On the No. 8 high ground, Xie Yan, the company commander of the 2nd Battalion and 3rd Company of the 13th Regiment, had bandages on his arms, and there were still a large blood stains on them.

Soon he and the two people around him came to the position of a light machine gun crew, usually a light machine gun team has a formation of four people, but now there are only two people left, one of whom still has a long cut on his face, and he doesn't know whether he was injured by bullets or shrapnel. And not far from the two, there were two soldiers lying silent.

"How's it going on your side, how much ammunition do you have?" Xie Yan's speech at this time was not at all as loud as he had been a few days ago, but had turned into a very deep voice.

The light machine gun shooter did not answer immediately, but flipped from side to side, then bent over and touched the two dead bodies, and finally found a few magazines.

"Together, there are probably more than three hundred!" said the light machine gun shooter.

Xie Yan said: "I'll take away two magazines!" ”

There is already a shortage of ammunition on the front line, anyway, Xie Yan's company has not been replenished since today, rifle bullets are okay, there are still some, but machine gun bullets are very lacking, and now Xie Yan has strictly ordered the only remaining heavy machine gun in his hand to save bullets, and the three light machine guns under his command are no better, and now there are only a few magazines left.

Asking the orderly behind him to bring magazines, Xie Yan came to the position of the next light machine gun group, and then gave them the magazines of several Madsen machine guns he brought.

After walking another twenty meters, he came to the last remaining heavy machine gun group of the 3rd Company.

"Second Lieutenant Shi, are you okay?" The second lieutenant Shi in Xie Yan's mouth was Shi Fengjun, who had been injured.

Shi Fengjun was shelled the day before yesterday, and was immediately injured and sent to medical treatment, at that time there was still some medicine in the 13th regiment, and because Shi Fengjun was a sergeant rank, the treatment was better than that of ordinary soldiers, so the bleeding was quickly stopped, the wound was stitched, and the injury was not too serious. Yesterday, the commander of the remaining heavy machine gun group was killed, and the requirements for commanding heavy machine guns were still very high in these years, and ordinary soldiers were simply not up to the task, so Shi Fengjun, who was wounded in desperation, went into battle again to command the heavy machine guns. At the same time, because of his previous outstanding military exploits, he was promoted to second lieutenant by the regimental headquarters, which can be regarded as officially stepping into the ranks of officers. Not only him, but also many non-commissioned officers were promoted to officers because of their combat exploits and the excessive casualties of the original grassroots officers of the unit who needed to be replenished.

According to the regulations, these officers who have been promoted in the line of fire can be recognized after being reported afterwards, and those who have been promoted from non-commissioned officers or soldiers will go to the Fuzhou Military Academy for further training and then take up their official posts.

Shi Fengjun looked a little tired, and the whole person sat on a stone slab, with his first trophy still hanging on his chest, the Zeiss telescope.

"I'm fine!" Shi Fengjun said: "Captain Xie, now that I only have a thousand rounds of ammunition here, I'm afraid it won't last too long!" ”

Strictly speaking, Shi Fengjun is not Xie Yan's subordinate, the people in the heavy machine gun team are all from the regimental machine gun company, but they were assigned to the 3rd company in wartime, although Shi Fengjun's machine gun team is under the jurisdiction of Xie Yan, but he is not Shi Fengjun's direct boss.

Xie Yan said: "I also asked the battalion headquarters, there is no ammunition to replenish, and it will be gone after these battles, but you can rest assured, the reinforcements organized by the division headquarters and the military headquarters are already fighting, and it is expected to arrive tonight, and tomorrow!" ”

Shi Fengjun didn't speak or sigh when he heard it, he already knew about such a result, and he didn't expect to say any miracle and then a few ammunition boxes popped up out of thin air. Shi Fengjun didn't have much expectation for the reinforcements in Xie Yan's mouth, if he wanted to come, he could always come, and if he didn't come, he couldn't come.

Even at this time, Shi Fengjun had a very light view of life and death, he had seen too many dead people, he was disgusted, he had vomited, and in the end, he didn't care much about his life and death.

Xie Yan didn't say anything, nodded and continued to inspect the battle line.

Half an hour after Xie Yan inspected the front, the Fifth Brigade of the Zhejiang Army once again organized a large-scale offensive in an attempt to make a breakthrough before night arrived.

On the position of the Fifth Brigade of the Zhejiang Army, several senior officers each held binoculars and observed the front line! Hundreds of people under the Zhejiang army began to charge, and then when they reached a few hundred meters in front of the position of the national army, the machine gun sound of 'click' rang out again, and after a group of people fell in front of the Zhejiang army, the remaining soldiers quickly lay down, and then fired at each other.

Seeing that the attack was suppressed again, an officer of the Fifth Brigade of the Zhejiang Army was full of anger: "Fuck, it's pressed down again!" Damn, the artillery birds in the back are useless, they have been fighting for so many days, and they haven't killed a few machine guns of the Nationalist Army!"

He was angry for a reason, a few days ago they found that the machine guns of the Nationalist Army had a major threat, and almost every attack was suppressed by the machine guns of the Nationalist Army, and a large area was strafed as soon as they charged, and occasionally they could get close once or twice, but those Nationalists would recognize a large number of grenades, which exploded more fiercely than the shelling, and in the end, the soldiers in front refused to charge and die. And in order to suppress these machine guns, artillery has been continuously requested to carry out artillery shelling, wanting to knock out these murderous weapons. However, with the quality of the artillery of the Zhejiang army, it is already very reluctant to let them carry out artillery support and cover the surname shooting, which is simply impossible for them to carry out accurate artillery bombardment. Even if anti-machine gun combat is to be carried out in the future, it is mostly to use mortars, grenades and other close-range artillery weapons, which are called grenadiers and infantry guns, and are similar in function to mortars. It is not ordinarily difficult to use field artillery or mountain artillery to carry out accurate point bombing.

