108081908 Far East Maniac Chapter 327 on the Blue Wall

The wind blew from the east. The emptiness became fresher, the smoke that permeated the air was much lighter, and the smoke and dust that blocked the light also dissipated, and the dazzling sunlight projected onto the ground, intertwining the big crater in shadows and reflections at the same time, making the crater show a strange color, blackened with dirt, dark red with blood.

In the dense craters, it was not easy to distinguish between the trenches and the anti-artillery bunkers, under the same heavy artillery fire from both the enemy and the enemy. The soldiers on both sides of the war were trying to strengthen the protection of their bunkers, and everything they could use was used by the soldiers, such as door panels, bed boards, firewood bundles, sorghum, and even rack carts were erected on the trenches to shield them from the rain of bullets overhead.

Since the artillery units of both warring sides use shrapnel shells, and the viciousness of this shell is that it will explode on your head, throwing out shotguns the size of pomegranates, which are impossible to guard against and dodge, and the infantrymen who are fed up with the "abuse" of the artillery are scolding at the same time. He is also using his ingenuity and his own mind and hands to ensure that he can get out of the battlefield alive, instead of becoming those stenching zombies lying in the trenches.

So there were many earthen bunkers in this trench, and every once in a while, the soldiers would find a way to put shelter on the trenches, and then cover them with thick soil, and when the shelling began, the soldiers would hide in these earthen bunkers, and monitor the front of the position through the lookout holes, and after the enemy rushed up, the soldiers would leave the bunkers and use rifles, grenades, machine guns, and even bayonets and spears to repel the enemy's attack.

This kind of earthen bunker was an invention of the Republican Army, but it was learned by the Beiyang Army in the process of changing positions, so it became a fortification that both warring sides had to build. In the case of earthen bunkers, it is impossible to distinguish where the Republican Army position is and where is the Beiyang Army's position.

This is the main line of defense in the north of Xinyang. It is composed of two fortification groups in the east and west, and due to the tight defense, the Beiyang Army can not break through the defense line even after a day of attack, so it is nicknamed the "Blue Wall" by the British advisers of the Beiyang Army. "Blue" refers to the blue sky. And this blue officer's current nickname is also "blue wall".

Here in the "Blue Wall", the two warring sides launched a battle of slander, with the Beiyang main attack and the United Front main defense.

The positions of the two warring sides are staggered, in the land of southern Henan, two armies belonging to China are engaged in a real field positional war, for the soldiers on both sides, the position is their current barracks, eating, drinking and Lazar are here, and even for many of them, this is also their final destination, the place of eternal rest, they are fighting every day, every day is persevering, they don't know, they can see the next day's sun, and they don't know if they can eat the next day" Field feast. So, every one of them is living each day as if it were their last.

The morning battle had been over for more than half an hour, and the battlefield was somewhat quiet, since the enemy had no intention of continuing the attack, then this lunch seemed to be able to start together, so the aroma of food wafted from the Republican position, and with the wind blowing from the east to the west, it raised people's appetites.

At the bottom of the trench was a marching pot, and the fire was blazing under the pot. The soup in the pot was boiling, and some green vegetable leaves and meat foam were tumbling in the pot, exuding a thick aroma.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, the logistics department of the Republican Army did a very competent job, and they not only purchased seasonal vegetables and pork, but even bought some fruits and dried fruits, and the field picnics of the officers and men were very delicious, and as for cigarettes, each soldier could also get at least five cigarettes a day.

This field picnic is still a messy stewed meat and vegetable soup. The rice is rice, the rice of Hunan, but unfortunately the cook's skills are not good, this rice is somewhat raw, and it can only be eaten with soup.

Holding an enamel bowl, he pressed a full bowl of rice into the bowl, then took a horse spoon, scooped a spoonful of steaming vegetable soup from the pot, poured it over the rice, and scooped another spoonful until the rice was covered with leaves and meat foam.

This is a bowl of battlefield lunch, and Lieutenant Qi Jinbiao is picking up such a bowl of rice in his mouth.

Qi Jinbiao didn't stay in the earthen bunker, he just sat by the side of the marching pot, hunched over, his feet on the opposite side of the trench, his back against the earthen wall on the other side of the trench, and the ammunition box with his mouth facing the sky under his buttocks.

