In order to annihilate the Second Beiyang Town, which was basically equal to its own strength, the 4407th Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army launched a centripetal attack from the east, west, and south, except for the first regiment defending in the north.

The first to attack was the second regiment, which began to attack from the east, and at the same time as the charge horn of the Sharp Knife Company was sounded directly into the Beiyang Army, on a width of nearly one kilometer, the entire second regiment began to assault on the left, center, and right.

The Sharp Knife Company was a regiment and a battalion of troops, and they had just begun to attack, and the remaining three companies began to advance in echelons along the road opened by the first company. Immediately following the departure position of the 1st Company was the 2nd Company, which included the battalion headquarters. As soon as the battalion commander went to the high ground, the first thing he did was to arrange the artillery positions. Condescendingly, the whole battle situation was seen very clearly, and the soldiers of the first company completely followed the tactics of "striking, rushing, and chasing". In order to give full play to the efficiency of firepower, except for the one platoon that rushed to the front, the remaining three platoons seemed to be columns, but they were actually facing horizontal formations on both sides. The entire unit takes on the shape of a wedge.

As the sharp platoon, the platoon strove forward, while the third and fourth platoons constantly used platoons of guns and bayonets to destroy and drive away the enemy on both sides, expanding the width of the breach. The second platoon followed closely behind the first platoon in order to fight with the platoon when the platoon encountered stubborn resistance from the enemy.

Once the battalion positions were established, the whole situation was better controlled. The responsibility of the battalion commander is not to rush to the front and kill the enemy, but to command the nearly 1,000 soldiers of the battalion to fight more effectively. After only observing for a little more than a minute, the battalion commander ordered the 2nd Company, which had followed up, to participate in the attack on the left flank of the 1st Company. In fact, there are only a few options for combat command. Or let the second company take over the work of the second half of the first company's troops and continue to divide the enemy. Or expand the situation that has been opened by the first company, and let the second company replace a certain flank of the face. Forge a new front.

While the fighters of the second company rushed out in three parts in a platoon under the leadership of the company commander, the mortars of the battalion, the 37 field guns and the heavy machine guns that remained began to fire suppressively at the enemy.

After the second company rushed out, it quickly took over the left flank of the first company, and the third platoon of the first company did not need to expand the left flank of the breakthrough, and the third platoon retracted the troops slightly, ordered the comrades to change the magazines, straightened out the formation, and then joined the frontal attack ranks. Encountering a place where the enemy's forces were concentrated, a company broke up their organization with heavy fire from light machine guns, and ordinary fighters fired rifles in squads, knocking down the enemy continuously. After defeating the enemy, the troops relied on the battlefield terrain to continuously occupy favorable terrain to determine the next advance assembly area.

After inheriting the infantry squad platoon tactics of the PLA, the combat units of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army used squads as combat groups and platoons as combat clusters. A single company commander can control the direction of attack with a width of more than 200 meters. The battalion commander is able to take charge of the direction of the attack with a width of more than 500 meters.

The second town of the Beiyang Army, opposite the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, gathered more than 4,000 fighters on the battle width of more than 500 meters. The 1,000 fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army rushed to the 4,000 fighters of the Beiyang Army without fear. Not only to fight four enemies, but also to divide and even encircle and annihilate these four times the enemy.

The offensive was carried out smoothly, and the first line of the Beiyang Army was stunned by the sharp knife company from the beginning. The human instinct is to flee when there is an irresistible danger. Ordinary people, faced with firepower that they have never seen before, may brave the rain of bullets to launch a meaningless and successful charge out of ignorance. The Beiyang Army knew that the guns were powerful, so under the sudden onslaught, their will to fight collapsed in an instant. The Beiyang Army obeyed human instinct and began to hug their heads and run away. This confusion not only made the attack of the Sharp Knife Company extremely smooth, but also disrupted the formation of the Beiyang Army. The Beiyang Army fled towards their core positions, unable to organize effective resistance.

