Chapter 32: Republic of China: Starting from the First Class of Whampoa Chapter 32 Central Breakthrough

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

"Hurry! Hurry and bring the heavy machine gun up!"

It turned out that Wu Instructor saw the Merchant Corps Army's machine gun firepower was fierce, and was anxious.

He ordered the soldiers to dismantle the two Maxim heavy machine guns from the armored train and send them to the cargo yard to support the Whampoa Student Army.

The armored vehicle fleet captain was very dissatisfied: "Wu Instructor, you'd better not act recklessly. I've already said, the armored train has no firing angle; you're damaging revolutionary weapons!"

Wu Instructor directly retorted: "You're endangering the lives of revolutionary soldiers. These Whampoa students were cultivated with great effort by the Principal and the Grand Marshal. Watching them exposed to enemy heavy machine gun fire, the armored vehicle fleet can't find an excuse and just stand with hands on hips watching the show! Unload them quickly!"

Chief Instructor He Yingqin heard the commotion here, weighed it, and ordered the armored vehicle fleet to immediately dismantle the two Maxim heavy machine guns from the armored train and transport them along with the bullets to the frontline.

"The heavy machine guns are here!"

Behind the cargo yard, a shout came.

Lv Muzhi was holding his rifle and firing forward; hearing the commotion behind him, he turned back and saw Wu Instructor personally leading over ten Worker-Peasant Corps Army soldiers carrying the parts of two heavy machine guns and several boxes of ammunition over.

Liu Zhi was overjoyed; finally there was some decent firepower. "Move one over here!".

On the cargo yard, the First and Sixth District Squads each received one Maxim.

But embarrassingly, since this Maxim had been modified specifically for use on the rotating turret of the armored train, its mount couldn't be removed; only a thick, long gun body was sent to the frontline.

"Three students! Operate this Maxim and give the enemy's machine gun a fierce counterattack!" Liu Zhi shouted.

The Worker-Peasant Corps Army soldiers carrying the machine gun immediately came to the Sixth District Squad's side, just placing the machine gun beside Lv Muzhi.

Liu Zhi saw it: "Good! Two more people, assist Lv Muzhi in operating the heavy machine gun to suppress the enemy's heavy machine gun firepower point!"

"I'll do it!" Huang Wei shouted: "Brother Muzi, I'll assist you!"

"And me!" Li Zhilong also came over.

No choice; Lv Muzhi could only grit his teeth and go up.

"Be careful, the heavy machine gun is the easiest target to be concentrated on the battlefield; one carelessness could cost you your lives!" Liu Zhi instructed.

Lv Muzhi was speechless; this Liu Zhi kept dragging himself into the fire pit.

Lv Muzhi found a rice sack filled with rice stalks on the cargo yard, placed it on the log cargo pile serving as cover, then put the Maxim heavy machine gun body on the sack, using the sack as a temporary mount for the Maxim.

Huang Wei volunteered to be the assistant shooter, helping Lv Muzhi feed the ammunition belt; Li Zhilong served as the ammunition man.

"On the building at the two o'clock direction! Enemy machine gun firepower point!" Liu Zhi ran behind Lv Muzhi and began directing.

Lv Muzhi pulled the Maxim heavy machine gun's bolt, lightly pressed the trigger with both hands, and fired at the obvious machine gun muzzle flash one kilometer away.

Rat-tat-tat~

He fired a short burst, not knowing if he hit anything.

"Trajectory is low by about two meters! Hit the first-floor wall; the enemy's heavy machine gun is on the second floor, aim higher!" Liu Zhi held binoculars, correcting Lv Muzhi's trajectory.

Lv Muzhi kept firing short bursts upward, while Liu Zhi kept correcting Lv Muzhi's trajectory.

On the second-floor small building at the outer perimeter of Xiguan in the distance, a Merchant Corps Army heavy machine gun firepower point was actually temporarily silenced by Lv Muzhi's fire.

The Merchant Corps machine gunner lay on the floor, cursing loudly: "Damn you, at a distance of one kilometer, how does the heavy machine gun opposite seem to have eyes, specifically greeting me!"

The ammunition man lay on the ground shouting: "What do we do now, the assistant shooter is already taken out!"

"It's not that your Merchant Corps Army bunch of amateurs are too unprofessional! You can't even find a binoculars; I don't even know where the bullets I fired went!" The machine gunner cursed while lying on the ground, dragging and pulling the heavy machine gun away.

"Change position, keep shooting this bunch of weaklings!"

At Huangsha Station cargo yard, Liu Zhi saw the heavy machine gun opposite go silent and was overjoyed: "Well done, the opposite is silenced! There's also an enemy machine gun firepower point at the eleven o'clock direction!"

"Out of ammunition!" Lv Muzhi shouted.

Li Zhilong quickly handed over a long cloth ammunition belt to Huang Wei, and Huang Wei loaded the belt into the heavy machine gun.

Lv Muzhi was about to fire when he saw the heavy machine gun firepower point at the eleven o'clock direction opposite had already gone silent.

It turned out to be Jiang Xiangyun of the First District Squad, also operating a heavy machine gun, relying on Wu Instructor's correction, silencing the opposite heavy machine gun.

Clap clap~

On both sides of the Merchant Corps Army position, scattered gunfire sounded at this moment—it was the Whampoa Student Army and the Merchant Corps exchanging fire after outflanking from both sides!

Chief Instructor He Yingqin saw the Merchant Corps Army's machine gun firepower had weakened at this time, came to the frontline, and immediately ordered: "Launch a full-line attack on the Merchant Corps Army's position!"

The Whampoa Student Army, Workers' Corps Army, and Peasants' Corps Army all held their rifles, taking advantage of the harassment on both wings of the Merchant Corps Army, and launched a charge forward.

"Lv Muzhi! There's no high ground at the station here; your heavy machine gun left behind might easily injure friendlies. Machine gun team, take the heavy machine gun forward, find a suitable firing angle!"

Wu Instructor held a bolt-action pistol, reminded, then led the Workers' Corps Army and Peasants' Corps Army to launch the attack first.

In front of Lv Muzhi's heavy machine gun muzzle were now dense figures of comrades; he could only, together with Huang Wei and Li Zhilong, carry all the heavy machine gun parts on their bodies, following the main force to charge toward the Merchant Corps Army's frontline position on the north side.

Between Huangsha Station and the Merchant Corps Army's frontline position lay about one kilometer of paddy fields and sparse villages.

The Merchant Corps Army's frontline position was at the city's edge, with no trenches, but set up on the east-west Huangsha Avenue, relying on sandbags and civilian houses on both sides of the avenue as temporary positions.

On the east-west Huangsha Avenue, civilian houses on the south side were all demolished to avoid blocking the Merchant Corps Army's line of sight, facilitating fire on the Whampoa Student Army coming from Huangsha Station; while civilian houses on the north side were retained, with many small buildings serving as the Merchant Corps Army's high ground firepower points, coordinating high and low firepower with the street.

On the nearly eight-hundred-meter Huangsha Avenue, over two thousand Merchant Corps soldiers were distributed; besides three heavy machine guns, the rest were all rifles.

The Merchant Corps Army's defensive line was like a flattened pancake, spread evenly on the avenue, with two thousand people evenly distributed on the street and in buildings.

Chief Instructor He Yingqin decided to adopt the tactic of flanking with both wings and breaking through the center.

Let the over two hundred student soldiers of the left and right student squads pin down both wings of the Merchant Corps' defensive line, the main force attack the center of the Merchant Corps Army, tear open the defensive line, and finally destroy the Merchant Corps Army's entire defensive line.