readx; Captain Li cursed loudly, but he quickly got up, and then lay on the trench, carefully took out the binoculars and observed, at this moment the battlefield bullets in his eyes flew sideways, artillery fire was in the sky, the bullets fired by both sides continued to cut through the air, and then drilled into the cold land, and a very small number hit the enemy's body, and the warm blood line quickly melted the snow around him, as if spring had arrived in advance. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Fireworks, snowflakes, and blood make up a gorgeous and colorful winter scene.

The swishing bullets kept cutting through the air not far from him, and then ignited smoke and dust not far from Captain Li's side, and then Captain Li didn't care at all, but picked up the telescope and quickly observed the position of the army in the distance, but he didn't dare to show it for too long, and soon retracted, and when he retracted, the ground above the trench ushered in several bullets fired from the army machine gun. No more, no less, exactly three rounds, and the landing positions are dense, so at a glance you can see that it is a veteran with a light machine gun to fire bullets.

However, this was not Captain Lee's concern, and he sat in the trench with a lieutenant and a second lieutenant next to him, in addition to two heralds.

"I am going to go around the small ravine on the right now, and there are quite a few of them, I am afraid that there is a squadron of troops." Captain Li continued: "Hmph, these dogs are thinking very simply! ”

At this time, a young second lieutenant beside him said with a nervous mood: "Then company commander, if they come from the small ravine, we only have less than half a platoon of troops over there, I'm afraid it will be difficult to stop it!" ”

"Nonsense, if it weren't for this, what did I call you to come over!" Although Captain Li also wanted to maintain his dignity at all times like other officers, when it came to the critical moment, the veteran temperament in his bones was exposed: "Now the position on the other side of the row is too long, let them shrink a little!" The vacant front was filled by the second platoon. ”

"In this case, isn't the front of the second row too thin!" Said the lieutenant next to him.

"I haven't said to play yet, the company will follow me to support the second platoon!" Captain Li continued, and after finishing speaking, he led the people to the second row.

It didn't take long for this small group of people to reach the position of the second platoon.

"Lieutenant Qin, what's the situation doing now?" As soon as he arrived to bow his head, Captain Lee pulled over a sturdy lieutenant with a bearded scum.

Lieutenant Qin looked very sturdy, but the clothes on his body were crumpled, and his face was full of beard slag, and when he got closer, he could smell the smell of sweat, and it was obvious that he hadn't taken a shower for several days.

The smell of gunpowder smoke in the war is so strong, the smell of blood is so strong, when facing a life-and-death struggle, who cares if the clothes on their bodies are dirty or not.

Rao is an army in the Chinese Army that attaches so much importance to dress etiquette, and it is impossible for officers to keep them clean and tidy at all times in actual war.

Not to mention Lieutenant Qin, even Captain Li was covered in dirt, he didn't have time and opportunity to take a shower during the battle for several days, and the combat uniform on his body could not be replaced. However, he is a captain company commander, and this captain's officer is already the highest among the junior officers, and Captain Li also has to pay attention to his image in the eyes of his subordinates, so this beard will still be shaved.

Lieutenant Qin took out a small notebook from his pocket, then pointed to it and said, "This is the result of my observation just now, look here!" ”

In his small notebook was a rudimentary map drawn with a pencil, and a simple hand-drawn map was a topographic map of the surrounding area. In recent years, the cartographic section of the General Staff of the Chinese Army has developed a complete set of military maps by means of aerial photography and field investigations. This set of military maps, which cost a lot of effort and money in cartography classes, includes domestic regions and Russian regions. Maps of Korea and the Indochina Peninsula (Indochina Peninsula) were also developed.

The Indochina Peninsula was too sensitive, with only French Indochina and British Indochina on the peninsula, and a buffer zone between the British and French colonies, Thailand. Naturally, the military areas of the enemy's territory cannot be created in an open and honest manner, and they are all secretly produced by sending reconnaissance planes or personnel to infiltrate and secretly make them.