Not long after the departure of the second company, the troops of the third company caught up with the high ground, and the battalion commander only observed for a moment and ordered the troops of the third company to continue northward, but instead of joining the right flank of the second company, they went to seize the artillery position of the Beiyang Army further north of the second company.

After the third company set out, the fourth company caught up. This time the battalion commander did not immediately issue a new combat order. It is necessary to have a certain degree of reserve forces in hand, especially when the current battle is going well, and it is not necessary to put all the troops in hand into the battlefield at once. This is a problem that has been repeatedly emphasized in military schools. "It is impossible to have an expectation that tactics will be fully in line with future developments if you are not experienced in many battles, and at this time, comrades should adhere to the point of view of completing the battle with the smallest number of troops. A big victory, a special victory, the autumn wind sweeps away the leaves, each of us will hope so. When encountering such times, the most important thing is to be able to control yourself. ”

"When military means have been determined, the ideological firmness of every commander is the most valuable quality. Because we are responsible for the entire army, we are not pursuing individual victories, we are not pursuing personal glory. It was the victory of the entire Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. This is not for us to climb to a position on the bones of countless people. Rather, it is necessary to minimize the casualties of our comrades on the basis of guaranteed victory. ”

In the face of the collapse of the Beiyang Army, investing all the troops in one fell swoop may make the situation look better. But after sending the fourth company to the battlefield, the battalion commander had only one platoon and artillery units left in his hands. In the event of an emergency change, it is simply impossible for the battalion commander to provide any more support to the troops.

The commander of the fourth company watched the troops in front of him sweep the leaves into the Beiyang Army like autumn winds, cutting the enemy in half like a sharp blade. The soldiers of the Beiyang Army scattered and fled like lambs under the spring thunder, and then were defeated piece by piece. He excitedly asked the battalion commander, "Battalion commander, let's connect." ”

"Be ready to go, and wait for orders." The battalion commander was not moved at all, and after he rejected the commander of the fourth company, he held a telescope and observed the battlefield.

The battalion commander was a native of Anqing, and after the Second Anqing Campaign, forced by life, the battalion commander who had studied signed up to join the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Reading books did not make the battalion commander immediately taken seriously, in addition to being regarded as a cultural instructor, the battalion commander also started as an ordinary soldier. Understanding culture has just become the disadvantage of the battalion commander, and the sour breath of intellectuals has made the battalion commander work in the position of a soldier for almost a year. I have been working as a squad leader for more than a year. The comrades did not like his arrogant style, and could not accept the condescending taste of the battalion commander. In the selection of various cadres, the battalion commander always cannot be recognized by the soldiers, and naturally cannot be promoted.

Political training, the battalion commander naturally also participated. However, the reader is naturally "not talking about the shortcomings of people". Therefore, the lukewarm "gentleman" attitude made the comrades especially dislike the battalion commander. Until the battalion commander finally broke out once, and he got into a big fight with an "irreverent" comrade. At this time, the battalion commander could no longer maintain the "dignity of a scholar", and the long-standing depression and unhappiness in his heart completely broke out. At first, there was a big conflict with the company instructor, and in the "democratic life meeting" in the company, the battalion commander fearlessly counterattacked in the face of the criticism of the comrades.

In such a fierce collision, the battalion commander and the comrades found that there were two main points in the estrangement between the two sides: the first was that the battalion commander really felt that the scholars were superior, and on the other hand, although the battalion commander himself had no bad intentions, he was not a very good communicator, and he was especially not good at communicating with ordinary comrades from the masses. After summing up these two points, the troops proposed that the battalion commander should either leave or correct himself. The battalion commander said with a wave of anger that as long as everyone didn't bully people, he was willing to stay. He thinks that he has been working so fast for two years, and there is no credit and hard work. Mixed with the current situation, he felt that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was unfair to him.

