Chapter 178: Elegy for the Huai Army (7)
Lei Hu read the battle report of the Anhui Military Region, and when he saw that the Huai Army had come to the rescue of Suzhou in two ways, he couldn't help but sneer.
"Why is the commissar laughing?" The atmosphere in the headquarters was relaxed, and the chief of staff imitated the tone in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
"In military academies, it is said that whether an army is strong or not depends on whether it has the ability to fight field battles. Although the Huai army's field level was not good, they still came out to fight in the field. I don't think they're doing it for themselves, but it's good to be able to make that choice. Lei Hu's words were not blindly belittled.
The truth is always convincing enough, but Lei Hu's big truth has a kind of conclusive meaning for Huai Jun's coffin, but it sounds a little sad. This is the case with the military education of the Guangfu Army, who will not only tell everyone about the rise of the armies of various dynasties and generations, but also about the decline of the armies of various dynasties and generations. The Manchu Qing Dynasty also had a war against Zhunger, and the combat effectiveness of the Qing army more than 100 years ago may not be really weaker than the current Huai army.
Before he was about to win a complete victory over the Huai army, Lei Hu couldn't help but sigh a little.
The victory has basically not run, Lei Hu's merits have been determined, but the merits of the specific executive personnel are still in the tentative stage, and the chief of staff has no time and mood to talk about this, he asked: "Jiang Zhongyuan, are we going to die or live?" ”
Lei Hu thought for a moment before asking, "If we send the bodies of the half-dead Liu Kunyi and Jiang Zhongyuan's younger brother into the city, do you think that guy will choose to commit suicide in despair?" ”
Jiang Zhongyuan's younger brother Jiang Zhongjun was pursued and killed by the cavalry of the Liberation Army, and the 5,000 men and horses were annihilated. The cavalry of the Guangfu Army was chasing and killing, and the troops were killing the enemy when they saw it and cutting it when they encountered the enemy in the chaos. Jiang Zhongjun was stabbed in the back of the head, and the knife almost split his head in half. However, Liu Kunyi was lucky, he was cut out of a large hole by a piece of shrapnel in his stomach, but his internal organs were not injured, but he just lost too much blood and passed out. It was discovered while cleaning the battlefield, and after emergency treatment, it was temporarily out of danger for life.
It is really difficult for the chief of staff to make a judgment, and if Jiang Zhongyuan was a coward, he would have surrendered long ago. Now that he sent his brother's body and the injured important generals into the city, Jiang Zhongyuan must know that there is no need to count on reinforcements, if this guy is really a backbone person, there is probably only one way to die.
Lei Hu said: "The Huai army is considered elite in Vortex, and it is estimated that they can fight field battles. As long as Jiang Zhongyuan died, the Huai army would disperse. The Governor had sent me a telegram earlier, and he suggested that if Jiang Zhongyuan was at the end of his mountain, he would copy a poem to him as a tactic to attack the heart. ”
"Zhuge Liang scolded Wang Lang?" The chief of staff asked suspiciously.
It didn't take long for the Guangfu Army to carry the two stretchers to the foot of Suzhou City. The Huai army did not dare to open the city, they hung ropes from the city, and finally got the human body on the stretcher into the city. Jiang Zhongyuan first asked the doctor to take care of the seriously injured Liu Kunyi, and when he turned his head to see the body of his younger brother Jiang Zhongjun, he couldn't help crying loudly.
The death of his younger brother hit Jiang Zhongyuan too hard, and Jiang Zhongjun, who was stationed in Wuyang, had even more troops in his hands than Jiang Zhongyuan in Suzhou, and Jiang Zhongjun's death meant that Wuyang was also finished. The foundation of the Huai army in Huaibei has been uprooted.
"Dashuai!" Liu Kun groaned and said.
Jiang Zhongyuan suppressed his grief and rushed to his deputy's side, without forcing him to ask what was going on, Jiang Zhongyuan said, "You are so rested!" ”
Liu Kunyi held Jiang Zhongyuan's hand tightly and said with all his might: "Handsome! Please also ask the marshal to hurry up and find a way to rush out, we came to save Suzhou when we were ambushed by the Guangfu Army, and Vortex Yang has not yet been lost. As long as the handsome man can rush to the vortex, there is still something to do. Dashuai, you hurry up! ”
Seeing that Liu Kunyi was still most concerned about Jiang Zhongyuan's safety when he was so dying, Jiang Zhongyuan's tears welled up again. He comforted: "Don't worry, Vortex Yang can hold it, and Suzhou can also hold it." ”
Liu Kunyi was obviously not in the mood to sing and harmonize with Jiang Zhongyuan like this, he said with difficulty: "Dashuai, it's different." It's completely different from before. ”
This is Liu Kunyi's sincere words, yesterday afternoon the Liberation Army completed the encirclement, and the battle began immediately. Ten minutes later, Liu Kun lay on the ground dying, his left hand pressed against his abdomen, and he looked desperately at the sky covered by gunsmoke. He is also a brave man who has experienced a hundred battles, but this familiar battlefield has given him a completely different feeling, this is no longer a place for hot-blooded men to gallop, but a living hell!
When they saw that the Guangfu Army seemed to be preparing to approach, the Huai Army took the lead in firing artillery. Even if it misses, at least it is showing an attitude that the Huai army is ready to fight. Not long after, outside the range of the Huai army's artillery, the artillery of the Guangfu Army began to tilt its shells violently towards the Huai army's position.
