Since the 13th Regiment of the First Division was besieged, both Yuan Fang and Lin Zhaomin set their sights on the 13th Regiment at the beginning, thinking of various ways to rescue the 13th Regiment.

However, when Lin Zhaomin received Chen Jingyun's instruction that "the target of our army is the entire northern Zhejiang region, not one city, one place or one part of the enemy army", Lin Zhaomin was also a smart man and quickly looked away from the 13th regiment.

It is true that the 13th Regiment was besieged, but the periphery of the 13th Regiment was already organized by the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division and the 1st Regiment of the Guards Division. While the 13th Regiment was stubbornly resisting the enemy's two brigades attacking in turn, the 6th and 3rd Brigades of the Zhejiang Army were also fighting a hard defensive battle. The onslaught of the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division and the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division from two directions has made the Zhejiang army feel unbearable.

"These Hokkien guys, where did they get so many cannons!" One of Zhu Rui's regimental commanders had just gotten up from the ground, scolding loudly while slapping the dust off his body.

Zhu Rui on the side also got up from the ground, his face was also a little ugly, just now a national artillery shell fell a few meters away, the shock wave of the explosion made Zhu Rui fall to the ground, although he himself was not injured, but a few people around him were not so lucky, when the achievement killed two people, seriously injured many people.

An officer next to him also sighed: "Look at this posture, at least the artillery of a regiment, and they are all seventy-five cannons!" ”

Zhu Rui also deeply agrees with the statements of several people under him.

Although he knew before the war that the artillery of the National Army was sharp, Zhu Rui did not go into battle in person in the first two days of operation, although he listened to the report of his subordinates and said that the artillery of the National Army was sharp, but Zhu Rui thought that he had even seen the artillery bombardment of Beiyang, and no matter how powerful the artillery of the National Army was, it should not be as good as Beiyang, and then when he personally led the troops to raid a battalion under the 12th Regiment of the First Division, because the formation of that battalion was incomplete, Zhu Rui did not feel the benefits of the artillery of the National Army.

However, starting today, Zhu Rui began to have a new understanding of the artillery power of the Nationalist Army. In the early hours of the morning, the large-scale artillery bombardment launched by the Nationalist Army, the dense falling shells made Zhu Rui once again feel the powerlessness in the face of the Beiyang Army, and the news gathered from everywhere has learned that the Nationalist Army on the opposite side has concentrated at least three battalions of artillery to shell them, and now the establishment of the domestic armies is still the same as before, one division, two brigades and four regiments, and the artillery regiment is eighteen guns and one battalion. Zhu Rui estimated that a regiment was fifty-four, and the reason for such a miscalculation was that Zhu Rui and others also counted the more than 20 80-mm mortars of the National Army, and Zhu Rui knew that some of these cannons were light small cannons, which the enemy could carry directly and then fire shells at an incredible firing angle.

Such a dense artillery caused a lot of casualties to Zhu Rui's troops, and it caused a certain amount of panic. In the next face of the enemy's charge, although some of the enemy's tactics and the quality of the soldiers were not too good, they were all decent, and they caused heavy casualties to the Zhejiang army with their sharp firepower.

"Commander, it's not a way to continue fighting like this! If the national army comes to rush a few more times, I'm afraid the brothers will not be able to bear it! The people around him persuaded.

Although the proportion of casualties suffered by the military in modern times has been greatly increased, this is only limited to the army with a complete system of military law, such as the armies of the great powers, and the casualties of the troops in China's domestic army, whether it is Beiyang or other warlords, are very limited.

Don't look at the Zhejiang army and the national army have been fighting fiercely for several days, but the casualties on both sides are not tragic to the point of World War I and World War II, for example, the 12th regiment and a battalion that were defeated by the Zhejiang army were about two Cheng Ren The number of casualties has been unable to support and then collapsed, and more casualties were caused by being chased and killed in the rout stage.

However, this success was already the result of the training of a large number of junior officers in the Nationalist Army and the promotion of the National Socialist Party in the army, and the other Beiyang and Zhu Rui's second divisions were able to bear a lower proportion of casualties than others.

In a battle between the two sides, the number of casualties only needs to reach a critical point before the force collapses. Of course, there are exceptions, such as being in a desperate situation and unable to retreat, or if the general's personal charm is strong, or there are other factors. The reason why the 13th Regiment of the First Division has not collapsed until now is that they have no way to retreat, but the troops under Zhu Rui do not have such a predicament, Zhu Rui himself is not a god of war level figure like Napoleon, opening his mouth to encourage morale can increase the casualty rate of the troops to 50 percent, or even 80 percent, and the troops under his command are not Russian farmers, they will shout that Ula will treat death as nothing, nor will they blindly launch a meat 'bomb charge) from those soldiers who have been brainwashed by the spirit of bushido. The vast majority of his subordinates were peasants, and he served as a soldier just to make ends meet, and he lacked enough qualified junior officers under his command.

Although his troops have experienced wars and have the experience of fighting Beiyang, they cannot hide the fact that his troops have low combat effectiveness and poor equipment, and the proportion of casualties borne by his troops is extremely limited. It's been good to fight smoothly before, but now after being attacked by the national army, I can't stand it anymore.

