be because the fighting is so fierce, right?" Tao Chengzhang thought so.

However, by the standards of the great powers, the battle was not fierce at all. Much of the ammunition was consumed because the soldiers who were on the battlefield for the first time were overly nervous and opened fire indiscriminately. In this battle, the revolutionary army suffered less than 200 casualties, of which less than 60 were killed. The casualties of the Hubei New Army were only about 400, but they killed more, as many as about 150 people, because although there was no barbed wire on this position, the cross-fire in the trenches was still very threatening.

Such casualties are not worth mentioning if they are placed in the battles of the great powers, or even in the battles of second- and third-rate countries such as Russia and Turkey, but the organization of our Qing army was not enough for them to withstand such casualties and continue to fight, so the Hubei New Army withdrew, and did not launch another large-scale attack for the next three days.