The front-line headquarters of the Guangdong Army was a busy and tense scene at the moment, with officers and men coming in and out from time to time in a hurry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Although these officers and soldiers forced themselves to calm down after entering the headquarters, they still could not hide the anxiety and panic in their expressions.

A telegraph machine in the headquarters was working non-stop in "Didi", and the communication soldiers of several telegraph groups next to it copied telegrams from time to time. In order to receive information and convey orders in a timely and comprehensive manner, Long Jiguang deliberately transferred this baby pimple telegraph from Guangzhou to the front line, which shows the importance he attached to this battle.

"Can't stand it? Fart! From the beginning of the war to the present, the Sichuan army has only dispatched a small force to attack tentatively, what can't be resisted! Bullshit reinforcements, it's just a few rounds of shelling, panic! Damn Chen Laosan, Lao Tzu told you that if you lose your position, don't say that the division commander doesn't spare you, Lao Tzu will kill you first! ”

Xie Linhan, chief of staff of the First Division of the Guangdong Army, grabbed the phone and yelled with a hideous face, and the bulging green tendons on his forehead clearly expressed his angry mood at the moment.

It is no wonder that Xie Linhan was so angry, not long after the battle with the Sichuan army, the Sichuan army only launched a few rounds of artillery bombardment and small-scale attacks with test firepower, and as a result, those Cantonese officers on the front line panicked one by one and asked the headquarters for reinforcements.

Boom -

A deafening sound of shelling rang out again, shaking the ground as if it were shaking, and countless sand and dust were suddenly thrown down from the cracks in the wooden ceiling.

Fragments of sand and dust fell one after another, and in an instant, the officers and men in the command headquarters, including Long Qiguang, who was holding a telescope to observe the battle situation at the frontline position, were all gray-faced.

With a "snap", he pulled down the phone, and Xie Linhan, who was still angry, ignored the dust on his head, walked to Long Jiguang's side, and suggested: "Division commander, the artillery firepower of the Sichuan army is too strong, do you want our artillery regiment to open artillery and counterattack?" At the very least, we must curb the artillery bombardment of the Sichuan army, otherwise our brothers on the front line will be in disarray before the Sichuan army can launch a full-scale offensive. ”

Since the rise of the Sichuan army, the most intuitive manifestation of the Sichuan army's strong combat effectiveness lies in its powerful artillery fire, so after the war, Long Jiguang wisely let his own artillery regiment temporarily hide, avoid artillery battles with the Sichuan army, and resolutely not give the Sichuan army a chance to destroy its own artillery regiment.

However, now it seems that the Cantonese artillery regiment has escaped the fate of being destroyed in the artillery battle, but the Cantonese army in the frontline position is miserable, from the beginning of the war to the present, it has been pressed to the ground by the Sichuan artillery regiment as if endlessly beaten and beaten, it really wants to cry without tears.

Long Jinguang put down the binoculars, thought carefully about Xie Linhan's suggestion, hesitated for a while, and finally sighed with a bitter face, shook his head and said, "No, Lao Xie." The artillery regiment is the most important support for us to hold the defensive line and force the Sichuan army back, and it must be used at the most critical moment. If the artillery regiment is ordered to fire back now, exposing the position of the artillery position, are you sure that the artillery regiment can survive the artillery battle with the Sichuan Army Artillery Regiment and will still be able to withstand the strength of the first battle at a critical moment in the future? ”

Xie Linhan was silent, and although he didn't say anything, both he and Long Jinguang knew the answer to the question. In terms of the caliber and number of artillery, the artillery regiment of the Guangdong Army was far inferior to that of the Sichuan Army Artillery Regiment, and the combat experience of the gunners was even more unattainable. You must know that the Sichuan army has swept all the way to the battle, swept half the world, and the gunners of the artillery regiment have been tempered by one major battle after another, and their combat experience can not be compared with the small fights and troubles of the Guangdong army in Guangdong.

Just when Long Jinguang and Xie Linhan looked at each other speechlessly, full of bitterness, there was a sudden movement outside the headquarters.

"Salute!" , "Overseer", "See Overseer!" ”

The salute continued to sound, both officers and soldiers, as if passing a relay closer and closer, and finally extended into the headquarters.

After a while, a middle-aged officer in a straight military uniform and an army-green cloak walked into the headquarters.

With a "snap", all the officers and soldiers in the command headquarters saw this person, immediately put down the work they were busy with, and stood up in unison to salute.

That's right, the person who came was Long Jiguang, the general of the Republic of China Army, the pacification envoy and civil governor of Guangdong, and the overseer of Guangdong.

Long Jiguang had a dusty look on his face, obviously rushing all the way over. At a time when Guangdong was in turmoil, he, the governor of Guangdong, was not sitting in Guangzhou to stabilize the overall situation, but rushed to the front line in Shaoguan, which shows the importance he attached to the Sichuan army and his worries about the war.

Ignoring the return gift, Long Jiguang just waved his hand and motioned for everyone in the command headquarters to continue to busy with their own affairs, and then came to Long Jiguang's side and asked, "Big brother, how is the situation now?" As he asked, he also took the binoculars from the hands of the logistics staff and held them up to observe the battlefield situation.

"The Sichuan army has not yet launched a full-scale offensive, but has only carried out a few small-scale exploratory offensives, that is...... That is, the intensity of the artillery bombardment of the Sichuan army was so great that it almost plucked our front-line positions several times. Long Jinguang's expression was very aggrieved and depressed, and when he mentioned the shelling of the Sichuan army, he was full of powerlessness.

