On the position of the National Socialist Army, a soldier saw that the flare in the sky had begun to go out, and while yawning, he took another light from the ammunition box next to him and ejected it, and began to reload it.

At this time, he and the soldiers in charge of the garrison did not notice, and when the flares in the air went out, a large number of soldiers turned out from the position of the Beiyang Army on the opposite side, moving on the ground in black pressure.

At this time, a flare was fired again from the position of the National Socialist Army.

After noticing this, there was no need for the officers to tell them, the well-trained Beiyang Army had already consciously lay down on the ground, motionless, as if they belonged here.

This situation was not until the flares in the air were extinguished again, and the Beiyang Army on the ground moved again.

Due to the fact that the Beiyang Army moves very slowly, and every time it waits until the flare goes out. Although there were also many people in charge of guarding the position of the National Social Army, it was not until the Beiyang Army people were 2 or 30 meters away from the position that they were discovered by some soldiers in charge of guarding in the position—————— just like Feng Guozhang said, if you can wait a few more days and wait until the opposite National Social Army relaxes its vigilance before doing so, the effect may be much better.

It's a pity that this time Beiyang's identity is the central government, and their task is to punish the 'warlords' who attack other provinces without authorization.

There are too many people concerned about this war, and Feng Guozhang has no other way...

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In a bunker. Wang Xiaoer was squinting his eyes and looking outside.

Since the encounter with the Cihu River, every time it is night, the National Social Army will arrange many soldiers to carry out guard duties.

No way. The lesson from last time was too deep.

And the person in charge of the security task at this time is Wang Xiaoer.

It's just that at night, people's vision is greatly hindered, and even if there is light, it is impossible to see too far. Of course, the situation would be much better if there were flares, but only stronger, and if the person who was moving could lie down in time. And if you don't move, it's hard to find out.

Therefore, until the people of Beiyang reached a distance of 2 or 30 meters from the first position. Wang Xiaoer realized that something was wrong.

"Hell..."Noticing that something seemed to be moving not far away, Wang Xiaoer hurriedly squinted his eyes and looked there, only to see a large area of enemy troops lying there.

This discovery scared Wang Xiaoer so much that he almost didn't even hold the gun steady, but fortunately before nightfall. His squad leader had already told him what to do. So before the flare goes out. He hurriedly pointed the muzzle of the rifle that had already been loaded into the air, and then pulled the trigger fiercely...

In the silence of the night, the crisp sound of gunfire was heard far, far away.

For those soldiers who are already nervous, there is no more suitable alarm clock than this—————— if it is changed to China a hundred years later, even if someone hears the sound of gunfire, they will not care much, maybe they will think it is a firecracker...

Just the moment the gunfire came out, many soldiers who had been asleep jumped up in the position and pointed their guns outside.

And at the moment of hearing the gunshots. The Beiyang officer who led the team also understood that he was exposed.

"Damn it. Don't lie on your stomach on the ground, give it to me. ”

Straight up from the ground, a regimental commander shouted with a pistol at his vish.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw countless soldiers get up from his side, and then raise their rifles and shout and rush towards the position of the National Social Army.

Listening to the shouts not far away, even those who had not yet figured out the situation understood what was going on.

In a certain position, Zhao Wei was sleeping with an ammunition box on his pillow. As a result, he was first awakened by the crisp sound of gunshots, and then heard the constant shouting in the distance.

Jumping up from the ground, he ran straight to the position of the machine gun, only to find that the ammunition man did not know where to run (in fact, he went to the toilet).

"Hell..."The bullet chain was flipped out of the ammunition box, and Zhao Wei filled it with a fairly skillful movement.

At this time, it was only more than 10 seconds since the gunfire passed, but the entire Kuomintang Army had been completely awakened, and soon dozens or even hundreds of flares rose from the position of the Kuomintang Army, completely illuminating the entire battlefield.

When Zhao Wei saw the black Beiyang Army not far away, his already skilled hand suddenly stiffened.

Fortunately, at this time, the ammunition hand finally came back, and after pushing Zhao Wei away, he directly used his still wet hands to skillfully load the ammunition.

Maybe it was because he was pushed, Zhao Wei also came back to his senses, and scolded the ammunition hand while aiming the muzzle of the gun at the Beiyang Army. "When I'm done cleaning up these bunnies, I'll clean you up too..."

"You'd better wait until they're done packing," said the ammo man, who had already reloaded.

With the pull of the trigger, one by one the fiery snakes were spit out from the positions of the National Social Army, and immediately swept down the Beiyang Army. However, those Beiyang Army were also the few strong troops in China at this time, and the firepower fired from the opposite side could not frighten them, not to mention that they also knew that they could not turn back now, so even if the fire of the machine guns on the opposite side became more and more dense, the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army still ran at the fastest speed.

The distance of 30 meters was run in a blink of an eye, and after paying the losses of more than a thousand people, the first batch of Beiyang Army quickly ran to the front.