In the Korean region, the production of maps is much more above board, the reason is very simple, China is now unwilling to conflict with Britain and France, but it does not mean that Chen Jingyun does not dare to make trouble in North Korea, let alone now, even in the First World War, China has roughly formulated a detailed military map of North Korea, and then during the Sino-Japanese War in 1923, the topographic map of the entire North Korea was made, and after the war, reconnaissance planes were often sent into the sky over North Korea to conduct reconnaissance.

With so much effort, the Army's mastery of the various terrains of Korea actually exceeds that of many domestic regions.

However, no matter how detailed the military map is, it is not impossible to mark every hill, and in fact, in the process of combat, it is still necessary to rely on basic officers to draw and judge on the spot.

"Now we have at least two squadrons of the enemy in front of us, I am afraid that there are no less than four hundred men, and just now it was said that 'the part of Ben moving to the right, it is estimated that the strength of about one squadron, it is obvious that the main forces are on that side, and want to break through our three-row position. However, the terrain on the side of the third platoon is a bit special, although it is beneficial to their infantry charge, but it is a little difficult for them to get artillery support, on the contrary, although our side is facing a small number of troops, but the artillery power of the Japanese army is mainly concentrated on our side! ”

Perhaps to prove what he said, soon there were several whistling sounds in the sky, and Captain Li, who had been in the army for more than ten years, knew that it was artillery as soon as he heard this sound, and it seemed that the scale of the shelling was not small, and the whistling sound soon turned into an explosion, and four explosions sounded almost at the same time, and after this explosion, two loud bangs sounded.

When the cannon rumbled outside, Lieutenant Qin's face changed greatly: "How did it become six cannons, there were only four just now!" ”

A qualified officer, judging the enemy's firepower by the sound of gunfire and the explosion of artillery shells is the basic skill, and this matter is actually very simple, the sound of heavy machine guns and light machine guns and rifles is obviously different, as long as you listen to a lot and have experience, you can basically judge it. And judging by the shells fired by the enemy, the explosion power of different caliber guns is naturally different. As for the number of guns, the rate of fire of artillery is limited, so it is generally possible to determine the number of enemy guns by the number of shells you have received per unit of time.

Although Lieutenant Qin is only a lieutenant, but the time in the army is not short, from the day he went to the military academy, he is considered an active soldier, the military rank of military cadet is a unique warrant officer, generally after graduation will be awarded the rank of second lieutenant and then enter the army in the grass-roots officer position, armor section, artillery section, cavalry course, infantry section of these four categories of graduates generally hold the most basic officer positions, such as deputy platoon commander. It will take about two to three years before the next round of transfers, and if you perform well, you will be promoted to lieutenant and continue to serve in the field force, usually as a lieutenant platoon leader. And if you want to continue to rise after reaching this point, then you need luck, and it is difficult to rise up without responding to combat merits simply by virtue of qualifications.

Nowadays, all countries regard the professionalization of officers as an important criterion for military construction, and Chen Jingyun made a small mistake on this point, that is, the retirement system of officers. During World War I, that is, when the country had just been reunified, in order to expand the scale of the army and to be able to mobilize on a large scale in wartime, Chen Jingyun implemented the retirement system of officers in addition to the retirement system of soldiers. Naturally, there is no problem with the soldier retirement system, which can reserve a large number of reserve soldiers for China, but the officer retirement system has encountered a lot of trouble in the process of implementation.

First of all, the question of the personal wishes of officers, in this era in China, if it is said that the only way to sign up for the army is to be able to retire and enter the factory after two or three years of service, then many young people apply for military schools and study in military schools for three full years before graduating and entering the army, in order not to retire after only a few years of service, the vast majority of people regard the military as a lifelong career until they are old.

However, at that time, in order to be able to reserve more reserve officers, Chen Jingyun implemented an officer retirement system and limited the retirement age of officers at all levels. After the implementation of this system, a large number of grassroots officers were very dissatisfied, and at the same time, the quality of officers in the army dropped considerably.

Most of these officers plan to join the army for the rest of their lives, and if they transfer these middle and low-level officers to the reserve in their thirties, their careers will basically be over.