Then Liu Kunyi was cut in the abdomen by a shot of shrapnel, and then Liu Kunyi lay on the ground and watched the Huai army be blown up by the fierce artillery fire. Flying shrapnel, dirt, Huai soldiers who were swept into the air by the air waves, and human parts flying in the air from time to time.
The battlefield that was even a little poetic in the era of cold weapons is gone, and the battlefield where the Huai army barely mastered the queue to shoot is gone. The cannon decided that there would be no more human mercy on the battlefield of Yiqiē, and only these steel monsters were left to destroy the humans who had thrown themselves into the battlefield with ferocious firepower. Liu Kunyi is not a person who trembles with fear at the thought of death, he has wielded his weapon too many times to lead the troops to kill, if he fights face-to-face with the Liberation Army, Liu Kunyi will not have the slightest fear. But the war no longer gives Liu Kunyi such a chance, and if he wants to fight with the Liberation Army in close quarters, he must first be able to break through the heavy bombardment of artillery and reach the side of the Liberation Army.
As the bleeding stopped, Liu Kun felt that his vision was getting darker and darker, and the explosions and screams that were close at hand became distant. His consciousness became thinner and thinner, and his whole person was in a state of near-coma, and he began to feel the pain of the wound. I don't know how long he has been in this state, Liu Kunyi felt that someone was dragging him, and vaguely heard someone shouting: "There is still a living one here!" ”
Liu Kunyi didn't bother to say anything at this time, and he didn't make the strength he expressed. He thought to himself, just let me die like this. After this thought, Liu Kunyi didn't know anything.
When he woke up again, Liu Kunyi found that he was fixed on a stretcher and appeared outside Suzhou City. fled from Suzhou to Wuyang, and then returned to Suzhou from Wuyang, but this back and forth has undergone earth-shattering changes for Liu Kunyi. When he was sent to the city of Suzhou, Liu Kun felt even more deep despair. If the Guangfu Army attaches importance to him, it will naturally put Liu Kun in prison or beheaded. As a famous general of the Huai Army, Liu Kunyi was returned to the Huai Army like rags, and the attitude of the Guangfu Army towards the Huai Army can also be seen.
Liu Kunyi didn't know what demon methods the Guangfu Army used, at least when he was on the side of the Guangfu Army, his wound was not very painful. After entering Suzhou City, the wound became more and more painful. Enduring the severe pain, Liu Kunyi tried to persuade Jiang Zhongyuan, "Dashuai, you bear the burden of our Huaijun brothers, if you are lost in Suzhou, what should we do with the dead Huaijun brothers?" If you die before us, will not our toil with you be in vain? ”
The body was in severe pain, the soul was desperate, Liu Kunyi's words sounded a kind of shocking tragedy, Jiang Zhongyuan's eyes turned red after hearing it, and tears welled up. The Huai army can be regarded as a relatively advanced army, and at this point, Jiang Zhongyuan has seen the situation clearly. Since the Liberation Army began to act, the Manchus had no power to fight back.
When the Guangfu Army only took the south of the Huai River, if the Manchu Qing could pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Shaanxi with the strength of the whole country, they would probably still have the strength to fight a war. But the Qiren group in Beijing still did nothing, and only relied on the support of the Huai Army, the Hunan Army, and the Mongolian Eight Banners of Monk Greenqin.
The Guangfu Army calmly rectified the territory they had occupied, spent three years pacifying the place, and completed the land reform, but what was the difference between the situation of the Manchu court and three years ago? Perhaps the only difference is that the four northern provinces have been beaten to greater devastation in the tug-of-war with the Twist Army.
At this time, the time left for the Manchus had run out, and the Liberation Army finally made a move. The Manchu court could only move towards its demise step by step. Jiang Zhongyuan alone can be loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because he believes that people should end from the beginning, but the Huai army loyal to Jiang Zhongyuan is not a heroic death, but the victory of the war, and a better life after the victory of the war. In the current situation, such an idea is undoubtedly a dream. From this point of view, Jiang Zhongyuan is undoubtedly sorry for the brothers who followed him up and down the Huai army. After following Jiang Zhongyuan, not only did they fail to win, but they would also suffer more in the future because they were once a member of the Huai army.
Realizing that he was the culprit who pushed the Huaijun brothers into the fire pit, Jiang Zhongyuan felt that everything was burned, and he only hoped that he could die early. If Jiang Zhongyuan had died early more than ten years ago, it would have been a hundred, and now he is watching the irreversible ruin approaching step by step, even if he is dead now, how can he explain to his brothers when he goes underground?
At this time, the cavalry of the Liberation Army approached the city with only bows and arrows. The Huai army had not seen anyone use bows and arrows for a long time, and they did not have the courage to attack the cavalry of the Liberation Army. The memories of the previous night were far from the light of day, when the night turned into the majesty of the day, and the stormy shelling. Huai Jun's nerves could no longer accept such a terrible attack.
The cavalry of the Restoration Army shot an arrow tied with a letter to the head of the city, and then turned around and returned to the army of the Liberation Army. The soldier picked up the arrow and handed the paper to the officer. The officer hurriedly handed the paper to Jiang Zhongyuan.
Jiang Zhongyuan opened it and saw that the handwriting on the letter was extremely delicate, with no authority and no threat. just copied Wen Tianxiang's "Song of Righteousness".