In less than a week, the good news came from the front that the main force of the school army had conquered Puning and Jieyang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Taking this opportunity, Zheng Yi used the reserve fund of the military station to buy back five big fat pigs and 200 catties of fish for the 500 officers and soldiers who stayed in Tamsui.

But a few days later, the bad news came, Chen Jiongming's general Lin Hu suddenly left Heyuan, where the main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Army confronted the north road, and personally led 20,000 elites to the south day and night, storming Puning and Jieyang at the same time, cutting off the rear road of the Huangpu Army in one fell swoop, and there was no news of the friendly army.

The 500 officers and soldiers who stayed in Tamsui were so nervous that they immediately closed the city gate and imposed martial law, and the officers and soldiers of the two city defense companies boarded the city and were on guard day and night, and a company of the guard station was pulled out to patrol the whole city, and several instructors who led the team gathered in the office of the military station every day to deduce the battle situation with Zheng Yi, but there was never a reassuring result.

On March 15, two fast horses galloped in.

Seeing the familiar faces on horseback, the instructor company commander who guarded the east gate immediately shouted "Open the city gate" and led the two heralds sent by the command headquarters to a military station not far from the city gate to rest.

The officers and soldiers left behind rejoiced when they heard the good news, and the martial law was lifted in Tamsui City, which had been closed for several days.

Zheng Yi didn't have time to join the cheers, so after a little consideration, he gathered the officers and soldiers of the station, conveyed the orders issued by the headquarters, and led everyone to clean the barracks, prepare all kinds of straps and gauze, and prepare for the placement of the large number of wounded who were about to be sent and the field hospital that came down from the front line.

Wang Boling, the former commander of the Second Regiment, was promoted to chief of staff of the Huangpu Army, and Shen Yingshi, who succeeded Wang Boling as the commander of the Second Regiment, turned the tide in the First Battle of Mianhu and made outstanding military achievements; Liu Yaochen, an instructor from Fujian, replaced Lin Dingqi as the commander of the Second Battalion of the Second Regiment; Chen Cheng, an artillery instructor of the Second Cadet Corps, was officially promoted to the captain of the artillery directly under him; there were many changes in the officers at the company level in each regiment; the newly formed Third and Fourth Regiments were baptized by blood and fire, and the surviving officers and soldiers were reduced to one main regiment. A large number of low-ranking officers who had made meritorious contributions to the war were promoted, so that the Whampoa Army, whose number had been sharply reduced, continued to maintain its tenacious combat effectiveness.

On the third day after the good news of the victory at Mianhu reached Tamsui City, a shocking news suddenly came: Mr. Zhongshan passed away in Beijing on March 12!

Freshwater City was instantly plunged into great grief.

Tens of thousands of people inside and outside Tamsui were extremely shocked when they heard the bad news, and rushed to the mourning hall in the city to offer condolences, and thousands of people shed tears in the face of the Huangpu officers and soldiers with red and swollen eyes on both sides of the mourning hall but standing majestically.

Zheng Yi is neither a party member, nor has he joined the Young Military Federation, and he does not show up again after attending the condolence ceremony on the first day, and none of his forty-six brothers has ever seen Mr. Zhongshan, nor has he received education in the Three People's Principles, so this special group of soldiers is far less sad than the Whampoa instructors and students, except for the first day of the memorial service, Zheng Yi was sent to the mourning hall in batches to bow three times, and insisted on systematic military training on other days, and continued to learn culture in the evening with the help of Duan Xuan and other three brothers who could write and calculate.

Several instructors and party representatives of the field hospital who led the team to stay behind did not see Zheng Yi appear on the mourning hall for several days, and they were all a little dissatisfied, and finally went to the military station at noon on the fourth day to ask for the crime.

After a group of people who came to ask for the crime followed the orderlies into Zheng Yi's office, they were immediately shocked by the large map on the wall, and several instructors with a solid military foundation approached and took a look, and soon turned pale and looked at each other.

Li Weiren, the instructor of the first company left behind, pointed to two big black arrows and asked loudly: "Xiao Zheng, do you think that the two armies of Yunnan and Guizhou attacking Heyuan and Huizhou will soon withdraw from the battlefield and return to their Guangzhou nest to rebel and make rebellion?" ”

When everyone heard Li Weiren's words, they were all shocked, and they could no longer care about the purpose of this, and they were afraid that the enemy army in Huizhou in the north would be unrestrained, and suddenly marched south to attack Tamsui City, where they were located.

Zheng Yi looked at the map and was silent for a long time: "This is just my speculation, but it is very likely, and the biggest reason is that needless to say, you all know that the unfortunate death of Mr. Zhongshan is not only a huge loss for the Chinese revolution, but also the greatest opportunity for the warlords of Yunnan and Guizhou who have ill intentions and different dreams in bed." ”

"You should know that Liu Zhenhuan's Guijun and Yang Ximin's Dian army were both invited by Mr. Zhongshan back then, and after these two speculative revolutionary warlord armies drove Chen Jiongming out of Guangzhou, they immediately grabbed the territory, expropriated and extorted violently, and entrenched themselves in the city of Guangzhou and Sanshui, Foshan, Zhaoqing and other places rich in water sources.