At the same time, because a large number of middle- and low-level officers were forced to transfer to the reserve when they were in their thirties, this led to a relatively low age level of grass-roots officers, which to a certain extent affected the quality of grass-roots officers on active duty.

What's more critical is that the military literacy of these retired officers has declined extremely quickly after they have been transferred to the reserves. After World War I and World War I, all kinds of military theories and military equipment developed rapidly, and we had to keep up with them at all times in order not to fall behind, and after officers were transferred to the reserves, their military qualities declined very rapidly, and basically they could not keep up with the trend after two or three years.

All these circumstances caused Chen Jingyun and a large number of high-ranking officials in the army to re-examine the retirement system of officers, and finally decided to raise the retirement age of officers at all levels. The retirement age for ensigns and lieutenants was raised from thirty to forty years, for captains from thirty-five to forty-five years, for majors to fifty years, for lieutenant colonels to fifty-five years, and for colonels fifty-eight years. The major general is sixty years old, the lieutenant general is sixty-five years old, and the admiral is seventy years old.

The main increase here is the age of service for junior and mid-level officers, ensuring that these officers can serve for more than 20 years.

After the officers are discharged from active service, they are transferred to the reserves, and the younger officers are transferred to other departments, usually according to the high ground of the rank, to the political axe departments at all levels, some to the police department, and the other to disperse to other political axe departments.

According to China's current officer system, this will allow company commanders and battalion commanders at all levels to retain the best officers at the rank of captain and major. Of course, due to the lowering of the retirement age of officers, and the fact that military academies recruit a large number of military cadets every year, there are more internal military officers, especially grassroots officers, but the military's solution is very simple, that is, the outstanding ones continue to serve in the field units or headquarters at all levels, while the slightly inferior officers are arranged to work in local garrisons or simply sit in the organs.

When Lieutenant Qin graduated, his grades could only be regarded as average, and he was proud of his position in the deputy platoon for three years before he was promoted to lieutenant, and then stayed in the rank of lieutenant for seven years! Although he has held many positions, it has always been difficult for him to be promoted to captain, and if he has no chance in the next two years, he is already 34 years old, and it is estimated that he will be transferred to the local garrison for two more years, and he will retire after a few years.

In any case, counting the time he spent studying in the military academy, he has been in the army for more than ten years, and as an officer with old qualifications, he can naturally easily distinguish the firepower of this artillery bombardment.

He could hear clearly, and Captain Li next to him could naturally hear clearly, he Captain Li told the truth that he had not been an officer for a long time, and he was only qualified to study at a military academy in 1923, and he was still a transfer student, and he graduated after only two years. But he is a real bronze double sword medal winner, he was almost thirty years old at the time, but he got the opportunity to go to the military academy by virtue of his real military merits, and after graduation, he was promoted very quickly, because of his rich combat experience, he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant just after graduation, and only two years later he was promoted to lieutenant, and then he was promoted to captain, from second lieutenant to captain, he only took four years. If this promotion speed is placed among traditional military academy graduates, they will be worthy of the name of the pride of the sky, and they will be the seedlings of the generals. It was not weaker than the promotion speed of Han San, who was praised by Chen Jingyun himself. You must know that before this war, although Han San was promoted to major before the age of thirty, he went to the military academy at the age of seventeen, and at the age of twenty, he entered the field army and was awarded the second lieutenant, and his graduation grades at that time were among the best, which can be regarded as an excellent person among his peers.

However, Captain Li and those proud sons of heaven are two different things, and Captain Li was able to rise quickly because he already had rich combat experience, in addition to his bronze double sword medal. In addition, if there is no accident on his promotion path, it is estimated that it will be the end of the captain. The top brass of the military do not pay attention to age when promoting junior officers, but they often consider age when promoting middle-level officers, and there is basically no possible surname for being promoted to a colonel after the age of 40. Generally speaking, most of the generals who can be valued and cultivated by the top level have become majors before the age of 30, and then climb up step by step, and can probably be promoted to major generals between the ages of 40 and 45, becoming one of China's nearly 1,000 major generals. As for whether the major general can continue to rise in the future, it depends on how much weight he has in Chen Jingyun's heart. If he hadn't been favored by Chen Jingyun or couldn't even remember his name, it was estimated that the major general would have been mixed until he was in his fifties, and then he was awarded a lieutenant general when he was about to retire after luck, and then retired with the rank of lieutenant general, and those with average luck could only retire with the rank of major general.

