The soldiers of the Fourth Division, led by their officers, quickly approached the Rakshasa Kingdom's position.
This time, due to the lessons learned from the 3rd Division, they temporarily stopped advancing at a distance of five to six hundred meters.
At this point, the mortar troops following behind the Third Division also caught up, took cover on the spot and began to take aim.
Then these light artillery began to pour ammunition on the Rakshasa Kingdom's position.
The rate of fire of these mortars has reached a level unmatched by other artillery of this era.
Even the ordinary shooting speed has reached nearly 20 rounds per minute.
Just like this, within a few minutes, thousands of light artillery shells were poured on the Rakshasa Kingdom's position.
The losses suffered by Rakshasa soldiers this time were even greater than those caused by the heavy artillery bombardment some time ago.
Because at the beginning, although the heavy artillery bombarded them continuously, the Rakshasa soldiers were well hidden by then.
Therefore, the shelling at that time seemed overwhelming, but it did not have a great impact on the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
But this time it was different. The soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom were all on the front line. The position owner wanted to block the 4th Division's attack, but they were hit by artillery fire. Now they didn't even have a place to hide, and they were killed in large tracts immediately.
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Du Jie, who was preparing to attack, saw this situation and knew that the opportunity was not to be missed. He immediately ordered his soldiers to accelerate the charge, hoping to quickly attack the enemy's position while the enemy suffered heavy losses and had no time to replenish their troops.
This time the attack was considered a success. As the soldiers of the fourth force approached quickly, although the opponent's guns began to fire continuously, they had already lost many people in the front line position, so the density of shooting was much smaller than before.
In this way, the soldiers of the 4th Division quickly approached the enemy's last position.
Once here, there was no need to hide the soldiers of the 4th Division. They stood up bravely one by one and launched a final charge towards the enemy's position. They wanted to get close to the opponent in the shortest time for hand-to-hand combat to avoid the enemy's machine gun fire.
Continuous shooting.
The Rakshasa army was caught off guard by a mortar fired by the 4th Division, so it was too late to organize troops to replenish the first line.
Therefore, the soldiers of the Fourth Division easily rushed into the trenches.
Faced with this situation, General Dmitry, who was behind the formation, had his eyes wide open. He said to the guard battalion commander next to him: "Go and order the 5th Division to go up to me. Tell them to pay."
No matter how much it costs, you must ensure the safety of my position."
After General Dmitry finished speaking, he said through gritted teeth: "You and your people will act as a supervisory team for me. Anyone who is suspected of retreating can be shot on the spot."
After listening to the general's words, the guard battalion commander gave him a military salute, and then headed towards the front of the position with his weapons.
As the 4th Division's attack went smoothly, they were about to seize the enemy's forward positions. At this time, a reinforcement force of tens of thousands of people was quickly inserted in the rear.
Facing the enemy's reinforcements, Du Jie clapped his hands angrily. If the enemy's reinforcements had been delayed a few minutes, he would have eliminated the forward positions and allowed the reinforcements in the rear to launch an attack smoothly.
These reinforcements were from the 5th Division of the Rakshasa Kingdom. After they came up, they joined the melee fight with rifles without saying anything.
However, since the 4th Division was equipped with semi-automatic rifles, they did not have to reload the bullet after each shot like the Rakshasa Kingdom, so they had an advantage in close combat.
When you encounter an enemy, fire one shot first, and then, if you spot the target, move forward and fight with the enemy a few times. If you seize the opportunity, fire another shot.
In this way, although the 4th Division was at a numerical disadvantage, they quickly defeated the current Russian soldiers.
In the end, these people could only flee backwards in a swarm.
But the Rakshasa soldiers only fled back a hundred or two hundred meters. Continuous machine gunfire rang out in front of them, knocking down the fastest group of people to the ground immediately.
When these Rakshasa soldiers were on the ground, they only saw him. There was an officer in front of them, holding an iron trumpet, shouting: "All soldiers immediately turned around and charged the enemy. If they retreat again, they will be treated as deserters."
, shot on the spot.”
Seeing this situation, the Rakshasa people thought for a moment, gritted their teeth, turned around and charged towards the 4th Division.
After all, they also knew that if they retreated and were killed, they would be deserters, and their families would also be implicated. It would be better to turn around and fight to the death with the Fourth Division, which would be a war, and more or less, their family members could still get some pensions.
In this way, these defeated Rakshasa soldiers once again plucked up the courage to launch a desperate attack on the 4th Division.
This time their attack was not like before.
Nowadays, the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom have no regard for life and death. They hold their guns and ignore the bullets fired from the opposite side.
Everyone blushed, one fell down, and another took over, and soon they were close to the 4th Division again. This time they really tried their best.
One person was knocked down by a rifle, and the other person, well, the other one took over without any hesitation.
In this way, the 4th Division was suddenly suppressed by the enemy's desperate fighting courage.
