The bombardment of the Youth Army's defense line lasted for 30 minutes, and the three heavy artillery units of the Zhilu Coalition Army, totaling 144 heavy guns, unceremoniously fired more than 20,000 shells at the Youth Army's position.

This is an unprecedented magnanimity, those Japanese advisers who watched it were a little painful, you must know that this Zhang Zongchang is different from Zhang Zuolin, his arms purchases are all from the Japanese Empire on credit. The only thing I feel happy is probably the more than 900 Japanese veterans who have come to the artillery, and they didn't fight so well when they served in the Japanese army, and now they are stripped naked and naked to return and reload, anyway, the bombardment is all the pigs, naturally the more dead the better, anyway, that's what the commanders said. And Zhang Zongchang was also happy to see such a fierce firepower, and applauded vigorously: "If there was such fierce firepower when Shangqiu and Wu Xiucai fought last time, it would have been vigorous, and Lao Tzu would have to spend so much effort there, and it would be over with a bang." ”

After holding the binoculars for a while to see the effect of the shelling, Zhang Zongchang suddenly shouted to Shi Congbin and the others: "Wait until I tell the brothers below that after the shelling stops, I will buy the strength of the people and pick up the army of the Southern Barbarians in one go." Let's go all the way to Nanjing along the Jinpu line and see who this great river and mountain belongs to. ”

Shi Congbin and the others hurriedly said: "Naturally, it belongs to the big handsome."

Zhang Zongchang's face changed and said: "Fart, if it all belongs to me, what should I do with the veteran?" ”

Everyone was stunned immediately after being bluffed like this, but Zhang Zongchang laughed and said: "I'm scaring you guys, but I heard that Wang Zhenyu's two wives are very beautiful, and I waited for the twenty-four and twenty-fifth aunts who I grabbed in the past." Haha

The generals breathed a long sigh of relief, but secretly said in their hearts: I believe that you are a fool.

On a rare occasion, Zhang Zongchang paid half of the current ocean before the attack was launched, so the morale of the attacking troops immediately became too high. Officers and soldiers alike screamed wildly, vowing to tear the enemy on the opposite side to shreds.

Boom, with the explosion of the last heavy artillery shell, the entire battlefield fell into a brief silence, this silence came so suddenly, it was unprepared.

The veterans of the Youth Army who had combat experience did not hesitate to spit out the cigarettes they were holding at this time, and then checked their firearms again, and if this thing got stuck at a critical moment, it would be a lot of fun.

The attack of the Zhilu coalition army began without hesitation, and groups of infantry held the Japanese-style 38 cover in one hand and the domestic blade in the other, and pressed towards the position of the youth army very strangely. On both sides of the battle line, when the infantry was less than 100 meters away from the position of the Youth Army, the black pressure 8,000 horses unceremoniously launched a decisive charge from both ends of the battle line. The momentum of this charge made Itagaki who served as the chief adviser in Zhang Zongchang's army have to sigh: "The power of the charge of the Chinese army is extremely amazing, and even the imperial army may not be able to compare with it. ”

However, Itagaki did not forget to add in his report that it was only in the civil war that the Chinese could break out such an amazing fighting force. Such a report could be regarded as a disguised consolation to the Imperial Japanese Army, because the ensuing battle shocked Tokyo.

In our daily life, we can always hear a tall guy boasting in front of us about how we northerners are, and we northerners are real men. It seems that in the whole of China, only the northerners are real men, and in the south, only petite women remain. Since everyone is Chinese, with yellow skin and black eyes, it is unpleasant to always emphasize this point.

But in many cases, people may not really be boasting, in terms of combat alone, the tall and sturdy northern soldiers are naturally not comparable to the southern soldiers. The people who eat rice are destined to have a poor physical advantage, and if they have to fight the wheat eaters militarily, it can only be in terms of wisdom and courage. Historically, the military performance of soldiers in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other southern regions in the middle of the mainland period of the Republic of China also proves this point of view. In fact, when you can really successfully integrate the southern soldiers and the northern soldiers into a whole, your army will be invincible in the world, so the descendants of Yan and Huang should be united, not divided, united, and not humiliated.

It's far away, let's go back to the performance of the Zhilu coalition army. This is worthy of the tiger and wolf division trained by the Japanese instructors by surprise, and even the charge is neatly covering the position of the youth army.

A young battalion commander who had participated in the European war and had just been added to the first division couldn't help but lose a sentence when he saw such a charge on the opposite side. The soldiers of the Youth Army who were originally extremely nervous around him all looked at him stupidly, how could such a majestic charge become SB, so that everyone forgot about their nervousness and uneasiness in their doubts.