Changing the previous practice of being depressed about something, the battalion commander finally dared to speak his heart at the "Criticism and Self-Criticism Meeting" and "Democratic Life Meeting". It is precisely because of the initiative that he began to try to integrate into the collective, and the battalion commander is gradually changing. Rationally, in practice, the battalion commander found himself wrong. After the first few times he blushed with shame and was forced to take the initiative to admit that he was wrong, the battalion commander found that he did not become more intelligent than others because of reading, but because he embraced the non-rigid dogmas in the book, the battalion commander was able to "keep pace with the times". With the progress of passivity, the battalion commander suddenly understood one day that his previous life had been deliberately misinterpreting the "words of the sage" and misinterpreting them into statements favorable to the battalion commander. No one objected to him before, because the people around the battalion commander were either bastard readers like the battalion commander, or because the people had never read books, let alone had time to talk about such bullshit with the battalion commander.

After understanding this, the battalion commander almost committed suicide because of the pain in his heart. He always rushed to the most dangerous places in war, not for meritorious service, but because he did not have the courage to commit suicide, and always hoped to let the enemy "help" on the battlefield and liberate himself from this mental pain.

Perhaps it was the blessing of the ancestors, and every time the god of death passed by the battalion commander. But his accumulated combat exploits and that attitude of "fighting hard" have allowed the battalion commander to be continuously promoted. After entering the military academy, the battalion commander met with He Zudao, the general political commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The sourness of the battalion commander's scholars has not completely faded. For the sour Confucianism of Confucianism, there is still a mentality of "fear of adults". So the battalion commander, who was still a deputy company commander at the time, asked this "big man" for advice, hoping to get rid of the pain.

He Zudao listened carefully to the battalion commander's words, and then said with a smile: "Deputy company commander, you either live in the future and want to make some merits to prove yourself." Either living in the past, doing something right before, or doing something wrong before. If you did something right before, you want to carry it forward. If you do something wrong, you want to make up for it, you want to paint it on the past, even if you can't completely cover up the past, at least you can portray the past as if you were not wrong. When are you living in the moment? What are you doing at the moment, what can you do at the moment. That's the reality. Our People's Party talks about materialism, and materialism tells us that we will always live only in the present moment. We can never live in the past or in the future. ”

The battalion commander is two years older than He Zudao, but the class gap between him and He Zudao is at least a dozen levels. He once thought that He Zudao was Chen Ke's confidant, so he could have today's status. After He Zudao pointed out all his problems so clearly, the battalion commander was ecstatic at the same time, and suddenly found that the gap between the two people's understanding was not at all indescribable by the class gap of these dozen levels. The two have completely different views of the world.

Progress has always been slow, and even if the battalion commander accepted the problems and solutions pointed out by He Zudao, it took several years for self-transformation to be reinforced. But at least for now, although the battalion commander is still the same person physically, he has completely changed into a different person mentally. At least when he was commanding at the moment, in the face of the fierce battle situation, he was extremely calm in his heart. Neither thinking about the past nor the future, the battalion commander only faces the current battle situation, and uses everything he has learned to be ready to deal with the ever-unknowable next second.

Time is fair for everyone, and everyone lives in the moment. This is true of the People's Party, and the same is true of the Beiyang Army.

The attack of the Sharp Knife Company was literal, and the sharp knife cut through the Beiyang position, and went straight to the core position of the second town of Beiyang, that is, the Beiyang train ranks. Not only the frontal battlefield, but according to the tactics of "one point and two sides", the troops on both flanks have also rushed up. The two flanks and the troops in the center formed a two-and-a-half-encirclement posture and began to divide and surround the Beiyang Army. The situation of the war has entered a critical stage, and with one more step, the balance of war will completely tip in favor of the situation dominated by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army

At this time, fierce gunfire rang out from the Beiyang side. It was the roar of heavy machine guns. The battalion commander followed the sound and saw that Beiyang had set up a heavy machine gun on the train and used the height difference to fire fiercely at the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.

And just now, the heavy machine guns in Beiyang were hidden behind some covers, and the battalion commander kept an eye on the battle situation. I couldn't even see the situation in the distance.