Ni Fan has long understood the way of charging under the bombardment of Russian artillery. (He said to the commander of the 33rd Brigade indifferently: "Our Third Division has not experienced this kind of attack in the war with the Japanese, but I want to see if the name of the Russian steamroller is false.) However, with this attack by the Russians, the losses in the forward positions may be significant, and your brigade is ready to support the forward positions at any time. ”

The commander of the 33rd Brigade nodded and said: "Our brigade not only has the infantry ready to support the forward positions at any time, but even the artillery has also chosen a position and can support the artillery of the heavy artillery brigade and the 31st brigade at any time. ”

After Chekryv, the commander of the Russian 19th Army, left the command of the Front, he came to the temporary headquarters of the 19th Army at the front of the battlefield, and said angrily to the three division commanders under him: "Your Excellency Commander Kuropatkin doesn't know what to think, he actually chose Ivanov's bastard as the commander of the First Siberian Front. ”

Chekriv was very dissatisfied with not letting him be the commander of the First Siberian Front, and then the division commander who was in charge of the attack just now said: "Commander, the firepower on the position of the Dingbei Army is very strong, and there are a lot of machine guns. ”

Chekryv frowned and said: "It is true, it is very difficult for our artillery to destroy the enemy's artillery, we can only attack under enemy fire, and the enemy can shoot at us at will from the position." ”

After a pause, Chekriv gritted his teeth and said: "It seems that there is only one more price, to contact the artillery when our infantry is close to the forward position of the Dingbei Army." Keep firing! The soldiers were ordered not to be afraid of artillery fire, and to continue to charge the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, and to be sure to take the enemy's forward positions. Let Ivanov see that our 19th Army is not inferior to his 6th Army. ”

The division commander just now frowned and said, "Commander, in that case, when we get close to the enemy's position, we will not only have to brave the enemy's artillery fire, but even our own artillery fire will fall on the heads of our attacking troops. ”

Chekrif said calmly: "In order to take the enemy's forward positions, some of the costs are bearable. Execute the order! ”

The 3 division commanders of the 19th Army looked at each other, and Chekriv was still saying just now that the commander Ivanov would only fight to the death and exchange the lives of his soldiers for victory. Now Chekriv has adopted this method of charging under artillery bombardment, which is simply more than that.

In this way, when the artillery of one's own artillery did not stop shelling, coupled with the terrible accuracy of the Russian artillery, the shells could easily fall on the heads of one's own people. Each time the Russian army resorted to this charge and achieved victory. will pay several times more than the enemy.

However, in the face of the army commander who could be said to be very short-tempered, none of the three division commanders dared to raise objections, and they nodded helplessly and agreed to Chekriev's order, and each went to arrange for the troops to prepare to brave their own artillery bombardment to launch an attack on the position of the Dingbei Army.

After the Russian army had lunch, nearly 30,000 Russian soldiers of the 19th Army began to assemble at a distance of 1,500 meters from the forward position of the Dingbei Army to prepare for an attack.

After the Russian artillery opened fire on the positions of the Dingbei Army. The Russian troops of the 19th Army, under the orders of the army commander Chekryv, shouted: "Ula! "Rushed to the position of the Dingbei Army.

The Russian army of the 19th Army was not like a swarm, and 30,000 people all charged together. Instead, 1 division of nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers attacked first.

After the commander Ivanov saw that his artillery fired, the 19th Army launched an attack on the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, and knowing that the 19th Army had contacted the artillery to carry out artillery bombardment all the time, he couldn't help but nod in agreement, Chekryv's arrogant bastard still has some ability.

This kind of attack under the bombardment of artillery fire, although it may let its shells fall on the heads of its own attacking troops and cause the attacking troops to suffer a lot of losses, but it also makes the troops guarding the positions of the Dingbei Army have to withstand the artillery fire on the positions to block the attacking troops of the Russian army. The bombardment of artillery fire can achieve the purpose of increasing the number of casualties in the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, weakening the firepower of the positions, and allowing the Russian army to seize the opportunity.

The leper was in the anti-artillery hole, holding his rifle, and began to count the shells that fell on his head again, when the field phone in the anti-artillery hole rang, and the platoon commander immediately picked up the phone, "Company commander, what?" Okay, I get it! ”

The platoon commander who put down the phone had a very bad face and said to the whole platoon of soldiers in the anti-artillery hole: "Grandma, the Russians are crazy, and the artillery fire has not stopped. Brothers, we can only brave the artillery fire and do it with the old man! The whole platoon enters the position! ”

After speaking, the platoon commander took the lead out of the anti-artillery hole, and the leper also took a rifle and followed his squad leader out of the anti-artillery hole and entered the positional trench.

Shells were constantly falling around the position, and the leper bent over the trench quickly to his position, and he saw that the Russians were less than 200 meters away from the position.

