"Hell, I can't see it at all!!"

In the position, machine guns were constantly strafing the beachhead, and the machine gunners shouted complainingly.

Today's sky is dark, the moon is nowhere to be seen, the machine gunners on the position can't see the enemy on the beachhead at all, they can only rely on their instincts to fight, no one knows how many can hit—————— maybe they can't hit any of them...

In fact, it was not only him, but even several other positions, all of which relied on sporadic light and their own directness to strafe towards the beachhead, but no one knew what the actual results were.

There is only one thing they know, and that is that if they really let the people on the other side gain a foothold on the beachhead, then they will be in big trouble...

On the other hand, the soldiers who had just come down from the river also rushed madly towards the several positions that had already been taken, led by the officers.

If they may still be a little cowardly in their hearts before crossing the river, but after crossing the river, they know very well that they have no way out. If they don't want to be shot in the Cihu River on the way to retreat, they have only the option of taking the position, naturally, they can also choose to surrender like the more than 3,000 people in the previous two days, just as a soldier, even if it is just mixed food, if possible, how many will be willing to surrender?

Seeing that more and more enemy troops were attacking from across the river, the machine gunners in the remaining positions were also anxious. At this moment, bright spots suddenly rose from the rear positions, illuminating the night sky...

Nature. The soldiers on the river beach who were getting off the boat were also clearly illuminated...

"Fucking see," the machine gunner re-aimed his gun at the soldier on the beach. It's just that in an instant, a platoon of soldiers was swept to the ground, and the blood flowed into the Cihu River next to it, dyeing the river water that had just been washed red again, but at this time, no one cared about these at all...

At the same time, after reacting, a large number of reinforcements have also been reinforced.

With a group of people rushed up from behind. After picking up an enemy with a pistol, a revolutionary officer shouted to his men behind him.

"Drive these bastards down the river for me..."

As he spoke, more than a dozen soldiers of the Yan Army climbed out of the trenches. Rushed up with a bayonet.

A few shots rang out, and three of the dozen or so soldiers fell, and two fell on the officer's side.

After disposing of the two with his pistol, the officer pulled out the saber he wore at his waist. Behind him, a group of soldiers also turned out bayonets, sapper shovels and other weapons. He greeted him with shouts of killing.

"Give me death!" Dodging an enemy who stabbed him, the officer raised his saber and stabbed him directly into the body. At this time, another enemy also rushed up, and it was too late to pull the saber out of the enemy's body, and the officer had to abandon the knife and dodge, but although he dodged in time, half of the flesh was still lost on his arm...

Seeing that the man was about to stab him a second time, one of the officer's subordinates rushed forward. The sapper shovel in his hand slashed at his head, directly chopping off the opponent's head...

It took about 7 or 8 minutes. The officers finally solved this group of opponents, but they also suffered a lot of casualties. Wiping his sweat, and before the officer could say anything to boost his morale, he saw another group of enemies rushing up with bayonets.

Before the officer could raise the pistol that had just been loaded, he saw a black goo thing being thrown under the feet of the enemy, and then with a 'boom', the dozen or so people could no longer get up...

"How?!" Another group of people ran over, and the officer in charge asked with a smile, he threw the grenade just now.

"Thank you!" The opponent's gun was not a burning stick, and if there was really another hand-to-hand encounter, it would be difficult to say how many people would die, so the officer hurriedly thanked him.

After waving his hand and signaling him not to be so polite, the officer just now ran in the other direction with his subordinates. And after a moment of respite, the officer also led his men to continue to rush forward.

Now that it has reached the point of hand-to-hand combat, it is clear that the machine gun is not much use. At this time, another 'powerful' weapon of positional warfare, the grenade, also came in handy.

At this time, on the other side of the river, Bai Wenwei was still transporting troops across the river by boat, and behind the defense line, Yan Shao was also mobilizing limited troops to reinforce it. In the darkness of the night, two streams of people collided violently, like two waves crashing together...

The whole battle lasted until dawn the next day, and in the end, with the advantage of equipment and the will to fight higher than the opponent's will, the revolutionary army finally drove the opponent out of the position after paying huge casualties...

Seeing that the positions that were originally captured were being recaptured one by one, Bai Wenwei also understood that this night attack was a failure. At the same time, as the sky gradually brightened, the scene on the battlefield was also exposed in front of everyone.

Originally, because the sky was dark enough, they could only rely on a limited number of flares to illuminate the relationship, and the officers and soldiers of both the revolutionary army and the strict army were not very clear about the situation around them. However, when they saw the corpses all over the place after dawn, the people of the revolutionary army were still able to say, but the morale of the Yan army was dealt a heavy blow.

At this time, Bai Wenwei's order to retreat came from the rear, and they almost did not stop at all, and returned to the other side of the river by the boat that came.

On March 8, Bai Wenwei's troops launched a surprise attack at night, which went smoothly at first, but as reinforcements from the rear gradually caught up, coupled with the superiority of equipment, after a night of fierce fighting, the Anhui Revolutionary Army finally drove the Yan army out of the defense line...

