The battle began 5 kilometers south of Post 3, where part of the 5th and 6th Mixed Brigades of the Xuan Army, plus 2,000 new troops, were fighting more than 3,000 enemy cavalry who had broken into the ambush circle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After receiving the order from the headquarters, while tightening the encirclement, they sent the mobile troops that had retreated before to form a blocking position.

As soon as the forward troops reached their predetermined positions, they encountered a sentinel in the middle of the enemy army.

The Rangers and Reconnaissance Units, temporarily subordinate to the ambush unit, took the lead in exchanging fire with the enemy sentinels, and after repelling the enemy sentries with their strong armor and sharp weapons, they covered the mobile troops and began to dig individual bunkers on the high ground on both sides.

The sapper shovel is already the standard configuration of the regular troops of the Xuan Army, and the sapper shovel made of good steel is lightweight, sharp, durable, and very popular with the troops.

By the time the enemy forward troops arrived, the more than 1,000 men had dug more than 1,000 lying bunkers on the top of the two hills.

Immediately after that, a third of the mobile unit was divided to shoot at the enemy's forward to prevent the enemy from approaching, and the rest began to deepen the recumbent cover.

About a quarter of an hour later, with a range advantage that was one step beyond the enemy's troops, a small group of enemy forwards failed to get close to the Xuan's blocking position, and the original single soldier lying trench on the position became a kneeling bunker.

At this time, the enemy's follow-up troops arrived one after another, and the mobile troops became a little more serious, and more people joined the ranks of blocking the enemy troops, but the improvement of the trenches still did not stop.

Everyone took turns deepening the kneeling bunker to the standing bunker, and then connected the individual bunkers with shallow communication trenches. All the excavated soil was piled up on the side facing the enemy, and the heavy fight reduced the workload.

The position, which accommodated more than 1,000 people, was dug in less than an hour. And the enemy's offensive began at the same moment.

The enemy once again used the servant army to take the lead, and the bird gun made by the Xuan Army Ordnance Factory played its due power in the hands of the enemy on the opposite side, but the firearms of the two sides basically had a generation difference, and the enemy army wanted to attack the Xuan army with the bird gun and had to rush to within 100 meters, but with the combat will of the servant army, this was an impossible task.

In this way, the main threat to the Xuan army in the enemy army is those small-caliber Franc cannons, and it seems that the enemy has specially trained and modified these small cannons that can be loaded with rear guns and can use single-headed bullets and can also use scattered shells.

At the same time, the enemy also dug a bunker at the firing position of the artillery, so that both the gun body and the gunner hid in the bunker, exposing only the barrel and bombardment of the Xuan army.

The scattered bullets fired by the enemy put a certain amount of pressure on the Xuan army. Whichever section of the enemy's Furlong cannon is aimed at the Xuan army, the Xuan army in that section must dodge, and the cannon is not long-sighted.

The infantry guns of the mobile unit fired one-headed bullets at the enemy one after another, but the pathetic accuracy of the smoothbore guns was powerless against the enemy's target with only a little barrel exposed.

The enemy constantly used the lives of the servants to send the Fran cannons in the ranks to the front line, and then dug bunkers on the spot under the cover of cannon shields.

Although for every 3 guns sent, 1 or 2 would be blown up by infantry artillery, but the accumulation of small amounts was a lot, and the enemy army relied on this method to slowly suppress the rifle fire of the Xuan army on the front line.

Slowly, the battle between the two sides turned into an artillery clash of shells, and you kept bombarding scattered bullets or single bullets.

Amid the artillery fire from both sides, the enemy gunners took the opportunity to begin to lie on their stomachs, and after coming to a place 200 meters in front of the Xuan army's position, they also began to dig bunkers.

The weather has begun to get hotter, the land is slowly thawing, and the current hardness of the land, even if it is not as strong as the industrial strength of the Xuan army, the Houjin army can quickly dig a small pit for temporary hiding with ordinary pickaxes and shovels.

Of course, during this period, they were inevitably taken care of by the various firepower of the Xuan army, leaving a large number of corpses, and the wounded screaming and wailing there.

The enemy's bunkers in front of the Xuan army in 200 places dug deeper and deeper, and the soil piled up on the ground was also getting higher and higher, which affected the counterattack effect of the Xuan army, and the enemy army began to continuously transfer troops from the rear by virtue of this bunker.

After accumulating about a thousand men on the front line, the Houjin army launched its first assault.

The infantry in the first line of trenches of the Xuan army was unable to raise their heads by the enemy's more and more Francophone cannons, and the enemy was indeed getting closer and closer.

When the enemy troops came to a distance of 30 meters from the trench, hundreds of defensive grenades were thrown out of the trench by order of the officers, forming a metal storm outside.

Then, a loud military horn sounded, and more than 300 soldiers rushed out of the trenches with bayonets fixed to the muzzles of their guns, and rushed straight at the remnants of the enemy who had been defeated.

The Houjin servant army, who originally thought that the Xuan army would only shoot from afar, was disrupted by this round of ferocious charge, and involuntarily retreated backwards.

The 300 Xuan troops gave chase, and under the cover of the fleeing enemy, they rushed all the way to the bunker dug by the enemy and occupied this trench.

Advancing 200 meters, the enemy's small-caliber Franc machine gun is within the accurate firing range of more than 300 Xuan troops, these veterans who dare to see red with bayonets, marksmanship can definitely stand the test, at a distance of more than 100 meters, even if the enemy only has a head when shooting with the Franc machine, the Xuan army is also thirty percent sure that it will smash those evil heads.

At this time, the front-line Franc machine guns were suppressed, and the enemy had no choice but to repeat the previous process in the back and re-establish the Franc machine gun position 400 meters away from the 300 Xuan Army veterans.

After about half an hour of attack, the more than 300 Xuan troops who came out of the front ran out of ammunition, and reluctantly retreated and deployed in the original position where the second line of defense had already been dug.

The logisticians also carried ammunition boxes and sent four-year rifle cartridges and grenades to the first line of defense.

In the previous offensive and defensive battle at Post No. 3, the officers and men of the 9th Company, who had seen the power of the broadsword anti-infantry directional mines, strongly demanded that such mines be placed in front of the position.

The logistics personnel were to serve the soldiers on the front line, and when they learned of this demand, the logistics chief of the mobile unit immediately tried to get dozens of broadswords from the logistics department of the Fifth Mixed Brigade.

The soldiers of the 9th company were overjoyed, took advantage of the gap in the battle, rushed out of the trench, nailed these mines to the ground 40 meters in front of the position, and after returning to the trench, these soldiers tightened their grip on the fire rope and stared at the trench 200 meters opposite, and the Houjin army that had reassembled was excited.

The soldiers of the mobile unit who looked at this look were chilled, and everyone guessed how powerful these mines were, but it added some topics to the fierce battle.