The brigade commander of the 31st Brigade saw that the Russian army launched an attack without waiting for the artillery fire to stop, and immediately contacted the division's heavy artillery brigade to suppress the Russian artillery, while the artillery of the 31st Brigade shelled the charging Russian army fiercely, and the sound of explosions accompanied by clouds of smoke rose in the crowd of the Russian charge, bringing great casualties to the Russian army.

Soon after, the artillery of the 33rd Brigade also began to fire, suppressing the artillery fire of the Russian army.

As the Russian assault unit got closer and closer to the forward position of the Dingbei Army, many shells fired by Russian artillery also fell on the heads of the Russian army, plus the shells of the Dingbei Army, and the Russian soldiers were constantly killed and blown up, but the Russian soldiers still shouted Ula and rushed to the position of the Dingbei Army.

The leper heard his company commander Zhou Manchu shouting loudly: "Brothers, fight!" Then the leper went on to get his headshots.

The Russian army continued to attack the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, and the leper changed at least 20 magazines, thanks to the simplicity of this half-leaking magazine system, every soldier of the Dingbei Army issued a lot. At the beginning, the leper still counted how many Russian soldiers he killed, but after the fight, he couldn't count them at all, just mechanical shooting, shooting, and shooting. The Russian army spread layer after layer of corpses on the gentle slope of the 306 heights, but they still did not stop attacking.

"Boom-" sound. 1 Russian artillery shell exploded not far from the leper head, and the leper heard the sound of the shell flying and quickly pressed his body tightly into the trench. Fortunately, the shell only blew up a piece of dirt on the leprosy head, but did not hurt the leper head.

The leper shook his head and shook the dirt off his head, "Phew! After spitting out the soil in his mouth again, he was about to continue shooting at the Russian army, when the leper suddenly found that his squad leader was covered in blood and fell in the trench.

The frightened leper didn't care to shoot again, and immediately took three steps and did two. Came to the squad leader and hugged his upper body, "Squad leader, squad leader." What happened to you? Wake up, wake up! The leper probed under the squad leader's nose with his hand, and breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately he was breathing. The leper put his arm around the squad leader and shouted, "Medic! Medic! Come on! Someone got hurt! ”

1 medic with a red cross armband on his arm. The cat quickly ran from the side of the trench to the leper head, and the leper shouted at the medic: "Da Liu, our squad leader is injured!" ”

The medic, who was called Da Liu, briefly looked at the squad leader's injuries and shouted at the leper: "The head was hit by a cannon piece, leprosy, help me carry your squad leader back to the anti-artillery hole of the company headquarters!" ”

Then Leper and Da Liu carried the injured Leper squad leader into the anti-artillery hole of the company headquarters, where there were already several seriously wounded people.

The leper glanced at the squad leader who was still unconscious, and shouted at Da Liu: "Take care of my squad leader!" Then he went back to his position. Continue to shoot at the charging Russian troops.

Chekryv, the commander of the Russian 19th Army, saw that 1 division suffered heavy casualties and did not attack the position of the Dingbei Army, and did not let the soldiers of this division come down to rest. Instead, 1 more division was sent to strengthen the attack.

Chekryv ordered the Russian soldiers to only advance and not retreat, and those who retreated were treated as deserters. The soldiers who attacked the division first could not withstand such a tragic offensive and defensive battle, and those who retreated back were all suddenly attacked by the Maxim machine gun sent by the commander Chekriev, so that the charging Russian soldiers had no choice but to continue to attack regardless of casualties. Retreating is a military law, and it is possible to capture the position of the Dingbei Army and live your life if you advance.

On the 306 heights, battalion commander Wang Yuwei personally led 90 officers and soldiers of the guard company supported by the brigade headquarters to enter the first line of fortifications along the reserved traffic trenches to reinforce the 1st company and half a machine gun company that had suffered heavy casualties.

The commander of the 1st company, Zhou Manchu, saw the battalion commander with people to support him, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, starting from the Russian army to attack at noon, in just over half an hour, 27 people have been killed in the first fortification, and 8 people have been seriously injured, 2 heavy machine guns and 3 light machine guns have been blown up, and 2 of the 60 mm mortars have been reimbursed. But now it's okay, the battalion commander is here with people.

Wang Yuwei didn't have time to talk to Zhou Manchu, and when he arrived at the first fortification, he shouted to the officers and soldiers of the guard company: "Enter the position and beat me hard!" After speaking, he personally took a light machine gun and fired at the charging Russian army.

Two divisions of Russian troops braved artillery fire and rain of bullets to attack, but still did not penetrate any of the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, and the annoyed Chkryv sent the last division into the ranks of the attacking force. With a corps-level charge, it launched an attack on the forward positions of the Dingbei Army.

The soldiers of the Russian army are like waves, hitting the frontal position of the 31st Brigade, but the officers and men of the Dingbei Army of the 31st Brigade are like rocks, firmly blocking wave after wave of attacks by the Russian army.