According to later statistics, there were more than 5,000 casualties in the night attack on Bai Wenwei's side, and Yan Shao's side also paid more than 2,000 casualties. Although on the surface, Bai Wenwei seems to be at a loss, but in fact, Yan Shao knows very well that this battle is a lose-lose situation. Because Bai Wenwei has a lot of people, it doesn't matter how many people die, but Yan Shao can't fight with Bai Wenwei.

If it weren't for the urgency of last night's situation, Yan Shao would not even have been able to take last night's approach to regain the lost position.

And maybe I feel that the way of night raid is more suitable for me. In the next few days, Bai Wenwei basically did not move during the day, and only waited for the night to attack.

Although after the last encounter. The whole army has been vigilant, but Bai Wenwei's way of fighting still brought Yan Shao a lot of trouble.

Yan Shao also thought that as long as he waited until night, he would immediately use incendiary bombs to illuminate the river, so that Bai Wenwei would naturally not be able to use such a means as a night attack. The problem is that the Cihu River is very long, and to illuminate the entire Cihu River, the number of incendiary bombs required is definitely not a small amount. And the incendiary bomb in Yan Shao's hand is only enough for combat, and it is not enough to even maintain the usual vigilance, if it weren't for this, he would not have been attacked by Bai Wenwei.

Nature. Yan Shao also thought about buying some from Shanghai, anyway, he was not short of money, even if it was a few million, he could spend it without blinking an eye. The problem is that very few people buy incendiary bombs in China, and even those foreign companies in Shanghai do not have inventory. At present, the closest place to Yan Shao has this thing. It was the German army in the Qingdao fortress.

Although Yan Shao can also let Lihe and foreign companies through smuggling. After all—————— no one wants to make a feud with money, even the Germans.

However, the inventory of the Germans in Qingdao was not much, and even if the entire Qingdao fortress was emptied, it would not be possible to illuminate the entire Cihu River—————— not to mention that people might not be willing to sell everything to Yan Shao.

And if you buy directly from the mainland of other countries, it will be too late. Therefore, Yan Shao could only let the Germans, the British, and the French (Indian colonies, Vietnamese colonies) find a way, and at the same time be as vigilant as possible.

It's just that Bai Wenwei's troops are already more than Yan Shao's, and if it goes on like this, it is inevitable that there will be a feeling that it is impossible to guard, gradually. Yan Shao also began to get impatient.

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In the command center, these people in it originally despised Bai Wenwei. But since Bai Wenwei stopped playing with them during the day and switched to only playing night battles, they couldn't take it easy.

Naturally, they didn't think about taking the initiative to attack, the problem was that even if they suffered frequent losses, the army on the opposite side still had more than 70,000 people, while the troops that Yan Shao's side could use were only 17,800 people. In other words, the number of people on the opposite side is still more than four times that of Yan Shao. With more than 10,000 people, just guarding the Cihu River is already very reluctant, and if you take the initiative to attack, unless you also transfer those who are in the rear as reserves, there is basically no possibility of victory.

The problem is that if you do, you're making a desperate bet.

If more than 20,000 people take the initiative to attack more than 70,000 people, if they do not succeed, the results may not be optimistic. And unlike last time, last time it was on flat ground, there were no fortifications on both sides, with the advantage of firepower, Liu Guangyuan naturally defeated Xing Jian'an easily, but now Bai Wenwei on the opposite side has made the beachhead full of trenches, even if he can win the last time, the casualties paid are also Yan Shao's unacceptable, after all, Yan Shao's troops are originally less than Bai Wenwei...

Therefore, the staff officers in the command headquarters were thinking about how to defeat the enemy in front of them at the lowest cost.

Glancing at those guys who were still thinking about what to do, Yan Shao turned his head and looked at Tang Li, who was talking to his subordinates. After half a ring, seeing that what Tang Li said seemed to be about the same, Yan Shao beckoned. "Tang Li, come here..."

"It's so good..."Hearing Yan Shao call himself, Tang Li hurriedly put down the matter at hand and ran over. Master, what's the matter? ”

Bowing his head and groaning for a while, Yan Shao looked up at Tang Li. "You go and send a telegram to Anqing and ask how I asked Carter to do it..."

Although it was not clear what Yan Shao had asked Caterina to do, Tang Li was very smart and didn't ask much. Instead, he nodded and replied. "Okay, I'm going to send a telegram..."After speaking, Lizheng saluted Yan Shao, and under the inertia, although there was a uniform wrap, his chest, which was not small, still shook slightly.

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Just when Yan Shao was instructing Tang Li, Ying Shan, who was patrolling the wounded barracks on the other side of the river, was bleeding from his heart.

In order to be able to take the position on the other side of the river, Bai Wenwei and them have been launching night attacks these days, as one of the many division commanders. Naturally, Ying Shan also had to send his own troops. As a result, these days, the troops have suffered heavy casualties, and Yingshan, a division that was originally less than 10,000 people. Now there are only more than 6,000 available soldiers left, which is how Ying Shan does not feel distressed...

