Chapter 9 Counterattack

  "They think the guns in our hands are for burning firewood?" Liu Yuan pressed down on the squad leader who was about to rush out, "Sergeant, don't be impulsive, there's still over a hundred meters left."

  Liu Yuan had just finished speaking, and before the opposing artillery fire ended, the counterattack by the artillery of the three divisions began. One round of artillery fire basically destroyed the opposing artillery positions.

  Xie Wenbing looked at the artillery regiment commander kneeling in front of him, crying and sniffling, and slapped him several times. "What kind of artillery regiment commander are you? Why didn't you relocate the artillery position? With just one round of cannon fire from the enemy, our artillery position was destroyed. Do you think I'm an idiot? Is it that your subordinates are afraid of death and don't dare to fight back?" Xie Wenbing said with a ferocious expression to his own artillery regiment commander.

  "Commander, what can we do? The rain is too heavy, the ground is muddy and slippery, the cannons can't move at all. Moreover, the southern barbarians' artillery is too accurate, our losses are secondary, but they've ruined our cannons and ammunition. Commander, the enemy is a strong brigade, we can't defeat them, let's wait for General's support to arrive before we take action."

  "Farting, disturbing the morale of our army." Xie Wenbing finished speaking and pulled out his pistol. With a loud bang, he shot and killed his own artillery commander. We don't even have cannons anymore, what else do you want to do?

  Xie Wenbing walked out of the command post, stood on a high platform, holding a loudspeaker, and shouted loudly, "Brothers, when we fought Zhang Zuolin back then, we didn't have many machine guns or cannons, but we still beat them to the point where they were fleeing in disarray. Now that we have cannons, we can blast the enemy to smithereens, so we don't need to be afraid of them anymore! Brothers, charge for me! If you kill a soldier, I'll give you three big dollars; if you kill a squad leader, five big dollars; and if you kill a platoon leader, I'll promote him!"

  "If the commander-in-chief were a student of Chiang Kai-shek, what benefits would he get?" After a night of fierce battle, Xie Wenying would have been finished if he hadn't figured out which unit was in front of him.

  "Other students don't count, whoever captures Liu Yuan that scum alive for me, I'll go beg the general to let him be our instructor and grant him a minor general title."

  Xie Wenbing's words really worked and the morale of the soldiers rose sharply.

  The soldiers lying on the ground finally started to move again after Liu Yuan's artillery fire ended, but because of the muddy terrain, the soldiers' speed was extremely slow. Liu Yuan also took out his sniper rifle in the trenches that were filled with mud everywhere.

  Sixfold optical sniper rifle, not bragging, one thousand went down, a row of soldiers already fell to the ground, Liu Yuan took out a small knife and carved a mark on the gun, counted, nearly a hundred.

  "Assisting the country, don't even mention that your marksmanship hasn't declined." Hu Zongnan's previous shot obviously didn't hit the vital point, and the soldier opposite was wailing in the mud.

  "Big brother, it's not me who said you, we soldiers, this gun is a lifesaver, don't know when it will come in handy, can't be ambiguous." Bang! Another captain fell.

  The momentum of the direct lineage immediately became weak, and the officers who were originally charging forward all honestly lay in the mud, motionless.

  Xie Wenbing immediately became angry, "Charge for me! Even if there are godly marksmen on the opposite side, it's impossible to kill all of you. Charge for me! The reward will be doubled. If we win, I'll allow you to enjoy three days in Anren, plundering at will."

  "This Xie Wenbing is really a piece of trash. If the range wasn't too far, I'd snipe him dead." Liu Yuan spat and said.

  As the saying goes, "great rewards must have brave men", Xie Wenbing has given all kinds of benefits to Xu Xiaoming, and he himself is also leading the guard team, constantly approaching forward. However, he didn't get too close, from a distance, he felt that Liu Yuan had sharpshooters around him, so several machine guns were aimed at Liu Yuan, making it impossible for him to lift his head.

  "Alright, unleash the firepower! Shoushan, inform the command center to launch an artillery strike at the frontline position 450 meters away, angle 23 degrees, specific location: Luanshiyaizi."

  "Alright, I'm going." After a while, the cannons on Liu Yuan's position fired again. This time it was the machine gun position, rumbling and booming. In an instant, almost all the machine gunners were wiped out.

  For frontline command, Hu Zongnan also discovered for the first time that he had such a good fortune, but he was also worried about Liu Yuan's safety and quickly ran out of the shell hole where he and Liu Yuan had just been together, only to find that Liu Yuan had already disappeared.