Qi Jinbiao didn't pay attention to eating, he was eating rice, while playing chess with a platoon commander next to him, the platoon leader was also sitting like Qi Jinbiao, holding a bowl of rice in his hand, sitting side by side with Qi Jinbiao, the distance between the two was only two feet, there was an ammunition box with the same bottom facing the sky, and a piece of horse dung paper with a plaid pen on it was laid on it, this is the chessboard, as for the chess pieces, it was made of the cover on the grenade fuse tube, the metal cover was pasted with paper, and the pencil was written "The chariot, horse and artillery are handsome" This is an authentic Chinese chess game.

It was noon, the weather was hot, and sitting by the fireside again, Qi Jinbiao and the platoon leader were bare-backed, and their military hats were also thrown aside, and they were sweating on the chessboard.

"Recommend the army!"

The platoon commander was obviously a brother in chess, and after only a few steps, he forced Qi Jinbiao's old handsome man to have no way out.

"Huh? This step doesn't count, the previous step doesn't count, regret two steps, regret two steps. ”

Qi Jinbiao took a bite of rice from his rice bowl, glanced at the chessboard, stretched out his hand to move back the "cannon" that the platoon commander had walked, and then took back the eaten "phase" from the side of the chessboard and rearranged the chessboard.

"Company commander, although I know that you are a stinky chess basket, there must be a limit to this, right? Do you calculate, how many moves have you regretted in this game? Repentance, this is not a gentleman's style, and it is no wonder that no one is willing to play chess with you

Listening to the platoon commander's complaints, Qi Jinbiao rolled his eyes and hummed a few words.

"You know a ball! This game of chess is like a war, what is the most important thing when fighting? Faith is the most important thing! Didn't I learn to play chess for a long time? If I lose a game of chess, then what confidence do I have to play with others? I don't call it regret chess, I raise confidence to enhance self-confidence,! Our revolutionary soldiers are on the battlefield ... Reliability is the confidence of victory. ”

The platoon commander smiled: "Company commander, you can't say this, maybe you learned it from the commander-in-chief again, right?" I know you've been a guard for the Commander-in-Chief. Closer to the Commander-in-Chief, much stronger than our gang of big soldiers. But again. You don't have to talk about this all day long, the hero doesn't mention the courage of the year, you are now a company commander, not a guard, this officer has been promoted, this tone should be lowered, right? ”

"Ball! Lao Tzu knows that talking to your kid is like the commander-in-chief saying, "Play the piano to the pigs!" Don't say it, don't say it! Eat, eat! Even if I lose this game of chess, you can take those two paper cigarettes, stinky boy, you play chess with Lao Tzu. I didn't feel good, I stared at Lao Tzu's paper cigarettes. ”

Qi Jinbiao snorted, and when he lifted his rice bowl, he ate with his head bored, and he didn't even play chess.

But before he could take two bites, a man came from the other side of the trench, stood by the pot, and said, "Who was playing the piano to the pig just now?" I've only heard of "playing the piano to the cow", and I've never heard of "playing the piano to the pig." Company Commander Qi, your pretense can be regarded as revealing stuffing. ”

Qi Jinbiao looked up, hurriedly stood up with the platoon leader, and the two of them held the bowl with one hand and saluted with the other.

"Chief Qin, why did you come to the front line? Your political commissar is expensive, so it's safer to stay behind. ”

The platoon commander was more sharp than Qi Jinbiao, and he was the first to swallow the mouthful of food in his mouth and asked, but after saying this, the person choked.

The officer who came over was Qin Ling, who used to be a company political propagandist of the Fifth Division of the Republican Army, who performed well in the rebellion war some time ago, and was sent to the Military and Political Academy for further study after the war, but he caught up with the war between the north and the south before he graduated, so the political propaganda committee ordered him to be transferred to eastern Hubei and served as a brigade political commissar in a temporary division reorganized by the Revolutionary Guards. He followed the troops to the Henan front, after Xinyang replenished a part of the regular army troops. This temporary division was responsible for the defense of the northeast direction of Xinyang, and Qi Jinbiao was the officer of this temporary division.