After more than 2 hours, the Russian artillery had to engage in an artillery battle with the artillery of the Dingbei Army, and had to provide artillery support to the infantry, and it had been destroyed a lot by the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army, especially the loss of the heavy artillery of the heavy artillery division, which made the commander of the First Siberian Front Ivanov feel distressed, this is all his heavy artillery!

Coupled with two long shellings, the artillery shells stored by the Russian army in the city of Zài Haktu were almost exhausted, so Ivanov ordered the remaining artillery to suspend the attack first and withdraw back to the dangerous distance, and at the same time informed the commander of the 19th Army, Chekryv, that the artillery had suffered heavy losses, and there were few shells left to bring out, and it was no longer able to improve artillery support. Let the 19th Army stop the attack, and wait for the artillery shells to be replenished, and then the Russian army will continue to attack the Dingbei Army.

Chekryv, who was at the front of the battlefield, frowned when he saw Ivanov's order, and unwillingly ordered the 3 attacking divisions to retreat. After the 3 divisions of the 19th Army withdrew, Chekryv counted the approximate number of casualties, and couldn't help but gasp, in just over 2 hours of attack, the 19th Army, which had nearly 30,000 people, withdrew less than 18,000 people, that is to say, the 19th Army lost more than 10,000 people on the first day of the war, and did not even touch the edge of the forward position of the Dingbei Army.

Chekriv angrily came to the front headquarters behind and roared at the commander Ivanov: "How did you become a commander? My troops lost more than 10,000 people and were about to attack the forward positions of the Qing Dynasty, but you stopped the artillery fire and let me lose more than 10,000 soldiers in vain! ”

Ivanov shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "We don't have many shells in the Haktu stockpile, and most of the ammunition in the Haktu reserve we brought out this time, after two long shellings, there is not much left of the shells brought out, even if I send someone to transport all the shells in Haktu, it can't last long." And our artillery units suffered heavy losses in artillery battles, even if there were enough shells, we could no longer carry out artillery support on such a scale. ”

Ivanov also knew that Chekryv's troops had suffered heavy casualties, and did not care about the tone of his speech with him.

Chekryv listened to Ivanov's words, opened his mouth and did not say anything more questioning, but changed his mouth and asked: "Then what to do?" Don't attack? ”

Ivanov said: "That's it for today! A batch of shells from Irkutsk arrived in Haktu at night, tomorrow we will attack again, and your 19th Army can rest. ”

Wang Yuwei, the battalion commander of the 306 heights, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the Russian army retreating, the Russian army's non-stop attack against artillery bombardment did give people a lot of pressure, he turned around and saw that the company commander of the 1st Company, Zhou Manho, was wrapping a bandage around his arm with the help of a medical soldier, and hurriedly walked over and asked: "Manho, is the wounded Yan zhòng not strict?" ”

Zhou Manchu shook his injured arm and said nonchalantly: "It's okay, it's just a little bit of skin!" ”

Wang Yuwei nodded, glanced at the watch on his wrist, it was only half past two in the afternoon, and the Russian army was still likely to continue the attack, so Wang Yuwei said to Zhou Manchu, who had already wrapped the bandage: "Count the casualties, there are bombed fortifications and strengthen them quickly, if you can't get it, the Russian army will attack again in a while." ”

Zhou Manchu quickly counted the casualties, plus the guard company brought by Wang Yuwei, a total of 55 people were killed and 12 were seriously injured, and the company commander of the guard company was hit in the head by a stray bullet and died a heroic death. Wang Yuwei looked at the casualty report and felt a faint pain in his heart, they were all young men around 20 years old, and many of them were veterans who followed him when he was a company commander, and so many were killed in less than a day. In particular, the company commander of the guard company, who was the same age as himself and was in the fifth phase of the teaching team, said that his family had ordered him a family affair in the morning, and after this battle, he asked for leave to go home and get married, and invited himself to his wedding, and the result was ......

Casualties in the war are inevitable, Wang Yuwei was psychologically prepared when he led his troops into the 306 heights, as the 306 heights before the breakthrough, it must be the focus of the Russian army's attack, to withstand the attack of the Russian army, the casualties of his own troops will not be small, he was a little sad to help the company commander of the guard company sort out the remains, and then solemnly saluted him, and asked the soldiers to store the remains of the fallen soldiers in an anti-artillery hole first.

Wang Yuwei watched the commander of the 1st company lead the officers and men to re-strengthen the fortifications damaged by artillery fire in an orderly manner, and he himself returned to the battalion headquarters on the anti-slope of the 306 heights, while the soldiers of the guard company were strengthened into the first fortification.

The officers and men of the 31st Brigade waited for the Russians to attack next, but until dark, the Russians did not attack again today. (To be continued......) R527