At such a fast speed, the Nationalist Army in the fortifications did not even have time to apply bayonets to their rifles, and many soldiers simply threw their rifles aside after waiting for the Beiyang Army to rush up, and then picked up the sapper shovels and other things on the ground and slashed them at the heads of the Beiyang Army, and soon two groups of soldiers wearing different colors of military uniforms collided fiercely in this small trench.

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After hearing the gunshots and shouts of killing from the front, Fu Xiuming and the others quickly woke up from their sleep.

"Quick. Go and ask how the situation is ahead, and tell the reserves to be ready, and let them support them immediately! ”

Put on an overcoat. In the case of not being rewarded by the front, Fu Xiuming had already ordered.

At this time, if the situation at the front line is critical, I am afraid that it will be too late until the report is being made in the organization of reserves.

"Yes!" The adjutant saluted and turned to leave.

At this time, the battlefield was already covered by a large number of flares, and although Fu Xiuming's headquarters was in the rear, he could still observe the situation on the front line through telescopes.

In the first line of defense, machine guns and grenades were still used in some places to stop the night attacks of the Beiyang Army, and in other places they had already begun to engage with the Beiyang Army in short combat. The fierce shouts of killing even suppressed the sound of gunfire and explosions.

"I just know that these bastards will definitely play this trick..."

From the inexplicable silence of the Beiyang Army after the end of the artillery battle, Fu Xiuming had already guessed their thoughts. However, Fu Xiuming thought that Feng Guozhang would wait a few more days. Wait until you let your guard down, I didn't expect him to do it so quickly.

"It's a bit unexpected..."

After speaking, Fu Xiuming looked at the position in the distance again, although it was too dark, he couldn't see it very clearly. But it can be guessed from the earth-shattering shouts alone. How many people came to Beiyang this time.

Like Fu Xiuming, Feng Guozhang and others are also paying attention to the situation on the battlefield.

When they found out that the troops were discovered, I don't know how many people in the command sighed, fortunately, at this time, the troops were not far from the opponent's position, otherwise I am afraid that Feng Guozhang had ordered his subordinates to shoot signal flares to let the troops of the night attack withdraw...

"Now, it's up to them..."

Now Feng Guozhang can't send reinforcements, unless he wants to send the reinforcements he sent to be killed on the way to reinforcements.

Really. About a minute or two later, the Beiyang defense line was again reduced to a sea of fire by the artillery of the Nationalist Army. Along with the sea of fire, there was also the space between the two positions. If Feng Guozhang had sent someone just now, I am afraid that he would have directly fallen victim to these shells...

However, after discovering that Beiyang did not send reinforcements, this artillery fire quickly stopped, on the one hand, because he did not want to waste ammunition, and on the other hand, he was afraid of creating an environment for the Beiyang Army to fight against the water.

Now on the position of the first line of defense, the officers and men of the Nationalist Army are still fighting desperately with Beiyang, and Fu Xiuming will never let the artillery point the muzzle there before the defense line fails, after all, if you do that, many people on your side will be involved in the artillery fire.

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It is not clear that the National Army on the defensive line is now putting up stubborn resistance. And after noticing that their backs were covered by artillery fire, the Beiyang Army also had a momentum of fighting against the water—————— because they had no way to retreat, and as for the fact that the artillery fire stopped later, they who had already killed red-eyed people would not notice it at all.

And for the officers who noticed, the soldiers' mentality of fighting against the odds was exactly what they needed, how could they possibly tell the soldiers?

In the trench, a soldier of the Beiyang Army stabbed a bayonet into the chest of a Nationalist Army, directly piercing the soldier, and the snow bayonet stabbed out of the back and was completely stained red with blood.

Seeing that he had finally eliminated his opponent, the Beiyang soldier exhaled, kicked him in the abdomen, and then managed to pull the bayonet out of his body.

It's just that the bayonet has just been pulled out, and I saw a soldier of the National Social Army rushing up behind him, and the sapper shovel in his hand went directly to his head, and before the soldier could react, his Tianling Gai had already flown out with some white brains, and the whole person was stunned for a moment and then fell to the ground limply, and the remaining brains in the brain also followed suit.

"Phew, these bastards are quite difficult to deal with...", and the soldier glanced at the unlucky bastard who had been impaled by the bayonet earlier, then looked around with some caution, and then ran towards a place where the shouts of killing were louder.

He'd seen a lot of things like that along the way, and he's used to it.

As more and more Beiyang troops poured into the trenches, there were some changes in the nature of the fighting between the two sides. In addition to the use of pistols on both sides in the battle, the rest of the battle is basically white-knuckle combat.

The Beiyang military used bayonets. Except for a few people who used bayonets, almost all of the rest used sapper shovels, which also made the National Socialist Army barely able to withstand the Beiyang offensive in white-knuckle warfare.

Over the past year. The Nationalist Army was trained almost like hell, which also allowed the Nationalist Army to surpass the miscellaneous armies in other places and reach a level similar to that of the Beiyang Army.