An officer next to him also sighed: "This machine gun is really ...... Even if the brothers take their lives to fill it, they can't fill it! ”

In fact, the Zhejiang army itself also has heavy machine guns in its hands, although there are not a few in their hands, but they know how to use them, but the reason why the heavy machine guns in these years are sharp is because of his defensive ability, not for attack. Due to the weight of the heavy machine gun and the tragic mobility of the machine, it is impossible to accompany the infantry attack, which is the direct reason why countries are working on lighter machine guns.

"We've already fought twice, and it's almost four o'clock now, and when this wave is taken back, I think it's almost dark, it's time to let the Fourth Brigade go!" An officer next to him seemed to be talking to himself.

But the others stopped in their ears and thought deeply: "I think it is the same, we fought for three hours before and after, rushed twice, if we add this time, the casualties will be at least more than 600, if we come a few more times, I am afraid that the number of the Fifth Brigade should be withdrawn." ”

Hearing the words of this withdrawal number, the officers of the Fifth Brigade all looked bad for a while, and after a while, the brigade commander of the Fifth Brigade said directly: "Well, the order will go down, fight for a while, and then withdraw!" ”

Then he turned around and said, "Talk to the Fourth Brigade and prepare for the handover!" ”

When the Fourth Brigade heard that the Fifth Brigade was about to be handed over, a regimental commander of the Fourth Brigade who was angry scolded him: "Why did he withdraw, from last night to noon today, we fought for a day and a night, and knocked out two entire battalions." How long have they been up, and it's not even four hours since they were full! They don't treat us as human beings! ”

Not only were the soldiers and officers below the Fourth Brigade dissatisfied, but even the brigade commanders and regimental commanders were also very dissatisfied, threatening to bring the lawsuit to Zhu Rui's eyes, and they were unwilling to take over the attack in advance.

Under such circumstances, the two brigades that Zhu Rui had high hopes for began to fight among themselves, and the 5th and 4th brigades refused to bear huge casualties and shirked each other's attacks, which also relieved the pressure on the 13th regiment. In fact, if the 5th or 4th Brigade had rushed a few more times, it was estimated that the ammunition of the 13th Regiment would have run out, and the next result would have been self-evident, but they did not.

This fear of heavy casualties on the part of the Zhejiang army is not the only one, but is widespread in all domestic armies, even the Nationalist Army. For example, the first division had suffered huge casualties in the past few days, and Yuan Fang was anxious to replenish the troops, fearing that the troops would be wiped out, which would affect their personal power.

Chen Jingyun banned some recruits, and the headquarters recruited them uniformly, trained them in a unified manner, and then distributed them. But this did not dispel the concerns of some of the generals under him. It is not a matter of a day or two for generals to eliminate this phenomenon of generals treating their troops as private soldiers, but Chen Jingyun still has some confidence in this, and if anyone dares to treat Chen Jingyun's troops as his own, Chen Jingyun will dare to shoot him directly.

He Chen Jingyun wants to be a warlord, but he will never allow his subordinates to be warlords too! If anyone had this thought, Chen Jingyun would not hesitate to raise a big knife and cut it over.

The mutual concession between the Fifth Brigade and the Fourth Brigade of the Zhejiang Army greatly hindered Zhu Rui's battle plan. This battle plan was originally a plan for the two sides to compete for time, but now that they have not finished cleaning up the enemy, they will make a fuss first. However, limited to backward means of communication, Zhu Rui did not know that the Fifth Brigade and the Fourth Brigade had stopped attacking one after another. Now, while he was struggling to command the troops to resist the attack of the Nationalist Army on the opposite side, he was looking forward to the 5th and 4th Brigades being able to annihilate the enemy's 13th Regiment as soon as possible, and then go to reinforce himself.

Sometimes, there is a big difference between having reinforcements and not having reinforcements, Zhu Rui, there are no reinforcements, and the six brigades under his command have all gone into battle, in order to defeat the first division of the national army in a short time. However, although time passed slowly, the first regiment of the Nationalist Army's guard division had arrived, and the troops of the second division had also appeared in the outskirts of Hangzhou, which made Zhu Rui feel more and more that his original choice was wrong.

In the evening of the same day, the 21st Regiment of the Second Division of the National Army arrived at Zhaojialing, and after defeating a battalion of the Zhejiang Army guarding it, it took control of this logistics supply station of the Zhejiang Army. At this time, the 11th Regiment had also received an order to begin a frontal attack on the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Zhejiang Army, not seeking defeat, but only delaying, waiting for the 21st Regiment to attack the Zhejiang Army from the flank.

That night, a battalion under the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division, under the personal command of Shen Gang, broke through the important position of the 3rd Brigade of the Zhejiang Army, and then made a quick detour, and the 3rd Brigade of the Zhejiang Army, which had been fighting hard for two days after the position was broken through, finally had a large-scale collapse, and by 8 o'clock in the morning, the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division had broken through the position of the 3rd Brigade on all fronts.

When Zhu Rui couldn't speak for a long time after getting the news, he didn't understand, it was only one night, why did things change?