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Due to the influence of Scrooge, trench warfare is already an old trick in the powers, but in China, it is definitely a novelty. Several important things that constitute trench warfare are still very lacking in China, such as barbed wire and landmines. Because of the lack of steel, it is unnecessary to even think about arranging hundreds of kilometers or even thousands of kilometers of barbed wire like Europeans. Even Xu Xilin and the others did not find even one meter long barbed wire in the new army's arsenal. So you don't have to think about setting up barbed wire.

In fact, when building the new army and ordering weapons or other things from foreign countries, some savvy officers also asked Enming to order barbed wire. However, in Enming's view, guns and guns are at least dragged out, majestic, and can scare a lot of chaos in the party. As for the barbed wire, there is no difference between seeing this thing and not seeing it if you don’t know it, a little deterrent. There is no strength. With such limited funds, isn't it a waste of money to buy that thing? In short, good steel needs to be used on the blade... so there is no barbed wire in the arsenal of the Anhui New Army.

For the same reason, naturally there is no purchase of landmines. There are also vital hand grenade ammunition, and there is no purchase. Well, it is said that there is no purchase of this. Another consideration is that this item will be stolen by people who watch the arsenal and sold to the Revolutionary Party. Because this thing is really suitable for the Revolutionary Party to carry out an assassination.

Therefore, several sharp weapons in trench warfare are gone. However, there are remedial measures. If the barbed wire is not enough, just use Juma, of course, all use Juma, the cost is not known how much higher than the barbed wire. Therefore, it can only be placed in key positions to reject horses. In other places, it can only be used to pretend to be a wooden stake tied with a rope made of rattan or bamboo.

Apart from that, it was just digging trenches honestly. The matter of trench digging seems very simple, but it can very well reflect the level and combat effectiveness of an army. In the history of war since modern times, it can basically be said that an army with well dug trenches cannot do without fighting. Because digging trenches is quite a boring and exhausting thing. If the organization of the army is not high enough, it is easy to be lazy when digging trenches, so when trenches are dug out, they will always not be lazy. Then it meets the standard.

Originally, based on the level of the Anhui New Army, the defensive strategy they thought of was actually the defense on the city wall. In their view, modern warfare is no different from ancient times, except that bows and arrows have been replaced by rifles, and the rappels have been replaced by cannons. In the original history, this backward approach even continued until the Liberation War. During the War of Liberation, KMT's army also played a game of driving tanks on the walls as firepower points. When they were defeated, they had nowhere to run, so they were given to TG by the way. Of course, this is not necessarily stupid or ignorant. It may also be common. After all, from military logistics expert Chang Kaishen to ordinary soldiers, it is the so-called no one in the world.

But in fact, the lack of shelter on the city walls and the concentration of people will inevitably result in heavy losses if shelled. And the Hubei New Army not only had ordinary artillery in its hands, but even had the support of gunboats on the river surface, leaning on the city wall to guard it, it was simply killing him. Therefore, the Refugee Council members who received elementary training from the United States also knew that they could not do this. With their efforts, the Anhui New Army finally came out of the city, and the Lion Rock generation outside the city dug trenches as required.

There is not much technology in trench digging, but there are still a lot of particulars. The first is that the trenches must not be a straight line. The trenches must be saw-toothed, and they need to be large and small. The large serrations are used to form crossfire, and the small serrations are used to defend against shells falling into the trenches to ensure that there will be no shells or grenade bombs that blow up a large group of people. Therefore, when digging a trench, every few meters of digging must be turned around to form a corner that can block the shrapnel. And every time you dig more than one meter, you need to make a big turn, so that there is an angle between the two sections of the trench, which can form cross fire.

In addition, there are certain requirements for the digging depth of the trenches and the thickness of the bunker pile in front of the trenches. The amount of work done in full accordance with the requirements is not small. Before the battle, the soldiers who dig trenches and the labor force temporarily hired by the liberation society with the Kuyin to dig trenches inevitably wanted to be lazy, not digging. The depth is not enough, it is to reduce the turning point as much as possible, so as to reduce the amount of labor. Even after two days of digging the trenches, even some of the recovery members began to play with the plan to be lazy.

But when the battle officially began, this very laborious trench immediately showed its function and power.

After the Hubei New Army arrived near Lion Mountain, it did not immediately attack the Revolutionary Army’s position. Instead, the camp was set up first, and it was secured. After that, both sides carried out some tentative offensives. Until the fourth day, the Hubei New Army After the artillery of China followed, they launched their first decent attack on the revolutionary army's position.