Naturally, the Zhilu coalition army was greeted by merciless bullets, but this time the officers of the youth army did not order the soldiers to enter 50 meters before shooting, because they were already familiar with the attack pattern of the Zhilu coalition army, and they asked the soldiers to shoot when the enemy entered 200 meters. And after firing five rounds in one magazine, all the soldiers were ordered to abandon the first-line position and retreat directly to the third-line position a hundred meters away. This is probably the strangest position, at least that's what the officers who led the charge of the Zhilu coalition thought so. Generally, the popular defense in China is straight-line defense, digging depth on the basis of a straight line, and when the Zhilu coalition army breaks through the first-line position, it is found that it has only broken through a trench, and this trench still has no depth, that is, a straight trench.

It didn't matter, what really discouraged the officers and soldiers of the Zhilu Alliance was that when they rushed into this trench, they didn't find a single enemy, and less than twenty meters away from them, a strange position appeared. Circular position, haven't you seen it? The middle is all a semicircular pier, the pier opened its eyes, and I don't know what the road is doing, in short, the people who look at it are very strange, so strange that they can't help but hair.

But at this time, it is no longer allowed to stop, and the law enforcement team of the commander is following behind with this ghost head knife and machine gun, rushing, continuing to rush, maybe the opponent is so vulnerable, maybe rushing over is victory.

The phrase "the Youth Army will never tolerate being despised by others" was engraved on the wall of the library of the Wuhan Army University many years later, and the source of this sentence was Zhang Zizhong, then the commander of the First Division of the Youth Army.

The Zhilu coalition army soon tasted the bitterness, when they rushed through these circular positions and continued to advance in depth, these circular positions did not hesitate to shoot tongues of fire at them, and the strong tongue of fire did not hesitate to sweep the officers and soldiers of the Zhilu coalition who had turned their backs to them to the ground.

In the open area between the circular positions, the officers and men of each of the Zhilu coalition forces were subjected to at least three heavy machine guns, and they had never seen this formation at all, and the result was naturally heavy casualties.

This is the legendary German "elastic defense", for the French this is simply a hellish existence, simply put, is to use the pillbox to change the original trench composed of a surface defense to point defense, and then this defensive position will use hook spurs, trenches as the auxiliary, with cement steel pillboxes as the center to do a deep layout, relying on heavy machine guns and other rapid weapons, as far as possible to hide themselves in the cement fortifications, and expose the enemy in the open area, and then use firepower to kill. On this basis, the Youth Army went one step further and developed a triangular flanking tactic, to be precise, three machine guns covering one side, so that there were no dead ends, and the effect was amazing. Just now, in less than three minutes, a platoon of about 50 people of the Zhilu coalition army was completely wiped out by the strafing of three machine guns, and what made the Zhilu coalition army desperate was that a total of 400 such strong pillboxes were built, and 380 still existed after 30 minutes of shelling. A total of 1,600 machine guns were distributed in the bunkers, and Tao Zhiyue concentrated the machine guns of the entire First Army to the First Division. This is blatant cheating......

In fact, this position was also mentioned in the internal notice of the Japanese military, and this position was also specifically introduced in the European war report sent back by the European war correspondent of the Chinese "Declaration". It's a pity that the whole army of Zhilu is usually the master who doesn't read books or newspapers, but now they are stunned and rush in without knowing whether they are alive or dead. However, this kind of position has one of the biggest requirements, that is, there are enough heavy weapons and supplies, so not everyone can play, the researchers of the Japanese military department after studying for a long time determined that the imperial army could not afford this thing, and as a result, this position construction method was ruthlessly abandoned by the Japanese imperial army like the submachine guns of later generations.

The next battle was very cruel, but this cruelty was only for the Zhilu coalition army, and the first and seventh brigades of the Zhilu coalition army, which rushed in first, lost their combat effectiveness almost instantly. All the officers and men were blinded, and they were trying to find a place to shelter, but such a place did not exist. They tried to fight back, but it was useless to shoot a few sparks on the concrete bunker. Despair soon permeated the whole army, and they tried to surrender, but the machine guns had no intention of stopping. At the meeting of the National Congress in Nanjing, Senator Liang Shuming initiated a motion calling for the declaration of the Zhilu coalition army as the butcher of national thieves, and that all officers and men of the department be regarded as evil bandits and that they would not accept surrender. This proposal was passed in both houses, so from the very beginning of the fighting, the youth army issued an order not to accept the surrender of the officers of the Nao-Lu coalition army. However, this also made the officers and soldiers fighting on the front line feel uncomfortable, at least the 3,200 officers and soldiers in the bunker are now soft.

The 8,000 cavalry of the Zhilu coalition army also rushed into this big trap with great momentum, and the result was tragic......

Zhang Zongchang could hardly believe his eyes, in just one hour of attack and operation, the three infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades he sent out, a full 23,000 men and horses, were withdrawn less than 6,000 people, that is to say, nearly 17,000 people were confessed to the position of the Youth Army, which was an unprecedented horror since the formation of the Zhilu Coalition Army.

Zhang Zongchang suddenly looked at the enemy opposite, and his body couldn't help but shudder