However, after all, there is a gap, and after having a large number of heavy equipment, the National Social Army actually does not attach much importance to white-knuckle warfare—————— who will still care about how to stab the opponent to death with a bayonet when there are a large number of light and heavy machine guns and even artillery?

is also like this, so that the National Social Army suddenly fell into a disadvantage in the white-knuckle battle.

If not the bayonet is too long. It is not convenient to use a sapper shovel in a narrow trench, and I am afraid that the situation of the National Social Army will be more troublesome.

At this time, the Beiyang artillery army, which had been quiet, also showed its presence, and a large number of shells were smashed between the second line of defense and the first line of defense. Prevent reinforcements from the National Army from catching up.

The Nationalist Army, which was reinforcing from the second line of defense, was soon hit by this wave of artillery attacks, but fortunately, the artillery of the Beiyang Army was 75mm light artillery, and the trenches dug by the Nationalist Army were deep enough, so the casualties were not very large.

More than ten minutes after the night attack. As reinforcements continue to catch up. The Nationalist Army on the first line of defense gradually gained a firm foothold.

Pistols, grenades, sapper shovels and, most importantly, a hand-held Madsen light machine gun.

The 11.43mm caliber Browning M1911 pistol can completely incapacitate the opponent with just one shot.

The grenade, when most of the Beiyang Army is found, only one is needed to make the opponent fly into the sky.

There were also easy-to-use sapper shovels, and as for the Madsen machine gun, when purchasing this machine gun from Denmark, the National Social Army asked the Danish arsenal to make a simple modification of this machine gun. A wooden handle has been added to the barrel of the machine gun, allowing the Heavy to pick up the machine gun directly on the way to the charge. And there is no need to worry about an overheated barrel lying on your own hands.

Compared with grenades, the Beiyang Army attaches more importance to the application of machine guns, so the Beiyang Army is not equipped with grenades, so when many machine gunners directly fight with the Beiyang Army with machine guns, those who are still holding machine guns have no ability to resist at all...

Soon, a large number of soldiers of the National Social Army began to fight with the Beiyang Army with machine gunners as the core of the team.

It's just that the Beiyang Army is not a local motley army after all, and what it holds in its hand is not a burning stick. So after the battle lasted for more than an hour, although the Nationalist Army had gained a firm foothold and began to launch a counterattack, by the time they drove the Beiyang Army out of their positions, it was already almost dawn...

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"Commander, what now?"

Standing behind Feng Guozhang, although his face was full of tiredness, Jin Yunpeng still looked at Feng Guozhang.

Now the situation is already obvious, so it is estimated that there will be no result in continuing to fight except for the loss of the troops in front. And now that the sky is gradually starting to get brighter, by the time the sun rises, the situation will probably become even more unfavorable for the Beiyang Army...

“…… Send flares to get them back, and order the artillery units to aim their guns at the first line of defense of the Nationalist Army, and hit me hard..."

"Yes!"

As the flares were raised, the already exhausted Beiyang Army began to withdraw from the first line of defense.

In contrast, the National Socialist Army began to reoccupy the positions that had been its own. It's just that just when the Beiyang Army withdrew from the defense line, and the Nationalist Army planned to use machine guns to bid farewell to these 'friends', hundreds of shells fell from the sky to entertain them.

In the face of the rain of bullets falling from the sky, the National Social Army, which originally planned to take this opportunity to make the other party pay a bloody price, had to temporarily give up this idea.

And this is exactly Feng Guozhang's purpose, everyone knows that there are enough machine guns of the Daoist National Socialist Army, if the Beiyang Army withdraws from the position of the National Socialist Army like this, on the unobstructed flat land, these withdrawn Beiyang Army will face a massacre.

Although the strength of the Beiyang Army is more than that of the National Socialist Army, more than 30,000 people in four divisions (excluding artillery, cavalry, engineering and baggage troops, etc., more than 4,000 infantry in one brigade, more than 8,000 infantry in one division, and more than 30,000 people in four divisions) are enough to make Beiyang feel broken, not to mention that Feng Guozhang used a lot of elites in it this time. The rain of bullets he ordered in advance was a cover for these troops...

The night battle, which took place on April 23, can be said to be the first head-to-head confrontation between Kunisha and Beiyang.

At 2:25 a.m. on 23 April, more than 33,000 Beiyang officers and men led by four divisions took advantage of the dark sky to launch a surprise attack on the positions of the Kuomintang Socialist Army.

Because it was getting late, it was not until the Beiyang Army arrived at a distance of 2 or 30 meters from the position of the National Social Army that it was discovered by the soldiers of the National Social Army in charge of the garrison, and the night attack became an open attack.

Although the Beiyang Army initially had a certain advantage, it soon gained a foothold with the help of reinforcements and began to launch a counterattack against the Beiyang Army.

By dawn, the Beiyang Army, which had launched the attack, was completely driven out of the defensive line.

According to post-war statistics, in the first battle between Beiyang and Guoshe, the Beiyang Army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and the Guoshe Army also suffered nearly 4,000 casualties.

However, whether it is for the National Social Army or the Beiyang Army, this is just the beginning... (To be continued......)