Chapter 33: Defeat!

"Master Zhang, is this place the defensive position of the Iron Blood Army?" The north of Guanqiao is Tongshan. This time, Zhang Xun combined Jin Yune's troops with more than 2,400 people, 4,000 civilians, 3,000 mules and horses, 2,000 cavalrymen, and 16 artillery teams, 16 artillery fields and cannons to advance to northern Anhui. After crossing Tongshan, he faced the first layer of defense of the Iron Blood Army, and it was also the last layer of defense in northern Anhui, Guanqiao.

"March jin said that this is the defensive position of the Iron Blood Army. According to the rewards of our spies, about 17,000 people, and there are no artillery." Jin Yune was the local emperor of Shandong. He was the largest in Shandong except for the Germans. Zhang Xun was beaten by the revolutionary party and fled northward, and fled to Chongzhou, Shandong. Although he was the commander of the same army, he was still under someone's roof.

"Typescope." Jin Yune nodded and said to the orderly soldier behind him.

The orderly man hurriedly took the monocular lens over and handed it to Jin Yune.

"The fortifications were excavated well. Among them, the defense forces in the central and southeastern areas were relatively elite, but unfortunately the others were all mobs." Jin Yune was one of the four great kings under Duan Qirui's later. It was fake to say that he had no military strategy. Just checking it with a telescope, he could tell that the defenders here were weak and strong. The central part he mentioned was the Third Regiment of the Second Brigade of the Fifth Division. Although he had never been on the battlefield, there were still some veterans who were very calm. The Southeast defensive position was the First Regiment of the Sichuan Army.

Although the army was not neat, there was no panic. The soldiers in the middle of the two seemed messy, some were frightened, some were afraid, some were excited, and some were both like this. This was even more so in the northwest Iron Blood Army, because these two places were made of prisoners of war or new recruits, the new recruits were always afraid of war, and the prisoners were very afraid of the Beiyang Army, and of course there were many not afraid. Although the guns in their hands were only made of Hanyang eliminated by the Iron Blood Army, each of them had only ten bullets.

"Order the First Regiment of the First Brigade to attack the enemy's northwest defense line, the Second Regiment to attack the enemy's position between the central and southeastern parts of the enemy. The remaining troops attacked the central parts of the enemy and defeated it in one fell swoop. The Right Army of Wuwei attacked the enemy's southwest defense line, and used superior forces to penetrate the opponent in one fell swoop." In fact, Jin Yune's ambition was too huge, and at the same time he underestimated the Iron Blood Army. If he concentrated his troops to attack the weak parts of the Iron Blood Army, it would be easier to break through, but he was too confident. He wanted to defeat all the opponent's defense lines in one fell swoop with a strong posture.

On the Iron Blood Army position, the officers on the front line looked nervously at the movements of the Beiyang Army in front. At the same time, the only six heavy machine guns on the entire front were also placed. Each heavy machine gun group had thirty soldiers. Maybe it seemed like it was a waste of so many people. In fact, there was a reason. In order to maintain the firepower output and safety of the heavy machine guns, these soldiers were just to block the enemy when the enemy approached, so as to buy time for the heavy machine guns.

"The mortar team is ready to wait for the enemy to enter the involved range to launch a shelling." The only thing that can compete with the enemy's artillery is the mortar. Although its power cannot be compared with the opponent's artillery and its range is only 170 or 80 meters, at least it is light and concealed, easy to operate, and can be placed in the trenches to attack the enemy, so that the possibility of being hit by the enemy can almost be ignored.

The entire Beiyang Army was dispatched, and the artillery team behind them also began to operate intensively, filling shells, and some old antique bronze cannons made from unknown places were also moved out by Zhang Xun to twelve of them, which were fired with solid bullets. However, this kind of artillery was almost no threat to the Iron Blood Army in the trenches.

"Attack..." Jin Yune waved his hand, and all the Beiyang troops wore large caps and held Japanese and German rifles in their hands and began to move forward little by little.

The trenches of the Iron Blood Army were built on a high place, one or two meters higher than the front of the trenches. It was a gentle slope. I saw that the Beiyang army was now densely marching under the gentle slope. However, the Iron Blood Army's mortars were roaring first before firing the enemy's artillery. The Beiyang Army did not have heavy artillery, but there were still sixty-caliber and eighty-caliber artillery. For a moment, the ground was shaking on the front line. The people adapted from prisoners of war were no longer afraid of these artillery. Even if the people around him were unlucky, he could still rub the rifle and look forward to it. Occasionally, the heavy machine guns placed in the work room ten meters behind them. Those heavy machine guns were used to suppress the enemy, but they also had the function of supervising battle. Once the enemy attacked, they would spray out terrifying fire snakes, but they would also be the same if they were in the rear.

The recruits were trembling, but more of them were holding their rifles and stroking the Tang swords on their backs. The Iron Blood Army did not have so many bayonets to them. They were holding all-in-one-cast Tang sword-style knives. This kind of war knife about one meter long can still play a role in hand-to-hand combat.

"Fight..." Mortars hidden in the trenches began to ship, and forty shells from the Sichuan Army instantly landed between the enemy troops more than 100 meters away, causing screams for a moment.

