The bombardment of the youth army's defense line lasted for 30 minutes. The three heavy artillery soldiers of the Zhilu coalition, a total of 144 heavy artillery, fired more than 20,000 shells at the Youth Army's position without hesitation.

This is unprecedentedly generous. The Japanese consultants were a little painful. You should know that Zhang Zongchang was different from Zhang Zuolin. His arms procurement was all on credit from the Japanese Empire. The only thing I felt happy was that more than 900 Japanese artillery soldiers came. They didn't fight so well when they served in the Japanese army. Now they took off their clothes and barely retreated bullets and filled them. Anyway, they were all Chinese pigs, so the more they died, the better. Anyway, the officials said that, and Zhang Zongchang was so happy to see such fierce firepower, and kept applauding: "If I had such fierce firepower last time when I was fighting with Wu Xiucai in Shangqiu, it would be very strong. I would have to spend so much effort on my place. I would have to beat him up."

After holding the telescope for a while, Zhang Zongchang suddenly shouted to Shi Congbin and others: "Tell me later that the brothers will buy the strength after the shelling stops, and take action to clean up the army of the Southern Barbarians for me. Let's follow the Jinpu Line to Nanjing to see who this great river and mountain will be brought to see who will take this great land."

Shi Congbin and others hurriedly said: "Of course it belongs to the Grand Marshal."

Zhang Zongchang's face changed: "If you fart, it's my own, what should you do if you don't know what to do if you don't have a good time?"

Everyone was stunned immediately after being frightened like this, but Zhang Zongchang laughed again and said, "I'm scaring you guys to play, but I heard that Wang Zhenyu's two wives are very beautiful. I waited for me to come over and snatch them to be the twenty-fourth concubine and the twenty-fifth concubine, hahahahaha."

The generals breathed a long sigh, but they said in their hearts: I believe you, I am a fool.

It was rare that Zhang Zongchang paid half of the ocean before the attack was launched, so the morale of the attacking troops immediately became so high that they could no longer be higher. From officers to soldiers, they screamed wildly, vowing to tear the enemy opposite into pieces.

Boom, with the explosion of the last heavy artillery shell, the entire battlefield fell into a brief silence. This silence came so suddenly that it made people unprepared.

The veterans who had combat experience in the Youth Army vomited out the cigarettes they were holding in their mouths without hesitation, and then checked their guns again. If this thing gets stuck at a critical moment, it will be fun.

The attack of the Zhilu coalition began without hesitation. Groups of infantry held the Japanese-style 38-caps in one hand and the domestic-made large blades in the other, and were very strangely pressing towards the position of the Youth Army. On both sides of the front, eight thousand black horses were fighting. When the infantry was less than 100 meters away from the position of the Youth Army, they unceremoniously launched a decisive charge from both ends of the front. This momentum of charge made Itagaki, who served as the general counsel in Zhang Zongchang's army, sighed: "The power of the Chinese army's charge is extremely amazing, and even the imperial army may not be comparable to it."

However, Itagaki did not forget to add a sentence in his report that the Chinese could only burst out with such amazing combat power in the civil war. Such a report was also a disguised comfort to the Great Japanese Imperial Army, because the subsequent battle shocked Tokyo.

In our daily life, we can always hear a tall guy bragging in front of us about how we northerners are. We northerners are real men, as if only northerners in China are real men, and in the south there are only petite women. Since we are both Chinese, we have yellow skin and dark eyes, it will make people feel unpleasant to emphasize this point.

But in many cases, people may not be really boasting. Judging from the combat alone, the tall and strong northern soldiers are naturally not comparable to those of the southern soldiers. Rice-eating people are destined to have a large advantage in terms of physical strength. If they insist on fighting with wheat-eating people in military terms, they can only be in terms of wisdom and courage. In history, the military performance of soldiers from southern regions such as Sichuan, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi in the mid-term of the Republic of China also proved this view. In fact, when you can truly successfully integrate the southern soldiers and northern soldiers into a whole, your army is invincible in the world, so the descendants of Yan and Huang must unite, not divide, unite, and not humiliate themselves.

If you are too far away, let’s go back to the performance of the Zhilu coalition. This is worthy of being a tiger and wolf army trained by Japanese instructors. Even the charge was neatly covered with the positions of the Youth Army.

A young battalion commander who had participated in the European war and had just added to the First Division saw the charge opposite, and couldn't help but throw a SB down, which made the young soldiers who were originally extremely nervous look at him foolishly. How could such a majestic charge become an SB? In this way, everyone forgot the nervousness and anxiety in their doubts.