  "Shòu Shān, let me show you what real skill looks like. I'll take the head of the commander from among the ten thousand soldiers. Don't get excited, don't shout. You don't want us to lose this battle, do you? Just wait here, at most for a moment, and I'll be back. Trust me." Hu Zongnan looked at the paper in the guard's hand and raised his foot to leave, "Can't you stop him?"

  "The instructor wanted to leave, and I couldn't stop him. He also said, 'Don't you dare punish me.'" The guard said with his head raised.

  "Come on, kid. Let's move to the next position. Our sniper is gone, and this sniping position is useless now. I'll show you how we Huangpu people command a battle on the battlefield."

  "Deputy Commander, how did you get here?" A regimental commander who was constantly teaching soldiers in the trenches stared at Hu Zongnan with a face full of camouflage paint, almost slapping himself to see if he was hallucinating.

  "Look at what you're commanding, just firing guns, not a single enemy has fallen, what a waste. Alright, now call the battalion commanders of the other positions and tell them that from now on, I'm temporarily taking over as the highest commander on the front line, everyone will listen to me."

  "But the order from headquarters says that the commander-in-chief on the front line is the division commander," said the regimental commander.

  "Fart! The instructor said I'm in charge now. This is the instructor's letter, you can read it yourself." He threw the letter into the hands of the camp leader.

  The regimental commander looked at him for a while, and exclaimed in surprise, "You're indeed the senior brother, so domineering! Why didn't you call me? Just like the old days at Huangpu..."

  "Shut up and execute the order quickly, don't talk nonsense." Hu Zongnan said with a glare.

  "Alright, I'm going now." With that, he vanished into thin air.

  "Deputy regimental commander, the enemy is coming again, let's open fire," said the party representative of this regiment impatiently.

  Hu Zongnan smiled and said, "One look at you and I can tell you're a quick draw, can't even satisfy your wife, and yet you're eager to surrender. Stop firing, listen to my orders."

  "Master, this is a personal attack." The party representative looked around awkwardly at the comrades who were laughing loudly, and found that at this moment, the suppressed atmosphere had decreased a lot. It's no wonder they're the elite of the first phase, they're really formidable.

  Everyone listen up, now everyone take out your grenades, listen to my command, pull the pins together, delay for three seconds, then throw them at me, let them see what a blooming flower is.

  When the distance between the two sides was about to reach fifty meters, Hu Zongnan said calmly. Compared to Hu Zongnan, the party representative next to him was much more nervous. Sixty meters, the enemy would rush over in a flash, but this division commander seemed completely unbothered, showing the demeanor of a division commander from years past.

  "Ready!"

  The sound of laughter can be heard everywhere.

  Hu Zongnan counted down on his watch, "One, two, three, drop." The hand grenades flew out, exploding in mid-air, just as Hu Zongnan had said, bursting into countless shrapnel that sent the enemy flying.

  Taking advantage of the smoke left by the grenade, Hu Zongnan raised his gun and shouted "Charge! Let's launch a counter-charge!" Then he led the charge forward.

  "Kill! For a time, the position of the three divisions was like boiling, with soldiers from the three divisions everywhere, and slogans of hot blood everywhere." The bright red military flag was like a dragon's head, charging in the front.

  Guo Linzheng said to Nie Rongzhen in the command post, "Old Nie, just let me go up, you see Shoushan has already rushed up, give me a chance, I'm just a regimental commander, not some important military officer, please spare me."

  "No way, you're a reserve, if something goes wrong later on, I'll be counting on you to take the blame." At this time, you can't rush forward.

  "Lao Nie, Nie Gege, you'd better behave. For this battle, what's the point of having a reserve team? Just charge forward directly. Otherwise, later on, those younger brothers will definitely say that Hu Zongnan is powerful and domineering, daring to charge and fight, while I, Guan Linzheng, hide in the back and mix up the battle achievements."

  Guan Linzheng has been asking for battle here, Nie Rongzhen certainly cannot agree.

  Nie Rongzhen was also puzzled, weren't the Nationalist Party officers mostly from aristocratic families and afraid of death? How come this wave of people came to ask for battle themselves, it's even more courageous than the Communist Party.

  Cao Yuan also said beside him, "Yu Dong, don't make things difficult for Old Nie. An order is an order, how can you change it casually?"

  "So why isn't Hu Zongnan, this deputy division commander, at the command center? He's running to the front line to play hero."

  "This was personally ordered by Commander Hu Zongnan, and we had no choice." Nie Rongzhen said with a sullen expression.

  "Right! Teacher, I can just contact teacher myself, can't I?" Guan Linzheng rushed to the phone as if he had discovered a new continent.

  "Don't fight anymore, you masters, holding sniper rifles, go and snipe Xie Wenbing."