The front line of the position is accompanied by clicking machine guns, Maxim’s heavy machine guns, and Li Cun’s head keeps flying in the night, and the straight army feet across the street stir up a little smoke.

"Pay attention to the shooting field, just hit it and suppress it!" Li Cun looked at this light machine gun shooter in front of his eyes.
This light machine gun shooter is not the main shooter before the war. It should be quite a light machine gun shooter. He was killed half an hour ago and replaced him as a very young assistant shooter.
The young private’s face was slightly pale in the firelight, and the army was still covered with the blood of the former shooter. Just now, he was so nervous that he kept pulling the trigger and didn’t put it in the magazine. As soon as he played it, he was beaten up. At this time, another assistant shooter helped to change another magazine.
After hearing Li Cungao’s words, Private Dong gasped and tried to calm himself down. Although his hands were not shaking, the tension in his heart was still difficult to eliminate.
Dong Da is different from those officers and non-commissioned officers who have been in the army for many years. He only joined the army for half a year.
He was originally from Shandong. Two years ago, his family, like him, took their belongings to the east for several months before they came to Fengtian. Then their family accumulated more than ten taels of silver for many years, borrowed some silver from fellow villagers and bought more than 50 mu of semi-mature land from Fengtian Reclamation Bureau.
When Dong Da’s old father scraped a generation of land and got the title deed of more than 50 mu of land, more than 50 people cried with joy for several hours, and their family finally owned their own land after a hundred years.
With these lands, their family went into famine. After paying the agricultural tax last year, they not only had enough food for the whole family to eat for a year, but also some surplus soybeans to sell for silver. At last, they dared to buy such a catty of meat during the New Year.
You can live a good life if you look at it, but last year, news came from outside that Zhao Dashuai rose up to overthrow and exploit everyone, and the Manchu Dynasty established a republic.
Those who came to recruit soldiers came to the village and said that everyone had suffered so much the day before yesterday because the old men occupied all the land and left everyone with no land to plant. Now Zhao Dashuai is going to fight with others. Once he loses, the land he recruited will be taken back and everyone will have to bear all kinds of exorbitant taxes and levies.
At that time, Dong Da’s father pointed to the land deed in the box and said to him, "These are the lifeblood of our family!"
In addition, several brothers in his family heard that joining the army not only has 20 yuan to settle down, but also pays several yuan a month. The key is that I heard that the army is full of white flour and white rice, so Dong Da went to the county like many young people in the village to recruit. At the beginning of the year, he was assigned to the seventh Hunchenglv after completing the recruit training.
Although when he first came to join the army, he blew it with his friends who came to join the army. If there was a war, he would definitely be at the forefront. He fantasized that if one day he could make great contributions like the storyteller, he would be pulled out by Zhao Dashuai.
But today, he found that fighting was not as easy and beautiful as he had imagined before!
Since noon, he has seen three comrades fall in front of him, and he may be one.
There are quite a few new recruits who joined the army from last year to the beginning of this year, which almost accounts for 50% of the total strength of the army. Otherwise, Zhao Dongyun would not have expanded from 50 thousand troops to 100 thousand.
In October last year, Zhao Dongyun used various means to tap the population resources of the three northeastern provinces. Due to the small population in the three northeastern provinces, Zhao Dongyun had to lower the recruitment standard when he expanded his army. Although this led to a slight poor physical fitness of recruits from the end of last year to this year, after a month of training for recruits and months of training in the army, these recruits were barely able to fight.
In the eyes of the powers, Zhao Dongyun’s troops, especially the newly expanded soldiers, are of poor quality, but compared with other warlords’ troops in other countries, Zhao Dong Yunshou’s field troops are better. Many soldiers have been trained for several months after being sent to various units through complete recruit training.
Although this army is on a par with the great powers, it is also a regular army.
As for warlords in other countries, it is well known that the quality of the southern federal army is poor. Among the more than 200,000 troops in Duanfang and Yinchang, 20,000 are less than the backbone of the new army. They are all recruited men and civilian workers in recent months. If you give a gun, you will pull the front line. That kind of root will not lead to adult recruits training.
The first army of Zhangdong Northern Expedition was better, but it was not much better. Otherwise, tens of thousands of people in Wang Shizhen would not have been defeated. At the beginning of the year, when Wang Shizhen attacked Xinyang from Zhengzhou South, Henan Province, it was claimed that Vu Thang was conquered by Wang Shizhen in just two days. Later, Zhangdong Wuhan three towns relied on more than 100 thousand troops to resist Wang Shizhen’s attack, otherwise the southern federal capital would have to be lost.
Compared with the Southern Federation, the northern warlords’ troops with low quality are much better. Although the soldiers of the newly-built provincial army, such as Duan Qirui’s Liangjiang Army and Wang Shizhen’s Hubei Army, are not as good as the Southern Federation, there are still a large number of former Beiyang Army backbone soldiers and officers. Although the fighting capacity of these northern warlords to form a provincial army is poor, it is still no problem to build a southern federal army.