And those dead soldiers are counted, but those wounded soldiers need him to pay for treatment, otherwise who would want to fight for him? This is another additional expense, which really makes Ying Shan feel distressed.

Just when Ying Shan was still patrolling the wounded barracks, an officer suddenly walked over quickly in the distance, and then whispered in Ying Shan's ear. "Division commander. Someone wants to see you..."

"Who?" Slightly around, Ying Shan asked in a low voice.

"It's the one you saw the other day..."

Hearing the officer say this, Ying Shan suddenly understood. "Let him wait in my tent now. I'll go back right away..."

"Yes!" With that, the officer saluted, then turned to leave.

After the officer left, Ying Shan turned around twice in the same place, and finally made up his mind. After hastily condolences to two injuries. He returned to the camp with his own soldiers.

After returning to his own camp, Ying Shan saw a man in a gray robe sitting in the camp tent looking at something, and when he saw that he was back, the man raised his head with a smile.

"Master Ying, you're finally back, I've been waiting here for a long time...", the man put the things in his hand aside, and then stood up.

"What are you doing here?" saw the man smile. Ying Shan snorted coldly and asked.

"I'm going to do something." The man chuckled. "Naturally, I want to ask Senior Commander Ying, how did you think about the things I did a few days ago? We've been looking forward to you for a long time..."

"This—" frowned. Ying Shan hesitated.

The person in front of him found him not long after he set off from Nanjing, and the purpose was naturally to hope that he could throw himself on Yan Shao's side. The problem is that Bai Wenwei had eighty or ninety thousand soldiers and horses in his hands at that time, and no matter how the outside world looks at it, he thinks he has the best chance of winning, in this case, although Ying Shan and Bai Wenwei have some contradictions, it is impossible to jump to Yan Shao's side—————— how many people will choose a ship that must be sunk?

Although many things happened later, Ying Shan still had a lot of confidence in Bai Wenwei—————— until after the failure of the night attack...

It was precisely because of the failure of that night attack that Ying Shan began to wonder if they could successfully occupy Anhui, if not, then his losses these days would not be...

It's just that although the bottom of his heart has begun to lean towards Yan Shao, Ying Shan has not shown it on the surface, waiting for the price to sell, although Ying Shan is not a businessman, but he has also heard of this sentence. Naturally, it is clear that in this case, if you are too proactive, you will lose a lot of benefits...

At the same time, the gray-robed man sitting opposite Ying Shan was also a little eager in his heart...

If Ying Shan can be persuaded to defect this time, then it will undoubtedly be extremely easy to defeat Bai Wenwei.

And in addition, this incident also made Yan Shao understand one thing.

Although the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command is not bad, but after all, the number is still too small, although with the advantage of equipment and relatively tenacious will to fight, it is relatively easy to defeat some opponents, even if the number of opponents is more than twice his own, such as those people's troops on the opposite side...

But if there are too many on the other side, then you will eventually suffer a little...

Naturally, Yan Shao can also build a few more troops, anyway, there are still a lot of arms purchased from Germany and other countries, and it is enough to build two more divisions. The problem is that time is too late, and officers are also a problem, and if there are not enough officers, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness will be very worrying ...

However, what if these civilian armies were directly reorganized? These people's troops originally came to find trouble because they had no food, and Yan Shao just didn't lack these, if he could take this opportunity to buy some to join his command, then his strength would undoubtedly be able to get a little improvement.

Of course, the combat effectiveness of the troops also needs to be considered, after all, these civilian armies really have little combat effectiveness. But in fact, there is no difference between these troops under his command, except for the two regiments of the first division, they are basically new recruits, compared with those civilian troops on the opposite side, in addition to the will to fight, they are purely bullying people with superior equipment...

If the opponent has the same equipment, it's hard to say what the outcome will be in the final game...

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Seeing that Ying Shan was still hesitating there, the person who came smiled lightly. "What, does Master Ying still think that Bai Wenwei has a chance to win? I can tell you here first, in this so-called strict army, we are not only in contact with you as the division commander, but also many people are our contact objects, even including those regiment commanders or battalion commanders under you, and many of them are already willing to stand on our side.

Carrots and sticks are king, what is the use of giving carrots alone, so there is a hint of threat in the spoken words of the gray-robed man.

Hearing his words, Ying Shan was shocked. "Some of my men are in contact with you?!"

"Of course...", he smiled. Don't forget, this division of yours was originally a ragtag division made out of chaos, in fact, as early as in Nanjing, we already had contact with the people under you, and now it's just a deepening of communication? ”

Thinking that the person in front of him was brought in by his adjutant, Ying Shan did not doubt his words at all, so his expression became much more solemn. "If I throw myself at you..."

"You should have seen how our troops are equipped, as long as you are willing to throw yourself to us, we will guarantee that in the future, you can not only continue to be your division commander, but also definitely not just such a miscellaneous division..."

Because looking at Ying Shan's current expression, he already knew that he had succeeded... (To be continued......)