The Hubei New Army’s offensive process was quite standardized. First, a dozen guns were laid out and shelled at some targets on the revolutionary army’s position.

There is a saying on the battlefield that "recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns." This statement is indeed very reasonable. When being bombarded, recruits are particularly prone to panic and make the wrong move, and are killed by artillery as a result. According to statistics from the United States, in a positional battle, many recruits will encounter behavioral obstacles when they are shelled, making things like jumping out of the trenches and fleeing behind. And when they are hit by sudden shelling, it is often difficult for them to respond correctly, resulting in huge casualties.

This was also reflected in this attack by the Hubei New Army. Although the Hubei New Army’s shelling was not too violent, there were only a dozen cannons on the ground, plus the four guns on the two gunboats. In fact, the firepower density was quite limited, plus the caliber of the Hubei New Army’s artillery. Relatively small, (of course, this is relatively small compared with the powers of the country) only 75 mm caliber, the power of the shells is naturally limited. Coupled with limited artillery shells, it is impossible for him to prepare for one hour of artillery fire like a battle between Western powers. Therefore, if the trenches are dug well enough, then prepare some anti-cannon holes or something, and considering the training level of the Hubei New Army, there is absolutely no barrage Xu Jin's flower head. Such shelling is actually more just to scare people. That's it.

However, the level of the Hubei New Army is not high. Most of the personnel from the Anhui New Army’s Revolutionary Army are of lower level. Even the Liberation Army personnel trained in Heishui, they do not have training funds. How much training I have received from being bombarded is nothing more than squatting in an anti-cannon hole and listening to the explosion at a preset point outside. It is not the same as real shelling. So when the shelling of the Hubei New Army began, panic in the revolutionary army immediately occurred, especially when an artillery shell fell into the trench and killed two soldiers. Some of the soldiers next to him lost control all at once. A soldier screamed, dropped his gun, jumped out of the trench and ran back, and then was blown over by a cannonball, or knocked to the ground by the gunman in the second set of trenches.

Qiu Jin squatted in this trench, and beside her, a soldier also stood up and wanted to jump out of the trench. Just as he jumped out, Qiu Jin stretched out a hand and pulled him, and he immediately lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Do you want to die! If you want to die, I will fulfill you!" Qiu Jin roared, and put the McDonald's automatic pistol in his hand on the head of the scared silly fellow. The cold black hole of the muzzle made the soldier wake up quite a bit. Before the war, the squad leaders who had received elementary training in the Liberation Association warned the soldiers more than once that during the shelling, running around was looking for death.

If the Hubei New Army’s shelling can continue for a while, there may be more recruits. However, even if the Hubei New Army is backed by the Hanyang Arsenal, the shells are still for them. Very expensive thing, so their artillery stopped, and then the infantry attack began...

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"Mr. Tao, Mr. Tao, Mr. Xu and Mr. Qiu sent telegrams back from Anqing. They repelled the offensive of the Hubei New Army..." Fan Ainong said as he handed a telegram to Tao Chengzhang.

Tao Chengzhang took the message and read it. According to the description in the message, the Revolutionary Army successfully repelled the first attack of the Hubei New Army, but the consumption of ammunition was very large. The ammunition stocked in Anqing may not be able to withstand the consumption for a long time, so they hope Tao Chengzhang Can help them get some ammunition to replenish them as soon as possible.

"How can the ammunition be used so fast?" Tao Chengzhang was taken aback, because according to their previous calculation with the United States consultant, Anqing's ammunition could still last a considerable amount of time. However, it now appears that the situation on the front lines has exceeded the expectations of the United States consultants.

"With so many ammunition, it must be because the battle was extremely fierce?" Tao Chengzhang thought.

However, according to the standards of the great powers, this battle is not fierce at all. Much of the ammunition consumption was due to the excessive nervousness of the soldiers who went on the battlefield for the first time and opened fire indiscriminately. In this battle, fewer than two hundred people were injured or killed by the revolutionary army, and fewer than sixty were killed in the battle. The Hubei New Army’s casualties were only four hundred, but they killed more, as many as 150 people. This is because although there is no barbed wire on this position, the crossfire power of the trenches is still very strong. Threateningly, although most of the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army were shooting randomly, the more or less trained Liberation members were still shooting seriously.

Such casualties are not worth mentioning if they are placed in the battles of foreign powers, or even in the battles of second-tier and third-tier countries such as Russia and Turkey. However, the organization of our Qing army is still insufficient. In order to allow them to withstand such casualties and continue to fight, the Hubei New Army withdrew and did not launch a large-scale attack for the next three days.

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