"When Mr. Zhongshan was alive, they naturally didn't dare to act rashly, but now that Mr. Zhongshan is gone, who will they listen to? I believe that everyone knows very well how these two warlords have treated our Whampoa soldiers over the past year, and you should also know what their nature is, which is why I have made a speculation, and I think that this speculation will soon become a reality. ”

"Then why don't you report to the headmaster?" Ren Wenhai, the party representative of the field hospital, asked loudly.

Zheng Yi was not angry: "I have asked the brothers of the regiment who returned to the front line to bring the forecast report, and asked the superiors to give instructions on the next step of the Tamsui temporary military station. ”

"As you all know, our Huangpu Army has occupied strategic places such as Wuhua and Meixian, seized a large number of weapons, ammunition and food materials, and no longer needs to transport all kinds of materials from fresh water hundreds of miles away, and my military warehouse has all kinds of supplies except for food that can be eaten by the remaining units for 20 days."

After listening to Zheng Yi's words, everyone completely lost their temper, but felt that Zheng Yi was not easy, for more than a month, nearly 1,000 people ate and drank all the food and drink provided by Zheng Yi's military station, and the medicines used by more than 400 wounded people were also bought by Zheng Yi from running around the city little by little, there was never a shortage of food, oil and salt, and he could eat meat once every two days, if he blamed Zheng Yi again, it would be too unconscionable.

Sending away a few colleagues who were worried, Zheng Yi immediately ordered Xiao Duan to put away the map on the wall, and continued to lead his brothers to train and study like no one else, and the next day he also went to the east gate in batches to hold a live-fire test, each brother fired hundreds of bullets under Zheng Yi's hand-in-hand teaching, and after coming back, half of the people who were behind in the grades were the same as before, hanging their heads to wash and cook for the winners, and they had to endure schadenfreude and ridicule.

On 10 May, the two armies of Yunnan and Guizhou, which were in charge of the offensive on the middle and north routes of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, suddenly retreated back to Guangzhou, and the weak Tamsui City was immediately exposed to the front of the 8,000 defenders of Huizhou.

"From now on, the Tamsui temporary military station will be abolished, and all personnel of the military station will escort the personnel of the field hospital and the wounded to evacuate immediately, and return to the military academy by boat through Zhangmutou Town."

Zheng Yi knew that his crusade had come to an end, but he had no nostalgia in his heart, and he silently led his 46 brothers to escort the wounded on their way home with the third batch of cadets of a company, and successfully arrived at the Whampoa Military Academy on the evening of 20 May after a three-and-a-half-month absence.

On 21 May, the Huangpu Army, which had been expanded into brigades, telegraphed the whole country, returned to Guangzhou, quelled the rebellion of the warlords of Yunnan and Guizhou, broke through the enemy's layers of resistance and harassment along the way, and conquered the rebellious and heavily guarded Shilong of the Yunnan Army on 8 June, and the next day took advantage of the victory to occupy the Shitan Road, which was the only way, and within three days, the troops divided into two routes to conquer the Slender Dog Ridge and Longyan Cave guarded by the two main divisions of the Yunnan Army, and attacked the city of Guangzhou with the two brigades of the Guard Army and the Guangdong Army led by Wu Tiecheng.

Under the combined attack of the Whampoa Army, the Guard Army and the Cantonese Army, the two armies of Yunnan and Guizhou, which suffered heavy losses, never had the strength to return to heaven, and the officers fled to Hong Kong with their money and wealth, and as many as 6,000 remnants of Yunnan and Guizhou were captured one after another.

The Whampoa Army, which had experienced the test of war, not only won dignity, but also established a great reputation for being brave and good at fighting.

Zheng Yi, who returned to the military academy ahead of schedule, led 46 brothers under his command to participate in the counterinsurgency in Guangzhou, and gained a lot:

The shrewd Zheng Yi returned to the Whampoa Military Academy and began to prepare for the counterinsurgency, he quietly went to the Shamian Concession twice, persuaded the manager of the Swire Pacific Company White to see the situation clearly, and finally obtained White's tacit approval, borrowed a transport ship from the Swire Shipyard, and carried more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the military academy to the urban battlefield quickly, cutting off the water passage from Tianzi Wharf to Xiguan Wharf in one fell swoop.

Zheng Yi, who served as the vanguard, and one of his platoon brothers relied on their firepower superiority to capture the Xiguan Wharf in one fell swoop, killing and wounding more than 60 remnants of the Gui army who fled in a hurry, capturing 327 people, and capturing two diesel transport ships and more than 260 guns used by the enemy to escape, including two regiment commanders and a brigade commander of the Gui army.

Zheng Yi did not report the seizure of more than 3,000 pieces of ocean and 200 gold bars, and after the seizure, he hid them in a borrowed transport ship, and three days later borrowed the opportunity to return the ship and quietly deposited it in HSBC as a disability pension fund jointly owned by his brothers.

The two transport ships seized by Zheng Yi were 150-ton old-fashioned inland river diesel ships, which were handed over to the Taikoo Shipyard for overhaul and modification after being approved by the Military Academy, and the replacement of two sets of old-fashioned diesel engine systems with high fuel consumption and low power alone allowed the Taikoo Shipyard to earn at least 10,000 oceans in profits.

What made Zheng Yi happiest was that the 46 brothers under his command received valuable practical training, and all of them killed people and saw blood, but none of them were injured.

The short and fierce resistance battle not only tested the effectiveness of Zheng Yi's training, but also completed the transformation of the forty-six brothers from recruits to veterans, and everyone's temperament changed to a greater or lesser extent, which was Zheng Yi's greatest gain.

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