The ruthless bullets were naturally welcomed by the Zhilu coalition. However, this time the officers of the Youth Army did not order the soldiers to enter fifty meters before firing, because they had long been familiar with the attack mode of the Zhilu coalition. They required soldiers to shoot when the enemy entered two hundred meters. After firing a magazine of five bullets, all soldiers were ordered to give up the front-line position and retreat directly into the third-line position one hundred meters away. This is probably the strangest position. At least the officers leading the charge of the Zhilu coalition thought so. Generally, straight line defense is popular in China, digging deep on the basis of straight lines. When the Zhilu coalition broke through the front-line position, they found that they had only broken through a trench. This trench was still not as deep as it was a straight trench.

It doesn't matter. What really made the officers and soldiers of the Zhilu coalition really discouraged was that when they rushed into the trench, they did not find an enemy. But less than twenty meters away from them, a strange position appeared. The circular position, I have never seen it before. There were all semicircular trunks in the middle. The trunks opened their eyes and didn't know what they were doing. In short, people were very strange in their hearts, so strange that they couldn't help but get tired.

But at this time, it was no longer allowed to stop. The general's law enforcement team followed the ghost knife and machine gun, rushing and continuing to rush. Perhaps the opponent was so vulnerable, or maybe it was a victory to rush over.

The sentence "Youth Army will never tolerate being despised" was engraved on the wall of the Wuhan Army University Library many years later, and the source of this sentence was Zhang Zizhong, who was the commander of the First Division of the Youth Army at that time.

The Zhilu coalition army quickly tasted the pain. When they rushed through these circular positions and continued to advance into depth, these circular positions shot out flames at them without hesitation, and the strong flames swept over the Zhilu coalition officers and soldiers who had already turned to their backs to the ground without hesitation.

In the open ground between the circular positions, each officer and soldier of the Zhilu coalition was attacked by at least three heavy machine guns. They had never seen this formation at all, and naturally suffered heavy casualties.

This is the legendary "elastic defense" of the Germans. For the French, this is simply a hellish existence. Simply put, it is to use bunkers to change the surface defense originally composed of trenches to point defense. Then, this defensive position uses hooks and trenches as auxiliary, and uses cement steel bunkers as the center to make a deep layout. Relying on heavy machine guns and constant-speed hair weapons, it hides itself in cement fortifications as much as possible, exposing the enemy to an open area, and then uses firepower to kill and kill. The Youth Army has gone further on this basis and developed a further development The triangular attack tactic is to be precise, three machine guns cover one surface, leaving no blind spots, and the effect is amazing. Just now, in less than three minutes, a rank of about fifty people from the Zhilu coalition forces was wiped out by the three machine guns. What made the Zhilu coalition forces desperate was that a total of four hundred such a solid bunker was built, and 380 were still there after 30 minutes of shelling. A total of 1,600 machine guns were issued in the bunker. Tao Zhiyue concentrated the machine guns of the entire First Army to the First Division. This was a naked cheating behavior.

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 reports sent by the European war reporters of the Chinese "Shenbao" (Shenbao). Unfortunately, the Zhilu coalition forces are usually the masters who do not read books or read newspapers. As a result, they rushed in without knowing how to do it. However, the biggest requirement of this position is that they have enough heavy weapons and supplies, so not everyone can play it. After studying for a long time, researchers from the Japanese Military Department determined that this thing could not be afforded. As a result, the construction method of this position was ruthlessly abandoned by the Japanese Imperial Army, just like the submachine guns of later generations.

The battle next was very cruel, but this cruelty was only for the Zhilu coalition. The first and seventh brigades of the Zhilu coalition, which were rushed in first, almost lost their combat effectiveness in an instant, and all the officers and soldiers were blinded. They were trying to find a place to cover, but such a place did not exist. They tried to fight back, but except for making a few sparks on the cement bunker, the despair soon filled the entire army. They tried to surrender, but the machine guns did not The meaning of stopping was that at the meeting of the Nanjing National Congress, Senate Liang Shuming initiated a proposal to declare the Zhilu coalition army a traitor butcher, and all the officers and soldiers of the unit were regarded as evil bandits and would not accept surrender. This proposal was passed in the two houses. Therefore, from the beginning of the battle, the Youth Army issued an order not to accept the surrender of the Zhilu coalition officers. However, this also made the officers and soldiers fighting on the front line feel uncomfortable. At least 3,200 officers and soldiers in the bunker are now weak in their killing.

Immediately afterwards, the eight thousand cavalry of the Zhilu coalition also plunged into this big trap with great momentum, and the result was a tragedy.

Zhang Zongchang could hardly believe his eyes. In just one hour of attack, the three infantry brigades he sent out, and the two cavalry brigades with a total of less than 6,000 were removed. In other words, nearly 17,000 were admitted to the position of the Youth Army. This is an unprecedented terrifying incident since the establishment of the Zhilu coalition.

Zhang Zongchang suddenly looked at the enemy opposite him and couldn't help but shivering.
Chapter completed!