"Yes, Dudu, under such an artillery bombardment by the Sichuan army, the casualties of the brothers on the front line are not small, the key is that the blow to morale is too great." Xie Hanlin's face was also full of bitterness, he thought about it, and then suggested, "Governor, it is recommended to retreat to the city and hold on, I believe that taking into account the many houses in the city, the artillery bombardment of the Sichuan army will definitely not be as unscrupulous as it is now." ”

Long Jinguang's eyes lit up, for the Sichuan army, which is determined to be the world, the people's hope is what they must fight for, and they will never let the shells fall on the houses in the city. As long as the Sichuan army has any scruples, even if it will still carry out artillery bombardment, at least it will not be as overwhelming as it is now.

However, before Long Jiguang's words of approval could be spoken, Long Jiguang categorically vetoed: "No! Once our army retreats to the city and holds out, the Sichuan army is likely to bypass Shaoguan and move south. Even if the Sichuan army is worried that the back road will be cut off by our army, it will only divide a small force to attack and harass us in the south, it will cause us uncontrollable serious consequences! ”

Long Jiguang was born in Yunnan Tusi, started in his hometown in the former Qing Dynasty, and then developed and grew in the Guangxi New Army, and now he was forced to sit in the position of Guangdong overseer by virtue of the army's force, in fact, he himself did not have much prestige and popular base in Guangdong. On the contrary, in order to raise huge military expenses to maintain a huge army, he did not scrape the ground after he entered Guangdong, although it was not angry and resentful, but it was obviously not very popular.

In the past, Long Jiguang had a powerful army in his hands to suppress and deter, and the local area naturally couldn't afford any storms. But now that the Sichuan army is approaching the city, the whole Guangdong is in turmoil, and the main force of the Guangdong army has to go north to fight, leaving only some security regiments and police to maintain order. At this delicate moment, if a Sichuan army unit, even a small force that was not strong enough to threaten the county seat, appeared outside Guangzhou, it was difficult to guarantee that Long Jiguang's rule in Guangdong would not collapse in an instant.

Therefore, Long Jiguang had no choice but to block the Sichuan army north of Shaoguan at all costs.

Seeing Long Jiguang's resolute attitude, Xie Linhan knew that there was no room for negotiation, so he didn't say anything more, and could only hope bitterly that such a high-intensity artillery bombardment by the Sichuan army would not last long.

At this moment, a communication soldier came to Long Jiguang's side, stood up and saluted: "Report, the Guangzhou Governor's Office has transferred a telegram from Beijing!" After speaking, he respectfully handed over the telegram in his hand.

"Telegrams from Beijing?" Long Jiguang took the telegram with a slightly puzzled expression, he didn't understand what Yuan Shikai was doing with this telegram to him, could it be that he was urging him to defeat the Sichuan army in front of him as soon as possible, and then lead the army north to attack Nanjing? That's too much to look up to him, Long Jiguang and the Yue Army!

After reading the content of the telegram, Long Jiguang's expression was complicated and uncertain, as if he was a little surprised, but it was mixed with doubt and disbelief, his brows stretched for a while, and wrinkled for a while, and everyone could see his violent heart fluctuations.

Long Jiguang opened his mouth to say something, but he hesitated and never said it, but handed the telegram to Long Jiguang.

Different from Long Jiguang's hesitation, Long Jinguang and Xie Linhan were both overjoyed after reading the telegram, and Long Jinguang exclaimed: "Damn, the Sichuan army on the other side turned out to be fake, how is this possible?" ”

"Governor, what a chance! If the Sichuan army on the opposite side is really pretended to be by other troops, then it must be a foreign powerhouse and a middle cadre! As long as we take them by surprise and go all out, I believe that it will not be difficult to defeat them in one fell swoop! Xie Linhan clenched his fists excitedly, as if he wanted to vent his aggrieved anger from the repeated shelling of the "Sichuan army" on the opposite side.

"Yes, destroy these bluffing dog mongrels!" Long Jinguang said hatefully, he had been angry for his previous forbearance under the fierce shelling of the Sichuan army. As long as the opposite position is not a strong Sichuan army, he has nothing to fear. You must know that with the arrival of Long Jiguang with reinforcements, more than 20,000 elite Cantonese troops have been assembled on the Shaoguan front line at this moment, and their strength is unprecedentedly strong.

The main forces of the Southern Coalition Army are deployed on the northern front to block the Beiyang Army, which other troops in the south can fight with the elite troops of the Guangdong Army? As long as this fake Sichuan Army 2nd Division is defeated, then the road to the north of the Cantonese army will be completely unimpeded, and it will be easy to capture a large area of territory at that time.

Thinking of this, Long Jiguang seemed to sense that the position of the Overseer of a province was already close at hand.

Long Jinguang and Xie Linhan were not happy for long, when suddenly the ground trembled violently, and countless sands poured down from the wooden ceiling.

Boom-boom-boom-

The sound of violent artillery bombardment rang out loudly, as if a series of dry thunderbolts had suddenly exploded, almost tearing the whole world apart.

Caught off guard, Long Jinguang stumbled under his feet, and hurriedly propped his hands on the table next to him, so that he was not shocked and fell to the ground.

Boom-boom-boom-

As if to respond to the suspicions of Long Jiguang and the others with actions, the Sichuan army's artillery bombardment was unprecedentedly fierce, and countless shells rained down on every inch of the Guangdong army's position, ravaging the trembling Guangdong officers and soldiers who were cowering in the position over and over again. (To be continued.) )