And Captain Lee's rapid promotion was due to his previous combat exploits, and with his rich combat experience, he was naturally able to quickly judge the enemy's firepower.

"Four seventy-millimeter mortars, and two seventy-five-millimeter mountain guns!" Captain Li frowned: "This said, 'I can be regarded as having made a lot of money!'" ”

"Just now I said, 'I only have four mortars, and now they have two 75-millimeter mountain guns, I'm afraid that the enemy troops in front of me are at least a brigade!'" Lieutenant Qin analyzed: "And they also used their wing firepower!" ”

In small-scale battles, there was a time when it was said that my grenadiers and heavy machine guns were frequent, and in some cases I would also encounter the firing of 70-millimeter mortars, but this was not very common, because my mortars were trained separately and strengthened into the units during wartime, unlike the Chinese Army, which was completely distributed to the actual equipment of the units in peacetime. In the event of an important battle, Ben's infantry units were able to receive support from the artillery fire of the wing.

However, to tell the truth, if the firepower of this army can be roughly equal to that of the Chinese army in 1923, then today in 1931 it is already starting to be inferior, and the firepower of the division is still 75 mm artillery, but the Chinese army has been equipped with 105 mm division howitzers one after another, and a small number of front-line troops have been equipped with two battalions of 105 mm howitzers, and the other regimental firepower is composed of 75 mm mountain guns and 120 mm mortars. The battalion firepower consisted mainly of 80-mm mortars, and the company-level firepower consisted mainly of 60-mm mortars.

However, when the units are actually fighting, especially those fighting in key areas, they are generally able to receive fire support from the superior units. For example, the Chinese Army itself is very fond of delegating divisional firepower to regiment-level troops, and then forming regiment-level battle groups to take on the main attack mission.

Now the opposite side said, "I have two 75-mm mountain guns, which shows that they have been strengthened by the firepower from the wing, but Captain Lee's side is only a standard infantry company, and the entire company only has three 60-mm mortars.

However, Captain Li did not say anything like many heroes in the film to defend to the death, and when he saw that the situation on the battlefield was not good, he immediately ordered: "Let the platoon shrink and prepare to retreat to the second line of defense!" ”

Then he said to the herald beside him: "Go to the battalion headquarters and ask for reinforcements, we need reinforcements with at least eighty-millimeter mortars." ”

Captain Lee soon led the transfer of troops, and soon the battalion headquarters was reinforced with an 80-millimeter mortar and two heavy machine guns. This made Captain Li feel relieved, but what really put him at ease was the subsequent shelling!

It was a large-scale artillery bombardment of his own family, and although Captain Li was not qualified to directly request the support of the divisional artillery, what Captain Li saw was only this section of the defensive line in front of him, and after expanding the battlefield to the entire thousand-meter range, he would find that he had invested nearly two wings of troops and attacked with the support of a large number of artillery fire, and the enemy in front of them was the 471st Regiment, and in this case, the 471st Regiment was also supported by a large number of divisional artillery firepower.

Therefore, when Captain Li saw that the shells kept falling and smashing into his position, he knew that this wave of attacks should be regarded as being blocked.

But he didn't understand how these people rushed up like crazy, he was just a small captain, and he couldn't understand the whole battlefield and the entire Anzhou Campaign.

At the same time, more than ten kilometers north of Anzhou, tanks, half-track armored vehicles and wheeled trucks spread all over the mountains formed an armored torrent, and then continued to advance towards the depth of the army!

Just when Captain Li of the 471st Regiment led the troops in defensive operations, Captain Li's old boss, Lieutenant Pei at the time and Lieutenant Colonel Pei today, was sitting on a Zhongwu four-wheeled off-road jeep and driving south.