In particular, the artillery shells of the Nationalist Army were falling almost endlessly, and the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army were enduring the artillery bombardment while resisting the attack of the Nationalist Army, and the large-scale shelling was more demoralizing than the heavy machine gun strafing.

In just half a day, the Sixth Brigade under Zhu Rui was already somewhat unable to resist, and the Third Brigade to the east of the Sixth Brigade was even more unbearable. Opposite the 6th Brigade was part of the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division and the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division, but the 3rd Brigade was facing the main force of the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division, and the troops of the 3rd Brigade were far inferior to the 6th Brigade led by Zhu Rui in terms of strength and combat effectiveness.

Such a situation was naturally seized by Yu Ruofei and Shen Gang on the opposite side, and instead of relaxing, they invested a guard company to reinforce it, trying to break through the defense line of the Zhejiang army.

When the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division and the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division were attacking the defense line of the Zhejiang Army with shells and bullets, the 13th Regiment on the Hongbei Mountain was already in danger.

The regimental headquarters of the 13th Regiment was located in an anti-artillery hole temporarily constructed by the engineers in the middle of the mountainside, and Xu Jingqing and several military assistants in the regimental headquarters were talking around the military map.

"Now that the No. 10 and No. 9 heights have been taken by the enemy one after another, although our army has adopted the tactics of taking the initiative to retreat to avoid heavy casualties, due to the loss of the No. 10 and No. 9 heights, the enemy has not only attacked the No. 8 heights from the front, but can now threaten the flank of the No. 8 heights from the east!" The eyes of the regimental combat staff officer were already bloodshot.

This was true not only of him, but of almost everyone in the regimental headquarters, who had not rested for even a quarter of an hour since they were surrounded.

The deputy commander of the 13th Regiment stood up and said: "Heights 8 is now our only remaining strategic support point, if Heights 8 is also lost, my 13th Regiment will be unable to defend!" ”

"And ammunition, now the troops on the front line don't have much ammunition, if the enemy charges again, I'm afraid our heavy machine guns will have to become decorations," the combat staff officer sighed.

Xu Jingqing also took his eyes off the map, closed his eyes that were already a little stinging, and at the same time his mind quickly turned, where should troops be sent to reinforce the No. 8 Heights?

Regarding the current situation of the 13th Regiment, Xu Jingqing knows very well that since it was surrounded, the 13th Regiment has cut off its logistical supply, and at the same time, it has faced the repeated attacks of the enemy's two brigades, which has caused the 13th Regiment to suffer great losses.

In the past few days, the 13th Regiment has gone from more than 2,500 people before the war to only more than 1,800 people now, and the casualties can be said to be extremely heavy, and even the artillerymen of the artillery company on the No. 8 Heights have picked up their rifles to join the battle after firing shells. In addition, more than 200 casualties were killed, but the remaining more than 500 people could only hold on because of the lack of medicine, and the 13th Regiment was equipped with not many medical drugs and equipment, and it had long been used up, and now they could only watch the groans of pain of those seriously wounded, and the miserable appearance in the medical camp made many people collapse, so that the wounded soldiers who could still walk were not willing to stay in the medical camp but returned to their original units, picked up guns and continued to fight.

Compared with the casualties, Yuan Fang was more worried about the supply of ammunition, fortunately, the regimental headquarters had sufficient reserves here, and it was not difficult to eat for five or six days, but the ammunition was a little troublesome, the battle before the 13th regiment had been very tense, and the ammunition consumption was extremely large, but it had been surrounded before it had time to replenish, which made the ammunition in the hands of the 13th regiment extremely lacking.

Although from the moment he learned that he was surrounded, Yuan Fang had already ordered all departments to save ammunition, but in the past two days, the Zhejiang army has not stopped attacking in turns, and even if the soldiers save more, they have also played out a huge amount of ammunition, and now they are almost running out of bullets, especially machine guns.

Heavy machine guns originally relied on the rate of fire to fight the world, and in any battle, they were splashed out in pieces, and in two days, I don't know how many ammunition boxes were emptied, and almost every machine gun position was full of yellow bullet casings.

The lack of ammunition is a fact, Xu Jingqing can't change this fact, and after pondering for a while, he said: "Inform all departments that reinforcements are already struggling to counterattack, and they will arrive before they can be reached, and what we have to do is to hold on." The people in the regimental headquarters are all ready, and they all follow me to support the eighth height! ”

Xu Jingqing has already made up his mind to pay attention, either die here or make a great contribution here! As for surrender, he thought about it at first, but when he saw the gloomy Socialist member next to him, who had not even spoken, he dismissed it.

Xu Jingqing also joined the National Socialist Party, and he knew very well that these people who were sent to serve as members of the National Socialist Party were all staring at him, and if he showed a trace of surrender, then they would immediately seize their military power! Not to mention the regiment headquarters, the battalion headquarters below and the company headquarters all have such members of the National Socialist Party, plus the group of grassroots officers who have joined the National Socialist Party and have been brainwashed, Xu Jingqing knows that surrender is impossible without thinking about it.

If the battle is defeated, the political commissars of the people will not care if they are defeated, but if the chief officer dares to surrender or disobey the order, they will immediately take over the command!

Either die in battle, or fight for a great fortune! This is Xu Jingqing's only thought now!