It can be said that the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom exerted their fighting power and willpower to the extreme this time. Even if their legs and arms were broken, no one retreated or bit them with their teeth, or hugged them with cautious arms.
Hold the enemy's legs to create opportunities for other comrades.
Although the soldiers of the 4th Division have undergone a year of training and are well-equipped, they are still human beings and begin to feel timid when facing the enemy.
Soon, the soldiers of the Fourth Division lost their courage and were driven out of their positions by the desperate fighting style of the Rakshasa Kingdom. In the end, they could only escape back in embarrassment.
Du Jie looked at his soldiers from behind and felt so helpless that he dropped his telescope on the ground.
The Chief of Staff He Xingquan beside him showed a wry smile. It seems that the next battle will not be easy. Although they seemed to have the advantage just now, it also inspired the courage of the Tsarist Russian soldiers. Next, uh, they will
Facing a more brutal battle.
However, Lu Chun, who was in the headquarters at this time, got angry and cursed after receiving the news that the 4th Division had already occupied the position but was still driven back by the enemy.
"The people in the Second Army are all cowards. Even if they have an advantage, they will be driven back by the enemy. This is the first time in the history of our Hunan Army that this has happened."
Chief of Staff Feng Lei, who was standing aside, handed a cup of tea to Lu Chun's hand.
"Have a cup of tea and calm down the fire. Why are you so angry? You don't understand the situation on the front line. If you lose your temper here and wrongfully accuse the Fourth Division, won't you offend the friendly forces?"
After Lu Chun heard this, he could only temporarily suppress his anger and start issuing orders in the headquarters, asking the 5th Division to take over from the 4th Division and start a fierce attack.
In this way, the Hunan Army launched seven consecutive attacks within one day.
However, these seven attacks were all stubbornly blocked by the Rakshasa soldiers.
Although every attack caused a large number of casualties to the Rakshasa soldiers, it did not destroy the morale of the Rakshasa people.
At dusk, Lu Chun finally ordered the battle to end temporarily, and then the next step was to count the casualties of the day.
During this day's attack, a total of 7 division-level troops launched the attack. In the end, they lost nearly 15,000 people.
Facing this casualty figure, Lu Chun only felt heavy. If he continued fighting like this, he would eventually wipe out the Rakshasa soldiers on the opposite side, and he would also lose more than half of his hundreds of thousands of horses.
If we can't fight like this anymore, we must change our tactics.
Lu Chun thought for a while and immediately ordered someone to send a request for help to Liu Hai in the capital, requesting that the air force be dispatched for an air strike on the second day of the battle.
Liu Hai received Lu Chun's telegram after dinner.
At this time, Liu Hai had just returned from the military aircraft and had dinner. He originally wanted to take a rest, but as soon as the military intelligence telegram came, his idea of taking a rest was immediately abandoned.
Liu Hai summoned his chief aide Zhao Jiahua to his temporary residence, Prince Qing's Mansion.
This is not because Zhao Jiahua was asked to make suggestions, but because Zhao Jiahua was mainly responsible for the construction of the airport in the suburbs of Beijing.
Zhao Jiahua arrived at the study room of Prince Qing's Mansion. Before he could salute, Liu Hai asked in advance: "I heard two days ago that the airport in the suburbs of Beijing has been almost built. Can planes take off and land now?"
Zhao Jiahua didn't know what Liu Hai meant, but he still said cautiously: "The airport has just been hardened. It should be said that it can take off and land aircraft, but a lot of equipment has not been installed yet."
"I don't care about so much anymore, as long as the plane can take off and land."
Zhao Jiahua hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "Commander, has something happened on the front line? Otherwise, why are you so anxious to open the newly built airport?"
Liu Hai sighed, handed the telegram in his hand to Zhao Jiahua, and then said: "I originally thought that we had an absolute advantage in firepower, and the results were not bad compared with the first-rate troops of the Western powers. This is a real fight.
We know that we are not far apart from them."
After reading the telegram, Zhao Jiahua thought for a while and finally said with a smile: "Commander, don't worry. The battle report said that we lost more than 10,000 people. I think the Russian side's losses were at least double ours."
Zhao Jiahua said confidently: "I don't believe that the Russians are all invincible. Facing our concentrated and absolutely superior firepower, if they want to inflict such heavy damage on us, they must use human lives to do it."
Liu Hai's eyes lit up when he heard this. He walked a few steps in the study, then patted the table and said, "That's exactly the truth."
Faced with the absolute firepower superiority of our side, if the other side wants to fight like this and inflict such heavy casualties on itself, they must use several times the number of people to fill the gap.
"You are right, I was too anxious just now."
Liu Hai sighed after saying this, "But I don't want to see such heavy casualties. Should we order the air force to transfer from Xuzhou to the capital? We will try our best to provide air support to the front line during the day tomorrow."