"The purpose of defense is not only to make the opponent unable to break through your defense, but also to make the opponent hit in front of your impregnable defense, so that the advantages and disadvantages of both sides are inadvertently switched until you can launch a counterattack!" - Nie Shicheng

Defense has never been a simple defense, and when the Beiyang Nie Shicheng Division built the defense line, it had already laid a trap for the Russians, a trap that could not be filled no matter how many soldiers were used! History has proved that as long as there are enough soldiers to continuously attack a certain line of defense, then the line will not hold up sooner or later, especially when the opponent has not weak artillery. It is obviously unrealistic to rely solely on a thin defensive line and limited forces to block the enemy's tidal wave of attacks and artillery bombardment! Therefore, Nie Shicheng and others came up with two sets of tactics of successive blocking and artillery gradient strike to deal with the Russian attack!

"The more troops of the first-line line of defense, the better, and the excessively dense forces are just sending meat to the Russian artillery! And at the time of shelling, it is not necessary to place the main forces in the first line, as long as they are able to enter the position before the opponent rushes up! Adhering to this principle, Beiyang has built auxiliary defensive positions between the defense lines, and arranged the defense lines in multiple layers, in order to flexibly deploy military forces and immediately reinforce or retreat!

"Machine gun fire can only be used against infantry outside the trenches, and is easily countered by the enemy's artillery. Therefore, the defender cannot place too many rapid-fire weapons in the temporary cover on the opponent's breakthrough surface, which is a waste. "Adhering to this principle. Beiyang weakened the firepower on the linear line of defense. Instead, support weapons such as major automatic firearms and grenadier canisters are concentrated at well-guarded and relatively concealed support points. And against those Russian troops who have infiltrated the trenches. The "bullet spray" specially prepared by Beiyang finally played a huge role!

The above two points are only to ensure that the defense line is not broken through and cannot fundamentally suppress the opponent's attack, and the above two points are only based on the trench system as the central axis. The width of the engagement is to kill the opponent in an area of about 500 meters. In order to fundamentally restrain the opponent's offensive, it is necessary to completely destroy the opponent's follow-up reinforcements and fire support. That is to say, it is required to have long-range heavy firepower to deal with the opponent's follow-up troops, and it is possible to carry out counter-suppression of the suppression artillery of the Russian Army, for the former, the 60 and 82 mortars equipped by the Beiyang Army will be used to concentrate on attacking the opponent's follow-up troops, as for the suppression of the 3-pounder and 6-pounder light artillery of the Russian army and the 75 rapid-fire guns that may advance to the front, they are handed over to 105 howitzers and 120 heavy mortars. Therefore, even if the Russians attacked fiercely, 105 howitzers and 120 heavy mortars chose to remain silent. They need a chance, a chance for the Russians to expose all their firepower!

The entire trench system is like a meat grinder, constantly devouring the lives of both sides. The Russians continued to rush into the trenches and engage in bloody battles with the Beiyang Army in narrow communication trenches, submachine guns, pistols, bayonets, and even fists and teeth became weapons of battle, and soldiers fought and rolled. After a Beiyang non-commissioned officer killed a Russian soldier with a rifle in his hand, before he could turn around, he was pierced by another Russian soldier's bayonet and immediately nailed to the wall by a huge thrust. The Russians looked at the struggling enemy with a hideous look, slowly turning their bayonets. Just as he was about to draw his bayonet. saw that the other party stabbed the rifle out at the same time, and the bright three-edged spear pierced the opponent's abdomen without hindrance. The Russian soldiers really didn't expect that this seemingly slender thing could be so lethal. Watching the blood gushing out like a spring down the blood tank, the vitality of the Russian soldiers was rapidly drained. But he still wrenched his rifle before he died! Both died almost simultaneously. One was nailed to the wall, while the other was propped up by a rifle and did not fall down!

The Russian soldiers who arrived later pushed away the dead and then advanced down the trenches with expressions on their faces. When passing through a corner, it was blocked by the dense submachine gun fire and bayonets of the Beiyang squad, and when the two sides could not hold each other, another group of Russian soldiers jumped into the other side of the trench, and the two Russian soldier squads finally surrounded the Beiyang combat team of only 10 people, when the two teams of Russian troops successfully met. They hugged each other, patted each other's shoulders and pounded each other's chests, glad they had survived for the time being. I am glad that I have captured this position. But at this moment, they heard a soft laugh, a Russian soldier followed the voice, and a Beiyang soldier who had been picked out of his intestines by a bayonet slowly pulled the ring of the grenade, and then laughed. Pulled off the 6 grenades he was carrying! In an instant, there was a loud bang, and both sides were blown to pieces, and it was no longer possible to distinguish between friend and foe.

Such scenes are constantly appearing throughout the battlefield. While the two sides continued to exchange soldiers, artillery was finally gradually deployed at the forefront. The artillery of the Russians, with the assistance of sappers, pushed the 47 and 57 guns to a distance of less than 1000 meters from the front, while the mortars followed, and they pushed the gun positions to a distance of less than 300 meters from the trenches under the pressure of the 60 and 82 mortars of the Beiyang Army!! The powerful mortar cannon gave full play to its power at this distance, and the civil fortifications simply could not withstand the attack of these grinding warriors!