Of course, these provincial armies are actually Beiyang troops, and the main forces of the major warlords are all the old Beiyang troops in Yuan Shikai’s era, that is, at the beginning, six towns of Beiyang Standing Army, one town of Beijing Banner Standing Army and two towns of Fengtian Standing Army were established in those mixed brigades. The most obvious example is Zhao Dongyun’s seventh mixed brigade, Li Chunbu, whose predecessor was the fourth brigade of the second town of Fengtian Standing Army the twentieth brigade of the tenth division.
Yu Dongyun only expanded the first division and two brigades this year, and now the provincial army has been compiled into two regiments. He still has it on paper.
Although the number of China wars is very important these days, in fact, in many cases, the number is often a small number of elite troops in the hands of major warlords, regardless of whether they can be relied on.
Today, Han Hezhuang is at war with the two armies, namely, Zhao Dong Yunhe and Wang Yingkai, the first division of Beiyang expansion cradle and Zhao Dongyun, the seventh Huncheng Brigade, the main infantry brigade of the original Fengtian Standing Army, when they became the army in their respective elite troops.
The intensity of this fight is completely different from the civil war in the direction of Liangjiang and Hubei
"Where did they get so many shells? It’s been playing all day. Don’t they all have shells?" Li Cungao was very depressed when he watched his position falling shells. The contrast of artillery firepower between the two sides in this battle was too wide
A battalion of the Seventh Huncheng Brigade crossed the mountain artillery battalion, although the equipment was all new, and the firing rate was fast enough. However, there were at least four artillery battalions in the opposite straight army, and at least half of them were field artillery. At noon, Chun Li supported the front-line troops and made the artillery battalion close to deployment. However, it was not long before that the artillery battalion was attacked by the field artillery of the straight army, resulting in the loss of troops from two mountain artillery. Dozens of gunners finally had to retreat urgently to avoid it.
This tailor-made gun can’t compete with the seventh Huncheng Brigade, which is the main artillery support force relying on a large number of mortars.
On the other hand, it seems that the artillery shells on the opposite side are also very abundant. Although the shelling firepower has weakened in the evening, it still maintains the suppression of shelling on its own position, which makes Li Cunqi and other frontline troops very timid in fighting.
"If we do this again, we can’t do it. If we return their guns, we can directly hit Fuchang. In that case, what are we going to do?" Li Cungao frowned and said, "Han Lianchang, look, there shouldn’t be many direct troops on both sides here, and it happens to be in our machine gun suppression field. Do you think we should fight back? Otherwise, when they gain a firm foothold, our right side will be even more difficult to fight!"
"How many straight troops are there?" Han Wuduo said, "We’re losing a lot of troops now. It’s not easy to counterattack!"
On the one hand, Li Cungao said, "At best, they are a dissatisfied arrangement. Just now, our No.2 machine gun suppressed them. They lost ten people before, and now it is good to have thirty people there."
Han Wuduo doubted, "Now our first priority is to defend against rashly appearing at the battalion headquarters, even if it is not easy to explain!"
"Attack is the best defense!" Li Cunyue said rudely, "If we can recapture this line of defense, a light machine gun will be built here to contain hundreds of enemy troops!"
Han Wuduo has a heart to oppose it, but looking at Li Cunyue and several other officers, he can also say, "That’s called Lieutenant Li, you take your first platoon over, Lieutenant Chen, and your second platoon covers the first platoon with fire!"
After listening, Li Cunyue turned to Lieutenant Chen and said, "Then give your light machine gun shooter to an old hand I want!"
Lieutenant Chen’s face is reluctant. "One of my two machine gun shooters has been injured. There is only one word left!"
Li Cunyue said, "Brother Chen, you know that the light machine gun veteran can suppress the enemy to the greatest extent, otherwise it’s not a big deal!"
Lieutenant Chen said, "In that case, I’ll let him come to your side first, but please take it easy and don’t wreck the main shooter again. Now there are not many skilled shooters in our whole company!"
Although the light machine gun is a continuous firing weapon, it is only in actual combat that a novice will hold the trigger and light up the magazine. Those’ heroes’ in the film and television drama get up from the trenches with the light machine gun and then shoot without holding the trigger while shouting’ Long live’. After all, it is also possible to say that people have a limited magazine. In this way, in reality, it is a fool plus an idiot. If the enemy does not turn him into a hornet’s nest, the bidding officer will directly shoot him.
This light machine gun is as difficult for a novice as a grenade launcher of the Japanese army in later generations. Generally, it takes an old hand to use it.
The same is true for mortar soldiers in the army. It is not that mortars require soldiers to train for several years, but that gunners need to know the sights and calculate the shooting parameters. These soldiers are full of illiteracy, and the army of the country is a truly technical soldier, which is enough to become a backbone of the army.