"The artillery from the Iron Blood Army?" Jin Yun'e looked at the Iron Blood Army's position in a daze. He clearly saw the artillery shells flying out from behind the Iron Blood Army trenches, but he did not see where the other party's artillery team was.

"This! It's really strange!" Zhang Xun stroked his thick beard and looked over in confusion, but he really didn't notice the other party's artillery team.

"The son of the turtle is just a son of the turtle! Why are you smashing with an old antique?" Wu Yao looked at the big flag behind him, so angry that he was so angry that he specially asked someone to make a blood-colored eagle swastika flag that he specially asked someone to make was actually hit by that hateful solid shell! He wondered if this stupid guy from the Beiyang Army was still using that thing?

The Iron Blood Army's small cannons kept firing shells, but after twenty rounds, the barrels turned red and had to stop using clean water to dissipate heat. At this time, the Beiyang Army was less than 100 meters away from its position.

"Prepare heavy machine guns, everyone loads bullets and shoots them for me." There is no barbed wire here, and there is not so many barbed wires in northern Anhui for the use of the army, so there are only trenches here.

"Bapa..." The heavy machine guns like fried beans began to express their opinions, almost sweeping across the Beiyang Army in front of them, and the Beiyang Army's attack was immediately beaten.

The firepower of the Iron Blood Army is extremely powerful. Although it is not as good as the Beiyang Army overall, most of the Beiyang Army is in an attack at this time. However, the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army are on defense and all bullets are fired. If there is firepower on the southern front, these Beiyang Army will not be able to take a step forward. However, the backward weapons have caused the firepower connection of the Iron Blood Army to continue to appear. The huge Beiyang Army's army has rushed to the Iron Blood Army's position after nearly a thousand people online.

"Bang... there is no need to retreat, those who retreat will die! Those who fear war will die..." After being attacked by the aggressive Beiyang Army, the veterans retreated, but the officers in charge of the battle behind stood up and shot the few soldiers who retreated with pistols, including three new soldiers.

"If you fight in front of the battlefield, you may still survive. Anyone who retreats will be executed." A group of more than 20 soldiers behind the supervising officers pointed their rifles at four or five thousand soldiers in the southwest defense line, and heavy machine guns also gave up shooting at the enemy and turned to these soldiers. If there was a little defeat, they would shoot without any attention.

"Go back and kill!" The commanders of these troops broke out from the resistance ahead at this time, and kicked and drove the escaped soldiers back.

"Ah... I'm dead anyway, I'll fight them!" In fact, the retreat of the soldiers on the Western Front was not because they were particularly afraid of the enemy, but because their rifles had no bullets. The distribution of only ten rounds was not enough to support such a strong battle. The Iron Blood Army and Deng Sen now concentrated almost all the bullets in the main force. Even the troops of the Fifth Division were less than 100 rounds per person, and the Sichuan Army had only 70 rounds. This was impossible. Since the war started, tens of millions of bullets had been consumed. The bullets purchased were almost used up. Fortunately, a batch was purchased from the Germans and the arsenal also produced a little, but it was still a drop in the bucket. It was good to be able to maintain the main force on the Southern Front. Moreover, the guns in the hands of the northern militia were all old-style rifles made in Hanyang, and the models of bullets were slightly different, so the current situation was.

The despicable and helpless recruits could only pull out the Tang sword hanging behind them, which was their last weapon.

"Kill..." Beiyang soldiers attacked in with bayonets. They were like wolves and tigers, and the Iron Blood Army soldiers looked at each other nervously.

"Kill..." A young soldier took the lead and rushed forward with a Tang sword, but the Tang sword, which was only one meter long, was stabbed by a bayonet before it could touch the other party's body.

"Ah..." Before I could recover the bayonet, the Beiyang Army, who had just killed an Iron Blood Army soldier, was cut off half by the sharp Tang sword. The recruits used their lives to fight the enemy.

The Western Front is the most tragic battlefield. Although the recruits were holding sharp Tang swords, they were at a disadvantage in any aspect. The heavy machine guns behind them had also been transferred to their positions, leaving only a team of soldiers in charge standing behind them. The Beiyang army, which was only more than 2,000 people, was pressing the Iron Blood Army of 4,000 or 5,000 people, and launched a fierce attack. Although the recruits resisted, they fled to the left and right with too much casualties.

"Captain, I can't defend the Western Front anymore!" The third regiment ran around the side of the army who thought was covered in blood, and the commander of the Western Front was the commander of the military battle. All his soldiers were dead. He himself was seriously injured. After the Beiyang Army broke the defense, it turned into a detour and wanted to encircle all other Iron-blooded troops.

"I informed Captain Wu to defend and wait for assistance. The two regiments gathered in one place and placed the new soldiers on the periphery." Failed, defeated! Compared with the Iron Blood Army in the northern part of the Beiyang Army, the strength of the Iron Blood Army is too weak. Even if they fight with the Beiyang Army, they may not be able to win. Not to mention the troops composed of prisoners and new soldiers, the defeat of those troops was expected.

However, the third regiment cannot retreat. The third regiment's mission is to defend here for more than one and a half days. Even if the enemy breaks through all the surrounding trenches and surrounds them, as long as they don't die, they must stick here.
Chapter completed!