Qin Ling patted the platoon commander on the back and said with a smile, "What do you call this?" We revolutionary soldiers are all the same, how can there be a reason for an official to hide in the rear, but only to call a soldier to work hard? To tell you the truth, in the morning, even the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, Chief of Staff Lan, went to the front line to inspect it. But he didn't come to our side, he was on the Northwest Front. Chief Lan can lead by example, and we political commissars can't ask people to point fingers, right? Besides, I don't just come to the front line to inspect, I have a mission. ”

Speaking of this, Qin Ling took out a few pieces of paper from his handbag and handed them to Qi Jinbiao.

"This is a mimeographed document of the Political Propaganda Committee just now, and it is required to be distributed to every grassroots company, and now that the Political Propaganda Committee is understaffed, the political commissar also has to go to the front line to issue the document."

"What is this? Commendation Electricity? ”

Qi Jinbiao took the document and looked at it a few times. When he was a child, he went to a private villa for a few years, and he recognized the words. It soon became clear that this document was a telegram sent by the General Headquarters, a "Letter to All the Officers and Men of the Revolutionary Army," and judging from its contents, it was aimed at boosting morale and rewarding those who had made meritorious contributions, and the names of all the officers and men who had made meritorious contributions on the front line the day before yesterday and yesterday were listed on the top, and this high efficiency can be seen from this.

"It's not just about commending electricity, it's also about emphasizing the importance of this operation."

Qin Ling nodded, glanced at the other end of the trench, and asked, "What about the political propagandists of your company?" small

"Feng was wounded in the morning battle, he was hit by shrenchnel in the head, he was seriously injured and unconscious, and he had already sent someone to the rear just now, and now I don't even have a political propagandist Qi Jinbiao shook his head.

"Then, you should take the time to tell the soldiers about this commendation telegram, so that everyone can know what our revolutionary army is fighting for."

Qin Ling sighed and patted Qi Jinbiao on the shoulder. The words changed and said, "I got the news in front of me just now, Yang Ben has been sent to Wusheng Pass. The injury has basically stabilized and he will soon be able to transfer to Wuhan. Jin Biao, you don't have to worry about Yang Ben. ”

"Anyway, Yang Ben and I are both from the guard battalion, when we both jumped from the balloon together, this brotherhood is in my heart, yesterday I heard the news of his serious injury, I was really sad in my heart. But now. Now that he has been sent to the rear, I have put this thought on hold.

Qi Jinbiao nodded, glanced at Qin Ling's handbag, and said, "Chief Qin, the position in front of you is sandwiched between two sides of the Beiyang Army." Leave the rest of the documents to me, and I'll send them to you. ”

Qin Ling was about to speak, but suddenly heard someone shouting.

"Shelling! Shelling! ”

Before the words fell, the "boom boom" cannon sound came, and all the people in the trench subconsciously squatted down, and the people close to the earthen bunker hurriedly rushed over.

Qin Ling and Qi Jinbiao squatted together, and both of them poked their heads out and looked towards the open ground north of the trench. But nothing was seen, only the sound of cannonballs.

However, the target of the Beiyang Army's shelling this time was not their catty. The position, but the Republican position in the northwest, from a distance, was already filled with gunsmoke, artillery fire rushed to the sky, and the whole position was shrouded.

Soon, shells from the south also flew over. In the past few days, this kind of artillery and counter-artillery bombardment has been one of the contents of the engagement between the two sides.

"It seems that the main direction of the Beiyang Army's attack in the afternoon is the northwest position." Qin Ling straightened up. Patted the dirt on the uniform.

"Not necessarily." Qi Jinbiao shook his head. "In the morning, the Beiyang Army also shelled the northwest first, and then after the real fight, it began to violently shell our northeast position, which is called "striking the east and attacking the west"

Qin Ling didn't follow this topic. Instead, he turned his head and looked to the west of the position.

There, a railroad stretched straight between the two positions, and it looked unusually calm. The roadbed was also surprisingly intact, as if no shells had ever fallen there.

But in reality, it was the warring parties that fought for control of the railway.