Chapter 362: Wang Tianpei, a model soldier in the south

"What's going on, what's going on?" Wang Yongan hurriedly asked after learning that the front-line soldiers had repeatedly failed to fight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Feng Heng said: "We inquired about the news from the prisoners, and now the enemy's front-line commander is not Li Qianyu, but Wang Tianpei. ā€

"Wang Tianpei?" Wang Yongan frowned tightly, his head ached, he knew that this Wang Tianpei, a native of Guizhou, could even be said to be the most capable general in Guizhou. Wang Tianpei experienced the Wuchang Uprising and the recovery of Anhui Province, which can be said to be a revolutionary feat, but because of the reasons of people from other provinces, he was never reused, and then returned to his hometown Guizhou. Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, Sun Yat-sen launched the Protectorate War, Guizhou's Guizhou army also participated in the Northern Expedition, Wang Tianpei used a battalion to defeat Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army a brigade, and the brigade commander Ma Jizeng committed suicide in defeat. Wang Tianpei was able to fight really and well in the final battle, and he was entrusted with important tasks by Sun Yat-sen, and shocked the southwest. After Sun Yat-sen's death, Jiang Zhongzheng launched the Northern Expedition, Wang Tianpei led 20,000 Guizhou troops out of Guizhou, all the way north to defeat Shen Hongying, Wu Peifu, and captured Anqing, when Wang Tianpei's army had skyrocketed to 100,000 people, and then Wang Tianpei continued the Northern Expedition, and launched the Xuzhou Campaign in Xuzhou, defeating Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zongchang. In the Battle of Xuzhou, Wang Tianpei's troops finally annihilated more than 80,000 enemies and captured more than 20,000 people, which made Sun Chuanfang collapse, and Zhang Zongchang ran alone to Zhang Zuolin as a junior brother, and Wang Tianpei's Tenth Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army was praised as the "Iron Army" by the world. Wang Tianpei's series of successes made Jiang Zhongzheng deeply uneasy, especially when Wang Tianpei adhered to Sun Yat-sen's legacy in the face of the Communist Party, united with Russia and the Communist Party, and refused Jiang Zhongzheng's order to secretly massacre Communist Party members.

Later, Jiang Zhongzheng went to the front line to replace Wang Tianpei's command, and then was defeated by the Beiyang Army and lost Xuzhou.

The reason why Wang Yongan has a deep memory of Wang Tianpei is because he compared everything about Cai Ye and Wang Tianpei, two generals from the southwest, when he studied the history of the Republic of China. Cai Ng's reputation is even greater because Cai Que died of illness in the National Defense Movement and became a model soldier in the country, and Wang Tianpei accumulated a lot of money and won a big victory all the way from the south to the north, if it weren't for Jiang Zhongzheng's farewell stabbing knife and not giving military funds, no supplies, and no munitions, I am afraid that Wang Tianpei would be the first southern commander to conquer the Beijing division from the south to the north.

Wang Yongan was greedy, Wang Tianpei had an army of 100,000, and if Wang Tianpei was serving under him, he would definitely give Wang Tianpei a million army in the future and let him fight against the Japanese invaders. Thinking of this, Wang Yongan immediately said: "Defeat the Anhui army and capture Wang Tianpei alive, remember, I want Wang Tianpei to live, and I must not harm his life!" ā€

Feng Heng quipped: "Protector envoy, aren't you talking about whether Changbanpo captured Zhao Zilong alive?" ā€

Wang Yongan said: "This Wang Tianpei is my Zhao Zilong, if Wang Tianpei works for me, I would rather give up Anhui!" ā€

"Huh?" Feng Heng was shocked, "For the sake of Wang Tianpei, would you rather give up Anhui?" ā€

Wang Yongan nodded and said: "Wang Tianpei alone is comparable to 100,000 Beiyang troops, I can't wait for this person to be used by me." ā€

The counterattack of the Jiangbei Army was once again met with stubborn resistance from the Anhui Army, and Gong Xuewen tried his best to be helpless against the opponent, and even lost more than 30 corpses. After the initial hard fighting, the Anhui army is now gradually able to withstand the attack of the Jiangbei army, and its morale has gradually reversed, and even loudly insulted the Jiangbei army as a girl and ridiculed the Jiangbei army for being incompetent.

After a simple count, Wang Yongan found that the Jiangbei Army had lost more than 400 people on this third line of defense, with stronger firepower than the opponent, more troops than the opponent, and training was difficult for the opponent, but he was repeatedly defeated by the opponent.

"Before dawn, give me to beat them to Tongcheng County, if they don't enter the county, you can give me the military hat still on the table, go home and farm the land yourself." Wang Yongan truthfully ordered Gong Xuewen.

Gong Xuewen was also anxious, and personally organized a death squad of 400 people, and then ordered shelling for half an hour, and half an hour later, Gong Xuewen took the death squad of 400 people as a breakthrough point and chose to attack. Twelve heavy machine guns were transferred behind the death squad, frantically strafing and covering the positions of the Anhui army, the soldiers of the death squad were armed with grenades and broadswords, and they used grenades to blow up when they were far away, and slashed with broadswords when they were close, coupled with the cover of heavy machine guns, Wang Tianpei could only continue to fill the gap with the lives of Anhui soldiers, and soon there were casualties on the position.

The fierce battle made both sides red-eyed, Wang Tianpei personally carried the command knife and shouted, operated the gun to aim and shoot, and even the military hat was blown up, but Wang Tianpei's image of heroic and desperate efforts made the Fifth Brigade of the Anhui Army more confident.

However, what Wang Tianpei did not expect was that the real killer of Gong Xuewen, the commander of the Jiangbei Army, was the cavalry battalion, Gong Xuewen secretly ordered the cavalry battalion to charge after the artillery bombardment, and after the death squad charged, the two sides focused on the death squad, and the cavalry battalion rushed over from the southern defense line, broke through the opponent's defensive position, and followed by the cavalry was the third regiment of the sixth brigade to outflank the enemy.

This trick really worked, everyone's attention was on the death squad, and no one noticed that the cavalry battalion of the Jiangbei Army had broken through the defense line and led the third regiment to insert behind the Anhui army, and the forward troops of the Anhui army were surrounded.

Seeing this, Li Qianyu and Wang Tianpei, in order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, led the army to withdraw to Tongcheng County, and despite some losses, they still brought back nearly 4,000 people.

Of the 10,000 troops, only more than 4,000 returned, the Third Brigade still had 1,000 left, and the Fifth Brigade still had more than 3,000 left. In order to support Li Qianyu's defense, Wang Qingyun almost allocated all the few weapons in his hand to the Third Brigade of the Anhui Army, but the Third Brigade did not play any role in the battle, and thanks to the support of the Fifth Brigade of the Anhui Army, it was not a crushing defeat.

Wang Qingyun dismissed Li Qianyu from his position as brigade commander on the spot and let him return to Anqing to listen to orders, while appointing his subordinate Wang Rui as the commander of the Third Brigade of the Anhui Army and Jin Shichu as the commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Anhui Army. Although Wang Tianpei commanded the army to kill the Jiangbei Army outside the city and did not break through the defense line until dawn, Wang Tianpei overstepped his command and served as the commander of the Fifth Brigade without authorization, which made many people very uneasy and doubted his ambition.

Wang Qingyun patted Wang Tianpei's shoulder and comforted him: "The reinforcements from Anqing will arrive in a few days, and the virtuous brother on duty will be at ease, and I will transfer an army to you at your command." These words were not only insincere, but also made the Anqing Gang very uncomfortable, Wang Tianpei shook his head with a wry smile.