The Russian artillery deployed in place unfolded in a two-layer arc. The inner layer was dominated by mortar guns and machine guns, which directly supported the battle at the breach, while the outer layer was dominated by 6-pounder guns, with a small number of 75 rapid-fire guns, who were responsible for suppressing the fire points of the Beiyang Army. The two-layer curved line of defense is like a mirror of a concave lens. And concentrate the firepower at the breach! A dense rain of bullets struck the breach. The civil fortifications were destroyed by direct fire, and the fortified support points trembled under the blows of large-caliber mortars. The roof reinforced by logs and rammed earth could not block the attack of more than 10 kg of high-explosive shells! More Russian soldiers poured into the trenches under the cover of artillery fire, constantly pounding the already weaker and weaker defenses! In the eyes of the Russian commanders, it was only a matter of time before the North Sea line was broken through! And at this time, what is Beiyang doing?!

The Russians are preparing with fire to tear open the defense line of the Beiyang Army, and Beiyang is also preparing! Nie Shicheng needed time to concentrate the scattered artillery and rearrange it, and then crush the other party in one fell swoop! In addition to the technical performance of the artillery itself and the quality of the user, appropriate tactics are also very important. And even more important than performance metrics in some ways!

As the minutes passed, the Russians gradually tore through the defenses of the front. A large number of Russian infantry also jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the place where the gap had been opened. Now that the person in front has driven the nails. Then all that's left is to expand this rift rapidly until the defense line is completely torn apart!

Beiyang's counterattack power is also gradually in place. A large number of 120 heavy mortars and 82 mortars have been concentrated along the communication trenches to the 2 line. They will constitute the main firepower of this strike, and under unified command, all mortars of medium caliber and above will launch a double-layer barrage of bombardment. At the same time, rapid-fire guns such as the 1-pounder cannon were gradually pushed to the front line. These weapons will be used in conjunction with machine guns against targets that are already deep or close to the trenches. In terms of pure fire projection, these weapons with a rate of fire of more than 300 rounds a minute will not give anyone a chance to dodge at all, and when the Russian infantry enters the area covered by this artillery, they can only die!

It was just a feast for the Russian infantry. Beiyang's 105 long-range howitzers and some 120 heavy mortars will launch an attack on the Russian artillery that follows the support, and as the attack continues, the Russians push a large number of light artillery to the front line. These artillery pieces can be said to be the hammer that the Russian Army relies on to break through the defensive line. If even the hammer is gone, in the face of the turtle shell of Beiyang, the Russian infantry will definitely not be able to rush through the fire blockade of Beiyang, no matter how many people they use to fill it!

With three red signal flares rising into the sky, the long-dormant Beiyang artillery group suddenly exerted its strength! In an instant, countless muzzle flames rose from artillery positions all over the Beiyang! The roar of the cannon ejection instantly resounded throughout the battlefield. After a few seconds, the sound of the cannonballs exploding completely overwhelmed the other sounds on the battlefield! Whether it was the shouts and groans of the soldiers on both sides, or the roar of the machine guns, they were completely overwhelmed by the incomparably terrifying sound of artillery!

If the tide hits the shore, the sound brings a rain of destruction that heralds death! Countless shells exploded in the air, and a stream of death intertwined with shrapnel enveloped the charging Russian soldiers. Shells fell in rows in the opposing lineup, and after blowing up the troops in the front row, the shelling began to extend in depth. As the barrage progressed, the attack formation behind the Russian Army was completely dispersed.

While the mortars slaughtered the Russian infantry, the counterattack of the 105 howitzers finally fell on the heads of the Russian light artillery. Whether it's the mortar squad for close support, or the 3-pounder and 6-pounder guns that fire at the rear points. In the face of 105kg high-explosive shells fired by 15 heavy guns, the result was the same. The hastily constructed firing positions were simply not able to withstand the attack of high-explosive shells, and even a close miss was enough to wipe out the entire artillery crew. Even more tragic is that the Russians piled up some of their ammunition around the gun emplacements at the beginning. In the face of high-explosive and highly flammable picric acid explosives, these shells could not be called a sharp weapon for the Russians to attack the fortifications, but became accomplices of Beiyang! A 105-105 grenade exploded next to a mortar, and when part of the artillery crew escaped with the help of bunkers and gun shields, a set of ignited medicine packets completely drowned the Russians who had just escaped death. On the battlefield, the Beiyang artillery bombardment became the last straw that crushed the Russian Army, and the Russian Army, which had suffered huge casualties, was finally defeated by the Beiyang Reserve that rushed out with the barrage. The massive loss of personnel and equipment was already beyond the reach of the Russians. Four hours after the offensive began, the offensive that the Russians had painstakingly prepared for half a month was completely disintegrated.

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